Recently, the high-profile movie "Love Myth" is being screened, and the film creates a different kind of "Shanghai Friends" story from a female perspective. As the popularity of the movie climbed, the filming area of Anfu Road, Wukang Road, and Wuyuan Road became the punching point of Internet celebrities, and the prototype of "Lao Bai" played by Xu Zheng and the painter Bai Hongwei also attracted great attention.
Recently, the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter conducted an exclusive interview with Bai Hongwei, he laughed and said that he had brushed the "Love Myth" three times, and now he was cultivating land in the countryside of Shandong, and had promised a friend that "one ticket stub can be exchanged for two corns from my hometown in Shandong", and as a result, he suddenly received four or five hundred ticket stubs, and he began to worry about how to cash in corn in Shandong retreat writing.
With director Shao Yihui became a "yearless friend" because of a dialogue
In the movie "Love Myth", Shanghai man Lao Bai (Xu Zheng) calls himself a miscellaneous family and specializes in teaching adults to draw. Lao Bai's friend Lao Wu (Zhou Ye Mang) talks funny and chases romance all his life. Miss Li (played by Ma Yili) who lives a single life with her daughter, Bei Bei (played by Wu Yue), Lao Bai's ex-wife Bei Bei (played by Wu Yue), and Gloria (played by Ni Hongjie), who has money and leisure and her husband is missing, the three women intersect because of Lao Bai. A few meals, so that the old White family's living room became a gathering point for everyone, three women and two men with wisdom and humor, depicting a variety of city fireworks.
Some viewers commented that "the Shanghai life portrayed in the film makes people yearn for", "presents the Shanghai life of the city and the fashionable romance of the two temperaments, creating a fascinating 'magic capital', and the fashion and refinement in the bones of Shanghainese are also reflected in many details." ”
The reporter learned that the filming place of "Love Myth" is the core area of "Hengshan Road - Fuxing Road Historical and Cultural Style Area", and it is also a fashionable street full of internet red shops, but the movie does not make this street tall, but it is very grounded in life.
The film's screenwriter and director, Shao Yihui, is a post-90s Shanxi girl who moved to live near Huaihai Middle Road in Shanghai after graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, and usually likes to visit the vegetable market and walk on the street. Her perception of life in Shanghai gave her creative inspiration, and some of her older Shanghai friends gave her a lot of help, and also became the archetype of the characters in her novels and scripts, including the prototype of Lao Bai and Hongwei.
Bai Hongwei told the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter that he and Shao Yihui met in the town of Tongli around Shanghai, when their mutual friend held a dialogue between post-60s painters and post-90s writers. At the event, the two talked speculatively, which became a year-old friend.
"She thought my life was interesting and wrote it in the script"
Bai Hongwei said that Shao Yihui likes to write things, "She thought my life was interesting, so she wrote it in the script." ”
"Love Myth" has a lot of shadows of Bai Hongwei and his friends' lives, 56-year-old Bai Hongwei settled in Shanghai with his parents at the age of 2, his home is on the upper floor of the Shanghai Drama Center on Anfu Road, coincidentally, this is Xu Zheng's unit, not far from the place where Shao Yihui rented.
In reality, bai hongwei, who can live, understand life, and dress fashionably, is often captured by some street photographers and sent to social platforms, and often has friends take screenshots saying that they have seen him in a street photography again. Bai Hongwei was once a stage designer of Shanghai Television Station, with a pair of mixed-race children, daily painting and writing, teaching children to draw in the studio, and also doing private dishes in the bungalow next to Huaihai Middle Road, cooking skills are very exquisite, and self-taught African drums for two or three years, often playing drums on the studio terrace, a dozen is six or seven hours.
In the movie, the element of the mixed-race child is used in the film Miss Li, who lives with her mixed-race daughter Maya; the Italian tenant who lives in the pavilion is based on the child of Bai Hongwei's friend, and his hobby of makeup is transplanted to the white pigeon of Lao Bai's son in the movie; Lao Bai's house is designed according to the layout of Bai Hongwei's studio, but the decoration style has changed during filming, and the crew rented a place with a similar pattern on Wuyuan Road; Lao Bai taught Gloria these adults to draw in his own yard Lao Bai's last painting exhibition is called "White Hard Not Hard", Bai Hongwei's personal public account is called "White Hard", and many friends call him "White Hard" every day.
But there are also differences, for example, the three female characters such as Ma Yili in the movie are fictional. Bai Hongwei's painting is different from the old white painting style in the film, "My paintings are large in size, one meter, one meter and five or so. The painting of Lao Bai in the film is the work of another friend of mine, who likes to use his mobile phone to create, so it is more convenient for the crew to use." Bai Hongwei likes to paint flowers and birds, but also paints crickets and so on. He said that when boys were young, they usually fought crickets, and the crickets he painted were very realistic, like photos, which was a kind of emotion.
In real life, Bai Hongwei has held a solo exhibition in Beijing 798 for a long time, and on January 8 this year, another of his solo exhibitions will be held in an old house along the street on the Bund on East Yan'an Road in Shanghai.
During the 2020 epidemic, Xinhua News Agency also interviewed Bai Hongwei on the topic of "pyrotechnic life", when he made dishes such as braised pork, ringing oil eel, onion oil jellyfish, hand-torn chicken, oil-splashed wontons and other dishes at home. "Because of painting, in my heart, cooking is the same as painting, from preparing vegetables, making to plating is a creative process, and I pursue an extreme."
His studio is set up in an old bungalow, like a living room, friends often come to taste his craftsmanship, feel the night in Shanghai, talk about each other's lives, "Before the filming of "Love Myth", Xu Zheng and Shao Yihui and their party came to eat at my place, because Xu Zheng said that he wanted to meet what my prototype looked like in real life, so I personally cooked and entertained them. ”
At the beginning, director Shao Yihui had proposed to let Bai Hongwei play the "male number one" Lao Bai in "Love Myth", and Bai Hongwei half-jokingly advised her, "I am not a star, you are a newcomer, we will not work together." Later, Shao Yihui took the script to participate in the 2020 FIRST Youth Film Festival Venture Film Project, and won the "Capture Legend Award" in one fell swoop. "Love Myth" also relies on its excellent insight into the life of Shanghai Well and its quite vitality text, becoming the fastest incubation speed, the highest card division configuration and the most commercial type element in the FIRST venture capital system.
However, Bai Hongwei still made a cameo role in the movie, and the "big guy A uncle A" that appeared in the subtitles was him, in the film, he was an ordinary Shanghai uncle who had met Xu Zheng in the vegetable market and asked Xu Zheng "when was the child raised" at the door of the café.
The reporter saw that Bai Hongwei joked in the circle of friends: "There are so many uncles in the movie, I proudly say that I am uncle A." What does A mean? It is the male number one in the uncle. ”
When it comes to filming, Bai Hongwei said that it is very hard, and his cameo role is a line, followed the crew for a day, and filmed seven or eight before passing. "Love Myth" is filmed near his home, he often rides a bicycle, he will go to see, "after all, I am also designed by the TV station stage, so I also have some feelings, deeply feel the film shooting, maybe I will have the opportunity to direct the work in the future." ”
"A painter who can cook is a good writer", writing in a retreat in Shandong
In addition to painting, cooking, and playing music, what Bai Hongwei wants to do most at the moment is writing, and some friends praised him as "a painter who can cook is definitely a good writer." He told reporters that "Love Myth" was almost filmed around April 2021, and he returned to his hometown in Shandong in May to write in retreat.
Two years ago, he updated his series of novels "Guanghuali Story" and "Top Writer" on the "White Hardship" public account, all of which are written in Shanghainese, and have also produced 100,000+ blockbusters, "but I have not really fallen on the desktop of the physical book, I am a person who likes to do things to the extreme, so I made up my mind, put everything in Shanghai, return to Shandong, and bury my head in writing", and recently prepared to publish in the form of novellas.
Now that the Shanghainese film "Love Myth" has become a "dark horse" in the film market, gaining high word of mouth and high attention, Shanghainese works must have a wave of popularity. However, Bai Hongwei said that in addition to the shanghai well life theme such as "Top Writers", he also plans to create novels with local themes and write the story of his hometown "Yujiazhuang", "Since it is a realistic theme, I need a real rural life, to communicate with farmers more, and dig up stories." Without living in the countryside, it is impossible to imagine sitting in Shanghai alone."
In order to fulfill the promise of corn, but also in order to understand the real countryside, the most recent white and red guards in the circle of friends is the dynamic of working in the fields. This is difficult to link with the exquisite "Shanghai Uncle" who drinks coffee every day and cooks a hand of Shanghai food in "Love Myth", but Bai Hongwei told reporters that in fact, this is not a contradiction, he has always been a maverick, "I output a lifestyle and attitude through cooking, painting, drumming, etc., through these to show that no matter what I do, I must achieve the best state." ”
Text/Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter Kong Xiaoping
Editor/Cui Wei