Half a month later, the crew traveled all the way to Baotou. Xin Yukun looked at the familiar environment and sighed: "It was here that I heard the story of missing work to find my son."
Looking at the surrounding environment, Su Ze suddenly felt a sense of familiarity and suddenly thought of a spoon?
After working together twice, I already know Xin Yukun. This self-proclaimed grassroots director from Beijing usually likes to read social news and study Liang Xiaosheng's "Analysis of All Classes in Society". He doesn't like self-analysis and prefers to peek into people's hearts.
According to his own words: Explosive Silence is like a game, a treasure hunt with the audience.
You have to use your years of knowledge and movie-watching literacy to understand the director's code buried in the movie.
It was a cryptic dialogue carefully set up by Xin Yukun. The complicated and small details were laid out randomly. If you don't pay attention, you will miss it, making the audience wonder why the protagonist did this?
Su Ze believes that Silence is his debut film, because the urban-rural conflict that was briefly touched upon in "The Labyrinth of the Heart" has evolved into class anxiety in this work, forming the film's suspense.
"Do you know what the name was in the first place?" Xin Yukun looked at Su Ze and laughed at himself: "Evil man!"
Su Ze was stunned and then speechless. Are you sure he can pass the trial?
There are three men in a drama, and three different classes are involved in the same whirlpool because of two children. Who is the villain?
The wonderful thing is that the script does not set a moral high ground. The director tries to restore the original appearance of life. Only when people from different classes are put into the same incident and chase the same truth...
The complexity of the human heart is revealed vividly!
"This is the last scene I designed." In the hotel room, Xin Yukun gathered the three leading actors together, showed a set of component shots, and asked: "How was it?"
Su Ze watched the last scene where Zhang Baomin, Xu Wenjie, and Chang Wannian faced each other on the hillside. It turned out to be a triangle relationship in which they stared at each other and each had their own selfish intentions?
When Chang Wannian and Zhang Baomin were fighting each other, Xu Wenjie, as an intellectual, stood aside, swaying between conscience and interests, at a loss?
"Chang Wannian holds a murderous weapon and occupies a favorable position. The miners at the bottom are trying to resist with their own bodies. The tainted middle class just wants to defend their own interests."
Xin Yukun explained: "The three restrain each other and guard against each other."
Zhao Yang and Tian Xiaojie looked at each other and could see each other's thoughts. The reason why they were so silent was because they thought of Su Ze and the script.
Although I have never worked with him before, I have high expectations for Xin Yukun who can make the films "Maze of the Heart" and "The Invisible Guest". No matter how good the actor is without a good script, it is all nonsense if he cannot work with a good director and team.
This is the first time they have collaborated with Kanazawa. The two of them are full of energy. The moment they read the script, they even had the illusion of feeling the same way?
The sense of substitution does not come from the male protagonist Zhang Baomin, but from the middle-aged lawyer Xu Wenjie!
Actors may appear to be prosperous, but in fact they are under a lot of pressure, especially when the whole society thinks that you have unlimited success and make money every day!
When people reach middle age, they travel to all kinds of theater groups all over the world, and there is no shortage of movies. However, since they are old and young, they can't make much money at all.
This is also the fundamental reason why I chose to sign with Kanazawa. At least I have money. Even if the industry is in the cold winter, I will not starve myself to death. I will not close the company with just a phone call, and I will not even be able to find anyone.
There is no way, after so many years of social beatings, the two of them have long lost their so-called dreams. Acting is just a profession for them, a job that can support their families, and a life-saving straw that they don't know what else to do besides this.
As long as you can act, you can make money, support your family, send your children to school, and provide for the elderly...
As for what happened overnight?
Take a shower and sleep,
There is everything in the dream!
The two of them are very satisfied with this collaboration. The salary is the highest since their debut, and they also like the script. As professional actors, they can both make money and act happily. What else is there to be dissatisfied about?
After a heated discussion, Xin Yukun was very satisfied with the actors. Needless to say, Su Ze, Zhao Yang and Tian Xiaojie were also recognized for their abilities and were confident about filming tomorrow.
I am a native of Baotou. Resource-intensive cities are prone to dramatic stories. The rapid plunder of non-renewable resources has made some people jump into the wealthy class. However, after the ups and downs, few people have a happy ending.
When I was working on a script, I read too many news cases and found that the parties involved each had different rhetoric and reversals were everywhere, comparable to Rashomon.
Everyone only makes decisions at their own level, so I want to start from the perspective of a bystander and let everyone think about the root of the problem and who should be responsible for it?
Su Ze understood the director's intention, especially to come to this land personally and feel every bit of the surrounding environment.
He tried to put symbolic symbols into rural daily life and establish a metaphor system between the symbols to allow the audience to recall the intention behind the story.
When the fragmented information is readjusted, the film text will become ambiguous, and the audience can figure out the blank plot and match the secret code with the director.
It's like playing a puzzle game or treasure hunting. As long as you can follow the clues, you can find the treasure.
The reason why I provide such a depressing story is just to give the audience a chance to walk through the darkness and land safely, so that they will be alert when encountering it in reality in the future.
People from different classes seem to have a fixed scope of life, but their interests are either loosely or closely connected, and sometimes even fatefully intertwined.
As "House of Sin" said, no one can live alone in this world.
The filming officially started the next day, and Su Ze transformed into a dark-skinned, unshaven bear, with a natural stoop when walking, and an instinctive look of inferiority in his eyes.
Only when the target is discovered will a trace of hard-to-detect ferocity flash through.
No one has doubted Su Ze's acting skills for a long time. What everyone is most worried about is the various fighting scenes. Because he is mute, many emotions are conveyed to the audience through movements.
Fortunately, after being trained by Guan Hongyu in "White Night Chaser", after all, he is still young and it is not a real action movie. After a few days of adaptation, Su Ze basically found the rhythm and slowly got into the state.
What's more, with Zhao Yuncheng's help, he acted as a stand-in for dangerous moves, and occasionally designed cool moves, so the filming progress became smoother and smoother.
From the director's point of view, there is no need to worry about the dramas of the leading actors. The key is how to make the drama realistic and reasonable so that the audience can enjoy watching it.
We can't fight in a routine that will make the audience laugh. We can only try to hide the imprint of professional action design as much as possible, and really hit people like ordinary people, get beaten, and show our clumsy side.
I was originally worried that Su Ze would be injured, but now he is a hot star, but after a few days, I was shocked by his professionalism. He punched hard and basically didn't need a substitute.
Regardless of whether there is a gang fight in the mine or one against the crowd in the office building, Zhang Baomin seems to be stumbling, but his eyes are extremely fierce, like a lone wolf in desperate situation.
He acts very decisively. Whether it is a steel pipe, a trash can, or even a fire extinguisher, it is a weapon when picked up.
In the mountain chase scene, running hard with a sack on his back, he is physically exhausted but his eyes are full of perseverance and determination. Whenever they look at each other, everyone gets a message: