Sun Shupei

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Directing works

Martial arts guidance

1981 owl movie

Investing in movies

2011 the last time to say goodbye

Personal experience

Sun Shupei was not a professional director. When he first entered the literary and art circle, he was a Peking Opera actor. When he met the audience, he was painted a few "tiles" on his face or painted blood red. He was dancing a bronze hammer or a big knife in his hand. At the critical moment, he had to turn a few somersaults. Later, when the crew saw that he had two talents, they asked him to run the Dragon suit and make doubles for some actors. The face belongs to those famous actors, and he is the one who is beaten. Later, Sun became familiar with the crew, began to do some martial arts action design, and gradually promoted to martial arts director. Later, he began to stand in front of the camera and yell "start -".

Sun Shupei has made hundreds of episodes since he first called such a command. Most of them are historical dramas, while some are urban dramas and fashion dramas. Two years ago, sun Shupei wanted to make greater progress. He ran away from home and went to the mainland to direct films. He became a "wandering director" who lived where he filmed.

In addition to his unique perception and skillful "guiding skills", sun Shupei's greatest characteristic is that he likes and is good at cultivating new people. This is also the reason why there have been no more popular actors in Taiwan since Qin and Han Dynasties, Qin Xianglin, Lin Qingxia and Lin Fengjiao. "One of the important reasons why Taiwan's current stars are out of business is that there are too few opportunities for new actors. In those years, most of the popular actors were filming, and young people were not easy to come out because they lacked the opportunity to exercise. So when I was filming, I paid attention to giving young actors opportunities. "

As for the choice of actors, sun Shupei doesn't know whether he is an actor or an actor. He thinks that as long as he is close to the role, he can say, "first of all, I'll see if your image, temperament and performance can be unified with the characters you want to play. If you can't unify, then you're not famous.

"At most, there are dozens or even nearly a hundred." Sun Shupei said: "our filming is not the same as that in the mainland. Some actors in the mainland like to say one thing, but it's not the best. Is it in line with the plot requirements? Sometimes we shoot dozens of films, just to shoot the best performance of the actors, so that we can have a good look. So sometimes I take one shot in the afternoon until I think it's OK. For example, when shooting huanzhu gege, there was a scene where a well-known young actor shed tears. After shooting all afternoon, he couldn't shed tears? What should I do? You can't be in a hurry or scold her. Maybe you can scold her in tears, but it doesn't match the plot. So we waited patiently until we finally brewed out our feelings and finished shooting. Like Zhao Wei, Lin Xinru and Fan Bingbing, there were times when Qiongyao had to change actors. She felt that she couldn't do it. I insisted on not changing them, and finally she came out. Although some of them later said that I wanted to change actors, that was what they said. In fact, it was Qiongyao who wanted to change actors at that time, and I insisted on it. As I said earlier, we can't get young actors because we don't give them many opportunities. Many people are looking for old faces in filming, so I want to try to find out if we can train young actors through our efforts. "

No matter what the artistic achievement of huanzhu gege is, its influence is obvious to all. No matter whether Zhao Wei is liked and recognized by more people or not, no matter where she goes, she is strict inside and outside. Sun Shupei didn't want to take Zhao Wei's popularity as his own credit. He said: "I think Zhao Wei's influence today is not the result of my own efforts. Film and television is a comprehensive art, because of the script, the director and my own efforts. I think she can come out because of various reasons. At that time, I didn't think about who I would train to be a popular actor. I just tried to show it accurately and artistically according to the requirements of the script and through the performance of the actors. Let's see, the play is good. Of course, as long as you can work hard, if the play can cause repercussions after it is broadcast, the popularity of the actors in the play will naturally go up. ".

When talking about the general idea of the role of little swallow, sun Shupei's statement has some meaning: "generally speaking, it's monkey playing. According to the monkey king, I designed some body movements for the swallow, including eyes, such as sitting on the table, eating and throwing things. Basically, it's Monkey Sun's movements, and it's a little exaggerated. Our audience all like monkey king. Little swallow and monkey king have similarities, so I think you will also accept such actions and performances. As a result, after the broadcast, the audience really liked it and didn't say how it looked like the monkey king. In fact, the swallow is sometimes a monkey king.

Personal achievement

A few years ago, taiwan director Sun Shupei and others directed the first and second films of Qiong Yao's play huanzhu gege, which was once popular in Chinese circles at home and abroad. In 2004, another "gege opera" directed by sun Shupei, thirteen gege, was being broadcast on Beijing TV station and was once again welcomed by the audience.

At present, sun Shupei is basically filming in the mainland, and only goes back to Taiwan to visit his relatives during the Spring Festival. In 2003, he completed two TV series "really don't want to go" and "girl president" in the mainland. He said that the next play is still a comedy that he is good at shooting in the mainland.

Directing style

Sun Shupei does not deny that his plays are more entertainment oriented, but he says that his plays must be made to make people like them and capture the audience's attention. This requires that the content of TV plays "evolve according to the social context". Since he is a director, he also has a minimum sense of responsibility and "no nonsense". There is also a certain historical basis for shisan gege, which tells the story of gege returning from studying abroad and bringing western science, culture and customs to the court. When preparing for the shooting, shortly after China's entry into the WTO, the public generally had a higher sense of identity and enthusiasm for the combination of Chinese and Western culture. At the same time, they were more interested in the westernization movement more than 100 years ago and the eastward spread of western culture. "Taking this period of history as the background, with a novel idea, we can excavate and compile the collision friction and" cold humor "stories between western culture and the closed imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty, the study abroad Ge Ge Ge Ge Ge and princes and ministers, so that we can have a more profound thirteen Ge Ge, which is completely different from huanzhu Ge Ge Ge Ge Ge Ge."

You can't help but compare "Thirteen gege" with the first and second parts of "huanzhu gege" and the third part of "huanzhu gege" directed by others later. Sun stressed, "compared with five or six years ago, now I will naturally make progress in shooting techniques, camera language and actor communication. At that time, there were many deficiencies that can be made up for now." He also said that the new work has changed Qiongyao's style of "crying, shouting" and that the performance of the actors is not so exaggerated. He revealed that "shisan gege" was actually shot before the third film of "huanzhu gege". He did not expect that the two plays would be broadcast at the same time and compete with each other on some TV stations in the mainland. He also doesn't think that the popularity of the third huanzhu gege movie is not as good as the first two movies, which means that "gege opera" has fallen into the tide, "as long as the content of this kind of drama is good, it will still have its own space.".

Sun also compared Zhao Wei, who is popular in huanzhu gege, with Li Xiaolu, who plays the heroine in shisan gege. He said that Zhao Wei was still a newcomer at that time, so at the beginning of shooting, she needed guidance and "broke off" her. She was a bit tired, but also because she was intelligent and wanted to take the lead, she achieved success. When Li Xiaolu filmed the play, she already had a certain popularity, and she was very smart and hardworking. But Sun Dao asserted: "Li Xiaolu's performance of huanzhu gege is not necessarily as good as Zhao Wei's, and Zhao Wei's performance of thirteen gege is not as good as Li Xiaolu's".

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