Original title Chen Kexin: The instinct that triggers emotional resonance is self-expression
Directed by Chen Kexin, the movie "Win the Championship" starring Gong Li, Huang Bo, Wu Gang, Peng Yuchang, Bailang, and the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team is currently being screened. The film traverses the 40-year ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team, showing the spirit of "the motherland is supreme, unity and cooperation, tenacious struggle, never give up" in the changing times.
In recent years, Chen Kexin's works are mostly based on real characters in contemporary China. From "Chinese Partner" to "Dear", to today's "Win the Championship", he is good at realism themes. Focusing on the Chinese women's volleyball team this time, Chen Kexin hopes to find some content that is more relevant to the audience, so that the audience can drive emotions when watching movies, and find some characters that are more grounded under the emotions.
Chen Kexin recalled, "In 1978, at the age of 16, I witnessed the 18-year-old Lang Ping's debut in the international competition. I was very shocked to see the Chinese people's madness for the Chinese women's volleyball team and the excitement after winning." Love has long surpassed sports itself, which made Chen Kexin determined to take over the filming of this movie.
"Win the Championship" tells a long-term Chinese story through the shaping of a sports team, two people, and three generations of women's volleyball girls. The film was written from 1979 to 2016. Over a span of more than 30 years, the story of the women's volleyball team reflects the development of China. The core of the film is the spirit of the women's volleyball team. "Why (women's volleyball) won in the 1980s, how to win now, where are the 60s and even the 50s, and where is the change in China? This is one of the most important themes of this movie." In Chen Kexin's view, This contains values from different generations. The audience can relive the changes in these decades with children, parents, and grandparents.
Chen Kexin said that the spirit of the women's volleyball team had a very different meaning in the 1980s. In 1978, China's reform and opening up embraced the world and was also embraced by the world, and the women's volleyball team went international. At that time, China wanted the world to see itself, and the women's volleyball team was to show the world to China. "It's really not as simple as a sport, but a Chinese spirit." The topic of Chinese women's volleyball team has a huge connotation. Chen Kexin started with the story of the women's volleyball team and saw the whole background from a small glimpse, and then photographed this background from the entire reform and opening up, the early 1980s to New China. Before that, he has repeatedly tried filming cross-epoch scenes, but this time he will fully express the changes in China over the past few decades.
There are a lot of tears in "Win the Championship". The women's volleyball girls are too hard to train to make people cry, and to win the championship in Japan makes people cry. Zhu Ting can’t find a goal to play, too hard and too unconfident to make people cry, 18 years old Lang is training hard day after day to make people cry...Many viewers called the director to ask for "reimbursement of tissues" after watching the film. Chen Kexin said with a smile: "Every time someone tells me,'I watched your movie and cried again', I don't know if it is a compliment or a derogation." The "tear point" is the natural emotional expression of the audience towards Chen Kexin's works. This emotional resonance It is also regarded by him as an instinct for self-expression, "I also like watching movies. Sometimes it is easy to be moved by emotions, so many times when I make movies, I will naturally shoot a lot of emotional things. People who like to cry You will feel that this work is good, and some viewers will also feel that it is too sensational." The work is like a human being. Chen Kexin is good at capturing subtle emotions and mobilizing the audience’s emotions. In "Win the Championship", the emotional bonds he outlined make the audience feel The Chinese women's volleyball team found emotional resonance under the story.
, the movie "Win the Championship" since its release on September 25, has received nearly 300 million yuan in box office. When it comes to whether he is satisfied with this achievement, Chen Kexin is quite relieved. He believes that film is a passive art that needs to be tested by the audience and the market. "For creators, try their best to shootAfter "Win the Championship", I am quite satisfied with the creation and production including the process. We are very fortunate to be able to make such a film. I have not left any regrets, but how the market responds is a market-led matter, and we have to accept it. "Movies need more and more different types to come in. You can't just shoot one type or a few types forever. For Chen Kexin, as long as you finish it without regret, it is already the best arrangement.
