Today's director Ye Daying is certainly not as beautiful as the directors of the same period, Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Jiang Wen, even compared with the sixth generation of directors Jia Zhangke and Ning Hao, his fame and popularity are slightly inferior. However, Ye Daying, who has classic works such as "Red Cherry", "Blood Colored Child's Heart", and "Red Lover", is still a respected old predecessor in the industry, and with his extraordinary qualifications, he can be completely successful in today's film and television circles, and has been respected by all industry insiders.
The big-name actors he has worked with are all thunderous characters, Zhang Guorong, Xie Yuan, Mei Ting, Guo Keyu, Yong Mei, Hu Jun, Pan Yueming, Jiao Huang, Sha Yi, and Sun Honglei. These actors of the older generation or the Mesozoic generation, they all regard working with Ye Daying as an honor, in addition to the talent he showed on the set, there is also his reverence and love as a descendant of the founding fathers after the gate.
However, when the time was pushed back to the 1980s, things were far from the case, just as Wang Shuo and Ye Jing had said before: After the reform and opening up, the sense of superiority in the children of our military compound has disappeared.
Indeed, in that era when society entered privatization and the economy began to flourish, everyone achieved their careers by luck and strength, in 1986, Wang Shuo became famous by writing novels, and Ye Jing earned the first bucket of gold by being a fallen grandfather, but Ye Daying, who came out of the film school training class, could only learn shooting skills with director Sun Zhou.
Like many people of that era, everyone will be more or less inspired by Wang Shuo, Wang Shuo's birth brought a great touch to Ye Daying, after reading several novels of Wang Shuo for the first time, Ye Daying's first understanding was that finally someone told our own story, in the past all our literary and artistic works were telling other people's stories, about the heroes and children of our country, about our country's great scientists, model workers.
And now that someone has finally said that the people around us, and even ourselves, have become the protagonists in the novel, our living conditions have been brilliantly expressed by Wang Shuo. Ye Daying made up his mind that he also wanted to show our lives with such ideas, and what was different from Wang Shuo was that I wanted to use the lens language to restore and reproduce our living conditions and the ideas of our younger generation.
Ye Daying and Wang Shuo have similar living environments, both born in Beijing, and they are both descendants of soldiers, which naturally gives them a sense of affection for each other. When Ye Daying expressed that he wanted to get the adaptation rights of Wang Shuo's works, Wang Shuo slapped the manuscript of his unformed work "Rubber Man" from his arms on the table without saying a word: "I will not write anything else, I recently got this, see if you can use it, think you can take it and shoot it."
Holding Wang Shuo's "Rubber Man" in his hand, Ye Daying still couldn't see in what direction his dream was, he was just a small person, and he didn't have the qualifications to monopolize power on the spot. Xi'an Film Studio has only 10 production targets for film and television works a year. And here are 20 general directors, 50 assistant directors. Ye Daying wants to win the right to shoot a movie from these 70 people, and the difficulty can be imagined.
After continuously hitting a wall in the West Film Studio and the Pearl Film Factory, Ye Daying stood at the door of the North Film Studio, unable to do anything. At this time, someone called out to him from behind: "Big Eagle, what are you doing here?" ”
As soon as Ye Daying turned back, it was Li Bin, an old artist of Renyi: "Teacher Li, I have a book in my hand, but no unit is willing to cast this movie for me."
Li Bin came over and took the script: "If the script is good, I will recommend you to Shenzhen Film Company."
Within a few days, the other side replied, saying that his book had passed and asked him to come to the factory.
Ye Daying couldn't believe that the things that were difficult to go to Qingtian could become so simple in front of Wang Shuo's works.
Indeed, at that time, Wang Shuo's influence was too great, and Ma Weidu once commented that no writer's influence today can be compared with Wang Shuo's, and he is not an ordinary person.
Wang Shuo's script became Ye Daying's knocking on the road to film and television, as unimpeded as holding the emperor's holy will. When the film officially began, Ye Daying still made difficulties, and at this time, it was not other people who hindered his success, but himself. At that time, the cinematography of this film was Zhang Li, who was known as one of the best videographers in the country, starring also one of the most hot male actors in the film and television circle, Xie Yuan, who had just won the crown of the film emperor at the award ceremony of the Golden Rooster Award, and Chen Kaige ran to the Cannes Film Festival to turn around and come back, it can be said that it is the time when the spirit is full of spirits, and the configuration of the film is top-notch.
And Ye Daying was only an assistant director before this, or a novice with no independent film shooting experience, ye Daying, who had no heart, contacted Wang Shuo and hoped that Wang Shuo could rush to Guangdong and personally help him.
Wang Shuo's attitude was the same as before, there was no second word, he put down the phone and began to pack his bags.
After arriving in Guangdong, Wang Shuo only said a word to Ye Daying to make him cheer up again: "Big Eagle, everyone is a young person, as long as they want to shoot well, it proves that they asked you to be right."
Ye Daying pondered that since the leaders of the factory had entrusted me with such an important task and let me direct Xie Yuan and Zhang Li to shoot the scene, it showed that the leaders recognized my ability and believed that I could shoot well.
Later, in an interview, Ye Dao also said that Wang Shuo was indeed a high-ranking person, and he woke himself up with one sentence.
After the filming of the film, when the first time it was screened in nortel's screening room, Wang Shuo, Ye Daying, xie yuan three main creative staff are very nervous, Xie Yuan has described Nortel students before, they are the most knowledgeable about movies, do not rub sand in their eyes, will not give a little face to the bad works, the worst result may be applauded by students.
Xie Yuan ran into the screening room again and again, and then ran back, constantly broadcasting the scene in the screening room, telling them the situation inside, only to see him jump with a running belt and shouting: "Success, we succeeded."
Through a "Big Gasp" Ye Daying opened his own film and television road, and eventually became a famous director, while Wang Shuo and Xie Yuan, who had achieved Ye Daying, had long since drifted away, and after 2007, Wang Shuo completely disappeared into the crowd and lived a reclusive life. Xie Yuan, who once supported the entire movie through superb acting skills, also left the world on August 18, 2020.
Having lost two nobles in his career, Ye Daying now seems a little lonely, and he misses the time when he had friends around him to support and encourage him.