Beijing, June 23rd (Yuan Xiuyue) Soldiers used to be one of Gao Xixi’s most important identities. In his most popular TV series, many of them are based on soldiers, such as Historical Sky, Happiness Like Flowers and A Bloody Sky. But now, how to shoot a good soldier has become a problem he has to think about.
Recently, he put the story of "Eight Sons Joining the Army" on the big screen, because he was under a lot of pressure because it was a true story or a story from his hometown. Recently, Gao Xixi accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from Zhongxin. com, and talked about his understanding of a series of new phenomena such as traffic, IP and suspended drama as a director.
Talk about movies
The main theme is not equal to not looking good.
In southern Jiangxi in 1930s, a mother sent all her seven sons to the Red Army and went to the front of the battlefield. However, the war was ruthless, and six of the brothers died one after another, leaving only the eldest brother Yang Daniu.
Man Zai, the youngest brother, found the eldest brother’s army with a passion and became an ordinary soldier. But he didn’t expect that it was not so easy to become a real soldier.
This is the plot in the movie Eight Sons, which is adapted from a real history: during five "counter-encirclement campaigns", the old man Yang Rongxian of Ruijin, Jiangxi sent all eight sons to the front, and finally they all died on the battlefield.
Gao Xixi first learned this story because of the tea-picking drama Eight Sons Joining the Army. However, when preparing for shooting, he did not copy the characters of tea-picking drama, but looked for inspiration from historical materials and dug up more details. The script was changed to more than a dozen drafts. In his view, the real power is infinite, so that the audience can feel that this happened and resonate with it.
Since the project of Eight Sons, many people have called it the main theme film. Gao Xixi thinks that the main theme can also be beautiful, like many foreign war movies, it is not their main theme. "Presentation is very important." Gao Xixi said, so when filming Eight Sons, he thought it was not enough to talk about the mother sending her children to the battlefield, but also the growth of a character, who was an 18-year-old full cub.
Gao Xixi once said that he was born a storyteller. As his daughter grows up, he also hopes that her can become an audience of his stories, including this Eight Sons. Therefore, he wants to show this film to young people and let them know the meaning of "hero".
"This is actually a good-looking blockbuster." He said that in addition to showing the authenticity of the war, he also wanted to convey the warmth between mother and son and the feelings between brothers.
Talk about TV series
Some dramas are just ungrounded.
June 16th is Gao Xixi’s 57th birthday, which was spent in the roadshow of Eight Sons. This year is still a busy year for him. Recently, he is shooting the TV series Power and Profit. In the past Shanghai TV Festival, he also served as the chairman of the jury of the Magnolia Award.
From 1994 to now, Gao Xixi’s creation has never stopped, but in recent years, he can feel the changes in the film and television environment more and more.
There are fewer and fewer viewers in front of the TV. Even when he watches videos himself, he turns on his computer or IPad. The film and television industry is booming with traffic and big IP, although he doesn’t quite understand what IP refers to now. Not long ago, he berated young actors for being afraid of suffering when filming, and he also went to a hot search. But as a director, he can’t throw all the pots to the actors.
At the Shanghai TV Festival, when asked about the poor acting skills of the streaming stars, Gao Xixi said that the director was to blame for this phenomenon. "Because the works are presented by the director himself, if you want to compromise, then you have to bear other problems."
Some network platforms tend to flow, and Gao Xixi thinks that he can understand from a market perspective. The environment is changing and he is trying new things. But when the network platform told him to have a "network sense", he was still a little confused.
It took several years to prepare, and the time for filming slowly has passed. The pace of domestic drama creation is accelerating, but the number of good works does not seem to increase, especially the "suspended drama" with realistic themes frequently appears.
Gao Xixi said that at the time of Magnolia Awards, he could see that some TV dramas were very ungrounded. An ordinary IT practitioner lived in a house wearing clothes that were totally out of line with his status and situation. Although it was beautiful, it had no life flavor.
This reminds him that when he started filming "Ten Years of Marriage", many plots in the play really happened between him and his wife, and he also studied the scenes in the play again and again, trying to restore a primitive state of life.
Talk about actors
Dahong Ni is "unique"
Gao Xixi has a close relationship with the Magnolia Award. Since New Shanghai Beach, he has been nominated for the Magnolia Award for Best Director for three times. Gao Xixi, who became the chairman of the jury this year, once claimed to be "drumming in his heart", because the creators of each work are acquaintances, and he always feels easy to offend people, and he is also shot while lying down.
At the meeting of the judges, he once said that the intuitive feeling of the Magnolia Award was that the selection criteria were constantly improving. This is also reflected in the final result — — Dahong Ni and Jiang Wenli won the Best Actor and Actress.
For Dahong Ni’s performance, Gao Xixi described it as "unique". The role of Su Daqiang can make everyone feel familiar, just like people around him.
In the past two years, the topics of "the plight of middle-aged actresses" and "the Mesozoic actresses are green and yellow" have repeatedly sparked heated discussions. Gao Xixi has a different understanding of this. He believes that Tsing Yi has been scarce since ancient times, and it is not easy to find an actress who can support a big drama now. Many actresses have been on fire for a few years, and few can really stay. There is also the problem of presentation. Some actresses can play at a certain age, but if they play from 18 to 80, it will be a little difficult.
From Deng Chao and Sun Li to Yin Tao and Chen Jianbin, Gao Xixi’s works have won the fame of many actors. When it comes to the criteria for choosing actors, Gao Xixi said that he is more concerned about the degree of matching with the role. Just like Liu Duanduan in Eight Sons, he took a fancy to the childishness of the actors, which is very similar to that of Manchu. In the recent film "Power and Profit", it is also the acting school of Yishui, Jiang Wenli, ZhangFeng yi, Guo Xiaodong … …
As for what he will shoot later, he admits that he has always had a "heroic dream" and may also shoot heroic works. (End)