Do not to register and also do not do when in dislike, director Meritorious Ho Ngoc Xum devoted to the film project “Southern culture” like the karmic debt of his life
Film director Meritorious Artist Ho Ngoc Xum is working hard on a film project “Southern culture” and his lifetime book “Duyen and karma”. He said: “The film is like a debt of predestined and karma”. It haunts, inspiring him every hour.
“Doing because it will not keep up”
He said the West was flooded, making his feet not tired, go on, to find context for the project he said: “It is time to do it because there will be no more time”. Last month, he returned to the Seven Mountains region (An Giang), climb Tuc Dup hill to see arid fields, he shed tears. Southern culture urged him to go and find the hinges of the door that he wanted to explain through this work, is the spiritual life.
“It is a special form of human consciousness and social consciousness. There have been erroneous trends in this matter: or absoluteizing the role of spiritual life, or to identify the spiritual life with idealism, with superstition. I explain the other way in my movie, That is the need in the spiritual life of man, At the same time, it is one of the ways for people to live more honestly, better and above all, responsible for the environment”.
According to director Ho Ngoc Xum, Southern people have known for centuries how to filter out elements with mystical colors and superstition, to direct my soul to the essence, the most pure of spiritual life, contribute to creating cultural values full of identity and contain human meaning. “Over many centuries of ups and downs, The spiritual life of Vietnamese people in the South still lurks somewhere with magical values” – The director made an impression through the film adaptation of Ho Bieu Chanh's novel.
Studying philosophy at the Saigon University of Arts, He used to be a porter on a boat landing and did everything he could to support himself and go to school, so he understood the vitality of the spiritual world stemming from aspects of intrinsic positive meaning.. Those are profound cultural values, hidden behind the deep spiritual veil that every episode he makes, will decode religious beliefs with images of temples in the South.
“Looking to the spiritual world is not only a need but also a way to help people live more honestly. Especially the current period, must be responsible for environmental protection. Resources, Depleted land is caused by human destruction” – he said thoughtfully.
Duyen and karma
Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu commented on director Ho Ngoc Xum: “Live fully with the profession, so the characters of Ho Ngoc Xum always keep the kindness, to pride, Sincerely, kindness. All the way he passed, a regular film a year, even there are five 3 movies that receive film awards, television and leave the mark, separate style. The Southwest region is the land of flesh and blood in Ho Ngoc Xum's heart”.
Director Ho Ngoc Xum considered the Southwestern region to be flesh and blood, also for his hometown in An Giang. Meritorious Artist Ho Ngoc Xum said that he liked to adapt Southern literature to make films. The biggest debt he has to pay is creating many works that are useful to the public. Later when making a drama, he was able to exploit the literary lines of the South into a film and was very successful, forming the style of Hồ Ngọc Xum. Southern culture has been re-enacted in the past and present by the movie in a lively and emotional film.
Next to the movie project “Southern culture”, director Ho Ngoc Xum finished drafting the book “Duyen and karma”. It was just like a memoir, just like the curriculum, Share with young people who love acting. by, he taught himself, transfer knowledge to many young directors, the conclusion of 45 years living with profession, from an actor to a deputy director, then the director is a useful experience.
“In the book “Duyen and karma”, I send a lot of messages to young people to better understand the value of directing and the destiny that will bring art people to life., to karma and to bring those two things together, is the work that is well received by the public, colleagues believe in love”.
Profession choose people
Father died early, he had to make a living for himself. “It was my grandfather who expected him to be a doctor later, a job to save people and also easy to support themselves. But grow up, I choose another career. It is the end of the year 1977, Ho Chi Minh City General Film Factory contacted Ho Chi Minh City University where I studied in the Department of Literature to select a number of recent graduates to train the scriptwriters and adjacent directors., I recruited and selected. Dependent and karma are the jobs that choose me, I didn't choose a career” – director Ho Ngoc Xum confided.
Ho Ngoc Xum has worked as an assistant director through films: “K’rung fire” (directors: Le Hoang Hoa), “The child was denied” (directors: Le Dan), “Wind vortex” (directors: Hong Sen), “Backstroke flip gamble” collection 1 (directors: Le Hoang Hoa)... and then the film director “Soil” (directors: Hong Sen) and acted as a director after training at the Faculty of Direction of Hanoi University of Theater and Cinema.
The movies he once directed: “Piece of grim love”, “Wanted warrant 2”, “The abyss love”, “Dreamy little girl”, “Love her miss”, “Forgive me” (“Bitter Love” 3), “The wind blades of joke”, “Poor families”, “Debt life”, “Charming metal money”, “Farmer”... and currently making films “War-laws”.
Source: Thanh Hiep / The Laborer
