Beijing News News On March 24, the movie "The Great Father", directed by Zhou Qingyuan and starring Wang Yanhui, Zhang Youhao, and Gong Beiyuan, exposed a training special, and Wang Yanhui, Zhang Youhao, Gong Beiyuan and other main creators carried out a lot of professional physical training in order to play a good role in the film. The film tells the story of a father and son who have embarked on a strange road because of a completely different attitude to life, but finally returned to the same place because of a marathon race and broke through the limits of life, and will be released nationwide on April 9.
As a film with a large number of marathon elements, in order to present a real and professional marathon sports and event process, the behind-the-scenes team spent four years preparing and interviewing thousands of marathon runners and professionals. The film also invited a number of marathon coaches to train several actors in a professional system for several days before shooting. The role of actor Zhang Youhao in the film, Xiao Erdong, is a long-distance running teenager who loves marathons and has undergone long-term systematic training, and it is also decided that Zhang Youhao must fully master marathon technology to play this role.
In the special edition exposed today, under the guidance of professional coaches, actor Zhang Youhao, starting from the basic leg lifting and breathing training, all the way to the pace frequency, ankle joint, trunk core muscle group training, etc., gradually standardized his body and center of gravity when running, which can be described as an all-round "abuse".
The son is so hard, Wang Yanhui, who plays his father Xiao Daming, is not spared, in the movie, Xiao Daming in order to encourage his son who is full of thoughts, middle-aged and decadent, he regrouped and practiced to sweat, he wants to accompany his son to the marathon. "Dad" Wang Yanhui in order to play this role, but also carried out a lot of professional system training, even once practiced to the thigh muscle strain, but still insisted on training, to which Wang Yanhui quipped "very hard and tired, but painful and happy."
In the special series, another leading actor, Gong Beiyuan, also joined the training team. She played the gold medal coach Xia Lu in the film, which will have a key role in promoting the father-son relationship. In this regard, Gong Beiyuan not only received training from professional coaches with Wang Yanhui and Zhang Youhao, but also often observed the coach's training details for others outside the training ground in order to better integrate into his own performances, and strived to portray the image of the marathon coach in place.
Special actress Feng Wenjuan also appeared in the special edition, in which she played Xiao Erdong's late mother, former marathon runner Xing Yun. Although there are only a few running scenes in the movie, Feng Wenjuan still conducts marathon basic training.
Beijing News editor Xu Meilin
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Source: Beijing News