Chapter 779

The next day, Song Zheng got up late unexpectedly, probably because he knew that he was going to Africa, and he was going for a few months.

After breakfast, the two of them went out together, but not to the airport, but to go back to the company.

The first is the company's arrangement for the year, and his work has been planned, "Wolf Warrior" in the first half of the year, and "Inception" in the second half of the year.

In addition, although Ning Hao's script is not completed, the general idea is already there, and after Song Zheng heard it, he knew that it was "Heart Flower Road", which is known as China's most advanced comedy.

After the release of "Heart Blossom Road" in the previous life, many viewers did not have a very high evaluation of this movie, but in Song Zheng's opinion, "Heart Flower Road" is the best work in Ning-style comedy.

Different from those noisy comedies that leave a lot of laughs, the jokes of real high-end comedies are hidden, and most of the comedies on the market at present, you can basically see the most hilarious points in the film by watching the trailer.

And "Heart Flower Road" is just the opposite, the jokes seen in the trailer are at best a second-rate joke in the film, or even a third-rate joke.

Before the release of this movie in his previous life, Song Zheng watched the trailer, and only second-rate and third-rate jokes were released in it, which was enough to make him look forward to it.

It's like people who play musical instruments, and those who have a low level of performance for others are eager to play the most difficult song they have just mastered as soon as they come up, and those who have a high level of performance for others often choose a more popular tune, because for them, the high difficulty has long been mastered, and the difficult ones become simple, and the simple ones become absolute, which can reflect the level.

The jokes of high-end comedies are logical, and those hot comedies are not highly evaluated in the industry, but the laughter of ordinary audiences is not a lot because the jokes of those comedies often use mechanical jokes.

That is, the most intuitive visual and auditory sense to make people laugh, such as limbs, lines, expressions, etc., especially after and urine farts are rampant, Chinese comedies have also begun to brush the lower limit of visual performance without discipline.

There is no lack of mechanical jokes in "Heart Flower Road", but there are more logical jokes, using contrasts, reversals, misunderstandings, contrasts, etc.

The audience needs to use their logical thinking ability to find the inheritance relationship in this joke in order to understand the coke of the joke, which is why the immature audience cannot appreciate the whole reason of high-end comedy.

The laughs of high-class comedy are continuous, and the movie is 90 minutes, or 100 minutes long, and is an organic whole, with emphasis on rhythm and structure.

Those creators who believe that "the audience laughs is a good comedy" often unconsciously turn their works into a pile of laughs because they focus too much on the task of amusing the audience.

The intensity of laughter in "Heart Flower Road" is better than Ning Hao's previous blockbuster comedies, but the overall view still maintains the integrity of the movie.

Ning Hao's rhythm control and unique structure still have flashes in this comedy, which is impressive, he will not let the audience let the audience go away with joy, but always control the audience on his track, and in the end, the audience will gain more than just laughing countless times.

High-level comedy is emotional and reasonable, and the reason why some comedies are said to make people laugh without discipline and brush the lower limit is because they are in order to create laughter, and sometimes they ignore the world's reasonableness. Those funny and ugly things that go against human nature naturally make people uncomfortable, and they may barely pass once or twice, and they can no longer bear it after three or four times.

Every character in "Heart Blossom Road" is an ordinary person in the world, with exactly the same emotions as all living beings, and the comedy they collide with is the humor based on life, which makes the audience laugh.

There is no limit to the audience level of "Heart Flower Road", from children to adults, from Chinese to foreigners, but anyone who sits in the theater and watches it will laugh from beginning to end. But those who have a keen eye, a mature mind, a logical person, and a person with fine emotions will see more things, deeper connotations, and stronger feelings from this comedy.

They followed Ning Hao's guidance, let it go out, and took it back, so that "Heart Flower Road" is not just a stress reliever, but an achievement with endless memories.

Ning Hao is going to open this drama now, Song Zheng naturally supports it with both hands, in his opinion, the important thing is not how high the box office can be obtained by this drama, but that through this drama, Ning Hao's status in the circle can be re-established.

In addition to Ning Hao's play, as well as Xu Zheng's "Embarrassment in the Journey of Hong Kong", Song Zheng also plans to open three more plays, one of which is "The Piano of Steel".

Many people are not familiar with this drama, but in Song Zheng's heart, this drama can be said to be one of the few works in the domestic film and television industry.

It's a nostalgic film, with a Russian-style soundtrack, old abandoned factories, towering chimneys, and even formulaic speeches, all reminiscing about a bygone era.

This is a movie that the post-80s and post-90s can't understand, a group of laid-off workers tossed for a long time and drummed out a piano with a steel structure, is there any meaning?

This is a movie made for people born in the 50s, 60s, and even 70s, and only they can resonate deeply and understand the meaning behind that piano.

Every touching chant evokes an unforgettable memory, and every rustic nostalgia always evokes the sorrow of a group.

"The Piano of Steel" is a story about the glory and dreams of the little people, it uses elegant language, tells the trivial things of life, with magical colors, reminiscing about the glory of the past, when the "Piano of Steel" left the factory, Song Zheng was excited and almost cried, he saw a fragment of the curtain call of prosperity and forbearance, an elegy about the burning years of passion.

Therefore, "The Piano of Steel" is not so much an inspirational story about the little people who "make the piano", but rather a farewell and nostalgia for the end of a specific era in China.

Through the words and deeds of a group of lowly low-level working class, we can see their calmness and calmness towards the ups and downs of China's society and people's livelihood, and their helplessness and self-deconstruction of China's political and economic changes.

What is pleasant and sad is that the film does not depict these things in the front, but what I really want to tell people is this, to see the big from the small, to see the small to know, this is where "The Piano of Steel" shines, it uses a kind of black humor, telling a Chinese story that is not humorous, and, importantly, it is really a story about the Chinese people.

The protagonist of the story, Chen Guilin, a former supreme and glorious working class, a low-level working person who has lost the support of the organization, a skilled worker who still has simple dreams, a father of a child, a man who has lost his wife, and a small person with a group of "fox friends and dog friends", he is the most representative epitome of Chinese social transition.

In his case, he reflected some of the outstanding characteristics of the enthusiastic Chinese workers in the era of heavy industry: excellent technology, practical and industrious, poor living, rude and arrogant, and even worldly cunning.

These characteristics have become the spiritual cornerstone of the country's economic construction for half a century, and it is also these characteristics that made them feel helpless and at a loss for a while when the wave of reform swept in.

They are very realistic, they have been willing to work hard around a heavy industrial stronghold for decades, marry wives and have children, and reproduce; they are very unrealistic, often reminiscing about the past that is not tolerated by the times, and making spring dreams that are not commensurate with their own strength, but this is also the spiritual source of their tenacious survival, with a kind of perseverance that shakes the tree, interpreting an ordinary and moving word: life.

This movie is adapted from a not very famous one, when Song Zheng got this book from Wang Jinghua's hand, he called Zhang Yuan almost without any hesitation, and after reading it, Zhang Yuan only hesitated for half a minute before deciding to take the job.

Compared with the original director Zhang Meng, Song Zheng feels that Zhang Yuan can shoot this story more delicately.

At the beginning of the story, Chen Guilin and his wife discuss divorce, but the background is a dilapidated and collapsed factory, which indicates the changes in the protagonist's marriage and the overthrow of the original values of Chinese society.

When Chen Guilin and his band played the sad Soviet-Union song "Troika" for a deceased person, the nostalgia and nostalgia for the past glory jumped in front of his eyes.

Song Zheng remembers that in the original version of the movie, there were many famous songs of the former Soviet Union, and there was even an old engineer who had studied in the Soviet Union, all of which can make people clearly see the place where the story of "The Piano of Steel" took place, the past and old events of the former heavy industry base in the Northeast, and then can be associated with those passionate years and devastated moments in the whole of China.

The beginning of China's industry was inseparable from the help of the Soviet Union, although later due to political disputes, China and the Soviet Union completely broke up, but the influence of the Soviet Union on China has been prolonged for a long time, and the "shadow of the Soviet Union" of China's industry is deeply rooted, and to this day, traces of the Soviet Union can still be found everywhere in China.

In the early 90s of last century, the totalitarian socialist model represented by the Soviet Union collapsed violently, and China's reform and opening up also entered a stage of qualitative change, and the Chinese people's values underwent subversive changes.

The "new trend of thought and new forces" represented by Chen Guilin's wife's new love and the behind-the-scenes lover who made a fortune by selling counterfeit drugs ruthlessly destroyed the spiritual home of the older generation of laborers who were simple and down-to-earth and silently dedicated to Chen Guilin by virtue of their material power.

The "traces of the Soviet Union" that can be seen everywhere in the film is actually an expression of Chen Guilin's group's infinite nostalgia for the old days, for their generation, the Soviet Union model is beautiful, because as industrial workers, they can be described as heroes in the past, and they have their own spring in the era of thick and bulky, but with a metallic luster.

Obviously, in the face of the turbulence of the changes of the times, Chen Guilin and others seem humble and helpless, what do they rely on to defend their spiritual homeland?

There is no power to borrow, nowhere to escape, no plan to do, and no branches to rely on.

As a result, people saw a group of talented "working class" people forming a small band to make a living, playing songs representing the glory of the past in the streets and alleys; therefore, people saw Da Liu running his own "pig killing industry" under the dilemma of "strict wife control"; therefore, people saw that the fat man was hiding from the three women for a gambling debt of 20 yuan, regardless of his dignity; therefore, people saw that Brother Ji was like a boss, doing some unsunny things in the old factory; and therefore, people saw "Kuaishou" Relying on the skills cultivated in the factory in the past, living lonely in the shadow of the past, people see Shuxian, a woman, in the world of men, opening up her own living space in a man's way, but behind the boldness there is a little helplessness.

All the glory comes from their working-class identity, and all the loneliness is because their once proud identity has been completely dusted in the wave of reform.

Chen Guilin and his wife fought for the custody of their daughter, in addition to natural family affection, but also his defense of his own dignity and ability, "Chen Guilin's" dedication to "making the piano" is not only out of friendship, but also their pursuit of their glorious tradition and resistance to the pollution of reality.

The down-and-out nobles, who are down-and-out and stuck, still refuse to discard the family emblem that represents the glory of the family, and the generals who have removed their armor often reminisce about the high-spirited Iron Horse Binghe when they are idle and lonely.

The little people in "Piano of Steel" also have a proud past, and the era that belongs to them has come to a cruel end, but no one is willing to withdraw from the center stage willingly.

The glory of the past represents their strength, an innate plot of "roots" that prevents them from gladly accepting the arrangement of their fate.

For the two big chimneys that represent the glory of the past industry, they are reluctant, how can they be willing to retreat in the face of material enjoyment and entertainment consumption?

As a result, Chen Guilin's cultivation of his daughter Xiaoyuan has become the focus of their attention, and "making the piano" has become a tacit agreement, an opportunity to awaken the long-dormant passion in their hearts, and a struggle for them to defend their dignity and compete for the performance stage.

Thus, an ordinary tale of marriage dissolution and child rivalry becomes a magical dance of a group of frustrated workers who bloom their passion and revive the glorious magic dance, and they carry out a collective action to return to their dreams in a way that subverts normalcy and logic.

"The Piano of Steel" is actually a complete tragedy of life, every character in the film represents a kind of loss and helplessness, and all the results are not the original dream, including the "piano of steel" that should not have appeared.

However, the misfortune told in the way of smiling and self-deprecation reveals the Zen machine of life everywhere, and this story is like this, so it is sad but not sad, laughing but not flattering.

The characters in the film deal with all kinds of embarrassing encounters in the most calm and calm way, such as Chen Guilin's almost magical and poetic piano music after the failure to steal the piano, which dissolves the tragedy of the little people in the endless winter night, which makes people reminisce for a long time.

Perhaps, what people hope is that Chen Guilin has built a "piano", fulfilled his promise to his daughter, regained custody, defeated the moral degradation represented by his wife and the big money on counterfeit drugs, and won the ultimate spiritual victory.

Such an ending may be more pleasant and exhilarating, but it is often not the reality of life, despite how much people want it to be.

The true face of life is sometimes a kind of cruelty and helplessness everywhere, and you may not be able to get the desired results if you work hard. However, there is always something in the heart of a person, which is not based on the actual result, and its most precious and shining time is the process of its display, which can be the dignity of the person, the glory of the past, or even just the stubborn blood.

"The Piano of Steel" did not fulfill all the wishes of "Chen Guilin", but it told this new world that abandoned them that they had glory and why they had glory.

After building the piano, giving up his daughter, witnessing the chimney being blown up, and then marrying another woman, Chen Guilin started another life.

All those who should say goodbye will say goodbye, and all those who can't keep will eventually leave. The story has another faint but bright ending, telling the audience that this is life, and sometimes it is not subject to human will. But Chen Guilin, who once represented the backbone of society, still has a way, and must have a way to live.

"The Piano of Steel" is like an elegy of the times, in which we can hear a kind of warning, perhaps, for this society that is surging materially and spiritually declining, is not without benefit.

In "The Piano of Steel", it can be seen that some of Chen Guilin's colleagues changed their careers to sell pork, some became key masters, and some went to fish for the wrong door.

And Chen Guilin, with his musical talent, could barely make a living, until one day, he found out that he was about to lose his daughter. I'm afraid he didn't realize that when he said that he wanted to make a piano, this decision was half angry with his wife, and half was a subconscious cry to reality: "You can deprive me of my era, but you can't stop me from creating a brand that belongs to that era." ”

This is also the reason why his colleagues hit it off, in the story, Song Zheng never saw the complaints and dissatisfaction of these people abandoned by the times, only saw their helplessness in the face of reality, although they occasionally vented, tried to steal a piano, and fought in a group, but their hearts were full of infinite memories of the passing era.

At the end of the story, when this special piano was slowly lifted by the crane, Song Zheng was excited, the shiny piano board represents the unyielding spirit, the delicate and neat keys reveal exquisite skills and hard sweat, this piano seems to be a proud twin peaks of the bony reality, standing tall and unruly, showing its existence to the world.

When Chen Guilin's daughter cautiously asked, "Can you make a sound?"

Song Zheng couldn't help but laugh dumbly, tears rolled down his cheeks, and they must have been very comforted to see Chen Guilin and his colleagues enjoying their daughter's happy playing on the piano.

You see me bow my head high, you see me kneeling down on the man's knees, what you don't see is that there is always a place in my heart, there are ideals, singing uninhibitedly.