1905 Movie Network Special Article " Life Events " was released for four days, with a cumulative box office exceeding 300 million. Maoyan 9.6, Taopiao 9.6, Douban 7.5, with a good reputation. This is the first feature film by director Liu Jiangjiang. The first time he made this movie that is hyping up the current market.
He told 1905 Movie Network that he never expected that the book he wrote would make him go from filming a TV series to a film director, and he did not expect that he could invite Zhu Yilong to be the starring actor. He did not expect that the movie could eventually expand to such a large scale of theater films.
"Life is nothing big before death", "Life is big after funeral themes talk about life and death. In the emotions that the third brother and Xiaowen have no blood relationship but are similar to the relationship between father and daughter; in the growth narrative of the third brother bid farewell to his father and inheriting his father's business, it interprets the thoughts of ordinary people on survival and death. How to create this popular work that received a good response? Director Liu Jiangjiang said that it is the secret they have grasped from all aspects to "feeling and credible" and then to "feeling and interesting".
"The Great Events of Life" director Liu Jiangjiang
Movie creates fireworks
The accent of the characters has details, "Mo Sanmei" hides easter eggs
"The requirement for choosing a shooting location is three keywords: fireworks ."
Liu Jiangjiang said that "The Great Events of Life" was selected for shooting in Wuhan because Wuhan and the main creators wanted to pursue images and the images in the story, which were very close, and felt like "in the world".
movie also requires a sense of fireworks to the characters. I hope that as soon as my third brother appears, it will be appreciated, "I have a buddy who is like this, he walks like this, he smokes like this, he squats like this, he just talks like this." The director of
grew up in the rural areas of North China ; he worked as a reporter for people's livelihood before filming the movie; he worked on the TV station for seven or eight years, and he came into contact with the stories of the rural people. When he changed to filming movies, he was subtly good at capturing and constructing such real life and grassroots characters with a sense of fireworks.
Wuhan is a fusion city that brings together many foreign populations. The main characters in the movie are also specially set from different regions - San Ge is from Wuhan; Xiao Wen is from Sichuan; Jianren is from Guangxi; Bai Xue is from Northeast China.
If you pay attention carefully, you will find that there are many changes in the accent of San Ge. This puts more demands on Zhu Yilong's performance.
Zhu Yilong himself is from Wuhan. In the film, he has to speak pure Wuhan dialect to his family and locals, but to outsiders, he has to say "bent pipes" Mandarin . "In fact, his accent has at least two to three degrees."
movies focus on real details, as small as a cigarette box or a pair of bracelets, they have to come from life, in line with the character design and story logic, not purely for wonder. Even the names of characters in the movie are ingenious.
Many viewers do not understand why the third brother's real name is "Mo Sanmei". The director explained that this is the "eastern egg" set by the movie. From his perspective, on the one hand, the third sister is not a "sister", and the name can contrast the character's personality, and Xiaowen is also not a "literary".
On the other hand, this name can be reflected in the fact that the third brother has always mistakenly thought that his father and sister looked down on him, but this gentle name highlights the monks' love and love for him, and better demonstrates the bondage relationship between the third brother and his family.
Zhu Yilong has a face-changing acting
Yang En's performance is "smacking" into his heart
Compared with previous roles, Zhu Yilong's performance is very breakthrough. His personal gentle, elegant, humble and polite image temperament is very different from the third brother who is full of ruffianism and full of "I'm a little bit". At first, the director was a little worried about the fit between the two.
In order to shape the character, Zhu Yilong cuts his buzz cut, paints black, and gains weight. He learns the funeral craftsmanship of a funeralist, learns the speaking and behavioral style of a "street slippery boy", and changes himself from outside to the mainland. As soon as he arrived on the set and was involved in the play, Liu Jiangjiang's concerns were completely eliminated, "I don't know how he did it, he is really a very awesome actor."
Liu Jiangjiang believes that Zhu Yilong is a "face-changing performance", breaking through the upper limit that can be imagined in the script stage and pre-shooting stage. "Just like Sun Wukong, there are seventy-two changes, which is really a surprise, and the comfort that I expected. His whole person gave the character a soul extension. "
The third brother is a typical tough guy and tenderness. He will lose every battle, but he always has a heart of righteousness. The director described him as a contemporary Don Quixote. He was constantly trained by his father, elder sister, ex-girlfriend, Lao Liu and Xiaowen, just like Sun Wukong has experienced 81 difficulties.
Zhu Yilong's filming this drama is also a process of continuous training. For example, a scene running on the overpass. In the hottest weather in Wuhan, two photographers took turns to shoot him and shot nearly 40 pieces of materials in a row.
From the "little Nezha" who cried at the beginning and made trouble everywhere to the "little adult" who thoughtful and thoughtful "little adult" who was thinking about helping the third brother, and was meticulous, Xiaowen and The third brother's stubborn personality has similarities. Yang En and Zhu Yilong's performances are also complementary.
Liu Jiangjiang did not let them cultivate the relationship between characters before filming, "I'm afraid I'm too familiar with each other." Movies are not filmed smoothly. Often in the previous scene, they have to be as close as father and daughter, and in the next scene, they have to act like two people who are disliked each other.
In the director's opinion, the two actors are very magical, like there is a switch, and they can immediately enter the emotions they should have when they start filming, and they become good friends when they call to block.
His requirement for filming the interactive scene between the third brother and Xiaowen is to shoot surprises, "If there is no surprise today, this may not be successful. "
Yang En's performance brought a lot of surprises to everyone, "There were several emotions we wanted, but she basically never made me think that this spirit was wrong, and I could give it several kinds. "
Sometimes, Yang En's move is wrong, and the reaction is not originally set, "but her performance will hit you in your heart. "The director thought about it and it was right.
did not set a crying movie, but he would cry every time he watched it
hope the movie has a sense of resonance
Is "The Big Event in Life" a "cry" movie?
Liu Jiangjiang admitted that he did not deliberately design a tearjerking scene, nor did he clearly set this film as a "crying movie". But indescribably, when he was filming, he often cried when watching the scene between the third brother and Xiaowen. "I often looked back and saw the scene wiping tears, and the producer was also wiping tears. "
He has watched the movie many times now, "but every time I watch it, I can still see the place that makes me cry. "For example, the third brother celebrated Xiaowen's birthday and the reunion with the third brother after Xiaowen left home all impressed him.
It can be said that the theme and appearance of "The Great Events in Life" are the same as family love films such as "Hello, Li Huanying ", " Send You a Little Red Flower ", " My Sister " and other family love films belong to the same sequence. In the film market in recent years, there is no such thing as this type of film. Both reputation and box office performance are excellent.
Liu Jiangjiang believes that Chinese people have Chinese emotions and movie-watching needs. The success of this type of movie is to make Chinese audiences resonate. Just like his clear positioning of "The Great Events in Life": a popular commercial movie , with good stories, which makes everyone feel after watching it. The initial point of this resonance of
, first comes from the director himself . It is an unforgettable childhood memory and an inspirational encounter that inspired him to make this movie.
Liu Jiangjiang was born in a carpenter's family and his family could make coffins. When he was a child, he often lie secretly in the coffin, covered with shavings. He said that when the sun shines, especially the smell of pine wood and cypress wood is particularly good. The perspective of children's life and death, from here未分类.
Another time was when he saw a funeral shop in the evening, a van pouring goods at the door, a little girl was doing homework in the shop, and her father was working. There was a warm light on the girl's table, illuminating the funeral shop, and the feeling of spring in the corner hit him.
was born from here from the perspective of family understanding of life and death. Soon, Liu Jiangjiang wrote the first draft of the movie script.
Now the movie has been filmed and released. Although it is a funeral theme, Liu Jiangjiang believes that the Chinese people’s attitude towards funerals is romantic and colorful, just like the “eggplant and cucumber” in the movie, just like the third brother letting his father’s ashes scatter in the sky and blooming into fireworks.
"The kind of emotion we want to output is to make everyone feel that they should enjoy life, cherish life, and meet the people I want to meet and do what I want to do."
Many viewers' comments on "The Big Events in Life" are not easy to cry, but laugh with tears, and warmth between sorrow and joy. "No matter how smooth the road and the tide of fate are, there will always be warm nights", like the theme song of "The Great Events in Life".
