Quanzhou Network on January 4 (reporter Zhang Bowen / photo) On January 1, Ye Qian, screenwriter and director of "Sweet Potato Pouring Rice", and actor Xiao Yihang visited Quanzhou to create momentum for the upcoming all-Fujian southern language movie to be released on the 10th. The two main creators on the scene shared the bits and pieces of film shooting, Ye Qian said that this film shows the aging and death of life, the loneliness generated by the left-behind elderly living alone, and even the collision of new and old concepts in the process of modern industry, etc. "From the perspective of parents, enter their inner world, think about what they need, parents work hard for the next generation for a lifetime, and we have fulfilled what parents have?" He said that after watching the movie, it will activate people's sense of touch and trigger reflection, "I think it is a movie that can be seen with elders."
Xiao Yihang (left), Ye Qian (center) and extras from Hoi An Zhao Zixin (right)
Those people in the movie
The protagonists of "Sweet Potato Pouring Rice" are two Golden Horse Queens Gui Yalei and Yang Guimei, this time the two partners, playing a pair of girlfriends. Lin Xiumei, played by Gui Yalei, is the role of an old woman, but she has the mood of looking forward to youth. Qing'e, played by Yang Guimei, is Lin Xiumei's girlfriend, and she uses her enthusiastic companionship to fight against the indifferent environment, so as to establish a "utopian world" between the two. Ye Qian said that Gui Yalei and Yang Guimei were the best candidates in his mind, "Gui Teacher does not speak Hokkien, but she learned to use Hokkien dialogue in 7 months. "Yang Guimei debuted nearly 40 years ago, once won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress with the movie "Under the Moonlight, I Remember", and is also the touching "Mother" in "Mom Loves Me Again" that the audience is familiar with. The difficulty she encountered in filming this film was how to translate the Taiwanese Hokkien dialect into a standard Quanzhou local accent. Ye Qian said that Teacher Yang would often go to the vegetable market to communicate with the locals and test that his Hokkien dialect was not authentic.
In Ye Qian's description, the performance of Gui Yalei and Yang Guimei is one movement and one still, one water and one fire, "Gui Yalei teacher is dignified, but the calm underwater is a dark surge; Teacher Yang Guimei is as warm as fire, and I don't know that it has long been in the chest, and the water and fire of the two people's acting skills are blended, making the picture of the whole movie particularly beautiful."
Actress Xiao Yihang has always been a singer-songwriter, and she plays Gui Yalei's daughter-in-law in the film. Judging from the evaluation after the previous screening, she played the role of a "terrible daughter-in-law who tears her mother-in-law". As a Guangdong Chaoshan native, how to use the whole Minnan language in the film, Xiao Yihang said that the director recorded the lines one by one, and she memorized them sentence by sentence, "It seems that all the Minnan dialect can be understood when filming and shooting."
It is worth mentioning that there was also a mass actor on the scene, according to Ye Qian, the extra actor Zhao Zixin, who was named by Gui Yalei to perform, was from Hui'an, playing a small boss who sold pirated discs in the movie, Ye Qian said: "He acted particularly well, and looks forward to inviting him to participate in my film next time." ”
Those things in the movie
The day before, "Sweet Potato Pouring Rice" also held a movie viewing party in Xiamen, and the general perception after the screening was that the whole film had a natural environment and original ecological character modeling, "Salt to raise a family, catch the sea to collect shells, play waist drums, tread water wheels and so on a series of folk shows, really very pleasing to the eye." Ye Qian deserves to be a costume designer. Ye Qian said that the film is a comprehensive aesthetic, whether it is from the fine arts, photography, clothing modeling or from the main color of the picture, there will be a main line, "We are to let the audience experience from the folk culture of southern Fujian." For example, in the movie, Gui Yalei teacher has countless turbans of different colors, and the narrative role of the turban shows the change of the mood of the characters. Color psychology plays a very important role in the film. ”
Some viewers said, "The film returns to ordinary but very warm life, not showy, not critical, full of harmony, clear soup noodles can be silky." Ye Qian said that although the film takes the daily life of two elderly people in the rural areas of southern Fujian as the main line, it reflects the local people's livelihood and people's feelings from the economic, social and cultural perspectives. Especially when watching the movie, it will trigger the feeling of whether they can enter their inner world from the perspective of their parents, "think about what they need, and what we can do for our parents, which is very suitable for taking parents and elders into the cinema to watch on the occasion of the New Year."
It is reported that "Sweet Potato Pouring Rice" will also hold a still photography exhibition, and friends who like photography in Quanzhou can go to see the film's Minnan style photography aesthetics.
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