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On October 20, 1905, the film "Wuhai" held a media meeting, director Zhou Ziyang and lead actor Huang Xuan attended together, sharing the behind-the-scenes story of the film's creation, and around the topic of marriage in the film, with the famous screenwriter Wang Hailin and talk show actor Zhang Jieling on the same stage.
The creator talks about the story behind the shooting
When did our love start to go bad? With realistic thinking about love and marriage issues, "Wuhai" tells the story of Yang Hua (Huang Xuan) and Miao Wei (Yang Zishan), a young couple who experience the concentrated outbreak of emotional, family, and career contradictions, and their lives gradually get out of control. Director Zhou Ziyang said that the inspiration for the creation of this film came from the discovery that there were six pairs of friends around him who divorced, four of which were cheating, which forced him to think about the dilemmas faced by modern marriage in the current era.
Guests share their views
Wang Hailin said that he had already taken a sneak peek at the Hainan Island Film Festival, and now some of the film plots are still lingering in his mind, because the dilemma depicted in the film is very realistic and accurate, "on the surface, writing about family life, in fact, the male protagonist is looking for an exit to the spiritual dilemma." Zhang Jieling believes that this film touches on many trivial problems in reality, and behind the dramatic conflict, it reflects the emotional value of universal resonance.
Starring Huang Xuan
In order to create a good character, Huang Xuan said that the vicissitudes and rough skin he presented in the film did not go through any makeup modifications. After entering the crew, he specially found the worst lighting and cold room in the hotel to live, from the physiological discomfort internalized to the psychological level, "in the filming for more than a month, it has not been comfortable, it is relatively deviated from the normal emotional state."
Zhou Ziyang revealed that Huang Xuan flew to Inner Mongolia early to see the scene with him when he did not sign a contract, which is rare among actors. Changing rooms was also learned about from other people after the movie was completed, which made him very moved.
"Wuhai" has a fierce husband and wife quarrel scene, one side said the most cruel words to the person who was once loved the most, the other party was completely provoked, angrily waving and smashing the fish tank, this one-shot quarrel clip was exposed, it caused many netizens to empathize and widely discuss on the Internet.
Director Zhou Ziyang
At the meeting, the organizer specially invited Zhou Ziyang's friend director Wang Xiaozhen and actor Zhou Qing, a husband and wife filmmaker, to reinterpret this wonderful scene on the spot, which led to the topic of "hurt" in marriage. Zhou Ziyang said that many couples are prone to "hurt empathy" relationships, always deliberately stinging each other during quarrels, through mutual harm, to achieve emotional venting, which will bring greater harm.
Actors Zhou Qing and Wang Xiaozhen recreate the quarrel scenes in the movie
Recalling the filming process of the quarrel scene, Huang Xuan said that although he was not yet married, he had been in love, had quarrels with his girlfriend, and his original family was not happy, which was deeply touched. Before filming, he chatted with the creator for five or six hours, and before the performance, he looked at the Wanjia lights outside the window and Yang Zishan said that at least half of these families may have similar disputes, and if the performance is good, it will resonate. In the end, the two took two shots and passed.
"Wuhai" is director Zhou Ziyang's second feature film after "Old Beast", and the "Old Beast" Tu Men specially starred in Huang Xuan's father-in-law in this film. Because of money, Yang Hua, played by Huang Xuan, is deeply involved in many contradictions in his career and family, and there is also a gap in the original family behind the problem. In the eyes of the husband, the son-in-law is in debt, his career has failed, and he has become the source of family misfortune, can he solve all the problems by repeatedly borrowing money? The old man was furious.
The actors were moved to tears by the plot of the film
Such moral dilemmas have also triggered heated discussions on the spot: from love to marriage, is it really "a natural pair, not as good as a door-to-door pair"?
Wang Hailin said, "Behind the door-to-door pair is the run-in cost of two families, which can make people see the root of a value judgment system." Zhou Ziyang believes that economic factors should not be the only value criterion for judging. Zhang Jieling said that the "door-to-door pair" may be comfortable for both parties at the beginning, but it is not absolutely permanent, and the follow-up needs to be jointly managed by each other on the marriage.
In Huang Xuan's view, the "door-to-door" of values is more important, "how do we look at happiness, how we look at money, look at the world, and look at the value of our lives." If these are basically the same, even if there is external interference, it will not affect the underlying emotions. ”
It is reported that the movie "Wuhai" will be released nationwide on October 29.