Jimu News chief reporter Rong Yu
Photojournalist Xiao Hao
"We have worked hard enough, so we deserve to be respected and deserve a better life."
At the end of the movie " Retrograde Life ", The delivery boy played by Xu Zheng said: He said this while looking at the camera, which actually explains why Xu Zheng wanted to make this movie with a group of delivery people as the protagonist.
html On August 3, the famous actor Xu Zheng came to Han to promote the movie "Retrograde Life" written, directed and starring by him. When interacting with Jiangcheng audiences, he said that if everyone watches "Retrograde Life", he will order the first takeaway order when he goes back. Being able to give the delivery man a good review is the value of this movie.
Wuhan road show scene
Xu Zheng delivers food
No customer recognized him
A 45-year-old unemployed man decided to deliver food. In the
movie "Retrograde Life", Xu Zheng plays the role of Gao Zhilei, a 45-year-old employee of a "big company" in the Internet. He suddenly lost his job in middle age. He submitted more than 1,000 resumes but failed to find a "next job". Faced with the medical bills and children of the elderly, He decided to become a delivery boy and challenge himself to become a "single king" with a monthly income of 15,000 yuan.
At the takeout station where Gao Zhilei is located, there are female takeaways who run orders with their children, there are "order kings" who seem to be very selfish but actually have difficulties, there are young people who start live broadcasts to deliver takeaways every day, and there are also father and son generations. Mr. Lotte who delivers food together... Behind the appearances of all beings on the site are the real lights of thousands of families. Delivery is late and you get scolded; you have a bad attitude and you get bad reviews; and what you fear the most is a traffic accident - Xu Zheng said that the experiences of these delivery people in the movie all stem from the information collection and research that he and his team conducted. There are real prototypes.
In order to allow the entire crew to observe the life and working conditions of real takeaways, Xu Zheng set the location next to the real takeout station, and all the staff in front of and behind the scenes had to go to the takeout station to experience life first. "I took The entire crew, including the photography teacher, art teacher, props teacher, and all our actors, went to different places to deliver the food, because if you don’t go there yourself, it’s impossible to understand the details.”
Xu Zheng
According to Xu Zheng. According to the introduction, during the experience of delivering food, one of the details that impressed him most was, "No one recognized me at all. I don't mean that I have to be recognized because I am a celebrity, but most of the time, everyone is taking the food." When taking out food, you don’t even look at the delivery person’s face, just the action of bringing the lunch box over.”
Therefore, Xu Zheng deliberately shot a lot of the delivery person’s faces in the movie this time, “I feel that every face is unique. It’s very vivid. Every ordinary person has a story behind him. Everyone has worked really hard, so be kind to yourself and others, okay? ”
Delivering food
is not a simple physical job.
In addition to Xu Zheng, several leading actors Feng Bing, Wu Jiakai, Liu Meihan who played the delivery boy in "Retrograde Life" also participated in the Wuhan roadshow to share their creative experiences with the audience. It is worth mentioning that when actor Feng Bing, who gained attention for his role as "Old Mo" in the TV series "Crazy", stood on the stage, the audience immediately shouted, "Old Mo, I want to eat fish!" And Xu Zheng also cooperated with the audience very well. , suggested that Feng Bing try to stand towards the light place, "Otherwise the light will cover half of your face, which looks like Lao Mo."
Feng Bing
Feng Bing calmly advised everyone, "Today we will talk about "Retrograde Life" first. "Then he talked about his experience of life as a delivery boy in Shandong and Inner Mongolia. In his opinion, food delivery is a job that serves the people, and as long as it is serving the people, it is very worthy of respect.
Liu Meihan
Liu Meihan, who plays a female delivery girl in the movie, repeatedly emphasized to the audience that delivering food is not a simple manual labor, but a dual combination of physical strength and mental power. "Look at the delivery boy riding an electric bike and swishing past. , but in fact he has to look at the navigation, contact the customer, and know how much time is left on the order, which is a great test of his brainpower and judgment."
Wu Jiakai
Xu Zheng said during the interaction that he has always paid attention to realism themes. , and "delivery" is a topic that everyone is very familiar with. "Every one of us has ordered takeout, just operate it with a mobile phone, and then take it as soon as we reach for the food. But we hope that through a movie, we can bring Everyone is immersed in delivering orders, letting you know what a delivery person goes through to deliver an order. "Xu Zheng believes that the story of this group of delivery people is widely radiant and can create an emotional connection with ordinary audiences.
The box office issue
Xu Zheng said he would not consider it
When the movie "Retrograde Life" was first exposed, some film critics compared it with "I am not the god of medicine " and believed that both movies are rooted in reality and have Upward vitality. Regarding this comparison, Xu Zheng said that he hopes to use movies to convey goodwill, "Whether it's 'The God of Medicine' or this movie, we hope that everyone can feel the same after watching it."
As for whether "Retrograde Life" can remake "I" The box office myth of "Not the God of Medicine", Xu Zheng feels that is not what he needs to consider, "If everyone watches it and thinks it is a good movie, they will definitely bring their friends and family to watch it again, so I don't have to think about the box office ) result."
Xu Zheng
Xu Zheng still remembers that when he collaborated with director Wen Muye on "I'm Not the God of Medicine," "I was the producer and actor. Before the movie was released, we estimated the box office to be about 700 million or 800 million. I didn’t expect that this movie would be booked everywhere. Lawyers, courts, patient groups, hospitals...all groups booked the movie. I really didn’t expect that it would have such a wide social reach, and the final box office reached more than 3 billion.
Xu Zheng made no secret that in his career, he has also made many commercial films that did not perform well at the box office. Sometimes they were obviously comedies tailor-made for the audience, but the audience just didn't buy it. "It's actually quite difficult. In the end you just You can only leave it to your own intuition to make the judgement."
Xu Zheng
Xu Zheng hopes that "Retrograde Life" can gain more empathy from the audience, "Each of us is very hardworking and hardworking, and sometimes we really need to give ourselves some time. A little red flower, this (emotion) can be penetrated. If everyone can empathize with this after watching the movie, I think it is a victory.”
(Source: Jimu News)
