In the next two weeks, Xu Wangqiu took Wu Zhiliu and them to revise the script, constantly discussing the characters in the play, the content that the film should contain, the performances of the actors, the setting of the background, etc., and also specifically asked Zhang Ke and several other old revolutionaries who came from the magic capital, because they themselves are the underground party of the magic capital, and they also know the people of Tek, and they have their guidance to make the details of the story real. Xu Wangqiu and they changed the script for two weeks, and the whole story was finally satisfactory.

Wu Zhiliu and Zhang Yimou have a certain understanding of the structure of genre films and the creation of genre film scripts by participating in the script creation of "Hoe Rape", of course, they only have an understanding, and they are still far from creating excellent genre film scripts.

Xu Wangqiu not only let Zhang Yimou and them participate in the creation of the script, but also taught them basic knowledge, and would take time to give them make-up lessons at noon every day, give them a pull film analysis, not only talk about audio-visual language, but also teach them the feelings and experience of being a director. Under the guidance of Xu Wangqiu, Zhang Yimou and them were like dry sponges, frantically absorbing the knowledge of genre films.

On Sundays, Peking University students would come over to meet Xu Wangqiu and them. Everyone sat by the lotus pond and talked about literature and art, and slowly became a salon, which was later known as the "Lotus Reading Club". Xu Wangqiu's "Lotus Reading Club" is not a formal organization, nor has it become an association, but a group of people sitting by the lotus pond to talk about literature and art, and talk about the mountains together.

In fact, there are many similar salons in Beiping, such as movies, paintings, and poetry, such as Chen Kaige, who often participates in the Friday salon organized by Chi Xiaoning of Beijing Film Studio. In this era, there are no movies, no Internet, and young people have no other entertainment than reading. In their free time, everyone gets together to read books, discuss and exchange works.

Nortel's Class of 78 students are divided into three classes according to their family backgrounds. The first class: the children of high-ranking cadres. They enjoy social privileges and are given many opportunities and possibilities that ordinary people do not have. For example, Hu Mei's father is the head of the General Political Art Troupe. The second class: children of artistic families. They have the advantage of knowledge and a wide range of social connections in the film industry, and their artistic future is smooth and smooth. Like Tian's father, Tian Fang, Zhao Ban's father Zhao Dan are all well-known seniors in the film industry. The third class is the children of the common people. They have neither, only by working hard and redoubling their efforts can they hope to get ahead and achieve something in art in the future, and Zhang Yimou is like this.

The children of artistic families always feel that the children of the common people don't understand anything, and the children of the common people are a group of hypocrisy who rely on the shadow of their parents. In the previous life, most of the children of the common people were similar to Feng Xiaogang, although they were looked down upon, they had no other choice but to follow the children of the family. However, in this life, because of Xu Wangqiu, Nortel students have formed two different circles.

The children of the common people, with Xu Wangqiu as the core, gathered Wu Zhiliu, Zhang Yimou and others. Xu Wangqiu knows that it is impossible for him to succeed alone in changing the difficult situation of Chinese films in the 90s; these days, he has been trying to guide everyone's thinking through his words and deeds, so that everyone understands that commercial films can also be very artistic, and the artistic achievements of commercial film masters are not lower than those of art film directors.

The circle of the children of the family is centered on Tian Xiangxiang and Chen Kaige, Tianzhuang's father Tian Fang and mother Yu Lan are both old Yan'an, who have a very great influence in the circle and have a wide range of contacts; Both of them are from Beijing Film Studio, they grew up on the set, and they are very clear about the filming and production of movies, knowing that movies cannot be made by one person, and they are secretly looking for talents, hoping to make movies with their own teams after graduation.

In fact, these two circles are not absolute, like Xia Gang and Xie Xiaojing are children of the family, but because they share a bedroom with Xu Wangqiu, they usually eat and drink with Xu Wangqiu, and they also belong to Xu Wangqiu's circle. Li Shaohong and Hu Mei also got closer to Xu Wangqiu because of stealing vegetables. Although Tian Zhuangzhuang and Chen Kaige don't look down on the children of ordinary people, they are classmates after all, they don't look down and don't look up, and there is no fierce conflict between them, but they are secretly competing with each other.

Xu Wangqiu admires Hollywood and commercial films, and their goal is to pay equal attention to business and art, not only to conquer the audience, but also to conquer critics, like Hitchcock and Kurosawa. They deliberately did it, claiming that commercial films were rubbish, and even found some words criticizing Hollywood movies by consulting the materials: "American movies are written by half-educated people for those half-intellectual stupids!" and "Hollywood, a cultural corpse field." ”......

Tian Zhuangzhuang and Chen Kaige all know that Xu Wangqiu is powerful, as children of the family, they definitely don't want to be compared to Xu Wangqiu, they are very hard in studying, and they can even be said to be very desperate. Xu Wangqiu's circle is even more so, it is not easy for a civilian child to go to college, and the film knowledge he has is not as good as that of a child of a family, in this case, if he doesn't work hard, he won't be able to catch up with others at all. Both circles are hungry for learning, and everyone is desperately trying to make up for their own shortcomings.

There are hardly any students loitering around Nortel's campus, either in the library, in the classroom, or in the dormitory discussing problems, and no student goes to bed before 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. Zhang Yimou was the hardest of all the students, and every night everyone else slept and was still eating in the corridor. He is from the photography department, and in addition to gnawing on the books of the photography department, he is also gnawing on the things of the directing department. He has more to learn than others, and can only work harder than others.

Nortel's teachers love these students, but they also have a lot of headaches, these students are too difficult to teach. Because many of these students are social oils and have a lot of experience. Their attitude towards the teacher is, you don't tell me about Marxist-Leninist dogma, you have to come out with dry goods. Especially Xu Wangqiu, who knows more than teachers. If you are a little careless, he will point out the mistake, which will make many teachers very faceless.

The biggest headache for the teacher is that the two groups of students compete in the classroom, and often "embarras" the teacher with all kinds of difficult questions: "We saw the film "Exhausted" directed by Godard in the French film archive, and he did not edit according to the rules, how can this be summarized as a montage?"

"The French-Greek co-production, Gavras's Z, has a lot of new editing techniques, and I asked the teacher to give us a montage method for analyzing this film. ”

"Recently, I read in a magazine the French film critic Bazin's argument, he proposed that when you want to express the relationship between two objects in the same space, montage is disabled, how to understand this problem, please explain it to us. ”

The teachers were learning Soviet film theory, and they were very confused about these new techniques and ideas, and they couldn't answer them at all. At first, the teacher would discuss with the students in class, but they soon discovered that Xu Wangqiu knew a lot about them. Later, when he encountered this kind of problem, the teacher shouted directly: "Wangqiu, you come up and tell everyone about it." The teacher gave up the podium to Xu Wangqiu, and he sat down like a student, holding a notebook to take notes.

Of course, the teachers didn't just throw the problem to Xu Wangqiu, in order to teach these students well, the teachers were ruthless, desperately reading all kinds of materials, learning through various ways, and trying to improve their teaching level.

While burying their heads in learning, the teachers lamented how there were such difficult students to teach, but when these students graduated, the teachers missed them very much, and often sighed in the office: "It's so boring that no one fights with you in class now!", "Now the students are really unable to make a sound!", "Hey, why are the students like Class 78 gone!......

During this time, a major event happened at Nortel, and the painting class of the art department "rebelled". The 78th class of the Department of Fine Arts has recruited two classes, one is the art design class, with the goal of training film set designers, and the other is the scenery painting class, which is to train set painting and skylight painting techniques.

In the 70s, because Jiang Qing paid special attention to the shooting of Peking Opera and opera films, the stageization of scenery making technology became the direction of attention of various film studios. In 1978, Nortel resumed enrollment, and it was carried out in accordance with the enrollment method of attaching equal importance to art design and painting majors, and recruited 27 students in two classes.

When the painting class sprays and sprinkles the big curtain with airbrushes and big brushes every day, I don't know what to do after I finish my studies. In order to increase the enthusiasm of the students, one of the teachers encouraged, "You can also say that you are a different kind of painter, a painter who paints the largest and largest painting in the world, but in the end it is only expressed through the screen." ”

Every day after school, when the students of other classes have entered the cafeteria and sit down with their own meals, they see a group of "aliens" wearing work clothes and hats, mixed and sprayed with colorful "aliens" entering the cafeteria. Some of them have blue faces, only two whites of eyes and snow-white teeth, and two red and green claws stretched out, which can almost scare the rice bowl in the hands of female classmates to the ground.

At noon that day, Xu Wangqiu was eating in the cafeteria and saw the students of the painting class come in with five-color oil paint. Liu Lin joked with them: "He skirt, do you know what you will do in the film factory in the future?"

The students in the painting class all shook their heads: "I don't know!"

Liu Linyin said with a smile: "It is to send each of you two buckets, two long pole brushes, and a spray gun, specifically to greet the big sky film in the studio, the greenhouse is 300 meters long, spray it slowly." ”

The students in the painting class were all stupid: "Impossible!"

Liu Lin squeezed his eyes at Xu Wangqiu: "Don't you believe Wangqiu, he is a film expert?"

Xu Wangqiu sat down and said with a serious face: "What Liu Lin said is not accurate, but that's pretty much it!"

The students in the painting class were so angry that they almost dropped the basin in their hands: "This is making fun of our class! Who is fooling you with the world's largest painting painter?"

The devastated painting class quickly organized itself and wrote an application letter to the Education Department of the Ministry of Culture, requesting that the painting class be changed to an art design major. The Ministry of Education quickly approved and instructed Nortel to change the scenery painting class to an art design class, and the two classes will be taught according to the same teaching plan.

Although the incident only happened in the painting class, the impact spread to all departments of the college. Many students began to think, is it okay to continue studying like this? According to the previous set of textbooks and systems, is the knowledge enough? So, when Xu Wangqiu gave Liu Lin and them a make-up lesson at noon, more students came to listen. Among the extra students, there are a few familiar faces, Feng Xiaoning, Yin Li, and Huo Jianqi.