Behind-the-scenes tidbits of each having his own fun

The director explained that

It's exciting for Zhu Zhaowei to take over the film "Each Have His Pleasure", because it's the first light comedy I've taken over since I became a director, and it's also the first light comedy I directed to reflect my old age. "Each has his own pleasure" tells the story of a newly retired old man who started to escape from "housework" and finally dared to take on "housework".

In the film, Lao Xu is a chef who is full of expectations for his newly-started retirement. Lao Xu likes playing chess, and factory doctor Lao Liu is his chess friend. They meet together to "kill all the invincible players in Yuzhong Peninsula". However, Lao Xu's feat is not so easy to achieve. Because his wife, Xu Ma, joined the old dance team, his son and daughter-in-law set out to run a restaurant, and they left all the housework such as buying food, cooking and taking care of their grandchildren to Lao Xu. The wayward Lao Xu, faced with sudden household chores, decided to defend his ideal life after retirement by pretending to have Alzheimer's disease with the encouragement and help of his chess friend Lao Liu. Unexpectedly, this move caused an uproar at home. After a series of ironic events, Lao Xu realized his responsibility to his family in the process of confronting his family. So the family understood each other and restored harmony. It can be said that this is an excellent script extracted from life. China is gradually stepping into an aging society, and it is a responsibility and obligation of our film and television workers to pay attention to and show the joys and sorrows in old age.

After reading the script repeatedly, as the director of this film, how should I tell The Story of Lao Xu well? I hope it is a realistic light comedy. Mention light comedy. Conventional thinking may be exaggerated performance, powerful lens language and jumping sound design. Compared with the comedy effect brought by these external expressions, I want to try to bring the audience a comedy feeling close to life. Let the audience feel that the characters in the play are doing a ridiculous thing seriously. And this, too, is my bold attempt at the film Lao Xu Story. In line with the realistic light comedy style positioning, in order to better run through the film style, I would like to put forward the following requirements on the film's expression form.

About performance: Based on the realistic style, I hope actors can change the concept that comedy should be formal and stylized as soon as possible. Carefully try to figure out the personality characteristics of the characters and look for external morphological characteristics. Create vivid characters in the real nature.

About photography: I hope photography can experience the "flowing life". The lens language does not seek strong visual impact, but seeks to hide the existence of cameras and skills as much as possible. The scenery is dominated by the panoramic view of the account and the middle and close scenes of the narrative. It is suggested to use more sports lenses in order to better show the smooth life and rhythm.

About lighting: Because this is a play that tells the lives of ordinary people on the basis of realism, it does not require performance. I hope to give priority to the middle tone as much as possible, and try to reduce the light ratio and contrast, in order to create a gentle life atmosphere. About art: The film's style tone is realistic light comedy. Therefore, it is hoped that the scenery modeling can highlight the characteristics of simplicity and lightness on the basis of grasping the truth. The color tone should be mainly warm, hoping to bring bright and warm feelings to the audience.

On culture, service and Taoism: Realistic style doesn't mean that it's unadorned. Art comes from life and is higher than life. For culture, clothing and morality, I hope you can start with the characters, design and find costumes, costumes and props that can help shape the characters and highlight their personalities. About editing: "Brightness" and "fluency" should be the orientation of film editing style. This is a light comedy, refusing procrastination and verbosity unless it is the need of content and rhythm. At the same time, I hope that the editing can give the reaction shots as accurately as possible, so that the audience can see the attitudes of the characters in the play towards different things.

About sound: I pay more attention to the expressive force of sound, even if it is the ambient noise as a sound. For sound, I want to focus on my thoughts on sound and music. I hope that the stereo can try to find the characteristics of the scene and atmosphere on the basis of satisfying the reality of life. Of course, this is difficult for a realistic film, and we can consider it.

for the music of the film, I hope to take the music paragraphs or paragraph sections with bright rhythm as the main creative direction. And establish the unique comedy style of the film with the SOLO of the characteristic instrument. A good film and television work can't be separated from everyone's collective wisdom. I hope everyone will unite sincerely during the filming, * * * work together, give full play to their subjective initiative, give more good suggestions, and * * * work together to create a film that is loved by the audience.