Third Uncle of Nanpai: I didn't hesitate to become a screenwriter. I would die if I accepted it, and I would die if I didn't accept it.
When we asked a question that was almost removed: As a screenwriter in person, did you hesitate at first because of fear of being criticized? He was even more outspoken: he would die if he accepted it, and he would die if he did not. For this person who can complete gorgeous adventures in books, he is accustomed to taking the initiative in reality."You also know that many things are beyond your control, and you will still be scolded or questioned, but at least you can do what you can."
The original title of the Nanpai Third Uncle commented: "If you accept it, you will die, you will die, if you don't accept it, you will die. It has been
ten years since" Tomb Robbing Notes ", and the movie is finally about to be released. This is a moment that many rice have been waiting for many years. However, the negative news about the competition before the release, and the fact that special effects were still being worked on and the inability of the media to watch the film before the interview all made people feel some faint uneasiness in their hearts. Near the premiere day of its release, the reporter finally met the third uncle, the "biological father" of this work that has always been at the center of the whirlpool. The various negatives of the film did not seem to affect him. He was as lively and talkative as any appearance in the past six months. Even at the press conference that just ended with a slightly serious atmosphere, he became the one in charge of lively up the atmosphere.
However, due to the limited time for the interview, and the lack of movies in the interview, we still chatted around more pragmatic issues, such as what is the worldview of "Tomb Robber Notes"? Is there a world after death in the movie? Are Lu Han and Jing Boran consistent with Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling in his heart? He answered all this frankly one by one.
And when we asked a question that was almost removed: As a screenwriter in person, did you hesitate at first because of fear of being criticized? He was even more outspoken: he would die if he accepted it, and he would die if he did not. For this person who can complete gorgeous adventures in books, he is accustomed to taking the initiative in reality."You also know that many things are beyond your control, and you will still be scolded or questioned, but at least you can do what you can."
Probing that "Tomb Robber Notes" will not have a postmortem world
reporter: You have always emphasized that the world view of the movie and the original work will not conflict. Is there really no conflict?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: No. We have divided the worlds clearly enough that there will be no conflict. The ambition is too big, and writing one is completely interspersed between two worlds. That is problematic. In fact, this movie also has a lot of foreshadowing explaining the relationship between readers and books.
Reporter: What kind of foreshadowing?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: Do you think you are in the book or outside the book? Because it is very clear in this movie that Wu Xie in the story thinks he is real and the storyteller is fake, and Wu Xie, the storyteller thinks he is real and the story in the story is fake. So who is the real and who is the fake?
Reporter: So there is no afterlife this time?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: It is impossible to see the world after death in China movies.
Reporter: Can you briefly summarize the worldview of "Tomb Robbing Notes"?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: If we use a big and comprehensive way to say it is the word "life". Life is divided into three stages: when you see mountains, you see mountains, and when you see water, you see water. Seeing mountains is not mountains, and seeing water is not water. Seeing mountains is still mountains, seeing water is still water. From the beginning, Wu Xie was a person who saw mountains and water. He wanted to rob the tomb, and he wanted to try all this. Later, he refused to rob the tomb. But in the end, he returned to being willing to tomb raiding and accepted everything. This is everyone's mental journey.
Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling are both the kind of people that the Third Uncle of the Southern Faction wants to be.
Reporter: Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling are both people you want to be, right?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: You are so right. I think you really understand me. Wu Xie is an ideal state for a person. He hopes that there is a particularly strong person around him who can help him deal with many problems, but in fact this is impossible. Even if there is such a person by your side, you will always lose and face everything alone. At the beginning of the tomb robbery, Zhang Qiling protected him, but after Zhang Qiling left, Wu Xie experienced exactly the same thing. He did not receive any bonus because Zhang Qiling once existed. This is life.
Reporter: It is impossible for these two personalities to exist in the same person?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: The ultimate life should be Wu Xie + Zhang Qiling. The original Wu Xie + the original Zhang Qiling was a complete person. Finally, Zhang Qiling left, and Wu Xie became like Zhang Qiling. It was such a balance.
Reporter: Evaluate Lu Han and Jing Boran. Do they match the Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling in your heart?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: It is difficult to say that it is completely consistent. When I selected the actors, I chose the overall temperament. They were the ones most in line with Wu Xie and Zhang Qiling at the time. I think they were very, very perfect.
Reporter: Is there anything about these two actors that suits these two roles?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: Lu Han is soft on the outside and hard on the inside. He is very soft on the outside and persistent on the inside. He is very similar to Wu Xie. He looks innocent and innocent, as if anyone can deceive him, but you don't touch him. His bottom line, otherwise he will become stronger than everyone else. This point Lu Han particularly suits Wu Xie's state. He is in completely different states when he insists on certain things and when he is in a particularly good mood.
Jing Boran is a very, very good artist. He can play a comedy role in "Monster Hunt" and can show Zhang Qiling's heavy heart. His sinking state is very, very OK. This is something that actors at this age can find difficult to do.
When Lu Han and Jing Boran are resting, they often forget to take down the microphone on the radio, so we often hear amazing things on the set. (Reporter: What's the matter?) I won't tell you! But I will clearly see their state in life. Lu Han is soft on the outside and hard on the inside, and Jing Boran is a thick person.
Nanpai's third uncle said that he heard the "extraordinary things" of Lu Han and Jing Boran on the set and
became a screenwriter. He didn't hesitate to accept it, and it would be death if he didn't.
Reporter: This time, you personally acted as a screenwriter. Did you hesitate at first because you were worried about being criticized?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: You will die if you accept it, and you will die if you don't.
Reporter: Why would you die if you don't pick it up?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: If you don't take it, you don't know what it will look like. If you take it, you also know that there are many things that you can't control, and you will still be scolded or questioned, but at least you can Complete what you can do.
I am already in the whirlpool, so I will try to hold the whirlpool. If I can't hold it this time, I will hold it next time. Just like when I was writing, I knew that one day I would master words, and one day I would master movies, and then I would understand the consequences of doing this. Now I don't know, I just have to do it and wait for the consequences.
I was lucky to have this learning process. A lot of new people come into this system, starting from the set. I'm already lucky to be the screenwriter of such a big film. So if I have the heart to move forward, I won't care about the so-called gains and losses at this moment. Ang Lee didn't direct his first film until he was 36, and I may not write my first particularly good script until I was 46. But it doesn't matter. By the day you turn 46, everything before is just fireworks. If you can't persist, the food you eat now will always taste like this, and it won't be sweet in the future.
Reporter: How much will you score after watching the movie?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: Actually, I haven't watched the 3D version yet. I can give you a final score after reading it.
Reporter: What is your personal favorite scene or scene?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: In the scene at the Yinbing Hall, there was no urine point throughout the entire process. It was a suffocating feeling that I couldn't breathe. You can see countless elements in that scene, and you can make another movie when you take out each point, but you can throw it all to the audience at once. I am very much looking forward to the audience's reaction.
Reporters Lu Han, Nanpai Third Uncle, Li Rengang, Jing Boran
: How is the film industry different from what you originally imagined?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: It's completely different. The movie was filmed paragraph by paragraph. I thought it was filmed from the first scene to the last scene, so that the emotions could be consistent and the script could be changed later if there was any situation in the front. It turned out that the director filmed the finale first. In other words, the early planning of a movie is artistic creation, and the later part is management.
Reporter: Are there any things that you didn't understand at first but later understood?
Third Uncle of Nanpai: Actually, I can understand most of them. I can understand most of the changes made by the director for the whole. "For example, if you jump off a beam and there is no beam, you can change the beam, or you can pay for me to press a beam." These are all problems.
At first, I wanted to place this background in the Seven Star Lu Palace. The director said that I couldn't find such a good forest. If you look for one in the suburbs of Beijing, some viewers might say, isn't this the place where I was dating yesterday? If you go to Yunnan to shoot, it will be dangerous in the primitive jungle and the equipment will not be easy to enter. So if you can't find a ready-made and particularly good adventure forest, you might as well find the safest one, such as the Gobi Desert. There is a very good Gobi Desert in western China, which is very beautiful and spectacular. In this way, you only need to write a few words on the script, and you can save a lot of money. This is how we all communicate, and I will be convinced by him.
Reporter: Now Nanpai Pan Entertainment has a lot of business work. Will it be more fun than writing novels?
Nanpai Third Uncle: I started out in business. Writing novels was my hobby at the beginning. Many people didn't know about it, so he always thought: Third Uncle, how did you do it? I've actually been doing it. When I was writing novels back then, I really spent every penny... all of them were written for public welfare. Then you had to eat, so you had to have your own job.
In fact, I don't do much business work now, but find a smart person who knows how to run it. He also knows that creating can bring more value to the company than operating it.
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Editor: Nancy