It was the end of April when we returned to the capital, and the weather began to warm up. Su Ze began to enjoy his daily leisure time again, and he was enjoying himself every day.
It's strange to say that in the past two years, the focus has been on the film field, and five or six works have been filmed in one go, but there seems to be no movement?
The box office is good, both Changjin Lake and Wushuang are killing everyone, but who really wins the award?
Very few!
Thinking of this, Su Ze smiled and shook his head. It seems that the three major awards for Chinese-language films are much more difficult than the Grand Slam for TV series. In fact, it is also the case. Every year, thousands of works are released on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, and there are only three best actor.
There is definitely no rush, after all, we will only be 30 next year, so there is plenty of time to get through it slowly. The Golden Rooster is the easiest, after all, it is a home game. The Fire Hero has been confirmed to be shortlisted for this year's Golden Rooster, and the chance of winning is not small.
The Golden Horse is a bit uncertain, the environment has been tense in the past two years, and it feels a bit like old age and death?
Finally, Golden Statue, Guild Wars and Demonic Police were stepping stones. Although they didn't win the award, being shortlisted was considered a kind of recognition. This year, my hope is to look for Plum Blossoms and Sister Peach, which are Hong Kong films with pure internal flavor.
"Have you finally come out of seclusion after two years of holding back?" Looking at the new script sent by Xin Yukun, Su Ze joked: "It's not easy!"
"Nonsense, a good script is so easy to write?" Xin Yukun was not polite and replied: "If you have the ability, you can come up with one."
Su Ze was dumbfounded and speechless for a moment!
"This time it's almost like an invisible guest." Joking aside, when talking about the script, Xin Yukun said seriously: "It's still about reversals and tricks."
Su Ze's eyes lit up. He had shot many works in the past few years, but few could compare with Invisible Guests. He, the king of suspense, was a little hungry.
"Witnesses chasing the murderer?"
After watching it intently, Su Ze took a deep breath, a little unfinished, and couldn't help but give Xin Yukun a thumbs up, that's awesome.
I have to say that they are indeed very similar to The Invisible Guest in many places. For example, they both started from a car accident, the story is constantly reversed and subverted in the description of the same person, and it is difficult to guess the ending without seeing the end...
But it is undoubtedly more complex than the guest's story, the content is more sophisticated, the description of society is more comprehensive and realistic, and the exposure of human nature is more direct and even cruel.
Xin Yukun is still the same Xin Yukun!
Among all the directors I have worked with, whether in TV series or movies, there are only two who dare to be so sharp. One is Lao Xin in front of me, and the other is Xu Anhua, who I have just worked with.
The two have completely different styles. Lao Xin’s approach is high IQ and reversal, and he is good at all kinds of metaphors and details. He can sum it up in eight words:
Unexpected and reasonable!
Xu Anhua is just the opposite, ordinary but shocking, simply showing you the truest side, but cruel and terrifying, and helpless and despairing.
Two words for being an actor: fun!
"Old rules!" After reading the script, Su Ze made the decision without saying a word, and invested in starring in the film.
Xin Yukun smiled. This result was no surprise. As long as the script is good, Su Ze will support it 100%.
Of course, investment is investment, and being willing to play the leading role is another matter. After so many years of cooperation, both parties have a tacit understanding.
This is also the greatest confidence to dare to retreat for two years to polish a script. For the director, Kanazawa is his biggest supporter Xin Yukun!
Let Lao Xin discuss the details with Kong Xue, and Su Ze began to study the script. To be fair, he still liked suspense and reasoning at heart.
As the male protagonist Xiao Qi, a newspaper intern, investigates a traffic accident nine years ago, social pictures slowly unfold, and the sanctimonious characters take off their masks one by one.
Reporters and policemen who accept bribes and collude with each other, leaders and colleagues who collude with each other and squeeze each other out, tutors and female students who work together to exploit each other directly tear out the darkness of society.
Especially the design of various sub-shots at the beginning of the film, a car crash scene in the rain. Xiao Qi encountered a car accident in a mountainous area on a rainy night. The car broke down and the mobile phone had no signal.
The calls every day didn't work, and the calls to earth and earth didn't respond. I got off the bus, got in the car, and went back and forth in a panic.
According to Xin Yukun's urine, the dense rain must have been almost suffocating. Close-up shots came all at once, and patients with trypophobia and vertigo were crushed by the director in just two minutes.
Then a little bird flew across the night sky, and the time went directly to nine years later...
The opening scene pays homage to David Lynch's best film of the 20th century, "Mulholland Drive." This movie is too ambitious!
"We must find her this time!" The best candidate for the heroine flashed through Su Ze's mind. She was a charming white-collar woman in her early thirties who was ambitious and full of desire. She was the only one who could control her.
Tan Zhuo!
A group of people who seem to be ordinary people are actually involved in drunk driving accidents, sex slaves, fights, affair, multi-person sports, teacher-student love, extramarital affairs...
It also uses the supernatural resurrection car and the corrupted journalistic ethics to highlight the dark side of human nature.
The scale is so exciting!
"Old Xin is so confused." Su Ze couldn't help complaining. It's a bit difficult to pass the review at this scale. After the three chapters, his back became even harder.
The third time I read the script, it was different from the shocking reversal at the last moment of many works, showing a completely different ending, and even overturning almost all the reasoning in the entire story, and the witnesses were more like peeling off the cocoon.
This kind of story is actually in an oppositional structure. If you break the window in front of you, you can see the reality on the other side of the window.
The reasoning process is more like the reasoning in real life, there is no such absolute big reversal, but little by little thinking, new conclusions are drawn little by little, and the truth is closer.
Just like peeling an onion, peel off the outermost layer. What you think is the heart of the onion is actually just a new layer of skin. You must interpret the story layer by layer.
Compared with the invisible guests, this time Su Ze had a very strong feeling of Rashomon. The wonderful thing is that the Rashomon of human nature's evil nature and the suspenseful solving of the case are interestingly combined.
The information everyone tells about the case is only beneficial to them. How to find out the truth at this time? How to integrate this information?
The audience can only experience these plots from the perspective of the male protagonist Xiaoqi. A very important point that Rashomon wants to reflect is the inherently evil nature of all participants.
The most shocking thing is the result, it turns out that everyone is evil. Everyone is evil, there are no good people, only bad people, everyone is using others, and everyone is serving themselves wholeheartedly.
What seems to be an overwhelming sense of justice and dedicated righteousness are actually non-existent. Xin Yukun is very cruel, almost breaking the mirror image of the characters involved one by one, ruthlessly tearing away all disguises, and showing you the most bloody.
The evil and darkness of human nature can make people feel chills on their backs and dumbfounded. Half of the characters are in the shadows, and you can't see every complete person clearly.