After experiencing an embarrassing period in which debaters are becoming more and more difficult to find, the main task of the MiWei team's derivative program "Strange Flower Conference" this year is no longer to serve "Strange Story" at all, but is committed to showing the views and lives of friends who have experienced special life experiences.
After Hou Zuxin, a Beijing girl, appeared on "Strange Flower Conference", Weibo added another batch of sightseeing groups and rose a round of fans. The theme of her current speech was "The Secret Story of the Rock and Roll Circle in the 80s", and after the end, 73 people "knelt", which meant that two-thirds of the audience was convinced by the sharers' special life experiences and views.
Hou Zuxin gave a speech at the "Strange Flower Conference"
In fact, before the "Strange Flower Conference", Hou Zuxin had already become a hot person twice. The most recent one was two months ago.
On January 5, the Weibo of the China Meteorological Channel sent out two promotional videos for 2018, in which, with a young boy as the protagonist, anthropomorphizing the meteorological service into a short film of a mysterious and handsome "Man in Black", Weibo was launched for 3 days, and the number of views broke through 30 million, retweeted 80,000 times, and the number of comments was nearly 20,000. This can be said to be unprecedented in the past Weibo of the "China Meteorological Channel", and many netizens said that the China Meteorological Channel is an advertising company delayed by the weather forecast, and the fashion is very rare in official publicity.
After the promotional video was fried on Weibo, it was gradually noticed that the director of this male-oriented promotional film was a young Beijing girl. Weibo was officially @ over, a group of netizens to Hou Zuxin Weibo to watch again, after a round of fans, someone gradually mentioned: This girl did not participate in "The Voice of China"? There are more followers, and gradually some people find out that this is not the daughter of rock singer Hou Muren, who is also the director of the documentary "Old Rock".
Participating in "The Voice of China" is indeed the first time that Hou Zuxin has briefly become a public figure.
In 2012, Hou Zuxin participated in "The Voice of China", losing to later champion Liang Bo.
In the first season of "The Voice of China", Hou Zuxin went all the way to the late stage of the Naying team assessment before being eliminated by Liang Bo. Hou Zuxin still believes that this "martial arts conference" that took advantage of the summer vacation of graduate students to play tickets was very beautiful and worth remembering. "When I signed up for the audition in Shanghai, many people were waiting for the recording, a girl on the left was wearing headphones and talking rap, and a boy next door was also very good at playing and singing. This scene is still remembered to this day. I was happy to close the door at that time, thinking that there were many masters to compete for the title. ”
But three years later, Hou Zuxin's identity as a sharer in "Strange Flower Conference" is already a director and screenwriter. I have to admit that in the directing industry, whether Chinese or foreign, men still have a quantitative advantage, this situation is even worse in China, and the well-known people in the two sides of the strait and the three places have been hovering over Xu Anhua, Li Shaohong, Zhang Aijia and several other predecessors for many years, extending to the field of documentaries and short films, and it is not much better. Therefore, it is indeed surprising to see Hou Zuxin, as a young female director, making a short film with delicate emotion and interesting feelings.
The promotional video of the China Meteorological Channel was widely acclaimed
In a telephone interview with The Paper, Hou Zuxin giggled on the other end of the phone, not minding that everyone mentioned her family or turned over her immature old works, "I enjoy this a lot, and suddenly everyone found that this also has me, that also has me, because different works know me, this sense of accomplishment." ”
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In the meteorological film, the man in black and the male protagonist were cped by netizens, and Hou Zuxin giggled again, "I really didn't expect this." Throughout the interview, I could hear her accidentally laughing at the other side, and in fact, before making this call, she was still dying of pain for the feature film script she was preparing, thinking that she was experiencing the most painful difficulties in her life so far.
Hou Zuxin is a character who can explain himself and is rarely pessimistic and lost. The last time I cried deeply, or when I was in a foreign country during graduate school, I was tired of filming student works for a day, I went home to give myself a bowl of instant noodles, turned on the TV with the noodles, and happened to meet the Oscars. Natalie Portman won best actress for "Black Swan" that night, and then the host invited all the winners to the stage for a group photo. "I burst into tears as I held my face." She felt that the people on the stage were really powerful, and she had been insisting on the movie, and she was suddenly moved by herself, "I told myself that I was also a member of the group, which was particularly remarkable." ”
After graduating from the University of Southern California's Film School with a master's degree, although sometimes having to endure that female directors are always not valued or mistaken for assistants when they first start the film and television industry, overall, Hou Zuxin believes that he has not experienced any hardship or complexity in society.
"A lot of people become directors, probably because life wants to jump out of a framework, but for me, I don't have anything to resist, I have to fight against anything, for me, it's a natural thing." 」
If there is really "someone else's child" in your mother's mouth, and if you really have "other people's parents" in your heart, then Hou Zuxin's whole family should be able to bear this honor.
Hou Zuxin's father Hou Muren was a pioneer of domestic rock in the 1980s, although unlike Cui Jian and Moyan Sanjie, who left countless legends behind him, his works such as "I Love You China" had an important influence in the rock circle. At the scene of the "Strange Flower Conference", Gao Xiaosong explained that Hou Muren was "a big wrist" in the 1980s. Hou Zuxin's mother is a designer who has studied abroad. As she said in her speech, she grew up in a compound full of musicians.
Hou Zuxin and his father Hou Muren
Her parents adopted a free-range education for Hou Zuxin from a young age, "they never told me what you should do, what you should not do", but she inherited her mother's strong personality, "good grades from childhood", so good that her parents did not ask her about school at all, and even they were in their third year of high school, Hou Muren did not know that her daughter was learning literature and reason.
The most exaggerated example is the most important parent-teacher meeting in the third year of high school in Beijing, and his father Hou Muren did not participate. "The school is about to hold a mobilization meeting for the college entrance examination, and when my mother was abroad, I said that my family has never come to the parent-teacher conference for so many years. He agreed. Later, when the grade assembly was over, I couldn't wait for him in the class, so I ran out and called to ask, and my dad said that when he returned to work, he didn't keep up with the big troops, and he didn't know which class I was in, so he went straight home. I was really crying and laughing. ”
Hou Zuxin agrees with this kind of free-range education of parents. "When I was a child, I would feel that studying and reading books was your own business, and it had nothing to do with others."
Although parents have never known which class their daughter is in, there is no lack of communication, which is also the most important way of education in hou Zuxin's family. "I often say what books I read and what music I listened to. I often read Maupassant's novels and saw tears in my eyes, so I went out and talked to them. So later I studied film, which was the way my family should have gone. ”
Expected, but also because of the relaxed family environment from childhood, Hou Zuxin can give full play to his ideas, give the children in the courtyard a "rehearsal", "bring the children in the courtyard together to make up stories, out of small programs, at that time some people said, Zu Xin, you do this adult is also doing, called the director." When I didn't know what a director was, I actually did it. ”
In addition to his enthusiasm for rehearsal as a child, Hou Zuxin was taken to the Pioneer Theater when he did not understand what drama was.
"At that time, they rode bicycles and took me to the kind of avant-garde small theater in the hutong, with a group of Wenqing in Beijing at that time, to watch the most avant-garde dramas of that year." On the second floor, where the lights are hung, there are people sitting, and in the particularly cold Beijing winter, many people wearing that kind of military coat are crouching inside and shivering. The smell of wood from old furniture, the smell of burning briquettes, that was my childhood. ”
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After participating in "The Voice of China", Hou Zuxin, who was still studying, found that he could receive several commercial performances to get money. After getting this unexpected benefit from playing tickets, she began to prepare the documentary "Old Rock" that she had thought of before.
The film is interspersed with interviews with Ding Wu, Cui Jian, Zhang Chu and others, trying to leave the breath of childhood in her memory. The documentary was brought to various film festivals in the United States, which is also an important part of her directorial resume and an important help to her start in China.
Screenshot from the documentary "Old Rock"
But as the daughter of Hou Muren, growing up under the amusement of Zhang Chuhe Yong, did she take too much advantage? Hou Zuxin basically agreed with this conclusion and did not shy away from it.
"I grew up in such an environment, and I would never say that my parents were artists, but it had nothing to do with me or anything like that, it was because of them that they have today's perception of Beijing, my perception of the world, the sense of touch." I'm me today, and I can't be separated from them at all. ”
She attributed the family part to the socialized composition of the human being, which cannot be avoided, and it is better to face it directly.
"You say in turn, a lot of people have families like mine, but not everyone goes my way, why did I make 'Old Rock'n' Roll, why didn't others? A lot of people grew up in this circle, and I just don't. ”
She believes that artistic talent is not only related to family, but also to the DNA of people themselves, "I feel that I have my talent, I believe this, even if I was born in another family." 」 ”
Although the feature film is still in preparation, her belief that "she has talent" has been evident in the short film shooting. The promotional video of the China Meteorological Channel was a bidding model, and Hou Zuxin felt at the time that he did not want to make a "serious film like polar bear animals in farmland". Going back to think about it for three days, as a beijing girl with a proud personality, Hou Zuxin thought of the reverse string, "The image of the particularly gentle mother announcer is not interesting, and in turn, I think he is a particularly special stubborn, you don't listen to him, and then what will happen to the image of a big man who cuts his feet?" Then there is the man in black, you have to bring an umbrella, you have to bring, you see after bringing it, you are proud, meet a beautiful girl, right? It's such a weird image. ”
The starting point is that I think it's more fun to do this. Hou Zuxin herself analyzed, which is also an important reason why she has become today. "No matter what I do, I can find something particularly funny and funny from it, but maybe if I change someone, he will complain, and you see your parents don't care about themselves, and there is no good place to participate in 'The Voice'." 」
As a new director who has just graduated, the superposition of these resumes is very smooth in the same age. After all, in peers, I have heard too many new directors who have no chance, so I give up. The survival of the new director is also a hot topic of discussion at present.
Hou Zuxin did not deny that she had luck, but she felt that more was to think about the results accumulated for the future, "Many people see "Old Rock" and believe that I am a person with ideas, and the same type of things are willing to let me do it. In addition, when I was a graduate student, I participated in 'The Voice' and made a MV, which was equivalent to showing that I was a director who could make an MV. The works are not many, not that you have shot a hundred advertisements before, but that everyone can see you and come to you. ”
She believes that she is not mainly picky about the creation of commercial forms or art forms, but does not take the work, "whether it is a 30-second advertisement or a feature film, I don't do the work." In addition, before making feature films, making short films, commercials, and documentaries should all be acceptable choices.
"When you're in film school, you're also making short films, and everybody wants to reflect your ideas in films of all lengths. Of course, I was lucky enough to meet these clients who were fully empowered to give it to me. ”
Hou Zuxin's most recent filming was a trip to Japan to make a documentary about Kato Hawk. Kato Hawk, known as "Goldfinger" in Japanese adult films, is currently retired. After the invitation to shoot, she thought it was interesting, focusing on the fact that in Japanese special films, women are usually used to please men, while Kato Hawk is known for pleasing women. "My biggest surprise was that during my chat with Kato Hawk, I found that he was a person who respected women very much. And he stressed that the technology itself is not important, what is important is that women must be respected, and if you respect each other from the heart, you will find ways to make the other party happy. ”
Ask Hou Zuxin if he has made a movie, more painful moments, can not shoot, no inspiration, or financial problems, all counted. She wasn't going to answer the question, "I'm where I go from here." There's nothing worth saying right now, and when I'm done with my first feature film, I'll talk about it again. ”
Finally, Hou Zuxin told the story concept of the first feature film, which is roughly a black humor about suicidal youth, which is not mainstream. What if there is a funding problem? This time I didn't think about it at all. "I don't think so, I'm not a particularly experimental director. The coolest thing about many artists is to express themselves, whether you understand or not is your business, I respect them, but I hope that while expressing it, everyone can accept what I want to say, and it is not conventional. I'm confident in my script. As for the results of this feature film, Hou Zuxin does not think that the award is an important thing, "Sometimes what you are satisfied with yourself, not necessarily others like." For example, this year's Oscars, in my mind, "The Shape of Water" is not as good as "Three Billboards". Winning an award doesn't mean anything to be sure. The most important thing is to recognize yourself. ”