Ji Ming and Chu Qing went to the mall and IKEA a few times, and it was still a pleasant thing to decorate the new home. Especially when both people are not too stubborn, they will not quarrel over the choice of integrated or combined headlights - it is said that decoration and travel are the best way to test the relationship of a couple.

Both of them should have passed the test.

When Chu Qing chose something, Ji Ming's response was usually like this:

"Wow, that's good. ”

"It's interesting, it's a great design. ”

"How did you find it, I feel good. ”

"It's a good fit. ”

Born to hold the material, there is no way.

Ji Ming sometimes chooses some things, such as a solid wood stool on high legs, which should be very good if placed in front of the small bar - although neither of them actually drinks much, there is still a small bar at home, and it is good to put it there and drink some tea. Cantonese kung fu tea is leisurely, but a cup of bar-style tea is also quite meaningful.

“499？”

"yes, I don't know what it is. ”

Chu Qing is a little too expensive, but looking at Ji Ming enthusiastically describing the pleasant appearance of sitting on it and drinking tea, even the winter afternoon sun, the spider plant and aloe vera shine transparently and lovely, a furnace of clear water is boiling, and the silver needles, or the tips of the hair are rolled into green swimming fish competing in the waves...... It's all described as if it's right in front of you.

Like, isn't that good?

"Then buy it?"

"Buy!"

Chu Qing looked at him gearing up to move it down by himself, and couldn't help laughing: "Don't smash you, just call someone." ”

......

I don't know if all the editing rooms are so dark, maybe it's because you need to imitate the look of the theater all the time, and you can always watch the clips you cut out, whether you can reflect the director's intention on the big screen.

"You look so much lighter. ”

"Really?" Ji Ming smiled and glanced at Alice, as well as the French editor she was still working with: "You two look quite haggard, oh, it's really admirable for your serious work attitude." ”

French editor, referred to as French scissors, French scissors have a middle-aged Frenchman standard Mediterranean head, and a slightly chubby figure, of course, this chubby and the boy said "slightly chubby" when he had a girlfriend, is not a concept, this is really chubby, about 180 pounds, 180 cm tall.

"Listen, that's what capitalists are. ”

"Oh, you've learned a lot of new words since you came to China. ”

Fa Scissors shrugged his shoulders: "This is not a new word, in recent years, the French have also mentioned capitalists a lot, and Lao Ma is still a European." ”

Old Horse ......

"Forget it, we're going to Venice, not Berlin, so we don't have to study politics so hard. ”

A spicy mockery of the Berlin Film Festival - this year's Berlin, Chinese films shined, and after "Long Time and Long Time" won the best actor in one go, it increased the number of three award-winning actors in China by two at once. However, the Golden Bear goes to "Synonyms", a very European film in which young Israelis flee their homeland and come to the France of their dreams to be reborn...... I don't know if there is also a mockery of the reality of France.

After a few gossips, I still have to try to get to work.

Alice's movements are actually quite fast, and she cut out several large clips - she cut out the key plot first, and then traveled the whole movie. is different from Wen Yan, Wen Yan likes to cut out a long strip according to the main line, and then trim and sculpt it on it.

Ji Ming calmed down and watched all these big clips, almost an hour and a half.

"How?"

"Very, perfect fit. ”

The description of "suitable" is obviously more convincing than "very good" and "very good", and Alice is obviously relieved by this evaluation - not that she cares about Ji Ming's evaluation very much, but if the two of them have a huge dispute about the editing style, then the next work will be very difficult, and no one will give in easily.

At this moment, Ji Ming finally confirmed that he chose Alice Lowach, the Italian female director, who may be one of the biggest luckies of "Silence".

Alice has been a documentary director for 7 years, and in her lens language, documentary-like reality, and romance and whimsy based on her personal life experience are particularly well combined, some people call it naturalism, and some people say that this is neorealism - no matter what it is called, but these two points are embodied in "Silence", so that these fragments have both real textures and hazy beauty higher than reality, and there is a subtle conflict between the two, and the viewer will be haunted by this conflict throughout the viewing process.

It's not the kind of conflict that would make people think that the movie is incongruous, but it's like a stewed bitter gourd with brisket, bitter and sweet, sweet and bitter, but all the flavors are unified in this dish, that's it, it's supposed to be that.

"I think this subtle sense of conflict is the most important temperament of this film. ”

Ji Ming doesn't even need to say more, Alice is the director, and she knows exactly where this sense of conflict comes from - Yang Ming does everything in his power to perfect his imaginary world, his utopia. But reason and his real situation are constantly challenging this false, completely healthy and powerful body, the freeze-frame digital clock, Xiao Rui's existence, the leaflet from five years ago, the disappearing actors, and the changing audience......

He tries his best to ignore these falsehoods in order to perpetuate this imaginary world – but his pursuit of breakthroughs in the art of dance, and his extreme interpretation of "Silent Lake" all come from his true obsession and artistic understanding.

This kind of truth and falsehood, deliberate ignorance and natural attachment are intertwined, which brings a lingering sense of conflict.

Whether it is Alice or Ji Ming, they don't want the audience to watch the movie comfortably.

"Congratulations, it looks like you've reached the most important agreement. Fa Jian shrugged his shoulders: "Otherwise, I don't know if I should listen to the boss or the big boss at that time." ”

"There's no doubt that you should listen to the boss, because the boss gives you money. Alice felt a surge of gratitude in her heart, she knew that Ji Ming had done great restraint, as the creator and starring of the script, he obviously had a particularly complete imagination of the movie, but no matter in the filming or now, Ji Ming had no intention of imposing that imagination on Alice.

The harmonious working environment did not make Ji Ming lose a few hairs, and he was busy in the editing room intermittently for two weeks.

In the middle, Xu Zheng, Ning Hao, Huang Lei, Lou Ye, Diao Yinan, all of them have come to see it in twos and threes, or they have come to see it alone, it is also a convention, on the one hand, to look at the creations of their peers, on the other hand, they can also be the first batch of audiences, after all, they are all directors, and they don't need to wait for the complete work to come out, they can see a lot of things.

Ji Ming and Alice have gone through the way of thinking of these stalwart directors in China.

......

Two weeks later, Ji Ming and the crew of "The Last Emperor" met again and went to Shanghai to participate in the 12th China Arts Festival - this is a national art festival, it is very grand, the heads of the competent departments will attend, and Renyi is also arranged as a major event.

The Wenhua Award was presented at the closing ceremony.

"Are you worried that some people think that "Mo" is similar to "Black Swan"? The same falsehood, truth, and the same pursuit of the artistic realm of dance. Huang Lei was also invited to participate, as the founder of the Black Town Theater Festival, he was quite willing to participate in these art events, found a free time, and seized Ji Ming to talk about "Mo", he went with Xu Zheng and Taohong, and he didn't have a chance to talk too much that day.

Ji Ming thought for a while: "Rubbing the heat, it's good for the box office." ”

"......" Huang Sanshi blinked, and he didn't think of this answer even if he wanted to break his head: "You, it's really no wonder that "Immortals" can get 1.5 billion, with you staring at the box office like this, it's difficult not to be popular." ”

"Haha. ”

Teacher Huang Wenqing is sick.

Ji Ming thought for a while: "Actually, I'm not too worried, I told you at the beginning that these two have elements of dance, fantasy, and even suspense, and they will definitely be watched together." But if you have watched both movies, you will definitely know that their cores are completely different - "Black Swan" is about an experiential dancer, in the process of climbing the peak of art, the most difficult part. "Silence" explores the thinking possibilities of a group with limited behavior, it can be a dancer, a singer, a painter, of course, the artist's imagination is more mysterious, regardless of this, even he can be a construction worker, a teacher, ......"

"So your core is higher than Black Swan?"

This is a layman's term, Huang Lei seems to be smiling but not smiling, and he is not serious.

Movies are the least big or small, and sometimes a handful of people in China will say that the grand narrative is higher than the small love, but purely from an artistic point of view, there is no difference between big and small.

"When the time comes, you have to watch it as soon as possible, otherwise you will always hang it, will you watch the film?"

"I guess there is, it depends on the arrangement of the Beijing culture, we will be over after cutting the film anyway. ”

Huang Lei didn't believe it, Ji Ming's first master-controlled work, could it really be impossible to ignore him? No matter how the capital culture jumped, Ji Ming was the real boss in the end.

"Forget it, I'll leave it to you. Huang Lei dropped the topic: "It's the Wenhua Award, do you have any letters?"

Speaking of this question, it's really weird.

Although the Wenhua Award cannot be said to be divided into pork, it is not much of a problem to say that it is divided into ginseng fruits, and the invitations of Zhenyuan Daxian have to be sent out one by one. Therefore, in fact, the previous awards will be known relatively early, and there is no need to wait for the final closing ceremony to be announced.

But this time, Ji Ming really didn't know if he had won the award.

He knew that "The Last Emperor" failed to win the work award - the award-winning list on the work is all about standing and attitude, and if the creation of "The Last Emperor" revolves around how to transform the feudal emperor into a new era of people, there may be a fight, but it is not, so it is not surprising that it did not win the award.

But the performance awards, all kinds of news are unknown.

Cultural performance awards in the field of drama, there will be no more than two, it is likely to be one, will it fall into the hands of Ji Ming, when there is no conclusive news, all parties dare not say - this time, Xin Boqing, the most prominent Chinese dialect this year, is not competitive, so Mandarin + Renyi + Chinese opera, many people are working hard for Ji Ming, and some of the shortlisted old-timers of course also have their own channels and relationships, and in general, they are not as sharp as Ji Ming.

"Actually, whether I win the award or not, I'm not particularly persistent. This time, I came to participate in the China Art Festival, mainly hoping to show the people of Chang'an, the people of all ethnic groups across the country, and the common people our deeds and dedication on the literary and artistic front in the past year. ”

“...... Are you ready to accept your speech?"

cough, I really pulled a sentence out of the testimonial, and people are hard to dismantle.