The script was finalized, and the crew immediately started preparations. Kong Xue still served as a producer. After being baptized by invisible guests, this kind of thing was nothing to be afraid of.
Mainly, I have to worry about my own business. I plan to invest 20 million this time, which is considered to be Kanazawa's biggest investment since his debut.
Su Ze is the male lead, Zhao Yang is the second male lead, and Tian Xiaojie is the third male lead. The female lead has very few roles, so you can just pick one of them.
The entire salary of the actors can be two to three million, and Su Ze will definitely not ask for money to invest in his own studio, and the rest will be used for filming, which makes Xin Yukun very excited.
In the next half month, the director made various recruitments. Having money in hand means being generous. No matter whether the equipment or the team are directly compared to the invisible guests, it is so exciting.
Su Ze didn't have to worry about these, and he went back to character research. The story was very simple. Chang Wannian, a wealthy and powerful mining boss, bribed lawyer Xu Wenjie to perjury in order to avoid legal sanctions.
The plan was successfully completed and Xu Wenjie was given 500,000 yuan as a reward. However, at this time, Chang Wannian accidentally shot and killed a country boy. The two had no choice but to hide the body in a cave and conceal the matter. In the end, they were brought to justice.
He plays Zhang Baomin and is also the father of a boy. What surprises Su Ze the most is...
He is mute!
In acting class, I played the role of a mute and a fool, but I never expected that I could achieve both.
The second expectation is that Xin Yukun is best at telling stories, using a non-linear narration like Heart Maze, making full use of the montage technique, and finally bringing the three clues together through the story of finding a child.
Regardless of the actors' acting skills or the plot structure, the script gave Su Ze great expectations. If The Invisible Guest is a successful case of brain-burning twists, then Exploding Silence is the movie version of Silent Truth.
It is not only a suspense film, but also explores themes such as society, human nature, and class. It has a huge space for interpretation, and even various characters, props, and symbols have rich symbolic meanings.
It is one of the fun things left for the audience to decipher.
Chang Wannian, Xu Wenjie, and Zhang Baomin represent the upper class, the middle class, and the bottom class of society respectively. In fact, it tells the story of the collision of the three classes.
As a miner who lives in the countryside and digs coal in Feng County, Zhang Baomin, who he plays, is a veritable bottom of society.
The reason why he became mute is because he bit off his tongue in a fight. In fact, it symbolizes that the lower class of society is like a mute who eats Coptis chinensis and cannot express his sufferings. No matter what he suffers, he can only hold it in.
Lawyer Xu Wenjie, played by Tian Xiaojie, has a car and a house, and has already lived a well-off life. One job is worth 500,000, and he represents the middle class of society.
What’s interesting is that in the first half of the movie, he was supposed to be eloquent and had almost no lines?
In Su Ze's view, Zhang Baomin wanted to speak out but did not have the right to speak. Although Xu Wenjie had a certain right to speak, he had to protect himself by speaking less because saying the wrong thing would offend people who should not be offended.
Finally, Chang Wannian, played by Zhao Yang, is the chairman of the local mining group and a symbol of the upper class of society.
Raise thugs, force colleagues to sell the company, kill Zhang Lei and dump his body, kidnap Yuanyuan...
Heinous crimes go unpunished.
The most interesting setting is that he doesn't talk much, has a higher social status than Xu Wenjie, and has more say than Xu Wenjie, but rarely speaks?
The reason is that when a person has the status of being able to say what he says, he does not need to explain too much about his words and deeds. He only needs to say the conclusion, or even take action directly without saying anything.
Can do it,
Stop beeping!
Therefore, there are very few lines in this work, and a lot of emotions must be conveyed to the audience through acting. So far, Su Ze is very lucky to have brought the three heroes of Pingkang and Kang together.
From a certain perspective, the character Zhao Yangtian Xiaojie will play has many similarities with The Silent Truth. For example, Chang Wannian’s domineering and fierce character, and Xu Wenjie’s cautious character.
Although the plots are different, the core is to expose darkness and show the ugliness of human nature. Of course, the intention is far less than the silent truth, but it is more profound and depressing.
The male protagonist became mute due to a fight, but Xu Wenjie and Chang Wannian are obviously not mute, but they are better than mute.
The reason why I like this script is because Xin Yukun carefully designed all kinds of small details, whether props or scenes, to make Su Ze feel very comfortable.
For example, there is a scene in the script where Chang Wannian and Xu Wenjie have a falling out and chase each other with bows and arrows, but in the end Zhang Baomin is accidentally injured?
As Xu Wenjie, who represents the middle class of society, and Chang Wannian, who represents the top class, when the two parties illegally pursue interests, the end result is that the bottom class is used as a scapegoat.
Even though I know that I will bring harm to others, I still choose to remain silent and remain mute.
When people at the top of the pyramid fight, the people at the bottom of the pyramid often suffer. When the second level fights, the first level suffers; when the third level fights, the second level suffers...
The upper management will attack the middle level. If the middle level avoids it, the damage will be transferred to the bottom level. For example, catching corruption, arresting arsonists, the person responsible for the landslide incident, etc. If the real criminals do not take responsibility, they will let temporary workers take the responsibility.
pot.
The monkey set a fire, and the tiger, the king of the forest, went to investigate and finally handed over the mouse?
After careful analysis, as a suspense film or even a crime film, Xin Yukun still did not use surprises to create a low-level thriller, but used scripts, performances, editing, soundtracks, and photography to create a cold, chilling, and tense atmosphere.
atmosphere.
Strive to achieve the effect of shocking the mind and touching the soul, especially the various metaphors, like a puzzle game, leaving the audience with endless aftertaste.
If Chang Wannian had not accidentally killed the sheepherding boy, the subsequent story would have been just a conflict between Chang Wannian and Xu Wenjie. The former wanted to eliminate the evidence against him, while the latter wanted money and peace for his father and daughter. In the end, it was possible to reach a reconciliation.
It was precisely because of manslaughter that everything changed like a butterfly effect. Like a derailed train, it went further and further in the wrong direction, eventually leading to Chang Wannian, Xu Wenjie both being arrested, Zhang Baomin also losing his beloved son, and everyone...
Is a loser.
Using the search for the son as a clue, Zhang Baomin, Xu Wenjie, Chang Wannian, Chang Wannian's subordinates, butchers, village chiefs and other key figures were connected together, and everyone worked together to promote the entire incident.
It can be called one of the best ensemble dramas.
After all, they are directed by the same director. Silence and Heart Maze are similar in approach and approach. They are interconnected and cause and effect each other. No one is independent and no character is superfluous.
Focusing again on the name Burst and Silence, Su Ze instantly understood the director. "Burst" refers to the violence of the movie, while "split" refers to the tearing that occurs when it reaches a certain level.
The character I will play, Zhang Baomin, is mute, but he has never used sign language once!
In other words, he has completely lost his voice, and at the same time, he puts all his desire for expression into his fists. He seems to be fighting all the time when he appears, and even in the opening scene, he is fighting with his coworkers.
Su Ze understands this state, because this is his way to fight for his right to survive, and it is also his way to prove his existence to the world.
When fighting, he likes to push people to the ground and trample them. Every move seems so chaotic, and the fight has no beauty. It is brutal and bloody and has no rules, but it is so satisfying.
In Su Ze's view, Zhang Baomin tried his best to express himself. This is the proper complaint for a voiceless person against injustice.
The script chooses an extreme way to exaggerate and amplify the tension. Only in this way can Zhang Baomin's image stand up.
An extremely tragic scene was presented in front of the camera. Every time he swung his fist, he tried his best, but he was hit hard again and again...
Zhang Baomin is just a weak struggler, and silence is the greatest form of violence.