Chapter 240 "A Man Named Li Wen Decided to Die"

Liu Yifei stared blankly at Wu Yuan who suddenly jumped up and ran into the study room in the suite.

She hurriedly followed him into the study room and saw Wu Yuan opening his laptop and typing away on it.

She leaned over and saw a title.

"A man named Li Wen decided to die"

What a strange title

Continue to read on, Wu Yuan was listing the outline in an orderly manner.

"The male protagonist Li Wen is 59 years old, with a strange temper. He is always complaining about everything. He wanders around the community with unbreakable principles, daily routines and a temper that can get angry at any time. He is called the evil neighbor from hell behind his back."

"He patrols everywhere early in the morning every day, moving bicycles that are not parked in the grid, checking whether the garbage is classified according to regulations, complaining about whose lawn is not mowed, and cursing the stray cat that has lost its fur."

"After his wife died, he wanted to commit suicide to follow his deceased wife."

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

Liu Yifei's brows gradually frowned.

After a rough look, it seems to be a very plain and a little strange story.

But she doesn't believe that her boyfriend will write a bad script.

Read it carefully a few more times, it seems to have caught some taste, but it is not clear.

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

Wu Yuan continued typing while casually replying: "Yes, it's an art film, I plan to use it to win awards."

"A Man Called Ove Decides to Die", this is a movie with a strange name, but Wu Yuan was deeply impressed.

This is a Swedish movie, which was released in Sweden on December 25, 2015.

This is actually a movie adapted from a novel.

The original novel was a global bestseller after it was published, and the adapted movie of the same name also set a box office record in Sweden in 45 years. The movie of the same name has a Douban score of 8.8, and the book has a Douban score of 9.0.

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

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

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

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

Even more unfortunate is that the company where he had worked faithfully for 43 years ruthlessly fired him, and the community where he had lived for decades was full of unruly people, and people also avoided him.

It seemed that the world had nothing to do with him anymore, no one needed him, and he was surrounded by loneliness and despair without his wife.

So Ove put on his suit and covered the floor with film, because he was afraid that the real estate bros would step on his floor after his death. He took out the drill, measured the size, and drilled 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 impulsive behavior.

The new neighbor bumped into his flower bed and asked his daughter to bring him food. Later, he treated him as a driver and asked him to take him to the hospital and pick up his children.

Anita next door, Jimmy, the boy from the same block, the lazy cat, the two little girls from Parvana's family, the two gay men in the bar, the reporter who wanted to interview him, they all annoyed Ove, and they always came uninvited.

Hanging, lying on the railway tracks, shooting the temple with a gun, inhaling carbon monoxide in the car, every time Ove was ready to commit suicide, there were always various people and things that came to him and needed his help, interrupting his suicide and making him delay his suicide again and again.

In order to help others, he could only say sorry to his wife again and again, I'm not dead yet.

Although the name of the movie is heavy, the plot is light, especially the plot that Ove wanted to die but was always destroyed, which is very humorous.

The first time he wanted to die, his neighbor broke the flower bed and had to help him reverse the car.

The second time he wanted to die, he took a ruler to find the center of the ceiling and planned to nail a nail to hang himself, but the neighbor came to borrow a ladder.

The third time he wanted to hang himself, the rope broke, so he turned around and picked up the tools to help his neighbors Anita and Rooney fix the heater.

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

The fifth time he tried to lie on the railway tracks, but he saved a person.

The sixth time he tried to commit suicide with a shotgun, but someone came to stay with him.

Countless failed suicides are destined to be unable to escape the gentle world.

Ove was always interrupted on his way to death, but he couldn't help but help those who came for help, helping 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. His heart slowly tried to get out of his self-enclosure and connect with society.

Ove used his sharp tongue and soft heart to gain a daughter, a son-in-law, two granddaughters and a grandson, allowing him to experience a different kind of warmth in the last days of his life.

At the end of the movie, Ove still died.

But it was not because of suicide. In the same long winter of the next year, Ove passed away peacefully in his sleep.

Before he died, he understood a truth.

Even when you are lonely, the world is gentle. If you cannot die, live actively and hard.

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

This is also what this movie wants to tell the audience.

It is said that the old people have strange tempers. In fact, their tempers are strange because they are too lonely. Most of the old people nowadays are lonely.

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

Don't wait until your loved ones are gone before you regret it.

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

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

This movie was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award in 2017. It was just that when it was released, the director did not consider going to the European Three Majors at all, and did not sign up for the European Three Majors. It was a pity.

Wu Yuan planned to shoot this movie and take it to Venice for a try.

This kind of film with a warm atmosphere and a discussion of the big topic of "life" is still very popular at European film festivals.

A Japanese director who has won many European film festival awards, including the Palme d'Or, Hirokazu Koreeda, mainly shoots Japanese-style warm films, revolving around family, parents and children, and has won many awards.

The style of the film "A Man Called Ove Decides to Die" is similar to Wu Yuan's previous films "Departures" and "Love", both of which take a warm route and explore the eternal topic of "life".

As long as the content is localized and modified, with the impression of the first two works as a foundation, Wu Yuan may really compete for the Golden Lion Award this time.

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

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

This time he must go all out.

The male lead is called Li Wen. Find a domestic actor over 50 years old with superb acting skills, and then add a few veteran actors to the cast. This movie can be made!

Moreover, the time background of this movie is in winter, so it can be shot this winter and in time for the Venice International Film Festival next summer!

OK!

Wu Yuan did not sleep at all. He stayed in the study all night to perfect the script of this movie, and changed some places with obvious Nordic style to Chinese localization.

For example, Ovi was the chairman of the community residents' association, and changed it to the director of the neighborhood committee with Chinese characteristics.

The plot that Ovi and his old friend talked about cars and never talked to each other because of different preferences for car brands was changed to the two of them getting angry because they supported different football teams.

Chinese people don't have much car brand complex, and Chinese old people at this age are even less likely to have any favorite cars.

But football is different. In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a football craze in China. At that time, Chinese football was also very powerful. It was a strong team in Asia and did have a large number of loyal fans.

In short, Wu Yuan tried his best to change the habits and styles of the Nordic people in the original movie to the Chinese direction.

Fortunately, these things themselves do not affect the main story of the movie, so it is harmless even if they are changed.

In this way, he continued to shoot "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" while staying up late to write the script. He had dark circles under his eyes for a whole week before he wrote the first draft.

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

Liu Yifei, who has been watching Wu Yuan staying up late to write the script, was heartbroken.

On the other hand, when Wu Yuan was busy shooting "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and writing the script in the United States, the new movie of Light and Shadow Era was also released in the mainland in a low-key manner.

The one released was "Whom Should I Give My First Kiss to", an experimental film by Han Yan.

The story tells that the 22-year-old male protagonist Luo Jia suddenly decided to give his first kiss before his 23rd birthday.

In the process of giving his first kiss, he met nine girls and had nine emotional stories with them.

Why is it called a test film? Because this movie is called a movie, but it is actually composed of nine unit stories.

Each story corresponds to a girl that Luo Jia met.

In the big framework of the whole story, nine short films with different characteristics are used to form a complete story.

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

Gong Li's "God of Love" in 2004 is a movie 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 in many movies in the world.

However, none of them has achieved good results. This road has not been taken by anyone. All directors who shoot this type of work are still in the stage of exploration.

Therefore, this type of movie is also regarded as a test film.

Li Xiaoping is not optimistic about the box office performance of this movie, so she did not spend a lot of money on publicity like "Whose Youth Is Not Confused", but only distributed posters and posted them in theaters everywhere.

Naturally, the fact that Han Yan is an unknown director and the subject matter of the experimental film also make this film lack competitiveness and appeal.

On the day of its premiere, "Whom Did I Give My First Kiss To" only earned 500,000 yuan in the premiere box office, which was quite poor.

At the first moment, many voices mocked the era of light and shadow.

Wu Yuan, who has always had a good vision and made a hit movie, finally failed!

Countless people and companies in the circle who watched the excitement felt relieved!

You, Wu Yuan, also had failed investments and failed movies!