Little people at the grass-roots level achieve great miracles in life.

Little people at the grass-roots level achieve great miracles in life. If Diary of the Emperor Penguin is an epic about birds and Migratory Birds is a hymn about flying, then Godsend is a novel about the world of birds. At the 4th Cologne Film Festival, China's first film with birds as its "actors", Godsend Opportunity, won the "Most Popular Film" award in one fell swoop, becoming the most dazzling dark horse, and its production team became the most eye-catching focus at the award ceremony. However, no one believes that this film, which participated in the international film festival and finally won the grand prize, was written by three young people from non-professional film classes. A God-given Opportunity tells a touching story of a lonely little black-tailed gull struggling with its fate. This feature film about a seagull's growth experience is beautiful, tortuous and shocking. Volker, an internationally renowned documentary master and judge of the Cologne Film Festival? Mr. Novak spoke highly of "A Godsend Opportunity": "It is a contribution to the film to complete the creation of feature films by documentary shooting." Godsend is the best movie in this film festival! ",yes! The best movies are made by them. They are called tripod groups by friends. They are unknown people, with an average age of only 36, but they have created a miracle in the history of China movies. However, behind the film, their efforts are enormous. In seven years, three people gave the most vigorous seven years of their lives to the protagonist in the story, and familiar people said they were "crazy". But in their minds, this is not madness, but persistence and persistence, because they are all moved by "God-given", from hatching to losing their father, brother and mother ... a lonely bird, trembling and growing in the waves and rolling thunder of the land and sea island. Life is cruel, life is fragile, life is tenacious, life is beautiful ... this is almost the reappearance of life courage and strength. Once, their idea was simple. Sun Xian, the director who loves birds since childhood, has always wondered after watching Animal World filmed by foreigners on TV: Where is the "Animal World" in China? Finally, they found a sea donkey island more than 60 kilometers away from Weihai. The island is only a few nautical miles from the land, about 20 minutes by boat, and there is plenty of food around the island, which is a good breeding ground for seabirds. Every spring and summer, nearly 10,000 seagulls and egrets gather here, which can be said to be the location of the animal world in China. That is, from then on, Sun Xian had the inspiration to shoot a documentary about pure wild birds. May 2, 2002. Sun Xian began to shoot and create with two like-minded friends on this island without food, water and electricity, but what he didn't expect was that the shooting time was getting longer and longer. The plan has also changed from making a documentary to making a bird movie: I didn't expect the shooting process to be so thrilling; I didn't expect this movie to be so successful ... Two years after graduating from high school, Sun Xian was admitted to Qufu Normal University to study oil painting for several years: Wang Jiantao worked as a farmer, driver and repairman. Then I went to Jinan Radio and Television College to study photography for two years. After graduating from high school, Hui Yu worked directly with Sun Xian's apprentice as an artist. None of them came from film classes, but as cinema workers, they have watched thousands of movies for many years, which is the only and best source of nutrition. To make a movie about birds, birds are not competent actors and never listen to the director's arrangement. The story of birds must be carefully observed and expressed in camera language. This kind of original ecological film is unimaginable. A film takes a few seconds, sometimes it takes half a month to occupy three seats. The whole film was edited for 80 minutes, but the shooting time exceeded 400 hours, which took 7 years to shoot. Shooting is difficult, but what is more difficult is the lack of funds. The initial start-up capital is that they take out their savings. The three people invested more than 3 million yuan, and they couldn't even eat a hot meal in the most difficult time. In the winter of 2004, filming almost put three people in a desperate situation. At this time, three "grassroots" filmmakers filmed hundreds of hours of material, but how to become a work? They fell into chaos. After reading their materials, the film playwright Yuan suggested making a film about birds. Making a movie is only the first step. For Sun Xian and his team, every link is an insurmountable mountain, including script writing, editing, dubbing, music, production and distribution. After hitting a wall many times, Sun Xianping, who had never studied film production, became a director for the first time and achieved success in his exploration with his companions. Read more than 400 hours of materials repeatedly every day. According to the materials, with the script, the growth path of a small black-tailed gull gradually took shape. The film was finally named "Heaven-sent". Some people say that the name "Tianci" is too common, but Sun Xian didn't change it in the end. Because during the filming. Everyone misses death several times, which is a godsend: the black-tailed gull photographed is also a godsend; And the people who helped them were all godsend. Therefore, the name "Tianci" can best convey the theme he wants to express. , 65438+20081October 24th. This film is licensed by the National Film Bureau. Xu Yong, who has a reputation as a talented woman in the film and television industry, voiced the film "Godsend" with friendship, and TanJing, a young singer, sang the theme song for the film. On June 65438+1October 65438+March 2009, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued a distribution license to Tianci. At this point, Sun Xian, regarded as a "madman" by his friends, took his film crew to realize his dream step by step. Seven years of hard shooting is not all hard and bitter. Long-term shooting has made them gradually enter the life of birds. Those touching pictures shook their hearts and brought them great happiness! Encouraged by the tenacious life of birds, all the irritability disappeared at once. When she finally left the island, Huiyu said to Sun Xian, "If you want to shoot a bird in your next life, I will be a bird and fly as you want ..." The news that the film won the prize spread to China, which surprised many people who didn't like the film. After all, it is a story that is a little far from the hot topics in society. The three people who filmed "Heaven-sent" are not artists or scientists, but just a group of ordinary people and artists from several cinemas. But they did it. Perhaps the more ordinary people feel this inner strength, especially after it is awakened by the black-tailed gull on the sea donkey island. Regarding the original intention of shooting, Sun Xian said: "In fact, the reason is very simple, which stems from the simple love for birds. Seven years of zero-distance integration into the world of black-tailed gulls has enabled us to regain our due respect for life and nature. Life is equal, life has dignity, and even every grass and tree should be respected. I just want to tell a story about the growth of life and tell the story in the bird world to more people. " , 2011,2 1, Godsend was released nationwide. A strong little gift has touched too many people's hearts. With the dream of flying, with difficulties that ordinary people can't imagine, with extraordinary perseverance. After seven years of grinding a sword, a touching film was finally born in the hands of three little people, creating a miracle in the history of film. Their stories are as touching, admirable, enviable and even more respectable as "God-given". As long as you persist, little people will achieve great miracles in life. Life makes little people wonder at the roots.