China News Network, May 6, 2016 -- The theatrical movie "Speed Beyond" starring Zheng Kai, Li Yunrui, Zhang Rongrong, Cao Bingkun; Li Chen, Zhang Lanxin, Jin Jing starring; Lu Peng, Guo Tiecheng starring; Tian Yu, Fan Zhiyi, Sanda Ge, zhang Dianlun friendship starred in recently.
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Beyond Speed focuses on the careers of professional sprinters and their lives after retirement. From a sprinter to the point, it shows the professional and life status of a group of athletes, and then extends to the choice and persistence in ordinary life.
Hao Chaoyue, played by Zheng Kai, spans ten years in the film, and the active athletes have won the championship from the field to the scenery due to injury, and after retiring, they have fallen into a confused middle-aged state in order to start a business.
In order to better shape a professional sprinter, Zheng Kai carried out fitness and fat loss six months in advance, and under the guidance of outstanding sprinters such as Su Bingtian and Zhang Peimeng, he conducted professional sprint training. In the process of filming, many shots of professional competitions require Zheng Kai to stand on the track to reproduce the scene of professional competitions, and repeated shooting many times to finally present Hao Chaoyue, a sprinter in the sports world.
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In order to perfectly present the growth and transformation of the character after ten years, after filming the scene of the active athletes, Zheng Kai quickly gained 30 pounds in more than two months. Present the audience with a strong contrast from professional athletes to middle-aged entrepreneurs. "The whole process was like a complete journey for me, a wonderful experience."
"Speed Beyond" is Zheng Kai's first film as a film producer and starring, and it is also his first time to play a professional sprinter. As one of the few films about sprinting, from pre-creation to post-shooting, the creators and actors are thinking about how to present the state and psychological changes of athletes through the performance of the film, so as to arouse the emotional resonance of the public. As director Han Bowen said, "This is an atypical sports movie, and in the end it is human nature that returns." ”
Producer Wang Lingji said: "The movie "Fast Beyond" contains too many elements. "Sports, youth, campus, comedy, friendship, love, reality, the film has a professional sprinting competition shot full of competition and blood, but also has the bitter daily life of ordinary life." Everyone seems to be able to find the shadow of their own growth in the role, so as to feel their own "rapid transcendence" from the character' body.
During the epidemic period, the crew has a very strict limit on the number of people shooting on the spot, and it is reported that in order to ensure the safe and smooth shooting of the film and solve the problem of insufficient number of actors, 53 staff members, including producers, directors and producers, have participated in the performance of the film.