Zhang Ji: Dip in ink from life and write smokey script
2023-03-15
After the Spring Festival, just after returning to Beijing from his hometown, screenwriter and director Zhang Ji began to visit nursing homes and hospitals, closely observe those suffering from "Alzheimer's disease", and listen to the family members of the patients tell the story of their loved ones and their fading away. Zhang Ji is collecting wind this time to prepare for the new play "The Home of Alzheimer". He hopes to explore the impact of the disease on the family from the perspective of a family. "I don't want to romanticize this disease. I want to face its pain and the social problems involved, present a more real Alzheimer's disease and let more people pay attention to it," Zhang Ji said. "When we write plays, we should draw nutrients from real life. Good plays are always consistent with those wonderful scenes in life. We can't write mechanically from the concept." Zhang Ji can take the fruit of inspiration from the fertile soil of life every time he goes to the front line to collect wind. He once followed the grass-roots police to track down suspects in the middle of the night; Once in the village in the city where the wires were winding, he held the father's hand of the abducted child to listen to him; He also observed the wanton youth of young people in Jiefangxi at two o'clock in the morning... Only through in-depth observation and experience can he get a good story of grounding. Zhang Ji insists on absorbing nutrients from life and watering the flowers of inspiration. In March last year, after he was awarded the title of the fifth "National Young and Middle-aged Literary and Artistic Workers with Good Virtue and Good Arts", he said in an interview: "We literary and artistic workers should go to life, go to the people, first take root in the earth, and then look at the stars." Zhang Ji, who wears black glasses and is gentle and clean, has a strong bookish atmosphere. He confessed that he was a "literary youth" when he was young. Books and films are like sunshine and rain, It nourishes and fills his spiritual world. In middle school, most of the boys in his class liked knight-errant novels with swords and swords, but he was addicted to the classical masterpieces of 19th century Russia and France, and was fascinated by the ancient city of Besancon in "Red and Black". After graduation, Zhang Ji didn't want to go back to his hometown and work as a bank clerk safely. He chose to stay in Beijing as a freelance writer. Around 2005, Zhang Ji witnessed the popularity of the TV drama industry and became a screenwriter. Zhang Ji was once unappreciated and had a difficult life when he just entered the industry. When he was in his thirties, he went to a classmate's party and felt embarrassed in front of a group of students who had a family and had a house and a car. After several years of lonely, lonely and downhearted gray days, Zhang Ji insisted on repeated and boring writing training, just like the lines he wrote later: "You will not drown when you fall in the water, you will drown when you stay in the water, you have to swim, and keep on swimming." Zhang Ji, who lingered on the edge of the screenwriting industry for a long time, finally became famous in 2012 because of the "China Partner", which brought him "a huge change like a nuclear explosion". Since then, "Dear", "Winning", "Getting Home at One Point", "My Motherland and I"... His works have won such heavyweight awards as the Best Screenplay Award of the 33rd China Film Golden Rooster Award Award, the Outstanding Screenplay Award of the China Film Association Cup, and the Outstanding Original Drama Award of the China Film ornamental column Award. Before writing the script of "China Partner", Zhang Ji was addicted to learning and imitating the skills of Hollywood, but he gradually realized that writing stories like this is like "there is only a beautiful shell, or stacking skills,
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