Many people evaluate him as a thoughtful, deep and true-minded person. In the movie role, he is so. In reality, he is the object of sharp-tongued questions and has his own way of talking.
In the program "Thirteen Invitations", Jiang Wen mentioned that the relationship between people in the film is very important, but in dealing with interpersonal relationships, Jiang Wen said that he had not been getting along well with his mother. When other people bought a house for their mother, and her mother readily accepted it, Jiang Wen's mother was not very happy with the house bought by Jiang Wen, but chose to stay in the old house.
First, Xu Zhiyuan talks to Jiang Wen
Many of Jiang Wen's films involve the themes of revenge and love. To Xu Zhiyuan's question about revenge and love, Jiang Wen replied: "In fact, people want to define these two things by law. The result of the definition is that people often break the law. "
For love, all dynasties want to define it by law. For example, three wives and four concubines, monogamy and so on. But it is always difficult and confusing to talk about love. The love between men and women has not been defined in the past dynasties. "Now it is also a dilemma. How do you let the law define this matter?"
"But everything that is in trouble may be what works of art should express. People may find a comfort that they can't find anywhere else here. "
When a work of art expresses a dilemma, people may find empathy in this expression. Love is expressed in the film, and the director's understanding for many years is shown to the audience. Will the audience find comfort in reality from it? I'm afraid only the audience knows this.
On the interpersonal relationship, Xu Zhiyuan asked Jiang Wen whether the interpersonal relationship has made great progress compared with 20 years ago.
Jiang Wen put down the glass and waved: "You said me, I didn't make any progress." Look at the buildings in the distance.
In Jiang Wen's eyes, making movies by himself is more like creating another world without knowing what to do in leisure. In this small world, Jiang Wen can like a duck to water, express the theme he has conceived for several years, and create vivid characters with constantly polished lines and scripts.
In the meantime, in this small world, hundreds of people who made movies with Jiang Wen lived together briefly for a year or two. After the shooting, back to reality, messy things filled my mind again.
Jiang Wen said that at a party, it seems that the talkers all understand who is the star of a certain game, which team, and how the movie tax is progressing, but they are vague, as they were in their teens.
Such a misty state seems to really exist in life. What is bright as a mirror in others' hearts is still vague in their own hearts. Some things, some procedures, only know the results, how the intermediate process is carried out, no one carefully told, and neglected to sort out.
Small tricks in daily life, accidentally learned, but found that everyone has long been used to it. As a writer wrote in his article, he lives in a proper way, but suddenly finds that he is always the last to know something and often falls behind his peers.
"It's not secular. This is really something people understand, but I don't understand."
"If Cao Xueqin's life had been twice as quick and mixed well, he wouldn't have to write A Dream of Red Mansions."
Second, the sense of failure in life
Will this "incomprehension" outside many movies accumulate into a sense of failure in life?
Jiang Wen squinted and turned his head slightly: "A sense of failure-oh, that's too much!"
Lower the head to think carefully again, Jiang Wen will tell her relationship with her mother.
I often see people who are particularly close to their mothers. They hug and hug each other when they meet, and they naturally stick to each other on TV programs, but Jiang Wen doesn't. "I am here, I can't." "This won't do. This."
Jiang Wen admits that his relationship with his mother has not been handled well. Although I have been working hard, it is still not satisfactory. With his head down, Jiang Wen was silent for a while, his eyes dim: "My mother died in March."
After her mother's death, Jiang Wen has been reflecting on why she can't handle the relationship with her mother well. When having dinner with the writer of The Dark Knight, the other party mentioned buying a house for her mother, and her mother felt more and more filial. Jiang Wen's mother and the American screenwriter's mother are both teachers, but Jiang Wen's mother didn't seem very happy.
"I also bought a house for my mother, but I didn't think she was so happy."
After buying a house, Jiang Wen's mother didn't go to live, but stayed in the old house. That's an old house in Beijing's Ministry of Internal Affairs Street, which existed before the Qing Dynasty. Maybe it will collapse when it rains heavily. "She said it couldn't collapse. The house is made of wood and it can't collapse." Jiang Wen's mother stayed in the old house for a long time and came out of it very late.
After being admitted to Chinese Opera in Jiang Wen, I showed the notice to my mother. Mother took the notice, glanced at it and threw it aside. She told Jiang Wen, "You haven't washed that basin of clothes, so don't talk to me about it.". Jiang Wen had to wash the clothes first. In life, Jiang Wen often doesn't know how to make his mother happy and what to do to convey his joy to her.
Third, the script characters and real characters
In the face of interpersonal communication, Jiang Wen said that he was not good at dealing with such problems. I thought I would, but I still won't. And always be careful not to handle things too much. If Jiang Wen gets too involved in something, some people will think that Jiang Wen regards himself as the role of the script, and they will protest "I am not your script, I am not your role".
"This will give me an alert. I said, this, I treated it as a script? "Jiang Wen touch head, frowning slightly.
Obviously, it is wrong to force something to be done according to one's own wishes. But people live their whole lives, and sometimes they are like characters in a script. They change their identities in decades and follow several paths.
As a director, Jiang Wen spends several years conceiving the theme before each film starts shooting, then completes the script in two or three years, polishes the lines and ways of speaking of each image, and then lives in the created small world with hundreds of people for one or two years to complete a film work.
It can be said that Jiang Wen is proficient in movies, knows how to film, and is also good at acting. Dealing with life problems is not like the plot of a script, but the idea of treating life as a script seems to add some fun to a dull life and provide different perspectives.
It may be a sharp contrast that you are proficient in dealing with script characters, but not good at interacting with real people. The development progress between the inner thinking world and the real world outside is different, which may be one of the reasons why Jiang Wen is well versed in movies, but it is still difficult to deal with the relationship with his mother.
Third, a knowledgeable director
In the "Thirteen Invitations" program, the writer Xu Zhiyuan invited 13 well-known people with template function to observe their behavior. Through dialogue, this paper discusses his personal experience and experience, in order to see the slice of China's development. The interview with Jiang Wen is the thirteenth issue, and other figures include Cai Lan, Ang Lee, Xiaogang Feng and Faye Yu.
Some people compare interviews to confrontation, and the interviewer's sharp questions to arrows and spears. Interviewers can directly puncture the disguise of the interviewees and treat the interviewees who tell lies with their eyes open coldly. But in the interview between Xu Zhiyuan and Jiang Wen, we can see the communication between the interviewer and the interviewee, but Jiang Wen, as the interviewee, is more like leading the interview.
Some netizens commented that Xu Zhiyuan is one of the few people who can have a little in-depth conversation with Jiang Wen. In the face of Xu Zhiyuan's questions, Jiang Wen always calmly answered, and from time to time denied Xu Zhiyuan's definition of himself and broke it. In the process of promoting the interview, we can feel Jiang Wen's composure and thinking.
Jiang Wen's wife Zhou Yun once mentioned that Jiang Wen is more like a scholar in life. Many people may skip what they don't understand when reading, but Jiang Wen must make it clear. Besides, Jiang Wen can also practice calligraphy and meditate. These abundant inner feelings also promote Jiang Wen's perfection in role-building in the script.
In the film, he is an actor with distinct personality; In life, he is a creator who enriches himself with knowledge. A film director with a unique style may not be good at dealing with interpersonal communication. Perhaps, as Jiang Wen said, you will get better results if you choose what you are good at and not what you are not sure about.