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1905 movie network news　If you are at the bottom of your life, you suddenly get a fortune of 10 billion yuan, provided that you spend 1 billion yuan in a month without telling anyone what happened, you will ……

This sounds like a "great good thing" at first glance, but it is not so simple to implement it, and it even becomes an embarrassing thing for Wang Duoyu (Shen Teng) to spend money. The image of a "new upstart" who is bent on the peak of his life, but how to look at it awkwardly, was born.

In 2018, the "summer movie" won 70 million+(cat’s eye data) audiences with its "brain hole design" and "money offensive", and won a good word-of-mouth score and a cumulative box office score of 2.547 billion yuan, ranking fourth in the comprehensive box office list in 2018.

Wang Duoyu, a central figure with great contrast and many attractions, has become an important reason for the popularity of Xihong’s richest man, while the magnificent scenes and gorgeous costumes in the film leave a deep impression on people.

today，Yu Xin, Secretary-General of the Network Judge of China Film Critics AssociationStarting from Wang Duoyu, the protagonist of The Richest Man in Xihong City,On how scene design and costume modeling shape characters.

Today’s topic:Artistic Design and Characterization of The Richest Man in Xihong City

Director: Yan Fei, Peng Damo.

Starring: Shen Teng, Vivian Sung, Zhang Yiming, Chang Yuan, Zhang Chenguang and Wei Xiang.

　Release date: July 27, 2018

"The most wonderful thing about this film is Wang Duoyu, a rich man who became rich overnight created by Shen Teng. Although he inherited a billion dollars’ property at once, the transformation of his character image is staged," said Yu Xin, secretary general of the online judges of China Film Critics Association.

Obviously, how to create a real, credible, flesh-and-blood hero image in the slightly "grandiose" plot design has become a great test for directors Yan Fei and Peng Damo. In the movie "The Richest Man in Xihong City", two directors made a clever choice.

Scene design and costume modeling have become the "secret weapon" for the film "The Richest Man in Xihong City" to successfully create Shen Teng as the richest man.

Scene design | The drunken fans in "Golden Castle"

At the beginning of the film, the protagonist Wang Duoyu is poor, but he lives happily and vividly.So, in what form will huge wealth appear in his ordinary life?

The director chose the most direct way — —A mountain of money in the vault.Such a scene is not common in life, and the transfer of huge wealth generally does not use the form of cash, but in order to strengthen the impact of key plots, the film chooses this form of expression that can bring the greatest visual impact to the audience. It has indeed done this.

This also became the first key scene design in the film. From this scene, Wang Duoyu was completely lost in money and started a ridiculous journey until he finally woke up.

Through the change of light from full darkness to gradual lighting, the gradient lens depth, the scheduling of small rocker arms and the use of pitch, the positional relationship between characters and "Qianshan" has formed a specific meaning — — Money is high above, overlooking the two protagonists, Wang Duoyu is very small. Money is like an angel or a demon. It throws them down with open wings, but the whole vault is cool, and only "Qianshan" shines.

As the protagonist enters the second "life stage", the director also "contributes" to the second main scene — — Castle Hotel. This is also the scene where the comedy bridge is designed the most.

The color matching between local gold and big red, the ultra-high ceiling and spacious hall highlighted by wide-angle upward shooting, and the strong and weak psychological hints brought by overlooking the lens all highlight the important role of this scene. That is, the gorgeous hotel is designed as an "upgraded bath center", which shows that this is the place where the poor boy Wang Duoyu thinks the rich should live the most.

The third scene is in the climax of the film. The design of this scene is completely opposite to the "Castle Hotel", which is as simple as how complicated it is. Just above this old building, the protagonist Wang Duoyu has to make an important choice in his life — — Love or wealth. What the scene reflects is his psychological state at the moment.

He has gradually broken away from the fantasy of being intoxicated with money. Once he is in this scene, the distance between him and "money" can be opened, and he finally finds his original heart and gains the love of the heroine in the composition higher than money.

Scene design must be a great contributor to the externalization of characters’ psychology.

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Clothing modeling | From poor to rich, "step by step"

From a poor boy to a ostentatious rich man, Wang Duoyu, the hero, has undergone several changes, and his clothing modeling has gone through several stages.From the general development vein, the change of costume modeling and scene design are complementary and basically synchronous.

The earliest Wang Duoyu had long hair and wore a broken hoodie.At this time, he is a standard of "poor boy", but he is also full of youthful vitality. He plays football, laughs and always wants to show off. Therefore, the director matched him with the simplest and most convenient sportswear. It can be said that the "R&F value" is zero, but the "vitality value" is Max.

Wang Duoyu, who got a billion dollars and moved into the "Castle Hotel", is facing the first change in style.

Because Wang Duoyu arrived at the hotel directly from the stadium and still had long hair, it was inconvenient to make too much styling changes. From the plot, it may be only a gorgeous suit on the road, with an ordinary T-shirt inside and sweatpants on the lower body. In the face of the waiter’s questioning, he also firmly stated that he was already dressed. What the costume design at this time shows is his extreme disharmony with the splendid scene.

From the beginning of this scene, Wang Duoyu began to change his styling frequently, cut the hairstyle that he thought a rich man should wear, and wore a gorgeous suit that he thought a rich man should wear. This also reflected his extreme self-confidence as an upstart, and he needed to remind himself and others all the time with a gorgeous suit — — He is rich now.

One of the more exaggerated costume designs was in an important emotional drama of watching fireworks with the heroine. The red coat worn by Wang Duoyu is a Damascus style with a typical leaf pattern. The European classical pattern is exaggerated and prominent, which highlights the upstart publicity and self-confidence in the role, which is in sharp contrast with the true feelings.

At this time, Xia Zhu, the heroine, is simple and even ugly, which is in sharp contrast with Wang Duoyu’s exaggeration. The beautiful fireworks pattern has become the externalization of the two characters’ hearts, impulsive and inaccurate, and the biggest gap between their feelings is also reflected through the costume modeling.

In the last climax paragraph, Wang Duoyu took all the money to redeem Xia Zhu. At this time, he was wearing a football suit just after the game and wearing a messy hairstyle that he didn’t take good care of. Although he is still reluctant, he has decided to give up money to save love, and all the money is packed in a big bag like a garbage bag, which has completely become a burden and a burden.

The love represented by Xia Zhu stood on the stairs overlooking him. Wang Duoyu, who returned to nature, was finally able to hug his lover in the warm sunshine.

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