Original title: you as a teenager took two endings, and finally chose a warmer one
The movie "you in the youth" takes the eve of the college entrance examination as the story background, tells the story of Dongyu Zhou's Chen Nian school encounter bullying, Yiyang Qianxi Xi's small mixed up small North protects her secretly, two stories of the lack of love people holding each other to warm up. At first, producer Xu Yuezhen saw the project and gave it to director Zeng Guoxiang. After watching it, the director was very moved and decided to put it on the screen. He especially loved the teenagers in the story and hoped that the film would bring some reflection to the audience, 'although there will be some difficulties in life, as long as we can have hope, someone will always stand up to help you and take you out of the difficulties.' This is also the second cooperation between the two after July and an Sheng. Compared with the romance of July and an Sheng, young you is more realistic. In order to enhance the realism of the film, a lot of hand-held photography is used in the film. Producer Xu Yuezhen said that although she has been filming for so many years, this play gives her a rare feeling, 'everyone is full of passion to do one thing. I'm afraid there will be no second play to return to that atmosphere in the future'.
Zhou Dongyu's crying drama can be played freely
At the time of casting, Zeng Guoxiang had already felt that the role of Chen Nian must belong to Zhou Dongyu, but he was under great pressure. He was worried that Chen Nian in young you did not surpass Anson she played in July and Anson. In July and an Sheng, almost half of Zhou Dongyu's performance comes from her own things. In young you, the biggest goal set by the director and producer for Zhou Dongyu is that no one thinks she is like Zhou Dongyu after the performance. She wants to become Chen Nian.
Zhou Dongyu's character is like laughing and making trouble, but this time Chen Nian's character is completely opposite. The director should press down her usual character, not her small movements, not even her walking posture like Zhou Dongyu, 'basically press her to perform'.
Zhou Dongyu's crying drama greatly surprised the rival actors.
In the film, Zhou Dongyu has a lot of crying scenes. In the opinion of producer Xu Yuezhen, not every actor can make a 26 year old actor cry like a child. Zhou Dongyu's crying drama also amazed Yin Fang, who played her opponent, calling him a genius, 'she can cry in different ways at any time, laugh after tears, laugh and cry, and stop there. None of them is the same, and the reaction to you is always fresh'. Yin Fang was also amazed by Zhou Dongyu's ability to switch freely into and out of the play. "She doesn't mean that she needs to brew emotions before shooting. She should laugh and make noise before shooting. She can get there directly."
The first kiss of the silver screen
The film is a great screen debut with Yiyang Qianxi. He also dedicated his first kiss to the screen, and two kisses with Dongyu Zhou. The first kissing scene was the first time the two met and kissed under the compulsion of a gangster. The second time, Xiaobei staged a fake 'rape' scene to protect Chen Nian. The two kissing scenes are all in extreme situations, Yiyang Qianxi said: "the mood is very complicated, there are both gentle things and cold things, which are more difficult to play."
In the eyes of directors, Yiyang Qianxi can understand each other very well, so it is very empathy. At first, when the role of Xiao Bei was played, Yiyang Qianxi was more difficult to enter the role, but gradually felt after the director's gradual training. In the film, there was a scene in which he was lying in bed telling his past. The director didn't ask him to cry at that time, but he unconsciously shed tears in the process of acting, completely from real feelings.
Behind the scenes, in order to restore the college entrance examination, the scene of Chongqing examination room last year was captured
The film takes the eve of the college entrance examination as the story background, which involves many paragraphs about high school campus life and students' preparation for the exam. Director Zeng Guoxiang, as a Hong Kong director going north, felt that he must restore reality when preparing to shoot this theme, so that the audience could not feel that he was shooting an ungrounded film. Therefore, before shooting, he did a lot of data collection, watched a lot of documentaries about the college entrance examination, and chatted with some teachers and students to restore the real atmosphere on the eve of the college entrance examination.
During the college entrance examination in June 2018, the director, the photographer and the producer went to the local examination room in Chongqing to capture a lot of scenes, which helped the director a lot in those two days. Now many college entrance examination elements in the film are restored as much as possible according to the scenes captured in those two days.
It's very honest to shoot a shaving scene
In the second half of the film, Chen Nian and Xiao Bei are shaved to an inch, which is also an important play in the film. Yiyang Qianxi, the first day of the play was Dongyu Zhou's shaving, Yiyang Qianxi, and the second day of the two day. This is also a drama of two people's emotional sublimation. Yiyang Qianxi said that when the film was filmed, two people were basically naked. "Very frank, no secrets, no psychological barriers, and two people began to blend together, and their emotions were higher than love."
The staff shaved their heads to cheer up the actors.
Before filming the scene, in order to cheer up the two actors, the crew also shaved their heads, sat on a step and took a big group photo. Director Zeng Guoxiang was very moved every time he saw this picture. 'it represents our state of mind at that time. Everyone was very involved and worked hard to do this work'.
Stair climbing, director and Yiyang Qianxi demonstration
In the film, Zhou Dongyu is often bullied on campus and bullied by his classmates. There is a continuous shot of being pushed down by his classmates and rolling down the stairs. It looks very dangerous. Director Derek Tsang said that when the play was taken, the group laid a cushion on the stairs, and the director and the Yiyang Qianxi first rolled several times from the stairs to make sure the stairs were safe, and then asked Dongyu Zhou to do it again. Later, they wiped off the cushion with special effects.
Choose a warmer ending
In the end of the "juvenile you", the camera turned to 4 years later in 2015. Dongyu Zhou, who played Chen Nian, has become an English teacher. She and a student walk on the road, and the little north behind the Yiyang Qianxi is playing behind the scenes, and the camera slowly becomes a picture of the roadside monitor probe. Although the whole film is heavy, it gives a warm ending. Director Zeng Guoxiang revealed that the team considered whether to put the last '2015' paragraph in the film for a long time. At first, they did not intend to put it in, but later, after watching the film for some friends, they felt a little heavy. Finally, they decided to leave some bright and sunny things behind to let the audience leave the cinema with some hope and warmth.
Producer Xu Yuezhen also said that there were two endings at that time. When talking about the script, some people also said that the bright ending was "impossible and too fake", but Xu Yuezhen and the director insisted. They felt that making a film was not to give everyone a feeling, but to tell the audience what they should believe, 'shooting the ending we believe is not just to warm everyone, But the director and I are a little unwilling to admit defeat. We think the world should be like this. It may be like this now and in the future. This is our attitude. "