Do you remember the fun of the tight-paced, interlocking Crazy Stone?
Are you still reminiscing about the shock of the real, powerful, touching and pure "I Am Not a Medicine God"?
Do you think that "Hello Beijing" starring Uncle Ge You in "My Motherland and Me" is the best in the whole scene?
Speaking of which, have you ever found that the three films above are closely related to one person?
That's right, it's him, Ning Hao is here again!
This time, Ning Hao took the film "Beneficiary" he supervised, and came to us with "Di Si Man" Dapeng and "Sexy Goddess" Liu Yan.
I believe that before the release of "Beneficiary", some people have already got 1 cent movie tickets.
Do you want that too? No chance.
As early as November 5, Dapeng and Liu Yan joined hands with Wei Ya, the first anchor of Taobao, to broadcast live, and sold 120,000 copies in the 20s.
This publicity method is also 6 to fly up, do not know the small partner to pay attention to, maybe many movies in the future are live tickets!
Speaking of which, many people must be curious about what story the movie tells. Don't worry, the storyline will definitely be sorted out for you, before that, Morning morning has 2 questions to ask everyone.
The first question is, in your impression, what kind of actor is Dapeng?
Just like the "Di Si Man" mentioned earlier in Chen Chen, Dapeng has starred in a series of movies that are inseparable from the word "Di Si" since "Di Si Man".
There is the popular idol Dapeng in "Pancake Man", the otaku in "Otaku", the band manager Cheng Gong in "Sewing Machine Band"...
Dapeng seems to have been crucified in a character named "Di Si".
However, some fans may have noticed that Dapeng's acting skills have not always been so pompous and superficial.
For example, he also played Wang Gongdao, a grassroots judge with a weak heart in "I Am Not Pan Jinlian", and Liu Xiaojun, a car repairman found in "Desperate to Take Risks".
What many people don't know is that his director's "Auspicious" won the Golden Horse Trophy for "Best Short Film".
In summary, whether it is the identity of the director or the actor, Dapeng is actually a potential stock.
And his potential, this time in "The Beneficiary" to the fullest.
Before talking about Dapeng's performance in the movie, Chen Chen still has a question, what is your impression of Liu Yan?
There must be many people here who immediately have the word "sexy" in their minds, and she has changed from hosting to acting, and the controversy has not stopped.
Like Dapeng, Liu Yan seems to have been nailed to the "sexy" framework.
However, what impressed Chen Chen was that she gave up all her hard work in "The Birth of an Actor".
Although she did not qualify in the end, it seems that from this time on, everyone gradually took her actor status seriously.
And this time in "The Beneficiary", she finally contributed her best acting skills ever.
Without further ado, let's take a look at how they perform in the movie.
What story does the film tell?
The main story is that in order to treat his son with asthma, Dapeng colluded with Zhang Zixian, an accountant of the company who embezzled public funds, to deceive the female anchor of the network, Liu Yan, to achieve the purpose of "killing his wife and cheating on insurance".
It can be said that the storyline of the movie is not complicated, even a little earthy, but there are many highlights, and careful consideration feels that it has a strong vitality:
First, Dapeng subverts the image and shows "disfiguring" acting skills.
As soon as Dapeng appeared in the movie, many people did not even recognize it.
Wu Hai, played by him in the film, is a low-level citizen from Chongqing.
In order to make him closer to the character in appearance, the makeup artist used black oil paint to wipe his face black every day, which was called a "disfigurement" outfit, so that people could not recognize it on the street!
At the same time, for Dapeng, a big old man in the northeast, in order to make himself fluent in Chongqing dialect, he only listened to the recording repeatedly every day, over and over again.
In addition to filming, he was also begging and singing on the streets of Chongqing, and Dapeng recalled, "Once I saw a hot pot restaurant writing about the recruitment of dishwashing workers, I also went to apply for a job to talk to people about the conditions, and they didn't recognize who I was." ”
It can be seen that he has worked hard for this role.
And Wu Hai, who he played in it, was a network manager during the day and a substitute driver at night, and he did not have money to change a better environment for his son with asthma.
He drove a BMW, gave 550,000 watches, bought a massage chair for Miao Miao's father, and even performed male sterilization surgery for her.
Seeing this, it is a person who may want to give him a thumbs up: "Really a warrior!" ”
Unfortunately, everything Dapeng did was fake, just to trick Liu Yan into signing the insurance policy, which was a conspiracy to "kill his wife and cheat insurance".
In the face of all this, Dapeng was constantly condemned by his conscience.
What is impressive is that after watching Liu Yan's live makeup removal, he revealed his true feelings with a drunken burp.
If Dapeng's acting skills in many other scenes are still slightly deliberate, the most impressive thing is that he watched Liu Yan desperately eat peppers in front of the TV set and win the runner-up.
First shocked and puzzled, then gradually understood, and finally moved and blamed himself, the tearful Dapeng said "This is my wife" in his mouth, and the mixed feelings of all kinds of tastes were vividly expressed.
Dapeng in the interview said, "At this moment, I seem to have opened up to acting."
It can be said that this time Dapeng showed his "disfigured" acting skills, playing the image of a scruffy, cowering and shrinking little citizen just right, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Second, Liu Yan rejects the label, the integration of human drama, and contributes to the "fission-style" acting skills.
Yue Miaomiao, the network anchor played by Liu Yan, is out of position by rubbing the side ball, and is a gold worshipper who loves to read chicken soup text with thick makeup.
It's also very earthy, but it makes people see reality.
In the film, Liu Yan's mother died, his father was ill, his brother was young, and he became an anchor for life.
We have witnessed Liu Yan, who longs for a beautiful love of "a man has only 100 pieces in his pocket, but he is willing to give you 99 pieces", step by step into his trap, until he can give everything for love.
Knowing that Dapeng has no money to have a son and has been married, she pities his sick baby and chooses to accept all this.
The hard money earned by the live broadcast bought an air purifier for his son that Dapeng was reluctant to buy.
Live broadcast has long eaten a bad stomach, in order to give him a better electric car to work, to participate in the "eating pepper competition".
The most touching thing is that she gave up her career as a female anchor for him, and said the last time she broadcast, "I am 38 years old, he is very good to me."
Moths put out the fire and wash away the lead.
In reality, Liu Yan is also 38 years old, she has gone south, drifted north, and carried the burden of the family alone.
This scene she played freely has completely reached the realm of human-drama unity.
What's more, the film shows the change in the attitude of men and women before and after marriage.
In the process of love pursuit, he is responsive to her needs, gentle and patient.
After getting married, he was casually angry with her and sneered.
As for her, she lost her temper and was tolerant and tolerant.
It's super painful to watch.
At this time, some people have to say, all 9012, the wave of feminism wave after wave, how to portray this kind of selfless dedication of the good wife and mother.
It is true that the image of independent women is increasing, but there are still many people like Miao Miao who are desperate for love.
We know that before "The Beneficiary", Dapeng had already cooperated with Liu Yan several times, and the fairy friendship between the two was also praised.
On November 8, Liu Yan responded to a long emotional letter written by Dapeng: "I must have saved the galaxy in my previous life before I could be friends with Pancake Man." ”
The difference this time is that this is the first time that the two people have played a couple in the movie, and the friendship and love between the two people inside and outside the play are sighing.
In fact, compared with the first two "Embroidered Spring Knife 2: Shuluo Battlefield" and "I Am Not a Medicine God" of the "Bad Monkey 72 Change Movie Plan", "Beneficiary" chose Dapeng and Liu Yan, who are not high in traffic and popularity, to be said to be very unpleasant.
The newcomer director Shen Olympic only chose the actors he thought were the most suitable for the role, and felt that they "had a strong vitality in them".
Third, a black comedy that makes people reflect.
In fact, in addition to Dapeng and Liu Yan, the laughter of the movie can be said to be Zhang Zixian's accountant Zhong Zhenjiang, who embezzled public funds to speculate in houses.
Some people may notice that Zhang Zixian, a comedian, is a lawyer in "I am not a medicine god" and a "tardigrade" Liu Guodong in "Animal Administration".
In "The Beneficiary", in order to drag Dapeng into the conspiracy of "killing his wife and cheating on insurance", he deliberately smoked and choked his son to worsen his condition.
One of the most funny things in the movie is that when he took Dapeng for ligature surgery, the "basic feelings" shown by the two were watched by doctors who did not know the truth.
There are also rehearsals over and over again when they stage the scene of car destruction and death, and the pompous acting of the two makes people cry and laugh.
At the same time, he also pretended to be a network monitor, induced Liu Yan to swim in a swimsuit, and negotiated a contract with Liu Yan at night.
When the embezzlement of public funds was about to be revealed, he pretended to commit suicide and jumped off the building in front of Dapeng again.
Get rid of a perverted drama of fake public welfare and scheming.
He's bad, but he's stupid.
Not to mention that the plans he implemented are full of loopholes, and it is ridiculous that the chains are always dropped at key moments.
Chen Chen felt that the most wonderful scene of the three people in the film was underwater.
She saved him, he wanted to hurt her, he wouldn't let her save, he beat him.
Jealousy, hatred, incomprehension, contradictions, all kinds of subtle emotions completely exploded in this fight scene.
In it, Zhang Zixian, who shouts "I import glasses", is bad and stupid, perverted and slammed the door, and he is undoubtedly the most vivid and realistic character in the film.
In addition, another highlight of the film is the memory killing staged by the dashc after the showdown with Liu Yan at the end.
It is like a calm bystander, recording the whole process of Dapeng and Zhang Zixian conspiring to make money and kill people.
It also records the whole process of Dapeng and Liu Yan's acquaintance and encounter, and gradually getting to know each other.
It is ruthless and cruel, but at the same time warm and loving.
"I want a home, but you want my life", and this is the cruelty of the movie.
It is like the director's eyes, who sympathize with the plight of the little people at the bottom and ironically expose the dark humanity in them.
"I really lied to you and really love you."
Love is full of calculations, and behind the warmth is the threat of death.
As director Shen Ao put it, "irony and tragedy are the core of high-end comedy", "The Beneficiary" makes you laugh with tears, joy and sorrow.
Fourth, a realistic masterpiece that people can appreciate.
Many people say that this movie is too earthy, and this is precisely its value, what is soil?
It is local, it is a story that has taken root and grown on Chinese soil.
Whether it is the reflection on the internet celebrity female anchor industry brought out by the "Qiao Biluo Incident", or "Lang Yongchun's Driving Immortal Jump", "Thailand Fraud Insurance Case", or Hainan's speculation fever, Chongqing's food stalls, non-mainstream teenagers in Internet cafes, group rental houses and Tu hi songs.
As Ning Hao said when talking about his views on the film:
If a work is universal, then it is a craft, if it leaves this land, this nation, this work is not established, then it is cultural, it is a work of art.
This is a story that takes place in China, and each of us can see more or less a shadow of reality in the film. Yes, it is flawed, but it has more attitudes.
Many people say that "The Beneficiary" is an imitation of Ning Hao by Shen Olympic, in fact, compared with Ning Hao's black absurd comedy, the more prominent delicate emotional portrayal of this film makes the black with a little warmth, and there is residual warmth after irony.
You say there's a mixture of movie genres, I say it has a lot of elements.
The Olympic bid, who has filmed the short films "Tide Chasing Waves" and "River Dragon And River Gang", seems to have a different obsession with water.
"The hills and mountains are low and high, and the rivers are big when they are combined", give him some time, his future is worth looking forward to!
Bluestone Film Editorial Department / Morning Morning