Post-90s director Shao Yihui's film debut "Love Myth" was released nationwide on Friday and was liked by many audiences, with a Douban score of 8.3 points. Actor Xu Zheng in the film to play a middle-aged man Lao Bai, this role and Xu Zheng played a male role in the past is very different, in an interview with reporters, Xu Zheng said that "Love Myth" is not a simple sense of the love movie, its taste, need the audience to carefully taste.
The director captures many elements of Shanghai
Shao Yihui, a 30-year-old native of Shanxi, has lived in Shanghai for several years after graduating from film school and has a very careful observation of the city's civic life. She is also the screenwriter of "Love Myth", when she participated in the FIRST Youth Film Festival, she was caught by a film and television company at the venture capital conference, and the owner of the company then found Xu Zheng and asked for cooperation. Ma Yili, who plays the heroine Miss Li in the film, also likes this script very much, and Xu Zheng quickly agreed and became the supervising producer of the film.
In Xu Zheng's view, the script of "Love Myth" provided by Shao Yihui has been relatively complete, and when shooting later, first of all, some adjustments were made in the lines to make the actor's Shanghainese dialect more fluent; secondly, there was a change in the main line of the characters; and then the ending in the movie is different from the original script, "The current ending part gives the audience hope and warmth." ”
"When I read the script, I thought the story was very special, and the director captured a lot of details that I as a Shanghainese have overlooked." Xu Zheng believes that "'Love Myth' is not a love story in a simple sense, it is a Shanghainese film with a high degree of literature and artistry, and at the same time a very textured life. It is also different from some previous art films, for example, it has a large number of life details and life scenes displayed, which is very close to the city of Shanghai. All the scenes within a three-kilometer radius we chose were very similar to my own living quarters in Shanghai as a child. I rarely encounter a scene that can have such a real texture of life, but the emotion of the story is not shocking. ”
At the narrative level, "Love Myth" is not to strengthen the fate of the characters in a dramatic way, but to slowly weave out the different psychological activities of several characters by showing the trivialities of the characters in daily life, "This psychological activity requires the audience to delicately read and understand in order to capture its subtleties." ”
The lines of the whole film of "Love Myth" are in Shanghainese, and the text is marked under the screen, which is not difficult for the audience to understand. Xu Zheng explained that because the film presents the real life of ordinary citizens in Shanghai, "when performing in dialect, the state of the whole person is completely different, because the dialect contains customs and sophistication, and has a unique taste that belongs to Shanghai." ”
The actors in "Love Myth" are also authentic Shanghainese, including Ma Yili, Ni Hongjie, Zhou Yemang, etc. "The actor is selected correctly, the role is half achieved, and we hope that the actor will reach the level of not being able to distinguish between the role and myself in the play." At present, the degree of completion is still very high. ”
Play Lao Bai in a way that is closer to yourself
Xu Zheng said, "The film is unfolded from the perspective of Lao Bai, each character in the film is like a bead of different colors, and Lao Bai is a person with strings. In terms of acting, I try to perform in a more lifelike way. ”
Old Bai has gray hair and can make a good dish. Xu Zheng explained that the hair cover is a reference to many artists around him and is designed according to their life atmosphere. As for cooking, "I've eaten private dishes made by the archetype of old white characters, very authentic, and I can also make a little in my own life, but the level is incomparable with him." ”
In the movie, Lao Bai has emotional entanglements with Miss Li played by Ma Yili, Bei Bei, the ex-wife played by Wu Yue, and Gloria played by Ni Hongjie. In Xu Zheng's view, the common denominator of these three women is that they are very independent, "they all have their own jobs, do not rely on other people financially, and have their own set of standards for love." Miss Li is like her purple hair, is a bright color, temperament, the mind is more complicated; Gloria is free-spirited, dare to love and dare to hate; Bei Bei, as an ex-wife, dares to take responsibility, strong and brave. ”
I don't believe the love myth that Lao Wu said at all
"Love Myth" is about the love entanglement between a middle-aged man and three middle-aged women, which is rare in previous domestic love movies. In Xu Zheng's view, when people reach middle age, they should be able to understand the difficulty of life, but also understand the various possibilities in life and the complexity of human nature, everyone will show different faces with different situations and different experiences, and these faces can be combined to become each different individual. "I think today's audience, the inclusiveness is still very strong, they will understand our original intention of creation."
Lao Bai in the film received a date text message from Miss Li at the end, which made the film more warm and hopeful. Xu Zheng revealed that the original script was not like this, "Lao Bai is quite discouraged, and everything has left him, but because Lao Bai is not a particularly understanding person, he is still quite active in pursuing the happiness that belongs to him." I'd love to give him a little hope at the end. ”
Lao Wu, played by Zhou Yemang, is Lao Bai's best friend. In the film, Lao Wu repeatedly told about his "dewy love affair" with the famous movie star Sophia Roland in Italy when he was young, which was stunned to hear, and its authenticity also made many viewers wonder. Xu Zheng said, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it at all. However, he can also understand Lao Wu's approach, "I think the authenticity of this story is in everyone's heart, you believe it in your heart, that is true." Some people just believe it. This is also a very important clue in the whole movie, and I was moved by this clue before I agreed to be a producer. ”