Interview with Yu-sheng Tian: If you can’t shoot "Ex 4", you must let go.

Become the first explosive movie in 2018.


Special feature of 1905 film network "Ex 3: Goodbye Ex", the first explosive movie in 2018! Since its release on December 29th, the film has been bringing surprises — — The series broke 500 million for the first time and 1 billion &hellip in the first week; … Now it has been released for 18 days, and "Former 3", which has won 1.76 billion yuan, has ranked fourth in the box office of domestic movies and is moving towards 2 billion yuan.

"Former 3" has ranked fourth at the box office of domestic movies.

 

"Previous 3" was released for half a month, and its stamina is still strong. Under the impact of Chinese and foreign films, last weekend (1.12-1.14), more than 100 million box offices were still firmly in the bag.

 

Recently, we also had the honor to interview Yu-sheng Tian, the director and screenwriter of the "predecessor" series, and chatted with him about the story behind the "predecessor". Yu-sheng Tian, born in 1980s, is like a cheerful big boy. From the moment he entered the studio, he talked about Kan Kan. For him, the interview was completely comfortable.

 

Filming is like playing with brothers. Han Geng and Ryan suffer when they are together as actresses.

 

From 2013 to 2015, and then to "Previous 3", Ryan runs through the trilogy of "Previous", while Han Geng missed the second one because of the schedule, and returned again in the final one. The three people who have cooperated for many times have become an "iron triangle", and filming together is more like playing with brothers.

Han Geng took the opportunity to "steal food" when filming a hot pot scene.

 

Yu-sheng Tian said that he and Han Geng had reached a tacit understanding that "I said a close-up and a flashback look, ok, too". As long as one sentence can immediately understand the director’s meaning, it is not only the improvement of Han Geng’s acting skills, but also the embodiment of tacit understanding with the director and the whole crew.

 

However, Han Geng, who played with Yu-sheng Tian, was also "tricky". At that time, the crew ate hot pot every day in Chengdu, but Han Geng’s next play asked him to keep fit and lose weight. "He always hides far away and eats that cabbage soup by himself, which is very miserable," Yu-sheng Tian said. As a result, when filming the scene of "Former 3" eating hot pot, "I think he is a little intentional, deliberately blocking a word or something, just one more, one more, and eat two more."

Han Geng and Ryan are a pair of he is my brother in the play.

 

In the play, there are good buddies with very different personalities. One of them is lovelorn and the other is lovelorn. Outside the play, Han Geng and Ryan have a very good relationship. "As long as they are both there, actresses suffer and are often teased and bullied." I don’t know whether Yu-sheng Tian’s revelation is a compliment or a loss to them.

 

There will be no fourth film in the "Ex" series, but there is no guarantee that there will be "Ex-wife"

 

Yu-sheng Tian, who claimed that she had never been in love before she went to college, felt that she lacked the experience of "predecessor". These three films had already hollowed out her body, so the "predecessor" series could only end there, and the rumor that the fourth film was shot because of the box office success of "predecessor 3" was shattered. Yu-sheng Tian said, "Han Geng told me that in a few years, you will get an ex-wife." Although it is a joke, who knows if an explosive IP was born in such a casual ridicule?

Yu-sheng Tian’s "Ex" series was inspired by a lovelorn partner.

 

Referring to the original intention of "Ex 3", Yu-sheng Tian recalled that the inspiration came from one of his lovelorn partners. Yu-sheng Tian, the partner who just broke up, asked him to go for a drink and told him about the ambiguous relationship between his girlfriend and his ex, so the topic of "ex" popped into Tian Yusheng’s mind. Later, my partner was dragged by Yu-sheng Tian to talk about creation and script, and thus the "predecessor" series came out.

 

It is no exaggeration to say that Yu-sheng Tian himself is a real "chatterbox", so it is not surprising that his films are full of witty remarks. Many classic lines in "Ex 3" come from Yu-sheng Tian’s private stock. He said that he has a small notebook dedicated to memorizing sentences. Every time he chats with friends (nonsense), funny sentences pop up in a flash of light, he will silently record them in the notebook. And "predecessor 3" used about one-third of the "inventory".

Han Geng dressed up as the supreme treasure in Ex 3.

 

It is worth mentioning that under the shell of comedy, Ex-3 abandoned the usual happy ending, and the hero and heroine failed to get back together again. Regarding the handling of the ending, Yu-sheng Tian said, "Don’t break up easily, but if you do, let it go". The core of the film is also about cherishing and thinking about love. As for being asked which line he thought was the most heartfelt, Yu-sheng Tian nominated Han Geng’s inner monologue when he dressed as the Supreme Treasure. "Only when Zi Xia leaves the Supreme Treasure forever will the Supreme Treasure grow into the Monkey King."

 

I don’t want to be a spokesperson for romantic comedies, but I want to make police, gangsters and war movies.

 

As a leader in the same period, Yu-sheng Tian thinks that the success of "Previous 3" is similar. In the movie market where fantasy movies are popular, the audience wants to see realistic movies that are close to life. The online exposure of many viewers crying in the cinema after watching "Former 3" for a long time also confirmed their strong resonance with the story of "Former 3".

 

Yu-sheng Tian’s "predecessor" series not only broke the curse of the sequel of the series, but also made better and better, which is not unrelated to his daily accumulation of materials and patient polishing of scripts.

Yu-sheng Tian wrote the screenplay for the first time.

 

Yu-sheng Tian, a screenwriter, made a movie script for the first time, and wrote "A Man on the Road", which was a success. Then, he directed the "predecessor" series of three films, which successfully made him among the 1.5 billion box office directors. Yu-sheng Tian seems to have been labeled as "comedy" since "A Man on a Embarrassed Road", but he himself has not positioned himself as a director of comedy films. "In fact, I like policemen, gangsters and wars very much, which are very bloody and passionate." Yu-sheng Tian confessed his "ambition" of making other films.

 

When talking about the plan for the next play, Yu-sheng Tian said that there is no plan at present, "it still depends on the story itself", and said that he would also consider his old partners Han Geng and Ryan in his new work. Let’s expect Yu-sheng Tian to create a new script after her personal experience of marriage, and look forward to the "Ex-wife" which may be reunited with the "iron triangle" sometime in the future.