"There's one guy who's crazy, but the sound is really good. He said that his name was Wang Zhang, and his dream was to surpass Jiayong Yixi. ”

The camera was given to Peng Sizhang, apparently through the skillful hands of the makeup artist, who made him up to the age of about 20 years old, looking a vigorous and energetic guy.

He said loudly: "In the future, Lao Tzu will be the best in the world! Follow me, I will take you to become the first band in the world, surpassing the Walker Band!"

In the camera, several other friends sneered.

But as soon as Peng Sizhang opened his voice, their expressions changed.

Peng Sizhang sang a popular song of the Walker Band at the time: "In the crowd, there are you and me, meet and know each other, ponder each other......"

I didn't expect Peng Sizhang to be very compatible with the rock style, I hadn't heard him sing rock much before.

Li Sanming was a little surprised.

However, thinking of the news that was reported by major websites before, Hemingway admitted that the Ghostface band was real, and Peng Sizhang was indeed a member of the Grimace band.

At that time, many reporters ran to look for the fans of the Ghostface band back then, and found a lot of first-hand information.

For example, through the comparison of recordings, it was confirmed that the lead singer of the Ghostface Band was indeed Peng Sizhang.

And the guitarist of the band Ghostface, judging by his figure, is really Hemingway himself. Oh, at that time, he was still called Lin Ke.

It's a pity that in the era when Ghostface was active, the Internet was not so developed, and there were not many audio-visual materials left.

Li Sanming really looked forward to what kind of fairy combination the Grimace Band was back then.

But in this movie, Peng Sizhang and Hemingway are going to be together again, which is really exciting.

Next, through a few short shots, the band performed everywhere and became famous after Peng Sizhang joined.

Then the camera was given to Lin He. Lin He's monologue: "The band became popular, and then Wang Zhang also flew solo." ”

Lin He continued his monologue, very briefly about his personal experience after the band disbanded: he tried to be an independent musician, but because his work was not commercial enough, it was always tepid.

Later, he was forced to make a living and joined a small music company, but he didn't do it long before he was unhappy and left.

Then I went to the training class as a tutor, taught people musical instruments, and just mixed it up.

Li Sanming pressed the pause and summed it up.

This paragraph is really refined to the extreme, in just a few seconds, a few short shots, a plot is clearly told, this is the basic skill, the lens language is used well, and the story is told.

And what is commendable is that these shots are not only used for narration, but also the composition is also very aesthetic and artistic.

And Jiang Youxi's performance has also been visibly improved, and his eyes and micro-expressions are in place.

For example, Hemingway only used 19 seconds of footage to tell Lin He as a tutor and his life experience.

Picture 1: Lin He demonstrates the use of the guqin. Below are the students, all very young, seven or eight years old.

Scene 2: Lin He corrects a student's movements.

Scene 3: Lin He looks out the window, the camera turns to his front, his expression is lonely, behind him is an empty classroom, scattered musical instruments. A magpie chirped in the treetops, contrasting with his expression.

Picture 4: The name of the tutorial class flashes by: Little Star Music Class.

Picture 5: Lin He takes out the key and opens the door. This is apparently his own home.

Picture 6: In the small room, a piece of paper is blown off by the wind, and there is a dense sheet of music on it. A woman's hand picked it up and asked, "What is this?"

Voiceover, Lin He's voice came: "It's nothing, it's just garbage." ”

Li Sanming watched it in time, it was really only 19 seconds, and he explained it very clearly.

It can be seen from this that Lin He's heart is depressed. Lin He was forced to teach children musical instruments because of his life.

Thinking of what Wen Xinran said in "Those Years", isn't it embarrassing?

Also, Lin He now has a girlfriend - not sure if it's a long-term relationship.

And, Lin He seems to have given up on his dream.

In just 19 seconds, so many things have been explained clearly, which is a great test of the director's basic skills.

Read on.

The screen switches, and the face of the middle-aged Lin He, that is, the character played by Hemingway himself, appears in the picture.

He is still teaching children musical instruments, but the words "Kobayashi Music Class" appear on the flashing screen, indicating that he is no longer working for others, but running his own training class.

At the same time, his expression also became gentle, and occasionally he smiled a little, which made him much more open-minded.

It feels like he has accepted his current life.

There is no subtitle such as "XX years later" in the movie here, and there is no electronic clock, calendar, etc. to show the passage of time.

But some small details in the lens, such as the change in the style of the mobile phone, such as the style of the clothing, all reflect the change of time.

What's more interesting is that there is another small detail: Lin He passed by a hotel after returning home from work, and in a flashing shot before, there was a red signboard erected in front of the hotel, which read: Congratulations to Ling Huchong for being admitted to Fidelity University with excellent results.

And in the current timeline, Lin He passed by the same hotel when he returned home, and saw the signboard that read: Congratulations to Mr. Ling Hu Chong and Miss Yue Lingshan for tying the knot.

Here Du Caige played a stalk that the whole world can't understand.

But attentive audiences and film critics can see that a boy is about 18 years old when he is admitted to college, so it is more reasonable to be 27 or 28 years old when he gets married.

Of course, this is not surprising, many directors have played similar easter eggs.

Next, the director used several scenes to portray the current Lin He, such as shopping for vegetables, communicating with students' parents, and cooking omelettes and pancakes early in the morning.

At the same time, there is also the woman next to him, who also only hears his voice and does not see him, and has obviously changed his girlfriend.

And there is a camera to Lin He's room, which is a little more open than the previous room, beautifully decorated, and there are musical instruments in the bedroom, but there are no wedding photos or anything like that, which means that Lin He is not married, or has been divorced.

The camera showed Lin He on the way to the training class and bought a newspaper.

What followed was the teaching process, which gave some bits and pieces, and there was always that newspaper in the shot.

Even the dubbing is the voice of Lin He's lecture, and the picture is a newspaper pressed by a sheet of music.

These shots can easily make the audience understand that this newspaper will definitely play a role in advancing the plot.

Seeing this, Li Sanming couldn't help but nod his head.

Hemingway's shooting style, at least in these two films, is not deliberately pretentious.

Although sometimes I will go around it, I will fake a shot, or bury a foreshadowing, hide an easter egg or something.

But most of the time, it's a concise and crisp narrative that can be easily understood by even less focused and less literate audiences.

This is easier said than done, hehe...... There are definitely no more than 20 directors who can do it.

Most directors are not incapacitated, but they don't realize this truth at all, or they just don't want to show their movies to ordinary people, while lamenting that "this audience is not good", "high and low", "the current audience doesn't understand art", while continuing to shoot some obscure things.

After watching these few minutes, Li Sanming can already assert: This movie, even if it is not filmed well later and the story is old-fashioned, there will definitely be no shortage of audiences, and it will definitely at least make a small profit.

Commercial movies are actually like this, tell a story, tell this story clearly, and you can collect money.

The audience's demands are actually really low.

As long as you can see a good story.

But most directors, racking their brains every day, want to do what they want to do, is how to make ordinary people unable to understand his movies, only professionals can understand them, so as to get a sense of achievement.

After complaining a few words in his heart, Li Sanming continued to read.

Sure enough, soon director Hemingway revealed the mystery.

During recess, Lin He picked up the newspaper and read it.

After a few glances, he suddenly stared, hurriedly took out his mobile phone, and dialed a number.

"Hello, are you Mr. Chen Fan? I saw your advertisement in the newspaper, and I have something I want to talk to you about. ”

The director did not continue to shoot the content of the dialogue, but switched the scene to the process of the class later, and Lin He was obviously absent-minded and made frequent mistakes.