Jin Feiyao, an actor from the mainland of China, graduated from China Theatre Academy and has appeared in many TV series such as The Beautiful Times of Daughter-in-law.
Father Yuan once had a dream.
Jin Feiyao said that the idea of filming his father was born after learning that his father had a sudden lung cancer. When he learned the news, his mind was blinded. In his mind, although his father is slightly thin, he is healthy and strong and rarely gets sick. When Jin Feiyao hurried back to Qingdao and saw his father lying in the hospital bed, his heart was pricked. My father, who has always been optimistic, humorous and energetic, is dying at the moment.
Just one month after his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Jin Feiyao quietly took his father to Beijing to let him experience the life of this bustling metropolis as much as possible. Jin Fei Yao took his father to the city to play video games, to the billiards hall to play billiards, and accompanied his father to visit Beijing by subway. He also went to Tiananmen with his father to watch the flag-raising ceremony. These ordinary experiences in daily life are the first time for my father, but they may also be the last time.
One night, Jin Feiyao, who was filming in the suburbs, suddenly received a phone call from his girlfriend saying that his father had vomited blood. Jin Feiyao decided to make a film for his father and fulfill his acting dream in order to make up for the regret that he didn't care enough about his father after years of work.
Jin Feiyao knew that his father had always liked Peking Opera and loved performing, and his greatest wish at ordinary times was to act in a movie. This is also one of the important reasons why his father wants to send him to the Opera Academy. Jin Feiyao decided to let his father play the leading role in a film, and at the same time let this film record his last time before his death.
It took him only three days to write a script of more than 30 thousand words. Jin Feiyao wrote down and recalled the good times of living with his father since childhood. When writing emotions, he can't help crying. Yao Jinfei decided to name the film Me and My Father.
It's hard to make a movie.
2010 65438+At the beginning of February, after the script was written, the biggest problem Jin Feiyao had to face was money! My father spent all his savings in hospital, and he needed huge treatment fees later.
When Jin Feiyao accompanied his father to see a doctor in Qingdao, he occasionally made a guest appearance in a friend's play to earn as much life-saving money as possible for his father. For Jin Feiyao, who usually spends a lot of money, I really realize the importance of money now. Sometimes in order to save money, he doesn't eat breakfast. When he is really hungry at two or three in the afternoon, he eats some steamed buns with boiling water to satisfy his hunger.
In addition to financial pressure, actors, shooting equipment, scenes, crews, post-production and other issues are always tormenting Jin Feiyao. As a professional actor, Jin Feiyao knows very well that filming is a systematic project, which requires the coordination of people from various professions and departments, and finally it is possible to succeed. At that time, he had nothing but scripts. Later, I met a kind-hearted business owner on the Internet and got a Canon camera as a shooting tool.
There is another problem that Jin Feiyao has to face, and that is the question from the outside world. Some people have heard that Jin Feiyao is going to make a film for his father suffering from cancer, questioning his self-hype. Especially when the story of Jin Feiyao making a film for his terminally ill father was widely reported by the news media, this doubt was pushed to the peak.
Jin Feiyao is very calm about all kinds of questions from the outside world. He feels that since he chooses to do extraordinary things, he will bear the pressure of "extraordinary".
Filial piety to the end
By chance, my friend, who is a host in Qingdao TV Station, learned about it and hoped to make a program for the father and son. But Jin Feiyao flatly refused.
He doesn't want to make a "hype" for his father's film, because he is afraid it will cause unnecessary harm to his father. However, as the shooting became more and more difficult and his father's condition deteriorated, he gradually found that he could not do it. Jin Feiyao realized that he could no longer fight alone and had to seek help from the society.
A week after the program was broadcast on Qingdao TV, the story of Jin Fei Yao and his father was also broadcast on CCTV's "* * *" program. Then, Beijing Satellite TV "Very Upward" and other online media reported on it. The story of Yao Jinfei making a movie for his terminally ill father once became sensational news.
Just when Jin Feiyao was at a loss, a medical technology institution in Beijing found him and offered to help him finish filming, and promised to give his father free treatment.
On May 20110, Jin Feiyao held a press conference in Beijing to announce the filming of My Father. The title of the film was changed from "My Father and I" to "My Father", and the script was also revised on a large scale, deleting many scenes from the 1980s, because the existing funds and personnel could not complete the shooting task in the original script at all. It took Yao Jinfei only four days to make all the preparations, including preparing the scene, recruiting extras and forming a crew ... In Jin Feiyao's words, "this is a race against life".
"Without the help of these ordinary people, I don't think I can persist even by myself," Jin Feiyao said emotionally. "There are college students, strangers, restaurant owners who provide venues for free, and some friends in the circle who have heard the news ... these people come to help for free. If they are hungry, they will have lunch with us, and sometimes they even have to pay for transportation. In particular, an aunt in Langfang called me several times to express her support. Finally, she insisted on donating her savings of 10000 yuan to me, saying that she would do a filial piety for her son and parents all over the world ... "
The Last Gift
20 1 1 ended, and my father finally finished filming. Except for editing, audio and color matching, professionals need to deal with it. All the other things that can be done by themselves are done by Jin Fei Yao himself. All the subtitles in the film were added word by word by Jin Feiyao.
Originally, Jin Feiyao was going to give his father a decent premiere at the cinema. Even if the scene was not so grand, at least he could feel the feeling of being the protagonist of a movie. Regrettably, Jin Feiyao did not realize his father's wish.
20 12 in may, after the film was finished, my father proposed to go back to his hometown in Linyi. At this moment, Jin Feiyao suddenly had a new idea. Since the premiere can't be held in the cinema, it is necessary to hold an open-air movie premiere in front of fellow villagers. The open-air square stage was my father's favorite place when he was young, and it would be more meaningful to hold his own movie premiere there.
On June 12 and 17, "My Father" premiered in Youku.com, with more than 65,438+million hits that day. Many netizens were moved to tears and reprinted or commented one after another to express their blessings and respects to Yao and his son.
During the filming, Yao's father's cancer cells had spread to the left and right lungs and lymph nodes, and the doctor once predicted that his father's life would not exceed 5 months at most. But for this movie, Yao's father only survived. Dad Yao also created a miracle of life because of this movie.
Perhaps, we will love our parents as deeply as Jin Feiyao, but we will hide this love in our hearts for various reasons and wait for the right time or way to express it. But Jin Fei Yao told us with his story: Love can't wait, because in the end, maybe that expectation will become a lifelong regret.
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