Directed the "Beijing Good People" in "My Hometown and Me". During the epidemic, he rushed to film the scenes of food stalls, and 200 groups can only find acquaintances.
Ning Hao: Ge You and "Uncle Biao" wonderfully changed the lines on site
The movie "My Hometown and Me" was released nationwide on October 1.
Last year's companion article "My Motherland and Me" intercepted 7 important events in the 70 years since the founding of New China.
"My Hometown and Me" director producer Zhang Yimou, chief director Ning Hao, and chief planner Zhang Yibai found a few key words in the process of discussing the story of each unit: change, space and little people.
Thousands of households have undergone changes due to a comprehensive well-off and targeted poverty alleviation, and this change covers the geographical space of the country, so the story is set in five geographical spaces in the east, west, north and south of China to present the stories of little people.
Five groups of directors received assignments: Yan Fei and Peng Damo, as representatives of Northeast comedy, naturally chose to create stories in Shenyang, Liaoning; Xu Zheng, as a native of Shanghai, went to Hangzhou Qiandao Lake for shooting; as a native of Xi’an, Yu Baimei returned with his partner Deng Chao Northern Shaanxi; only Chen Sicheng, a man from the northeast, took the initiative to invite Ying to go to Guizhou in southwestern China... and Ning Hao continued the method of telling the little people in Beijing in "My Motherland and Me". Ge You played "Zhang Beijing" again without even wearing a hat. change.
A reporter from the Beijing News interviewed director Ning Hao and told the behind-the-scenes story of the filming of The Good Man in Beijing.
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From relatives’ medical experience
The unit of "Beijing Good People" directed by Ning Hao tells about a cousin from rural Hebei (Zhang Zhanyi) who came to Beijing to see a doctor and asked Zhang Beijing (played by Ge You) to borrow money. Zhang Beijing played smart and lent his medical insurance card to his cousin. This caused a lot of jokes.
The story still continues Ning Hao's realistic view of ordinary people. Ning Hao calls it the citizen class. The citizen class he knows and understands most.
The story of "Beijing Good Man" comes from the experience of an elder relative in Ning Hao's hometown who came to Beijing to see a doctor.
Ning Hao's relatives didn't know what kind of illness he was at first, and they were especially afraid. One was worried that the disease would be serious, and the other was that they couldn't pay for surgery.
Although she has medical insurance in rural areas, she doesn't know if Beijing can and how much she can report, so she is very anxious and has been dragging her feet away from surgery.
Ning Hao persuaded her not to be anxious, to perform surgery first, and the money problem could be solved.
Later, Ning Hao discovered that the two people were originally equal relatives and pure family relations, because of the money issue, it became very strange, "She is very embarrassed, and always wants to find work in our house and cook a meal. What, it makes me feel embarrassed."
After the operation, the daughter of Ning Hao’s relatives said that the rural medical insurance card can be reimbursed, and the operation fee of tens of thousands of yuan can basically cover more than 80%. At this time, Ning Hao obviously felt relieved by the relatives, "I think she is back to the elders. Location."
This incident touched Ning Hao a lot. I didn’t expect that rural medical insurance could reach this level. It was indeed a hard task the government had done. I wanted to tell a short story from this perspective. In order to conform to the setting of a comedy, So I made an identity swap design and took someone else’s medical insurance card to see a doctor.
Performance
Two scenes in the hospital, "Follow me"
Ge You's ancestral home is Hengshui, Hebei, but it is not like asking Ge You to act as a farmer in Hengshui.
Ning Hao found Zhang Zhanyi, who performed well in the movie "Sherlock on the Plain" last year. He is also from Hengshui.
Zhang Zhanyi is a non-professional actor. At first, Ning Hao wanted him to follow the characters in the script, a kind of character that made the audience feel pity and sympathy, but later found out that he has a very strong personality, very tough, and has his own ideas.
There was a scene in the toilet of the hospital. Zhang Zhanyi turned the window to enter the toilet, and met the security guard.
Ning Hao initially wanted him to perform in another way, but he couldn't do it anyway. Later, he became anxious and said that the director would not listen to you, and I would follow mine.
"I want to pee, forget it, I don't want to pee anymore." Zhang Zhanyi's tone changed when he said his lines. Ning Hao felt that this kind of treatment was quite right.
The scene of blood draw in the hospital was the most laughable part in the theater, but it stumped the screenwriter team.
In the paragraphs of Zhang Beijing and Biaoyu Hospital seeing a doctor, the original script only wrote that he encountered a police officer during the arranging number. During the consultation, he encountered a doctor who was also a fellow Hengshui. The medical insurance card was almost exposed.
But Ning Hao felt that conflict was not enough, and he had to go one step further. What was the most difficult thing?
I ran into an acquaintance and had to draw blood face-to-face. How did you get this through?
After Ning Hao put forward this idea, the screenwriter team was stupid and thought about it for three days. In the end, Ning Hao and the team thought of letting Zhang Beijing and his uncle play the "double boo".
Ning Hao said that when filming this scene, he would laugh at the scene, because Uncle Ge controlled the rhythm of his performance so well. As soon as the nurse played by Liu Mintao turned his head, Uncle Ge stopped moving and looked at her.
Before the blood draw, Liu Mintao asked Ge You to make a fist. The original script said "Fist, I do," but Uncle Ge flipped it up, "Clench, I’m a fist."
After cooperating twice, Ning Hao became more and more familiar with Ge You. He felt that Ge You is not that kind of technical actor. The more he plays, the better. Ge You is basically right when he comes up.
Scenes
Two days assault to build a hospital scene
Many of the highlights of Ning Hao's "Beijing Good Man" unit took place in the hospital.
The filming was taken during the most severe period of the epidemic in Beijing, and the hospitals in Beijing were also very nervous. A filming location was originally set. After the filming was completed the day before, the next day was not allowed. Because the hospital detected a confirmed case, there was no alternative but Take a shot.
At this time, the art team went crazy. There were only two days. Except for the scene where the blood was drawn, all other hospital scenes had to be set up. Ning Hao took advantage of these two days to shoot other scenes.
In the end, the art team tried to rush to build the scene of the hospital. Because of the limited time, several spaces in the hospital were actually transformed by changing scenes back and forth in one place. One scene has multiple uses.
When shooting, Ning Hao could only cooperate with the photography, "you can't shake it, you can wear it with one shake."
Behind the scenes
Ning Hao called and invited people to film a group show
In the film, there is a scene of food stalls. Zhang Beijing sings Peking Opera to teach his uncle's liberating nature. This is a big scene of about 200 people.
But because of the Beijing epidemic, the crew did not dare to look for group performances, and could not find it. They could only find people who had undergone nucleic acid testing, because if an accident really happened, there must be a chain of clues to find everyone present.
The employees and directors of Ning Hao’s Bad Monkey Company have undergone nucleic acid testing. Ning Hao began to call on the scene to invite people. Many directors of Bad Monkey, including the director of the "Embroidered Spring Knife" series, Lu Yang, and the company’s system The filmmakers have all come to do group performances.
The scene was filmed in a food stall in the south of Beijing, and the filming was completed in one night.
Highlights
The short video "All the people shoot hometown" connects emotions
"My Hometown and Me" is about thousands of households, and it has something to do with every Chinese.
Ning Hao said that this also affected me and the relationship between me and my relatives. "At least I also saved tens of thousands of dollars, right".
Therefore, Ning Hao wanted to make a feeling that is relevant to everyone. In the end, he thought of launching an activity called "National Photo Hometown" with Douyin, and set up several questions, such as where is your hometown?
Who is the person you miss most?
What is the specialty of your hometown?
What is your favorite food?
Disseminate these questions and let the netizens take an introduction.
In this way, everyone is introducing themselves and gradually entering into a story, and it appears that these five stories are actually one of thousands of stories. In this way, the whole movie is connected, and finally all the pictures are gathered. Into the territory of the motherland.
The crew was divided into several groups to watch the material, and I was particularly moved. They would cry when they talked.
Written by/Beijing News reporter Teng Chao