Special feature of 1905 film network Director and screenwriter Anxian Lü never thought that the movie (hereinafter referred to as "Than Sadness") could achieve such high results at the box office. In the eyes of the outside world, while their creation caused a sensation, it would be followed by pressure.
Admittedly, the two did worry in a short time. How to make a difference between the next work and Than Sadness? Will you have greater expectations for yourself?
After calming down, they found that the answer turned out to be no, so it is better to devote themselves more to their creation.
Perhaps from the outside world, Friends of the Week and Than Sadness have many similar keywords: remake, illness, emotion … …But in fact, Lin Xiaoqian and Anxian Lü took over Friends of the Week much earlier than the latter.
Although the outside world always thinks that Lin Xiaoqian has made many works with youthful elements, in reality, he has never really made a youth film in school uniform. So, he hit it off with the screenwriter Anxian Lü, so it’s better to say goodbye to their youth with Friends of the Week.
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Just like the movie slogan, "Let’s meet! Summer and friendship can’t live up to it. " Then, what kind of work will "Friends of the Week" come slowly after "Than Sadness"?
A different adaptation
The original "A Week’s Friends" is a well-known Japanese girl, who has produced an animated series and a live-action movie, which is quite difficult for the China version.
Whether it is localization or difference, these old-fashioned topics have long appeared in the plans of directors and screenwriters. While the audience was still wondering whether the director would remake the story frame by frame, the screenwriter had already made a subversive adaptation of the story.
Just like the title of the film, time memory is the starting point of the work itself, and emotion is just a branch line that spreads along it.
So does human memory lie? There may be no solution. After all, the Mandela effect tells us that people sometimes have some false memories. Director Lin Xiaoqian grasped this point, "I want to differentiate between memory and truth and falsehood."
Screenwriter Anxian Lü also thinks that many plots in the original work are difficult to happen in China, and even some emotional expressions are not in line with everyone’s cognition, so it is better to make some more daring and exciting adaptations on the basis of following the original story.
As a result, the first half of the story of Friends for a Week retains the logic of the original story, but it is subverted later and expanded more richly.
To this end, the team also translated the script into Japanese and handed it to the original author. "I didn’t expect you to have such an idea." The new idea surprised Ye Yue Matcha very much.
Since youth can’t stay, it’s better to make youth more dreamy. In Anxian Lü’s view, everyone in youth has an unconstrained style.
Lin Xiaoqian, the director, also didn’t want to make the story too realistic, with some fantasy, like the cup of Corbis in the summer afternoon, with refreshing bubbles.
So, he planted a small egg in the movie.
"In the scene where Lin Xiangzhi went to buy a goldfish, she bought a goldfish on an overpass. The street lamp of that overpass caught a glimpse, but what did it look like?" He made a wonderful change to the street lamp. Is it a lamp or something else? Whether Lin Xiangzhi is in reality or divorced from reality, "whether it is true or not, perhaps the answer lies in the hearts of the audience."
Compared with the original infatuation with love, Friends of the Week focuses on the relationship between four good friends.As Lin Xiaoqian said, "Our youth is not so ignorant of love, but more firm and fettered by youth friendship."
The casting of youth
Emotional touch, the audience is looking at resonance and empathy, cp will add points, and the emotional ties between friends are the same.
"Friends of a Week" not only puts pen and ink on the man and woman, but also allows the audience to see the friendship between the four friends, extending from the film to the outside.
When casting, Lin Xiaoqian and Anxian Lü were very sure that the actor’s age should be similar to the role, otherwise it would be distorted.
It was first decided, and then Angel recommended Lin Yi to visit Chengdu, during which he met the director and contributed to this cooperation.In Lin Xiaoqian’s eyes, "Lin Yi is the perfect candidate".
Before the audition, Lin Xiaoqian saw a lot of Lin Yi’s past works, but most of them were cold and handsome images of Xueba, and never had a similar temperament to Xu Youshu. "I was worried at that time." Later, the director designed a method — — Find a unique flavor of essential oil for each character.
In a scene where Xu Youshu and Lin Xiangzhi quarreled, the director told Lin Yi, "From today on, this smell will disappear from your life." The words sound just fell and Lin burst into tears for an instant. Even later, when the dubbing was made up, the director took out the taste again. "He told me that the director should not come. Now when he smells this smell, he will think of the scene of quarreling with Jinmai."
So, what do they all smell like? "Today’s wheat is a Bulgarian rose, and Lin Yi is a lavender."
Not only that, but a lot of shooting work has brought the team back to youth. In order to reflect the atmosphere more truly, the director found the college entrance examination paper with the corresponding time background, taught Angel to solve problems with PK on the spot, and taught Lin Yi to draw auxiliary lines.
Filled with youthful breath, Lin Xiaoqian and Anxian Lü recalled that they were all infected.
Because the screenwriter Anxian Lü wrote a lot of underwater scenes, the director Lin Xiaoqian frequently shouted, "The water scene was filmed for 8 days, and I really’ collapsed’." It is even more difficult for the actors with poor water quality. Even so, everyone still worked hard to complete the filming.
"After we finished filming the water show, the actors all threw us into the water." Celebrations among young people are always full of vitality.
Fantasy shooting
As a matter of fact, the arrangement of water play once made the screenwriter in a dilemma.
In the middle of the story, it is necessary to arrange an accident. The original story is a car accident. "But I don’t want it to be a car accident. Everyone has already filmed it. I want to write something special." Anxian Lü knows that no matter how to deal with it, there will be a spit, so it is better to follow his own creation.
Because the film "Friends for a Week" was shot in Chengdu, there are many lakes around. In the pastoral investigation, Anxian Lü found that there were many similar accidents in Chengdu. Not only that, but this design can be more realistic and close to the struggle of the victims’ inner choices and self-suggestion.
In addition to underwater scenes, director Lin Xiaoqian also unlocked many new ways of playing in Friends for a Week.In the movie, four friends turned the abandoned astronomy classroom into a secret base.
Anxian Lü specifically noted in the script whether it can be realized by case-by-case animation. Finally, the director filmed the whole day for the scene that lasted only a few minutes, and then invited an animator to complete the imaginary effect.
Compared with the creation of many real movies, this form of frame-by-frame animation will often appear in music movies (MV), and the implantation of novel forms will naturally face many doubts.
Whether it’s MV shooting or innovation, Lin Xiaoqian is not worried about the audience’s opinion. After all, the film has developed for more than a hundred years, and the most attractive place is to create it with images. Even in the later period of Friends of the Week, the director did a lot of tricks in mixing. "We will mix the bass with the stress and the drums will be very clear."
The partner is not stingy with his praise for the director. "This is already the director’s style, and" Friends of the Week "is not a realistic theme. We hope to have a space for imagination and play."
If so, "Friends of the Week" may be half finished in production.The remaining half, everything is handed over to the audience. For the director and screenwriter, the next project has already started.
It’s just that after two consecutive remakes, people can’t help wondering whether they will return to the original script.
Anxian Lü told us that his next work is an original project. Lin Xiaoqian sold a pass. "I really want to shoot a story about the combination of soft science fiction and love."As for the story, "I don’t want to give myself that burden."
