Adolescence is a short-lived dream, and when you wake up, it's long gone — Shakespeare
Ke Jingteng at Shen Jiayi's wedding, with his own way to send blessings at the same time, but also opened the door to domestic youth films, in those years set off by this wave of memories, many directors began to try to shoot a film with the theme of youth.
Since then, almost every year, there have been one or two movies under the banner of "commemorating the lost youth", telling some inexplicable stories in their own way, most of which have a Douban score hovering around 6 points, and it is obvious that this youth genre movie has not been successful overall in the years of the blowout.
In 2013, director Liu Jie, who has been active in the field of art films for many years, suddenly brought a "Youth Faction" that was biased towards commercial creation, and the main actors did not have many familiar faces except Dong Zijian and Qin Hailu.
At that time, Dong Zijian was still a newcomer, this movie is also the debut of his acting career, "Youth Pie" scored 7.4 points in Douban, seemingly not a high score, until today, it can still squeeze into the top few Chinese youth movies in recent years, it is inevitable to wonder how this film beat those high-profile films and stood in its current position.
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Youth, with desperate persistence, youth, with ignorant and fearless curiosity, growing up in the years for their own dreams desperately step forward, for a heartbeat moment, sweet and sad, in the process of growing up, the campus is the place that accompanies everyone for the longest time, with teachers, with classmates, or with their own ignorant heartbeat, in a grinding, retreat from the green shell.
Speaking of youth movies, directors like to choose a vigorous love as the theme of the whole film, but forget, for more teenagers, youth is a sudden growth, is a farewell to the times, rather than the youth of the sunshine, girls with long hair fluttering, shy hands, joy and sorrow, abortion abroad, no disease.
The main line of "Youth Faction" actually starts from a love, Dong Zijian played by Dong Zijian, when taking graduation photos, suddenly stood up with a tagore poem, confessed to the goddess Huang Jingjing, who had been in a crush for three years, took Huang Jingjing's hand, and said to the teacher: I graduated.
At the beginning of graduation, he also held the hand of the goddess, making people mistakenly think that this was a love story that would be vigorous in the college era, but did not want to actually have arrived at the battlefield quickly, and the cowardly in front of the mother instantly extinguished the only good feeling that the goddess had just burned in her heart.
In order to prove his courage to the goddess again, he actually fell down from the upper floor and broke his tailbone, at this time there were only 5 days left from the college entrance examination, and the goddess with a full mind actually fell off the list, and the goddess was admitted to Fudan, and he read the fourth year of high school.
In general, in this case, we can first see that other youth movies are designed.
"You at the same table" never studied, sitting next to the podium Lin Yi, was encouraged by Zhou Xiaoyan a few words, with the last bit of high school time to be admitted to Xiamen University, this kind of design, the screenwriter is not afraid of being beaten by Xiamen University students? Lin went to the United States, Zhou Xiaoyan applied for a visa twice, gave up, the two are no longer in contact, in the context of the era of 2005, it is difficult to believe that this is what the screenwriter said "lost to reality".
"Hurry that year" Chen Xun and Fang Fei are not bad students according to the setting, admitted to the same university, but I did not see how everyone studied, that is, playing ball, talking about love on the college entrance examination. Chen Xun cheated with others, Fang Fei also came to a retaliatory cheating, and as a result, the whole unexpected pregnancy, the director successfully arranged a most effective abortion scene in Chinese youth movies.
Back to "Youth Faction", the first love was directly solved by the mother at one time, the goddess went to Fudan and directly entered the state of lost love, he chased after himself, even the back shadow could not be chased, and finally found that the other party did not directly reject himself but because he was afraid of delaying his learning momentum.
In the handling of love scenes, director Liu Jie obviously caught the part that is more real than other Chinese youth films, for most people, they are not the heroes of this school, not the sunny teenagers who always walk with the wind, simple and direct, youthful and hot-blooded.
Some people dare to pluck up the courage to confess, in exchange for a failure, this failure makes them lose all their motivation, just like that, with crazy sports to vent, with overeating to vent, and finally can only use time to digest; some people will only hide love in their hearts, like the heroine Xiaofan, in the case of both sides know, like a friend to accompany you, these diseaseless feelings, will be in many years after the encounter, into a hello.
The reason why the chopstick brothers can conquer many audiences with a "old boy" is not those scattered youth symbols, but to see the familiar faces in the song, there are successes, failures, and struggles, the original adulthood is not as beautiful as we think, which also shows that when the directors insist on imposing the love motif on the youth movie, they have ignored its most charming place - growth.
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In order to arouse the youthful resonance of mainstream consumers, they unscrupulously added a series of symbolic elements such as the English book taught by people, the white rabbit milk candy, the loose school uniform, and the "Slam Dunk Master" in the film.
In these films, we can hear the music that has been going on in the streets and alleys, and we can see a lot of familiar things, but we can't find the growth that can touch your heartstrings the most.
For the audience, what can cause memories is not those objects that stay in the past, or a big event that they have experienced in their own lives, what really touches the heartstrings is that behind an object, the familiar figures they have experienced, when the director is too obsessed with symbol design, it will have the effect of putting the cart before the horse.
When filming "Youth Faction", the director went undercover in a key middle school for 14 months, deeply understood the relationship between teachers and students and daily life, and in the chat with students again and again, trying to find ways to find those memories that can touch people's hearts, when shooting the film, more than 10,000 high school students were selected in the school to star, and the female protagonist Hao Lutong and the male protagonist Dong Zijian also joined the filming of the film as high school students.
It can be seen that in "Youth Faction", we can't find those familiar symbols, no wide school uniforms, no old elements of deliberate consumption, this de-symbolic design, so that the director can focus more on the story itself, to the greatest extent to restore the impact of the college entrance examination on high school students.
For a wider range of high school students, these three years of ignorant feelings accompanied our growth every moment, and the only thing that really made them day in and day out was learning.
There is nothing about learning itself, even if you don't love to learn, study badly, and how many opportunities are there to stay away from campus, even if you are an art student, when you are far away from school, you have to carry another field of learning, running on the battlefield in advance, taking exams again and again, no one's high school career is easy.
The protagonist of the film is actually missing the third year of high school, this design is very clever, all his attention is on Huang Jingjing, less than a lot of more real life, so the director did not tell his senior year, but directly came to the senior year of high school to re-read, in the day after day of learning, actually had contact with more friends, noticed the same ordinary and persistent girl as himself, and finally learned how to say goodbye to his past self.
To borrow the words of Li Chengru in "Actors Please Take Place", a good youth movie should not be a cheap brushstroke, seeing one or two things that he has experienced in one by one of the heaped symbols, and then revealing the wide resonance in it, feeling as if remembering his youth, walking out of the cinema but not remembering anything.
A good youth movie should have its own characteristics, with similar memories, to touch people's heartstrings, even if you have not experienced the era in "Sunny Days", we will also see the restlessness of Ma Xiaojun, because excellent youth movies are about real growth.
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Is "Youth Pie" really good? In fact, it is just a passing movie, scattered narrative, so that the film's many plots of the connection are somewhat inexplicable, but it has the most precious place, that is, the warmth and brightness of youth, and the simple and unpretentious growth, the moment the college entrance examination bell rings, the former teenager has become a bug awakened by thunder, crazy rush to this world, and there is no chance to turn back.