Chao News Client Reporter Lu Fang
The most popular movie right now is "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" " is none other than Douban, with a score of 8.2. As of 16:00 on January 17, the box office has reached 817 million.
This workplace satirical comedy has been praised for touching on the pain points of beaten workers and expressing their inner feelings.
Chao News reporter learned that "The annual meeting cannot be stopped!" "The beautiful screenwriter and producer Ying Luojia is from Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang. She partnered with screenwriter and director Dong Runnian as husband and wife, and the first movie dark horse in 2024 was born.
Recently, a reporter from Chao News had an exclusive interview with Ying Luojia and listened to her talk about her experience in the film and television industry. Because of persistence and hard work, this "worker" finally ushered in the joy of success after a 20-year career.
reporter asked Ying Luojia if she had ever thought about "The annual meeting cannot be stopped!" "" would be so popular, she replied: "Every one of us creators will have longed for the popular scenes in the movie when they were first creating it. They must have thought about it countless nights. Of course, the fantasy will fail. What if everyone doesn't like it? What to do? In fact, before delivering it to the audience, I was in a state of trepidation. Now I am very grateful to the audience for their love and recognition."
The best debater in Cixi Middle School, passed the entrance examination and transferred to the directing major
Because he ran " The annual meeting cannot be stopped! 》National road show, Ying Luojia had a cold for several days, and she had not fully recovered when she was interviewed by reporters. Her voice was a little hoarse, but she spoke very quickly and with strong logic.
I learned through chatting that when she was studying at Cixi Middle School, she was the best debater in the school.
"I studied in Cixi Middle School both in junior high and high school. Composition, speech, and debate are my strengths. When I was in high school, I did very well in composition. In my senior year, I represented Cixi Middle School in a debate competition in Zhejiang Province. I faced Hangzhou Foreign Languages School. , I was the fourth debater in the debate, the last debater."
Ying Luojia in middle school
Because her father was a painter, Ying Luojia studied painting and sketching since she was a child. Her original ambition was to take the Central Academy of Fine Arts exam, but she missed it. In 1999, after re-study for a year, although I no longer took the art exam, when I filled out my application, I couldn't help but apply for Beijing Broadcasting Institute (later Communication University of China), feeling that I was closer to art.
"I was majoring in media management. When I was about to go to the summer vacation of my sophomore year, the school suddenly decided to recruit a new major 'directing professional editing direction' among our sophomore batch of students. It should be the earliest editing direction in the country. Directing major. I was particularly interested in it and passed the exam."
At this time, Dong Runnian was also studying directing at Beiguang University, and the two were classmates in the next class.
After graduating from her undergraduate degree, Ying Luojia originally had an opportunity to work as a teacher at Zhejiang University of Communication, but after much deliberation she still wanted to stay in Beijing and work in the film and television industry, so she worked while preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination.
"My family also thought that I should go to graduate school, so I went back to school to get a graduate degree in film studies, majoring in production management."
Before becoming a TV series producer, I sold knee pads, worked as a publicist, and worked as an assistant.
From her undergraduate degree in 2003 to now, Ying Luojia said her career has spanned 20 years, but in fact her "part-time job experience" was earlier.
And these "part-time work experiences" in the film and television industry are of great significance to "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" 》’s script writing was of great help.
She said that when she was in college, she had a few classmates who were smart and willing to get in touch with society, and the school also paid more attention to practice. There was a TV station in Beijing that followed them and produced a social practice program for college students.
When she was in college, Ying Luojia
"I had read many stories about work-study programs since I was a child, and I was very eager to try it. I distributed advertising flyers through employment agencies, and ran a small business selling knee pads. Every year, freshmen have military training and they all have to crawl. Let’s move forward. We found that most freshmen have no idea about knee pads and won’t prepare them. We knocked on the doors of various freshmen dormitories and told them how important this thing is... I did some pretty grounded things when I was an undergraduate. Angry piecemeal work."
Ying Luojia was in college
Between undergraduate and postgraduate years, Ying Luojia went to Enlight Media to work as a columnist, and later worked as a director's assistant in a drama. She also studied editing, but the rough part of that drama It was cut, and at the same time, she also completed preparations for the postgraduate entrance examination.
"When I was in graduate school, talk shows were popular, and there was a talk show that I first planned. Because I am studying production management and am very courageous, I felt that there was room for improvement in that column, from management to topic selection, so I wrote a long proposal to my boss. As a result, he asked me if I dared to be a producer? I said, if you dare, there's nothing I can't do. The boss was also very courageous, and as a result, I became the column producer. "
Later, the boss went to the real estate industry, and asked Ying Luojia if she wanted to follow him, because she still wanted to do film and television, but she refused.
Ying Luojia said that then the boss of a TV series production company asked her to be an assistant.
"My last boss said, 'I asked you to be the vice president, why don't you become an assistant?' I said that because it is a TV drama company, I still like movies and TV shows. "
In this TV drama company, Ying Luojia's opportunity finally came.
"It was a position as assistant to the general manager. At that time, I was asked to review a film that was scheduled to be edited in a TV series. I worked as a column producer and am particularly sensitive to typos. After dozens of episodes, I checked out the typos in the later stages. I didn't think it was serious, but such a small thing impressed the boss of the TV series, and since I was studying production, he quickly promoted me to executive producer. ”
She said that she worked all the way from TV series executive producer, producer, to movie producer.
Let’s count the jobs that Ying Luojia has worked in the film and television industry: Before going to graduate school, She worked on the promotion of Nicholas Tse's first TV series "Little Fish and Flowers". When she was a graduate student, Ying Luojia served as the producer and assistant director of her mentor's debut film "Examination". Later "Examination" was shortlisted for the Tokyo International Film Festival The competition unit of the film festival. At the same time, Ying Luojia also worked as a column producer at a TV station. was about to graduate from graduate school and served as the executive producer of the TV series "The Big Deal" starring Yu Hewei, officially entering the field of TV series producers. Since then, Ying Luojia has participated in the planning and production of more than a dozen TV series, such as "Thirty-Eight Degrees Below Zero", "Three Brothers in the Line of Fire" and other TV series that are well-loved by the audience, as well as the producer of the movie "The Man Caught by the Light", "The New Year" Can't Stop!" Screenwriter and producer.
From left, Dong Runnian, Ying Luojia, Bai Ke, Dapeng
and Dong Runnian worked as a husband and wife team, and it took 5 years to get along.
Ying Luojia is the screenwriter and producer, and Dong Runnian is Screenwriter and director, they are a husband and wife team.
She said: “We were in the same undergraduate class but in different classes. He is a directing major who passed the art exam. I got into directing and editing in the last two years. We are in two classes, but because we are in the same directing major, we took classes together for two years after our undergraduate studies, so we know each other but are not familiar with each other. "
When she was about to graduate from her bachelor's degree, she went to practice at Enlight Media: "Before he graduated, he and two of his classmates wrote a sitcom script, which was noticed by Enlight, and Enlight decided to film that sitcom. I just wanted to do that play, so we went to the crew together, and I became the director’s assistant. From that point on, we both got along well. "
Ying Luojia said that they got married after dating for five years. But in the 20 years from 2003 to now, the two of them have worked separately in the first ten years. Dong Runnian is a screenwriter, and she is a producer. , the only first time they crossed paths was when she was the producer of "Three Brothers".
"We had the script for the drama first, and had already pushed Huang Bo, Liu Ye, and Zhang Hanyu to this schedule, and then we proposed that we have it. It's impossible for these three people to make a movie. "
"Director Guan Hu asked me, Jiajia, do you have a suitable screenwriter? I didn't think about Dong Runnian at the time, and no one at work knew who my husband was because we never cooperated. I just went home and told him that there was such a thing and asked him to help me think of someone suitable. Turns out he said he might have feelings (about the story).The story needs to have an anti-Japanese background, and it can basically be completed in a single space, because the filming time of this movie cannot be too long. He said, ‘Would you recommend me to come over and have a chat? '"
Ying Luojia didn't tell Guan Hu who Dong Runnian was. But she trusted her husband very much and felt that as long as he felt artistically, he had a good score.
"The result was quite good, and everything from the outline to the first draft of the script was very fast. quick. When he finished the first draft and went to revise the second draft, Guan Hu asked me one day, he said Jiajia is your classmate, right? I asked, can Brother Hu (the script) do it? Guan Hu said, it’s very good. Then I told Guan Hu his identity. "
However, Ying Luojia said that that time was not considered a real collaboration. In 2013, when they really wanted to start their own studio, they joined forces and started working together.
"It took about five years to get used to working together. We used to have a good relationship, but over the past five years we were in such a hurry that we were getting divorced. Our personalities at work are very different from our personalities in life, so it was particularly painful to get along. ”
Fortunately, the two of them gritted their teeth and worked it out. After five years, they almost finished getting along. When they were filming the movie "The Man Caught by the Light" (the first feature film directed by Dong Runnian), their work on the crew became Incomparable tacit understanding.
When it came to "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!", the "floodgate" switch between the two became clearer.
"It is that work does not bring into life, and the two are very separate. of. This time our running-in became smoother, and eventually I was integrated into the script writing. "
I am a screenwriter for the first time and have been polishing the script for 5 years.
Ying Luojia said that for a movie, the focus of the director and the focus of the producer are completely different. But in the end everyone will work together to achieve the highest quality of the work. Go to serve.
In addition to being a producer this time, she also co-created the script of "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" with Dong Runnian and is one of the screenwriters.
""The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" 》I am also a screenwriter myself. I think everyone is seeking a balance between production and art, so we can understand each other. "
"The Annual Party Can't Stop!" is currently being screened. Many plots make people feel fresh and interesting. Among them, the scene where Hu Jianlin, played by Dapeng, "nods his head" made the audience laugh from ear to ear.
" We have a dedicated industry consultant for the 'nod' task. She used to be the HR director of a large factory, but she resigned at that time. She gave us a lot of information about the work of HR, including which departments HR is divided into. She said that there is a very important job called "nodding people." Why ‘nod’? Because large factories have more than 10,000 employees, and after that number, there will be a lot of turnover. For an enterprise, it is necessary to master this kind of data. At that time, we thought that it would be very scary if there was a "nod" at the time of layoffs. "
As for why the story takes place in the human resources department of a large factory, Ying Luojia said that this was considered for a long time during the creation of the script.
"We have thought about many departments, including the sales department, etc., and we have also done some workplace dramas. Pass. What we want to satirize is workplace bureaucracy. We feel that from the 1990s to the present, the annual meeting represents the development of the company and is directly related to the annual meeting. For large companies, the HR department is still responsible. I also thought about layoffs. The layoffs were also in the HR department, so I felt that this department was very core, so we simply put the characters in this department. "
Ying Luojia said that the creation was based on the idea that HR was a good entrance, so she went to HR for an interview, and then re-collected various information.
Ying Luojia and Dong Runnian polished the script together from 2017 to 2022. year, and finally the movie will be launched in Changsha on November 9, 2022.
From left, Dapeng, Ying Luojia, and Dong Runnian
will return to Cixi for the New Year this year. Dong Runnian likes to eat scallion oil fish
A while ago, "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" When she came to Hangzhou for a road show, Ying Luojia's Cixi relatives also came to support her.
She said that her relatives were very down-to-earth, and many of them secretly went to book theaters to support her.
asked her parents if they had seen the movie? She smiled and said that they had secretly gone to the theater to watch it when it was on demand.
"What I care about most is the feelings of my family. Because my parents are more funny, I was very frightened and didn't know how to let them watch it. When it came to screening, my parents themselves I secretly bought a ticket and went to see it without telling me. The next morning in our family group, my dad said that he went to see it yesterday. I was nervous. He made a joke at that time, saying that your mother was not sleepy at all. Hit. They also said a lot of affirmative words later, but it was this joke that struck my heart the most."
She said that as her family has been together for a long time, sometimes they don't know whether their praise is sincere or a comfort. In comedy, whether the audience laughs or not is a direct feeling. If they do, they will laugh.
"My dad and mom also laughed. My dad mentioned the issue of drowsiness. Although it was a half-joking comment, it is quite important to me. This is a very clear thing that his body sense brings to you. , give you confidence."
When talking about whether they will make a sequel, Ying Luojia said: "The script still comes first, and we will not do two things just for the sake of doing two things. Once it is confirmed, we will definitely work on it non-stop. Second, if it is not in place yet, then we will put it aside temporarily, so it is still a relatively open state at the moment."
asked Ying Luojia if she would go back to Cixi to celebrate the New Year?
She said: "I will go back. We take very fair turns. This year it will be our turn to go back to Cixi during the Chinese New Year. I will go to Tianjin (Dong Runnian's hometown) around the fourth day of the Lunar New Year."
She said that Dong Runnian likes Cixi and the food there very much: " Tianjin is also close to the sea, and there are a lot of fish and seafood in Tianjin. The cooking methods in the north are different from those in the south. After he came to our house for the first time, my relatives discovered that he liked to eat fish. He had not realized it before. . Fish in the South is often steamed and then poured with oil. He especially likes to eat that kind of fish, so he is quite accustomed to our taste."
Dong Runnian and Ying Luojia are a loving couple in the film and television industry
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