Chapter 41: The Crazy Director
Guan Ning is a director, to be precise, he can only be an intern director.
He is still a senior in the directing department of the film school, a new graduate of the donkey, and the reason why he is called a director is that he did make a film this year.
How to put it, this person's experience could literally write a book.
"Heaven will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, and empty their bodies......" This passage of Mencius more than 2,000 years ago is simply a perfect description of Guan Ning.
Born in a remote mountainous area, this "small-town youth" has worked as a bicycle assembler, stage art designer, advertising designer, and videographer, and his life trajectory is full of legends.
When he came to Binhai to study alone, he didn't have much ideals, let alone how much he loved movies, in his own words, he was just "looking for an excuse to mix in Binhai".
Despite this, after graduating from junior college, he was accidentally admitted to the film academy, before studying at a junior college, the film academy was an undergraduate, from technical school to junior college, from junior college to undergraduate, this is Guan Ning's "triple jump" in his studies.
As for why he made a movie, because when he graduated from junior college, he made a graduation work, and when the film was finished, he threw it in the rental house.
And at that time, there was an assistant director of a crew who happened to rent a house with him, and happened to watch the film, so he encouraged him and said, "You should be a director." ”
So Guan Ning really became a director, but as a young director, the biggest problem in making movies is that there is no money.
But this did not bother him, as a rock 'n' roll crazy lover, he had his own band "Blue Storm" in high school
Virgo's he has shown unusual sensitivity and expertise in literature and art, Guan Ning has written songs for many music kings, queens and others, although he has no courage to send them at all......
But many of the songs of his "Blue Storm" band are their own originals, and Guan Ning led the band to go out in college for four years, except for a few provinces and regions near the border line in China, their footprints are all over the country.
Relying on the 1.8 million yuan that he saved money and borrowed or borrowed, Guan Ning made a movie in a hurry.
But how difficult it is to make a good movie, and when Guan Ning has all the work ready, bad news came from Binhai, the original investor had a problem, and the other party changed his mind and stopped investing.
Guan Ning tried to stabilize the crew while settling accounts with the producer: the original planned film shooting budget was 1.8 million yuan, and it was only about 1.5 million yuan for high-definition video.
Not only that, but he also called his family for help, but how many rural families can there be?
More than 100,000 yuan, all of them were taken out, plus the 100,000 yuan lent to him by his classmates, shoot it first!
However, when the film started, many people chose to leave, because this "poor" crew only had 3 cars, and they continued to break down every day.
One of his classmates had no choice but to drive his family's motorized tricycle to take on the main part of the traffic.
But the house leak happened to rain overnight, and on the third day of filming, the tricycle transporting the actor overturned in a deep ditch, and an actor suffered a fractured hip bone, 6 stitches on his head, and the heroine was almost disfigured......
The arduous and troubled filming caused another group of crew members to leave.
But even so, Guan Ning still didn't give up, and surprisingly, the crew still maintained considerable efficiency, and he even turned some embarrassing encounters into interesting details in the film.
The crew budget of 1.5 million made him feel like he was making a blockbuster that was no less than a foreign blockbuster, at least Guan Ning himself thought so.
"The Crazy Director", it's not just a comedy of black humor, but more like a serious crime film. "A serial murder case triggered by a camera" also made Guan Ning almost become a master of film art.
If, if there is no series of episodes that fail to pass the review, then this movie should be quite shocking.
Yes, "Crazy Director" did not pass the review of the General Administration, and regardless of whether the humanity or black humor shown in Guan Ning's movie triggered political sensitivity, in short, the first movie in his life died like this.
This kind of blow is simply fatal for Guan Ning, a movie not only bankrupts his family, but most importantly, he also makes a load.
The money of classmates, investors, bands, and medical compensation for the actor's injury, this is an astronomical amount for Guan Ning now.
After disbanding the crew, Ning Hao returned to Binhai like a lonely ghost, this time he did not go back to college, but went to Li Jie's "late-night cafeteria" by mistake.
"Hello, is Professor Guo here?" Guan Ning pushed open the door of the "bookstore", and did not see the familiar teacher, but saw a stranger with a little girl cleaning and hygiene.
Now he desperately needs the teacher's enlightenment, just like a lonely ghost needs a warm harbor.
Otherwise, he himself didn't know where to go.
Li Jie looked up and found that it was a "young man" who came in.
The young man looked to be in his twenties, and under his two thick curved eyebrows, a pair of shrewd, deep eyes flashed, especially when he spoke, showing a mouth full of white teeth, which was very striking—the whole view, he was a strong, intelligent young man.
But apparently the young man hadn't rested for a long time, anxious, depressed, dark circles, and thick black hair that didn't have some white hair that shouldn't have been.
Unkempt and scruffy, he looks like he's at least 10 years older.
The most important thing is that his mood is extremely low, and the expression of sadness is greater than his heart, which can be felt by Li Jie from afar.
"Professor Guo?" Li Jie was stunned, and randomly understood that he should be looking for the previous landlord.
"He'll be in Yanjing's hometown, and this bookstore has been rented to me."
"Oh, that's it, that bothers ......" Guan Ning didn't expect that his mentor was not there.
However, it doesn't matter to him, anyway, he is like a lost dog now, and he doesn't want the old man to see this.
In the past few days, he has been thinking about a question, is he wrong, or is this society wrong?
Once upon a time, he wanted to die like this, but he still has elderly parents, struggling brothers, and former ideals......
Guan Ning was about to turn around and leave, when he suddenly heard a song in the room: "How many people are walking but trapped in place,
How many live as if they were dead.
How many people love but seem to be separated,
How many people laughed but were full of tears.
Who knows where we're going,
Who understands what life has changed.
Do you find an excuse to continue living,
Or spread your wings and keep your anger alive,
How do I exist......."
"Existence" is a song that Li Jie has recorded before, just now Xi'er turned on the stereo, and now the little girl seems to have become a fan of Li Jie.
The song "Existence" adheres to Wang Feng's compassionate and compassionate poet feelings, and completely strips the meaningless sense of existence out of his own musical space.
Instead, it is a song that reminds and alerts people to think about their own existence, the meaning of existence, how to exist, and how to exist better through constant torture, questioning and questioning.
"Existence" is not a heart-pounding single, but a single that shocks people suddenly.
In addition to alerting people's sense of existence, it can also promote people's enthusiasm for existence from the positive, and use music to turn negative energy into positive energy.