How long does it take to love someone?
Li Mi waited for four years!
Li Mi has been searching for her fiance's study for four years. Four years ago, when their marriage broke up because of Li Mi's parents' opposition, the study left angrily. In the past four years, Li Mi has always received letters from the study room, but she has never mailed the address. The study disappeared from her life, but it seems to exist in a special way. Memories between them are floating around in this city, and Li Mi keeps searching on the road every day, struggling between the poles of hope and disappointment. She put the photos of the study in a magazine and showed them to every passenger, hoping to find some clues. Just, when she really met the man who missed her so much, did he remember her?
Qiu, a "thief", came to Kunming from rural Yunnan. He and fellow villager Qiu Huogui came to this city, hoping to earn some money and dress up and return to China. For Qiu, the motivation for all this comes from Xiaoxiang, the girl who grew up with him and he hopes to spend his life with him. Xiaoxiang came to Kunming to work a few years ago and has not heard from him since. In Qiu's mind, this unusual girl is also very affectionate to herself. However, he doesn't think it's just a secret love, and when he finally comes to this city, can everything be as he wishes?
Ai Feifei used to be an addict. With the support of Ma Bing, her lover and business partner, she is trying to give up drug addiction, try to forget the gloomy and terrible past and look forward to tomorrow with hope. She waited patiently, waiting for the day when Ma Bing could open her heart and bring her the future of her dreams. Just, when she thinks she is getting rid of the past, will the future she expects come?
After a bizarre murder, the fate of these strangers suddenly linked. Ai Feifei and Ma Bing witnessed the murder with their own eyes. Qiu and Qiu Huogui got on a taxi. At the same time, the police were ordered to investigate the case of Ye Qingcheng, but they found traces of the study with Li Mi ... They were all involved in a major drug trafficking case. After a tortuous and bizarre investigation process, the two have inextricably linked. Just when everyone thought that the answer to the story was finally revealed, another bigger suspense was spreading. ...
[Edit this paragraph] behind-the-scenes production
This play is based on a true story.
Li Mi Conjecture is the second film directed by Cao Baoping. Cao Baoping's last film was Wrath of Glory, which surprised many people in the industry with its unique narrative style and huge amount of information. The script of "Li Mi Conjecture" was written before "Glorious Wrath", which condensed the hard work and accumulation of director Cao Baoping for many years. After many twists and turns and waiting, Li Mi's guess finally broke out.
Director Cao Baoping said frankly that the material of this script comes from a very simple news story: a female taxi driver was kidnapped by two desperate people. In the process of getting along, the two kidnappers were moved by the female taxi driver and gave up the idea of killing her. After agreeing that the female driver would not call the police, the kidnapper released the female driver. When the female driver survived the robbery, she thought that these two people had no livelihood, but they still wanted to kidnap others, and others might suffer. After the struggle, she called the police and two robbers were arrested. But the female driver was very upset and thought she had broken her promise. The police advised her to save the two men, but the female driver still couldn't let go. Finally, she went to the prison to visit the two men, and slowly they became friends. The two criminals were released from prison early because of their good behavior.
Director Cao Baoping is unwilling to create such a simple and tender story. The whole script creation process lasted about five or six months, and the final script basically broke away from the original simple news story and became an interlocking and bizarre creation masterpiece.
"If you shoot according to this news, it is such a process. In fact, it is a yet I feel the harmonious heart-beat of the Sacred Unicorn play. " Director Cao Baoping said, "I think movies need to be simple and complex. I don't want to make a simple warm and moving movie. I hope it can be more complex and profound, or it can be more extensive. At least try to change that. Because I've been thinking about that subject for a long time and I can't write it. What I think is a process that touches my heart. Then, because I am not willing, I will try to change. "
It is difficult to make any changes and innovations in the script, and the script creation process of Li Mi Conjecture is not smooth sailing. In terms of the genre of the film, director Cao Baoping was once confused, and the script was once shelved.
Li Mi Conjecture can be made into several different stories, such as a pure commercial film or a road film, or a suspense psychological film with some weird styles like david lynch. However, director Cao Baoping finally chose another way to integrate the characteristics of several types of films into this film. After reading the script, everyone, including actors, producers and producers, was amazed at its novelty in narrative.
Deng Chao said, "It always makes you wonder what the final answer is. It always throws some questions, but never explains them. Then these questions may be divided into several groups. Ai Feifei and I are a group, then Li Mi in Zhou Xun is a group, and then two thieves are a group. It doesn't seem to matter, but after the car accident under the bridge and the poet's dislocation, the whole three groups were connected and then found. In this way, first of all, from the genre, it is particularly novel. Secondly, I think every character in it is particularly cute. Every character carries something, that is, he carries a secret. What the hell is that secret? We must reveal it to him at the end. And it carries some sociality and some phenomena. "
Zhou Xun has a very concise summary of the script: "The movie starts for a few minutes and then' explodes' a person, and then goes back to the story. The director is drawing a circle, not a straight line. Everything has a reason from beginning to end, and finally it is drawn into a circle. "
Wang said, "The first time I saw it, it attracted me from beginning to end. I always watch it five times after reading it at once. The more I read it, the more I feel that the screenwriter, that is, the director Cao Baoping, is amazing. The script is very personalized and attracts the audience's attention. Really, I like watching it. The characters written in it are very personal and look very exciting. "
Producer Wang Zhonglei was deeply attracted after seeing the script: "I think it's very good, because it's very different from the scripts issued by many domestic directors. It is rich in stories, levels and characters. You can feel the story and visibility of the script through its words. I think many directors don't have the level of storytelling, so they attracted me. "
"As excited as seeing a meteor in the sky." When it comes to the mood when reading the script for the first time, Zhou Xun can't hide his excitement. "At first, she kept saying some numbers. I don't understand why she said some numbers to attract you to look down. He slowly draws every character. You think these people must have something, and you are more interested in reading. I was very excited after reading it. The whole story is very suspenseful, the characters are very distinctive, everyone's personality is outstanding, and everyone is actually quite sharp and crazy. "
After reading the script, Zhou Xun immediately recommended it to the film's producer Chen. "When I first read it, I thought it was well written. You seldom see this Chinese script, as if the movie happened in front of you. Its language is so intuitive that you may even feel that it has been edited. Every description and every line feels like sometimes a shot, sometimes a visual effect, and sometimes an actor's mood. Sometimes I write my own plays. Producer Chen said.
I don't know if you have this experience. You see, a simple American genre film is not a personalized expression, but a genre film. In fact, its information is much larger than ours, which is different from audio-visual culture. Our information content is relatively simple. I always hope that the information content can be a little more complicated, provided that the narrative is clean. But it is also a double-edged sword. It is possible that you will oppress him until he collapses, and he will not follow you. It is possible for him to accept and carry more in unit time. This is a matter of degree. "
Cao Baoping, the director, believes that "Li Mi Conjecture" will be a very good-looking film with a personal style. "This movie is definitely very different from previous movies, but I am very satisfied with the kind of movie I made in my imagination, that is, although the style is very different, the last movie" Glorious Wrath "is relatively dark. Although Li Mi's conjecture has black elements, it is basically not such a movie. I think it's a personal expression. I hope all my movies are particularly good. The good thing about this movie is the emotional tearing and the shock. In addition, there is your personal attitude, and the strong attitude is in it, which I think is quite satisfactory. Of course, its entire scale, including the composition of the actors, may make the film more influential, but these can only be expected, but also depends on the ending behind us. Of course, this is a very important job for me. I'm not asking for a movie. If I ask to make a movie, I can make two or three before that, but I don't think it's the same thing. If you have no enthusiasm and feel that the quality is not enough, I think you'd better not do it. Meaningless. This is a very meaningful work for me. "
Producer Chen said: "This is a love story, although director Cao Baoping denied it. It may be that this love story encapsulates some of his concerns about society, including some obsession with film types, some suspense elements, some road movies, and some very fresh experiments on film forms, but after all, it is based on such a theme that we are hopelessly addicted to love. " Li Mi's Conjecture is a film to comfort the lovelorn. What it wants to convey is that love does not necessarily have a happy ending. In fact, love often belongs to three people, but you can't be sure of the value of love in this process. "
Li Mi's conjecture is a very realistic and China movie. Producer Chen said: "After reading the script, I think it is very similar to the feeling of modern American movies. There are many lively rhythms and some special requirements for photography. The result is more real than I expected. I have gone through a process of adaptation myself, hoping to be lighter and more realistic now. What is the result of realism? That is, you have more space to observe the actor, that is, the actor's true colors and his interpretation of the role are magnified, that is, he doesn't have many packaged things to help him lie or make up for some times when you may be distracted. I think this is really a big test for these actors. The result is really a new China movie, and it doesn't try to imitate a European and American movie. I thought he was going to imitate an American independent film, but he didn't. He really finished a story that happened completely in China, which is impossible to happen anywhere else. "
Casting method
Producer Chen said the process of identifying actors was "natural". "Because part of my job is some opinions on the actor combination, the starting point at that time was relatively simple, that is, whether such a team can be formed among these actors owned by Huayi, but sometimes you don't mean that all the plays invested by Huayi can use Huayi's actors. After all, you finally consider whether it is suitable or not, so some actors and Huayi's contracted actors don't, but the play is very clever. It needs every different type of actor and several important people. It seems that Huayi has the most suitable candidate. When you see Zhang Hanyu and Wang, you will feel that they are the best candidates to play these roles. "
When director Cao Baoping was writing a script, the most direct impression in his mind was Wang. "Because of blindness, I think this role is in this state, but I also had the idea of giving up Wang in the process of writing the script. He has a lot of energy, but I don't think it's meaningful to repeat it, neither for me nor for him. Later, because of the cooperative relationship, this candidate was provided. I met Bao Qiang and we talked. We can find something different, and Bao Qiang especially likes this role. He also repeatedly said that this is different from his previous role and it is a great challenge for him. I think. Therefore, the earliest shadow was Bao Qiang. "
Director Cao Baoping went straight to Zhou Xun at the beginning of the film. Zhou Xun liked the script the first time he read it. "This movie is a small production, and it was the role of Li Mi that moved me to take the show." So Zhou Xun didn't repeat on this matter, and decided directly.
Deng Chao said, "I met with Director Cao Baoping and had a chat. At that time, I remember that the director told me that the role was difficult. He is a little worried about my appearance, because he thinks my appearance is a little lucky and sunny, and maybe a little far from this role. As soon as I heard it, I thought, hey, this thing can play. I think every character in it is particularly cute. Every character carries something, that is, he carries a secret. What is the secret? We must reveal it to him at last. Moreover, it carries some sociality and phenomena. Moreover, I see that I have to play two roles, which is equivalent to a person wearing a mask to live in the world. I also prefer to challenge such a role, so this is a very special surprise. "
Zhang Hanyu, the actor of the police, also went well. In a word, Director Cao Baoping said, "Wherever he goes, this character is there."
[Edit this paragraph] Trivia
Zhou Xun is a new driver, and acting while driving is her biggest obstacle this time. The filming process was indeed in danger. When you shoot a highway, you have to turn around and go down when you open a tunnel. Other people on the road don't know that you are filming, and they don't know that there are others who can't drive very well. Afraid of an accident, the director warned that if there is any problem, please remember to hold the hand brake, please hold the hand brake!
In order to practice Yunnan dialect, Wang went to the vegetable market alone to listen to people when the sun went down.
The funny thing is that the filming place is very noisy, and all kinds of voices, mopeds, cars and people are cursing. The actual sound is hard to accept, which brings us great trouble, that is to say, we have to do it again and restore the sound when we come back.
Sometimes, when we see people watching, we will take photos quickly, put Deng Chao in and take photos in our way. Well, I took photos the next day, and those people disappeared. Later, I found someone else. Without those clothes, it was very painful and I had to remake them.
[Edit this paragraph] Behind the scenes
In 2008, the first powerful movie "Li Mi Conjecture" of Huayi Summer File will land in mid-August. This love thriller, co-starring Zhou Xun, Wang, Zhang Hanyu and Deng Chao of Huayi, was launched in Yunnan last May. This film was once named "The Experience of Li Mi". Recently, the film producer Huayi Brothers officially announced that The Experience of Li Mi was renamed Li Mi's Conjecture.
Li Mi Conjecture, written and directed by the new director Cao Baoping, is a battle of infatuation. In this film, director Cao Baoping, who became famous for his debut novel Wrath of Glory, continued his basic style of lively rhythm and bizarre plot, and told a fantasy story full of adventure and suspense. Moved by the wonderful script polished by the director for many years, the three popular male stars assembled again to play the war triggered by Zhou Xun. Wang Zhonglei, president of Huayi Company, who has seen the film, said: "This film is very much like an exciting Truth &; In The Great Adventure, Li Mi, played by Zhou Xun, goes through all kinds of adventures and stubbornly seeks his own answers. The final name change of the film also experienced many twists and turns within the crew and production team. "
"Guess school" is better than "chance school", "Li Mi style" and love are dead to the end
According to reports, the name change has experienced repeated discussions within Huayi. The different insistence of the main creators divided the production team into "chance meeting school" and "guess school", which triggered a heated debate around whether those incredible stories were "chance meeting" or "guess".
The "guess school" represented by producer, producer Chen and producer Deng Chao is the representative of the viewpoint of "fighting to the end with love" in the production team. Producer Chen thinks the guess is that the audience faces up to the limits of their emotions in the intense adventure with tension. After reading Li Mi's experience, people will think, am I Li Mi? Will I be Li Mi? The most successful thing about this film is that it has such a touching power and is very strong. It leaves the audience with a desire to explore "obsession with emotion", so it is too weak and passive to say that Li Mi's story is just "encounter".
Deng Chao explained his role as "a masked man". He said, "The study loves Li Mi, but Li Mi can't see who he is. In life, we will inevitably have various masks to disguise ourselves. Guess is a mystery to others, but a cover for yourself. The sense of destiny of the people behind the speculation is more dramatic. "
The biggest antithesis of the "guess school" is the director Cao Baoping, whose original name is What's wrong with Li Mi. Director Cao Baoping has been engaged in drama teaching in the Literature Department of Beijing Film Academy for many years, and has been engaged in script writing for nearly 20 years. Li Mi's Conjecture was once called an excellent script that everyone loved. Director Cao Baoping believes that when it comes to romantic movies, people will subconsciously think of warmth, sweetness and other emotions. But I don't want this movie to stop there. What I want to convey is people's obsession and persistence in the object they love. When they are tortured and hurt by love, the great sense of tearing and shock seems to be beyond people's control. Therefore, I prefer to use the "encounter" of "the world is ruthless".
"Chinese-style" fantasy movie, "Qixi" in August.
In the fierce collision of the two factions' love, the image of Li Mi played by Zhou Xun became increasingly clear. Li Mi, a girl who is desperate for love, shows great vitality of "fighting to the last moment" instead of pain and confusion. Zhang Hanyu said: "I feel that Li Mi has some Axis power of the ancient emperor." Zhou Xun has brought great explosive power to the role of Li Mi, realizing the possibility that "as long as you love hard enough, the world will shake". So the production team finally accepted the idea of "guessing pie" Cao Baoping said: "Zhou Xun showed me that even love with great tearing can leave us hope. I was persuaded by Zhou Xun that Li Mi's series of hardships were not necessarily passive "encounters". Of course, how to treat Li Mi's story in the end depends on the feelings of the audience. "
Starring Zhou Xun compared Li Mi's four-year experience of finding a boyfriend to "the plane was late". "You just don't know when to take off, never know when he will appear, and never know when he will be completely disconnected. But Li Mi has always believed that this man lives by my side and exists in my world. This bit by bit persistence is the source of Li Mi's strength. With this belief, I don't think everything that happened to her was just an' encounter'. "
Producer Wang Zhonglei said: "Li Mi Conjecture is the best movie of Huayi this summer. Our team members were all moved by this story, so they gathered the top stars and devoted all their enthusiasm to this film, so they dared to choose the schedule during the Olympic Games. I hope everyone will share this Chinese fantasy movie with us on Valentine's Day this year. "
[Edit this paragraph ]DVD release information
Dubbing language: Mandarin
Subtitle language: Chinese/English
Screen ratio: 1.85: 1
Audio coding: Mandarin: Digital Dolby 2.0
Bar code: 9787880834536
ISRC:CNA080800270
ISBN: 9787880834536
Length: 97 minutes
Press: Beijing Beiying Audio & Video Company
Packaging: regular edition
Media: DVD
Color: color
Video coding: widescreen
Dvd product parameters
Number of CDs: 1
Bar code: 9787880834536
Mbth: Equality of love &; die
Issuing company: Zhong Kai culture.
Packing: Paperback Edition
Packing height: 0.79 cm
Packing length: 18.39 cm
Packing weight: 498.95g.
Package width:14.60cm.
Media: DVD
Color: color
[Edit this paragraph] Wonderful comments
The climax of the film is at the end.
If your lacrimal glands are sensitive, tears will eventually flow down.
But don't always expect the final climax, and don't expect it. Just follow Zhou Xun's tears, the numbers in her mouth and the plot set by the director to calculate the distance between love and real dreams.
Zhou Xun returned to reality and became a taxi driver. At first, those freckles were too obvious, the cotton shirt was too top, the nails were not polished, and she was very skilled at smoking ... When she started talking and nervously told every passenger some imaginary figures, you just came to your senses. So she is Zhou Xun.
She is looking for a lost boyfriend. She has been looking for him for four years.
Where's your boyfriend? What did you do? She doesn't even know. The only reference is the letter sent by my boyfriend, only the address of the recipient, vague words, the feeling of missing … and the photos left behind.
Leaving is to get together better.
In order to realize Li Mi's dream of opening a supermarket, and to be a person who satisfies Li Mi's mother, her boyfriend didn't go to college, but a strong sense of responsibility urged him to make money, realize his dream for Li Mi and establish himself. He went astray.
Love and realistic dreams have thus opened the distance.
Guess, this is the key word in the title. In the development of the story, the director also deliberately highlighted the "guess", guessing the correlation of those numbers in Zhou Xun's mouth; Guess the purpose of two villagers when Zhou Xun was killed; Guess the true identity of her boyfriend, guess the identity of the woman around her boyfriend ... but it will always be a romantic movie, and all the guesses are to set off the theme of love.
This is a film for Zhou Xun. Deng Chao, Wang and Zhang Hanyu, the famous actors, all supported Zhou Xun, but there was no outstanding performance.
In this film, Zhou Xun is persistent, fanatical and panicky ... looking for, expecting, waiting for ... running and shouting ... exaggerated expression, a little distorted performance when scared ... Only at the end of the film, emphasizing inner play, you see the familiar Zhou Xun, and every subtle expression and tears are just right, delicate and affectionate.
[Edit this paragraph] Wonderful dialogue
Li Mi chased the study to read the contents of the letter.
Li Mi: -83 days. I'm going back, Li Mi. I can't be the kind of person you want anyway. I guess I can only be so ordinary. I am really useless. Do you think I'm useless, too
Li Mi: -22 1 day. I'm going back, Li Mi. I am a useful person now, and I can already see what our future supermarket will look like. Will you forgive me?
Li Mi: -430 days. I'm not what I used to be, Li Mi. Maybe I have become the kind of person your parents want, who knows. I suddenly cried when I saw Kunming on TV yesterday. Are you still waiting for me, Li Mi?
Li Mi: -708 days. Let me tell you something, Li Mi. Almost true. I arrived at the airport this morning. I stood in the hall and missed the moment when I crawled like a snake on the grass. I suddenly want to go back. Bought a plane ticket, passed the security check and walked all the way to the boarding gate! -finally came out, and the ticket was refunded by half. Do you know how much I want to go back?
A poem read by a poet-watch it with a grain of sand
The bottom of the lake has no bottom for itself, and the shore has no shore for itself.
Its water itself is not wet,
Its waves do not feel single or individual.
These waves surround rocks that are neither too small nor too big.
Whisper to yourself that you won't listen.
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Li Mi's guess-do you know how much I love you?
Four years is not short for anyone. . And I, every day, every night, am looking for it. Because of love, waiting, searching, persistence, even madness.
But when you stand in front of me, I am still me, but you are no longer you. When I finally found you, you were far from me.
Your indifference, your ruthlessness, your evasive eyes, and her around you are all fatal. But I can't watch you run away like this. Even if the whole world says that you are not the person I am looking for, even if the whole world thinks that I am that crazy person, I will never forget your face in my mind these days and nights, the face I have always missed.
I don't believe it.
Even if you lead her away, even if you don't look back at me, even if you deny all my questions. I just want to say a word, just want to know, those letters carry your words, and tears fall feebly. I can't follow in your footsteps. I hope you will look back at me and listen to me after missing you for so many years. Love is not forgotten, not scattered, but precipitated and condensed in the bottom of my heart. Finally, at the moment I saw you, I poured out. I feel weak, but I don't want to let go easily. I am not weak, but I am still weak and failed in front of you.
I know you've been looking for it, but I can't appear in your life yet. I just keep looking at you silently, hoping you can live a happy life. ......
For four years, in the days without you, I used words to convey my thoughts and concerns. We are in the same city, breathing the same air, watching you alone, maybe helpless, maybe bullied, maybe lonely, or stupid ... but I can only watch you quietly, watching your every move in a corner you don't know, just like this.
Fate still lets us meet. Your eyes, your face, everything about you are so familiar. Watching you go crazy, watching you roar, watching you cry and twitch feebly, I can only pretend as if nothing happened. I avoid your eyes, I leave quickly, I don't want to be covered up by you. You chased me and didn't want to leave. Those familiar words stung my heart every word from your mouth. I can only escape and leave. Without you, I might fall in love with her, but there is no room for a second person in my heart.
I can't stand it.
You know, how much I miss, how much I miss, how much I care, how much I care, so I hold you tightly, wipe away the tears on your face, stop your crying and sadness, and heal your pain for many years. But I can only suppress, and then suppress. My love for you has been sealed.
Death finally landed me in front of you, I don't know, good or bad. I don't want to see you sad, but maybe I am too selfish. Will you be happy without my happiness? You must be very happy. ......
I always thought that I was the only one looking for you persistently, and you were always by my side, but I didn't see you. ......
The last tear slipped from my face with a smile. ......