"My life can't be ordinary, so my 2 1 year-old must be wonderful. 20 12 July, I will start traveling around the world by motorcycle. At the same time, we completed the large-scale documentary series "Another Me in the World", visited people born in the same month of each country 1990, and recorded the shining and colorful youth stories in our dreams. "
"Youth is only once, life is only once, I choose not to follow, I choose to live a free life."
Open john young's life resume, and you can't see a well-behaved resume:
/kloc-dropped out of school at the age of 0/3 and rode 2200 kilometers from Chengdu to Lhasa;
/kloc-filmed a documentary at the age of 0/6, and his works were nominated by Milan International Sports Film Festival.
/kloc-at the age of 0/7, he wrote a book and published a collection of 300,000 words, Running in the Dark;
18 years old, crossing the Qiongzhou Strait to celebrate the adult ceremony;
At the age of 20, he filmed 15 documentary "The Season", which recorded Yao Ming's first season when he took over as the boss of the Shanghai Men's Basketball Team, and broadcast it on CCTV.
"2 1 year? You can continue to write, he embarked on a journey to find himself. " John young smiled brightly. The big boy thinks that his real life begins at the age of 13 and drops out of school.
"My dad told me to drop out of school. I am a good student and a monitor. So you can imagine how much waves my dad's non-mainstream approach has aroused. " John young's father, Bai Yang, made this decision for a simple reason: "My father thought that boys should join a team and study in a school with a team, but the school was busy with homework at that time, and physical education class could not guarantee it. There is also that he feels that schools should at least care for students. " At a school meeting, Bai Yang saw the headmaster talking for a long time with a megaphone in front, so he asked the students to stand in front of the megaphone, covering their ears, and told john young that we were not going to school.
Yang's family is a family of teachers, whose parents are both teachers, and her sister is still the principal of a middle school in Dalian. Of course, she couldn't understand the decision to let john young drop out of school. Bai Yang finally convinced them in one sentence. What is the purpose of reading? What is the ultimate goal of the college entrance examination? Live for yourself, not others.
"When I was young, I thought it was good to drop out of school, so I didn't have to do my homework. Dad took me to make a movie. He is the director of the TV station. Wherever he goes to start work, he takes me with him. What he means is that this is the bottom line for my grandparents to promise me to drop out of school. In the future, I will have a skill and will not starve to death. "
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"I would like to be a gentle fire, burning mediocrity smartly and igniting the secular; I am willing to be Kerouac's blood, miraculously reborn with the liver of rocks, the courage of warriors and the romantic heart of hippies. "
So, Yang Fan really dropped out of school. At that time, he was an obedient boy. His parents are busy with work, so he reviews his lessons and teaches himself. However, such self-study did not last long. When the students of John Yang Primary School were sitting in the first-grade classroom, Bai Yang planned a hard bike trip for him. From Chengdu to Lhasa, john young will ride side by side with an uncle named Zhan. His parents drive a jeep and take pictures of the dangers along the way. Along the way, they will cross 14 rivers and visit 2 1 mountain with an altitude of more than 4 kilometers.
"The highest peak is Queer Mountain, 5030 meters. If you can't ride, get off and push. The whole person is already in a state of numbness, because altitude sickness makes your whole head very fragile and dull. I remember when I climbed Queer Mountain, my mother hugged me and cried. I only said one sentence, I am finally a man. "
Father and son have been brothers for many years. After coming back from Lhasa, john young became the younger brother who helped his father, and together with his father, he filmed Wan Li desert and virgin forest. In a blink of an eye, three years have passed, and at the age of 16, he is already a technically qualified TV cameraman. It was also in this year that a news in the newspaper inspired him to shoot.
"There is a father who lets his daughter get up at 2: 30 in the morning and finish the 42-kilometer marathon every day. Her father wants her to be an Olympic champion. I have a resonance after seeing this news. There must be a lot of bitterness, pain and struggle behind this maverick. Similarly, this maverick is also full of idealism. " So john young, encouraged by his father, went to Hainan and began to plan his debut. This documentary was named Running in the Dark. He liked the name very much and later published a set of books with it.
"In the early hours of the morning, on an empty road in Haikou, two people came running slowly from a distance, and the footsteps faded away from far and near, just like the father and daughter ran to their dreams. This is my favorite shot. " John young, who is also a dream catcher, doesn't enjoy this loneliness?
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"His heart is 35 degrees, which is a little lower than Erguotou. His blood vessels are rough, his beating is fierce, he swallows blood and eats pain."
John young is not always smooth sailing. The bar mitzvah of 18 was unsuccessful.
"At that time, I wanted to hold a special adult ceremony and felt that crossing the Qiongzhou Strait could be regarded as a challenge."
Qiongzhou Strait is located between Hainan Island and Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong Province, with the narrowest distance of 18km. To encourage john young, Bai Yang announced that he would challenge with his son. They practiced hard in the swimming pool for three months, and the distance they can swim every day starts from 500 meters, and finally they can swim 10 kilometers. Theoretically, john young can go into the water. But there is a huge difference between the sea and the artificial swimming pool, and accidents seem inevitable.
"We went into the sea from xuwen county, Guangdong, and swam for less than half an hour. Our bodies feel burning pain. That's a jellyfish. I thought it would happen once in a while, but I didn't expect it to be a continuous sting. Sometimes an arm, sometimes a leg. After an hour, I was basically stung all over. Later, people on board threw life jackets at us, but they were sleeveless, so other exposed places were stung. At that time, it was basically called every five minutes. The most deadly time, a sea snake crossed my face, and my consciousness was blurred. At that moment. So when I swam to the sixth kilometer, I really couldn't hold on. "
John young's voice didn't recognize the trouble, and even he was very proud. The sea snake left a scar on his forehead, which is still faintly visible. "Handsome,"
"I stood with Yao Ming, and I was not beaten by him." It was the last work directed by john young, which recorded the first season when basketball giant Yao Ming accepted the Shanghai Men's Basketball Team. In his hand, the Shanghai men's basketball team suddenly rushed into the top four of CBA from the bottom of the previous league rankings. As a witness of those beautiful mistakes, John Young seems to have integrated into this team.
At the end of the documentary, john young, who was 1.8 meters tall, was surrounded by players who were more than two meters tall and cheered.
There was a time when john young was even a little tired of recording other people's lives, but after spending a season with him, he found resonance in this team. "I watched the team turn over at the last minute and my eyes were wet. When the film is released, it is right for the audience to notice that the camera is slightly shaking at the end of the game. "
"I have a shooting schedule, dense grids, lenses and necessary conditions. After I finished, I made an OK in every box. This is my habit, I can see it at a glance. Yao Ming saw it that day, looked at it carefully, and finally suddenly shook hands with me. We are people who speak with dreams and hard work. " .