The visit of Kei Xiong and the crew of "The Balance of Heaven" was like a spring breeze blowing through a calm lake, blowing back the thoughts that Xu Shangchu and the Magic Shadow Factory had once lived.

After Xiong Jingqi and the others left, Xu Shangchu ran to the crew of "Hoe Rape" when he had nothing to do. Both he and the leadership of the Shadow Factory decided that Xu Wangqiu was an extremely rare talent, and such a talent should try his best to stay in the Shadow Factory. In addition, Xu Shangchu also had another purpose for Xu Wangqiu, which was to talk about "A Game of Chess That Didn't End".

The script of "A Game of Unfinished Chess" was published in "People's Literature" in January, and the Magic Shadow Studio was very optimistic about this script and hoped to buy the copyright, but Xu Wangqiu never let go. Even the magic studio promised to let him be the director of this movie, but it still refused to let go. Xu Shangchu didn't know Xu Wangqiu's thoughts, so he could only persuade over and over again, hoping to win the copyright of this play.

Xu Wangqiu was not complacent about Xiong Jingqi's evaluation, nor was he carried away by the copyright of "Hoe Rape", and he was still meticulous about his work. As an old man who has been in the film industry for many years, Xu Wangqiu knows that the movie has to be seen in the end. Now that the movie is only one-fifth of the way through, if the latter part is not done well, then "The Rape" cannot be a good movie.

Director Xie Jin once said that making a movie is like scooping a handful of water, and if you don't do it, you will leak a drop. Leak and leak, leak and leak. For any director, it is impossible not to leak, and what can really be done is to try to do a good job in every link and try to leak as little as possible.

The filming of "Hoe Rape" continues, with gunshots and explosions constantly sounding every day, and the actors rehearsing over and over again, performing again and again. It wasn't until mid-May that the two war scenes came to an end. The film consumption ratio for filming this part of the scene reached 1:6, which wasted a lot of film, which meant that the subsequent shooting had to be refined and strictly controlled.

At this time, the time has entered the middle of May, and a particularly interesting thing has happened in the film industry or the literary and artistic world. On the back cover of the fifth issue, "Popular Film" published stills of the kissing between the prince and Cinderella in the British movie "The Crystal Slipper and the Rose". What would have seemed like an ordinary photograph a few decades later was so bold in China in 1979 that it immediately sparked heated discussions across the country and became the focus of street conversation.

This discussion about kissing also blew to the crew of "Hoe Rape", Zhang Fengyi and they held "Popular Movie" when they were resting, looking at the kissing photos on the back cover and laughing.

At noon that day, Xu Wangqiu was strolling around the set, and saw Fang Shu looking at the kissing photo on the back cover of "Popular Movie" in a daze, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Her cheeks were slightly red, her eyes were blurred, and there was a shallow smile on the corner of her mouth, a picture of a young girl.

Xu Wangqiu felt funny in his heart, coughed, and asked, "Classmate Fang Shu, what are you looking at?"

Fang Shu's face turned red, looking like a ripe tomato, and she flipped "Popular Movie" forward randomly: "That watch "Popular Movie", well, Zhong Xinfei Zhong Lao's article is really well written. ”

Xu Wangqiu couldn't help laughing, the girls of this era are really simple and cute! Forty years later, not to mention seeing a kissing photo, even kissing on the street is a common thing. On the bus and subway, you can often see a little girl who looks like a high school student, kissing her boyfriend as if no one is around. If you look at you twice, people will despise you, and it will be strange to see less.

Back in the barracks at night, Xu Wangqiu took the kissing photos of "Popular Movie" in the crew of "Hoe Rape" as a joke and wrote it into a letter sent to Su Bai, at the end of the letter, he didn't know whether he was alive or dead: "If you were around, I would kiss you hard like the back cover of "Popular Movie". He estimated that Su Bai would definitely scold himself as a hooligan in his reply, but hooligans should be hooligans, but unfortunately Su Bai was not around, otherwise he really wanted to be a hooligan.

A few days later, Su Bai replied. In addition to telling interesting stories about the school and the sensation caused by "Popular Movie" on campus, her letter also wrote: "If you appear next to me right away, I'll let you kiss it, it's just a pity!"

Xu Wangqiu stared at the letter in his hand for a long time, thinking that classmate Su Bai had become bad, and he would actually be able to flirt with people, it was really a lack of cleanup! If it was 2019, he would definitely get on a plane and go straight to Beiping City, but now it is 1979, it is obviously impossible to take a plane, and there are not many jets. Xu Wangqiu could only say hatefully to the letter: "Classmate Su Bai, you wait, wait for the movie to finish, and see how I clean you up!"

Although he was teased by Su Bai, Xu Wangqiu was in a particularly comfortable mood, and he felt like spring was blooming.

For the whole of China, May 1979 can be said to be a warm spring, and there were many gratifying changes.

This month, Hong Kong businessman Liu Yaozhu took the lead in introducing a batch of cars and founded the first Sino-foreign joint venture taxi company in Yangcheng after the reform and opening up. In the course of the negotiations, Liu Yaozhu proposed that taxis should "stop as soon as they are waved", which the Chinese representative felt was incredible. Liu Yaozhu explained that no one will know about a beautiful girl at home, so she has to go out to everyone to appreciate it, which is a reference to the practice of Xiangjiang and is also in line with the world.

In this month, in Beihai Park, the open-air disco ball is in full swing, young people and foreigners in tunics twist together, and there are many onlookers, some excited, and some timid. Fashionable young men and women in the big cities are keen on this kind of dance, which is disparaged as "twisting the butt", and they used to dance behind closed doors in foreign-related dance halls, but now dare to dance in broad daylight. However, the name "disco" was not yet known at the time, and people called this dance, which was shaped like chaff, a swing dance.

This month, China embarked on its first major pilot reform of state-owned enterprises. Eight large state-owned enterprises, including the Capital Iron and Steel Company, the Tianjin Bicycle Factory, and the Modu Diesel Engine Factory, took the lead in experimenting with expanding the autonomy of their enterprises; the year of reform of state-owned enterprises with the theme of "delegating power" officially kicked off. In the coming decades, the reform of state-owned enterprises will be the biggest issue in Chinese society, involving the interests of millions of people.

The entire film system is also calling for reform, and film studios hope that the state can expand the autonomy of film studios. Last year, the number of moviegoers in China reached 24 billion, and the box office reached 1.1 billion, which made filmmakers rejoice, feeling that now is the best time for Chinese films, a golden age, and the future is full of hope. No one thought that this layer of gold was plated, and it would soon be punctured by the harsh reality, revealing the mud inside, and then the whole industry would gradually collapse.

No one in the film theory community is thinking about this issue, and the elites are busy grabbing the right to speak, how can they care about the life and death of Chinese films in the future. Since the publication of the special issue of "Film Art" in October last year, China's film theory community has been completely divided into two camps, and the two groups of people have been torn over whether to abandon the theatrical tradition and whether to learn from Hollywood or Europe. Both camps refused to compromise and fought in newspapers and magazines, almost to the point of incompatibility.

Wu Zhiliu and the six of them, plus Zhao Ban, who was discharged from the hospital after recovering from his injuries, all joined this debate. Xu Wangqiu's pen name is He Huo, so they have copied Xu Wangqiu's pen name, and published articles with names such as "He Bi", "He Shao", "He Jia", and started debates with experts and scholars. However, their theoretical level is relatively low, and it is not easy to fight with these experts and scholars, so they have to soak in the library all day long to consult materials.

Xu Wangqiu has always paid attention to the trends in the film industry and the changes in the economic field, but he has not written articles or participated in polemics. He knew that the two sides were arguing like this, and writing articles no longer had any effect. Only movies can prove whose point of view is correct.

In his spare time during filming, Xu Wangqiu is always trying to recall. Although he already has a relatively complete plan, he is still constantly looking for various possibilities for the future from the memories of the past, looking for opportunities to change everything. For him, the greatest reliance is on the memory of the future, and this weapon must be used to the extreme.

Xu Wangqiu knows that the problems of Chinese films are very complex, it can be said that they are intertwined and involve the interests of all parties, and it is impossible to change anything without enough strength. Now he is like Sun Wukong, who has just become king in Huaguo Mountain, he must learn seventy-two changes, and he must get the golden hoop stick to have the strength to make trouble in the heavenly palace.

In the final analysis, the world speaks by strength, and when you are a director, so is you want to change the world.

This morning, Zhang Ke came from Beiping. Zhang Ke is the director of the directing department, and it is impossible to stay in the crew of "Hoe Rape" all the time, basically go to the crew every other month to see the situation of the crew and see if Xu Wangqiu is messing around.

After lunch, Xu Wangqiu made tea for the old man and carefully reported the shooting situation during this time.

While the two were chatting, the production director Sun Wangquan ran in quickly and shouted: "Wangqiu, today Vice Minister Hu Qingming of the ministry went to the factory to inspect the work and criticized several films in the factory. When it came to "The Rape", Minister Hu said two things, one is anti-realism and the plot is false, and the second is to distort the image of the underground party.

Hu Qingming is none other than Fan Jian's uncle, and now that Fan Jian is gnawing at the nest in prison, Fan Jian's family naturally hates Xu Wangqiu to death. Xu Wangqiu knew that the other party would definitely find fault, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, before the movie was finished, the other party came to the door: ""Hoe Rape" is adapted from Tekko's eradication of the traitor Bai Xin, there is a story prototype, where is it against realism? In "Hoe Rape", the underground party is fearless and heroic, where does the image of the underground party be distorted?"

Zhang Ke heard Hu Qingming say that "Hoe Rape" was anti-realism and distorted the image of the underground party, and he also felt that the other party was deliberately finding fault, and frowned: "Wangqiu, don't be impatient, ask what is going on first." He turned his head to Sun Wangquan and said, "What did you say in the factory, you won't let "Hoe Rape" get off the horse, right?"

The rest of the crew stared at Sun Wangquan nervously, if the factory asked to get off the horse, then "Hoe Rape" would be completely impossible to film.

Sun Wangquan shook his head lightly and said, "That's not true, but Director Xu asked Wangqiu and Director Xie Fei to participate in the dialogue meeting between the leaders of the ministry and the main creative cadres of the whole factory tomorrow night." Although they are not from our Shadow Studio, this film is from our Shadow Studio, and as a director, they should attend the evening meeting. ”

When Xu Wangqiu heard this, he said coldly: "Okay, it's good to have a conversation." When the time comes, I will ask the Deputy Minister, where is "The Hoe" anti-realist and where does it distort the image of the underground party?"

Zhang Ke patted Xu Wangqiu on the shoulder and comforted: "Wangqiu, don't worry too much. This is our Nortel film, Nortel is not nobody, not so easy to bully. ”