"We've tried hard enough,
So we deserve to be respected,
Deserves a better life. ”
At the end of the movie "Retrograde Life", the delivery man played by Xu Zheng said these words to the camera, which actually explained why Xu Zheng wanted to make this movie with the delivery man group as the protagonist.
On August 3, the famous actor Xu Zheng came to Han to promote the movie "Retrograde Life" written, directed and starred by him, and when interacting with the audience in Jiangcheng, he said that if everyone watches "Retrograde Life", the first takeaway order ordered back can give the delivery man a good review, which is the value of this movie.
Xu Zheng delivers takeaways
None of the customers recognized him
A 45-year-old unemployed man decides to go to food delivery.
In the movie "Retrograde Life", Xu Zheng plays the role of Gao Zhilei, a 45-year-old employee of the Internet "big factory", who suddenly lost his job in middle age, and submitted more than 1,000 resumes but did not find a "next home", in the face of the medical expenses of the elderly, the children's tuition and miscellaneous expenses, and the monthly loan of the house, he decided to become a delivery boy and challenged to be a "single king" with a monthly income of 15,000 yuan.
Source: Public information of the film party
In the takeaway station where Gao Zhilei is located, there are female delivery people who run orders with their children, there are "single kings" who seem to be very selfish but are actually bitter, there are young people who open live broadcasts every day to deliver takeaways, and there are also Lotte uncles who deliver takeaways together for two generations...... The faces of the beings in the site are hidden behind the real lights of thousands of homes. If you are late, you will be scolded; Bad attitude, bad reviews; And the most feared thing is a traffic accident - Xu Zheng said that the experience of these delivery workers in the movie all stems from his and his team's data collection, research and collection, and basically have real prototypes.
In order to allow the whole crew to observe the life and work status of the real takeaways, Xu Zheng set the location next to the real takeaway station, and all the staff in front of and behind the scenes had to go to the takeaway station to experience life first, "I took the whole crew to deliver takeaways, the photography teacher, the art teacher, the props teacher, and all our actors, everyone went to different places to deliver, because if you don't run by yourself, it is impossible to understand those details." ”
According to Xu Zheng, in the process of delivering takeaways, one of the details that impressed him the most was, "No one recognized me at all, I didn't mean that I had to be recognized because I was a star, but most of the time, when everyone took takeaway, they didn't look at the delivery person's face at all, just took the lunch box." ”
Therefore, Xu Zheng deliberately took a lot of the faces of the delivery man in the movie this time, "I think every face is very vivid, every ordinary and ordinary person has his story behind it, everyone is really working hard, so be kind to yourself and others, okay?" ”
Food delivery is not a simple manual job
In addition to Xu Zheng, several leading actors who played the delivery man in "Retrograde Life" Feng Bing, Wu Jiakai, and Liu Meihan also participated in the Wuhan roadshow and shared their creative experience with the audience. It is worth mentioning that when the actor Feng Bing, who gained attention for his role as "Lao Mo" in the TV series "Hurricane", stood on the stage, an audience immediately shouted, "Lao Mo, I want to eat fish!" And Xu Zheng was also very cooperative with the audience, suggesting that Feng Bing try to stand towards a place where there is light, "Otherwise, the light will cover half of your face, which is quite like Lao Mo." ”
Feng Bing calmly persuaded everyone, "Today, let's talk about "Retrograde Life" first. He then talked about his experience of life as a delivery worker in Shandong and Inner Mongolia, and in his opinion, food delivery is a job that serves the people, and as long as it serves the people, it is very worthy of respect.
Liu Meihan, who plays the role of a female delivery person in the movie, repeatedly emphasized to the audience that delivery is not a simple manual labor, but a dual combination of physical strength and mental power, "You see the delivery man riding an electric car 'swoop' past, but in fact, he has to look at the navigation, contact with customers, and understand how much time is left in the list, which is a great test of brain power and judgment." ”
Xu Zheng said during the interaction that he has always been very concerned about realistic themes, and "takeaway" is a topic that everyone is very familiar with, "Each of us has ordered takeout, just take the mobile phone to operate, and then take it as soon as we reach out to eat." But we hope that through a movie, we can take everyone to deliver orders immersively, so that you can know what it takes for a delivery person to deliver an order. Xu Zheng believes that the story of this group of delivery workers has a wide range of radiation and can have an emotional connection with ordinary audiences.
I didn't expect "I Am Not the God of Medicine" to be so popular
When the movie "Retrograde Life" was first exposed, some critics compared it with "I Am Not the God of Medicine", believing that both movies are rooted in reality and have upward vitality. Regarding this comparison, Xu Zheng said that he still hopes to use the film to convey goodwill, "Whether it is 'God of Medicine' or this film, we all hope that everyone can empathize with it after watching it." ”
As for whether "Retrograde Life" can reproduce the box office myth of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", Xu Zheng feels that it is not something he needs to consider, "If everyone watches it and thinks that it is a good movie, they will definitely bring friends and family to watch it again, so I don't have to think about the later (box office) results." ”
Xu Zheng still remembers that when he collaborated with director Wen Muye in "I Am Not the God of Medicine", "I was a producer and actor, before the movie was released, we estimated that the box office was about 700 million or 800 million, but I didn't expect that no matter where the movie was, there would be people chartering it, lawyers, courts, patient groups, hospitals...... There are groups to charter the venue, I really didn't expect it to have such a wide range of sociality, and in the end the box office reached more than 30 billion. ”
Source: Public information of the film party
Xu Zheng made no secret of the fact that he has also made many commercial films with unsatisfactory box office in his career, sometimes it is a comedy tailored for the audience, but the audience just doesn't buy it, "It's actually quite difficult, and in the end, you can only leave your intuition to make judgments." ”
Xu Zheng hopes that "Retrograde Life" can gain more empathy from the audience, "Each of us is very hardworking and hard, sometimes we really need to give ourselves a little red flower, this (emotion) can be pierced, if everyone can empathize with this after watching the movie, I think it is a victory." ”
Source | Jimu News