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Chapter 478 Fostering Hope for the Future

Su Yao was immediately asked to contact the director, and the next day she met Xin Yukun. The Inner Mongolian man in his early thirties couldn't express his excitement when he met the legendary invincible actor.

"I'm going to film in Pingdingshan, so I'll find a local drama actor. 150 million yuan should be enough!"

Ding Cheng smiled slightly. This little money is not worth mentioning. He asked curiously: "The core drama conflict is that one coffin is replaced by three masters. How did you get this core idea?"

"I have to thank my producer for this. About 11 years ago, he talked to me at the dinner table and told me a real story that happened in his hometown. After he told me, I felt like a thunderbolt ."

"That story stayed in my mind at that time, and I thought it was great. There were crimes, suspense, blackness in that story, and some characters' fates in the background of the times."

"He asked me if I was interested in writing it into a script? I said yes, but I thought it was a piece of jade at the time. I needed to figure out what angle to cut it. If it was not cut well, it would be a waste. "

After telling the story in detail, Ding Cheng understood the cause and effect. The real story happened in the early 90s. Young and middle-aged laborers in Henan and many rural areas across the country went to work in other places.However, due to the inconvenient transportation and communication at that time, many children in the family lost contact with their families after entering the city.

Some people did not come back after earning money outside, but some people did encounter misfortune outside and disappeared.Then one year during Chinese New Year, a charred body was found in the river of this village. At that time, the villagers called the police, but because it was a village deep in the mountains.

The police happened to have an accident when they were dispatched, so the village was in a vacuum at that time, so all the villagers came to identify the body, and one of the family members used some clues, including wallets, to conclude that the body was our child. , So the family pulled back.

When he was going back to prepare for burial, his son came back.The family asked: Why are you back?The child said, I came back to celebrate the New Year, but my wallet was stolen at the long-distance bus station. I had no money to take the bus, so I had to walk back.

At that time, the family turned from sadness to joy, so they sent the body back.At this time, another person from the next village said: The corpse may belong to our family, and they took it back again. In this way, the coffin was transferred to three families, and the case was not solved until the police came.

In fact, it was a girl who was riding a bicycle to her relative’s house to deliver something, but she ran into a former elementary school classmate on the road, and that classmate brought another friend to the village to play. The classmate disagreed, and the two got into a fight. In the end, her elementary school classmate killed his friend by mistake.

After the killing, the two young men destroyed the corpse and burned the corpse without permission. Afterwards, the two ran to the city, circled around, and turned themselves in. Finally, the real murderer was caught.

"What attracts me the most is the concept of replacing three families with one coffin." The director sighed: "Because in our traditional concept, death is a very important thing, so many joys and sorrows will be incorporated here."

"When I decided to start writing this script in 13, I found that if the story happened in the contemporary era, this one phone call would solve many problems, so I only kept the core concepts when adapting, and recreated all the remaining character relationships and character backgrounds. edited, and added father-son relationships, left-behind families, domestic violence, and marital issues.”

"I think this may be something that makes the audience seem to resonate and have a sense of identity!"

Ding Cheng sighed a little, and continued curiously: "The multi-line narrative structure, I saw Quentin, Nolan, Guy Ritchie..."

Xin Yukun was a little embarrassed, and explained: "It is true that I started to pay attention to multi-line narrative movies a long time ago. When you read the number of movies, you will find that today we actually have a lot of characters' emotions and relationships that are used repeatedly. of."

"It only seems that some tricks can be made in the narrative structure, so when I saw Nolan filming his debut "Following" and "Memento" a long time ago, I thought this method was actually very interesting."

"And when you have more movie-watching experience, you can have fun with it. Later, when "Crazy Stone" directed by Ning Hao came out in 06, I really took pictures of my thighs after watching it. I thought it was so good!"

"But I also saw something at the time: the applause is all from the audience, but the sarcastic comments are all from the industry?"

Ding Cheng snorted, and understood that mentality very well, including today when many viewers are talking about what a certain movie looks like, in fact, his mentality is used to show off how many movies he has watched.

If you and a friend go to see a certain movie, the friend finishes watching and says, "Oh, that's great, this movie is awesome, it's really interesting."

You will definitely say: "What's this? I've seen something more awesome than this before, so so and so has taken pictures like this before."

This is a kind of human nature.

In today's film history for a hundred years, is there anything that has never been filmed?

Sometimes you feel that a certain movie is particularly novel or strange, but it may be that you have seen too little of it.When "Run Lola Run" came out, everyone clapped the table and applauded it, but you still know that it already had another earlier prototype there.

"Why don't you consider professional actors?" Ding Cheng smiled and said, "If there is investment."

Phoenix Entertainment: Where did you find the actors for this movie?

"Actually, I also thought about finding actors, but after the script was completed, I felt that this is a group play. If I only need two leading actors, then I still have time to do some training for amateurs."

"But there are so many characters, and most of them have some serious inner drama and emotional performance. To be honest, as a young director, it's my first time making a film. There are too many places and many loopholes, so..."

Ding Cheng smiled knowingly, quite self-aware, even if the new director can invite professional actors, whether they can hold on to the set is another matter.

"The casting requirements must be similar. In fact, my original intention is to hope that they are more local and more authentic. Maybe there is a limit in between."

"Actually, the original name of the script was "Funeral Coffin", but it was changed to "Heart Labyrinth" because of the censorship."

"I understand that profit is the first priority for large companies to operate projects, so we must be on the safe side, and we must use what kind of star, what kind of IP, what kind of theme..."

"For example, the American director who made "11:14" is a lesson from the past, because he made that film and quickly entered the Hollywood system, but he later made a commercial film and immediately failed at all."

"In my opinion, the pressure and exploitation of you by big companies may be devastating. They may only need a screw. For me, as a screw, I may not be the one who is really competent. There are too many people who are more competent than me. screw."

"Even if there is no investment and borrowing money everywhere, I would like to retain the right to speak as a director, even if it is only with a slightly lower budget, I can do something different."

"This can also enrich the diversity of the market, and the audience will also feel that low-cost films will actually become wider and wider. Including the previous "Heart of the Sun" directed by Cao Baoping, I think it is a good case."

"I respect such senior directors very much. Obviously everyone is fighting for the box office champion, but I just take a road that you don't take. Maybe it is very narrow and difficult to walk, but it should be a type of movie. "

After listening to the director's aspirations, Ding Cheng directly invested 300 million yuan, leaving everything to him, and he can shoot whatever he wants!
(End of this chapter)