He didn't speak for about ten secondsHe couldn't imagine what it would be like in the endHe said he could think about itI said yes
Wen Pang Hongbo: "Everyone seems to think that I have been idle for the past few years. ”
Since the 2019 Spring Festival file "Crazy Alien", Ning Hao has mentioned more than once in interviews that he wants to take a break for a while. Even during the interview process of "Mr. Red Carpet", Ning Hao also expressed a sense of exhaustion.
I'm also a little irritated by the shots that are particularly irritable. ”
So, with "minimalism" and "elegance", "Mr. Red Carpet" came back after five years.
This "kill" not only means that Ning Hao has no feature films directed independently except for short films after "Crazy Alien", this "kill" also lies in the theme of "Mr. Red Carpet".
Beat up investors", "Poster for C position", "Can you be more professional than the investor? According to what the management said, "Previously, because of the "big" scale of the trailer, the audience called it crazy.
Although it seems to be an absurd comedy that uses the story of how stars make movies to "strafe" everyone, for Ning Hao and Andy Lau, it may not be the case.
Andy Lau went from worrying to being a stalk— The story of how a star makes a movie.
If I had to sum up "Mr. Red Carpet" in one sentence, it would be "the story of how stars make movies". In this setting, Tianwang plays a farmer, beats up investors, has an affair and a hidden marriage, and there is a "large scale" in the movie that the audience is most eager to peep into.
Regarding the original intention of the creation of "Mr. Red Carpet", Ning Hao said frankly that he wanted to cooperate with Andy Lau in a movie after "Crazy Alien". In 2006, Andy Lau funded Ning Hao to shoot "Crazy Stone", although this is not Ning Hao's ** work, but it became the starting point for Ning Hao to officially step into the core area of the film. In that movie, the doctor played by Ning Hao was originally played by Andy Lau, but he was unable to play it because of Andy Lau's health at that time.
Since then, Andy Lau has asked Ning Hao many times: "When are you going to shoot me?" And after "Crazy Alien" ended the "Crazy" series, Andy Lau finally waited for Ning Hao's "gift to Brother Hua": Liu Weichi.
"The first time he read the script, he didn't speak for more than ten seconds, he was wondering, he couldn't imagine what it would be like in the end, he would wonder if it was real or fake. He said if I could think about it, and I said yes. At the time, he was not so sure. As a star, he is still worried, afraid that the audience will not be able to distinguish his relationship with the character. But I think that's where the fun is, and it's fun if you can't tell the difference. ”
In "Mr. Red Carpet", Ning Hao played "Lin Hao", if Lau Weichi is a collection of Andy Lau, Tony Leung, and Stephen Chow, it is a condensation of a cluster. Then in the south, where there is no distinction between LN, Lin Hao and Ning Hao have a stronger correlation. But this also invisibly sets "it's fun to be indistinguishable" to the maximum, and finally lets the audience judge the authenticity.
Later, after thinking about it for a while, Andy Lau finally agreed to play Liu Weichi. "I think he may have figured out the context, and he will be very serious once he agrees, and even a lot of stalks are provided by him. I asked him in the script, and I said that the original script only wrote about the divorce of the superstar, when was the divorce announced? He said that he would not announce it when he got married, and he would not announce it when he divorced. ”
Comprehension of hooray may never be an empty phrase- Communication is at the heart of expression.
The barriers and gaps between people are actually very strong, why is there so many difficult parts of our world, so many angers, so many emotions, so many confrontations and quarrels, so that the atmosphere is becoming more and more disharmonious. So what is the problem that the Internet era has brought to me that I care about, in fact, the obsession is quite terrible, and everyone has their own obsession. In the end, it became only me the best, my party ** is the most right, self-affirmation, and it is difficult to empathize with others. Therefore, understanding long live may be an empty word, no one can understand anyone, and everyone cannot communicate from their own point of view. ”
In fact, in the movie, whether it is the development of the whole plot or the core of the final expression, it is about communication. "What I want to write about is that he can't communicate in all dimensions. He actually communicated, but he couldn't communicate, and they quarreled with each other there, and the essence was that each station had its own perspective. In fact, everyone has their own requirements, and their own requirements are the most important, and they all defend themselves in their own requirements. So they are all enemies, and they are all objects to quarrel with. ”
In the previously released trailer, the superstar wants to shoot rural themes, the director is from the perspective of the film festival, and he wants to shoot "Big Cotton Jacket", while Liu Weichi is from an emotional perspective, hoping to express his father's love, but in fact, the two are not on the same line from the beginning; There are angel investors who "movies are nothing" and hope that movies will be directly turned into advertisements, so Liu Weichi and investors cannot communicate with each other; Shoot the short ** of "Everyone, double click 666", because it is 6 or liao, Liu Weichi and the blogger are also unable to communicate.
This is a direct conflict caused by the continuous promotion of the plot, in addition to the "uncommunicable" in the plot, there is also the "uncommunicable" in values presented in the movie. Liu Weichi insisted on not using a stand-in to shoot in real life, sticking to his professional bottom line, but he also encountered many difficulties, which completely brought the story of "stars making movies" to an absurd climax.
Part of what this dimension reflects is that what was called right in the previous era may become a problem in this era. In the past, when someone spoke on TV, he thought it was a beauty to show his machismo, but now it has become a kind of masculinity. Therefore, each era has its own aesthetic and value system of each era, and the axis of value disunity appears both in time and in the crowd. ”
Outside the movie, Ning Hao mentioned the word "elegant" many times when he mentioned "Mr. Red Carpet". In the process of local comedy still migrating from "hilarious" to "laughing with tears", elegant comedy has become a new adjective. Just like when "Crazy Stone" appeared, "black humor" is also an outlier in the mainstream domestic comedy in the market.
About the definition of "elegant comedy". Ning Hao believes that the core element is democracy. "It's not a single indoctrination, it's a communication between each other and the audience, leaving room for the audience, and not forcing the audience to accept the plot and effects. In the end, I hope to become a work where I say two words, you say one sentence, and complete a work. ”
"I never thought I was doing comedy."- "I'm shooting absurd plays".
"I'm not sure I'm doing comedy, and I don't think I'm doing comedy, I'm making absurd scenes. Absurdist drama is only responsible for the truth, intercepting the more absurd side of real life, based on realism. ”
In 2003, Ning Hao, who had not graduated from the photography major of Beijing Film Academy at that time, served as the director, screenwriter and photographer of "Incense", which won the gold medal of the "Asian Digital Competition" in the Asian DV competition unit of the Tokyo Filmex International Film Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and was awarded the Best Film Award by the Hong Kong Arts Center.
In 2005, the children's film "Green Meadow" directed by him was shortlisted for the 8th Shanghai International Film Festival - Asian Newcomer Award - Most Popular Film Award.
In the same year, Andy Lau launched the "Asian Rising Star Guide" program, supporting six young directors from Singapore, Malaysia and China to shoot six Chinese high-definition films. At that time, Andy Lau said that he would take out the remuneration of the three films as financial support, and the investor would not interfere in the selection of materials and actors for the film. But all the films shot are required to be feature films, and the audience must not feel dull.
In 2006, "Crazy Stone" directed by Ning Hao was born, and this movie became more people know Ning Hao's "masterpiece". In the industrial evaluation system, whether it is in terms of commercial returns, the cost of 3.5 million yuan earns an ultra-high return on investment ratio of 25.34 million; or in terms of style and genre - the "black comedy" style that cares about reality and focuses on small people, all give this film greater value affirmation.
"I want to go back to the more minimalist cinematic language of "Incense" and "Green Meadow". Second, I think it can be like a work. I'm not sure if my film counts as a work. ”
Therefore, the clear label of "Mr. Red Carpet" at the beginning is elegant light comedy, this "light" means that the movie is not a traditional hilarious comedy, and there is a certain difference from Ning Hao's crazy series in the past. Although Ning Hao believes that "Mr. Red Carpet" is still a story of a commercial film, it has a more unique perspective of thinking. In a story that is "out of control" almost everywhere, the film actually has a very serious value**. Lin Hao, played by Ning Hao, faced the investor's serious reply, "What's wrong with our industry?" It has undoubtedly become a microcosm of the whole film.