director of the millennium

Life must go on.

Although a little sad, after Xiong Dun's memorial service, "Get Out!" The filming of "Tumor King" is also continuing.

The crew and crew, who originally took a deep breath and wanted Xiong Dun to see the movie, readjusted their mentality after a week of frustration and sadness.

Although Xiong Dun can no longer see this movie, hundreds or even tens of millions of other cancer patients in China need the encouragement of this movie.

Xiong Dun fought tenaciously against the disease and his optimistic and positive attitude must be carried forward!
With this belief, "Get Out!" Not only was the filming of "Tumor King" not affected, everyone even worked harder.

It is expected that the film will be completed before January, but because Xiong Dun has passed away, the release is not so urgent, and the later stages can be done slowly.

The current plan of Light and Shadow Times is to publish "Get Out!" "Tumor King" is scheduled to be released in the summer of next year.

It’s not that I went there mainly for college students. It was mainly because there weren’t any good schedules at the beginning of the year. “Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons” was released in February, and March and April were completely off-season.

Although May and June are better, they are never popular, so the summer season is the most suitable.

As for why it is not scheduled for National Day or even Chinese New Year, it is of course because the company has other movie plans, and the better schedule must be reserved for better movies.

The projects of "Kunlun" and "War of the Demonic Tide" have already been approved. It is expected that "Kunlun" will be able to catch up with next year's Lunar New Year film, while "War of the Demonic Tide" will not be released until the year after the following year.

It's National Day.

Naturally, it was left to Wu Yuan himself.

His "The Martian" has been scheduled for North American release and will be released in the North American summer, although it will be different from "Get Out!" "Tumor King" is somewhat overdue, but the themes of the two movies are completely different, and "The Martian" is mainly aimed at the international market, and its domestic impact is not great.

Before the release of "The Martian", Wu Yuan was idle and planned to make the Chinese film he had thought about before.

Yes, that's the movie that combines "Honey" and "Old Orphan".

Wu Yuan still plans to name this movie "Dear", and the main actors also plan to be mainly actors from "Dear".

That is, Huang Bo and others.

It's not that he doesn't like Liu Dehua, but he has to admit that in the emotional drama, Liu Dehua did not perform as well as Huang Bo.

That’s not to say that Andy Lau’s acting skills are not good.

But he is too handsome.

The judges of those film festivals don't like handsome and beautiful actors very much. It's really not nonsense.

When he was young, Wu Yuan did have the same idea as many netizens. He believed that those film festival judges did not like actors who were too beautiful, which was discrimination against these handsome guys and beauties and unfair treatment.

But as his experience and director skills have increased over the years, Wu Yuan has gradually come to understand the views of these judges.

It's really not intentional discrimination.

At the same level of acting skills, the performance of an ordinary-looking actor is indeed better than that of a beautiful actor.

For example, in a scene that also involves crying, a good-looking actor, even if he does cry sincerely and has great acting skills, is not as expressive as an ordinary-looking actor with tears and runny noses.

The crying effect of ordinary actors is easier for the audience to move and empathize with, because they cry ugly.
This kind of ugliness is the ugliness that everyone often sees in daily life.

Maybe it’s a friend who hugs you and cries bitterly after a breakup, maybe it’s a stranger who hugs you and cries and breaks down, or maybe it’s a couple who breaks down emotionally on the street.

Audiences have seen these "ugly behaviors" in their daily lives, and they can easily relate to them. And how many ordinary viewers have ever seen a very beautiful beautiful woman or a handsome man crying with tears and runny nose, and the appearance of his facial features completely collapsed?

Everyone is really not able to relate to this kind of scene, and they may even have some other ideas.

For example: "So Liu Yifei looks like this when she cries?" "Why does Liu Yifei look so good when she cries?" and other emotions.

But everyone will never think about this kind of thing when Huang Bo is crying and crying.
It is this gap that will affect the audience's perception.

When watching ordinary-looking actors perform high-impact emotional scenes, everyone will be completely involved in the story and follow the emotions on the screen from beginning to end.

But when watching beautiful actors perform highly explosive emotional scenes, everyone will judge the appearance and expressiveness of these actors and will not be immersed in the story at all.

Therefore, the more literary and artistic the film is, the more emotional the film is, the less the director likes to use extremely beautiful actors who will cause drama!

Of course, it’s limited to this subject matter.

In romance films, directors love to use beautiful actors, the prettier the better.

Because romance movies are love fantasies, audiences are more willing to see handsome men and beautiful women falling in love on the screen than to see the love of ordinary people who look the same as themselves, because they have experienced enough love of ordinary people.
Therefore, choosing what type of actors for what type of movies is a big science.

Now Wu Yuan has delved very deeply into this knowledge.

"Dear" is a social-emotional film about an ordinary middle-aged couple looking for their abducted child. It doesn't need handsome men and beautiful women to add color to the film.

What they want is an ordinary middle-aged couple.

Huang Bo is very good.

As for the heroine, the original Hao Lei was already pretty good.

Although Hao Lei is quite beautiful, her temperament always has a bit of "country flavor". With a little makeup, she really looks like a middle-aged woman.

Her later acting career was mainly in this area.

However, Wu Yuan had another idea. There was another actor more suitable for this role than Hao Lei.

That's Tan Zhuo!
The actor Tan Zhuo is really amazing, as if he is an actor born specifically for literary films.

Tan Zhuo has become a favorite among domestic literary and artistic film directors since the romance film "The Night with the Spring Breeze" directed by Lou Ye.

She has given wonderful performances in films such as "Hello! Mr. Tree", "Little Lotus", "Burst in Silence", "Summer in Xi Xiaohe", "I'm Not the God of Medicine" and so on.

More importantly, Tan Zhuo's appearance is not that sharp. Although she cannot be said to have ordinary appearance, she is not the kind of beauty at first sight.

Moreover, coupled with the addition of temperament and the "blandness" of her facial features, she looks like a widow who has lost her son.
Although it's a bit bad to say this, she is really born with a "widow look", which makes her perfect for playing the mother whose son disappears in "Dear".

Moreover, there are a lot of quarreling scenes between the male and female protagonists in this movie. Tan Zhuo is so professional in such scenes, and she is so good at "quarreling".

After much deliberation, Wu Yuan felt that Tan Zhuo was more suitable for this movie than Hao Lei.

Invite if appropriate!
Taking out his mobile phone, Wu Yuan called Li Xiaoping: "Help me arrange an interview with Hao Lei and Huang Bo."

"What to talk about?"

"Of course it's my new movie!" (End of chapter)