Feng Xiaogang’s "Catch the Agent" official announcement, Lei Jiayin × Hu Ge focuses on "entanglement"

1905 movie network news On June 17, he presented his new film at the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival Chinese Masterpiece Tour Conference, and officially announced the cast for the first time. The film, starring the two, will start in November this year. The film "Catch the Agent" is a period film directed by Feng Xiaogang after "Youth" after a lapse of seven years, telling a game of faith that spans 40 years. Feng Xiaogang, who has always been good at period films, has focused on the little people in the big era in many films, portraying their joys and sorrows vividly. This return to period films, with actors such as Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge, has made audiences look forward to it.


On the day of the event, the film revealed a concept poster, which also contained a unique expression in the full atmosphere of the era. A warm water bottle and an enamel tank are leaned together, and the "anti-rape and anti-rape" printed on the tank bears the brand of the times. The police and the secret service are like a warm water pot and a tank, one is always baptized in hot water, the other is trapped in the tank, and the pine trees growing in the tank seem to suggest the special friendship between the two. What roles Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge will play, and what kind of sparks will collide between the two, which is fascinating.


Feng Xiaogang made another period film after 7 years

Tell the story of a 40-year religious game


The movie "Catch the Secret Service" tells the story of the founding ceremony in 1949. Xiao Dali, who had just entered the city and turned into the director of the public security police station, found that Feng Jingbo, a primary school teacher, was full of doubts. In line with the high vigilance of a soldier and the sense of responsibility of a public security soldier, he simply partnered with Feng Jingbo as a neighbor. After going through hardships all his life, he carried out a nearly 40-year follow-up without regrets… The game between the police and the secret service spanned 40 years, and the fates of the two kept changing with the changes of the times.


Returning to shoot a period film this time, Feng Xiaogang bluntly stated that the most important points of the film are "people" and "texture", hoping to capture the rapid changes in Beijing in the past 40 years. Feng Xiaogang revealed at the scene that he and Wang Shuo bought the film adaptation rights of the project "Catch the Agent" more than 30 years ago. "I have always wanted to bring it to the screen. When the time is ripe today, the film industry can also support the film with this texture, and I am very happy to be able to put it on the agenda." In addition, Feng Xiaogang also explained that the title of the film is derived from the game he often played when he was a child – Catch the Agent, saying that "the name is very topical".


Lei Jiayin Hu Ge’s new character focuses on "entanglement"

The first cooperation with Feng Xiaogang is full of surprises


At the event, Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge made a surprise appearance in the form of a video, and the official announced that the two actors will star in the film. In the video, Lei Jiayin said that "this is a film with style and historical significance," and Hu Ge also said that "I am very happy to see such a story with texture and the atmosphere of the times being brought to the big screen."


It is worth mentioning that this is the first time for the two to cooperate with the director Feng Xiaogang, and it is also the first time for the "brothers and sisters" to partner. Talking about the reasons for the casting selection, Feng Xiaogang said: "The texture of these two people is very different, there is a contrast. The two characters in the film have been entangled for 40 years, and I think these two actors have a feeling of entanglement when put together." The role relationship of each other is mutually exclusive, what will the two play, and what kind of entanglement and fatalism will be presented, and I look forward to seeing the movie with the audience as soon as possible.


The movie "Catch the Agent" is directed by Feng Xiaogang, starring Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge. The movie is expected to be released nationwide in 2025.


Excellent film | Donkey’s Water: There is nothing perfect in the world.

            Special feature of 1905 film network  The first tour of the drama "Lvdeshui" began in June 2012. After the tour began, the writers of "Lvdeshui" made a seemingly crazy decision, and they would adjust the script of this drama after almost every performance. In 2016, "The Water of the Donkey" was performed more than 100 times, and the script was adjusted more than 100 times. After that, "The Water of the Donkey" was put on the big screen, with its unique drama style, and it was well received.



    Although comedy is marked in the introduction of the film, the film is a complete tragedy. All real tragedies must have three cores: conflict, resistance to fate and death. It is in this vein that the story of Donkey’s Water unfolds before our eyes.

    As a drama adapted from a film, "The Water of the Donkey" makes the plot of the whole film so compact that it is almost breathless by using the non-stop conflict. From the beginning of the plot, teachers in remote mountainous areas defrauded funds for "raising donkeys and fetching water", and the core conflict of the film "doing the wrong thing for a good purpose" began to ferment.

    The people gathered at the desk to discuss also have inevitable conflicts in personality setting. Among them, President Liu devoted himself to education, regardless of other rules, and played a "simple and honest person"; Zhou Tienan dared to love and hate, fearless of power, blindly following President Liu who was kind to him, and played a "reckless person"; Zhang Yiman’s simple and kind heart, longing for freedom from the inside out, played a "simple person"; Kuishan Pei was very skeptical, and he was good at seeing the essence from the phenomenon, and played a "rational person". The internal conflict of the four characters can be said to be the root of all subsequent conflicts.


 

    "Rebellion against Fate" begins in the middle of this film. In the background story about the main characters mentioned in the development of the plot, several people are teachers who have been tainted, but they are forced to gather here by reality. Perhaps fate has given people different directions, but people always can’t restrain their desire to resist in their hearts, which is the common commonality of drama characters. In this struggle against fate, the director didn’t mean to comfort the audience at all, and every rebel of fate was defeated.

 


The more rational people yearn for innocence, so Kuishan Pei’s love for Zhang Yiman is doomed. Behind Zhang Yiman’s promiscuity is her deep yearning for freedom, just like her theme song "I want you" and the poster of "Broken Blue Bridge" in her room. The love in Zhang Yiman’s heart can’t hold together. Only in this way can it last forever. When Zhang Yiman gave her life to keep the coppersmith, what Kuishan Pei lost was not the loyalty that Zhang Yiman never promised. Zhang Yiman’s sacrifice at this time was a symbol of her free destruction. The loss of innocence defeated Kuishan Pei’s reason, and he took the lead in despair.

    The only thing that can hurt simplicity is simplicity itself. What defeated Zhang Yiman was the coppersmith she tried her best to protect. The inexperienced coppersmith can’t understand the tenderness behind Zhang Yiman’s indifference. He will only instinctively hate from love, and this pure malice makes people shudder. The coppersmith cut off Zhang Yiman’s hair, but for girls who love cheongsam, hair is more important than life. When Zhang Yiman saw his strange self in the mirror again, all the beautiful illusions were shattered, and the simple fell into madness. She is still wearing a school uniform and holding flowers, but her longing for the future has died miserably.

    Zhou Tienan’s transformation is the simplest, and the reckless person who advocates force must yield to an opponent who is stronger than himself, such as a bullet that grazes his head. That too late to dodge a gun, the sudden death, all the courage of Zhou Tienan was killed on the spot, and the body that survived by luck was no longer publicized. After that day, Zhou Tienan said, "We can’t fight them. I have to go inside first so that I can get revenge!" This fantasy is not so much another form of resistance as self-consolation.



    The first official appearance of the "death" element in the film is in the second half of the film. Several people killed the donkey in the courtyard to eat meat. The donkey originally used to fetch water died at a dinner to celebrate the success of deception. This donkey is not just an ordinary animal, it represents the original wish of the characters in the play. At the beginning of the film, all the teachers’ actions are just to save the donkey that draws water, but when they kill the donkey to please the special correspondent, the original simple ideal has been shattered. The death at this time is not only the death of the donkey, but the complete destruction of good motives. This also symbolizes that the characters in the play have deviated from the original purpose and turned to another road.

    At the end of the film, Jia Jia embarked on a journey to other places, and the teachers of Sanmin Primary School gathered back in the classroom. President Liu said, "The past is the past, and now everything is fine." The film seems to be heading for a happy ending that the audience is familiar with. Although it is a little sad, such an outcome can often comfort the audience’s hearts that are not often tortured. Unfortunately, the director still didn’t mean to comfort the audience. With a gunshot from Zhang Yiman’s dormitory, the director brought an intuitive and profound death into the play at the last moment. The greatest feature of death is irretrievable, and a false and beautiful fantasy is hit with a bloody hole by a gunshot. The theme of this film is finally established: what you do wrong for a good purpose will eventually go astray.


 

    Director Zhou Shen said: "There is nothing perfect in the world, and" Donkey’s Water "is not perfect, but the stage is not an art of regret. We are changing while performing, and we are getting closer to perfection. " Perhaps the director’s inner intransigence is worthy of being boasted as "perfect". In this era of tragic decline, we can’t afford to worry about overcorrection.