Saying that there are no positive characters in "No Man's Land", what about the issue of values, and how the tone of the whole movie is too depressing, etc., these are just clichés. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the end of the day, it's just a word change!

Song Zheng also knew that this was necessary, although he was helpless, although he was unwilling, he could only accept it.

He didn't want "No Man's Land" to be in his hands like in his previous life, silent for four years before he was allowed to meet the audience.

Now it's just a matter of letting "No Man's Land" go through the steps in the previous life again, the only difference is that Song Zheng was an outsider in his previous life, but he is in the game in this life, and the same is true, the more Song Zheng can't let "No Man's Land" go through another four-year wait.

In his previous life, as a fan of Ning Hao, Song Zheng also paid attention to "No Man's Land" for a long time, and at that time, there were particularly rich jokes about "No Man's Land" on the Internet.

Some people say: From the end of filming to the release, he has been promoted from a grassroots staff to a middle-level manager.

Someone else said: I was still taking the college entrance examination when I finished filming, and now I just graduated from college.

Some people also said: I was not married when I first said that it would be released, and now the child is 3 years old.

In short, four years is for a person, and many life events can be accomplished, but for a movie that has been caught in the problem, there are only two "postponements" and "revisions" in four years.

In the past four years, people have heard too many stories of "Ning Hao's grievances", and they have also seen a lot of "accusations" against the Film Bureau because of this incident, but when "No Man's Land" was finally released four years later, the audience, whether it was a longitudinal comparison of the difference between the first version of the film and the released version, or a horizontal comparison of similar cases at home and abroad, found that the impact of deletion and postponement on the quality of "No Man's Land" was almost subversive.

In the past four years, the four versions have undergone fundamental changes to the film, "No Man's Land", which talks about human nature, was originally talking about human nature in the "no human nature" method, but after the modification, there are many more contradictory things in it, although it is still human, but it is far less profound than the original.

In the previous life, many people were curious about what was deleted in "No Man's Land"? Song Zheng is the same.

The scene of going to violence and narration to make up for Xiao Peach has been changed six times in four years, and a total of four versions have been born, and people can only keep asking the creator of this movie under curiosity, and the most common question asked by director Ning Hao is: "How much has "No Man's Land" been deleted?"

And Ning Hao's most common answer to this is: "Actually, there is not much difference." ”

Ning Hao's answer was very empty, and it didn't sound like the truth to anyone.

In order to find out what aspects of "No Man's Land" have been rectified, the media has interviewed nearly ten industry insiders who have watched the original version or participated in the production of the film.

The exact changes that can be verified, some people say that there are six, some people say more, and some people say that the changes are not so big, and from the actual effect, no matter how much is changed, the damage caused by these changes to the essence of the film cannot be simply described as hurting the muscles and bones.

There are basically two changes that can be determined, the first is that the entire paragraph was removed, according to the people who have seen the most publication, in the public version, the whereabouts of the gas station proprietress were not explained, and in the original version, she was hit and killed by a killer played by Duobujie, and this deleted passage can be seen in the various trailers released during the promotion period of "No Man's Land".

In the second place, only individual scenes were deleted, and the plot passages were still retained, and in the public version, the scene where Huang Bo was beaten by his stupid son with a hammer had "appropriate de-violent deletion".

In addition to these two deletions, which have undergone a lot of research and can be determined, a staff member of the crew also said: "At the beginning of the car collision, there were some swear words, and when Huang Bo was hit, the original shot was a little more bloody, and the courtroom section was also changed. ”

In addition to the deletion and editing, combined with the oral accounts of Ning Hao and others, it can also be confirmed that "No Man's Land" has added two scenes, first of all, the opening film, the narration about the monkey is added later, and the scene where Yu Nan survives to find Xiao Taohong at the end of the film was also completed later.

As for "No Man's Land" from the first version to the present, no one remembers how many versions have been experienced, a staff member who has participated in the editing of "No Man's Land" recalled in an interview with reporters that he himself participated in only two versions of the revision, and then later, he withdrew from the project, perhaps because the changes have disrupted his thinking, and there is no way to continue!

It is under such continuous revisions that "No Man's Land" has been "banned" for four years, of course, this is just a statement on the Internet, and the official statement is not "banned", not even "not reviewed", but "postponed release".

Such a postponement has been postponed for four years, and in the previous life, "No Man's Land" was released after repeated revisions, and the card was stuck in "The revision opinions given above have been very vague. ”

A staff member who participated in the production of the film spit bitterness in an interview: "The more revisions, the easier it is, but the revisions at that time seem to be only a little more than a page, all of which are ambiguous, and no specific revisions are given, just pointing out that the content of the paragraph needs to be modified." ”

What if there are no specific revisions?

Jia Zhangke, who had had the same experience, said half-jokingly: "Although the G. point of the General Administration is sensitive, you know where it is." ”

Ning Hao naturally knows this very well, and said in an interview: "To put it bluntly, it's a violent scene." ”

It is precisely because of the ambiguity with the G. point of the General Administration that "No Man's Land" has been revised repeatedly in the past four years, like a blind man touching an elephant, but every time the reply is to continue to change, and each time, "the reason for the revision has not changed much." ”

Internally, we have to figure out the above meaning, change the tricks to cater to it, and externally, the "reason" for the delay in the release of "No Man's Land" is not "not reviewed", but only postponed.

Having said so much, in the final analysis, the question is still one, will "No Man's Land" be castrated into a defective product that cannot be seen because of this?

The answer is clearly no.

Admittedly, the revisions do affect the quality of the film, but it doesn't hurt its essence, after all, it hasn't been cut from 192 minutes to 144 minutes like "Heavenly Dynasty".

Although the changed "No Man's Land" is like telling another story, under Ning Hao's control, the castrated "No Man's Land" is still wonderful, and even retains the director's original idea to some extent.

also made the audience lucky to watch Ning Hao's original intention in the film after the final release of this movie.

For example, Zhao Baohua's blog post "Young Directors Don't Be Narcissistic", the article criticized the ideology of "No Man's Land", thinking that "there are no good people, and the police are stupid and incompetent" in the film, but everyone understands that this is precisely one of the highlights of "No Man's Land" that has been waiting for so long.

Ning Hao later emphasized in the promotion process of "No Man's Land" that he wanted to explore the problem of human nature when he filmed "No Man's Land".

In the overhead no man's land, life and death replace good and bad, in the face of survival, the coat of morality is torn, and everyone is beaten back to the most instinctive animal attributes of people, these essences, or the core values of the film, are retained in the public version.

And the source of these ideas is because of an accident, before filming "No Man's Land", Ning Hao was once locked up in the police station for a while for beating community security guards, but he communicated with the prisoners inside, and after coming out, he felt: "There are no bad people in it." ”

Combined with what Ning Hao always mentioned in interviews: "I don't believe in the inherent goodness of human nature, people are born to rush to feed, in order to survive, isn't this the nature of evil?"

This film about the discussion of human nature, the sincere starting point can be said to be relatively simple.

As for the problem of consciousness mentioned by Zhao Baohua, it is like two different kinds of creatures trying to communicate, and it cannot be solved through communication.

Is it really important to go to the question of regionality?

Anyway, when Ning Hao explained this problem, there was a sentence that not only showed his simple creative motives, but also reflected his delicate mind as a director.

"At first, I thought that people in the frontier area were very cool, but then I found out that they had been in that kind of place for a long time, and he was like that, and when I was filming, a local driver drove me, 5 or 600 kilometers away, and he didn't say a word, he wasn't used to communicating with people. ”

From this point of view, No Man's Land is not a great excavation at all, but just an ordinary discovery.

The more you can't see it, the more the audience wants to watch it, to be precise, the four years that "No Man's Land" was postponed is more like a four-year "hunger marketing", and the impact of "No Man's Land" in the four years that it cannot be released has far exceeded the value of the movie "No Man's Land" itself.

And a certain bureau that cooperated with this "hunger marketing" campaign insisted that "No Man's Land" was never reviewed, but only postponed its release.

However, no matter from which point of view, these two phenomena have no predecessors or successors, and they remain in the strange history of Chinese new cinema for no reason.

However, now it is different, Song Zheng will not let "No Man's Land" be postponed for four years like in his previous life, he used his compromise in exchange for this dialogue, and the revision opinions given by the other party are no longer so vague, relatively speaking, much more straightforward.

The only question is, what does Ning Hao think?

Ning Hao is the director of this movie, and the inspiration for the whole movie comes from him, Song Zheng can't go past him, make decisions on his own, everything depends on Ning Hao's ideas.

Even, if Ning Hao did not agree to the revision, Song Zheng was willing to support him.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became very depressing, everyone's eyes were focused on Ning Hao's body, and after a long time, Ning Hao threw away the cigarette butt that was about to burn out, and said two words in a muffled voice.

"I'll change!"

Hearing Ning Hao speak, everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief, and Song Zheng let out a deep sigh in his heart.

It's a pity, but there's no doubt that this is the best outcome!

After leaving a certain bureau, Song Zheng and Ning Hao went directly to the editing room, and then began to revise the work according to the suggestions given above.

Song Zheng was also able to personally participate in the whole process of revising "No Man's Land" from the original version to the public version.

According to the comments given above, a total of four major parts of the whole movie have been modified.

The first is to add Xu Zheng's narration at the beginning of the film, that is, the story of "two monkeys", in the original version, the beginning is a long shot of poachers trapping eagles in no man's land, the desert is desolate, and the only sound that humans make is the sound of running and rubbing after succeeding, and Xu Zheng spoke for the first time or appeared in the court ten minutes later.

And in the current public version, outside the scene of hunting, the movie added a voiceover by Xu Zheng, he told the story of two monkeys: two monkeys picking peaches on the tree to eat, there is always the danger of being eaten by tigers, the monkeys have found a way, as long as the two form a team, one sentry, one picks peaches, the tiger will have time to escape, but if one of the monkeys is on guard, the other monkey can't finish the peaches, and leave enough peaches for his partner.

In addition to this narration, the public version also added some "pointed" dialogues, such as near the end, Pan Xiao said to the black boss: "You are not a human", and the black boss said "I am a meat eater, you are a vegetarian", which is just in response to Pan Xiao's disgust at him eating meat when the two talked for the first time.

It was Song Zheng's opinion to add this narration, because there was such a paragraph in the public version he had seen in his previous life, which did not seem abrupt, but Ning Hao was very hesitant to add these details to make the theme more straightforward, and in the end, he was persuaded by Song Zheng.

In his previous life, Ning Hao said in an interview that the story of the two monkeys was the main motive for the creation of "No Man's Land", and he hoped to discuss the question of how altruism and sociality can continue life through this fable.

But this method of treatment was not determined until the last edition, and Ning Hao's explanation for this is: "At first, I thought it was too straightforward, but when I thought about it, I should express my mind directly and purify the theme." ”

He even said with some regret: "I should change it more to make the theme clearer." ”

Whether this is the opposite or not is unknown.

The second change is that the hammer that smashed at Huang Bo is "gone", and the scene of Huang Bo being finally killed by the hammer in the original version has been deleted.

Huang Bo doesn't have many scenes in "No Man's Land", but just the scene where the killer he played was "resurrected" on the Gobi Desert and almost killed the male and female protagonists can be called the most thrilling part of the film, the killer was finally knocked to death with a hammer by the stupid son of the boss of "Night Paris", the original version of the treatment in this section can be said to be the most daring in the history of Chinese film violence, the camera is on Huang Bo's face, watching him be knocked down by a hammer.

Obviously, the little hearts of those people in the review committee can't bear it, and they also feel very responsible that the audience can't sleep at night when they see this paragraph, so this paragraph must be changed.

In a certain bureau's review and revision opinions on "No Man's Land", this scene is clearly pointed out: "The passage where Huang Bo was smashed to death by a hammer, including the action and the camera, is a bit excessive. ”

Song Zheng and Ning Hao didn't think so, but this paragraph was ordered to be changed by someone personally, and it is obvious that if the above meaning is not followed, the release is also hopeless.

As a result, although the scene of the stupid son pulling out a hammer and knocking his head was still reserved in the public version, there was almost no close-up of Huang Bo's face, and he used a long shot of the stupid son's back to shoot the action on the back.

The meaning came, but only the violence was gone, and the visual stimulation was weakened a lot.

This paragraph was changed, and the other paragraph that was named and had to be changed was deleted and re-added by Song Zheng and Ning Hao, but in the end, Song Zheng made the decision and dared to keep it.

After the proprietress of the "Night Paris" commissary blackmailed the black boss, she was knocked over by the black boss driving a jeep and taking people to the store.

Ning Hao means that since the previous scene where Huang Bo was knocked on the head has been deleted, this paragraph is simply taken out, but Song Zheng is unwilling, he can't follow the meaning of the above in everything, and when it is time to hold it, his temper must also harden, otherwise, he really has to let the above be regarded as a soft persimmon, and he will not be allowed to be pinched by others in the future.

There is also a part that needs to be modified is the "police incompetence problem" deliberately pointed out by Zhao Baohua, there have been two policemen in the whole "No Man's Land", the first one was murdered by the black boss in a fake car accident as soon as he appeared, and the second one had a car accident on the way to find the dancer who was kidnapped by the black boss at the request of lawyer Pan Xiao, causing Pan Xiao to have to rescue alone.

After the modification, the second policeman did not die in the car accident, and after Pan Xiao and the black boss died together, he finally took the dancer out of the no-man's land.

Zhao Baohua previously attacked "No Man's Land" in one of the articles on his blog, saying that "as the defender of the country's citizen security, the police, are stupid and incompetent in 'No Man's Land'." ”

Obviously, the police only appeared twice in the whole movie, and they were both killed, which is one of the important reasons why the movie was blocked.

The last big change is that the dancer Yu Nan finally has a happy ending, and Song Zheng and Ning Hao have discussed many endings of the film before, including Yu Nan being rescued and returning to the city to find her dream job.

However, this ending was not adopted by the two people, but was used in Xu Zheng's self-sacrifice, Yu Nan was rescued and stopped, and the background was red banknotes flying in the sky, but I don't know what her fate will be, and the film has ended since then.

But this ending obviously can't be accepted by those who know it, so it goes back to the original point, and the final ending becomes, Yu Nan found a job in the city that meets her dreams, in the dance room that penetrates the sun, children in gauze skirts surround Yu Nan and call teachers, the film ends in a warm atmosphere, and Xiao Taohong also makes a cameo appearance, playing the old classmate of the dancer.