Chapter Seventy-Two: If you like the right person, your body will shine
After reading this article, Ning Hao joked with Chen Yanxi on the phone: "He is right, I just don't do anything now, just care for the elderly at home." Chen Yanxi laughed: "Yes, enter retirement life early." β
Ning Hao smiled and said, "However, I suddenly don't want to retire again, I will have a second movie." You know, I'm going to shoot a campus movie. β
"Really?" Chen Yanxi asked in surprise, "You really decided?"
Ning Hao nodded seriously and said, "Yes, I decided." β
Sitting in front of the computer in his study, Ning Hao stared at the screen of the computer, and there was a Word document with words written on it, which was the script of "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" that Ning Hao was typing.
Campus movies So far, there have been no acclaimed movies in the film market, but Ning Hao clearly remembers that there will be a lot of campus movies in the future, such as the "Small Times" series of the Mini Palace, Thailand's "The Little Thing of First Love", "Siamese Love", "Genius Rush" and "To Our Dying Youth", "Gardenia Blooming" and so on, which did not affect their box office of more than 100 million.
Many of these movies also take advantage of the fan economy and are suspected of making money, but they also reflect from the side, at least this theme has an audience, as long as it can be filmed well, it will burst out into an unparalleled craze, instantly sweeping the young students and fans across the country.
And now is the year of the Internet's boom, so Ning Hao knows that now is the opportunity for him to shoot campus movies.
And "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" is really a movie that people love and hate, and his original author is Nine Knives.
He was 32 years old when this story was written. The prototype of the heroine Shen Jiayi has also been married to a wife for six years. Maybe the nine knives have no waves for Shen Jiayi himself. But for liking Shen Jiayi, it has become a habit.
Ning Hao likes this movie very much, and it is precisely for this reason.
In a word, I have been saying it for 15 years since I was 17 years old, and even if that sentence is "I am a pig", I can hypnotize it into my mind. When this kind of hypnosis becomes a habit, "Shen Jiayi" is no longer a person, but a belief - every morning when you open your eyes, you have a reason, your efforts have a direction, and your life has meaning. No matter when and where, those three words are like a mantra, and when you read them in the bottom of your heart, you will be full of strength. It's like the boys on the football team in high school, embroidering the initials of the girls they like on the back of their jerseys, and running wildly against the wind on their backs, as if they can be invincible from now on.
"If you like the right person, you will shine on your body. β
Everybody has ever shined. Even if I'm old now, I'm blessed, my expression is numb, and I don't have any dreams, but when I think of myself who shined many years ago, I still smile stupidly.
So the meaning of this movie is not the story itself, but every viewer who walks through this dark cinema to find their former selves.
When it was released, even if the story was already cooked, the narration was still like a novel, and the part after graduating from high school was deflated, and many people still burst out like a burst of water in the last ten minutes, and the sound of blowing their noses sounded in the dark.
Ning Hao likes people who make youth films. They all have too good memories and are unwilling to resist the rest of their lives with memories, so they built a time machine for themselves, repeating it, freezing frame, and the evidence is ironclad. Whenever the nostalgia of youth is sick again, taking it out and looking at it once is the antidote.
At this moment, Ning Hao sat in front of the computer, thinking that he had not yet made such a movie, and his whole body seemed to be full of motivation.
He carefully analyzed that if he filmed "Those Years" by himself, in terms of the difficulty of the movie, the scenes filmed would be concentrated on the high school campus, which was a place he was very familiar with, and there was no problem. There are no complicated shots, no stunts, no special effects, nothing wrong with the shooting.
In terms of actors, it is a youth film, so it is natural to use newcomers, and there is such a large group of actors in China, and there are so many professional students, so there is no shortage of young handsome men and women with acting skills. Moreover, Ning Hao is ready to launch the concept of small fresh meat in advance again through this movie!
Therefore, there are no technical problems at all, the only thing that worries Ning Hao is that the movie itself was only released in 2012, and now it is only 2005, will it be accepted if it is launched in the market?
Ning Hao held his chin and frowned and thought about it.
He's a young man himself, and if there's a great, craze-causing campus movie coming out right now, he'll definitely go to the cinema.
The reason is simple, because youth is an infectious disease that cannot be cured throughout life, even in old age.
Unforgettable youth, inseparable campus love, excess male hormones, and innocent female students who study hard......
The biggest feature of youth movies is that the film reflects the images of each of us that we are familiar with, and then bursts out the audience's collective feelings for youth.
And "Those Years" is different from those youth films that have abortion and early love at every turn, he focuses on hot-blooded brothers and first love of youth, all of which point to the worship and praise of youth, those youthful hazy love, sentimentality and confusion, simply and directly embellished in it, there is no cruel story of knife and light, and there is a positive and healthy attitude in a small freshness, just like Shen Jiayi in the film.
Of course, in addition to Xiao Freshness, there are also "foul language" that Ke Jingteng often blurts out, **, four-legged beast, six-legged beast, and class jerking off, collective watching ***** and other obviously sexual names and scenes are full of it, in youth films that have always emphasized a fresh style, these standard heavy scenes can be described as fierce and abnormal. However, it is precisely the confident and rational use of heavy flavors that makes the film detached from the freshness of simple warmth and tear-jerking.
The combination of small freshness and heavy taste is perfect, it is difficult for you to strictly distinguish between the two, the audience is not only moved by the small freshness, but also smiles at the heavy taste, the combination of the two, together lead to warm memories, triggering the audience's youthful feelings.
The climax of the movie is the wedding paragraph, which draws the most perfect exclamation point for those years of youth, and also makes the film reach an emotional peak. Ke Jingteng and Shen Jiayi did not come together like a clichΓ© idol drama, and he did not prove his love by stretching out his feet to stumble on the groom.
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Ning Hao will miss his student days and his youthful feelings because of this movie, so he will watch it, and like a high school student, he will also watch it, because there is no such wonderful story in real life, he longs to be in the movie, and he longs to be like the hero and heroine, in addition, his classmates and friends have gone to watch it, doesn't he look very outdated if he doesn't watch it?
This is also the reason why "Those Years" was able to hit a magical box office. It has allowed countless people to see themselves.
And 2012's "Those Years", both in terms of story content and filming methods, was suitable in 2005.
"Those Years" was released in Taiwan that year, and eventually created a terrifying NT$410 million box office, and then released in Hong Kong to record 46 million Hong Kong dollars. "Those Years" can be described as a repeated spectacle, with a long queue in cinemas, and then went to the Tokyo International Film Festival and won four nominations for the Golden Horse Awards, whether it is Taipei, Hong Kong, or Tokyo, in the last ten minutes of screening, the audience will always remember applause!
Therefore, Ning Hao is looking forward to it, if "Those Years" is directly screened in mainland cinemas, will this movie still be successful? Ning Hao is not sure, but the probability of success is still very high.