is approaching, and there is only more than one month left in 2020. In the context of the normalization of the epidemic, the development of the film industry has been particularly difficult this year. After the downturn in the first half of the year, many films began to exert their strength gradually in the second half of the year. The works represented by a batch of films such as "My Hometown and My Hometown", "Yaobai", "Kingangchuan" and other films have all won at the box office. Outstanding results. And the upcoming December is the last time left for filmmakers to besiege 2020.
In the film to be released in December, there is a topical sincere work that is worthy of attention. It is the large-scale campus inspirational youth film " Slam Dunk Contract " created by the industry's independent producer Wang Dawei. ".
Wang Dawei obtained a master's degree in fine arts from Peking University in 2010. He also served as a member of the advisory committee of the Golden Koala International Chinese Film Festival. His representative works include the movies "Die Fairy Tale 2", "A Painful Seventeen", and "Lone Fight" Wait.
"Slam Dunk's Contract" takes high school student Jiang Yi's pursuit of basketball dreams as the main storyline. It tells the story of a high school team overcoming resistance and entering the high school league from a female perspective. Wang Dawei is not only the screenwriter of the film, but also the chief producer. He is one of the few youth-themed movies to be released in December.
In the past few years, as the film industry has matured, the tastes and appeals of audiences have gradually become individual and diversified. The homogeneity of domestic youth films has also caused the audience’s aesthetic fatigue and reluctance to pay for the box office. Turn to the realism themes of the film.
Faced with this situation, Mr. Wang Dawei said: “The story ideas used to make films were based on the structure of commercial films. The core of the slam dunk story is actually the fusion of two true stories, a story about basketball and A story about the band. Some friends in the middle suggested that the structure can be more commercial, but we feel that the real is the power."
Faced with the title of the film which is highly similar to the previous classic anime, it was questioned as "crushing" IP” view. Wang Dawei also has his own clear stance. He believes that although the names are similar, "Slam Dunk’s Contract" is the Chinese player’s own story, just like CBA and Naigao. Although the name and rules are similar to well-known foreign competitions, But they are all Chinese leagues, so the existence of the league has solidly promoted the development of Chinese basketball. If it has anything to do with that once classic anime, it is the inheritance and development of the "slam dunk spirit".
"Because I play basketball and I am also a heavy slam dunk enthusiast. "Slam Dunk" is an important memory symbol of 7080. Unfortunately, "Slam Dunk" has never been performed by real people on the big screen. I and some foreign countries My colleagues have also talked about it. We think that when the screenwriters of each country can interpret the spirit of slam dunk in accordance with their own basketball culture, when dunk masters of all skin colors appear together on the screen, it is the most meaningful for slam dunk Salute." Wang Dawei said truthfully.
In addition to the aspect of youth theme, another major aspect of "Slam Dunk" is that this is a typified basketball sports movie. Since it is a genre film, what efforts have the main creators made to achieve typification?
Wang Dawei shared: “Basketball movies are not easy to shoot. We don’t want to hold up the theme of basketball and tell stories outside the court. Most of the stories in the movie take place on the court, and actors who can play, act, and flow. There are only a handful of them. Our scene was filmed in a clumsy way. More than two months before the start of the show, most of the actors gathered together and started living and training together. On the one hand, they had to practice dozens of sets of skills and tactics in the game. They are also familiar with each other, creating the feeling of real classmates and teammates. At this stage, we found that actors who don’t know how to play basketball, from the performance of the scene to the off-court temperament, are difficult to integrate with the role. After repeated measurement, we decided to use multiple Actors who have graduated from Chinese opera and have been baptized by basketball programs like "This Is Slam Dunk" are themselves CUBA-level, so we didn't use Via and doubles in the whole film, and dozens of sets of techniques and tactics were all real. "
Although the so-called blockbusters get together at the end of the year, Wang Da is the firstAs the chief producer of the film, he chose to believe in the audience: "Now movie audiences have become more mature. Compared with traffic stars, a solid and good story is more that audiences are willing to see."
Filmmakers must not only have a good artistic accomplishment and be responsible for the artistic quality of their works, but also have a certain business acumen to make rational judgments on the film's market potential. Being both a screenwriter and a producer seems to have gained more initiative and can guarantee the integrity of the author's expression to a certain extent. But there is no shortage of creators with strong styles like Jiang Wen who will fall into idealistic self-expression and personally produce a "Box Office Waterloo" such as "One Step Away".
At this point, Wang Dawei also has a clear self-awareness. "Producers with screenwriting backgrounds, because they know the story very well, are often more efficient when communicating with directors and other main creators. However, because of the existence of other partners such as production and distribution, they will focus on my drama When I was writing and managing the crew, it was a good supplement."
