＂The Wild Goose Lake＂ premieres in Cannes, Hu Ge： Everything is worth it
As the only Chinese film shortlisted for the main competition of this year’s Cannes International Film Festival, the film "The Wild Goose Lake", directed by Diao Yinan and starring Hu Ge, Gui Lunmei, Liao Fan and Wan Qian, held its world premiere on May 18 local time.
"The Wild Goose Lake" is Diao Yinan’s masterpiece that has been polished for many years after the Berlin Golden Bear Award film "Fireworks in the Day". It was started in Wuhan on April 28, 2018 and took nearly half a year to shoot.
In the film, several star actors have contributed ground-breaking performances. Hu Ge tanned himself and lost weight in a short period of time. Gui Lunmei experienced life in Wuhan two months in advance and learned to speak the authentic Wuhan dialect.
The Wild Goose Lake poster
Creative inspiration predates "Daylight Fireworks", and news brings imagination to life
"In the face of framed and wanted fugitives, the story summary given by the crew of" The Wild Goose Lake "is:" In the face of framed and wanted fugitives, the escape for survival becomes a story of seeking death and running back and self-redemption. "Hu Ge plays Zhou Zenong, the leader of the desperate car theft gang, and Gui Lunmei plays a dusty woman who will do anything to exchange for freedom. The two join forces on the road to escape and play a" gamble "of fate. The contradictions of human nature and the emotional tension in an extreme state are full. Suspicion, betrayal, love, loyalty, conscience, complex emotional temptations, and ups and downs in the evolution of actions interweave a strange visual landscape.
The Wild Goose Lake
Diao Yinan’s perspective is set in the urban village of the bustling city, the fading marginal industries and crowds, the crime genre blends the cold atmosphere of the film noir, and the romance of the gangster film, which is more extreme in style than the previous work "Fireworks in the Day".
"The rivers and lakes exist in the infinitely stretched fringes around these cities." Diao Yinan believes that the "almost instinctive" choice of this fringe is also "the choice of romance, and the romance that only exists in the rivers and lakes is a profound romance." In addition, it is also a choice of space, "such a space can lead characters and stories, waiting for them to open up. I put a dark part of myself into it, trying to find comfort."
The Wild Goose Lake is on the cover of the fifth day of the Cannes Film Festival
When it comes to creative inspiration, Diao Yinan said that the idea of filming this story was even before "Fireworks in the Daylight". Many years ago, Diao Yinan heard a foreign song on the sofa one day. "I thought that I was a fugitive who was hunted down and had a bounty, and I wanted to run to the beach, run to find my first love, and let her kill me to receive the bounty." Later, Diao Yinan himself felt that this imagination was too hypocritical, so he gave up. Until a few years later, there was a coverage of a fugitive who escaped from prison and found that he was worth 100,000 when he saw the wanted notice, so he asked someone to report that he left the money to his relatives. "My imagination became news, and I think it might be possible to shoot it without being so hypocritical."
Hu Ge drank alcohol before the red carpet to "crush", Gui Lunmei’s Wuhan words made others "stressed out"
Liao Fan and Gui Lunmei had previously reaped glory in Berlin through their collaboration with Diao Yinan in "Fireworks by Day", and the film’s male lead, Hu Ge, was the first to bring a work to the red carpet at Cannes.
Hu Ge, who has appeared in more TV dramas in the past, was asked this time about his feelings of participating in the Cannes Film Festival. Hu Ge admitted that he had "mixed feelings": "First of all, I was nervous. Before going on the red carpet, I drank a sip of wine from the director’s pocket in the car, and I was shocked." In addition, Hu Ge also expressed the excitement of walking on the Cannes red carpet. "For every actor, this is something to be excited about. I am also very touched. When we walked into the film palace and the entire audience applauded, you felt respected. You felt that you chose this industry and this career, and everything was worth it."
’The Wild Goose Lake ‘crew walks the red carpet at Cannes
The Wuhan dialect performances of the actors in the film became the focus of attention in the post-screening media interviews. Talking about the preparations for the film’s dialect performances, each actor said that they felt "stressed" because they found that Gui Lunmei had spoken the Wuhan dialect very accurately when they entered the group.
The last time Gui Lunmei participated in the performance of "Fireworks in the Daytime", although Diao Yinan set the identity background of a foreigner for her characters, the Mandarin lines with Taiwanese accent still made her characters show a sense of disobedience in the icy Northeast. At this point, Gui Lunmei began to make breakthroughs in dialect performances, learning dialects and experiencing life in Wuhan two months before the start of filming. Gui Lunmei recalls that she was not able to learn Wuhan dialect at first, but walking around the village in the city, chatting with the locals, and thinking about the way they speak and pronounce gave her some knowledge. At the same time, she believes that the dialect does close the distance between the actors and the characters. "Wuhan dialect helps my performance. This language is very powerful, and speaking lines in this language can give the characters some hostility."
Hu Ge, Liao Fan, Wan Qian, Qi Dao and other creators later said that when they entered the group, they found that Gui Lunmei’s Wuhan dialect was very authentic and felt the pressure of "not falling behind", so they worked harder to learn dialects.
The Wild Goose Lake
When Hu Ge first learned to speak Wuhan dialect, he realized that he had learned it "exactly the same", but the teacher was not satisfied, and he was annoyed by it for a while. But one day he had a flash of inspiration and proposed to change his identity and teach the teacher to speak Shanghai dialect. In the process of the teacher imitating Shanghai dialect, Hu Ge "fully realized the feeling of him teaching me", and gradually realized his problem and found a solution.
Liao Fan introduced that everyone experienced life separately before the shooting in Wuhan, and he went to the criminal police team because he played the police. "The feeling of listening to the local criminal police chat every day is very inspiring to me." Wan Qian changed all the conversations in her life to speak Wuhan dialect, and then went to study lines to achieve "the process of quantitative change to qualitative change".