Chapter 63: "Xiao Wu"
In the private room of the 306 restaurant, the fan was on, the door was open, and the air was not as turbid as before Zhou Bai came, although a few old smoking guns were still spewing clouds and mist.
Zhou Bai doesn't hate smoking, he occasionally smokes, just to experience the feeling of smoking, but he doesn't have a craving.
When observing the characters, he has carefully studied the different demeanors and movements of novice smokers and veteran smokers.
The air was much fresher, but Zhou Bai was in pain, looking at the script that Jia Zhangke threw over, is this Nima the name of Renqi?
He glanced at Lao Jia speechlessly, your literary disease is really incorrect, "Jin Xiaoyong's buddy, Hu Haimei's family, Liang Changyou's son: Xiao Wu", my God, the 21-word movie name, it will take a while to pronounce it.
Old Jia Cancan, rubbed his brows, and said, "Look first, don't care about the name, this is only tentative." ”
He was also embarrassed, after all, this was not a name that a normal person could take, so let Zhou Bai hurry up and read the content of the script, Yu Liwei and Gu Zheng were smiling there, and they didn't know how many times they had complained about the name of the movie.
There are so many strange movie names that have appeared all over the world, and the short ones can't be shorter, just one word, like the famous movie trilogy "Blue", "White", "Red", but this is translated.
But Nima's movie is directly called "A", "B", "E", "O", what kind of trouble is this? Nima's thing has a hairy meaning?
You will want to die when you read the name of the movie for a long time, and you can't wait to put all the content of the movie on it, a movie title is the outline, and it doesn't take into account the mood of the people watching it at all.
You told someone that yesterday you watched a movie called "In the city of Sicuriana, the incident of two men for a widow caused a political storm." Love, Death, Beautiful Rugana, Tarantella, Tara Rukia is Wine", probably he will think that you have just escaped from the hospital.
In fact, there is really this movie, it is an Italian film in 1997, and its English title is "Revenge", is it a world of difference?
There are really a lot of names for this kind of bizarre movies, such as the 1983 British movie "When You Tell Me You Love Me, Why Should I Trust You, Because I Long Know You Have Been Lying All Your Life".
The United States has a horror film, called "Demons, Mutants, Aliens, Ogre, Zombified Living Dead on the Edge of Hell Returning with Their Wives and Sons to Attack Horror Day and Night to Kill a Dawn 3", if you are still interested in this name, it can only be said that the taste is unique, and it can be regarded as a clear stream in the wonder.
There's an adventure comedy called "These Amazing Men in the Flying Machine, But How Can I Fly From London to Paris in 25:10 Minutes" and was nominated for Best Film at the 1966 Golden Globes, can you believe it?
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Zhou Bai was carefully looking at Jia Zhangke's script, and the ten-page script was not long.
Of course, there are character dialogues, but there are also a lot of descriptions about lens applications, scene descriptions, lighting requirements, etc., which seem quite laborious, but fortunately, Zhou Bai has studied Chinese opera for more than a semester, although he has not taken over the play, and he is not completely ignorant of these.
The movie script is not a novel, it is based on scene by scene, and there are many descriptions, and the average person can't read it for the first time, and there is only one feeling: What the hell is this?
Jia Zhangke's film is mainly about a story about a thief in a small town.
The story is very simple, a young thief in a small county town, except for touching a wallet, has no skills, and wanders around the county all day long.
His childhood best friend parted ways with him, made a fortune by opening a dance hall and reselling cigarettes, and didn't even notify him of his marriage, the gift money was dirty, and his friends were gone.
He went to look for love, thinking that he was close to happiness, but the song hall lady he fell in love with ran away with the coal boss, and the woman was gone.
When he returned home, he was "exploited" by his parents again, and the things he had honored were given to his brother and daughter-in-law, and he fell out with his family, and his home was gone.
A BP machine that he bought because he wanted to contact the song hall lady was caught stealing things, and he was handheld on a telephone pole by the public security, and he was watched by others, and the last bit of dignity was gone.
From beginning to end, from the inside to the outside, the two words of tragedy to escape, Luther to Luther, the miserable world of escape.
Just this script, let alone being able to pass the review, who will watch it when it is filmed and put it in domestic cinemas, and you will be 100% killed if you take it out and find investment.
It's no wonder that Lao Jia used "Jin Xiaoyong's buddy, Hu Haimei's family, and Liang Changyou's son: Xiao Wu" as the title of the movie, although it is long, but this title accurately explains Xiao Wu's social identity.
Change a director to shoot, it's too difficult to shoot this book well, the style of the movie is very difficult to control, if you are not careful, you will lose your cool, turn the movie into an accusation conference, completely superficial, Zhou Bai has watched "Little Mountain Comes Home", Jia Zhangke is not the kind of director who sells badly.
Zhou Bai is a little lucky, glad that this is Jia Zhangke's movie, and he is also glad that he caught up with the investment opportunity of "Xiao Wu", not because of how much money this movie can make him, but because this is indeed a good story, and such film works are in great need in China.
From the structure of the script and the interpretation of the meaning, there is no doubt that Jia Zhangke wants to express a kind of disillusionment, but the title of the film accurately explains Xiao Wu's social identity, although he doesn't know how the effect of the filming will be for the time being, Zhou Bai has a lot of confidence in Jia Zhangke.
In this era of rapid change, from advocating rights and success, in such an environment, "Xiao Wu" pursues small and real, its eyes are on the humble individuals at the bottom of society, and pay attention to and care for the living conditions and living environment of these people, not to complain, but to show, which is extremely rare.
"What style do you want to use to shoot?" Zhou Bai asked, after reading the script, he felt a lot more in his heart.
"Let's use the documentary mode, after thinking about it, I always feel that this is suitable. Lao Jia said that he had thought about it a lot before, and he still felt that it was best to show it in this way.
Zhou Bai nodded, handed the script back to Jia Zhangke, didn't say anything, this is Jia Zhangke's work, Zhou Bai believes that Jia Zhangke can handle it well.
Although in the information he got, he knew that Jia Zhangke was famous because of this movie, but there was no more information, and he could only see it after the movie was made.
"Don't you regret not being able to play Xiao Wu?" Jia Zhangke asked jokingly, it can be seen that Zhou Bai is still quite optimistic about this book, although he has told Zhou Bai a rough story before, but Zhou Bai is the first time to read the script.
People who learn acting have a problem, they want to perform when they encounter a good book, Jia Zhangke knows this too well, this is almost the instinct of actors.
"Pull it down, my current academic style is still relatively strong, but it's not easy to interpret this role, and it's not suitable to shoot it with me. This role is most suitable for people who have the right temperament and have not studied professional acting, you look at the performance requirements here, which one is advocated by the orthodox teaching system?" Zhou Bai rolled his eyes and said, this is not a lie.
The whole movie is the same, completely incompatible with what is advocated in the film textbook, or even all the opposite, Zhou Bai is now playing Xiao Wu, which will undoubtedly make the style of the film tasteless, even out of place, and separated from the movie.
Jia Zhangke laughed, although he hadn't seen Zhou Bai's performance, but now Zhou Bai can say this, which proves that his understanding of acting is very good, which is why he didn't look for an actor from the academy, it's not suitable.
Lao Jia is from Nortel, and he can catch anyone who learns to perform at Nortel, but these people Lao Jia don't use it, which is the reason for the style.