Special feature of 1905 film network "He came to make up the yangko dance, and came to my house during the plane. When chatting, I asked him: Is there an idol school and a strength school in Hong Kong? Leslie Cheung said, "What faction do you think I am?"Think back to filming 25 years ago.Red lovers, directorYe DayingYou Ji and starring ZhangGuorongBits and pieces when getting along.

The film premiered in China in 1998, which was the third box office in that year. It was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award in China, won the best editing award, and also won the "Pyramid Award" silver award and the best actress award in Cairo International Film Festival.

Twenty-five years later, this year is also the 20th anniversary of Leslie Cheung’s death. The Red Lover has been shown nationwide in a film-to-digital version, which has multiple commemorative significance.

At the premiere of the premiere, Ye Daying watched The Red Lover completely again after many years. He lamented, "It’s really a good movie.".

Before the screening, he told the 1905 film network, "Every era has its own aesthetics, and I dare not compare it with many directors now. But a movie that can span 25 years and move today’s audience has already explained everything. "

At the roadshow and the premiere, there will be a bouquet of flowers on the seat No.12 in the ninth row, which is my brother Leslie Cheung’s "exclusive seat". Leslie Cheung’s 67th birthday is the day when The Red Lover is shown again.

We miss Leslie Cheung so much, and Ye Daying also talked to us about Leslie Cheung’s unforgettable past with this film.

Leslie Cheung 25 years ago.

Among all Leslie Cheung’s works, The Red Lover is very special — — It’s hard to imagine him in a movie with a red theme, playing an underground communist party member in the 1930s.

Ye Daying said that Leslie Cheung was the first Hong Kong actor to come to the Mainland to play a revolutionary, and he faced great challenges in his creation. At the same time, Leslie Cheung’s handsome appearance and gentle temperament are in line with his imagination of the image of early revolutionaries.

"Many early revolutionaries went abroad to study, and they really understood Marxism before they devoted themselves to such beliefs." In the initial casting, Ye Daying wanted to find an actor who had a background of studying abroad and could speak English to play Jin. The first thing that came to mind was John Lone. Later, a Hong Kong friend strongly recommended Leslie Cheung after reading the script, so he arranged for them to meet.

Ye Daying was not familiar with Leslie Cheung before, but was deeply impressed by his "The True Story of Teddy Boy". They hit it off at the first meeting and soon talked about cooperation.

"I told him some stories of early revolutionaries, such as Qu Qiubai and Hongyan, and he fully understood them. His eyes will have a deep understanding and emotion as you tell these characters. In my eyes, he is not a star. He really met a good actor, an actor who can understand you and read your words. This is exactly what I am looking for. "

Leslie Cheung once said in an interview that he read many books, such as Lu Xun’s, in order to play this role well, and tried to figure out the revolutionary mentality of that era, so as to shape Jin into a flesh-and-blood figure.

Ye Daying admired Leslie Cheung’s excellent performance very much. "He said you can have whatever you want." Until now, there is a scene that haunts his mind — —

"Jin is going to read a letter left by Qiu Qiu. I said that when you read the first few words, tears came out of it. By the first few words, tears have to be taken back, and you can’t let it drip out. Leslie Cheung said I’d try, and he did it the first time. And after the filming, he squatted next to me and looked at the monitor, saying, can I do it again? I can do it better. It was played three times, and each time it was a great effect. "

In Ye Daying’s view, Leslie Cheung is a very hardworking actor. When Jin was shot in the execution ground with shackles, it was in the cold winter. The weather was very cold and the wind was very strong. The crew prepared shackles made of foam, but Leslie Cheung explicitly refused. "He said why I should wear fake ones, and I want to wear real ones. He walked barefoot and blood came out after a few steps. "

The Red Lover was Mei Ting’s first film. At the age of 22, she was going to play many opposite roles with Leslie Cheung. Mei Ting once recalled that there was a long shot in the film in which Qiu Qiu’s facial expression was shot to show the emotional exchange between Qiu Qiu and Jin, and Leslie Cheung insisted on helping him to play outside the camera out of caring for the new couple.

"At that time, I clearly felt that his hand was softly inserted from my hairline, slowly slid to the back of my head, and then swam across my chest. I could even hear the change of his breath. This real feeling prompted me to complete this long shot more accurately." Mei Ting said, "As long as Leslie Cheung is present, my heart is particularly practical."

25 years later, The Red Lover

The birth of Red Lovers originated from Ye Daying’s previous film Red Cherry.In the process of writing Red Cherry, I interviewed more than 30 children of revolutionary martyrs and heard them tell their parents’ love and sacrifice stories, Ye Daying and the screenwriter.Jiang Qitao, photographyZhang LiEveryone was so moved that they wanted to make a movie like this together.

The film follows the acquaintance of American doctor Payne, Qiu Qiu and Jin from the perspective of westerners, and gradually approaches their revolutionary ideals and love stories. Ye Daying thinks that if we tell the story from the perspective of foreigners, we can be more moved by the ideas of Jin and Qiu Qiu, and also make today’s audience feel more substituted.

"Why are we more receptive when we read Si Nuo’s Red Star Shines on China and Smedley’s articles? Because Americans tell the story of our Red Army, you will feel that even they see it this way, so does our film."

"The Red Lover" was shown all over the country. Ye Daying was on a road show all over the country these days. I didn’t expect many young viewers to burst into tears after watching the film, which was beyond his imagination.

He didn’t particularly dare to go back to see the film himself, and it made him sad. Once, he sneaked into the movie scene to watch the second half. When Little Pearl reached into the urn of Jin and Qiuqiu, he couldn’t help crying at that moment.

In the activities after the road show, the host often asks the audience which line of Jin can be spoken, and more than two viewers always blurt it out — — "If I can’t live with dignity, I’d rather choose death!"

In the movie, the shrapnel left in Jin’s brain made him suffer from severe intermittent mania and often had hallucinations. When the doctor told him that he might lose consciousness during the operation, he firmly expressed his attitude of death with this sentence. Looking back now, Ye Daying said with emotion, "He is too much like Leslie Cheung".

Once Jin gets sick in the film, Qiu Qiu will read him a poem: "When the sun comes out, an eagle flies from the ground to the sky and suddenly stops in the air, as if frozen in the blue sky. No one can tell why it flies and what it needs …"　

Jin’s wife jumped from a tall building to protect him from the enemy, and this scene became a pain that Jin could never heal.

In the dark, the imagery of poetry and the plot of falling from the building have become the "prophecy" that Leslie Cheung became famous five years later. "So this movie really hurts me." Ye Daying said that Leslie Cheung has been dead for twenty years, and he has left us the most perfect image of his life.

Now, Ye Daying is preparing the third film of the "Red Trilogy". "It’s a very touching story, no less touching than that brought by The Red Lover, but I don’t know if there can be another Leslie Cheung."