Zhang Ran has always attached great importance to movie promotion, and his movie premieres are generally very lively, and there are many stars who cheer for him. However, "One Man Puts on the Lights" is a very experimental movie, and many viewers may find it uncomfortable, so this premiere is not as flamboyant as in the past, and it is much more low-key.

The movie premiere was held in the Wukesong store of Jiahe Cinema Line, which was just opened in October this year, with 17 halls and 3,500 seats, including a giant screen hall that can accommodate 600 people, which is currently the largest single film city in China, and the premiere of "One Man Lights Up" was held in a large laser giant screen hall with 600 seats.

The premiere of "One Person's Lights" had no red carpet, no signature wall, and even no celebrities were invited to help, only Zhang Yimou, Jia Zhangke, and a few directors who had a good relationship. "One Man Puts on the Lights" is a very experimental film, and now that the experimental results are out, Zhang Ran hopes to have some exchanges with other directors.

However, to Zhang Ran's surprise, although he did not send out an invitation, the stars still rushed to come. Huang Shengyi, Wang Luodan, Zhang Ran's students, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun, these stars who have cooperated, Fan Binbin, Li Binbin, these stars who have not cooperated, also came, it can be said that the domestic first-line stars are basically here.

The other stars basically came over to say hello, sat down quietly in their own places, and waited for the movie to start, while the students in Zhang Ran's class were much more presumptuous, they knew the teacher too well, although he was now a big director and a big boss, but he hadn't changed at all, so they unceremoniously pulled Zhang Ran to protest.

"Teacher Zhang, the movie premiere didn't call us, it's too much!"

"That's right, Mr. Zhang, you hurt our hearts too much!"

"We're your own students, we weren't called at the premiere, it's too much, it's too sad!"

Seeing that the students took the initiative to come to the show, Zhang Ran was undoubtedly very happy in his heart, and there was a kind of satisfaction that parents had seen their children become sensible, and scolded with a smile: "This is the premiere of the movie, not a monkey meeting, what are you monkeys doing?"

When other celebrities saw Wang Luodan, they pulled Zhang Ran and laughed, and they were very envious, if only I had a teacher like Zhang Ran!

Time passed slowly, and half an hour before the opening of the movie, the theater began to admit audiences and media reporters. As a result, the 600 seats on the site were quickly filled. The screening room was crowded with bee-like buzzing.

Audiences, who had been looking forward to the movie for a whole year, quickly waited for their most anticipated moment, and as the lights went out, the movie "One Man Lights Up" opened its most mysterious veil.

After the dragon mark of the Film Bureau, it was the sign of the pinnacle of the century, and then the film officially began.

The whole world seemed to be plunged into darkness, with no sound, no light, nothing but boundless darkness.

One second, two seconds, five seconds, ten seconds......

Thirty seconds later, the reporters and the audience at the scene couldn't sit still and whispered.

"What's going on? It can't be that the machine is broken, right?"

"It should be a problem with the equipment, otherwise how could there be no movement for half a day!"

"What about the maintenance personnel? If the machine breaks, turn on the lights!"

Not only at the premiere scene, but at this moment, the audience in thousands of movie theaters and thousands of screening halls across the country is all this reaction, and even some people in many screening halls are shouting: "Projectionist! What are you doing! If the machine is broken, hurry up and get it, we are still waiting to watch the movie!"

The black screen lasted for a full minute, and finally there was a sound, all kinds of small shredded sounds, the hum of an electric hair clipper, the click of scissors cutting hair, the snorting of shaving......

Zhang Yimou, Jia Zhangke, these directors realized that Zhang Ran was constructing an off-picture space through sound, and they all listened carefully to feel this space constructed through sound, but the reporters and the audience did not realize that this was intentional, many people thought that there was a problem with the equipment, resulting in only sound and no picture, and some reporters even wrote on a notepad: "The premiere site of "One Man Puts on the Lights" could not be broadcast normally due to equipment failure, and nearly 600 fans were hung in the theater ......

Zhang Weiping and Zhang Ran had conflicts, although he and Zhang Ran jointly invested in the movie "Love" this year, he still doesn't like Zhang Ran in his heart. Now seeing that there was a problem with the premiere of "One Man Puts on the Lights", he gloated: "What is the peak of the century doing? The premiere actually poked out such a big basket, Zhang Ran is really a big joke this time!"

Zhang Yimou chuckled and shook his head: "This black screen was deliberately designed by Zhang Ran!"

Zhang Weiping naturally didn't believe it: "What are you doing with such a scene with only sound and no picture? He was kicked in the head by a donkey!"

Zhang Yimou knew that Zhang Weiping didn't understand movies at all, and explained: "This part of the scene is not for watching, but for listening, it is a sound montage, and it is a sound montage that is used to the extreme." Do you hear footsteps? It's the sound of high heels, and it means that it's a young girl who gets a haircut. If you listen to the sound of shaving, young people generally use electric razors, and only older people will go to the barber shop to shave, indicating that this person is an elderly man. Zhang Ran uses sound to construct a fairly complete off-picture space outside the picture, and if we listen closely, we can feel what we can't see!"

Zhang Weiping was stupid and didn't know how to respond at all.

After five minutes of torment, the movie finally returned to "normal", and as Lao Huang opened his eyes, the story officially began when Xiao appeared in front of the audience.

A few months ago, the eight-minute opening scene of "One Man Shines on the Lights" shocked Dieter Koslick, the president of the Berlin Film Festival, and now it also shocks Zhang Yimou and other directors. They have a common idea in their hearts, multi-part montage really reappears in the world!

The movie continues, when Lao Huang walks out of the barber shop, the camera pans to the city below the mountain, in the black, in the bright lights of the whole city, the name of the movie "One Man Lights Up" appears on the screen.

After knowing that Zhang Ran was going to shoot "One Man Puts on the Lights", many viewers at the scene had watched Tian Er's this one and were quite clear about the development of the story. However, as the movie progressed, everyone found that the movie was very different.

At the beginning, Xiao Cui and the others caught a middle school student who sneaked into the female teacher's dormitory and played hooligan on the female teacher. After they took the student to the police station, the student turned out to be mischievous, and they had several trainee police officers beat him. Xiao Cui was also about to have a good time, but was stopped by Lao Huang. A few days later, Xiao Cui thanked Lao Huang for dragging him at that time, and several trainee policemen were too heavy and beat the student out of trouble. In order to express his gratitude, Xiao Cui asked Lao Huang to go out to play, and then introduced another important person, Yu Xinliang.

The plot of the police beating people will definitely not pass the review of the Ministry of Public Security, so in the movie, it becomes that Xiao Cui finds clues with the help of Lao Huang and solves a case of a high school student killing his parents. In order to express his gratitude, Xiao Cui invited Lao Huang to Nanquan Town to take a hot spring. Nanquan is a famous hot spring in the mountain city, but the distance is a little far, so Xiao Cui and they chartered a car to go. Xiao Cui is Yu Xinliang's car, and he is friends with Yu Xinliang. After going back and forth, Lao Huang and Yu Xinliang also became friends, and knew that Yu Xinliang was Yu Xinliang's sister.

Zhang Yimou felt that this adaptation was quite successful, the high school student's killing of his parents has a metaphorical effect, and the tragedy caused by communication problems between the two sides, parents and children are still difficult to communicate, but what about the others? This case shows the loneliness of the individual hidden behind the moral decay and desire expansion in the indifferent modern city; at the same time, through the dialogue between Lao Huang and Xiao Cui, Lao Huang's family relationship is introduced, he is divorced, his daughter works in the field, and there is little contact with him, and Lao Huang is also lonely.

Jia Zhangke's view is completely different, he thinks that Zhang Ran's adaptation is a failure: "Zhang Ran is too timid! Since it is an experimental work, what are you afraid of, it's just a big deal that the movie is banned! You are so famous abroad and so rich, what are you afraid of! If you change it like this, the criticism of the system will disappear!"

In Jia Zhangke's view, after the middle school students were arrested by the police, they kept asking the police what the evidence was? He also told the police, "Don't know the law and break the law, but the police beat you into fools." How ironic is this, why are the policemen so rampant and dare to beat people in police stations with great fanfare? This is a problem of the system! If the movie is made directly, it will be the most direct criticism of the abuse of power and a naked mockery of the system! As soon as Zhang Ran changes this way, there will be no more criticism of the system!

Jia Zhangke was very disappointed in the movie, and even more disappointed in Zhang Ran.

On the screen, Lao Huang, Xiao Cui and Yu Xinliang sat together eating skewers of incense, and the three of them chatted all over the sky in the steaming mist. Yu Xinliang said that his sister is younger, although he has a lot of dissatisfaction with his sister, but after all, it is his sister, and he wants to hope that she has a good home. Yu Xinliang felt that Lao Huang was good, and with the strength of wine, he wanted to introduce his sister to Lao Huang.

Yu Xinliang looked at Lao Huang and said seriously: "I know that you are a good person and a stable person. Although my sister is deaf and dumb, she is young and knows how to taste. If you are good to her, she will be full of good ......",

"Hey, I'll have to say a few words about you, it's a big joke. Don't look at my age. My daughter got married the next year. Lao Huang raised his face and said, "It's less than you drank too much, and you talked about wine." ”

Yu Xinliang said: "Why am I talking about wine?"

Xiao Cui felt that Lao Huang didn't mean that, so he said, "Brother Yu, you do talk about wine!"

Yu Xinliang saw that Lao Huang seemed to be angry, and he didn't want to stiffen the atmosphere, so he snorted and said, "As soon as I drank wine, I didn't cover my mouth, Brother Huang, don't mind!"

Lao Huang waved his hand, ate two bites, put down his chopsticks, and looked into the distance, with a hint of confusion in his eyes. The camera slowly pushes Lao Huang to a close-up from the middle shot, then to a close-up, and finally to a large close-up of his eyes. The camera is still, and the frame is frozen. Through the large close-up of Lao Huang's eyes, the audience clearly feels a touch of sadness and loneliness hidden under his calm appearance.

A few seconds later, the camera gradually zoomed out, and then the audience was surprised to find that what appeared in the shot was no longer Lao Huang, but became less than. She sat in the barber shop, looking at the city down the hillside, her eyes revealing a faint sadness and loneliness.

Transitioning through the eyes is not a great technique, and many movies are using it, but after watching Zhang Ran's transition, Zhang Yimou couldn't help nodding, he knew that this shot was not only using matching editing to achieve the transition, but also told the audience through the eyes of two people that Lao Huang and Xiao were equally lonely people.

At the same time, Zhang Ran took a deep breath and looked a little solemn. The next scene will unfold from the perspective of lesser, and the most test of the audience's patience in the whole "One Person's Lights" is not the black screen at the beginning, but this scene from the perspective of smaller. is deaf and mute and lives in a silent world, so this play from the perspective of less than is completely silent, and there is no soundtrack.

If the audience can enter the play and really enter the perspective of the smaller, it should feel good, but if the audience can't enter the play, it will be a huge torment.

Will the audience be able to enter the play smoothly?

Zhang Ran is not sure, he is really not sure at all!