What can the director do something after "unemployment"?

Later, other industries related to the people's livelihood recovered, but the cinema did not open the door. This made him feel a sense of crisis -the original movie is not a rigid need for human life.

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In 2065, the "director" was eliminated by society.

Ning Hao lived in the modified RV and began to grow vegetables to make melon, becoming Haozi in people's mouths. Jia Zhangke stayed alone in the mansion and became Master Jia, and was a robot who accompanied him.

At that time, people no longer needed movies, and countless awards were thrown outside the times. Master Jia and Haozi are no exception. They can only pursue their past memories in the movie museum with their love for the movie.

Stills of "The Last Director of the Earth"

The above are the imagination of the future film "The Last Director of the Earth" in the film, and the two frustrated directors are played by Jia Zhangke and Ning Hao himself. The film is one of the short film collection "Great World Gacha Machines" launched on station B. The conjecture given by director Xu Lei is absurd -in the future, the movie is the "non -necessary" item.

In addition, other works describing human future life are also gathered and launched one after another. The world is like a huge capsule machine, in the short films that have fallen randomly, and those strange stories are staged in turns.

Under the leadership of Ning Hao and Jia Zhangke, a group of young directors used their own ways, and after many years, the impact of scientific and technological development on future society and human life. Although it is the theme of future, love, and youth, it tells the current wonders.

Train drove to 2065

In the Pingyao International Film Festival in 2021, "The Final Director of the Earth" appeared as the closing film and was well received by the industry.

The short film set a background -the film died completely in 2065. Directors Ning Hao and Jia Zhangke, who have filmed countless international awards for a lifetime, have been unemployed. Although they exist, they have lost their audiences.

One day, they received the same call to choose a "movie non -genetic inheritor" between them. As a result, Master Jia and Haozi launched a ridiculous candidate battle.

In an interview with the media, Xu Lei recalled the journey of creation. After filming the movie "Sherlock on the Plain", the epidemic came, the whole society stopped, and the cinema closed the door. Later, other industries related to the people's livelihood recovered, but the cinema did not open. This made him feel a sense of crisis -the original movie is not a rigid need for human life. In this case, there must be a day of being eliminated. The uncertain market environment and the impact of streaming media ... 3 years of the epidemic, filmmakers have become a community of destiny, and they are hit by hammer of market storms and environment.

Stills of "The Last Director of the Earth"

"Because I did this, and as soon as I entered the industry, the industry collapsed, and I felt quite anxious. At that time, I wrote this story mainly to relieve anxiety." Xu Lei's anxiety finally turned into creation. Dynamics has become the starting point of the story.

As one of the signing directors of the "Bad Monkey 72 Film Plan" initiated by the bad monkey film industry, Xu Lei told Ning Hao about the idea of ​​"The Last Director of the Earth" that the other party felt very interesting and let him write it quickly.

In Ning Hao's films, "absurdity" is an indispensable style, so he likes the script of "The Last Director of the Earth", he likes it. He let Xu Lei rest assured that he would persuade Jia Zhangke himself. Sure enough, after receiving the script, Jia Zhangke agreed quickly.

In a sense, "The Final Director of the Earth" is a work for Ning Hao and Jia Zhangke. Xu Lei later told someone that if there were no them, this story would not be established. If you look at another perspective, Ning Hao "crazy" all the way to the end is the most popular literary film director, and Jia Zhangke is synonymous in the minds of many movie audiences. The meaning of the symbol of the times on them is exactly the absurd element of "The Final Director of the Earth".

In the short film, the use of metaphors and the elements of the fans is Xu Lei's remembrance of the film's glory from a future perspective. The alien doll on the sofa of Ning Hao's family is a symbol of "Crazy Alien", and a statue of a Bodhisattva is the metaphor of his Virgo "Fragrant". At the beginning of the short film, in the history of modern film history, Jia Zhangke's "Little Wu", "World" and "Children of the Rivers and Lakes" also appeared.

At the end of "The Final Director of the Earth", the two frustrated directors walked on the beach wearing a disease number. On a small stall renting a movie, the two could not be able to choose the movie, and continued to switch the movie until the picture was cut until the screen was cut to the cut to When "Train Entry", the two people who experienced a series of competence finally reconciled. (Note: "Train Entry Station" is considered the first movie born in the world, and some people think that it is "Factory Gate")

Master Jia and Haozi chose to show "Train Entry Station"

The appearance of "Train Entry" is like a calm force, which makes people feel sour. In the black and white, granular images, a train screamed into the station, stopped the axis wheel in the sound of the whistle, and the men and women in medieval costumes shuttled on the platform. "Train" "drove towards 2065 in the sound of whistling -a era when there is no need for movies.

After the short film is launched, the new setting of the story echoes the current movie dilemma, allowing the audience to examine the situation of the movie again. A Douban netizen commented: "There are many fans inside, it is really a happy market for movie enthusiasts. Finally, it is difficult to see the tears and unity of a filmmaker." Jia Zhangke's loneliness and solidarity. " Said that the last "Train Entry" was chosen by Xu Lei himself, but he and Ning Hao both liked this choice. "When you feel that when the movie was first invented, the relationship between the person and the movie, the simple and happy naive movie, there is a huge civilization of human civilization behind it. I personally feel that in humans, in humans In many art research and invention, the film is actually the greatest jump. "

Xu Lei helps them to feel and understand the creativity represented by the movie when the movie is born. It is a transcendence of human beings and the joy of creating a new civilization. This joy actually brings a sad setting to "The Final Director of the Earth". —— "A relatively comforted, warm color."

The birth of a capsule machine

Ning Hao contributed many first time to the film's short film collection "Great World Gacha Machine". As a producer, he starred for the first time and led the young directors to shoot short films for the first time.

In fact, the idea of ​​shooting short films has been available long ago. Ning Hao told "Blog World" that he often filmed short films. At the company's annual annual meeting, someone suddenly proposed "How about taking a short film together?" This idea was supported by many people. They decided to set a "about the future" proposition. Ning Hao feels that this matter is very meaningful. This is in line with the young director's creative mission, and the young director should pay attention to the future.

The short film "Killing Time" sets future human life

The project of "Great World Gacaoma" soon started. After continuously enriching, it was finally divided into four movie themes of four movie short films.

The chapter of "Tomorrow", including "The Final Director of the Earth", discusses the relationship between people and technology, people in the future of people in society. Ning Hao said: "After Tomorrow", each director finally shows that through the imagination of the future to care about people's situation, it is related to our imagination of our own situation.

The movie short film "Hello, Goodbye" was directed by Zeng Zifeng and Guo Qilin. The attention is the "strange space" of the current people. Its creative inspiration comes from the real life experience of the past two years.

In the winter of 2020, he was given away at home and had nothing to communicate with the outside world. On the social platform, she recalled the status of the time: "After a long time, I reviewed my life, and it seemed that I only said these ten sentences for a long time: Hello, goodbye, thank you, sorry, okay, I'll be as soon as possible. After changing, I was in contact with me late, it was me, let's go at the door, let me pay, sorry to let me ... "

She once said that in her life, she was a person who was very afraid of connecting calls and listening to WeChat, but the contradictory was that she often felt lonely. This made her start thinking that the distance between the technology was farther or closer; it made the communication between people easier, or it was more difficult? These thoughts eventually constitute the short film "Hello, Goodbye". He once said, "I have my own answer, but this is just the answer I believe, it is the logic of this film creation."

Set in the short film "Hello, Goodbye", there are only 10 call authority between people

Wu Chenyi, director of "One Holiday", is concerned about the issue of "pension". During her creation, she asked herself such a question: "If the birth rate of a population becomes low, aging becomes serious, but in an era of efficiency suprematic, what will happen if it develops to the extreme?"

Because Wu Chenyi likes fairy tales, she decided to cut in from a children's perspective when looking for a landing support for the story, combining fairy tales with technology. From this perspective, "One Holiday" is not a low -logo story. It even has a little dark question- "reflection on a extreme social phenomenon", the core of the story is cruel Essence

The film is conceived a world of high efficiency and high degree of refinement. The rapid development of science and technology and the rapid reproduction of human beings have led to lack of resources. Human time is used to earn the cost of survival. The "problem" in the family. In order to make a residence to the upcoming sister, the grandfather was sent to the virtual nursing home by his family. In an extremely efficient era, the affection between people will even be separated.

Ning Hao believes that every director in "Great World Gacha" shows their imagination and their unique character, which makes him very happy. At the same time, the form of the short film allowed the director to find their own creative ways and confirmed their ideas.

The energy of "post -life can be awesome"

From the inspiration of Jiguang Shiyu to become the core of the story, the young directors spent a long time with energy to polish. But the difficulty of condensing a story to a complete short film of two or 30 minutes is visible to the naked eye, and everything must be grabbed.

"Hello, Goodbye" was planned for 2 years in the early stage, but the shooting time was only 6 days. He used to be used as a "large construction site" to describe the field. There is no real scene at the scene. They can only build a new scene while shooting the old scene while filming. The drama on the subway is the most difficult to shoot, because it involves on -site coordination such as group performance transfer, and this short film is completed in almost an impossible time. The period of "One Holiday" was relatively rich, 9 days, but this also made Wu Chenzhang feel stretched. The short film was turned on in mid -January this year, and the weather was very cold. She completed the shooting when the weather conditions and scenes were extremely extreme.

In "One Holiday", virtual nursing homes can make people choose to return to any age, but in fact the elderly are imprisoned in the virtual world

What impressed her most was the scene of the 1990s. According to the scene requirements, it should be a warm and warm environment, but the snow starts two days before the shooting. The company's lights were borrowed empty to set out the atmosphere of the sun.

For Xu Lei, the "Final Director of the Earth", how to reconcile the two big directors who starred for the first time is a difficult thing. Time is also urgent, and the cycle is only 8 days, and the working hours of Ning Hao and Jia Zhangke must be cooperated with Ning Hao and Jia Zhangke. "The two people may be only two or three days at the same time at the same time."

In the short film, Ning Hao and Jia Zhangke played themselves after retiring in 2065. In order to reduce the difficulty of lines, Xu Lei specially used Shanxi dialects to perform, and under the framework that did not affect the main line of the script, he played himself.

Many dramas and lines are encountered by everyone, and Ning Hao and Jia Zhangke often drama each other. In the short film, the two of them were jealous in the bar and jealous. They were all free play. Jia Zhangke's "Lion, Bear, Leopard", was his design.

Ning Hao heard that Xu Lei said that after "adding a lot of play" to himself, he did not fall back, and decided to add a clip of showing a show to the children.

Although the two of them often performed the "fighting and winning" drama of old naughty children, Ning Hao believed that he was very happy to play his opponent's play with Jia Zhangke. "I think Jia Dao is really too relaxed. I am a technical type. He is a natural style, so the two of us are really hard work.

In "The Final Director of the Earth", after learning that the film's non -heritage application project was not passed, Master Jia and Haozi were anxious and were sent to first aid

In the scene of "Drinking Sheep Soup", Xu Lei once expressed his creative intention: "((in traditional Chinese literature)) to test the way a veteran can fight, to see if he can eat, see that he is still big and still big. Not big, can you pull the bow. "So in the short film, he set up a drama that two people compared with strength and see who could eat. After knowing this idea, Jia Zhangke came out: "You said that I said that,‘ you ca n’t doubt me ’.”

Regarding the incident of "playing yourself", Ning Hao and Jia Zhangke unexpectedly believed that they were fictional "them" in the short films. Ning Hao said that himself in "The Final Director of the Earth" is very different from him in real life. For example, he really likes to wait for flowers and plants, but he has never thought of living in a RV because there are too many mosquitoes. He didn't know if he would be as tossing as Haozi in the future, but the only one can be sure that he would definitely like to watch movies when he was old.

Like Ning Hao, Jia Zhangke is not pessimistic about the future of the movie. In his opinion, perhaps the film may disappear from the public level, but it does not mean that the private level disappears. He even made a lovely idea, maybe the formats and experiences of future movies have changed- "Each of us's retina or eyelashes has a player." But on that day, he would not make a movie anymore anymore. Essence

Jia Zhangke said: "I think everyone has the form of movies that I like, and my form may be retained in a movie through screening, projection, and collective viewing. If this form changes, maybe I may not have any I have made a movie. But I believe that human beings do not have the last director on the earth. There will always be directors, but the form of movies, and it may become very strange in the end. "

"The Last Director of the Earth"

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