The Peach Blossom Land as the third film of Yunnan New Film Project (YNFP) is
going to be shot this spring. Zhang Cheng, the popular screenwriter, who wrote
the Crazy Stone and the promising young director Huang Ruxiang will create a
black humor about the Peach Blossom Land.
The chief producer
the director and the screenwriter get interview in
Sina. |
Zhang, the screenwriter, says himself actually a serious person,
but he also enjoys different styles of films. According to Zhang, it's not so
easy to write this story. Because the essay of the Peach Blossom Land, wrote by
Tao Yuanming thousands of years ago, was too famous. The essay described a
perfect paradise in China and it has been rooted in Chinese for thousands of
years. Everyone holds his own feelings and images of the Peach Blossom Land, so
it is important for the screenwriter to find a special way to tell the story.
According to Zhang, the story will focus on the ordinary people in the
way of black humor. Some ridiculous people come to an unusual place and do some
ridiculous things. The idea of the story came from a kind of news when
discussing scripts with the producers. Zhang thought it very interesting and
wanted to add more to make an unabridged script. Now the frame of script and the
characters have been clear, and the vital thing is to enrich the character and
details through the Rationalism Accounting System.
The scenery of Peach
Blossom Land. |
Huang Ruxiang, the director of Peach Blossom Land, enjoys focusing
on the ordinary people too. Before the cooperation, Zhang has already watched
Huang's works which also represents an ordinary people's fate and full of the
flavor of black humor. Zhang thinks director Huang, different from the other
female directors who only prefer one kind of mood, and he believes the director
will have the strong ability to control the image and the mood.
Huang
Ruxiang, graduated from Beijing Film Academy majoring in Photography, was the
only female student in the class, since photography is not a suitable job for
female. She said she was too young to be afraid at that time. Now she thought
she was very lucky to join YNFP. She works very well with the screenwriter.
Huang thinks the script is very good and has the enough space for her to create
and she admits the difficulties are big too. Huang hopes to put some fresh
elements in the film and make it more interesting. She is looking for a way to
make a perfect match between the content and the form.
The film is going to be shot in Wenshan, Yunnan this spring. It has a very
mysterious place as the same as the scenes described in the essay thousands of
years ago. And the local people just call it the Peach Blossom Land.
