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"Axis" out of the star

"Axis" out of the star

By Mohandas YorkPublished 2 years ago 7 min read
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When it comes to Tang Wei, it is inevitable to mention lust, Caution, full nudity, and ban, but also not calm, diligence, or persistent.

Spring in March, but ushered in the "late autumn". Amid the hype in cinemas, the poster for "Late Autumn" is plain and the color is elegant, just like Tang Wei.

Thick makeup light wipe is always appropriate, and Tang Wei is in full bloom, regardless of the season.

Never self-destructed

There are many ways to look at Tang Wei, but first, she's an unspoiled actress who starts high and then jealously maintains that image, stepping out of Ang Lee's movies and speaking Cantonese in Hong Kong movies. To act in a co-production, opposite Koreans, speaking English... She was a cheongsam lady in Shanghai in the 1940s, a lonely young woman in the streets of Hong Kong, and finally, an Asian female prisoner who floated to a foreign country.

These characters, as if just right, matched her, varied but not varied, always literary, always temperamentally attractive, always more than physical. As a result, she is easy to like, even for male viewers, more than purely sensual.

Often see a female star break the vase with a "self-destruction image" to attempt to transition, but destroyed is that face, still too appealing enough, tang film "late autumn", propaganda used a word called "without makeup," of course not true without makeup, but to show the kind of down and out, female prisoners tang in the movie to wear dust coat, wearing scarves, hair tied up, walking in the street, It's always reminiscent of her unsatisfying but simple life.

Chan said of her: "One of Tang Wei's strengths is that, despite her fame, she retains a lot of her simplicity. Few of the actors I've met over the past decade have maintained this purity. She blends in so well that you can't tell she's a star."

Perhaps because of this, Kim Tae-Yong, the director of Late Autumn, had Tang in mind when he wrote the script, and even finished creating the character by pasting her picture on his desk. Kim's initial motivation is not to develop a special relationship between the two protagonists. But such a special identity, two stories of people, has been "no attachment to others, not illusions about everything, not tears" for anything, but they meet and see themselves from each other, memories last 24 hours, became a kind of courage and strength, into a proof of life.

What should 32-year-old Tang Wei look like after her spectacular debut in Lust, Caution? "All Korean actresses are cute and beautiful, but Tang Wei is very elegant," Kim said. Beautiful actresses are easy to find, but women just being beautiful is not enough to infect, especially in a story.

If you can't laugh, you can only cry

Back to Late Autumn.

"Late Autumn" with literary packaging, usually has the sensibility of love at first sight. Jin Taiyong knows, that when two people first see, Xuan Bin in the car without change, the whole car scan a week at a glance in the phase of Tang Wei, forward, help, success! Tang Wei a "you have to return change to me", attracted Hyun Bin to the attention of the cool woman, Kim Tae-Yong for the two love budding explanation is: "as a cowboy, iceberg beauty is a precious variety, love because rare and precious."

Mr. Kim Yong the background to the story happened in Seattle, is for the sake of romance, the city sunshine six months, the rainy season six months, the cast and deliberately choose the rainy season, this just accord with two and the background of the exotic writing love between men and women home, two people walking in the endless mist and rain. Through the crowded crowd, going into the quiet suburbs, two people in the department of clothing, Proclaim "Suffering is our suffering!"

Tang said Kim's strict demands once put her under great pressure. "I was not allowed to cry or laugh at the scene, but only said that I was moving. I did not laugh at the scene of dodgem cars with Hyun Bin. Therefore, I could not help crying every night when I went back to the hotel. After watching the film, I understood his intention."

Loneliness is almost all deep into the heart of the love movie and is bound to touch on a topic. "Late autumn", should belong to this, when a period of love and fall out of thin air, no previous generation this life, not because of have, the past disappear in the future also disappear, then or now at the moment, is two people attract each other before the great belongs to the loneliness of life, you're at a loss to go to another person, hope with the help of this blend in each other's way, to eliminate the lonely, In the body, in the soul.

Playing the female prisoner, who has just been released on parole for three days and drifts in a foreign land, makes Tang realize some interesting truths: "What I'm doing now is Transformers. In life, it's just a normal car, I'm just a normal person, if the character needs, I can become a giant, savior, Smurf... Everything can change. These characters are my inner part of the piece, they are my own there is no difference between me. But they're far away. It's a Transformer, not a car."

"Axis" out of the star

"After seven years in prison, Tang Wei is very moving in her portrayal of Anna." "The Seattle Times said of her performance in" Late Fall. As her first foreign language film, Tang has already won 10 best actress awards in South Korea, although it was not released on the mainland at that time.

Tang, 32, doesn't think she has a talent for acting. She always experiences and approaches her characters in the clumsiest, most original ways. If she can't feel it, she can't act it. In the play, Xuan Bin and Tang Wei only 24 hours, in fact, in the play, the brewing of the feelings, after two months. During the day, Mr. Hyun and Ms. Tang wandered around Seattle together while Mr. Kim worked on the script, and at night the three gathered to talk.

Most of the time, everyone talked to her about Lust, Caution, but Tang Wei herself didn't seem to mind. Once when she went home, she took a look here and there, and finally pulled out a book from the shelf, which happened to be Eileen Chang's Lust, Caution.

There is also a time to stay alone, which is Tang Wei's favorite state: "I like to stay alone. No matter what I do, a person will have more experience. It was as if there were countless people in the room making a noise, and all the dust in the air had risen to the middle of the air. Only after all these people were gone, it would take a long time for the dust to settle on the ground and calm down. You see, oh, this is what it's become."

Naturally, Tang explains: "Quiet, down-to-earth, not so boisterous. It's like water falling into this cup drop by drop, and slowly the cup is full, and that's the process of becoming a character. Then you start to smell it, see its color, feel its temperature... That's what I enjoy."

Tang Wei, who does not like to join in the fun, also has a unique stubborn personality. One of Tang's former classmates called her a bit of an "axle." Tang Wei took the test for 4 years before entering the middle drama, the first 3 years in the examination of the acting department, only in 2000 finally admitted to the director department.

In the early years, Tang Wei did some small scenes, mostly as extras. Besides, Tang Wei's mother did not like her daughter to take the road of literature and art, but Tang Wei herself firmly believed in becoming an actress. "My opinion is the most important. I do all the writing myself. What I like, I do, no matter what people think. What I didn't like, I put it down. To perform this thing, you have to feel yourself. No one can replace your feelings."

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