Top news reporter Wang Jiahui
Following the success of the two films "Beneficiary" and "All or Nothing", the suspense drama "New Life" directed by the Olympic bid and starring Jing Boran was launched on Youku, which tells a story of poor information crime and brings a hearty exploration to the audience.
In addition to Jing Boran's eye-catching acting skills, many viewers are also interested in "Anti-fraud Xiao Shen", ""Beneficiary" talks about marriage fraud, "All or Nothing" talks about telecom fraud, and "New Life" is still about fraudsters. It's such a niche track, it is recommended to check the Olympic bid, why are you so familiar with the theme of fraud. ”
Recently, the Olympic bid was interviewed by a top news reporter, who revealed that the insights about the weaknesses and desires of human nature accumulated during the creation of "All or Nothing" had an impact on the creation of "New Life".
Although he is nicknamed "anti-fraud Xiaoshen", the ambition of the Olympic bid does not stop there, he believes that film and television works should be able to broaden the life dimension of the audience, "let them see the world beyond their daily life." ”
Explore the multi-dimensional and true nature of human nature
Born in 1986, graduated from the directing department of Beijing Film Academy, in 2016, Ning Hao Company launched the "Bad Monkey 72 Change Film Project", aiming to support young excellent films, as a young director who joined the program, the Olympic bid wrote and directed his first film "Beneficiary" in 2019, and in 2023, his other directing work "All or Nothing" became a summer dark horse.
The drama begins with the death of the protagonist "Fei Ke", and the five "scam victims" at the memorial service appear one by one, and under their telling, the audience understands the complex and multifaceted life of "Fei Ke". Five story lines are laid out in front of the audience, and this jigsaw puzzle-style narration allows the audience to enter it and explore the mystery with the characters in the film.
In "New Life", the five "scam victims" at the memorial service have different ages, backgrounds, occupations, and also represent the inner desires of different groups. Mining bosses, vice presidents of funds, executives of foreign companies, journalists, female college students...... The Olympic bid said that in the selection of characters, it has tried its best to make a distinction, some are middle-aged and elderly, some are middle-aged women, some are young women, and some have relatively high incomes, ""New Life" strives to present a delicate and complex human nature by creating different characters. The Olympic bid said.
The Olympic bid admitted that in the process of creation, he strives to make each character authentic and resonant. Whether it is Zhang Xuan, a simple college student, or Chen Shufa, a controlling father, they can find prototypes in real life. He hopes that through the stories of these characters, the audience will think about what choices they will make when faced with similar situations.
The anti-fraud movie "All or Nothing" is based on tens of thousands of real fraud experiences, and there are also many things related to anti-fraud in "New Life". In the view of the Olympic bid, "these two works are both showing the content of human nature, the difference is that the film is very condensed and needs to amplify the sensory experience." But the drama is more like a narrated, subtle focus on artistic exchange. In the play, in order to concretize the ethereal human nature, the Olympic bid uses lens language to show people's rights, responsibilities, feelings and judgments at a certain moment by dismantling people's psychological activities, mental states and external behaviors.
When talking about the relationship between "New Life" and telecom fraud, the Olympic bid said that although the series itself is not directly related to telecom fraud, the insights about human weaknesses and desires he accumulated when creating "All or Nothing" did have an impact on the creation of "New Life". He believes that "no matter what kind of fraud you are hurt, it is often because the victim has a prejudgment or excessive desire, which are human weaknesses." ”
The multi-line narrative approach was the biggest challenge
The plot of "New Life" makes the audience feel a strong sense of interaction and game, and the audience analyzes the case with the characters like people in the play. In the view of the Olympic bid, the rules involved in the whole plot will give different feelings to players or non-players, and there will be corresponding rewards for completing tasks, "This kind of story will make the audience seem to become the seventh or eighth person in this villa, and they are also listening to the conversations of other characters and making their own analysis and judgment." ”
In the process of creation, the Olympic bid encountered many challenges. The multi-line narrative is the characteristic of "New Life", and it is also a difficulty in the creative process. In order to tell the story of the five lines in a limited space, he repeatedly worked on the details of the timeline, key props, and plot. There were also many difficulties encountered during the filming, such as the need to shoot the same scene multiple times to present different plot directions and character identities.
"Because the timeline and a lot of the details will have conflicting storylines, we will go over and over to rearrange some key props, plots and costumes. For example, after repeated scrutiny, I will pay attention to the scenes in which some clothes should appear in sets. But we will jump and shoot when we shoot, so the costume designer and the actor need to confirm the costume repeatedly, which is very brain-burning. The Olympic bid said.
I want the audience to see the world outside of everyday life
"Brain-burning" means the threshold of viewing, but the Olympic bid is not worried about this problem. The Olympic bid believes that every story has a form of doing things and telling them, and stories will lose their charm if they are separated from this form. "Not only to set a threshold for the audience, but also to build steps for the audience, not to build a problem for the audience to break, but to let the audience enter the story step by step."
The latest episode 8 of "New Life" tells Fei Ke's prehistory through He Shan's perspective. Fei Ke experienced abandonment and betrayal in his childhood, which also led to hatred, which also brought a reversal to the whole story, and the Olympic bid revealed: "I think the cause of his character is related to his original family, and the lack of love environment may create people like Fei Ke." From my own observation, being loved and not being loved in the process of growing up can affect a person's psychological state as an adult, and most people who are not loved are insecure. ”
As for the theme that he wants to try in the future, he said that he is very interested in the theme of "spectacle". He believes that film and television works should be able to broaden the dimension of the audience's life and allow them to see the world beyond their daily lives. This "spectacle" includes not only grand scenes such as space and sand dunes, but also details and emotions that are easily overlooked in people's daily lives. The Olympic bid hopes to show these "wonders" to the audience through his works.