After dinner, Liu Lin and the others immersed themselves in hard reading, while Xu Wangqiu began to think about making movies. Just like Zhong Xinfei said, if Xu Wangqiu wants to make a movie, he must find someone to co-direct, after all, he is only sixteen years old and has no experience in filmmaking, and it is impossible for the school to let him direct alone.

However, there is a big problem with co-directing, because it is two directors, there must be differences in concepts, and conflicts will inevitably arise in the process of co-directing. Xu Wangqiu is a student, if there is a conflict with the teacher, the crew will definitely listen to the teacher, and the other party can easily put Xu Wangqiu in the air. Just like when Lu Chuan was filming "Looking for a Gun", he was directly overheaded by Jiang Wen, and there was no way except to squat in the corner and cry.

Therefore, the co-directed teacher must be broad-minded and tolerant. It's best to be the kind of teacher who has a movie and won't grab Xu Wangqiu's project, but is just a nominal teacher.

If Zhang Ke can be invited to co-direct, it is undoubtedly the best, he can't set aside Xu Wangqiu, let alone grab Xu Wangqiu's project. However, he is the head of the directing department, so it is impossible to leave the work of the department and make movies with Xu Wangqiu.

Xu Wangqiu excluded the school teachers one by one, and finally circled the name on Xie Fei.

Xie Fei is a representative of the fourth generation of directors, won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, has a very high level, and is committed to cultivating young directors, and will definitely not put Xu Wangqiu in the air like Jiang Wen; There is no better collaborator than Xie Fei!

However, before looking for Xie Fei, Xu Wangqiu had to write the script. If there is no good script, it is impossible for Xie Fei to accompany Xu Wangqiu to "mess around", so the script has become the biggest problem Xu Wangqiu is facing now.

Xu Wangqiu hopes to prove his ideas through film, so he can't follow the path of neorealism and new wave, he has to make commercial films, but at the same time he can't make popcorn movies. If a popcorn movie is made, the supporters of the New Wave will shout, "Look, this kind of film has no artistic value at all." Therefore, Xu Wangqiu can only make the kind of movies that have both commerciality and art, and they are well combined.

In fact, business and art have never contradicted each other, and movies themselves have two attributes: business and art. Many of the films of the masters of art film may seem dull to later generations, but they were actually very popular at the time. Recognized masters of art films such as Fellini and Bergman actually did well at the box office. It's just that many directors can't make movies that the audience likes, and they don't want to admit their failures, so they use art films to cover up their shame, saying that it's not that their movies are bad, but that the audience doesn't understand art.

When it comes to the three major film festivals, many people think that the shortlisted films of the three major film festivals are art films, but this is not the case. For example, "Farewell My Concubine", "Alive", and Ang Lee's movies are actually commercial films, but the artistic standard is extremely high. If you divide it from the perspective of genre films, these movies are popular dramas or melodramas. The structure and narrative of these films are very Hollywood, but they are only Chinese in terms of story content, with a strong Chinese personality.

However, Xu Wangqiu does not plan to make popular dramas, his film must be more commercial, and the artistry must not be bad. This sounds like a lot of difficulty, but in fact it is not so exaggerated, because the audiovisual language of Chinese films is too backward now, as long as you use new techniques in your own films, then your own films will be the first to open up the trend, and they will have a high degree of artistry. Just like Hitchcock's films are standard commercial films, without too deep connotations, but his creativity in cinematic techniques and audiovisual language has propelled him to the throne of the greatest director.

If you can Xu Wangqiu, you want to make a war movie, but the cost of a war film is too high, and you can't do it without seven or eight hundred thousand. In this era, making war films is often a political necessity, and for film studios, it is actually a loss-making business. Xu Wangqiu borrowed money to shoot it, and he had to pay it back when the time came, and it was obviously impossible to make a war movie.

After weighing it repeatedly, Xu Wangqiu decided to shoot a spy war theme, in the words of this era, it is a thriller, or an anti-special film.

But what should I shoot? Filming "The Sound of the Wind"? The setting of filming this scene is too complicated, and the cost is very high, so forget it! "The Wind Listener"? This story is not very good, and I really have no motivation to shoot it......

After pondering for a long time, Xu Wangqiu found that there were very few domestic films that were suitable for this era and could be moved over. So, he began to look for stories from abroad that could be transplanted to China. When he thought of the Korean movie "Assassination", his eyes suddenly lit up, and the whole person was like a sling seeing a goddess, and he smirked.

Xu Wangqiu didn't want to remake "Assassination", but "Assassination" reminded him of a story. In his last life, when he watched "Assassination" in the cinema, he said to his girlfriend with emotion, this is really a shame for Chinese movies, Koreans have gone to the magic capital to shoot the story of assassinating traitors, there are obviously a lot of stories like ours, such as the rape of the special co, the assassination of traitors by the military commanders, if these stories are filmed, they will definitely be more exciting than the stories of Koreans, but we didn't shoot them!

It was obviously impossible to assassinate a traitor in 1978, but it was feasible to shoot a traitor.

Xu Wangqiu remembered that Changying Studio filmed a similar story in the 80s, called "After the Trap", and also filmed Chen Geng's story. Although none of these films were made very well, at least it proves that it is feasible to make this type of film.

After thinking of this, Xu Wangqiu quickly found the story he wanted to film.

On August 24, 1929, the central leaders held a secret meeting in the magic capital, and the traitor Bai Xin led the military and police to surround the venue, and arrested the political/governance/bureau/member Peng Pai, the alternate member of the Politburo Yang Yin, the secretary of the JS Provincial Party Committee and the Military Commission Ji Yan Changyi, Xing Shizhen, Zhang Jichun and other leaders, and the secretary of the Central Military Commission Ji Ji ***** was temporarily spared because he did not attend the meeting.

When the CCP leaders heard the news, they were shocked and anxious, and urgently deployed countermeasures to organize the rescue of the special branch prisoner car, but they failed to succeed due to various reasons. On August 30, 1929, Peng, Yang, Yan, and Xing were killed at the Longhua Garrison Headquarters in the Demon Capital. The despicable acts of the traitors and the brutality of the authorities infuriated the revolutionaries, and the Central Committee was determined to punish the traitors.

Chen Geng, the head of the Second Section of the Central Special Branch and the legendary Red Team Intelligence Section, personally commanded the rebellion. On November 11, 1929, when Bai Xin was about to board the car and escape, the members of the red team fell from the sky according to the predetermined plan, ambushed and suppressed the traitor, and took advantage of the chaos of people running in panic to quietly disappear. Because the Xiafei Road where the incident occurred was located in the French Concession at that time, the incident of Tsec's punishment of traitors had a great impact, and was dubbed "the largest assassination in the East" by major newspapers.

Xu Wangqiu decided to write a hoe rape story based on the assassination of Bai Xin, and the name was "hoe rape". Of course, because this story involves many leaders, there will be trouble during the review, so Xu Wangqiu decided to change the whole story, the central leader was changed to the leader of the provincial party committee, the magic capital was changed to Binhai City, and the names of the characters were all changed.

Xu Wangqiu did not study or develop in Hollywood, but he has in-depth research on Hollywood genre films and has repeatedly studied the Hollywood drama book "Save the Cat". It is not difficult for him to write a script according to the Hollywood genre film model. He follows the standard pattern of Hollywood genre films, divides the story into three acts, starting with the military and police raiding the venue, creating a tense atmosphere, the whole first act writes that Tekko wants to rescue the captured comrades, but the rescue fails, and the four comrades are killed by the enemy; In the third act, Teko successfully ambushed and Bai Xin was killed.

According to the Hollywood genre film model, there will be a fake high/high in the middle of the movie, and the protagonist or the protagonist side will look like they are about to win, but then the situation will take a turn for the worse, and the protagonist side will suffer a major setback. Xu Wangqiu also decided to follow this pattern, the assassination operation of the special team members had long been expected by the enemy, and it was actually a trap designed to lure them out. Most of the entire operation team was killed in the battle, and only the hero and the other two fighters escaped. The actor shouldered the heavy responsibility and took the two escaped team members to finally get rid of the traitor after careful layout.

Xu Wangqiu is very satisfied with his adaptation, if it is filmed according to the true story, and the special team members kill Bai Xin directly, then the whole story will seem relatively bland. Adding a failed assassination will make the story more exciting and the main characterization will be very good. The protagonist is a young man, an ordinary member of the hoe team, and when most of his teammates died in battle, he stepped forward and shouldered the heavy responsibility of hoeing and raping, and the character's growth trajectory came out.

As the clock ticked to ten o'clock, the silence of the campus was suddenly broken by the hustle and bustle, and the Nortel students came back after watching the movie. Soon the door was crunched open, and Xie Xiaojing and Zhao Ban walked in with a smile.

It is true that Xie Xiaojing is a child of a family, but the family is relatively strict, and ordinary students like Xu Wangqiu also face the problem of not having enough to eat, and they are very concerned about eating. He originally wanted to go shopping with Xu Wangqiu and them, but since his family is Nortel's, if he slips away, the family will know immediately. He could only suppress the restlessness in his heart and pretend to be a good child. After returning to the dormitory, the first question Xie Xiaojing asked was, "Brother, have you bought the noodles?"

Xia Gang smiled and said, "Not only did I buy noodles, but I also bought instant noodles!"

Xie Xiaojing had eaten instant noodles, and remembered that thing vividly, and her saliva flowed: "You bought instant noodles? It's a luxury! I'm just a little hungry now." Hurry up and soak two pieces, and everyone will eat them separately. ”

Xia Gang showed a look of contempt: "Soak a fart now, soak it now, and the people in the other dormitories will all come over when they smell it." After the lights went out, we boiled and ate, and instant noodles were better boiled than soaked. ”

Xie Xiaojing swallowed her saliva: "Okay, by the way, you didn't buy vegetables, right?"

"No, didn't you say you don't need to buy groceries, go to the school's vegetable cellar and steal them. We can't find a place either, so we're waiting for you to come back and lead the way. Xu Wangqiu jumped out of bed, "Since you're back, let's act!"

Xie Xiaojing waved his hand and said: "No, no, the school vegetable cellar is too deep, and you can't go down without a ladder, so it's best to call a girl as a helper." The girl was lighter and asked her to raise her hands high, and the two boys each took one of her hands and put her in the vegetable cellar. She put the cabbage in the basket, and the boy pulled it up with a rope, and finally we pulled her up again. ”

Xu Wangqiu couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Dean Xie, you really have a lot of experience in stealing vegetables!"

Xie Xiaojing smiled and said, "Don't say it so ugly, how can the things of a scholar be called stealing." ”

Xia Gang said with a hippie smile: "Then it's called stealing, which girl do you think is more suitable for us to steal vegetables?"

Xie Xiaojing thought for a while and said, "Just Li Shaohong, she is relatively small." ”