On April 20, the 53rd Cannes Film Festival released the list of nominees.

A total of 23 works were selected, including "Brother, Where Are You" by the Coen Brothers, "Imperial Law" by Nagisa Oshima, "Dancer in the Dark" by Russ von Trier, and so on. Xu is because of last year's film festival, the favor of small budget and art films is too obvious, which has caused some controversy.

Among the Chinese-language films, one from the mainland, one from Taiwan and one from Hong Kong was selected, Wang Jiawei's "In the Mood for Love", Yang Dechang's "Yiyi", and Jiang Wen's "The Devil is Coming".

The organizing committee is quite funny, on the list, Wang Jiawei's film is actually called "untitledfilm", that is, there is no name. Before I could figure out what it was called, I let it be shortlisted.

Of course, people think that it should be "In the Mood for Love", but Director Wang hasn't taken the time to give a nice English name.

In addition, Li Yu's "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" withdrew from the competition and became a special screening. The rights to the film have been sold at a high price in France, probably not hoping that if it doesn't win the award, it will affect the momentum.

These films, all of which were hyped before the start of filming or during filming, were hyped to the point that everyone knew about them, and they were born with an international style, which can be called the highest level of film art on all continents.

In China, even if "Suzhou Creek" has lost a lot of eyeballs, "The Devil is Coming" is still the most watched movie this year.

Some time ago, all kinds of negative gossip about this film made the film industry and the audience extremely anxious.

The film has not yet been screened, and the media that are accustomed to hype have already rendered it a big hit for the Palme d'Or. They feel like they're in God's help, that's called, building momentum.

Jiang Wen was so annoyed that he was going to die!

Even if the Film Bureau doesn't have it explicitly, wait for him to send it to the door, and then kill it with a bang. He also had no hope of censoring the pass guò. Go directly to the underground route, and plan to quietly send it to Cannes for the exhibition. If you really want to win a grand prize, go back to China to publicize and publicize, and then pat yourself on the back, maybe you will survive.

Lao Jiang had a very correct idea, and no one told him about signing up, and he didn't even know about it, so he did it himself. As a result, everyone who was quarreled with by these grandsons was known to the world.

Simply pig teammates!

Fortunately, it's over there at the Film Bureau. Maintained his usual sluggishness, and didn't react much. Or maybe they're just waiting to see what the outcome will be.

Because, what kind of story is the story of "The Devil is Coming", except for Jiang Wen, no one knows.

……

Before, well, probably more than a decade ago. We summarize the living conditions of not having a stable job, earning little money, and being hungry and full into a very vivid word: mix.

But then. The meaning of this word begins to be hypocritical.

The salesmen who sell products all over the street are mixing, the office dogs who sit in office buildings crackling and typing all day are also mixing, and the little white-collar workers who drive two or three hundred thousand cars and occasionally go to Europe for vacation are even more mixed.

Mixed seems to have become very common. Even when greeting friends, they are saying: How is the mix? Oh, good mix.

It looks like I'm very proud.

Compared to these underwhelmed sluts. Cui Mingliang is really messing around, and he's fooling.

He left home and wandered around with the cave group for ten years. And with the gradual popularization of television, the common people have gradually lost interest in vulgar song and dance troupes.

Ten years later, he finally returned to his hometown and no longer wandered.

Jia Zhangke did not give an obvious timeline in the movie, it was very jumpy, the last shot was still talking about Cui Mingliang walking acupoints, and the next shot became Yin Ruijuan riding Xiaomo to work.

The progress of time and space is hidden in seemingly random images.

In the past ten years, Lao Jia has not explained many things that have happened. For example, Cui Mingliang is still with Yin Ruijuan.

When filming this scene, in order to turn up the contrasting light, the whole crew thought of a lot of ways, and finally demolished half of the wall to get a satisfactory result.

Yin Ruijuan stood on the balcony with her child in her arms, and it was sunny outside. In the room, gray and gloomy, Cui Mingliang shrunk on a sofa, holding a cigarette in his hand, and fell asleep tiredly.

He will never sing again, wander, imagine himself as a literary worker, and run after trains...... After all, it's past a teenager.

In this scene, Lao Jia wanted to put it in the ending scene.

He is probably a bitter and then sweet man, who got the depressed part early, but left the most enthusiastic scene in the whole film on the day of the finale.

Luliang Mountain, after sunset.

The color of the sky is strange, like a deep blue dye, slowly soaked into the clear water, and then the thickness fades layer by layer, light and dark, and the surface of the water is painted with thin fine lines.

This is a wilderness dozens of kilometers away from Fenyang, and there is a railway bridge where a special train pulling coal passes every 20 minutes.

Several low hills, towering far and near, look bare before the flourishing season. The rain had just fallen in the morning, and a curvy stream flowed through the broken grass, spreading over the open field, and looking at the past, there was only an old tree with a crooked neck, standing alone.

The flat ground underfoot, weathered by the mixing of small stones and coarse gravel, has a white surface, like scattered snow.

“Action！”

A blue-skinned liberation car slowly drove into the camera, drove on, suddenly stopped, and broke down. The driver tried to start, but it had no effect, so he had to go down with Lao Song to check.

The doors are open, the camera rack is on the side, and the long lens is again, and the steering wheel looks bigger and bigger against the narrow cab.

Chu Qing climbed into the car, took the box of newly bought tapes, unpacked it, and stuffed it in. A very rhythmic electric guitar sounded out, which was the prelude to "Platform".

He closed his eyes and leaned back in his seat, his legs shaking slightly to the rhythm. Liang Jingdong and Yang Lina jumped out of the carriage and stood in front of the other door, quiet and excited.

The scene is set in the early stages, when they first hear the song.

"The long platform, the lonely wait, the long train, carried my fleeting love...... My heart is waiting, forever waiting, my heart is waiting, forever waiting......"

Under the blue sky, several people surrounded the blue truck. I was listening to the train and platform inside the song, and listening to the wonderful world outside.

"Woo......"

At this time, a whistle sounded, Liang Jingdong seemed to feel a slight vibration, and couldn't help but look in the direction of the railway bridge, suddenly raised his neck and shouted: "Train!" ”

Yang Lina also looked at it and immediately shouted, "Hey! There are trains! ”

Chu Qing twisted his body tightly, only glanced at it, jumped down in an instant, spread his legs and ran. The two men followed. As he ran, he greeted, "There's a train!" There are trains! ”

More than a dozen people in the carriage all jumped down, and some were wearing coats, hurriedly throwing them on the ground, wearing only fancy sweaters, and followed their companions.

The camera zooms out suddenly, gray-yellow hills, miserable white gravel ground, a group of young people who have never seen a train. Running madly through the wilderness, running towards the high railroad bridge.

"Woo......"

The whistle is getting closer and louder. The train finally burst out of the tunnel, dragging a long body with it. The dark and dilapidated tin compartments, swaying and scattered, drove across the bridge.

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

They cheered and quickened their pace. Climb up the narrow weedy path.

"Boom, boom!"

The train had whizzed by, leaving the tail far away.

Chu Qing was at the front, and Liang Jingdong followed beside him. Yang Lina stood on the railroad tracks, followed by a dozen or so companions, waving their hands together and shouting happily: "Ah! ”

"Stop!"

Lao Jia shouted: "Qingzi, you are not in love, let go a little more!" Do it all over again! ”

“Action！”

Then he took another one, but he didn't stop shouting, he frowned and read it, still dissatisfied.

As a result, when the third article was made, Chu Qing didn't need him to say it, he knew what was wrong, he shouldn't be enough, well, not excited enough. When actors are filming, this often happens, like a basketball player, who is not injured or sick, and has a normal mentality, but he just doesn't feel good.

It can only be adjusted slowly.

But at the moment, the crew doesn't have the time to let him find his state. A few people squatted together to discuss, Yu Liwei had the most experience, and quickly came up with a way, saying, "Try some wine?" ”

Gu Zheng clapped his hands and said, "I think it happens that there is a bottle of white in my car!" ”

Chu Qingqi said: "Why are you still bringing a bottle of wine?" ”

"Hehe, won't you finish it today, I bought it during the day, I want to drink with you." Gu Zheng said with a smile.

Jia Zhangke rubbed his forehead and asked, "Qingzi, what do you think?" ”

He wasn't sure, he hadn't tried this trick before, and said, "Anyway, let's drink some first." ”

"Okay, I'll go down and get it." After Gu Zheng finished speaking, he slid down the bridge tremblingly.

Chu Qing turned around and apologized to the staff, especially Yang Lina's people, every time they took a shot, they had to run with them, which would be so tired and out of breath.

After a while, Gu Zheng came up with the bottle and the second pot.

As soon as he unscrewed the lid, the wine was dizzy, Chu Qing took a big sip, and the hot and spicy rushed straight into his stomach, burning and hurting, and he just wanted to vomit sour water.

I pressed it hard, drank a few more sips, my head quickly became heavy, and the hot energy was rampage in my body, and while I was sober, I quickly waved my hand and said, "Okay, come on!" ”

“Action！”

Chu Qing was the first to run into the camera, followed by those companions. After he arrived at the position, he stopped for a while, and Yang Lina came over, just about to put her arm on his shoulder, but who knew that the thing moved again.

At first it was a small step, then it got faster and faster, and the two long legs took a step and ran straight forward along the rails.

The icy air before the night came, gulping into his throat and mixing with the liquor in his stomach, churned and churned.

He tilted his neck back slightly, and opened his mouth to spit out the churning water.

"Woo......"

Chu Qing let out a long train whistle, accompanied by chaotic wheezing, which seemed intermittent and teared.

One night many years ago, he sat in the car and learned the sound from his mouth.

Now, many years later, he is running on the tracks, chasing the departing train and his fleeting dreams.

It turns out that the real train is like this. It turns out that the real flute sounds, this is the sound......

Yu Liwei fought hard and followed him to the death, and the machine in his hand couldn't keep it stable and shook violently.

Jia Zhangke's small eyes, from the time Chu Qing's footsteps started, opened to the maximum, staring at the monitor, and unconsciously muttering in his mouth:

"Run!"

"Run!"

"Run!"

……

So far, the spring filming of "Platform" has been completed. The film is almost complete, and there are only a few scenes of the grassland left to be reshot, because in this place in Jinzhong, the grassland is really difficult to find.

But then there is nothing Chu Qing to do, the actor doesn't have to show his face, just pick a few stand-ins. In other words, this movie, which has been tossed for half a year, has finally been filmed!

He never felt that filming would be so tiring, and he had a thorough understanding of Lao Jia, even if he was a buddy, it was okay once or twice, and every time it was so neat, it would have to be ruined to death.

Jia Zhangke, on the other hand, feels that his character has been completely consumed in a movie, both in and out of the play. He borrowed all the money he could borrow, plus his own savings, and also scraped together hundreds of thousands, and the rest was just for the later stage.

Chu Qing's tens of thousands of yuan have been returned, and he called his girlfriend back. Not counting the income of the hotel, there are still 20,000 yuan in cash in hand, and I have to buy furniture, so I am more worried.

However, this is about to be May, and "Six Groups of Serious Cases" should be filmed soon, but it can make a fortune. (To be continued......)