Jiang Wen went from actor to director, following the wave of the fifth generation of New Chinese Cinema, starring Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" (1987), Tian Zhuangzhuang's "The Last Eunuch" (1990) and directed his first film "In the Heat of the Sun" in 1993, a blockbuster, followed him while acting and directing. After more than 20 years, he has become one of the most important figures in Chinese Cinema and is internationally renowned.
"The Sun Also Rises" is his masterpiece after "Devils on the Doorstep" in 1998. It has a lot of demand, and the Mainland China media are eager to report and discuss it. The film features Mainland and Hong Kong actors, including Joan Chen Chong and Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, in which Jiang Wen played the leading role of Jaycee Chan (son of Jackie Chan). In the production special, we saw Jiang Wen exercise Jaycee Chan very seriously and asked him to play a boy who grew up in a rural China, and the effect of the film came out, Jaycee Chan's performance was more ideal than expected, and several of his rivalry scenes with Zhou Yun, who played his mother, were full of explosiveness and passion. On the contrary, the performances of good actors Joan Chan and Anthony Wong were a bit disappointing, especially Anthony Wong's performance was a bit out of tune with the film, Joan Chan's charming female doctor was also a bit over the top.
The film still maintains Jiang Wen's Chinese "magic" style. The plot is full of absurdity and magic. There are many brilliant strokes, and the political chaos during the Cultural Revolution is used "magic" to reflect the fallacy of history. And Jiang Wen's own unscrupulous wildness and feelings, if the audience can accept it, the observability of the film will definitely increase. The film's final party in the desert is reminiscent of Eastern European films of the 1960s.
By Kam Po LAM (original in Chinese)
"The Sun Also Rises" is his masterpiece after "Devils on the Doorstep" in 1998. It has a lot of demand, and the Mainland China media are eager to report and discuss it. The film features Mainland and Hong Kong actors, including Joan Chen Chong and Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, in which Jiang Wen played the leading role of Jaycee Chan (son of Jackie Chan). In the production special, we saw Jiang Wen exercise Jaycee Chan very seriously and asked him to play a boy who grew up in a rural China, and the effect of the film came out, Jaycee Chan's performance was more ideal than expected, and several of his rivalry scenes with Zhou Yun, who played his mother, were full of explosiveness and passion. On the contrary, the performances of good actors Joan Chan and Anthony Wong were a bit disappointing, especially Anthony Wong's performance was a bit out of tune with the film, Joan Chan's charming female doctor was also a bit over the top.
The film still maintains Jiang Wen's Chinese "magic" style. The plot is full of absurdity and magic. There are many brilliant strokes, and the political chaos during the Cultural Revolution is used "magic" to reflect the fallacy of history. And Jiang Wen's own unscrupulous wildness and feelings, if the audience can accept it, the observability of the film will definitely increase. The film's final party in the desert is reminiscent of Eastern European films of the 1960s.
By Kam Po LAM (original in Chinese)