Behind-the-scenes production of destiny declaration

Origin of the film: The autobiographical theme "Declaration of Destiny" is the second feature film of actor and director Tang Lizhe. As the opening film, the film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival Film Review Week on 20 1 1. The film also won the 20 1 1 Paris Film Festival Jury Award, Popular Award and Blog Award. A few years ago, the children of Valerie Don Li Zhe and Jeremie Elkaim were seriously ill. The declaration of destiny is based on this painful experience. "The Apple Queen is a movie about fractures. I was depressed at that time. The Declaration of Destiny is also committed to the same process: inspiring some positive emotions through some sad fragments that I experienced personally. In my mind, this film has been brewing for a long time. At some point, I knew it was time to shoot her. " Jeremie Elkaim described how the script was written: "When we were dealing with our son's illness together, Valerie kept her diary. There is no greater adventure than this. The question of life and death forces us to behave better and braver. With diaries, we try to extract a structure, just like we usually adapt novels into movies. The game lies in how to get rid of reality and enter the fictional world. Only in this way can our life be possible, because we have such a goal: to eliminate sadness and share happiness. " The family in the film, Romeo, Juliet and Adam, are three household names and characters. Why did you choose these three names? Valerie explained the reason: "At first, I didn't know how to address this couple. I just want people to see them as a couple and a whole. They met at a party, fell in love at first sight, called each other Romeo and Juliet, and faced a tragic fate together ... As for Adam, they had different considerations. I want to find a very common name. Adam was the first man, and the name has a magic power. And the name is very gentle, so people won't get bored. This is very important because this name will appear frequently in the film. "

Focus of the film: Contemporary Couples and Fate From the beginning of the film, the audience knew that Adam would survive, which is exactly the purpose of Valerie Don Li Zhe: "To create suspense about whether Adam can recover is absolutely kidnapping the audience's curiosity. From the beginning, I wanted to let the audience know that Adam can get out of trouble, and the audience was just curious about what would happen during this difficult journey. The main line of the movie is still the story of the couple. " Valerie wants to shoot contemporary couples. "I am very happy to have the opportunity to show the life of contemporary couples. How do men do housework and look after their children when women go to work? They yearn for an ideal life, but they have to do trivial work to make a living. My wish is to stand with my generation and tell stories I am familiar with and my life. " Another important theme of the film is about fate. Valerie said: "For me, life is the transcendence of one test after another, no matter how heavy it is, whether it is happy or sad. Gradually, we reached the top of the mountain. All the tests that don't defeat us will make us stronger and stronger. Adam is the crystallization of the love between Romeo and Juliet. Why did such a disease happen to him? When Romeo asked this question, Juliet replied,' Because we can surpass it.' In this way, any misfortune has a mysterious dimension, which is not a matter of bad luck or unfairness. "How the new wave works Even for film directors, the Declaration of Destiny is a film that is difficult to classify." I don't think it's a drama, a tragedy or a sitcom. To say the least, Jeremie Elkaim and I think this is a compact and realistic film about the body. "About the filming equipment, it may be surprising to say it-The Declaration of Destiny was shot with a camera. Director Valerie explained: "This is just a camera, the kind that can record videos. This is ridiculous. No one will believe that we are making a movie ... the photographer is trying to make the camera work at its best. Only a few shots in the film were shot with a 35 mm camera, which is the slow motion at the end of the film. I want to shoot beautiful slow motion, but it seems impossible to use a camera. "In one scene in the film, Romeo and Juliet confide in each other by singing. Valerie said, "At that moment, the strength of the couple comes from telling each other how much they love each other." Valerie also used this method in The Apple Queen. The film is a real mix of styles, which makes the editing quite complicated. The director explained, "We are faced with a lot of unmanageable materials. Editing can only determine its subtle dose intuitively, which is a bit like matching lace. Soon, a scene or a shot loses its independence and blends into the whole. "Like The Apple Queen, Pauline Gaillard is still in charge of editing this film. Besides starring, Tang He is also responsible for the music of this film. Their inspiration comes from the music they often hear in their ears. The music for the opening ceremony was composed by George Deleru and sung by Jacques Chansel. This song is a household name in France. The music of Italian singer Antonio Vivaldi is also the director's favorite object. In order to maintain the true style of the film, the film "Declaration of Destiny" was recorded in mono, and the director hoped that the sound would not be too clean. Also considering the realistic style of the film, most of the shots in the film were shot in a natural background. " The film I want to shoot is rooted in reality, rooted in the reality that happened in the hospital, so I don't do the setting, I shoot in a real hospital. "In the film, except for Juliet and Romeo's apartment at the beginning, other backgrounds are real." We restored these places intact. I like the idea of making movies in reality. Watching Tang's movies is easy to remind people of "New Wave" movies. However, young female directors denied any grandiose statement: "Indeed, I am working in an extremely personal way. There is no doubt that what I have done has been experimented by Truffaut or other movie master people whom I admire. That's it. We are inadvertently nourished by what we touch and love. However, these are not references. "