is directed by Li Yang, the director of Douban's high-scoring short films " The Adventures of Li Xianji " and " Bad Future ", and stars Zhang Ruoyun , Zhong Chuxi , Song Yang , Wu Xiaoliang and others in the movie " Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" ", it has been announced that it will be released nationwide on August 2.
The film tells the story of Wang Zha and his two friends on the distant K planet. They accidentally have the super power to travel back and forth in time and space for twenty years just by sneezing. However, in the future world, they have not become their ideal selves. Faced with a shocking conspiracy to destroy the world, young people must take on the important responsibility of human life and death.
"Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" poster
Since the film started screening in the past week, the film has received more than 15 million box office and gained a high reputation. On July 26, the film's director Li Yang, producer Wang Hongwei and starring Zhang Ruoyun, Song Yang, and Li Chenhao came to Shanghai Grand Guangming Cinema to share the crazy and romantic movie journey with thousands of viewers.
Group photo of the main creative staff
Zhang Ruoyun: "I want to go back and watch every fireworks in the past"
When talking about the origin of the film, Li Yang said that he had experienced a huge trough in his life at that time, and he just wanted to write the story of three partners. But suddenly I realized, "None of my 18-year-old friends have come with me now." The lost Li Yang summarized his own problems and projected them onto the characters in the movie. For example, Wang Zha is full of fear of the future and always misses precious things in the intersection with time; Cheng Yong does not ask for help when encountering difficulties and always wants to He tries to be strong and looks like a man, but in fact he is afraid of the disappointment of others; Paopao cannot have a clear and correct self-understanding of himself, "turning them into partners, as if these problems with me will eventually follow me into the grave." "
Zhang Ruoyun plays Wang Zha
The three actors used more humorous language to claim their roles. Zhang Ruoyun said that he was a "retarded person in charge", Song Yang joked that he was a "face-saving person in charge", and Li Chenhao claimed to be an "escape person." Take responsibility”.
Wang Zha, played by Zhang Ruoyun, is simple and sincere in the film. With an 18-year-old soul, he travels between the two eras of 1999 and 2019, maintaining a firm heart of innocence and a full sense of being a middle-aged boy. This also caused a lot of trouble. Less jokes. He once described this performance as "justified childishness". When talking about his acting experience, he said frankly: "There is no technical difficulty in playing this role. The only thing is that it may be difficult for us to imagine that a person is no different between an 18-year-old and a 38-year-old. The sense of belief in this process must be very strong. "
Song Yang said when talking about his role, "Chengyong is relatively mature among the three brothers. He is too conceited and is afraid of hurting his self-esteem. , he has experienced a lot, and his heart is a little more complicated, but he is an 18-year-old kid at heart, so I have to find a way, not to use my 38-year-old age to deal with some thoughts. Complex, actors have to work hard to dig out its complex aspects. On the contrary, I am reducing those complex aspects and doing the process of subtraction."
Li Chenhao, who plays Bubble, has become a "better version of himself" in the future. Also lost. Li Chenhao said, "We are actually all clones of the director, and they are also three problems that are easy to encounter in teenagers. Therefore, when we present it, we need to reduce it to the dimension of our own character and go to the extreme."
"Those three people are my clones, so when they collide with each other, they become more three-dimensional characters." Li Yang revealed the relationship and status of the three people in this way.
After watching the movie, the media at the scene asked a mind-bending question: If you were given the ability to travel back in time, which moment would you want to go back to? The answers given by the main creators were varied and thought-provoking.
Song Yang analyzed rationally, "It depends on whether I can come back? If I can, then I will go back and change any injustice and injustice I suffered when I was a child. If I can't come back, then I won't want it. I am quite satisfied with who I am now." I'm afraid something might go wrong in my life. I'm grateful for everything today."
Zhang Ruoyun's answer was much more romantic, "I'm not particularly interested in changing the bad things in the past. "All these painful things that happened have actually shaped me, but I am the kind of person who, if I could go back and forth, would want to go back and watch every fireworks in the past." Zhang Ruoyun further explained, "Those." Beautiful moments cannot be copied. When people are pessimistic, they start to feel sad the moment the fireworks bloom. If I can go back and forth infinitely, at least I can simply enjoy its beauty while watching it. "At the same time, he is also naughty. He said that he wanted to travel back in time to "the night before secretly watching the screening", "Then, I have eyes that have not seen "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century"."
produces " The Wandering Earth " " Wang Hongwei, who has worked on many science fiction films such as "Space Exploration Editorial Department ", said that regarding his own life, he "doesn't want to go back to the past at all". "I don't have that nostalgia for the past, and I don't have any regrets. Maybe I will live to my age." I understand that those are of little value. "
But as a science fiction fan, Wang Hongwei still hopes, "If I have this opportunity, I can travel back 100 years to 2124, the 22nd century, and see the world. Will it get better or worse, and if so, how bad will it be? Do people of that era still have the courage to resist? Let’s see if anyone will still mention this movie 100 years later.”
Li Yang: Using the thinking of an animation director to make a live-action movie
The first round of screenings of the movie "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" received extremely high praise and reputation. Since the screening started on July 18, audiences have given explosive praise for the film's extraordinary imagination and wide-open imagination. The reviews include "Personally the best of 2024" and "A movie that must be seen in the cinema", etc. Brings you an unprecedented movie-watching experience. In addition,the visual effects and editing rhythm of the film have also been highly praised by the audience. In the 98-minute film,the ultra-fast editing rhythm and the lens setting of changing every 3 seconds,there are also hidden in the details of the picture. The strong visual impact brought by the easter eggs and wild imagination is the sincerity that Director Li Yang brings to everyone.
As the producer, Wang Hongwei, a professor at Beijing Film Academy, spoke highly of this film. Although he is much older than Li Yang, he is also a fan of Li Yang. “When I saw the script, I was surprised that he was able to combine so many elements. Mixed together, there are very serious elements, and very sincere and brave parts. And starting from the text, his skills are abundant and skillful, which is a very rare thing. "
has a very open mind. In an unconventional way of expression, Li Yang said that he was originally an animation person, "so in my mind, I always linger on the composition and editing methods of those animations. When I was drawing the storyboards, I was also very influenced by animation." Impact." But after the actual filming started, Li Yang also discovered, "The movie is not about one person fighting, but everyone fighting together as an army. Sometimes in front of the monitor, the actors' performances are far beyond what I had imagined in my mind. The two-dimensional effect and the characters are very moving; the photography and art also have their own very professional qualities and advanced aesthetics. They helped me complete the current story."
Xu Zheng in the audience spoke after the screening. , he was very "jealous" when he heard the audience laughing so loudly. He asserted that Li Yang will become an important figure among Chinese film directors in the future, "a genius and a weirdo."
Flashy special effects and hilarious Underneath the comedy jokes, the film continues the consistent theme of Li Yang's previous short films. The hidden pain of growing up is submerged in the passing time, and no matter how hard you work, you can't keep it.Li Yang admitted frankly that he actually "wanted to use all kinds of tricks that make everyone happy to cover up the fangs of suffering, because we have all experienced various sufferings, especially in recent years, it seems that it has not been easy for everyone, so I wanted to tell a happy story Tell the story to everyone.”
The crows in the movie " Red Alert" and the game cartridges of "Street Fighter" all belong to the nostalgic youth of people in the 1980s. I wonder if the director's private interests can impress today's people. For young viewers, Zhang Ruoyun said that as a starring actor, there are actually about "about 40% of the jokes in the movie that I don't understand." "But it doesn't affect my synesthesia. Those things don't belong to my era, but it doesn't stop me from taking my time." To perceive the corresponding things in youth, I know what this thing means, so what is important is not the youth of a specific era, but the generation after generation. The baptism of pop culture they experienced when they were young has brought about A memory of youth. "
As a director with a distinctive style, the large-scale fighting scenes in Li Yang's films are also impressive. Some viewers at the scene questioned the film, believing that the film contained expressions that tended to be bloody and violent, which was not conducive to the perception of young summer audiences. In response to this, Li Yang said that the characters in the movie are all adult stories, "The youngest is 18 years old, and women are also very brave. Bravery not only means that we can fight against bad guys, but also that we can fight against bad people when we are hurt. "When we are 18, we can withstand those injuries, which is also a very important part of bravery."
Li Yang believes, "When I was 18 years old, the most important lesson was to learn to be brave. Sometimes, we have to face it." All kinds of violence. You have to be familiar with it. If you are not familiar with it, you will become a slave to violence and accept it. I think that excessive protection is as scary as excessive violence. " The reporter defended his own expression, and this eloquent reply made the audience burst into applause.
