The Spring Festival in 2000 came exceptionally early, and February 4 was Chinese New Year's Eve. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Originally, Wang Dalun planned to spend a festive, peaceful and peaceful Spring Festival with his girlfriend in his home this year, but the last time he went to Liu's house to send something, the old couple of the Liu family learned that they did not go home for the New Year, so they dragged them to celebrate the New Year together, saying that he was missing in the first two years, and the family was not lively during the New Year.

Liu Ling has lived with the famous photographer for more than a year, and the relationship is very stable, and this year the old couple finally relaxed, and appeared at the dinner table together in Chinese New Year's Eve. Wang Dalun and the famous photographer met for the first time, but everyone had heard each other's names and said hello, which was plain.

The days after the New Year are also dull, finally after the previous period of filming day and night, Fan Ziyi completed most of the scenes in "Youth Bao Qingtian", and the filming schedule after the New Year is very relaxed, only one or two scenes a day, and occasionally two days off. Cooking, pick-up, dog walking, swimming, reading scripts, uh...... Love love, although life is dull, but every day is very fulfilling.

The days are fast, the weather is getting warmer, the trees are beginning to sprout, the spring of the new era is not early or late, and on the day when the capital officially stops heating, there is no hope for going to Cannes. There were also two pairs of twins that Gu Zheng didn't know where to find them, Liu Xiaojuan and Liu Xiao'e, northeasterners, dancers, all very tall, two pairs of long legs, very emotional.

When I arrived in Fenyang, in order to let Liu Xiaojuan and Liu Xiao'e sisters integrate into the crew as soon as possible and get familiar with other actors, the best way was everyone's favorite activity - mahjong.

"Dongfeng!" Wang Dalun touched it for a long time, and finally listened to it, and played a fresh wind direction that had been suppressed for a long time.

"Hu!" Liu Xiaojuan of the next family knocked down the card, two big knives in the east wind and west wind, double touching, mixing one color against Hu, spicy!

"Unlucky!" Wang Dalun threw out a twenty, "Don't come, don't come, three planing lettuce, the finer the planing!"

"What three lettuce clips?" Zhao Tao, who was sitting on the opposite side, didn't understand at first, but when he saw the twin sisters sitting on the left and right sides blushing, and seeing the malicious smiles on the faces of several perverts watching next to him, he suddenly understood, and his face was the same as that of the twin sisters, and he directly gave this product a sanitary ball, and said: "Why are you so obscene!"

"Alright, alright, you've all won almost, it's our turn to cut the big guys. Gu Zheng said with a smile.

In the group, except for Lao Jia, even if Wang Dalun is the richest, taking advantage of his bad luck, Gu Zheng, Wang Hongwei, Liang Jingdong and others all want to have a head and not cut it for nothing.

In the past few days, Lao Jia is still thinking about the second half of the script, according to his original idea, since he can't get the filming permit from the relevant departments, he wants to add the plots that were deleted in order to pass the review. The reason why he came to Fenyang in advance was that in addition to letting the actors get acquainted with each other and rehearse the singing and dancing scenes that appeared in the movie after rehearsal, he himself also wanted to get rid of all kinds of interference in the capital and complete the revision of the second half of the script.

Because the actors are all novices, taking advantage of this free time, Lao Jia is still like a teacher, assigning homework to these novices, watching his idol director Hou Hsiao-hsien's "City of Sadness" and "Dream Life", hoping that these novices can learn the performances of actors in movies that are also long-shot styles.

For Wang Dalun, Lao Jia naturally didn't worry about his acting skills, but he still assigned a task to this product. Song Yongping, the artist who played the electrician Lao Song who contracted the art troupe, always lacked confidence in the role he wanted to perform, and when he was filming in the first stage, he stumbled and stumbled, but fortunately, there were few scenes, and he barely passed, but in the second half of the movie, Lao Song's roles were quite a lot. Lao Jia hopes that Wang Dalun, who was born in a professional class and is recognized as the best acting skills in the crew, will help him explain the script.

Wang Dalun always felt that it was very simple for Song Yongping to play the role of a boss as a performance artist, but he still needed to be constantly encouraged.

After staying in Fenyang for three days, the second half of the script that Lao Jia wanted to revise never moved. He not only wants to describe the changes of the times, but also wants to put the fate of the people in the play and their personal sense of failure in a more important position.

Wang Dalun and Gu Zheng were dumbfounded when they heard it, they both knew what the original script was written, so it was almost equivalent to conceiving a new script in a few days. But this pit goods, but kept telling them what he thought, and in the end, everyone finally understood, he just wanted to make this movie his semi-autobiographical, he wanted to put everything he wanted to express into it, he had gone crazy, and his memories of his youth had completely overwhelmed his reason.

Lao Jia wants to twist his neck, and no one else has anything to do but play mahjong every day, practice singing and dancing, and wait for him to write the script for the second half.

But finally on the day the team came to Fenyang, Lao Jia completed his script. Looking at this thick script, everyone can fully feel the weight of an epic movie, the script is seventy-eight pages and one hundred and eighty scenes, which is almost three times that of an ordinary movie!

"You're crazy!" Jacob, the producer in Hong Kong, looked at him in disbelief when he saw the script. At the same time, he looked at Gu Zheng and Wang Hongwei.

These two can only smile bitterly, they have known Lao Jia for almost seven or eight years from classmates to now, and everyone knows the temper of this pit, and no one can convince him.

"Big guy, do you know how much we have left for filming? Less than four million! With so many scenes, we must overspend. ”

The total investment of the film is 8 million, and half of the pre-shooting has already been used, and now the second half of the script has actually tripled compared with the original, no wonder Jacob is in a hurry. Fortunately, the Japanese and French producers haven't arrived yet, otherwise he wouldn't know how to explain it to others.

"No, I have to shoot. Lao Jia lowered his head and sat there smoking, and said just that.

Later, Jacob and Lao Jia were locked in the house for an afternoon, and it was not until the evening that Lao Jia made a small concession and deleted ten scenes. He's just about to finish his epic, and he has a lot to say from 1979 to the 90s.

The next day, the second phase of filming started in Pingyao as scheduled.

After the electrician Lao Song contracted the art troupe, he decided to go out in order to find a way out and pursue profits. While Zhang Jun, Zhong Ping, Cui Mingliang and many of the former members of the troupe were determined to follow the troupe, Yin Ruijuan chose to stay at home in order to care for her ailing father, who once again became an obstacle to the young couple's together.

Zhao Tao stood on the balcony of her house, staring out in silence, while the city wall in front of her blocked her view. Lao Jia used such a powerful picture to emphasize Yin Ruijuan's isolation.

The City Gate Art Troupe set off, and the crew specially borrowed a dilapidated tractor, Wang Dalun, Liang Jingdong, Yang Lina and other crew members who made guest appearances in the art troupe all sat on the tractor. Yu Liwei's camera was set up at the city gate, still a long shot, and when the tractor they were riding on passed through the city walls, the only recognizable word in the huge, vague slogan was the word "Marx".

The tractor drove forward, and Cui Mingming's tearful eyes looked into the distance, perhaps privately expecting Yin Ruijuan to miraculously appear to see him off. At the same time, other members of the art troupe sitting in the tractor body sang an old Yugoslav song: "Ah friend, goodbye, friend, goodbye......"

When the tractor passes through the city gate and past the city walls, Lao Jia brings the first subjective shot to the film. The moving scenery of the city where Yu Liwei jumps on the tractor with the camera in his arms and quickly retreats creates a strong contrast with the fixed lens and slight panning of the rest of the film.

At this time, the lens replaced Choi's bright eyes. Since there is no railway station in Fenyang, Cui Mingliang did not set off by train, just as this privately contracted song and dance troupe did not go to the southern fancy world such as Guangzhou or Fuzhou, which inspired their dreams. Instead, the troupe's first foothold was chosen in a coal-rich neighbouring town outside of Fenyang.

This is Hanjia Village, people who have participated in the filming of "Xiao Wu" are familiar with this place, this is Lao Jia's third aunt's house, and she once filmed here for five days as Xiao Wu's hometown in the countryside.

Lao Jia's cousin Sanming came out to greet everyone, this time Sanming also performed in the movie, he played himself, Cui Mingming's cousin Sanming, in a sense, Cui Mingliang has become the incarnation of Lao Jia.

Sanming is only one year younger than Lao Jia, and when he was a child, Lao Jia went to the countryside to play with Sanming during the holidays. After graduating from junior high school, Sanming began to work as a worker in the coal mine, because his father had a disabled leg and could not work, and Sanming had to support his family.

Lao Jia recalled the filming of "Xiao Wu" and went back to Hanjia Village to see the scenery, when he and Sanming hadn't seen each other for several years, and he didn't recognize his cousin at first, because Sanming had grown a beard. He was greatly touched by Sanming's changes at that time.

He said that his encounter with Sanming reminded him of Mr. Lu Xun's short masterpiece that he learned in his childhood texts - "Hometown", in which Mr. Lu Xun and Runtu famously meet, which is a prototype text that explores the rift between the nostalgic romantic concept and the bleak reality of his hometown. Mr. Lu Xun, who had been away from his hometown for many years and had been educated, returned to the hometown where he was raised, and met his childhood playmate, Runtu, who is now a middle-aged illiterate farmer:

Although I knew it was leap earth at first sight, it was not the leap earth I remembered. He was doubled in stature, his round purple face had turned gray and yellow, and he was wrinkled with deep wrinkles, and his eyes were swollen red like his father's, as I know is the case with the sea breeze that blows all day long. He had a tattered felt hat on his head, a very thin cotton coat, and a paper bag and a long pipe in his hand, which were not the red round hands I remember, but thick, clumsy, and cracked, like pine bark.

The reunion between Mr. Lu Xun and Runtu is very similar to the reunion between Lao Jia and Sanming, not only in the formal similarity: the childhood playmates and now people belonging to two different social classes meet again, and Runtu and Sanming are both silent and unable to tell their experiences; more importantly, Lao Jia said that his feelings at that time are the same as the deep feelings expressed in Mr. Lu Xun's essay - tragedy, unfairness and sadness.

When Lao Jia told everyone about this period, everyone was very silent, and it could not be said that Lao Jia's thoughts had reached the same height as Mr. Lu Xun at that time, but in short, everyone's hearts were heavy.

Sanming's mother, Lao Jia's third aunt, sat on the kang and explained the family's predicament to Cui Mingming: it was difficult to find a daughter-in-law for Sanming, and she couldn't afford her daughter's tuition.

"At this time, those who work, go to the coal mine, go to and from school, and do what they do is not better than suffering? But it is too difficult for the family, and there is still food to eat, and there is so much money for books and tuition fees at once......

Later, when Sanming signed a contract to work in a local coal mine, the rude mine owner made his position clear: "We will not be responsible for what happens." ”

When you go down the well, you have to sign a contract of life and death. Sanming was illiterate, so he showed it to Cui Mingming, and it was written on it: First, life and death depend on fate, wealth and nobility are in the sky; I voluntarily mine coal in Gaojiazhuang Coal Mine, and in case of any incident, I have nothing to do with the coal mine. 2. In the spirit of revolutionary humanitarianism, in case of unforeseen circumstances, the coal mine will subsidize 500 yuan per person to his immediate family members. 3. The daily wage of each person is 10 yuan.

The filming of Hanjiacun lasted for a week, and during this week, whether it was the actors or the crew, including the sisters Liu Xiaojuan and Liu Xiao'e, who had not been in the scene for the time being, Lao Jia asked Liu Xiaojuan and Liu Xiao'e, who were with the group to observe and experience, everyone felt very depressed.

The last scene is on the road outside the village, where there are mountains on all sides, but the mountains here are bare, a gust of wind, and dusty.

There are two scenes in the last scene, the first is the tractor of the art troupe driving to the coal mine to perform, and halfway through the encounter with Sanming who walks to the coal mine to dig coal. Cui Mingliang asked Sanming to take a ride, and Sanming shook his head, saying that he crossed the path and crossed the hill to arrive. Still a long shot, the tractor continued to drive along the main road, and Sanming climbed the hillside path.

When this paragraph was filmed, Wang Dalun felt that Lao Jia really understood, and he was by no means deliberately sensationalizing or pretending. The countryman, illiterate, has a natural self-shame for his literate relatives in Chengli, he doesn't want to take a ride, he has low self-esteem, he is afraid of causing trouble to his relatives, this kind of person who has not experienced it in this environment, will not have this feeling. Wang Dalun has it, both in his previous life and in this life, and he believes that Lao Jia also has it.

The second section of the camera is still set up on the side of the road at the bend of the road, Wang Dalun and the members of the art troupe get on the tractor again, and the tractor suddenly drives towards the camera. When the tractor turns around the camera and disappears into the camera, Sanming is wearing a hard hat and running down the hillside next to him, bringing up a cloud of dust, and he runs desperately, trying to catch up with the tractor.

"Cui Mingming, your cousin! Stop, stop!" Zhong Ping saw Sanming on the tractor that came out of the camera, and hurriedly shouted.

"Brother!" Seeing the tractor stop, Sanming waved and shouted, running all the way to the camera.

At this time, Wang Dalun jumped down from the tractor and entered the camera.

"Sanming, what's wrong?" Compared to Sanming's panting, he seemed very calm, and one hand was even inserted in the trouser pocket of his jeans, and he had a full sense of superiority in front of Sanming.

"Brother, this is five yuan, given to Wenying. Sanming's dark, coal-digging, tightly clenched hand stretched out, and lying in the palm of his hand was a crumpled five-yuan bill.

Moon Young is Sanming's younger sister and attends high school in the city. Of course, in reality, Sanming doesn't have this sister.

Wang Dalun took five yuan, lowered his head and flattened the money, looked up at Sanming, and had an inexplicable expression on his face.

Sanming gasped and said, "Tell her that she must be admitted to the university and not go back to this village." ”

Wang Dalun took the money and looked at it twice, moved his lips, didn't know what to say, so he could only nod and say, "I'm leaving." ”

"Hmm!"

Wang Dalun turned around and walked to the tractor, which was still suddenly idling, and disappeared into the camera. This scene was added by Lao Jia temporarily, and it was a rare sensational feeling when he wanted to separate from Sanming at the end. It was indeed sensational, Wang Dalun, who walked out of the camera, felt that his nose was sour and his eyes were hot.

The camera was still focused on Sanming, I saw him stop for two or three seconds, turn around and walk towards the road he came from, Xu was running hot, he took off the hard hat on his head.

Yu Liwei moved the camera slowly, the steep cliff next to him, the sparse trees that had just spit out their buds in the distance, and the back of Sanming in the lens became smaller and smaller.

After waiting for a while, he never heard the director shouting "stop", and when he looked back, he saw Lao Jia squatting on the side of the road with his hands covering his mouth, and he was already in tears...... (To be continued.) )