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Not worthy of film reviews
I have rarely seen such a sincere film critic public account.
It is a film review number run by a group of journalists. Journalists, as film critics, do only one thing: interestingly, tell the truth.
With the film that is not worthy of film reviews, I have not stepped on the thunder once, and I have gained a lot of joy.
(Pay attention to the public account, which has old films, new film reviews, recommendations, mine clearance, and character interviews)
Interestingly, they also interviewed a number of directors, actors, and writers. Not long ago, the unworthy film critic and director Wen Muye began a dialogue:
On the text message, the staff told them that there was a bit of traffic jam, but when it came to the agreed time, Wen Muye walked out of the editing room.
After four years of the release of "I Am Not a Medicine God", Wen Muye is busy with the new film "Miracle".
▲ Posters for the movie "I Am Not a Medicine God" and "Miracle"
He was black and rumbling, sitting on the only stool in the studio. The stool was surrounded by a circle of sofas half a head taller than it.
The person sitting across from him will be a little trance-like, with a sense of correspondence, like in his movie.
It's not some kind of new movie, but we need that correspondence, which reminds us of what two hours we can spend in theaters.
What I didn't expect was that the guy who gave us this sense of correspondence was younger than expected, but it was only a year old.
He gave some medicine and slapped a god, but it was the heart that was saved.
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"Solemnly praise him"
Wen Muye, a native of Changchun, Jilin Province. The college entrance examination score of 290 is like a "poor student license".
Such a disliked result, so that Wen Muye's optional volunteers are only two three technical majors. One is educational technology, and the other is the newly opened radio and television director.
From the small "wild" to the big Wen Muye chose the radio and television director, because it may sound a little related to the movie. He doesn't know what he's good at, he just knows that he loves to watch movies, watching 10 movies a week most often.
When you enter the university, it is difficult to avoid the limited teaching resources if you want to say how much it has to do with movies. Until the end of his freshman year, Wen Muye needed to complete a shooting assignment, so he borrowed an old DV from school and made his first short film.
He was excited as soon as he made the film, but he did not expect that the teacher liked his film, and he did not expect that the teacher would solemnly praise him in front of more than 140 students in the whole major.
▲Wen Muye is filming
Boasting, for a person who has been in the shell of a poor student for more than ten years, is an almost rebirth-like encouragement. After that, becoming a famous director became the direction of Wen Muye's life.
To take the road of professional directing, it is inevitable to receive formal professional training. Wen Muye decided to drift north and decided to go to graduate school. And he took the exam for three years, and he worked hard to be admitted to the Beijing Film Academy.
In Nortel, Wen Muye studied with everyone and learned and cultivated his style. He recalled that his mentor, Tian Zhuangzhuang, the fifth-generation director of China, had subtly improved his film thinking just during daily chats.
▲ "I am not a medicine god" movie viewing activity scene, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Wen Muye hugged
If the age of twenty-something is an important period of life, whether there is a good future depends on whether this age can continue to maintain its ideals and ways to accumulate strength. Well, Wen Muye did it.
Ideal, Wen Muye already has. As for the method, it needs to be practiced hard.
Compared with most students who went out early to find work, such as writing scripts, making field notes, etc. to realize their movie dreams, Wen Muye, a provincial man, came to Beijing bare-handed, had no fame and no money, and honestly shot one short film after another.
▲ Short stories taken by Wen Muye in the early days
In fact, there is only one short film assignment arranged by the college teacher, and Wen Muye has filmed nine before and after, and four can still be found on the Internet. Almost all of these short films were made by him to shoot commercials, earn back money, and find a group of classmates to shoot.
The hungry shooting made Wen Muye sophisticated. The vivid realism of the image and the sound and color of the lens style all penetrate into his film language, forming a strong and soft force.
Over time, this force brought Wen Muye close to the movie, and then let him get the recognition of "predecessors" such as Ning Hao and Xu Zheng, "Wen Muye is a person born to be a director" and "he should have made a long film".
▲ Xu Zheng starred in Wen Muye's "I Am Not a Medicine God"
Yes, the feature film – Wen Muye got a bigger movie world.
In the history of film, newcomer directors have won the double recognition of critics and the market for the first time to make a feature film, and 2018's "I Am Not a Medicine God" is like a stroke of God.
▲ "I am not a medicine god" word-of-mouth box office double harvest
It scored 9.0 points on Douban, and the last time a Chinese film had this score was in 2002's Infernal Affairs. It grossed 3.1 billion yuan and is currently the ninth highest grossing film in Chinese mainland history.
Constant wrist, not directing
With the most popular and convenient art form of film, "I Am Not a Medicine God" throws the discussion of the complex current situation of the health care system to everyone, gets a lot of attention, triggers benign discussion, and even has a huge social impact.
▲ "I am not a medicine god" is adapted from the real story of Lu Yong, a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia, who purchased anti-cancer drugs on his behalf
In the overwhelming discussion, there was a long-lasting question that entangled the medicine god: "Can such a subject matter pass the trial?" ”
Wen Muye once admitted to the media that from the beginning of writing the script, the main creative team of Yaoshen had seriously considered this aspect, so the grasp of the relationship between love, law and reason was particularly cautious.
The ability to grasp the scale reflects Wen Muye's ability to lift heavy weights. If you want to investigate the origin, it may be related to Wen Muye's personality.
▲ "I Am Not a Medicine God" is very subtle about the relationship between love, law and reason
Talk to Wen Muye for a while, and you will be able to be aware. Many times, you may think that he has finished a sentence, but he will immediately follow the tail of "maybe" and "maybe".
There are no fierce and absolute words to speak, not because of hesitation, but because in the eyes of Wen Muye, "there is no absolute.".
A stereotype that has long been branded in the film and television industry is: the schedule is not good to complain about distribution, the box office is not good to complain about publicity, the reputation is not good to complain about the director, the director complains about capital, and finally everyone complains about censorship.
But in fact, complaining is not beneficial to the development of the industry, both for individuals and for the development of the industry as a whole.
"Please Answer 1988" is a Korean drama that many people like, and Wen Muye also likes it. Wen Muye was thinking that those excellent artistic creations are not actually the opposite of the so-called censorship, but why haven't we made them?
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