The Paper's reporter Wang Yi
On August 4, the film "Never Compromise", starring Ye Daying as screenwriter and director, Starring Zhu Dan, You Yongzhi and Hai Day, and starring Song Ningfeng, Wang Ce, Lin Zi and Wang You, held its premiere in Beijing. Wang Boming, producer, chief producer and director general of the joint office, and Ye Daying and Zhu Dan, the film's main creators, attended the event.
Zhu Dan, Ye Daying
The movie "Never Compromise" mainly tells the story of Yu Li, the editor-in-chief of "New Island Weekly", played by Zhu Dan, who resisted the pressure of all parties and fought with the evil forces. In the film, Yu Li was not only kidnapped, but also threatened with her life. Her assistant, a trainee journalist from a poor background, was even more "seduced" by capital and turned against him. And Wang Mingguang, the president of the newspaper played by you Yongzhi, an old drama bone, with superb acting skills and the villains Hai Day and Wang Ce, not only made a wonderful restoration of this capital fraud case, but also showed the determination and belief of media people when safeguarding justice. The film will be officially released on August 12.
"Never Compromise" focuses on "media anti-blackness", which is a rare theme film in China in recent years that reflects media reporters upholding professional ethics and social conscience, actively cooperating with judicial departments to join forces, and "never compromise" in the face of the evil forces in the capital market and the interest groups behind them.
Stills from "Never Compromise"
"I've been framed by the word 'Red Director' for many years"
Ye Daying, the screenwriter and director of "Never Compromise", has been famous in the film industry in the past for "Red Cherry", "Red Lover", "Tiananmen" and "Red Trilogy". At the pre-screening meeting, Ye Daying, wearing black armed police shoes and dressed casually, told media reporters that he had been trying to break through the box of "red director" over the years, "I have been framed by these four words for many years, and I did not expect that the difficulty (of breaking through) would be particularly large." When you have this title in front of your name, the ideas and opinions of film investors will often 'go along'. For example, when I want to make a comedy, investors always feel that you are still the best at shooting red themes, which is not what you are best at. ”
In order to break through himself, Ye Daying laughed and said that he would not hesitate to "lose and fight repeatedly". Talking about the difficulties encountered in the creation of his new works that he has sharpened a sword in ten years, he introduced that "Never Compromise" has a certain professional threshold, "The main difficulty is still in the creation, first of all, the group of journalists in the film, I did not know very well before; Secondly, for the big guys in the financial industry, their eating, drinking, behavior, I don't know very well, it takes a lot of time and energy to observe their lives. I wrote the script for 6 years and changed more than 90 drafts. ”
Directed by Ye Daying
As for why the well-known host Zhu Dan was chosen to play the heroine this time, Ye Daying was full of confidence, "I have always dared to use new people, even if it was Zhang Guorong (who played the communist Jin in "Red Lover"), he was also the first Hong Kong and Taiwan star to play a MEMBER of the Ccp, and for this role type, he is also a 'newcomer'. Zhu Dan may still be a newcomer as an actress, but she is an old journalist herself, and she has the persistence of a reporter to expose the facts. ”
Actor Zhu Dan said that his performance in the first audition was not ideal, "After returning to Hangzhou, I immediately called the director, hoping to give me another chance, I think it is this sense of faith that finally impressed the director, because a real reporter will not be afraid to refuse, and wants to become a hero in the professional field." Zhu Dan revealed that in the movie, Yu Li was coerced by gangsters to lynch a confession, "I was really put on a plastic bag at that time, because you can't test your acting skills to complete this bridge section, and you can only rely on real 'sullenness' to show the struggle of a weak woman." ”
Zhu Dan
"This spirit I call 'never compromise'"
In order to match the surging tone of the story, the premiere ceremony opened with Guo Zhicheng, chief trumpet officer of the Central Opera House and China's first brass doctor, to bring the stirring theme song trumpet performance. Subsequently, the producer and producer Wang Boming took the stage to give a speech, he laughed and said that he did not understand what the producer was doing after the film was filmed, "probably in the end, this matter was just done."
"Why did you make this film? There are two main lines in the movie that overlap greatly with my life experience, one is about the stock market, and the other is about the media experience. Media people in the financial field take meager wages to do research in the market, resist the temptations and threats of hundreds of millions, billions or even tens of billions, pursue the truth, and defend justice, which is not easy, this spirit I call 'never compromise' spirit. Wang Boming stressed at the end of his speech, "This is not a popcorn movie. ”
And Ye Daying's on-stage speech also made the audience's mood unable to calm down for a long time. "From the beginning of writing the first draft in 2016, it has been 6 years, and I have experienced difficulties in all aspects, and Bo ming has always been the person who supports me the most. Thank you to all the colleagues in the crew, thank you to the actors. I would also like to thank the screenwriter Yu Ying, who told me a lot of stories about media people and her personal experience, every time the draft came out, she was 'blamed and picky', and changed to the end, making me believe that the work basically can withstand the pickiness of the same industry. ”
Stills from "Never Compromise"
Actors You Yongzhi, Hai Day and Wang Ce expressed their regret for not being able to come to the scene through the VCR, and sent sincere wishes to the creator, the audience and the film.
Zhu Dan appeared as the heroine, which attracted cheers from everyone. She said, "In the past six years, I have kept saying to the director, thank you for your intransigence, so that the film finally meets with everyone." The work mainly revolves around Yu Li, a woman, a media person, when she is faced with a choice, there will be fear, there will be wavering, but in the end, her faith, her belief, will make her make the right choice. ”
Editor-in-charge: Cheng Yu