Cheng Manlin is indeed from the bottom in Hong Kong, as Producer Lin said, she was still setting up a stall in Yau Ma Tei two or three years ago to earn some money. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Due to her low education, she worked as a waitress and sold insurance. But I always have a dream of being an actor in my heart, I have been like this since I was a child, and the money she earned is used for various performance training classes and various talent competitions for all kinds of performances, but unfortunately, she waited for almost ten years, and she was not favored by Lady Luck, and she didn't even get mixed up with a trick.

Life is indeed unfair sometimes, and Cheng Manlin's efforts are not proportional to her gains. At this time, one of her distant relatives introduced her to a Thai wizard and said that there was a way to make her popular. She went to visit her suspiciously, and the wizard told her that actors from Hong Kong, Taiwan and even many mainland China had approached him, and he used the method of attaching his own little ghosts to them. The little ghost is actually the soul of a child who died early, and was invited by the wizard to be raised by Gu, and the little ghost will bring them popularity and luck, but the actor must sacrifice three times a month and spend a lot of money to worship the little ghost, otherwise after a long time, the ghost will occupy the body, and at that time, even the wizard has no way to crack it.

Cheng Manlin knew that this was evil magic, and hesitated for a long time, but she couldn't resist the temptation of becoming popular, so she scraped together a large sum of money to pay the wizard and invited a little ghost to come up. Unexpectedly, that little ghost was very effective, less than two or three months after possession, Cheng Manlin received the first heroine in her life, although the film was not very popular, but soon she was taken by a cosmetics brand, and made a group of advertising films, and soon there were two film appointments in a row, which gave her a certain popularity.

Half a year later, she received an invitation to the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, although she only won the eighth place in the end, but since then, the road to acting has been smooth sailing. Before coming to Beijing, she had not rested for a year and a half, and the schedule was scheduled for two years later. Although it is not a big hit, it is at least among the ranks of second-tier flowers.

Although I have heard about actors raising ghosts, it is the first time I have talked face-to-face with the person concerned, and I can't help but be curious, so I asked her if she can really feel the existence of ghosts?

Cheng Manlin nodded, but she could see the helplessness in her eyes, and she looked like she wanted to say something. She suddenly saw a snack bar on the side of the road and pulled me in. At the small table, I went to ask her for a cup of soy milk, and when I came back, I saw what she was writing on a piece of paper, and I suddenly understood that she was worried that what she was talking about would be heard by the little ghost.

Cheng Manlin smiled and took the soy milk in my hand and put the paper on which she wrote in front of me.

"The little ghost is real, when I am half asleep and half awake, he will talk to me, and then he will ask me to film more, he will also help me choose a role, if I don't follow his wishes, he will keep talking in my ear, so that I can't sleep, and I will have a headache for several days, and in the end I can only follow his choice. ”

After reading her note, I also hurriedly wrote a sentence on it, "So, does the imp's choice lead you to success?"

Cheng Manlin thought about it for a while, and wrote on the paper again: "Yes at the earliest, I don't even know where the film contract came from, but now there are more film appointments, he chooses films according to his own preferences, horror films, gunfight movies he likes the most, and he never chooses romance films." ”

I nodded to Xie Manlin, and Xie Manlin wrote on the paper again: "Uncle Chang, the little ghost has become more and more strange recently, I feel that after the Red Mansion, he is often not on me, and runs out to play, when he used to act, he just watched, now I feel that he wants to get involved, sometimes my brain will be blank when acting, I feel that the little ghost controls my body, I am very scared, I am worried that one day he will occupy my body." ”

I took her note and wrote on it, "Will the Thai wizard help you get the imp away, when you don't need him?"

Xie Manlin shook her head at me, her eyes a little lost. "The wizard said he could go and invite, but if the imp was unwilling to leave, he had no choice but to let me do the sacrifice well, and the rest was providential. Actually, I miss my old life very much now, although I am very poor, but my own life is very free. Now rich and famous, but always a life of being watched. ”

I stared at Cheng Manlin's slowly written words, basically confirming that she was suffering far more trouble now than before, and wrote on the paper: "I will help you, there should be a way." ”

Cheng Manlin's pale face slowly appeared bloody, maybe it was the effect of hot soy milk, she smiled and nodded to me, and said, "Uncle Chang, I'm much warmer, let's go to the film studio." ”

When we came to the studio, we didn't expect to find my friend, and his first sentence was, "Lao Chang, are these boxes of your old film a personal collection?"

I couldn't answer that question, so I had to say, "Well, at least no one has clear ownership of it at the moment." ”

"If you can, can you donate it to our factory's museum? Put it in private hands, you can't keep it, it's a pity, let's go, I'll take you to see it." With that, he ushered us into a small screening room.

The restoration of the film was far from as good as I expected, with many interruptions in the middle, and a lot of damaged parts that could not be repaired, turning into a gray-black piece. And there is no sound, all black and white. The whole film is about an hour long, but I really watched it, but I found that it was extremely shocking, and of course the same was true for Cheng Manlin, except for the soft sound of the projector turning in the screening room.

This film is actually precise, it should be a documentary, and it is filmed in the process of a film crew completing a movie. In my friend's opinion, the significance of this film lies in the fact that it records the shooting technology and the operation of the crew of early Chinese films, which undoubtedly has strong documentary value, but in my opinion and Cheng Manlin, the meaning is completely different.

The filming location of the film is obviously the Red Mansion, but the Red Mansion at that time did not have the current sense of vicissitudes, but was full of luxury and luxury. We are all familiar with the shooting scenes in the film, and even the set set is very similar to what we are building in the Red Mansion now. I counted the main characters in the film.,It's the same as our book.,Look down.,The documentary recorded a few shooting clips.,Speculation from the story,It should also be very close to our book.。

Wu Photography has been looking for a camera position in the past few days, and those cameras always cause the resonance of the soul bell, I haven't told anyone about this, and the documentary happens to shoot the process and location of the crew setting up the camera position, I carefully identified it, it is the camera position finally confirmed by Wu Photography. Of course, depending on the location conditions, the director and cinematographer may see the same thing as the hero, but every camera position is the same, which is unbelievable.

Cheng Manlin's focus is obviously different from mine, but looking at it, she suddenly couldn't help but scream.

In my ear, Cheng Manlin asked in a low voice, "Uncle Chang, did you pay attention to the part you just filmed?" The props of the crew are carving a wooden human hand, a very old man's human hand, out of wood, and then installing it on a door on the second floor. This hand, Xiao Ye told me that she hallucinated during the shooting, and felt that the doorknob became a real hand, isn't this the scene?"

I turned around and asked my friend to reverse the film and look at it again. The hand carving, coloring, and mounting on the door were filmed very carefully, without missing a single detail, and a thin middle-aged man with a pipe in his mouth stood next to him, guiding the placement of the camera and telling an actress how to touch the handle. I suddenly remembered that Editor-in-Chief Gao had said that he had a dream that he had become an actor in a crew, and the director in the crew seemed to be this middle-aged man with a pipe.

I leaned over to the screen and looked at the picture again. My friend was behind me and said slowly: "Lao Chang, this pipe bearer, if I guess correctly, it should be Xu Weibang." You don't know much about film history, Xu Weibang, the director, can be said to have created a precedent for Chinese horror movies, and his "Singing in the Middle of the Night" is said to have been screened in Beiping and Shanghai that year, when thousands of people were empty, and they were scared to death. ”

The friend paused the screening and froze on Xu Weibang's picture. Cheng Manlin stood up slowly, did not take her eyes off the screen, and said slowly: "Director Xu Weibang I know that after the liberation, he went to Hong Kong and made several movies in Hong Kong, which has a great influence on Hong Kong filmmakers. Later, he died in a car accident, and it seems that he was not yet 60 years old. ”

The friend sighed, and then said: "Miss Cheng is very right, Director Xu is a painter, Liu Haisu's proud disciple, and he made movies halfway, so his picture composition and lighting are very particular, and he likes to use very cold tones, and his movies are absolutely unique in that era." It seems that the age of audience admission in Chinese theaters also starts with Director Xu. In fact, his films are horror films on the surface, but they are very humanistic in nature, and the yearning for freedom and the praise of love are the themes of his life. ”

"Then do you know what kind of movie they made in the Red Mansion? It seems that the film is not finished?" I asked after his words.

"I don't know which movie it is, but it definitely hasn't been finished, and there is no one in Director Xu's chronology. But you see that there is a Tianma logo on the camera in the film, and I know that Director Xu's company in Shanghai is called Tianma, which may be Tianma's last film, of course, it is very likely that it is also because of this unfinished movie, which led to the bankruptcy of Tianma. ”

After listening to my friend's story, I thought of the previous editor-in-chief Gao's research on the Red Mansion, it seems that everything has been confirmed, and perhaps the rumors that the crew trapped in the Red Mansion were secretly executed by the Japanese military police in the end are not groundless.

(The palace of the ring dancers is turned, and the leader of the returners is spinning.) It is not the illusion of the palace, but the person is confused by himself, and if it is not returned, the change is also the person who changes it. Therefore, the pink towel is a rabbit, the music stone is a horse, and people do not doubt it; Only those who are quiet cannot be deceived. --"The Book of Transformation") (To be continued.) )