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Born in Shanghai on May 22nd, 1966;
In 1981, he was admitted to the Middle School Attached to Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts in China.
in 1985, he was admitted to the director department of Beijing Film Academy;
in 1991, it was assigned to Fujian Film Studio;
In 1993, he returned to Beijing to write, produce and direct his first independent film "Days of Winter and Spring", which won the grand prize in Italian and Greek film festivals, and was selected as one of the 1 best films in the centenary of the film by the British BBC in 1995, and Wang Xiaoshuai's fame as a director began.
In 21, the film "Seventeen-year-old Bike" was awarded and nominated at the Berlin Film Festival and the Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award. It was also selected as an art textbook for middle schools, and it was also a film for teaching reference by the Beijing Film Academy? These achievements made him the main figure among the sixth generation directors in China.
The films are Green Red, Left and Right, chongqing blues and Me 11.
? The film Green Red directed by Wang Xiaoshuai in 25 won the jury prize of Cannes International Film Festival and the best film prize of Turkish Golden Orange International Film Festival, and it is still one of the most famous works in Wang Xiaoshuai. In fact, for him personally, the meaning of Green Red is definitely more than just a movie?
green red? Wang Xiaoshuai's semi-youth is not red
Among the young and middle-aged directors in China at this stage, Wang Xiaoshuai is typical? Flowers in the wall and incense outside the wall? From the first film work written and directed by himself, Days in Winter and Spring, he won various international film festival awards from Berlin to Cannes, from Greece and Italy to the Netherlands and Germany, and almost every work of his has several weighty trophies standing behind him. Compared with such a famous reputation, Wang Xiaoshuai's career development in the mainland film industry is a little cramped, because most of his films are literary and nostalgic, and his style is very chronological, but in China, this kind of film is? Genre movies? The biggest problem is how to find the audience and recover the investment. Although in the film "Green Red",? Green red? It's just the name of the protagonist and a girl played by Gao Yuanyuan, but these two words also correspond to the situation in Wang Xiaoshuai at that time? A little awkward? Green? .
But "Green Red" brought Wang Xiaoshuai the first turning point in his career. The film was sought after and expected by many media and audiences after being selected for the Cannes Film Festival. At the screening conference before going abroad, even the aisles in the screening hall were full of people, and the warm scene surprised Wang Xiaoshuai himself. It has been 12 years since I made my own film for the first time, and it was not until 25 that my film got the first real audience in China. ? The filming of "Green Red" was not smooth, and it was almost always necessary to face the shortage of funds and find another investment. This situation continued until the filming was completed and the film was sent to the relevant domestic departments for review. ? "Green Red" is the first time that I released my work in China in a complete way, and the time to attend the exhibition in Cannes coincided with the centennial of China films. It can be said that this opportunity changed my destiny. ?
Moreover, for Wang Xiaoshuai personally, the meaning of Green Red is definitely not as simple as a movie, it is the first work completed in Wang Xiaoshuai's autobiographical trilogy. As early as ten years ago, he had finished the scripts of Green Red and Me 11. These stories were not in his memory, but engraved in his life.
? Left and Right, which won the Silver Bear Award for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival in 28, is a film adapted from a real news event by Wang Xiaoshuai. It tells the story of a divorced couple who reunited to save their sick child and gave birth to a new one under great pressure to save their old one. Behind the film, there is also producer and director Wang Xiaoshuai?
left and right? Wang Xiaoshuai's dilemma
For his films, Wang Xiaoshuai has always insisted on many things: he insists on a clean and simple style, and tries not to use background music to make the characters' language and movements more tense; He insisted on making movies according to his own thoughts; His films are all related to the fate and growth of the public, but the living environment of domestic films is too bad now. I really want to stick to myself, but the road is too difficult. ? Left-handed ideal, right-handed box office, the reality can not be satisfactory, Wang Xiaoshuai is really in a dilemma.
? I use the money I can buy two houses to buy a movie of my own and stay. I am not poor at all. I am the richest. ? In the propaganda of the film "I 11", Wang Xiaoshuai once said this, but who knows how much sadness and helplessness there are behind this tragic persistence? As independent filmmakers, the funds needed for filming, the operation of funds needed by propaganda film, the pressure of box office and the recognition of the audience? Wang Xiaoshuai walked his own cultural route while carrying it, and the pressure was palpable. It can be said that making films now is more concerned with the running-in and interaction between films and the market than whether they can win prizes internationally. The real establishment of China's film market still needs to wait. It is difficult for us to make hundreds of millions of productions like Hollywood now. They have a very strong marketing team and financial support, but these are places where our film market in China is still immature. ?
In 211, chongqing blues, which won Wang Xiaoshuai the annual director award of China Film Directors Association, was interpreted by the outside world as Wang Xiaoshuai's transformation from a literary film to a commercial film, because the film investment was huge, the script was full of commercial elements, and it also brought together high-quality stars such as * * * and Wang Xueyin. I don't think this is a commercial film, or a special commercial film. I also express my thoughts on the affection between father and son and my concern for the modern family situation. Moreover, I think genre films also need stars. Their strength and appeal will definitely help the film's publicity, of course, if funds allow. In "chongqing blues", * * * is free to participate, and her performance is excellent. ? Although the road of literary films in the domestic film industry is still bumpy, Wang Xiaoshuai still continues to pay attention to and discuss the topic of life with the audience in one excellent work after another with his persistence in film dreams.
Your 11-year-old is none of our business. ! ? In 212, Wang Xiaoshuai directed the film "I 11" because of a sentence from Zhou Libo? Tucao? There has been a surge in watching Weibo. In fact, in order to plan the filming and production of this film, Wang Xiaoshuai has spent all his savings, and has been unable to invest in publicity. Seeing this situation, his friend Zhou Libo directed and performed a small hype, making a guest appearance? Smash a field? To attract everyone's attention to "I 11".
I 11? Wang Xiaoshuai's 11-year-old
in Wang Xiaoshuai's works, there are more or less traces of his personal fate, even real events. I 11, which was released in May 212, is the second of Wang Xiaoshuai's autobiographical trilogy. It tells the story of the physical and mental growth of the second generation of children in families supporting the third-line construction in the 196s and 197s. The 11-year-old boy Wang Han in the film is almost the 11-year-old Wang Xiaoshuai in real life? In 1975, 11-year-old Wang Han witnessed together? Murder? Later, he had to bear the torment of his mind, and he learned about sex in the adult world in a hazy way, which made his body and mind begin to change quietly, and the hormones in his body collided with the repressive environment outside from time to time?