Not only Jia Zhangke, but also other directors present also noticed the unusual opening scene of the movie.

There are two unusual aspects of the "Aviator" shots, one is that the picture of the film is close to a square, in film terms, the frame ratio is 1.37:1, and the other is that the lens language of the film is very abnormal, all horizontally, and the lack of depth scheduling, resulting in a flat picture.

The aspect ratio must be deliberately done by the director, but the scheduling of the film is all horizontal, which does not conform to the grammar of the film at all. The directors all felt strange, how could Zhang Ran make such a mistake, was it intentional?

The picture switched to the classroom, Liu Jiao was amused by the child who grabbed the plane downstairs, giggled, turned around and shouted: "Qiao Zhengfei, come and see, come and see, they are robbing the plane you made!"

Qiao Zhengfei sat in the corner of the classroom, the whole person was in the shadows, his expression was indifferent, and his eyes were particularly bright. He buried himself in the craft: "It's just paper airplanes!"

Liu Jiao ran over from the window and leaned on the table to watch Qiao Zhengfei do it. Her eyes were sparkling, and they were full of adoration.

Soon, Qiao Zhengfei completed the last process, and a mobile phone plane made of wood was completed. He put the plane on the table and smiled, "It's done!"

"Wow, that's great!" Liu Jiao let out a cheer, she picked up the plane and looked at it, and asked, "Qiao Zhengfei, can this plane fly?"

"No, I can't build a flying plane. Qiao Zhengfei's expression was a little gloomy, but he immediately lit up again, and said in a tone of adoration, "My dad can, the plane built by my dad can fly very high and far!"

Liu Jiao asked, "What about your father?"

Qiao Zhengfei's eyes dimmed again, he didn't speak, just shook his head slightly.

At the end of school at noon, the two talked and laughed and walked back. Suddenly, there was a roar in the sky, and the two of them looked up, only to see a large plane flying through the sky. Liu Jiao was very excited and shouted: "Airplane, airplane!"

Qiao Zhengfei was not so excited, looking up at the sky in a trance, his eyebrows and eyes were extremely sad. The sun shone from behind him, shining on the side of his face, causing his face to glow in an arc of gold.

The strong sunlight contrasted sharply with Qiao Zhengfei's melancholy eyes, which made the audience tremble in their hearts. Why was the young man's eyes so sad, and what did he remember?

Jia Zhangke nodded slightly, this kind of backlit overexposure shot is a very amateurish performance, and it is a taboo for filmmaking, but Zhang Ran obviously did it intentionally, he wanted to contrast the sadness in the character's heart through strong sunlight. At the same time, due to the overexposure of the picture, Qiao Zhengfei's picture has glitches, which implies the burning of reality to the characters.

Directors like Quentin and Spike Lee couldn't stop nodding, this shot was handled so well!

One day, Qiao Zhengfei took Liu Jiao to his house to play. At Qiao Zhengfei's house, Liu Jiao saw Qiao Zhengfei's mother, a dry, neurotic-looking woman, gloomy and a little scary. In Qiao Zhengfei's father's study, she saw a lot of model airplanes and a lot of books.

Liu Jiao was very curious and asked about Qiao Zhengfei's father again.

Qiao Zhengfei said with a gloomy expression, his father was an engineer at the aircraft factory, but later became a reactionary authority and was overthrown. One day, when he came home from school, he pushed open the door and saw his father commit suicide by hanging from a beam.

Qiao Zhengfei showed Liu Jiao the model of the aircraft engine, which was a gift left by his father. He told Liu Jiao: "Dad gave me this model in the hope that one day I can make a real airplane like him." ”

Liu Jiao was stunned, stared at Qiao Zhengfei and said loudly: "Qiao Zhengfei, you must be able to make a real plane! People have souls when they die, and your father is watching you from the sky?"

Qiao Zhengfei raised his head and looked at the sky outside the window, the sun was shining outside, and he laughed: "Yes, I will make a real plane, and when the time comes, you will come to see me fly, and I will only let you watch it alone." ”

"Really, let's pull a hook then!"

"Hang yourself on the hook, you can't change it for a hundred years!"

In the fall, the government announced a list of rehabilitated persons and built a monument to commemorate the victims. But without the name of Qiao Zhengfei's father, Qiao Zhengfei's mother made a big fuss about it, and the answer was that he committed suicide in fear of crime and was not on the list of rehabilitation.

In the evening, Qiao Zhengfei's mother came to the monument with a hammer, smashed the monument to pieces, and then bought gasoline and returned home. She kicked Qiao Zhengfei, who was reading, out of the house, and then locked the door.

The hearts of the audience were raised, and everyone knew that something terrible would happen next. Many female viewers covered their mouths, fearing that what would happen next would make them scream.

Qiao Zhengfei realized that something was wrong, and banged on the door vigorously outside, crying and shouting: "Mom, Mom!"

But Qiao Zhengfei's mother ignored it, although she has been mentally abnormal since her husband died, she also knows how serious it is to smash the monument. In fact, her heart has long since died. She poured gasoline on the room, lit matches, and the room burst into flames.

Neighbors and firefighters extinguished the fire, but Qiao Zhengfei seemed to have lost his soul, his eyes were blank, and he looked at his home burned to ashes in a daze.

On this night, everything Qiao Zhengfei was burned, the model airplane, his mother, and his dreams!

Frontal close-up, riding axis shot, Qiao Zhengfei's eyes are blank and empty, and the whole person exudes an air of despair.

In this shot, Qiao Zhengfei looked directly at the audience and communicated directly with the audience's gaze. At this moment, all the audience was breathless, as if drowning, wrapped in a deep despair.

This is an extremely simple shot, but it cuts open the inner package of the audience and gives everyone a heavy blow to the soul.

Jia Zhangke's right hand pressed the chair handle tightly, and the handle was painful, this look was so sad that it deeply pierced his heart.

The screen is switched, and it is also a big close-up of the front, but the teenager Qiao Zhengfei has become an adult Qiao Zhengfei, with a trace of sadness in his eyes, but more firm. The camera zooms out and he is standing at the Air Force airfield, wearing the costume of an Air Force pilot, and the subtitles read: "1992!"

In 99, Qingying Studio and the Air Force jointly filmed "Flying Leopard", which is a friendly cooperation unit, so Zhang Ran asked them to shoot for two days at the base on the outskirts of Beiping and took some shots of fighter jets.

Jia Zhangke keenly discovered that the ratio of the film has become wider, no longer square, but 1.85:1. He laughed, it seems that Zhang Ran wants to use different format ratios to represent, 1.37:1 for 1978, 1.85:1 for 1992, 2.35:1 for 1997, so as to distinguish three different time segments, this idea is very good!

Suddenly, the airport suddenly sounded a whining battle alarm, and then the entire airport was busy, with ground crew, pilots, and other relevant personnel running to various posts.

Qiao Zhengfei and the wingman pilot received an order that an enemy had invaded the airspace and that they must intercept it immediately. Qiao Zhengfei and his comrades-in-arms immediately boarded the fighter plane, flew into the sky, and sailed to the airspace where the enemy plane was located to intercept it.

Soon, Qiao Zhengfei and his wingman spotted the enemy plane, which was two F16s. They immediately went up to them, this is China's airspace, and it is necessary to drive away the enemy planes that violate the airspace.

I don't want two F16s to fire at the same time and shoot several streamers in the air.

Qiao Zhengfei reacted quickly and pulled the lever, the plane turned somersault, and the cannonball grazed the belly of the plane, but the wingman failed to dodge, and was directly exploded, turning into a ball of flame in the air.

Qiao Zhengfei's eyes were red, and he quickly adjusted his flying posture and rushed towards the enemy plane. He used the aura of the sight to trap one of the F16s, and suddenly pressed the attack button, and a tongue of fire dragged the blue tail smoke towards the enemy plane.

The exciting air battle suddenly began!

Although most of the audience didn't know what kind of plane Qiao was flying, they knew by looking at the appearance that it was an old-fashioned plane, and the other party was an F16 or two. Everyone sweated for Qiao Zhengfei, this was a battle with a huge disparity in strength.

When the movie was put here, Zhang Ran finally breathed a long sigh of relief. The response from the audience was relatively good, and there was no large-scale exit as in the afternoon, and it seems that the audience was able to accept this style.

Zhang Jingchu keenly felt the change in Zhang Ran's mood, and said with some surprise: "You won't be worried, right?"

Although the reactions of the reporters in the afternoon were a bit polarized, Zhang Ran was very calm, and told them with a smile that foreigners don't understand China, and it doesn't matter if they like it or not, as long as the Chinese audience likes it.

Now it seems that he is just trying to calm down, and he is actually worried in his heart.

Zhang Ran nodded with a smile and said lightly: "Yes, I am indeed a little worried." Although I have always said that this film is a self-expression, I still hope that the audience will hope. The movie is definitely going to be shown to the audience, and I don't know if everyone can accept this style!"

In Zhang Jingchu's impression, Zhang Ran can face any predicament calmly, always full of confidence, but he didn't expect him to admit that he was worried. She laughed: "Don't worry, everyone loves this movie!"

"That's right!" Zhang Ran turned his head to look at the audience behind him.

The audience was staring at the screen with a solemn expression, worried about Qiao Zhengfei, and it could be seen from their expressions that everyone liked "The Aviator".

The movie continues to play. Although Qiao Zhengfei's skills are very good, the performance of the J-8II. is far inferior to that of the F16, and the opponent is still two. He tried his best to maximize the performance of the aircraft, and successfully knocked out an F16, but his own plane was also shot and fell to the ground with tail smoke.

Qiao Zhengfei desperately pulled the joystick, trying to pull the plane up, but it didn't work at all, and the plane fell to the ground at an extremely high speed.

The ground is getting closer, getting closer!

The audience's hearts were about to beat to their throats, and some female viewers couldn't help shouting: "Jump, jump!" They are completely immersed in the plot, forgetting that this is a movie, and they all hope that Qiao Zhengfei can parachute to escape.

Although Jia Zhangke is not as engaged as ordinary audiences, he also clenched his fists, leaned forward slightly, and stared at the screen with his eyes tight, waiting for a miracle to happen.

At the moment when the plane was about to hit the ground, the picture flashed, and the camera suddenly switched to the room, where Qiao Zhengfei, who was sweating profusely, sat up from the bed, breathing a little fast. On the wall behind him, there is a poster, which is the poster of the F16.

Only then did the audience react that the so-called pilots and the so-called air combat were just a dream of Qiao Zhengfei.

Jia Zhangke keenly noticed that the aspect ratio of the film had returned to 1.37:1. He originally thought that Zhang Ran used different proportions to represent different periods, but now he realized that Zhang Ran used different proportions to represent different states. The 1.37:1 picture represents the bondage of reality, the 1.85:1 picture represents the dream, and there will definitely be a 2.35:1 picture behind, which represents freedom!

After understanding this, Jia Zhangke had to admire in his heart, this guy has quite an idea! He is looking forward to the follow-up development of the movie more and more. (To be continued.) )