At the end of December 2017, in the freezing of Hefei, Zheng Yun's theatrical film "Stop! "Thief" announced the start of the camera, sounding the first war drum of the micro-film director's transition to the big screen. After arduous filming and production, the film was finally announced and finally released in theaters nationwide on December 28, 2019, to meet the long-awaited fans.
Zheng Yun entered the industry in 2006, filmed 13 years of micro-films, pulled the team into a professional film and television company with a complete media system, and became a stable and introverted middle-aged man, many things have changed, but in 2019, you can still see those familiar themes in Zheng Yun's works: overtime, unemployment, struggle, family conflicts, confusion about life and the workplace... Some people say that always shoot these trivial things, will the pattern be small? But Zheng Yun feels that he has struggled from the grassroots class, and should speak for the small people who have lost their voice, and through a humorous little story, carry forward the grassroots spirit of having the courage to laugh at life after experiencing the wind and frost; and Zheng Yun's works have gradually become popular among the young generation, becoming the best carrier for everyone to reduce stress and dispel sorrows at leisure.
The rivers and lakes weigh a thousand pounds, the big hero bears eight hundred, Zheng Yun consciously is not a big person, but he also has a bit of chivalry. In 2009, after working hard in the film and television industry for three years, Zheng Yun was praised by mainstream media such as Sina Video as "the first person in mobile phone movies", and was named the first place in the best original director in The Country by Tencent for three consecutive years, and later labeled as "the father of China's micro-films" and "China's micro-film leaders". When the limelight was in full swing, he set his sights on the vulnerable people struggling at the bottom, trying to use his influence to seek hope for them. In the past few years, Zheng Yun has raised funds for children suffering from thalassemia and extremely severe aplastic anemia through public welfare micro-films, visited Zhou Yan, a victim of the disfigurement case in Anhui, personally went to Changsha and then drove hundreds of kilometers to Xinning Mountain to shoot a video for the disfigured girl and summoned the plastic surgery hospital to complete her sister's last wish. In 2012, Cheng Junwei, a uremia patient, called the studio and said that he only had half a year to live, hoping to play a role in the micro-film, leave an image, and let his relatives have a thought in the future. Zheng Yun immediately went to Shijiazhuang with his team early in the morning to visit this old fan who was seriously ill.
Before his illness, Cheng Junwei was a north drifter, he liked to act, hoped to become a comedian, and bring laughter to everyone through his own way. In order to realize his dream, Jun Wei did group performances at the Gate of North Film for five years, although he did not encounter the opportunity, he has been gritting his teeth and insisting, in that gray time, Zheng Yun's works gave him great comfort. Cheng Junwei's tenacious character and simple desire touched Zheng Yun, who tailored the short film "Nobel Prize in the Hospital" according to Junwei's situation, and donated a thousand yuan with colleagues in the studio. It was already one o'clock in the morning when he returned to his home in Beijing that day, and Zheng Yun fell ill due to physical exhaustion caused by the fatigue of the boat and car.
The in-depth contact with grassroots people has also influenced Zheng Yun's thinking on making movies, and he hopes that his films will be entertaining enough to reflect the stories of small people, and they can also be entertaining and educational, passing on positive social energy in laughter, and allowing people to harvest warm feelings after watching the movie. Cinema film debut "Stop! "Thief" began to prepare seven years ago, Zheng Yun and the screenwriting team continued to polish and polish, successively revised more than a hundred times, and even went deep into the mental hospital to experience life. In the final version of the script, Zheng Yun set the protagonist as a runaway youth who is wandering on the edge of society, in order to cure his girlfriend's eye disease, he desperately leads his brother-in-law and younger brother to rescue the kidnapped rich man Shen Ling (Wu Qihua), hoping to get a huge bounty provided by his family.
After carefully polishing the script, the next step is casting and shooting. In order to give fans the best movie-watching experience, Zheng Yun specially invited Liang Xiaolong, Lu Shuming, Fang Qingzhuo, You Yong, Wang Shuangbao, Fang Zhoubo and other old artists who have been away from the screen for a long time, wu Qihua, Shu Yaxin, Li Caihua, and the new generation of comedy forces such as Xia Le, Zhao Zedong, Lu Chao, Zhang Tianyu, Tianjin Xige and so on. Among them, Leung Xiaolong, who was known as the Four Little Dragons along with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Dillon, is a veteran martial arts star in Hong Kong; Lu Shuming played Guan Gong in the 94th edition of "Three Kingdoms Interpretation", which is still regarded as a classic. The two veteran artists have played villains in Stephen Chow's films "Kung Fu" and "Journey to the West", and this time they are on the same stage for the first time, which is very much expected by fans.
Due to the creation of too many exaggerated and funny nonsense characters, it is difficult for fans to imagine that Zheng Yun in the working state is actually a perfectist, and every detail must be personally controlled and improved. The crew encountered a cold storm weather in Hefei that was rare for decades, and when filming a certain exterior scene, the wall behind them was soaked by rain and became extremely heavy and collapsed, zheng yun youyong and several other leading actors were hit by bricks and stones, and Zheng Yun's legs, you yong's waist and knees were seriously injured. However, in order not to affect the shooting progress, after asking the Chinese medicine doctor to do a simple treatment, Zheng Yun rested for two hours on the same day and then put into the shooting work. When the last shot was completed in Beijing, Zheng Yun began to travel around the major recording studios and special effects companies, striving to make every frame perfect.
At present, Zheng Yun has held two "Stop! The internal movie viewing meeting of "Thief" was extremely hot, and only the trailer and the film flower caused the audience to laugh more than a dozen times. Fans have said that this is the funniest movie they have seen in recent years, and even conveyed their willingness to invest to the filmmakers, hoping to become "Stop! The co-producer of "Thief" contributed to the film's publicity work. Some insiders have made comprehensive estimates, saying that this movie is the most hilarious comedy movie in recent years, especially grounded, is really a movie that belongs to the people themselves, and the box office expectations are very optimistic, it can be said that 800 million is the bottom.
After more than ten years of ups and downs and seven years of meticulous craftsmanship, Zheng Yun is determined to make a high-quality comedy that satisfies the audience and fans. Whether this new director, who has challenged the big screen for the first time, can add a masterpiece to the film industry in 2019 as everyone expects, it will be until December 28, 2019 "Stop! "Thief" will not be known until the national release.