Director Diao Yinan
Director Diao Yinan likes train stations, and thinks this is a very romantic place, where people gather, disperse and reunite, and this is also the transit point of fate. Therefore, he named the new film "The Party at Southern Station". Here, Zhou Zenong, played by Hu Ge, and Liu Aiai, played by Gui Lunmei, meet each other. They each have an unwillingness to tell others. The wet and hazy rainy night creates an atmosphere of mystery and curiosity.
won the Golden Bear Award for Best Picture and the Best Actor Award (Liao Fan) for his last work "Fireworks in the Day" at the Berlin Film Festival, which made people feel positive about Diao Yinan's new work " "The Gathering at Southern Station" has high hopes. Five years after "Fireworks in the Day", what kind of story will Diao Yinan tell this time?
In fact, there is not much mystery, the story of the film originated from a "daydream" and a news report by Diao Yinan.
story
"fight for bounty" gambling imagination can also shine into reality
"The Gathering at Southern Station" was released on December 6th, telling the story of a car theft gang leader who is wanted for a reward and embarked on the road to escape, but brewing A gambling game of "fighting for bounty", the story of seeking self-salvation.
Diao Yinan said that after sitting on the sofa one day, he suddenly felt that a possible way for those who have no money to obtain huge sums of money is that they are wanted and are carrying huge bounties. "This bounty is the presentation of the most valuable result in his life. It may indeed sound like an incredible daydream. Then I think this story is too narcissistic, so I probably remembered it and threw it aside. "
did not expect that after two years, this story that was shelved aside actually happened. "Probably in 2014, after filming "Fireworks in the Day", I suddenly saw a real event in the news. Northeast Brother killed a policeman and escaped from prison near Harbin. He hid on a hill near his village and hid for about a week. He couldn't bear the hunger and cold. So he went to the small shop in the village to ask for some food and drink, but suddenly he found a small seller. There was a wanted warrant in the shop. When he saw that he was worth 100,000 yuan, he thought that he had never been worth so much in his life, so he decided to leave the money to his niece, so he returned to his relatives’ house and ate the last one. A sumptuous meal, many relatives were called to tie him up and handed over to the public security organs." Diao Yinan said. The true story of
made Diao Yinan found out that he had "hypocritical thinking" earlier, and it seemed that he did not break away from life. "In other words, my feeling is a certain premonition of life, when you can't experience what you wrote. In the whole content, what an author relies on to go further is actually a premonition of life. We call it inspiration, or a combination of inspiration and premonition." Why does
pay attention to the fate of a fugitive? Diao Yinan said, probably because I am afraid of death, so I am very sensitive to death and confusion. This fugitive can be said to be facing the ultimate distress of life, that is, how to realize his life value, "No society can eliminate our sadness in life and get rid of Fear of death. The only way to overcome death and solve these confusions is to act, and this fugitive can make me feel that he is in such a dangerous environment and changed myself through action. "The Gathering at South Station" tells It's a story of a person fighting with his heart and death. The owner shared 36 hours to give answers, and he saved his or sad life in time. "
style
wants to tell the audience in addition to a story. A world
"The Gathering at Southern Station" is not a story that makes people happy to watch. Rainy night accounts for a large proportion of the film. Therefore, some people put forward the concept of this film as a Chinese new film noir, thinking that it has absorbed a lot of Western The nutrients of the image are also integrated into the local context. In this regard, Diao Yinan confessed that he didn’t think so much when shooting: “We are just looking for a space that fits the atmosphere of the script for the first time during the shooting process, and then shoot it according to our ideas. For example, when shooting, we will emphasize some There is a combination of scheduled scenes and segmentation. When editing, we will also leave some information, unclosed breath, and then inspire some uncertain reasoning of the audience, and make some unreliable descriptions of events. In fact, more are Let everyone get a certain kind of open experience, as well as a space for abstract interpretation of the film’s story." The
space is the one that Diao Yinan has alwaysEmphasized, because in addition to wanting to give the audience a story, but also want to give the audience a world. In Diao Yinan’s view, the story may be a rhizome. When the audience pulls up this rhizome, some soil will be scattered around. “In addition, we also emphasize the unclosed and unsmoothness of the story, which means that every shot or every paragraph is There is autonomy, let it develop to a vertex. It is like a lot of vector fragments. When these autonomously developed fragments rush to a place, these vectors will become a line of action."
Diao Yinan revealed that the crew watched the scene. At the time, the grasp and requirements of space have gone through many screenings, “because our method is based on space, not performance. All starting points, first is space, and actors are also thrown into it. In the space of knowledge, they are thrown into the atmosphere, and then the actor himself finds a certain physical posture, fits with this space, fits with the image, and becomes a part of the image. So the space is an atmosphere and situational space for this movie. Requirement."
shooting
more than 80 scenes need to be old night scenes and group scenes, the most difficult filming
"The Party in the South Station" shooting period of up to 5 months. Because the film tells the story around 2009, all the more than 80 scenes in the film need to be worn out, and 85% are night scenes. In the hot and rainy summer in the south, with short days and short nights, the daily shooting time is extremely tight. The crew has more than 2,000 group performers in the big scene scheduling. In the limited shooting time, the crew not only worked hard on the lighting setting, but also adhered to the extremely high standards in the shooting of the big scene group drama.
Therefore, shooting night scenes and group scenes is also the most difficult part of Diao Yinan's filming of this movie: "The biggest difficulty is that there are too many night scenes, photography and lighting, and the challenges are extremely demanding, because night scenes require lighting and Physical strength and time limit. If these are assembled together, the pressure of photography will be very great." Diao Yinan admitted that the film has the current effect, thanks to the entire production team. The lineup behind "The Party at Southern Station" includes the photography director Dong Jinsong, who has worked with Diao Yinan for many years, the art director Liu Qiang, who won the Best Art Design Award for "Fireworks in the Day"; and the lighting director Huang Zhiming has participated in classic works such as "In the Mood for Love" .
Diao Yinan said that every time he shoots a group show with many actors, he will be very anxious. “We will also have a meeting before shooting and ask the producer for time. This is all an expression of anxiety. But once you enter this space, Everything seems to have entered a kind of track. My entire production team is very good, and everyone will do it very well from their own perspective."
Regarding the long shots in the film, Diao Yinan said that it was him and photographer Dong Jinsong. Since the two have been working together, they have always pursued long shots. "This is also a basis for fun. If we shoot a more successful long shot, we will be very happy, as if we are happier than split shots. But I also think the split shots are very important. In our movie, I want to organize the language according to the emotions of each scene and each paragraph, instead of saying that we asked the movie to be a long shot from the beginning. In other words, this movie is a split shot."
actor
regrets that Liao Fan has less space and Hu Ge gets a different experience
In "The Gathering of Southern Station", Liao Fan and Gui Lunmei are the same as Diao Yinan after "Fireworks in the Day" Cooperating again, Diao Yinan feels regretful that Liao Fan played less in this movie, "This is the only regret. He did not give him more room to play. But of course he also understands that one script cannot be done for every one. The role is endowed with so much content, and he has done what he should do very well, and is very careful to shape this role."
praised Gui Lunmei and Diao Yinan very much. In order to film "The Party at Southern Station", Gui Lunmei also went After learning the Wuhan dialect, Diao Yinan thinks that a Taiwanese actor can perform such a textured mainland girl, which is very amazing. "She made this character show mystery, mundane, and innocence. It is very difficult. She was heated during filming. The food poisoning caused me knocked down, has a low fever, but has persisted for the whole drama. Moreover, she was scalded in the last heavy scene. I think we should pay tribute to such an actress."
As for Hu Ge , Diao Yinan had previously revealed that he was moved by his image because he saw his photos in the magazine. At that time, Hu Ge was in a period of confusion at work, "has been waiting for a good script and a good role", so the two hit it off.
"South Station"The Gathering" is the first time that Hu Ge starred in a movie. Diao Yinan thinks that Hu Ge performed very well: "And I think he opened a door for his future. He will also get a different performance experience through this performance. What I ask of him is more physical movements. Because the body is more purely through avoiding the reality and eliminating the emptiness, through the freehand method, let people get a certain artistic beauty of gestures. It is more asking you to give me one The limit of posture, and sometimes we even feel that it will develop in a transcendental direction. Then this kind of thing is actually a more advanced performance."
Talking about the future, Diao Yinan said that he will continue to shoot good-looking and powerful movies. "A good-looking movie is a movie that has a story and a certain drama, attracts the audience to look down, and is not boring. It is a movie that can enter the theater line and can be watched and accepted by a broad audience. So this is the most romantic and The most valuable place. The other is that the movie is like a dream. You hide all the secrets in it, to express your values, and your thinking about life, to infect the audience."
Diao Yinan hopes to be in yourself In the movie, you can interact with the audience instead of directly presenting a result to the audience. "Based on the awe of life, we ourselves cannot become an authority to tell you what life is like, what it should be, and what people should be. No. In this way, life has a secret and we should be in awe of it. We try our best to show you the evidence, not the result. You can experience it.” Wen/Reporter Xiao Yang
Coordinator/Man Yi
