＂It’s Worth It＂ Enters Nortel, Hu Ge： Movies are like gifts from mothers

1905 movie network news　On September 7, the film held an academic screening and creative exchange activity at the Beijing Film Academy, with producers, screenwriters and directors, starring,, and interacting with teachers and students after the screening to share creative experiences. Cao Baoping and Liu Jiayin are both teachers at the Beijing Film Academy, and Wu Lei and Gan Yunchen also graduated from Nortel. This time, returning to their alma mater with a new film they created together is very meaningful.

"It’s Worth It" revolves around writing eulogies. It tells the story of an ordinary screenwriter Wen Shan (played by Hu Ge) who accidentally starts writing eulogies for a living. In his encounters with ordinary people of all kinds, he comforts others and finds his own direction in life. The film won the Best Director Award and Best Actor Award in the main competition of the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival and will be released nationwide on September 9.

Hu Ge recalled that he had been acting in ancient costume puppet dramas for the first ten years, which was not the same as his vision for actors. "After acting in ancient puppet dramas for ten years, I found that my performance had a routine and became insincere. Looking back at the eyes of my first play, I could no longer do it. So I decided to return to the stage and start over, breaking the inherent stylized performance. I have always been serious with myself."

This time, "It’s Worth It" gave Hu Ge an experience he had never had before, "not the process of performing, but the process of becoming him." Hu Ge said that he has a close connection with Wen Shan and can see what his life is like, but Wen Shan is braver than him, so he hopes to become him. From reading the script to filming, Hu Ge felt a very unified atmosphere, and gradually became him.

The main way for Hu Ge to enter the role is through his own personal experience and the yearning for his deceased mother. After reading the script for the first time, he felt that it was a gift from his distant mother, telling him, "You should let it go, you should face this matter, it’s alright."

Wu Lei’s role as Xiao Yin is the character of Wen Shan. He believes that Xiao Yin represents the outgoing and cheerful side of Wen Shan’s character. He not only wants to get more information to be perfected, but also often urges Wen Shan not to escape from himself and dare to tell the truth to his relatives. Because of his many collaborations with Hu Ge, Wu Lei admitted that this time he is under great pressure, hoping to let the audience see a new relationship between characters.

Qi Xi, the lead actor, has not seen "It’s Worth a Trip" so far, and she wants to enjoy it with the audience after the movie is officially released. Qi Xi always remembers the comfort and relaxation brought to her when shooting the movie. The small and beautiful shooting style of the whole team gives her the purity and joy of returning to her college days. She wants to keep this feeling, and she doesn’t want the characters to leave her quickly.

After the screening, teachers and industry insiders from the Beijing Film Academy expressed their feelings about watching the film. The director and screenwriter were frankly moved by the film and couldn’t help but cry. The screenwriter of "The Long Season" praised the film for its bravery and hoped to find an audience that belonged to it. Su Mu, a professor at the Beijing Film Academy, praised it as a film that will be remembered by film history, and Hu Ge’s performance will also be studied and analyzed in future teaching classes.

At the exchange event, Hu Ge also revealed that he and his good friends designed the T-shirt of "It’s Worth It", painted the kittens and their children in the film, a total of five cats on the clothes, and drew them on the spot and sent them to Nortel’s student audience.