. In addition to the small county town of his hometown in his previous life, Fenyang is the first small county town that Wang Dalun has visited to go deep into the Chinese mainland. Lao Jia has always said that big cities like Magic Capital and Beijing are just some bonsai in China. If you want to see the real China, you have to come with him to his hometown of Fenyang.

But it was disappointing to see the real China, with the most fashionable girls on the streets dressed in the costumes that had been fashionable in the capital five years ago, the most luxurious buildings here being houses with white tiles on the walls, and a few main streets lined with cars but few on four wheels......

But Lao Jia said that there have been many changes here compared to a year ago. In the afternoon, he took us to visit Fenyang's economic growth point, a small street three to four hundred meters long. On both sides of the street are neatly arranged two-storey buildings, and the unified design is to use plywood to kill the front door, and then open a small door on the plywood, and on the door hangs all kinds of names that have nothing to do with this small city, "Vienna", "Great Shanghai", "Night Fragrance...... On the corridor on the second floor, there are girls basking in the sun, and some girls dressed in a Trump or Northeast accent, swaggering down the street in twos and threes.

Although Gu Zheng, who is from China's "bonsai" magic capital, has been shouting about how backward this place is, Wang Dalun, like Lao Jia, feels that this place is very kind, because the small county town of his hometown in his previous life is also like this.

In the following days, the five of them squeezed into a van every day, and the local master Xue pulled them around the county. Lao Jia sat in the co-pilot seat, talking to Master Xue in Fenyang dialect, talking about the requirements for the residence of several characters in his film, looking for the most important attractions. Yu Liwei, Gu Zheng, and Lin Xiaoling couldn't understand it, only Wang Dalun interjected two sentences from time to time.

Lao Jia took a fancy to the new house of one of his high school classmates, and he wanted to arrange the scene of the song hall lady's residence there. Because he found the visual relationship between that place and the road outside very interesting. It's just that the wall of the same scholar is too high, and looking out of the window blocks the road outside, Lao Jia still wants to tear down the wall of others.

To be honest, even Lao Jia himself felt that such a request was a bit excessive, but he still stubbornly went to negotiate with his old classmate on a motorcycle. I didn't expect the old classmate to agree in one bite, but Lao Jia was quite embarrassed.

Fenyang tube filming is called "juggling" movies, which probably means that making movies is regarded as a kind of fun game. After a few days, it can be seen that the villagers in Fenyang are happy to help them "play" together.

One night, Lao Jia's two best brothers and sisters in childhood came to him to "play". He introduced to us: These are the male No. 2 and male No. 3 in his film, just like that, Hao Hong, the caretaker of the provincial prison, built the nouveau riche Jin Xiaoyong in "Xiao Wu", and An Qunyan, a staff member of the Construction Bank, became the owner of the pharmacy.

Afterwards, everyone wondered if Lao Jia was too hasty, but Lao Jia said with confidence that this was his design, and his role was originally some ordinary people in daily life. Hao Hongjian's police career is a symbol of the "power" that the locals yearn for, and he has a kind of ambition that is secretly in line with the nouveau riche. An Qunyan is already a solid middle-class in the local area, so it is only fitting for him to play the owner of a pharmacy.

Compared with Gu Zheng, who is from the motherland's "bonsai", chatters about the backwardness of the small county, Wang Dalun is very curious about Yu Liwei from Hong Kong. In his previous life, when he was working in the Pearl River Delta, he saw many Hong Kong people, and they were all high and high, and they discriminated against the mainland in their bones. Yu Liwei is different, not only does he not have any discrimination, but he is also very curious about the qiē in the small county town, maybe it's not accurate to just say that he is curious, and he likes it, he likes the qiē here.

"Viagra, you seem to like it here?"

Wang Dalun and Yu Liwei lived in the same room, and he asked Yu Liwei before going to bed that day.

"Do you see that?" Yu Liwei always smiled.

"Of course. Wang Dalun learned his tone to speak.

"I don't just like it here, I love every place in the mainland. ”

"How?"

There are few such Hong Kong people, Wang Dalun sat up wrapped in a quilt, looking very curious.

"Actually, I can be regarded as a half-continental......"

It turned out that Yu Liwei's parents were overseas Chinese who returned to China in the 50s, first studied agriculture in Guangzhou, and then returned to Hong Kong in the 60s. Although Yu Liwei was born and raised in Hong Kong, he has always lived in the New Territories as a child, and the New Territories was rural at that time, and he did not know the real Hong Kong. At that time, it was an hour's train ride from the New Territories to the city, and it was a magical thing for him to take him to a relatively civilized and advanced area.

He said that since he was a child, he has always been very curious about his identity, and why Hong Kong is under the jurisdiction of the British, so why can't he really get close to China? He has always had a deep affection for the mainland, because at that time his parents had been subscribing to the "People's Pictorial," and the pictures on it were very saturated in color, with all kinds of bumper harvests and a magnificent motherland.

Later, when he grew up a little, his parents would often take him back to Guangzhou to see friends, but Guangzhou in the 70s was different from the motherland in the pictorial, there was a clear gap, why did he have to buy a meal ticket for dinner, and why did he have to turn off the lights at 11 o'clock at night......

Hearing this, Wang Dalun couldn't help but pout, this seems to be the same as the Dajin Kingdom in the north.

Yu Liwei also laughed at himself, who grew up in the rural New Territories, and many times observed Hong Kong like an immigrant, living there but unable to truly integrate, and has always watched this land as a Hong Kong person.

He also told Wang Dalun that he followed Lao Jia to Fenyang this time, and he could see Lao Jia's feelings for this land, and this was exactly what he lacked, both yearning for and not understanding.

In the end, Yu Liwei seemed a little sad, and he said that maybe this is his rootless ****!

After this conversation, Wang Dalun had a good impression of Yu Liwei. A person who loves the motherland so much cannot be a bad person, such a person can be friends.

A few days later, the preliminary preparations were completed, and the group returned to another "bonsai" capital of the motherland. Lao Jia's script was not completed as usual, but Wang Dalun's Fenyang dialect was more slippery.

After a few more days, Lao Jia's script was finally completed, and on the day it was finalized, Lao Jia called all the crew members to Anwai Xiaoguan's house for everyone to express their opinions. Although many people have seen the first draft, titles like "Jin Xiaoyong's buddies, Hu Haimei's family, and Liang Changyou's son: Xiao Wu" are really painful, and the length is a bit outrageous.

Lao Jia explained that he wanted to put the emotions of a thief in this series of interpersonal relationships to examine a kind of spiritual status quo in China today. Everyone has no opinion on this, and it can be regarded as reluctantly accepting.

But when discussing the script, another assistant director, Zhang Xi, felt that Xiao Wu lacked the spirit of resistance, saying that Xiao Wu, as a thief, was originally a subversive of the social order, but now he has repeatedly lost, resigned, and inactive about friendship, love, and family affection......

Zhang Xi Balabala said a lot, in short, Xiao Wu was too wilted, and many people agreed with Zhang Xi's opinion. However, Lao Jia said that he did not intend to let Xiao Wu's profession have a specific social orientation, and that there was a way to steal, but Xiao Wu's moral values made him a backward loser in this society that was undergoing great changes from spiritual to material.

For this, Wang Dalun felt that Lao Jia was right, because Tong Guò Xiaowu saw his own shadow in his previous life. The same struggle at the bottom of society, the same insistence in the bones, unwilling to compromise, and the same in this dramatically changing society reduced to a backward loser.

Maybe Lao Jia is not a master storyteller, but what he writes is very real, there is no kind of art that comes from life and is higher than life, he just reflects the real state of existence of a society.

It was probably from this moment that Wang Dalun fell in love with Xiao Wu, and he was very much looking forward to bringing out Lao Jia's Xiao Wu table.

The discussion ended, and in the end, it was Lao Jia who fought the crowd and persuaded everyone. Everyone dispersed, and Lao Jia motioned to Wang Dalun to stay.

"Da Lun, this reward may be ......"

Old Jat was embarrassed, but Wang Dalun understood what he meant at the beginning of his words, a total of only 200,000, and it was not appropriate to give this reward. What's more, he had been mentally prepared for a long time, and he didn't want to make money on Lao Jia at all.

"It doesn't matter what you pay for this film, when your movie makes money, you just watch it and give it. Wang Dalun said with a smile.

Lao Jia just wanted to make this movie, and he didn't think about whether he could make money, so in the face of Wang Dalun's righteous answer, he didn't know what to say, so he could only pat Wang Dalun on the shoulder with a wry smile, "Brother, don't say anything." ”

It was still early, and Wang Dalun was not in a hurry to leave, the two sat and smoked and chatted about the script. Although Lao Jia had a lot of words at the meeting just now, in fact, he didn't have much bottom in his heart, especially the opinions put forward by Zhang Xi, which were very in line with the general routine of the movie.

"Do you think "Xiao Wu" is too warm?"

Lao Jia threw this question to Wang Dalun. After all, Lao Jia has studied film theory for four years, and he knows too well what things will make this or that one scratched and cut piecemeal at the moment.

Wang Dalun glanced at Lao Jia's constipated expression, and suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, you said that things have reached the point where you are ready to fly, are you still thinking about whether the whole play is too warm, do you have to overturn and rewrite it? Anyway, he thinks "Xiao Wu" is very good, at least the word "real" is highlighted, he likes it, he really wants to act.

"I think that's it, it's just a warm movie. Wang Dalun can only say this.

"Whew!"

Lao Jia was relieved. In fact, he had already made up his mind in his heart, but he still needed someone to help him make this decision.

"When are you going to turn it on?" Wang Dalun then asked.

It's already mid-March, and he's going to Cannes in May, with less than a month and a half left.

"To Cannes?"

Lao Jia knew the subtext behind Wang Dalun as soon as he heard it, and when it came to Cannes, Lao Jia's little eyes couldn't help but shine. It is the temple of literary films, and it is every director's dream to stand on the podium in Cannes.

Looking at Lao Jia's envious expression, Wang Dalun was a little funny. He doesn't remember what movies Lao Jia has made, and he can't remember what awards he has won, but he remembers that the news of his awards often appears in the news. He suddenly looked forward to what kind of expression Lao Jia would have when he stood on the podium of the three major European film festivals for the first time.