But later, Ridley Scott re-edited the original 2-hour version and made a director's cut that was 3 hours and 15 minutes long.

This version was an instant hit and was hailed as a masterpiece by fans.

The original score of 5.6 points soared to 8.1 points.

That's the beauty of editing.

In the past, in Hong Kong films, in order to save budget and make money quickly, a crew would edit out one movie after filming, and then piece together the remaining materials and cut out a different movie for release.

Pay the cost of one movie, get two movies, double the box office, double the happiness.

As for those logical and incomprehensible places, if they are nonsensical or interpreted as postmodern expressions, someone will always pay for them.

As for art, aesthetics, or whatever......

Oh, who thinks about it so much, don't you want to eat?

Give the bosses two options.

Invest in a bad movie, popcorn movie that can make money, but will be scolded badly.

Or invest in a classic literary film that can leave a name in film history, but the box office is so bad that it can't recover its cost.

Excuse me, boss, which one do you vote for?

As long as there is no pit in the head, I will choose the former.

Du Feiqi pricked up her ears and listened to them for a while, and found that they were indeed just discussing film editing, and there was nothing beyond that, so she put her mind at ease.

While the two were not paying attention, she secretly put her hand under the table and sent a text message: Don't worry, I'll help you keep an eye on them, and I will never let my brother have a chance to cheat!

Whew, she patted her chest, feeling so excited, it seemed that she had incarnated as a warrior of a secret front, sending information to her comrades under the noses of the enemy.

After a while, the reply came: Momoda, I love you to death. After the concert on the 2nd, I will sneak out of the hotel and come to you with beer and fried chicken.

Du Feiqi couldn't help laughing, the corners of her mouth curled, and she quickly typed: Are you sure? Beer and fried chicken are easy to gain weight.

And the other party quickly replied: sacrifice your life to accompany your sister-in-law!

Du Feiqi hurriedly covered her mouth, so as not to laugh out of the pig cry.

The queen of heaven Duan Xiaochen called me sister-in-law...... It's so cool!

She squinted, as if she had cut through the fog and seen ten years later.

"Sister-in-law, is there still a shortage of warm-up guests for your concert?"

"Although there is no shortage, you are always welcome to come and cheer me on, sister-in-law. ”

"But I can't sing, what should I do?"

"It doesn't matter, a young actress with unparalleled beauty like you, as long as you open your mouth and sing a few sentences casually, you can make fans crazy and have the effect of warming up. We are invincible in the world with our two swords!"

Du Caige didn't know that his sister had already dreamed of being a "movie queen".

From time to time, he touched his chin and groaned for a while, and sometimes whispered a few words to Liu Zifei.

Most of the time, he's concentrating on video editing software.

Due to the close distance, the fragrance of shower gel on Liu Zifei's body kept drilling into his nose.

But Du Caige didn't have the slightest idea in his heart.

It's not because my sister is right next to me.

It's that when doing film-related work, he never gets distracted.

While on Earth, his ex-wife had asked him more than once, "Is it me that matters, or is your movie important?" ”

Du Caige's desire to survive is still very strong, and he will answer seriously every time: "Of course you are important." ”

But he thought in his heart: If it is placed in a specific situation, for example, is it important to complete the shooting plan on time or is it important for you, is it important to finish the editing first or is it important for you, is it important for the box office of a certain movie or is it important for your life?

For example, if you want to save your life, you have to delay shooting, you have to delay editing, you have to give up the box office...... Then I definitely feel that your life is more important.

The box office is valuable, and the art is even more expensive. If it is for the sake of life, both can be thrown.

But if I had to choose, if I wanted to continue making movies, I had to give up on you, and if I wanted to be with you and I couldn't make movies again, then I would definitely choose you...... Roll rough.

How far to roll how far.

I will be sad to leave you, it will be painful, it will be like a thousand knives in my heart. But the pain will eventually be healed.

by time, or by another woman.

But if I don't make movies anymore, I feel like my life doesn't have any meaning.

If you want to succeed, hard work, talent, and opportunity, of course, are all very important and indispensable.

But focus and trade-offs are also essential.

Soon the clock was pointing to half past eleven.

Du Caige let go of the mouse and rubbed his wrist.

"Let's do it first, and I'll definitely have to do it again in the end," he looked at the length of the video, "15 minutes is still long, try to compress it to less than 11 minutes, and it can be a little more concise." ”

Liu Zifei smiled: "It's already very good to be able to cut it like this in one and a half hours." ”

She has long admired Du Caige's directing and editing, and there is no need to say more.

Du Feiqi came up curiously: "Is it finished?" ”

Du Caige glanced at her, and suddenly reached out and rubbed her little head: "You're not sleepy at such a late hour?"

Du Yuanqi said angrily: "I have to do my homework and review until 12 o'clock every night. And I already went to bed early in the dormitory, and there was a girl who studied until 2 o'clock in the morning every night, and she got up at 5:30 in the morning to wash up, and began to memorize words at 6 o'clock. ”

Du Caige tries to recall what it was like when he was in high school.

With an unforgettable memory, he quickly found vivid images.

When he was in high school, he was also overhanging his head and stabbing his stock, so he was admitted to the directing department of Beijing Film Corporation.

Knowledge changes fate, as a child born in an ordinary family, the only way to change his destiny is to study and get into a good university.

And the Du family in this world may have been very good before, in the middle and upper echelons of society.

Du Zhiqiu is a well-known professor, the original owner is a top musician, and Du Yuanqi grew up in a honey pot.

But after the family encountered a crisis and fell apart, Du Feiqi quickly adapted to the changes and quickly matured.

He nodded: "It's always right to work harder when you're studying. ”

Du Yuanqi glanced at him: "Cliché." ”

Du Caige was a little embarrassed, and he didn't want to criticize his sister for this little thing, so he had to pretend not to hear it and turned his head to look at the screen.

"Play it from the beginning, and let me see what you and Sister Liu have filmed. ”

"Okay, you're going to be the first audience for our short film. ”

Du Feiqi pulled a small three-legged stool over, sat down next to Du Caige, and watched it with relish.

"Is the main character a mover? ”

"How does this Mr. Feng feel weird. ”

"Hehe, this person is stupid, right, will he get lost near his own home?"

Du Yuanqi didn't have the cold demeanor of Du Caige when he first met her, and her small mouth chattered endlessly.

Seeing that the van drove under the big locust tree in Baihua Hutong, there was only a dirt bag and a stump, Du Feiqi burst out laughing: "It turns out that Mr. Feng is a mental illness, they were deceived by this mental illness!"

Then the workers of the moving company pretended to carry all kinds of non-existent things to the car in order not to run in vain, Du Yuanqi also looked at it with a smile, and patted Du Caige's back: "Brother, the things you shoot are very fun." ”

Until the mover forgot that he was carrying a fragile porcelain base, let go of his hand, took a lighter out of his pocket and threw it to his companion.

He was pretending to be moving things, but in fact he was just moving air.

But in Mr. Feng's eyes, it was the exquisite porcelain that fell to the ground, clanged, and shattered into thousands of pieces.

At this time, there was no post-processing, no dubbing, and not a single shot of broken porcelain flashed, but Du Feiqi obviously understood what was happening.

The smile on her fairy-like face vanished. The curvature of the corners of his mouth fell back again, and his expression was a little stunned.

In this paragraph, Mr. Ouyang Liyan contributed a textbook-level performance, and the loss and sadness in his eyes easily entered people's hearts.

There was something sparkling in Du Feiqi's beautiful big eyes.

She remained silent for the rest of the day. It wasn't until she finished reading it that she lowered her head and pretended to yawn: "I'm so sleepy, I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep." Then he quickly wiped his eyes.

Du Caige asked, "What do you think?"

Du Yuanqi thought for a while: "It's not bad, I don't understand, I think it's good anyway." ”

"When the soundtrack is accompanied and the special effects are done, and finally the fine editing is done, the effect will be several times better. Liu Zifei interjected.

Du Feiqi nodded nonchalantly.

Now she is really in no mood to fight wits and courage with Liu Zifei again, and the whole person is still immersed in the artistic conception of the short film.

"How does this film make you feel?" Du Caige asked again.

Du Yuanqi tilted her head and thought, "Sad? It's not that serious. It should be melancholy, right? Well, it's melancholy. ”

"It's like a song you wrote before, brother, although it was a love song, and the lyrics didn't fit the occasion, but it gave me a similar feeling. ”

"Which one?" The original owner carried too many classic songs, and Du Caige didn't know which one his sister was referring to.

Du Feiqi hummed directly: "Oh, do you know, who is willing to return, who is between you and me." Is it fate, love, innocence, or an accident. There are tears, guilt, giving, and patience...... It's people, it's walls, it's winter, it's hidden in the eyes. There were days and nights and fantasies, and I couldn't wait for ......"

Du Caige nodded. My sister's artistic sense is very good, and this "lover" of BEYOND does carry a sense of loss and melancholy, which has some similarities with the feeling of "deep flowers".

Liu Zifei was a little puzzled when she heard it, she had done a lot of homework these days, and she was familiar with the works of "Lin Ke", but she swore that she had never heard this song.

Such a beautiful song, if she has heard it, she will never forget it.

"Qiqi, this song was written by your brother, why haven't I heard it?"

"Oh, it was written when he used to play in the band, but it wasn't officially announced, and his band didn't officially debut. Du Feiqi explained.