The film "Roof Football" directed by Feiyu was released nationwide on April 20, and unlike other sports-themed movies, the film not only tells the story of a pair of little sisters with dreams who train hard and finally embark on the dream process of international competitions, but also focuses on their thoughts about their father who works outside the home. A few days ago, in an exclusive interview with reporters, Feiyu said: "The emotional bond between parents and children is the core of the film's performance. ”
Where your parents are, that's home
The original intention of the creation came from a trip to Bingzhongluo, Gongshan County, Yunnan Province, where he met a teenage girl with her sister and younger brother and a big yellow dog. Feiyu wanted to take pictures of her house, so the little girl took Feiyu home and told him how she fed, cooked, and studied for a day, because her father and mother were working outside, and she had to take care of her sister and brother. Before leaving, the little girl hoped that Feiyu could leave an address for herself, and send herself some photos outside the mountain after she returned, because she had only seen the high-rise buildings in big cities on TV, Feiyu quickly understood the subtext of the little girl, "What the child wants to see is not only the world outside the mountain, because the place where the parents are is home, she actually wants to be the parents who work outside and be with their parents." ”
Feiyu found inspiration from this collection, he wrote the little sisters and the big yellow dog into the script, Tan Xinyu's sister Ayiduo and Tang Liangfeng's sister Ayimei became the two sisters in the film, and the big yellow dog was changed to a black dog in the film.
On another trip to Baoshan Stone Town in Yunnan Province, Feiyu saw a Naxi building complex built on a large rock on the top of a mountain, and the children in the village were playing a walnut kick to see who could kick far, and Feiyu joined in. In the end, for the sake of the picture effect, kicking walnuts was changed to kicking grapefruit in the film. However, what he felt the most in this interview was the "Tuanhuashu Primary School" he saw in the village, which is also known as the "miracle tree" because of its fast growth rate, which can grow 3.5 meters a year. Feiyu found that almost all the young and middle-aged people in the village had gone out to work, and the rest were old people and children. In the ancient village, the only trace of vitality and vitality is this group of children who grow like flowers and trees, his heart is touched, and the plot of "Roof Football" is also clear in his mind.
Playing a ball on the roof is a better way to convey the wildness of children
In order to find a suitable filming location, Feiyu and the team visited many places. In the Luxi area of the Red River, Feiyu found a very dilapidated village, most of the houses are no longer inhabited, Feiyu and his team spent a lot of energy to renovate and strengthen the houses, and finally transformed them into the appearance of the film, "Playing football on the roof can convey the wild things on the children," Feiyu said.
Finding the right young actors is not easy, Feiyu and his team visited 203 schools in Yunnan, met more than 10,000 children, and finally chose 20 to play roles in the film. Most of these children have a football foundation, and a few don't, and Tan Xinyu is one of them. Feiyu soon found out that Tan Xinyu worked very hard in the training two months before the start of filming, and after others ended, she still practiced juggling the ball under the scorching sun, and Feiyu saw tenacity and forbearance in her, and finally chose her. Tang Liangfeng is the captain of the football team of the local Lucheng Primary School, after watching her game, Feiyu chatted with her, Tang Liangfeng told him that his biggest regret is that because his parents work outside all the year round, he has never come to see her play, and tears flowed down as he spoke, this detail moved Feiyu, and he felt that this was the actor he was looking for.
Winning or losing is not the point of the film
In the film, Ayimei has a heart full of energy at a young age, and she immediately takes action when she dreams of forming a team. If you can't get together the players, you will hug your sister's thighs and ask for help; if you don't have a unified team uniform, you will take out the craftsmanship of sewing clothes for your own dogs; if you are not favored, you will train more diligently and strive to win the game to prove your strength. The driving force behind all this stems from her longing for her mother. Her mother's sentence "I want to see Ayimi laugh on the court" became a spark buried in her heart. The sisters finally got better and better, and the last highlight of the film was the Sino-Japanese youth football match, Feiyu said that he originally wanted to take an open-ended ending to leave the audience more room to think, but then considering the characteristics of the film's "family carnival", the sisters were finally used to help the team win the game. However, at the end of the film, Flying Fish still designed to let the sisters return to the village, and they happily kick the ball again. In Feiyu's view, winning or losing is not the focus of the film, "The point is to make the children have more love for life and life after experiencing these things." When they returned to the village again, their mood and state were completely different from before. ”
Tan Xinyu fell in love with football after filming, and after hard training, her skills got better and better, and at the end of March this year, she also represented Yunnan Province in the third National Youth Football League, and her position on the field was center back. Tang Liangfeng told reporters that his personality was a little hesitant and easily influenced by others, but after filming the movie, he found that his personality was more firm and more understanding of his parents, "In the future, I will go on firmly according to the goals I set." Tang Liangfeng said.