Chapter 4 Millet and Barley
The next day, Xu Jing got up at six o'clock, first went to exercise, and just after coming back for breakfast, Zhou Xiaoxun knocked on his door.
"Come, I'll leave it for you." Xu Jing handed over a glass of milk.
"You're so good to me." Zhou Xiaoxun took it and drank it.
"I'll keep it for you every morning after that." Xu Jing said and turned to pack his things.
Hearing this, Zhou Xiaoxun's body drinking milk paused slightly, glanced at Xu Jing's back and did not answer, just now the sentence "You are so good to me" was just said casually, and now after listening to Xu Jing's very casual "I'll keep it for you", a strange feeling rose in his psychology, like a spring breeze blowing through a calm pond, setting off a trace of waves. At this moment, she felt as if she and Xu Jing had not only known each other for two days, but had known each other for a long time.
In fact, it is the same for Xu Jing, Zhou Xiaoxun is the first person he met when he came here, and the first person to talk to him, the only friend he has had for so many years, and he has a natural sense of closeness.
Not long after, Xu Jing and Zhou Xiaoxun went out and followed Zhou's father to the cinema together. With a letter of introduction and a good hand at painting, the contact with the leaders of the cinema was quite smooth, and the leaders directly set Xu Jing's work, with a monthly salary of 70 yuan. Due to the new appointment, a few days of familiar working hours, the current main focus is on sketching posters and projection work, and learning watercolor poster painting from Zhou's father.
Cinema posters are signs displayed outside the theater to attract audiences, and before the 90s, hand-painted posters were used in Asia, reaching its peak in the 70s and 80s, forming a unique culture and art.
"There are several steps in the process of making a poster, starting with projecting the poster onto the signboard." In the studio, Zhou's father turned on the projector and said while enlarging and shrinking the poster projection.
Zhou Xiaoxun looked a little bored, Xu Jing looked at it seriously, looked at the projection board, and saw a skinny monkey-like familiar figure with a red body, holding a girl lying on his back, with the word "old well" in bright red in the upper right corner.
Zhang Yimou! It is a great director who is famous all over the world and is even called a "national teacher" by many people after ten or twenty years. "Old Well" is the first film he starred in, and it is also a film in which he won several "Best Actors", making him the first A-level international film festival actor in China. Since then, he has started the road of winning awards for more than ten years.
"After resizing, I sketched with a pencil and then colored, the paint is acrylic paint, which has quick-drying properties, so the first fifteen minutes are the key to determining the facial expression, and if it doesn't look like it, it doesn't make sense." Father Zhou demonstrated while explaining to Xu Jing.
After Zhou's father demonstrated it, he asked Xu Jing to try to draw one side, and the speed of the draft with a pencil was so fast that he didn't even have to look at the projection anymore, until he slowed down when he used the brush to color, and asked Zhou's father to point out from time to time, and after the final completion, it was impossible to compare with Zhou's father's drawing, but it was also worthy of reaching the passing line, but the skin tone of the characters was less soft and rounded, which was also the most difficult part of watercolor painting to control.
After instructing Xu Jing to draw a few posters, Zhou's father let Xu Jing rest, at this time, because of the impact of private enterprises, the working atmosphere of state-owned units seemed more relaxed, after Zhou's father went to do the screening work, Zhou Xiaoxun finally got rid of his boring demeanor, and pulled Xu Jing to the screening hall to watch a movie.
The screening hall is not small and can accommodate hundreds of people. When Zhou Xiaoxun and Xu Jing came, the hall was almost full, at this time the people's entertainment life was extremely scarce, watching movies was one of the few entertainment projects, the eighties was the peak period of movie-watching in China, and the theater attendance rate was usually very high. Zhou Xiaoxun looked around for a while before pulling Xu Jing to find a rather partial seat, and when they sat down, the movie was just starting, and the noise in the hall gradually fell.
"Old Well" tells the story of several generations of farmers digging wells on the Loess Plateau, and is a microcosm of the struggle of the countryside to get rid of the predicament after the reform and opening up. In it, Zhang Yimou showed the dual character of the rural intellectual youth in the new era of tenacious struggle and forbearance with heavy burdens with a simple performance, highlighting the dedication of the character and giving the character a profound cultural connotation.
A "boom" resounded throughout the hall, and the well that the villagers were digging on the canvas suddenly collapsed, arousing the audience's sense of tension, as if their breathing had intensified.
After a while, the heroes and heroines trapped at the bottom of the well on the screen hugged each other tightly, heavy gasps sounded, the heroes and heroines hugged and kissed together, Sun Wangquan Chiguo played by Zhang Yimou kept gnawing on the heroine's body with his upper body, from lips to face, from face to neck, from neck to collarbone, and bursts of snickering sounded in the screening room.
In fact, the excitement of this movie. The love scene is not explicit, the scale is not large, there is no dew point shot, only the heroine shows off her underwear, but under the background of the movie atmosphere, the male protagonist and the female protagonist who are trapped at the bottom of the well are excited. The love drama shows the primitive desire of people in a desperate situation, which is very powerful.
Zhou Xiaoxun somehow felt a sense of restlessness in his heart, and from time to time he rolled his eyes and glanced at Xu Jing, seeing that Xu Jing was still staring at the canvas and relaxed slightly. At this time, the censorship of Chinese films was quite relaxed, and many movies had dew point shots, which were not dew point agitation. The love drama is even more pediatric, and Zhou Xiaoxun grew up in the film dean since he was a child, and he has never seen such a scene, but it is the first time to watch a passion scene with a boy, and there is an unnatural feeling in his heart, especially for a little girl like her, who is more than twelve years old, it is the time when "young girls are above and girls are not yet full".
When the movie ended, there was a noise in the screening room, and the audience got up and slowly left while discussing the plot.
"Is it pretty?" Zhou Xiaoxun and Xu Jing walked to the studio and asked casually, but they remembered that part of the excitement. Love dramas, men love to watch this.
"It's okay." Xu Jing responded.
"Oh." Zhou Xiaoxun was a little careless.
"Zhang Yimou can win a lot of awards next year." Xu Jing added.
"Oh." Zhou Xiaoxun is still the same.
In the following days, Xu Jing learned to draw posters and adapt to this job, due to Xu Jing's strong learning ability and super speed of drawing posters, but in ten days, Xu Jing took over all the poster drawing tasks in the entire theater, and even had a lot of leisure time after completing the task, Xu Jing and Zhou Xiaoxun ran to the screening hall to watch movies to pass the time.
During this period of time, Xu Jing slowly integrated into this era, although his personality is still not related to "cheerful" and "extroverted", and even when communicating with people, he gives people a feeling of rejecting people thousands of miles away, but he is no longer in a state of being unable to hold back a few words, especially when he is with Zhou Xiaoxun, he seems quite relaxed, and sometimes he will fight with Zhou Xiaoxun childishly like a child. Zhou Xiaoxun is also quite happy, no longer bored when his father is working as before, especially since there is still a generation gap between the two generations.
"Big Mac, let's play a game." On this day, after watching a movie and returning to the studio, Zhou Xiaoxun said to Xu Jing.
"Big barley" is Zhou Xiaoxun's nickname for Xu Jing, the reason is that when the two chatted, Zhou Xiaoxun inadvertently talked about the name "Mika" he used when he was a child. Later, in order to appease her anger, Xu Jing told her that he also had a former name, called "Michael", which was the name of his previous life, so the names between the two became "millet" and "barley".
"In this way, I learn the pose of the person in the movie to imitate an action, and then you guess which movie is the character and what is the name, and then you also imitate the pose of a character, and I guess which movie and what it is called. Whoever guesses the most wins. Zhou Xiaoxun told Xu Jing the rules of the game. After speaking, he put on a dancing pose and winked at Xu Jing.
""The Tailor and Miss Yang", Yang Lijuan played by Zhang Hong." Xu Jing replied instantly.
"You guessed it, it's your turn." Zhou Xiaoxun was a little angry about Xu Jing's guessing speed.
Xu Jing posed for a practice.
"This... This is "North and South Shaolin", Zhiming played by Li Lianjie! Zhou Xiaoxun thought for a moment, and then replied.
"Wrong, it's "The King of Darts", Xiao Gang played by Zhang Guoli." Xu Jing replied.
"Well, it's up to you to guess." Zhou Xiaoxun took another pose.
"Furong Town", Hu Yuyin played by Liu Xiaoqing." Xu Jing's reaction was still fast, and then he took the next pose.
"Angels and Devils", Zheng Tian played by Chen Baoguo!"
"It's wrong again, it's "Yanjing Story", Fang Liqun played by Wang Fangzheng."
“。。。。”
"Wrong...
"Wrong again...
Xu Jing can guess in an instant, but when it is Zhou Xiaoxun's turn to guess, he always can't guess correctly.
"Why are you like that! It's so hard to imitate every time! Won't play with you anymore! Zhou Xiaoxun felt that he had lost too much face, so he sat down on the chair angrily, his mouth deflated.
“。。。。” Xu Jing was a little speechless, he imitated the protagonist, and Zhou Xiaoxun imitated some supporting roles in order to let Xu Jing lose.
"Okay, then we'll do it again, I'll imitate the simple." Later, in order to let Zhou Xiaoxun guess, Xu Jing imitated several postures of the same character, and deliberately said that he was wrong several times when it was his turn to guess.
"Cluck, how's that, Big Mac, I guess more!" In the end, Zhou Xiaoxun raised his little head and said proudly to Xu Jing.
“。。。。” Xu Jing directly ignored Zhou Xiaoxun's rogue behavior, how did he say it more than ten years later? People can't be shameless to this point!.