Chapter 822: Can't act

People who work hard in the mainland entertainment industry, people who have never heard of the name Wang Jinghua are rare, although her most impressive identity is just an agent, but agents and agents are different, Wang Jinghua, a woman in this circle, can be called exquisite.

Zhang Jingchu had almost no contact with Wang Jinghua before, but after she acted in "I Love You" and won the Best Newcomer at the Yanjing University Student Film Festival, Wang Jinghua had the idea of signing her to Huayi Brothers, but later with her signing a contract with the 1+1 studio, the matter was over.

Time has passed recently, and now Zhang Jingchugui is the first sister of the 1+1 company, and Wang Jinghua has also become the deputy general manager of the 1+1 company.

Today, Wang Jinghua suddenly came to the door, in order to just send a script to Zhang Jingchu, and Zhang Jingchu couldn't help but feel very surprised.

"He ~~~~~~ I mean, Brother Zheng, why didn't he bring it to me himself!?"

Wang Jinghua was stunned when she heard this, this time it was her turn to be curious, although she also knew that Song Zheng and Zhang Jingchu had a very good relationship, but Song Zheng was the big boss behind the company, Lin Xinru was the chairman, and Zhang Jingchu was just a signed actor under the company.

"This ~~~~~ he is busy with the post-production of "Wolf Warrior" now, so he called me and asked me to bring it to you!"

Zhang Jingchu also knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she responded, quickly opened the script, and pretended to be nothing.

"That's it, I'm sorry for you, Sister Hua, I'll take a look first!"

When Wang Jinghua heard this, although she was still full of surprise, Zhang Jingchu's tone was obviously an eviction order, and she didn't want to stay long, so she got up and said: "Okay, you get familiar with it first, this scene won't start filming until mid-October!"

After Wang Jinghua finished speaking, seeing Zhang Jingchu's reaction was faint, she felt that it was not interesting to stay any longer, so she got up and said goodbye.

After Wang Jinghua left, Zhang Jingchu directly threw the script aside, lay down on the sofa, and sulked.

said that she was busy with the post-production of "Wolf Warrior", Zhang Jingchu didn't believe it.

After lying down for a while, I felt bored and wanted to call Fan Bingbing, but at this time, Fan Bingbing should also be busy, people are not the same as her, but they are also the owner of a studio.

Turned her head to look at the script she threw aside, thought about it, or grabbed the script in her hand and looked at it.

After only watching it for a while, Zhang Jingchu began to doubt her IQ, and if she continued to look at it, her head had a feeling that it would crack at any time.

Is the dream real?

Zhang Jingchu put down the script, looked at the mobile phone on the side, and had an impulse, called Song Zheng, and then asked him loudly: "You write this script and show it to me, do you want to tease me, or do you want to show my superiority with a high IQ here!?"

I can't understand it at all!

Zhang Jingchu couldn't understand it, which was actually not strange at all.

The film has been hailed as one of Hollywood's "most difficult to understand" movies for a reason, and many veteran sci-fi fans can understand it at most after watching the movie.

Christopher Nolan, the director of the original "Inception", is one of Hollywood's favorite directors who challenge the intelligence of movie fans, and his early work "Fragments of Memory" is among the "10 most brain-wracking movies of all time" once rated by Time Magazine.

Regarding "Inception", there were people who studied it frantically in their previous lives, and an avid fan admitted frankly that he seemed a little excited about "Inception": "All the results and inferences need to be reasoned and verified from the small details in the movie, so as to get closer to the truth step by step." ”

Some fans also said that in order to fully understand "Inception", you need to have knowledge of various disciplines such as geometry, logic, physics, and architecture.

A fan who watched the introduction of the film was even more bitter: although he had done enough homework before watching it, he could only understand 80% after watching it, and the remaining 20% were still "in the clouds" after racking his brains.

There was a saying that "Inception" was a script that Nolan had been preparing for more than 10 years, and he handed the script outline to the company that year, and they were all very excited after reading it, but Nolan felt that he was not ready to write this script at that time.

Nolan himself said, "I need at least another 10 years for the story outline and narrative structure to mature in my mind." ”

Nolan's initial idea was a bit tangled, and he wanted to explore what it would be like if everyone could share their dream space with each other.

If one person is able to access or see another person's subconscious, then the exploitation and theft of the subconscious mind of others will naturally occur. Of course, in real life, this kind of thing is impossible to happen, so Nolan put a "science fiction" shell on this story.

Unlike those Hollywood movies that make dreams very mysterious, what the characters see in their dreams in "Inception" is extremely realistic and intuitive, the buildings and spaces in them are no different from the real world, and there is no trace of the visual connection between the real and the dream, and the audience can face the subconscious of the characters.

Someone once said that mathematics is not good, don't watch "Inception", many of the assumptions and phenomena in the film by director Nolan, who studied architecture, actually come from geometric research in modern mathematics, the main one is manifolds, for example, when the characters in the film discuss "what is the truth and what is the illusion in dreams", they use "Riemann manifolds", and the dream maze created by the dream thief is all "non-European space", so that the other party can't run out of the circle like a worm.

At the same time, it also draws on psychology to arrange rigorous and meticulous game rules for dreams: change the laws of physics, your subconscious mind will incarnate into a specific person in the dream, but you can't control "him"; the feeling of falling and dying in the dream can make people wake up from the dream; the dream can be more than one layer, there is a dream within the dream, and the time in the dream is 20 times longer than the reality.

In "Inception", Nolan arranged a past full of intrigue and death for the male protagonist: at the beginning, it was he who repeatedly took his wife Mar into dreams, immersed in beautiful dreams, so that his wife couldn't tell which was a dream and which was reality, and finally committed suicide by jumping off a building, and Cobb was also wrongly convicted of killing his wife.

Because of this guilt, Cobb has been unable to get out of the labyrinth composed of his own dreams, and in his dreams he finds his beloved wife and solves the knot, which becomes Cobb's motivation to help the Japanese tycoon take the adventure of "planting dreams", and thus unfolds the plot.

But if this movie is all there is to it, it would be a big mistake.

"Inception" has a lot of information, and when the audience has more information, the more vague doubts the plot of the film will bring, of course, these doubts can be explained to a certain extent under the worldview and basic setting of the film itself, this phenomenon may lead to two kinds of quality judgments of the film, one is that if a movie is complicated and needs to be over-explained, or the audience can justify itself, this is a fatal flaw in itself.

In the first hour of the film, "Inception" has been explaining, explaining the principles and possibilities of inception and implanting thoughts, explaining the way of dream-making, and telling about the settings of drug hypnosis, traversal, awakening, and defenders.

Another judgment is that this is a film that truly respects the audience's IQ and mobilizes the audience to participate in the creation, such interactivity makes the viewing itself unusually challenging, so in the cinema, each audience gradually changes from a spectator to a screenwriter, and different audiences will make the story have infinite possibilities when they do a plot review after the movie, and the existence of such a movie itself has extraordinary value.

In terms of directorial techniques, "Inception" is a relatively conventional Christopher Nolan movie, Nolan is a director who is good at his own artistic pursuits and presents them with highly entertaining means, which makes his works have multiple acceptance possibilities, and the part that appeals to the senses can meet the most basic viewing needs, and the speculative nature of the theme and the polysemy of the value system can bring high-end audiences enough metaphysical thinking fun, "The Dark Knight" and "Deadly Magic" are the same.

Regarding the difficulty of understanding "Inception", there were many rumors in the previous life, which made many viewers very stressed when watching, but in fact, this is completely unnecessary.

"Inception" has a very clear task line as the main line, the way and rhythm of this main line are not difficult to follow, most of the visual spectacle and action scenes are attached to this plot chain, so the most basic viewing pleasure can be guaranteed, if you lose the pleasure of watching the movie because of mental tension or excessive attention to details, it will be worth the loss.

The large amount of details and suggestive plots buried in the film are the icing on the cake for this film, and it is indeed difficult to absorb these things at once.

If you don't consider the impact of the big screen, in fact, this is a movie that is very suitable for careful grinding on DVD, when Song Zheng watched it in the cinema in his last life, he couldn't wait to add a pause playback function to the movie, because there is indeed some interesting information, which is inadvertently fleeting.

For audiences who are obsessed with evidence and detail control, it is normal to watch such a movie twice, three times, or even more, because in the process of watching, you will find that there is something new every time you watch it.

What is most amazing about "Inception" is Nolan's strong imagination and integration of various entertainment elements in his screenwriting work.

With dreams and human consciousness as the main body of the story, it is not a new thing in various types of film creation, the basic setting of the series of horror films "Ghost Street" many years ago is that the ghost kills people by invading the dreams of children, Kurosawa Akira is directly with the title of "Dream" has made a movie that reveals personal inner sustenance and panic through dream display, and the plot of the murder machine in the matrix of human consciousness has been pushed to a considerable philosophical height in "The Matrix".

In this story, Nolan's uniqueness in renovating this theme lies in the introduction of the layered structure of the dream in the dream, and through the mutation and distortion of the time dimension caused by the deepening of the dream, the plot is infinitely malleable, and the interaction between the levels is extremely interesting, and many of the plot climaxes of the film come from this setting.

In addition, Nolan wraps this task with the current popular team member cooperation mode, and in terms of team member function settings, it is even more refreshing, similar to dream maker, forger, pharmacist and other professions have a high degree of differentiation and recognition, and everyone has a plot explosion.

Nolan uses his unique technique to establish a rigorous plot operation and character setting system, once this system is activated, wave after wave of narrative pleasure rushes to the face, and after the third layer of dreams begins, it enters an unstoppable and continuous climax.

Actually, we want to talk about Inception The plot is difficult, this is like a domino, in the process of falling naturally, Nolan has given it enough impetus in his own system, in fact, this is a hypnotic movie, and the psychological suggestion caused by its powerful aura is enough for the audience to cooperate with Nolan to complete this dream-making behavior in the way of watching movies, so from a certain point of view, this is a movie that is infinitely close to the essence of the movie, and it is enough to make people have a short trance and doubt about dreams and reality, which is a very unique and precious aftertaste of watching the movie。

But now, if you just want to sort out this very complex story simply through words, it is obviously too difficult, Zhang Jingchu just read it once, and I feel like I'm going to be driven crazy by this script, what is this!?

Although she had tried very hard to figure out the intricacies of the threads, and the theories that had no scientific basis at all, but were esoteric and obscure, the result was that she was completely at the point.

"What do you mean!?"

Why should dreams be divided into different levels?

How can a person be killed in a dream?

Which one is real, and which one is in a dream?

Zhang Jingchu tried to watch it a second time, but only saw half of it, and then gave up decisively.

I suddenly worshipped Song Zheng in my heart, I was really embarrassed that Song Zheng could figure out so many strange things.

Now what?

Zhang Jingchu hesitated, she could feel that Song Zheng had put a lot of effort into this script, and she could see that this script had been revised.

But if you really want to act, how?

Zhang Jingchu pondered for a long time, and finally made up her mind to find Song Zheng.

When Zhang Jingchu came over, Song Zheng was in the editing room, busy with the later stage of "Wolf Warrior", and heard the staff under him say that Zhang Jingchu had arrived, so he quickly put down his work and took Zhang Jingchu to the office.

"Xiao Chu, how are you~~~~"

Boom!

Before Song Zheng's words were finished, Zhang Jingchu directly slapped the script in front of Song Zheng, sat down on the sofa, and said, "Brother, I can't act in this scene!"

Can't act?

When Song Zheng got this response from Zhang Jingchu's mouth, he couldn't help but be stunned, for Zhang Jingchu's sake, he changed the entire Ruo character setting.

The most important thing is the attitude of Lionsgate, Song Zheng selected Alan Peggy as a candidate for this role, and Lionsgate is very enthusiastic and has been actively contacting.

Later, Song Zheng suddenly informed them that he would replace this role with Zhang Jingchu, although Zhang Jingchu also has a certain popularity in Europe and the United States with his two "Hurricane Rescue", but compared with Alan Page, it is obviously far behind.

If it weren't for the excellent results of Song Zheng's previous work "True Lies", this collaboration might have been lost.

But now Zhang Jingchu suddenly told him that she couldn't play this role, how could Song Zheng not be surprised.

"Why do you think you can't act!?"

Zhang Jingchu tapped the script of "Inception" with her fingers and said, "Really, or is it fake?"

Song Zheng smiled helplessly and said, "Of course it's the truth!"

Zhang Jingchu leaned on the back of the sofa and said, "The truth is, I can't understand this script of yours at all, I say this, it's enough to understand, right!?"

Belch~~~~~~~

And for good reason.

Song Zheng couldn't help laughing, Zhang Jingchu said that he couldn't understand it, but he was not surprised at all, in fact, there are really not many people who can understand this script.

In the previous life, after the release of "Inception", the key reason why it was called the most brain-burning movie in history is that few people can sort out the idea of this story, let alone understand it.

Song Zheng was also able to touch the threshold after watching it many times, and he was still far from fully understanding.

In that case, why did he still shoot?

As a director, I can't completely analyze this story, how can I shoot it?

Song Zheng has also thought about it a long time ago, and if he shoots completely according to the original, there will always be someone who can see it and understand.

"Brother, why did you suddenly think of writing such a story, what kind of first layer of dreams, second layer of dreams, and back and forth between dreams, it makes people's heads big. ”

Zhang Jingchu's question, Song Zheng is really hard to explain: "I just think it's quite interesting, at the beginning I had an idea, and then the more I thought about it, the more complicated it became, and then I thought about it, originally I wanted to use this drama as your comeback work, but you didn't want to shoot it yet!"

"I can't understand it, how can I shoot it? I don't understand what that role is all about, and even if I play it hard, I can't substitute for the role at all. ”

Song Zheng knew that Zhang Jingchu really didn't want to shoot, so he didn't force it, and fortunately, he was prepared: "So how about you watch this drama?"

Song Zheng said, took out another script from the drawer, and handed it to Zhang Jingchu, Zhang Jingchu was stunned, she didn't expect Song Zheng to prepare a back hand, took it and took a look, there was a line of big characters written on the cover, a line of happiness behind the dark clouds!

"What are you talking about!?"

Song Zheng thought for a while and said, "Well~~~~~ love!"

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