The screen gradually darkened, and then a dark light appeared, and the subtitles passed one by one, and the whole screen seemed to be covered with a veil. Then it gradually lights up, and the outlines of mountains, villages, and fields appear......

"Horn Horn!"

The roar of tractors shattered the silence and faded from distance to distance. On a winding dirt road at the entrance of the village, an ancient tractor is moving slowly. A string of incompletely burning black smoke emitted from the long poked exhaust pipe, which formed a layered sense of the picture with the fog floating in the mountains in the distance and the cooking smoke above the village.

The tractor was followed by a team of dozens of people, two by two, neatly aligned. With the roar of the tractor, the singing began to sound.

"We're on the road

Spirited and motivated

Grandpa Mao led the revolutionary team

Overcoming obstacles and rushing forward

Forward - Forward - Forward -

The momentum of the revolution is unstoppable

Forward - Forward - Forward -

......”

This is a long shot, with mountains, canyons, villages, fields, winding roads, and high-spirited processions covering the entire frame.

As the camera slowly pulls in, the majestic singing gradually overshadows the roar of the tractor, full of inspiring power.

In the original version, there is a narration at the beginning, "This is an absurd era, there have been many stories, and my story is the most absurd story ...... this absurd era" and so on.

This is a movie, not a TV series, and this kind of narration similar to taking off your pants and farting will undoubtedly greatly reduce the style of the movie. The current film will definitely not have this kind of inferior operation, and everything is left to the audience to savor slowly.

With the succession of the fifth and sixth generations of directors such as Guoshi, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Yuan, Jia Section Chief, Wang Xiaoshuai, etc., and at the same time making a name for themselves in the world, senior fans are no strangers to the stories that happened in China in the sixties and seventies of the last century.

This is also a way of expression for many people in later generations to complain about China's backwardness to please foreign adults.

He Xin and Xiaowen mixed in the team, carrying shovels, holding their heads high, singing inspiring songs loudly, and walking in neat steps......

As soon as the camera turned, a hot work scene appeared.

This is an era of absurdity, but also an age of construction.

With the same long shot, He Xin is very conspicuous, and the cart is the fastest!

Of course, laziness is also the first ......

The two slipped out of the line and sat on the ancient city wall at the entrance of the village.

Xiaowen looked confused and said, "Ma Jie, when do you think we can go back to the city?" I really don't understand what we can do if we stay here every day?"

He Xin greeted the rising sun in the ravine, reciting his favorite sentence from "How Steel is Made": "People, the most precious thing is life." Life belongs to man only once. A man's life should be spent in such a way that when we look back, we do not regret that we wasted our time, nor are we ashamed of our inactivity, but when we die, we ......"

Xiaowen was even more confused, and hurriedly interrupted: "You...... You said it too deeply, I don't understand, you tell me what to do in the next days!"

“......”

He Xin glanced at Xiaowen, how did he know how to live?

The two stood side by side, Xiaowen was nearly ten centimeters shorter than him, thin and obscene, with a stupid expression, and he was really the best person to take the blame.

To say that Xiaowen's obviously low IQ and pretending to be stupid are really good. It's no wonder that Li Lianlian took a fancy to let him star in "Ocean Paradise" as a stupid son.

It's just a pity that Li Lianjie's father is too dramatic, so action stars want to transform and win awards, and they have a long way to go. Only people like Fang Shilong, who are hardworking, optimistic, persistent, aware of current affairs, and indomitable, can finally achieve their wishes.

Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award!

Just then, a donkey's bark attracted the attention of the two.

"Hehe, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, and I hear the tearing sound of my mount!"

At the beginning of the story, He Xin intersected with a donkey for the first time.

He doesn't like donkeys, but simply wants to be lazy.

He then succeeded in working as a livestock breeder.

The following dialogue is absurd and funny, reflecting the characteristics of the era:

"In fact, the family background of the two donkeys is not good, going back to several generations, their great-great-grandfather was raised by the big landlord Gao Jiucai in the village, eating and drinking spicy food all day long, and the fire wall was built in the livestock shed, which is much more comfortable than our poor middle peasants......"

"But let's also use the opportunity to give the Black Five to be a new person!"

"Black Six is a natural donkey!"

There was a burst of laughter from the audience.

"The Tale of Two Donkeys" is actually a light comedy in the strict sense.

The beginning of this film is a bit similar to He Xin's previous "Little Tailor", which is also devolved from the city to the countryside for labor training and re-education for middle peasants, and young people are also full of confusion. And then slowly grow up little by little in a difficult environment. Thousands of troops

It's just that the theme of "The Little Tailor" is love, while "The Tale of Two Donkeys" is a fable.

When "The Little Tailor" premiered in Cannes that year, it was very popular, and the box office in France exceeded 2 million euros, which is a relatively high-grossing foreign literary film. Then he represented France in the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Of course, these original works with "The Little Tailor" themselves were bestsellers in France at that time, and they were also a very important reason.

Oh, and by the way, "The Little Tailor" also grossed $700,000 in North America, surpassing the box office of "Boundless" in North America.

And that's not even counting the proceeds from DVD and TV rights.

Now MK2 wants to buy out the global distribution rights of "A Tale of Two Donkeys", and Xiaodouding refers to the box office performance of "The Little Tailor" that year, and is currently in a tug-of-war with MK2 around the range of 1 million euros to 1.5 million euros.

Of course, you can also disassemble *** such as MK2 to win the copyright in Europe, and then find someone to sell North America, Asia, Europe and so on. There could be even more money. But it's cumbersome, and you won't always be able to find the right buyer. After all, MK2 is a mature literary film production and distribution company, both in terms of brand and communication, it also enjoys a good reputation in the world, and it is easy to cooperate with such a company.

Xinhao Media has now reached a strategic cooperation agreement with PropNex in China, and there should be such partners overseas, and it seems that MK2 is still relatively reliable.

He Xin didn't laugh, he had watched the film many times. He paid more attention to the reaction of the audience, such as the laughter of foreigners now, which may be to laugh at the ignorance and backwardness of the Chinese in that era. It's like the village chief didn't even know the alarm clock in "The Little Tailor", which made them very incredible.

Not to mention whether it is black or not, in that absurd era, the gap between us and the developed countries was so big. Just like now we look at the Dajin Kingdom in the north, the three countries in Afghanistan in the west, and even the Citigroup country across the Pacific Ocean.

The plot progressed to the point where He Xin wanted to put on Black Six and let it pull the car, and then Black Six ran to Captain Dalian to complain.

So He Xin was severely reprimanded:

"How can you get Black Six to work? Its job is breeding, not work!"

"Can you afford to pay for it?"

"Don't say that you are a young intellectual, even ten can't compare to the contribution made by Black Six!"

"Today's work points have been deducted!"

A few lines of dialogue, very characteristic of the times at that time, everything has been contributed, and people are not as good as animals. In a sense, Hei Liu, like his ancestors, eats and drinks spicy food all day long, and there are so many spicy female donkeys waiting for him to pamper him, which is much more comfortable than the depressed and hard-working educated youth.

He Xin dragged Hei Liu back to the livestock shed, but Hei Liu snorted casually and flirted with a jujube mare in the adjacent trough with his tail wagging his tail.

He Xinqi was in his heart:

"What's wrong with letting you do some work? Why did I wronged you? Don't you work hard, are you worthy of the eggs you ate? And flirt with other lesbians, that's a horse, not a donkey, you're not a species!"

"Do you know it's wrong?"

Black Six smiled weirdly in a very cooperative manner......

Sure enough, you get what you pay for, and Hei Liu's smile and the crow's feet next to the donkey's eyes when he laughs are particularly realistic. Some viewers even exclaimed.

He Xin glanced at Diao Yinan, who was sitting beside him, and at the same time showed a smug smile. A movie needs the finishing touch, and the finishing touch of "The Story of Two Donkeys" is undoubtedly the realistic donkey laugh and crow's feet.

This is a combination of technology and literature and art.

"Lying in the groove Nima, a beast, it's the other way around, do you think you're the Monkey King?"

He Xin was on fire, picked up the whip and threw it down, the black six are wasted!

Scrapped, naturally there is no kind of donkey preferential treatment, and the work is not good, in the era of only contribution, the final outcome of the black six can only be skinned and eaten.

Very realistic!

Then comes the climax of the film, where Black Six's younger brother Black Seven launches a series of revenge on He Xin. In this paragraph, foreigners are very happy to see, and every time they see He Xin eating deflated, the audience will burst into laughter, and there are even applause.

Especially after he and Tong Yali stole the forbidden fruit by the stream, they were dragged by Hei Qi to parade through the street, which was very happy. There are two shots, Diao Yinan feels very proud, one is to use a long lens to shoot the boat scene on the donkey cart, between the vast mountains and streams, it is very beautiful.

In fact, this kind of play is left over from European directors, and it can't cause any waves, but a dream interspersed with it makes foreigners amazed and very contemporary.

Because of the beginning of the story, He Xin often holds a copy of "How Steel is Made", and constantly motivates himself with classic quotations about how people should spend their lives. In the sweet dream after He Xin and Tong Yali stole the forbidden fruit, He Xin dreamed that he was wearing a revolutionary uniform, and his beloved girl was waiting for him in a wooden house in the forest like a Katyusha, and the two danced happily together.

In the original version, there is also a paragraph in which Ma Jie can't bear it anymore and is ready to kill Black Seven in the dark, and there is a large paragraph of dialogue against Black Seven. Man and donkey, serious and donkey laughing, very displaced, very humorous. But in the whole play, it seems very deliberate, as if humor is humor for the sake of humor, and it does not match the theme of resistance.

That's right, the theme of the story of the two donkeys is resistance, on the surface, the donkey's rebellion against people, but at the same time, it is not the rebellion of Ma Jie played by He Xin against the system of that era.

It's like when the film is about to end, he threw away the book of dreams that is interspersed throughout the play by the stream and represents a generation, and he just wants to ignore the constraints of the system and end up with Hei Qi.

In the last shot, the snow was falling, Ma Jie pushed open the door and saw Hei Qi still standing in the snow, with only a gray-brown skeleton left on his body. The skeleton was still emitting wisps of hard green smoke, and it looked like metal, standing stiff and straight in the snow.

A big close-up, He Xin's face was expressionless, his eyes looked into the distance beyond Hei Qi's skeleton, his eyes were full of confusion......

Three lines of eye-catching big characters suddenly popped up on the screen, which were in Chinese, English, and Italian.

"No animals were harmed in this film!"

This is important, especially in Western societies, and it means political correctness.

Immediately, a long list of credits began to scroll on the screen, and the lights came on, and a group of people seemed to be suddenly exposed to the theater, freezing all kinds of expressions, as if a world was changed in an instant.

"Whoa......

The applause suddenly rang out, and then the audience all stood up together and slapped vigorously.

Diao Yinan was very flustered, and he may have experienced this kind of scene for the first time, and he was at a loss for a while. Fortunately, He Xin, who was sitting next to him, pulled him while standing up.

He quickly stood up, followed He Xin's example, turned around and waved at the enthusiastic audience in the audience.