Chapter 30: Movies
The husky said that at this year's Berlin Film Festival, the main winner of the Golden Bear Award is "Tuya's Marriage" directed by Wang...
"Apple" didn't win a single award, and it was banned in the mainland.
Lu Xiaoran watched it again, and frankly speaking, deleting the two erotic scenes of Chi Guoguo does not affect the expression of the theme of the movie - because this movie is very ordinary...
If you want to expose human nature, you have to expose it from the political, cultural, and economic background.
Cinema, as a way of expressing art, has neither depth, nor food for thought, nor entertainment...
Director Li Yu probably made too many documentaries, with the unique psychology of intellectuals.
I don't understand why such a movie can make three stars sacrifice so much!
……
The small screening hall of 200 people sat seven, seven, eight, eight.
Film Festival, such attendance is a disaster!
Li Dawei's face was not very good-looking.
Wang Qingqiang comforted: "We are not shortlisted for this one, it's good to have so many people!"
"Look over there, that's the Screen columnist..."
He pointed to a few foreigners in the front row, and then his face changed sharply: "... Xiao Lu, hurry up and follow me!"
"What's wrong?"
"Shi Nansheng is here!"
“… Xu Ke's wife?"
Lu Xiaoran hurriedly got up and followed Wang Qingqiang to the front row, not forgetting to drag the candy...
On the plane that day, he chatted a lot with Wang Qingqiang, including mentioning that he liked Xu Ke's unbridled imagination the most...
Shi Nansheng, a legendary woman.
Famous filmmaker.
Her identity is not only Xu Ke's wife, but also one of the seven monsters of the new art city, at the peak of the new art city, the other six were responsible for creation, and she was responsible for daily administration and production management, giving birth to "The Best Partner", "Difficult Brothers", "The Best Partner's Secret Order"...
Shi Tai Yishu's idol, called her: 'stylish, lak, mighty, too good expression skills, rich sense of humor', Yishu's pen can be said to be scolded all over the Hong Kong circle, especially Grandma Zhao - 'When you are so old, you have to come out to sell meat...'
Wang Qingqiang introduced Lu Xiaoran: "This is our actor Lu Xiaoran!"
"Cast the film..."
“… The lad has a good image and has a chance to work together!"
"Definitely..."
The film festival meeting is basically this routine, and no one will take this kind word seriously.
……
After the hiccup, the lights dim and the screen lights up.
"The Tale of Two Donkeys" was officially screened...
Lu Xiaoran hasn't watched the finished film yet, so she restrained her mood and watched the movie seriously.
The beginning is a big scene, a hot work scene.
Ma Jie played by Lu Xiaoran is also among them, he is very conspicuous, and the cart pushes the fastest...
Laziness is also the number one...
"Ma Jie, when do you think we can go back to the city? I really don't understand what we can do if we stay here every day?"
Ma Jie greeted the rising sun in the ravine: "... The most precious thing about human beings is life. Life belongs to man only once. A man's life should be spent in such a way that when we look back, we will not regret that we wasted our time, nor be ashamed of our inaction;
"You... You said it too deeply, I don't understand, you tell me what to do in the next days!"
“…”
Ma Jie glanced at Jianwei, how did he know how to live?
Just then, a donkey bark tore Jianwei's attention...
"Hehe, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, and I hear the tearing sound of my mount!"
The beginning of the story is that Ma Jie is interested in Black Six...
Then he successfully worked as a livestock breeder with a trick:
The following conversation is absurd and funny:
"In fact, the family background of the two donkeys is not good, going back to several generations, their great-great-great-grandfathers were raised by the big landlord Gao Jiucai in the village, eating and drinking spicy food all day long, and the fire wall was built in the livestock shed, which is much more comfortable than our poor middle peasants. ”
"But let's also use the opportunity to give the Black Five to be a new person!"
"Black Six is a natural donkey!"
Lu Xiaoran noticed that a few foreigners let out a sneer.
What are they laughing at?
Do they know what the 'Black Five' is?
There is a movie similar to "The Tale of Two Donkeys", called "Balzac and the Little Tailor", but the theme of that movie is love, and "The Tale of Two Donkeys" is an allegory...
By the way, the French box office of "Balzac and the Little Tailor" is 2.2 million euros, and the North American box office is 700,000 US dollars, which is higher than the North American box office of "Wu Ji".
The plot progressed to the point where Ma Jie wanted to put on Black Six and let it pull the car, and then Black Six ran to Captain Dalian to complain...
Ma Jie was severely trained:
"How can you get Black Six to work? Its job is breeding, not work!"
"Can you afford to pay for it?"
"Don't say that you are a young intellectual, even ten can't compare to the contribution made by Black Six!"
"Today's work points have been deducted!"
Ma Jie dragged Hei Liu back to the livestock shed, but Hei Liu snorted casually and flirted with a jujube mare in the adjacent trough and wagging his tail.
Ma Jie is angry!
"What's wrong with letting you do some work? Why did I wronged you? Don't you work hard, are you worthy of the eggs you ate? And flirt with other lesbians, that's a horse, not a donkey, you're not a species!"
"Do you know it's wrong?"
Black Six smiled weirdly in a very cooperative way...
"Lying in the groove Nima, a beast, it's the other way around, do you think you're the Monkey King?"
Ma Jie picked up the whip and threw it down...
……
The subtitles of the film festival are all in English, and there is also German underneath, which is very unaccustomed.
Usually we watch movies, Chinese pronunciation, Chinese subtitles.
Even if it is a foreign language film, it is also with Chinese subtitles...
"Why don't you speak Mandarin?"
“… Northern Shaanxi dialect is similar to Mandarin!"
"It's far from it..."
“…”
Lu Xiaoran didn't have time to refute, his attention was on the movie.
He felt that Li Dawei didn't bring his emotions with him when he made this film, maybe he just felt that this story was very legendary, so he filmed it...
After all, he is a post-70s generation and has no memory of going to the mountains and going to the countryside...
So, except for a small number of shots given to that era, most of the attention is focused on Ma Jie and the black donkey...
Without this part, you can only see the legend, but not the criticism...
"Yes, you can do it!
I admire you a little,
You do it all
Everything was beyond my expectations
You're acting like nothing is wrong afterwards
What is your purpose? Your purpose is to kill me!"
When it comes to the climactic scene, Ma Jie is ready to touch the black and kill Hei Qi, this dialogue is saved by Li Dawei...
To add a touch of humor to the story...
Of course, when Lu Xiaoran acted, he was very serious.
Comedy is all about dislocation, and if Ma Jie is opposite a person, you don't have this kind of psychology that wants to laugh...
I didn't think it was when I filmed it, but now that I watch it, I always feel that it is a bit deliberate, diluting the theme...
We talk about movies that are either serious or entertaining, and there are very few that can harmonize the two, and that is what genius can do.
The theme of "The Tale of Two Donkeys" is resistance!
Dull...
Even though the entire screening hall was laughing, Lu Xiaoran still felt that this section should not have...
Maybe according to the original book, Ma Jie taught Hei Qi a lesson with a whip, it might be better...
In the last shot, the snow was falling, Ma Jie pushed open the door and saw Black Seven...
It was still standing in the snow, with only a gray-brown skeleton left on its body. The skeleton was still emitting wisps of hard green smoke, and it looked like metal, standing stiff and straight in the snow.
A big close-up, Lu Xiaoran's face...
His face was expressionless, and then he looked in the direction of Captain Dalian and smiled meaningfully...
The movie ends...
Two versions, this is the overseas version, the version submitted for review, a scene switch, changed to twenty years later, Huang Lei's middle-aged Ma Jie lamented that animals also have wisdom, we must be in awe of life...
Nearly two hours of film screenings were completed.
Lu Xiaoran sighed, this movie, although it is starring him... But to evaluate it objectively, it's really average!
Or that the entertainment effect dilutes the theme...
Then, he looked around, and it was very strange that many filmmakers and reporters came around...
They love this story of animal revenge!