"The Island Keeper" won the award, and the reporter revealed the story behind it...

On the evening of December 30, "Shoudao Man" won the Best Feature Film Award at the 34th Golden Rooster Awards of Chinese Cinema.

This is a film based on the deeds of "model of the times" Wang Jicai and his wife Wang Shihua Shoudao, who for more than 30 years have taken Kaishan Island as their home, accompanied by loneliness, and dedicated their beautiful youth to the cause of coastal defense of the motherland.

The reporter contacted Wang Shihua for the first time and contacted the main creative team to reveal the story behind the award of the film "Island Keeper"...

"I am very excited and a recognition of our experience of guarding the island for more than 30 years"

Wang Shihua learned of this good news overnight, "So excited, we just did a very ordinary thing, did not expect to get so much attention, but also been put on the big screen," Wang Shihua said, "Shoudao People" won the award, is an affirmation of their more than 30 years of shoudao experience, "Thank you for remembering Lao Wang, tell the story of our shoudao people." ”

For Wang Shihua, for so many years, Kaishan Island is like his own home, "We are on the island, repairing navigation lights, maintaining relics, like guarding our own home things." At first, Wang Shihua went to the island purely to guard the old king and guard the home, but slowly, she also felt that this was a responsibility, "It is not easy for the predecessors to lay the jiangshan, and someone must always stick to it." Especially now, Lao Wang is gone, and I will guard for him.

Wang Shihua said that in recent years, Kaishan Island has undergone earth-shaking changes, and now the island has water, electricity and networks, as well as militia garrisons, "3 people in a shift, 15 days a rotation." ”

"Lao Wang's most reassuring thing before he was alive was Kaishan Island," Wang Shihua recalled the previous events, and she was very emotional, she said, if Lao Wang was still there, she would definitely be very happy, because his most uneasy island had more people guarding it.

"Everyone has a kaishan island in their hearts," Wang Shihua hopes that the movie "Shoudao People" can infect more people, especially young people, "everyone sticks to their posts, does a good job, reflects their own value, is to keep their own island."

"14 times on the island to experience life, 'all kinds of coincidence is not as good as a real'"

"The real thing is the most touching and the most vital," this is the first reaction of Meng Qingfeng, deputy general manager and producer of Jiangsu Happiness Blue Ocean Film Co., Ltd., in October 2014 when he received the shooting task of "Shoudao Man".

In order to maximize the restoration of Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua's 32 years of shoudao life, in 6 years, Meng Qingfeng led the production team to Kaishan Island 14 times, staying for three or four days each time, eating and living with the couple, following them on the island, and experiencing their lives at close range.

"Wang Dao doesn't have many words, people are a bit wooden," in order to let Wang Jicai open the conversation box, the main creative team often brought chicken, fish, meat and eggs to the island, plus a stir-fry of sea oysters picked up at the seashore, very drunk, sometimes until the people were about to disperse, Wang Ji began to speak from the heart.

Gradually, the hesitation in the early days of landing on the island, the thoughts of the brave rescue of the young people who fell into the water, the courage to fight with the smugglers, the fear of delivering babies in the storm... These flashes of light in the couple's 32-year career on the island became clear little by little.

Through local fishermen, they dug out more details: family difficulties, the eldest daughter worked in the seafood market, took care of her brother's schooling, the couple fished for seafood in the sea, the boatman brought the daughter to sell money to improve her life, the daughter was reluctant to spend, and asked someone to bring the money to her mother to supplement the family. These real experiences have become touching scenes in the movie.

During the shooting, the main creative team also restored in the most realistic way: In order to make his skin color texture close to the prototype, Liu Ye was exposed to the sea every day, and his skin burned and shed several layers of skin. There was a scene of rescuing vegetable seedlings in a rainstorm, and Gong Zhe was wet and shivering in the sea breeze. "Real typhoon, real rain, real feelings, in order to play a living character."

"People don't know what to do in this life, so they go to the army, which is the right way." Meng Qingfeng always remembered that every time he landed on the island, he saw the picture of the couple standing on the dock to greet him, and he always remembered the words that Lao Wang had before he died, "He had the plot of being a soldier, Wang Jicai felt that when he guarded the island, he was more like a soldier," This kind of persistence is very precious, Meng Qingfeng said, Wang Jicai's deeds have contemporaneity, "The world does not lack clever thoughts, lack of stupid kung fu," He wants to convey is the ordinary persistence, "keep the ordinary into the extraordinary, is the real hero." ”

"The Winner of 'The Guardian of the Island' is the most affectionate praise for ordinary heroes"

Authentic works are the crystallization of going deep into life and experiencing art. Guo Xiaowei, executive vice chairman of the Jiangsu Filmmakers Association, commented that the award for "The Island Keeper" is well deserved.

"The characters are simple, the contradictions and conflicts are few, the time span is long, the living space is small, and it is not easy to shoot well," Guo Xiaowei said, adding that the film can integrate documentary with storytelling and artistry, and show a new video style of the main theme with unique artistic expression. This is inseparable from the director team's field style and in-depth experience of island life. "Only by taking root in life and using this as the cornerstone of creation can we realize the 'inner truth' of the work."

The protagonist's rough skin, the scars on his back, the patches on his shoes, the dirt in the seams of his fingernails, the faded flag... What impressed Liu Xudong, member of the party group, vice chairman and secretary of the Secretariat of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, was most impressed by the touching details, "embodying a strong sense of ideology, artistry and realism, and giving the film a special life." ”

It is not difficult to let a hero go to the screen, and it is not easy to let a hero enter the hearts of the people. Shen Guofang, former director of the Film and Television Department of the College of Letters of Nanjing Normal University and vice president of the Provincial Media Art Research Association, said that the most impressive person in the film is "choosing one thing and living for a lifetime", from "entering the island alone" to "living on the island for husband and wife" to "taking root and guarding the island", each paragraph excavates the "original intention" of the characters in typical scenes: When he first went to the island, he did not plan to stay too long, found that the conditions were poor and wanted to come back, and his father encouraged him to insist, and he insisted. The wife's original intention is also simple: "He guards the island, I guard him." Later, when I encountered problems such as my parents being old and my children going to school, I hesitated, but in the struggle to save people and bad people, I gradually realized that "people will not live in vain without losing their hearts in this life." After the heart is settled, he began to cultivate land and create a home, and the emotional changes of the characters were very real and the trajectory was very clear.

"The simpler, the more ordinary, the more impressive," Guo Xiaowei felt, "Shoudao Ren" with simple and classic lines "You shou island, I guard you" "people in this life, can do a good job will not lose heart" and so on, causing everyone to resonate, "Shou Island Man" award is the most affectionate praise for contemporary ordinary heroes.

Xinhua Daily Intersection reporter Zhou Xian

Source: Xinhua Daily