From February 11 (Chinese New Year's Eve Night) to February 19 (the eighth day of the Lunar New Year), the Spring Festival special program of "Today's Film Critics and Film Class Meeting" was broadcast on CCTV-6 Movie Channel from Monday to Friday at 22:00. On the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, the class will usher in the final chapter, two "creative class excellent students" - "The Wandering Earth" series of film producers, screenwriter Gong Geer and screenwriter Song Fangjin gathered on the spot to carry out interesting interaction on the theme of "telling Chinese stories", Gong Ge also confirmed the news that "The Wandering Earth 2" is scheduled for the Spring Festival in 2023.
As a difficult year for the film industry, 2020, which is affected by the epidemic, has achieved many highlight moments for Chinese films and Chinese stories with the help of many good films. From the National Day file relying on the "Wang Bomb Combination" to tell you that your life is full of "Easter eggs" gift comedy "My Hometown and Me", to the "King Kong Chuan" and "King Kong Tiantuan" that created Chinese speed, to the year-end tear-inducing healing masterpiece "Send You a Little Red Flower", the moving Chinese story has given Chinese filmmakers and Chinese audiences the opportunity to warm up with each other. Speaking of this, Song Fangjin, who was awarded the "excellent student" for the first time, contributed the first "golden sentence": "The story is the just need of life, and the film is the just need of the story." He pointed out to "Today's Film Critics Film Class Meeting" that "My Hometown and Me", as the main theme of the film, is the type of comedy that is "the most effective weapon in the world", allowing the public to complete a scan of the times in laughter. He, who wrote the script for the chapter of "Yuan Longping" in the drama "Meritorious Service", also took Yuan Longping's own witty statement of "finding a handsome actor" as an example, pointing out that the main theme cannot be written by looking up, and should be communicated equally.
Gong Geer, who commented on "engaging in science fiction", can attend the "Today Film Critics film class meeting" and still agrees that telling Chinese stories well should pay attention to emotions. "Whether it's in the real world or the science fiction world, the emotions of real people are actually the same, and if that thing can do it, it's a good Chinese story."
The film "Beautiful Life", which tells the deeds of Comrade Huang Wenxiu, pays tribute to the frontline poverty alleviation cadres who are the vanguard of poverty alleviation; the documentary film "Wuhan Day and Night", which truly records the frontline anti-epidemic deeds in Wuhan, reflects the medical staff as the vanguard of the anti-epidemic force. In March 2020, Gong Geer was also invited to record "Today's Film Review • Book of Two Places" and sent moving letters to Wuhan volunteers. Talking about the feeling of watching "Wuhan Day and Night", he bluntly said that "from the beginning to the end, it is difficult to imagine how the people of Wuhan have persevered." As for the performance of mankind in the face of crisis, Song Fangjin believes that Chinese films in 2020 have handed over a good Chinese story. Among them, "Arriving Home at One Point" corresponds to the current dream of young people returning to their hometown to start a business, and "Send You a Little Red Flower" gives growth comfort to the audience and filmmakers who have overcome the difficulties of the epidemic.
Song Fangjin sighed and said, "Our epidemic prevention and control is the best in the world, so we filmmakers must also tell the story to the best." Gong Geer, who agreed, also pointed out that artists have to record this era, "This is our responsibility." At the scene, Gong Geer's confirmation of the news that "The Wandering Earth 2" was scheduled for the Spring Festival in 2023 also made Song Fangjin even recommend himself to participate in the screenwriting of "The Wandering Earth 3".
The film culture review daily broadcast column "Today Film Review" is broadcast on the CCTV-6 Movie Channel every Monday to Friday at 22:00.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
Editor/He Mengyu