Produced by Chen Sicheng, directed by Dai Mo, written by Zhang Ji, and starring Zhang Yi, the movie is currently being released. A few days ago, the director of the film, Dai Mo, accepted an exclusive interview with Time.com to share the behind-the-scenes story of the film.
The movie "The Three Teams" is based on real events, originally published in "NetEase Human Studio", and the original title is "Please Tell the Director, the Three Majors Task is Completed" (author Deep Blue).
The three teams led by Cheng Bing (played by Zhang Yi), the captain of the criminal investigation team, caused the accidental death of one of the suspects in the process of handling a vicious case and was sentenced to prison. After being released from prison, he still insisted on tracking the fugitive suspect ...... as an ordinary person
Director Dai Mo described the joining of Zhang Yi, Li Chen and other leading actors as a reunion of old friends. "In fact, when I received this script, I already knew that Brother Yi would come to act. I also understand why I chose Brother Yi.
The first was a soldier, and he was a soldier for ten years. The military police are a family, and there is a heroic spirit in them. The second is that the producer Sicheng and Brother Yi are old friends, and they have known each other for 20 years. Then in the early morning of that night, he also called Li Chen a **, and gathered the three of them again. It feels like the movie is also about a group of friends, and they want to use a group of friends to tell the story of a group of friends, and I feel this way. ”
Dai Mo has also known Zhang Yi and Li Chen for many years, including cooperating in the TV series "Beijing Love Story". At that time, Dai Mo was not only an assistant director, but also one of the actors. "My role was relatively small at that time, and there were only twenty or thirty scenes.
I remember that at that time, I was playing more against Wu Di, the brother of the character played by Brother Chen. In fact, I was also working as an assistant director, but I didn't know how to do it at that time, but it was the first time I was in the crew, or in the directing team behind the scenes, and I felt that everything was new. I've done TV dramas before, but I've never been behind a camera.
The world behind the camera is actually quite interesting. You can know how a scene is prepared, how a scene is filmed and how to get it. Then that winter, I remember that Beijing was very cold, everyone ate boxed lunches on the side of the road, and watched my brothers act, and I felt that they acted well, and sometimes they forgot their work.
Now, I have reunited with my brothers in another capacity, which is actually quite embarrassing. In fact, there is also this kind of thing in the movie, sometimes there will be some changes in identity, and they are very happy to see that I am growing and improving. ”
"The Three Teams" is the second work directed by Dai Mo as a director, and the last work was "Manslaughter 2" released in 2021. Both films are executive produced by Chen Sicheng.
Dai Mo said frankly that the project would not be very valid without Chen Sicheng, "He is an organizer, he is a person who saves projects." Director Sicheng and I, we have worked together for many years. In fact, our team has always seemed to be buttoned by a so-called hat - we are a team that shoots suspense, detectives, and genre films. But in fact, we also want to explore some new genres, and we also want to shoot more different types of excellent works. ”
So we are also talking to the producer, and we were also talking about it when we had a meeting in the early stage, for example, like the point he put forward 'only the truth is not broken, and it moves people with emotion', which is to grasp the words love and truth. ”
Dai Mo shared that "The Three Teams" is a very special movie, although he has seen it many, many times in the process of doing post-production, but sometimes he is unconsciously attracted by the story, "I watched the color grading that day, and the staff said why the director didn't speak. Actually, I read the story and read it. The explanation is true, and there is a particularly magical force to this story. ”