Today, the road suspense love drama "A Journey to Meet Love", directed by Mao Weining and starring Chen Xiao and Jing Tian, was held in Beijing for the first time, with general director Mao Weining, director Wang Yiwei, and lead actors Chen Xiao and Li Jing attending. The drama takes the drug trafficking case involved in a famous painting as a clue, telling the love story of urban white-collar worker Li Xinyue (Jing Tian) and anti-drug police officer Jin Xiaotian (Chen Xiao).
The 30-minute film flower played on the spot not only shows urban life, but also has a suspenseful police and bandit duel, most of the plot in the play takes place during road travel, filling the gap of domestic drama road movies, and the configuration of "youth + love + police + suspense" is even more suspenseful. Regarding the performances of the actors, Mao Weining said: "I encourage young actors to express themselves and ask my team to tilt towards the creation of actors. Now it seems that it is still right to bring the character closer to the actor. Chen Xiao also expressed his admiration for Mao Weining's directorial team, praising the crew for having the "spirit of the women's volleyball team".
Chen Xiao's clothes were soaked for action scenes
The automatic "add drama" makes Li Jing step on the face
In this feature film, undercover policeman Jin Xiaotian came to Li Xinyue's side for surveillance due to a mission, but accidentally became involved in Li Xinyue's revenge journey. During the journey, because of a mysterious famous painting "Baby", the two criminal groups launched a deadly confrontation. In addition to the suspenseful elements, the wonderful scenes in the film are also enjoyed by the audience.
The camera shows the action of the play from multiple angles, in which Jin Xiaotian fights with armed criminals with his bare hands, the scene is thrilling, the action fists are fist to flesh, and the one-to-many chase battle is even more gripping. Chen Xiao, who has starred in many costume martial arts dramas, revealed: "My fight scene was more difficult than imagined, the first rooftop chase, the clothes were dry and wet, and then they all stinked. There was also a scene I filmed with Li Jing, and Director Mao felt that the effect of the beating was not in place. So I asked for Jing Brother to step on my face, so I really stepped on it, and the effect was very good. Li Jing, as a cross-talk actor, said of the cooperation with Chen Xiao: "I felt a sense of surprise when I saw Chen Xiao's police uniform appear, because it was particularly handsome, but I was abused by me in the play. ”
A full-time high-energy, including "love, police, suspense" and other multiple elements of the work, nature and team efforts are also inseparable, Chen Xiaosheng praised: "This crew has the 'spirit of women's volleyball', one person's save can move others, each of us is using our own efforts to infect the people around us." ”
"Meet Love" innovates and experiments with the "road trip" method
Mao Weining: IP or original quality is not important is the last word
"A Journey to Meet Love" uses road trips to express the love of young people, which is relatively rare in the current similar film and television dramas and is very novel. At the same time, Mao Weining believes that this is also the revival of the traditional film and television drama genre in play, "I hope to do more original, I oppose the use of themes to determine good or bad, in recent years the IP market is a bit high, IP just let the audience know this work in advance, play a role in attracting attention, not all IP are suitable for adaptation into film and television dramas, and now IP has gone Toloo, the reason is that it only attracts eyeballs, and does not do a good display means." I wanted to show a quality drama in the best way and the hardest way, and shoot more than other TV series. ”
The drama is Mao Weining's first time to direct and shoot a modern urban youth love theme TV series, compared to shooting heavy period dramas and war dramas, the shooting experience this time is also much easier. Mao Weining said that through this new attempt, he found that his understanding of the current young people is not enough, "After all, I am a person in the sixties of the last century, although I should be counted as a creator who pays attention to young people, but some of the love expression and treatment of young people at the moment are still not very understandable, in the filming process, Chen Xiao and Jing Tian's performance treatment of some scenes is not the same as my idea." As an apprentice, director Wang Yiwei believes, "As a young director, I am very happy to participate in this urban love drama, and finally jumped out of the ice and snow of the era drama, which is a good attempt." ”
Mao Weining asked Jing Tian to be a graduation work
Chen Xiao: Jingtian's festive like "New Year"
"A Journey to Meet Love" is the first cooperation between Chen Xiao and Jing Tian, and from the stills and film flowers, the expressions of the two of them and the gestures are quite tacit. General director Mao Weining said that Chen Xiao and Jing Tian did not know each other before filming this scene, so he hoped that the two people could communicate more and get acquainted as soon as possible, "The three of us are Cancers, forming a group, and for this reason we have specially established a group, the birthday Chen Xiao is the biggest, we call him the eldest, which is also to increase our tacit understanding." The first cooperation, Chen Xiao was also deeply impressed by Jing Tian: "Jing Tian looks very cool, and later matured, and every time she comes, she is as festive as the 'New Year'." ”
For Jing Tian's performance in the play, Mao Weining praised, "Jing Tian played many roles after graduation, and some of the roles are relatively large. She is very hard but some are also difficult, Li Xinyue this role I think she can fully grasp, these years of experience I asked her to forget all, with the heart and instinct to interpret. I hope that she will act as a work that has just graduated, put the feelings, moods, and states at that stage of graduation in the role, truly return to her true age, and easily play herself, she interprets this role very three-dimensional, plump, and touching. ”
True color starred in the "post-90s" anti-drug police
Chen Xiao: This drama is regarded as another exam after "The Condor Heroes"
In the film, Jin Xiaotian was originally a small police officer at the police station, and was transferred to the anti-drug brigade for his outstanding performance in the arrest mission. He seems cynical, but in fact he is self-motivated, and under the stubborn appearance is a heart that loves his career.
Jin Xiaotian, played by Chen Xiao, can be described as a role tailored for the director for him, Mao Weining once revealed that after confirming Chen Xiao's role as Jin Xiaotian, he and screenwriter Wang Yanzhen specially adjusted and modified the character of Jin Xiaotian according to Chen Xiao's appearance and ideas, "I and Chen Xiao said that Jin Xiaotian is you, and no matter how well other actors play, they are not as good as Chen Xiao's Chen Xiao, everyone will feel some of the interesting details and personality characteristics when they watch the film, and Jin Xiaotian has merged with Chen Xiaotian. ”
When asked about his performance in "Meet Love", Chen Xiao said: "Director Mao asked me to play myself, and I have never encountered a role requirement, so I thought a lot about the role of Jin Xiaotian, how I would interpret it. The role of Jin Xiaotian contains a lot of Chen Xiao's personal understanding and creation of performance, and Chen Xiao also regards "Meet Love" as another personal final work after "Condor Heroes", "I regard this drama as a regular exam for myself, and the last such request was "Condor Heroes", which was a five-year summary of my graduation. After another five years on the show, it's time for another exam. ”
Conspiracy and trickery and human warmth are intertwined, literary travel and bloody revenge hand in hand, "A Journey to Meet Love" with a wonderful story plot, high-quality cast makes the drama before it has begun to trigger public expectations, what kind of surprises will it present to us? Jiangsu Satellite TV vivo happiness theater from April 20 every night at 19:30, wait and see!