If you have to find a person who attaches equal importance to business and art in the domestic director of today's entertainment industry, then Feng Xiaogang can definitely become a candidate, and it is difficult to be surpassed, Feng Xiaogang's era is very special, from the perspective of directorial stratification, his artistic creativity is enough to rank the identity of the fifth generation of directors, but in terms of age, he is much younger than Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou of the same era, so Feng Xiaogang, who debuted late, is the most active in thought, and his film works are more market and commercial
In the words of Feng Xiaogang: "In the 1980s, no one at the same time as me paid attention to commercial films, and they were all shooting what they wanted to express, only I valued it, and combined with the tastes of the public to engage in commercial films, and as a result, commercialization became the characteristic of my films."
From the 90s, Chen Kaige's films have an obvious transition period, first making the films they want to express, and then slowly paying attention to the market transformation to do commercial films, while Feng Xiaogang is different, he debuted in the filming of commercial films, so many years in this industry for many years, and film works rarely have the experience of being banned or beaten back, of course, except for "No Thief in the World"
1. The story content of "No Thief in the World"
In 2004, Feng Xiaogang followed the movie "Mobile Phone", once again prepared the feature film "No Thief in the World", and served as the director and screenwriter of this film, the storyline told by "No Thief under the World" is very simple, most of the process takes place on a train, the male and female protagonists are a couple, but also a pickpocket with many years of theft experience, but at this time the heroine is pregnant, and tired of the perennial life of theft, just want to find a place to retreat
Coincidentally, on the way back to their hometown, they met Silly Root, who had just received a salary of 60,000 yuan to go home, because he had offended the boss and was unwilling to spend hundreds of yuan on the cost of remittance, Silly Root decided to take the money home by himself, he thought that there would be no thieves in this world who stole the money of the poor
Coincidentally, this train of Silly Root happened to be sitting with the male and female protagonists, and the two were also stunned by Silly Root's "no thief theory", facing this kind and simple peasant, the heroine Wang Li decided to escort Silly Root along the way to preserve his good thoughts about the world and complete his redemption, and her husband Wang Bo also joined under the inspiration of his wife
Unfortunately, because silly roots' behavior angered the boss, he specially hired a pickpocket gang headed by Uncle Li and asked them to bring back 60,000 yuan from silly roots, and the attacking and defending sides fought repeatedly in these three days, the male and female protagonists fought against the pickpocket group in the carriages, pipes and toilets in order to protect silly roots, and finally the male protagonist paid for his life to protect the good silly roots
2. Reasons why it has not been sent for trial many times
Although the storyline of "No Thief In the World" is wonderful now, and exposes human nature, the original script of this movie is not as good as it is now, in the original version of "No Thief under the World", the male and female protagonists did not protect the inevitability of the stupid root, and because the protagonist is a thief, this work is still beaten back after being sent to trial many times
Feng Xiaogang repeatedly found someone to communicate with the fruitless, or decided to modify the script, he first and screenwriter Wang Gang all night to revise the draft, the more fierce conflict points and the logic of the incomprehensible downplay, but the effect is not obvious, and finally invited the last film cooperation Liu Zhenyun, the three people revised the script after the review is still beaten back, and the reason for this review is very simple: the script storyline is not coherent, the logic is not rigorous, the main characters do not have the inevitable motivation to protect the people
To put it simply, the reason why the Radio, Film and Television Bureau did not approve the script of "No Thief in the World" at that time was: Since the male and female protagonists are thieves, what reason do you have for them to do good things? If it is only because of the simplicity and kindness of the stupid roots, then they cannot steal for more than ten years.
3. Wang Shuo's words awaken the dreamer
Because there is no sufficient reason, the whole story does not exist reasonable, Feng Xiaogang left and right can not find an inevitable reason to make the thief into a good person, so he can only ask for help from his good partner Wang Shuo, did not expect that Wang Shuo after reading the script, only one sentence to solve all the problems, he said: "Pregnant, must make the heroine pregnant, after pregnancy she also has to enter the temple to burn incense"
Although it sounds insignificant, but Wang Shuo's words point through Feng Xiaogang, but also solve the problem of the motive of bad people to become good people, the heroine is pregnant is the best reason, with this background, the starting point for the male and female protagonists to become good people has it, and they see the silly root, they think of their children, so the meaning of protecting the silly root is not only to maintain the purity of passers-by, but to protect the dream of the next generation of children, because they also hope that their offspring can be born in a "thief-free" world
In this way, Wang Shuo's light words contributed to the major revision of the overall script of "No Thief in the World", and there was an inevitability in the rationality of the script, and the film also passed the review smoothly
From a personal point of view, although "No Thief in the World" is a 2004 movie, but from the script intention to the depth of the meaning expressed in the film, it is worth the audience's second brush, three brushes, he is the classic representative of Feng Xiaogang's film series, but also so far our society can not eradicate a drawback, the film tells us a truth, that is: "There are many reasons for people to go to evil, but no matter how far on this road, he will always have a good thought and turn back one day"
I don't know what the gods here think of this movie?