Chapter 121 The love between father and son
The film "Time Travelers" is written and directed by British director Richard Curtis, starring Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams , a romantic science fiction film starring Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie and others.
The film was released in the UK on September 4, 2013.
It is now 2006, a full 7 years ahead of 2013.
In order to make the movie more suitable for domestic audiences, Wang Shu made some adaptations to the script, eliminating the British humor and adding Chinese humor that is suitable for domestic audiences, maximizing the localization of the entire story. .
And this film tells a story about traveling through time and space.
That is, when the protagonist Wang Shu reaches the age of 21, he suddenly learns that he has the ability to travel through time and space.
Then, after the same unhappy New Year’s party as in previous years, Wang Shu’s father Wang Dalin (played by Wei Zongwan) confessed to him frankly: Men in our family are born with the power to travel through time and space. .
Although the divine power of traveling through time and space cannot change history, it can change some small things that have happened and will happen in one's life.
So, Wang Shu decided to use his ability to travel through time and space to make life better - that is, he wanted to find himself a girlfriend.
However, using the power to travel through time and space to find a girlfriend is not as easy as he imagined.
Then, Wang Shu moved from the capital to Shanghai to train as a lawyer.
Here, he finally met a beautiful but not so confident girl named Sun Li.
Then the two fell in love.
However, during a "time travel", Wang Shu accidentally changed a small thing, and the "butterfly effect" also prevented him from meeting Sun Li in his future life.
So, through trying again and again, Wang Shu met Sun Li again and again, and finally won Sun Li's heart.
Later, he tried to save a failed drama through time travel, to improve his sister's life, to get along better with relatives and friends, and to spend every day of his life.
The story seems to be that the protagonist not only finds his girlfriend through time travel, but also helps his sister and others, which is a picture of changing his destiny.
In fact, the biggest tear point is the interaction between father and son.
Because not only the male protagonist can travel through time and space, but the male protagonist’s father can also travel through time and space.
Among them, the male protagonist traveled through time and space in order to find a girlfriend and change his life. In the process, he discovered and realized that his father was also traveling through time and space.
The purpose of his father traveling through time and space was to see his son more before he died.
Although, the male protagonist can avoid his father from getting cancer by traveling through time and space back to before his father got cancer.
However, when the male protagonist discovers that his father's time is running out, he is already married and has a child.
At this time, if the male protagonist travels through time and space back to the time before the child was born and changes his destiny, it will trigger a butterfly effect, causing the child's gender to change or even disappear.
On one side is the child, and on the other is the old father who has only a few days to live.
At the same time, the old father could obviously travel through time and space and go back to before he got cancer to change his fate. However, he did not choose to do that in order to avoid triggering the butterfly effect.
In the last days of his life, he traveled back to the time period that would not cause the butterfly effect again and again, and took another look at his child, the male protagonist.
That’s all.
“The first shot of the first scene, action.”
On the scene of the "Space Traveler" crew, with a loud shout, filming officially started.
The first shot of the first scene was not the scene of Wang Shu’s appearance, but the scene of Wang Dalin played by Wei Zongwan.
Wei Zongwan, born in 1938, graduated from the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy in Shanghai. He is a mainland actor, drama actor and national first-class actor.
In 1990, Jiefang Daily and Wen Wei Po co-sponsored a special evening party for Wei Zongwan's comedy sketches. There were no backup dancers, accompaniments, or backup singers. He performed the whole show by himself, which lasted for one and a half hours. , a sensation in Magic City Beach. In the same year, he won the first National Drama Outstanding Performance Award and the first Magic City Drama Sketch Competition Grand Prize.
In 1992, he participated in "Sanmao Joins the Army" and won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 13th Golden Rooster Film Awards.
Of course.
Wei Zongwan's most well-known roles are Gao Qiu in "Water Margin", Sima Yi in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Fan Laoer in "One Foot Determines the Country".
Wang Shu did not choose the role of male supporting actor through an audition, but directly contacted Wei Zongwan.
The reason why I chose Wei Zongwan is because of Wei Zongwan’s eyes.
Many actors, when they act, although their performances are quite good, their eyes are always a little bit uninteresting.
And Wei Zongwan is one of the rare actors whose eyes can make a difference.
In "Time Traveler", the character Wang Dalin is the father of the protagonist and plays opposite the protagonist. The focus is on the display of the love between father and son.
An old man whose days are short, implicitly expresses his reluctance to leave his children.
So, this role requires eye play.
As long as the eye expression is not in place, the performance will not be brilliant.
Wang Shu looked at the scene after Wei Zongwan entered the scene through the camera lens and couldn't help but nodded secretly.
The eyes of a trembling old man who looks like a dying old man are filled with mist. Just such a look can vividly display the emotions he should have.
The sad atmosphere is presented without music, lines, or dialogue, just the eyes and the expression.
Wang Shu couldn't guarantee that Wei Zongwan would be able to play other roles well. He only knew that Wei Zongwan was quite suitable for the role of male supporting actor in "Time Traveler".
Not only in terms of age and image, his performance is also extremely excellent.
"Teacher Wei, you performed very well and acted very expressively."
When the scene was finished, Wang Shu gave a thumbs up and praised.
When Wei Zongwan heard Wang Shu's praise, he only regarded it as a polite comment.
Because at his age, he is already a veteran in the entertainment industry, and it is indispensable to greet him with all kinds of polite words when he goes to any crew.
For this kind of polite words, just listen to them and don't take them seriously.
"The main reason is that Director Wang's script is well written, and the role fits me better." Wei Zongwan responded with a smile.
Although he is an old-timer, he also knows how to say nice things.
Wang Shu in particular is not an ordinary director, and he has to say some nice things.
“Haha.” Wang Shu laughed twice at the words and said, “After I finished writing the script, the first thing I thought of about the role of Wang Dalin was Teacher Wei.”
After finishing speaking, his tone paused, and then he continued, "As expected, Teacher Wei performed very well in the first performance."
When Wei Zongwan heard this, he said politely : "Whether you can play a role well or not depends mainly on whether the actor has taken the time to carefully ponder the script."
"After I got the script of this play, I pondered it carefully in advance."
"In addition, I have a little more experience, so I can perform reasonably well."
(End of this chapter)