"Okay, since it's on the steps, let's go outside the door and perform!" Jeremy nodded and walked out first.

"Haha, thank you for giving me this opportunity to be Jeremy's dad!" Little Robert squeezed his eyes at Zhou Shaoming and walked out laughing.

Outside the door, the street lamps were dim, and Jeremy sat on the steps, in this quiet emptiness, where there was no wind, only little Robert facing him.

Zhou Shaoming and Christina hid in the shadows and watched.

With his hands clasped together, Jeremy looked up at the trail that was winding away from time to time, then looked disappointedly at the empty corner, lowered his head, pulled a bucket of potato chips out of his pocket, threw it into his mouth, and chewed it recklessly.

In a different position, Jeremy leaned back against the wall, still looking up from time to time, hoping to catch his father's figure, but after being disappointed again and again, he tightly twisted the potato chip bucket in his hand and twisted it into a twisted shape.

Suddenly his breathing was a little short, his chest was a little heaving, Jeremy seemed to have a stomach full of resentment and grievances, all vented in the potato chip bucket in his hand, rearranged it, and twisted it into a twist again.

Perhaps feeling impatient to wait, Jeremy suddenly stood up and threw the potato chip bucket into the trash, raised his head again and looked at the silent road expectantly, the look in his eyes quickly dimmed, and silently walked back to the steps, sat down, leaned his head against the wall, and sighed softly.

The street lamp shone on his body, Zhou Shaoming could feel the unruly temperament and stubbornness on his body, the figure sitting alone on the steps, and for no reason let himself feel the pain of being stabbed by thorns.

He was waiting for his father, who should have been closest to him, but he was full of a blunt beast feeling that he was desperate, and this emotion made him blame himself and made him have no way to escape.

Coughing, Robert Jr. followed the established steps and began to speak his father's lines.

"Tommy?"

After a moment of hesitation, "Oh my God, Tommy? ”

Jeremy's eyes lit up, but he turned to the side and laughed, a smile that had a few attachments to finally seeing his father, and a few more unspeakable bitterness.

Soon, with a smile in his face, Jeremy looked at little Robert calmly, twining his fingers with some unease.

"Why are you sitting here?"

"Hehe, I happened to be from the side of the road, so I stopped by to have a drink with my father!" Jeremy chuckled, then his face was extremely serious and out of place.

Zhou Shaoming suddenly felt that the antagonism he showed at this time was a bit too much, after all, he met his father, he hadn't seen him for more than ten years, no matter how much he hated it, he should maintain a little respect on the surface, right?

However, Zhou Shaoming still applauded vigorously and said with a smile: "Oh, it's very good!" Jeremy, your acting skills have improved so much! I think soon the Oscar statuette will obediently fly into your arms. ”

Christina, who was watching from the sidelines, also exclaimed: "Wow, God, this performance is wonderful, although it is only a short clip, it is very moving!" ”

Little Robert said very unhappily: "Boy, I haven't given you any money yet!" I'm an Oscar-winning winner...... Nominate! ”

Jeremy stood up, put his arms around Little Robert's neck and said proudly, "Hey, I said you two don't praise me, Rob, see I won the Oscar before you!" ”

Robert Jr. pouted, then laughed, and hugged him hard.

Between brothers, there is no need for too many words, no matter how successful or unsuccessful the three are, brothers will always be brothers!

forever！

Zhou Shaoming patted Jeremy on the shoulder, and said with some hesitation: "But the last point, why did you just smile lightly when you saw your father, and then his expression was serious, the opposing expression was too heavy, it may not be suitable for the mood of the people in the play, right?" ”

Jeremy said suspiciously: "Can you still laugh in the face of a father who has left his son and wife for more than ten years, and is both domestic violence and alcoholism?" I can't laugh, I think it's better to have a clear opposition to the way of facing it. ”

But there is a key word in "Warrior", that is, the desire for forgiveness, the father hopes that the younger son can forgive himself, the elder brother hopes that the younger brother can forgive himself, and the younger brother hopes to forgive everyone. If the performance is stereotyped as too antagonistic from the beginning, I feel that it is a bit overdone, this should not be the norm, but the occasional embellishment in the father-son relationship is better, and what should be insisted on is indifference, indifference, not like the way of seeking revenge at the door. Zhou Shaoming explained.

Jeremy lowered his head and thought for a while, but still insisted on his thoughts: "Maybe you're right, but I still think it's better to oppose each other first and transform it slowly." ”

"Conversion? The shot time is only two hours, we have to cherish every second of the shot, if the tone set by the first paragraph of the opening paragraph is like that, the whole movie will be difficult to reverse, and it will make the audience feel that the plot is stiff and abrupt, or it is better to lay the groundwork at the beginning and let the audience accept it better! Zhou Shaoming shook his head, indicating that he would also insist on his own understanding: "When Tommy came home, he actually didn't have any feelings for his father in his heart, he was indifferent, negative, and uncooperative, and this way of behaving is right!" ”。

The two stared at each other with big eyes, and Jeremy couldn't bear Zhou Shaoming's eyes, so he could only turn his head to look for help: "Hey, Christina, which of the two of us do you think is right?" ”

Zhou Shaoming also turned his head to look at Christina, and for a while, four eyes focused on him like a searchlight, Christina could only laugh, took Zhou Shaoming's hand and said: "I think neither of you is wrong, this part of the play can indeed be divided into two sides to understand, of course, Zhou is the director, you do what he says, no problem!" ”

"Oh, you two are in a gang, it's stupid for me to ask you this question, okay, Zhou, you win, who told you to have a girlfriend and I didn't, haha!" Jeremy grinned with his hands on his waist.

"It doesn't matter Jeremy, if you invite me to another glass of red wine in the evening, I'll be on your side!" Little Robert pursed his lips and looked at Jeremy longingly.

The four of them couldn't help but laugh, and their sincere friendship overflowed in each other's hearts.

Jeremy accepted his suggestion, he is his brother, and it is normal to obey his own opinions, but Zhou Shaoming suddenly had a sense of crisis, if there is some disagreement between Jim Carrey of the 20 million club and himself in performance, will he listen to himself? ――

Moby Dick was one of the most important American novelists of the 19th century, Herman? In a novel about the ocean published in 1851 by Hermanmelville (1819~1891), the protagonist of the novel, the whaling captain Ahab, encounters a nickname "Moby? Dick's fierce white whale was bitten off a leg, and since then his surname has changed dramatically, believing that it represents all the evil and suffering in the world, and vowing to hunt down the white whale to avenge it. In order to achieve his goal, Ahab did not hesitate to violate all the rules of the whaling industry, despite the repeated warnings of nature and the opposition of his crew, searched the wildest seas in the world, and finally met his old enemy. Moby Dick has a devilish cunning and mythical powers that mortals can't seem to defeat him. But the frenzied Ahab challenged the invincible object to fail, and in his mind, the white whale was not only a fierce beast in the ocean, but also a devil swimming in Ahab's blood, leading to the death of Ahab and the white whale together.

This novel, in fact, is the red thread that runs through the whole movie, in the original time and space, at the beginning of the movie, the old father plays an audio book in his car, which is talking about how similar to Captain Ahab carrying a sledgehammer and nailing a Spanish gold coin to the bow of the ship as a reward, luring sailors to hunt and kill Moby Dick, and setting up a very high prize boxing tournament.

Zhou Shaoming also watched this novel carefully, which corroborated with the movie he was going to make, and he felt that the two brothers Tommy and Brydon were like the two sides of Captain Ahab, Tommy was the side that remembered hatred and was fearless to the point of not even hesitating to die together, while Brydon was stoic, even if he broke a leg, he had to travel all over the world to find the enemy's super willpower.

Both share the depression, distress, and helplessness of Captain Ahab.

The younger brother came with hatred, even revenge, that is, the father who betrayed him by his brother and did not leave the domestic violence with him as planned, and let himself be displaced with his poor mother, and even in the end, his mother died painfully in front of him because of the lack of money for treatment!

After joining the army, the friendship of his comrades-in-arms allowed him to find the warmth of home, but his comrades-in-arms died of accidental injuries, but he survived, and he thought that it was himself who should be damned, not his comrades-in-arms with wives and children.

The damned ones are not dead, the undamned ones are all dead, everything is so unforgivable, unforgivable!

And the elder brother made this choice because he had a beloved girl, and even wanted to get his father's only love deep down, so he made this choice that his conscience was unhappy, but his drunken father disappointed him so much that he gave up his favorite martial arts and chose to be an ordinary physics teacher.

But life has been playing with him, his father has only liked his younger brother, who is extremely talented in martial arts, since he was a child, he doesn't like him, his daughter unfortunately suffers from a heart attack, he and his wife work three jobs and can't afford medical bills, the ruthless bank wants to take away his house, after 90 days he will have nothing, he will sleep on the street with his two daughters and wife!

Life has been playing with him, has been playing with him!

The domestic violence wife, the father who shattered the whole family, finally came to his senses, quit drinking, and relied on listening to Moby Dick audio novels to anesthetize himself and make himself strong. And in the face of the two sons who are incompatible, when they want to not give an inch in the ring for their own goals, they can only watch silently and heartbroken.

The three of them, all eager to be forgiven, all eager to be redeemed, were moved by the family affection that was thicker than water, and finally let go of everything and unraveled the demons in each other's hearts.

It's an extremely powerful movie.

(To be continued)