Jia Zhangke named the script he was going to write "Little Mountain Goes Home". Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The whole story is not complicated, it's almost the Spring Festival, migrant worker Wang Xiaoshan is tired of working as a chef in the capital, deliberately causing trouble and was fired by the boss, after freedom, he wants to find a fellow villager to return to his hometown together.

To this end, he shuttled around the capital, looking for fellow villagers with different identities, including construction workers, ticket sellers, waiters, college students, and hair salon ladies.

Through Wang Xiaoshan's continuous search, the life of outsiders in the metropolis is truly displayed.

Most of them are engaged in jobs at the bottom of the society and their incomes are not high, but no one wants to return to their hometowns with Wang Xiaoshan.

Working in a big city, at least you can still have an income, be able to send money home, and have hope of life, if you can live well at home, who wants to come out and work.

Wang Xiaoshan ultimately failed to convince anyone, and he cut off his messy hair before leaving the capital.

Jia Zhangke wants to express a wandering state of life through the character of Wang Xiaoshan, migrant workers have left their hometowns and found various jobs in the city, and they are no longer farmers, but they are not city people.

They move between their homeland and the metropolis, working here today and where tomorrow, living a precarious life.

This dissociated state of life makes them lack a sense of belonging.

Wang Xiaoshan is such a character, he is tired of working in the big city and wants to go home, but his fellow villagers still insist on struggling to live in the big city, hoping to live a good life.

With the acceleration of urbanization in China, the problem of migrant workers will become more and more prominent.

In Jia Zhangke's view, this is real life.

He wrote the script very quickly, it took less than a week, and many images were in his head.

These days, he has come into contact with his fellow villagers who are engaged in various jobs in the capital, and the way they speak, their attitudes towards life, and their confusion about the future have touched Jia Zhangke deeply.

He writes very smoothly.

After writing the script, he gathered the members of the film group, a dozen people in total.

These people come from all departments of the school, and basically every group is like this, after all, making a film requires teamwork, and the students of each department of the film school will be more closely connected.

After everyone arrived, Jia Zhangke stood on the stage and introduced the reason for writing the script, just like giving a speech.

Then, while reading the script, he acted out by himself, sometimes this character, sometimes that character, and explained the relationship between the characters, so that everyone could understand the content of the story.

From the first scene to the last scene, he had to explain how I wanted to shoot this shot and what light I wanted to use.

In film schools, similar scenes often occur, and if you want to gain everyone's approval, you have to work hard to convince them.

Although they are still unknown at this time, the students who can be admitted to the film academy are a little arrogant, if you don't have real skills, who wants to pay attention to you.

After Jia Zhangke finished speaking, everyone began to ask questions, and the questions were very direct, which can also be said to be provocative.

Jia Zhangke will answer them one by one, discuss with each other, and improve the script in the process, or give up because he can't get everyone's approval.

This is all very normal.

Even if Lin Xiaoling writes the script, there must be this process of speech and discussion, and if you want to form your own film crew, you must be recognized by the whole team.

It's not like stepping into the society and paying for professional staff.

If the script of "Little Mountain Comes Home" is put on the market, it is estimated that no film and television company is willing to invest, because the content is too gloomy, there is little hope of passing the censorship, and it cannot be released if it is filmed, and the investment will not be rewarded.

But this is a film school, and these students still have passion and ideals, and they feel that making such films is art.

Under Jia Zhangke's explanation, the script was recognized by everyone, and the next step was the issue of shooting funds.

There are two ways to raise funds, one is to get support from the school, and the other is to self-fund.

In fact, film school students are not too poor, especially juniors and seniors, who will go out and find work.

Jia Zhangke wrote TV drama scripts for film and television companies, did not sign his own name, and acted as a gunman for others.

Lin Xiaoling shoots documentaries for Huaguo TV, and there are many students in the directing department who shoot commercials for people and can make a lot of money.

Jia Zhangke naturally wants to get financial support from the school, but the film school's filming subsidy is for students in the directing department, which is the graduation work of the directing students.

As a literature student, Jia Zhangke is not eligible to apply for this grant.

He either self-financed the film, or applied for filming funds through Lin Xiaoling.

At the same time, Lin Xiaoling is still writing the script, the storyline of "The Two of Us" is simple to say, but it is really difficult to write it well, especially to integrate the alternation of the seasons and the emotional changes of the characters.

"Little Hill Comes Home" is more like a documentary, while "The Two of Us" is a drama.

Both films involve the living conditions of outsiders in the capital, but the angles of shooting and the way they are handled are completely different.

One is indifferent and makes people feel cold, and the other is full of warmth and touching.

Every year, the directing department of the film school shoots a lot of graduation works, and most of the students' short films do not appear in the theater, and basically stay in the film school.

Cinema has always been an expensive art because it costs a lot of money to make a movie.

In China, in the past, only state-owned film studios had the right to make films, and now although private film and television companies can also participate in it, for individuals, making movies is still a luxury.

For example, a camera can be rented for one or two thousand dollars a day, and a Nagra tape recorder can be rented for five hundred dollars a day.

However, this changed in July 1995.

A Japanese company has launched a new product called a digital video camera, also known as DV, which can be used to shoot images, which is very smart and lightweight, and the footage can be converted into videotape.

Although a digital video camera can cost as much as $4,000, it has brought about a major revolution in the film industry.

Even if it is an ordinary person, after simple learning, you can master the shooting skills, and from then on, making movies is no longer a lofty industry, and there is no need to go to the film school for systematic learning.

As long as you are interested in movies and pick up the digital video camera in your hand, you can record the life around you, so as to embark on the road of directing.

Technology has changed the film industry, and it is from this moment that domestic independent films have developed vigorously. (To be continued.) )