Who is Lai Guanlin? The national senior in "The Little Thing About First Love"? No, his latest identity is as a director — earlier this year, he directed his short film debut, Winter and Spring Fight. This is a short film created by Lai Guanlin for left-behind children, and Xiao he has won the "Best Director", "Best Actress", "Best Film Festival", "Best Cinematography" and "Best Styling" of the "Monthly Competition" of the Independent Film Awards in Rome, Italy in June, and was also nominated for the annual "Best film festival" nomination of the film award. It can be said that Lai Guanlin is the strength representative of the "torrent of new youth and positive energy of youth", and this time he will participate in this Haiqing Summit as the image spokesperson of the Ninth Straits Youth Festival.
Image source: @Lai Guanlin _Edward
01 Why do winter and Spring Festival fight?
"If Daddy tells you now, he's coming back to live with you." Do you want him to come back with you, or do you want him to continue living in that city? ”
"Hope he comes back."
"But if he comes back, he may not be able to make money."
"I can help him earn."
This is the dialogue between director Lai Guanlin and actor candidate Alai Yangmei during the casting of "Winter and Spring Fight". Alai Yangmei is a left-behind child, when asked "did Dad ever call and said he couldn't come back in the New Year", the little girl's clear eyes slowly floated with tears.
Image source: Station B, Liangshan short film behind the scenes documentary "Moonlight White Ballad"
In "Winter and Spring Fight", we see: after fighting with classmates and being reprimanded by his sister, Alai Yanglong shouted "Let my mother come back and beat me"; when he received a call from his mother not to go home, he tried to suppress his sadness and swallowed tears to agree to it; a group of children who ran wildly behind the "father of other people's family" who returned from work and took their children for a ride...
Image source: Liangshan short film behind-the-scenes documentary "The Moonlight Shines White Ballad"
The film is short, but more than 20 minutes; click to see, it is shorter.
In the small village of the Yi people in Liangshan, when Xingzi was still blinking in the sky, Yangmei got up. She woke up her sister, slapped her brother who was hiding in the bed and playing with his mobile phone twice, pulled out the potatoes from the ash pile and handed them to her aunt to eat... Take care of the player's errands, finish breakfast, and then carry your younger siblings to school. Mom and dad go out to work, and the elderly aunt also needs to be taken care of, and the young bayberry has become the pillar of the family.
She is sharp and calm, but she will also get angry when her brother fights, and she will also cry when she answers her mother's phone... She was originally just a child, looking at her unconscious brother also wanted to "care", and Auntie's sentence "You don't care who cares" made her arm herself in an instant.
Image source: Station B, "Winter and Spring Fight"
Her efforts were not without response. The seemingly ignorant brother wrote a paragraph on the test paper:
"Winter and spring fight
The broken ice in the river was their injury
The buds that emerge from the ground are wound-healing flowers
My sister never fights
But when exactly was her wound
to heal."
Then, seeing each other's sisters and brothers, they joined hands to sing for the Shenzhen performance that won the choir to work for their parents.
02 "Know what to do next"
Bland stories, authentic performances, motion shots, Yi dialogue... Lai Guanlin gave us a sincere and simple movie, gave the left-behind children a warm light, and also let us see the other side of Lai Guanlin after taking off the aura of his idol.
Once, we saw the light emitted from his outside. He acted as the male protagonist of "The Little Thing about First Love", played a clean and warm senior Liang Younian, and successfully circled the big ticket fans.
Image source: @First Love That Little Thing Official Micro
Next, he continued to shoot TV series and participate in variety shows, and his appeal became stronger and stronger... Who would have thought that he would turn a corner halfway through, avoid filters, pick up the walkie-talkie, and become the person in front of the monitor?
In the behind-the-scenes documentary "Winter and Spring Fight", "The Moonlight Illuminates the Ballad", we see such a Lai Guanlin: plain-faced, ordinaryly dressed, squatting in the field and breaking into the children's interior, making jokes about the children, and they also joked;
When casting, he spoke softly and cordially, but asked "inner questions" to be "merciless". We were surprised that this teenager was "not afraid of the stage", calm and methodical, observing delicate intuition, and it is no wonder that in the final presentation in the film, it is an expression that makes us emotional but not too sensational.
Image source: Liangshan short film behind-the-scenes documentary "The Moonlight Shines White Ballad", asked to cry Yangmei
This directing experience has received many unexpected surprises for Lai Guanlin: he has been plagued by insomnia for a long time, sleeping here for 8 hours; having eaten a lot of food before, a meal of grilled fish here has tasted happiness that is not available elsewhere; every chat with the children is being cured...
"It turns out that my world is not defined by making money or not; my value is that I can live as an example of someone, and I can tell my children: Don't be afraid, I am! I can give you directions. ”
Lai Guanlin came to Liangshan with confusion, perhaps before this he only vaguely had a direction to break free and surpass himself, and the next experience proved that his choice was correct, and he had a firmer direction and confidence in the future.
Want to hear about Lai Guanlin's plans for the future? Want to understand his experience in developing on the mainland? On October 29th, the 9th Straits Youth Summit, with the theme of "Working Together for The Power of Youth", visited the "young people on both sides of the strait who have flowed into the torrent" in the process of China's economic double cycle, and invited Lai Guanlin to share his story and look forward to your attention.
9th Straits Youth Day
The 9th Straits Youth Summit was held on October 29 at the Straits International Convention and Exhibition Center. With the theme of "Helping Each Other and Helping Youth Forces," the summit took young people on both sides of the strait as the core target, based on Fujian and looked at both sides of the strait, and comprehensively demonstrated the mainland's surging economic vitality, strong development momentum, and the great future of Taiwan's youth's integrated development on the mainland from the perspective of Taiwan and Youth and the means of new media.
In addition to setting up the main venue in Fuzhou, a number of sub-venues were set up in the Taiwan Youth Gathering Places on both sides of the Taiwan Straits: Shanghai and Taipei set up first-level sub-venues, and Chengdu, Taizhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Taichung set up second-level sub-venues.
Source: Straits TV, Southeast TV
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