1. China director Wang Chao, who won the Kong Xiu Award, won the Best Screenplay Award at the 70th San Sebastian International Film Festival for his new work Kong Xiu. This is the first time that a Chinese film has won an award at an international class A film festival.
Kong Xiu is a work starring Shen, Zhu, and Qing Yu Bin. It tells the story of an industrial town in Hebei, China from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Kong Xiu, an ordinary printing and dyeing woman worker, relies on the spirit of hard work, tenacity and forge ahead.
Breaking free from the shackles of two marriages, raising three children, working in a heavy workshop, writing nonstop, and growing into a writer's story.
Second, Kong Xiu is full of the sense of the times. In an interview with local media, director Wang Chao talked about the reason why this work was adapted like this, because it reminded him of his biological parents.
His parents lived in the mid-1960s and early 1980s, and their careers were similar, and the feelings and frustrations contained in this work also made him feel the same.
We should pay attention to many technical problems when shooting time dramas, especially clothing and makeup. Regarding historical facts, director Wang Chao said that this film is a progressive process from a special period to the period of reform and opening up, and the personal growth of the heroine actually reflects the beautiful changes of that era.
Three. Wang Chao, the director of two black and white scenes, explained two black and white scenes in the film. The first scene describes the hero's childhood and Grimm's fairy tales, and reveals the story of the hero becoming a writer in the future. The second part is that the photos taken by the protagonist in that era were black and white, so the editing was also black and white.
When talking about the choice of actors, the director said that Shen was chosen because he had the temperament of that era.