He Xin has watched a lot of movies in the past two years, many movies that were considered "not good-looking" in his previous life, but now once he watches them, he will feel very tasteful, and after watching them, he will trigger thoughts and aftertaste. But some still feel very dull, and they can't stand it a few times, such as the famous work of Section Chief Jia.

In the process of reading the film, he found that those so-called sixth-generation directors seem to have a unified pattern in terms of shooting techniques, that is, they like long shots.

For example, Wang Xiaoshuai's, Section Chief Jia's hometown trilogy, Lou Ye's, Zhang Yuan's and other works with realistic themes, they all seem to like to treat themselves as a bystander, indifferently examining this society through a long lens.

And among them, the most frustrating use of long shots is undoubtedly Wang Chao's.

Ning Hao was obviously also infected with this problem, not so much as an expression but a pure imitation.

Because through this book, He Xin can still see to some extent that compared with Section Chief Jia, Zhang Yuan, Lou Ye and others, these obscure plots and strong sense of personal expression that make ordinary audiences understand, there is still a strong story and black humor revealed intentionally or unintentionally.

The grass platform team finally started up, in fact, it is not very accurate to say that it was started, because Ning Hao had already shot a lot of materials with the camera before, and only then did he officially start filming.

There are very few lines in the script, at the beginning he asked He Xin to wear ill-fitting monk clothes, riding a 51-type heavy bicycle that was even more broken than when he delivered the courier and always had to drop the chain, and rode around the streets and alleys of the county, while he set up a machine across the road, or sat in a van to follow all the way.

This is very handy for He Xin, because when he first filmed, he had filmed similar scenes, and he also had an experience, that is, don't pay attention to the camera, just do what you want.

One of the advantages of DV shooting is that you don't have to worry about wasting film, so you can shoot as much as you want. Obviously, Ning Hao's thoughts are also in line with him, as soon as the machine is turned on, let him let go as much as possible, and act as much as he wants.

Ning Hao's former colleagues from the Taiyuan Repertory Theatre, who originally came to help, learned that He Xin was the Golden Horse actor and the best newcomer in Berlin International Film, and they all gathered around the scene with curiosity and reverence, after all, this kind of award was too far away from them.

But when they looked at them, they felt a little confused and confused, because the one they saw was wearing an ill-fitting monk's robe, carrying a sachet on his back, slightly hunched on his back, riding a broken bicycle and swaying around the street. Occasionally, I will come down to push, and when I hear a certain noise, I will look around, and when I see a place where the crowd gathers, I will stop and stretch my neck to see the excitement.

Maybe the monk's robe on his body is a little thin, sometimes he will wake up with snot, and the hand that pinchs his nose will naturally wipe it on the wall or telephone pole, and then raise his sleeve to wipe his nose, look at the flow of people on the street or squint his eyes to look up at the faintly glowing sun hanging in the gray sky.

His eyes were always unfocused, floating and dazed. It didn't seem to be any different from the people who were wandering around the street with nothing to do, and if it weren't for his burly bald head and conspicuous yellow monk's robes, he would not have been able to tell that he was an actor and that he was acting.

Is this the level of an actor?

But only Ning Hao's gaze became hot, he stared at He Xin's figure in the frame, he just wanted to shoot this kind of extremely close to the real image, it was best not to have a trace of performance.

When he first wrote this script, he wanted to find a real monk to play it, or a non-professional actor. But he is not a director who is very stubborn for the sake of art, nor is it purely for self-expression.

To put it bluntly, he made movies to become famous, and to make his works visible to more people. So just like his character, it is easy to compromise on reality, which is why he suddenly transformed into a director of commercial films.

The purpose of looking for He Xin is to attract attention and participate in the Asian DV Film Competition Unit of the Hong Kong International Film Festival next year, and he is even ready to sacrifice his original intention. But he never expected that what He Xin presented to him was the kind of performance he wanted without traces of acting.

He Xin leaned the dilapidated bicycle against the telephone pole, and he squatted on the side basking in the sun, probably really catching a cold, raised the index finger of his right hand and pressed the side of his nose, and his head swung to the left, and a string of slender snot sprayed from the left nostril to the ground like an arrow from the string, and then saw him wipe under the nostril with the thumb of his right hand, put down his hand and naturally rubbed it on the telephone pole, rubbed a few fingers again, and continued to hold his hands on his chest.

His eyes swept boredly across the street, and occasionally pedestrians passed in front of him, and not far away a blind man in sunglasses was setting up a fortune telling stall......

Ning Hao stared at the picture in the frame, his whole body trembling. He couldn't be clearer that for a director, it is his greatest luck to be able to meet such an actor.

"Ahh

Before, he only needed to wear autumn clothes and pants in the room, but now, even if he took a long hot shower as soon as he came back, and then wrapped the quilt around his body, the whole person was still shivering, his two nostrils were blocked, he could only breathe through his mouth, and his head was dizzy, which was extremely uncomfortable.

"Are you better?"

Ning Hao pushed the door in with a bag in his hand.

He Xin glanced at him and shook his head, not even thinking to speak.

"Here, this is what Nana bought for you, go back and put it on. I said you too, you know that this dress is thin, why don't you know how to wear more inside, do you know that today's maximum temperature is only minus 7 degrees!"

Ning Hao took out a set of thermal underwear in the bag, complained and touched He Xin's forehead, maybe he couldn't eat it accurately, and touched his head again, and after comparing the two, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, I don't have a fever." ”

He Xin glanced at him, and then looked at the box containing thermal underwear, and then said angrily: "Thank you Sister Na on my behalf." ”

"Yo, the voice has changed, why don't you go to the hospital and take a look, get a hanging needle and get better quickly." ”

"It's okay, it's mainly that my nose is plugged, just get some sleep!"

In his previous life, he had been lying in the hospital for a long time, until he finally came to the end of his life. Maybe it was out of fear and disgust, after he was reborn, he was very resistant to going to the hospital, even if he had some colds and flu, at most he took some medicine and carried it like this.

"Okay, then you can sleep. ”

Ning Hao stood up as he spoke, and asked again before leaving, "Then can you go down for dinner?"

probably saw He Xin's listless look, and without waiting for him to answer, he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I'll help you get it in a while." ”

He Xin nodded, and after he went out, he tightened the quilt wrapped around his body and lay down.

Maybe the cold medicine I ate worked and I fell asleep in a daze, but I didn't seem to be sleeping, and my mind was like a movie, and the scenes flashed chaotically, there were scenes of quarrels with his wife in his previous life, and there were pictures of Yuan Hexin and his parents spending the New Year with his parents when he was a child, and he actually dreamed that Cheng Hao proposed to break up with him, which scared him awake all of a sudden.

The whole person broke out in a cold sweat, and his heart was pounding and beating. He let out a long breath, secretly glad in his heart that it was a dream, and at the same time comforted himself with the fact that the dream was the opposite.

Finally calmed down, probably because of a sweat, the originally plugged nose actually passed. Afraid of accidentally catching a cold again, he quickly jumped out of bed, went to the bathroom to take a hot shower, and changed into the new thermal underwear that Ning Hao brought before.

The nose is open, the breathing is smooth, the person's spirit is instantly better, and the stomach feels hungry, look outside the window, it has already fallen at night, but Ning Hao said to help him bring dinner, and there is no one in sight until now.

Just as he was slandering, the door of the room was opened from the outside, and he saw Ning Hao tiptoeing in with the plastic bag and a bottle of wine in his hand, and when he looked up, he saw He Xin standing in the center of the room, which startled him.

"You woke up, I thought you were still asleep!"

As he spoke, the guy glanced at him and said with a smile: "It's quite a good fit, and my complexion is much better than before." ”

He Xin dragged the coffee table to the middle of the two beds.

"Put it on, if you don't come again, I'm going to go down and eat it myself. ”

The man took out the lunch box in the bag and explained, "I've been sorting out the footage taken today since I left you, and if it wasn't for Nana reminding me, I would have forgotten to eat." ”

Ning Hao brought a lot of things, white-cut mutton, lamb liver and tripe, fried peanuts and cold kelp shreds, and a large box of steaming scallion oil knife-cut noodles.

The goods were laid out in the same way, and he smiled: "I originally planned that if you don't have much appetite and can't eat much, I'll take it back to my room and drink it myself." How about two sips?"

"Okay. ”

He stood up, took out a pack of twenty disposable cups from his suitcase, and took two out.

"Yo, the guy is so well done! Hey, don't put it back, divide me in half for a while, I used to drink from the cup of brushing my teeth in the room. ”

He Xin counted five cups for his own use, and threw the rest to him along with the packaging bag, and said with a disgusted face: "You are always buried like this, don't Sister Na talk about you?"

"I used to say it a lot, but I've gotten used to it after a long time. Don't say it, sometimes she's less particular than I am. ”

As he spoke, he poured half a glass of wine into each of the two glasses, picked up one of them, and said, "Come, in your Northeast dialect, let's take a sip first." ”

"Don't, let me eat a mat first, my stomach is growling with hunger. ”

I finished half a box of knife-cut noodles in one go, and my hungry stomach finally eased up. Only then did he pick up the cup, touch it with Ning Hao, take a sip, put a piece of mutton in his mouth, and asked while eating, "How is the material filmed today?"

"Exceptional!"

Speaking of this, Ning Hao suddenly slapped the coffee table, gave a thumbs up and said excitedly: "Ah Xin, you really deserve to be an actor! It turns out that when I saw you filming the TV series, I was still muttering in my heart, I didn't expect you to be able to enter the state so quickly, and it is the kind I want." ”

He Xin smiled faintly, but he was inevitably a little proud in his heart. Acting in a TV series may be because of a lot of lines and a fast pace of shooting, which makes him a little uncomfortable, but to say that there are few lines like this, and he plays a hard-working role, it is still more handy for him, because this is the same, from a certain point of view, what he is playing is actually himself.

Ning Hao is still very excited, saying that this movie will undoubtedly make the picture more full and three-dimensional with the support of He Xin's natural performance;

Hearing that He Xin felt embarrassed in the end, he hurriedly picked up the wine and said, "Don't say it, drink!"

Good fellow, this thing was so excited that he actually drained nearly one or two halves of the wine in the glass.

I don't know if the nerves are wrong in this product today, and I actually put my heart in his heart with him with the strength of wine.

“...... My favorite thing is still painting, but I don't have the talent of Van Gogh or Picasso, and I can't even afford to eat, let alone dream, just by painting. To be honest, I used to shoot commercials and MVs just to make a living, but then I was ambitious, so I wanted to try to make movies, which can be famous and make money quickly. When you have money and no worries about food and clothing, you can go back and pursue your dream of painting......"

"Fart dreams!"

He Xin interrupted unceremoniously while eating peanuts: "I have heard that artists can only create great works when they are poor. Who, as you just said, didn't Van Gogh starve to death!"

"Nonsense, Van Gogh didn't starve to death, he shot himself. Ning Hao glanced at him with disdain, and hurriedly corrected.

He Xin shook his chopsticks nonchalantly and said: "No matter how he died, poverty is certain, I heard that when he was alive, the paintings couldn't be sold, and when he died, he began to slowly become valuable." I don't understand this, isn't it all art, why no one appreciates his paintings when he is alive, and he will be sought after when he is dead, do you think this is also a hype?"

"Uh......"

Ning Hao wanted to refute, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't seem to come up with any strong rebuttal evidence, so he had to give up: "Forget it, I won't talk to you about painting, let's talk about movies." ”

So he began to talk about his original intention to create this movie, and also talked about the Yongning Temple in his hometown Nanxiaozhai Village.

It is said that Yongning Temple has a very long history, as early as the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a strong incense here, and the name of Yongning Temple was given by Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty.

It is because there was Yongning Temple first, and the incense is vigorous, people feel that this is a treasure land, and they have moved to live, so there is the later Nanxiaozhai.

Ning Hao said that the reason why their family is surnamed Ning is because their ancestors moved here when the Yuan Dynasty ruled, and the status of the Han people was very low, and they didn't even have a serious name, because this Yongning Temple, begging the Buddha to bless peace, took Ning as their surname.

He Xin didn't know if what he said was true or not, but hearing him say this, it seemed quite like that.

However, when talking about the movie, He Xin couldn't help but complain: "I might as well change the name of this film when I see it." ”

Because the monk in the script was very simple at the beginning, he was a monk, and the monk had to have a temple. The senior brother advised him not to guard the ruined temple, and simply come to his newly built temple to join the shares. But the monk was not reconciled, he didn't want to lose this small temple handed down by the master in his own hands. And the village is all sheep slaughterers, so there should be a temple.

At first, the county did not have the money to repair the collapsed Buddha statue for him, so he went to make a fortune, but was arrested by the police for this. Locked up with the young lady who sold yin, the young ladies planned to pool money to help him repair the Buddha statue, but he felt that the young lady's money was not suitable and refused.

But the money that finally came from fate was confiscated by the police, and the monk had no choice, so after being inspired by the young man who asked him to pretend to be a fortune teller, he went to set up a fortune telling stall again. But because he robbed the fake blind man's business, not only was the money snatched away by the hooligans, but he was also beaten.

Just when he was desperate, someone asked him to see a doctor, a Buddha statue bought from a stall for 12 yuan, he lied that it was the master of Wutai Mountain, but it could cure his wife's illness, sold it for 3,000 yuan, and finally raised enough money to repair the Buddha statue.

A simple monk in order to raise money for the repair of Buddha statues, all the way to metamorphosis, and finally became a deceived liar, I have to say that this is a great irony.

Of course, in the end, when the monk finally repaired the Buddha statue and held a grand consecration ceremony, he was told by people from the county that the small temple was on the roadbed of the "Road to Prosperity" planned by the county, and it would be demolished immediately in the coming year.

Looking at the big word "demolition" on the wall, the sound of Amitabha Buddha came from the loudspeaker, and the monk could only look at the sky speechlessly.

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