The more Li Yi thought about it, the more he thought it would be very interesting.
Some characters in "Warm Spring" and "Into the Dust" can even use the same person.
For example, the role of the village chief, etc.
In fact, Li Yi himself didn't know whether this would work, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it would be very interesting.
At the same time, it can also make life in this village more fulfilling.
There is a good side, but there is also a bad side.
It is said that the movie universe is not suitable, but there are indeed some considerations.
Thinking of this, Li Yi began to "copy" the script.
In fact, the story does not need to be changed much, even if the two movies are shot together, it will be the same.
The two movies are not complicated movies. The former has a few more main characters, but not much. The latter only has the same two main characters. Therefore, even if the two movies are shot together, it does not require too much.
people.
However, in comparison, the actors in "Warm Spring" are easier to choose, while the requirements for actors in "Into the Dust" are much higher.
Of course, there is still a lot of preparation work to be done.
Although these two films are not big-cast films, they can only be regarded as low-budget films.
But when it comes to Li Yi, no matter how small the budget of these two movies is, it is definitely not small.
However, the choice of actors actually put Li Yi in a bit of a dilemma, especially in "Into the Dust". In terms of what the story shows, there are a lot of things that need to be shown.
Such as farming.
Don't think that farming is easy, but when it comes to the details, actors definitely need to experience life if they want to make a movie like this.
However, although "Into the Dust" mainly talks about "suffering", at the level of the village, it is really not certain how poor you are.
The most interesting thing about the two films is that in "Warm Spring" it seems that none of the characters is a real "bad guy", while in "Into the Dust" it seems that except for the male and female protagonists, no one seems to be a real "bad guy".
The "good guy"!
This is a very interesting comparison.
For a movie like this, there is really no need for casting and auditions.
Li Yi has been watching some rural-themed film and television works during this period, including early film and television works and recent ones.
But the style is completely different.
Early rural-themed film and television works had an "earthy" flavor, perhaps because of the perspective of people of this era, but recent rural-themed TV series always have a "fashionable" feel!
But I have to say that the film and television works with rural themes produced by the older generation of directors are indeed much different from the recent films and television works with the same rural themes.
Li Yi never likes procrastination. Now that he has decided to shoot, he naturally has to make preparations.
Li Yi asked Zhuo Yixiong and others to help him find a suitable shooting location.
Originally, Li Yi thought that it might be difficult to find, but the facts told him that just because he had not seen many things, it did not mean that they did not exist.
Many people may think that in what era is it, where are the rural areas so miserable and where are they so backward?
But the fact is that after more than a month of on-site visits, Zhuo Yixiong brought back some videos and photos that made Li Yi feel deeply, which is something you can't even imagine!
And Zhuo Yixiong brought back some stories he heard from the locals, which made Li Yi feel that he was bullied and squeezed in "Into the Dust". The suffering in the movie is far less than reality!
When he went to help Li Yi find the filming locations for "Warm Spring" and "Into the Dust", Zhuo Yixiong also found out a lot of things.
For example, there is a story about a girl with cerebral palsy, so her parents could only marry her to a foreign man. Even though the man beat her and didn't treat her as a human being, the parents could only say "just bear with it."
As a result, this girl named Juanzi became pregnant three times and was beaten by her husband for miscarriage three times. The first two times she ran home crying, but her parents sent her back in person. The third time, after she was beaten, she was directly
Locked up in a pig pen...when he was found, he had already left this world.
There is also a girl named Mei who is not very smart, but it is not a problem to take care of herself. She can do farm work in the fields and clean up the house. After graduating from junior high school, her parents married her to a bachelor from another village.
-This bachelor is a lame man.
And that cripple is a gambler...
Li Yi even heard that he had never heard of "tofu in exchange for marriage"
According to what the old man in the video shot by Zhuo Yixiong said - it is common here.
It means that the sister of Zhang San's family marries Li Si's brother, and Li Si's sister marries Zhang San. It's like commodity exchange.
Of course, there is suffering, and there is also joy in suffering.
There are also real-life versions of "Into the Dust", and there are even more than one pair.
A lame man marries a blind man, and a deaf man marries a mute. Even now, to a certain extent, this is a "well-matched match"!
And there are more such people in rural areas!
There are those who blame others and hurt each other, but there are also those who help each other and stay together like Ma Youtie and Cao Guiying in "Into the Dust".
After deciding on several preparatory filming locations, Li Yi began to select actors.
In fact, there are many actors suitable for playing the role of farmers, and many actors of the older generation come from rural areas.
For them, playing the role of a farmer is not a big problem.
In fact, Ma Youtie's role is easier to say, mainly Cao Guiying's role, which is more challenging.
Although Ma Youtie was bullied, he was a normal person, while Cao Guiying was different.
In the original version, many people feel that Ma Youtie's performance is natural, while Cao Guiying's role is easy to make people laugh in some aspects.
In fact, after watching the film, Li Yi felt that it was indeed true in some places.
For example, in the wedding photos, it is easy to tell that the actor who played Cao Guiying had a hard time acting. Her heart should be the mentality of the character who was not created for this drama. From the way her chin is wrinkled tightly, it can be seen that
It turns out that her performance is not quite consistent with the character.
Cao Guiying is a person who has suffered. At this moment, her heart should be calm and her chin should not wrinkle. She should accept her fate without any resistance.
Although they met her only after they met and took wedding photos, her acting skills still require a calm face, and no expression is more suitable for this person.
The actors in it have been trying to interpret Cao Guiying's heartbeat at this time with changes in eyes, blinking, and subtle movements of raising his eyes. This is not conducive to the proper state of the character at this time. Cao Guiying should be the eyes of heaven and should not show any emotions.
This kind of response will arouse the sympathy of Cao Guiying.
She has lost hope in life.
At that time, she didn't know what kind of person Ma Youtie was, so after getting married, it was still unknown whether he would allow her to commit domestic violence or treat her well.
At this time, her character setting is that of being abandoned by her brother and sister-in-law, and she should be hopeless and powerless.
Because we don’t know what the future will be like.
But for actors, it is actually difficult to truly understand the character's mentality.
