Author / Little Lotus
Released at the end of 2021, the word-of-mouth performance of "Love Myth" is as good as its name, with 187,000 people rating on Douban, and the final score reached 8.3 points. As the award-winning work of the First Youth Film Festival, "Love Myth" has a good box office performance compared to other First series works, as of a few days ago, according to the data of Maoyan Professional Edition, "Love Myth" has received 183 million box office results.
Before filming his first feature-length film, "Love Myth", director Shao Yihui's identity was that of a "frustrated" creator. After graduating from nortel Literature, she worked as a TV drama screenwriter, published novels, and wrote 100,000 plus public accounts " What are the people who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy doing" .
After the release of the movie, "Love Myth" became the love movie with the highest Douban score in 2021, and Shao Yihui also became the new darling of the media. Entertainment Industry (ID: yulechanye) had just finished her last meeting when Matt met Shao Yihui.
Settle with the flow
There is no shortage of coincidences in "Love Myth". Miss Li was invited to the old White family on the evening, the ex-wife Bei Bei, the little wild cat Gloria, the good friend Lao Wu also happened to be present, three women a play, and then, pushing the cup to change the cup, the good play began, "A woman has not created a life is not complete."
The coincidences of drama drive the development of the plot, and the coincidences in life push the corners of life.
For Shao Yihui, making a movie is also a coincidence. The new novel she wrote could not be published because of technical problems, and she was in a state of distress, and a friend came to her door to let her make a movie, and she naturally began to write the script - the story that was originally said to be "a man looking for a door". In the initial premise, she planned to make a small-budget movie and find her Shanghai friends to star in the true colors.
But years of writing intuition drove creation, and after Shao Yihui dropped his pen, everything extended in different directions. She is not a creator who will write an outline in advance and follow the steps, and when writing novels, she often starts with a detail, a person or a state, filling in while writing, and enriching the story. In the end, the script creation was completed, but it was completely different from the "man looking for the door" at the beginning, the investor decided not to invest, and Shao Yihui naturally took the script to participate in the venture capital.
"Anyway, when I'm done, I'll throw a vote." With such a simple idea, she cast a circle of venture capital on the market. There is also the experience of not being shortlisted, the first time in life to participate in venture capital, there must be a few unsuccessful. Finally, on First, "Love Myth" was favored by Chen Lizhi (chairman and CEO of Matt Culture) as a judge. He pulled Xu Zheng to be the supervising producer, personally produced the film, with Matt Culture as the producer, and spent 18 months, and the film met with everyone on the big screen.
Yu Sir couldn't help but ask her: "Do you usually go to which step and do what you need to do now?" ”
"I was so good, I was taught by my dad since I was a child, there was no planning, no planning, and never thinking about the future. Including I was in Shanghai, I didn't have a serious job for 6 years, I didn't have a stable income, and I didn't consider getting married and buying a house at all. Shao Yihui replied.
But what she did was not like this, and Shao Yihui made the film very thoughtfully.
Being a director was not initially in Shao Yihui's consideration. It is not easy to make a movie, she thinks that she is not in good health, her voice is thin, there are many people on the set, and when everyone is talking, her voice will be drowned out, so when she went to college, she took the literature department. But when she really wants to make a movie, perhaps her subconscious still carries such doubts, she regards the pre-planning as very important, and sets everything that may be busy on the scene early.
When writing a script, if it feels dispensable and the play that can be removed in the end, she will not put it in the script. So naturally, when shooting, there is no unnecessary waste scene. As a result, the whole shooting process is not long, the overall material is much less than the average film, and it is edited into a film, and there is basically no extra material.
Downtown Shanghai doesn't allow night shooting, and "Love Myth" has become a crew that ends work early, with local actors sneaking to work in the morning, finishing work at the end of work and then sneaking home. The end result is – "It's not very tiring. ”
For Shao Yihui, she has been thinking about her shortcomings and how to supplement her shortcomings. She is not a native of Shanghai, and if she wants to make a Shanghainese film, she will find a local actor in Shanghai. She doesn't know how to act, so the lead actor finds an actor who can play a good role without a director.
Long live friendship
The actors add a lot to the film. In the post-marriage era, the women were three colors, the delicate little wild cat Gloria who entered the wood, and the gentle ex-wife Bei Bei, who could speak scumbag quotes, and finally helped Lao Bai get the capable Miss Li of the gallery, and the female characters had a fuller color in "Love Myth".
Is love a necessity? No. The three women have their own wonderful, but only love is dispensable. As Shao Yihui thought when naming the movie: "I have no love and no myth in it, and I want to make a contrast." ”
After a dinner, the three people who have emotional clues with Lao Bai did not carry out "love competition" in a chicken and dog jump, but naturally grew a female friendship.
In addition to female characters, Xu Zheng, who "apologized on behalf of male directors", made female audiences smile. Ning Li, who plays the little cobbler, brought his own coffee and wrote famous quotes by hand, making this little cobbler who originally just liked to say famous quotes in the script more elegant.
The actor's performance is too good, but it is a "burden" for Shao Yihui.
The audience has a sense of substitution for Shao Yihui's Shanghai, and her friends around her are even more so, she revealed to The Entertainment Sir, in fact, there is no prototype in the movie except Lao Bai. But friends around me are divorced, have the same surname, have realized that they are a live-action version of the role, and even some people take photos with people at the entrance of the movie theater.
But that time in Shanghai really inspired Shao Yihui. In her view, Shanghai is a very inclusive city, life is varied, rich and no money, di si elite, local foreign and even foreign, a street to live all these people, everyone is well integrated together. Moreover, in Shao Yihui's life experience, Shanghai's rich people have their own consumption, and in the same way, Shanghai can pursue the quality of life and live a decent city with very little money.
When a work is widely recognized, it is often given higher expectations. People began to put her and Jia Zhangke's name together and label her as a female director, and some people said that she was China's Woody Allen. But Shao Yihui herself is actually very simple, she wants to write the emotional story of the men and women she is good at, after the Shanghainese are finished, maybe she will shoot Taiyuan dialect or other local dialects later.
As more people walk into the cinema, they get more and more praise, and more and more people point out the shortcomings of "Love Myth". Some argue that her Shanghai is too suspended, while others think her women are not independent enough. Always, in the two-hour story conceived by Shao Yihui, the whole of Shanghai, poor or wealthy, cannot be wrapped up, and the story of "Love Myth" only takes place on a street in greater Shanghai, next to a few scattered shops named "Red Breeze" and "Night Run".
In her opinion, to be selected is already luck.
On Weibo, Shao Yihui forwarded a news item, "The Supreme Court announced the appointment of eight female judges", and commented, "I used to feel that there was no need to emphasize female directors and female judges, but then I felt that it should be emphasized, because the number is indeed not enough, to let other women, especially children, see these examples until one day there is no need to emphasize." There is no need to use "sir" to highlight the honor, women's excellence does not need to rely on men's title certification, women are not to be as good as men. This gender itself deserves respect, and it deserves to be respected like a capitalized person. ”
During the conversation, she also said, "Actually, I didn't want to give a lot of interviews at the beginning, and I didn't want people to pay attention to me. But then, people around me were pushing the movie as hard as they could, and they told me that because I was from First, they felt that this was also an example or a hope for other Young First directors, and in fact, the market that came out of First could also be accepted. ”
In addition, she recalled that during her own dilemma, she felt that the film shooting was far away from her and was not so motivated. But if the recognition you get can make many people motivated, especially female creators, more motivated, why not? Aren't the female characters on the market satisfying female audiences because there are too few female directors?
In her view, young women are inherently an original sin, they are indeed vulnerable, and they have been treated unfairly in the past. Too often everyone is experiencing it on their own and not having the opportunity to express it. But now there is an opportunity to say that there is a place to speak, it is luck, but also opportunity.