What do you really want to express in "Life"?

Standing at the end of death, how can you live more meaningful and what you should cherish.

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Author ｜ Guo Tie

Edit ｜ Lonely Pigeon

In Shijiazhuang County, Hebei, director of Liu Jiangjiang, the saying that the funeral was "big" - "" was "" "" "". How many branches in life are completely ended in a funeral.

The word "big event" in the movie "Life" is originally here. This funeral and funeral movie starring Zhu Yilong was officially released on June 24. The second -hand rose sang in the theme song: "On the heaven, there is no major event in life eliminating death."川 Mo Sanmei, Sichuan fart baby Wu Xiaowen, Guangxi Rotten Wang Jianren, and Northeast Lang Niu Yin Baixue's "Four Bad Children" funeral family, facing a big event with sorrow and tears in the face of a sorrow and tears.

This is a funeral comedy. Different from the sad atmosphere of sadness of funeral theme, Liu Jiangjiang, who was born in the funeral family, was full of hot air from the people of the city. He shouted, handling white things in a hurry, and the philosophy of life and death in it.

Life is mirror. In Liu Jiangjiang's view, the purpose of the shot to death is to "stand at the end of death, go back to how to live in life", and use death as the mirror, which can solve the knot that the living person cannot solve.

Poster of "Life" poster

Person who grows stars

Regarding white things, Liu Jiangjiang was familiar with it when he was young.

His ancestors are related to the funeral industry. Grandpa and uncle are carpenters specializing in coffin. In the childhood memory, the yard in the home is always filled with various coffins of fish willow, mulberry, pine wood, cypress and other materials. Whenever there is a funeral in Shili and Eight Township, Grandpa will go to the coffin to others, and grandma tells him that he will have one more star in the sky. "People who are engaged in the funeral industry are planted in the sky Star.

In the eyes of children, this ritual around death is not terrible. He followed his grandfather to participate in the funeral, and saw "delicious, fun, singing, and filming." At that time, there were very few literary and artistic activities in the countryside. Now when I think about it, Liu Jiangjiang feels that it is those things in white things, which has become his literary enlightenment.

Before becoming a film director, Liu Jiangjiang produced the column drama "The Essence of the Village" for the TV station. This show is titled by rural life, telling the real life story of short and chai oil and salt in parents. Liu Jiangjiang was shot for 17 years. Out of his interest in funeral, he had contacted many things related to funeral during that time, and wrote several stories about funeral.

In 2017, the TV show was suspended, and Liu Jiangjiang transferred to the film industry. He always had a thought in his heart, that is, making a funeral movie, but he felt that he did not find the starting point -he lacked a kernel. Funeral story.

The 17 -year television work experience has made him almost professionally pursue authenticity. In 2018, he went to Baiyangdian to collect the wind, and a story grabbed him: In the summer, a child accidentally sank into the water, and the rescuer went down three people. Unfortunately, he failed to rescue the child. In the end, it was a big brother of the corpse team. He risked his life and dived into the water to fish the child's body.

The moment he heard the story, Liu Jiangjiang sank, feeling that he "suddenly understood the highlights of this profession", and he finally found the starting point.

Zhu Yilong (right) Mo Sanmei

The real pen was in March 2019. One evening when he got off work, Liu Jiangjiang saw a truck parked at the door of the funeral Shouyi Shop next to the TV station, and he was entering and exiting the wreaths, ashes, and other supplies. And a little girl sitting next to the coffee table in the store, writing homework.

This is an extremely ordinary picture, and in Liu Jiangjiang's view "feels like spring". In this picture, he found the theme he wanted to write, and immediately finished writing the first edition. There is also a funeral shop "Temple" in "Life", and there is also a little girl in the store. It is a "star family" who constitutes this shop. They are several people who "plant stars in the sky". The background of the story is life, warm, and fireworks.

Before the shooting of "Life", Liu Jiangjiang had found many people to watch the script. Many guidance was to delete the child's drama in an appropriate amount. But Liu Jiangjiang insisted that he knew that this story needs to be cut in with the perspective of the child. He must have such a naive and vitality girl who is full of vitality to face the big issue of human beings.

The theme of his funeral theme movie was locked on "growth". Not only the growth of the little girl Wu Xiaowen, but also the growth of the 4 -person group.

Funeral family

The "God of Paradise" is composed of a Wuhan 伢, a Sichuan baby, a Guangxi Zai, and a Northeast girl. There is no blood relationship between each other and there is no geographical relationship. Liu Jiangjiang uses the word "disorder" to describe their state -they are aliens excluded by the original social relations, and they are there to be separated, reorganized, and re -find the meaning of life.

Mo Sanmei, played by Zhu Yilong, was released shortly after his sentence was full, and he was full of breath and hidden soft and fragile with a hard and rough shell; the silver snow played by Liu Lu was cold and cold, but his heart was a fire; Wang Ge played by Wang Ge; Wang Jianren is a small person with a short person.

Wu Xiaowen, played by Yang En again, is the introduction of everyone. She always tied two dumplings with red hair rope, holding a red rifle, and appearing in the image of Nezha. She had a strong energy and the energy that was not afraid of it. In order to ask Mo Sanmei to "grandma in the box", she broke into the lives of these people, and also stirred the changes in the lives of several people. Yang Enyou as Wu Xiaowen

Liu Jiangjiang was very distressed for a time, how to find a little actor to perform a role of Wu Xiaowen. But "maybe the Rain Rainbow met in the face of the rainbow." The performance of the little actor Yang En also greatly exceeded his imagination. In the filming scene, Yang En always had an unexpected performance that made Liu Jiangjiang's unexpected performances.

For Zhu Yilong, who plays Mo Sanmei, Liu Jiangjiang's comment is "Don't be confused by his handsome appearance." Many viewers may think that Zhu Yilong plays this role is disruptive, but in Liu Jiangjiang's view, Zhu Yilong has a life experience of Wuhan and can feel Mo Sanmei's "rough, tender, helpless" dimension. When he first decided to cooperate, he felt that the matching degree of Zhu Yilong and Mo Sanmei was 50% -but this number turned 90%at the pre -shooting, and it became 100%when it was turned on.

"When he was killed, he was completely beyond our imagination. He was a surprise." Liu Jiangjiang told "Blog World".

Wang Jianren played by Wang Ge, from Liu Jiangjiang's view, is the clown horn in the Peking Opera stage "Sheng Dan Jing Ending Ugly". "". The background color under its rough appearance is "cute", and even a little childhood. Wang Ge enriched this role. He always had many small action design at the scene, such as showing the negative emotions of the character's anxiety by biting your nails.

The silver snow played by Liu Lu has played a lot among the four groups, but most of the play "The focus is not on him, and there may not even be lines." Liu Jiangjiang knew that this situation was very difficult to deal with the actors, but Liu Lu completed this role of "not much warming" very well. There was a scene of a few people who broke with the third brother. Silver white snow also had no lines, but the lens host position was in front of her. She only used a very small physical movement and expression to pass the angry and distressed emotions. In Liu Jiangjiang's view, "she can not use lines."

Luo Jingmin (middle) plays Lao Mo

Luo Jingmin plays Lao Mo in "The Great of Life" and is the father of the protagonist Mo Sanmei. When it comes to him, Liu Jiangjiang couldn't help but feel sorry, "It can fully afford the title of an old artist." He is a person who pays great attention to basic skills: For this role, Luo Jingmin follows the dialect to practice Wuhan dialect and go to the park to observe Elderly people with similar states give their real sense to the role.

Wu Qian was surprised to many people in the film. Although there are not many plays, Liu Jiangjiang feels that Wu Qian "is very accurate in each game." When filming her first scene, Wu Qian said with tears in tears, and in a unhappy tone, Liu Jiangjiang immediately realized that "she can handle the very complicated emotion."

During the filming on the set, Liu Jiangjiang especially liked to watch Zhu Yilong and Wu Qian collide with Wuhan. "The rhythm is particularly enjoyable." He also told them at the time, "You two Wuhan dialect must be the same system." This sense of familiarity makes the life of the film more rich -and the breath of life is "Life". This funeral story is the most needed atmosphere.

Funeral comedy

"Funeral Comedy" is a significant label of "Life".

Although it was the story of the funeral shop, Liu Jiangjiang deliberately presented a "strong contrast" way. Throughout the film, the funeral shop is next to the wedding shop. The funeral shop is black and white, but the story and the characters are both colorful and lively. In Liu Jiangjiang's view, he wants to implant a topic "Maybe everyone doesn't talk much about" in a way closer to the audience.

"There are two things in life, one is the most decent, one is born, and the other is death." Liu Jiangjiang concluded. At these two moments, people lost all autonomy and rely entirely on the help of others. It is also because of this, "It is also very great." The funeral practitioners were avoided, and in his opinion, it seemed unfair to him.

Director Liu Jiangjiang and producer Han Yan

Liu Jiangjiang feels that making a movie is a matter of "taking the law, only among them". "It is not like the water in the sea, it can be scoop at any time. In fact, we still create in a relatively limited time and space." It is called "God of Paradise", and there are many funeral stories he collected during the script, but in the end, he had to choose to be selected and deleted, and he failed to appear in the movie.

One of the stories that impressed him and insisted on retention was "living funeral". When picking up the wind, Liu Jiangjiang learned that there was an old man who did not marry a daughter -in -law and no children in his life. When he came to the end, he spent all the money on a funeral. "He especially wanted to see what his funeral looked like. "".

Liu Jiangjiang retains the story because he thinks this has something to do with the theme of the film, that is, "standing at the end of death, how to live a more meaningful life and what should be cherished."

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