Fifth generation director Li Shaohong’s career has spanned the entire length of the Chinese film market’s rise, from its days as a state-run industry churning out nothing but social rea…
Li’s drive as a filmmaker is to “stick as close to life as possible,” she said.
“The film is about the recent decades of economic reform, about Chinese people suddenly having money and not knowing how to spend it or come to terms with it, both emotionally and literally in their lives,” she said. “It’s all about how individuals face the ups and downs in their lives, how someone who was nobody can become a high-powered leader, and then a gambler, and how those rises and falls either destroy you or help you grow.
This October’s National Day holiday saw the biggest slate to-date of what in China are called ‘main melody’ films — patriotic movies that tend to depict historic military battles or the lives and accomplishments of Communist Party leaders. While most this year were quite heavy on the politics, Li toldShe’d chosen to take on the project because it was about ordinary people against the backdrop of big historical change.
In Li’s assessment, Chinese war films have lagged behind because of a lack of technical know-how, but now the genre is “developing very quickly” thanks to collaborations with Western firms.
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