Last year's National Day blockbuster comedy film "My Hometown and Me" was produced by Zhang Yimou of "Shadow", and co-directed by Ning Hao, Xu Zheng, Chen Sicheng, Yan Fei and Peng Damo, Deng Chao and Yu Baimei, telling the story of five hometown stories that occurred in Beijing, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Shaanxi and Liaoning, five hometown stories with laughter and tears, calling on more than 30 Chinese first-line stars such as Huang Bo, Ge You, Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng and other top-line stars to perform, with a strong lineup, with a box office of more than 2.8 billion yuan, ranking second in the box office in 2020.
"My Hometown and Me"
Ning Hao's "Beijing Good Man" starring Ge You, set in Beijing, depicts the funny things that happened when Beijing taxi driver Zhang Beijing (Ge You) let him risk his medical insurance card in order to help his fellow countrymen treat their illness. Ge You once again played his role "Zhang Beijing" in "My Motherland and Me", even the Olympic hat he wore on his head was the same.
The film was filmed at the height of the epidemic in Beijing, and the hospital as the filming location had confirmed cases on the second day of filming, so the crew had to set up another scene. As a result, except for the scene where the blood is drawn, the other hospital scenes that appear in the film are all built. Because of the limited time, the different spaces in the hospital are transformed in the same place by changing the scenery. Therefore, ning Hao's lens should not move too much, otherwise it would be easy to wear the gang.
Chen Sicheng's "A UFO Fell from the Sky" starred Huang Bo and "Tang Detective" partners Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran, using Guizhou as the background of the story, describing the sudden appearance of UFOs in a mountain village in Guizhou, CCTV reporters Lao Tang (Wang Baoqiang) and Xiao Qin (Liu Haoran) came to investigate, and became suspicious of the local farmer inventor Huang Dabao (Huang Bo).
Huang Bo is the first time to cooperate with Chen Sicheng, for the experience of this performance, he joked: "The director looked too handsome when he was an actor, we had different plays, it was difficult to cooperate, and after becoming a director, this finally had a chance." The combination of Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran is reminiscent of their performances in the "Detective Chinatown" series, and there are many bridges in the film that pay tribute to the series, Wang Baoqiang believes that this is a continuation of "Tang Detective", "Detectives and journalists are essentially looking for the truth, a very interesting coincidence." ”
"The Last Lesson", directed by Xu Zheng, starring Fan Wei and set in Zhejiang, depicts university professor Lao Fan (Fan Wei) accidentally losing his memory and staying in the period when he was teaching at the Mountain Village Primary School in 1992, in order to help Lao Fan recover his memory, the villagers managed to recreate the scene of teaching in that year.
Talking about the most difficult part of shooting this film, Xu Zheng said: "When we were shooting, we just encountered the flood situation that we saw once in a hundred years, and it rained every day, so many of the scenes that everyone saw with sunshine were illuminated by us with headlights. Actor Yang Zi also revealed that the crew had only filmed two shots in two days because they had been waiting for the rain to stop. What's worse is that it was only after filming all the rain scenes that the local area began to rain non-stop.
Directed by Deng Chao and Yu Baimei, "The Road back to Home" starring Deng Chao and Yan Ni, with Shaanxi as the background of the story, depicts the e-commerce celebrity Yan Feiyan (Yan Ni) returning to her hometown to participate in the celebration of her alma mater, and on the way, she is entangled by the rustic businessman Qiao Shulin (Deng Chao) on the way, to sell him "sand apples", what is his real purpose?
Deng Chao, who tried to direct himself again, this time in order to play the seemingly treacherous businessman Qiao Shulin, not only grew a beard and gained weight, but also had to learn Northern Shaanxi dialect. Deng Chao admitted that northern Shaanxi dialect is really difficult to learn, and he and Wu Jing, who made a cameo appearance in this film, practiced to "grow muscles on the tongue" or did not speak well. Yu Baimei, another director of this film, revealed: "The nasal sound requirements of northern Shaanxi are very heavy, Deng Chao and Wu Jing were finally forced to run out of ruts, stuffed toilet paper, blocked the nose, and the teacher in northern Shaanxi said that this has a taste, this is more like." ”
Yan Fei and Peng Damo's "Divine Pen Ma Liang", starring Shen Teng and Ma Li, who played "Charlotte and His Wife" in "Charlotte Troubles" in 2015, uses Liaoning as the background of the story to describe Ma Liang (Shen Teng), who was born in a mountain village in the northeast, hoping to return to his hometown to pay for his hometown, but was opposed by his wife Qiu Xia (Ma Li), so he had to join hands with other villagers and pretend that he was studying in Russia, hoping to deceive his wife.
Shen Teng and Ma Li have cooperated again for many years to perform in the husband and wife file, and it is also Ma Li's first film after childbirth, originally the director was worried that Ma Li would not want to perform because she had just become a mother, Shen Teng said: "Finally I got a phone call!" It turned out that Shen Teng proposed to Ma Li that as long as she participated in the performance, then go to the chain noodle restaurant he opened to eat for free!