Director Mei Feng and actor Zhang Chao took a group photo with fans.

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Mr. No Problem, which was shot in Chongqing and won many awards, will be released on November 21. Recently, Director Mei Feng, who is praised as the “best story teller”, and actor Zhang Chao had a press conference in Chongqing.

The film was shot in Jindao Gorge.

Director Mei Feng (left) and actor Zhang Chao of Mr. No Problem go to the background place of the original work and the filming place to have a face-to-face communication with fans in Chongqing.

Mr. No Problem is adapted from a short story of Lao She, narrating the decline of a farmland rich in natural resources under the management of the Manager, Ding Wuyuan, during the anti-Japanese war. This film, which has been awarded the Best Actor and the Best Adapted Screenplay on the 53 Golden Horse Prize, has a very deep connection with Chongqing. The main scenes were filmed at Jindao Gorge in Chongqing.

Director Mei said, “The film was made in Chongqing because it is the background place of the original work. We traveled around Chongqing in multiple visits. I thought it is quite the same as those depictions in the novel as we went to Baisha Ancient Town and Jindao Gorge.”

In addition to Fan Wei and Yin Tao, the figurants in the film speak in Chongqing dialect. Mei disclosed that those figurants had no performance experience and some even played bit roles in teleplay, they had no lines.

However, in this movie, those figurants are of great help to the plot development. Speaking of the training to actors, Mei said, “My job is to help them adapt to the environment of the crew and relax themselves, so that they can present the real state of life in the film.”

Only one old lens was used.

Different from the commercial film, Mr. No Problem is a black-and-white film with occasional swaying effect and seldom used close-ups. Therefore the film is tagged “academic”, becoming quite distinctive in the noisy filmdom.

Mei also said that since the story was written in 1943, they used only one old Cooke lens during the whole filming period and intentionally removed the industrial sense of modern film.

The film is adapted from the novel and added three original female roles, in order to balance the three male roles in the original work. Mei said bluntly that the female roles made the story more interesting and well-rounded. (Translated by Xu Mengmiao, Fathom Language Limited)