Guo Haowei's "Comrade Son"-behind the scenes story

The film "Comrade Son", produced by Bayi Film Studio and adapted from Peng Xiangtai's documentary "Burning Life", uses a child's eyes to view the world surrounded by war and does not describe the war positively. It is a Chinese version of "Life is Beautiful" and "Green Oaks", which is full of blood and cruelty and vividly depicts how war deprives children of their innocent smiles. Another ingenuity of the film is that although he watches the war through the eyes of a child, he always interprets it with the mood of a father. There is only one theme, which is the desire for peace. The child's desire, care and understanding are stripped away from reality. The film profoundly expresses the subtle relationship between father and son, father and daughter from a completely new perspective.

"Comrade Son" is a film with children as the protagonists, and the only adult actors in the film do not play important roles. It seems that this should be a children's film based on the actor's type, but in fact, this film is more focused on impressing adult audiences. As mentioned above, this is a film narrated from a child's perspective and interpreted from a father's mood.

Since the main actors are all children, it relatively increases the difficulty of filming, because they have to deal with eight or nine-year-old children. As we all know, filming is a very hard job. , especially shooting summer scenes in winter, for example, swimming in the river in the middle of winter, and having a cheerful expression, etc. Sometimes even professional actors can't bear that kind of suffering, let alone some non-professional children. "We first posted an advertisement on Sina to audition the male and female protagonists. The children were very enthusiastic and danced with joy when they were chosen. But it was only when the filming started that we realized how hard it was." Assistant Director Ms. Zhao said: "Sometimes, we all cried while watching it, and we couldn't bear to let them play it again..."

The male protagonist of the film Wang Zhengjia is the childhood actor of Xia Yu in "Once Upon a Time in the Movie". Compared to other children, he is considered an "old actor". After being selected to play the role of Mao Xiaobing, Wang Zhengjia continued to play roles in the movie "Red Potato", the TV movie "Love in the Mountain", "Charming Spring", the TV series "The Poor Student", and "Stories Around Us" Played different roles and won the Best Child Actor Award at the 12th College Student Film Festival for "Once Upon a Time in the Movies". "Comrade Son" was the most painful film he had ever received. Even now, when talking about it, his mother still talks endlessly about it.

When Wang Zhengjia was selected as the male lead in "Comrade Sons", he jumped up with excitement. But he never imagined that countless hardships awaited him. The first difficulty encountered is that we are not accustomed to the local environment. The location of this film was chosen in the beautiful Wenzhou. The humid environment in the south immediately affected the child, who grew up in Beijing, physically. His whole body was covered with small beans and he was extremely itchy. Coupled with the differences in eating habits between the north and the south, the crew had to prepare meals in the town's commune every day. The single and unaccustomed meals made Xiao Zhengjia unbearable. After all, children are children, and they can vent their anger when they find an opening, so there was the "Chicken Leg Incident". Because there are Hui people, only the food of the Hui people is different every time. One time it was fried chicken drumsticks. When Zhengjia saw some children happily eating chicken drumsticks, but she was still holding the same meal for those days, she shouted loudly. cry. Until the afternoon when facing the camera, she still had her little mouth open and her ears fanned, which made the photographer Ms. Yang laugh.

"Comrade Son" - shows the charm of the covered bridge, the young actors are all Wenzhou children

The Shanghai International Film Festival's "Film Channel Media Award" was awarded in the specially set up Chinese new film screening unit , the list of shortlisted films was also released yesterday. The anti-war themed film "Comrade Son", which was filmed in Taishun, was the first film to be screened in the "Movie Channel Media Awards". It was not only sincere and touching, but also showed the Taishun Corridor. The beautiful scenery of the old district in southern Zhejiang, with the bridge as the background of the symbol, has also become a hot spot for people's comments.

The Media Awards are set up to support domestic and national films. They are also awards voted by the Shanghai Film Festival by journalists invited to report on the film festival. Therefore, each Media Awards will attract Many celebrities helped out. At the press screening held from June 17th to 21st, the main creators of the shortlisted films such as Zhao Wei, Karen Mok, Anthony Wong, Mo Shunyun, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Hanyu, Zhang Zhen, and Li Xinjie will be present in person to accept their comments from media reporters. In the end, the most exploratory film, the film with the most box office potential, the film with the most audio-visual effect, the film song with the most popular potential, the most potential newcomer, the most watched actor, the most watched actress specially set up by this media award and 8 innovative and distinctive awards for the most watched directors.

In addition to "Comrade Sons" directed by He Xiaojiang, which was shot in Taishun, the films shortlisted for the Participation Media Awards include the red romantic film "Revolution to the End" starring Baihua actor Wu Jun; Karen Mok, "The True Story of Old Port" starring Anthony Wong, Mo Shunjun and Cheng Zhongji; "Night in Shanghai" starring Zhao Wei; "The Barber" co-directed by Chen Guoxi and Ha Si Chaolu; "A Date with Life" directed by Sun Tie; directed by Su Lei "Wangshan"; "Wu Qingyuan" directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang and starring Zhang Zhen; "Ye·Ming" starring Zhao Wenxuan and Li Xinjie; and "Beacon Fire" starring Zhang Hanyu, one of the stars of "Assembly".

These 10 participating films are all selected from domestic films in the new film screening section of this Shanghai Film Festival, and they are all selected works that have not been released to the public. Among them, "Wu Qingyuan" participated in the Golden Goblet Award competition that year, and "Beacon Fire" was also shortlisted for the Asian Newcomer Award. Director He Xiaojiang told reporters that the shooting cycle of "Comrade Son" was 45 days in Taishun. Before the shooting, in order to find a suitable shooting background, he read a lot of geography magazines and finally discovered Taishun and Taishun Corridor in Wenzhou. bridge. When the film crew arrived in Taishun last winter, they were shocked by the many magnificent and ingenious covered bridges. Except for the two leading actors who played the role of the "New Fourth Army Heping Primary School" in the film, the other 21 were all local primary and secondary school students in Taishun.