In December 2019, the comedy theatrical movie "Happy Affair in the House" was launched in Meizhou. The main filming locations of the film are Songkou Town and Meijiang District in Meixian District. And killed at the end of January 2020. Recently, the film successfully passed the censorship of the Film Bureau. The film production company Guangzhou Yi luxury culture communication co., LTD. and Shenzhen Lile Culture Communication Co., Ltd. jointly held a small screening event. The film's creators and media personalities were gathered to watch the film together.
More than 95% of the lines in the whole film of "Happy Affair in the House" are in Hakka. In addition to storytelling and fun, the film cleverly integrates Traditional Hakka culture into the story. The film mainly tells the story of the old residents of majiazu house in the environment of the expansion of the city and the blossoming of real estate everywhere. The Mabos insisted on living in the old house. Real estate developers have taken a fancy to the old house and want to expropriate and transform it into a commercial space that integrates customs and catering. Ma Bo was reluctant to hand over the inheritance of his ancestors to others. Real estate developers are both soft and hard, coercing and inducing. Mabo was unmoved. His daughter Ma Wenwen, a media elite, was touched by her father's perseverance in adhering to traditional culture, so he planned a documentary with Hakka culture as the content and applied for cultural heritage protection for the old house. The father and daughter wrestled with the real estate developer. Eventually protected the old house.
Laughter erupted during the film's viewing process, and the praise of the crowd after the screening made the creator feel very pleased. Producers Guo Shipeng and Xu Peiyang, executive director Chen Gaoji and production director Chen Shanbao shared various interesting things about the filming. Producer Shao Xiangdong confessed that although he was not a Hakka, he was touched by the story of this film. Han Rongsheng, the screenwriter and director of the film, said that the core of the film's story is the loss and persistence of traditional culture. Nowadays, all kinds of entertainment fill people's lives, traditional culture is treated coldly, and traditional Hakka architecture and Hakka dialect are declining day by day. It is precisely because of this feeling that this film was born. The director hopes to do his part to protect the traditional Hakka culture through the film.
The co-producers of the film, Guangdong Yike Media Network Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Yike Media Network Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Keshi Culture Communication Co., Ltd., and Zhongshan Yunying Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.; and the co-producers, Meizhou Huitian Culture Media Co., Ltd., Zhuhai Leyu Brand Design Co., Ltd., and Meizhou Mengyang Culture Media Co., Ltd., are all enterprises led by Hakka. The promotion of Hakka traditional culture is their common pursuit.
"Happy Affair in the House" uses the most original Hakka dialect, describing the different mentalities of different generations of Hakka families facing the demolition of ancestral houses, and the wonderful story of the struggle between various forces, in the end, most people still choose to defend the ancestral house and protect the spiritual homeland. The film's ingenious arrangement, ups and downs, vivid and interesting characters, witty and speculative style, is a rare and excellent dialect comedy in the past 20 to 30 years. It is particularly worth mentioning that the film is interspersed with a large number of literary, gastrointestinal, and architectural elements with Hakka characteristics, and the audience will have a certain understanding of Hakka history and culture through the film. (Luo Xin, Teacher, Film Language and Culture Consultant, Hakka Research Institute, Jiaying University)
It is reported that the film is tentatively scheduled to be released during the summer vacation. I hope that the epidemic will end as soon as possible and the theater will open as soon as possible. Let's look forward to this day together.