After reading the script, Park Junrong also liked it very much, and what made him even happier was that he could complete the youth trilogy he was looking forward to as he wished, but Lee Jun-hee's script also caused him a lot of confusion.

"Jun-hee! What exactly are you trying to express in this script? Is it just youth? I think the proposition of youth, in "The Little Thing of First Love" and "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years", we have elaborated in great detail, and now there is the same proposition, aren't you afraid to treat it as a dog's tail and mink? ”

Park Junrong said, a meaningful smile appeared on his face, and Lee Jun-hee couldn't help but laugh when he saw it.

"Brother Junrong! How? Don't you have the confidence to make this movie well? Or are you worried about smashing your brand as a representative of young Korean directors? ”

Park Junrong was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed: "Forget it! Let's not use agitation against each other! Jun-hee! I don't want to guess anything, you are the author of this script, you can tell me, when you wrote this script, what did you think? Only when I know what you, the author, think, can I shoot this script well, otherwise, if I shoot according to my own understanding, when the time comes, maybe I will lose the original flavor! ”

Park Junrong said this, which surprised Lee Jun-hee, because in his opinion, any director is conceited, they have their own way of understanding any script, and then they will stubbornly follow their own way of understanding, connect the script through a group of shots, and complete a work that belongs to him.

But now Park Junrong is actually asking Lee Jun-hee, the author!

So, what exactly is Lee Jun-hee trying to express?

Undoubtedly, still youth!

What is youth?

In "The Little Thing of First Love", Lee Jun-hee expresses a kind of hazy youth, and in "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years", Lee Jun-hee expresses a kind of restless youth. And this script, what Lee Jun-hee wants to show people is the slightly cruel side of youth.

Or the question, what is youth?

For Lee Jun-hee, youth is a brood with a gold dalee flower in the buttonhole of a blended white shirt, walking through the streets in full view of no one, and being complacent about his maverick.

Youth confessed to a girl in a crowded fast food restaurant, but was politely rejected, not because she was beautiful and cute, but just because he had a good chat with her at the beginning of his love.

Youth is in the cram school time, singing in the corridor. He was flattened by his angry classmates, and felt humiliated and hopeless because almost the whole school was watching.

Youth is in a humble Internet café, typing beautiful words with a keyboard stained with soot, and imagining that he is a writer who will eventually become famous.

It was the first time that I got myself drunk with alcohol with my friends, and I woke up with a large patch of red rashes on my back.

Youth is the first time to really fall in love with a girl, but the son of a rich family confessed first, helplessly watching the fate of the protagonist in "Blue Life and Death Love", crying a lot.

It was the first time that I was young and created a piece of music that I thought was gorgeous. and then was criticized by Kim Tae-hyun's rotten man as useless, but he still didn't give up his dream of creation

This is the youth of Lee Jun-hee, a man born in the early 80s.

Well, push forward 10 years. What is the youth of the post-70s generation like?

Or, if we were given a universal definition of youth, what should all people's youth look like?

This is what Lee Jun-hee wants to sue people in this script.

Youth obviously likes a boy, but at the beginning he feels that he hates him immensely. I can't wait to be under the same blue sky as him, until someone breaks it, and then I muster up the courage to pursue it.

Youth is playing poker on the surface. Watching A. movies, it's close to a girl, a hooligan does everything, but he always loves someone deeply in his heart, even if he is the same as the stars given to her, he can only be a supporting role in love.

Youth is because of jealousy to find a crowd to beat up excellent roommates, but many years later, the class reunion is free, and the wine is happy, as if the quarrel many years ago has never happened.

Youth is sadness, sweetness, bitterness, laughter, tears, pure dripping, thick days that can't be dissolved, and the youthful times that can't be escaped, forgotten, and given up.

How many times in my dreams, I have red my eyes for the national examination, and when I wake up and look in the mirror, that worried face is no longer the appearance of a student.

Yes, just as Lee Jun-hee named the last part of the youth trilogy, youth will eventually pass away, and people are destined to never go back.

Youth is short, life is long, ideals are brilliant and plump, and reality is cruel and skinny.

In the first half of the script, when I was in college, according to Lee Jun-hee's ideas, it was all colored tones, and after entering society, the film will turn into a darker color.

Such a turning point can be regarded as the end of the youth of Li Junxi, the author himself, and many people, two completely different periods with different tones, showing people the characters of the two periods, whether it is the difference in mentality or living conditions.

Compared to the colorful time in college, after entering the society, what everyone experiences is cruel.

However, the story in college is not so "cruel" that the color tone completely overshadows this "cruel" fact, and it is still a beautiful youth, they have secret love, pain, separation, confession, everyone's youth is nothing more than that.

Although the story has a male and female protagonist, Lee Jun-hee focuses on the cruel youth of the four girls, infatuation to betrayal, realistic material marriage, and hidden mental illness.

This group of female college students, everyone's youth story is so real, in that era, the college campus that everyone yearns for, the youth they experienced, not just some petty fights, quarrels, everyone's youth can write a novel, it is not simple.

First of all, the heroine Yin Jiaen, because of her young love, she came to the city where the person she liked went to college, which originated from her initial childhood wish, fantasizing about wearing a crystal slipper, becoming a princess, and living with the person she loved, how could she have expected that the person she loved, but because of her father's "extramarital affair" with her mother, and avoided her for seven years.

Yoon Ga-eun is complex. When the love with the male protagonist ends in college, entering society, the old lover and the childhood sweetheart appear at the same time, which makes the character of Yin Jiaen itself full of tragedy, and Cinderella will never be able to wear a crystal slipper and be happy with her beloved prince.

Reality and fairy tales seem so irreconcilable, because of love, even if Yin Jiaen is willing to endure hardships with the person she loves, she is disappointed because her boyfriend can't bear poverty.

Su Youzhen, a beautiful and simple girl written by Lee Jun-hee. After experiencing the betrayal of her boyfriend but still not leaving, when she arrived in society, she found out that she was pregnant, but she had an abortion because of her boyfriend's cowardice, and finally went to the farewell appointment before getting married, and suffered a car accident. Paying for love, sacrificing for love, in exchange for lying alone on the cold spiritual bed.

Song Jiaxi and Zheng Duohui are much simpler than Yoon Jiaen and Su Youzhen, and Song Jiaxi is actually the same as the male protagonist of the script. She has the most direct and snobbish idea, that is, "people go to high places", so that when her "boyfriend" in the countryside comes to visit her, she will try to dissociate herself from him. Then he married a rich old man in his 50s.

And Zheng Duohui, this character itself is very contradictory, she is not because her sister is a seller of steamed buns. Just look down on yourself. However, because he was mistaken for a thief in the supermarket, he thought that he had been insulted, so he smashed the supermarket and was finally forced to drop out of school.

Towards the end of the film, when Zheng Duohui became a well-known expert in children's learning and tutoring, when the old classmates communicated with him, he tried his best to dissociate himself from the relationship, and I have to say that the character of Zheng Duohui does not rule out a certain pathology in spirit and personality.

The sudden violence, the subsequent sedational transformation, and the severance with the "past" can be seen as a hidden mental illness that is depressing.

The youth of these four girls is more or less imperfect, they all have different youthful pasts, or decadence, or confusion, or hardship, or sentimentality, however, this qiē is a kind of youth syndrome of "youth".

It can be said that among these four people, Song Jiaxi and Zheng Duohui's youth is the most pure and simple "cruel", there is no tribulation of love, and some are only forced to drop out of school because of the explosion of their personalities, or they want to live the life of an upper-class person and marry a divorced old man.

And Yin Jiaen and Su Youzhen, as the two core characters of the whole story, have experienced the most painful transformation process of a woman from youth to maturity, especially Su Youzhen in college because of her boyfriend's alcohol. After. Disorderly. sex, persuading the other woman to have an abortion, and then embarking on the road of abortion, and finally having a car accident, is actually a continuation of cruel youth.

Park Junrong listened patiently, sometimes agreeing, sometimes frowning: "Jun-hee! What you want to show is that it's too cruel, compared to the previous two movies, this script has more dark sides, and neither of them is dramatic, which may make the audience uncomfortable! ”

Li Junxi didn't have such worries: "Brother Junrong! I just want to put the most authentic thing out of the table! ”

"But the audience may prefer the limited truth that comes out of "Those Years", and your script is ~~~~~~ too real! Maybe it's the opposite! ”

Park Junrong's worry, Lee Jun-hee can't answer it, because before the movie is filmed and released, he doesn't know what the result will be, but he is willing to gamble.

"Maybe, but, Brother Junrong! It could also be a different outcome! ”

Park Jun-yong smiled and shook his head, he didn't want to debate this issue with Lee Jun-hee, he knew that in some things, Lee Jun-hee was very stubborn, and he did like the script very much.

But~~~~~~

As a director, Park Junrong has to think about the future market reaction!

"Alright! We try to be realistic, but, Jun-hee, there is another problem in your script, maybe people, to be precise, Korean men can't accept it! ”

Li Junxi smiled when he heard this: "Brother Junrong! Are you talking about male pessimism? ”

In fact, in the process of creation, Li Junxi does not want to define anything with too academic theories, because the things that everyone's youth experiences cannot be defined by theories.

The so-called male pessimism, in Li Junxi's view, simply means that in the world of feelings, men usually express cowardice and avoidance in physical, mental, and volitional, on the contrary, women on the other side are upward and brave. A woman's disappointment with a man is usually caused by the fact that the woman sees the facts clearly and finds herself disconnected from the life she envisioned.

For example, Han Tae-hee, the second male protagonist in the story, hid for seven years because of his father and Yoon Ga-eun's mother**, and abandoned the Yoon Ga-eun he loved.

The motto of the actor Choi Woo-hyuk "My life is a building that can only be built once, I must make it extremely accurate, and there can be no centimeter difference", and then abandoned his love because of the ** of his career.

Su Youzhen's ex-boyfriend Cui Yu can be said to embody this so-called "male pessimism" color to the extreme. Hope. couldn't control the pregnancy of a girl, and then because of the family's disapproval, she cowardly escaped Su Youzhen's true love, and finally learned of Su Youzhen's marriage and asked her to celebrate the memories of her youth.

The three boys were all crippled in the years of their youth, and when they had love, they gave up lightly; For the sake of the upper position, abandon everything.

All of them no longer let women down, and they have a strong pessimism about the love of boys.

And the female side. Yin Jiaen and Su Youzhen express the eternal decay of youth with their practical actions, which is in stark contrast to the male choice to guide the end of love.

I have to say that every man does not dare to assert anything he can't give, and faces the persistent pursuit of women. They can only choose to escape, missing out on the best time of their lives.

What Lee Jun-hee wants to express is completely true, but Park Jun-yong's worries are not unreasonable, because South Korea is a typical patriarchal society. Although the government is shouting "equality between men and women" and trying to improve the status of women in society like a show, it still cannot change the reality that South Korea is a patriarchal society. A woman can only be stored as an appendage to a man.

Whether this work can be accepted by Korean men is also a question, and it is also something that Lee Jun-hee needs to gamble on.

However, since even "My Sassy Girlfriend" can cause a sensation in South Korea, why can't the male pessimism involved in Lee Jun-hee's script be accepted by people?

Moreover, the cruelty and helplessness of youth mentioned by Park Junrong just now, although the script is involved, it is not the main focus of the story, since youth is only once for everyone, Lee Junxi feels that everyone should remember and believe that it is beautiful, and the deep and shallow footprints that have been walked will become the most valuable wealth on our long road of life.

The whole story can make everyone who has experienced college begin to miss those youthful years, recalling that they have also been stupid, tired, crazy, hated, and painful, but only in this way is true love.

When the scene of the university dinner reappears, recalling the opening of the heart that night, or the final confession and separation, I believe everyone will sigh for a long time, when people see the old movie posters in the university dormitory, or the scene of the boys' dormitory is a mess, those green years immediately come to mind.

Youth is gone, washed prosperity, what is left?

However, once had, those sweet years for whom they worked hard are worth cherishing, so why be sentimental.

When you are young, people don't think about such a long time, such a precise "later", and even think that getting old is something that will happen a long time ago.

People cry uncontrollably, laugh uncontrollably, and love unbridledly, thinking that person is the old lover of this life, unswerving, and put all their feelings on that person without reservation and wholeheartedly, until they break up, they know that nothing in the world is "eternal".

It is only after being sad that people understand what the heroine Yin Jiaen said in the story: "I used to think that I would die without your love, but in fact, love can't kill people, it will only prick a needle in the most painful place, and then we will become a doctor after a long illness, and we will be tempered into steel!" ”

There are some "regrets" in everyone's youth, but it is these imperfect lives that build the reality of the present, the tomboy Zheng Duohui who secretly has a crush on a boy, the little supporting character who likes Su Youzhen like a thief carrying stolen goods, the Song Jiaxi who eventually became the stepmother of two children, the Su Youzhen who wears a wedding dress and makes people excited, the Yin Jiaen who is nostalgic for the past but resolutely and bravely moves forward, in most people's youth, there is not so vigorous, but, Lee Jun-hee believes that people who watch this movie in the future will always find a trace of themselves in this story, a trace of their own life that they have fantasized about even if nothing has happened.

Park Junrong was finally persuaded by Lee Jun-hee, no! To be precise, I should have been moved by the story depicted in the script.

"Jun-hee! In that case, can I start preparing now? ”

Just do it!

In this regard, Park Junrong and Lee Jun-hee are the same kind of people, and once they have an idea in their hearts, they must immediately put it into action, and it is urgent to do so.

Lee Jun-hee smiled, he was happy for Park Jun-yong's decision: "Of course, you can start at any time, Brother Junrong, I won't interfere with anything related to the crew, and I'll leave it to you to deal with!" ”

Lee Jun-hee said this, which means that the shooting of the entire movie, the power of life and death is in the hands of Park Junrong.

Park Junrong couldn't help but be moved when he heard this, such an absolute right in the Korean film and television industry can only be enjoyed by those really big-name directors.

"Jun-hee! Well, you're welcome, now I want to talk to you about the actors! (To be continued......)