Chapter 271: Virtual Protagonist

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It's obviously a new experience, especially with the long shot, which moves so fast. In order to solve the problem www.biquge.info of focusing on the picture, Xiao Ran specially spent a day scheduling the position of the scene and adjusting the position of the camera in order to solve the problem of focusing. Now it seems that the problem is clearly minimal.

The long shot of this shootout is not very long, only about three to four minutes, but it takes Xiao Ran a lot of effort, which is one of the best clips in the whole film. What is amazing is that even if it is a long shot, because of the scheduling relationship on the scene, it also shows Xiao Ran's consistent style, which seems quite smooth and done in one go.

The foreshadowing took about ten minutes, and all that was left was the scene in an abandoned warehouse. This scene is especially simple, because the camera doesn't have to run around anymore, and NG is always very small.

The rest of the story is much simpler, two "supporting characters" are intriguing and killing each other in the warehouse, while the police are coming outside. Eventually, both the two and the protagonist are trapped in it, and the two supporting characters are seriously injured by each other, and before they die, they catch their breath and find the virtual protagonist and shoot them with a single shot.

When the virtual protagonist falls to the ground with a thud, the screen fades black. However, there were still words from each of the two supporting characters on the stereo, and immediately many footsteps were heard, presumably policemen. And then, the sound faded away.

Xiao Ran's mood is wonderful, he thinks back to how he felt when he was creating. During the creative process, he felt like a balloon with enough air, and every day there were countless inspirations in his mind, and he grabbed the most suitable ones in time to put them in the film.

Even in the post-production period, he still maintains a considerable amount of inspiration and creative energy. In retrospect, it was indeed that inspiration and impulse that drove him to shoot the film in less than a week.

However, when the film was all made, his whole person was like a deflated balloon, and he couldn't lift any spirits. The scariest thing is that during that time, his mind was empty when it came to filmmaking. It's as if everything about me has been hollowed out by that film, as if I have spent my whole life creating such a film.

Now Xiao Ran finally understands why many directors and actors find it difficult to perform well in the short term after making a classic work. Because of the ** and impulse of creation, he was completely exhausted when he was shooting that film, and he didn't recover until a long time, which is like after a long-distance run.

The audience was dumbfounded, no one could have imagined that this was such a film! Lin Qingxia and the others looked at Xiao Ran even more confusedly, hoping that Xiao Ran would give an answer. Xiao Ran just smiled and didn't say anything, of course he didn't know that this film was able to win the Palme d'Or to a large extent because of this wonderful way of expression.

What kind of film is this, and what is it trying to talk about? The audience has such a doubt in their hearts. In fact, they all know very well that this story is very simple, it is a story of a police and bandit that happened in more than an hour, or rather a story of bandits and bandits.

But they don't understand why this is the case, it's completely different from what they usually see, it's a completely different way of expressing it. They have seen two robbers, who are definitely the most impressive in this life, fighting each other heroically and cherishing heroes, but having to die to each other for the sake of a similar concept that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

At this point, Xiao Ran adopted a step-by-step approach, and the conflict point arranged for the two supporting characters at first was the money stolen from the bank. Later, with the attitude towards money that gradually emerged inadvertently from the two supporting characters, it was discovered that the reason for their fierce fight was not for money, but to compete with people who were similar to themselves, and in the overall situation, this concept was very romantic.

However, Xiao Ran's shots are very realistic, and even Xiao Ran himself can't figure out that he can express these two very cleverly. This is quite similar to Adu's attempt to show the mutual respect between the two robbers in a realistic way in "The Big Event", which is a very contradictory approach.

It's just that Xiao Ran is much stronger than Adu ten years later, and any traces are covered up. Realism becomes a means, and romanticism gradually grows in the viewer's mind through the depiction of the two actors and the camera.

The audience was silent, and Xiao Ran's heart gradually sank. Perhaps, I have really gone too far, and some viewers can't even understand that this is a film with a virtual protagonist. Restore the essence of things through the eyes of the virtual protagonist, and make everything more realistic, and any realistic technique is definitely not as classic as this.

It's just that Xiao Ran ignored one point, he did go too far. There are many techniques that not everyone can accept, such as the parallel interplay of time and space in "Infernal Affairs 3", which has caused countless audiences a headache for a long time.

Thinking of this instantly, Xiao Ran immediately smiled bitterly, he thought that he had really done too much, and the local audience really couldn't accept it. It's just that when he thought of the parallel interlacing of time and space in "Infernal Affairs 3", he suddenly had an inspiration, an inspiration that he had to think about immediately.

However, he only thought that the inspiration might have gone more extreme in terms of structure, and he lost interest. Now he glanced at the audience below, feeling extremely depressed, and he thought that he had really failed, and even wondered if his Palme d'Or had been stolen.

"It's okay, they just don't understand!" Lin Qingxia obviously knew Xiao Ran's mood best, seeing Xiao Ran's expressionless face, and a look of depression in her eyes, she immediately stepped forward and said softly: "In my heart, you are the most talented person." ”

It doesn't matter if the whole world denies me, as long as you appreciate me! Xiao Ran inadvertently remembered this familiar dialogue, but he knew that it was fake. Lin Qingxia's words certainly made him feel a little better, but he was still very uncomfortable.

If we have tried that kind of hopeful and then suddenly find that the truth is a hundred times worse than we expected, that feeling is how Xiao Ran feels now. Still expressionless, Xiao Ran stood up, he didn't want to stay here any longer, because here, he was no longer a god, maybe an abandoned god.

After Xiao Ran left, many audiences who were still sitting in the theater were thinking, what kind of story is this, what kind of film is this? On the surface, this film can be called a model of no beginning and no end. However, as long as you have a considerable appreciation of movies, you can clearly perceive that the ins and outs of the film are clearly explained.

The cause of the story is clearly explained, and the festival of the two bandits is faintly projected in his dialogue. And the final ending is even more obscure and meaningful, the two sentences of the bandit at the end are very meaningful, and the footsteps are nothing more than confirmation that the police rushed in, and the sound gradually disappeared can be understood as the death of the virtual protagonist.

It's amazing that the audience doesn't even know what they can't understand, they just tell themselves that it's very peculiar, so strange that people can't understand it. The whole story is very clear in front of everyone, and even the theme is very clear, but they still clearly feel that there is something they don't understand.

Finally, the theater gradually ended, and the most stubborn audience had to leave. On the way home from an audience very close to the theater, two beautiful girls came up to him, but he obviously didn't notice it when he was immersed in thinking about the plot, but suddenly shouted excitedly: "I understand!" ”

This scared the two girls and thought they had met a perverted pervert, but they saw this handsome guy shouting that I understood and ran away. Of course, the name of the perverted demon is exempt, and the name of the psychopath is destined to be indispensable.

And when Li Zhuotao, the film critic who knows Xiao Ran best, was on the way home by taxi, he also kept thinking, but suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and shouted: "I understand!" The smile quickly spread to his face, and the excitement scared the driver into almost crashing his car headlong on the safety island.

If we had the ears to listen to the world, we would have found that such calls happen once or twice in Hong Kong every now and then. Some of them were on their way home, some were in bed, and some were in their dreams...... On this night, many people are destined to have trouble sleeping. However, we can fully believe it, and we are deeply sure that when this "True Colors" is released, there will definitely be more people who will lose sleep...... The only pity is that Xiao Ran didn't hear these chants, otherwise he would have been much happier. Movies are made for people to see, Xiao Ran didn't make movies for himself, without the approval of the audience, then he is nothing. Just like the author of a novel, the purpose of creation is to gain the approval of readers, and if there are no readers, can you really write it down for yourself?

However, Xiao Ran didn't expect that he didn't even have a voice of approval. Even though he knew he was lucky not to be beaten up, it still made him feel like he had lost his spiritual support. On the way home, he laughed at himself and thought: Maybe he really only has the life of plagiarism, and he can't shoot a work that is completely his own and completely personal style!

The next morning, Lin Qingxia saw that Xiao Ran was slow to get up, so she realized that something was wrong, and reached out to try it, only to find that Xiao Ran was actually sick. Whether Xiao Ran was really sick or not, he didn't know himself, but he only felt that he should be writhing around on the bed like a snake today, because he felt as if something was blocked in his heart, making him breathless.

After Lin Qingxia invited a private doctor to come, she inadvertently swept through the new newspaper and discovered the name of the film "True Colors". Curious, she hurriedly picked it up and admired it, and after reading it roughly, she happily rushed into Xiao Ran's room and shouted: "Ah Ran, your film is appreciated!" ”

Xiao Ran, who had been paralyzed on the bed, immediately jumped up and repeated this sentence in disbelief, at this moment he only felt as if this sentence had collided countless times in his mind. The heart, which could almost be said to have stopped beating, beat violently, making the personal doctor who listened to the heartbeat almost think that Xiao Ran had a heart attack. Moreover, the body becomes hot.

"Look at Li Zhuotao's evaluation of this film in the new newspaper!" Lin Qingxia saw Xiao Ran's sudden change from a dead snake to a swimming dragon, and she sighed with emotion in her heart. There can be a few people like Xiao Ran who love movies, and Xiao Ran can even be depressed to the point of illness because the film is not recognized by the audience.

"Mrs. Xiao, Mr. Xiao is not sick, although his body temperature is a little abnormal. But ......" The private doctor couldn't help laughing, he also liked to watch Xiao Ran's films, and when he saw the scene in front of him, he roughly guessed why: "I think, Mr. Xiao may be because of heart disease, it's okay!" ”

Xiao Ran couldn't hear what the private doctor was saying now, and Li Zhuotao's comment was excellent, perhaps rather peculiar. He recounted the process of enjoying the test screening in the theater yesterday, and suddenly understood when he said that he was in a taxi.

And then here is his comment on the film: If you haven't watched the film, you haven't suddenly understood what the film is about, and what is missing you didn't expect. Then, you will never be able to understand the amazing talent of director Xiao Ran. It is a kind of artistic conception that can be understood, but cannot be expressed, and only by experiencing it can you find that the world is very different. And you'll find that this film is never tired of watching, at least I'll still go to the theater one more time, or more, to get through that feeling.

Appreciating the complete text, Xiao Ran no longer felt depressed, and his body temperature dropped rapidly. While this may seem like an exaggeration, it is often the case that one thing you are passionate about will dominate your life. It's like Xiao Ran once itched and screamed in order to appreciate the gangster classic "Underworld".

The personal doctor had already left, Lin Qingxia sat next to Xiao Ran with a smile, lightly tapped Xiao Ran's forehead, and said angrily: "I have never seen a person like you who loves movies to become like this because a movie is not recognized by the audience!" ”

Xiao Ran smiled embarrassedly, Lin Qingxia didn't expect that it would be extremely difficult for a film to be completely recognized by the audience. In addition, Xiao Ran has always lived as a god, and he suffered such a fiasco last night, how could he not be devastated.

On the day when the test screening finally ended, Li Zhuotao and other film critics finally integrated Xiao Ran's "True Colors" and commented on this film again. In Li Zhuotao's view, in this Xiao Ran's personal work, the perspective concept of the whole film is very special and very genius. He even thought that he was already a genius if he could think of it, and Xiao Ran really did it.

At the same time, he believes that Xiao Ran's whole film is very exciting, and it is a very wonderful police film or "bandit film" in terms of plot and process. The first is that there are quite a lot of long shots in the film, and the long shots of the police and bandit shootout not long after the beginning are even more classic, especially in on-site scheduling, which is enough to become a textbook.

The second is that the brief darkness appears in the title of the film, which shows a subtle tension with great artistic conception. The third point is undoubtedly the explanation of the ins and outs, especially the handling at the end is amazing. He even felt aggrieved for Xiao Ran, thinking that it would never be difficult to win the director of Cannes just by talking about these methods.

And he thinks that the film is full of flashes of genius, and you can feel that surging spark all the time. Coupled with the absolutely extremely individual performances of the two male protagonists, it can simply push this film to an unreachable height.

However, Li Zhuotao also pointed out the biggest flaw of the film, which is not so much a shortcoming, but a shortcoming. He believes that this film is still not literary enough, and the key reason for not being literary is that the commercial elements are very strong, and even the entire plot is fundamentally a commercial film genre. Of course, according to Xiao Ran's business style, this can really be regarded as a masterpiece of personal style.

Xiao Ran only smiled wryly at these comments. It was still the bystanders who could see what the person could not see, and he thought that now he finally understood what his biggest flaw was. It's too commercial, and even making such an experimental style work subconsciously adds a lot of commercial elements.

With the opinions of bystanders, Xiao Ran quickly discovered the shortcomings, which were indeed commercial enough, and there were no less fierce and fiery gunfights, and the chase scene was changed from a car chase to a running chase. On the surface, it seems that it is indeed not as hot as blockbusters such as "Spy Change", but the intense artistic conception is full and very moving.

If you look at it according to the genre, this is simply a "Dark War" packaged from a unique perspective, or "True Hero". Of course, it is very different in terms of plot, referring to the type of two-man film that is evenly matched.

Xiao Ran knew that he had progressed, artistic conception, and now he was able to create artistic conception through ingenious techniques. Moreover, he can give people the tension and exhilaration, with concise and not intense gunfight scenes, and all this is done in the difficult shooting situation of only one camera.

Several facts have proved that after years of tempering, Xiao Ran finally embarked on the truth of great achievement. He was finally able to synthesize his experience and knowledge to create his own style, which means that he truly stepped into the ranks of famous directors.

What made Xiao Ran laugh and cry the most was that Li Zhuotao even unceremoniously called him a master director of commercial films. This is by no means nonsense, a very stylized small-production film was actually directed by Xiao Ran into a commercial film with a bright rhythm and a tense atmosphere, even if Xiao Ran wants to admit that this is not the king of business.

However, everything that happened because of "True Colors" did not decrease because of the official release, but more, and more unpredictable things happened......

(To be continued)