"When I went to Qianyang to inspect the filming location, the local villagers told me that there was a mountain not far from the filming location, and the scenery was very good. ”

Director Wen Yan said with a smile that she is not particularly gentle or strong, but has a unique sense of strength, which comes from the inner level, so she doesn't have to have a strong or gentle appearance:

"Song Mei took me to climb for more than two hours, and finally walked over, it's amazing, you know? It's not the highest of those mountains, but when you stand there, you can see two very distinct sides, one side is the curling smoke in the village, and the other side is the distant mountains, and the forest is deep and foggy.

I stood for an hour, and my confusion and trade-offs about the script gradually became clear. Education, the countryside, and poetry are not as powerful as the stark to shocking contrast - Li Yuan pursues poetry, but also the negation of the modern city, Wang Xiaohua pursues a famous school, but also a farewell to the barren Dong village, people in the city always yearn to pick chrysanthemums under the east fence, leisurely see Nanshan, and people in remote mountainous areas take the noise of the city as a sign of success, generation after generation hopes to go out of the mountains through education, and become city people.

I think, if Wang Xiaohua is standing on that mountain, on the one hand, it is the dreamland that Li Yuan is pursuing, and on the other hand, it is the Dong village where she grew up, and in the distance, it is the high-rise buildings and bright lights that she wants to go to - the place where Li Yuan came. The dislocation and contrast of this pursuit will be particularly vivid and powerful in such a quiet Dong village, in the ancient poems that have no distinction between urban and rural areas since ancient times. ”

Ji Ming listened to Wen Yan's unwritten description, obviously he didn't have a draft, he came casually.

In the end, she focused on the inner anxiety of modern people in the original script, in the cool scenery of Dong Village, in the wonderful celestial phenomena of the mountain, through natural scenery and poetry, rather than through the way of text narration and language education, this anxiety is expressed from the audience's eyes to their minds.

"So 'The Far Side of Ah Lang' is not quite suitable?

Wen Yan smiled very happily: "That mountain is called 'Yu Xian Descent' - about the translation of their Kam language, the place where the immortals descend." The villagers say that their ancestors once met immortals there, and I think that there may not be immortals, but with the thinking and transformation that Li Yuan and Wang Xiaohua experienced there, how could they not be immortals who ignited each other? Isn't the immortal, who is in the mountains and is at ease, the answer to our inner anxiety?"

Regarding the name of the movie, Ji Ming doesn't have much to say.

But he thinks the new name is good.

"Falling to the Immortals" He has read the script, the revision is particularly large, in terms of Li Yuan's character, he is no longer a stupid white sweet who loves hot words, he is just an ordinary Chinese teacher in his thirties, in the opposition of the world to pursue his own poetry and distance, after arriving in Qianyang Dong Village, the simple villagers, beautiful scenery, slow rhythm, made him think that he had come to sleepland, but Wang Xiaohua's strong obsession with going to school reminded him that nothing had changed, and the shadow followed him, he began to conflict with this little girl, and he tried to forcibly reverse her"Wrong concept", followed by the change of faces of the villagers, Wang Xiaohua's interrogation, and the collapse of inner concepts-

Until he first boarded the Yuxian Descent, the antique immortals drank and read poetry, but saw the silver wind chimes hanging on the tree by Wang Xiaohua's parents, this is the place where they fell in love, Wang Xiaohua's father once sang the most affectionate mountain song of Dong Village for her mother here - he took this to ask Wang Xiaohua, his parents' love is so poetic, why is she full of cheesy?

Wang Xiaohua collapsed, Li Yuanqianfu pointed out.

Qi Xi, the female teacher who came to teach, is a person who follows reality, without so many inner entanglements, she wandered between Li Yuan and Wang Xiaohua, and told them that in her view, in fact, they are the same kind of people, and there is an obsession with a peach blossom paradise in their hearts - under Qi Xi's matchmaking, the teacher and student two climbed to Yuxian for the second time, one looked left, one looked right, Li Yuan and a 13-year-old girl, dissected her heart, Wang Xiaohua also told him for the first time that her parents hoped that she could go to the capital to study in college.

In the melodious Dong folk songs, Li Yuan finally realized that the poetry and distance he pursued had also become part of his obsession and anxiety, and was no longer salvation. Wang Xiaohua thought of her gentle parents and the beauty of this land in her singing, and they were all confused.

Qi Xi facilitated the primary school to participate in the county chorus competition, and went all the way to the national competition, in the process, Li Yuan and Wang Xiaohua both rethought the Dong village and the city, about the inner and external forces.

The heart is in the paradise, and everywhere is far away.

Parental love, no matter where to go.

Although they didn't win the national championship, after returning to Dong Village, Li Yuan and Wang Xiaohua took the runner-up medal to meet the immortals and told Wang Xiaohua's parents that it was not good outside, so they went out to play casually and won the second place.

At the end of the script, Li Yuan stayed in Dongzhai Primary School, and also set up a poetry club, freely and casually told these children in the mountain village that there are not only Tao Yuanming and Li Bai in the poems, but also Han Yu's "Persuasion", and Li He's heroic manhood...... Deep in the mountains, they will finally have their own choices one day.

And Wang Xiaohua did not participate.

"Half a reunion, haha," Wen Yan clicked on the script: "There is still a difference between understanding and doing, the short period of one year in the story is not enough for them to become saints who combine knowledge and action, and the days are still like that, but the inner thinking has come." ”

"Hoo ......"

Master, this is the master.

"So I'm going to play a 28-year-old Chinese teacher with strong business ability and a young literary and artistic man?"

"Haha, yes, you actually thought you were too handsome at first, but then I thought about it, handsome is also very good, handsome itself will also bring you a lot of shackles, aggravate your inner anxiety and pressure, and this play must be picturesque, the beauty is in the painting, and it is also very pleasing to the eye - but this age difference of about ten years, as well as the accumulation of experience, you may need to work hard yourself, I believe that with your ability, there is no problem. ”

Ji Ming pursed his lips and thought about it, and nodded: "When will it be turned on?"

"At the end of June, when you have a summer vacation, you will shoot for about a month and a half, in the mountains of Qianyang and in the urban area, two filming locations. Well, do you think it's okay?"

"Okay, anyway, I'm sure I'll finish the exam before the holidays. ”

"What to test?"

"English level 6. ”

“……”

The corners of Wen Yan's mouth twitched, this bear thing is not easy to deal with.