Cover News Reporter Zhou Qin
"One thing I have done in my life is to protect, study and promote the world cultural heritage - Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, which is the greatest happiness. The biographical film "I Love Dunhuang", which is currently being screened, comprehensively presents the colorful life of "Dunhuang daughter" Fan Jinshi dedicated to Dunhuang.
This film is directed by Miao Yue, a national first-class director of Emei Film Group, and it took five years from preparation to release. After the film was released, it was loved by many audiences, and director Miao Yue also started the promotion of the new film that had just been completed - the movie "Amoayi".
Miao Yue has been engaged in film and television creation for 30 years, especially in the past ten years, and has been devoting her energy to the creation of main theme films, and has devoted her attention to the times and the fate of women into her works. Among them, the films "Jumei in the Sky", "Eighteen Cave Village" and "Beautiful Life" have all won the "Five One Project" award of the Central Propaganda Department, and the film and individual have also won the China Film Huabiao Award.
Miao Yue, a national first-class director and screenwriter
On December 26, Miao Yue admitted frankly in an exclusive interview with the cover news reporter that she would work hard to do something after she identified it, and what she gained along the way was inseparable from luck and her persistence. She summed up her experience and insights from more than 30 years of experience in the industry into this sentence: "Do what you love, make your life more full."
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From luck to persistence to luck
At the premiere of the movie "I Love Dunhuang" in Dunhuang and the roadshow in Chengdu, the cover news reporter had many conversations with director Miao Yue. She is a very sassy creator with a strong desire for expression. On December 26, when talking about the story behind the creation with the cover news reporter on the phone, she could fully feel her love for movies through her mobile phone.
The film "I Love Dunhuang" lasted five years from preparation to release, and a lot of effort was made in the preliminary work such as material collection, scene surveying, and visiting prototype characters, and it was also full of challenges and tests during the preparation period and filming process. The first is the difficulty of raising funds. Miao Yue admits that she is a perfectionist, and after deciding that something is "possible", she will do her best to do it, and find a way to solve it when she encounters a problem. What is something that she can identify? It is something that is valuable, and doing it well can always inspire her, and the filming of "I Love Dunhuang" is one of them. "She dedicated 60 years of her life to Dunhuang, so that the Mogao Grottoes can be inherited and protected in the hands of her generation, and she herself has always been a simple woman, such a woman I particularly admire!" Director Miao Yue once said that she chose to shoot "Dunhuang daughter" Fan Jinshi.
"I have always been a very persistent person, and I am also a simple person, and I will generally go all out when I believe in things, and I will not hesitate or hesitate. For example, when filming "I Love Dunhuang", I think this is a particularly valuable film theme, why not do it? Even if there is a problem of investment in the process of doing it, I only think that this is a problem, and I can always solve it if I think of a way, and I never think of giving up. I am very fortunate to meet Chairman Han Mei of Eying Group, she said that our group came to invest, and this problem was solved. Looking back on the creation of "I Love Dunhuang", Miao Yue thinks that she is very lucky to encounter this creative theme, and even more fortunate that after encountering difficulties, there are many people who are helping her solve these problems. Luck and persistence have accumulated into a kind of luck, which allowed "I Love Dunhuang" to be released and won the love of many audiences.
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Dive into life to create
Miao Yue has a lot of experience in shooting movies with the main theme, and she believes that the main theme film, like all other types of films, is about life stories and social life.
Director Miao Yue According to the film of "I Love Dunhuang".
Over the years, every time a production unit sends an invitation to cooperate, the first thing Miao Yue proposes is to take a look at life, see the living environment and work background of the character to be expressed, and think and observe: "If this character archetype touches me a lot, then I will devote myself to creation very quickly." If it hadn't touched me, I'd put it off or even stop doing it. ”
From the beginning of "Heavenly Jumei" to the present, every time Miao Yue approaches the creative prototype, she finds a lot of things that move her and integrates them into her creation.
The creator finds the point that makes his heart move, and this is the beginning of a good work. And how to convey such a touch to the audience is also a test of the creator's skills. Miao Yue believes that as long as you plunge into life and into the work and life scenes of the characters, you will inevitably find a deserved and unique story line. Everyone has their own story, everyone has their own fireworks, it is very important to plunge into life to create, and for a creator of the main theme, compared with any other theme creator, you should go to life to find the prototype, find their deepest emotional logic, life logic, and then find the logic of growth from this logic, only in this way can the story be reasonable, the characters can be vivid, and the emotions will be delicate.
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"Do what you love and make your life fuller"
In Miao Yue's works, there is a concern for the fate of women. She bluntly said that in the change of society, it is actually difficult for women, "Women who want to make a difference and women who go with the flow are all coerced by society to move forward." It is inevitable that there will be some problems of one kind or another, some problems that women will inevitably experience, and there will be many regrets. Women's stories are even harder to tell. "And in the male-crowded profession of directing, a female director needs to pay more in many cases to be seen.
Miao Yue said, don't think so much, just do it, work hard, do what you love, and it will definitely make people's lives fuller.
On December 19, the film "Amoayi" directed by Miao Yue held a screening ceremony in Beijing, and it was officially announced that it will be officially set for March 16, 2024. In the first half of next year, she hopes to complete the long-awaited post-production of a documentary "about Dunhuang, about Mogao Grottoes, and about movies" as planned. In addition, a film and television work on the theme of basic education, which has been in preparation for two years, is also about to enter the specific operation, "I may need two years to complete this project."
For the work of directing, Miao Yue has always adhered to the idea of going with the flow, if there is an invitation to cooperate, and if there is a subject that can touch her, she will fully express it. She said with a smile: "I would rather drive my big SUV to walk all over the world and write travelogues while looking at the world, which is probably what I want to do now." ”
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