Mom’s Wonder Boy｜Director calls on attention to disabled athletes: You guys really don’t remember Su Huawei

The Hong Kong athletes set a historic record in the Tokyo Olympics, winning six medals with one gold, two silver and three bronze medals, setting off a wave of Olympic star-chasing in the community.

As it happens, the hot-blooded Hong Kong film "Mama’s Wonder Boy" adapted from the handicapped track and field athlete "Wonder Boy" Su Huawei was also released in cinemas last week. As of last Saturday (21st), the box office has exceeded 8 million Hong Kong dollars. Or it is expected to break the 10 million yuan mark.

Yin Zhiwen, director of "Mother's Wonder Boy", said that the biggest purpose of filming the show is to remind Hong Kong people of Su Huawei and more unknown disabled athletes.

"There is a Su Huawei in Hong Kong who is so successful. Why don't you explain his story? Follow me and ask the people around me. I don’t remember Su Huawei. It turns out that people really don’t remember

Su Huawei

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one scene of the movie, Su Huawei He ate a lunch box under the tree and said to the coach, "My family is not an athlete, I am a courier. If I go back to run, the government subsidy will be 3,000 per month." In fact, Su Huawei in 2000 The Paralympic Games won three gold medals, but all the bonuses totaled less than 200,000 yuan.

Yin hopes that the people of Hong Kong will pay attention to the athletes year after year, rather than the sudden attention once every four years. For example, we can take the first step and understand the current situation of retired athletes.

Su Huawei suffers from convulsions and hard of hearing all his life

The story of Wonder Boy in Hong Kong originated from a hospital 39 years ago, when a baby fell to the ground and then discovered that he was suffering from jaundice.

Although the doctor and his family insisted on taking his life from the god of death, his brain was damaged due to jaundice. The sequelae suffered from spasm and hearing loss for life. It was not until the age of 4 that he took his first step in life.

However, "Heaven descends to the people." The congenital disability did not stop Su Huawei's pace. During the entire career of the athlete, he won a total of 6 gold medals in the Paralympics, and broke the world of 100-meter and 200-meter races for disabled athletes many times. Record.

Lose at the starting line and win at the finish line

"When Su Huawei competes, even if it is a competition of the same level, he actually does not use the starting blocks, because his fingers support his body and he cannot use the starting blocks. You will see that it is so interesting. Forever Su Huawei starts to run all day long. The last one, but the most powerful thing is that you will see him catching up one by one, and finally crossing the finish line first."

"Mom's Wonder Boy" is the first film directed by director Yin Zhiwen. In 2013, he started to conceive the story of Su Huawei's "Lost at the Starting Line" on the big screen.

Before becoming a director, he was responsible for screenwriting for a period of time, often looking for different film materials.

Therefore, after he came into contact with Su Huawei’s story, he thought, "There is a Su Huawei in Hong Kong who is so successful, why don’t you understand his story? Just follow me and ask the people around me. Do you remember Su Huawei? I really don't remember."

The government's monthly allowance is only 3,000 yuan

I believe that there are many lines in "Mom’s Wonder Boy" that make the audience cry. For example, in the movie Su Huawei’s mother cried, "You’ve been screaming at many gold medals. I told myself, I’m the one I’m a genius, I’m not an ordinary person, but if you run and bury it, you can run? So soon I don’t remember this one is Su Huawei!” Or Su Huawei ate a lunch box under the tree and said to the coach, “ My family is not an athlete, but my family is a courier. If I go back to run, the government subsidy will be 3,000 per month."

Recalling the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, when "After the Wind" won the first gold in the history of the Hong Kong Olympics, Li Lishan's name has become a household name in Hong Kong since then.

But in fact, Su Huawei also won the first Paralympic gold medal in the athlete’s career in the Paralympic Games of the same year. In the Sydney Paralympic Games four years later, he swept the gold medals in the 100-meter, 200-meter, and 400-meter events. .

But as Yin Zhiwen said, after 20 years, how many Hong Kong people still remember Su Huawei, the "Wonder Boy"?

Served as a clerk in Andy Lau Fan Club "Hua Zi Tian Di"

Looking back at the data, although Su Huawei achieved good results in the 2000 Paralympic Games, all the bonuses totaled less than 200,000 yuan, which was far lower than that of healthy athletes.

However, he was fortunate enough to get help from distinguished people. The star Andy Lau understood the difficulties of disabled athletes at the time. In order to prevent Su Huawei's career as an athlete from ending because of firewood, rice and oil, he arranged for him to serve as a clerk in the fan club "Hua Zi Tian Di".

However, not everyone is fortunate enough to meet a noble person. The difficulties of other disabled athletes after retirement can be imagined.

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"Mom's Wonder Boy" is the first film directed by director Yin Zhiwen. In 2013, he started to conceive the story of Su Huawei's "Lost at the Starting Line" on the big screen.

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Yin Zhiwen Ji Hong Kong people are not "suddenly paying attention" to athletes on a whim

Yin Zhiwen said that the biggest purpose of filming "Mother's Wonder Boy" is to remind Hong Kong people of Su Huawei and more unknown disabled athletes.

He hopes that the people of Hong Kong will continue to pay attention to athletes instead of the "sudden attention" that happens on a whim every four years. For example, we can take the first step and understand the current situation of retired athletes in order to know how to help them.

Yin even took the priority field of the movie as an example, saying that when an audience thanked the ticket, he told him that he could help the athlete. "I'm so grateful that someone will ask Su Huawei after watching it? How about the job? There are even some people. Besides, I’m actually a physiotherapist, and I asked him if there is any need to make the effort. This is what I think I want this movie to do."

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Su Ma’s first impression was tough: Wu Junru flashed through my mind at that moment

Talking about the first impression of Su Huawei and Su Ma, Yin Zhiwen believes that the feelings of the two mothers and children are the same as the online clips.

He recalled that although Su Huawei was not young at the time, she was innocent in her words; and Su Ma was a tough and talkative mother, "So at the moment, Wu Junru flashed through my mind, if my play could If the shot is successful, I will really want to ask Junruan Wu to do it."

In the end, it was just like what Yin Zhiwen had imagined in his mind. The role of Su Ma was played by Wu Junru. As for the adult version of Su Huawei?

Yin revealed that the script was actually not completed in 2016. At that time, he met stage actor Liang Zhongheng through friends and thought that his appearance was similar to Su Huawei.

What's more fate is that the two have been neighbors since they were young, and they also grew up in Aimin Village, so they have already considered the role of Su Huawei, played by Liang Zhongheng.

"In fact, everyone knows that Su Huawei is a kind of person. You will find that his speech speed, intonation or word bite is actually very difficult to listen to." Yin pointed out that in order to retain Su Huawei's speaking characteristics and take into account the audience's understanding of the dialogue, it must be Relying on Liang Zhongheng's vivid acting skills, he created the "New Su Huawei" intonation.

In an earlier interview with the media, Liang Zhongheng said: "A radio operator only found out that I am not disabled until the shooting that day."

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Call for intensive broadcast of the Paralympics by TV stations

In fact, looking around Yin Zhiwen’s past screenwriters, there is no lack of dark or absurd styles.

However, he said that the social atmosphere that Hong Kong people have faced since 2010, and even the outbreak of the epidemic in recent years, has inevitably been exhausted physically and mentally. Therefore, in addition to hoping to help a group of athletes through "Mom’s Wonder Boy", he also hopes that through The story of Su Huawei and his mother brought their spirit of struggle to Hong Kong people.

"Maybe it's really a big deal. I like watching tragedy in every detail of the scene. I stayed in a hurry, as if I didn't say anything. But life is already hard enough. Should the movie department gain the strength of the audience and the satisfaction of the audience?"

However, in reality, the society's attention to the Paralympics is far less than the Olympics that closed earlier. For example, the Home Affairs Bureau only requires 5 TV stations to broadcast daily "essential clips" of the Paralympics, as well as live broadcast of its opening and closing ceremony. present.

Yin Zhiwen believes that the ability of TV stations to broadcast the Paralympic Games involves different factors, but he suggested that TV stations can broadcast intensively so that all Hong Kong citizens can cheer for disabled athletes.

The film's release during the Olympics was unexpected: it was a kind of fate

Although some TV stations failed to broadcast the Paralympics, "Mama's Wonder Boy" was released before the Olympic boom, and at the same time the epidemic eased and the theater capacity was relaxed to 85%.

Yin Zhiwen said with a smile that he was not a foreseeing child prodigy. He did not expect the Hong Kong team to achieve such a good result in this Olympics.

He revealed that summer is a suitable season for watching sports movies. It was originally planned to be released during the summer vacation last year, but the cinema was closed due to the outbreak of the epidemic, so it was postponed to this year.

Because of this, the schedule of "Mother's Wonder Boy" coincided with the Tokyo Olympics. Yin Zhiwen added another year to perfect the soundtrack and special effects in the movie.

"So it’s a good thing to switch back and watch for a year, so all things that are not expected, it is a kind of fate, and all of them go together. I don’t expect it to happen, and I’m not sure that the Tokyo Olympics will be in the last few months. I can’t do it, I don’t know the future even at close range, so it’s a kind of fate.”

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