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Liu Yifei watched blankly as Wu Yuan suddenly jumped up and ran into the study room in the suite.

She quickly followed him into the study room and saw Wu Yuan opening his laptop and tapping away at it.

Minato looked over and saw a title.

"A man named Li Wen decided to die"

What a strange title

Continuing to look down, Wu Yuan is making an outline in a orderly manner.

"The male protagonist Li Wen is 59 years old. He has an eccentric temper and dislikes both things and things. He wanders around the community with unbreakable principles, daily routines and a temper that can explode at any time. He is secretly called the evil neighbor from hell."

"He patrols around early every morning, moving bicycles that have not parked in the grid, checking whether the garbage is sorted according to regulations, complaining about whose lawn has not been mowed, and cursing the stray cat that lost its fur."

"After his wife died, he wanted to follow her and commit suicide."

"Until one winter morning, when a chatty couple and their two chatty daughters moved next door and accidentally broke his mailbox, his peaceful and traditional life was shattered..."

Liu Yifei's brows gradually wrinkled.

At a glance, it seems to be a very plain and a bit strange story.

But she didn't believe that her boyfriend would write a bad script.

After reading it carefully a few more times, I seem to have caught some flavor, but I can't see clearly.

"Brother, is this your new movie?" she asked weakly.

While Wu Yuan continued typing, he casually replied: "Yes, it's a literary film. I plan to use it to win awards."

"A Man Called Ove Decides to Die" is a movie with a strange name, but Wu Yuan left a deep impression on it.

This is a Swedish movie that was released in Sweden on December 25, 2015.

This is actually a movie adapted from a novel.

The original novel has been a best-seller all over the world since its release, and the adapted film of the same name has also set a box office record in Sweden in the past 45 years. The Douban score of the film of the same name is 8.8, and the Douban score of the book is 9.0.

The main line of the story is very simple. It tells the story of Ove, a retired old man living alone. Because his wife passed away, he felt that the world was no longer worthy of his nostalgia. He wanted to commit suicide but was repeatedly destroyed by his neighbors.

But actually this movie is a story about death and living.

After watching the movie, I felt both funny and wanted to cry.

Ove's wife died of cancer. Ove loved his wife deeply because she was all the color of his life.

What's even more unfortunate is that the company where he worked loyally for 43 years mercilessly fired him. The community where he has lived for decades is full of unruly people, and people shun him.

It seemed that the world had nothing to do with him, no one needed him, and he was surrounded by loneliness and despair in the days without his wife.

So Ove put on his suit and covered the floor with film. Because he was afraid that his real estate buddies would trample on his floor after his death, he took out a drill, measured the dimensions, drilled a hole in the middle of the house, and decided to hang himself.

However, just when he was about to commit suicide, his new neighbor who moved next door accidentally interrupted his suicide due to some irritable behavior.

The newly moved neighbor bumped into his flower bed and asked his daughter to bring him food. Later, he became familiar with him as his driver and asked him to take him to the hospital and pick up his children.

Anita next door, Jimmy, the boy from the same block, the lazy cat, the two little girls from Parvana's family, the two gay men in the bar, and the reporter who wanted to interview him, they all annoyed Ove. They always come uninvited.

Hanging himself, lying on the rails, shooting himself in the temple with a gun, inhaling carbon monoxide in the car. Whenever Ove was about to commit suicide, all kinds of people and things would always come to his door and need his help, interrupting his suicide and causing him to seek death. All have to be delayed again and again.

In order to help others, he could only say sorry to his wife again and again, I haven't died in vain yet.

Although the title of the movie is heavy, the plot is light, especially the plot where Ove wants to die but is always destroyed, which is very humorous.

The first time he sought death, his neighbor knocked down a flower bed, so he had to help reverse the car.

The second time I wanted to die, I took a ruler and searched for the center of the ceiling. I planned to hammer in a nail so I could hang myself. My neighbor came to borrow a ladder.

The third time he tried to hang himself, the rope broke, so he turned around and picked up tools to help his neighbors Anita and Rooney fix the heater.

The fourth time I planned to inhale carbon monoxide poisoning in my car, but drove my neighbor to the hospital instead.

The fifth time I planned to lie down on the train, I saved someone.

The sixth time he planned to commit suicide with a shotgun but someone came to stay with him.

Countless failed suicides are doomed to escape the gentle world.

When Ove was interrupted again and again on his way to death, he couldn't help but help those who came for help, and he helped one neighbor after another.

While helping others, he found a way to get along with others, found the value and meaning of his own existence, and found the joy of life. His heart slowly tried to get out of his self-isolation and connect with society.

Ove used his ruthless words to gain a daughter, a son-in-law, two granddaughters and a grandson, allowing him to experience a different kind of warmth in the last days of his life.

At the end of the movie, Ove dies.

But it was not because of suicide. In the same long winter of the next year, Ove passed away peacefully in his sleep.

Before he died, he understood something.

Even when you are lonely, the world is gentle. If you cannot die, just work hard to live.

Life is such a strange thing. When you feel abandoned by the world, the world will teach you the meaning of life and let you know how to live meaningfully.

This is what this movie wants to tell the audience.

People say that old people have weird tempers. In fact, they have weird tempers because they are too lonely. Most of the old people nowadays are lonely.

Give them more patience and gentleness, let them feel needed, and their emotions will naturally be soothed and they will be treated gently.

Don't wait until your loved one is gone to regret it.

This movie is a good movie, both in terms of its conception and its tender style.

Otherwise, it would not have become famous all over the world after it was released in a small country like Switzerland. It was translated into various versions and spread on the Internet.

This film was also nominated for the 2017 Best Foreign Language Film Award. However, when it was released, the director did not consider going to the top three European movies at all. It was a pity that it was not signed up for the top three European movies.

Wu Yuan plans to make this movie and try it out in Venice.

This kind of film with a warm atmosphere and exploring the big topic of "life" is still very popular at European film festivals.

Hirokazu Kore-eda, a great Japanese director who has won multiple European film festival awards, including the Palme d'Or, mainly makes Japanese-style heartwarming films that revolve around families and the relationship between parents and children.

The style of the film "A Man Called Ove Decides to Die" is similar to that of Wu Yuan's previous films "The Embalmer" and "Love", both of which take a tender route and explore the eternal topic of "life".

As long as the content is localized and the impression of the first two works is established, Wu Yuan may really compete for the Golden Lion this time.

And the chairman is still Mark Mueller, so the chances are even greater.

With Berlin's Best Director and the Cannes Jury Prize in hand, Wu Yuan's pursuit of awards now only includes the three final awards of the Golden Lion, Golden Bear, and Golden Palm.

I have to give it a try this time.

The male lead is called Li Wen. Find a domestic actor over 50 years old with superb acting skills, and then add a few veteran actors to the cast. This movie can be made!

Moreover, this movie is set in winter, so it can be shot this winter and in time for the Venice International Film Festival next summer!

OK!

Without sleeping, Wu Yuan stayed in the study all night, perfecting the script of the movie and changing some clearly Nordic-style places to Chinese localization.

For example, the president of the community residents' association that Ove served as was changed to the director of the neighborhood committee with Chinese characteristics.

The story of Ove and his old friend talking about cars and not being in contact with each other because of their different preferences for car brands was changed to the two having a tantrum because they support different football teams.

Chinese people don’t know much about car brands, and it’s even less likely that a Chinese old man of this age will own a car.

But football is different. In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a football craze in China. At that time, Chinese football was also very good. It was a strong team in Asia and did have a large number of loyal fans.

All in all, Wu Yuan tried his best to change the habits and styles of the Nordic people in the original movie towards the Chinese direction.

Fortunately, these things themselves do not affect the main story of the movie, and it will not hurt even if they are changed.

In this way, he continued to shoot "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" while staying up late to write the script. It took him a full week of dark circles under his eyes before he wrote the first draft.

Scripts for literary and artistic films are indeed more difficult to write than commercial films, and they are also more brain-consuming!

Liu Yifei, who had been watching Wu Yuan stay up late to work on the script, felt heartbroken.

On the other hand, while Wu Yuan was busy filming "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and writing scripts in the United States, at home, new movies from the era of light and shadow were also released in the mainland in a low-key manner.

Screening is Han Yan's "To Whom I Dedicated My First Kiss", which is an experimental film.

The story tells the story of the 22-year-old male protagonist Luo Jia, who suddenly decided to give his first kiss before his 23rd birthday.

In the process of giving his first kiss, he met nine girls and had nine emotional stories with them.

Why is it called an experimental film? Because this movie is said to be one movie, but it is actually composed of nine unit stories.

Each story corresponds to a girl Luo Jia met.

Based on the overall story framework, nine short films with different characteristics are used to form a complete story.

This kind of shooting method is not a novel example in China, let alone the world.

"Eros" starring Gong Li in 2004 is a three-part story about "love and sex" filmed by three directors: Wong Kar-wai, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Steven Soderbergh. movie of.

This kind of movie, which is composed of several short films strung together, has appeared many times in the world film industry.

However, none of them have achieved good results, and this road has never been explored. All directors who make this type of work are still in the exploratory stage.

Therefore, this type of film is also regarded as an experimental film.

Li Xiaoping was not optimistic about the box office performance of this movie, so she did not spend as much money on promotion as "Whose Youth Is Not Confused". She only distributed posters in theaters around the country to promote it.

Naturally, the unknown director Han Yan + the subject matter of the experimental film also make this film uncompetitive and unattractive.

On the day of its premiere, "To Whom I Dedicated My First Kiss" only received 500,000 yuan at the box office, which was a rather poor result.

For the first time, there were many voices from the outside world mocking the era of light and shadow.

Wu Yuan, who has always had a bright eye and always wanted to make a hit movie when making and casting movies, finally suffered a setback!

There are countless people and companies in the circle watching the excitement, and they feel so comfortable!

You, Wu Yuan, also have failed investments and failed productions!