The realistic film "Shoudao Man", which is 90% filmed on Pingtan Island in Fujian Province, will be released nationwide on June 18. Recently, the relevant early screening has also been opened. What does "Island Keeper" look like in the eyes of our creators? Let's hear it.
Chen Li: In fact, it is more like a love movie
Chen Li, director and chief screenwriter of the movie "ShouDao Man"
When Wang Shihua herself was chatting with me, she did not say how hard the past 32 years had been, but kept talking to me about the love story between her and Wang Jicai. She was always talking about how their old king was. "He guards the island and I guard him, he guards the country and I guard the home." In such a difficult environment, up to 32 years of perseverance, what do they rely on? I think it is because of their deep affection for Kaishan Island, their affection for the motherland and their affection for each other.
Liu Ye: A true tough guy needs a strong heart and an iron will
Liu Ye, played by Wang Jicai in the movie "Island Keeper"
I have played a lot of tough guy roles in movies before, but Wang Jicai is different, he is more of an inner strength. In a place without water and electricity, for thirty-two years, insisting on doing a seemingly ordinary thing every day requires a strong heart and a will of steel. I especially hope to tell you through the movie "The Island Keeper" that people like Wang Jicai who are really shining in life have always been by our side. He is real, not made up. I also hope that more young people can go and watch this movie, understand that the commitment is simple, but it is really not easy to keep the commitment.
Gong Zhe: You guard the island, I guard you. Easier said than done!
Gong Zhe, played by Wang Shihua in the movie "Island Keeper"
The six words "you guard the island, I guard you" are easier said than done, especially after 32 years on an isolated island. I love the feeling between two people, you don't say I know, you don't say I understand. Life can have such a different love, really several lifetimes are worth it.
Hou Yong: 32 years of perseverance, I am the guardian of the movie!
Hou Yong, played by Wang Changjie in the movie "The Island Keeper"
It's not a commercial film in the pure sense of the word, without much marketing, but it's the most touching film I've ever seen. Plain and plain, but directly hit the heart, allowing the audience to wander in the shock of a person's life in more than two hours of watching the movie. The film is not good to look at, it is easy, the money is spent, the people find it, and the technology is there. But a movie like "The Island Keeper" can only be presented with heart. I've been doing movies for 32 years, and I want to say that's called movies.
Sun Weimin: Filmmakers also keep the promise that people will not work in vain if they do one thing well in their lives
The movie "Island Keeper" Wang Jicai's father played by Sun Weimin
In the movie "Shoudao Man", Wang Jicai has such a sentence, "People who do one thing well in this life will not work in vain." "I think we filmmakers are also keeping one of our own promises. In today's sluggish film market, it is really rare for a director to sink his heart and use such an artistic expression to make a film with a heroic model theme so touching. It's really a good movie and I'm sure it's going to be popular with audiences in the market.
Ju Wenpei: Don't say goodbye for a while, looking back is already full of tears
The film "ShouDao Man" composer Ju Wenpei
What shocked me the most was the relationship between Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua, who made me believe that love can be life and death. The last farewell scene, as usual, thought that I would see him the next day after the treatment, but I did not expect to say goodbye. When I was recording music, I communicated with the performer, showed him a picture, and when he looked back, he was in tears.
Chen Li: The power of perseverance The extraordinary in the ordinary
I hope that through this film, more audiences, especially young audiences, can see the extraordinary deeds created by such an ordinary person, and see the hardships and strength of this strivers, as well as the happiness and happiness of the strivers. Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua have also been saying that they are ordinary people, but they can still create extraordinary, they can still find their own value in this society, and I believe that our young people can do the same.
Chen Li: A different main theme A good movie presented with heart
No matter what kind of theme, what kind of drama, the most important point is life, you go to experience to feel and then express. As long as it is expressed with true feelings, I believe that no matter what the subject matter, the audience will accept it. Today's post-90s and post-00s are particularly cute, and their patriotic enthusiasm makes me admire. If what you give him is true, he will believe it.
Chen Li: Restore the truth in a difficult environment
Liu Ye has a lot of running scenes in the film, the island is one foot deep and one foot shallow, sometimes this step is here, the next step may be below one meter, and the reef on the sea is particularly slippery. Wang Jicai has been running on the island for 32 years, so when he performed, he couldn't look at the ground, and he resolutely couldn't look at the ground. In order to achieve this effect, Liu Ye kept running and practicing on the island, and really didn't know how many times he fell.
Liu Ye: The real injury and the false injury are not clear at all
In order to pursue the truth, the director replaced the CG special effects with live shooting. Almost all the storm shots in the movie are done on the spot, and many windy days we really shot on typhoon days. Especially in the seaside scene, if you are not careful, you will really be swept into the sea. There are also sunburns, scratches, mosquito bites and the like, and at the beginning I had to spend two hours every day putting on these makeup, but after about half a month of shooting, I couldn't tell which ones were chemical and which were my own injuries.
Liu Ye: Puppy actors are very big, and they want to shoot and coax them!
I made a movie in 1998, "That Mountain Man That Dog", and I worked with dogs at that time, but the treatment was much lower than that of today's dogs. At that time, the dog lived in the warehouse, only a fan. When "The Island Keeper" was filmed, the dog stayed in the air-conditioned room of the hotel like us. These dogs are not specially trained, or ordinary dogs, so they are particularly difficult to control. At noon, the dogs are also sleepy, so we can only shoot the dogs early in the morning, taking advantage of their good mood in the morning and easy to cooperate. But this dog is really like a child, over and over again to shoot it tired or tired of shooting nothing to run, hard to catch back want to reprimand two sentences, the result of people sell a cute, can not say anything.
Source: Fujian Film Studio
Source: FM1036 Fujian News Broadcast