The picture shows the poster of the movie "The Island Keeper".
The movie "The Island Keeper" was released nationwide, and the baton was handed over to the audience, and Chen Li, as a director, was full of expectations.
In the Spring Festival of 2019, the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, Chen Li came to Kaishan Island for the first time. The female director of bayi Film Studio has won the "Five One Project Award", "Huabiao Award", "Golden Rooster Award" and "Hundred Flowers Award" for many times with film and television works such as "Blood Battle Xiangjiang", "Gutian Jun" and "Begonia Still". Making a movie about the "people's model" Wang Jicai and his wife Wang Shihua guarding Kaishan Island for 32 years, her heart has no bottom.
"That day on the island, drizzling rain, and even a little hail, when the boat was far from the dock, I saw a thin little figure waving at us." When the boat docked, Wang Shihua skillfully pulled up the cable and pulled Chen Li to the shore. Chen Li saw at a glance that Wang Shihua's hands were very rough, "Such a thin and small body must have experienced a lot of ups and downs, leaving such traces of time."
The picture shows the stills of the movie "The Island Keeper".
Since then, the main creative team of "Island Keeper" has been on Kaishan Island three times, and there is one thing on the island, talking about Wang Jicai, talking about the 32 years of Kaishan Island. Surprisingly, Wang Shihua's memories are not bitter, but full of happiness.
Kaesan Island is about the size of two football fields and is about 12 nautical miles from the nearest land. It was inaccessible, with years of no fresh water, no electricity, and no internet access. The strategic significance of Kaishan Island is very important, it is like an outpost of the Yellow Sea, and in 1939, the Japanese Kou used Kaishan Island as a springboard to land in Guanyun County, Lianyungang. Wang Jicai said that if there were people on duty on our island at that time, the Japanese Kou would not be able to come up. This sentence was written into the movie "The Island Keeper".
Wang Jicai first went to the island when he was in danger and was ordered, "the organization needs people, he went." Moritajima's idea is also simple and pure, he feels that "promised the organization to do it, did not find a suitable successor, then continue to keep." In his heart, "No matter how small Kaishan Island is, it is also a part of the country, and guarding the island is defending the country." Wang Shihua took the initiative to go to the island, and Wang Jicai advised her to go down to the island, and she only said one sentence: "You guard the island, I guard you."
Listening to Wang Shihua's narration, Chen Li was very envious: "Their emotions are simple, their beliefs are consistent, and they have found a common happiness and warmth in that deep affection for Kaishan Island." Behind 32 years of tenacity and perseverance is a plain but fulfilling life. After meeting Wang Shihua for the first time, I told myself that I must make this movie well and pass on the true feelings they brought to me to the audience. ”
"The Island Keeper" filmed three seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, a total of 5 months before and after, there are a lot of rain and snow, typhoon scenes in the film, more than 95% of which are actually filmed.
In "The Island Keeper", Liu Ye played Wang Jicai, Gong Zhe played Wang Shihua, and Hou Yong, Sun Weimin, Song Chunli and many other outstanding actors starred. Chen Li has only one requirement for actors - not to act. In order to achieve the effect of "not acting", all the actors except for the early "lower life", came to the island half a month before the start of filming, exposed to the hot sun, and wrestled in the storm. In order to truly reproduce the familiarity of Wang Jicai's shoudao rushou family, during the shooting, Liu Ye ran back and forth on the island but never looked down at the ground, and fell countless heels for this. At first, Liu Ye's makeup took two and a half hours, and then it only took an hour, because the bruises and scars on his body were already real.
Everyone seems to have injected a spirit, holding each other up and achieving each other. They "restored" a kaishan island in Pingtan, Fujian Province, and during the filming process, the sea breeze was as small as 5-6 and the largest was more than 10. On the first day of operation, it encountered a level 9 wind, and many people supported the machine together to continue shooting, but no one asked to get off the island. There is a scene in the film where Wang Jicai is looking for Wang Changjie, the minister of military affairs, for the last time, and Wang Changjie, who is suffering from advanced lung cancer, is already on the sickbed. Hou Yong put a lot of effort into speculating and practicing in order to present the state of a person at the time of death, and his on-site performance surprised Chen Li. Regardless of fame, regardless of seniority, in this play, even if there is only one back and one side, all the actors are doing their best.
Chen Li said that this is the most emotional and cohesive set she has ever seen. Everyone was immersed in the plot, and there were many times during the filming that people who were present cried. Windy winds, torrential rains, cliff climbing, rushing huge waves, they challenge their limits again and again, as if it is not just a job, but an important mission to be accomplished.
The movie was released, and the audience commented that "ShouDao Man" was Shouzheng's innovative work. Many people saw the "Wang Jicai who ran for 32 years" in the movie, and he was touched and encouraged, and shed tears for him. Chen Li said: "We just expressed the real life, and told the 'people's model' that lives in our hearts and makes us deeply moved, in the language of the film." ”
Source: People's Daily Literature and Art