Since its establishment in the 50s, Nortel has always faced a serious problem, the school lacks funds for teaching practice, teachers practice less, and students have poor internship conditions. Now the problem is worse than before, and many young teachers have not even made a film. As a teacher, you haven't practiced, you haven't really made movies, how do you teach students?

In order to solve this problem, the school has been trying to find a way to contact the studios, and the college will send teachers from various departments to participate in the production of feature films, and those small film studios with few creative personnel, such as Tianshan Film Studio and NMG Film Studio, welcome Nortel to send professional teachers. In recent months, Nortel has come up with a new idea, asking school teachers to write the script of the tribute film, and borrowing money from the Ministry of Culture to make a film in the name of the tribute film.

After the school leaders set "The Rape" as a tribute film, they found that the cost of "The Rape" was too high, at least 600,000 yuan, and the Ministry of Culture was a well-known poor ministry, and it was very difficult to borrow 120,000 yuan, and it was impossible to borrow 600,000 yuan. The school asked Xu Wangqiu to compress the budget, but Xu Wangqiu couldn't press it down when he reached 500,000. Borrowing money from the Ministry of Culture and making a tribute film is no longer working.

In order to solve the filming problem of "Hoe Rape", the school set up a special working group, led by Zhang Ke, with Xu Wangqiu, Xie Fei, Zeng Lianping and Teacher Ren Jie from the Teaching Practice Office, and went straight to the magic capital.

In this era, there is no restriction on the hard seat of the train, and anyone can buy it, but the soft sleeper can only be sat by senior cadres and senior intellectuals above the sixth level. Xu Wangqiu They can only sit in a hard seat, and Zhang Ke, as the director of the director department, can buy a soft sleeper. However, in order to save money, he insisted on sitting on a hard seat with Xu Wangqiu and them.

Lunch boxes were also sold on trains in this era, but they were not styrofoam lunch boxes, but aluminum lunch boxes, which had to be recycled after eating. The lunch box costs 3 cents a piece, and no food stamps are required. However, for most people, this price is still too expensive, and many people bring their own dry food when they go out.

In this era, the train is very slow, and Xu Wangqiu and they are not taking the express express, and they will stop at every station, more than 10 and 20 minutes at the big station, and 5 to 10 minutes at the small station. At the big station, where the parking time is relatively long, Xu Wangqiu and Zeng Lianping, two young people who can't sit still, will take the opportunity to sneak out of the station to take a look, take a few photos by the way, and buy some local products.

After a long journey of more than twenty hours, Xu Wangqiu and the others finally arrived in the magic capital. Today's magic capital is completely free of the coquettishness of "Little Mumbai of the East" forty years later, and there are almost no cars on the streets, only a group of black bicycles flowing.

In this era, different systems have their own guest houses, and people from various systems are also accustomed to living in their own system guest houses when they go on business trips. Nortel belongs to the cultural system, Xu Wangqiu and they came out of the train station and went straight to the Modu Cultural Bureau. After settling down at the Cultural Affairs Bureau's guest house, they went straight to the Shadow Studio with the script of "The Rape" and related materials.

The magic capital is the birthplace of Chinese films, and it is also the root of Chinese films, and before 1949, almost all of China's major film markets were concentrated in the magic capital. In the 30s and early 40s, the magic city movies were extremely brilliant, and the magic capital was also known as the "Hollywood of the East".

On November 16, 1949, the Modu Film Studio was formally established, and in the next two years, eight private film enterprises, including the Yangtze River Film Studio and Kunlun Film Company, were jointly established as the state-owned Modu United Film Studio. In February 1953, the Modu Film Studio merged with the Modu United Film Studio, and the name of the Modu Film Studio was still used.

From the mid-to-late 50s to the first half of the 60s of the last century, there was a creative upsurge in the Magic Shadow Studio, filming "Crossing the River Reconnaissance", "Southern Expedition and Northern War", "My Life", "Red Detachment of Women", "Li Shuangshuang", "Ashima" and other popular movies. However, after the movement began, everything came to naught, and the entire magic capital film system was particularly miserable, especially those who knew Jiang Qing's past better were persecuted in various ways. During the movement, 36 people were persecuted to death by the Modu Film System, and 16 people were killed by the Moying Studio, including famous filmmakers such as Zheng Junli and Shangguan Yunzhu.

Zhang Ke had been working in Modu before he came to Nortel to teach, and he was very familiar with the heads of the Modu film industry, and he was also an old friend with Xu Shangchu, the director of Modu Film Factory. The two old men haven't seen each other for more than ten years, and when they meet at this time, they have a feeling of being suddenly separated from the world, their hands are clasped together, and they sigh for a long time, and they are very emotional.

After the greetings, Zhang Ke began to talk about the purpose of the trip: "I came here this time to look for cooperation, our school has a very good script, but you must know the situation of Nortel, and you can't come up with this money at all." We just want to cooperate with you, and your Modu Film Factory will provide money and equipment, and our school will provide people. After the movie is filmed, the factory logo of the Demon Film Factory will be beaten, and all the proceeds will belong to you. I don't know what you think?"

"That's great, I'm worried about not having a script, and it's very difficult to find a good script now!" Xu Shangchu was overjoyed when he heard this, like all other film studios, the Modu Film Factory was also worried about the script.

The Modu Film Factory was greatly damaged during the movement, but most of the directors are still alive and there is no shortage of directors. The old directors in the director's room, such as Tang Xiaodan, Sang Arc, Shen Fu and others, can still make films; middle-aged directors include Xie Jin, Cen Fan, Huang Zumo and others; and young directors also have Wu Yigong, Zhao Huanzhang, Yang Yanjin and others.

However, in 1977, the state issued a production target of 8 films to the Magic Shadow Factory, and the Magic Shadow Factory only completed 5 films; this year, the state ordered 10 films from the Magic Shadow Factory, and the Magic Shadow Factory has only 7 films so far, so it will definitely not complete the task.

Xu Shangchu had a headache for this, and asked the directors in the factory to be bold, as long as the book has a foundation, it can be filmed, modified, and improved at the same time; in order to complete the task, the Magic Shadow Factory even made Huaibei Bangzi's "Two Invoices" into a movie.

Zhang Ke saw that Xu Shangchu was so anxious, and knew that there was a way to do this, so he turned his head to Xu Wangqiu and said: "Wangqiu, the script was written by you, you can introduce the story of "Hoe Rape" to Xu Changzi." He saw Xu Shangchu looking at Xu Wangqiu in surprise, and explained with a smile: "You don't want to look at Qiuqiu, who is not very old, but his ability is not small. The script "Mom Loves Me Again", as well as the film art article "On the Sinicization of Modern Film Language" are all written by Wangqiu!"

Xu Shangchu was like a beast that had found its prey, and his eyes flashed with surprise: "Your article "On the Sinicization of Modern Film Language" has a lot of response, and many people in our factory say that your article is very well written, and you have seen the problems of Chinese films very thoroughly. And your "Mom Loves Me Again" is really a good book, we originally wanted to buy it, but unfortunately it was a step too late, and it was preempted by Su Zhensheng's old thing!"

Xu Wangqiu coughed and protested, "Su Zhensheng is my master!"

Xu Shangchu was slightly stunned, and laughed: "It turns out that you are Su Zhensheng's apprentice, no wonder he can snatch "Mom Loves Me Again". I didn't expect Su Zhensheng to teach you such an apprentice, how is your master's health?"

Xu Wangqiu knew that Xu Shangchu and Master were friends, and said with a smile: "Master is very good, he has been busy with "Mom Loves Me Again" recently, and the movie will start filming in December. Master held back his strength and hoped to make two works that could be loud. ”

After chatting a few words, Xu Wangqiu began to get to the point: "Director Xu is a native of Modu, and he has been in Modu for decades, so he should have heard the story of Teke's rape, and our story originated from Teke's eradication of the traitor Bai Xin. The story begins with the arrest of several important leaders of our party, and then Zhou Hanting and they received the task of preparing to hijack the prisoner car to rescue, but due to insufficient preparation, there was a problem with the guns and weapons, which led to the failure of the rescue and the four leaders were shot. The provincial party committee ordered that the traitors should be found and the dead martyrs should be sacrificed with the blood of the traitors. So Zhou Hanting began to gather people and prepare to hoe and rape traitors......"

After listening to Xu Wangqiu's description of "The Rape", Xu Shangchu's brows furrowed: "The theme of the hidden front is a bit sensitive, especially the Central Special Branch, which is even more sensitive. The movie involves the central leadership, and it is a thriller, so it is easy to hit the thunder!"

Xu Wangqiu immediately explained: "The prototype of our story is indeed Tekko's eradication of traitors, but we have made a lot of adaptations, and the place where the story takes place is changed to Binhai City, the capital of Jiangnan Province. It mainly talks about how Duan Haiping grew from an ordinary underground party to a staunch revolutionary. ”

Xu Shangchu was relieved when he heard Xu Wangqiu say this, there is no problem just to shoot the underground party to eradicate traitors, and movies with this theme have also been made by the Magic Film Studio before. The story of "The Rape" sounds good, but in the end, you have to read the detailed script to determine: "Do you bring the script? You also know whether a movie can be made or not, it is not up to anyone to decide, it must wait for the art management committee in the factory to discuss it." ”

"There's a script! There's a script!" Xu Wangqiu opened his bag, took out a large stack of manuscript paper more than ten centimeters thick, picked up the top few sheets and put them in front of Xu Shangchu, "This is the script." ”

Saying that, Xu Wangqiu picked up another piece of manuscript paper and put it in front of Xu Shangchu: "This is a storyboard script." ”

Xu Shangchu was a little surprised when he heard the storyboard script: "You haven't even surveyed the scene, so you guys have written the storyboard script?"

Xu Wangqiu said helplessly: "We can't help it, if we don't write a storyboard script, you may not know what "Hoe Rape" will be like when it is filmed." Not only did we write the storyboard, but we drew all the shots. As he spoke, he put the rest of the manuscript paper in his hand in front of Xu Shangchu.

Xu Shangchu was shocked, not only wrote the storyboard script, but also drew all the shots, how much effort did it take, he looked down at the storyboard in front of him, and indeed drew the movie lens, one frame is a lens, and there are various labels next to it, lens number, scene, camera position and movement track, character scheduling......

Xu Shangchu looked at Zhang Ke, and then at Xu Wangqiu and a few of them, his heart was extremely shocked, thinking that they had prepared to such an extent for this movie, how much thought and effort had been spent!

Xu Wangqiu saw that Xu Shangchu didn't speak, worried that he still couldn't convince the Magic Shadow Factory, so he pressed his head, took out a videotape from his bag and put it in front of Xu Shangchu: "Director Xu, in order to let you understand our creative intentions, we used the school's camera to shoot two scenes, this is a videotape, let's show it to the people of the Art Management Committee when the time comes." ”

Xu Shangchu looked at Xu Wangqiu dumbfounded and didn't know what to say, he has been in the film industry for decades and has witnessed the birth of many movies, but he has never seen any movie that has achieved this level of preparation. He hasn't read the script in detail, but he believes that a movie preparation has been done to this extent, and it will definitely not be bad!