reporter Shi Wenjing
The movie “Wangdao” recently released a special feature on actors, revealing the behind-the-scenes stories of the main creators who carefully studied and sculpted the characters, including Liu Ye who took the initiative to “taste real ink” in order to restore Chen Wangdao’s classic story of “ink as sugar”, and deeply shared with the characters. Affection.
The movie “Wangdao” takes Chen Wangdao, the first Chinese translator of “Communist Manifesto” as the core, showing his determined, persistent and legendary life. Historically, when Chen Wangdao was devoting himself to translating, he once dipped rice dumplings in ink and ate them without realizing it, leaving behind a well-known story that “the taste of truth is very sweet”. The movie “Wangdao” brought this story to the big screen, vividly showing the audience the scene of eating rice dumplings dipped in ink. During the filming process, in order to achieve the most realistic effect, Liu Ye offered to try real ink: “In the beginning, the ink colored with food coloring did not achieve the effect, so I told the director to change to real ink. Sometimes we have to be cruel to ourselves when filming. A little bit. When I woke up the next morning, I still felt the taste of ink when I spoke. I feel that I have tasted the truth that Mr. Chen Wangdao tasted back then.”
The story of “ink as sugar” reflects Chen Wangdao’s dedicated attitude when translating, and also makes the image of the fire broadcaster more flesh and blood. Xi Meijuan, who played Chen Wangdao’s mother in the film, recalled this scene: “My mother looked funny and felt sorry for him.” Director Hou Yong said: “This scene is a soul and a fulcrum for translating “Communist Manifesto”. .This story is almost a household name, so how to present it in different forms is a difficult point. The final film is not bad, and we have grasped the scale.”
“Wangdao” is a person’s perseverance, but also a group of people’s footprints. The movie “Wang Dao” gathered outstanding actors such as Liu Ye, Hu Jun, Wen Yongshan, Wang Qiang, Wu Xiaoliang, Xi Meijuan, etc., to create a memoir group portrait about faith and love. Hu Jun plays Chen Duxiu. He said that the Chen Duxiu portrayed in “Wang Dao” is different from the past in two main points: “First of all, he is the oldest in this group of people, so we must combine his stability and strength as an elder. In order to reflect his quality of life as a person, we must weaken his high-profile and toughness. The second is that we have brought Chen Duxiu’s image and life in his later years to the big screen for the first time.”
“Qilu Evening News” March 14, 2023 Edition A08
Original title: The movie “Wangdao” releases a special series of actors Liu Ye truly interprets Chen Wangdao’s “ink as sugar”
Editor in charge: Zhang Xi
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