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Time Writer | Xiaogen
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The 2022 Spring Festival ushered in the gathering of famous directors and many blockbusters.
Today is the first day of their official release. Which one will you choose for the first film of the New Year?
Time Jun has already targeted two names: Muye Wen+Jackson Yee.
After watching the film in advance in the circle, all kinds of praise did not live up to expectations. Once the "best newcomer director" met the "best newcomer actor", it is necessary to create a new miracle for Chinese films again.
Miracle Stupid Child
There are eight films released in this year’s Spring Festival, with diverse types and different elements.
Only the content of Miracle Stupid Child (hereinafter referred to as Miracle) is about "starting a business", a subject that can be big or small but can be light or heavy.
What will director Muye Wen say?
Let’s go back to the past cases first.
Chinese entrepreneurial story
Coincidentally, Party A and Party B (1997), which started the New Year’s Eve in China, is an entrepreneurial story.
On a whim, four young people undertook a "Sweet Dream Day Tour" to help people realize their dreams in one day.
The film inherits the style of laughing and cursing in Wang Shuo’s novel "You are not a layman", cuts open the anxiety of people of different classes and understands the fragility, hypocrisy and sincerity of human nature.
In 2000, Guan Hu directed a TV movie "Get in the Car and Go", which cast a sympathetic eye on the little people.
Gao Ming (Bo Huang) and Liu Chengqiang (Gao Hu), two rural people from Jiaodong, are burning with enthusiasm and want to make a career in Beijing.
They contracted a minibus business, and by virtue of their rural accent and honest honest and frank’s personality, they succeeded unexpectedly.
But in the end, they could not defeat the exclusion and frame-up of their peers. One went back to his hometown and the other stayed on the edge of Beijing.
In 2011, the poet Yin Lichuan gave up his literary route, challenged commercial production and handed over his work Living with Fashion.
The quality of the film is average, but fortunately, the film has enough sense of genre creation and formed a "loser" team; At the same time, there is also an ambition to expose the indulgence of the fashion industry.
In 2013, Chen Kexin filmed "Chinese Partner", which is the most familiar "Chinese entrepreneurial story".
The three partners have distinct personalities: "Terrapin" Cheng Dongqing (Huang Xiaoming), "Turtle" Meng Xiaojun (Deng Chao) and "Fenqing" Wang Yang (David).
This is a contemporary version of warlords. Three college students get to know each other, work together to establish an English training school, and finally go against the fate.
The film spans a long time. From the 1980s to the 21st century, Chen Kexin described the complex attitudes of different Chinese people towards dreams and success in that era through an entrepreneurial story.
From the perspective of theme and story, Miracle is similar to Chinese Partner, both of which profile an era through individual entrepreneurial stories.
However, there are obvious differences. Unlike Chen Kexin, Muye Wen’s brush strokes are more delicate and warm.
Miracle focuses on the little people living in Shenzhen in 2013. The story is not about success, but about happiness.
City strange man
The story of Miracle begins with the misfortune of little people.
Jing Hao (Jackson Yee), a 20-year-old boy, lives alone with his 6-and-a-half-year-old sister Jing Tong (Chen Halin).
My sister inherited her mother’s congenital heart disease and urgently needed surgery to save her life.
There is not much time left for Jing Hao, only one and a half years, and he must make money desperately.
By coincidence, he got a chance to start a business and set up "Haojing Electronic Components Factory".
Jing Hao has an indomitable spirit and never gives up.
But starting a business has never been a battle for one person.
Jing Hao is bound to need help, but the people he can find are, at best, stragglers, at worst, the elderly, the sick and the disabled.
Liang Yongcheng (Tian Yu), an ordinary man, is old, but he is optimistic and full of hope for life.
Moved by Jing Hao’s ambition, he stepped forward and offered to be the workshop director.
Wang Chunmei (Qi Xi), a single mother, came to Shenzhen alone to work hard, but she never made any money because of hearing impairment.
She joined Haojing Electronic Components Factory, but even the most basic communication is problematic.
Zhang Longhao (Gong Lei), a down-and-out boxing champion, doesn’t talk much, but it’s always easier to do fine work than to fight.
Juck Zhang (Xu Juncong), a vagrant, relies on the glory of the past to flatter his face and escape from reality, afraid to walk out of his comfort zone.
Liu Hengzhi (Wang Ning), the great god of Internet cafes and the king of lodging, still can’t find the direction of life after living for 30 years.
In addition, there are excavator operator Wu Xiaoli (Huang Yao) and grumpy uncle Zhong Wei (Gong Jinguo).
From a secular point of view, they are all losers in life and marginal people in the city.
But grass roots are also the most vital. As long as you embrace them, it is a grassland.
Muye Wen set a warmer tone for these little people: "An orphan with a bunch of family."
Daily miracle
Before directing the famous Dying to Survive, Muye Wen had made nine short films. There is one thing in common in his works: using typological methods to complete realistic expression.
For example, "Stone" focuses on demolition; Jin Lan Guiqin pays attention to empty nesters; Requiem pays attention to the soul destination of the deceased.
In the trailer of Miracle, we can see a lot of action scenes. It is conceivable that these are all types of elements that add conflict to the story and drama.
What Muye Wen really cares about is people, and the relationship between people and cities.
The absolute protagonist of Miracle is Jing Hao, whose identity is very special and he is a polyhedron. He wants to be a father, a mother, a brother and a factory director.
Under the guidance of Muye Wen, Jackson Yee also presents many aspects of the characters.
He shows the fatigue, fragility, tenacity and necessary strength of the characters.
There is a scene in the film in which Jing Hao asks Party A’s Li Ping (Eric Wang) to do something, but he is humiliated.
But he didn’t submit to humiliation, but fought back bravely.
What he resisted was not only the bossy gesture of the other side, but the social denial of their inertia.
There is a very intriguing scene in the trailer: an ant climbs up in the storm.
Time Jun thought that this was just a metaphor for Jing Hao who didn’t accept his fate.
He must work hard and make it. Only in this way can we save my sister’s life.
Therefore, in the film, it is a difficult process for individuals to create miracles, and the end point is love and happiness.
At the same time, in this process, participants have also found the value and meaning of life.
When individual miracles come together, they come together to become the miracle of the city.
Off-stage, Muye Wen is also the miracle worker.
As a northerner, he seldom goes to Shenzhen.
When shooting this film, he had a big problem: to restore the scenery of Shenzhen in 2013.
Therefore, in the preparation stage, Muye Wen took his team to Shenzhen to do research, check the past video materials and interview people related to the film, in order to capture and present the realism and fireworks.
In the specific shooting, in order to achieve perfect results, Muye Wen is more rigorous and strict.
Scene scheduling, use stopwatch card time.
One shot, polished repeatedly.
After all the performances and shots are up to standard, we have to keep one routine.
Actor Eric Wang also mentioned a detail. During filming, he caught a bug and threw it away, and then tidied up his clothes. Such a small action was captured by Muye Wen.
In Wen Dao’s view, this action is an instant to break Li Ping’s inherent image.
"Miracle" has a lot to talk about, reflecting the rapid development of the city and the times with the process of individual miracle creation.
The content it wants to talk about is also very small, and it is a miracle for everyone to pursue happiness in their hearts.
What is the greatest significance of this film?
It once again declares the simplest and often despised truth: nothing is impossible as long as you work hard.
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