The screen turns.

The yellowish hue is used to express that this is a memory and a scene from the past.

On the large playground, the students were in the dark, and the crowd was a little heckling.

Loud and talking.

On the rostrum, Jiang Youxi played and sang to himself, the teachers were in a hurry, and the principal angrily took the microphone and said, "This classmate, you go down quickly, don't make trouble." ”

The protagonist played by Kang Youxi grabbed the microphone and said, "I'm not making trouble, I'm making a beautiful high school memory." In this way, you will be able to tell the people around you that you used to be high school classmates with the music godfather of Dahuaguo, and the music godfather played and sang a special song for you at the opening ceremony. Isn't that a very interesting memory?"

Of course, he was soon ousted from the rostrum by the teachers.

After only watching it for 1 minute, Yang Liqi was already attracted.

How to say it, there is no show-off at the beginning of this movie, just a very straightforward explanation.

But through the use of the camera, through a few key dialogues, in 1 minute, the image of the protagonist has been portrayed very clearly.

And it gives people a sense of anticipation.

How will this teenager who made a wild vow on the first day of the opening ceremony to be the "godfather of future music", this teenager who is determined to make a living from music, this fool in the eyes of others, how will he slap the faces of those who look down on him?

Yang Liqi thinks that no one should doubt whether he can do it.

Because the piece he hummed was incomplete, but the melody was excellent.

From this point of view, ordinary viewers will also feel that although this teenager is a little crazy, a little unsophisticated, and a little off the line.

But he really has the strength, it's just that others don't understand it.

The audience, who stood from God's point of view, naturally chose to stand on the side of the teenager, ready to give the middle finger to the whole world.

Or to put it another way: the sense of substitution is already there.

......

"There's already a sense of substitution. The famous film critic "Li Sanming" touched his chin that had grown dense stubble and muttered to himself.

As a famous film critic, of course, he doesn't watch every film.

But after receiving the money, you have to do something. Of course, everyone in the industry knows that he never money.

If he hates a movie, he won't write a film review to praise him for 100,000.

Unless given 1 million.

And Hemingway's "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers", he has also seen it.

There is a consensus in the circle that this short film is an old cow.

In just 10 minutes, it tells a very short story, but it can deeply move the audience.

Although a large part of the factor is that the script is good and the idea is high.

But it can also be seen that the director's technique is very solid.

There are really not many directors with such skills.

Moreover, this short film is not just well scripted.

These professional film critics can naturally see a lot of things from it.

Well, although limited by the subject matter, length, and funds, "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers" doesn't have much to show off.

But in the plainness, you can get a glimpse of the director's "internal strength" is good, and the foundation is very good.

So it can be said that it is difficult to judge Hemingway's upper limit as a director based on just one "Deep in a Hundred Flowers".

However, it is certain that Hemingway's lower limit is not low.

Therefore, in the circle, many film critics are quite interested in "Those Years".

They are not interested in what story "Those Years" will tell, but want to judge how many points Hemingway's directing skills can score and where the upper limit is through "Those Years", which is longer and has more investment.

Moreover, "The Depths of a Hundred Flowers" is not commercial-oriented after all.

"Those Years" is a commercial film.

It is pay-per-demand.

The narrative routines and styles of commercial films are very different from those of literary and artistic films.

If Li Sanming is simply said, literary and artistic movies are to take the audience to experience, feel, understand, and think.

What about commercial films, which use sensory stimulation to make the audience laugh, or nervous, or cool, cool, and cool to the end.

Judging from the first minute or so, Li Sanming felt that the beginning of this movie was a success.

The sense of substitution is an important factor for the audience to sit obediently and watch a movie.

With a sense of substitution, you will share the pain and joy of the protagonist, feel nervous for the protagonist, and immerse yourself in the plot.

In the first minute or so of "Those Years", the character creation is very successful, and in just a few shots and a few lines of dialogue, the protagonist's personality is distinct - although it is not three-dimensional enough, it is already very recognizable and attractive enough.

Because the image shown by the protagonist is very representative.

It's not that the protagonist likes to play music.

Rather, it's like, "I thought my image in the eyes of others was like this," "But actually, my image in the eyes of others was like this." ”

As an adult, when you hear such words, you will definitely remember your feelings when you were a teenager and smile.

And young people will have a kinship, too.

Because this is what almost every teenager experiences, the conflict between self-perception and others' perception of themselves.

Also, the main character loves music and has dreams that seem to be wild.

Although, the presentation is a bit exaggerated.

But cinema is an exaggeration of art.

To tell the truth, people are not arrogant to teenagers.

Who didn't have a little unrealistic dream when they were young.

Who hasn't been ridiculed or misunderstood when they're young?

Hemingway found these most common things in order to make the audience quickly have a sense of substitution.

At the same time, some of the words in the dialogue are also quite interesting, not rigid, and very lively.

The camera turns back to the present, and the protagonist played by Jiang Youxi is among dozens or hundreds of students.

Then the picture freezes.

In this picture, someone is riding a bicycle, someone is sitting in the back seat of his father's motorcycle, there are students walking, and there are boys and girls secretly holding hands.

The appearance of all beings.

Subtitles appear above Jiang Youxi's head: Lin He, who thinks he is the protagonist.

This subtitle is obviously handwritten, like the handwriting of an ordinary high school student, which is not very good, but it is very unrestrained.

It feels like it's the main character's own handwriting.

Li Sanming couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth again.

Then the picture continues to flow.

Next, Hemingway continued to use a concise and crisp approach, with a few shots and voiceovers, to vividly introduce the four friends of the male protagonist.

Male supporting 1, a fat house who likes comics, has bad grades, is often humiliated, and his family does not support him in drawing comics, but he has never given up his dream.

Male 2, a master of video games, likes to talk rhetorically, has average grades, is very good at observing words and feelings, and can be a person.

Male 3, grades are always among the best, a bit nerdy, teachers and parents like it very much. But in private, they will also secretly skip classes and smoke.

Male 4, knows a lot of bad students, and even knows bad gangs outside the school, short-tempered, rude, but moral.

"We didn't really have much in common, we just became friends. Well, in fact, it is not completely devoid of commonalities. At least, we all like the same girl. ”

At this time, the picture returns to the scene where the two girls chatted before, freeze frame.

Then the camera zooms in, so that the fresh, fairy-like girl occupies almost all of the picture.

Li Sanming secretly praised: This shot is so beautiful! And the heroine's appearance can also stand the test.

When you look at it so magnified, there is no flaw at all, and it is so beautiful that it is like a fairy who fell from the sky to the world.

Then subtitles appear next to them, still in a handwritten font: Wen Xinran.

Then these three words were taken away by an invisible hand (special effect) and replaced with a few other handwritten words: The girl we chased together.

A directional arrow was also drawn.

Immediately after, the words "those years" fell from above, before "we".

So the full title appears here: The girl we chased together in those years.

Li Sanming nodded: This method is quite novel.

This is followed by some images of school life as a transition, and at the same time, a list of producers and creators appears on the screen.

After the first few minutes of foreshadowing, the rhythm slows down a little at this time, so that the audience realizes that the next thing is to get to the point.

Li Sanming feels that until now, this movie has been able to firmly attract him.

And continue to watch with a sense of anticipation.

And his own taste is actually quite picky, after all, as a film critic, I have watched too many movies, and my appreciation ability is higher than that of ordinary audiences.

Even I was attracted, so it is conceivable that ordinary viewers should be attracted as well.

Now, Li Sanming just wants to put aside his position as a "film critic" and enjoy this movie first.

When you wait for the second brush, let's observe the details and write a movie review.

The next plot progresses very quickly.

After all, it's just a 53-minute micro-movie, and it can't be narrated slowly like Wong Kar-wai.

When Du Caige shoots and edits, he doesn't think about the right nonsense such as "every shot must have charm and meaning".

He thinks about "telling the story as completely as possible in the shortest possible shots".

That's it.

After a brief introduction to the important characters in the opening scene, the protagonist Lin He finally arrives at the school on his bicycle.

On this day, the class teacher adjusted the seats of the whole class.

Because they are all high school students and are in the development period, some students have grown more than ten centimeters in one semester.

In addition, the head teacher also noticed that some students seemed to have signs of early love, and they naturally had to break it up.

Yes, Yonghui Middle School, where Lin He is located, is all co-ed and female.

The process of changing seats involves the whole class standing in line outside the classroom according to their height, and then entering one group of girls and then one group of boys at a time.

This ensures that men and women are at the same table.

Of course, since the number of men and women is different, there are slightly more boys, so there are a few unlucky boys at the same table as the unlucky boys who are just as unlucky as them.

In all fairness.

In this reassignment of seats, the expressionless but secretly heartfelt protagonist Lin He and the girl he has a crush on, the school flower Wen, happily became the same table.

A youth story has officially begun.

Li Sanming's occupational illness was committed again, and he said softly: "The contradiction and conflict point is out. ”