In 1990, Xie Fei 's new film " Benming Year " was a blockbuster at the Berlin Film Festival, and won the Silver Bear Award (Outstanding Personal Achievement Award), and also became " Red Sorghum " and " Evening Bell " ” followed by another Chinese film that won an award at the Berlin International Film Festival .
"Benming Year" could win the Silver Bear Award, which no one expected: because of an incident before the awards ceremony, the creators once thought that "Benming Year" had missed the Berlin Film Festival.
The Berlin Film Festival was extremely competitive. For example, Almodovar's "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Up", Schlondorff, "The Handmaid's Tale" and so on are all new works of great directors.
In order to promote the film, Xie Fei and Jiang Wen, who played the leading role in the film, printed thirty or forty movie posters and took them to Berlin, and posted them on the streets of Berlin the day before.
But the next morning, they went out and saw the huge posters of foreign movies on the street. The posters of "Benming Nian" were completely submerged.
In this case, Xie Fei, Jiang Wen and others couldn't help worrying that the film would be buried.
Fortunately, the judges of the Film Festival have discerning eyes, and finally awarded the Silver Bear Award to "Benming Year".
"Benming Year" is adapted from the novel "Black Snow" by writer Liu Heng. It tells that Li Huiquan, a young man in Beijing, re-entered the society after reform through labor.
01, Xie Fei's first work after returning to China, Liu Heng was electrocuted for the first time as a screenwriter
Xie Fei is one of the representatives of the fourth generation of directors in my country. Unlike other fourth-generation directors, Xie Fei In addition to film creation, he is also a professor of Beijing Film Academy , engaged in film teaching.
And "Benming Year" is the first work directed by Director Xie Fei after returning from a visiting study at the University of Southern California.
During his visit to school, Xie Fei came into contact with the concepts and methods of Western film art creation, and there have been great changes in film creation and aesthetics.
After returning to China, Xie Fei wanted to make a movie, just to put into practice the new movie knowledge he had contacted abroad.
By chance, Xie Fei saw the novel "Black Snow" by writer Liu Heng. After reading the novel, Xie Fei was very interested in Li Huiquan, the protagonist of the novel, and thought he was the character he always wanted to show in the movie .
Later, Xie Fei approached Liu Heng to discuss adapting "Black Snow" into a movie, and invited him to be the screenwriter of the film.
At that time, Liu Heng was only writing novels full-time, and had never done screenwriting work for movie scripts, so he didn't know how to write scripts for a while.
learned of Liu Heng's concerns, so Xie Fei took a lot of movie scripts from the film studio to show Liu Heng to read.
In the process of writing the script, Xie Fei had to reluctantly delete many wonderful descriptions of the characters' psychology in the novel because of the different expressions of the film and the novel.
This is also what Xie Fei has been brooding about in the script creation, so after the film was released, Xie Fei kept telling people around him who liked the movie to read the original novel.
And Liu Heng has since become an excellent screenwriter in the Chinese film and television circle, participating in " Qiu Ju's lawsuit ", " Judou ", "Poor-mouthed Zhang Damin's happy life", " assembly number " and other works screenwriters Work.
02, JiangWen almost missed the role because of "getting old", singer Cheng Lin starred in
When choosing the candidate for the male lead Li Huiquan, Xie Fei met many male actors, but neither age nor appearance matched Director Xie Fei's The standard in his heart, until a friend introduced Jiang Wen to him.
Xie Fei didn't know much about Jiang Wen at the time, so he thought of looking for a movie starring Jiang Wen to watch, first to get acquainted with him.
In fact, before this, Jiang Wen was already a quasi-first-line male star in the domestic film circle, with representative works such as "Red Sorghum" and "Furong Town".
But Jiang Wen in these films is a rough and sturdy tough guy, so that Director Xie Fei mistakenly thought that Jiang Wen was in his 40s after watching the film, and he was too different from Li Huiquan in his early twenties.
Just when Director Xie Fei gave up his thoughts, his colleague told him that Jiang Wen was only in his 20s and suggested seeing him before making a decision.
With the help of his colleagues, Xie Fei met Jiang Wen. Different from the image in the movie, Jiang Wen, who was in his 20s, looked vigorous in reality, which left a good impression on Xie Fei.
The conversation between the two was very pleasant. Xie Fei felt that Jiang Wen was an actor with his own ideas, so he sent a formal invitation to him.
is in the selection of the heroine, because the heroine Zhao Yaqiu is a singer, and there are many scenes to sing, Xie Fei wants to invite professional singers to play, in order to save the cost of dubbing later.
So Xie Fei found Cheng Lin, who was popular all over the country with songs such as "Xiaoluohao" and "Xintianyou", and she played the heroine.
heard that she was invited to be the heroine of the movie. Cheng Lin was very pleasantly surprised. She agreed to director Xie Fei's invitation very happily, and also let the crew use her own songs as episodes for free without charging copyright fees.
03, Jiang Wen showed superb acting skills and improvised lines
Due to the limited shooting conditions at that time and the technology of film film was not very advanced, Director Xie Fei and his party also encountered many problems.
For example, when shooting a night scene of Jiang Wen in a taxi, due to the narrow space of the taxi, in addition to the driver and Jiang Wen, only one photographer and lighting engineer can be accommodated.
In order to pursue the authenticity of the film, Director Xie Fei asked to add a set of moving lights to express Li Huiquan's lonely and lonely mood when the car was traveling on the road.
Jiang Wen's scene left a deep impression on the audience. When Li Huiquan's tears flowed from his eyes, the lights outside the car window flashed on his face, and Quanzi's inability to adapt to the social distress and grievances was vividly expressed.
Jiang Wen not only showed his proficient acting skills in the film, but also helped the crew solve many problems during the filming. When the crew of
filmed a group scene of three or four hundred people in Zhongshan Park in Beijing, they took great pains to gather the audience to perform the lively temple fair scene.
At night, there are many people in Zhongshan Park, but they are all walking and there is no way to gather.
At this time, Jiang Wen thought of a way. He found two friends to stage a double reed in the square of Zhongshan Park to attract the crowd.
Sure enough, the wonderful double-reed performance attracted a lot of people to stop and watch. Director Xie Fei took advantage of the crowd and hurriedly called the crew to shoot the scene of Li Huiquan walking against the crowd.
Jiang Wen's performance has his own style and characteristics, and he often discusses the performance experience with director Xie Fei, helping other actors to better shape their characters.
For example, Liang Tian plays Jiang Wen's good friend Brush in the movie.street gangsters.
He has a classic line in the movie "Why is life so boring? Go to work, boring; get off work, boring; eating boring, not eating is boring." is from Jiang Wen.
In fact, this line originally only had the first sentence. Jiang Wen felt that only one sentence was too bland and not enough to express the brush's gangster image, so he improvised the following sentences for Liang Tian to say it. After the
movie was released, the gangster image of the brush was loved by many audiences, and Liang Tian was also nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor with the brush.
Jiang Wen's talent is fully revealed in "Ben Ming Nian", whether it is acting or figuring out the characters. Xie Fei sees all this in his eyes, and thinks Jiang Wen is a particularly thoughtful and talented person in film creation.
So Xie Fei found Jiang Wen in private, saying that he was suitable to be a director and could try to make movies.
may be the encouragement of director Xie Fei, Jiang Wen really embarked on the road of film director, and has made great achievements.
After that, he switched to director and filmed films such as " Sunny Days ", " Devils Come to ", " Let the Bullets Fly " and other films, which won many awards at domestic and foreign film festivals.
And director Xie Fei has filmed excellent works such as " Fragrant Soul Girl " and " Black Horse " after "Benming Year", which has won awards at many international film festivals such as the Berlin Film Festival and the Montreal Film Festival.
Today, Xie Fei still has a great passion for movies. Although he no longer shoots movies, he often shares his movie viewing experience on social media.
Perhaps, this is the persistence and persistence of the older generation of filmmakers in film art, and they are willing to devote their whole lives to the film culture and art of the motherland. (Written by: Pipi Shrimp)
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