Back to BJ, Li Yang was in the late stage of the gate of fate, and Lu Qiu couldn't interfere with it, so his life was a little boring.

For a workaholic who is used to filling up his time, it is really uncomfortable to suddenly be idle, but Lu Qiu can't find what he really wants to do for a while, and his mood is very entangled.

Fortunately, Lu Qiu is also a person who has friends now, so he went to Zhang Yu and Li Yixiang, dragged them to drink and fart, and kill time.

But after all, not everyone has such leisure as Lu Qiu, Li Yixiang's career has not improved, and he continues to do group performances, while Zhang Yu gives Li Yang a hand, seizing all the time to steal the teacher, and the two really don't have so much spare time to take care of Lu Qiu. Zhang Yu said directly: "Xiao Lu, if you want to be really idle, just learn to act with Xiangzi, your acting skills, Director Li is full of resentment when he edits!"

Lu Qiu's eyes lit up, yes, at least for now, acting still interests him very much, especially the state in the later stage of filming the Gate of Destiny, which makes him miss it a little.

So Lu Qiu said goodbye to decadence, began to follow Li Yixiang to run various crews, do group performances, and returned to the life before rebirth.

If it was before, Lu Qiu would definitely think that doing group performances was a waste of time, but after being tempered by the gate of fate, he realized that acting skills had to rely on more performances and more accumulation in order to improve. He has no shortage of experience now, but how to extract the essence from experience and how to create a role for himself requires a lot of experience to accumulate.

So Lu Qiu is very relieved to do group performances, and he will treat the roles of passers-by A and passer-by B as complete characters, to experience and figure out, to confirm from his own experience, and there is Li Yixiang, an acting calf from a professional class, to ask for advice at any time, these days, Lu Qiu's acting skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

The performance also brought great satisfaction and fun to Luqiu.

Every time you are killed, you will experience death, every time you play a passerby, you will experience ordinariness, every cry, every laugh, every anger, all kinds of emotions can be expressed unscrupulously with the help of the character.

Every performance is like a lifetime experience!

Lu Qiu found that he fell in love with the feeling.

A thought gradually became clear in his heart, and he realized that he had found his life goal in this life, which was to act and experience a hundred kinds of life!

It's definitely not a whimsical choice, but it comes naturally.

The fact is that Lu Qiu and his predecessor's soul are fused, even if his soul is dominant, he is no longer the self in his previous life.

The joys, sorrows, and emotions of his predecessor inevitably affected him.

Filming the Gate of Destiny is not so much to dispel obsessions, but to say that Lu Qiu, under the influence of his predecessor, subconsciously touches the movie and feels the movie.

Now, he has finally fallen, just like his predecessor, Li Yang and Zhang Yu.

The magic of movies is so magical!

And just when Lu Qiu found his goal in this life, there was good news, that is, the gate of destiny was shortlisted for the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and participated in the screening session.

It turned out that after the post-production of the Gate of Destiny was completed, Li Yang suggested to Lu Qiu to participate in the international film festival, but Li Yang's goal is the Berlin Film Festival, as one of the three major film festivals in Europe, no director does not want to go there, especially Li Yang has the experience of studying in Germany.

Lu Qiu has no opinion on this, he just suggested that Li Yang's net should be bigger, and other film festivals should also be registered, such as the Sundance Film Festival, which is one step ahead of the Berlin Film Festival.

Although Li Yang didn't look down on Sundance, he did as he was admonished.

As a result, when the first shortlists were announced at both major film festivals, Sundance's side was selected for Destiny's Gate, but Berlin was not among them.

Li Yang couldn't help but be disappointed, but since he was shortlisted, he naturally had to participate, and Sundance is also an international film festival.

Under normal circumstances, Sundance is a good place to promote movies, and generally the main creators of movies will show to attract popularity, but in fact, only popular stars who participate in European and American independent films have this kind of appeal, and foreign faces like Lu Qiu and Li Yixiang will only bring humiliation to themselves. As for Yuan Li, because she had to go to the Spring Festival Gala and had a heavy rehearsal task, she didn't have time even if it was a tour, so in the end, only Lu Qiu and Li Yang went to the United States to participate.

On January 13, 98, Lu Qiu and Li Yang finally came to Park City, Utah, the venue of the Sundance Film Festival.

The excitement of the upcoming Sundance Film Festival is immediately felt when you set foot in the city, where indie film lovers from all over the United States gather in excitement for the next 10 days.

Walking on the streets of the small town, you can see the marks left by movie lovers everywhere, enthusiastic carnivals, passionate street dances, and high music, Lu Qiu is also infected, and he is more and more determined about the goal he wants to pursue in this life.

The next day, January 14th, the festival finally opened.

On the same day, the premiere film was an American film called Pyrotechnics, which was funded by the Sundance Society and was written and directed by Native Americans from production to performance.

Lu Qiu and the two watched the film at the Elkes Theater, and the audience applauded continuously at the end.

It's a film that explores some of the social issues faced by Native Americans, and many critics think the film is a good chance of winning awards.

After reading it, Li Yang couldn't help but ask Lu Qiu, "Do you think we can win the award this time?"

Lu Qiu smiled and said nothing, it didn't matter to him whether he won the award or not, he valued the actual benefits more, and he was confident that he would definitely be able to get this.

In the following days, Lu Qiu immersed himself in the film festival, and enjoyed the joy and happiness brought by the film just like those ordinary movie fans.

He went to see the lesbian film "The Art of Climax" and admired the erotic drama directed by the female director Lisa Croden, and the two leading actors Elle Sati and Radha Mitchell brought the erotic drama, well, it did make people a little angry.

He also watched the roadshow of the movie "She and Between Him and Her" and "Buffalo 66", the co-heroine of the two films, Christina Richie, the most famous child star of the 90s, not only gave a breakthrough adult performance in the movie, but also did not look like an eighteen-year-old girl at all, and the passion and indulgence won the cheers of countless fans.

Luciu also participated in a forum at the Elkes Theatre, where discussions about digital filmmaking, avant-garde cinema and redefining the film genre were in full swing, and the theater had to add 1,300 seats because of the number of filmmakers involved.

At Sundance, Lu Qiu experienced another baptism of cinema and strengthened his belief in becoming an excellent filmmaker, and then his debut film was finally about to meet fans.

On the day of the premiere, Lu Qiu and Li Yang sat in the theater, waiting for the movie to start.

Li Yang was very apprehensive, observing how many fans entered the theater from beginning to end.

Lu Qiu said with a smile: "Lao Li relax, those who can participate in the screening are all excellent works, and there will always be fans who know the goods, I think there are a lot of people." ”

Li Yang's face was ugly, "Excluding the invited film critics, there are less than 30 fans who really buy tickets, so you will feel that there are a lot of people." ”

Lu Qiu didn't think about it, and said: "It's normal to have fewer people in the first scene, and it's good later, don't talk about it, it's over, hurry up and watch the movie, this is our common debut." ”

Well, how awkward it sounds, but Li Yang didn't care about it, and began to carefully observe the reaction of fans.

The movie starts directly, without an opening, and immediately the audience laughs out loud and talks in English.

"The film is so unprofessional that it doesn't even have a production company logo, it's just like the home video I made. ”

"Let's hope the content isn't videotape-level, otherwise we'll lose our money. ”

Li Yang's face was ugly when he heard it, but Lu Qiu turned a deaf ear, putting all his energy on the movie, and enjoying his works on the big screen was definitely the happiest thing about him at this film festival.

Different from the opening of the original version, the opening scene of this version is no longer the opening of the garage door, but the use of propulsive shooting techniques, slowly following a few steps with the lens, and finally entering the basement full of various instruments and equipment, and then the camera is pulled up, and the panorama is presented, Lu Qiu, Li Yixiang and two other actors are busy.

Then the phone rang, and Lu Qiu's narrator rang: "Next I will read a passage, you must listen carefully, do not hang up the phone, you must not interject, you cannot speak for any reason, I want to start reading from the top of the page." They are very discreet, very attentive, very cultured people. They are like ordinary people, they are not extremists, they have made mistakes, they have been lazy, they have been infighting, in their good days, people will think that they are smart, no one will think that what they do is complicated, no one will think that what they do is trendy, they take what they need from their surroundings, give back more things. ”

With the narration on the phone, the camera moves and switches to the male protagonist's apartment, where the four collaborators sit around the table, sorting out documents and talking to each other. In the kitchen farther away, the male protagonist's girlfriend played by Yuan Li was cleaning and flashed by.

This is the beginning of the film, the content is basically the same as the original, but the background is completely localized, and there is no longer the privileged environment of a typical American family like the original, but it has become a Chinese-style cramped space.

It should be admitted that the beginning of the original movie is still good, at least not like the back, there is no skill, and only the two male protagonists rely on dialogue to promote the plot.

Li Yang is much more clever than the original director, further artistic processing on the basis of the script, through the change of the distance of the shot, blurring processing, etc., the bland beginning is forced to create a little sci-fi feeling, at least let the audience have some expectations for the plot behind.

Lu Qiu is also very satisfied with his performance, the narration was recorded later, he was already in the state at that time, coupled with his strong language appeal, so he read this important narration very well, and the effect was excellent.

Then the plot continued to advance, and the cooperative foursome began to disagree, the two leading actors discussed whether to cooperate with the other two, and the male protagonist's girlfriend also had a role, which was basically filmed on the day of the finale, and Lu Qiu's performance could hold up.

But as the plot progressed to the point where only Lu Qiu and Li Yixiang were playing, the gap was exposed.

Li Yixiang's acting skills basically blasted Lu Qiu into slag, and the suppression of performance ability made insiders have an evaluation that they couldn't bear to look at directly, even ordinary audiences could feel a strong sense of difference, because the rhythm was completely led by Li Yixiang, and Lu Qiu was like an appendage, just a mechanical response.

Lu Qiu couldn't help but be embarrassed, and looked at Li Yang on the side with a weak heart. This is the first scene to be filmed, and it was performed like this under Li Yang's roar, he didn't dare to imagine how miserable the effect would be if Li Yang was just perfunctory.

Of course, if Seon loses his horse, he doesn't know if it's a blessing.

The narrative of the original movie has always been very dull, with no highlights and no special slots, which will make the audience feel drowsy, but now with the slot of Lu Qiu, the audience is in good spirits and can't help but complain one by one.

"Is this actor professional? It's like shit!"

"Is the director blind? Why let such a person be the starring role, there must be a shady scene. ”

Well, Chinese and foreign movie fans have a virtue, and if virtue is not worthy, they think that there is a shady scene.

Similar scolding was endless, and even Lu Qiuqi's thick skin was a little unbearable, and he turned up his collar to block his face from being noticed.

But because the audience was busy complaining, they didn't quit, and they basically stayed to see how far Lu Qiu could shit, so he squirted.

This is actually a bit similar to the fact that domestic bad movies can sell well, rotten to a certain extent, and complaining sometimes becomes a kind of fun.

Then came the passion scene between Lu Qiu and Yuan Li, which was Lu Qiu's best performance in the movie, because he was completely teased by Yuan Li, and the performance was almost real.

This suddenly set off a small climax, especially compared with the previous performance of Lu Qiuzhu, many people exclaimed.

"Wow, I feel like these two actors really did it, do you dare to bet that they must have really come under the quilt!"

"Agree, that actress is so and thirsty, and her body is also hot, I didn't expect Orientals to be so angry!"

There are also female comrades who give souls to Lu Qiuse, who is half exposed, "I like that kid, his body has the symmetrical beauty of the Oriental, and there is no lack of explosive power under the muscles, oh, I can't help but want to kiss him!"

"Haha, Lisa, you want to him, right?"

Large-scale teasing, Lu Qiu couldn't help but scratch his head, the chicks in the West are really open.

Even Li Yang, who was a little unbelievable, couldn't help but look at Lu Qiu, "You and Yuan Li won't really be that, right? Otherwise, how could your acting skills be so good?"

"you!" Lu Qiu glanced at the goods directly, too lazy to take care of it.

In other words, the thing that hurts friends is the most humane and deserving existence.

After a small climax, the brain-burning plot was connected, and the audience quieted down and focused on the plot, it can be said that the dull plot in front was perfectly supported because of Lu Qiu.

In the second half, Li Yang's skills as a director are fully revealed.

The original version has no soundtrack from beginning to end, extremely boring, although Li Yang did not spend a lot of money to hire someone to create a soundtrack, but he also carefully selected some music whose copyright has been opened for collocation, and there are not many places to use it, focusing on the time between the two male protagonists from preparing to crossing to the completion of the crossing.

It starts with the two male protagonists locking themselves in the hotel to avoid affecting the timeline, and then the camera cuts quickly, and time flies by. In this process, the music gradually became intense from soothing, and then the two of them dragged the oxygen cylinder to the time machine, and then the slow motion started, and the music seemed to beat the drum in people's hearts, which felt particularly burning and emotional!

This scene has been reprocessed by Li Yang from music to content, and the effect is many times better than the original.

And when the music stopped abruptly, the two male protagonists who were cowering in the closed passage box wore oxygen masks, inhaled heavily, and in the extremely quiet background, there was only the rapid breathing of the two male protagonists, and that feeling made everyone empathize with the torment and waiting. When time passed almost and the two opened the time box and successfully traveled, the soothing music sounded again.

This paragraph is indeed not comparable with those large-scale sci-fi films, but Li Yang uses music and pictures to create a time-traveling atmosphere, bringing the audience a strong sense of substitution, and is completely attracted.

Then the plot in the back became complicated and weird, so that the audience who entered the plot couldn't take their eyes off, and their brains also rotated, and before the movie came to an end, the male one played by Lu Qiu stayed, and continued to try to stop himself and the second male at the beginning, while the second male played by Li Yixiang went abroad, and the film ended with the shot of him building a bigger time machine.

This is the end of the gate of fate.

There was silence in the theater, and the audience only reacted after a pause.

"What kind of movie is this? I don't understand at all, isn't this a piece of shit!"

"I don't understand it, it seems that there are several communities in the same plane, I don't understand, but I do feel like it's talking about some questions about people's greedy nature, and it's not that bad. ”

"Cut, you don't understand it at all, this movie is fantastic, it redefines the rules of time travel, every time you travel back, their ontology is making different choices, this is a view of fate, it is to show that there is no inevitability of human fate, this idea is too extreme. ”

"Yes, it seems like that's the case, but I'm still a mess, no, I'll have to watch it a few more times. ”

"Well, I'm going to watch it again, I'm going to call Mike, that kid always says he doesn't have a science fiction movie that he can't understand, I don't believe he can understand this. ”

"I'm going to call my friends too, there are many people and there is great power, so I don't believe that I can't understand the plot of this movie. ”

All kinds of comments, all kinds of reactions, Li Yang was worried, but Lu Qiu's eyes were getting brighter.

And with the previous audience calling friends, the fans outside were also alarmed, and for a while, there was a rumor that no one could understand the complex plot of a Chinese science fiction film spread in the film festival, and the direct consequence of this was that the back few screenings of the gate of fate were full, and science fiction fans crowded the theater.

Lu Qiu and Li Yang naturally gave up their seats and came to the door of the theater, Lu Qiu smiled and said: "Lao Li, you should rest assured now, our movie is very popular!"

Li Yang is really happy, but he doesn't just care about whether or not he watches it, so he said with restraint: "Some people must have a good reputation to watch it, but I have observed other films, and there are several of them of high quality, as a foreign language film, I am afraid that it is not very competitive, and it is difficult to win awards." ”

Lu Qiu said: "In Sundance, winning awards is not the most important thing, in short, don't think about it, since you don't have a trip to play, I'm sorry for the travel expenses, let's go." ”