Following the high-scoring work "Childhood in the South", director Yi Han once again focused on his hometown, Yichun, Jiangxi, and recently launched the movie "Unexpected Summer". The film tells the story of the friendship between Huang Simao, a "bastard" who collects waste for a living, and the aquatic life of left-behind children who cross the age and heal each other, and receives warm evaluations such as "memory killing", "human beauty" and "healing the heart".
On September 7th, Yi Han, director of the movie "Unexpected Summer", and Chen Chuang, the lead actor, made a guest appearance on the "Today's Film Review" program, explaining the film's creation through topics such as hometown, friendship, and growth, and introducing this "letter of empathy" dedicated to their hometown for the majority of audiences and friends.
Unexpectedly, it was fate
He is both a friend and a confidant
The backstory takes place in Jiangxi Yichun's "Unexpected Summer", and its director Yi Han, the lead actor Chen Chuang and the small actors in the film all have an indissoluble relationship with this place. In the view of director Yi Han, the "unexpected encounter" with Chen Chuang is actually "destined". According to his introduction to today's film review, they were classmates in the opera class of Yichun Literary and Art School when they were teenagers, and then Chen Chuang was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy, while Yi Han studied in the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama with the help of Chen Chuang. "Actually, I was an 'aquatic' of his at that time, and I needed his shelter."
Both friends and confidants, the two also convey the warmth and kindness of life in the film. Talking about the lives of two people shown in the film, Yi Han pointed out to "Today's Film Review" that in terms of creation, it is more focused on Huang Simao's personal fate, and the reason why he dares to use the local dialect and the local vegetarians to participate in the performance also reflects the ambition of the theme expression, that is, to show such a life loser image who does not want to go home. At this time, the emergence of left-behind children aquatic is making Huang Simao, who feels confused about the future, life and life, constantly find himself, and the two are changing each other.
Ten years of homework poured down
Long answer sheets give back to hometown
In "Unexpected Summer", Chen Chuang's emotional performance is impressive. Recalling that scene, Chen Chuang bluntly told the "Today Film Review" that his mother died the day after the start of the camera, and after the funeral and then returned, the entire film was filmed with missing and sad feelings for his mother. Recalling the line of tears left in the play, Chen Chuang bluntly said that it was full of all the experiences of Huang Simao and actor Chen Chuang, "I really can't forget." "From the wheezing dog in "Pauline Lantern" to the Fugui in "Fugui", he also has a very strong emotion in his heart as the male protagonist in such a special movie as "Unexpected Summer"." It's like the homework has been done more than ten years in advance, and suddenly it is used today, and in general, this role is really so loving, so loving. ”
Children in the film, including aquatic students, are all played by left-behind children. As early as 2007, Yi Han had already filmed a high-scoring movie on left-behind children's themes, "Childhood in the South". Talking about the reasons for focusing on this group, Yi Han admitted to "Today's Film Review" that every time he returns to his hometown, the children around them will stir their hearts, and as film creators, all they can do is to form their stories into scripts and films. No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and you can't suffer children no matter how hard you are, and now the increasingly modernized educational configuration in your hometown has also made such slogans gradually come true.
As an answer sheet to his hometown, this film made Yi Han feel satisfied. "For me, this movie is actually a wanderer's return to the blood-soaked land in my hometown, and I wrote a long letter, and maybe I will continue to write this letter."