"Love for Life" is co-produced by Star Beauty Media Group Co., LTD., Xinglong Film Company, etc.
Gu Changwei
Directed by Yan Laosh, written by Yang Weiwei and Gu Changwei.
Zhang Ziyi
Aaron Kwok starred in the film.
Jiang Wenli
,
Wang Baoqiang
,
CAI Guoqing
The film was released in China on May 10, 2011
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The film follows
Yan Lianke
The novel of the same name
Ding Zhuangmeng
"Is based on the Gu Changwei era trilogy followed by"
Peacock
""
Beginning of Spring
After the last one, tells the story of a small village because of a sudden evil disease and was disrupted by the peaceful life, the male and female protagonists of terminal illness from the pity, dependence to love the story
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In 2011, the film won the Top Ten Domestic Films of the Year, the Best Director Award and the Best Actress Award at the 20th Shanghai Film Critics Awards
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And Youku Film Festival 2011 summer inventory of best film awards, best actor awards, best actress awards
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. In 2012, he won the Best Director Award at the 19th Beijing College Student Film Festival
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. As of May 20, 2024, the film has grossed $8.256 million worldwide
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- Chinese name
- favorite
- Foreign name
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Love For Life
Life Is A Miracle
Till Death Do Us Part
Mo Shu Shi Dai [28] - Other translated names
- The Magic Legend , Sinful love , Magic age [28]
- Generic type
- Love, ethics, literature, drama [26]
- Producing company
- Star Media Group Co., LTD., Xinglong Film Company [5] (etc.)
- Production area
- Chinese mainland [26]
- Issuing company
- Anle (Beijing) Film Distribution Co., LTD., China Film Group Corporation [5] (etc.)
- Direct performance
- Gu Changwei
- dramatize
- Yan Laosh , Yang Weiwei , Gu Changwei
- Producer
- Gu Changwei
- Producer
- Chen Xiaodong [5]
- Main performance
- Zhang Ziyi , Aaron Kwok , Tao Zeru , Pu Cunxin , Sun Haiying , Jiang Wenli , Wang Baoqiang , CAI Guoqing [5]
- Film length
- 105 minutes [22]
- Release time
- May 10, 2011
- Ticket office
- $8.256 million (as of May 21, 2024)
- Dialogue language
- Mandarin [26]
- chroma
- Chroma [26]
- imdb coding
- tt1664704 [27]
- Major awards
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Top 10 Domestic Films, Best Director and Best Actress of the 20th Shanghai Film Critics Awards
Youku Film Festival 2011 summer inventory of best film awards, best actor awards, best actress awards
The 19th Beijing College Student Film Festival Best Director Award
In a small closed village in China until the mid-1990s, human blood smuggling was rife. It was a business with no end in itself, but at the same time it caused a large number of terminally ill "fever" to spread because the blood-selling organizers saved money by sharing needles. The people who organized the blood selling here were called "blood heads", and they kept earning money from life and the dark trade. Ever since the village had the fever (HIV), all life has been different, some crazy big mouth
(Wang Baoqiang)
All day long, with a broken horn, they shouted, "There's a new medicine for the fever!" The originally harmonious family was torn apart by the fever, and many people died.
There was a teacher in the village. Everyone called him "Old Juju."
(Tao Zeru acted the role of)
His eldest son's name is Zhao Quanzhen
(Pu Cunxin)
It is the famous blood head in the village, because of the epidemic of fever, some people think that it is complete to do blood trading brought disaster, there are villagers in retaliation for complete, dark poisoning died of the old pillar home chicken, poisoned his dog, but also with toxic tomatoes poisoned the complete son of Xiao Xin
(Hu Zetao)
For this reason, the old pillar pillar both sad and helpless to his grandson died. Old pillar pillar still want to do something for the village, so the village abandoned Niangniangmiao primary school into a concentration camp for patients, for everyone to take care of each other, old pillar pillar himself also moved into. Old column column of the second son Zhao
(Aaron Kwok)
Originally also in the brother's so-called blood trade business, but also contracted a fever, his wife Hao Yan
(Li Danyang)
To its distance, even dare not hold a hand with him, proud also with the old pillar moved into the school. Old Zhu Zhu nephew Hai
(CAI Guoqing)
His daughter-in-law Jean Jean
(Zhang Ziyi)
Because I want to buy a bottle of shampoo to sell blood, but also caught a fever, also had to leave Xiaohai moved into the school this patient concentration camp. Anyway, this is everybody's new home.
In this school camp, everyone shared a room and a bowl of rice, and a seemingly harmonious life began. Unexpectedly, a series of bizarre theft cases suddenly occurred. First four rounds of acting mayor
(Sun Hae-young)
Lost the official seal of the village, and then inexplicably lost the rice - stolen by the Liang house responsible for cooking for everyone
(Jiang Wenli)
He even lost his cotton-padded jacket. After a few toss, one after another found the lost things. People are still dying in the village and at the school. When the fever spread through the village and took their lives, they also exposed their deep-rooted bad habits, stealing, looting, fighting for power, and short-sightedness. Proud with Qin Qin because of the theft case gradually produced feelings, plus the other half of each other have abandoned their own, two people decided to be together. However, this relationship is very bumpy, ethics are not allowed, the village laughed at. However, after many hardships and hardships, the two people finally divorced with the original spouse and got together with each other, going door to door to send candy and report good news, but behind the happiness, they could not escape the death brought by the fever. On the night of the illness, Qin Qin immersed her body in cold water to cool down, and the fever, which had not been good, became more severe. The next morning, after he woke up, he still waved and called Qin Qin, but Qin Qin had gone, Qin Qin put their marriage certificate on the side of his head. Heartbroken proud to swing the sickle cut to his own thigh, blood has been out of the door
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- Zhang Ziyi 饰 shangqin
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- Aaron Kwok 饰 Zhao Zhiyi
- DUB Chen Hao
- Jiang Wenli 饰 grain-woman
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- Sun Haiying 饰 Village chief
- DUB-
- Wang Baoqiang 饰 Big mouth
- DUB-
- CAI Guoqing 饰 Zhao Xiaohai
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- Li Jianhua 饰 Old knot
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- Li Danyang 饰 Hao Yan
- DUB-
- Hu Zetao 饰 Zhao Xiaoxin
- DUB-
- Guo Yongzhang 饰 A surname
- DUB-
- Jiang Wen 饰 trainman
- DUB-
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| producer | Qin Hong,Bill Kong,mahe,Zhang Qiang,He Bing |
| Production MANAGER: | Qin Hong, Jiang Zhiqiang, Zhang Qiang, He Bing, Gu Changwei, Zhang Jinzhan, Gu Changning |
| Supervise the production of | Xu Jianhai, Yu Xiaofeng, Yuan Xin |
| Original work | Yan Lianke |
| director | Gu Changwei |
| WRITER | Yang Weiwei,Yan Laosh,Gu Changwei |
| shoot | Yang Tao, Du Kefeng |
| Background music | Zuo Xiao Zu Mantra |
| montage | Li Dianshi |
| Art design | Wang Weiyuan, Han Dahai |
| Recorded AT | Gu Changning |
Credits Reference source
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shangqin
ACTORS
Zhang Ziyi
DUB
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Shang Qinqin had to leave her husband and move into an abandoned Niangniangmiao primary school where the sick were taken in because of a fever. Qin Qin and Zhao Zhi because of the theft case gradually produced feelings, plus the other half of each other have abandoned their own, two people decided to be together, then Shang Qin Qin because of fever and died.
Zhao Zhiyi
ACTORS
Aaron Kwok
DUB
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Zhao is a very ordinary person, a little clever, a little selfish. Zhao is proud of no brother's desire to influence, his life is very simple, on the roof he can reach into the sweater of Shang Qin Qin, and Shang Qin Qin in no one's mountaintop wild and, into the warehouse to steal joy, after being caught adultery can also say to everyone. Because love gave him courage, he became a man of the sky.
Zhao Qiancheng
ACTORS
Pu Cunxin
DUB
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Zhao is the source of all evil. In order to get rich, he made an illegal "blood head", organized an underground blood sale, and infected many people in the village with "fever". Zhao's insatiable greed brought great disaster to the whole village.
grain-woman
ACTORS
Jiang Wenli
DUB
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She was responsible for cooking for everyone in the village, and she was isolated from everyone in the school after contracting "fever". In her, she had both the selfishness and vanity of a small person, and the diligence and tenacity of a traditional Chinese woman.
Village chief
ACTORS
Sun Haiying
DUB
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The village where the village chief is located is a closed village, when the fever began to take the lives of the villagers, everyone exposed the hidden nature of the heart, the village chief is also constantly involved in the vortex of bizarre events, the heart is full of contradictions and struggles.
Big mouth
ACTORS
Wang Baoqiang
DUB
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Big Mouth is stupid, always acting crazy. Every day, he ran wildly from street to street in the village, Shouting loudly to the villagers, which was the most common way for him to communicate with the villagers, and also the most important way for the news of various disasters in the village to spread.
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Theme song
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Jin Peida
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Xiao Mei
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Allan Lau
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The film was shot on honey-rich locations, and Zhang Ziyi suffered a bee sting on her arm during filming.
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Aaron Kwok said with a smile, the first day into the group thought Tao teacher play his brother, but also very active to say hello to him, Tao teacher also promised. The next day changed the shape, just know Tao teacher is to play his father.
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Director Gu Changwei, in order to highlight the love entanglements in the film, added a love scene between Zhang Ziyi and Aaron Kwok after the shooting.
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Gu Changwei said the film friendship guest directors, his most sorry is Feng Xiaogang, originally Feng Xiaogang played a traffic supervisor, the result was finally because of the film length problem to all removed.
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Aaron Kwok, a Hong Kong star, subverts his previous image in "Love for Life," playing an authentic Shaanxi farmer.
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Kwok used the northern Shaanxi dialect throughout the film, and he said that in order to learn the northern Shaanxi dialect, he spent two months before and after.
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The director wanted Aaron Kwok to be thinner, and Aaron Kwok began to lose weight in advance. During the shooting, Aaron Kwok ate one meal a day, did not eat in the morning, did not eat at noon, ate one dinner, the crew ate at noon, Aaron Kwok hid in the side.
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Get the marriage certificate of the play Gu Changwei emotional control to Zhang Ziyi and Aaron Kwok two actors, let them play, take Zhang Ziyi read the marriage certificate, the off-camera Aaron Kwok cried, this moment also touched Zhang Ziyi.
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Aaron Kwok pays special attention to small details when filming, and once filmed a scene between him and Zhang Ziyi in bed, there was a small doll at the head of the bed that needed to be timely dropped. Aaron Kwok and Zhang Ziyi rehearsed over and over again, and Aaron Kwok also asked the assistant director around him: "When does the doll need to fall down?"
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When Kwok was chewing sugar and listening to Qin Qin read the words on the marriage certificate, Zhang Ziyi's line "Zhao Deyi Shang Qin Qin, willing to get married" echoed again and again on the set, and Gu Changwei, sitting behind the monitor, cried.
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The action of a pig-faced pig on the screen was actually shot by four pigs.
(Behind the scenes references Sources
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The year 2011
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Top 10 films of the 20th Shanghai Film Critics Awards
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Win a prize
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Favorites
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The 20th Shanghai Film Critics Award for Best Director
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Win a prize
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Gu Changwei
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Youku Film Festival 2011 summer film inventory best films
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Win a prize
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Favorites
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Best Film of the 6th Rome International Film Festival
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nominate
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Favorites
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Best Actor at the 6th Rome International Film Festival
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nominate
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Aaron Kwok
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The 28th Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival Best actor
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nominate
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Aaron Kwok
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Best Music of the 28th Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival
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Zuo Xiao Zu Mantra
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Best Supporting Actress at the 48th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards
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nominate
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The year 2012
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The 19th Beijing College Student Film Festival Best Director Award
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Win a prize
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Gu Changwei
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Creation background
The story of the film is based on some real people and events. Before the film began shooting, Jiang Wenli was shocked by reports of villages being swallowed by AIDS in Henan and other places due to the sale of blood, so she introduced Gu Changwei, and then gradually developed the story in the film. The title of the film also changed several times, from "Seventy Li Pu," "Xanadu," "Magic Age," all the way to the final "Favorites."
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Shooting process
The film "Love" took 100 days to shoot, spanning the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. During filming, the crew had only six or seven hours of rest a day, but worked for more than a dozen hours. All the actors put on their costumes at dawn, eat and live in the village, and the director Gu Changwei has always called their character names, "proud" and "Qin Qin", because it helps the positioning of the actors. Gu Changwei paid special attention to details in the shooting process, often after several groups of plays were shot, he looked back and found that some details were not in place, so he restored the scene, the actors were re-positioned, and re-shot
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At the beginning of the shooting of "Love for Life", the crew looked for AIDS patients on the Internet, fought for dialogue with them to understand their survival status, and invited them to work on the crew, and finally, six AIDS patients entered the crew, three of which agreed to shoot the documentary without cover. Hu Zetao played the role of Xiao Xin in Love for Life, and the role could have been played by other children, but in the process of selecting infected volunteers, Gu Changwei was moved by Tao Tao's story and gave him the chance to play the role. In the early stages of contact with infected people, some staff members shook hands with them and immediately went back to the bathroom to wash their hands. Later, after several anti-AIDS experts entered the group for everyone to popularize AIDS knowledge, everyone's doubts were dispelled. AIDS patients lying in the rest of the place, Zhang Ziyi and Aaron Kwok then came in to lie in the place of the film, there was no hesitation. Hu Zetao had a thorn in his hand, and the cast's makeup artist held his hand to help him pick it out. Infected old summer because of the need to change the medicine and leave the group in advance, and when he left, he shook hands with the director and the staff one by one. Several infected people were introverted and spoke little when they first entered the group, but they were able to get along with the staff like friends in the later period
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Film editing
When the film was still called The Magic Age, it was not simply a love film - in the earliest two-and-a-half-hour version, the two main lines went hand in hand: Zhao fully caused the villagers' collective disease for personal gain, while he himself became rich overnight, making his own choice between fame and family, interests and conscience; In addition to love, brothers and sons are also depicted, many characters have their own different endings, even the flower face pig, also because the beautiful sow gave birth to more than a dozen pigs and excited to run in the village, but later due to space limitations, the director had to cut the film to 100 minutes, thus highlighting a bitter love between Zhao Zhuo and Shang Qinqin, the double main line became a single line theme
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"Love" tells about a fearless fate, beyond the secular "life and death love". Some viewers who have seen the film said that the scene and performance in the film are full of texture, the director chose a unique perspective to express the life of AIDS patients, from the side to express the care and respect for this group of people, the film "Shang Qin Qin" and "Zhao Zhuo" in the last moment of life comfort and save each other's picture tearful.
The film's frank portrayal of love is extremely rare in domestic films. From Aaron Kwok's hand into Zhang Ziyi's sweater neckline, this begins with the desire of the feelings gradually toward each other, the two from the toe grip to call each other's parents, from the "mother to feed you" to the final Zhang Ziyi as a human ice cube, the naked direct, with most of the Chinese films in the posturing, pompous empty love drama, can be described as surprising.
The film plays to Mr. Gu's usual vision of focusing on the marginalized, but adds a little more warmth. The overall color of the film is very bright, Zhang Ziyi's dress is mainly red, which brings a little enthusiasm and hope of life in the despair of death
(Review by The Beijing News)
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Gu Changwei does not admit that "Love for Love" is to take into account art and business, but from the content of the film, "Love for Love" is a wavering work between literature and business, because the wavering, the emotion expressed in the film can not enter the heart. "Love" as a whole tells the story of "a predictable death", under the threat of fever, "waiting for death" shows the variety of life. In the process of "waiting for death", the love play between elated and Qinqin is highlighted, such a love play is actually a desperate attitude towards life, which is pseudo-love. Gu Changwei wants to show the helplessness of life, but it is packaged into a love declaration such as "Let's get married, while alive", he wants to show too much, so people feel like they want to talk, perhaps this is related to the film from 150 minutes to 100 minutes
(Qilu Evening News review)
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The original director's cut, which runs over two hours, tells the Zhao brothers' two storylines; The edited version left Zhao with only one piece. The finished version is hardly a once-in-a-lifetime hit. As the director's wife, Jiang Wenli played the grain house wife in the film really does not have to exist, her departure is far less than Wang Baoqiang played big mouth that "my horn is out of electricity, I am running out of electricity" to worry. In the original version, the bloodthirsty elder brother, played by Pu Cunxin, falls into a well and two butterflies fly out of it, a somewhat comforting ending that would have been more appropriate for this tragic film. However, Zhao and Shang Qinqin end the film quickly after the sensational scene at the end of the film to the climax, leaving the other protagonists and the audience in the theater who have not yet been delayed, which is both hasty and hasty
(Review by Southern People Weekly)
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