The movie "Uninvited Guest" will be released on October 22, and on the 13th, the film will premiere in Beijing, with chief producer Ma Yanjie, producer Fu Jia, director Liu Xiang, starring Dou Xiao, Liang Chao, Hu Ming, and Gao Shang. Fan Wei and Zhu Zhu, who were unable to attend, also interacted with the audience in the live connection, expressing their regret for not being present and thanking all those who supported the film.
"Uninvited Guest" is produced by Tian Zhuangzhuang, directed by Liu Xiang, starring Fan Wei, Dou Xiao and Zhang Songwen, starring Liang Chao, Hu Ming and Gao Shang, and zhu Zhu and Cai Lu. The film opens up a fighting room, lures all kinds of people with ghost fetuses into the game, and completes an unexpected psychological warfare game. The audience is more like the popular game "script killing" players, as the film timeline extends, open the "scripts" of different characters in the film one by one, learn the truth of the story from the perspective of the characters, and also judge the real good guys and bad guys at the end.
"The script is a killing puzzle solving process, and it is enjoyable to watch." Director Liu Xiang said that when he and another screenwriter wrote the script, there was no "script killing" that is now popular, and Liu Xiang laughed and said that this was a lucky coincidence. In addition to the director, Liu Xiang also served as a screenwriter and director of photography, Liu Xiang said: "Initially I wanted to write a non-linear narrative story, and on this basis, I hoped that the storytelling space was set in a scene, and the script should ensure that there are no loopholes in logic and time, and finally changed until the 16 drafts before it was officially started." ”
The non-linear narrative structure is adopted in the film, which disrupts and reconstructs the development time of the story, so that it overlaps and intertwines with each other, which undoubtedly adds a certain difficulty to the creation of the film. Liu Xiang said that the actual span of story time in the film is about 7 hours, in order to make the chronological order and logic more rigorous, in the shooting, great attention is paid to the portrayal of time details, such as the moon orientation at the patio in the film and the wall clock hands on the wall, which are consistent with the current time point of the story.
Liu Xiang also revealed that the lens language and scene design in the film are also full of meaning, such as the overhead shot of the roof that has appeared many times in the film, and the circle-shaped building body is actually suggesting that this is a trap, and everyone passes through here to enter the room, implying that every visitor is stepping into the trap. Another example is the spiral staircase in the film, which corresponds to the interlocking of the plot and the layers of reversal of the ending.
Looking back at the beginning of the film's creation, chief producer Ma Yanjie said that when she first saw the script directed by Liu Xiang, she found that it had a very good background, but the editing and revision process of the script was difficult, and it was very complicated to design so many reversals in an independent space. The film was too difficult to revise the script, and once thought of giving up, until director Liu Xiang changed to the 10th draft, and finally found a breakthrough, and the project was finally able to move forward.
Several leading actors shared their own role stories and experiences at the scene, and Dou Xiao said that he felt very fresh when he starred in comedy for the first time, and he had a breakthrough in role and styling, hoping to get the audience's like. Dou Xiao said that when studying the script, it is also challenging, because the script is a non-linear narrative structure.
You Dacheng, played by Liang Chao, also brought a lot of laughter to the audience, Liang Chao said that You Dacheng is like an "air bag", which is the most beaten character in the movie, and the exaggerated shape also surprised him, and joked that he hoped that his eye mask could become a hot hit. Hu Ming said that he was deeply attracted to the script, believing that the film told a relatively cruel story in a very entertaining way. When interpreting the role, Gao Shang believes that shrimp hair belongs to the type of "people who don't talk much", with relatively few lines, and many times need to be expressed with body language, and small actions such as scratching the head and raising the eyes are designed.
Several characters in the film also collided with many wonderful sparks, achieving many "famous scenes", and several leading actors also reviewed several funny scenes on the scene. The slap scene that pokes the audience's laughter is actually challenging when filming, and the director revealed that Fan Wei and Dou Xiao contributed very dedicated and wonderful performances during the live shooting, and adjusted the camera position many times to present the best effect. Dou Xiao revealed that when filming this scene, he also discussed with Teacher Fan Wei how to punch his face more appropriately.
"Uninvited Guest" will be officially released on October 22, and will be released nationwide from October 12 to 14 and October 16 to 17.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
Editor/Cui Wei