＂Mr. Tree＂ director Han Jie： I still owe Wang Baoqiang an actor.

《Hello！ Mr. Tree poster
　

　　　 The 14th Shanghai International Film Festival closed the night before, "Hello! Mr. Shu won the grand prize of the jury, and Han Jie, the director of the film, also won the best director award. After the closing ceremony, Han Jie accepted an exclusive interview with reporters. Although "Hello! Mr. Shu won two awards, but Wang Baoqiang failed to win the best actor, which was a great regret for Han Jie. He finally declared heroically: "I told Baoqiang that we will continue to cooperate next, and I will send Baoqiang another best actor."

It’s actually very painful during editing

　　　 Han Jie used to be the deputy director of Jia Zhangke’s films and films. In 2005, he filmed the first feature film Lai Xiaozi, which was produced by Jia Zhangke. When accepting the prize on stage, Han Jie joked, "Is it reliable? I am still young ",which became a highlight of the award ceremony the night before last.

　　　 Han Jie described his mood after winning the prize as "painful and happy", because Han Jie stayed in the editing room for a long time: "As a filmmaker, the most important thing is to put your love, spirit and emotion into the film. It will be a lot of pain to constantly think about various relationships and specific work every day, but if you have faith, you will keep doing it, so I have been insisting on it for such a long time.

The Change from "Kid" to "Sir"

　　　 Before Han Jie’s Lai Xiaozi, it was about cruel youth, while Hello! Mr. Tree is much milder. Han Jie thinks that on the one hand, he is getting older. "I think anyone will go through adolescence and maturity. When he was young, he was criticized, angry and opposed, and he looked at things in a soft way. Now it is different."

　　　 On the other hand, Han Jie also realized that when filming Lai Xiaozi, he used a kind of direct understanding and direct expression of emotion. "Looking back now, it will actually create an obstacle to communicate with the audience, because if you want to communicate with more audiences, you need basic ethics and abide by the moral bottom line. I was completely open at that time and didn’t think about communicating with the audience, so there were a lot of wild and hot-blooded things (in it). Now I think I can be more mature. "

Learn from Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen.

　　　 Han Jie said that he was writing Hello! Before the script of Mr. Shu, I read a lot of literary works, and finally chose the expression of magical realism: "In addition to writers such as Borges and Marquez, Lu Xun’s The True Story of Ah Q also helped me a lot, as well as Yang Zhengguang’s novel Lao Dan is a tree."

　　　 Jiang Wen’s previous directorial work was also labeled as magical realism, and Han Jie also admitted that both Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen had a lot of inspiration for themselves: "Zhang Yimou’s early years also touched me a lot. Jiang Wen has long said that movies, like wine, are intoxicating, "Hello! Mr. Tree is also very intoxicating. "

When I first saw the scenery, I was worried that I couldn’t shoot it.

　　　 《Hello！ Mr. Tree was filmed in the northeast. Han Jie recalled that when he first saw the scenery, he was actually "very worried and the road was very bad, especially after it snowed, where the accident rate was very high every day and it was too cold".

　　　 The crew takes more than an hour’s car from the county seat to the shooting place every day, and then takes two hours’ car back to the county seat after sunset. In many cases, even taking a bath will become a big problem for the crew. Han Jie asked to shoot in natural light, but the sunshine time there was basically between 8: 30 a.m. and 3: 00 p.m., and now he still has some palpitations: "It’s basically impossible to shoot after 3: 00, and sometimes when it snows, two or three cars collide when going out, so the day is ruined … …”

Tan Zhuo turned her dumb when her eyes could talk.

　　　 Tan Zhuo, the heroine of the film, once appeared in Lou Ye’s film "A Night Intoxicated by Spring Breeze". Han Jie’s evaluation is that "she doesn’t talk much, but her eyes can talk and show a lot of inner personality, so I captured her at that time". A year later, Han Jie finished the script and thought of Tan Zhuo for the first time. He said, "It happened that at this time, he received a phone call from Lao Jia (that is, producer Jia Zhangke). He also said that he liked Tan Zhuo’s performance very much, so he soon decided to talk about Tan Zhuo."

　　　 Coincidentally, Tan Zhuo is from Changchun, but unfortunately, she was arranged to play a mute in the film, so a pure Changchun accent was not needed at all.

Return Wang Baoqiang to be an actor.

　　　 Inviting Wang Baoqiang is equally simple. Han Jie’s script was handed over to Wang Baoqiang in the middle of writing. Wang Baoqiang liked it very much, so they started chatting and discussed the direction of the script. In order to play the role of "Mr. Tree", Wang Baoqiang lived in his hometown and his hometown in Han Jie for one month, and finally his face was completely black and his hands were covered with cocoons.

　　　 Although "Hello! Mr. Shu won two awards, but Wang Baoqiang failed to win the best actor, which was a great regret for Han Jie. He finally declared heroically: "I told Baoqiang that we will continue to cooperate next, and I will send Baoqiang another best actor."