Wei Desheng

Wei Desheng

Wei Desheng, born on August 16, 1968 in Yongkang District, Tainan City, Taiwan, is a male director in Taiwan, China.

In 1993, Wei Desheng began to work in Yang Dechang's film studio. In 1994, his first script, the son of ice seller, won the excellent screenplay award from the Taiwan government. Later, his short films "sunset" and "Three Dialogues" won the golden harvest award for many times. In 2008, Wei Desheng's film "Cape No.7" won the 45th Golden Horse Award for best film and the best film of the audience. He won the outstanding Taiwan Film Award of the year and the best director award. In 2011, the epic hero movie "Cedric bale", which has been planned for 12 years and mobilized 20000 people to shoot and direct, was officially released.

Early experience

Wei Desheng graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of Far East Institute of Technology (now far east University of science and Technology). When he was in the army, he met a classmate who graduated from Shixin and listened to him talk about movies all day. After he retired from the army in 1991, he joined a small communication company as a TV program assistant and began to enter the film and television industry. When he first joined the communication company, Wei Desheng came into contact with the production of TV dramas, so he began to write scripts and shoot his own works on video.

Acting experience

In 1993, Wei Desheng worked as a field reporter in Jin aoxun's military education film "want to fly - proud eagle" and got to know Yang Dechang's film studio staff, so he joined Yang Dechang's film studio as an assistant after his work. In 1994, Wei Desheng won the excellent screenplay award from the Taiwan government for his first screenplay the son of ice. In 1995, he made a short film "sunset" to participate in the golden harvest award set up by the Taiwan government to encourage young people to make non-commercial plot films, and won the 18th golden harvest award. In 1995, Japanese director Lin Haixiang came to Taiwan to shoot the Japanese Taiwan film "sea ghost lantern", and Wei Desheng was appointed as the production assistant of the film. In 1996, in director Yang Dechang's new film mahjong, Wei Desheng was promoted from field service and assistant director to assistant director in a short time. In fact, in the late 1990s, because Yang Dechang's production cycle was too long, Wei Desheng wanted to realize a film dream on his own, so he chose to leave Yang Dechang's directing studio. In 1996, Wei Desheng began to make films with 16mm negatives. His short films include dialogue 3, before dawn, and July day. In addition to winning the golden harvest award, he has also attracted more and more attention from film festivals at home and abroad. In 1997, Wei Desheng accidentally turned to Qiu ruolong's cartoon "Wushe incident", deeply touched, and began to write a script. In 2000, he completed the script "Cedric bale", which tells the whole story of the "Wushe incident", and won the "excellent screenplay Award" of the Taiwan Information Bureau. In 2003, he spent NT $2 million on a five minute trailer, hoping to attract investment, but failed. In 2002, he published the book "little director's unemployment Diary - golden fish will Samuel". In 2003, his script "body on fire - silaya" won the "excellent screenplay Award" of Taiwan Information Bureau. In 2008, Wei Desheng's movie "Cape Seven" became the most popular Chinese film in Taiwan, and won the third Asian Film Awards to commemorate Yang Dechang's Asian Rookie Award. in 2009, the epic film "Cedric bale" project was officially launched, with Wei Desheng as the film director and John Woo as the producer, and raised $10 million for the production cost of the film. The film will be released in September 2011. Because of the long time, the film is divided into two parts, the upper part is called "Cedric bale (Part 1): Sun flag", and the lower part is called "Sun flag"《 Cedric bale (2) rainbow bridge. "Cedric bale" won the Golden Horse Award for best picture in 2011. In 2012, he was the producer of the baseball movie Kano, and the early script of the film was also written by Wei Desheng. in 2016, his new film "52hz, iloveyou" was released.

Main works

Directing works

Publishing books

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Compared with most directors in Taiwan, Wei Desheng is quite grassroots. He didn't even go to college, nor did he specially study movies, and knew little about the so-called masterpieces. During the financial crisis and the depression of the people in Taiwan, with the perseverance and humor of the little people to survive, let the people regain their recognition of this land. In just two months, Wei Desheng surpassed Jackie Chan and Ang Lee to become the best-selling director of Taiwan's Chinese language films for more than 60 years. He suddenly became a world-renowned Chinese film director (Chinese Language Film Media Awards) from a playwright who lived in a muddle. Wei Desheng is full of ideal personality and has the courage to adhere to his own concept, which leads to a small number of outsourcing works. However, the details of Wei Desheng's works directed and shot by himself can still clearly see the track of Wei Desheng's continuous self breakthrough and self growth (Chengdu Daily review).

Character controversy

Since Wei Desheng became famous, his films (Cape Seven in 2008, Cedric bale in 2011 and Kano in 2014) all involve the history of the Japanese occupation era in Taiwan, which has caused some people to accuse Wei Desheng of "flattering Japan". Critics' comments often deviate from the content of the film and tend to struggle for political position. Seven members of the self proclaimed "anti independence historical front" criticized Japan for flattering without seeing a film; anonymous people pretended to be different identities and published film reviews, which showed signs of such targeted attacks.