Chapter 577: Cold Wind, Dry Forest, Black Soil
If you use a temperature to compare a movie, at this time, there is only cold on the big screen of the Brown Bear Theater, and the cold wind is blowing in your face.
If you use one color of light, it is the darkness of the morning, and the faint light does not bring light, but the desolation that is hidden by the darkness.
The first shot the audience sees is a wide-angle shot of the elevation angle, where the desolate dead trees are deep in the mountains and forests, splitting the morning and dusk sky into small pieces, and the ground is full of gray-brown fallen leaves, revealing a poor black slope through the cracks.
A small dead branch is horizontally below the frame, and a black ant on the dead branch is clearly visible, swinging its antennae, crawling from the left end to the right end, and from the right end to the left end, it can't get away from the dead branch, and it is trapped there.
There were no birds, no insects, no wind, no sound, no life, dead silence.
A sense of perception is rapidly condensing, and the atmosphere is sinking.
Suddenly, with a rattle, a black combat boot stepped into the painting and stepped on the small withered branch to cover it, it was so huge that it almost occupied the entire screen, and the ordinary step seemed to have the power to destroy the withering and decaying. The black combat boots did not stop, and a figure walked towards the mountain forest with depth of field, and when it walked away, from the back, it was only seen that it was a girl holding firewood.
The camera zooms out slightly, the dead branch has not been trampled off, the ant has not been trampled to death, it is still crawling on the dead branch trying to escape.
In the next second, the camera cuts to the next scene, flat as a stone, neat as a blade, like a spectator with no emotional perception, no evaluation, only documentary.
The side panorama laps against the hillside, the dry forest connects the sky and the land, and the audience can see the figure clearly, she is walking from left to right with a short firewood salary.
Her clothes are a little weird, the gray-blue sleeveless dress she wears on the outside can't cover the short-sleeved variegated old sweater she wears on the upper body, the corners of the skirt also loom in the hem of the faded cropped jeans, a pair of black boots talk about her toughness, and some messy and dirty light brown ponytail talks about her busyness.
She is tall, and although she is young and wears a skirt, she does not have a trace of girlish squeamishness. Her steps were rough and powerful, and every step seemed like a rudeness poured into the earth. Her face was expressionless, neither serious nor relaxed, as if she was ready to fight, but she was used to it.
There is not a sentence or a plot, just because of the picture, atmosphere, character modeling and demeanor of the two shots, a rough girl in a remote mountain area jumped onto the screen.
Small.
The camera cuts again, the sky is brighter, and the picture is a little broader, and in the distance, I can only see a few dilapidated one-story wooden houses scattered among the bare mountains, and the dim house lights pierce the surrounding darkness. The camera reverses, Rui is walking from the mountains and forests in the distance with firewood, a sloppy small and medium-sized dog with miscellaneous hair follows on the right, and the cold wind from the morning blows from the right, blowing her hair and skirt corners.
As soon as there was a thud, the camera turned into a side panorama, and Rui threw the firewood full of firewood to the large wooden stake at his feet, and the wood chips on the ground were scattered, and there were only a few short cut logs left. The camera cuts back to the front, and she walks straight to the house without even having to shoot her hand, shouting, "Boys, haven't you gotten up yet?"
The calm and ordinary voice has a sister's non-angry self-authority.
The audience follows the hard cut into the dilapidated wooden house living room, with high ceilings and no "new" furniture, firewood burning in the fireplace, two old sofas in an L-shape around the fireplace, and no modern appliances except for an old antenna TV placed opposite.
The two little boys slept on two couches each, and the cloth cushions covering them were so old and tattered, with a layer of old dust that could not be washed away.
The voiceover heard Rui's voice outside the house: "Hurry up!" and their bodies moved slowly.
This is the second line the audience hears, and the first foul word: GET-THE-FUCK-UP!
It's not so rude, but because of this, this tone that is neither cold nor warm, but just everyday life, is like a jailer telling the prisoners in the class to get up. This voice undoubtedly tells every viewer what kind of person she is, what kind of place she is, and what kind of family she is.
"Cook him his horse's breakfast!" Rui's voice-over shouted continued.
MAKE-THE-FUCK-BREAKFAST! This made many viewers' hearts suddenly question, are the three sisters and brothers not very close? What about their parents?
The two boys were still lying in bed, the camera did not stop, and the sound of chopping wood brought the image to the wooden stake outside the house, Rui was chopping wood, and the sky was already brighter, and there was already a pile of chopped firewood by the stake. She held the axe in her right hand, raised her left hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead, and exhaled lightly.
In this close-up shot of the first character, the audience can see Rui's face clearly, no traces of makeup, slender eyebrows, calm eyes, slightly chubby cheeks flushed by the cold, and the appearance of a mountain tomboy, if it were not for the ponytail and skirt, it would be more similar.
Her gaze flickered. In the side double vist, a little boy in a blue and green jacket and jeans of eight or nine years old with the same hair color as her walks from the left. The front was single, and he turned his head to look left as he walked. In the distance, I saw a skinned animal carcass hanging on a small tree by the neighbor's house in the distance, like a deer corpse, a middle-aged and elderly man with blonde hair and a barrel-shaped stout woman were cutting the deer corpse, and the cold and vulgar smell of corpse meat could waft out of the screen.
"Rui, do you think that tonight, will the blonde Milton bring a piece of meat for us to eat?" With the little boy's voice, the camera cuts to a double panorama of him and Rui, whose height can only reach Rui's waist and chest, looking at venison expectantly.
"Probably. Rui was also looking, and his tone was flat.
"Shouldn't the family be like this?" asked the boy.
"We're just cousins, Dolly, Milton, Loquelon, Longan, Beaumont...... Everyone here is a cousin. Rui turned his head as he spoke, bent down to the ground, picked up a short piece of wood, and put it on the stake, and was about to raise the axe.
At the same time, the little boy said with some hesitation, "Maybe we should ask." ”
Rui's body froze, the camera was everything, she looked at her brother at the bottom left of the frame, her eyes looked condescending, and her light voice had a tough attitude: "Harold, never." What should be sent by the family on their own initiative must not be asked. ”
With a panoramic view of the side of the two, Rui picked up the axe with both hands, and chopped down the short wood on the stake with an axe, and with a bang, the short wood was split in half!
Harold's face was bitter, and he bent over to clean up the mess on the ground as he muttered, "But I'm hungry, and we only have coarse cornmeal left?"
"Put more butter, more butter. Rui said.
Another looked at a ten-year-old blonde boy coming from the house, with a dark red jacket and jeans, his hair color was the same light gold color as the blonde Milton's hair, and he didn't look like Rui and Harold's family, which was a little weird. Rui called out inquiringly: "Sonny?" Sonny's expression was also bitter, but even colder: "No, it's gone." ”
Close-up of the front of the single, Rui's brows are slightly furrowed. The panorama of the three people, Rui is drawn with his back to the lower right, and the two brothers in the middle depth of field are looking at the left side of the frame, one tall and one short, as if they are a little fanatical, and the camera slowly turns to the past, Rui is the first to paint, and then the brothers, and the oblique side of the distance is aimed at the blonde Milton who are cutting venison.
"Then we'll be hungry. Rui's voiceover sounded, and his strong tone was somewhat unconcealed, as if he was giving an order. The brothers sighed, and the camera turned back at the same time, their eyes were already looking at Rui, and she waved the axe in her hand.
The stable three-person vision, they are all honestly helping to carry the wood at the moment. Rui exhaled again, and there was a white mist in the air that immediately dissipated.
The silence returned to the screen, and there was silence outside the screen, just such a short opening scene, not a big scene, not even a dramatic conflict, but fans really watched a good show. From the point of view of information, Rui's family is in trouble, and they can't even open the pot, Rui is the pillar of the family, and the two younger brothers follow her teachings.
The more fans see, the more the crew members who have listened to Ye Wei's directing know best, Rui is confirming that she can still lead them, but she doesn't know how long it can continue. She knew that one day, she would no longer be as strong as her two younger brothers, and she would say "no" and they would not listen again.
She said that she would rather be hungry and have backbone, and they won't care, they just need to eat.
The members also have a feeling of leaving the screen, not many people know the set story of this video, about a talented actor against a talented director. Gia gave a thumbs up to Jennifer's second brother, and the likes of Lena Duham, Britt Marling, and Mike Cahill were also amazed.
Shooting is not like imaging, and now everyone is beginning to really understand why VIY treats JL as a treasure, she is just a country girl who has not studied acting for a few years!
Some people act in acting, and some people live on screen......
Emma's mouth opened slightly, at this moment, she thought of Liz, she thought of Ronan, but they... At the beginning, it didn't seem to be so... It's good.
What amazes fans is not only the performance, although there are obvious camera movements and hidden forms, but everything runs in a realistic style, following SS and TLB, Ye Wei used another style to make movies, and at present, it has been filmed at a high level, and a cold world is already on the screen.
Ye Wei once said in a media interview, "I hope that the three girl movies can be called independent films", which is of course an independent film.
This kind of movie has nothing to do with flowing water business, all the temperature, light color, taste, all the perception, every frame is moving forward calmly, decisively, and in its own way. It is saying something, but it requires the audience to be patient and calm down to feel the emotions inside, play with the creator's intentions, and then feed their own feelings and inspiration back to the screen to taste the story together.
Because of the movie, I have a mood, and I will not forget it for a long time, and I will inadvertently remember it in the future, and watching classic independent films is like this.
What mood will "Winter's Bones" bring?