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Li Yi also read a few movie reviews sent back from Bangzi.

"Smecta has held the China-Korea Cultural Exchange Conference for many years, and it first dates back to more than ten years ago. At that time, we achieved great results, and the Hallyu began to spread to China and became an indispensable force in the entertainment industry.

In that year, Huaguo's movie industry was still in its infancy. In a big country with a population of more than one billion, the box office output of movies was even lower than that of Smecta.

We have advantages, but since when?Our people began to dislike our domestic movies, and Hollywood movies began to invade. On the movie box office list, among the top ten works every year, Hollywood movies can account for more than half.

We have many excellent directors who started to study Hollywood and European films, hoping to get out of our movie road and find the future of our movies.

However, until a person turned out to be Li Yi, I always thought that the director Li Yi must be Smecta who has the blood of our stick.

Otherwise, how could he have photographed so many things that contain our stick's cultural elements?

From his famous work "The Gift of Room No. [-]", to "Wedding Dress", and then to "Happy Family"!
With almost only one name left in the cultural exchange meeting, the two sides restarted the exchange meeting. Last year, a co-production film did not succeed.

Ever since director Li Yi announced that he would send a co-produced film for the exchange meeting, I have been looking forward to it, and our people are also looking forward to it. As the number one director in Asia, Li Yi, the light of Asia, his film, Will this time truly take into account the preferences of the people of the two countries?
Thus, "Happy Family" was born!

Ah Xi, I was really disappointed at first. Director Li Yi, as a world-renowned director and the number one director in Asia, actually went to make such a low-budget film, which is really unacceptable.

However, after watching "Happy Family", I immediately asked my sister to make kimbap with water celery. It really tastes like my mother!

Soon, kimbap with water celery and seaweed began to be sold outside our theaters. While eating kimbap and watching a movie, weeping silently, this is really a feeling that is hard to express in words.

"Happy Family" is undoubtedly a classic!
Why am I so sure?
What kind of comedy can be regarded as a good movie, or can be called a classic?

I think it must be more than just being able to make the audience laugh.If it can only make the audience laugh, then it can only be regarded as an acceptable comedy at best. It is difficult to call a good movie, let alone a classic.Because apart from making us laugh, it can't give us anything more, no thinking, no empathy, no caring, no moving, no reflection, and no pure, true and beautiful things.And having these is just a comedy movie, so why not other types of movies, the key to being a good movie or even becoming a classic, these factors, I like to call them "feelings" inappropriately and generally. .

It's hard to imagine that director Li Yi actually took our cultural feelings into consideration.

That big sugar-painted fish, that dart lottery draw are all our childhood memories!

Comedies with feelings are good movies, and only those that can make people laugh with tears can become classics, not just a few nonsensical plots and unexpected baggage.

This is why Li Zai's two earlier films "A Chinese Journey to the West" and "The King of Comedy" have become representatives of nonsensical movies, imitated by countless of our directors, and are the most loved reasons.Many years later, we may not remember those hilarious clips in the movie, but we will never forget the scene of Zhou Xing shouting "hard work, struggle" into the sea at the beginning of "The King of Comedy", and we will never forget Every time the heroine ridiculed him for being a "player", Zhou Xing replied with a serious face, "Actually, I am an actor".

We may also forget the funny shape of the Supreme Treasure, and Tang Seng's "ONLY YOU", but we will never forget the line "Love you for 1 years" that the Supreme Treasure said when it became Monkey King. Fairy Zixia said at the end, "I guessed the beginning, but I can't guess the end".Because these movies not only gave us nine or ten minutes of laughter, but also gave us the most innocent feelings-or caring about ideals, or about love.Let us gain countless touches while laughing.This is a really good movie, a really good comedy.

The same goes for "Happy Family".Although the whole story is based on the ghosts of nothingness, what is conveyed is the most sincere and purest emotion--the tenderness of the family and the love between relatives.

An orphan, who has lived alone since he was a child, has no relatives or friends, lives in loneliness all the time, and hopes to bid farewell to this state of life by death.

But he failed to die several times, and by accident, he possessed the ability of psychics, could see ghosts, and was targeted by four ghosts, and made many jokes because of it.Although these four ghosts brought a lot of trouble to the hero and made him unable to commit suicide.But it also gradually gave him the hope of living, because of the existence of "they", he was no longer alone, and because of the existence of "they", he met the other half of his life.Of course, if the story is just that "the prince and the son lived happily together" in the end with the help of four ghosts, then this story will only become an ordinary story, and there will not be much touching people's hearts. thing.

The ending of the movie is the most exciting, and also the most touching and hard to let go.At the end of the movie, the mystery of the story is finally revealed after the hero drives "them" away angrily because his girlfriend can't accept that he has psychic abilities.He suddenly retrieved his childhood memories lost due to trauma, and it turned out that the four ghosts were the relatives he lost when he was a child-father, mother, grandfather and brother.

Halfway through the movie, I kept thinking, why did these four ghosts focus on the actor? Is it just because he committed suicide a few times and failed to die, so he accidentally obtained psychic abilities?Obviously not, everything has a cause and effect. Although there is no coincidence, the story cannot be based on coincidence. The reason why "they" appear is because they are a family, because "they" love him, and because they hope that he can live happily.The family never actually left.

When the actor left his girlfriend and ran back frantically to find the family he had driven away, I finally couldn't hold back my tears.I was moved because of the love of my family and because of the warm feelings.

Not only tragedies can be unforgettable, but comedies with feelings can also touch people's hearts.

"Happy Family" only these?No, no, no, there are many more Smectas!
The details, I think the details are what really make this co-production a classic in the history of co-productions.

The method used in "Happy Family" is contrast!

There are many details that highlight the contrast in the film. Loneliness is a common topic, especially those who live alone will feel lonely more frequently.And Shang Wan is one of the countless lonely walkers.

In order to express Shang Wan's loneliness, the director not only designed multiple lines to express emotion, but also secretly used many contrasts.

Only at the beginning of the movie, there are two contrasts.

One is that Shang Wan was trying to commit suicide non-stop at this time, taking medicine and jumping into the river.When the audience thought that this ordinary-looking man with an average figure had no attachment to life, the director told us that he does not smoke or drink. This is obviously a big contrast.

He wants to die and wants to destroy the body's skills, but he would rather die than get into the bad habit of damaging the body.This kind of contrast makes the feeling of loneliness gradually exaggerated without saying a word. He wants to die not because he has had enough of the hardships of life, but because he can no longer bear the loneliness that no one cares about.

The second is the attitude of others to commit suicide, which is in contrast to their profession.

The owner of the hotel found that Shangwan had passed out after drinking medicine. His first reaction was not heartache but complaints. He was more afraid of someone dying in his hotel than someone dying; are bored, and they hate the ever-increasing workload more than someone committing suicide;

The psychiatrist was terrified and puzzled by Jean-Win's communication with the "invisible man", and he didn't care much about the patient's psychological problems.

Three similar contrasts, three times of the same irony, three times strongly prove why Jean Wan, who has no relatives, feels more and more lonely.The connection between people seems to be close, but in fact they are far away. Unless it is a person who is closely related to oneself, there is no time to care about the life and death of other people.

I think this must be director Li Yi using this method to accuse this indifferent society.

Life and death are undoubtedly a very serious topic, but suicide is presented in a comedy way, which is a kind of irony to this society.

In addition, there are many contrasting details.For example, when he was detained by the police, Shang Wan had no family members to pick him up, but another drunk and sleepy young man had his mother bring him back late at night. Even though he beat and scolded him, at least he had family members!
Another example is Shangwan and Xiuxiu, one is an orphan who longs to have a family, while the other has a family but hates it. The same is a huge contrast.

Another example is Shang Wan's life experience. He was originally the eldest and youngest in the family, but after a car accident, he became an orphan that no one remembered.

These details that you would not care about unless you think deeply, and the deep meaning that you cannot understand without thinking deeply, exposed the director's selfishness towards Shang Wan in front of each camera.The director fulfilled his wish to make the audience feel sympathetic to Shang Wan, and made the previously seemingly nonsensical plot wrapped in a layer of sad emotions.

Funny is not the purpose, but a sad coat.Death is not a need, but being loved is Shang Wan's ultimate wish.How can a lonely person be redeemed?

Maybe love can no longer be seen, maybe commitment can no longer be touched, but the dead people still love you in their own way.

At the end of the movie, the director gave three close-up photos, one of the adult Shang Wan holding a toy, one of his primary school graduation photo, and one of his college graduation photo wearing a bachelor's cap.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these three photos are Shangwan's personal photos. If Shangwan later could not see ghosts, he would think so.But in fact, whether he can see it or not, the family members who have become ghosts have been involved in every important moment of his life.

It was never love that left Shangwan, and the loved ones he lost never left.It's just that they stayed by his side silently in a way that could never be perceived.

Our big directors, stop learning from Hollywood, stop learning from European films, the best example is right in front of you, director Li Yi is the one you should learn from!I hope that next year's cultural exchange meeting will see the film directed by Li Yi again!
"Happy Family" is definitely a model of co-productions! "

To be honest, Li Yi didn't expect that although "Happy Family" performed well in China, it was only good, and such a result was expected.

But on the other side of the stick, the heat was frighteningly high.

Li Yi was puzzled at first.

In my memory, although this movie was on Bangzi's side, the box office was indeed high, but it was not so high as to be scary.

However, Li Yi then understood that he had overlooked a key point, and that was himself.

It can be said that his fame and influence have given this movie a huge halo, not to mention a country like Bangzi.

However, this result has produced some sequelae.

What sequelae?

Zhao Guangming called again.

"My director Li is amazing, "Happy Family" is amazing!" Zhao Guangming also never expected that Li Yi would be able to make a film. It was obviously low-cost, but he was able to win the annual film so far with Bangzi. box office champion.

This is too long for this cultural exchange meeting.

It's just too good to be true.

The results lead to.

"However, if you do this, next year's exchange meeting will be difficult!" Zhao Guangming said.

"No, Director Zhao, you can't catch a sheep with wool, right? What does it have to do with me next year? Is it possible that I will be bound again?" Li Yi said helplessly.

This is really a disaster.

Li Yi laughed angrily.

Do you really think you are mud?You can pinch it however you want?
Naturally, Zhao Guangming couldn't really treat Li Yi as mud, and quickly said: "You've said it, it's over! After all, the exchange meeting will restart, which is of great significance. Last year's anticlimax, both parties were very dissatisfied. This year you This has raised the results of the exchange meeting to several levels, no, the two parties have already negotiated, and the specifications will be improved again next year, think about it for yourself, how much influence will it have by then?"

Li Yi frowned slightly. To be honest, this year's specifications are already high enough, and the leadership level present is already very high. What the hell is going to be upgraded next year?
The influence will definitely be greater, but this is not a reason, okay?

"There are so many directors in the country, wouldn't it be enough to invite a few more to join?" Li Yi said helplessly.

"Can that be the same? Have you misunderstood your own influence?" Zhao Guangming flattered him without any trace.

"No, Director Zhao, I'm a human being, not a donkey of the production team. How can I have so many inspirations, and how can co-productions be so easy to do?" Li Yi really felt like shooting himself in the foot.

What the hell, why did you want to eat melons at the beginning?