The Spring Festival has already begun.
Friends invited, near the Spring Festival, choose to watch a "Spring Festival" movie.
What is the "Spring Festival Stall"? It is probably a new film released after New Year's Day, before the Spring Festival, and at the beginning of the Spring Festival.
Dapeng, a combination of actors, hosts, directors and other labels, directed the new film released on January 29.
Just look at the title, do not look at the trailer, the first impression of the moviegoers is that this is a comedy, right?
Looking at the rating, it reached 8.2 points, which far exceeded "Pancake Man" and "Sewing Machine Band".
Is dapeng's new film of such a high standard? Want to see.
However, after watching the whole movie, most of the audience's previous ideas about the plot of the movie were abandoned.
We may even wonder if this is a movie or a documentary.
"Auspicious Ruyi"
There is only one actor in the whole film, but it focuses on the microcosm of tens of millions of Chinese families, and you can even see familiar shadows in this film.
With no script, only direction, Dapeng's new film made "Providence".
So, what kind of story does the film "Auspicious Ruyi" tell, making many celebrity guests cry at the movie scene, and even call it a masterpiece that cannot be praised?
Today, let's talk about "Auspicious Ruyi".
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This is a film theme of "no script, only direction", in the words of Dapeng, it is to shoot a providence.
This is a work that predates "The Sewing Machine Band", and as early as 2016, Dapeng had the idea of making this film and set about producing it.
But it did it for four years later.
This is a true story, a story of director Dapeng's personal experience, and at the same time the story of Dapeng's family.
In "Auspicious Ruyi", everyone is Dapeng's family, but Liu Lu is the only actor in this film.
It turned out that Dapeng originally wanted actor Liu Lu to play himself and tell a story about Grandma, because Dapeng's original intention was to shoot Grandma.
The original name of "Auspicious Ruyi" was originally called "Grandma", but when the crew arrived, Dapeng's grandmother was unexpectedly unconscious.
Under the arrangement of "Providence", the starring position changed from grandmother to third uncle, and Liu Lu's role play also became Wang Jixiang's girlfriend who had not returned home for many years, dapeng's cousin.
The title of the film was also changed to "Auspicious Ruyi", and the name was taken from the name of the third uncle, Wang Jixiang.
Originally, Dapeng, who wanted to shoot his grandmother and shoot the New Year, wanted to shoot a "providence" without a script and only the direction of the main body.
As everyone knows, unexpected things followed.
The departure of grandma and the return of the daughter who has left Wang Jixiang for many years have made the content direction of "Auspicious Ruyi" uncontrollable.
But why did a film that took the documentary route do it for four years in the later stage?
Obviously, this is related to the director Dapeng.
His parents traveled all over the country to work and see doctors, and since childhood, Dapeng has grown up under the care of his grandmother.
As most people experience, grandma and grandma are great and ordinary people who have raised children and raised children.
Dapeng is one of them.
As a real movie, Dapeng undoubtedly has to face the bits and pieces of the past in editing, and in terms of mood, it is bound to be easy to collapse.
But Dapeng still built the complete "Auspicious Ruyi" and dedicated it to the audience.
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The film focuses on the third uncle Wang Jixiang.
As grandma's five children, the third uncle Wang Jixiang was the proudest of the five brothers and sisters.
The third uncle's family had the best conditions, but he became a little delirious because of his illness and the sequelae of encephalitis.
The wife chose to divorce Wang Jixiang, and Wang Jixiang's daughter has also left and has not returned for ten years.
Wang Jixiang, who lived with his grandmother, became the topic of his support after her grandmother left.
In our cognition, the Spring Festival has always been an important day for celebration and family reunion.
But just before the Spring Festival, Dapeng's new movie came to the audience.
It brings together a very important content, which is about the issue of "maintenance".
Whether it is the maintenance problem of the role of "Wang Jixiang" in the movie, or the maintenance of the elderly in life, it is a topic that relatives always talk about when they gather.
Dapeng has brought this reality to the big screen, showing the content in its entirety in the way of professional actors and non-professional actors.
The length of "Auspicious Ruyi" is not as long as other films, but it is obviously divided into two parts.
One is "Auspicious" and the other is "Providence".
"Auspicious" is a story around Wang Jixiang and his relatives, around the problems that ordinary people will encounter, which is its theme intention.
It focuses on the microcosm of tens of millions of Chinese families, so the audience can find shadows and find familiarity in this film.
Looking at the content from the perspective of Dapeng filming "Auspicious", this is the "Ruyi" we see later.
But "Ruyi" is not the so-called behind-the-scenes and side-shooting, but the fourth wall that breaks the audience's common sense cognition, which makes the story more convincing from the perspective of authenticity.
When the content of "Auspicious" came out, it was a film worthy of winning awards.
But when "Ruyi" and "Auspicious" are combined in a clever way, this can really be regarded as a complete movie "Auspicious Ruyi".
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This is a brand new movie that Dapeng subverts and breaks the content level.
Because there is no script, only the direction, and dapeng said that the shooting "Providence", it is difficult for us to guess what the direction of the content story will be from before shooting to after shooting.
Even Dapeng did not expect that the expected and the content of the result were completely different.
Without a script, only a direction, is it true that shooting Providence is just pure shooting, without planning and improvisation?
Contrary.
There is only one professional actor in the whole film, but with this actor, the direction of the content has become a certain degree of controllability.
The so-called shooting providence is not blind, but planned.
In the film "Auspicious Ruyi", because of the addition of actors, you can see vague fictional content.
But the non-actor, real-life content story makes the audience feel as if they are in reality and in a documentary.
It's more of an experimental movie.
After throwing away "Providence", "Auspicious Ruyi" also tells us:
"There are regrets in life, but we have no regrets for our families."
This is a movie worth going to the cinema.
Finally, I wish you all good luck.