Peng Yuyan: Ordinary talents who come forward are real superheroes

For the fourth time, "Emergency Rescue" with director Lin Chaoxian pays tribute to sea rescuers

Peng Yuyan's ordinary talents are real superheroes

　　The movie "Emergency Rescue", originally scheduled to be released on January 25 on the first day of the new year of 2020, was finally released on December 18 this year. This is the director Lin Chaoxian and starring Peng Yuyan following "Fighting", "Broken Wind" and "Operation Mekong" After the fourth cooperation.

　　"Emergency Rescue" is the first Chinese-language film directed by Lin Chaoxian on sea rescue. It is based on real sea rescue incidents. It tells the story of rescuers who sacrificed themselves in the face of natural and man-made disasters and went forward to save others.

　　2020 is an extraordinary year. In this year, many people have begun to re-examine the meaning of life, and they are full of respect for the "ordinary heroes" who guard life.

Peng Yuyan said that groups such as sea rescuers and medical staff who rushed to the front line during the epidemic this year are the real "superheroes": "There is no patron saint falling from the sky, only ordinary people who come forward. They are real superheroes. . Thank you for coming forward at this critical moment."

　The director came to film as soon as the director found me

　　As the first Chinese-language film to focus on the theme of salvage at sea, "Emergency Rescue" is based on the touching stories of Chinese salvagers at sea. It is a work that Director Lin Chaoxian has prepared with great concentration for five years.

Regarding the original intention of making this film, Director Lin Chaoxian said that he had always wanted to expand on new themes before, and was moved when he saw the short film of rescuers five years ago.

Although the salvage personnel’s natural power to face “fierceness” is so small, their salvation spirit of “giving others the hope of life and leaving the danger of death to themselves” is so great and very impressive. admire.

Little is known about the occupations of sea rescuers. It is the director's long-term wish to make their stories into movies and let them enter the public's sight.

　　Compared with Lin Chaoxian's previous works, the difficulty of shooting "Emergency Rescue" has taken a step up.

In order to make the plane crash scene more realistic, Lin Chaoxian broke the previous convention of using special effects to make plane scenes, used real scene shooting and bought a real plane.

In order to let the actors perform better, Lin Chaoxian and the actors went deep underwater and took the camera in person.

There was a scene of diving that made him feel fear, who had almost no diving experience. Lin Chaoxian said: "When fear comes, you will enlarge that fear more and more. I can't control it at all. My hands are shaking, holding the machine. Shaking too."

　　With "Operation Mekong" and "Operation Red Sea", Lin Chaoxian became one of the "most-grossing and popular Hong Kong directors" in the Mainland. Among them, "Operation Red Sea" won him the Hundred Flowers Award, the Huabiao Award, and the Golden Rooster Award for best director. The Grand Slam of the Best Director of the Three Awards for Chinese Film.

In the industry, Lin Chaoxian is even more famous as a "devil director". To act in his films, actors must be prepared to be abused. Among them, his old partner, Peng Yuyan, is naturally the one who is abused the most.

　　When the two collaborated on filming "Fighting" for the first time, Peng Yuyan received professional boxer training and took three months to learn Muay Thai, locks and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. During the filming, Lin Chaoxian asked Peng Yuyan to play against a professional boxer, hoping to "convince the audience."

In the second collaboration with "Broken Wind", Peng Yuyan participated in the training camp for 4 months. During the training and shooting, he ridden more than 110,000 kilometers, almost 3 times around the earth.

Immediately afterwards, the two collaborated for the third time in Operation Mekong. During filming, Lin Chaoxian was accidentally bitten by a six-inch centipede and injured his ankle. Peng Yuyan's real gun was live, and every action command was close to reality.

This time in "Emergency Rescue" they challenged the "water play" that is recognized as difficult to film in the world.

　　Peng Yuyan said that as soon as the director asked him to play "Emergency Rescue", he came without a second word: "I know that filming the director's movie will be very interesting and enjoyable. Of course, there will be certain challenges and difficulties. This is why I think The reason for the filming of the director's film. I was actually prepared a long time ago, but I didn’t expect that this time I was not prepared enough. During the 8 months of shooting, the difficulty was escalated every day, which was very challenging, physically and mentally unprecedented. Surprise."

　　In "Emergency Rescue", Peng Yuyan played Gao Qian, the captain of the maritime special service team. "He is a man of courage, experience and a strong sense of responsibility. He has performed many tasks and saved many people."

　　Before the filming started, Director Lin Chaoxian showed the rescuers' information to the actors so that they could understand the life of the rescuers at sea. The actors also had to train with them. Peng Yuyan said: "They are all very good, and they are very private. Ordinary, we are like friends, but when they receive a mission, they look completely different. When they were on a mission, I followed. You can’t imagine these ordinary people hanging on the helicopter, you will It feels like they have arrived in another world. Sometimes, you have to give up something to save other people’s lives. In the water, you only have three to five minutes. You can only save two people, but there are 20 or 30 people around, so what do you do? Do? This is what they have to face. They have to face this kind of human tragedy every day when they go to work. When they come home, they will be a normal person. This is what the director wants to talk about in this play, and we have also personally experienced it. , I realized how great they are."

　　After performing this movie, Peng Yuyan had a deep respect for the salvage team. He confessed that he didn't understand the profession before acting. After the performance, he realized that the salvage team was giving the "hope of life" to others. What they are facing is the tragedy of life. If there is no faith and a firm heart, they cannot meet and complete the task. In this profession, they must have enough courage and faith to forget themselves and their lives. Save others."

　Being abused in various ways, you must be psychologically prepared every time you enter the water

　　Although he has cooperated three times before, Peng Yuyan did not expect to be "abused to a new height" this time. He laughed and said, "Basically all kinds of abuse. This is the style of the director. He just likes to'abuse' artists. But In fact, actors can get a lot of nutrients in this process. This is also the reason why we fall in love with the director, so that we can make a very memorable scene."

　　Asked about the impressive scenes, Peng Yuyan said that there are too many unforgettable scenes, "Like the first time I was bombed by fire, I was bombed in a fire of six or seven hundred degrees, and it was bombed several times. I thought it was all right after the filming. Later I was going to be bombed by water. After the bombing was over, the director was very excited and said: "Peng Yuyan was finally bombed with water by me." I didn't know that water could be used to bomb people before, but was hung again the next day after the bombing. I was hanging in the air for a day, but it was very enjoyable. Because the real shooting was suspended on a helicopter, it was very high, so it was also very unforgettable. I thought it was all right when I came down, and then I will burn it with fire, and then I will flood it with water, so this time It's all kinds of experiences."

　　Since the show is salvage at sea, the water scene is naturally the main focus. Peng Yuyan revealed that he drowned several times during filming. "There was a scene that was particularly impressive. When filming in Mexico, I was hooked by Via and then crushed. Go to the bottom of the pool. Everyone was scared, and I couldn’t get out. I found the Via card that tied me to the base of the truck. Before the rescue team came to rescue me, I thought I would save myself first. I was looking for tools to cut the rope, but I couldn’t cut it. Later, I found the hooked spot and untied the rope desperately. The director kept saying, "It’s okay, it’s okay." I said I want to take a break because The rope was so tight that I couldn't pull it off. I pulled it desperately. My nails were all lifted up and my hands were split. The director was frightened. I think this is the most terrifying thing."

　　Another time in the water, Peng Yuyan’s oxygen cylinder was about to run out of gas. He said that the spare cylinder could only suck 8 mouths. The deeper the water pressure, the more sucked, "I have to save 8 mouths every time. It was a very long shot. The rescue team had to retreat very far. When I finished shooting and I was going to swim back, the oxygen cylinder was out of gas, and I couldn't find a spare cylinder, so I took a breath and looked for an exit. This situation often happens. I always think I swim very well, but when you are really 10 meters underwater, it is completely different from your swimming pool, and we carry a lot of lead, so I am The ones that can’t rise, plus the water temperature of 6°C, feel like they’re in the ice storage."

　　Peng Yuyan frankly confessed that thinking back to the scene in the water now, he was afraid after the meeting.

"I remember that after filming those scenes, we went to eat, and the local Mexican staff would greet me and compare me. Friends of our rescue team told me that the local rescuers felt that this is not something ordinary people can do. Many people can’t believe that we Chinese actors will shoot on their own. When foreign movies go to that scene, they will all stand in for them.” To complete these scenes, Peng Yuyan thanked them for the “devil training” they received. “We learned during training. Yes, I used them all in the filming. If I didn’t train and learn well in advance, I might not dare to film this film."

　　Peng Yuyan thinks he likes to challenge and is bold. "I think I am the kind of person who you just have to give to me and I am not afraid of it. However, I really have to make psychological preparations before I get into the water every day to make this movie. It's cold, and there are chemicals in the water. There are a lot of things in the show that I need to take off my equipment. Without goggles, chemicals will get into my eyes, and my eyes cannot be opened. Photographers always wear goggles when entering the water. Take off the eyepieces. The water flows into the eyes and I can’t stand it. I have to keep washing them. I soak for more than ten hours a day. Every time because the water is cold, I may stay for 15 minutes and then go down. I wash my eyes every day. In the end, the eyes kept running with tears and the eyes were red. The director was also distressed, so he would go into the water to accompany me."

　　Although the safety measures for "Emergency Rescue" are very well in place, Peng Yuyan said that they were still afraid of being in case when filming. "Although the thermal insulation suits have been tried, after all, the fire temperature is as low as 300℃. The clothes are burning up, and the shooting is about the feeling of being burned, but I still feel scared when I am fully armed, and I can still feel the skin burning. Shooting like this every day, I will still be afraid of being suspended every day. I didn't expect that I could survive. ."

　　Peng Yuyan said that he followed the real rescue team to rescue. The rescue process was very hard. He really experienced the fragility of life and could not imagine the power of nature. "It's really horrible. After making this movie, I I feel that I must cherish my life. Now if I take a plane, I will read the rescue manual, see where the escape hatch is, see the people nearby, if something really happens, who needs help. I didn’t do it before, but now it’s an instinct , And then imagine the situation of filming at that time, I would count a few elderly people, some of them came in a wheelchair, these are all realized after I finished the film, involuntary, I think it is quite exaggerated. By the escape hatch, I will think of the training in the past 8 months and the horrible scenes of saving people in the plane. I always tell myself that if something really happens today, I can save people."

　Peng Yuyan, the iron striker, Lin Chaoxian, the iron striker

　　Cooperating with director Lin Chaoxian can be described as "painful and happy" for Peng Yuyan. When talking about the difficulty of the director's film, Peng Yuyan laughed and said: "If the difficulty is not increased, I think it is not directed by Lin Chaoxian. Since I met the director , I think the most remarkable thing about him is his obsession with what he likes. Therefore, when the director makes a movie with such enthusiasm, you will be infected, and then you will also think, why not do it this way? "

　　Being able to cooperate with Lin Chaoxian four times, Peng Yuyan thinks that the two may have fate, "He admires me very much, and I respect him very much. Few actors can work with the same director four times, so it is very rare. Many times we cooperate. You can omit some running-in things, like "family". I have experienced four different lives in seven years, and these four are not what ordinary people can experience. The director is very good every time, and I believe him It will only get better and better. The more the director does, the more challenging it becomes, because every time he shoots something is new, just like this underwater shooting, we have not experienced it before, many of which are unknown and can only be reached. Only when I go to the scene can I follow the scene to go through the scene. I have to train again before shooting. I have to rehearse before shooting. I think that many scenes are actually difficult to implement. We are all learning and the director will give me a lot of confidence. ."

　　There is a saying: "Peng Yuyan who beats the iron, Lin Chaoxian who beats the iron." Peng Yuyan laughed and said that when he heard this sentence before, he felt that their emotions were too small. "It seems that there is only tempering, but after the "Emergency Rescue", I think it is good. Too precise. Because I think "Emergency Rescue" is really like "grinding" and it is very dangerous. I have always had the mentality of letting go. If the director is not Lin Chaoxian, I will definitely have doubts and worry about whether this is possible. Filming. Actually, when the filming of "Operation Mekong" was finished, the director told me about this film. At that time, I wanted to film this film, but I also felt that I needed to take a break. It happened that the director had another film at that time. Just rested for a while."

　When filming every movie, I try my best not to regret it

　　Although they are "golden partners", when asked whether the two had conflicts or disagreements, Peng Yuyan replied: "There will definitely be some. Maybe in some performances, I will have some ideas that are different from the director's, but the director also knows. I must give the actor space. On this basis, I worked hard to surprise him. After he saw it, he felt that the role I created was more three-dimensional than he imagined in his mind. The director would think it was very worthwhile. I also wanted to act. Addiction, so we must believe in each other. A person’s ideas are limited, and we are infinite together. When you are willing to share what you want, then he will definitely share his things with you. Me and the director The disagreement is often that he may think it’s enough, and I want to give more. He will let me act and make me enjoyable. I think one of the advantages of filming with the director is that what he sees me will always be seen by others I am different."

　　Peng Yuyan said that Lin Chaoxian's relationship with him is also a teacher and friend. "He thinks I should shoot anything at my age. If I have not reached that stage, maybe the film at that stage is not suitable for me. He wants me to be slow. Growing slowly, to a certain extent, I can understand what he wants to pursue. There is a tacit understanding of each other. I feel that such people in the film industry are a kind of existence that will be infected with each other. This doesn’t need to be said, it can be seen from what he wants to do, so it fits well. I admire the director’s point. Since the first collaboration of "Guild Wars", the director and I have not changed. Fortunately, Really, I never thought that after the filming of "Guild Wars", I could have so much cooperation with the director afterwards, and he probably never thought that the actor Peng Yuyan could still be used, so I also think I am quite lucky. If the director I feel that I am a raw jade and can sculpt different patterns in his movies. I am very happy to be portrayed into different images by him."

　　Asked if they plan to cooperate for the fifth time, Peng Yuyan said that the two have actually talked about a lot of topics: "Every time we run and chat, we will think of a topic. He will ask me what I like, and I will also ask him what he likes. We have discussed a lot before, such as racing, action, and gunfighting, usually the type that the director said he wants to make. I usually don't have any restrictions on his movies because I believe him."

　　In Peng Yuyan's view, Director Lin Chaoxian has the right to choose the actor he thinks is suitable. "It's not that we have to cooperate on the fifth one after we have cooperated on four films. Whether we continue to cooperate or not, I think sometimes it is the magnetic field between us. Everyone knows that this kind of magnetic field is not easy to come by. Therefore, when shooting every scene, I try to make myself do not regret it, because this is the only thing I can control. I can do my best within the range of control. In this process, I will gain experience, wisdom, and fruit, which is very worthwhile."

　　Text/Photo courtesy of our reporter Zhang Jia/Peng Yuyan Studio