Zhu Yilong let the "person of the stars" be seen

After the end of a movie about death, the creators have obtained the motivation to "continue to live well and live seriously."

Wen ｜ Wang Wei

Edit ｜ Jinshi

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Around 2019, a few news reports that "the funeral industry after the funeral industry after being released from prison" caused the profession of "funeral and agreed" to attract a wave of attention -this is a situation that has never been before before, because in the "taboo taboo taboo taboo In the context of death, the funeral and agreed artist has always been considered a "obscure" and "scary" profession, and is "a marginal occupation that ordinary people are unwilling to engage in."

It was a helpless and tender story. Several severe punishment personnel have experienced twists and turns after being released from prison. Finally, with the help of public welfare organizations, a funeral shop called "Mom sent you to heaven" settled down. They travel to and from the emergency and severe ward of the funeral shops and hospitals every day. They experience more than 200 funerals each year. Focusing, solemn, and numbness, because "death is a big deal."

The occupation of the funeralist gave them a chance to return to society, but the other side of the story was the cruel reality -this is still a marginal occupation that was discriminated against, ignored, and considered obscure.

Director Liu Jiangjiang doesn't think so. Because Grandpa and Uncle are carpenter, they will make coffins for the deceased. When they were young, Liu Jiangjiang often played around the coffin. Sometimes he caught and hidden, and sometimes even lying inside and sleeping.

He is no stranger to the funeral. Liu Jiangjiang recalled that when the uncle died, his family put his body in the coffin, everyone turned around the coffin, talked about his heart, looked at the last glance, and then said goodbye. That day, my cousin held the mobile phone used by the deceased to put it in the coffin while putting it in the coffin, and said, "舅, don't change the number over there." Everyone was happy and started crying.

Another ceremony before the burial was to nail the coffin, and the long nail nailed into the coffin cover. All relatives and friends shouted, "Homming!" "Although he is gone, everyone lets him hide, don't smash it. Liu Jiangjiang realized that in this ritual of expressing sorrow, there are very romantic and strong emotions. People express their awe of the deceased in the long ritual, and at the same time, they are healing the students in the farewell.

Therefore, when Liu Jiangjiang picked up the camera, this was almost logical story. Even the title "Life" also comes from the vision of childhood -when there is a white family, they will stick to the door at the door: being a big deal -there is no major thing in life eliminating death.

Stills of the movie "Life"

Director Han Yan has also been paying attention to the "life and death" proposition. He likes "Paradise Cinema", and has filmed "Get Out! "Tumor Jun", when he heard about the movie "Life Event", he was filming "Send You a Little Red Flower". The two stories of two cancer youths were also about life and death.

After filming "Little Red Flowers", Han Yan received the script of "Life". I really took the script to my hand and found that the story is different from myself -this is a little girl about life and death, funeral and funeral, and a little girl who is regarded as a "dragging oil bottle" and the funeral of the society as "loser" The story between the teachers is not heavy, no taboos with a very peaceful and relaxed attitude. Han Yan wanted to "do something for this script", so he became the producer of "Life".

Han Yan's earliest impression of the funeral division came from Grandpa's funeral. "That person usually has no sense of existence, but as long as this kind of thing, everyone will go to him. When he comes, everyone will pour tea. At that moment was actually his highlight moment. Maybe the incident passed, and he became the most inconspicuous person in the streets. "

This "edge" also made Han Yan think about what kind of actor to play this role?

They had two directions at the time, one was to find an actor to perform according to the image of the funeralist in the daily life in life; the other direction was to find an actor with contrast, which would make this role more impressive profound.

Han Yan thought of Zhu Yilong. He met Zhu Yilong as early as 2019. At that time, he wanted to find someone to play a Swen role, and many people recommended Zhu Yilong. When they met, Han Yan found that Zhu Yilong did describes as everyone described. He was gentle and silent, but talked about performance and shaping the role. "The eyes are bright." Han Yan was very impressed with him. Three years later, he recommended him to Liu Jiangjiang -there were many sides of the disconnection.

Soon after, Zhu Yilong received the script of the movie "Life". This is a subject and role that has never been encountered in his actor's career. After watching the script, Zhu Yilong decided to appear.

Han Yan is talking about Zhu Yilong

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For the first time with the director Liu Jiangjiang, Zhu Yilong wore a striped shorts with white and long sleeves; wearing a blue hat on his head, "as if trying to hide himself." At that time, he had just come down from a movie that needed climbing, and he was very tired, so he "transferred himself into a power -saving mode."

Before that, Liu Jiangjiang had never seen Zhu Yilong's work, and all his concepts came from his wife -I heard that it may be Zhu Yilong's third brother in "The Great of Life". Essence After seeing me, sitting face to face, Liu Jiangjiang's head was full of good adjectives: quiet, elegant, polite, beautiful. But it's not like the third brother in your imagination.

Until a year later, the movie was released, and they went to Wuhan Road. Liu Jiangjiang recalled the feelings when the meeting was half -jokingly: "I have a cold heart in my heart." Zhu Yilong was too different like the third brother.

In the movie, the third brother was formerly known as Mo Sanmei. He likes to wear flower shirts, big pants, big gold chain, love to scold and do well, because he is caught in prison because he is "wearing a green hat" by his girlfriend, because he operates funeral business Being scolded "eating dead rice", because he did not work hard to be tuned by his old father with a crutch ...

Zhu Yilong in reality is the antonym of the third brother. In 2020, a friend Li Yifeng described in an interview with GQ magazine: "(Zhu Yilong) greeted you with a smile, and then became quiet. His daily life ... he was particularly red as soon as he drank his face, and then looked at you with a smile. You thought he was finally going to say something, and then he fell asleep. "

However, more than twenty days later, the crew of "Life" arrived in Wuhan. Liu Jiangjiang saw Zhu Yilong again. Before he started to read the script, he found that he had become the third brother: the costumes and props that gave him How do you speak, how to walk, how to smoke, and how to spit water, all the shadows of the third brother. Twenty days ago, the "quiet, elegant, polite, and beautiful" boy suddenly started to walk with his shoes. The whole person "like a restless monkey", and even picked up his clothes and wiped his mouth and sweat.

During the chat, Zhu Yilong and Liu Jiangjiang talked about it. Before studying at the Beijing Film Academy, he had always lived in Wuhan. He was born and native. He has seen too many "street slipping" like San Brother in daily life. This time, he just regards them as a The material "grab" to himself.

In the early stage of shooting, the crew went to the funeral home to collect the wind. Originally, he wanted to understand the work process. I did not expect to meet a funeralist. The shaved buddy sat in the van, his feet were on the steering wheel, and WeChat was on WeChat.

The producer ordered the director, the director ordered the starring actor, and Zhu Yilong looked up. Later, these details became the appearance of the third brother in "Life". Liu Jiangjiang said that Zhu Yilong also followed this at a glance to associate with what the person was happy, what was his temper, what to fall in love, and what to fight.

The appearance of the third brother in "The Great of Life"

Through the style, Zhu Yilong gradually understood what kind of career he was in the funeralist -they would never say "goodbye" to others or shake hands with others, but they did not think they were very edge, mournful, unlucky, unlucky, very unlucky. Some of them will feel this moment, but they will not be immersed in this emotion. They go out to do a lot of things every day, and most people are working hard and earnestly.

Before the official start, Zhu Yilong lived for a while in the way of the third brother to communicate with every opponent to find "the degree of the third brother".

Talking about this experience, Zhu Yilong said that he hoped that he would not just extract the details and characteristics of his surface to "act" a character, but consider how to "become" him: "Go to" perform ", always" enough ", always" enough "in" enough "," enough "is always" enough "in" enough ". "This character; but when you" yes "the character, it is actually going down."

Before the official start, Zhu Yilong shaved a cool inch. From the moment he shaved his head, everyone in the crew began to call him "third brother". "During this time, I am the third brother."

Later, in the filming, one day, a uncle stared at Zhu Yilong for a long time, and then called "Lin Nansheng" in Wuhan dialect -at the time, Zhu Yilong's TV series "Rebel" was being broadcast. The tall officer with a clear eyebrow. After confirming that the one in front of me was indeed "Lin Nansheng", the uncle also said seriously: "You have not been good -looking now."

Zhu Yilong in "Life"

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One of the important reasons for the choice of Wuhan in "Life" is that this is a city with strong vitality, which can be seen everywhere. When I went to Wuhan to inspect, Liu Jiangjiang found that many funeral shops in Wuhan opened in the hutong and next to the restaurant. Even some shops also sold roasted intestines and ice creams. Unusual.

As a result, the funeral shop "Temple of Life" is also like this. It is opened in the hutong, next to the wedding company and the fruit stall. Urban landscape, traffic, elevated, office buildings, neon lights. Every day, the third brother drove the tattered van through the city, went to high -end villas, and went to the old town village, but what he did was the same.

"In this prosperous, busy, and vibrant city, everyone rarely thinks of (death)." Han Yan said that what they want to convey is that death is not something that needs to avoid taboos. Everyone is everyone. You have to face it, and you are equal to everyone.

When discussing the role, everyone talked about the temperament of Wuhan and Wuhan people. Zhu Yilong said the most is "dock culture": Wuhan relied on the river, nine provinces, and people in the five lakes and four seas gathered in Wuhan to do business, so it is a very tolerant and strongly strong. The city is particularly lively, and the weather is also hot, and the personality of Wuhan people will be very enthusiastic, unrestrained, and bold, full of rivers and lakes, and at the same time, there is a righteous and soft side.

They incorporated these into the third brother. In "Life", the grandmother's grandmother's grandmother's death was the funeral and funeral of the third brother. The child did not understand where the grandmother went to the third brother, and the third brother didn't think much. Your grandmother became a star. "That night, the third brother saw Xiao Wen sitting at the door, listening to the grandmother's voice, looking at the stars while looking at the stars, his eyes were wet. Xiao Wen looks up at the stars

This is a moment when Zhu Yilong, as an actor, is deeply interested in the profession of the funeralist. Before that, the third brother was a marginal person and had no sense of existence. He was suspected of stealing the ring of the deceased ... but at that moment, the third brother found that what he said would be cared so much. Before that, he always felt that he was not needed and careless.

From being abandoned to being respected, "Life Event" has stepped up step by step to reshape the funeral division in the public's prejudice -in the second half of the story, Xiao Wen and the kindergarten teacher talked about the profession of the third brother, saying that he was "species. Star ". Another time, the third brother and his colleagues were scolded by a father who lost his daughter, but later, when they customized the pink ashes box for the girl, when Xiao Wen drew colorful patterns for the ashes, the father gave them to them. Take a bow.

There is also a play in the film, the grandmother of Xiaowen's grandmother. After fell the bowl, the third brother and colleague carried the coffin and walked out. As soon as the farewell suona rang, the eyes of the two rows of groups were all red.

Wuhan is not like Hengdian, there are not so many professional group performances. The people in the movie are almost all locals from the crew from the park. Like the third brother and all Wuhan people, they are enthusiastic, unrestrained, and bold. Honesty, he is in a rivers and lakes, but also fights for righteousness and feelings -the actor Zhu Yilong in the third brother's body captured the moment when the group was red. He said that he was a goosebump at that time, "I think this is me. I think the subject I want to find, this subject, I think it will definitely bring some comfort to the audience and bring some warmth. "

The streets of Wuhan in the movie

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Funeral themes are not common in domestic movies. Every year, the film public account is recommended for films. Most of them are Japan's "Entering the Master", Mexico's "Dream Searching for Travels" or the American drama "Under the Six Foots". In 2021, the 4K restoration of "Entry Division" was released in China. Some people tried to trace back to China's funeral theme movies. It mentioned "The Filial Son and Sun" released in 1993.

Therefore, before the release of "Life", many people will call it the domestic version of "Entry Master". But after watching the movie, you will find that these are two completely different stories. As a debut work, the "Life" is considered to be immature in the narrative and sensational standards, but its uniqueness is to use as much as possible to tell a life -like and relaxed way. s story.

The producer Han Yan mentioned that he had read a report a few years ago and talked about the death education in the university. The teacher asked the classmates to take a rotary into the coffin to experience death, and some students scared and cried when they lay in. Han Yan was very emotional, and at the same time felt that this method was a bit simple and rude. "Perhaps it can only overcome the fear of things such as coffin and grave, but you can't really understand death." His ideal death education, "Not just not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death, but but not afraid of death. How do you live facing the death of the people around him. "

Han Yan himself was in junior high school for the first time. That day, he suddenly wanted to go to Grandpa's house, so he went to the bus to meet his grandfather. That was the last side of him and Grandpa. That night, Han Yan held his uncle's house, and Grandpa died of a sudden illness and died in the process of taking medicine -at the time, Grandpa and the medicine were less than one meter away, but he was not enough.

Walking in the funeral team, everyone was crying, but Han Yan couldn't cry, "it was completely stunned." About a month, one day, Han Yan wrote his homework, and suddenly thought that when he was sitting here and writing homework, Grandpa often looked beside him. , I started crying. "

Han Yan did not tell his parents because of his parents, "death" was to avoid taboos. As a child, he was protected and isolated.

Later, Han Yan had a child. He found that this generation of children seemed to be more sensitive than himself. He would ask him very early: What is dead? "Most parents are not ready." But Han Yan still wanted to try to answer, because "the more you keep him away, the more painful in the future."

He also appreciates the interpretation of death in "Looking for Dreams", but he also hopes that in Chinese culture, there can be such a movie. Living, more importantly, to give Chinese children a way of interpretation of death -this is what they want "Life Event" to do.

"Life Event" interpretation of the occupation of the funeral and agreed division

"We came to this world decently, and they helped us leave decently." This is the understanding of the actor Zhu Yilong now. And the role of the third brother itself is a response to how Zhu Yilong personally faces life, face himself, and the actor profession.

In 2018, he became popular because of "Zhenhun". In various interviews, Zhu Yilong often mentioned a word -anxiety, "I feel that the work is not enough, this is where I am very anxious now. What do you say now? Are these famous things that support these things? "At that time, Zhu Yilong told the" Character ". In the next few years, he did not participate in variety shows. Most of the time, he was soaked in the crew, and successively filmed "Restart", "Dear Self", "Rebel", "Peak Blast" and so on, including this "Life Event", It's his attempt to fight anxiety.

This time, Zhu Yilong also followed up. During the editing, he wanted to "know how to perform more accurately, how to reduce performance garbage, and how to shape and express the characters more efficiently, so he stayed beside him. "". This is also the first time Zhu Yilong has experienced the production cycle of the entire movie. He also obtained a new perspective of understanding death through this role. "In fact, we are not mainly about death. How do we face death? In fact, how do we talk more, how do you face those lives, you can face those life, you you, you, you How to face the people around you. "

After the end of a movie about death, the creators have obtained the motivation to "continue to live well and live seriously."

On the day the movie was killed, Liu Jiangjiang met Zhu Yilong's agent. She was frowning and worried: "Can we still go back to that before?" Liu Jiangjiang laughed. Indeed, "Looking at this sister -in -law every day, I forgot what Zhu Yilong was like before. ","

But after killing the youth, Zhu Yilong had scratched the third brother's beard. This is his habit of filming for more than ten years. After performing a role, he quickly fled. This time, "Leave the third brother in his work."

One year later, "Life Event" experienced the later period, and experienced the extension of the epidemic, which was finally released on June 24. During the roadshow propaganda, the main creators also met again -Liu Jiangjiang was a little embarrassed, as if returning to the day when he saw Zhu Yilong for the first time, the person in front of him was still "quiet, elegant, polite, beautiful."

Zhu Yilong in the roadshow promotion

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