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For the movie "Five Teenagers Who Splash water", director Song Haolin "spelled".
He broadcast live on the short video platform until late at night, and netizens were rejected nine times, and in the process, he said countless words of thanks, and even was still ridiculed. In short, for the sake of the movie, Song Haolin actively "opened" it.
The first time I met the director was at a meeting after the film was screened. There is no support from the industry, no media footage, only feedback from the audience. At that time, a girl stood up very excitedly and told the director that this was her way of signing up for various movie groups, and she brushed the movie twice, and she was still crazy in the girlfriend group Amway. After saying that, he also held up his mobile phone, as if he wanted to convey his Amway effect to the creators.
The director said that during the screening, he had been listening to everyone's reaction at the door of the theater, and after hearing everyone's laughter, he slowly calmed down and felt that he had found the audience. But he did not forget to ask the audience to go to various ticketing platforms to click a "want to see".
The second time we met, it was the day of the interview announcement, and we quipped to him, in case "Chosin Lake" really landed as rumored, was he mentally prepared? He was bland, "I hope that the effort can be seen, and I hope that everyone's efforts will wait in the distance." ”
It was the end of July, half a month before the original film was scheduled. But in the end, because of the epidemic prevention and control, it, like other films in the same file, chose to meet the audience at the best time.
The film was rescheduled, and finally met "Chosin Lake", we asked the director again, will the current mentality change? He told us that this time he was very calm, and after this period of precipitation, looking back at the previous combat-like propaganda, he cherished the process of everyone's efforts even more.
Everything caters to what he conveys on various occasions, and the theme of "Five Splashing Teenagers" is "ordinary". And beyond this "ordinary", there is still flash.
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When the project "Five Splashing Teenagers" was handed to Song Haolin, he did not have an answer in his heart, but just thought about whether it was "suitable or not".
In any case, he first put his own requirements in front of the production side, and if he could, everyone continued to push forward. Unexpectedly, after the producer saw these requirements, the internal "quarrel" was first. But it is precisely this that makes the team believe that this project is not Song Haolin, "because he has a stubbornness in him, which is exactly what this project needs."
The two sides quickly brokered a collaboration, with Song Haolin's adaptation space "as long as you meet five high school students practicing synchronized swimming." It also means that he can break the original, re-establish the theme of the project, and reconstruct the character design of the character.
To this end, Song Haolin ran alone to a strange city and carried out a simple retreat.
At that time, Song Haolin was in a special stage at this time, "I was reflecting on what kind of director I wanted to become, and even wondering whether I was suitable to be a director." A lot of cruel problems need him to face up to, he has his own embarrassment, has been 40 years old, the previous cinema movie "Inutaro's Summer" was Xu Zheng, Huang Bo crazy recommended Amway, under the heat, there have been a lot of capital to find the door, but the enthusiasm faded, and many of the eyes have become more empty.
"I'm starting to see myself in some places that are pretty ordinary."
The creation of "Five Splashing Teenagers" became the process of Song Haolin's dialogue with himself. In this state of reflection, Song Haolin slowly explored the theme of the movie, and the things encountered during the Spring Festival after that made him more and more determined.
At noon that day, Song Haolin ordered a takeaway at home, and it turned out that he did not arrive until the afternoon. After opening the door, the delivery man frantically bowed to him and apologized, there was no other delivery man to deliver that day, it was really impossible to deliver, "After closing the door, I could not calm my mood for a long time." She was an ordinary person, but she could be a very good mother or wife. ”
Song Haolin suddenly realized that whether it was herself or most of the people around her, they were actually very ordinary, but everyone's life was still very exciting. As a result, this has also become the main theme of the movie "Five Splashing Teenagers", and even the name of the male protagonist is the most common one, which will not be remembered in the crowd - "Zhang Wei".
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Without actually seeing the film, everyone threw a question at the director, "How do you do a localization adaptation?" After all, the original "Five Splashing Teenagers" Douban has so far scored 8.4 points, and at the same time, it has won the actors including his wife, Mu Cong, and Yu Muhong.
But for Song Haolin, her story is brand new, that is, the story of five high school students, and everyone has high school experience, not an adaptation, but a translation of life.
Five teenagers who pounce on the water, one is a bully and four are "scum".
When Song Haolin was studying, he was not a well-behaved child in the traditional sense, and he would be called to the office by the teacher from time to time, but he was very outstanding in literature and art, and the teacher could not do anything with him. These stories belonging to his past have become the inspiration for Song Haolin's creation of "Five Splashing Teenagers".
During the retreat, he found the key to enriching the characters, and also remembered those past friends, "I just put their special together, all on these characters." In the end, in addition to Chen Minghan, the other four characters all carry the shadows of Song Haolin and his classmates around him.
After the characters are established, slowly build the entire script. The whole process is very long, until the beginning of 2020, the script as a whole is relatively mature, and the crew officially released a map of actor recruitment. And with that comes all sorts of questions.
At that time, the epidemic had just arrived, so all the casting work of the actors could only be moved to the line. Because the film is mainly a synchronized swimming sport, Song Haolin has an absolute requirement for the actor - excellent swimming skills.
In the casting plan, Song Haolin considered finding a group of professional athletes to shoot like "Win the Championship", but after communication, many factors could not really contribute, so she had to give up.
At the same time, he also understands that this story is not like "Win the Championship", which tells the story of professional athletes, and "Five Teenagers Who Splash water" itself is the story of a group of ordinary high school students learning to swim in a synchronized manner.
In the end, the team decided to choose a teenager with a background in acting.
At this time, Song Haolin still has two choices, one is to choose a more well-known actor, and the other is a group of newcomers. Everyone knows that if the actor can find someone with a topic, then the film's subsequent publicity can be a lot of worry, but Song Haolin still gave up this option.
"I'm more concerned about whether the actor himself can devote enough time to real training and whether he can devote himself to it. Most importantly, I especially hope that these five children will not only show good relationships on the big screen, but will really become good friends in life. Because the real emotions between people can actually be presented in front of the big screen. ”
Song Haolin, who has worked with well-known actors, knows that these requirements are not absolutely unsatisfied, but in the follow-up coordination, the difficulty will be very large, "so we simply use new actors, of course, we are also responsible for the difficulties in publicity now." In order to select the right actor, Song Haolin has seen more than 1,000 actors.
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Xin Yunlai, Feng Xiangkun, Li Xiaoqian, Wu Junting, Wang Chuan, five people formed "Five Teenagers Who Splashed Water".
Among these five people, except for Xin Yunlai, who has participated in "Sorrow Against the River" and other supporting roles in film and television works, the others are completely a blank piece of paper.
Wu Junting is an accident of Song Haolin, and in the original script, the role of prince is a small fat man. But when Song Haolin met Wu Junting, the story changed. At first, everyone was thinking that Wu Junting seemed to be very suitable for the role of Goofy, "one meter eight eight height, and very idol". Later, everyone found that Wu Junting had a particularly cute and cute temperament, "I think that when Xiao Wu comes to play the prince, there will be something special and different."
Therefore, Song Haolin set the "prince" as close as possible to Wu Junting. At the same time, the selection of the role of "Goofy" was adjusted almost synchronously.
Li Xiaoqian looked very quiet, even literary. This appearance and temperament must not match Goofy's indomitable state. But Song Haolin always thinks of this child.
"Later, when he was training, he was really the kind of kid who didn't talk much, but he was very hardworking. Everyone was resting, and he was still practicing. This stubbornness in his bones made Song Haolin very sure that he was Gao Fei.
In the end, these five boys, who are full of youthful feelings themselves, become the protagonists of the movie. In fact, when casting, "good at swimming" is the premise requirement, what Song Haolin did not expect was that when it was time to really start training, these five people, only Wang Chuan could really swim. In addition to this, Wu Junting even "deceived" him that he was the little prince of the reservoir.
Regardless of whether they would swim or not, the crew still invited the former coach of the national synchronized swimming team to strictly demand these five teenagers like training professional athletes. The time left for them is not much, say less, three months.
In Song Haolin's view, if these five teenagers could not train well, they could be replaced at any time. Since you have taken a certain risk, you must present the best results. But the teenagers didn't give the director a chance to change, "it wouldn't make them think 'they were inappropriate.'"
The momentum is like the five boys in the movie trying to make a final flower game. During the training, the five teenagers eat and live together, almost the athlete's work and rest, at least six hours of training during the day, followed by acting classes in the evening, and only one day of rest per week.
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From June to September, the five teenagers handed over beautiful report cards.
But that doesn't mean the shooting went very smoothly. There was a scene in the aquarium, it was winter, the water temperature was only more than ten degrees, the actors had to go down into the water, but when they arrived at the scene, they found that the pool was particularly dirty, usually dolphins lived in it, almost 5 meters deep, which was the excrement of dolphins, in order to progress, the actors had to go into the water.
In addition, during the shooting process, there was also a typhoon, and many equipment were damaged, resulting in the subsequent shooting plan being completely disrupted. Difficulties abound during filming, not to mention injuries from actors, "who also hurt me and sometimes hide from me."
This detail made Song Haolin warm and afraid, and reached an agreement with the actors, "You must tell me when you are injured, you must believe our judgment, if you don't say, now hard to hold on, but it may affect the follow-up work, then the price will be big." ”
The transition of film shooting also brought great difficulty. The filming location of "Five Splashing Teenagers" designed five cities including Yangzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and Jinjiang. But many cities are not like Xiamen, they have rich experience in actor shooting, "We had a scene shot in Quanzhou at that time, and there were a lot of group performances required, and we were transferring group performances from Xiamen at that time." As a result, once, our actors were stuck on the highway, so they had to find local people to participate. However, the inexperienced masses, in terms of performance, "slow half shot", also made the shooting progress particularly difficult.
The difficulties do not seem to stop at the shooting period, and during the later stages of the film, it also makes Song Haolin "uncomfortable".
Although the male protagonist is Zhang Wei, from a comprehensive point of view, this movie is more like a group portrait drama, and the stories of the five boys are particularly three-dimensional. Group portraits are not easy to shoot, and they need a lot of content to support in order to make the audience truly convinced.
The first cut of the film lasted three hours, which is obviously not suitable for a youth movie that is shown in theaters. How to cut and highlight what is the big problem in front of Song Haolin.
In this short video era, Song Haolin herself sometimes has a hard time calming down to taste some deep-seated content, thinking about it, and finally simply making it difficult to put the inner drama of the characters, "There will be a little loss, and those contents will make the spiritual level something deeper." ”
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After experiencing various events, the film finally sees the world. The Douban score is currently 7 points, which is 0.1 points higher than when it was opened, which is already a high score in the youth theme movies remade in recent years.
We once asked Song Haolin about the expected rating, and he didn't care, "When I cared, did this movie ignite the audience." This is the third feature film independently directed by Song Haolin, and the first work to really face the market.
In the past, "Inotaro's Summer" and "Beloved Non-Human" have been recognized by film festivals such as the Golden Rooster Award and the Shanghai International Film Festival, for him, the past creations are more self-expressive.
After "Five Splashing Teenagers", did Song Haolin find the answer to "what kind of director do you want to become"?
"Found in the process, or rather, continue to search for it now."
He gave an ambiguous answer, but he may not be in a hurry now, because he recently had a new question, "Do I care about the work when I care, or do I care more about how to get into the audience's heart?" ”
Perhaps the answer this time should be found on his way to finding the audience for "Five Splashing Teenagers".
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