A script that moved Jet Li to tears, not only starred in zero film, but also pulled a team.
This drama is "Ocean Paradise", and once it was released, the audience burst into tears.
Because behind this, it is not a fictional story, but a real fact.
The author of "Ocean Paradise" is Xue Xiaolu.
When she was still in graduate school, Xue Xiaolu came into contact with autistic people, and she felt that these children with autism were all children "from the stars".
So many decades after that, as volunteers and friends, they wandered around this special group and silently contributed their strength to them.
In this process, Xue Xiaolu has been touched countless times, but she has never thought of integrating these things into her creation, because she really wants to help them, rather than following the trend.
Until the death of a child, she changed her previous ideas, wanted to create, and used the way of film to warn the world, so that they could have more understanding and tolerance for autistic people.
That child was the first batch of children diagnosed with autism in China, and it was also the first batch of Xue Xiaolu to contact, although he was in his twenties when he died, but it was an accident caused by lack of safety awareness.
In the face of this person's death, Xue Xiaolu's heart is like a needle, so she wants to create a script through her past memories to tell the real autistic people.
Years of contact have made Xue Xiaolu very familiar with autistic patients, especially in their hearts, often feeling that they are more beautiful than ordinary children.
In order to restore autistic patients more realistically, Xue Xiaolu did not dare to let people interfere, she was afraid of ruining her efforts. So she took on the role of screenwriter and director alone.
After writing the script, this financing became a problem again, because this theme was too niche, so Xue Xiaolu bumped too much along the way.
There is a movie in the United States "Rain Man", in which the protagonist also has autism, but this protagonist has a special function.
Therefore, when looking for investment, someone often asks her: can you make this protagonist smarter.
In the face of such a request, Xue Xiaolu chose to refuse, because after so many years of contact, she knows the actual situation of autistic patients, it is basically rare to have a genius, and she does not want the movie to be released, everyone will think that it is good to have an autistic child.
She feels that these autistic people need to be understood by the world and able to help at the right time.
In 2008, in order to participate in "Ocean Paradise", Jet Li proposed zero remuneration to star, and also brought in the famous art director Xi Zhongwen.
On the plane, Jet Li was reading the script "Ocean Paradise", and Jiang Zhiqiang, a producer on the side, passed the news to Xue Xiaolu, which surprised her and worried her heart.
Jet Li is an international superstar, the film remuneration is frighteningly high, the total budget of this film is only 5 million, if you want to ask Jet Li, it is estimated that even a fraction of it cannot be paid.
It just didn't make people think that Jet Li took the initiative to find the door, saying that he would be paid zero to star, and he could also help her pull people.
Although there is a superstar Jet Li joining, Xue Xiaolu has some doubts in his heart, Jet Li is a kung fu superstar, whether it is the image of the father in his mind.
Although Xue Xiaolu was very worried, Jet Li who put down the shelf took the initiative to come, which was the greatest recognition of her, how could she make other requests?
Why did Jet Li act in "Ocean Paradise"? In fact, he also came into contact with autistic patients, that is still his nephew, looking at Xue Xiaolu's sincere script, Jet Li recalled his nephew and involuntarily shed tears.
Then, he found the art director Xi Zhongwen and invited him to participate in the work together.
Xi Zhongwen, who has been "Ghost of a Woman", "Sweet Honey", "Catch a Demon" and other works, look at his resume, you will be shocked, full of honors.
Hearing that "Ocean Paradise" moved Jet Li to tears, Xi Zhongwen also became interested, pushed off two commercial films, and rushed to the crew and served as the art director of the film.
Not only Xi Zhongwen, Jet Li even found Jay Chou, the king of heaven, and asked him to spend his time to compose the theme song "Saying Goodbye".
Seeing so many big guys helping, Xue Xiaolu was also confident.
Acting, for Jet Li, is beyond doubt, after all, relying on his acting skills, he has won many awards and also appeared on the international stage.
But in the face of "Ocean Paradise", Jet Li felt that his acting skills were not enough, so he spent 7 weeks to re-learn acting.
And Xue Xiaolu hopes that Jet Li will play a man as a mother.
As a tough guy on the screen, no matter the temperament and eyes, it does not match, but for the role, Jet Li can only study hard, and also learn with needles and threads on the spot.
Despite Jet Li's hard work, he was slow to integrate into the role until he received a call from a private doctor saying that he might have a tumor, and when he heard the news, his first reaction was to have a child, so that he lost 18 pounds.
Fortunately, the later examination said that it was hyperthyroidism, and this false alarm also made Jet Li resonate with the character and understand the father's feelings for the child.
How did the article that Jet Li despised break the prison?
After Jet Li entered the crew, he also participated in the selection of actors, especially the "Big Fortune" who played his son in the play, and almost every actor who auditioned, he was present.
At the beginning, the article came to audition, but Jet Li was not optimistic about him, and even had some dissatisfaction, because his first impression left him with a negative impression.
Unexpectedly, after interviewing 8 actors in succession, I found that the performance of the article was not a performance, but a real performance, so I called it back.
The original article that was a bit "mixed and not stingy" was not selected, because he was old, could not swim, and had tattoos on his body, but he did not expect that Jet Li strongly recommended him and let the crew hire the article out of the box. And this has become a veritable backdoor.
In order to play the role of Daifuku, the article has to practice swimming every day, from a simple breaststroke to a change of four swimming styles within 25 meters, from not diving to diving to diving seven or eight meters deep into the sea every day with a counterweight.
Want to play an autistic person, you have to understand the autistic person, Tian Huiping took the article to the autistic yang Tao, she told the article, autism is difficult to accept others as friends.
But the article lost the burden of idols and won Yang Tao's trust with patience and persistence.
After the release of "Ocean Paradise", Yang Tao, who never watches TV, can instantly recognize the article from a bunch of people.
After the completion of this work, it can be said that the crew members are in tears, and they really do not exaggerate, do not deliberately sensationalize, but make people cry like rain.
In particular, the performances of Jet Li and the article make people feel that fatherly love is like a mountain.
Many people think that autistic children have no heart, no lungs and no feelings, that's because you haven't been exposed, these children don't understand, they just can't express.
So much so that at the end of the film, Daifuku misses his father too much, misses him lying on his father's back in circles.
After performing this work, Jet Li also called on everyone to give more patience and tolerance.
"Ocean Paradise" does not want to publicize the suffering and greatness of the families of autistic people, but just wants to make the world more tolerant and understanding of them, and they are also normal people in ordinary life, relatively just relatively unlucky.