"Find You"
"Lost"
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In June of this year, as a Chinese-language film shortlisted for the main competition of the Shanghai Film Festival Golden Goblet Award, "Find You" attracted much attention, setting off a discussion on the plight of contemporary women. The story started from a kidnapping case, telling the fate of the two mothers, the successful woman played by Yao Chen and the low-level woman played by Ma Yili, intertwined in the process of looking for children.
Actually, the "one book, two shots" situation is no stranger to the film industry. Previously, the most successful case was "Returning to 20" in 2015. The Korean version of the film "Strange She" was first released and received 8.65 million movie viewers in South Korea; then, the Chinese version was recreated based on its script. "Back to 20" is directed by Chen Zhengdao, starring Yang Zishan, and has a box office of 360 million yuan in China. The
double-shot is one IP version, and the method of developing two films in Korea and China at the same time can have a more accurate grasp of the market and help make up for the "cultural differences" that cannot be ignored between the films of the two countries. This time, "Find You" once again used this kind of creative method to avoid the situation of inadequacy. Producer Chen Jie of
revealed that he saw Korean scripts in early 2016, “At that time, Korean films had not yet been shot. All copyright signing was completed in May 2016. Korean films were released at the end of 2016. We learned from this process. The structure and settings of the basic characters of the original script have been modified, and many local adaptations have been made, especially the two women living under one roof, what kind of chemical reaction resulted from getting along, which deliberately increased a lot of space."
Yao Chen in "You" and Yan Zhiyuan in "Lost: The Disappeared Woman" both play the role of a working mother who has lost her child, but their job is completely different. Yao Chen is a lawyer and Yan Zhiyuan plays a company employee. "Find You" screenwriter Qin Haiyan said that the localization of the film is also one of the difficulties. It is necessary to carefully portray the life background, career direction and spiritual collision of the two heroines Yao Chen and Ma Yili. They cannot be separated from the local Chinese social environment. Therefore, she put in the personal experience of herself and the Chinese mothers around her.
