Hu Bo

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Character experience

Hu Bo was born in Jinan City, Shandong Province. In 2006, Hu Bo took the exam in Beijing and successfully got the professional certificate of the school he wanted to apply for, but he was not admitted because his score in the college entrance examination did not reach the score line. Later, he went back to his hometown and studied again for a year. In 2008, Hu Bo failed in the college entrance examination again, so he entered a junior college in Shandong Province. Due to the water shortage of courses and the lack of network in his dormitory, he started to watch movies all night in the Internet bar run by the school at 9 p.m., and played cards with his roommates after getting up in the afternoon. After less than a year in school, he chose to drop out of school and go back to school. During that time, he was admitted to Zhejiang Media College, and his parents advised him to go to school as soon as possible He went to school, but he just wanted to go to Beijing Film Academy. In 2010, after two consecutive years, Hu Bo, 22, finally entered the director department of Beijing Film Academy. During the University, Hu Bo filmed a short film about a donkey and a house in the village in the city near the school. Many local ruffians came to ask for the venue fee with machetes, while Hu Bo just squatted in the corner with his little book and wholeheartedly drew his sub mirror. In addition, in order to save a dying hedgehog, he kept it in the dormitory all winter. Because of the stench of wild hedgehog, he had many disputes with his roommate. When he was a senior, Hu Bo participated in the "graduation joint creation" (the selected graduation works could get more than 100000 yuan from the school), and applied for the funds of the Directing Department and the film and television technology department. As a result, both applications were passed. He submitted a total of six scripts, four of which were his favorite art films, but the other two commercial films of thriller and suspense type were finally selected; These two graduation works made some investment institutions pay attention to his talent. When the two sides discussed shooting suspense films, Hu Bo refused the invitation because the investor proposed to add sex drama. In 2014, Hu Bo began to publish his short stories on one and other platforms; in the same year, he also directed short films distant father and running at night. In February 2015, he won the best director award of the 5th kinkoala film festival for his short film distant father; in the same year, he created the novel bullfrog. In 2016, Hu Bo created the short story "big crack" and won the first prize of the 6th World Chinese film and Fiction Award in Taiwan. In the same year, Hu Bo took his script "golden wool" to participate in the venture capital meeting of the first Youth Film Festival. After the primary election and selection, he was finally shortlisted for the film plan and went to the first film festival to present proposals to nearly 100 investors After that, the project signed a contract with Dongchun film, and filmed under the title of "love when cherry blossoms are in full bloom"; in addition, he wrote and directed the short film "people in the well". in January 2017, his collection of short stories Da Xie was officially published; in February, his film love in Cherry Blossom began shooting, supervised by Wang Xiaoshuai, which is his first film; in July, Hu Bo went to Xining to participate in the master training camp of Hungarian director Bella Tarr; during this period, Hu Bo spent one day without funds and team In October, he published his first novel bullfrog. on February 23, 2018, his posthumous work "the elephant sitting on the ground" (formerly known as "love in Cherry Blossom", "golden wool") won the 68th Berlin International Film Festival biexi international film critic Award (Forum unit) and the best debut Special Mention Award; on October 1, his posthumous work "the elephant sitting on the ground" was shortlisted for the best feature film award of the 55th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award, and he won the first prize After winning the best new director award and the best adapted screenplay award, a group of literary works left by Hu Bo before his death were published as a collection of Ramo in the distance. On November 17, he won the best adapted screenplay award of the 55th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award.

Personal life

After graduating from University, Hu Qian moved to a residential area of Beijing near East Sixth Ring Road and lived with his girlfriend. He is crazy to write novels every day, which makes his income very unstable and he depends on his family to earn a living. Later, his girlfriend suddenly left him without giving a reason; after the film editing, Hu Bo tried to contact her again, but a few months later, the other side replied "disgusting or not disgusting", which hit him a lot. Hu Bo named himself Hu Qian, implying that he should always migrate like a migratory bird in writing. Besides keeping cats, he also likes to drink beer, but he seldom gets drunk. He smokes heavily in his creation, and the ashtray on the desk often overflows. In addition, unless he attends formal social occasions, he usually only wears black and white gray clothes. His long hair over the shoulder is either tied up with a rubber band or covered with a hairball baseball cap. On October 12, 2017, Hu Bo hanged himself in the stairwell of a residential building on the East Fifth Ring Road in Beijing. He was only 29 years old. On October 18, the farewell ceremony for Hu Bo's body was held at Babaoshan funeral home in Beijing.

Main works

literary works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Hu Bo is just like a scholar in ancient times. He is delicate and slightly melancholy. Although he is 189cm tall, he does not feel powerful. His skin is white and his white teeth are neat when he smiles. Hu Bo is very pure and disdains the secular part, but sometimes it gives people a feeling that he has nothing to do with other people and the world but himself (Beijing News, Shao Qingping). Hu Bo's writing exudes a charm and strangeness. When writing the novel bullfrog, we can see that his literary language is relatively rough; when writing big crack, there is a high change in his language texture. From the perspective of skills and personal style, his completion degree is very high, the extraction of language or image, and the whole expression degree is also very mature (Wang Xiaoshuai, water ghost, green demon review). in the movie elephant sitting on the ground, Hu Bo tracks the indifference, neglect, rejection and violence encountered by the characters with great compassion. It seems that these characters are several parts of himself, and uses the film to make a pessimistic inventory of the environment (Teresa vena comments). Hu Bo's written language is very fluent and provides an "immersion experience". He is a very gentle person. He doesn't talk much, but sometimes he has a funny and strange sense of humor. He is very polite and kind-hearted. Sometimes he is simple and naive. He has a childlike faith in the world, but this is so different and contradictory with his writing characteristics. The protagonists in Hu Bo's stories are always the depressed and frustrated little people who live at the bottom of the society. They are those who are insulted and damaged. There is endless despair between the lines, and the atmosphere of decadence makes people gasp. He is opposite to ordinary people, putting the malicious or dark side in his works, but he is gentle, shy and even sunny in his life. Hu Bo is a very frank person in the novel. His analysis or disclosure of himself is quite brave, which most people do not have. Hu Bo likes to express his point of view in his works. According to the tradition of literary creation, this seems not to be an advanced way of writing, but his outstanding point is that he can persuade readers to listen to his sad words, and reveal some dark places that people who are not honest and brave can not see and reach (comments by Wang Kangkang, Huang Liqun and Zhang Yueran).

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