Zhang Ran and the others came to the press center, but did not enter the press conference hall directly, and were first dragged to attend the official photo meeting and let the photographer take pictures. When they finished taking photos and entered the press conference, the hall, which could only accommodate more than 100 people, had already been crowded into 200 people.

As is customary, Zhang Ran first talked about his creative concept, indicating that the film mainly wanted to try multi-part montage, and then the actors took turns to talk about their views on the film and their understanding of the characters.

After the routine group interview, it is time to ask questions freely, which is also the part that media reporters are most looking forward to. The first person to ask questions was a middle-aged aunt, the whole person was like a balloon that was inflated, round, and her waist circumference was three times that of Zhang Ran. She chattered, but everyone didn't understand what she was saying, not only Zhang Ran didn't understand, but they were also stunned by the translation.

The reporter saw that everyone was at a loss, and said it again, and found that everyone was still looking at him blankly, smiled awkwardly, and said again. This time most people understood, and she said, I'm sorry, my English is terrible.

Zhang Ran sensed her embarrassment, smiled and asked, "Where are you from?"

The reporter was embarrassed: "Berlin!"

Zhang Ran pretended to be mysterious and said: "I'll tell you a secret, your English is much better than my German." You see that we all have languages that we are not good at, there is no need to force yourself, you can just ask in German, there is a simultaneous translation. ”

The reporters present were very moved, and felt that Zhang Ran was really good, and skillfully let the reporter go down the steps and resolve her embarrassment, no wonder everyone will feel warm after watching "One Person's Lights", he is a warm person himself!

The reporter was naturally even more moved, and asked in German: "I'm a reporter from the German Press Agency, you just said that the biggest motivation for making this movie is to try multi-voice montage, we know that the film has been born for a hundred years, and the only ones who really present multi-voice montage in the movie are Eisenstein and Coppola, it's really too difficult, aren't you afraid of failure?"

Zhang Ran nodded slightly: "I'm afraid of failure, but it's because I'm afraid that I'll have energy." People need a little pressure, a little stimulation, to be able to move on. Compared with failure, I am more afraid that I will stop moving, which is easy to stalemate, easy to be eliminated, and this is the most terrible thing. ”

The second reporter threw the question to Zhang Jingchu and asked, "I just interviewed some foreign journalists, and they are your fans." They told me that you acted very well, but you didn't appear much in the movies. What do you think? Is it a bit short in the film?"

Zhang Jingchu turned her head to look at Zhang Ran, and said with a smile: "You see the audience protesting to you, my play is too short!"

The reporters present all laughed, and Zhang Ran also laughed: "I know, next time I will cut less of your footage!"

Zhang Jingchu glared at him, damn it, not to mention arranging a big heroine's play! She turned her head to look at the reporters in the audience and said with a smile: "Actually, we filmed a lot, and several of my favorite scenes were cut, and this can't be helped, it is the overall rhythm of the movie." ”

Another male reporter stood up and asked, "Miss Jingchu, your performance in the movie is so good, it doesn't look like it's acting." The front is smaller than the gesture communication with the steel slag, which looks chaotic, but the communication after she learns sign language seems to be much more regular, is the sign language in front of you designed yourself?"

Zhang Jingchu looked a little proud, and said with a smile: "Before acting, I went to the barber shop for three months, plus the days of acting, I didn't speak for about eight months, I used gestures to communicate with people, and I used gestures to communicate with Zhang Ran. I didn't learn sign language, and I was just like I'm doing it myself. When I started learning sign language in the middle of the play, I also started to learn sign language and communicate in real sign language. I try my best to keep myself in a state close to that of the small, so the feeling is more realistic. ”

Zhang Ran added: "Jingchu didn't speak for a few months, so that after the filming of the movie was too deep, she suffered from hysterical aphasia, and she really couldn't speak, and she was treated in the hospital for nearly a month before returning to normal. Not only Jingchu, Teacher Li Xuejian and Hu Jun stayed in the police station for three months, going out to the police with real police, training together, Teacher Li Xuejian is over 50 years old, and his health is not particularly good, and it is really not easy to practice capture with the young people of the police force. The expedition was opened for three months for rent. Cao Bingkun stayed in the mine for three months and picked up garbage for another month. I am especially grateful to them for being able to shoot "One Person's Lights" to this extent, because they gave these characters souls. ”

Hearing this, the reporters at the scene applauded and expressed their respect to Zhang Jingchu and them with applause.

At this time, another reporter stood up: "Director Zhang Ran, hello, I am a reporter from the New York Times. Just now in the cinema, I heard Mr. Scorsese say that the film was made according to the structure of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and I wanted to ask, what is going on, why is it being made this way?"

Hearing this question, the audience at the scene was in a commotion, and many reporters thought it was incredible, the symphony and the movie were completely incompatible, how could the structure of the two be the same?

There are also reporters who are familiar with film history who remember that in the twenties and thirties of the last century, there was a mode called the film symphony structure in the classic Hollywood narrative mode, and the whole structure was divided into overture, theme, variation of the first theme, variation of the second theme, reproduction of the theme, and epilogue. They are a little puzzled, this structure has long been eliminated, and the structure of "One Man Lights Up" is not like a movie symphony structure!

The reporters on the scene all stared at Zhang Ran tightly, waiting for him to give a final answer, after all, it was impossible for Scorsese to talk nonsense.

Zhang Ran didn't expect Scorsese's words to be heard by others, so he said: "This problem is very complicated, one or two sentences are not clear, and it is estimated that you have to write a paper of tens of thousands of words." My biggest purpose in making this film is to experiment with multi-part montage, and our film also adopts a multi-voice narrative in terms of narrative, and multi-voice narrative is to start from the perspective of different characters and narrate around the same event, also known as polyphonic narrative. For example, Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" and Zhang Yimou's "Hero" are all narratives in this way. However, multi-part narrative is still far from multi-part montage, which can treat the film's performance materials, images, sounds, dialogues, words and music as different parts of the orchestra, and can be played in unison, counterpoint and fugue and other options, which not only maintain independence, but also form a dialogue, so that the multiple narratives of sound, words and paintings can be organically integrated.

At the beginning of my filming, I referred to the structure of the symphony, and the film structure was divided into four parts, corresponding to the four movements of the symphony, but I was not very satisfied with the first version that was cut. During the reshoot, the Ninth Symphony gave me a lot of inspiration, so I remade a lot of content according to the Ninth Symphony. The first movement of the Ninth Symphony is a sonata, the introductory part of the movement is played by stringed instruments, intermittent and hazy, with empty fifths like the darkness before dawn. And our movie starts with a black screen, and the sound slowly comes out, which is also the feeling of showing this feeling......"

When watching the movie, many reporters felt that Zhang Ran was imitating Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", or paying tribute to Kubrick, but when they heard this, they knew that Zhang Ran was paying tribute to Beethoven.

Zhang Ran made a brief analysis of the film in combination with the "Ninth Symphony", saying that it was a brief analysis, but it took ten minutes to stop, and the problem of multi-part montage is really too complicated.

After finishing speaking, Zhang Ran smiled at the reporters present and said: "I have been a teacher for a long time, and I have occupational diseases, and I can't end the scene as soon as I talk about it, and I see that some people are drowsy when they hear it!"

The reporters burst into laughter and raised their hands to ask questions. Their questions were basically directed at Zhang Ran, and Li Xuejian and the others got very few questions. However, they were also happy, sitting on the sidelines and happily watching Zhang Ran deal with reporters.

By the time the press conference was over, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening. Zhang Ran and the others returned to the hotel, and the reporters wrote the manuscript in the shortest possible time and sent it back to the various newspapers.

At eight o'clock in the morning, when Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu walked into the restaurant on the second floor of the hotel, several students of Yaying were already sitting in it and eating. Zhang Ran knew that the students were not rich people, so he let them come to his hotel for breakfast, which could help them save a little. When the students saw Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu coming, they all quickly got up to say hello.

Zhang Ran waved his hand and motioned for them to sit down, then beckoned to the waiter and ordered breakfast. Zhang Ran saw that Zhou Xiaoxi and another girl named Liu Miaomiao had not arrived, so he asked where he had gone, and the answer he got was that there was something wrong, and he came over soon.

After a while, the waiter pushed the dining cart over, put the breakfast in front of Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu, and respectfully retired. While eating breakfast, Zhang Ran asked the students about yesterday.

Zhang Zili looked at Zhang Ran and said proudly: "Teacher Zhang, I went to the wine party last night to eat, and I encountered a particularly funny thing. When I went in, I found that the waitress inside was not wearing any tops and was naked. I thought I was in the wrong place, so I asked someone, "This is a drinking party at a film company?" I was so hungry that I didn't care so much and ate a lot. After eating, I felt that something was wrong, so I asked someone again, what kind of company's drinking party is this?

Zhang Ran, who was drinking milk, almost didn't squirt, and couldn't help but say: "You all have to be producers in the future, maybe you will really become a producer of woodpeckers!"

Everyone snickered, and the girl sitting next to Zhang Zili pulled a chair to stay away from Zhang Zili and resolutely draw a line with the future woodpecker producer.

At this moment, Zhou Xiaoxi and Liu Miaomiao walked into the restaurant, swept around, and strode over. She put the official house catalogue of the film festival in her hand in front of Zhang Ran, and said with a smile: "Teacher Zhang, this is today's house programme!"

"Thank you, Xiaoxi!" Zhang Ran knew that the two girls had gone to take the house book, and he was very kind, so he beckoned, "Hurry up and sit down, and order what you want to eat." ”

Zhang Ran picked up the house catalogue and flipped to the rating page, wanting to see what European and American film critics had to say about the movie. During last night's interview, the media reporters responded enthusiastically, and he believes that the response should be better than that of domestic film critics.

The scoring system of the Berlin Cinema is different from that of Venice, which is on a five-point scale, Berlin is on a four-point scale, with four stars being perfect, three stars being good, two stars being average, one star being bad, and a fork being bad. At present, the Romanian film "How I Spent This Summer" with a score of 3.1 points, Polanski's "Shadow Writer" with a score of 2.8, the Turkish film "Honey" with a score of 2.5, Wang Quanan's "Reunion" with 2.4 points, and the American film "Howl" with a score of 2.1.

After seeing the score of the field magazine of "One Person's Lights", Zhang Ran was slightly stunned, a little unable to believe his eyes, and looked at it again, he was indeed not wrong. Ten scorers, nine four-star, one three-star, with an average score of 3.9!

This is an incredible score, breaking the history of the Berlinale room book ratings!

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