"I like this role very much." Su Ze closed his eyes, recalled everything he had played since his debut, and murmured to himself: "It feels very fresh."
Others might not understand why, but Xing Yukun, who has cooperated many times, immediately understood that this kid was tempted.
Even though the person in front of me is young and has extremely vicious vision, the role in the script is just right to the point!
It's as if you can see into the character's heart at a glance.
"It's a bit like fireworks during the day." Xing Yukun said with a smile: "I got the inspiration from somewhere."
Su Ze nodded. When he saw the emotional entanglement between the male protagonist and the heroine who had lost her footing, it was easy to think of the fireworks in the day. The same low-level people comforted each other and warmed each other, but because of the cruelty of life, there was betrayal in the true love. There is betrayal.
Little people, in order to change the current situation of life and not to be abandoned in the social changes, struggle in the mud, tear in the wind and rain, and give everything they have, even if they use cleverness and tricks, they are still deceived by life in the end.
If you want to gain, you will lose more.
This is not a movie that focuses on solving crimes and catching the murderer, but only uses the crime as a carrier to carry the tragic story of countless low-level marginalized people struggling for life in that era.
This is Xing Yukun’s style!
Sad and heavy!
The story begins in a small town in the 1990s. The factory area was facing the reform of state-owned enterprises, and people were panicked. The security department and supervisors were stealing, and laid-off workers hacked their wives to death...
In the dim light of the stadium, men and women were messing around and having sex together, and everything was in a state of chaos. At this moment, a serial murderer and body dumping occurred.
"No more slow-burning this time?" Su Ze joked.
"Too much foreplay is not good. You can't make the audience wait too fast, right?" Xing Yukun said with rare humor: "This time we go straight to Huanglong!"
Su Ze was stunned, that's not right. Even an old orangutan with thick eyebrows and big eyes has learned to drive?
"Can I find Jiang Yiyan as the heroine?" Xing Yukun asked Su Ze and said, "Her image and temperament fit the character very well."
"Jiang Yiyan?" Su Ze flashed an image, his acting skills were so-so, and his age seemed to be quite appropriate.
"This time you have to adjust your image and look more middle-aged." Xing Yukun looked at Su Ze from a director's perspective and said, "If you keep your hair and beard longer, it's better to be fatter and greasier."
Seeing Su Ze nodding, these are all trivial matters. Age is not a problem for Su Ze's strength. Even if he plays a seventy-year-old or eighty-year-old, as long as he can keep up with the makeup, the effect will be adequate.
Middle-aged man?
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"I want to win an award for this work!" Xing Yukun stared at Su Ze and said word by word: "I long for an award!"
Su Ze understood what the old orangutan meant. He was over forty, had been making movies for ten or twenty years, and had been struggling for so many years. He was considered a late bloomer.
Although The Invisible Guest and Burst of Silence made a lot of money at the box office and had a good reputation, they received no awards.
Silent Break was shortlisted for the best film at the Australian Island Film Festival last year, but in the end it won nothing. Even if it won the award, Xing Yukun would definitely not be satisfied.
Su Ze saw many shadows in this work, including fireworks in the daytime, a piano, and even memories of murder.
It's not so much suspense as it is about showing the memories of that special era, but it's just about immersing the audience in it through an extreme perspective.
The wave of layoffs!
Xing Yukun told the truth. He also believed that Su Ze could understand and support his ideas. This was based on trust in his character.
Of course, Su Ze was young after all and had never experienced that period of time, that period of turmoil that was unforgettable to everyone.
At that time, before the reform of the market economy, workers lived completely dependent on the organization. Everything in the factory was contracted, including canteens, shops, hospitals, nurseries, schools, and dormitories.
Workers do not even need to have any contact with people outside the factory. However, driven by reforms, being laid off is like a bolt from the blue for former workers.
Leaving the organization means death. How to find a way out?
Can you find a way out?
In order to choose a venue, I personally traveled all over the country, and finally found an old factory in Hengyang, with schools, shops, and hospitals. Thousands of workers wearing blue factory uniforms and riding bicycles poured out of the factory gate.
In the evening, young men and women dressed up well and came to the lighted stadium. They tied up and danced ballroom dances to Teresa Teng-style love songs. Children chased among the crowd...
They are what their parents looked like when they were young. The youth, love and ideals of that generation were spent in this factory all their lives.
The world is small but stable enough.
Suddenly everything changed overnight. The unemployed found that they knew nothing, and the stability they had exchanged for youth, love and ideals was gone overnight.
In the Spring Festival Gala of the same year, Huang Hong said this line in a sketch: We workers must think about the country. If I don't get laid off, who will get laid off?
That year, Liu Huan released a new song "Start Over". The lyrics sang: It depends on success or failure. Life is heroic, but it's just starting over.
Around 1998, equivalent to two-thirds of workers were laid off or unemployed.
How many people can start all over again?
"I have heard two stories. In an ordinary worker family in our local factory, a couple was found dead in the house for a long time. How do you guess they died?"
Xing Yukun took a sip of tea to calm down and said, "Forensic doctors determined that they had been stealing feed and eating it, and they died of indigestion in the end."
"There is also a couple who both laid off their jobs. The wife left with a rich man, leaving behind a pair of children who are not yet adults."
"The frustrated man struggled to survive after repeatedly hitting the wall in the fierce job market. The child was greedy and pestered his father to eat meat. The man took out the five yuan he had left at home and bought a pound of pork."
"When the long-lost smell of meat makes the children jump for joy, the desperate father sprinkles rat poison inside..."
Su Ze was greatly shocked. He was just a few years old at the time and could not remember the incident at all. But my mother said that my father seemed to have been laid off at that time and then went to the south to start a business?
"I was only a teenager at the time. At that ignorant age, I heard a lot of news about families being ruined after losing their jobs."
Xing Yukun said helplessly: "News often comes from distant relatives, friends from hometown, classmates from childhood..."
"Then the news continues to spread on the streets and in restaurants and bars. Panic is always like a plague, leaving seeds of uneasiness in people's hearts, which then take root and sprout in their hearts."
"That era was so depressing!"
"The person who is pressed can't breathe at all!"
Su Ze couldn't help but close his eyes. In front of his eyes were damp streets, muddy paths, a gloomy and dilapidated small town, and the endless rain pattering down on this place that seemed to have no hope or improvement.
No wonder Xing Yukun wants to win the award?
This kind of perspective from the perspective of a small person is most suitable to show the helpless reality of being unable to control one's own destiny during the great changes of the times!