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The behind-the-scenes production of Super Female Agent

Creative background

French director Jean-Paul Salome saw the story of a member of the French Resistance during World War II in Time Magazine. The 98-year-old secret The agent, like other female wartime agents, worked for a secret organization called the "French Section". The fifty French agents in the organization obeyed the command of the coalition forces and performed tasks on British soil. Jean-Paul Salome believes that World War II and the French Resistance were a legendary period, mixed with strong and pure ideals and memories. He said it was so dramatic that so many young people did not hesitate to dedicate their lives to a noble but dangerous cause. He wanted to make a film about women during wartime, because their mystery inspired him to observe everything more delicately. He wanted to pay tribute to these women, who showed extraordinary courage in the war, but only received Less respect than men. Jean-Paul Salome found the heartthrob Sophie Marceau, who had worked with him in "Phantom of the Louvre", to play the heroine Louise.

Character setting

Louise is based on Lise Villameur. After her family was killed by the Nazis, she still devoted herself to the resistance organization. She is a resolute woman who grew up on the battlefield. At the same time, the director is also quite unique in the way he expresses his characters, even using a slightly stream-of-consciousness approach to express Louise's growth process and inner world - the spy team led by Louise is not so much a group of five people with different personalities. Rather, the small group of women embodies the five most important characteristics of Louise's spiritual world: religious fanaticism, desire for revenge, care for fellow compatriots, pursuit of career, and even entanglement. Clear emotions.

The shooting process

On the one hand, Jean-Paul Salome has an almost stubborn insistence on restoring the real scene; he gave up low-cost studio shooting and turned to persistence He is looking for the original place where that period of history took place; he believes that as the bearer of the war years, the location where the French Resistance organized its activities at that time contains a powerful appeal that cannot be replicated by a studio or computer technology. is a necessary condition for the audience to resonate with that period of history.