Last year, a warm and heart-warming movie "Love and Affection" enlarged Zhengzhou in the great changes in front of the world, and the street scenes, roads and daily life familiar to you and me in the film exude the literary and artistic atmosphere exclusive to Zhengzhou, which makes people feel profound and warm.
Yesterday afternoon, a group of people who also have special feelings for Zhengzhou and Henan returned to Zhengzhou with the sincere work that took three years to film Zhengzhou- the action movie "Playing With Life", telling people about kung fu, action movies, and the unique meaning of Henan to them. At the Oscar Huijin International Cinema in our city, the reporter interviewed Li Bingyuan, the director and star of the movie "Playing with Life", Li Binglei, Huang Yixuan, Wang Hongxiang and others.
Zero doubles, zero special effects, and strive to really fight in real combat
The hot-blooded action movie "Playing for Life" is the first pure local action film directed and acted by the strength of kung fu movie star Li Bingyuan, with zero doubles, zero special effects, and strive to really fight the film characteristics. The film tells the story of Lu Yang (Li Bingyuan), who has special skills but can only work with actions, who struggles unremittingly for his lofty ideals and fights hard, but the cruel reality gives him a ruthless blow again and again, and after accidentally getting involved in a transnational theft of jewelry and cultural relics, he has made a miracle with his own excellent kung fu and opened another different life.
"What I want to present most in this movie is the realistic style, so that everyone can feel the feeling of the actor playing with his life." Li Bingyuan, a kung fu movie star who has many jobs in the movie, told reporters that the sound of "Chinese action movies are dead" that has appeared on the Internet has made him feel very sad as an action actor.
"Our predecessor Jackie Chan and Jet Li's eldest brother have used their own hard work to lay a great foundation for Chinese action movies and achieved many brilliant achievements. If you always find some actors who can't fight and eat by the face to make action movies, can Chinese action movies not die? I think as an action actor, I should have such a mission, that is, to continue the glory of Chinese action films. So we did our best to make a "Play for Life", just to use our actual actions to tell everyone that Chinese action movies are not dead, with our existence, Chinese action movies will definitely become more powerful. ”
In the film, various wonderful and novel action scenes such as martial arts, actual combat fighting, mixed martial arts, parkour, etc., let the audience see the real kung fu of the action actors, and the iron bones and fists and fists show the characteristics of the film's 100% real combat. It is worth mentioning that the film was filmed in Zhengzhou throughout the film, and landmark buildings such as Ruyi Lake, Qianxi Tower, and Zhongyuan Film and Television City made people feel more intimate.
According to lead actor Li Binglei, the movie "Playing with Life" was planned to be filmed in Tianjin at the beginning of the project, but in the end it chose Zhengzhou.
"Henan is our second hometown, Zhengzhou is also a very emotional place for us, friendship, classmate love, teacher-student love, etc., let us have a feeling of desperate work, the film in the filming process has been supported by many friends in front of and behind the scenes, and we still feel very cordial when we return here again."
Wang Hongxiang, an old friend of our Henan people and a "hero of the Chinese people", also starred in the film, once again interpreting the image of a boxer in a bloody fight in the ring. Talking about why he starred in this film, Wang Hongxiang said: "We are all martial arts practitioners, we all have an experience of living in Henan, or have a relationship with Henan, and the spirit of the two of them (director Li Bingyuan and starring Li Binglei brothers) touched me. ”
"Our generation grew up watching action movies, Chinese action movies are very exciting, Chinese kung fu is the world, and the Shaolin Temple is in Henan, I think Henan is the best synonym for kung fu, so the best action movies in China should come from Henan." Li Bingyuan said with full ambition, "I will always shoot the "Playing for Life" series in Zhengzhou, please support me a lot. ”
How to dig deep into local characteristics still needs to be explored
From the earlier comedy movie "Not a Joke", to today's bloody action film "Playing with Life", there are more and more movies filmed in Henan, created by local creations or starring local actors, in addition to the conventional performance of zhengzhou, Henan architecture, scenery, how to dig deep into the local potential characteristics, still need filmmakers to continue to explore.
"Why do we like dreams, why do we have feelings? It's because we've all gone through a very difficult process, and this difficult process has become a feeling. This is also what I want to express most about this movie, hoping that through this movie, young people with dreams can see the figure of themselves working hard for their dreams. Li Bingyuan said.
Reporter Yang Liping text/photo
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