Provide a lot of details of sports events, find feelings with the director at the game site, and talk about winning the gold medal "It is the success of our generations"


  Consultant Yang Yang: Playing with an injury in a major game, that part is very real

  The prototype of the protagonist Yang Fan in "My Heart is Flying" is Yang Yang, a Chinese short-track speed skater. At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in the United States, Yang Yang won the short-track speed skating women's 500-meter championship with a time of 44.187 seconds. China's Winter Olympics Gold Medal "Zero Breakthrough".

In her 23-year sports career, Yang Yang has won 59 world championships. In addition, she has won 6 World Championships all-around championships in a row and won the World Cup overall ranking all-around championship for 5 consecutive seasons. Her achievements are brilliant.

The Beijing News interviewed Yang Yang and asked her to share the creative story behind "My Heart is Flying".

As a film consultant, Yang Yang was interviewed by the director team for two or three years before and after, and talked a lot about her personal growth experience and sports career, and also put forward some suggestions on the details of the film.

She hopes that the audience can learn more about the struggle history and the growth experience of athletes through this film.

In her opinion, winning China's first gold medal at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 20 years ago is actually the success of our generations of sportsmen.

  Take the director team to the World Cup

  On July 31, 2015, Beijing successfully won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Yang Yang, the first Chinese gold medalist in the Winter Olympics, was one of the speakers of the Chinese Winter Olympics delegation.

Not long after, director Wang Fangfang contacted Yang Yang and wanted to shoot a story about the struggle to achieve zero breakthrough in the Chinese Winter Olympics gold medal.

  Yang Yang learned that Wang Fangfang had previously filmed two sports films, "A Man's Olympics" and "Xu Haifeng's Gun". He had a deep Olympic complex and expressed his willingness to participate in this film.

At that time, I cooperated with the director to do a lot of preliminary interviews, and talked about a lot of details in chronological order, such as how I grew up since I was a child, how I chose the sport of skating, and the process step by step.

The entire interview lasted two or three years, and the script went through a long period of running-in.

  Because short track speed skating is a very professional sport, in the previous interview, Yang Yang also gave the director a lot of tactics and rules in short track speed skating.

In order to make the director and the shooting team feel and have a more intuitive impression, Yang Yang also invited the director and the team to watch the short track speed skating World Cup held in Shanghai.

  Director Wang Fangfang has a fresh memory of this experience.

In Wang Fangfang's eyes, Yang Yang doesn't look like an athlete, "especially elegant and low-key", sitting in the audience, no one will recognize her.

But after the game started, the athlete slid over, Yang Yang immediately stood up and shouted: "Fast super, super", Wang Fangfang was also excited at that moment, "Usually looks very gentle, but after the blood comes up, that kind of power Things are particularly expressive." Wang Fangfang said.

  When Wang Fangfang interviewed Yang Yang, he had the deepest feeling that short track speed skating is a kind of belief for her. She used to burn herself infinitely by this sport and could feel that passion.

  There is a detail in "My Heart is Flying". Before each competition, Yang Fan has to touch the ice surface with his hands and then touch his face.

This is a detail extracted by the director Wang Fang in the previous interview, and integrated with other athletes. Because when skating, the wind is very strong, and some athletes will lower the temperature of their faces in advance.

In the end, the director turned it into an iconic freehand movement with a ritualized, spiritual symbol.

  Write lines from "I want to practice" to "I want to practice"

  After the initial cut of the film, Yang Yang made some suggestions.

For example, in a scene, Yang Fan returned from training abroad and introduced his experience to his teammates.

In the first cut version, the lines of this scene are a bit empty, and it's more verbose.

Yang Yang felt that this scene was a good opportunity to convey the concept of short track speed skating, so he wrote a line based on his own personal feelings. I understand the difference between 'I want to practice' and 'I want to practice'." After doing this, it can show the transformation of our attitude towards short track speed skating before and after going abroad.

  Yang Yang was very excited when he watched the sample footage of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

The game that won the first gold was somewhat different from the details of the real game at that time.

In the movie, Yang Fan accidentally injured her ankle during the competition, but she still reluctantly participated in the women's 500-meter short track speed skating final, and finally achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the Chinese Winter Olympics.

Yang Yang said that, in fact, the details of this injury to participate in the competition are what she actually experienced in a World Cup.

At that time, she fell and was injured when participating in the short track speed skating single event.

When it comes to the relay game, if the Chinese team can win this World Cup, it will be the championship of the year.

As soon as Yang Yang gritted his teeth, he decided to go.

At that time, she still had an idea, in case this happens to the Olympic Games, can't she make it?

The World Cup is held once a year, and the Olympic Games will take 4 years. If she can survive this time and a similar situation occurs in the Olympic Games, she will have a bottom line.

  "In the movie, Yang Fan's foot was injured and he couldn't put his shoes in. That part was very real." Yang Yang recalled the scene when he was injured in the game. Because his feet were so swollen, he couldn't put them in. Several teammates helped me to stuff them inside. "I remember that a few kids from our competitor Korea team were watching, ahhhhhhhh, it was too scary. I just thought, after this competition, who will dare to provoke me in the future." Yang Yang gritted his teeth and insisted on the game, Finally broke the world record.

  Wang Fangfang put the details of Yang Yang's injury experience at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

Yang Yang feels that this adjustment is more in line with the narrative of the film, because Yang Fan lost the first event in the Winter Olympics, and she has to enter the next competition with huge pressure. The injury setting may make it easier for everyone to understand the athletes faced at that time. pressure.

  Great sense of harvest and happiness after success

  The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics ended successfully, and "My Heart is Flying" will be released soon after. Yang Yang hopes that this film can be used as a knowledge point of the Winter Olympics, so that the audience can understand the history of that period. In addition to hard training, athletes also have ideological perspectives. The breakthroughs in the past, the support of the family, the decision-making of training, etc., are all microcosms of the background of the times.

The audience can learn about the growth experience of athletes through movies. In fact, every athlete has his own story. Young athletes like Gu Ailing and Su Yiming who have grown up in the new era are very relaxed in the Olympics. It's not to win easily, but to enjoy the process." Yang Yang said, this is the change brought about by different eras.

  In the era where Yang Yang lived, it was the wish and mission of every athlete to achieve zero gold medals in the Winter Olympics, and everyone was burdened with a lot of things.

And today's young players also have challenges and tasks to face, and everyone is different.

Yang Yang felt that because the times brought him such an opportunity, accepted the responsibility, and finally resisted the pressure to realize it, the sense of success, harvest and happiness is very strong, "Sometimes it is more than personal success, Because I got this gold medal, it's actually a success of our generations."