Verse 59: A Dream (I)
Aerial photography of Hengdian streets, landmark buildings, bright lights at night, street vendors selling maps, and wandering warblers soliciting business on the street...... Accompanied by the sound of light music composed by Kun, these pictures immediately brought the audience in the theater into the real nightlife of Hengdian.
"Cool!"
Ye Lin sighed softly, her eyes shining, full of yearning.
For a white-collar worker like her, who sits in the office every day and is accustomed to living at home and at work, such a different cityscape from Nanyang has a great attraction. In particular, the director's rhythm is well grasped, not procrastinating, and a few shots outline the social outlook of Hengdian from large to small.
The music faded away, the alarm sounded, and the picture turned to a pair of thighs, plump and slender, and the light was just right, a little dumb, very textured, and looked very beautiful.
Kang Junan does have a way of photographing women, and he easily discovered Zhu Qian's biggest advantage - beautiful legs, and used his lens to magnify this beauty, which is breathtaking. After reading it, Du An's plan was also adopted, and he decided not to show his face first, and to show the character of Qi Wei from the legs, which had a preemptive effect.
Now it seems to be working out well - many of the men in the theater have their eyes straightened.
Next, the heroine Qi Wei officially appeared.
She found that the landlord was downstairs to collect the rent, so she hurried back to her room, took out a box from the toilet tank and wanted to pay the rent, but found that there was only one money left in the box, and finally she had to climb out of the window and down the stairs on the outer wall.
In just a few shots, there is not a single line, but it has already shown the wild charm of this heroine who is completely different from the strong, gentle and kind traditional women in previous romance films.
Then the camera shifted with Qi Wei to the bar.
Qi Wei found her roommate Wang Ning in the bar and confirmed that the money in the toilet tank was taken by Wang Ning, and she had bought all the **** or would not come back. Qi Wei was helpless after making a fire, so she had to leave the bar with Wang Ning.
As soon as he left the bar, Wang Ning quarreled with another scantily clad woman.
“…… Qi Wei and I work here, we have served many big stars, we are veterans. This is our territory, all the way over there, all the way, you'd better get out of here......"
Ye Lin frowned.
From Qi Wei's appearance just now to the present, she always felt that something was wrong, and now listening to Wang Ning's words on the screen, she felt more and more wrong, and she had some guesses in her heart.
Wang Ning drove away the scantily clad woman, and after chatting with Qi Wei, an open-top car drove from a distance, and the passengers in the co-pilot whistled at them and shouted from afar, "Girls!"
Wang Ning, who was still hungry and listless, suddenly came to his senses, and responded enthusiastically with his hand stroking the meter on the street.
As the car approached, the man in the co-pilot continued to shout: "Today is my birthday, how about a free service!"
Wang Ning gestured his middle finger, "Dream!"
The car drove by.
Wow!
It was as if a small plane was flying low above Hall 1, and there was a buzz in the hall.
This heroine looks like a prostitute? The vast majority of the audience didn't expect this setting at all, and they were stunned.
This director is really bold, making a romance film and daring to set the heroine as a prostitute, isn't he afraid that the audience can't stand it, just leave the scene and refuse to buy a ticket to enter the theater? In fact, there are already people who want to leave, and the man in his thirties sitting on Ye Lin's left hand side is like this.
His traditional notions made him unable to accept that the heroine of a movie was a prostitute, so his ass had already left his seat and left directly.
Others also wanted to leave, but after all, they were not as decisive as this one. At the same time, because the tickets were bought, I continued to watch it in the mood of not looking at it in vain, but there was always a thorn in my heart that was separated there.
Of course, there is another kind of person who has a completely different appearance, this kind of person is the same as Ye Lin - she is now staring at the screen with glowing eyes, whispering to herself, "Interesting......"
It's not uncommon to have films that use prostitutes as heroines, but this kind of subject matter is generally heavier, and it is only suitable for making some noir dramas to explore social and human issues.
This director is too bold.
However, it has to be said that the director Duane is not just "lucky" as the media said - judging from the opening to the current picture, the director's level is there. Whether it's day or night, the light on the screen is very good, the picture is vibrant, textured, the rhythm is relaxed and orderly, and the whole story is told without hurry or slowness, without any traces of fireworks and deliberateness, and the taste is very positive.
But Ye Lin soon ran out of mind to think about these technical things.
In the small talk between Qi Wei and Wang Ning, Fang Bolun drove by his subordinate's sports car, but because he was not familiar with the sports car, he turned off and stopped on the side of the road. Seeing this scene, Wang Ning encouraged Qi Wei to step forward to make a profit, Qi Wei took off her coat amid Wang Ning's exaggerated slogans of "go on" and "come on", slowly walked to Fang Bolun's car, bent down and asked Fang Bolun inside: "Honey, are you looking for someone to date?"
Fang Bolun was not interested in her, and only asked how to get to the hotel where he was staying, but Qi Wei took this opportunity to ask for twenty yuan to ask for travel expenses. Fang Bolun had no choice but to agree, but the smallest denomination in his wallet was only fifty yuan, and there was no change of twenty yuan, so Qi Wei squeezed into the passenger seat and snatched fifty yuan, saying that fifty yuan could take him personally.
On the way, Qi Wei talked to Chamberlain about the performance of the car, and finally Chamberlain asked her to drive, showing her driving skills far beyond Chamberlain - looking at all the film and television clips involving driving, all of them are routinely men driving and women sitting in the co-pilot, but here it is the other way around.
This scene made the audience in the theater feel fresh.
Fang Bolun, who was sitting in the passenger seat, sorted out his coat and asked casually: "This year, what is the price of a girl like you?"
Qi Wei glanced sideways at him, "No less than three hundred." ”
Fang Bolun paused as he straightened his coat and looked at Qi Wei's side face, "Three hundred in one night?"
"An hour. ”
"An hour?" began to mock, "you make three hundred dollars an hour, and you wear boots with pins?"
Qi Wei's expression was very serious, "I never joke with money. ”
"Me too," Fang Bolun glanced at Qi Wei again, and sneered a little, "Three hundred yuan an hour, very strong." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Wei let go of the steering wheel with his right hand, stretched over, touched down his lower abdomen, stopped at a certain part, and grabbed a handful.
"Hmm...... It's not strong enough, but it's very potential. ”
Fang Bolun first looked down at Qi Wei's hand holding a certain part of his body, and then leaned sideways on the back of the chair to look at Qi Wei, the whole process was expressionless, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, as if he was smiling.
The director is great, the photographer is great, these two actors are even more powerful, and the love is just right, so such a shot is not only not erotic at all, but very interesting, so that the audience in the viewing hall can't help but smile, and the rejection of the heroine's prostitute identity seems to be not so strong.
After arriving at the hotel, Fang Bolun was about to go in, and Qi Wei was also about to go back.
It can be seen from the camera that Chamberlain hopes that she can stay, and Qi Wei also wants to stay, but neither of them spoke on this topic, just talking about something that is not there - Chamberlain is waiting for Qi Wei to take the initiative to speak.
He's the owner of the money, he's the customer, Qi Wei is the seller, and the customer is God, isn't it? So Qi Wei should sell himself to him first, so that he will naturally accept her offer.
But Qi Wei didn't.
She just ******** and walked to the bench to the side and waited alone for the bus.
Although there are no lines and no narration, Ye Lin understands the heart of Qi Wei's character through these shots.
This is a new-age prostitute of self-respect and self-love.
The word prostitute has always been associated with bad words such as obscene, shameless, no concept of chastity, and moral turpitude, but Ye Lin looked at the picture in front of her and suddenly understood one thing: prostitutes are also human beings, and human beings have advantages and disadvantages, and prostitutes naturally have their advantages.
Just like Qi Wei in front of her, if she were to stand in her place as one of the girls who cut off her head and wanted to marry into a wealthy family in the current society, facing a diamond king like Chamberlain who was obviously interested in herself, I am afraid that she would have long been eager to strip herself naked, tie it up with a rope and tie it up with a bow and take the initiative to send it to **** - a prostitute like her was waiting because of her ridiculous self-esteem.
It's different from ordinary people, so it's unique.