Zhang
In Wind Dog, two exaggerated cartoon styles and the dialogue style mixed with dialect and Putonghua are unique in Zhang's youth film and television dramas. However, the collision between youthful utopia and cruel reality, as well as the collocation of lines, performances, music and other dramatic elements, can be echoed in Zhang's previous works and even his life experience. To some extent, the wind dog is like Zhang's footnote and answer to more than 20 years of youth.
Youth: I don't think you should be old-fashioned when you are old.
In retrospect, "Carry Love to the End" was once a generation's memory of youth. The scene of Zheng Yang (Li) calling Wen Hui (Xu) at the seaside to listen to the sea is regarded as a classic and will still be talked about by netizens. However, Zhang failed to "enjoy" the TV series, and soon after it aired, he moved to the film circle. "I didn't pack to force. After the filming, it was a mess. I thought it was over, and then I stopped asking questions and turned to filming. "
Screenshot of "Carry Love to the End"
A few years later, when Zhang was advertising in Shanghai, someone shouted at him: "Director Zhang, I came to Shanghai because of your play! ("Will Love" was filmed in Shanghai) "Zhang said that this guy cheated himself so badly in order to show his face in the camera. It was not until he made the film "Will Love" that he realized that the play had been very influential. The filming of "Wind Dog" was told by Li Zelin, a post-90s screenwriter, that he would pursue "Love" after school that year. Zhang can't help feeling that it took many years to know that he was already red. Maybe this is his own life.
Zhang's later films were also related to youth love-Subway to Spring, Night in Shanghai, Secret Coast, Hurrying for a Year, Passing Through Your World ... Some of these films led the trend, some sparked heated discussions, and some led the box office, so he was awarded the title of "godfather of youth films".
After more than 20 years, he returned to the drama world, and The Wind Dog is still a youth theme. Interestingly, in episode 13, Zhang personally starred in curiosity kills the cat, which was filmed in Chongqing in 2005, and laughed at himself through the role: "One day you will become the godfather of youth movies, and one day you will make Chongqing a city of online celebrities-as long as you buy my" Guide to High-end Movie Titles ",it costs 50 yuan."
Zhang made a guest appearance in Wind Dog.
If we compare the wind dog with love, we will find that there are many similarities between them: for example, they are all youth group portraits of four boys and two girls; For example, "running" is a very important image in both plays, one is running a marathon and the other is running a relay race. But in Zhang's view, there are actually many changes from love to dogs in the wind. For example, there is no banter in love, and it belongs to the category of youth drama idol drama. "But" Wind Dog "has no idols. I said that it is not a youth idol drama, but a youth drama. "
Wind dog stills
The characters in the wind dog have to face the impact of life in the last year of high school. "Now you are still under the protection of parents and schools, so you can also have your own way to resolve it. As you know, once out of school, everything will be different. This is the last paradise. " Zhang said that he wanted to show the happiness and pain, banter and heaviness, warmth and cruelty of this "last year". "These things can only be welded together seamlessly at this age. When I saw the barrage, I said, why are you laughing one second and crying the next? This is-we can be free, but we must face reality. "
Return to drama series: drama is more suitable for growth, and people are disgusted with the word.
I have been making movies for more than 20 years. Why did you choose to present the story "The Sky of the Wind Dog Boys" in the form of drama? When Zhang was preparing for the performance, he also thought about this problem. What can the length of the play bring to the creator compared with an hour and a half or a two-hour movie? He concluded that the play has enough space to describe growth. "What is growth? Growth is an unknown number. You don't know what it will be like to cross the river of time and life and land on the other side. Therefore, growth must be writing. "
In Wind Dog, four sons of Daxing Village (Tu Yun, Da, Zhu Weijiao, Ding Rongliang, Mimi, Luo and Dazui) come from poor but optimistic families. Their parents sell pork, noodles, newspapers and magazines and drive taxis respectively. Li Anran and Martin lived in the upper part of the city, and their families were superior. They were hostile to each other until they became good friends. The four sons of Daxing Village appear as "school scum": sleeping in class, fighting after class, and sometimes bullying classmates. Tu Jun looks like a school scum boss, Zhu Weijiao is a butch, Ding Rongliang is a stupid follower, and Luo is a dog head strategist.
Zisi Daxing village
This kind of "personal design" is not very pleasing. After the first two episodes were broadcast, some netizens gave a bad review. However, with the change and growth of the role, many people's views have also changed, and the douban score of the play has risen from 7.0 to 7.8. Zhang said that one of his least favorite words in the drama was "affectation". "I don't like people, like people. People's design is the design of a sweet pet or a soft and cute person. I know that this person's design will please many people, so it is the same. I am nothing more than a repetition of ten episodes and twenty episodes. " Although he doesn't think there is anything wrong with the creative methodology of A Man, what he wants to show is the change of the characters-after ten or twenty episodes, he may change from a scum to a bully and from ignorance to maturity.
As the trailer of "Wind Dog" revealed, three of the four sons of Daxing Village, who started high school, were admitted to the university. Some viewers think this is too idealistic and impossible in reality. In fact, this is Zhang's personal experience. "I have such a classmate in high school. His mother cleans in Jie Fangbei and lives in a very shabby attic. He studied hard in the last semester, studying under the street lamp every day, and finally he was admitted to the university. And that school, that grade, that class is considered to be the most suitable for college, and I didn't get in. Everyone graduated from college, and I was admitted to college later. "
Zisi Daxing village
Father and son: I touched my father's topic for the first time and got my wish.
The most touching scene in The Sky of the Wind Dog Boys is the farewell of the "old dog" Tu Yun (Peng Yuchang) and his father Tu Fu (Huang Jue). One rainy night, Tu Jun struggled to go to the hospital with his seriously injured father on his back. Du Fu tried to tell his son a joke: "Is it spring now?" In case I leave, you can bury me in spring, so that you can harvest many (many) old men (fathers) in autumn. "After the broadcast of this episode, Zhang sent two Weibo about his father. One of them wrote: "From filming to editing to soundtrack to synthesis to filming, I always shed tears here. I miss my dad too. "
Tu Jun went to the hospital with his badly injured father on his back.
This is the first time that Zhang has created the image of his father in his film and television works. He admitted that there was a projection of personal feelings. "When I saw Tu Jun carrying his father, I really remembered the night when my brother and I went home with my father more than 30 years ago. My father also died very early, when I was a freshman, so I have been reluctant to touch on the topic of my father. You see, my father has never appeared in my movies. " Zhang said that it is also his wish to create a father image like a father in The Wind Dog.
In the play, Tu Youyou is fierce to Tu Jun on the surface, often yelling and killing people without blinking an eye, but in fact he is very concerned about his son. He will be sensitive to know whose "spare tire" he has become, and will quietly tear off the inside pages of magazines and go to the mall to buy his favorite running shoes. In Zhang's era, family members put each other in their hearts, instead of communicating with their father like Tu Jun, "I like the father-son relationship at the bottom of China. They are optimistic under the pressure of life, indulge in majesty, and inadvertently reveal a little warmth. This is China and his son. I believe that the father-son relationship experienced by Tu Yun's generation is definitely better than our generation in emotional expression. "
Father and son in the wind dog.
As for how to find Peng Yuchang to play the "old dog", Zhang said with a smile that everyone likes to find some traffic when shooting youth films, but he just wants to find Peng Yuchang. But Peng Yuchang is filming Struggle! Teenager, and then Little Wish. "I will" prank "said, why don't you take this for me? The script is so good. He said he had promised. This actually made me like him and said to him,' I'll wait for you!' "
Wind Dog was originally scheduled to start in August, 20 18. Waiting for Peng Yuchang for three months means shooting will start in February 18. The New Year shooting extended the cycle by half a year, and the budget increased accordingly. But Zhang insisted on waiting, because as soon as he saw Peng Yuchang, he thought he was an "old dog". "I have seen his movie" Flash Girl "before. He has a kind of civilian spirit, that kind of power in simplicity."
Peng Yuchang stills
Form change: show the class in dialect, and express it more freely.
"Wind Dog" is also the first time that Zhang has used a lot of Chongqing dialect dialogues in film and television dramas. Although the local accent has not changed for decades, and he teased himself in his plays that "Chongqing has been turned into a city of online celebrities", his previous works rarely used dialects, and even the trilogy of Chongqing (curiosity kills the cat, Secret Coast and Passing Through Your World) was written in Mandarin. In Wind Dog, Li Anran and Martin, who were born in a famous family, spoke Mandarin to each other. The four sons of Daxing Village grew up at the bottom of society, speaking Chongqing dialect to each other and Chongqing Mandarin at school. At the beginning of the broadcast, some viewers said they couldn't understand it, but with the broadcast of the series, they found it very interesting. Zhang said: "I want to create a sense of class through different languages in different environments. But maybe I didn't do well enough and hit others at the beginning. "
Wind dog uses Chongqing dialect.
In Zhang's view, this is the inevitable result of his setting the story in his alma mater, and the dialect is mixed with the dialogue style of Mandarin. No.29 Middle School is located in Jiefang North, downtown Chongqing. "This area includes the Public Security Bureau, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the hospital. Family members and children of these units will come here to go to school, and children who serve the Jie Fangbei business circle will also come here to go to school. The students are very mixed. In fact, everyone's future destiny is related to their parents' status, but teenagers don't have the logic of this class and usually play together. " Zhang still clearly remembers that a classmate was a sailor's child. As soon as he arrived at the self-study class, he drove the boys in the class to the river and forced everyone to learn to swim.
Another feature of Wind Dog is that the characters in it sometimes break the "fourth wall" and jump out of the plot to talk to the audience. For example, tell the audience that "we are a youth film" and spit out that "the director said that this shooting is very advanced." Or, Enron said to Martin, "If I say I don't know (the old dog likes me), the national audience can't stand it." This is reminiscent of Zhang's film debut "Subway to Spring", in which Jianbin () and Xiaohui () often tell their inner monologues to the camera. Zhang said that the filming of Subway to Spring was influenced by drama. Why can't movies break the fourth wall?
Screenshot from subway to spring
"A few years later, when I watched Subway to Spring, I felt how bold I was at that time. ! Really young, casual, just shoot if you want. " But after that, Zhang didn't do it until Feng Gou did it again. Everyone says I didn't make it into a movie, so I think it's good. Let's make it into a movie. But after I turned 50, I thought: Why did you shoot like this and like that? Why should we be unified by the so-called style and bound by the so-called precepts? "He admits that the shooting of" Wind Dog "is more free and willful, and the sad and funny style sometimes suddenly changes." Some people may not be used to it, but I enjoy this kind of creation. "
Don't mind paying tribute: Li Zelin's generation really understands Stephen Chow.
At present, "The Sky of Wind Dog Teenagers" is broadcast most of the time. Many viewers said on the barrage that they saw the taste of paying tribute to Stephen Chow from the tragic background, lines, soundtrack and other details behind the comedy. The Love of My Life, the ending song of Stephen Chow's A Chinese Odyssey, is also an important soundtrack of the first half of The Wind Dog, and even the name of the seventh episode of the play is Love of My Life. At the end of this episode, Liu Wenqin, who was knocked down by fate, bid farewell to his first love with this song. A group of teenagers under the stage sang along with their own sadness: "bitter sea, love and hate." In this world, no one can escape fate ... "
Before this episode, Ding Rongliang wanted to dress up as Santa Claus to please his favorite girl Chen Yuanyuan, but she accidentally heard her tell her best friend that she would never like herself anyway. The lost Ding Rongliang quietly packed his props and left in the music of Love Life, leaving only a lonely figure. My best friend said to Chen Yuanyuan, "That man is so strange, like a dog, poor."
Girlfriend and Chen Yuanyuan chat.
Screenwriter Li Zelin likes Stephen Chow very much. In this scene, he naturally wrote the line "Like a dog", but he was worried that this tribute would attract the negative evaluation of director Zhang, so he thought about it and took it off. Unexpectedly, when Zhang was filming, he took the initiative to add this line back and used "My Life" as the background music. Zhang believes that this is the writer's personal expression and should be supported. He doesn't mind people saying that his works pay tribute to Stephen Chow.
Pay tribute to Stephen Chow.
In fact, Zhang has a good relationship with Stephen Chow. Zhang's first film, Subway to Spring, is at the bottom of his life. At that time, the mainstream critics thought it was too petty, and only Stephen Chow told him that it was very good. "I thought, how can you watch Stephen Chow's subway to spring? But he was the first person who encouraged me and made me feel that it was worthwhile to make this film. Later, he gave me a role in Kung Fu (Detective Chen). "
Zhang is about the same age as Stephen Chow. He first came into contact with Stephen Chow's films when he was an adult. At that time, he was watching Truant Veyron on the coach. "We are studying classic dramas, and naturally we are biased against that kind of nonsense comedy. But when I look at it with prejudice, he can always hit me inadvertently. I think why is it so awesome? Later, I tried to have his temperament in my movies countless times, but I really couldn't learn. "
Zhang plays Inspector Chen in Kung Fu.
The acme of comedy is tragedy. Zhang feels that the younger generation can really understand the sadness in Stephen Chow's bones better than themselves. In the past, many film and television dramas paid tribute to Stephen Chow and his nonsense methodology, and Li Zelin's generation (born after 90) paid tribute to his values. "So he (Rizelin) wrote this kind of thing, and I like it very much. At first, I used a nonsense way to resolve my life, and later I used this nonsense way to cover up and even convey my inner sadness. This is growth. "
OST king? Self-deprecating MV source
There are more callbacks in "The Sky of Wind Dog Boys"-Zhang has been related to "Youth Film" for more than 20 years-for example, he returned to 2005 and made his third film "curiosity kills the cat" in Chongqing in eighteen steps. He also asked Ning Hao to go back to 2005 and shoot "Crazy Stone" at the entrance of Lohan Temple. He took a small notebook and wrote the words "big mouth" and "Mimi" to his assistant-"Don't touch me", "Come whenever you want" and "Leave whenever you want".
For another example, the singers and creators of Wind Dog Music include Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Roy, Lala Hsu, Xuanyi, Tour Group, An Wei, Xiaoke and Mars Radio. The lineup is as strong as ever, inheriting the consistent style of director Zhang's film and television dramas, and is worthy of the nickname "OST (movie soundtrack) king" given to him by netizens.
After Zhang asked what OST meant, he smiled a little at himself: "I was born in MV." He then took the initiative to mention it, and there is another saying that he made the film and television drama into a MV, but this time it seems that he said less.
"So sometimes you can change people's prejudices, but it takes time."
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