If a movie, all its actors are non-professional actors, do you think it will look good?
It's like a concert where all the musicians are temporary applicants, and even before that they have no experience, so would you buy a ticket for the concert?
There may not be some people who don't, but there are exceptions
Director Xu Lei also proved this with practical actions.
At the end of 19, director Xu Lei's debut was quietly released, with an investment of only a few hundred thousand, but it won nearly ten million at the box office.
Who is Xu Lei? Never heard of it.
None of the actors on the poster know each other, and even The Announcement is extremely poor.
Why such a blockbuster investment is not small enough to have such a small cost, the reason is very simple, because it is very good!
- "Sherlock on the Plains"
"Good looking" is a very simple word, but I think it is the highest rating for the movie.
And Sherlock on the Plains, it's very good.
Even if a movie has beautiful pictures, conflicting plots, and big names for actors, if it is not good, it is only a "silver pewter gun head".
As an unpopular movie in the cold, "Sherlock on the Plain" scored 7.9 points on Douban's 100,000 netizens and was rated as a domestic conscience work.
This rating is very real, real in his score is real.
Because the publicity of this movie can not afford to buy pusher brush points, there is no traffic star worthy of black powder specially scored low scores.
So, as many as the score is, he is how much, and there will be no false component.
01, a car accident occurred on the Hebei Plain
The story takes place in Zhangcun, Shen County, Hebei Province.
Farmer Uncle Chaoying sold his family's eight large yellow cattle and four calves, earning a total of 170,000 yuan.
Chaoying, whose pockets were suddenly solid, was ready to pay off the foreign debt of tens of thousands of yuan first, and then the rest of the money was used to renovate the old house.
To this end, he asked his good friends Zhan Yi and Shuhe to help.
What should have been a happy and happy event happened unexpectedly.
On the way to buy vegetables for the workers, Shuhe was seriously injured by a car and sent to the hospital for rescue.
The vehicle that caused the accident ran away.
A conundrum lies ahead of Chaoying.
If you choose to call the police to arrest people, then once the owner of the car that caused the accident is not found, all the medical expenses will have to be borne by yourself.
Medicare doesn't care about this stubble.
However, if the tree river fell on its own, then the insurance can pay seventy percent of the cost.
On the day of the accident, it was raining heavily, there were no witnesses, no surveillance, no evidence, and the chances of catching the prisoners were quite slim.
But Chao Ying couldn't swallow this breath.
People are bumped and can't find it, and when the tree river wakes up, how do we explain it to him?
In the end, Chao Ying decided to call the police first, and before he could catch the prisoner, he paid all the medical expenses for Shuhe.
Although he handed the matter over to the police, Chao Ying understood in his stomach that even if the case was filed, it would probably not be resolved in the end, because clues were too scarce.
The only way to arrest prisoners is to rely on oneself and zhanyi.
The two peasant uncles were forced to transform into "Tuku" Sherlock Holmes.
They first learned the police solving process in the TV series, and analyzed the case on the blackboard.
However, how do they find prisoners who cannot even be found by the police?
After analyzing it for half a day, I still don't understand anything.
Without hesitation, Zhan Yi decided to go to the famous godmother in the village to ask him to calculate a trifle, at least let the case search have a direction first——
Where do we look?
The godmother said, to the east.
During the search, Chao Ying found a surveillance at the door of a grain store on the street, and he was not sure what to find.
This plot, Pi Ge believes that it is the most interesting and true in the whole film, vividly reflecting the traditional Chinese human society -
The owner of the grain store initially refused to investigate the surveillance.
Chao Ying contacted the old man Erzhu and asked him if he knew the owner of the grain store.
Erzhu contacted his friend Erkui again and asked him to come.
It turned out that the boss was Erkui's son-in-law.
As soon as acquaintances look for it, this face cannot be erased.
Through surveillance, they spotted three suspicious vehicles.
The first owner was a young owner of a convenience store.
The strategy of the two Sherlocks is to let Chao Ying enter the store to buy things that are not in the store and drag the boss.
Then Zhan Yi went in through the back door to see if there were any signs of scratching the car.
Chao Ying entered the store and observed a circle and asked:
"Do you have an air pump here?"
Don't say, don't look at the shop is small, all the organs are complete.
After the boss turned the shop upside down, he actually found the air pump.
After some haggling, Chaoying was "forced" to buy the air pump.
And ZhanYi, sneaking into the backyard is still nothing-
There was no trace of the car at all.
The prisoner was not caught, and he bought an air pump for free.
The two detectives were unfavorable and failed to return home.
The second owner is a school employee.
After being stopped by the security guards, the super-British two people chose to turn over the school from outside the wall.
As it happened, the owner of the car happened to be sitting in the car, and after being discovered, Chaoying pretended to calmly talk to the owner:
I also recently wanted to buy this car, so I came to take a look.
How many seats do you have in this car, is it okay to drive?
When did you buy it? How to maintain so well, like a brand new.
After showing what is called acting, the two detectives analyzed and believed that it was not this person who collided.
In this plot, director Xu Lei integrates absurd comedy into the plot and shows his superb skills in narrative and audiovisual language.
During the conversation, "Sherlock" is found to be suspicious by the security guards, and they engage in a cat-and-mouse chase at the school.
Finally, the two detectives cleverly "borrowed" two school uniforms from the student dormitory and mixed them into the senior high school students who were taking an oath on the playground, without any violation.
After the second suspect was also excluded, only the last one on the list remained, and it was their last chance.
The third owner, surnamed Fan, is a well-known entrepreneur in the city who lives in an upscale neighborhood.
This high-end residential wall is too high, can not be turned into, and there are no acquaintances to dot, what can be done?
Zhan Yi came up with a trick -
They exchanged clothes with the takeaway brother and mixed into the community in the name of delivering takeaway.
God pays off.
Finally, there was a breakthrough and progress in the case.
Chao Ying found obvious scratch marks on Fan Zong's black car, and in a conversation with Fan Zong, he found that Fan Zong was secretive about the trip on the 14th.
In the hearts of the two detectives, they were already sure that the tree river must have hit him.
The truth is clear, only the final evidence is left.
But just as the truth was about to come out, The Tree River woke up.
He said: "I was hit by a white car. ”
It was not a black car, and Fan Zong had also cleared the suspicion.
After a week of hard work, nothing was gained, and Zhan Yi and Chao Ying also caused an injury.
The two Sherlocks on the plains did not find the real prisoners.
The story has also come to an end.
02, the actors are all relatives of the director
What's so good about Sherlock on the Plains?
Is it a plot? The plot is simple.
Is it acting? All the actors are ordinary people, and all of them are relatives and friends of the director, and none of them have even received professional acting training.
Is it the picture? The poor crew, where do you have the money to make the picture?
The plot, acting, and picture are all outstanding, so what is so good about this film?
In Pigo's view, the answer is simple – real.
The countryside under the lens of many Chinese directors is nothing more than two kinds of -
One is the poor countryside full of intrigues and scheming people; the other is the idyllic self-sufficient paradise.
However, this is not the case in the real countryside.
Director Xu Lei, as a native of the countryside, in this short period of 98 minutes, filmed the most authentic side of China's local people's feelings.
The first truth of the film lies in the details.
For example, when he could not pay for medical expenses, Chao Ying decided to sell his last old horse.
When he sold out for 8500 yuan, he heard someone say that the buyer was a "stubble killer".
What is stubble killing?
It is this horse that is not bought and raised, but killed and sold meat.
Chao Ying immediately repented of this sale, even if he bought it back with two hundred, the horse could not be sold.
The second truth of the film lies in the actors.
Pigo never thought that the acting skills of ordinary people could surpass those of really professional actors.
But there is an exception, unless the ordinary person is not acting at all.
Director Xu Lei, in this movie, took an almost fanciful idea -
Let his father play the main role, let his mother, and his relatives and villagers play the rest of the roles.
He didn't even bother to change the character's name—
The role played by Xu Chaoying is called Chaoying, the zhanyi is called Zhanyi, and the tree is called Shuhe.
I let the farmer play the farmer, I let everyone play themselves, so what acting skills are needed at this time?
Not to mention, after this money-saving wave extreme "tiger" operation, it really made a domestic film conscience.
Every actor who participated in the show also became an acting school.
Because of the roles they play, they have played from birth to the present, and they are incomparably familiar.
As far as the audience is concerned, looking at the two peasant detectives in the picture, you will think that they are your uncle downstairs, and the village is a bare-chested old man wearing a flip-flop with a flip-flop.
They, very close to you, they shoot out a real "rural taste".
Regarding the role of the actor, Xu Lei also mentioned in an interview:
"Originally, the ending of this movie should have been a particularly black, particularly absurd ending.
In the end, the protagonist Chao Ying this person blackened, he in the process of finding someone, under pressure, a good person became a bad person, but in the process of filming changed, adjusted the ending, I was actually still struggling when shooting the last scene. “
Why change it?
Because his father is not this kind of person, acting like that may have more dramatic effects, but it is not real.
For Xu Lei, it is unrealistic to require ordinary people to do too many high-level professional performances in itself, so it is better to focus on the real personality of the actor and let the plot serve the actor.
In Pigo's view, this is a very remarkable thing.
Pigo is also very fortunate that in China, there are still such a group of people who stick to their original intention of filming -
Not for the box office, not for the hits, they just love movies, want to make movies, want to leave something behind.
They may agonize over not being high enough at the box office, but they don't shoot content they don't like for the sake of being high at the box office.
Perhaps, this is the original intention that Chinese filmmakers should have.
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