Liu Yifei was stunned and watched Wu Yuan suddenly jump up and run into the study in the suite.

She hurriedly followed her into the study, only to see Wu Yuan open the laptop and tap on the computer.

When she looked over, she saw a title.

"A Man Named Levine Decided to Die"

What a strange title

Continuing to look down, Wu Yuan was making an outline in a clear manner.

"The actor Li Wen is 59 years old, with a strange temper, disgusting with the East and the West, with indestructible principles, daily routines and a temperament that can be mad at any time, dangling in the community, and being called a bad neighbor from hell behind his back."

"He patrolled around early in the morning, moving bicycles that weren't parked in the grid, checking whether the garbage was sorted according to the rules, complaining about whose lawns weren't being mowed, and cursing the stray cat that had shed its hair."

"After his wife's death, he wanted to follow his deceased wife and commit suicide."

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

Liu Yifei's brows gradually furrowed.

At first glance, it seems to be a very bland and somewhat strange story.

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

Read it a few more times, as if you have caught some flavor, but you can't see it clearly.

"Senior brother, is this your new movie?" She asked weakly.

Wu Yuan continued to type while "popping", and replied casually: "Yes, literary films, I plan to use them for awards." ”

"A Man Named Ou Wei Decided to Die", this is a movie whose name looks strange, but Wu Yuan is very impressed.

It is a Swedish film that was released in Sweden on December 25, 2015.

This is actually an adapted movie.

The original book sold well all over the world after it came out, and the adapted movie of the same name also set a box office record in Sweden for 45 years, with a Douban score of 8.8 for the movie of the same name and a score of 9.0 for the book.

The main line of the story is very simple, telling the story of a retired old man who lives alone because of the death of his wife, feels that the world is no longer worthy of his nostalgia, and wants to commit suicide but is destroyed by his neighbors repeatedly.

But in fact, this movie is a story about death and living.

After watching the movie, it makes people feel funny and make people want to cry.

Ove's wife died of cancer, and Ove loved his wife dearly, because she was the color of his life.

Even more unfortunate was the ruthless dismissal of the company he had worked for for 43 years, and the community where he had lived for decades was full of unruly people and people shunned him.

It seems that the world has nothing to do with him, no one needs him, and he is surrounded by loneliness and despair in his days without his wife.

So, Ove put on his suit and covered the floor with film, because he was afraid that his real estate buddy would step on his floor after his death, he took out a drill, measured the size, made a hole in the middle of the house, and decided to hang himself.

However, just when he was about to commit suicide, the new neighbor next door accidentally interrupted his suicide because of some frizzy behavior.

The newly moved neighbor hit his flower bed and asked his daughter to bring him food, and later used him as a driver, told him to take him to the hospital, and asked him to pick up the child.

Anita next door, Jimmy, the boy from the same block, the lazy cat, the two little girls at Parvana's house, the two gay guys in the bar, the reporter who wants to interview him, they all bore Ove, they always come uninvited.

Hanging, lying on the rails, hitting the temple with a gun, smoking carbon monoxide in the car, whenever Ove was about to commit suicide, there were always all kinds of people and things coming to the door for his help, interrupting his suicide and making him even have to delay his search for death again and again.

In order to help others, he could only say sorry to his wife again and again, and I was not free to die.

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

The first time I was looking for death, I was hit by a neighbor and broke the flower bed, so I had to help reverse the car.

The second time I wanted to die, I took a ruler and looked for the middle of the ceiling, planning to nail it so that I could hang it, and the neighbor came to borrow a ladder.

The rope broke the third time he hanged himself, and he turned around and picked up tools to help his neighbors Anita and Rooney fix the heat.

The fourth time he planned to inhale carbon monoxide poisoning in his car, but drove his neighbor to the hospital.

The fifth time I was going to lie on the rails, but I saved someone.

The sixth time he planned to commit suicide with a shotgun, but he came to stay overnight.

Countless failed suicides are destined to be inseparable from the gentle world.

On the way to his death, Ove couldn't help but help the people who came to ask for help, and 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.

Ou Wei used his knife mouth tofu heart to harvest a daughter, a son-in-law, two granddaughters and a grandson, so that he experienced a different kind of warmth in the last days of his life.

At the end of the movie, Ove still dies.

But not because of suicide, in the same long winter of the following year, Ove passed away peacefully in his sleep.

Before he died, he learned a truth.

Even when you are lonely, the world is gentle, and if you can't die, you actively try to live.

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

That's what the film wants to tell the audience.

It is said that the old people have a strange temper, but in fact, they have a strange temper because they are too lonely, and most of the old people are lonely now.

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

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

This movie is a good movie both in terms of concept and its warm style.

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

This film was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award in 2017 that year, but when it was released, the director didn't think about the three major European things in the past, and it was a pity that he didn't apply for the three major European ones.

Wu Yuan plans to make this movie and take it to Venice to give it a try.

This kind of warm atmosphere is full of films, and it also takes into account the discussion of the big proposition of "life", which is still very popular with European film festivals.

A great Japanese director who has won many European film festival awards, including the Palme d'Or is Hirokazu Kore-eda, who mainly makes Japanese-style warm films, focusing on family, parents and children, and won the award softly.

The style of the movie "A Man Named Ou Wei Decided to Die" is similar to Wu Yuan's previous "Undertaker" and "Love", all of which take the warm route and explore the eternal topic of "life".

As long as the localization of its content is changed, and the impression of the first two works is the foundation, Wu Yuan is really likely to compete for the Golden Lion Award this time.

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

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

This time it's time to rush.

The actor is called Li Wen, find a domestic actor over 50 years old with superb acting skills, and then match a few old drama bones to perform, this movie can be made!

And the time background of this movie is in winter, just enough to be filmed this winter, and it can be in time for the Venice International Film Festival next summer!

Appropriate!

I didn't sleep anymore, Wu Yuan stayed in the study all night, perfecting the script of this movie, and changing some places with obvious Nordic style to Chinese localization.

For example, the president of the community residents' association served by Ou Wei was changed to the director of the neighborhood committee with Chinese characteristics.

The car that Ove and his old friend talked about, and the plot of not getting along with each other because of different car brand preferences, was changed to a tantrum between the two because of the different football teams they supported.

Chinese people don't have any car brand plots, and it is impossible for Chinese people at this age to have any cars.

But football is different, in the eighties and nineties of the last century, there was a period of football fever in China, and Chinese football at that time was also very powerful, and it was a strong team in Asia, and it did have a large number of loyal fans.

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

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

In this way, while continuing to shoot "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", he was still staying up late to write the script, and it took him a week of dark circles to write the first draft.

The script of a literary film is indeed more difficult to make than a commercial film, and it is more brain-consuming!

Liu Yifei, who had been watching Wu Yuan stay up late to make scripts, was distressed.

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

The release is Han Yan's "Who Do I Give My First Kiss To", which is an experimental film.

The story is about the twenty-two-year-old male protagonist Luo Jia, who suddenly decides to give his first kiss before his twenty-third birthday.

In the course of 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 a movie, but it is actually composed of nine unit stories.

Each story corresponds to a girl Luo Jia meets.

On the larger framework of the whole story, a complete story is formed with nine short films with different characteristics.

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

Gong Li's 2004 "Eros" is a film composed of three stories about "love and sex" shot by three directors: Wong Kar-wai, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Steven Soderbergh.

This kind of movie, which is connected by several short films, has appeared a lot in the world film industry.

However, none of them have good results, this road has not been passed, and all directors who make this type of work are still in the stage of exploration.

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

Li Xiaoping is also not optimistic about the box office results of this movie, so she did not spend a lot of money on publicity like "Whose Youth Is Not Confused", but only distributed posters in theaters around the country to post publicity.

Naturally, Han Yan, an unknown director + experimental film, also makes this film uncompetitive and attractive.

On the day of the premiere, "Who Do I Give My First Kiss To" only won a premiere box office of 500,000, and the results were quite poor.

As soon as possible, there were many voices from the outside world that ridiculed the era of light and shadow.

Wu Yuan, who has always had a good vision, and made movies and cast movies, finally broke down once!

Countless people and companies in the circle who watch the excitement are called a comfortable one in their hearts!

You Wu Yuan also have failed to invest and make movies that failed!

(End of chapter)