When it comes to teacher Song Dandan's gossip, everyone pays more attention to the cooperation between Teacher Song Dandan and her ex-husband Yingda and the "flash marriage" with her current husband Zhao Yuji.
Everyone knows that when Teacher Song Dandan and Zhao Yuji remarried, Zhao Yuji already brought his daughter Zhao Ting, but everyone may not be familiar with and pay attention to this stepdaughter of Teacher Song Dandan, Zhao Ting .
Zhao Ting was born in Beijing. At the age of 15, she could hardly understand English and was sent to boarding school in the UK. Later, she moved to the United States to study, and finally studied film at the New York University Film School.
In 2015, Zhao Ting won the Golden Camera Award in the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival for her debut film "The Song My Brother Taught Me to Sing". Two years later, she brought the film "The Knight" to the Cannes Film Festival again, and this time she won the highest award "Artistic Film Award" in the director's fortnight .
After Zhao Ting won the award for "Knight", Song Dandan even congratulated on Weibo: "I thought the tuition was really expensive when I sent you away, but now that you are all promising, I feel that the money is really worth it."
As a "second-generation star", Zhao Ting has received far less attention than other "second-generation stars", but she is such a low-key new-generation director, and her works deserve more attention. So what we are going to talk about today is the Cannes award-winning film "The Knight" directed by Zhao Ting .
The story of "Knight" is very simple. As a young western cowboy, Brady has been very talented in horse training since he was a child. At the same time, he is also a rising star in the rodeo world.
However, during a competitive match, Brady was hit in the skull by a horse and was seriously injured. I thought it was normal for a cowboy to get injured while riding a horse, but what Brady didn't expect was the frequent spasms of his hands that made him unable to move because of the head injury.
Seeing that the people around him were still in a normal rodeo, Brady could only do something else and wait for his body to recover. At first, he worked as a salesman in a supermarket, and then he directly became a horse trainer to help others train horses.
In the process of training horses, Brady found the joy of riding again. He thought he would go on to the competitive arena after his injury healed, but he did not expect Brady's hand spasm to become more serious, and even Severe vomiting resulted in coma.
Brady, who was taken to the hospital, was told by the doctor: "The problem with your hand is called complex partial-onset epilepsy. The brain sends signals too fast, and the hand can't keep up, so it keeps holding it stiff. If you continue like this, Your epilepsy will get worse and worse, so you can no longer ride or compete ."
Brady, who was given an ultimatum by the doctor, was like a corpse, and even thought of suicide at one point (the director hinted).
Brady, who returned to work in the supermarket one day, ran into a fan of his own in the supermarket. The fan wanted to take a group photo, and Brady gladly accepted their request. Fans expressed the hope that Brady will get well soon to see him on horseback again. However, what fans don't know is that Brady can no longer ride a horse at this time.
Brady's favorite horse, "Apollo," has a broken leg and can no longer run. According to the American western cowboy custom, the horse that cannot run will be killed. Brady couldn't bear to pull the trigger and could only ask his father to come over. In the afterglow of the setting sun, Brady turned his back to his horse and heard his father's gunshots.
In the end, Brady finally figured out that God gave everyone a different mission. For horses, it was running on the grass, and for cowboys, their mission was riding. So Brady was ready to give it a go, ready to go into the arena with his harness ready. Brady's behavior is undoubtedly no different from suicide. Even his father, who tried his best to prevent him from going, was ultimately unable to stop Brady's progress.
Brady, who came to the arena, found that his father and sister actually came to the arena to cheer him on. Looking at his father and sister, Brady finally gave up the idea of playing and went home with his relatives. The movie also comes to an end here.
The director only spent 80,000 dollars in the whole process of shooting this film . What is the concept of 80,000 dollars? Take the recent "Jurassic World 2" as an example. The production cost of "Jurassic World 2" is 160 million US dollars, which is 2,000 times that of the film!
The story of this film is adapted from a true story , and most of the characters in the film are the prototypes in this true story who are playing themselves. In fact, it is not so easy to act as the self in the prototype of the story. First of all, you have to overcome the hurdle psychologically.
For example, in the movie "Rescue Mr. My", the director once considered letting the character prototype Wu Ruofu appear in his true colors, but later Wu Ruofu refused to play the male lead due to psychological difficulties.
Therefore, the character prototype in this film is willing to play himself in the film, which is already very powerful, and the performance of the character in the film is completely impeccable. Whether it's the actor's character movements, body language, facial expressions or lines, you can't even see the shadow of any amateur in it.
Adapting based on a true story and letting the prototype of the story play its true character in the movie also requires taking a lot of risks from the director's point of view. Such a movie is not easy to make. Even Clint Eastwood, one of the most powerful directors in the world, in this year's new film "15:17, Leaving Paris" is almost also based on a true story and starring the original characters, but in the end The film was not satisfactory in word of mouth.
The title of this film is called "Knight", and in the eyes of Westerners, the so-called knight must have the so-called "chivalry", and the most important thing in chivalry is "honor, heroism and sacrifice". For their cowboys, the rodeo is also about honor, heroism, and even injury and sacrifice. In the film, a friend of Brady said this: riding a horse is with pain.
The biggest feature of this film is the "anti-routine" ending. If this film is an ordinary commercial inspirational film, then after Brady's injury and encountering setbacks again and again, the ending will definitely be Brady and Brady. Didn't give up the game and was successful in the game.
There is a saying that the dream is full and the reality is very skinny . When your physical condition does not allow you to compete any more, it will be a tragic result to forcibly play the game.
We all still remember Liu Xiang at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Although he gave up the competition in the end, he still won the respect and applause of the Chinese people. Know that sometimes, giving up your dreams doesn't necessarily mean ruin, giving up may just be for a better start.
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By: The Horse That Eats Wheat
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