Many people evaluate him as a thoughtful, profound and knowledgeable person. In the movie role, he is so. In reality, he is the object of bitter questioning and has his own way of speaking.
In the "Thirteen Invitations" program, 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 never been able to get along well with his mother. When someone bought a house for her mother, and her mother accepted it, Jiang Wen's mother was not very satisfied with the house bought by Jiang Wen, but chose to stay in the old house.
First, Xu Zhiyuan talks with 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 previous dynasties wanted to define it by law. Such as three wives and four concubines, monogamy and so on. But talking about love is always difficult and confusing. The love between men and women has not been defined in past dynasties. "Now is also in a dilemma. How do you define this matter by law? "
"But everything that is in trouble may be what works of art should express. People may find a comfort that cannot be found elsewhere here. "
When a work of art expresses a dilemma, people may find resonance 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? I'm afraid only the audience knows this.
Regarding interpersonal relationship, Xu Zhiyuan asked Jiang Wen whether the interpersonal relationship has made great progress compared with 20 years ago.
Jiang Wen put down his glass and waved: "You said me, I didn't make 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 his spare time. In this small world, Jiang Wen can be like a duck to water, expressing the theme he has conceived for several years with constantly polished lines and scripts, and creating vivid characters.
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, the speakers seemed to understand who was the star of a certain game, which team and how the movie tax was progressing, but they were all vague, just like when they were teenagers.
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. Some things, some procedures, only know the results, how the intermediate process is carried out, no one carefully informed, but also neglected to sort out.
Small tricks in daily life, accidentally learned, only to find that everyone has long been used to it. Just as a writer wrote in his article, he lived a good life, but suddenly found himself always the last to know something and often fell behind his peers.
"This is not secular. This is really something that everyone knows, but I don't. "
"If Cao Xueqin was twice as fast in this life and mixed well, he wouldn't have to write a dream of red mansions."
Second, the sense of failure in life.
Will this "incomprehension" beyond many movies accumulate into a sense of failure in life?
Jiang Wen narrowed his eyes and turned slightly: "A sense of failure-oh, that's too much!"
Lower the head to think again, Jiang Wen will tell her the relationship with her mother.
I often see people who are particularly close to my mother. They embraced as soon as they met, and naturally stuck together on TV programs, but Jiang Wen didn't. "I'm here, I can't." "This can't do. This. "
Jiang Wen admitted that his relationship with his mother had not been properly handled. Although I have been working hard, it is still not satisfactory. With his head down, Jiang Wen was silent for a while, and his eyes were 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 American screenwriter's mother are both teachers, but Jiang Wen's mother seems unhappy.
"I also bought a house for my mother. I didn't expect her to be so happy."
After buying a house, Jiang Wen's mother didn't go to live, but lived in an old house. That is an old house in Beijing's Ministry of Internal Affairs Street, which existed before the Qing Dynasty. Maybe it will collapse if it rains heavily. "She said it couldn't collapse. The house is made of wood and can't collapse. " Jiang Wen's mother stayed in the old house for a long time and came out of it very late.
After I was admitted to Chinese Opera in Jiang Wen, I showed my mother the notice. Mother took the notice, glanced at it and threw it aside. She said to Jiang Wen, "You haven't washed that tub of clothes yet. Don't mention it to me." . Jiang Wen had to wash clothes first. In life, Jiang Wen often doesn't know how to make his mother happy, and he doesn't know what to do to convey his joy to his mother.
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 is 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 a warning. I said, this, I take it as a script? " Jiang Wen touch head, frowning slightly.
Obviously, it is wrong to force one thing according to one's own wishes. But people live all their lives, and sometimes they are like characters in a script. They changed their identity and walked a few roads in a few decades.
As a director, Jiang Wen spent several years conceiving the theme before each film started shooting, then spent two or three years finishing the script, polishing the lines and ways of speaking of each image, and then lived in a small world created by hundreds of people for one or two years to complete a film work.
It can be said that Jiang Wen is proficient in movies, understands movies, and has good acting skills. 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 the plain life and provide a different perspective.
It may be a sharp contrast that you are good at dealing with script characters, but not good at interacting with real people. The inner thinking world is different from the real world outside, which may be one of the reasons why Jiang Wen is proficient in movies, but it is still difficult to handle the relationship with his mother.
Third, a knowledgeable director.
In the "Thirteen Invitations" program, writer Xu Zhiyuan invited 13 famous 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. Interview with Jiang Wen is the thirteenth issue, and other figures include Cai Lan, Ang Lee, Xiaogang Feng and Faye Yu.
Some people compare the interview to confrontation, and the interviewer's sharp questions to bows and arrows and spears. The interviewer can directly expose the interviewer's disguise and treat the liar coldly. But in the interviews between Xu Zhiyuan and Jiang Wen, we can see the communication between the interviewer and the interviewee, but Jiang Wen, as the interviewee, seems to be leading the interview.
Some netizens commented that Xu Zhiyuan is one of the few people who can have a little in-depth dialogue with Jiang Wen. In the face of Xu Zhiyuan's questions, Jiang Wen always answered calmly, and from time to time denied Xu Zhiyuan's definition of himself and broke it. In the process of advancing 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 practice calligraphy and meditate. These rich inner feelings also promote the perfection of Jiang Wen's role-building in his plays.
In the film, he is an actor with distinctive personality; In life, he is a creator who enriches himself with knowledge. A film director with a unique style is not necessarily good at dealing with interpersonal communication. Perhaps, as Jiang Wen said, you will get better results by choosing what you are good at, rather than what you are not sure about.