Big star Liu Weichi (played by Andy Lau) stays in a three-star hotel.
After a lot of tossing inside and out, there was finally only one person left in the room.
He sat down on the old sofa chair, the spring crunching.
In the next second, this natural distorted melody turned out to be the best accompaniment.
Liu Weichi was playful, twisted his body, and a smile climbed his and mine's faces at the same time.
After watching the movie "Mr. Red Carpet", this idle pen was wonderfully engraved into my hippocampus, and the more I pondered it, the more interesting it became.
Director Ning Hao said that it happened by accident on the set"The out-of-control part".
During the shooting, Ning Hao sat down and found that the chair would ring, he thought it was great, so he "played this".
This kind of "play" is especially precious in an environment where everything is controllable.
The interview with Ning Hao was more like a face-to-face chat.
Ning Hao drank beer, and with the spicy peanuts in hand, the conversation box was very relaxed and not polite.
Only when talking about his "mockery of the industry" through movies, he quickly stopped and emphasized: "Self-deprecation, self-deprecation." ”
"Mr. Red Carpet" will be officially released on the first day of the Lunar New Year (February 10). After being screened at several international film festivals before, it was evaluated as "creating everyone equally", but in essence, Ning Hao was firing at himself.
"I always want to win awards, I want to be the same as Jia Zhangke (laughs). I only dare to say him, and I dare not say anything else. ”
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Mr. Red Carpet" was formed, which originated from an agreement between Ning Hao and Andy Lau 17 years ago.
At that time, "Crazy Stone" directed by Ning Hao was released, and it carved a crazy stroke in Chinese film history as a dark horse.
The sympathy between the filmmakers and the filmmakers behind them has also been tempered into a legend over the years.
Ning Hao has always been thinking about making a movie with Andy Lau, and after looking for opportunities for several years, he found a "dilemma" - it is not so easy to pull star actors into a realistic context. "Because the character image is completed by the audience and the author, the audience does not believe it, and the star image and the character image conflict. ”
On the other hand, Ning Hao noticed that with the development of the media industry and the rise of short **, cultural entertainment has become a part of public life, how can movies and filmmakers not be a kind of creative material?
So the story of "Mr. Red Carpet" was written.
The protagonist and Andy Lau are more and more subtly integrated, and Ning Hao said that he shook in a circle, and no other actor can play it.
"can only be played by him (Andy Lau), because he has the characteristics of working so hard. ”
In fact, not only the similarity of the characters, Andy Lau's face also represents the ** era of Hong Kong movies and a kind of decency that never deviates from the norm.
When the times are in the past and decency is pierced, it will naturally burst out with a sense of clumsy or pretentious joy.
"Mr. Red Carpet" flew close to the ground throughout the whole process, smashing a heavy punch with a seemingly casual attitude.
In the first ten minutes of the movie, the daily work and life difficulties of superstar Liu Weichi are jokingly pointed out. For example, when he attended the award ceremony, he manually moved his shortlisted poster to position C. Another example is that he gave birth to a child out of wedlock, and his wife filed for divorce.
The information density is extremely high, and there is a lot of room for association.
What's more interesting is in the back - director Lin Hao, played by Ning Hao himself, appeared and invited Liu Weichi to cooperate in a movie with a rural theme.
The goal is not hidden:Put on a big padded jacket and go to the international film festival to win an award!
When the Pingyao Film Festival premiered, this line set off tacit laughter.
Like the two of them "top your lungs", Leonardo, Bong Joon-ho, and Kusturica on their lips, it satisfies the fun of eating melons and the spirit of fascination at the same time, and blurs the boundary between reality and drama.
Under Ning Hao's lens,The crew was restored to a corner of the huge grass stage team in the world
Big stars wear fake wigs, say ungrounded lines, and play imaginary farmers.
The director frowned behind the monitor, held back the fire, and turned his head to rage at the screenwriter.
The staff is a walking machine, 24 hours a day, anxious or thumbs up: "Okay, very good, you see the director's blood pressure is high." ”
The most ridiculous scene comes from the top of the entertainment industry's contempt chain - investors.
In the movie, the management side is the most resentful "villain" I have ever seen, because it is so real.
As soon as he opened his mouth, he redefined the film industry - "It should become an advertisement for the automobile industry, and it should become an advertisement directly!" ”
With a wave of his hand, he redefined the story of the film - "nothing!".”
At a glance, redefine "dedication to art" – hit us. ”
The unbearable director Lin Hao immediately played me as a part-time worker: "According to what the management said." ”
A play-within-a-play that beats investors is staged, pushing the banter and absurdity to a climax.
It also once again broke the filter of ordinary people on the entertainment industry and even the world - on the surface, it is glamorous and precise, but the truth is full of chaos and perfunctory, and there are too many incomprehensions and confrontations between people. The grass platform team is everywhere, and everything is worth disenchanting.
Redefine bringing money into the group (taking a beating).
Clearly, management is more than just representation. Nor does this assault subvert the inherent chain of contempt as in the "Crazy" series.
What it reflects is not so much the chaos in the circle as it isThe creator's self-tearing in the face of creative constraints
Before watching the "Zhang Beijing" series, I felt that Ning Hao became soft, and when he was young, he struggled against fate like a monkey, and gradually became ** to accept life and digest life in middle age.
But watching "Mr. Red Carpet", I found outHis deepening of self-awareness and deep inner introspection are particularly strong
And thisIntrospection stems from doubt
As a part of play, Ning Hao doubted the rules of the game.
There are all kinds of long-term irrationalization in the industrial environment, which he doesn't like, doesn't like, and can't stay out of it.
Like the protagonists in the movie who are caught between ideals and reality, he continues to work in contradictions, after all, "Can you be more professional than the management?" ”
As a creator, Ning Hao also began to doubt whether the absurdity, the theme of his creation over the years, was still the only most valuable thing.
"The world is pieced together and looks good, but it's actually a bunch of things that fall together. ”
But what is certain is thatNing Hao is still a mirror, reflecting the changes of the times and society, and capturing the truth in the absurd
Mr. Red Carpet perpetuates his long-standing suspicion that there is a real understanding between people?
Ning Hao said that as he got older, he felt that communication was the most difficult thing in the world.
"Everyone is an island. ”
"It's really hard for people to get into another person's world. ”
Undoubtedly, Liu Weichi is the best carrier for Ning Hao to express this core.
The professional identity of "208w" comes with entertainment elements that can mobilize the public's excitement the fastest, and it also amplifies the difficulty of his communication with the outside world。When a big star puts on a wig and plays an imaginary rural person, the sharp contrast between the rhetoric of literature and art and the triviality of life is vividly presented, and the dramatic effect and satire become more and more intense.
Liu Weichi tried his best to be grounded, but he didn't realize that the subtext of grounding was that he was three feet off the ground.
He has the courage to step out of his comfort zone, insists on going to the countryside to experience life, and does not need a stand-in ...... to shoot dangerous scenesIs it for the film, or to tell a moving "film festival story" for the award?
He always asks for respect from others, but does he ever give respect to others?
The end of the experience life is staying in a 3 star hotel.
At the same time, the setting of the character traits is also very interesting.
Liu Weichi has a certain sensitivity and curiosity about the outside world, and even pierces the essence as soon as he opens"Different identities, different ages, different genders, you can't communicate at all. ”
But on the one hand, I have been immersed in the environment for too long, and I can't find out the truth of the performance and myself; On the one hand, he is powerless to resist the uncertainty of communication between people in this era.
In the movie, Liu Weichi faces the director, agent, partner, and "friend" who experiences life, and every communication is like a huge cruise ship crashing into an iceberg, with multiple thrilling physical and mental effects.
He was handsome and clumsy and said to the camera lines that he didn't understand at all: What is Lao Tie? Double-click on what? In the end, "666" or "liaoliaoliao"?
Talking to the director about the script, the director wanted to express the communication dilemma, but he insisted that the theme of fatherhood was more moving, and neither of the two could convince anyone.
There is a scene where Liu Weichi vents his anger on the robot in the hotel, and he can feel it through the screenDespair that is impossible to reach
From his perspective, it is difficult for everyone to understand each other because of their different positions, different experiences, and different emphases.
Behind these failed communications, there are hidden anxieties left behind by the times, the transfer of discourse power in the process of development, and the huge class gap.
The film and television industry is only the entry point, and "human communication" is a universal proposition.
Ning Hao said that the film is not just about a specific Liu Weichi, but the boundaries between a class of people and a class of people, and the communication difficulties caused by individual differences"Whatever difference is the reason why we are islands, and all the reasons why we are hostile to each other. ”
Many times, the arrogance of the human heart is the biggest obstacle to communication.
Ning Hao believes that arrogance is a matter of perspective, not class. "I believe that status, money, and industry experience will bless arrogance and reinforce arrogance. When you have a certain amount of experience and discourse, arrogance will arise. ”
It's not just the superior who has arrogance"I think all arrogance is harmful, arrogance is our refusal to listen to other people's perspectives, things, and it all creates an island effect, and it all starts here. ”
Ning Hao's acting skills are highlights, and he has joined the luxury emoji pack**.
The dissolution and criticism of arrogance, arrogance, and self-righteousness run through Ning Hao's film works.
Arrogant and arrogant people will be attacked in Ning Hao's movies.
Liu Weichi is no exception.
But the difference is that Ning Hao did not let him be coaxed and played, but took a more desolate and deadly way-made Liu Weichi unaware of his arrogance, but he was affected and swallowed up in this unawareness.
There's a detail in the movie: the ubiquitous camera.
The lenses aimed at Liu Weichi one by one built the environment he relied on to survive, but in private, he was most afraid of the camera.
Staying in a Samsung hotel to experience life requires a large number of staff and bodyguards to check the room camera in an all-round way in advance; When I came to the house of the ambiguous object, I felt that I was stared at by the "eyes" of the room, and I broke up unhappily; Every time he tries to escape from an uncomfortable environment, the cameras along the way leave him with nowhere to hide.
Facing the camera, Liu Weichi has nine points of self-satisfaction and one point of self-pity. Abomination, but also pathetic.
However, Ning Hao always retained a trace of compassion.
After Liu Weichi's "skin" was torn off, he finally reflected on life and self - this is exactly the respect that Ning Hao gave him.
Even though he knew the incomprehension of "Tower of Babel" and subconsciously used absurdity to dissolve the meaning, Ning Hao still did not give up expression.
Over the years, he has seen very clearly that movies are purely exported for entertainment, and it is relatively easy to find audiences, but"It is actually very 'troublesome' for a film to start with a point of view, or to have a consciousness and aesthetic output. ”
What's the trouble?
YesHe was never satisfied with just having fun
His early work "Incense" is the most free and easy one made by Ning Hao, with no constraints and no purpose, and his inner uncertainty complements the speculative color of the film itself.
In addition to the weed little people who have been crushed by the wheels of the times and stand up, the "Crazy" series also has a much-talked about multi-line narrative and a "garbage heap aesthetic". People, things, and things are the epitome of social anxiety.
No Man's Land" and "Heart Flower Road" both borrow the model of road movies, the former testing human nature in a wild land, and the latter reshaping emotions in the journey of reincarnation.
Ning Hao made a cameo in "No Man's Land".
Ning Hao was not satisfied and restless. You always have to try something, you always have to break some of yourself.
The audio-visual language of "Crazy Alien" has been relatively restrained, and in our dialogue at that time, Ning Hao's own word was "exquisite".
Mr. Red Carpet continues to be simplified, even anti-dramatic.
The scene is clean, the color palette is simple, and the composition is neat and neat.
Unlike the "Crazy" series, "Mr. Red Carpet" is a pastel, transparent atmosphere and minimalism.
With less than 400 shots, a miniature ukiyo-e was constructed.
Being in it, you will unconsciously pull away to look at Liu Weichi, and you will inadvertently hook the corners of your mouth.
And in Ning Hao's opinion,"A knowing smile is to the point. ”
I just finished watching "Mr. Red Carpet" in Pingyao three months ago, and what I felt was that it showed the powerful penetrating power of comedy, and Ning Hao achieved a delicate balance between authorship and entertainment.
After three months of repeated smacking, what I like and admire the most now is the oppositeThe subtle contradictions, loss of control and imbalance that Ning Hao gives to the film
That's something he couldn't figure out on his own.
He does not evade, but dissects it openly, providing a larger space for the audience to feel, **
This will definitely make "Mr. Red Carpet" look and feel unique - the lights are on and leaving the seats does not mean that the audience's communication with the film is over.
On the contrary, when the audience unfolds their own interpretation and imagination, it is another beginning.
Ninghao is still an isolated island.
But he couldn't deny that the drifting bottle thrown from the isolated island followed the ocean currents and wind and rain all the way. As soon as someone unscrews the cap, the silos echo.