Directed by Zhang Aijia, the movie "Love and Blind Date" starring Zhang Aijia, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Lang Yueting and others is being released nationwide, and the reputation of the film continues to ferment, and the current Douban score has reached 8.6 points. At present, the film has been released for 5 days, and the box office is less than 10 million, and Zhang Aijia hopes that more people will enter the theater and hope to convey the emotions expressed in the film. Zhang Aijia introduced that the story prototype of "Love and Affection" originated from the real events in the family of another screenwriter, You Xiaoying, and was originally an ordinary family story that took place in Chengdu. Recently, a reporter from Chengdu Business Daily contacted Upstream Xiaoying, who revealed the behind-the-scenes story of the screenwriter of this movie.
You Xiaoying
The film has a lot of Sichuan elements
The film "Love and Affection" is based on You Xiaoying's real life experience, and has been modified by many creative processes. You Xiaoying said that her grandfather has a rural original match, and the relationship between this group of characters in the film is real, but before You Xiaoying was born, her grandfather and the original partner had died, so the image of them in the film was basically reprocessed based on imagination and creation. Regarding the clip of mother and daughter getting along in the film, You Xiaoying said, "The most real thing is the part where the mother cooks the oil and spicy seeds, which is basically a memory that every Sichuan family will have! Every time my mother stir-fried, I feel particularly choked, I will yell at her, but when I go out, chili oil is the nostalgia of Chengdu people, and I will miss it very much. There was also the parent of the student who was a little ambiguous with his mother, and his background was a drama troupe actor, which was related to the drama education I received in college, and naturally added this element to the role. ”
You Xiaoying visits the class Zhang Aijia's "Love and Affection"
It is understood that the script of "Love and Affection" was originally the final homework handed over by You Xiaoying in the third year of Chinese opera TV drama creation class, which was originally called "Strange Flowers Blossom", her supervisor Professor Peng Tao proposed some revision suggestions after reading it, and later met director Zhang Aijia, referred to her ideas, and made some adjustments. The adjustment of the script includes the father's profession from a small civil servant to a driving school instructor, the mother from a primary school teacher to a middle school teacher, Ada from a painter to a singer, etc., all of which are adjusted to make the whole story closer to life.
Stills from "Love and Affection"
The script was changed in more than a dozen versions
As a screenwriter, You Xiaoying also visited the crew during the filming of the film and experienced many on-set stories. She "Wang Zhiwen teacher played the clerk of the Civil Affairs Bureau, he went to the scene to find a circle first, chatted with the staff, let the prop brother prepare a tea jar for him, the action of drinking tea in the play was designed by himself, especially vivid. On the day of photographing Teacher Li Xuejian, he brought a lot of snacks, spread out two large tables, and when he was waiting, he sat next to the table and beckoned us to eat, which was very cute and really too mass-based. At one point, he became a living background board and was asked by the villagers to take turns taking photos. ”
You Xiaoying introduced: "The scene of the grandmother showering rain in the film was originally written about falling into the water, but because the Luoyang countryside where the filming could not find the creek and the river, it was finally forced to change to the rain; and the scene where Teacher Geng Le cried and mourned, half of the sudden heavy rain poured down, the rain had no intention of stopping, and decided to shoot the second half of the heavy rain, and finally edited it out to see, the rain in these two places, the catharsis and creation of emotions and atmosphere are really just right. ”
After the release of the film, some viewers said that they could not stop crying, the emotional expression was delicate and deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the film was called "the most moving film of the year", Wu Yanshu played by Grandma became the biggest tear point, the emotions of the whole film were first-class, the tears contracted the entire film, and watching the entire film knew how to love.
When talking about how to run the tears through the whole film, You Xiaoying explained: "In fact, I never thought about the problem of running through the tears, on the contrary, when I wrote the script with Zhang Jie, the most talked about was how to control emotions, so we also deleted the details of grandma's last tooth falling. As for everyone's tear collapse, I think it is empathy, and it is the audience that uses their own emotional experience to make up for the bits and pieces of this story. ”
When talking about how young people should look at love, You Xiaoying sighed: "This really does not dare to answer for young people, but there is a point, no matter what kind of love or concept of love, as long as it does not hinder and hurt others, it is worthy of respect and affirmation, and there is no should or should it be." If the tradition is preserved, it can end from one end; if it is indulgent, then it is brave to bear, and every choice will have its good or bad. In fact, life is not afraid of madness, it is afraid of not being thorough, which will be more painful. ”
Talking about future plans, You Xiaoying is perfecting the screenwriting of another of her film works.
Chengdu Business Daily client reporter Zhang Shihao intern Chen Yangchun
Edited by Guan Li