Chapter Seventy-Two: The Outcast of the World
I looked at Chen Fei and thought for a long time, she stood there waiting for my answer. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I made it clear that this was not a deed of sale, and that I would not be sold to heaven and earth as a duck, so I solemnly said: "You can agree to the request, no problem, but you can't do anything illegal, and it must be within my ability and not beyond the scope of my principles, I will definitely agree to you." ”
"Do you really think that I am a heinous female demon and let you kill people and set fires? Hmph, don't worry, I won't let you kill people and set fires, nor will I let you sell yourself. Still have questions? ”
"Is one request okay?"
"No way!"
"Three is too many, let's understand each other."
"Those two."
"Deal!"
"Is there a time limit?"
"Deadline...... "Excuse me," she stuck out her tongue, "for a lifetime!" ”
After bargaining, I risked my life to promise Chen Fei to meet her two requirements in my life, all just to meet the director I admire.
Two days later, when she received a call from Chen Fei, she said two words: "It's done." ”
I was ecstatic and asked, "Is Du Feng willing to accept my interview?" ”
"That's right, people read your book and say that you have thoughts and feelings, and the young man is good, and he is willing to talk to you."
"Of course!" I couldn't help but "smack" a little.
"Don't be in a hurry to be happy, when I think about my request, you will feel good."
"Huh? What are the requirements? Why can't I remember? "I deliberately played dumb.
Chen Fei was so angry that he was incoherent: "Why are you ......?"
"I'm playing with you, don't worry, since there has been a gentleman's agreement, I will definitely agree to you."
"It's pretty much the same, don't play tricks with the old lady and tell you, otherwise the old lady won't let you go when she chases to the ends of the earth."
When she heard her say the words "the end of the world", she couldn't help but tremble in her heart, and Wang Yi chased Fu Wenxin and said the same thing, saying that he would chase her to the ends of the earth.
Is the ends of the earth, how far away, the land of Canaan, flowing with milk and honey?
Thoreau said that no matter how hard the two legs tried, they could not bring the two hearts closer. The distance between the two hearts depends on the four legs. Two legs chase, two legs escape, according to Einstein's theory of relativity, the distance between the two has never changed.
I used to think that as long as you love each other, no matter how far away people are, their hearts are close at hand. It wasn't until Yang Chenjun was hurt by his cheap girlfriend that my opinion changed subversively.
No matter how close two people's hearts are and their bodies are far apart, it is like a lifetime, and love will eventually be consumed by a long distance.
The first time I met Du Feng was about the "Postmodern Cafe" in the 798 Art District, this café is really fucking postmodern, there is no café and no hall, just an open-air place, a few tables and chairs made of steel pipes, and people sit on the tendency of their balls and prostate to be poked and burst.
Only pure water is served in bamboo tubes, and there are no other beverages. The owner of the café is an extreme naturalist, saying that this is the only way to return the soul to the most primitive tranquility. I'm convinced.
Du Feng was a little thin, with hairy inches, and he looked very energetic, he took off his sunglasses and said, "I'm sorry, my eyes are photophobic, and I don't wear sunglasses for pretend." ”
The first sentence made me feel good about him.
I asked him, "Why did the first film focus on miners?" ”
He spoke eloquently, with a light tone, with a bit of vicissitudes: "When I was a child, my parents worked under the mine, and one day there was an accident, the gas exploded, and they didn't come up, at that time I was locked in the house, and an uncle broke open the door of my house and told me that your parents will never come back." I'm still ignorant, I looked at the uncle in a daze, and I didn't know how to cry. Later, I was sent to an orphanage, and from then on, my soul could not avoid the word 'miner'. Your book will also talk about the miners in China, which is very profound and resonates with my heart. ”
"Thank you, mining disasters are an old topic, and a topic that will never get old, do you think we should do something real to stop the tragedy from happening?"
Du Feng is not a dull and boring person, he said: "Tell a joke, in "The Legend of Xiaolin Guangji". said that Yihang people love prostitution, and after all the prostitution is done, they are so poor that they only have a penny and a pair of linen pants left. I still have a heart in my prime, and I came to the West Lake to see the beauties. I bought fried beans for a penny, sat alone on the bridge, and put the beans on the crotch of my pants. Seeing that the wandering girl was coming, she didn't feel that the spring was vibrant, and the words stood up, and the beans stood upright, and the Hangzhou people pointed to the ** and scolded: "I have a good share of the world's karma, and you have smashed it all for me." The belongings that have a penny left have been shaken off by you, what grievance do I have with you? In the face of the flood of black coal mines, the regulatory authorities not only did not take measures to eradicate it from the root, but instead learned the 'Huang Lao technique' implemented by the rulers of the early Han Dynasty. ”
I smiled and said, "Let's go back to movies, what do you think is the gap between Chinese films and the world's high-level films?" ”
"The gap is in faith, not only the belief of filmmakers, but also the faith of the film itself. Our films lack attention to the world on the other side, and have little sincerity for the disadvantaged and marginalized. Russell said that without Confucian culture, Chinese culture would become a vacuum. If the religious component is removed, Western culture will also become a quasi-'vacuum'. Religious rituals and primitive witchcraft have injected a steady stream of water into the long river of art, but Confucius has been silent, and our world religion has become a luxury for the soul. Westerners, on the other hand, have a deep religious sense of salvation, and their films reflect this, such as Kishilowski's The Ten Commandments, which does not directly tell the story of Moses, but which presents the daily life of Poles in the name of religion. Hollywood commercial films are also inseparable from religious conventions, and it is common to quote religious terms from the Bible, such as "The Sixth Day" and "Independence Day". Some directors have pulled religious teachings into a modern context and reinterpreted them, such as "Apocalypse Now", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Seven Deadly Sins", "Pulp Fiction" and so on. These films have a strong sense of criticism and reflection, and they link repentance and redemption with contemporary human society and personal destiny, prompting the audience to reflect on their own actions and a series of propositions about survival. ”
"What do you think of commercial movies in Hollywood?"
"Hollywood films, on the one hand, create commercial miracles with heroes and explosive shots, and on the other hand, reflect on the inferiority of human beings and the state of American existence. When the material life reaches a certain level, spiritual emptiness arises. Since the end of the last century, Hollywood has begun to use a critical eye to examine the social status quo such as drug abuse, gun killings, and bankruptcy, which is reflected in the movie, which is that the movie began to pay attention to family ethics and personal emotions. Many movies complete repentance and redemption again and again in the context of Christ, and the plots are similar, but through the innocent light and shadow, we can see through the germination of self-reflection and the sense of distress for the human world under a culture. ”
"Will you make commercial films in the future?"
"In fact, in my opinion, movies are commercialized, pure commercial blockbusters are not afraid to have fun with all living beings, never despise the aesthetic needs of all living beings, and need the professionalism and seriousness of the producer, if there is an opportunity, I will not refuse to shoot commercial films, which is also one of the ways to communicate with the world with light and shadow."
"What made you fall in love with movies in the first place?"
Du Feng picked up the bamboo tube, took a sip as if drinking, and said: "I am an orphan, I grew up in an orphanage, I don't like to talk, my eyes are not good, and I always cry in the sun. When others were playing outside and I had to sit alone in front of the TV and watch a movie, the loneliness I experienced at that time made me precocious, so I picked up one story after another from the movie, and I couldn't extricate myself. After coming to Beijing, I saw the people rushing in front of me, busy and busy, like animals that can't find a home, wandering around, I think we are all outcasts of the world, and light and shadow can give me a home. No matter how tired and hard you are, as long as you watch a movie, you can put down anything. I love movies, pure love. ”
Du Feng was like a child, smiling innocently.
His words are unpretentious but full of feelings and the philosophy of survival, aren't they? We are all outcasts of the world, looking for, looking for the other half, looking for the home of the soul, looking for the ideals and beliefs that have been thrown away by ourselves, and the most unpretentious answer is that we are all looking for tickets and living a better life.
But there are people who are busy all their lives, and before they hang up, they realize that everything they have is not what they are looking for, and they die when they enter the coffin.
In a place like Beijing, there are more people looking for it, and whether you can find it or not depends on your personal creation.
I asked Du Feng what his next movie was about. He said he planned to make a realistic film about the lives of young people in the city.
We talked for a long time that day, tirelessly, from movies to life, from history to literature, everything was discussed, he said that he saw the shadow of his youth in me, and said that he would contact and communicate more in the future.
After returning to school, I immediately compiled the interview transcript into text and wrote an article entitled "The Outcast of the World - The Scavenger of the World of Light and Shadow", and sent it to Du Feng for confirmation.
After the interview and article were published in Tide, they were reprinted by many professional film media, and even the editor-in-chief of a film magazine asked me to sign a labor contract. I said that I hadn't graduated yet, that I could do an internship, and that signing a labor contract would have to be discussed in the long run.
Occasionally, I followed He Fei or Du Feng to attend some gatherings of people in the literary and art circles, and gradually found that the things I imagined before were not as simple as I imagined.
Beijing is tolerant, open, noisy and restless, and there are too many people with empty gloves and white wolves, and it has become commonplace to take advantage of each other, deceive each other, and disobey each other.
This is an era of deconstruction and rapid decay, where there is no eternal value and truth, and what seemed sublime in the past can be covered with dirt and shattered bones in an instant, and become penniless.
I know that it is not the literary and artistic circles that are not clean, but people, but I will not disbelieve in the existence of sincerity because of the overflow of falsehood, and I will not deny the cleanliness and nobility of the world because there are dirty and humble people.
I just need to clean myself and look for what I covet.