"All or Nothing" focuses on overseas fraud: Zhang Yixing and Jin Chen work overseas as illegal workers, and Wang Chuanjun lays a desperate trap

As of August 1, the box office in the first half of the 2023 summer file has exceeded 13 billion yuan, which is only 4.6 billion yuan from the total box office record of 17.6 billion yuan in the summer of 2019; For the upcoming second half, breaking the record and surpassing 2019 is already "one step away".

The new film "All or Nothing" released on August 11 has attracted much attention because of its content theme of revealing the inside story of the entire industry chain of overseas online fraud, and it has full box office potential and is expected to become a dark horse.

Adapted from real cases, those who witnessed it restored the cruel truth

In recent years, overseas online fraud has been rampant, causing immeasurable harm to the safety of people's lives and property, and the related industrial chain has been gradually exposed. From official news to various new media and self-media, the hot discussion of the whole people has brought about an enduring degree of topicality, but the huge and complex information is also like fragments, making it difficult for many ordinary netizens who lack the ability to discern to see the whole picture of the whole situation.

The story of "All or Nothing" is based on tens of thousands of real fraud cases across the country. Before the start of shooting, the main creative team cooperated with the police and the anti-fraud center to collect all news, photos, videos, etc. related to overseas online fraud in the past three years, and built the foundation of characters and plots through massive first-hand real information.

In the "Archetypal Characters" special, the real scenes of overseas fraud factories told by witnesses are just text descriptions, which are already heartwarming:

"Like that kind of window, they are all welded to death with iron bars, afraid that you will jump, afraid that you will commit suicide, everyone is their property, they will not easily kill you."

"He said I was sold, he took a video of me and sent it to my parents, and I was beaten, it was that electric rod that shocked the reproductive organs."

"On the eighth day, I wanted to escape, and I was caught by them."

"A room has to sleep a dozen or twenty people, squeezed to sleep, all people sleep next to each other, sleep on the floor, there is a toilet, there is no paper, all by hand."

"All or Nothing" is positioned as a serious crime movie, with archetypal characters appearing, and the content of the movie is more credible.

Dig deep into complex human nature and create a fraud assembly line factory

In the film, the story is made up of several key characters. The programmer played by Zhang Yixing and the model played by Jin Chen were lured overseas by high-paying jobs, fell into a trap, and became a member of the fraud industry chain under the pressure of the fraud leader played by Wang Chuanjun. was originally a victim, but in turn became the perpetrator, and after the model played by Jin Chen became the dealer of the fraud syndicate, he lured the gambler Ah Tian played by Wang Continent into the abyss step by step. As an anti-fraud policeman, Yongmei joined hands with Ah Tian's girlfriend played by Zhou Ye to try to save the "trapped beast" from a desperate situation.

The fraud factory in the film is divided into eight working groups with the fine division of labor of "positive, mention, opposite, detachment, wind, fire, removal, and rumors", and weaves a large fraud network through technical means, psychological speech and other methods. Deception has started from the weakness of human nature since ancient times, human nature is the key part of "Desperate", the director Shen believes that all human behaviors have positive and negative sides, digging deep into the complexity and reversal of human nature, is also one of the creative themes of this film.

What does a real scam factory look like? For most people, it can only be imagined. "All or Nothing" has created many related scenes, including the dog push hall full of computers ("dog push" is the abbreviation of the online gambling work promotion salesman), the live broadcast hall where the beautiful dealer deals cards online, and Manager Lu's shouting platform, Wang Chuanjun mentioned the impression of entering the dog push hall for the first time: "As soon as you enter that place, you feel as if everything is right, as if you can smell the scene, sweat, smoke, the smell of metal rust, you can feel it in that scene." ”

Choose the right actor and filming will be easier

The originators and victims of the scam factory, the scammers and victims, the victims' families and the police, these roles form an intricate relationship due to changing identities and positions. Director Shen Ao said: "The casting process is more important than the process of directing. If you choose the right person, the director will be very relaxed. ”

The programmer played by Zhang Yixing is called Pan Sheng, and Shen Ao believes that Zhang Yixing and Pan Sheng have a lot of commonalities in personality, stubborn and persistent, "Let such a person take his sunshine and plunge into a dark world, I think I can achieve that contrast." Zhang Yixing's appearance this time is also very close to the usual impression of programmers, and under the recommendation of the Olympic bid, he shaped Pan Sheng's speech and behavior through observation and imitation of a network security consultant.

The Olympic bid also found a documentary about the dealer for Jin Chen, so that she had a specific understanding of this profession and could quickly enter the state on the shooting site.

The villain played by Wang Chuanjun connects the entire story, and Jin Chen, who plays with him, said, "Every time I act, I am really scared." When Wang Chuanjun was filming, he would not bring his mobile phone into the set, and Shen Ao revealed, "One thing that touched me about Wang Chuanjun was that no matter whether there was a play with him today, he would come to the scene to watch other actors perform."

Sun Yang, who attracted attention for the feature film "Over Spring" produced by Tian Zhuangzhuang, played Wang Chuanjun's accomplice A Cai in the film. His way of acting is different from everyone, he never talks and laughs with others after arriving on the set, and even helps the director coordinate group performances as the role of Ah Cai, immersing himself in the role to achieve realistic effects.

Author: Zhang Jin (Shanghai TV original article, please contact the editorial office for reprinting)