"Double Pupil" came out with a full version of Blu-ray, and several colleagues took advantage of the break between work to pick it up again.
It is worthy of being the best horror film in Chinese, and everyone is very unanimous after watching it.
A classic is a classic, and even though it has been 16 years since its release, it still looks good.
I am served. And after the blu-ray came out, the score of Douban rose by 2 points, and many people began to rehabilitate the movie.
Because Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown 2" at the beginning of the year was also accused of "plagiarizing" "Double Pupil", the film was once again turned popular.
But what we're going to talk about today is a very important person in this movie, who is the screenwriter of this movie —
Su Zhaobin
1 Movie caught this engineering man
He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Taiwan, and was admitted to the Institute of Communication Science and Technology, Taiwan Chiao Tung University.
After graduating with a master's degree, he worked as an engineer in the Human-Computer Interaction Group of the High-Quality Television Program of the Industrial Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan, a researcher at the Institute of Computer and Communications of the Hsinchu Municipal Institute of Industry and Research, and a programmer.
Before stepping into the film circle at the age of 29 and embarking on the road of no return for professional screenwriters, this is the beautiful resume of engineering student Su Zhaobin.
At the turn of the century, the Internet boom is in the ascendant, and taiwan's IT industry is developing like a day in the sky.
If you follow this life trajectory, he is probably a well-known figure in a company or academia.
"But the job hasn't changed much, and looking at the team leader sitting in the office, it's easy to see what you'll be like in 30 years." One day, I sat there and watched, and the more I looked, the more frightened I became, and I thought: No, I don't want to go bald. ”
The young Su Zhaobin began to reject the certainty of life, and at this moment, a friend approached him and asked, "Do you dare to write a script?" ”
It's not so much that he caught the movie as it was that the movie caught him. A programmer who is not willing to be lonely, at the juncture of life when the year of establishment is approaching, decides to choose to find the freshness of life in the way of creation.
He shut himself in his room and wrote stories of his own experiences. Two weeks later, "Running Hand Love" was born. "My friend thinks it's funny after watching it, and it feels good."
Su Zhaobin made a cameo appearance in "The Love of The Running Hand"
2 Write a script with a programming mindset
Directed by Zhang Huakun and Chen Yiwen, Su Zhaobin's "Love of Running Hands" received 6 nominations at the 37th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, including Best Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay, and finally won the Best Supporting Actor and Jury Awards.
Su Zhaobin became famous and was called "ghost screenwriter".
Starring TaiBao and Cheng Xiuying at the Golden Horse Awards
Also from a programmer to a filmmaker, Su Zhaobin's experience from the early stage of the film cannot help but be reminiscent of Yang Dechang.
After graduating with a master's degree, Yang moved to the University of Southern California in 1974 to study film.
One day, he watched Herzog's "Aquil, The Wrath of God", was shocked by the art he had never seen before, and then returned to Taiwan to start his film career.
Unlike Yang Dechang, Su Zhaobin has no systematic film training, and when he reads, he also watches American commercial films, is not keen on European art films, and writes scripts completely out of interest.
Yang Dechang's films are known for their rigorous scripts
But in Running Hands, you can see that he has an extraordinary control over the structure of the script and the details of the story.
This ability seems to be due to his programming training, sorting out the sequence, nesting relationships, and calling logic between thousands of lines of code. This rigorous creative thinking has been internalized and has become a highlight that cannot be ignored in his work.
32002, Su Zhaobin year
Two years later, in 2002, it was praised by the media as "Su Zhaobin's Year".
This year, a total of 4 films in which Su Zhaobin participated were released, and each one was of good quality, and two of them should be highlighted here.
His directorial debut, "The Elixir of Love," was dubbed "Taiwan's Generation A Youth Sex Comedy", and some even called it "Taiwan's American Pie".
But "Love Elixir" is more complicated than the simple and rough "American Pie" can be more complicated by more than one dimension: 9 stories, 12 characters, by Su Zhaobin calmly woven into this warm and sad love movie with a core, and the fairytale-like human setting and the complicated and chaotic script structure once again prove his screenwriting talent.
"Love Elixir" is like a continuation of his unfinished story in "The Love of The Running Hand", and it is also a concentrated release of his otaku complex.
Another co-director, Li Fengbo, is known for shooting MV, and his avant-garde images make the film's temperament more unique.
Guang Liang starred in the male number one of "Love Elixir"
"Double Pupil", which was praised as the "peak of domestic horror films", was also a "rescue work" for the sluggish Taiwanese film industry that year.
Because the core creativity of "Detective Chinatown 2" in this year's Spring Festival file is similar to it, the fan circle has set off a boom in revisiting "Double Pupil".
Getting to know director Chen Guofu is probably one of the important turning points in Su Zhaobin's life - Chen Guofu persuaded the international company Columbia to use the script of the new screenwriter and attract Hong Kong and Taiwan power movie stars to finally complete this landmark horror classic.
It appropriately blends local culture, social observation and genre style to create the boldness of a big production.
The depth of humanity explored and demonstrated in "Double Pupil" is rare
4 good meals are not afraid of late
After the peak period of creation, Su Zhaobin fell silent for four years.
Four years is enough to make the frequently updated entertainment industry forget a star, but a talented and hard-working creator can always find the best way to return.
In 2006, Su Zhaobin launched his second directorial work "Tricky Silk", which is still a horror theme, compared to the small-scale romantic comedy that he tried when he first directed the barrel, the big production, the star cast, and the "Tricky Silk" that added high-tech elements really has the meaning of "calling" the "Double Pupil" of that year.
Recognize ghosts, study ghosts, and explain ghosts in human perspectives to understand death, and then live better, and live happily, so that resentment dissipates.
This idea of intertwining cold and warmth of human nature makes "Strange Silk" stand out from the crowd of horror films that focus on scariness.
The Chinese and Japanese cast of "Strange Silk" is strong
After "The Silk", it was another four years. In 2010, Su Zhaobin's sword was sheathed again, and this time, the theme he chose was martial arts.
"Every male director wants to make a martial arts film." He is not satisfied with flying cornices and strange tricks, but still tries to care for the most complex emotions in the depths of human nature.
Even if the role is small, the personality is by no means flat. "Sword Rain" was promoted by Wu Yusen, and the poster was even directly marked with the slogan of "Wu Yusen's works".
But Su Zhaobin was at ease with this, and he was very grateful for the opinions and resources of his predecessors. A good Script like Su Zhaobin, coupled with an international shooting team, "Sword Rain" has been called "the best Chinese martial arts film after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" by film critics.
Su Zhaobin and Wu Yusen
5 Who is Su Zhaobin?
Two four years have passed, and the time has come to 2018.
Over the years, Su Zhaobin has been busy supporting new directors and also doing screenwriting for commercial projects of big directors, and the fourth directorial work that fans have been waiting for has not arrived.
According to him in the interview, it will be a science fiction movie that has been in preparation for more than a decade. He said, "The script is not written, it is changed over and over again. ”
In 2014, Su Zhaobin's "Chasing Love Layout" as a screenwriter and producer was released in the mainland.
A film reporter simply wrote in the interview draft that "in today's entire echelon of new Chinese directors, Su Zhaobin is the one with the largest inverse ratio of creativity and awareness, and there is no one." ”
Fans who love Su Zhaobin will agree with this view, but for this director who made his debut in 2002 and constantly opened up new themes, the word "new" also makes people cry and laugh.
Who is Su Zhaobin?
After the list of judges for this year's First Youth Film Festival was announced, I am afraid that many people will ask this question.
He is a screenwriter, director, producer, producer, and is a veritable "sweeping monk" in the Chinese film circle.
He has a sensitivity and fanaticism for stories, but has an extraordinary calmness and obsession with creation.
He won't let go easily, nor will he rush to make a move. These qualities are the greatest wealth he can bring to young filmmakers.
Su Zhaobin's nickname is "Big Eye Boy", and his eyes are not large, but he often wears glasses with large frames.
Years ago, he drew a comic with a brush during his journey, calling it "the latest masterpiece of cinema on paper." At that time, he had not yet entered the film industry.
Su Zhaobin comics
Now it seems that this comic strip of jokes has also become a portrayal of his life.
Not satisfied with the status quo, insist on fighting with yourself, and see the world with your eyes wide open.
The decision to switch to film is more like a kind of fate, he jumped from the program to the image, and then into a more real life.
And the film also healed the anxiety of his youth, realized his teenage dreams, and helped him study the mysteries of love. The film did not treat him badly.
Movies don't treat anyone who really loves it badly.
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