The first scene of the movie ended again, and the words "one person puts on the lights" appeared on the screen again, and Dieter Koslick thought about the content of the movie in his mind, and his mind was a little dazed, but he still stood up again: "Please replay it again!"

The screening room soon darkened and the movie played again.

Dieter-Koslick's eyes widened, glued to the screen, unwilling to miss a single detail, and watched carefully.

Soon, the movie ends again.

This time, Dieter Koslick made a new discovery, in the scene where Zhang Ran walked into the barbershop, Li Xuejian turned his back to the audience, and Zhang Jingchu and Zhang Ran were on either side of Zhang Ran, a typical triangular composition. However, because Li Xuejian is in the middle, the picture is divided, and Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu are on both sides of the frame, which also emphasizes the estrangement between people. Although it can be seen from Zhang Jing's initial action of opening her mouth that the relationship between the two is extraordinary, this estrangement shows that they don't actually know each other, and they are still lonely. At the same time, because Li Xuejian has his back to the camera, the audience's point of view is close to Li Xuejian's point of view, and the audience has the feeling of standing in Li Xuejian's perspective and examining the relationship between Zhang Jingchu and Zhang Ran.

"Please replay it again!"

"Please replay it again!"

……

Dieter Koslick watched the first scene of the film again and again, like a directing student. Every time the name of the movie came up, he would ask for a replay. The first scene of the movie is nine minutes long and 22 shots, but every time he watches it, he makes new discoveries, which is simply meaningful!

In Dieter Koslick's mind, the nine-minute opening scene of "One Man Puts on the Lights" is simply wonderful, not only with endless montage techniques, but also rich in connotation and long meaning, which is worth reading again and again!

Although he only watched one scene and didn't see the whole picture, he knew that the multi-part montage really reappeared in the world!

It was played seven times in a row, and when "One Man Lights Up" appeared on the screen for the seventh time, Dieter Koslick stood up again. Just when Zhang Ran was about to let the staff play it again, he heard Dieter Koslick say: "No need to let it go!" Immediately after, Dieter Koslick grabbed Zhang Ran's hand and said in a begging tone: "Zhang, please promise me, you must promise me, this movie must be brought to Berlin." I love this movie so much, if you don't let me bring it to Berlin, it will be the regret of my life, you must promise me!"

Zhang Ran said in surprise: "But you haven't finished watching the movie yet, you only watched the first scene!"

Dieter Koslick said excitedly: "No, with such an excellent opening, how can it be bad in the future, and even if it is bad, how bad can it be? With this first scene, this movie will be forever engraved in the history of cinema." Once again, he begged: "Please promise me that you will bring this film to Berlin, you must promise me!"

Ning Hao and a few of them smiled when they heard Dieter Koslick's words, this is not false at all, the opening scene of the movie is a great test of the director's skills, director Samuel Fuller once said that if a movie fails to capture the hearts of your audience at the beginning, then the movie can only be reduced to garbage, so most directors will spend their best efforts at the beginning of the movie;

Ning Hao felt funny in his heart, you haven't finished watching the whole movie yet, and when you watch the whole movie and then look back at the first scene, you will be even more surprised, and you will suddenly realize that everything that happened in the back of the movie has already been hinted at in the first scene, that Li Xuejian is in the center, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu are on both sides of the shots indicating their future, laying the groundwork for everything they will encounter next, just like "Dream of Red Mansions" made a judgment on the fate of the characters soon after the beginning.

Zhang Ran was not in a hurry to agree to Dieter Koslick, and said with a smile: "I can bring the film to Berlin, but the film is expected to be released in China in December, and there is no way to premiere in Berlin." ”

Among the three major films, Cannes and Venice all require that the premieres of the shortlisted films must be held at the film festival, that is, your first time must be given to me, so it is common for some films to be postponed in order to qualify for the festival. However, the Berlin Film Festival is much more flexible, as long as it feels that the film is suitable, even films that have already been screened can participate, such as Zhang Yimou's "Hero" and "Three Guns" are all released in China and then compete in Berlin.

Dieter Koslick undoubtedly wanted the premiere of "One Man in the Lights" in Berlin to get even more attention, so he decided to go for it: "If the film can premiere in Berlin, we are willing to support it in every way!"

Zhang Ran shook his head and said: "If the movie can't be released in December, then it can only be released in May or June!"

Dieter-Koslick was a little surprised: "Why?"

Zhang Ran explained: "Because "Avatar" will be released in Chinese movies in January, this is a box office nuclear bomb, and any movie will be crushed into powder in front of it!"

"Avatar?" Dieter Koslick thought for a moment and asked, "You mean James Cameron's Avatar, is this movie that scary?"

No one in this world understands the horrors of "Avatar" better than Zhang Ran, and James Cameron is no exception. Zhang Ran clearly remembers that "Avatar" created a terrifying record of winning the box office champion for 74 consecutive days in China, before the release of "Avatar", the Chinese box office champion was 466 million of "2012", and "Avatar" directly pulled the box office to 1.382 billion, tripling.

In this life, the Chinese film market is developing more rapidly, with more screens and more IMAX, and the box office of "Avatar" will undoubtedly be higher, Zhang Ran predicts that the box office will exceed 1.5 billion, and may even reach 1.8 billion.

Zhang Ran nodded solemnly: "Yes, in terms of the box office of the movie, the horror of "Avatar" will exceed everyone's imagination. It is unwise to collide with "Avatar", and "One Person's Lights" is very experimental, the pace is slow, and it is more picky to the audience, so "One Person's Lights" can only be placed in the Chinese New Year file in December, or it must be placed after May!"

Hearing Zhang Ran say this, Dieter Koslick knew that it was impossible for "One Man to Shine" to premiere in Berlin, and if the film was released after May, it was estimated that there would be nothing to do in Berlin. For any director, if he could go to Cannes, he would definitely not choose Berlin. Not to mention foreign directors, even German directors, if they can go to Cannes, they will definitely not stay in Berlin.

Dieter Koslick smiled and said: "It is said that Germans are stereotypical, but our Berlin Film Festival is the most open to films, as long as the film is good enough, it can be shortlisted, and there are no hard requirements for the premiere." It doesn't matter if "One Man Shines the Light" premieres in Berlin, the important thing is that he must go to Berlin, I really like this movie!"

When Zhang Ran saw the other party say this, he said: "As long as the film is completed before February, I will definitely participate!"

The stone in Dieter Koslick's heart fell to the ground, and he smiled and gave Zhang Ran a hug: "Then we have decided, I believe that bringing "One Man with Lights" to Berlin will be one of the proudest things I have done since I became the president of the Berlin Film Festival!"

In the evening, Zhang Ran hosted a banquet for Dieter Koslick in the Bai family's compound, and Ning Hao accompanied them.

During the banquet, everyone talked about Chinese films, Hollywood, film festivals, "Avatar", which will be released at the end of the year, "One Person's Lights", and even the planned "Future Apocalypse", and everyone talked happily.

The three major film festivals often send invitations to a certain director, and it is rare for Dieter Koslick to come to the door in person as the chairman, which can be said to have given Zhang Ran enough face. Others gave themselves face like this, and Zhang Ran naturally should do his best to be a landlord, so he sent an invitation to Dieter Koslick, hoping that the other party would stay in Beiping for a few more days.

Dieter Koslick declined, and in addition to inviting Zhang Ran, he also planned to meet several other Chinese directors to see their new works, among which Wang Quanan's "Reunion" was the focus of attention. Wang Quanan was selected at the Berlin Film Festival, won the Golden Bear Award for "Tuya's Marriage" in 07, and is a member of Berlin's lineage.

At the end of dinner, on the way back to the hotel, a slightly drunk Dieter Koslick looked out the window and the whole city was brightly lit, and he suddenly remembered "One Man Puts on the Lights", and the loneliness of the movie suddenly came to mind.

Dieter Koslick exhaled and said with emotion: "Coppola is a genius, "The Godfather" and "War Apocalypse" are masterpieces, but Coppola was ruined by Hollywood because of box office failure when he was at his most creative. Zhang Ran is also a genius, but he has enough wealth and enough money to support his artistic exploration, so he will definitely go further than Coppola! This is an era of scarcity of masters, and masters are either old or dead! This is the misfortune of the times! Fortunately, God has left us one, thank God!"

At the same time, Zhang Ran, who was sitting in the car, dialed Li Xuejian's phone: "Mr. Li, I don't know if you're free lately? That's the case, there are some places in our scene that need to be reshot, a total of 26 scenes, of which you have 11 scenes." Our film was originally an experimental film, and there were a lot of ideas in it that weren't particularly mature, and it felt okay when it was filmed, but after integration, there were a lot of inconsistencies that had to be remade. I don't know when you're free, so let's arrange a retake. ”

Before continuing the scene, Li Xuejian heard Zhang Ran say that some scenes in this movie may be remade repeatedly, and he had been mentally prepared for this, but at this moment, he was still shocked to hear that there were 26 scenes to be remade. "One Man Puts on the Lights" has a total of more than 120 scenes, and now there are 26 reshoots, which is equivalent to one-fifth of the scenes to be reshot, which is really an exaggeration.

It will take at least half a month to shoot 26 scenes, and the crew has hundreds of people, and the cost alone is 2.3 million a day. Ordinary directors don't dare to play like this, many times they know that the movie is flawed, and they can only make do with it, and they call the movie an art of regret. Chinese directors dare to play like this, except for Wong Kar-wai, that is, Zhang Ran.

Although the remake will delay a lot of things, Li Xuejian doesn't care, he is an actor whose drama is bigger than the sky, and the drama is more important than anything. In his opinion, such a work with such dedication will definitely be an outstanding work, and being able to star in such a work is a dream for any actor.

Li Xuejian didn't have any unhappiness, but seemed very happy: "I recently took a book, and it was only started in November, I have nothing to do these days, and I can reshoot it at any time." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Ranxi smiled and said, "Okay, when we are ready, I will contact you immediately." ”

hung up Li Xuejian's phone, and Zhang Ran talked to Hu Jun and them several times one after another, telling them about the reshoot. Hu Jun and their roles are not much, and there are even fewer reshoots, so naturally there is no problem.

Three days later, the crew assembled in the mountain city to start the remake of the movie.