Behind ＂City Lights＂： The ＂Knight’s Road＂ to Create Ordinary Heroes
Special feature of 1905 film network "I can bear all this because I am not a hero … … I can be what the city needs me to be. " — —
When interviewing the director Xu Jizhou, the Beijing veteran said to us: "When I was writing this script, I just listened to the story completed by the soundtrack of The Dark Knight over and over again."
The Dark Knight.
This just corresponds to Xiaobian’s view after watching the movie: it is a movie with the taste of the Dark Knight.
After meeting Xu Jizhou’s director and the original author Remy, I felt more empathy for the difficult "chivalrous road" taken by City Lights.
[On the Eve of Dawn]
Deng Chao in City Lights
At first, many viewers were not optimistic about the remake of this work, including Xiao Bian himself.
Due to the word-of-mouth failure of the first film, many fans and book lovers have mixed attitudes towards City Lights. Fortunately, the new film is escorted by Ehan Juan, the Golden Horse winner, and Deng Chao, the Golden Goblet Awards winner, including the original author Remy, who also personally joined the script creation. The lineup is hard to refuse.
On the other hand, the series of "Psychological Crime" is different from the same type of works in that it takes the ritualized crime scene and brutal criminal methods as the first voice. Whether the film version can restore the case scale and story trend in the original work has always been a concern of fans.
The Crime Scene in City Lights
After meeting the director, we realized that the beginning of this work actually originated from Xu Jizhou’s own obsession with this novel.
According to the original author Remy’s recollection, the director decided to film "Light of the City" almost immediately after reading the novel: "At that time, he happened to be filming in Chongqing, and after knowing that the novel of" Light of the City "was going to be listed, he directly killed Chongqing Publishing Group and brought back a sample book in advance. After reading it, he was particularly excited. He came to Shenyang directly and told me that he hoped to buy the movie copyright of this novel. "
As for this persistence, the director frankly comes from a fit state of mind: "The attitude expressed in the novel was also owned by me at that stage, and the story touched me very much, so I decided to give it a try." So "City Lights" became the director’s first film work.
However, the fact is cruel, and the road to the release of criminal works in China is always particularly stumbling. The early script creation and revision of City Lights lasted for more than two years. Director Xu Jizhou and Remy, as well as Jiang Zhiqiang, the boss, have repeatedly run in on the content of the script. As the original author, Remy even advised the director to make more deletions: "I may be one of the few screenwriters who advised the director to delete his own works. However, Xu Dao really insisted on the core content, and most of the key events and details were preserved to the greatest extent in the film. "
The novel "City Light of Psychological Crime"
During this period, Remy also adapted what was not used in the script into an exotic novel — — Two Flowers, of course, is beside the point.
After the final shooting was completed, the film originally scheduled for release at the end of September experienced the storm of extension and deletion, and it was delayed for nearly three months before the dust settled … … Now, in the director’s view, compared with the final results, these storms are "only episodes"
It is true that people who write heroes, like heroes, must bear and endure.
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