Dapeng made a movie without a script, and I only hope that everyone who is away from home can go home and see more.
Wen Cai Jiawen Hu Wenwen
At the 2018 Golden Horse Awards ceremony, Dapeng held the trophy and suddenly said at the end of the acceptance speech: "This award is dedicated to my grandmother, I really miss you." Then he looked up at the sky. At that time, everyone in the audience was very confused.
"I didn't think to say that sentence," Dapeng always remembers, and when he returned to the hotel that night, he "cried like Wang Bazi."
(Dapeng at the creator meeting after the premiere of "Auspicious Ruyi")
This "Auspicious" that won him the best feature film is difficult to associate with Dapeng's past works such as "Sewing Machine Band" and "Di Si Men".
It seems to be a whim of a comedy director, who decided to return to his hometown in the northeast countryside and make a literary and artistic film about how the family spent the New Year. But a series of accidents encountered later made "Auspicious Ruyi" an experimental and moving work.
In Dapeng's view, it represents a permanent picture in the heart. In that picture, Grandma pulls Dapeng and sends him to the entrance of the village. People rushing around to sign autographs and take pictures squeezed Dapeng and her apart. Until Dapeng hurriedly got into the car, watching the figure on crutches getting smaller and smaller, the words "I miss you, grandma" were never spoken, and they never found the opportunity to say.
(Wang Jixiang)
In Ji'an City, Jilin Province, the snow envelops the entire Tushu Village, and every household has added window flower couplets and big red lanterns, and this black and white world has a red joy.
After all, the old lady still failed to survive this Spring Festival. "Bang! The eldest son fell into the basin, and the family knelt down and wept and cried. Only the king stood by the side, sipping on his cigarette and watching all this blankly.
"Find your mother tomorrow morning." In the spiritual shed of filial piety, Wang Jixiang suddenly jumped out of a sentence.
"Looking for mom tomorrow morning?" Do you know who the one on the ground is? The second sister-in-law pointed to the image of the old lady on the ground.
"Wen, Wu, Xiang, Gui, Wen Wu Xiang Gui, 1245..." Wang Jixiang began to think to himself again. The old lady has a total of five children, Wen Wu Xianggui is their name, and Wang Jixiang is the third oldest.
In a few days, Wang Jixiang will be sixty-three years old. Twenty years ago, he got sick, burned out his brain, and since then he has been like a child, and it is difficult to communicate.
"And wen wu xianggui, don't say himself." He and his wife, without anyone, can't do it, every day wandering, going out to find ah, auspicious he understands. The boss sighed helplessly.
The audience felt that this was the one that most impressed her in the 7 movies she watched at the 2020 Shanghai International Film Festival, "When the movie was finished, the whole mask was wet." ”
Director Dapeng's new work "Auspicious Ruyi" was selected for the Golden Jubilee Award at the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival and was first released at shanghai film city on July 26. "There may still be opportunities to make movies in the future, but 'Auspicious Ruyi' will always be the most different." Dapeng put the message on his Weibo.
He described the film as a matter of providence.
In 2016, he returned to his hometown of Ji'an and worked for another work, "The Sewing Machine Band". In those days, Dapeng drove more than a hundred kilometers to her grandmother's house to see her. My mother was away all year round, and Dapeng was brought up by my grandmother. Looking at the wall full of family photos, Dapeng moved a thought: make a movie, how to shoot the grandmother's family for the New Year.
Dapeng didn't want a documentary, so he found actor Liu Lu and asked her to be the only actor, play dapeng's perspective, and shoot "Grandma" together: "No matter what happens, we will witness it together and record these images." ”
However, before the machine could be turned on, Grandma died suddenly, and Dapeng, who was preparing for "The Sewing Machine Band", did not even catch up with her last glance when she woke up.
The night before the start of the camera, the whole team urgently discussed the shooting plan and decided to turn to shooting the third uncle Wang Jixiang. This time, Liu Lu no longer played the role of Dapeng, but played the daughter Wang Qingli, whose third uncle had not returned home for ten years.
(Stills: Li Li played by Liu Lu)
"I want to shoot my grandmother, I love her so much, I want to celebrate the New Year with her, how did I encounter such a big thing, I couldn't accept it, and then I took such a thing, and I won the award, this is not what I want, what I want is my grandmother to be good!" 」 To this day, Dapeng still finds this providence difficult to accept, although the team still insists on completing the film.
Only until the premiere of "Auspicious Ruyi", the crew board and archives were written about the "Grandma" crew, and the team's WeChat group name has always been "Grandma" Film Crew.
(Dapeng is talking to Liu Lu)
This is the dialogue between "Li Li" played by Liu Lu and the second sister-in-law in "Auspicious". Ten years have not been home, Wang Jixiang has not known the daughter in life, just to her, will be cold and unguarded to say a sentence "thin ah..."
Wang Jixiang has been the best in the whole family since he was a child, and the old lady has most of the money for him to go to college, and he has also lived up to expectations and found a good job as the head of the oilfield protection section. Wearing a military coat, it is mighty in the village.
Before he got sick, he also contributed the most to the family. He helped relatives with their rations, their children's hukou, and his brothers' job transfers.
An encephalitis at the age of 43 made everything different. Li Li's mother insisted on divorce, and the court sentenced Li Li to her mother, and the mother and daughter had not seen him for ten years.
Several brothers and sisters had thought of sending Wang Jixiang to a mental hospital, but the doctor's words were not convinced, so he had to live with the old lady at home. Grandma was distressed by the third elder, and Qian Dingwan told her brothers and sisters to take care of him. Wang Jixiang can't do without buns for every meal. So for more than twenty years, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, the second sister-in-law's family has been eating buns at every meal.
But now that the old lady was gone, the trees were scattered, and who would take care of Wang Jixiang had become a thorny question.
Li Li's mother had cancer, and Li Li took the child to work hard in Beijing and couldn't take care of herself. And brothers and sisters have their own things, who has the ability and obligation?
The night of eating Chinese New Year's Eve meal, the family quarreled over this. Liu Lu, who plays "Li Li", directly lay on the ground crying and prostrating: "Don't argue, I'm sorry for you... Thank you guys..." The camera stops abruptly.
At that time, Dapeng recalled that "Li Li" (Liu Lu) finished prostrating her head, directly collapsed, and escaped from the set. The cameraman's hand was also shaking. Dapeng shouted to stop the entire crew: "First mediate family conflicts!" ”
The next shot in the film does not explain the follow-up, but turns to the happy integration of the family taking a group photo.
Not being able to see the last side of Grandma when she woke up was Dapeng's regret.
When "Sewing Machine Band" kanjing returned to her grandmother's house, her grandmother was in good health and made food for Dapeng. When he was leaving, my grandmother took Dapeng's hand and sent him out, and many people in the village came to him to take pictures and sign autographs, and my grandmother was very happy to watch from the side: When did this grandson become like this?
The crowd dispersed Dapeng and Grandma, and he hurried to the car, and as the car went forward, he looked back and watched Grandma on crutches at the entrance of the village, getting smaller and smaller. "I originally wanted to say something meaty to my grandmother, 'I miss you grandma'", but this sentence, Dapeng did not have time to say it.
From the beginning of filming to the premiere, the production of "Auspicious Ruyi" has gone through a full four years. In fact, when Dapeng works anywhere, he will open the computer at hand, connect the material hard disk, and start the editing of "Auspicious Ruyi".
"But you have to keep watching, keep watching... The more I watched, the more I couldn't make this movie so quickly, maybe it was cut well tonight, and suddenly I saw my third uncle crying when my grandmother passed away, so I cried with him all night. And then I just put the material there for the whole week, and I put it there. Dapeng recalled: "When I thought I had adjusted myself and could face this material again, I still couldn't cut it when I touched it." ”
In the whole crew, no one dared to urge the director to ask how Dapeng had cut it.
Auspicious Ruyi Team (Liu Lu, Dapeng, Chen Zhixi)
Dapeng even went to see a psychiatrist, "Do you know what the psychiatrist told me?" He said, in fact, you did not complete a real goodbye to your grandmother. When your movie is finished, it has been released, and everyone has watched it, even if there is a full stop, you go to your grandmother's tombstone, talk to her well, tell your grievances and your debt to her, even if you cry. ”
"When you're not in your hometown, everything in the village is isolated from you. But as soon as you come back, it's all about the village, like a sudden "split personality." "It takes courage to fully present the contradictions of one's own family. Dapeng's idea is simple: I hope that this movie will allow more viewers to think about their families in a limited time, often go home to see, and don't have the same regrets as him.
(Screening scene of the Shanghai Film Festival)
In the movie hall where "Auspicious Ruyi" premiered, an uncle of about 50 years old had been sobbing, and the home meeting after the movie made him cry again; another audience member choked up and thanked Dapeng for making such a work, saying that his grandfather had also died two years ago, and the movie made him think about a lot of family things.
"Too young people, he is always dissatisfied, stubbornly unwilling, stop the pace of the long journey..." As Mao Buyi sang in "One Meat and One Vegetarian" written for his deceased mother, how many young of you, leaving your hometown to work in the big city, when was the last home phone call? When was the last time I came home?
Source| Nandu Weekly
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