Director Hu Mei introduced the film A Dream of Red Mansions.
1905 movie network news On March 18th, 2019, Hong Kong International Film and Television Exhibition was held in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. Director Hu Mei brought a brand-new film version of Dream of Red Mansions to the film promotion meeting of Fujian Pavilion, and made public the big data of film shooting for the first time. The film A Dream of Red Mansions brings together an elite team with both strength and feelings to interpret the classics from a new perspective. After ten years of preparation and final filming, director Hu Mei said that he wanted to create a "red chamber of youth": "The most important theme of A Dream of Red Mansions is long live youth." The film will be released in 2019.
The brand-new film version of A Dream of Red Mansions promotes Hu Mei’s ingenuity to create a "red chamber of youth"
On March 18th, 2019, Hong Kong International Film and Television Exhibition was held in Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. On the same day, director Hu Mei brought a brand-new film version of Dream of the Red Mansion to the Fujian Pavilion Film Promotion Conference, and made public a series of big shooting data of the movie Dream of the Red Mansion for the first time, comprehensively interpreting the behind-the-scenes work of the film from preparation to shooting completion. Since the film started the global sea election registration in September 2017, it has received the registration resumes of nearly 20,000 people. Director Hu Mei joked: "This data is somewhat’ moisture’ because some people even signed up for more than 100 times." In the end, with the unremitting efforts of more than ten staff members for three months, after the second sea election in various professional colleges across the country, a total of 300 people were selected to enter the second interview and 150 people participated in the audition. Finally, 80 people were able to participate in the professional system training for half a year before filming. At the promotion meeting, Hu Mei recalled that the training process was very emotional. She said: "Whether it is piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, tea art, etc., the training of ancient culture has completely changed these children. When I finally read their graduation report, I sat in the classroom with tears. And seeing their training success, I also have a bottom in my heart. "
At the promotion meeting, Hu Mei showed the design drawings of film art.
As a classic IP of the National People’s Congress, A Dream of Red Mansions has always attracted the attention and expectation of the public. This time, the Hu Mei version of the film A Dream of Red Mansions will interpret the classics from a brand-new perspective, presenting an unprecedented "red chamber of youth" for the audience. The film revolves around the four core keywords of "freshness and exquisiteness" to create the ultimate oriental aesthetic feast, and the new actors partner with the old drama bones to perform a new interpretation, which truly reproduces the youthful glimpse of the children of the Red Chamber. Hu Mei said: "A Dream of Red Mansions has a high literary status, and it is a mountain on our heads. This time, we have challenged the limit. At the same time, the film version of A Dream of Red Mansions has not been filmed for almost 30 years, and once A Dream of Red Mansions was a very hot topic in China movies. " When talking about the brand-new actors, Hu Mei said: "Almost all of them are new actors except Jia Mu, because the stories in the original book are all in their early teens, and the original book takes place in their young part, so the most important theme of A Dream of Red Mansions is Long Live Youth." Hu Mei hopes that through the film and television creative transformation of A Dream of Red Mansions, China’s classical masterpieces will be popularized, leading more contemporary young people to pay attention to understanding and inheriting China’s traditional culture, and at the same time looking forward to creating new cultural symbols that show contemporary China.
The strength and feelings of the elite team have both Hu Mei’s first film shooting big data.
The brand-new film version of Dream of Red Mansions has assembled an elite team with both strength and feelings, such as producer solon so, screenwriter He Yanjiang, visual director Zhao Xiaoding, photography director Zhao Xiaoshi, production designer Huo Tingxiao, modeling director Chen Tongxun, composer Ye Xiaogang, etc. In order to maximize the restoration of the magnificent scene architecture in the original Dream of Red Mansions, and present all kinds of descriptions of the fantastic beauty in the dreamland, the film art group has made more than 1,200 film art scene drawings before and after continuous scrutiny and attempts, including more than 200 scene concept renderings and more than 1,000 scene production drawings. In the design and production of props, more attention is paid to a series of detailed design, and more than 300 carefully drawn props design drawings have been carefully considered in terms of color matching and material selection, striving to integrate the unique exquisite oriental aesthetic art of the Red Chamber into every corner of the film.
Concept map of Yuan Fei’s mothering art in the movie A Dream of Red Mansions
At the same time, the film "Dream of Red Mansions" went to Beijing, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Tibet and other provinces and cities across the country for live shooting. In order to give the audience an excellent visual experience and create a real sense of substitution, the main creative team opened a total of 16,000 square meters of studios in the "first city in the world" in Xianghe County, Hebei Province to build the Rongning Second House, including five 3,000 square meters and one 1,000 square meters studios, and comprehensively recreated the houses and residences of a number of major characters such as Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Wang Xifeng. From the carving and coloring of the eaves and doorframes to the placement of the ink stone on the table in the house, they are all designed in combination with the personal characteristics of the characters, which is very elegant, which shows the professional intention of the creative team behind the film. Director Hu Mei lamented: "We have opened a 16,000-square-meter studio, and while the shed is being built, the scenery inside is also being built. The scenery is all set, and the door of the studio was set up the day before shooting. This huge project laid the foundation for our interior shooting. Our shooting used the most advanced 6K machine, and even now there is no 6K screening in the cinema. I also hope that the magical realism part of A Dream of Red Mansions can be presented on the big screen. "
Concept Map of Fantasy Art in the Movie Dream of Red Mansions
The film A Dream of Red Mansions was produced by Fujian Longtai Jinde Culture Media Co., Ltd., citic guoan Culture Media Co., Ltd., Alibaba Film Group Co., Ltd., Fujian Xinghe Equity Investment Co., Ltd., Shanghai Jinde Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Gankun Chineydy Culture Development Co., Ltd. and Beijing Maite Culture Development Co., Ltd., and was jointly produced by Dongtai Yichi Culture Media Co., Ltd., Sichuan Eying Investment Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Century Bingfeng Culture Media Co., Ltd. and Film Channel.
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