The Paper's reporter Chen Chen
The upcoming film "The Great Dad", which will be released on June 18, was screened in advance on the opening day of this year's Shanghai International Film Festival, and the film's creators also walked the red carpet on the opening night of June 11.
The crew of "The Amazing Dad" was on the red carpet of the Shanghai Film Festival.
The movie "The Great Father" tells a story of love to the sun through a pair of single-parent fathers and sons who have different attitudes to "fate": Xiao Erdong, played by Zhang Youhao, is a teenager with a congenital disease but has a "marathon dream", while Wang Yanhui plays a taxi driver who stubbornly forces his son to prepare for the "blind life" in the film. The father and son who do not understand each other from the beginning of the sword to the final "exchange of identities" in a marathon race, standing side by side on the starting line to complete their own race... The film is inspirational and warm, writing the love and blood of two generations under the background of sadness, which moved many viewers to tears.
The film is adapted from real people and real events, the real background is the foundation, the protagonist is facing the inevitable sad fate of life at the beginning, but the film is most of the time filmed lively and optimistic, and the small humor between father and son often makes the audience can't help but be funny.
Director Zhou Qingyuan
At the post-screening exchange scene, director Zhou Qingyuan revealed that the motivation for film shooting was to originate in Shanghai, and it was during the Shanghai Film Festival in 2016 that he came into contact with this story by chance, and he came up with the idea of shooting the film, "through sports to carry father-son feelings, long-distance running metaphors for the long road of life, and his favorite father will accompany us to run."
Father-son love is the emotional core of the film. Wang Yanhui and Zhang Youhao's performance also left a deep impression on the audience, director Zhou Qingyuan revealed that the two actors are very dedicated, in the performance they "compete" with each other, promote each other, through the film also let the two people's feelings get better and better, inside and outside the play are like father and son.
Wang Yanhui and Zhang Youhao also shared the experience of filming the film with the audience, Wang Yanhui said that after he became a father, he would better understand the good intentions of his parents, and the scene of Xiao Daming running with Xiao Erdong in the movie made him feel very deeply, "When I took the college entrance examination, my father took my hand and sent me into the examination room, and during the shooting, many pictures slowly appeared in my mind bit by bit, and I missed my father very much." Zhang Youhao talked about the importance of family communication in the film: "Children and their families are to understand each other, only in this way will they find that love is deep in the bone marrow, and more communication with their families will bring more strength to themselves."
Wang Yanhui and Zhang Youhao
Another leading actor, Gong Beiyuan, who plays the devil coach Xia Lu, thanked the director on the spot, she revealed that she was once a 100-meter athlete, especially wanted to play a work related to running, "I was really handsome when I ran, but the director let me 'slow down, slow to run', handsome almost did not come out", to which Zhou Qingyuan quipped that the next movie will be filmed "great coach".
"The Great Dad" has completed the roadshow activities in Chongqing, Kunming, Xiamen, Nanjing and other cities, and has received affirmation from audiences in the industry and outside the industry, and its reputation is red. The film will also be screened on June 13 and 14 from 14:00 to 17:00.
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