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I am a passerby, but I am not willing to be just a passerby.
Just after the Spring Festival in 2013, I arrived in Yiwu City with my suitcase and a green-skinned train.
The seven meats and eight vegetarians on the bus were transferred to Hengdian and began an eight-month-long group performance experience.
After many years, in the cold night in Beijing, I revisited this movie written about group performances.
In a trance, I also went back to 7 years ago.
"I Am a Passerby A" is a work completed by Hong Kong director Er Dongsheng, who accidentally went to Hengdian Film and Television City to visit director Ban Xuke. This is the story that belongs to one passer-by after another, and it is also the story that belongs to everyone who is chasing their dreams.
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Wan Guopeng was born in an ordinary family in the countryside of Northeast China. Under the influence of his father, he has always had a dream of being an actor, and he always envied the actors on the TV screen, hoping that one day he could also act like them.
If you have a dream, you should be brave enough to chase it!
The ridicule of the neighbors, the mother's incomprehension, Wan Guopeng was very disappointed.
Under the persuasion of her father, the mother finally agreed to let her son go out.
Therefore, Wan Guopeng came to Hengdian with a thousand yuan alone, which is known as the "Hollywood of the East".
How far away is it to chase dreams?
It is about the distance from Harbin Snow Town to Hengdian.
There are many people in Yokobu who have the same dream of being an actor as Wan Guopeng, and here, there are rental advertisements everywhere, a group of actors who have not yet become actors, even if you wear ancient costumes and ride motorcycles, no one will feel strange.
Hengdian seems to be like this, all-encompassing, accommodating all sides. Batch after batch of people came, and groups of people left.
Only those who have not fulfilled their dreams are left.
The warm-hearted owner who runs a small restaurant and is also a group actor who is obsessed with chasing dreams, always helps many "newcomers" like Wan Guopeng.
"Hengdian is small and always comes across."
In this group performance meeting again and again, Wan Guopeng fell in love with Wang Ting. And Wang Ting has always had a pain in her heart, and her ex-boyfriend is also a group actor, but since she was signed, she has never returned.
Wang Ting is not only sticking to her dreams, she is also holding on to her own fading love.
"When you're old, this film world will be mine."
Wang Zhao kept repeating this sentence, he had a better appearance, but he did not work hard. The dream is big, but the body is very honest lying in bed.
Others are lazy when filming, and when they put on meals, they come to eat, look down on the job of group acting, and think that everyone can do group acting. But he was convinced that he would succeed.
Doesn't that look like you? Every day, I do do list, very passionately say "I want to.", and then turn my head and hold my mobile phone to brush it.
Unlike Qin Peijun, he works hard, he hopes to become a real actor. Grab the camera without the camera, and always enthusiastically fight for the opportunity to act for the brothers around him. He has a clear sense of self, and he knows where he should go.
He's trying.
But the ideal is happy, and the reality is bone-like.
"Everyone here wants to be Wang Baoqiang, but there is only one Wang Baoqiang."
Little people also have spring? But all they felt was winter.
Wang Baoqiang is not proud, but he has achieved success, he can act in a good script, there are big hit movies released, he can bravely pursue his dream of being an actor. This has undoubtedly inspired groups of young people with dreams to bravely pursue their dreams. However, we must pay attention to the fact that Wang Baoqiang's family is also a child and has real skills.
But reality is not a dream.
Reality is reality.
The film shows us a very real situation in the entertainment industry: having to go to the occasion of drinking, being beaten by the oil and swallowing into the stomach, resisting and offending people will be banned, standing all day, running all day... But that's the reality. If you want to get ahead, you have to go through a lot of hardships.
Maybe if you put up with it, it will be fine?
Reality is negative, no background, no connections, can only "man-made knife tricks, I am for fish meat." “
The entertainment industry is cruel and sweet. On the outside, it looks bright and beautiful, but behind the scenes, it pays a huge price that no one knows.
Only care about pursuing dreams, ignoring the family, but in the end, "not crazy devil can not live." ”
Kaige finally received a more important small role with a few lines, and just when he was happy, his wife Xu Xiaoqin told him that she was pregnant, hoped to get the store out, and wanted to live a stable life.
But Kaige said that Xu Xiaoqin disrupted the trajectory of his life, and Xu Xiaoqin, who was heartbroken, had to leave Hengdian alone.
But Kaige could not withstand the pressure, and the lines were repeatedly wrong, and finally missed the opportunity. Shattered dreams, failed marriages, turned the confident Kaigo into a crazy person who was trapped in that scene.
Wan Guopeng has been appreciated by virtue of his enthusiasm for acting, and has the opportunity to go to Beijing to study acting, but "fish and bear paws cannot be both", in desperation, he can only choose to break up with his girlfriend Wang Ting and choose his dreams.
Wei Xing's eyes are low, and the male protagonist of the micro-film is not willing to do group performances.
Lin Chen and Wei Xing are always arguing, always girls are seeking perfection, and boys complain that they are pregnant.
The girl who insists on accompanying her boyfriend Wei Xing to chase her dreams, in order to help her boyfriend find resources, accompany her to drink, drink once and again until she vomits, but there is no complaint or regret, and she says to him over and over again, "I love you, I am all for you." ”
Seeing her boyfriend re-embark on the far side of chasing her dreams, she was no longer sad and unwilling to stop her boyfriend.
She loved him, so she was willing to fulfill him.
The younger sister Hengdian insists on chasing dreams, and the sister accompanies her for thousands of miles.
As a result, the sister ran away with the rich man, and the sister could not catch up with her.
In the end, it was still the end of the song and the people scattered.
The movie ends, leaving one person sad.
Is it to chase the success of nothingness, or to cherish the present?
Wan Guopeng gave up the opportunity to go to further study and chose to return to Wang Ting's side.
Maybe after he goes to further training, his acting skills will improve and his network will expand, and he can really chase his dream of being an actor, rather than just doing a group performance.
But he gave up.
This may be love, but it is more of Wan Guopeng's uncertainty about the future. I don't know if I will succeed and am confused about the future, but he does not want to lose, so he has to grasp the person in front of him and grasp the present.
The crazy Kaige finally returns to the family, and Xu Xiaoqin no longer has to worry about Kaige leaving her to chase her dreams.
They all compromised with reality.
They chase success, but in the end they are trapped in the cage of a peaceful life, which is really a ridiculous life of waking up from a big dream.
These passers-by, have they all succeeded?
I think they didn't succeed.
They came for acting, they became group actors, they took the actor certificate, they were all actors who did not become actors.
"Dreams are like lottery tickets, what if you win?"
The biggest difference between group acting and starring is the opportunity, day after day running dragon set, there is no opportunity to improve acting skills, it seems that where the main actor is, you can only give him a supporting role, and even show a face to look good. "It starts with the face value", this face-watching entertainment circle, is not based on how much effort you have put into defining whether you can succeed.
Many actors on the show say that "I am not the heroine's face", but this is the case. Without a director, the producer will use you, and you may not even be able to play a supporting role.
It's just so cruel.
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It is difficult to define the genre of "I Am a Passerby", which can be counted as a "grassroots youth film", and some people call it a "social film".
The movie truly records the life of the group actors at the bottom of Hengdian, and even the salary is blunt.
At that time in 2013, the price of the masses was 50, walking the street.
A little better, 70 yuan for 8 hours, super an hour is 10 yuan, and you can earn more than 100 a day.
A little better little offer, two or three hundred dollars, I always played the beard later, that's the price. However, there is generally no overtime fee.
I still remember that in order to earn more money, I made a wish with my sisters, and I finished work late and finished work late.
Because no one knows, will they be able to receive the play tomorrow.
"I am a passerby" throws us a question, the pursuit of dreams of attachment to confusion, when the dream becomes out of reach, do we have to face life, or continue to persevere?
In the film, the restaurant owner KaiGe is like this, his wife is pregnant, but he still dreams of becoming famous after playing a big special contract, and finally the departure of his wife makes him completely collapse and become a madman.
Director Er Dongsheng was bold, unusual, "I Am a Passerby A" all used non-professional actors, all of whom were ordinary small people and small special appointments in Hengdian at that time. Therefore, the actor's acting skills are a bit dull and immature, but they have exploded a particularly touching infectious force in many moments.
This semi-documentary format shows the real life of "horizontal drifting". Interestingly, Wu Yanzu, Feng Delun and Fang Zhongxin have all become "small roles" in the movie.
Erdao can focus his eyes on small people, and the humanistic feelings are fully displayed, which is very rare and respectable. At the same time, the vision of Erdao is not limited to the grassroots actors who "drift", but also makes us think about the difficulty and powerlessness of us as ordinary people to move forward in this society.
After the release of the movie, although the box office was not good, but the word of mouth is good, Lin Qingxia, Liang Chaowei, Shu Qi and other people have spoken out for this, nostalgic for their own once being a "passerby". Liang Chaowei said: "Every sharp passerby, from the overwhelm when I first entered the industry, to every time I used too much force when acting, I couldn't help but laugh out loud, as if I saw myself 30 years ago." ”
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Of course, there are also many people who spray this film, how unprofessional, how stylized. The group portrait drama is disorganized, without deep emotional resonance and so on.
But it is precisely because it is unprofessional that it is more real.
I see sincerity in the eyes of these actors.
Ordinary people at the bottom are just passers-by.
Survive on those chicken soups,
Stick to what you're doing.
[I am Yue'er, film and television screenwriter, sharing a good story]