Chapter 52: It's boring
"Killing" is a drama film with dark humor and suspense. This is Guan Hu's explanation to Mu Ming, who finished reading the script.
The protagonist of Huang Bo's performance is called Niu Jieshi, who is a deviant and unruly stranger in Changshou Town. Then, in order to maintain the rules of the village, the villagers, at the instigation of Dr. Niu, who had a strong hatred for the cow, came up with various ways to put him to death.
In order, it's actually a very simple story. But how can such a simple story show the profundity of the film? Therefore, Guanhu disrupted the timeline of the story and added a separate "me" perspective to restore the story in flashback.
Suddenly, the originally well-understood story became something that Mu Ming almost didn't understand.
"So that is to say, this 'me' actually has nothing to do with the story, it is just a simple discoverer, right?" Mu Ming took advantage of the rest time to discuss the script with Guanhu.
Although three years have passed since the earthquake, there are still aftershocks here in Wenchuan from time to time. Mu Ming was woken up by shaking a few times when she slept at night, and she didn't dare to continue sleeping, and she didn't have the heart to think about anything else, so she simply took the script and studied it there.
Then, Mu Ming was stunned and found that she couldn't understand it.
"Yes, this 'me' is a solitary spectator's perspective, and at the same time the discoverer of the beginning of 'killing' and the witness of its eventual disappearance......" Guan Hu and Mu Ming explained his confusion endlessly.
He had an idea for this story from around 02 or 03. After eight years of preparation and polishing, I can finally shoot what I have in my heart, so I am particularly interested.
It's a pity that his audience is a young man who is twenty-four years younger than him, and he is not at all the same in terms of growth environment and thinking concepts, so it is destined that it is difficult for Mu Ming to understand what this movie expresses.
Mu Ming is a storyteller, and he has always firmly believed that whether it is words or images, whether it is advanced literature or popular business, a complete and interesting story is the premise of everything.
So he has always disliked the sixth-generation directors. The changing light and shadow, the cutting of the picture, the disrupted narrative, and the characters who always like to talk to themselves, these things are combined with all kinds of messy, shaky, or quiet shots, just to tell a very short story that can be told in a few words?
So he's always loved Jiang Wen's movies. No matter how many metaphors are mixed in, no matter how profound the ideas are expressed in it. Whether he can read it or not, at least there is an interesting story to tell.
"I guess I've probably been such a cheesy person in my life. Mu Ming sighed self-deprecatingly, and then instantly regained her mood. Cheesy is cheesy, and I'm going to be cheesy now.
For example, take a look at the filming of a passionate love scene?
The horse widow was a mute girl who married from another village, and her husband died just after marrying. According to the rules of Changshou Town, she is going to be buried with her. But the old mayor was kind and kept her by his side. The townspeople asked her to give blood transfusions to the mayor of the same blood type to maintain the mayor's life and abide by the ancestral rules of the "longevity" town.
It's a pity that life is limited after all, and the old mayor still died. So, the horse widow was pushed out by the townspeople and wanted to throw her into the river to be buried. However, as soon as she threw the person down, the cow who had never been "unruly" rescued her. And said in front of everyone: "No one saves it, so give it to me." ”
The actor of Horse Widow is Yu Nan, a very powerful actress, and she won the Golden Rooster Award for her third movie. That was still in 03, and the Golden Rooster Award was still a very valuable award.
However, what really made her widely known was after she participated in the heroine of the 5.6 billion box office "Wolf Warrior 2".
Yu Nan is not the kind of beauty with mainstream aesthetics, at least, not a beauty that conforms to Mu Ming's aesthetics. The lips are thick, the neck is short, and the complexion is dark. Although judging a girl is a relatively low behavior, as an adult and strong man of the opposite sex, it is also unavoidable.
said so much, the purpose is to show that Mu Ming is really completely curious and learning, so she wants to watch the filming of this exciting love scene. There are no impure, unhealthy thoughts.
It's true. There is also a paragraph in the later story where Niu Jieshi gave an aphrodisiac to the people in the village, and then there was a plot similar to the *** in the whole town in "Perfume", and Mu Ming was more interested in that.
Exciting love scenes, especially scenes where girls need to be naked, the first step is generally to clear the scene. That is, except for the director who must be, the rest of the male staff are all driven out. If conditions permit, even the camera should be female.
"I didn't see it, Xiao Mu. People are big ghosts, Xiao Mu. Yes, Xiao Mu. When Huang Bo heard Mu Ming say that he wanted to learn how to shoot, he couldn't help but be happy, and then began to ridicule Mu Ming.
"That, young, inexperienced, wants to learn. Mu Ming said indifferently.
Guanhu didn't refuse, anyway, there were more than a dozen people at the scene, no more than him, no less than him. Just told him to just stand in the corner and watch, just don't interfere with the shooting.
The scene was filmed in a private house, which in the play is the home of the cow widow. At the beginning of the plot, the cow widow fell asleep on the bed alone, and then, the cow sturdy stroked the cow widow's body from behind. The cow widow was awakened, first resisted, then acquiesced, and in the end, became active and cooperative.
Mu Ming glanced at Guanhu, why did she always feel that this kind of plot had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.
Because of the clearance, there were many fewer staff in the house, and the scene quickly fell silent. Yu Nan, who played the cow widow, only approved a gauze skirt and lay on her side on the bed. It's going to be March, and it's a matter of warmth in the house, otherwise you won't have to die of cold.
With the silence of the scene, the actors have also set up their positions. Seeing that everyone was arranged, Guan Hu finally shouted "action", while Mu Ming looked at the center of the scene, wanting to see how the passionate love scene was filmed.
How to say it, there is a saying, called "Come with a good time, return with a bad heart", Mu Ming has a similar feeling.
First of all, Mu Ming dares to guarantee that when filming this kind of plot, the actor is definitely very uncomfortable. Let's not talk about the safety devices that will be attached to the actors, and not talk about what it will feel like under the gaze of more than a dozen people and machines. The most critical point is that this kind of plot is actually filmed one by one.
Can you imagine what it's like to be suddenly shouted "cut" in this situation?
If you can bear it once, what about three or five times?
Mu Ming pursed her lips, looked at the machine shots that were about to poke Huang Bo and Yu Nan's faces at the scene, and sighed: "This is really, it's boring." ”