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Details of the movie "The Painted Skin"

The painted skin of the action movie [TS version] Actor: Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Qi Yuwu, Sun Li and Liang Jiahao

Title: Painted Skin (28).

English title: Painted Skin

Director: Chen Jiashang Gordon Chan

Starring:

Zhao Wei ... Pei Rong

Chen Kun ... Wang Sheng

Donnie Yen ... Pang Yong

Zhou Xun ... Xiao Wei

Sun Li ... Xia Bing

. Singapore

white language: Chinese

color: color

production cost: $1,, /estimated

Date of shooting: December 27-February 28

Release time: September 26, 28

Release: Shanghai Film Group Corporation

Joint investors: Ningxia Film Studio, Shanghai Film Group Corporation, Ding Long Da International Culture Media Company, Beijing Century Jiaying Culture Development Company and Beijing New Film Association.

Edit the plot of this movie "Painted Skin"

Based on China's classic "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio".

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Wang Sheng, a captain, led Wang Jiajun to rescue a stunning woman in a fierce battle with sand bandits in the Western Regions and brought her back to Jiangdu Palace. I don't want this woman to be changed by Xiao Wei, a beautiful fox. Its skin must be preserved by people's hearts, so Xiao Yi, Xiao Wei's invisible assistant, a demon made by a desert lizard, kills people every few days to sacrifice Xiao Wei's heart to show his love for Xiao Wei, so Jiangdu City is plunged into terror. Xiao Wei fell in love with Wang Sheng, the leader of Wang Jiajun, because he was brave and handsome. He kept seducing Wang Sheng with witchcraft and wanted to replace Wang Sheng's wife Pei Rong.

Pei Rong found out that Xiaowei loved her husband, and realized that she was not an ordinary person, so she secretly turned to Pang Yong, a wandering chivalrous man with high martial arts skills, and Xia Bing, an ice-cold demon-killer, to help Wang Sheng ...

Since then, a complicated battle of love, enmity, temptation, frame-up, struggle and life and death has gradually started. The ending was tragic and unexpected ... Slowly pulling away.

Editing this film "The Painted Skin" comments

The new lineup of "The Painted Skin" can be described as original. The actor is composed of six popular stars, including Donnie Yen, Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Sun Li and Qi Yuwu. The lineup is very unique and eye-catching. In terms of creativity, the "Presidium" lineup, which consists of Chen Jiashang, President of Hong Kong Directors Association and Chairman of Hong Kong Film Awards, Arthur Wong, Chairman of Hong Kong Professional Film Photographers Association, Bill Lui, former Chairman of Hong Kong Film Art Association, Wai Tung, Chairman of Hong Kong Wushu Association and Lin Zou, Chairman of Hong Kong Lighting Association, is an elite gathering. The film was rated as one of the ten most anticipated blockbusters in 28 by the audience. However, in order to keep the mystery of the film, except for all the collective appearances of the actors at the film launch conference, there are few collective appearances. As for the scenes where the main creator and the actor appeared together, they have never been seen before. Producer James Pang said, "The producer will bring the main creator and the actors of the film" Painted Skin "to make a collective appearance at an appropriate time and place. At that time, we will also present a mysterious gift to our media friends. Please.

The origin of Painted Skin

The story of Painted Skin originated from Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a scholar named Wang Sheng happened to meet a homeless girl on the road in Taiyuan. The girl was young and beautiful, and Wang Sheng took her home and hid her in a secret room for sex every day. Unexpectedly, this woman is changed by an evil spirit who specializes in eating people's hearts. In fact, "the face is emerald, the teeth are like saws, the skin is spread on the couch, and it is painted with colored pens. I have thrown a pen, raised my skin like a vibrating garment, put it on my body, and turned into a woman. " Later, this demon was discovered by a Taoist priest, but the Taoist priest was kind-hearted and thought that "this thing is also good and bitter. If you can find a substitute, you can't bear to hurt its life." Just let Wang Sheng hang a dust shower at home to scare her away. Unexpectedly, this demon was better off, so he dug Wang Sheng's heart out of embarrassment and fled. The Taoist priest was furious. "I pity it, but the devil dares!" " So I used magic to kill it easily. In the end, Wang Sheng also came back from the dead with the efforts of his wife Chen.

The original text of The Painted Skin is less than 2, words. The reason why it spreads so widely is firstly the erotic elements in the story. The story of the beautiful fairy has always been very popular among the people in China. Although it is not described in the original text, there is a lot of room for imagination between the lines. Secondly, there is a brilliant figure in the story, that is, Wang Sheng's wife Chen, who knows that her husband has a crush on another woman, but also helps to keep a secret while coaxing her. Later, in order to save her husband's life, she endured all kinds of insults and even ate the beggar's thick sputum, which is a model wife who feels the earth moving. Finally, "The Painted Skin" has a profound meaning. At the end of the original text, there is such a rather "cynical" generous statement, "What a fool! Obviously, the demon also thinks it is beautiful. What a fool! Clearly loyal and think it's false. However, if you fish for the color of your lover, your wife will spit on it and be willing to eat it. " Reasoning from Wang Sheng's point of view, the first half of the sentence actually doesn't make sense, because he didn't know that the beauty was a demon at first, and he immediately sought a pretentious way after learning the truth, and he was not a guy who wanted sex and was not desperate. However, the last half sentence is an enduring warning. In today's era, when we read this story, it is easy to compare the demon to some mistresses with green eyes, and compare Chen to those wives who have been married for many years. Although there are many complicated specific situations in morality and fact, this general comparison can still make the story of Painted Skin have certain universal value in the new era.

Chen Jiashang's adaptation

The Painted Skin has been put on the big screen for many times. The most famous one is Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio directed by Bao Fang in 1966. Zhu Hong and Gao Yuan play the female ghost Mei Niang and scholar Wang Chongwen respectively, and Chen Juanjuan plays Chen, the wife of Wang Chongwen. In 1979, Li Hanxiang directed "Ghost Call Spring", Elliot Ngok, a young student of Shao's generation, played the roles of General Wang and scholar Wang Sheng at the same time, while Hu Jin, a porn star, played the female ghost Hua Shi and Jiao Xiao played the scholar's wife Chen. And in 1993, Hu Jinquan directed The Painted King of Yin and Yang, which was the last work of Hu Jinquan before his death. Adam Cheng and Joey Wong played Wang Shunsheng and the female ghost You Feng respectively. Apart from Li Hanxiang's Ghost in Spring, these three works have a good reputation, but the other two have failed to leave a deep impression on future generations.

And the shooting of this new version of The Painted Skin has experienced a small storm. At the Shanghai Film Festival last June, Donnie Yen revealed for the first time that he would remake and star in "The Painted Skin". At that time, he announced that his old partner Ye Weixin would be the director and Fan Bingbing would be the No.1 female. Unexpectedly, in October last year, the film side suddenly announced that the director would be replaced by Chen Jiashang, and the starring role would be replaced by these people now. And Chen Jiashang completely overturned the original script, and made up and wrote this brand-new story himself.

The investment in this film is more than 1 million RMB. Before that, it was hard for outsiders to imagine that a movie about ghost stories would make such a big fuss, and it is said that Donnie Yen decided to shoot such a large-scale magic movie because he was not satisfied after watching Pirates of the Caribbean. In view of this, Chen Jiashang first changed the background of the story. "Painted Skin" tells a folk story in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Admiral Chen Jia moved it to the Qin and Han Dynasties, linking the desert defense campaign in the western regions with the original Jiangnan town to catch demons, thus expanding the pattern of the film. From some stills released at present, we can see some scenes of war staged in the desert, as well as "The desert is lonely and the river is long", which is common in Chinese blockbusters. Bill Lui, the art director, said that he should follow the historical facts to the greatest extent in art design, from the background of the great era to small family life items, and he asked that there should be no mistakes in anything that would appear on the film screen. In addition, some ancient folk designs have been added, such as "hanging coffins" and so on.

The biggest difference between Painted Skin and other folk ghost stories in China lies in the emotional line in this story. In the past, most female ghosts in ghost stories were kind and beautiful, and their biggest dream was to become human beings. When they really love each other, they often become the biggest victims, which makes people feel pity. The Legend of the White Snake and Xiaoqian are all listed here. But "Painted Skin" is different. The female ghost in it has never had any feelings for Wang Sheng. Her only purpose is to wait for an opportunity to kill Wang Sheng. She is a real evil ghost. In order to attract the audience in the emotional part of the film, Chen Jiashang had to make this story "reasonable"-the female ghost fell in love with Wang Sheng, and love made her not hurt her sweetheart, so she had to eat other people's hearts to satisfy her hunger. On the whole structure, Chen Jiashang has also laid many complicated emotional lines-Xia Bing and Pang Yong, Pang Yong and Pei Rong, Pei Rong and Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng and Xiao Wei, Xiao Wei and Xiao Yi ... It is no longer possible to define how much love this is. Chen Jiashang explained that "three women are infatuated and timid, and the audience can see different views on love from them."

Almost every film and television work adapted from "The Painted Skin" is not suitable for children. For the thriller part, Chen Jiashang said that he would keep some classic images in the original, such as the horror scenes of female ghosts killing people and eating people's hearts, but "the new Painted Skin is not scary, and" horror "is far from expressing the feelings that Painted Skin wants to convey. The new "Painted Skin" is magical and contains reasoning elements. The plot will take the audience to find out who is the murderer and who is the demon. " However, at the time of filming, Zhao Wei was scared to cry by her own horror image. Later, Chen Jiashang made a compromise and made some changes to the image of Peirong. Zhao Weicai promised to continue filming, which shows that Chen Jiashang still wants to inherit the thriller elements in this theme. However, considering the mainland censorship and the image problems of big-name actors themselves, it has to be weakened to some extent. In addition, in order to meet the needs of the market, there will be many kung fu scenes in the film.

Choice of Actors

Donnie Yen decided to star in "The Painted Skin" early in the morning, and he is also one of the producers of the film. As for the three actresses in the film, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei and Sun Li, considering the scenes and the long-standing competitive factors, it is really not easy to get these three top Hua Dan in Chinese film and television circles together to perform a film. In addition to making all-out efforts in terms of film payment, Chen Jiashang's golden tongue honed by years of wandering in the Jianghu has played an important role in it.

Zhou Xun is a woman with extremely delicate feelings. She never allows herself to play some careless and meaningless roles. According to her personality, Chen Jiashang chose to meet Zhou Xun in a restaurant. He told Zhou Xun that the fox she played was not an ordinary demon, but a fox demon who practiced for thousands of years. She was not the kind of fox demon who twisted her charm and only discharged in the traditional thinking. She always believed that she was a person rather than a demon ... As a result, Zhou Xun was soon persuaded. Through Zhou Xun's words, we can know Chen Jiashang's talent in language: "At that time, I drank yellow wine with the director and talked after drinking. The director expressed his views on love, which I found very novel ... Through this exchange, I felt that the director was a very easy-to-communicate and amiable person, and a real film expert."

Zhao Wei's film achievements in recent years are not particularly outstanding, so he is very cautious in choosing films. The communication between Chen Jiashang and Zhao Wei was very difficult at first. "Because we didn't have time to get together, when I was in Beijing, she went to shoot in other places, she came back, and I was not in Beijing." Can't, Chen Jiashang can only invite Zhao Wei to the airport. "Once she went back to Beijing from other places, I went back to Hong Kong from Beijing, and the two of us took this opportunity to meet. In a noodle restaurant at the airport, she was eating noodles. After I communicated with her for half an hour, she was full of interest in this film, mainly aiming at the tragic elements of her role. " Tragedy is always the death of an actress, which Chen Jiashang knows too well.

Chen Jiashang and Sun Li talked about shooting The Painted Skin in a tea restaurant. At that time, Sun Li had just had her hair cut. Many people saw her new look and were worried that it would be difficult for her to take the show. But Chen Jia came up and said, "Short hair is good, it shows your personality." Chen Jiashang also said, "Most people think that long hair is gentle, and beautiful women must have long hair, especially in costume dramas. But in this movie, I didn't want to make Sun Li look like a gentle girl. She is a bit of a boy in the play, because she wants to exorcise demons, which just reflects her boy character. "

do you believe in Chen Jiashang?

Chen Jiashang used to be a name alongside Tsui Hark, John Woo, Du Qifeng and others. In 1994, he cooperated with Jet Li in "Hero of Jingwu", which combined martial arts, philosophy of life and feelings of home and country almost perfectly. So far, for many fans, no other martial arts film can surpass it. In 1998, "The Beast Interpol" exposed the dark side of the Hong Kong police almost crazily, which opened up a new direction of the Hong Kong police film. Several works of cooperation with Stephen Chow in 199s are good memories in the memory of a generation.

But in recent ten years, Chen Jiashang has hardly produced any influential works, and there are many large-scale productions, such as A.D. 2 starring Aaron Kwok, Mice in Love with Cats starring Andy Lau, and The Regeneration of Flying Dragons starring Jackie Chan. However, in these films, Chen Jiashang's talents are hardly revealed, and the box office and word-of-mouth are also very general. In recent years, the works such as "The Supreme Rogue" and "Mr. Three Minutes" have almost turned him into Jing Wong. It is unbelievable that the director who made "The Hero of Jingwu" in those years actually made such a vulgar and bad film now. Chen Jiashang is currently the chairman of the Hong Kong Film Awards. He attributed his depravity to his love for Hong Kong films. "I desperately want to bring back the Hong Kong market, and I will change it if I want to become Jing Wong, so I made a movie like" The Supreme Rogue ". But this explanation is really hard to convince the public. The market needs an audience, but the audience needs quality movies to be cultivated.

Looking back at Chen Jiashang's films, we can find another feature-he has a first-class partner in all the more brilliant works, such as playing truant with Wei Long, The Duke Of Mount Deer, and Su Qier, the champion of martial arts. There is Jet Li in Jingwu Hero; "The Beast Interpol" was directed by him and Lin Chaoxian. Of course, it is unfair to doubt a director's true level, but if a director leaves some partners and immediately becomes second-rate, and these partners leave him and still achieve great results, can this explain some problems?

When Chen Jiashang first came to the mainland to climb the Great Wall of Wan Li, he couldn't help crying, because he thought, "China people have suffered too much, and they have suffered for thousands of years, and they are still so bitter!" This shows that Chen Jiashang is a Hong Kong person with a strong feeling of home and country. How to organically combine this feeling with his own work is the biggest question facing Chen Jiashang.