They are real literary and artistic youths, living according to their own wishes, extraditing themselves to the other shore, having the independence of being artists, the unity of knowledge and action, and always putting spiritual pursuits first.
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Last week, Yu Yanjie watched "Love Myth".
The name is very discouraged, and the movie is very good.
"Love Myth"'s Douban scored 8.1, and then rose to 8.4.
Director Shao Yihui is a post-90s girl, the skills are slightly jerky, but the core is very positive, is a high-level presentation.
I haven't seen such a solid comedy in a long time, and the film critics are all encouraging this creator.
Literary but not pretentious, petty bourgeois but not gold-worshipping, well-known but tone, modern but simple.
Whether it is Xu Zheng picking up temporary food in the import store, or the shoemaker sipping coffee in a white porcelain tray, it will not make you feel that there is a tone in the fireworks, and the old Kelers use a lot of energy to live, and they can always find an affordable and exquisite way.
This is the temperament of Shanghai.
Don't grab the paragraph, don't play the terrier, don't rub the hot topic, the screenwriter is a smart person at a glance.
This kind of cleverness is not the cleverness of shaking baggage, but: intelligent, sexual, interesting - Wang Xiaobo's cleverness.
Another look at Shao Yihui's screen name "Red Breeze Is No More", it is indeed a lackey under Wang Ermen, very good, very good, we are looking for happiness in the chaos.
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Douban said that "Love Myth" is Woody Allen of Haipai.
The movie is actually a very Chinese expression.
A group of men and women sitting around the dinner table in Shanghainese talk about crucian carp tofu soup, drinking and pecking, you come and go, the world is full of emotions, and desire flows.
This scene reminds me of "Flowers on the Sea" and "Eating Men and Women", and no one has placed as much cultural connotation on food as we do.
Hot and cooked, clear and wet, if you want to shoot Zhang Ailing again, Shao Yihui is the director candidate in my heart.
When reading the script, Ma Yili felt that the author must be a Shanghainese.
Old uncle Xu Zheng originally only wanted to be an executive producer, because the script was too good, he also changed his mind to act.
However, the screenwriter and director of "Love Myth" is actually a Shanxi girl.
After graduating from nortel Literature, Shao Yihui lived in Shanghai for 6 years and moved three times.
She used to live in illegal buildings in the alley, the neighbors were vegetable sellers, and there were often rats in the house.
She shared a room with another girl, 5,000 yuan per person.
At that time, Shao Yihui did not have a job.
She has published a novel, deposited 26,000 yuan, earned some tips by writing novels on the public account, and received help from her mother.
There are two reasons for not working.
1. The market in the film and television industry is too poor
Shao Yihui was born in a family of intellectuals and grew up reading the works of French masters.
But after graduation, whether you are listening to Truffaut in French, or watching Wang Jing in the street video hall, whether you are dustless and wantonly high at the moment, or lower your body and do not refuse, you are still not alive.
▲ Shao Yihui's social avatar is the late Justice Ginsburg
2. Shao Yihui does not want to do work that he does not approve of
The big online movies and sweet pet love dramas were rejected by her, and she wanted to make a serious cinema movie.
In her own words: at first, she rejected a lot of web dramas by pretending to be X, and then she changed her mind and knelt down to lick the producer investors, but when she encountered the cold winter of film and television, there was no project to do.
People always have to live, so Shao Yihui sold e-cigarettes in the WeChat group.
She sent the product to the Nortel Literature Department student group, not wanting to blow up all kinds of micro-business students, because everyone could not find a job.
Students who have emigrated abroad are calling for overseas property purchases, study abroad agents, going to the United States to have children, overseas purchasing - selling bird's nest, selling durian, selling ginseng, local specialties of various countries.
The choice to stay in China is to open a restaurant, open a café, and open a KTV.
If you don't have the principal to open a shop, then open a Taobao shop, sell insurance, sell software, teach fitness, do all kinds of small businesses that have nothing to do with movies, and graduates of the photography department and are persuaded by relatives to return to their hometown to open wedding photography.
The best mix was to run an art examination training class, and bought a suite in Yanjiao a year after graduation.
In other words, the Academy of Fine Arts, Nortel, many students have run art examination training classes after graduation, and the students who have been trained cannot find jobs after graduation, and they also do training classes and train the next wave.
Endlessly, self-produced and sold, forming a closed loop.
But Shao Yihui is a real child, unwilling to fool young people into the water, naturally did not go to the class with classmates.
There are also students who have entered well-known film and television companies in the eyes of everyone, taking a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan, eating the cake drawn by the leader, writing a script for 2 years without being signed, resigning in anger and going home to live with their parents, and occasionally writing a few film reviews in the circle of friends.
How poor and angry the screenwriter is, Papi has already played a lot in his short videos.
Shao Yihui herself was deceived - not to give a signature, not to get money, discouraged, she stopped writing scripts, but wrote novels.
Sam Mendes, the director of "American Beauty" and "Revolutionary Road", asked him what advice he had for young film and television practitioners after he won the Oscar, and his answer was: "There must be a side business, then you will be at ease." ”
As a result, Shao Yihui opened a side business of selling e-cigarettes, but it did not take long to encounter a career bottleneck.
Acquaintances and alumni have run out, and she refuses to do lack of morality, encouraging non-smokers to try e-cigarettes, so the short micro-business career ends.
The article "What are the graduates of the Beijing Film Academy doing" was on WeChat, and for a time many people added Shao Yihui and asked Dong Qingxi not to buy her cigarettes.
The people who bought cigarettes were All Shao Yihui's friends, who bought one out of support or sympathy.
Shao Yihui's novel "Love Myth" was shortlisted for venture capital at the First Film Festival.
The reason why I participated in this competition is because my brothers and sisters said: You are idle and idle, go and try it.
On the day of the First final, Shao Yihui wore a dress that she bought online for more than 200 yuan.
At the premiere of "Love Myth", she still wore this dress.
She said that the director didn't have to dress up and let the female stars shine.
▲Previously, at the scene of the "Love Myth" of the Yuyan Film Group, Yu Yanjie and director Shao Yihui and actor Xu Zheng also had on-site exchanges
When Shao Yihui was in junior high school, he watched "Sex and the City", was brainwashed by consumerism, and felt that people should fall in love while living, and buy and buy at the same time.
For a long time after that, she couldn't jump out. This sentiment was gradually neutralized after reading more books.
Speaking of this, Sister Yu Yan is also related.
When I talked to my college classmates on the phone the other day, I talked about how my values had changed, and everyone mentioned that when I grew up, I realized that I was not any of the heroines of "Sex and the City".
▲ Shao Yihui likes Beauvoir and will also watch movies like "Women Suffragette"
After graduation, Shao Yihui did not have a job, and her father was very worried about her and hoped that his daughter would take the exam.
Shao Yihui did not go, she said: "I have no desire to consume, do not wear big brands, do not buy a car and buy a house, the desire to live is very low, a little money can survive." ”
He added, "I'd rather live a little simpler life than give up what I want to do to earn money and let myself be mentally oppressed." ”
On a tight day, she grew vegetables in the pots of the rental house, and planted beautiful bell peppers.
She writes the ideal male image in the script, the kind of person she is willing to fall in love with.
The uncle played by Xu Zheng is an ordinary man with little money, he respects women, listens to women, will do what housewives do, knows how to flirt healthily and without greasiness, and has equal, civilized, and modern ideas.
Shao Yihui said that when he was a child, he had the impression of a Shanghai man as a small man who could buy vegetables and cook rice, and now he feels that such a man is very good, and he can only better understand the difficulty of housewives if he does these things himself.
"Love Myth" was made by a female director at first glance.
It doesn't have a self-righteous male gaze, nor does it deliberately hold women high, and the viewing process is comfortable and restrained, without feeling offended.
I have to say that Xu Zheng's vision of reading the script is sharp.
Shao Yihui was very lucky to shoot his own script, and as a newcomer, he got a lot of freedom.
Producer Xu Zheng persuaded investors to listen to the director, from the script to the shooting to the editing, with the director's will as the center.
Shao Yihui wanted to put a few songs in the movie, but the copyright was very expensive, and the producer Ye Ting was also a girl, comforting her: "Since the director wants it, I will find a way to buy it." ”
Shao Yihui, who started for the first time, did not dare to spend investors' money indiscriminately, and she did not need to be reminded by the producer, she thought about saving money every day.
Borrow free filming places with friends, invite friends and neighbors to replace group performances, the materials taken can basically be used, there is almost no waste of footage, the shooting time is not long, in total, it is more than a month, and the Bund's expensive scenes are not considered at all.
Shao Yihui because of his public account ridicule of the screenwriter's plight, it is said that the Nortel teachers are very angry, and then Shao Yihui had to delete the article, diao silk self-deprecation is not allowed, because it makes successful people feel embarrassed.
Some people also say that Shao Yihui is not mixed well because of his own pot, should not be taken to school, mixed badly do not say that he is a film school.
Shao Yihui felt ridiculous: "I was admitted to Nortel by Zhengda Guangming, and the graduation certificate of Chia Tai Guangming, just because I am not mixed well, I can't say that I am Nortel?" ”
Today, Shao Yihui's self-written and self-directed movie Douban score is 8.4, and I don't know if I can return to the school's outstanding alumni list.
But it doesn't matter.
Shao Yihui and Zhao Ting, the two directors are very similar.
Although Sister Yuyan can't be willing to be poor, I really like such girls, and when I think of them, I feel very happy, and I always feel honored.
Shao Yihui wrote at the end of her controversial article: "I will work a little harder to make money, and while getting by, I will strive to help more young creators to get by and live with dignity." ”
In the future, I hope that every creator can get the same return, and I hope to see more women like Shao Yihui.
The pictures in this article are from the internet
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