On December 3, the curtain opened, the screen lit up, and the annual hardcore adventure documentary “Endless Climb” was released. The magnificence of Mount Everest, the world‘s first roof, has a panoramic view. The hard-core life of China’s first man Xia Boyu who climbed Mount Everest five times in 43 years has finally emerged.
The movie “Endless Climbing” is produced by Wu Jing and Guo Fan, supervised by Liu Kailuo, Ke Qingfeng is the producer, directed by Ye Junce, and edited by Ye Luchang. The film truly records the Chinese legless mountaineer Xia Boyu with a pair of prosthetic limbs in 43 years. With his perseverance and love, he hit Mount Everest five times and was finally accepted by Mount Everest on May 14, 2018. He successfully climbed to the summit at the age of 69 and became the first person in China to climb Mount Everest without legs! He is also the world‘s oldest Chinese who climbed Mount Everest with amputation of both legs!
In the latest release of the film’s gorgeous blockbuster “Uncle Hardcore” shot by the famous photographer Zong Tongchang for Xia Boyu, the legless grandfather Xia Boyu shows off his muscles in sportswear, sometimes handsome and cool and stylish, sometimes laughing, showing “Youth” character. Recently, the film “Endless Climbing” entered the Beijing Film Academy with other creators for academic screenings and exchange activities. Everyone shared the behind-the-scenes story of the film creation and production to the students. The film impressed the teachers and students with its real and powerful lens.
Aspect 1: Real people and real things!China’s first legless summit of Mount Everest
Everest, known as the roof of the world, has welcomed many adventurers every year since it rose from the ocean 40 million years ago and became the pinnacle of the world today. Xia Boyu is one of them. The film “Endless Climbing” used the most realistic lens to record the first Chinese “hardcore master” Xia Boyu who successfully climbed Mount Everest with a prosthesis, and pursued his dream for forty-three years. In 1975, Xia Boyu joined the Chinese mountaineering team. When he climbed Mount Everest, he helped his teammates and caused his frostbite and both calves were amputated. However, he did not give up his dream of climbing Mount Everest. In 43 years of amputation, cancer, and pain, Xia Boyu hit Mount Everest five times. With his perseverance and love, he was finally accepted by Mount Everest on May 14, 2018, and successfully climbed at the age of 69. top. This made him the first person in China to climb Mount Everest without legs! He is also the Chinese who won the Lawrence World Sports Awards for the Best Sports Moment of the Year after Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, the Chinese Olympic delegation and Li Na.
On the day of its release, the movie “Endless Climbing” released the gorgeous blockbuster “Hardcore Master” shot by the famous photographer Zong Tongchang for Xia Boyu. In the blockbuster, Xia Boyu sometimes wears a suit and sits in the back seat of his old friend’s vintage bicycle, handsome; sometimes in a sports suit to show off his muscles; in the meantime, he laughs and shows off the cool titanium alloy prosthesis and plays with the difficult “pull” “Legs”, and played interactive football with my young self. Both highlight Xia Boyu’s “juvenile sense”, as the audience said with a smile: “The hardcore man with dreams will always be a spiritual guy!” Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” once wrote that “people can be destroyed but cannot be defeated.” “This is the portrayal of Xia Boyu’s life. After experiencing frostbite, landslides, avalanches, earthquakes, blizzards, and failing to hit Mount Everest four times, he did not give up. He still insisted on exercising. He got up at five o’clock every day and completed six hours of exercise a day. Forty-three years of persistence was only for the summit. Peak, complete the climbing career that I love all my life.
Aspect 2: Immersive!Follow Xia Boyu to Mount Everest
The movie “Endless Climb” did not use a special effects lens in the whole film, and every frame was exchanged for life. Three experienced alpine photographers followed Xia Boyu to climb Mount Everest. The camera directly faced Mount Everest swallowing the mountains and rivers, showing her dangerously steep cliffs. It also showed Xia Boyu, a legless old man, using a pair of prosthetic limbs to climb the journey of nine deaths. The movie “Endless Climbing” has no modification and no performance. It presents Xia Boyu in the most real state before the audience. His persistence and emotion are revealed one by one, allowing the audience to experience the magnificent life of this hard-core uncle in all aspects. Many viewers said after watching the film that if they hadn’t watched “Endless Climb”, it would be hard to believe that such a story happened to a real character.
Wearing a special crampon prosthesis, Xia Boyu is struggling in the harsh climate, and his sauce-purple lips make people intuitively feel that he is overcoming the lack of oxygen in the mountains. In different widths, bottomless ice cracks are all over the glacier climbing, several crampons stuck on the climbing ladder above the cracks, and Xia Boyu’s nervous heartbeat can also be heard clearly. Such a real journey to the summit of Mount Everest allows the audience to be on the scene, as if they were climbing Mount Everest together with Xia Boyu. As many audiences said after watching the movie: I couldn’t help but clenched my fists. The realism of the documentary shot made people nervous and sweaty. I didn’t expect to see the feeling of a genre in the documentary “Endless Climbing”.”
Aspect 3: Be inspired by love!Wu Jing and Guo Fan strongly recommend Hu Ge to give their voices
Some people say that “like-minded people always get together”, and the movie “Endless Climb” brings together filmmakers with dreams. Director Ye Junce served as a screenwriter in the movie “The Wandering Earth”; editor Ye Ruchang also served as the editor and screenwriter of “The Wandering Earth”. Wu Jing, the producer of the movie “Endless Climbing”, became attached to Xia Boyu because of the movie “The Climber” and was deeply moved by his feat. Director Guo Fan also has an indissoluble bond with the film. He said: “I received a lot of help and encouragement when I created and filmed “The Wandering Earth”. Both the director and editor, Xiaoye, are members of the “Little Pokémon” family. It is my duty to help more new filmmakers.” Hu Ge, an actor who played the role of Xia Boyu in the movie “The Climber”, also gave his voice in “Endless Climbing”. In addition, producer Liu Kailuo has served as a producer in excellent films such as “The Wandering Earth” and “Wolf Warrior 2”. Because of Xia Boyu’s love and bravery, a group of filmmakers gathered to help the movie “Endless Climb”!
The filming and production cycle of the movie “Endless Climb” lasted four years, and these filmmakers who were inspired by love made the film possible. The producer Ke Qingfeng once wanted to give up presenting the movie “Endless Climbing” in the form of a documentary, but in the end, it is the most powerful to be firm and truthful. Only the documentary can show Xia Boyu’s perseverance. After director Ye Junce and Ye Ruchang edited to join the film, it took a year and a half to complete the work of sorting out the material and editing. When the film was in crisis, the famous filmmaker Liu Kailuo was inspired by Xia Boyu to join the film and introduced “Endless Climbing” to director Wu Jing and Guo Fan. Several filmmakers escorted the film all the way. An unbelievably obsessive hardcore uncle encountered a group of passionate movies, and finally made the movie “Endless Climb” appear on the big screen.
Aspect 4: National idol!All ages gain different life insights
The movie “Endless Climbing” went through a road show in 11 cities across the country before it was released. Thousands of viewers walked into the theater to watch the film for the first time. Everyone will get a different life experience from the movies that the audience watched.” At the road show, many audiences expressed their “climbing” path. At the Foshan road show, a child was moved to tears after watching the movie: “I also have endless climbing that belongs to me. I was not popular in the class. I went to make friends endlessly, and then I really made friends. Grandpa Xia It has given me courage and encouragement, and I will definitely be able to face more challenges in the future.” An 80-year-old audience in Wuhan Roadshow was so excited that it was beyond words: “There is no mountain higher than a person, no road longer than a foot. Teacher Xia is an old man younger than the young! All old people should watch “Endless Climbing”.”
A parent of a student at the Suzhou Station specially brought his children to watch the movie: “The strength of Teacher Xia’s beliefs and the persistence of dreams are something that my daughter cannot learn in books in her life. She watched this film.” During the Qingdao Roadshow, a young man who successfully fought the illness felt resonance in the film: “Mr. Xia has encountered many ups and downs. He cannot realize his dream without the company of his family. I have been sick for so many years, and my lover has accompanied me through the darkest moments of my life. This is the power of love.”
Courage, perseverance, companionship, truthfulness, love, and moving… The film does not show how Xia Boyu conquered Mount Everest, but how to be self-consistent with society, family, and self in the forty-three years, until he was caught by Mount Everest through his tenacious vitality. Accept. A “Superman” who cannot be defeated has brought power to many audiences, especially the interaction between Teacher Xia and his family in the film is more touching. The sentence “Climbing to the top is not the end, but going home is” let the audience Tears burst into tears. A sentence from the famous host Xie Nan at the premiere gave the film’s most sincere answer: “The movie “Endless Climb” is not about conquering but accepting. Not only climbing but also going home!”
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