Chinanews.com, Beijing, December 12 (Reporter Gao Kai) As a recent Douban high-scoring player on the big screen, the film "Three Teams", adapted from non-fiction texts, has received a lot of attention since its release.
As a member of this year's Chinese New Year file, "The Three Teams" scored 7.8 points on Douban, and rose to 7.9 points a few days later, from the successful shaping of the group portrait headed by Cheng Bing, to the thick and natural narrative, restrained and touching emotional expression, this film has won the recognition of the audience.
The movie "The Three Brigades". Courtesy of the filmmaker
The simplicity of the film's shooting technique first left an impression. Director Dai Mo once said that the first creation of the film will set the principle of "the director should stand one station behind", "For such a story that is dramatic enough and full of tension in itself, what is more needed is a real and vivid record." ”
The core of the creation of "Three Teams" is "simple", which is the eight words proposed by producer Chen Sicheng, "only the truth is not broken, and it is touching with emotion".
According to reports, the entire creative process of the film is carried out with this as the starting point, from performance to sound and painting processing, to editing, lighting, and props, "all the aesthetics of this film and its final direction, and even the frame, all revolve around these eight words." Chen Sicheng said. As a result, with very few large panoramic bird's-eye shots and insertive close-ups, "The Three Teams" was finally presented in a semi-documentary and most rustic way.
In terms of the direction of the story, the film is seeking "simplicity", and after the opening chapter efficiently and sharply explains the case, the main creator leaves the road often taken by the crime genre, does not take suspense as the rope, abandons the ups and downs of escape and crime, and at the same time chooses to spread the characters deeply and delicately, from which to see human nature, fate, and choices in front of fate.
As the screenwriter of the film, Zhang Ji, who has been deeply engaged in the field of realism themes, previously said frankly in an interview with the media, "In the process of creation this time, sometimes I feel that it is too flat? On the contrary, it was Sicheng, he insisted that I help him pull back, and this time he insisted on returning to the basics, even more extreme than what I was pursuing. ”
In the opinion of Chen Sicheng, who "set the tone" for the film, the story of "The Three Teams" is different from "She Who Disappeared", "She Disappeared" itself is a play within a play, "That story can be done in the direction of the extreme of domestic genre films, with high saturation and a large number of metaphors, but "The Three Teams" is different, this story itself is not a play, so we ask for 'true'." ”
Contrary to the "simplicity" of technique and technique, the film is "complicated" in the details of the character presentation.
The biggest difference between the "Three Teams" movie and the original work is that four members of the "Three Teams" with distinct personalities have been added to the original story Cheng Bing's "Journey of Chasing the Murderer". On the one hand, this change is more conducive to the three-dimensional interpretation of the "persistence" of Cheng Bing, the core character, and on the other hand, it undoubtedly makes the story itself rich and multifaceted in the presentation of human nature in the face of fate, and the space for expression is fully expanded.
Another challenge that came at the same time was that the limited volume of the film and the vivid group portraits were not easy, so in the places where the audience could not see, the main creator carried out as many complex miniature sculptures as possible. "First of all, we need to differentiate ourselves in the text, and outline the rich people with a few strokes. For the vividness of the characters, it is necessary to find his contrast in this rich person. Chen Sicheng said.
The movie "The Three Brigades". Courtesy of the filmmaker
With the method of "simplicity" and the details of "complexity", the movie "The Three Teams" presents a different crime film on the big screen in a different way. In Chen Sicheng's view, exhausting the existing possibilities to give different texts a most suitable way of presentation is the foundation of content production, "The creator must use himself to interact with the work, you are one of the audience, make a voice, and find that resonance in the crowd." ”
From 2019 to the present, through the online drama "Tang Detective", the movie "Manslaughter" series, "Disappearing Her", "Three Teams" and other works, Chen Sicheng has cooperated with many young directors and produced many works as a producer and screenwriter. There is a view in the industry that Chen Sicheng has found an effective industrial production model. Regarding the industrialization of film, Chen Sicheng said that first of all, film is a collective creation, and a very important point in the industrialization of film is to first formulate standards, "confirm what the core appeal of the work is, and then all departments work closely around this demand." ”
At the same time, Chen Sicheng believes that the so-called industrialization of content processing is a "false proposition": "You are a storyteller, just like the poems made by Li Bai and the poems made by Du Fu are completely different, and deciding how to tell a story is always a very emotional thing, and it is impossible to assemble the line." (ENDS)