On December 25, "Wilderness Hostel", directed and written by director Hou Songsong, will be officially released on iQiyi Video. This black road comedy film is starred by Huang Bo's friend and Zhenhua trilogy starring Zhang Lei, Jia Zhangke's royal protagonist Han Sanming, as well as Sheng Shi, Zhang Liwei, Time, Hu Biao, Shi Lin, Ren Yan and others. Throughout the film, the film tells the story of a black comedy in a wilderness inn where a lawyer meets 6 unrelated people in a big car shop after a bizarre car accident, and his arrival triggers a Rashomon-style butterfly effect.
He was an imperfect lawyer
Liu Dakun, played by Zhang Lei, is a lawyer with a multi-faceted personality. He is a lawyer who is not morally perfect, he is a small city man who likes to play small tricks, he is a father who loves his daughter deeply... Not a perfect character, but it is indeed vivid and full, as a lawyer, although there are defects in the quality of the profession, but behind this character, he has his own reasons for insisting on life and the tears of affection with his children, after Liu Dakun's dialogue with his daughter, we cast awe at this father's determination to break through all obstacles and save his beloved daughter. He is too much like the passers-by we can meet when we go out on the street, with such shortcomings, but they are all trying to live and love their relatives and friends. Zhang Lei said that in such a group scene as "Wilderness Hostel", the protagonist as a lead must make a good start for the film's performance style, for such small characters, the characters must land, only if I sink down, grasp the character of the characters, the ironic reality of the whole movie can be more accurately expressed.
Zhang Lei, "Director of National Education," insisted on following his own path
Since his debut, Zhang Lei has created nearly 80 roles, and major movies, TV series, and network dramas have their own figures, involving a wide range of fields. Even if he is not the protagonist in the film, his natural, comfortable, and relaxed acting skills are praised, which can be described as a "golden supporting role".
Previously, because of the popularity of youth network dramas such as "The Best of Us", "Suddenly This Summer", "Hello, Old Time", Zhang Lei received a lot of attention. A series of teaching director roles he successfully created in the play, which were widely praised for their authenticity and vividness, rich in layering, left a deep impression on the audience, and Zhang Lei was also affectionately known as the "National Teaching Director" by netizens.
And this time in the "Wilderness Hostel", Zhang Lei once again with the protagonist's role, once again challenge the "small people" shaping, he has his own views on the shaping of small people, small people have the excitement of small people, so to see the big, from the lives and encounters of small people to criticize and satirize the big background or real society, which has a profound significance, down-to-earth to play every small person, take a road that others do not want to go, the end of the road is light.
Painstaking work, worth looking forward to
The shooting process was very hard, after shooting during the day and rushing at night. Due to the back-and-forth schedule, following the shooting of ten big nights, the lead actor Zhang Lei was overworked and fell ill and was hospitalized. Similarly, the producers couldn't hold back.
The audience does not know that behind a film is the hard work of the director, actors, producers and other crew members. Freezing three feet is not a day's cold, and dripping water through the stone is not a day's work. Absorbing the essence of each opinion, it is gathered into this "Wilderness Hostel". Recently Zhang Lei participated in the new drama piled up, as a "highlight supporting role", he shines in many popular dramas, starring in the movie "Beidou Fengyun", is being screened, praise is overwhelming, won many international awards, "Young Pi", "Cliff", "Kunlun Gui" is in the hot shot, "Captain China" is also about to enter the group shooting, "Wilderness Hostel" is also hot on the iQiyi platform, every successful shaping of the character, are permeated with Zhang Lei's "grinding" out of the brilliance, looking forward to every wonderful embarrassing play of Qingdao Zhang Lei.