"Post-90s" won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Record/Science and Education Film, and female director Xu Bei used flexibility and tenacity to shoot the "fortitude and perseverance" of Southwest United University.
The Golden Rooster Awards ended, and "Post-90s" was brilliant, winning the Best Record/Science and Education Film Award.
The history of the school is only 8 years, but it is when the stars of China shine. "Post-90s" is set against the background of the Southwest United University established in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and 16 students of lianhe university such as Yang Zhenning, Xu Yuanchong, pan Jiluan and other 16 students with an average age of more than 96 years old jointly "starred". The writing of female director Xu Bei gives this grand theme an inadvertent softness and tenacity, just like her own tension.
This is the third time Xu Bei has met the Southwest United University, and she uses "nourishment" to describe the shock of the soul along the way. Cups rise and fall, and a table is spoken. Today, if Xu Bei's work, even if it is only one point, can make you and me, especially young people, understand that the significance of those great people and great achievements shining into reality lies in the ability to find happiness in the impermanence of the world, she will certainly smile.
Cover of the Sunday Luminous Cup, which will be published tomorrow
1 big me vs small me
——" People breaking through the limitations of individual life to achieve themselves is my eternal theme of praise"
You say no, do you find life, or life finds you.
After 70, Xu Bei, a girl who read English, graduated and went to the international department of Chongqing Television Station. Even in the years when tv stations were most popular, the international department did not get a few pieces of cake. Quiet, not humble, lonely hidden behind people. Xu Bei loves to play, loves toss, a machine, a tripod, a car, and often takes travel expenses, and the partner of the teacher and friend "does not do the right thing" to carry out the documentary business. From the Three Gorges migration and the Hope Project to the migrant workers entering the city, Xu Bei has worked hard. "I found that many of the people who first made documentaries in China started from the international departments of various media, probably because we were relatively idle."
Xu Bei was filmed on location at Tsinghua University in "Post-90s"
Photography: Zhang Yipeng (the same below, except for the annotation and the group photo of the University of Cambridge)
After working for two or three years, Xu Bei began to study GRE, and all the English departments wanted to go to the outside world to see. "I read and found, no, this job is so interesting, if I come to the United States, do I want to change my major, and in the United States to do documentaries, it takes too much money and conditions." 」 The GRE was only half read before giving up, which was probably the only time Xu Bei gave up halfway after she became an adult. The first ten years of "entering the pit" were not salty or light, but there was great joy, and looking back, she suddenly found that she had read another "university" and "had the opportunity to really understand society and understand people." ”
Xu Bei's close-up photography: Hong Hong
The first time Xu Bei touched on the topic of history and culture was the "PropositionAlty Composition" "Great Rear", which was a prescribed action to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. At that time, Xu Bei was already the deputy director of the channel, some colleagues said that this was a task, and the old people in the documentary circle also said that they did not have to bother too much, there were pearls before, and the best ending was nothing but fruitless. Xu Bei is biased. She has always been such a character, she is never keen to grasp something with her teeth and claws, but for each "Xu Bei production", there must be enough responsibility.
In the glory years, the blood-colored battlefield is the most concentrated and concentrated spotlight. "But we must not forget that China at that time was still a country, half of the people did not participate in the war, their lives were greatly damaged by the war, but they were still going on." "She is like a broken problem, a mortal stubborn in fragments. This "Great Rear" was broadcast on the science and education channel of CCTV, and the response was good. "The Great Rear" naturally involves culture and education, and the ninth episode of "Mobile Desk" cannot bypass the Southwest United University. But the latter is just a glimpse in "The Great Rear", a fragment, a shell on the beach.
After "The Great Rear", Xu Bei's name began to be introduced in the circle. "Southwest United Congress" and "Post-90s" have found Xu Bei one after another. "We're all telling people's stories." Xu Bei said that those who are seamless are almost non-existent, "talent, origin, family situation... We all have the limitations of life, but in our own limitations, to achieve the best of ourselves, whether it is famous in history or ordinary, is remarkable, I want to make songs for them. ”
2 Volkswagen vs Niche
- "Niche documentaries are not shameful at all"
Xu Bei interviewed Yang Zhenning
Over the years, we have all been talking about blockbusters, and we are also asking for blockbusters. After all, traffic can be monetized a lot. But is the blockbuster the highest standard to measure the quality of the work? Xu Bei was somewhat stubborn. "From east to west, our documentaries are niche. Niche documentaries are not shameful at all. "Go abroad to hold seminars, exchange meetings, meet peers, everyone talks about "what topic you are doing recently", or "how to do the content on the hand", no one will discuss "how to make a hit". Calmness is a quality, but also a kind of ability. "Since "China on the Tip of the Tongue" became a hit, some peers in the circle have begun to be anxious. But everything has its own lifeline, and it is not embarrassing that our audience is small, not to mention that China's population base is so large, even if the niche has millions and tens of millions of viewers. "The heart, a little flat, the work, a little fine, the niche can also lift the public.""
Xu Bei and Mr. Xu Yuanchong were together on the shore of The Unnamed Lake of Peking University
Indeed, "Post-90s" has impressed many people. The audience in the theater has seen it more than once. The messages on the Internet are mostly the pride of a teenager who is just a classmate. Asked Xu Bei whether she felt that the award of "Post-90s" was deserved, her modesty hid a sharp edge, "I have not seen several other candidate works, but the "Post-90s" award is actually the accumulation of comprehensive factors. Every character in the film is extremely weighty, they represent the Chinese nation, represent the image of the country, and they give young people a lot of positive energy, which is a plus point for their social value. Again, I think our production has reached the level of winning the award. ”
Mr. Yang Wei donated a book with the inscription: Xu Bei Xiaoyou, friendship lasts forever.
"Post-90s" has a reputation outside, and in many other interviews, Xu Bei has said a lot about the picture and the music. Say something fresh. She said quickly: "I think the cognition of "Post-90s" is new, or the perspective of storytelling is new. "Usually when we meet a good person, a great person, our attitude is to look up," sometimes even on the knees. What we see is nothing but aura and aura. But the most appropriate way to do historical and humanistic documentaries is to restore people to adulthood. "If we talk about the youth of these ninety-year-olds, the centenarians, then they should have everything that all young people should have." For example, love, such as interpersonal competition, such as careful thinking in people's relationships. The accumulation of all these branches will give you a glimpse of why they became who they came after. Xu Bei hopes that the film will take off the question mark in the hearts of many viewers: Why are they so beautiful at such an old age? Why are their smiles still so pure? Why is there still light in their eyes? Documentaries can be niche, but they can also have big ambitions.
3 big women vs little women
" "If one day it gets ugly, it will break me even more than if I made a bad movie." ”
Xu Bei loves to wear pearl earrings, often decorated with scarves between her necks, flipping through her circle of friends photo albums, often seeing a faint smile, a shallow sense of inexplicable alienation. The old friend always said, "You're too serious, come out and play tricks." "Reserved, indifferent? Xu Bei thought for a moment, "It should be said that I am slow heat. "Over the past decade, she has experienced the ultimate experience of her life, with 3 of the people closest to her disappearing. When people reach middle age, she is no longer stubborn: "You are one hundred percent good to people, and people should be one hundred percent good to you", "If you look forward to this, you will inevitably be disappointed." All kinds of things, plus several films filmed are very heavy, which will affect my treatment of people and things. ”
In 2009, Xu Bei returned to Cambridge University to attend the graduation ceremony and took a group photo with her mentor Allen
She was a big woman. In 2006 she went to Cambridge University to pursue a Master of Social Anthropology under the tutelage of renowned anthropologist Alan McFarland. She and Ellen walked by the Kang River, and Allen said: "You see, the road under your feet, for 300 years, human scientific and technological progress, cultural prosperity, are closely related to it." "It's not without pride. Wrapped in humanistic feelings and scientific atmosphere, Xu Bei was fierce to herself and lost ten pounds in one year. "Sleeping only 6 hours a day, not studying, or discussing, not watching exhibitions, or watching dramas." She felt herself burning, her body perhaps tired, but her spirit was high. Such an overdraft allowed Xu Bei to recuperate for half a year after returning to China. "It's time to work, I want to do something." The best thing about documentaries is that it's your life itself. The music you like, the books you like, the people you like, you can put into this profession to reflect. ”
Xu Bei took a group photo with Ye Qisun's nephew Anderson Ye Minghan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
She was a little woman again. Although two-thirds of the time is spent working, she still lives enthusiastically. "I don't have to work, like writing at home in the afternoon, writing for forty minutes, I get up and go to the kitchen to stew a pot of chicken soup. For me, work is life, life is work, there is no conflict at all. She wants to raise flowers, she wants to work out, she wants to cook, and she really tells her husband: "What if one day I look in the mirror and find that I am not beautiful?" "Compared with making a bad film and urging people with years, which is more uncomfortable?" Xu Bei is also a human reality: "That must have become ugly and made me collapse." "She knows more about great beauty. Ye Qisun, who founded the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, was a common teacher of Qian Sanqiang, Deng Jiaxian, Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao, and others. When the "Post-90s" crew found Ye Qisun's nephew Ye Minghan, who opened the door, Xu Bei left the bag with tears in her eyes, "Too similar, too much like Ye Lao." "The past, not with the wind. And what we can express is always limited.
The director is the director, Xu Bei herself did not think about what a female director should be different, but she was asked a lot, and she also began to sort it out. "Probably the perspectives and excitement of female and male directors will be different." Xu Bei saw a video footage, and someone asked Deng Jiaxian, "Why did it take the United States six or seven years from the atomic bomb to the hydrogen bomb, while we only took two years?" Deng Gong did not answer, but showed a naughty smile. This smile touched Xu Bei and stayed at the end of the whole film. (Hua Xinyi)