In mid-June, the crew finally finished filming the prison plot and was ready to pack up and go outside to shoot a few sporadic shots.

On the night of parting, the group held a party in the prison. A group of prisoners still wearing labor camps gathered around the playground inside the prison drinking beer and eating barbecue, beaming with joy without the slightest awareness of being prisoners.

Han Qiu, Yuan Meng and the crew also mingled with the "prisoners" to experience the lively atmosphere.

Some prisoners felt that it was not lively enough, and hoped that Han Qiu could play some songs to listen to. Han Qiu thought about it and agreed, and then directly asked Xiao Zhang to sound the prison horn and play some popular pop songs.

The prisoners were in tears, they had been "locked up" for so long, and they could finally hear some normal music.

At this moment, everyone looked up at the scene of the prison horn, quite like filming Heath some time ago to play the song "The Marriage of Figaro" for everyone.

They are all looking up at the sky, and their eyes are full of hope.

In the plot, Andy sneaks into the prison guard's room once, and then uses the prison loudspeaker to play this cheerful tune for all the inmates, making the whole lifeless and depressing prison more angry and hopeful.

Andy is then beaten up by the guards and warden, but even then, he is still smiling.

As if in the face of hope, everything is a floating cloud.

As for the "Le Nozzles di Figaro", it was written by the music master Mozart, and it is a comic opera, with a very light and clear rhythm, and the sirens in the prison are completely two rhythms.

The movie says that the environment can change people, and the same happens in reality. These group actors who play prisoners have been in prison for a long time, and they want to go out all the time to take a breath and smoke a cigarette. Even if they know that this is filming, the subtle entry into the scene will still affect their psychology to a certain extent.

At that time, when Han Qiu filmed that scene, it was the best cooperation of all the group performances. Everyone looked up at the sky, listened to the songs that echoed in their ears, their eyes showed sincere feelings, and there were many traces of performance, as if they were really longing for hope and freedom.

But even when we walk out of prison and stand at the crossroads of the city, looking up at the sky divided by skyscrapers, are we truly free in our hearts?

Prisons and cities, all made of reinforced concrete ....

........

After that, the group disbanded, and Han Qiu took the staff to a nearby city to film the scene where Brooke hanged himself.

It is also strange to say that when the prisoners are old and are forcibly released on parole, the government arranges a place for them to live and a job for them. For example, Brooke's job is a packer in a supermarket.

After Brooke's suicide, Red is released from prison and comes to the room where Brooke once lived, where he also takes up his job as a packer, and also sees Brooke's last words written on the hanging beam.

In the end, before thinking about suicide, Red thought of the gift that Andy had left for him, and that gift was like a glimmer of hope that Red did not follow Brooke's old path.

So, after filming Rhett's plot, the crew began to shift their positions and went to a field in the suburbs.

Under a large locust tree, Xiao Zhang had already buried Andy's gift to Red there, and also built a stone wall here according to the script.

At this moment, under the camera, Morgan is silently flipping through the letter left by Andy, and the smile on his face is getting more and more.

When he raised his head to look at the sky, looking at the light seeping out of the leaves of the locust tree, Han Qiu shouted, "Cut!" ”

Hearing Han Qiu's voice, Morgan still focused on the light in the gap between the leaves, and didn't come back to his senses until a long time later.

Han Qiu stepped forward and handed Morgan a bottle of water: "Great acting." ”

"I should have completed my own redemption, right?" Morgan smiled slightly.

"Count!" Han Qiu nodded and said with a smile: "I'm about to complete self-redemption." ”

Morgan knew that Han Qiu was going to quit, and he didn't show any surprise, but just sighed a little: "Director Han, seriously, you are the most interesting director I have ever seen." ”

"Oh? How do you say that? Han Qiu was very curious, he had heard a lot of evaluations of himself, such as "awesome", "awesome", "genius director" and the like, as well as those strange nicknames, the word "interesting", Han Qiu had heard of it for the first time.

Morgan shook his head with a smile: "I don't know how to express it, I can only use the word interesting." I've seen some of the movies you've made, some of which I haven't seen, but I've also seen the audience's reviews. It's hard to believe that your reputation has always been so good. ”

Han Qiu smiled modestly.

Morgan continued: "I've never seen a director who has always had such a good reputation as you, and I've never seen a director who has made so many types of films, and seems to be able to do anything. This leads me to believe that there are many interesting geniuses in the world. ”

"No, no, no, I'm not a genius, I'm just a director, and I'm just shooting something that the audience wants to see."

Hearing this, Morgan suddenly smiled: "Haha, Director Han, this is what I said about your interest." ”

Han Qiu shrugged, shook his head and smiled lightly.

..........

A few days later, the crew finished filming the last shot and successfully completed it.

The final shot was shot at the seaside and tells the story of two old friends, Red and Andy, who meet again.

When parting, Heather Yuan Meng sent Han Qiu a large box of gifts. Han Qiu opened it and saw that inside was a clown's mask, as well as a letter, and underneath the experience was a large pile of chocolates, all kinds of flavors.

Han Qiu was speechless, this guy was still thinking about the time he let him swim in the chocolate liquor.

Open the envelope, which reads:

"Dear Han Banxian,

If you read this letter, it means that I have already left, forgive me for not going to the airport to see you off, I really don't know how to say goodbye to you. I'm worried that after saying goodbye, as soon as you quit the film industry, you may not come to the United States to film with me in the future.

I'm a person who hates parting, and if you think about it for yourself, you'll see that every time a movie is finished, I almost never send you off. The only time I sent you was when I got sick twenty years ago. Actually, I didn't want to go that time, because Michelle and my parents thought that you woke me up from sleep and saved me, and I should repay you, so I asked me to see you off at the airport, and they said that Chinese people like this set.

Actually, I know you don't care about that, do you, Han Banxian?

You are also a person who does not like to part.

I don't know much about the etiquette of the Chinese people, so I have to repay you in my own way. You have given me a second life, and I cannot repay it. If you like to make movies, then I'll be an actor for you, no matter what the role.

You Huaxian have a saying, called [the grace of dripping water, the spring reciprocates]. What do you think? It's not that I haven't studied Chinese, but your English pronunciation is still not standard, man.

I remember filming the Dark Knight, and the Joker had a line: I'm just a dog that chases a car, and even if I do, I don't know what I'm going to do...... I'm just here to do something.

I used to film like this, just to do something, and I don't know what to play a good role for. I didn't even know who I was, so I easily took on the role of a variety of movie characters and experienced different lives in various movie worlds.

It gives me some joy in these characters, otherwise I wouldn't know what the point of being alive is.

Dude, if you hadn't promised me the role of V at that time, maybe I wouldn't have woken up.

I feel as if you understand me and what I need. Michelle has been with me for so long, I don't even think she knows me well enough.

Maybe that's why we're friends?

Now that you're quitting, I think it's time for me to quit too. There is no character who can take me fun anymore, it may be that Han Banxian you have squeezed my fun dry, it may be that I am about to become the father of my second child, and I believe that he will be taller than you when he grows up.

If you come to Friends Coffee in Los Angeles in the future, remember to order two cups of coffee and mine with a little more sugar.

Your friend.

Clown.