1905 Film Network Three Chinese-language films shortlisted for the main competition unit of this Shanghai International Film Festival, "Risk Risk" appeared last. On the morning of the screening, the lead actor Dapeng sent a message to producer Cao Baoping and director Gan Jianyu-"I'm very nervous". Cao Baoping replied: "I am also very nervous."
After all, "Let's Take Risks" is Gan Jianyu's first cinematic feature film, which is very different from the style of his previous graduation work "Primary School Chicken Movie". Cao Baoping caught the script at a glance in the venture capital of a film festival. The intricate relationship between the characters and the interlocking plots are progressive, plus the indispensable action scenes in the crime genre. He who prefers such themes will be It is not surprising that Gan Jianyu's story moves.
Cao Baoping said that Chinese-language films have never lacked imaginative independent directors, but good feature films have been lacking. The first version of the script of "Let's Take Risks" allowed him to see the possibility of making excellent genre films in A-Gump. So Cao Baoping chose to escort this young man as a producer.
So, is today's "Risk" what Cao Baoping wants?
[The following content involves spoilers] The
film, like many works of the same type, brought together several groups of people who were originally scattered everywhere with one incident:
mechanic Liu Xiaojun (played by Dapeng) gambling and owing debts Money, Lao Wan, the owner of a used car shop, gave him a trick to steal the black car. Unexpectedly, it accidentally broke the kidnapping plan of desperadoes Xia Tao, Xia Xi, and the wine seller Zhang Qian. Hearing that the other party was willing to pay a large ransom, Liu Xiaojun, who was driven to a dead end by debt, had the idea of "taking a risk", but the consequences of a momentary greed far exceeded his imagination.
Dapeng took off his glasses and
, the two main characters-Liu Xiaojun played by Dapeng, took off his iconic glasses and put away the funny cells, even though the familiar sense of comedy in Dapeng’s performance was still in the process. Occasionally penetrates his "simple" appearance, but it can be seen that he is trying to digest this different role from the past. The same is true for Ou Hao, who played the villain for the first time. The appearance of "Ruffian" has not changed much, but the interaction with her brother Xia Tao (played by Sha Baoliang) in the half of the plot made Xia Xi obey and even a little bit paranoid towards her brother. The fierceness seems very sensational. The few lines also give the audience more space to imagine the characters.
Ou Hao starred in the villain Xia Xi
plot interlocking sense of layering is the most affirmative place in "Risk". If Lao Wan persuaded Liu Xiaojun to steal the car and toppled the first domino on the story line, then Liu Xiaojun’s choice when facing the kidnapping case was to open the “Pandora’s Box” and he upgraded from a car thief. In order to kidnap the criminal, he became a bigger "sinner", and the other side confronted the Xia brothers and became the guardian of the little girl. The excellent performance of the little girl
adds a lot of points to the film. The characters' choice of money and love clearly divides "Risk Risk" into two parts, which is also the change of human nature that director Gan Jianyu hopes to express and discuss under the shell of crime genre films. The gambler Liu Xiaojun urgently needs cash to repay his debts, but when a ransom of 2 million was within reach several times, he chose to give up again and again for the justice in his heart. Xia Tao had had enough of the poor days and firmly believed that rich people could live like an individual. Xia Xi did not hesitate to fight for his brother's wishes, but in the end they realized that in the face of life and death, there is no extraneous thing to take away.
Unfortunately, the 110-minute film length still does not seem to give enough space for the story to unfold. The characters are tied together through the case, but Liu Xiaojun’s reincarnation-like changes and other people’s motives for being involved in the case are severely unable to withstand scrutiny. The more compact and ingenious the plot is designed, the more obvious the sense of emptiness, and eventually he became a character. The fatal wound in shaping.
And Gan Jianyu revealed that many of the stories behind it-such as what kind of family changes made Xia Tao a desperate for money, and why did the dancer played by Li Meng kidnap a little girl at all costs to save her seriously ill father I actually finished shooting, but I chose to discard them in the final editing. From the director's point of view, the audience can penetrate this kind of blank space, and therefore have more imagination of the characters.
creation is a very personal thing after all, so whether this is a fly in the ointment or deliberately is still a matter of "different opinion". It's just that I am also curious at the moment, what does Cao Baoping, the producer who is good at shooting this subject matter, think.
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