This morning, as usual.

The prisoners' cell doors opened, and the prisoners were asked to come out and count the numbers.

Only Hongchen did not come out.

When the prison guard broke into his cell in a rage, the prison guard was stunned.

Hong Chen is not in a prison cell!

Next, the sirens sound!

Hong Chen has escaped from prison!

No one knew where he had gone, not even Freeman.

Freeman only knew that Hong Chen had asked them for a rope yesterday, and that last night was a night of thunderstorms.

The warden called Freeman to Hongchen's cell for questioning, and he roared angrily.

How can a person disappear inexplicably?

The warden grabbed the stone that Hongchen had polished and threw it angrily until it hit the poster posted on the wall.

The poster cracked a hole, and the stone went straight through it.

The warden reached out from the poster in disbelief, and the back was empty.

Shocked, he tore off the poster, and a long tunnel came into view.

This is the same tunnel that Freeman once thought would take 600 years to dig with a hammer.

And Hongchen took less than 20 years.

He never stopped escaping from Shawshank Prison.

No matter how much he went through, he never gave up.

Every night, he would use that little hammer to dig some dirt out of the wall. Then, the next day, when the wind was out, he secretly poured the soil out of his trouser pocket.

And so it went on for twenty years.

That night, Hong Chen stole all the bills, ledgers, and forged documents from the warden's black account.

Eventually, he climbed through the long sewer pipes and into the river, successfully completing a prison escape that seemed impossible to anyone.

This last scene is the most classic.

In order to make it look more realistic, Yan Chi specially found a large amount of chocolate liquor, mixed it in the water and put it in a water pipe.

The flood just crawled out of the water pipe.

He was covered in filth and retching, and crawled a full half mile away.

Eventually, the flood climbed out of the water pipe and ran on this stormy night.

He tore his clothes, stretched out his hands, and let the rain wash over his body.

At this moment, he was free.

As Freeman later said:

"Some birds can't be kept up, their feathers are too bright. When they fly away, you'll know it's a sin to keep them locked up. ”

The later plot is more and more classic.

Before Hong Chen was helping the warden make fake accounts, he created a virtual character, and he had all the documents to prove this character.

Therefore, Hong Chen used this person's identity to take out all the black money that the warden had saved for decades and turned it into his own.

At the same time, he also reported corruption and murder at Shawshank Prison to the newspaper.

The evidence is overwhelming, the prison guard Hadley is arrested, and the warden draws a gun and kills himself the moment the police knock on his office door.

At this point, calm returned to Shawshank Prison.

Until the end, Freeman also successfully obtained parole, and under Hong Chen's arrangement, he came abroad to find Hong Chen.

In front of the blue sea, Hong Chen is repairing his ship, and Freeman appears from the camera, both of them smiling towards each other.

The vast sea seemed to be their renewed freedom.

At this point, the filming of this film is completely completed.

It took more than three months in total, and by the time the filming was finished, it was almost June.

The filming time is not long, but if you count the time spent preparing and building the prison, the film has already taken about a year and a half, and this is only the original film, and post-production is still needed later.

"It's over!" cheered on the edge of the beach.

There is no tradition of a finale banquet in the United States, but there is always a need to celebrate after the movie is made.

Yan Chi invited a group of leading actors, and everyone held a party by the sea, and the atmosphere was very lively.

It is worth mentioning that this is a movie with no female characters at all, without any emotional entanglements.

The theme of this film is freedom, and it wants to show the world that the meaning of life is to pursue true freedom.

In real life, we are bound by all kinds of rules and regulations, but we should not give up on the pursuit of freedom. Although we will encounter many difficulties, these are not reasons for us to retreat.

The emotional power contained in this movie will eventually amaze the whole world.

"I can't wait to see this film come out. The night before his departure, Morgan Freeman said with deep feeling, "I've never looked forward to a work so much. ”

"I think the same as you. Hong Chen nodded and said with a smile.

"You two are stressing me out. Hearing the words of the two people, Yan Chi shrugged and said.

"It's all up to you. Hong Chen said with a smile.

He has a lot of confidence in Yan Chi, and Yan Chi's ability in directing is really strong. And they also have their own unique insights on the atmosphere creation, the selection of plot scenes, and the editing of videos in the later stage.

Post-production is generally not easy, for example, to set the theme song, the interlude in the film, many times the background music is required, and the choice of these is also very troublesome.

"Don't worry, with you two performing like this, I won't mess it up. Yan Chi smiled confidently again, "The card of the king is in my hand, and I am still waiting to be famous in history." ”

The three of them had a great chat.

After this period of filming, Hong Chen and Freeman have a very good relationship.

Freeman admires Hong Chen very much, he plays a character who admires Hong Chen, and he does the same outside the play, he finds that Hong Chen has a quality that others do not have.

"Mr. Morgan, it is a pleasure to work with you, and I hope that there will be opportunities to continue working together in the future. ”

"Haha, I'm sure that day won't be far away. ”

Both of them laughed.

The day after the seaside party ended, Hong Chen received a call from Ge Chen.

It turned out that "Chongzhen" had successfully passed the shortlist of the Cannes Film Festival and entered the campaign of the main unit.

For the Cannes Film Festival, Hong Chen is also looking forward to it.

This film festival has always paid attention to literary and artistic films, and pursues the artistry of films.

In terms of popularity and influence, the Cannes Film Festival is still not as good as the Oscars. But in the film industry, the gold medal of the Cannes Film Festival is not low at all.

Hong Chen has not been shortlisted for awards at the three major film festivals, mainly because he has never made an art film like this before.

And now the probability of Huaxia winning the gold medal at the Cannes Film Festival is very low, but it can win awards like Best Screenplay and Best Director.

There are only two Cannes actors in China now: Uncle Ge Weige and Liang Chaowei.

There is only one film that has won the Palme d'Or, and that is "Farewell My Concubine".

In all fairness, after seeing Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine", Zhang Mouzi was not far behind and filmed "Alive", and the art of "Alive" was not inferior to "Farewell My Concubine".

It's just a pity that "Alive" lost to Quentin's "Vulgar" that year, but the starring Ge You still won the Best Actor, which can be regarded as a recognition of this movie.

This year, Hong Chen's new film "Chongzhen" once again hit the gold medal at the Cannes Film Festival.

This film tells the story of the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and uses documentary techniques to show the scene of the decline of a dynasty.

It contains reflections on the feudal system, as well as reflections on the role of Chongzhen and the degeneration of the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that the artistic attainments are very high.

It's just that in the field of art films, Hong Chen is a newcomer.

The water in this line is very deep.

Therefore, this Cannes Film Festival, Hong Chen is destined not to go so smoothly.