tearjerker director

The movie "Grandma's Home" or "Love Home" has only two protagonists, one old and one young.

  The whole play focuses on these two, one old and one young.

  This script doesn't even need to be modified, it can be reproduced directly.

  As long as the actors are suitable, it can be said that the difficulty of filming really doesn't matter. At least for Li Yi, this kind of movie is really not difficult.

  As for the actors, Li Yi screened a group of veteran actors and finally selected You Juan. Although this old woman has never played a leading role in her life, she is definitely an experienced actor with superb acting skills.

  Grandma You was also very surprised when she received Li Yi's role.

  "I didn't expect that I have never played a leading role in a drama all my life, but this time I have a leading role." Grandma You couldn't help but sigh after receiving Li Yi's invitation.

  "This is the script. Grandma You, please read it first." Li Huan still attaches great importance to this role, and this role also requires actors to do some preparation work.

  After all, this character is set to be hunchbacked, deaf-mute, and she has never traveled very far in her life. She has no education, is illiterate, and can only speak a little bit.

  It can be said that the setting of this grandma is really special.

  Grandma You took the script and read it.

  Soon she couldn't help but wipe the corners of her eyes.

  "Hunchback, can hear, can't speak, uneducated, illiterate, mute and can only speak some basic words, right?" Grandma You asked.

  Li Yi nodded and said, "Yes, and because she is old and has inconvenient hands and feet, she usually doesn't pay much attention to hygiene, so she has to give people a somewhat sloppy look."

  "I understand! In fact, I have acted in many rural dramas. This role is not difficult!" Grandma You said with a smile.

  Li Yi believed it, because Grandma You had indeed played too many roles. Like the role of the grandmother in "Grandma's Home", Grandma You had actually played a similar role, but it was slightly different.

  As the actor of the grandson, Li Yi found a second-generation celebrity. The little guy is very spiritual. Of course, unlike other movies, this movie does not require the grandmother and grandson to develop a relationship, because the play goes from unfamiliar to familiar.

  The other actors are secondary.

  In terms of the choice of shooting scene, Li Yi chose a remote mountain village with very few people in the village. In other words, this is the norm nowadays.

  All is ready except for the opportunity.

  After all, it wasn't a big production, so Li Yi quickly pulled the crew to the designated village for filming. The name of the village was very simple, it was called "Houshan Village"!
  The filming of the movie was very relaxed and enjoyable. Although the plot seemed quite tear-jerking, the actual filming was not that complicated.

  However, after the crew finished filming the movie, almost everyone called their elders, grandparents, and grandparents at home.

  In fact, the most important thing for family-related movies is to capture the common pain points and resonance points of the public. For example, in the movie "Grandma's Home", it can be said that everyone will often think of a kind and familiar face deep in their hearts. She (he) gave us selfless love and care in our childhood. He grew up with us, but we cannot accompany him until he grows old!
  This is the ruthlessness of time and the inevitability of fate. For this reason, movies like this can touch people in ordinary times.

  The filming speed of the movie was very fast. Li Yi completed the filming in less than a month, and the subsequent post-production was actually equally simple.

  This movie coincides with the approaching Double Ninth Festival. In fact, in modern times, the Double Ninth Festival is not as lively as those imported festivals. However, as the business atmosphere becomes more and more intense, the Double Ninth Festival is inevitably being hyped by businesses.

  The movie "Love·Going Home", also known as "Grandma's Home", is directly scheduled for this schedule, and it coincides with the Double Ninth Festival and the National Day, so this schedule is considered the best schedule.

  In fact, the sudden release date of "Going Home" shocked many people. After all, the schedules of most movies are usually set in advance, and promotion and the like need to be based on the schedule, and must be given Reserve time for publicity during the schedule.

  Who is like Li Yi, who shoots and goes straight to the show, leaving very little time for publicity?

  But being unable to stand up to him is his biggest drawcard, and many movie fans are just looking for Li Yi's name, regardless of what kind of movie it is.

  And this time, "Love·Going Home" can be said to be very close to the Double Ninth Festival schedule.

  The advertisement is for the Double Ninth Festival, let "Love Go Home"!
  The effect is quite good. Of course, "Love·Going Home" does not have any stars. The heroine is Mrs. You. There is no need to mention the box office appeal. But as long as this is Li Yi's movie, then he himself is the biggest appeal. force.

  No, even the theater chains immediately switched sides, especially after watching "Going Home", every theater representative almost wiped the corners of their eyes and walked out.

  As a result, the film schedule naturally caused complaints from those movies in the same period. The big devil is the big devil. Even if it is a small movie with an extremely low cost, even only a few million, no one will underestimate it.

  The media and film critic screening of "Going Home" was held in a hurry, but everyone still came, including almost all the well-known film critics and media people in China.

  "Isn't it rumored some time ago that Director Li suffered from mental anxiety disorder because he wanted to prepare a movie about the catastrophe? Why did the movie come out so quickly?"

  "I really know this. I asked around, and I heard that the doctor gave Director Li the advice to divert his attention, so he filmed such a subject."

  Film critics, media people couldn't help chatting before the movie was officially screened.

  Li Yi's situation and status some time ago is not a secret. Although he is a director, there are still a lot of paparazzi media paying attention to him.

  "That's him. If it were anyone else, the film would be released as soon as it was filmed and released immediately. There would be less than a month's buffering period before and after. As a result, the directors who were originally scheduled for this time would complain endlessly."

  "Isn't it? To put it bluntly, the Big Devil will always be the Big Devil. Even for this movie, the announced cast list has almost no stars, only two main actors, and the cost is outrageously low, but that's it movie, believe it or not, it can still beat other movies in the same period."

  "Believe it, why don't you believe it, and I heard that almost no one didn't cry when watching the movie in theaters. Aren't everyone on the Internet saying that this movie is Li Yi's return to the type of movie he is best at? ! It’s necessary to cause tears, but it would be weird if you don’t!”

  While everyone was chatting, time gradually came to the movie show time.

  The big screen went dark, and then the picture appeared again. The first thing that appeared was the words "Director Li Yi's Work". This golden sign can be said to be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

  It can be said that many movie fans go there just for these four words.

  The noise in the screening hall suddenly disappeared, and everyone began to focus on Li Yi's new film, this long-lost signature film that Li Yi is best at!
  At the beginning of the movie, on a bus, a somewhat haggard mother was sitting by the window, looking out the window blankly. The boy sitting next to her was playing with a toy car in his hand.

  While still whistling happily, the mother turned her head to look at her son, and then turned away again.

  Subtitles appeared below: "Grandma is 67 years old, mother is 27 years old, and grandson is 7 years old!"

  Li Yi changed his age here, but this will not affect the movie.

  It can be regarded as an account of the ages of three generations.

  "Is she deaf?" asked her son Xiaowu.

  "Not deaf!" Mom said.

  "Can she speak?" Xiao Wu asked again.

  "Stop asking!" Mom said a little irritably. "Then she won't bother me like you do?" Xiao Wu asked while continuing to play with the toy car.

  Mom was silent.

  "Is she scary?" Xiao Wu looked at his mother again and asked.

  "No!" Mom said.

  "How terrible?" Xiao Wu asked again.

  "Stop asking!" Mom frowned.

  Xiao Wu pushed his mother and said, "I hate it!"

  In fact, the movie also explains through this dialogue that Xiao Wu has never met his grandmother.

  A long-distance shot of the winding mountain road was taken. The camera panned down to see a long-distance bus driving on the winding mountain road among the green mountains and forests, with dust flying behind the car.

  There was a lot of noise in the car. My mother was leaning on the seat, sleeping with her head in her right hand. Xiao Wu, who was sitting next to her, glanced back at the three middle-aged women in the back seat with dissatisfaction. They were talking and laughing loudly. Xiao Wu turned his head helplessly and took out the game console from his backpack to play. The car woke up her mother, and when she saw Xiao Wu playing a game console, she patted Xiao Wu angrily.

  On the hillside road, there are more than a dozen telephone poles, and in the distance there are mountain village houses hidden among the mountains and forests. The car drove from far to near, and the dust was flying along the way.

  The two middle-aged women sitting next to her were sweating profusely and throwing vegetable leaves at each other. Xiao Wu was squeezed into his mother's lap, and he used his small arms to push the fat woman who kept squeezing over. The mother, wearing sunglasses, pulled her son's arm over and turned her face dissatisfiedly to the window.

  The camera moves to the right, and the medium shot shows green onions. The camera moves up to see an old man taking out a live chicken from a plastic basket.

  In fact, this section of the journey is more of an exaggeration. The place where grandma lives is very remote.

  The fat woman in the car opened her mouth and laughed wildly, revealing her gold teeth. Her face was wrinkled. The old man on the other side accidentally let the chicken fly, and the chicken flew behind Xiao Wu's mother. Mother protected Xiao Wu, and suddenly there was a commotion in the car.

  The series of commotions in the car were also the prelude to Xiao Wu's hatred of his grandmother and her home.

  The long-distance bus drove away from the stop sign, bringing up a burst of dust. Xiao Wu and his mother stood by the stop sign, waving their hands to drive away the dust around them. A portable luggage trailer stood between them. The mother picked up the luggage cart and left. When she looked back, she saw that her son was still where he was.

  Mom shouted: "Let's go, hurry up!"

  But when he saw that his son was still where he was, he put down the luggage cart and came over to drag him!

  The son reluctantly tried to resist: "I don't like it here, I won't go, I don't want to go."

  His mother pulled him hard: "Come here!"

  Xiao Wu cried: "Bad guy, I don't want to go! Why are you holding me back!"

  Mom said angrily: "Let's go."

  The mother and son are pulling each other towards the left side of the screen. An orange subtitle appeared on the right side of the screen: "Go home!".

  The shot shows a close-up of the little boy's reluctant face, and the mother's voice can be heard off-screen.

  He was obviously talking to his mother: "This is Xiao Wu, your grandson. I'm sorry that I haven't come to visit you... because my own life is also very difficult... You mean his father? He has gone to nowhere. ”

  Through her mother's words, she also explained why she hadn't come back to see her mother for so long.

  She left here with Xiao Wu's father when she was nineteen years old. Later, when she became pregnant with Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu's father abandoned the mother and son and ran away.

  The camera panned to Xiao Wu. The little guy turned his head and looked towards the window of his grandma's house. There were spider webs hanging by the window.

  Mom continued to speak, and she said with a bit of sobs: "I originally had a shop, but unfortunately the business collapsed and I still owe a lot of debt. I have to find a job again. I really have no choice, so I can only let it go first." Xiao Wu will stay with you for a while, and when I find a job, I will come and pick him up! Don’t worry, he is very well-behaved and very worry-free.”

  In fact, in the original version, the shots of grandma’s house were a bit too much, with cockroaches crawling around and so on.

  Li Yi deleted those directly.

  However, the bulbs that do not light up, the spider webs, etc. are still retained.

  The camera zooms up to reveal a tile-roofed house nestled among green trees in the distance, with a few pieces of clothing drying on the clothesline in the yard. The sun shines on grandma’s house!

  Grandma finally appeared on camera. She had silver hair, tight lips, and dull eyes. Her face was covered with age spots and deep wrinkles. The left half of her face was in shadow, and behind her was a gray earthen wall.

  "Xiao Wu, come here quickly and call grandma."

  "Who is she? I won't scream!"

  "Call grandma, be good, this is mom's mom, call me quickly, how did I teach you?"

  But Xiao Wu stubbornly refused to scream because he didn't like it here, and it all showed on his face.

  At this time, grandma stretched out her wrinkled hand to touch her grandson's head. He quickly avoided it, and his mother quickly grabbed him.

  "She's too dirty!" Xiao Wu said disgustedly.

  Mom sighed and took out underwear, medicine, and a few bills from her bag.

  "This is the medicine and underwear I bought for you. I'm tight on money and don't have much money. You keep it!"

  Grandma took the other things, but pushed the money to her daughter!
  "Mom!" Xiao Wu's mother called her mother choked with sobs.

  The grandmother put the money into her daughter's hand resolutely, and then patted her hand.

  On the other hand, Xiao Wu also took out cans, drinks, and snacks from his bag, and protected these things with his hands.

  When her mother saw Xiao Wu's actions, she wiped the tears from her eyes and said to her: "Those are Xiao Wu's. You don't have to worry about him. He will eat what he wants. I still have to catch the last train."

  Mom quickly got up, but grandma wouldn't let her go. She put her hands on the side of her head to signal her to sleep for a night before leaving.

  The mother got up, turned to her son, and then said to her grandma: "Mom, no, I have to leave today. Xiao Wu, listen to grandma carefully, do you understand?"

  Xiao Wu looked reluctant. He raised his feet and wanted to follow, but his mother glared at him: "Mom will pick you up soon. Be obedient, okay?"

  (End of this chapter)