No matter how long time has passed, Director Sun still remembers that the day before graduation and leaving school, the tutor called him to his home and chatted with him about the future development.

"If the water is not thick, then it is not strong. If the accumulation of wind is not thick, then its negative wings are also weak. ”

"What is deserved? It means that if you do your job well, your reputation will naturally come. ”

“...... In this class of students, you must be the fastest to come out. ”

"Xiao Sun, you are talented, protect ...... Don't waste it. ”

"When I have the work, I'll go and see it, uh, I'll go see it when the time comes......"

When he was in school, although he was a top student, he was still a little hesitant about the future, and he didn't know whether to go to the crew for training first, or go directly to the rivers and lakes. The encouragement of the mentor to spit out the truth after drinking burned his heart like a brand, dispelling the fog of the days.

The sorrow of graduation did not stay in his heart for long, and soon, he brought in a few people and began to shoot.

With his bare hands, he relied on intuition, patience, momentum, and enthusiasm to make a short film, which won an award at the Magic City Film Festival, and he was full of spirit. In film reviews, he has become a promising star of tomorrow, and countless people are looking forward to his feature-length films. He felt that the words of the mentor were right, and he was talented.

There is a boss who invests in him to shoot a feature, the money is not much, he is also very excited, the boss said "play to your heart's content", and he used all his strength to make a masterpiece.

Each work is a chapter in the author's mental history.

The work came out, and after it was sent to the film festival, it received a flood of bad reviews, "I don't know what to do", "I can see the narrative ambition, but I didn't control it well, I was too confident, and the rhythm collapsed", "Was last year's movie made by him......?"

The film critic said that he was not ready and couldn't control the long form, and he felt the same way.

Later, he joined the crew, as an assistant director, and as a screenwriter. In just five years, he was involved in the filming of twelve films.

Among them, he has worked with new directors, well-known directors, commercial films, and artworks. Regardless of whether the final result of the film is good or not, the directors who have worked with him have commented that he is "very useful".

Director Sun is also happy, feeling that he has learned a lot, and if he shoots again, he will not fail.

A director who has worked with him introduced investors to him, and Director Sun pretended to be a grandson several times and won the investment, but the condition is that the hero and heroine must use the person introduced by the investment. Director Sun is no longer young, and in the past few years of training, he has learned about the rules of the rivers and lakes, the views of sects, and seen Vanity Fair, Ambition Party, Hongmen Banquet, and Cowhide Bureau...... Here, everyone sometimes shakes their fists at each other and sometimes drinks and talks about what they want, and their ideals are conspiring with capital. Knowing that this might be his best chance, he agreed after a few glasses of wine.

The filming process was very painful for a while, the actor's difficulty was on the one hand, on the other hand, he ended the shooting several times, went back to the house to look at the results of the day, and asked himself, "Is this what I filmed?", and then broke down several times, waking up every morning with hair on his pillow, this is the first time in so many years that he is afraid of such a thing as a movie.

The movie was finally finished, and he was relieved. He didn't even wait for news from the later stage of the movie, he said that he was not ready, and he was still a little close, and he would make his own film when he made up for that point, and then continued to be an assistant director. And he never heard of the follow-up news of this movie.

Ten years later, he is nearly forty years old and is about to be middle-aged.

He hadn't forgotten that he was looking for [that point], but no matter how much time passed, he always felt that he was still a little short, just a little bit. During the years he was an assistant director, he could write scripts, direct, edit and dub in post-production, but he never knew what was missing.

Time passed year by year, and new directors appeared one after another. Looking back, he had missed the peak of his creativity, and everyone thought he was good, but no one was willing to invest in him.

Even if he planned to pay for the shoot himself, his wife refused to spend the money on him. Even if his wife agreed, the two failures made his heart drop to the bottom, and he didn't dare to take risks.

There is a myth in the circle that he is desperate to turn over at a small cost, but why did such a good thing befall him? There is a rule in the circle that there are no more than three things, and as long as he fails again, he will never have a chance again in the rest of his life.

He is conscientious as an assistant director, and his strength is getting stronger and stronger, and his fame is getting bigger and bigger.

The mentor's encouragement often echoed in his head, and he laughed when he thought about it. The original words that were well deserved finally came true, but compared with the mentor's expectations, the director had an extra word [vice] in front of him. Sometimes he wants to ask his mentor what he should do next. But he didn't dare to go to the mentor anymore. How could he have the face to go to the guru?

Before he could bring his work to his mentor, the mentor died of a sudden cerebral infarction.

I obviously said that I wanted to see his works, why did I just leave?

Director Sun went to the funeral, and the tutor's wife was almost eighty years old, and she felt that he was familiar, so she held her eyelids and asked if he was a student of the tutor. He didn't dare to look at the cloudy eyes in front of him, and he was stunned for a long time, and finally fled in a hurry. It was raining that day, and he ran and ran, crying and running, like a dog.

Since then, he hasn't wanted to make a movie of his own for a long time. Occasionally, a friend is willing to recommend investment, and Director Sun also refuses to go back.

Cinema is also a craft.

It's like writing an article, before writing it for the first time, check the information to find the material, and think about it several times before writing, carefully and attentively without distractions, and think about whether there is a better choice for each punctuation mark, and you have to revise it back and forth after writing. Although there are problems here and there after writing, the sincerity of the effort is clear at a glance, and a sense of accomplishment arises spontaneously. It's not the same when you write too much. After getting acquainted, the brain will think about being lazy, turn on the power-saving mode, know what should be here and what should be there, write faster and faster, consume less and less brain cells, and create this thing has become a physical work.

It's the same with movies.

The forty-five-year-old Director Sun has a very high reputation in the industry, and the reason why he is different from other assistant directors is that when he shoots movies, he is not routine, not lazy, and cherishes every hard-won opportunity to take charge of the camera, and every time he shoots, he is as sincere as the first time.

He has guarded the aisles for rookie directors, pointed out the maze, worked as a gunman for bad movie directors, and some actors who have transformed into directors are also waiting for his schedule, he has also collaborated with well-known directors on amazing clips. After the success of the movie, he was indifferent to watching the praise in the newspaper that should have belonged to him being attributed to others, and the highlights that he originally came up with became the shining points on other people's resumes.

His edges and corners are like his bulging belly, rounded and rounded. Moreover, he is just an assistant director.

He had forgotten what he had been waiting and searching for.

Director Sun felt that he had lost hope of becoming a director, and thought that he would always be an assistant director.

Until he met Han Jue.