"My September" Creator Reunites Thirty Years Later, Childhood Healing Movie Triggers "Memory Killing"

Beijing Evening News

30 years ago, the children's film "My September", directed by Yin Li, was released and became a sensation. On the afternoon of May 30, the film's lead actors Zhang Meng, Xing Dandan, screenwriter Du Xiaoou and children's film and culture scholar Zhang Haoyue appeared on the mobile phone video live broadcast scene of the "First Art Union Cloud Screening - June 1 Children's Day Special Session", sharing with online netizens the bits and pieces of the film's shooting that year and their recent situation, triggering common memories for many people.

The film tells the story of more than 100 students at Big Elm Elementary School in September 1990, on the eve of the Beijing Asian Games, who were conducting intense training for the group exercise performance at the opening ceremony. One of the children, An Jianjun, was disqualified because he always reacted slowly and half a beat, and after experiencing incidents such as donations and being robbed of merit, An Jianjun practiced diligently and finally seized the opportunity to rejoin the group performance, winning the honor for the individual and the collective.

Screenwriter Du Xiaoou revealed that director Yin Li cooperated with herself in a number of TV series, has always wanted to shoot the first film, for this reason, she accepted the screenwriting task, when the whole country was preparing for the opening of the Beijing Asian Games, tv is also related to the Asian Games news, so she went to the group performance of the students to collect style, "listened to a lot of their stories, very touched, so there was creative inspiration." ”

Lead actor Zhang Meng played the "Big Fool" An Jianjun in the film, he revealed that when the director went to school to pick actors, he was stopped by the director between training, and the director asked him, "Do you usually tao?" "He replied: Tao, but not out of the circle." That is, not to cross the edge of trouble. This answer impressed director Yin Li, and Zhang Meng was finally selected.

Over the years, many viewers have inquired about the recent situation of the actors of "Anda Fool". Zhang Meng replied that she has not become a professional actor since then, but a haute couture costume designer, "Sometimes I feel a little regretful, but if you think about it, there is no need to become a professional actor." ”

Xing Dandan, the actor of An Xiaomei in the film, laughed and said that the director wanted to find a child who had no experience in screen acting at all, and he was selected. After filming, she did not engage in acting, but became a designer, "This performance is a very precious memory, my child's life is different from others, there is one more point that can be squealed." 」 ”

Zhang Haoyue, a scholar of children's film and culture, said that with the passage of time, the value of "My September" has been more and more excavated, and even some viewers believe that this is the best domestic children's film, "there is no two." "The main reason is that the film depicts the real psychology of children," when it was released in the theater that year, when An Jianjun finally participated in the group exercise performance, some audiences actually stood on the chair to cheer for him, and they were touched by An Da's fool. ”

Screenwriter Du Xiaoou said that what was most touching when filming was that "the creative atmosphere is very good, everyone is very simple, not for the name and not for profit, the crew is like a family, such a creative atmosphere is now very rare." (Reporter Wang Jinyue)