Immediately asked Su Yao to contact the director, and the next day he saw Xin Yukun, an Inner Mongolian man in his early thirties who saw the legendary invincible actor, and he couldn't say anything excited.

"I'm going to shoot in Pingdingshan, so I'm looking for a local drama actor, and 1.5 million should be able to do it!"

Ding Cheng smiled slightly, this money is not worth mentioning, and asked curiously: "The core drama conflict is a coffin for three masters, how did you get this core idea?"

"I have to thank my producer for this, when I was about 11 years old, he talked to me at the dinner table and told me a real story that happened in his hometown, and after he told me, I felt like five thunderbolts. ”

"At that time, the story stayed in my head, and I thought it was really good, it had crime, suspense, black, and the fate of some characters in the context of the era. ”

"He asked me if I would be interested in writing it into a screenplay, and I said yes, but I thought it was a piece of jade, and I needed to figure out what angle to use to cut it, and if it didn't cut it well, it would be wasted. ”

After a specific story, Ding Cheng understood the cause and effect, the real story happened in the early 90s, and many young and strong laborers in Henan and many rural areas across the country went to work in other places. However, because of the inconvenient transportation and communication at that time, many children in the family lost contact with their families after entering the city.

There are some people who earn money outside and don't come back, but there are also people who do encounter misfortune outside and disappear. Then one year during the Chinese New Year, a charred body was found in the river in this village, and the villagers called the police at that time, but because it was a village deep in the mountains.

When the police went out to the police, there happened to be an accident, so the village was in a vacuum at that time, so all the villagers came to identify the body, and one of the family concluded that the body was our child through some clues, including wallets or something, so the family pulled back.

When he was pulled back to be buried, his son returned. The family asked, "Why did you come back?" The child said, "I came back for the Chinese New Year, but when I got to the bus station, my wallet was stolen, and I had no money to take the bus, so I had to walk back."

At that time, the family turned from sadness to joy, so they sent the body back. At this time, another person in the next village said: The body may be from our family, and they pulled it back, so the coffin was transferred to the three families, and the case was not solved until the police came.

In fact, it was a girl who rode a bicycle to her relative's house to deliver something, but on the way she met a former elementary school classmate, and that classmate brought another friend of his to the village to play, and the friend wanted to be rude to the girl, but her elementary school classmate did not agree, and the two of them fought, and her elementary school classmate mistakenly killed his friend.

After the killing, the two young men destroyed the corpses and burned the corpses without permission, and then the two of them ran to the city, and finally went around in a circle, and the two turned themselves in, and finally caught the real murderer.

"What attracted me the most was the concept of a coffin for three families. The director sighed: "Because in our traditional concept, death is a very important thing, and there will be many joys and sorrows here." ”

"When I decided to start writing this script in 13 years, I found that if the story was set in the contemporary era, this phone call would solve a lot of problems, so I only kept the core concept in the adaptation, and all the remaining character relationships and character backgrounds were rewritten, and the father-son relationship, left-behind family, domestic violence, and marriage problems were added. ”

"I think it's probably something that makes the audience feel relatable and recognizable!"

Ding Cheng was a little embarrassed, and continued to be curious: "The structure of the multi-line narrative, I see Quentin, Nolan, Guy Ritchie, ......"

Xin Yukun was a little embarrassed and explained: "It's true that I started paying attention to multi-line narrative movies a long time ago, and when you read the number of films, you will find that today we actually have a large number of character emotions and character relationships that are repeatedly used." ”

"It's just that there seems to be something that can be done in terms of narrative structure, so when I saw Nolan finish his debut films "Following" and "Fragments of Memory" a long time ago, I thought it was actually very interesting. ”

"And when you're more experienced, you can have fun. Later, after "Crazy Stone" directed by Ning Hao came out in 06, I really slapped my thigh after watching it, and I thought it was great!"

"But I also saw one thing at the time: the audience applauded, but the people who came out to say cool things were all people in the industry?"

Ding Cheng scoffed, and understood that mentality very well, including when many viewers today talk about what a certain film is copied like, in fact, his mentality is used to show off how many films he has watched.

If you go to a movie with a friend, and your friend watches it and says, "Oh, that's great, it's awesome, it's so interesting." ”

You will definitely say, "What's this, I've seen it better than this, so who has already filmed it like this." ”

That's human nature.

In the 100 years of film history today, what has never been filmed before?

Sometimes you think a movie is particularly new or strange, maybe you have watched too little. Back then, after "Lola Run" came out, everyone applauded the table, but you still know that it already had another earlier prototype there.

"Why don't you consider professional actors?" Ding Cheng said with a smile: "If there is an investment." ”

Phoenix Entertainment: Where did you find the cast for this movie?

"Actually, I also thought about finding actors, but after the script was completed, I felt that this was a group play, and if I only needed two leading actors, then I still had time to do some training for amateurs or something. ”

"But there are so many characters, and most of them have some pretty heavy inner drama and emotional performances. To be honest, as a young director, I made a film for the first time, and there were too many places and many loopholes, so I ......"

Ding Cheng smiled heartily, quite self-aware, even if the new director can invite professional actors, whether he can hold it down on the scene is another matter.

"The casting requirements must look like each other, in fact, my original intention was to hope that they would be more local and more authentic, maybe there is a degree in between. ”

In fact, the original name of the script was "Funeral Coffin", and it was later changed to "Heart Labyrinth" due to censorship. ”

"I understand that the operation of a large company is still profitable, so it is necessary to be on the safe side, and what kind of star, what kind of IP, and what kind of theme must be used......"

"For example, the American director who made "11:14" is a lesson from the past, because he made that film and quickly entered the Hollywood system, but he later made a commercial film and immediately failed at all. ”

"It seems to me that the pressure and exploitation of you by big companies can be devastating, they may only need one screw, and for me, as a screw, I may not be the competent one, there are too many screws that are more competent than me. ”

"Even if I don't invest and borrow money everywhere, I prefer to retain the right to speak as a director, even if it's just for a slightly lower budget, and I can do something different. ”

"This will also enrich the diversity of the market, and the audience will also feel that in fact, low-budget films will be more and more wide. Including the previous "Scorching Sun" directed by Cao Baoping, I think it is a good case. ”

"I respect such a senior director very much, obviously everyone is competing for the box office championship, but I just take a path that you don't take, maybe it's very narrow and difficult to walk, but it should be a genre that movies should have. ”

After listening to the director's voice, Ding Cheng directly invested 3 million, and left everything to him to operate, and he could shoot as he wanted!