The script is quite thick, many places are sketched with a pen, and two big characters "Hometown" are printed on the title page. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He turned the first page and saw that it read:

"Winter. There is still more than a month left before the old calendar New Year. There was scattered light snow in the sky. At a small train station, Tang Chaoyang and Song Jinming are looking for their next idea. Pips are their jargon and refer to suitable living people. Once they have found an idea, they take it to a small coal kiln in a remote area, and then exchange their lives for money in the name of the idea's relatives. They are already familiar with this business, and they can say that they have done a success. The two of them are a good pair, they work well with each other, and they have never made any mistakes......"

The sentence was simple and plain, but Wang Dalun felt a chill on the back of his neck. In his previous life, he also worked part-time, and he also listened to his co-workers talk about those black-hearted factories or black brick kilns. But this kind of use of human life as a tool to make money is unheard of for him, and it is even more creepy.

He saw it at once, and as the content of the story revealed little by little, he finally knew why Liu Yonghong would say this to himself on the phone, which was far colder than "Seafood".

If he was depressed when he saw the script of "Seafood", and the role of police officer Deng Jianguo made his heart beat faster, then now he can only describe his feelings as shocked, and for the first time he felt great sadness because of several characters in the script.

"You wrote this book?"

He took out the cigarette case, handed one to Li Yang, lit it, and inhaled hard, trying to calm his mood with nicotine stimulation.

"It is adapted from Mr. Liu Qingbang's novel "Shenmu".

"Is this true?" Wang Dalun still didn't believe it.

Li Yang smiled bitterly: "Teacher Liu Qingbang dug coal in this kind of small coal kiln when he was young, and later worked in the coal system for a long time. In fact, there are some things that are even more cruel than what is written here. ”

He looked at Wang Dalun's expression, and then said, "Maybe you may not believe it, but I felt this way at the beginning. But then I went to the coal mines in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia with a reporter who ran the coal mine for more than four months, and spent all day going down the mine, eating, and chatting with the miners......

Li Yang's eyes were misty, as if he was recalling the original situation, and then his tone was obviously a little excited: "I remember the first time I went down the mine, it was like walking into hell, feeling that life and body were separated, and death was always staring at you." Do you know? Almost every miner I spoke to could tell a story or a few familiar stories of relatives or friends who were buried underground.

Later, I checked some information, and more than 6,000 people in the country suffer from mining disasters every year, which is equivalent to the total number of mining deaths in other countries in the world. And that's just a public number, how many deaths are being covered? No one can tell. ”

With this way of working that is almost a gamble with life, why are there so many people digging coal? Wang Dalun remembered that when filming "Platform", Sanming went to the small coal kiln to sign the life and death certificate, which really existed, in order to survive, does this still need a reason?

He smoked a cigarette, watching the cigarette butts flickering brightly and dimly, and did not speak, but the sadness in his heart was silently magnified.

Li Yang seemed to have completely opened the conversation, and said sincerely and excitedly: "I don't make much sense to make this film, I just want to shoot it." In fact, in recent years, many people want to shoot miners.? Of course, there have been many works about miners before. My hometown is from Shaanxi, and my father was a famous actor in the province at that time, so when I was a child, I could often see some beautiful songs and dances, such as a bunch of dancers performing in the mine with more advanced equipment, and in the process of struggling to excavate, there was a collapse, and then they used their shoulders and hands to withstand the collapse, continued to drill coal, and finally won another high-yield day.

At that time, I was engaged in the study of literature and art, and I came to life from life, and I thought that such a scene was summarized by the creator from practice, and the performance was so vivid, so I still remember it.

Later I found out that it was a beautiful lie. A beautiful scene, but only used by literary and artistic workers to deceive people. After those literary and artistic workers have deceived people, they may still be convinced that they were told to do so by their superiors, that they were made up by advanced workers, that revolutionary romanticism allows the exaggeration of reality, and so on. No one will be held accountable for a big lie anyway. Whether there will be young stupid miners who will really use their shoulders to resist the collapse in the future has nothing to do with these literary and artistic workers. Deserve!?

Now if you want to shoot, someone will definitely try to stop you first, for the simple reason that it's too dangerous! There are not only specific dangers in the underground, but also intentional *awareness* physical dangers: who do you want to show when you shoot them? What do you want? ”

"Humph!" Li Yang had a sneer, or rather a sneer, on his face, and said, "What can we see now?" In the past few years, in the various disaster reports of coal mines, are there any photos of underground? I just remember most of the news photos or videos showing a group of people around the wellhead rescuing them. Oh, sometimes there are photos of the well, and it is the leader who went down to condolence during the festival......"

“…… When American journalists posted pictures of hungry people in Africa, there were many people who objected to the fact that the photos were considered rude, peeping, revealing ugliness, etc., and most of the opponents were black because they felt insulted. However, disasters do not exist because some people do not see them, and they do not disappear automatically in order to make the so-called mainstream of society more comfortable. Is it true that life under our mines should not be seen by everyone? ……?”

Wang Dalun listened to Li Yang's chattering emotion or complaining, he didn't think he was much greater than Li Yang, but he just had an impulse, even if he didn't want to be paid, he had the urge to act.

Of course, in the end, reason prevailed over emotion, he lit a cigarette again, looked at Li Yang with an expectant look on his face and said, "How to calculate the specific division?" ”

"Well, I invested a million here, and your salary will be ...... Even if it's 500,000, a total of 1.5 million, how about you account for 30%? ”

I have to say that directors are all human beings, even if Li Yang, who is sincere and elegant, will inevitably play a trick when calculating Wang Dalun's salary, and insist on deducting 100,000 yuan to make his share ratio a little less.

Wang Dalun didn't care, in fact, the reason why all the directors of their generation are human spirits is entirely because of this era, think about Lao Jia's hardships when he filmed "Xiao Wu"; Zhu Wen's helplessness in the preparation of "Seafood"; Lou Ye ran out of money at the end of the filming of "Suzhou River", so he could only stop first, and wait until he got the money to shoot and so on.

Do you want Zhang Dadao or Chen Dadao to try this? Can they make a movie like that? So if you're not fine, you won't be able to make a movie, which is completely forced by this era.

"Done!"

In fact, Li Yang is not bad, at least in his forties, his eyes are still clear, and he is even an "old and angry youth"! On this point, Wang Dalun has a good impression of him.

It wasn't until much later that Wang Dalun knew that Li Yang, who almost paranoid hated the "Gao Daquan" style character, always portrayed the contradictions of human nature in his films, which was related to his unhappiness in his early years.

When he was a child, he came from a privileged family, studying in the best kindergartens and primary schools in Xi'an, and his daily life was handled by a nanny. But after the special period began, the family's life suddenly fell to the bottom of society. The people in society are clearly divided into two camps: "good guys" and "bad guys". As a famous actor, his father was classified as a "bad guy" and was betrayed by his former friend and died unjustly.

In order to escape the discrimination and humiliation of his classmates, this black five-class son has transferred to another school three times. He remembers spending his entire childhood escaping discrimination and humiliation. Therefore, any bit of discrimination and humiliation when he grows up will provoke him to resist strongly.

Once, after drinking, Li Yang told a story about his personal experience: in 1990, he worked as a tour guide and translator to fly a German tour group to Guilin. At Guilin Airport, the security checkpoint allowed every German tourist to pass through, but he was stopped for a blood test. He resolutely refused and loudly protested against this discriminatory provision. The German tourists who accompanied the group also threatened to return to China to support him. However, the airport staff said that they could not be accommodating, citing the "enforcement system". He was uncompromising: I would rather lose my job than have a blood test! It was only at the end of the stalemate that the airport personnel finally gave in. This time, he returned to China as a wanderer, and the "institutional humiliation" he encountered at his doorstep made him unforgettable.

After the verbal agreement was reached, Li Yang was very happy, and the two sides discussed the filming matters. Li Yang's side can be said to be ready for everything, only the east wind is owed, as long as Wang Dalun's current drama is completed, his side will be able to start, and he has contacted a small coal kiln in a remote area of Shanxi as a filming location.

However, Wang Dalun had some difficulties here, he had already made an appointment with his girlfriend to go to Hong Kong for Christmas, and also notified Jacob to help book a round-trip ticket and a hotel in Hong Kong from December 21 to 27.

In the end, the two parties agreed that Li Yang would rush to Shanxi with the crew to shoot first, and Wang Dalun would go directly to meet the crew.

It's easy to say that the cooperative company with Li Yang just needs to say hello, "Seafood" was a precedent before, and the cooperation between the two sides is originally loose, as long as it doesn't affect next year's new drama "What to Save You, My Love", it's easy to say anything.

But Fan Ziyi jumped up. At noon, my husband said that he was going to talk to someone, and when he came back, he actually took on a new play, and she was originally just a little unhappy that she couldn't be together during this time at the end of the year. But while her boyfriend was cooking dinner, she inadvertently flipped through the script and was startled.

It's too dangerous! There's a lot of underground shooting in the script. In recent years, there have been too many accidents in coal mines, and I have not seen CCTV News report every once in a while where the coal mine gas exploded, where the water penetrated, where the roof rose again, and how many trapped miners were. Then all kinds of leaders did what happened at the first time, and then asked for help, and in the end, very few people survived......

Fan Ziyi is really worried, who knows if a big stone will fall, and with a bang, she will become a little widow. So she is very reluctant for her husband to take over this play, and now she has only reached a verbal agreement, and the official contract has not been signed yet, and she is clamoring for him to return to this play.

Wang Dalun had no choice but to break it and analyze it for her. First of all, the role of Song Jinming is extremely rare, the conflict of human nature, tormented by good and evil, is far more challenging than the policeman Deng Jianguo in "Seafood", if he plays it well, maybe he can get an actor.

Secondly, Li Yang also revealed when he talked to him in the afternoon that he had something to do with the Berlin Film Festival Organizing Committee when he was in Germany, and he would definitely not be able to catch up in February next year, and he would be sent to the next exhibition. With Wang Dalun's experience in participating in film festivals many times, according to the excitement of the script, if you don't miss it, it is estimated that it will not be a problem to be shortlisted for a certain unit, and it is not impossible to be shortlisted for the main competition unit if you don't get it, and it is not impossible to compete for the Golden Bear. There is a market for foreign countries.

In the end, he also revealed a little bit about the prospects of "Seafood" with his girlfriend, he didn't dare to say more, and half of the ambush was quite amazing.

Unexpectedly, Fan Ziyi was only slightly shocked when she heard the numbers, in her words, if the person was gone, none of the reasons he said would be valid.

There was no way for Wang Dalun to swear a gambling curse and promise to come back unscathed. At night, he did not hesitate to overdraw his physical strength and precious kidneys, and served as a "Shijiro" twice for two days in a row, only to get the mother's reluctance to give him permission.