List of actors in Guishui Legend

As a world-renowned Brazilian director, Wolff Cyrus's works have gained great popularity, including Grand Central Station, which won 55 international awards such as the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, Behind the Sun, which won the audience award at the 58th Venice Film Festival, and motorcycle diaries, which was recently nominated for two Oscars and won the Best Foreign Language Film Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, all of which have become representative classics. He is a member of the jury of Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. In 2003, he was selected as "Top 40 Directors in the World" by the British newspaper The Guardian. Although this film is Cyrus's first attempt at horror movies, he has a long history of understanding this kind of movies.

Cyrus's father was a diplomat, so he spent his childhood abroad. Cyrus suffered from rheumatic fever when he was young, so he seldom went out. There was a small cinema not far from home. Soon, this cinema became Cyrus' favorite place, and the interesting stories on the big screen attracted him deeply. The works of Rossini, antonioni, Godard, Truffaut and other masters opened Cyrus' eyes, and he also got a preliminary understanding of genre films.

Later, Cyrus became more and more interested in genre movies. In his view, film noir will let the audience discover the drawbacks of social functions from the cracks in society, while ghost stories will arouse the audience's curiosity with fear. What impressed Cyrus most was Kubrick's interview with The sharping: "The demand for ghost stories is immortal. This kind of story not only resonates with people's fears, but also admits that we all accept that there is another world after death. "

During his documentary filming, Cyrus produced a five-hour documentary series, which reflected the contradiction between Japanese modernity and tradition. In order to understand the culture of distant countries, Cyrus began to study Japanese literature, movies and dramas, watch Kabuki and Kenji Mizoguchi's Tales of Rain and Moon, and read Yasunari Kawabata's literary works. As one of the gains, Cyrus realized the deep exploration of the world after death by Japanese culture.

After a comprehensive understanding of Japanese culture, Cyrus has a deeper understanding of the mysterious story in Ghost Water by Hideo Nakata and Yasuji Suzuki. Besides, he is optimistic about the script, because it was adapted by his favorite screenwriter Rafael Yglesias. Cyrus likes grecia's adaptation of roman polanski's Death and the Girl and Peter Weil's The Fearless. Cyrus thinks that the excellence of the mysterious story in Ghost Water adapted from Gracias lies in many aspects of the story. The theme of the film revolves around the relationship between mother and daughter, similar to Grand Central Station. At the same time, it also instills the existence of terrorists and ghosts; There is also the connotation of giving up and loneliness; Without bloody elements, the invisible is more terrible than the straightforward image; And the most rare thing is that there is no praise for the protagonist.

Cyrus explained the characters in the film like this: "Everyone in the film has psychological barriers, except the little girl Xixi. I think she is the moral center of this film. She accepts what others can't accept and can see what others can't. In a sense, she is the same as an artist. " Roosevelt Island (formerly known as Wilfield Island) belongs to Manhattan, but it is isolated from the bustling city. It was chosen as the location of the story by director Cyrus. The island is a 2-mile-long narrow island on the East River. It was once an exile place for seriously ill patients, mental patients and prisoners. For many years, most of the buildings on the island were hospitals and shelters. With the expansion and development of the real estate industry, some post-modern "Fauvism" style buildings built with thick concrete have gradually appeared on the island.

Writer Yi Gracias said: "When you drive along Donghe Avenue in fog and rain and look at Roosevelt Island in the distance, it is like a transit station to another world." When director Cyrus set foot on the island, he was immediately attracted by the distinctive topographical features, and he even remembered the wonders he had been to in Europe. There is no doubt that Roosevelt Island conforms to the visual style of this film. The crew began to build a studio with more than 8,000 square feet on the island, including a hall, elevators, stairs, corridors and two apartments.

In the use of color, the artist draws lessons from the color styles in the works of British realistic painter Lu Xian Freud (whose grandfather is a famous psychologist Freud) and contemporary new york painter Alice Neal. Earth tone, aquamarine and gray-black tones are widely used, and Cyrus hopes to enhance the color contrast between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan. The island seems to be a monochrome world, and all the bright colors are washed away. In short, from scenery, photography to music, the crew tried their best to pave the way for the ubiquitous horror element-"water" in the film. From water stains, washing machines, bath water to downpour, various forms and properties of water flooded the film, rain machine and high-pressure hose soaked the film, and the cold and gloomy spring in new york came.

A (movie) fiasco

When Dalya dumped the first bucket of water leaking from the ceiling, the pool was black water, but in the subsequent shot, the water in the pool turned into clear water.