The team of more than 100 people did not come to Fenyang, Jia Zhangke just took a few main creative personnel from the second phase of filming, and let them familiarize themselves with the local environment first.

Because most of them are amateur actors, it is difficult to maintain their own state and the continuity of their image memory. To put it simply, after half a winter, Chu Qing was able to pick it up immediately and act as soon as he spoke, but Zhao Tao and Liang Jingdong felt very unfamiliar, as if they were filming a new drama.

And that place in the capital is too impetuous, Jia Zhangke also wants to get rid of all kinds of interference, honestly nest in the ideal country, and complete the second half of the movie.

In the hotel, in the chess and card room, four people are playing mahjong.

"Thirty thousand!" Liu Xiaojuan snapped a photo.

"Eat!"

Chu Qing pulled open two cards, sandwiched 30,000 in the middle, and threw out a chicken.

"Bump!" Zhao Tao on the opposite side said softly, just about to take the card, he heard Liu Xiao'e hurriedly shouting: "Hey, don't move, I'm confused!" ”

With a flick of her hand, she pushed down the entire deck of cards, and said excitedly: "Seven small pairs!" ”

"Tsk!" Chu Qing smacked his mouth in annoyance, lifted the tablecloth, took out the pressed money, and muttered while counting: "Seven small pairs, light the cannon, damn, I'm still Zhuang!" ”

Ya a little regretted teaching them to play Northeast mahjong, don't do it or die, now it's going to double. He looked at the ceiling and counted for a while, before he counted out four yuan, and then took out two one-dime steel hammers and pushed them to Liu Xiao'e. The other two also threw a few cents and gloated unabashedly.

Well, they play smaller......

It is said that several new actors have been added to the crew, and Liu Xiaojuan and Liu Xiao'e are two of them. They are twins, born in dancing, young and slender, Gu Zheng didn't know where to pull them from, so he recommended them to Lao Jia.

In order to familiarize them with the main actors, Jia Zhangke assigned two tasks: during the day, it was to play mahjong together. Or rehearse songs and dances. In the evening, they watched movies together, mainly Hou Hsiao-hsien's "City of Sadness" and "Dream Life".

In this group of people, Liang Jingdong and Zhao Tao can play cards, Chu Qing understands it a little, but Liang Jingdong doesn't like to make fun, so he has to be on top, and often these four people form a game.

Hey, it seems that there is a Peking opera called "Three Niang's Godson".

Play mahjong and practice singing and dancing. It's easy to say, the most worrying thing is at night, including Chu Qing, watching those two films and seeing vomit. It's not okay if you don't watch it seriously, Jia Zhangke is like a perverted teacher, and he often asks them how they feel about watching movies.

He hopes that the actors will learn how to perform in a long-shot style film.

It's so embarrassing!

It's just that you let Zhao Tao watch boring movies like non-professionals, and I really don't feel it. So Chu Qing became a lifesaver, and was caught by his friends copying homework.

This is also a special treat. Finally realized the courage of a scholar.

For the small county town of Fenyang, Chu Qing and Lao Jia feel about the same, they are very down-to-earth as soon as they come, and they don't have to worry about any bad things. The steadfastness of being able to really sink down and make a movie.

In the capital, although he said that he was resting, he was annoyed; Coming here, physically exhausted. But it's a pleasure.

Of course you're so happy, the chess and card room is .avi, and you can play in 4p......

I played two eight laps in the morning. Chu Qing lost the most, it has nothing to do with card skills, he is not embarrassed to win at all, and he will play casually when he encounters a big name, and the result is a fart.

"If you lose thirty-eight yuan and five, who will leave you with?" He checked the remaining money, put it in his pocket, and asked with a smile.

"Xiao'e, I'll have more than six yuan." Zhao Tao is also a fun, and there is a bit of unfinished meaning.

"Uh-huh, leave me here! Exactly thirty-five. Liu Xiao'e counted the money and said with a smile.

"You're good today, and I've hugged a few big ones."

Chu Qing stood up and stretched his waist, stiffened, and said with a smile: "I'll go back to the house first, don't be like yesterday, catch Lao Gu over to play again, it's almost over." ”

"Got it, promise not to play! Hey Brother Qingzi, please eat fried tofu with shrimp sauce at night! Liu Xiao'e shouted in the back.

"Okay, I'll look for you at night!" He turned his back and waved his hand.

"Hey, hey, they're so nice, I can't see it at all." Liu Xiaojuan couldn't help but praise him when he went out.

"yes, I was scared at first." Liu Xiao'e nodded.

In their eyes, Chu Qing's level can be regarded as a big star, and he has never filmed before, so he will inevitably be apprehensive when he joins the group. But after a few days of getting along, I felt that this person was so good, kind-hearted, generous, very caring for them, and polite, and didn't even mean to do anything.

In short, Ya has surpassed Cai Guoqing and has been properly promoted to the new male god of the twin sisters.

……

Jia Zhangke was stunned.

At least that's what Chu Qing thinks, and he has seen this state in Jiang Wen. These directors are all virtuous, aren't they just moving a stone, and abusing themselves half to death, isn't it very pleasant?

It's been three days since I came to Fenyang, and the rest of the script hasn't been completed yet. In fact, Lao Jia wrote too many drafts in the capital and tore them up when he came.

Maybe it's a ghost, he changed his mind again.

At first, he only wanted to make "Platform" his own youth memory, and later expanded it into an epic of ordinary people, and now, this product is no longer satisfied with just describing the changes of the times, but wants to put the fate of the characters and their personal sense of failure in a more important position.

To put it in layman's terms, it is probably such a process: photographing people - photographing the times - photographing people in the context of the times.

With such difficulty, it's like soaring from the Qi Refining Period to soaring all at once, and the five thunders that are self-inflicted on the top.

Without a script, you can't make preliminary preparations, and everyone has no score in their hearts. Gu Zheng was so anxious that he didn't dare to urge, he knew Jia Zhangke too well, unless he figured it out, he would be dead.

Towards April, the film crew arrived in Fenyang, and fortunately, on the same day, Lao Jia finally completed the script.

Unfortunately, this script is too pitiful!

In Jia Zhangke's room, producer Li Jieming was arguing with him. Also present was Gu Zheng, Chu Qing is the only actor, as a relative, he will take on the role of a frame.

"Your script is definitely not good, you have to change it!" Li Jieming slapped the notebook in his hand on the table and slammed it.

Chu Qing stared at the thick, book-like stack of things, and couldn't help twitching the corners of his eyes. He figured it out, and 80% of the reason why there were frequent accidents in Lao Jia's scenes was the director's own death.

Like now......

"I don't change."

Jia Zhangke sat on the edge of the bed. smoked quietly, and waited for Li Jieming to finish his soaring before he spit out a sentence slowly, without even a little fluctuation on his face.

"We've done a very good job of budgeting, and you've signed a contract for a maximum of 13o minutes of production, and you're going to be able to pay for it."

Li Jieming is going crazy, how can he have such a cooperation object, it's too embarrassing!

First of all, Cannes took the initiative to invite, and you didn't take Joe. If you don't go, just make a good film, and as a result, you can come up with a strange script.

The first half plus the second half is 78 pages! 18o scenes!

It may not be a matter for TV dramas, but what is the concept of pressing on movies? If you really want to shoot it, it will take at least four hours, which is double the maximum length required by the contract.

Four hours! You think you're filming "Gone with the Wind"?

Li Jieming is not the boss, or a wage earner sent by the filmmaker, but he can't afford it.

"Spend the money. I paid it myself. ”

Jia Zhangke's cigarette was very slow, so he simply stopped smoking, and the rest was put on the ashtray. The bed in the hotel was high, and he was short. Sitting a little stiff there, but his neck was straight, and he looked at Li Jiemingdao.

18o scenes is a length that he can carry out his ideas to the end. Without this length, it is impossible to get the words through. He feels that this is his responsibility as a director. Tell what he wants to tell.

If you follow the producer's way, it's better to let the producer make the film himself.

Li Jieming also knows him and knows the reason for using money, but he can't be persuaded at all, so he can only use movies to dialogue. He took a cursory look at the script just now, and there was really a problem, so he eased his feelings and said, "Okay, let's not talk about money, just talk about drama." That Sanming, I don't think it's necessary to add it at all, it's out of the main line, and it seems that the story is very scattered, and the audience will feel inexplicable when they watch it. ”

There was silence in the air for a while, and Li Jieming was not in a hurry, waiting for his response.

"The prototype of Sanming is my own cousin."

Lao Jia blinked his eyes, turned his gaze to the ground, and said slowly: "That story is also true. You're right, but I still want to add him, it's a lower state of life. Cui Mingliang is also a low-level character, but does he have a survival problem? ”

He didn't look at anyone, as if he was asking himself, then shook his head lightly and said, "No, Cui Mingliang is in this position." Lao Jia stretched out one hand, hanging it very low, and then stretched out the other, lowered it, and said, "And Sanming is here, I want to pat their lives." ”

In the script, Sanming is Cui Mingming's cousin and lives in the countryside. He signed a life and death contract with the small coal kiln, and he could earn ten yuan a day, and if he died in the kiln, he could get five hundred yuan in compensation.

Sanming is almost a person who can't speak, except for giggling. He begged Cui Mingliang to help him sign the contract, but when the two broke up, he said a sonorous and powerful sentence: Let my sister go to school well, and never come back.

This is what Jia Zhangke wants to express, and in the sense, it is right. But in terms of narrative rhythm, he has deviated from the main line of Cui Mingliang and Yin Ruijuan and walked into the other extreme.

Movies, many times, are indeed unsatisfactory. And the master's skill lies in how to control the rhythm and leave this imperfection to the audience as a space for imagination.

Jia Zhangke's current control power is still much worse.

He threw away the stone from his heart to his heart, but the process was too long and selfish, causing great distress to many people, including himself. Even, it has overwhelmed the kind of sanity necessary to make a movie.

Great directors should never have this kind of problem. Of course, this is also what he later understood.

Another example is Wang Jiawei, who has been pretending to be stupid all her life, but she is trying to waste the filmmaker's money. The filming of this product is slow and interrupted, not because of lack of inspiration, but because I didn't find a stupid* forced to go to the pit to continue to replenish blood.

On this night, Chu Qing sat next to him just like when he saw them arguing with Zuo Wenlu, unable to interject.

In the end, Jia Zhangke finally made a small concession and deleted ten scenes. (To be continued......)

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