One of the worst live escape room games ever!

It was almost nine o'clock in the evening when the three of them walked into this game store called "Labyrinth Room", this store has four mazes, all of which are limited to one hour to escape from the maze by searching, reasoning, arithmetic, etc., and Lily has already booked one of the detectives to escape from the ancient house.

Marcos, the staff member who received them, recognized Ye Wei in surprise as soon as he saw him, and the two people who came with him, the little girl was obviously his sister, Ye Wei could bring children into the store as an adult, and this girl with thick eyebrows ......

Marcos didn't react yet, the girl politely but dignified asked him to call the boss over, and after some negotiations, she moved out of the customer's privacy and so on, warning that if the game store has any information to the media, it will be held legally responsible. Everyone was frightened, and the boss repeatedly said that it would never be.

Ye Wei's brother and sister looked at this and that, but they didn't participate in the whole process, Marcos really didn't know if this girl was Ye Wei's female companion or assistant.

After getting rid of all the hidden dangers of exposure, soon, the three of them came to the ancient house maze to start the game, and they were all excited.

Ye Wei was full of desire to break the record of 42 minutes, the fastest escape record for customers, and immediately searched for the most conspicuous classical desk in the room, and Lily followed the side, feeling that they were Sherlock Holmes and Erin Adler. But there's also "Watson", Duoduo jumps around, "Brother, Lily, what is this? I found a key!"

The two of them looked over, and Duoduo picked up a copper key on the ground in the corner of the wall and was holding it up to check it.

"Give it to me. Ye Wei went to take it, it was obvious that this was the key to open some lock.

"No! I found it. Duoduo ran away. Ye Wei wanted to rob him, but Lily stopped him, and coaxed in a childish voice: "Duoduo, this is a team game, we are a team! Duoduo was still hesitating, Ye Wei's heartache was lost in vain: "Give it to me!"

Duoduo, who was just about to hand over the key, suddenly clenched it in his hand, "Don't give it, don't give it!"

Ye Wei immediately had an idea, "Let's exchange a piece of candy for your key." He looked at Lily, and she nodded and smiled, "And." She reached into her pocket, but could only take out a few empty pieces of candy wrapper, and couldn't help but look at him in amazement. Ye Wei knew what was going on when he saw Duoduo snickering, and rolled up his sleeves to do it!

"Wait, Dorothy, go and open those chests, maybe there's sugar in them. Lily continued to coax, but Ye Wei didn't have the patience: "You little villain wants to be trapped here, right? Duoduo stuck out her tongue without being afraid: "Brother, you don't have to scare me, it's just a game." ”

"This is not a game, this is life or death!" Ye Wei really wants to go crazy, 5 minutes are spent arguing, this is the beginning.

Lily glared at him and whispered, "Don't you have a time to be coquettish?" she kissed as he suddenly attacked, "and now." She rolled her eyes at him, a smile on her lips, and twisted to break away. Ye Wei hugged her tightly and kissed, "I can't escape today, let's play something else." ”

"Oh, dear kisses!" exclaimed Duoduo.

"Go aside. Lily pushed Ye Wei away hard, and went to negotiate with Duoduo again with a smile, team spirit!

Duoduo didn't just play in the pipeline, she listened to the words at the moment, and went to open the drawer of the desk in person, trying to open them one by one, but her hands and feet were very slow, and when she finally succeeded in leaning against a drawer of the wall utility cabinet, it took more than 10 minutes.

When an hour passed, let alone breaking the record, the three of them were still trapped in the original study.

Marcos and the others are stupid, since the opening of the store, no customers have stopped in the study, and they can go out in an average of 25 minutes. The boss sincerely asked the opinions of the three people, and Duoduo made a representative speech: "I can't find candy anywhere, and it's boring to play." ”

Ye Wei walked out of the game store with his face covered, and if this spread, his public image would be shattered.

The happiest person was Lily, who returned to the car and laughed half to death without patience.

It was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and it was time to leave for home. After more than half an hour, Ye Wei first sent the troublesome ghost Duoduo home, vowing not to take her to play the real-life escape room again, and then sent Lily home, seeing that there was still some time, he parked on the side of the street and lived with her.

Without the light bulb, the sweetness could not be suppressed, and the two told each other about their lovesickness and love in a long hot kiss, kissed and kissed, looked at each other and smiled.

After a while, gradually talking about "Soul Surfer" again, Lily knew that Ye Wei was really confused and hadn't untied the knot. She wanted to help him, but this time, she didn't really understand why he was distressed, and she didn't know what to say, because SS was so good.

She could only give him her sincere opinion: "But, in my opinion, this movie is good, very good! I don't lie to you, I don't like the things behind the scenes at all, I don't want to hear it, I don't like it at all! But it touched me, Bethany reinvigorated it, I cried, 'Edward Scissorhands' can make me cry, you have that ability." ”

"My problem is that it can't make me cry. Ye Wei sighed with a smile and leaned his head back on the driver's seat, "I don't know, I still have to think about it." ”

Lily held his hand, "Tell me when you're ready, tell me anything." ”

Ye Wei nodded, his hands and heart were warm.

......

As soon as the screening ended, Gia pressed the remote control machine like a fascination and played back those colorful clips over and over again, watching it again and again. Jennifer and Acerica were also watching and sighing, thinking that "Winter's Bones" would be so good or even better......

The three of them went to the hotel restaurant for dinner before the shift ended, and when Ji Ya returned to the suite, he saw that the time was almost up, so he sent a text message to Ye Wei: "If this is what you want, Master Ji Ya was tricked by you, the shock of SS makes me doubt whether I questioned you correctly." ”

Either Ye Wei is playing tricks, or perfectionism, or both.

Until one o'clock in the morning, Ji Ya fell asleep, and the text message on her mobile phone woke her up, and she saw that it was Ye Wei's reply: "I didn't fool you, but I'm also confused about these feelings." ”

Ji Ya chatted with Ye Wei for a while in a strange mood, and then on the phone, and found that he was somewhat perfectionist, and the core reason was that he was out of control, from the pre-production to the post-production, the movie he completed in a state of loss of control is a little wrong now.

Listening to what he said, she thought it was awesome, and he was questioning if it was "too much", because he didn't feel like that.

From the beginning of cinema, Realistic and Formalistic are the two most commonly used words to classify film style.

However, they are best used in the rule of those films that are extremely inclined to these two styles, but the films with extreme styles belong to the minority, usually in the middle of the two, and that is Classicism. Let's put it this way, in general, documentaries are realism, feature films are classicism, and avant-garde films are formalism.

"Four Hundred Blows" is realism, "Forrest Gump" is classicism, and "Lola Run" is formalism.

In Ye Wei's films, "The World of Foul Words" is formalism, and the others are all classicism, among which "The Wedding is Coming" and "Soul Surfer" tend to be formalistic, and "Winter Bones" in the current shooting is biased towards realism.

Realism is about sparing, preferably not using technique, montage is also opposed, and the camera is a tool for recording rather than a "commentary" sounding board for what is visible on the surface. The highest criterion is simple, natural, and direct, and the director would rather erase himself than manipulate or reveal himself. For example, Ye Wei told everyone before W'sB started that he was going to hide and make this movie, and everyone behind the scenes had to do this, so that the actors and materials became the only thing the audience saw.

But it does not mean that realism lacks artistry, but that the best realists know how to hide their artistic means.

Formalism is different, on the contrary, the director is most concerned with how to express his subjective and personal views on things, and what techniques are needed, so it is usually more fancy, and there is a large degree of manipulation and stylization of "reality", such as the two split scenes used by Ye Wei in SS and many others. That's nothing, some very abstract avant-garde films, but they express themselves in pure form and technique. ――I can't read it to anyone but the director himself.

The art of art in general is obvious, but these techniques will undoubtedly distract the viewer from the content, perceive the director's presence, and hear the camera speak.

Ye Wei's vision of SS was originally classicism without obvious bias, but he said that he was not satisfied with the materials he shot after the completion of the film, and felt that he could not complete the film he wanted with only those materials, so he worked hard to save it in the post-production stage, with more formal techniques and more manipulation, to instill the audience's own emotions, rather than the audience's own objective taste.

But he has two major embarrassments, one is that his style is not thorough because he is a monk halfway. For example, the angles of some shots are not done well, and high-angle lenses can better show the plight, humility, powerlessness, injury, and danger of the characters in the picture. This is what makes some parts of the film seem plain, although he did his best to create the feeling of being on the eve of a storm, including using the song Pray-For-Rain as the soundtrack.

The second is that formalism stems from the director's desire to express himself strongly and explicitly, but he is not, he does it with a utilitarian goal, because he will probably do it so that the audience will like it, and he will do that, which is actually the purpose of commercial films, and he makes independent films like this, which seems to have nothing to do with art.

This can move others, but he can't move himself.

Looking at the "Soul Surfer" he made single-handedly, he was dissatisfied and confused.

Puzzled why others really like it, confused if you can make a good movie in this way, or even make a classic, what is film art?

The response to the premiere of SS had a big cognitive impact on him, and he was thinking more about reality, form, subjectivity, objectivity, self-emotion, audience resonance, black hand manipulation, and so on...... This involves a basic question for the director, how does he want to make a film?

Speaking of the disagreement in the early morning on the day of W'sB's filming, Ye Wei followed Jennifer's meaning for this reason, he realized that the action of the character of twisting his ears was manipulative and distorted for Jennifer's "Rui", which was something he could not allow to happen in W'sB. The greatest sense of realism that he wants to conform to is illusion, which is that the world of the film is an unmanipulated reflection of the real world.

"Soul Surfer" is not, but it is not as a film based on a true story.

IT'S SO DRAMATIC, AND IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE OPENING PHRASE "BASED-ON-A-TRUE-STORY", IT'S MUCH LESS CONVINCING, WHICH IS NOT WHAT HE WANTS.

Although Gia understands this, it doesn't mean that she has arrived here, she can't comprehend his mood at all, let alone give him any guidance, she really can't be a master this time. It's not just her, who among her peers can? Not everyone is a genius like VIY, even if it's talented, like Xavier Dolan's kid, it's too far behind.

They are still feeling good about themselves for designing a long shot or montage, and Ye Wei is worried about whether to choose a long shot or a montage? They are still sighing about the topic of teenagers' scars, whether they are sincere or forceful, and Ye Wei's artistic feelings don't know where they have gone, so that he himself is confused.

How is this communicated?

"Boy, to be honest, I can still see you when "The Wedding is Coming", I can't see you when "Little Sunshine Beauty", now? Your realm is not something I can understand and feel for the time being, I don't understand how you can make those montages, and I don't understand how you can handle it so naturally as a whole!"

"I don't know. ”

Hearing his confusion, Gia let out a long sigh, "Don't say it, I can only praise you when we talk about this, you should talk to those masters like my old man, I hope you won't be dealt with by a forty or fifty-year-old woman like Catherine Bigelow, you are in danger now." ”

"Oh my God... Gia, how is Susan Sarandon? She's sixty, please! I'm Lily's person. ”

"Isn't Susan Lily?"

......

Los Angeles Airport is brightly lit at night, and passenger planes take off and land as usual.

Ye Wei sat alone in the waiting chair waiting for the upcoming boarding, transferred to Dallas and then back to Springfield, arriving at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. This trip will have to wait until the evening of the 20th to return to Los Angeles, Saturday on the 21st is Duoduo's 6th birthday, and he has already arranged for the 21st crew to take a holiday and start work on Sunday.

After ending the call with Jiya, Ye Wei put down his mobile phone, looked at the huge airport, and smiled bitterly.

Gia is cranky but there is a sentence that is true, he feels that he can't talk to his peers about these issues, he can't find anyone to talk to, Gia can't, Dolan can't, Lev can't do them, Lily can't do it, he knows Lily's heart, her love makes him happy, self-blame and boredom are gone, but the confusion is still there.

When do you talk to those "movie kids"?

Ye Wei flipped through the phone's address book, a little confused.