The movie " " recently met with the audience. Since its release, it has received extensive attention and discussion, and has become an eye-catching work in early 2021.
Although the movie combines sci-fi, crime, suspense, thriller, love and other types, the final high-energy reversal is even more impressive, but apart from the layers of outer clothing, we see the core of the final story. Still focusing on an old proposition: love.
"To what extent can you do it for the one you love?" This line that appears repeatedly in the film is actually a topic that the director wants to lead the audience to think together. The fate and emotional entanglement of several pairs of protagonists are, in the final analysis, caused by the entanglement of "love". "Life can die, death can live", under the transfer of soul, love is the most primitive driving force.
The film begins with a cruel and bizarre murder. Wang Shicong, chairman of the famous group, died tragically at his home. The cause of his death is complicated and confusing. There are even opinions on whether the murderer was a ghost or a man. With the deepening of the investigation of the case, characters have appeared: the simple and cowardly second wife Li Yan, the cowardly partner Wan Yufan, the rebellious son of the deceased Wang Tianyou, and the bloody curse of the deceased's ex-wife Tang Suzhen who committed suicide cast the case even more. A cloud of terror.
However, the prosecutor Liang Wenchao and his wife, Interpol Abang, who investigated the case, also have their own pain: Liang Wenchao has been suffering from cancer for a short period of time, which is crucial for the mistakes after Abang and the final shocking ending of the story. premise.
Among them, the young actor Sun Anke played Wang Shicong’s young wife "Li Yan". He did not attract attention when he appeared on stage. The audience would never have thought that this character carries so many secrets. .In fact, Li Yan is a very important and extremely complex character in the film. With this character, all the characters in the film can be connected in series, which is a veritable eye of the puzzle.
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One tree with five flowers, different blossoming
"Soul Seizing" is adapted from Jiang Bo's science fiction novel "Transfer Soul". The so-called "Transfer Soul" in the film uses RNA Technology carries out "human brain duplication" and finally completes the soul transfer. The wonderful thing about Li Yan’s role is that the real Li Yan had already died when he appeared on the stage. Only Li Yan’s body was active in front of the audience, but the soul of others was injected into her body, and Li Yan was also killed. The audience is called "the worst tool man".
Counting down, there are three souls injected into Li Yan's body, namely the soul of Li Yan's body, the soul of Wang Shicong, and the soul of Liang Wenchao. More complicated is that Li Yan needs to present five different personalities in the film. In addition to the three souls, Wang Shicong 's "Wang Liyan" disguised as , and Wang Shicong's "Tang Liyan" disguised as .
all sound dizzy, not to mention the need for the actors to be accurately presented, the difficulty of the performance can be imagined.
The success of the role of Li Yan is very important to the film. She not only connects all the characters, but also the appearance of the five personality Li Yan to promote the development of the plot.
In the past, this kind of one-person role-playing had to rely on the presentation of different images to help. However, there is not much difference in appearance between the five personality types of Li Yan, and they are all distinguished by the performance of the actors. Letting a newcomer actor carry out such a difficult challenge makes people feel sweaty, but Sun Anke, born in 1998, finally turned in a satisfactory answer.
1 "True Li Yan"
Sun Anke first played the real Li Yan, and this is the only role she can freely interpret according to her own understanding. We only glanced at Li Yan's body in the retrospect of the story. Li Yan grew up in a nursery school and agreed to conduct a trial for a reward of 100,000 US dollars. After the death of Wang Shicong’s first wife Tang Suzhen,Become the new Mrs. Xianxian. In the narration of the nanny, we can see that the real Li Yan is a modest, polite, simple and kind-hearted young girl who has no knowledge of her future experience.
At this stage, Sun Anke mainly used unfocused eyes to show the character's ignorance, weakness and helplessness. The poor girl has no idea that what she is actually fancyed is only the body, which will become Wang Shicong's "soul container", which makes the audience full of sympathy and regret for her.
2 "Wang Liyan" disguised by Wang Shicong
The Li Yan we saw at the beginning of the film was actually disguised by Wang Shicong. Li Yan's faintness caused "Wang Liyan" to faint and become a suspect after the attack. During the trial, she burst into tears and even trembled and convulsed to the point that she couldn't help herself. It was completely frightened and made people feel compassionate.
In addition, in Wang Shicong's will, she was designated as the first suspect, and the audience was even bewildered for a while, thinking that she had no motive for killing. Sun Anke's performance showed us a cowardly woman who was at a loss after her husband's tragic death. Li Yan's body is not so much the soul of the old and cunning Wang Shicong, but it is Sun Anke's superb acting skills that reinfuse the character.
3 "Tang Li Yan" disguised by Wang Shicong
However, with the development of the story, Li Yan's various performances are suspicious, as if she is surrounded by ghosts and is completely in a state of attacking evil. In a scene with the captured Wang Tianyou, we can almost really believe that this is Tang Suzhen's soul on Li Yan's body.
The weakness and cowardice before
are gone, only the joy of reuniting with the son after a long time, the excitement of returning to the sun, and the hatred of Wang Shicong. Only 22-year-old Sun Anke portrays a mother who is deeply affectionate. Incisively and vividly. Wang Shicong's disguise even deceived Wang Tianyou, who loves his mother, and Sun Anke's performance convinced every viewer.
4 "Wang Liyan" who does not hide his identity
The second half of the film,We finally learned that the soul in Li Yan's body was indeed not Li Yan herself, but it was not Tang Suzhen's ghost upper body, but the blindfold method used by Wang Shicong, which staged a "Resurrection" in full view, just the object of the resurrection. To be a living person is equivalent to murder in disguise.
After prosecutor Liang Wenchao broke the secret, the smile of "Wang Liyan" made people shudder. The audience could not see the shadow of any weak woman before, but a gloomy old man who was deliberate and ruthless. In this part, Sun Anke's performance is amazing, and his body exudes a cold and powerful aura. It seems that Wang Shicong has really come back to life.
5 "Liyan Liang"
Sun Anke finally played the "Fifth Personality", although there are very few scenes, it greatly improves the completion of the film. Liang Wenchao eventually died of cancer, but before Dr. Wan committed suicide, he had copied Liang Wenchao's brain to Li Yan, Wang Shicong disappeared and Liang Wenchao was resurrected.
In the end, "Liang Liyan" met his wife Abang in prison. Abang couldn't cry. "Liang Liyan" didn't say a word. The motion of stroking his wife's brow made the audience suddenly realize that it was Liang Wenchao who was in Li Yan's body at this moment. Sun Anke's eyes at this time revealed the calmness of the middle-aged man and his mixed love for his wife, which is intriguing.
II "For perfection, to what extent can you do
?"
Although he is a newcomer to the screen, Sun Anke's performance in the film is very impressive.
Zhang Zhen and Sun Anke, who played Liang Wenchao in the film, had a lot of rivals. He praised Sun Anke for his "perfect performance".
Behind the “perfect” is unimaginable hardship.
saw the complete script for the first time,Sun Anke "jumped up at home", was extremely excited for such a wonderful role. However, to interpret such a heavyweight role, she had to take turns playing with several seniors, which still gave her a lot of pressure. Pressure is also motivation, but also an opportunity. In "Soul Seizing", Sun Anke's handling of the role is impressive, and her contribution is inseparable from behind.
For example, many viewers have found that the accents of "True Liyan", "Tang Liyan" and "Wang Liyan" are quite different. Such details deserve a lot of praise. Outside of the play, Sun Anke has been working hard on his accent and eyesight, and even has to undergo "scare training."
One of the keys to Li Yan's identity exposure is the switching of left and right hands. Li Yan is right-handed, but Wang Shicong is left-handed. The settings in the film require Li Yan to sign with his left hand. For this reason, Sun Anke "has been competing with his left hand." started shaking hands with the pen, and finally succeeded in writing Siamese words smoothly with his left hand. Such a small detail requires such a great effort, and the overall difficulty can be imagined.
There is a scene of needle sticking in the film, which can be done with borrowing. However, Sun Anke proposed that not only should he go to the battle, he must also be able to see the blood returning in the needle tube. According to her understanding, this needle is very important, so I hope to have a real presentation. As a result, on the day of the filming, the needle was used with a very thick needle tube, and it was pierced more than once. Even so, Sun Anke has no complaints. In her opinion, shooting tricks is more important than everything.
In order to interpret this "five-fold personality", Sun Anke has made great efforts. From the stage of reading the script, she observed the state of the other three actors at the request of the director. The performance must be restored and reproduced. A slight deviation may cause confusion, and she has no idea who is who.
A personality has just established a firm foothold, and is immediately overthrown by the next character. The switching of personality is based on the audience's recognition of the previous personality, and the credibility of the personality must be established in a short time. Each personality's eyes, accent, tone, movement, aura, etc. are completely different. She has worked hard on each personality and strives for accuracy.
finally,Sun Anke can fully switch between five completely different states: trembling, heartbroken, crazy collapse, insidious and cunning, calm and tender, and imitating other actors perfectly. Now which Li Yan is on the screen, it is easy to see. know.
III "Don't forget your original intention, and work hard"
The director, actors and the audience have all spoken highly of Sun Anke's performance in "Hunting Soul".
"Soul Hunting" director Cheng Weihao once said, "I want to say that Encore's performance is remarkable and impeccable. This time there is indeed her hard part. Simply put, it seems to be a lot of personality states, and then everyone When facing every interrogation or questioning in the same state, he must be defensive. The self-defense must be mixed with what kind of personality he is trying to pretend, or what kind of personality she actually is The expression of this thing is really hard, but she performed very well."
Although several characters are completely different, to contribute such a perfect performance, you must not just rely on stylized routines, but truly empathize with the characters. Sun Anke carefully analyzed the inner state of each character, so that he had a deep understanding of the character and then went to create a second time, and finally made himself fit each personality perfectly.
Although the entry time is not long, Sun Anke has strict requirements on himself from the first day as an actor.
The roles are changeable and the beliefs remain the same. From Yang Buhui in "The Legend of the Dragon Slayer", Ming Hui in the Qing palace drama "Menghui", to this time "Five Li Yan" in "Hunting the Soul", Let the audience remember this new and superb acting Xiaohua thoroughly.
In the future, she will have more works such as "Children of the Qiao Family", "A Good Moon and a Full Moon", "Slaying the Wolf" and other works are waiting for the audience.
Sun Anke in life, in addition to being obsessed with performance, also likes photography, travel, and is quite talented in painting.
Learned to paint for many years since she was a child. After the director knew about it, she encouraged her to create a work by herself.As a prop in the play. We saw in the film that the oil painting decorations placed in Wan Yufan's underground laboratory were created by Sun Anke himself, which made people more convinced by this versatile little girl.
A few days ago, Sun Anke wrote on Weibo, "I hope you all like "Hunting Soul" and like the simple, affectionate, extreme and deep Li Yan. I am a young actor Sun Anke, I will not Forget the original intention and work hard." This young actress with both aura and strength makes people look forward to her. Next, Sun Anke will have a few more works to meet with the audience, let us wait and see her performance.