Chapter 35: The Granddaughter
The movie "Reunion", among all Wang Quanan's movies, is not the most profound in terms of the depth of thinking, and "Tuya's Marriage" is much more profound than it.
However, when it comes to the cleverness of the plot setting, it is much more prominent than all his previous films.
This movie that tells the story of parting through reunion, in Wang Quanan's design, there are 5 scenes at the dinner table, it can be said that in his conception, half of the content of the entire movie is on the dinner table.
Of the 5 scenes at the dinner table, the first scene is a group scene, Liu Yansheng has just come back, Qiao Yu'e's family has come as long as they have nothing to do, and in addition, there is also the director of the neighborhood committee - to welcome the veteran of Taiwan Island who returned to his hometown.
There were only three people left at the dinner table in the second scene, Liu Yansheng, Qiao Yu'e and Lu Shanmin, Liu Yansheng proposed to Lu Shanmin for the first time the idea of taking Qiao Yu'e away.
The third dinner table is a group drama again, Lu Shanmin and Qiao Yu'e have just divorced, and they pulled the whole family to eat, which is considered a send-off meal for Qiao Yu'e, and it was also at this dinner table that Lu Shanmin was admitted to the hospital with a sudden cerebral infarction.
The fourth scene turned back into a table for three people, and it was also at this table that the thoughts of several old people were changing.
Finally, in the fifth scene, the group scene, Liu Yansheng was leaving, the whole family arrived, and set up a table in the alley, but as a result, I didn't eat two bites or say a few words, it rained, and the end of the scene seemed to indicate the ending.
5 meals, the front and back scenes echo each other, and the middle one can be regarded as the most important turning point of the whole play.
With such a structure, Zhang Bufan feels that it is particularly exquisite, compared with this, the play of another bald director is far behind, that little flashback and interpolation, hehe......
However, Zhang Bufan felt that this was not enough, among these plots, there was a very important one, and the little he said when he met with Wang Quanan was not reflected at all.
That's the juniors.
That's what happened to Liu Yansheng and Qiao Yu'e, and if it happened to their descendants, what kind of thinking would it cause?
This point, whether it is Wang Quanan's script or Jin Na's script, is absent, in their script, the juniors are just props to promote the plot and cause more contradictions, and all the thoughts about meeting and parting fall on the three old men.
That's not enough.
So, in the original script, he only played the role of a "tour guide", taking Liu Yansheng's granddaughter Nana to the Demon Capital, and the role of the scene increased suddenly.
And the role at the dinner table in the whole drama has also been increased from 5 to 7 by Zhang Bufan.
At the beginning of the entire script, even before Liu Yansheng returned to the magic capital, it actually responded to the letter that Liu Yansheng sent to Qiao Yue'e before returning to China in Wang Quanan's script.
In this paragraph, Qiao Yu'e's family was at the dinner table, the young people ate quickly, most of them had already left the dinner table, and only the old couple were still eating slowly.
At the small dining table, the old couple sat facing each other, picking a chopstick from time to time, and between the two sat their granddaughter Nana, holding a letter in her hand and reading it - Liu Yansheng's family letter.
The other paragraph was directly thrown by Zhang Bufan to the end, after Liu Yansheng left, this time there was no one else, only the old couple and their granddaughter Nana were left, chatting while eating, the life of the old couple returned to its previous appearance after Liu Yansheng left, there is nothing to say, this topic naturally fell on the granddaughter, talking about her, and her him.
So she pulled out such a topic, she is going abroad, and the time is not short, a full 2 years.
What happened to Liu Yansheng and their generation back then was staged again in another form in the new generation.
Looking at the two paragraphs added at the beginning and end, Zhang Bufan had a special sense of accomplishment, and then began to continue to play for his granddaughter Nana.
As a person who has taken on the two important plots of the beginning and the ending, of course, she can't have only such a little plot, and she can't just be a "play" outside of these two paragraphs, her character needs to be more full and three-dimensional, and she needs to have her own story.
But you can't dominate the crowd.
So, what should Nana's story look like?
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I am Nana, my grandfather's name is Lu Shanmin, and my grandmother Qiao Yu'e, I am the eldest daughter of their eldest daughter, and the eldest of the third generation in this family.
Father and mother have a Chinese patriarchal tradition, so compared to them, I and my grandparents are closer, in this family, I have always been their treasure, when eating can sit next to the second elder past my parents, the bowl is always full of food by the second elder, which is actually very good.
I have a good job and a boyfriend who has been together for a long time and has started to talk about marriage, and our relationship is very stable.
All in all, I'm happy with my current life.
However, such a life has changed dramatically with the arrival of a person.
He called himself Liu Yansheng, a Kuomintang veteran from Taiwan and his grandmother's...... Ex.
Perhaps this is not the right name, since the two of them have not actually been divorced.
He claimed that he wanted to come back to see his hometown, see his hometown, and see his former relatives because he had been away from his hometown for too long, but I could see from the beginning that the main purpose of his return was actually his grandmother - he wanted to take her back to Taiwan Island and start their life anew.
As the baby of my grandparents, or the most suitable person for age, I was naturally selected, as a representative to accompany this "Grandpa Liu" to visit his hometown, and under the strong recommendation of my grandfather, my grandmother also joined in.
What did Grandpa think? Didn't he see it?
I also suddenly understood that in addition to playing with me, I also had a new task - surveillance.
We took the car to visit the central area of the magic capital, and then went to my grandmother's newly bought house, the house was still under construction, and there was no elevator, but the two old men insisted on going up to have a look, watching them support each other, and even holding hands, I didn't say anything in the end.
Standing in the unfinished building, looking at the Huangpu River outside, they were whispering, and I was eavesdropping outside—I know, they actually knew I was eavesdropping, but they had waited too long to say what was in their hearts.
Listening to their conversation outside, I suddenly felt a little complicated, and it was a strange feeling.
It was at this time that my phone rang, it was mine.
On the phone, he suddenly proposed that he was going abroad for 2 years, and asked me to wait for him.
Wait for him? Does he know that a woman's youth is only two years in total? Let me waste two years for him in vain, and just like that, you still say that you love me? No, you don't have me in your heart!
In a fit of rage, I didn't want to hear what he had to say, so I hung up the phone, and suddenly, I thought of something.
I turned my head to look at the unfinished building, where the two old men had been waiting for each other for more than 30 years......
But I'm not them, so what should I do?
Should I wait for him?