Chapter 120: The Script Is Out (5/5)
After chatting a few words, Zhang Junsheng was ready to say goodbye...
"Director Zhang, aren't you going to see Secretary Zhao?"
Secretary Zhao is the initiator of "Tangshan Earthquake"...
"I'm not going, I'm just here to find the feeling of old Tangshan, the rough script has been written, but the details still have to be polished!"
With a wave of his hand, Zhang Junsheng put on his mask again and rushed towards the earthquake site!
In fact, there is a very profound scene in "Tangshan Earthquake" of the pants, at the end of the movie, an old man said to the memorial wall of the victims, "I will come to see you in two days"...
Very touching...
To be honest, this one shot is enough to make people praise "Tangshan Earthquake" as a good movie!
The surrounding green trees are clear and the pond is clear, the cicadas are singing, and the water waves are slightly wrinkled.
The height of the wall of 7.28 meters and the distance of 19.76 meters from the pool indicate the time and space distance between the deceased and the living, and the three numbers 1976, 7 and 28 are too special for Tangshan!
The 240,000 names engraved on the nearly 500-meter-long wall lost their lives that night.
The old paulownia tree, which stood silently in the water before the earthquake, recorded that scene with special growth rings...
"The time and the earth collapsed, the cities were destroyed, the homes were instantly razed to ruins, the prosperity turned into clouds, 240,000 villagers died in the rubble, and more than 7,000 families died behind closed doors..."
The "Memorial Wall of Tangshan Earthquake Victims" on the wall describes it like this.
Standing in front of the monument and looking at the names, Zhang Junsheng felt very heavy in his heart...
His feelings about "Tangshan Earthquake" are actually... I don't feel anything, it's like filming "A Chinese Ghost Story", I just want to show it and tell the world that he, Zhang Junsheng, can also make a disaster movie with a big investment!
However, the feeling is really different now, especially the flowers around and the old man with gray temples standing in front of the wall, whispering to himself...
This horse-riding man suddenly feels so shameless...
……
"Ah, I'm in Tang * Mountain, surveying the location!"
"Decided on the fly!"
There was no sound on the other end of the phone...
After a while, Zhang's mother spoke: "Don't you like Junmi?"
"I can't talk about whether I like it or not, but I definitely don't want to get married, and I don't want to get engaged, it's the same for everyone!"
“… Then your Aunt Chen and Uncle Zhang are here, how can I explain?"
"It's hard to explain? Let's just say that your son's career is important, and "Tangshan Earthquake" will cost at least 300 million..."
"I'll give you 300 million, and you'll fly back right away!"
Damn, it's amazing to be rich!
"I really have something, Secretary Zhao is by my side, there will be a dinner later... That's it, hang up first!"
Hang up the phone, turn off the phone by the way, and continue to chat with the old man next to him.
"I heard that before the earthquake, there were many omens of dragonflies flying like locusts, flying in a procession of more than 100 meters wide and flying from east to west for about 15 minutes. When the dragonflies flew by, there was a buzzing sound..."
"Yes, but we didn't know it was an omen of an earthquake at the time!"
"What about the PLA, how do you feel about the PLA?"
"Of course I'm grateful!"
"But I've heard that a lot of people were executed on the spot..."
An old man with glasses said angrily: "That's a gang of hooligans, taking advantage of the earthquake to rob..."
"That's... What was the economic situation in Tangshan back then?"
"The economic situation?" the old man smiled: "The population of Tangshan urban area was more than one million before the earthquake, equivalent to one-third of the capital, and the iron triangle in North China is Beijing, Tianjin and Tang, what now?"
This is true, Tang * Mountain was the first industrial base in Hebei back then!
After the earthquake, I completely lost the capital to compete with Tianjin...
Of course, I'm still the eldest son of the republic, and I haven't had an earthquake yet, so what is it now?
The development of any place is inseparable from the support of policies, of course, there are also local problems, which are too complicated...
Zhang Junsheng waved his hand, and simply said more precisely: "No, it's just... Are there any red comfort soldiers wearing red armbands and holding red books?"
"There must be this..."
"Isn't the private gang already defeated?"
"How can it be so fast, but at that time, basically no one cared about politics, they all wanted to live!"
Zhang Junsheng lowered his head a little ashamed...
He also wants to pretend to be forced and implicate Brother Wen...
In that case, the military and the people are united, and who will step on the horse and have political opinions?
Chatting with a few uncles, Zhang Junsheng didn't wear glasses, he felt that his recognition had not yet radiated to the whole country...
Unexpectedly, an old man with glasses suddenly asked, "Director Zhang... Are you going to make "Tangshan Earthquake"?"
“… You know me?"
"I've watched the news broadcast... It's amazing, you won two of the three major awards in Europe alone!"
"It's all in vain..."
"You want to shoot "Tangshan Earthquake"?"
"Yes! It's the city government. ”
"You must shoot well, we Tangshan people will definitely support it when the time comes!"
"Don't worry, I'll definitely shoot well!"
After a few more conversations, the topic turned to the background of the earthquake and the changes in the past few years...
The most mentioned is a sentence 'When people mention Tangshan now, there is just one sentence, the earthquake, and nothing else'...
No wonder the municipal government wants to film "Tangshan Earthquake", this is to re-establish the image of Tangshan?
However, since you are looking for someone to shoot "The Great Earthquake", why don't you simply make a "New Tangshan"?
……
At night, Zhang Junsheng stayed alone in Tang*shan and booked a hotel casually, he was not mentally retarded, and he couldn't live without his assistant.
Staying in the hotel, Zhang Junsheng revised the script, and most of the pen and ink focused on earthquake relief before the earthquake...
As for Fang Deng, Spring and Autumn penmanship, 32 years later, Fang Deng appeared on the scene in Wenchuan...
After the script came out, I was still not satisfied, so the meaning of saving the girl was gone...
took out a cigarette, lit it, simply changed the trick, no longer obsessed with saving men and women, and replaced the protagonist with 'the boy who was rescued for 7 days and 7 nights'...
I've seen a report before: The boy in the Tangshan earthquake was rescued after being trapped for 7 days and 7 nights, and came to Shanghai to see his benefactor...
And then through his dictation, through memories to tell the film...
It's too thin, add a line of the People's Liberation Army, the last two lines merge into one line, and the final end shows hope!
It is better to set the boy's father as the PLA and his mother as a rescuer, so that the three lines come together and it will be very impressive!
Just change the boy to the girl, how to say, the little girl will be a little more expressive!
made a phone call to screenwriter Liu Heng and told him his ideas, he was very in favor of this adaptation, and asked a new question: "But in this case, what should the city government do?"
That's right, this thing is still a political task, and we have to show the new Tangshan...
"So, at the end of the film, I added a few aerial shots, and then switched to the heroine's home..."
"You're too perfunctory..."
"The movie is in my hands, how I want to shoot it, they don't count!"