Chief reporter of Jimu News Rong Yu
Correspondent Huang Xiaoqin
It was released for 33 days and grossed 113 million yuan – for the movie "The Island Keeper", which abandons all commercial gimmicks, this report card is enough to make the main creative team feel happy.
On the afternoon of July 20, Chen Li, director and chief screenwriter of "Shoudao Man", and actors Gong Zhe, Hou Yong and Sun Weimin came to Han to participate in the "Watching Movies and Learning Party History" theme party day activities. In an interview with reporters, Chen Li admitted that the box office breaking through 100 million is a great encouragement, "For a biopic like ours, it is quite difficult to reach 100 million, and it is also a breakthrough." This proves the love and recognition of today's audience for Wang Jicai, the 'model of the times' who has been obscure for 32 years. ”
That's how the seniors made movies
The movie "Shoudao Man" is based on the touching deeds of "people's model" Wang Jicai shoudao weiguo for 32 years, with the famous actor Liu Ye playing the male lead. Wang Jicai, who was the head of the militia post on Kaishan Island in Guanyun County, Jiangsu Province, was ordered in 1986 to guard Kaishan Island, a national defense strategic island with an area of only 0.013 square kilometers, which had no water and electricity for a long time and could not retain people at all. However, Wang Jicai and his wife Wang Shihua took the island as their home and served the country for 32 years until the end of their lives.
Chen Li told reporters that when making this movie, he did not consider the box office at all, but simply wanted more people to remember Wang Jicai, the "model of the times", and remember his and his lover's feat of "doing one thing well with a lifetime". "In the current film market, "The Island Keeper" can have such a box office, we are very pleased, let us feel that all the efforts are not in vain, this achievement is given by the audience, indicating that the audience recognizes such a theme, it allows young people to see that ordinary people can also create extraordinary." In fact, everyone has an island in their hearts, how will you guard it? ”
Chen Li
As a "regular" on the podium of the Huabiao Award, Golden Rooster Award and Feitian Award, Chen Li's "Xiangjiang North" and "Zhou Enlai's Four Days and Nights" have won important awards. But in her opinion, "The Island Keeper" is more difficult to shoot than her previous works, "because we are interpreting a civilian hero and are close to us, so we must go deep into life and pursue reality." 」 ”
According to Chen Li, a month and a half before the start-up, all the actors have been in place to experience life on Kaishan Island, which Wang Jicai guards. "This is all about communicating with the actors in advance, and the actors need to have a reverence for this character in order to pass on the 32 years of experience of the role to the audience in the best state."
Chen Li said bitterly that Liu Ye, Gong Zhe, Hou Yong and other actors have suffered a lot this time, and those scenes in the movie that are crawling and beating, the wind and waves are all real-life shooting, "Some people also advised me to shoot with a curtain and get some computer special effects, but I said absolutely not, because our predecessors made movies like this." To make a movie is to suffer so much and pay so much, everyone will feel very real after watching it. ”
Gong Zhe
Chen Li said with some dissatisfaction that she had seen many actors in modern war films, "It has exploded over there, his hair is still not moving, and his face is not dirty, so it is definitely not OK." What we have inherited from the previous generations of actors is to go deep into life, not afraid of hardship, and bend down to express sincerely. ”
Hou Yong almost "robbed" Liu Ye of his job
In the movie, the scenes of Liu Ye and Gong Zhe are extremely heavy, and their performances are also amazing, which adds a lot of points to the movie. Chen Li told reporters that she chatted with Wang Jicai's lover for a long time when she was collecting wind, and listened to a lot of Wang Jicai's stories, "Suddenly I had a character in my head, I think Liu Ye is very suitable, there is something particularly pure and resolute in his eyes, and he does not need to interpret Loyalty, his gaze itself is very simple." ”
Hou Yong
As soon as the voice fell, Chen Li pointed to hou Yong, a powerful actor next to him, and said that if Hou Yong could be 10 years younger, this role would be none other than him, "I worked with Hou Yong 20 years ago, and he is a very good actor." But because Wang Ji in this movie has to start from a young age and spans 32 years, I think it is more appropriate for Liu Ye. Hearing this, Hou Yong smiled very happily and said, "If I was 10 years younger, I could also compete, right?" Liu Ye is very good and has acted very well, but I also have my advantages. ”
Although Hou Yong took the initiative to introduce "I am more than 50 years old", the reporter saw that he was in excellent condition and was absolutely qualified to compete with Yu Hewei and Chen Daoming for the popularity of the "uncle circle". In Hou Yong's work library, there are both classic police images and the "corrupt official" performances in "The Name of the People", and this well-deserved powerful actor expects the audience to give more patience and support to "The Island Keeper". He lamented, "100 years later, when our descendants talk about Wang Jicai, they may not remember what he looked like in life, but they will remember the artistic image in the movie "Shoudao Man". ”
Sun Weimin, a national-level actor who has played Premier Zhou Enlai in film and television works many times, said that he has made dozens of main theme films, many of which have stopped at the box office of millions, which makes him very sad, "This time "The Island Keeper" has created a box office miracle, indicating that as long as it is exquisitely filmed and filmed well, the main theme film can also attract the audience. ”
Sun Weimin
According to reports, the party day activity on the theme of "watching movies and studying party history" was held by the Hubei Yangtze River Film Group and other units, with the aim of using movies as the carrier to run the study of party history through it. Nearly 500 party members and cadres from Hubei Yangtze River Film Group, Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau Traffic Management Bureau, Union Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Tongji Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology participated in the movie viewing activities and the post-screening film creator exchange meeting.
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