51, old man, your second child is broken
"Spring" is a script that Lu Duancun has been polishing for a long time.
This is the fifth draft, and the overall structure is already very complete.
Lu Chengkang is quite satisfied with the script of this draft.
First of all, this is a realistic theme that he is good at, and the sense of fate in the pen of his eldest brother Lu Duancun is what he likes.
Wu Qing, the protagonist of "Spring", is an ordinary person, he lost his father at a young age, and his mother is an ordinary woman with no education, and her feelings for him are only doting.
He was tainted with bad habits, he sank and tried to change, but he repeated the same mistakes again and again.
At the beginning of the story, Wu Qing was already arrested for the third time.
Before he came out of the drug rehabilitation center, he swore in his heart that he would never come back here.
He got a job in a flower shop and wanted to buy a bouquet of carnations for his mother, but he couldn't say anything.
On his way to find his ex-girlfriend, he saw a magnificent villa.
He hadn't seen the villa before, and it had been built after he had been sent to a drug rehabilitation center.
The luxurious villa and the surrounding houses seem so out of place.
His eyes were drawn to a rose in the courtyard that had climbed the wall, and that branch had five or six flowers, the same branch of different colors, dark red, light red, yellow, white......
Wu Qing climbed over the wall and went in and folded the most gorgeous one of them.
He had been pricked in the hand, but he was happy.
He gave up looking for Sun Li, rushed home like a child, and gave flowers to his mother.
Mom was very happy and carefully kept it in a water bottle.
In the days to come, the flowers withered in front of her eyes day by day, but she was still reluctant to throw them away.
This passage passes through the surface, and deeper is destruction.
Wu Qing was in the flower shop where he was looking for a job, and he was embarrassed to buy flowers for his mother, which showed his inner sensitivity and closed-mindedness.
He climbed over the wall to pick flowers for his mother, which seemed beautiful, but in fact it showed that he still couldn't walk well.
The Rose represents strength, while the Blood Rose is broken.
The rose kept in the bottle cannot avoid withering day by day.
The villas that are out of place with the surroundings, as well as the roses in the last flowering season of autumn and September, correspond to the ending, the first ray of sunshine in spring, the temptation of drugs.
The role of Wu Qing was doomed to a tragic end from the beginning.
Wrong.
Not a tragedy.
It's fate.
is like Lu Chengkang's debut novel "Dumb".
In "Dumb", the deaf-mute girl Fengxi was sold three times, and the third time she met Fu Zhuang.
After a period of getting along, "Fengxi", whose heart was like ashes, finally opened his heart to "Fu Zhuang".
Just when she thought that Fu Zhuang could take care of herself for the rest of her life.
Fu Zhuang was killed by a detonator he had buried himself.
Fu Zhuang thought that the detonator was dumb, but the sound was like thunder.
For this sound, Lu Chengkang paved the way for a long time.
The character of Fu Zhuang is in his thirties, a bachelor in a poor village, and the third buyer of Fengxi, who appears in the last thirty minutes of "Dumb".
And the detonator is the first shot of the whole film, Li Fenqiang stole the detonator in the black coal mine in order to buy a daughter-in-law and sold it.
The detonator went around and around, and at the end it came on again with Fu Zhuang.
Fu Zhuang used this detonator to blow up the badger.
For thirty minutes, five people told him in different ways: This thing is dangerous.
However, Fu Zhuang has never had an accident, and as Fu Zhuang gets better and better to Feng Xi, the ashes in Feng Xi's heart begin to rekindle, and it seems that everything is going to start to get better.
However, this atmosphere is false, the director uses his lens language, pointing at the audience's nose and saying, remember that detonator, remember this person, something will definitely happen.
In the end, Lu Chengkang took charge of the camera himself and used a long moving long shot to narrate and end this part of the plot.
Fu Zhuang got up, different from the usual laziness, he was full of energy on this day, because Feng Xi touched his hand last night,
He dressed neatly, brushed his teeth carefully, used a little more toothpaste than usual, and rubbed his face vigorously with a hot towel until it was red.
He splashed the water in the basin, and the camera went out with the water, where was a pair of mille-feuille shoes with his own soles, the camera went up, Feng Xi was wearing a red cloth jacket, the cuffs were patched, the stitches were fine, her face was rough and handsome,
Feng Xi's face was expressionless, but the red sun made her eyes shine,
Fu Zhuang looked at her, and the red cloth jacket illuminated his life,
Fu Zhuang gestured and asked Feng Xi to live in the cave, and he wanted to reopen the abandoned oil mill where Feng Xi lives now.
He gestured indiscriminately, but Feng Xi could understand it, she went to the oil mill and carried her futon into Fu Zhuang's cave.
Fu Zhuang was in his thirties, standing like a silly boy, only grinning.
Lu Chengkang filmed this shot for six days, he only needed that light, so he only had two chances a day, and if it didn't pass, he had to do it again the next day.
When the actor is not filming, he keeps practicing his position, and his eyes are miserable.
In the end, the film won Best Cinematography and Best Actress at the Berlin Silver Bear, and this long shot with a distinctive style of 10 and 35 seconds contributed to it.
This shot begins with Fu Zhuang getting up and ends with Fu Zhuang's back when he goes out, there is no line for more than ten minutes, but it is not boring, the picture is simple and harmonious, it is a rare bright tone in the whole film.
Those who can watch it can't laugh at all, because the director points to your nose early on and tells you that something will happen.
Under this narrative structure, this long shot seems to suffocate people.
Feng Xi was cleaning up in the cave, and she finally met someone who really distressed her.
What she had suffered before was finally coming to an end.
When the thunderclap echoed through the valley, the people of the village rushed to the bombing site.
And Feng Xi couldn't hear anything, she cleaned up the cave and looked out of the upper window, her eyes were happy and longing, and there seemed to be a smile on the corner of her mouth.
Then Fu Zhuang's mutilated body was carried into the courtyard, and his face was covered with half of a broken jacket that had exploded, and there was half a patch on the jacket, and the stitches were fine, which Feng Xi had mended.
On the screen of the notebook, Feng Xi was like a walking corpse, watching Fu Zhuang being put into a thin coffin and then buried in the soil.
She stared blankly, with no tears or expression.
Her world was silent, and she couldn't hear a widower in his fifties behind her, asking Fu Zhuang's father, Fu Guosheng: How much does this female doll sell.
Meng Shi glanced at the progress bar, and there were eight fucking minutes!
“woc! This man is insane! ”
Meng Shi couldn't help but scold, put out the cigarette on the plate, and then directly pressed the shutdown button, and closed the notebook as if fleeing.
Lu Chengkang's mind was full of the snow described by Meng Shi.
He remembered the ending of "Dumb".
I turned the last page of "Spring" on the table.
53. Home, inside
After Wu Qing finished injecting drugs, he closed his eyes, and his whole person twitched, and in an instant, the world was spinning.
(Wu Qing rolls from the sofa to the ground)
In a trance, Wu Qing recalled that when he was a child, his father took him to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise.
(Father: The morning sun is the cleanest)
Wu Qing got up from the ground, opened the door, and staggered to the roof.
When the first rays of sunlight in the morning hit Wu Qing's dilated pupils, he jumped down without a little hesitation.
(Final)
This ending is open-ended.
1, this is Wu Qing's hallucination after injecting drugs, which means that there is still light in his heart, but this light only exists in fantasy.
2, Wu Qing jumped off the building, and this jump completed self-redemption.
2 is used to pass the trial.
Although Lu Chengkang is not very satisfied with this ending, he is also eight points satisfied.
But after chatting with Meng Shi for a few words, this satisfaction was washed away by his mudslide-like thoughts.
However, as Meng Shi said, the ending he said could not pass the trial in China at all.
Lu Chengkang has been warned once by that unit because of "Dumb", and if he hadn't had connections in the Beijing circle, he would probably have been blocked.
And the script of "Spring", the foreshadowing in front is not enough to support the heavy snow that Meng Shi said.
So if you really want to adopt this ending, in addition to retaining the relationship between the characters, almost everything else has to be rewritten, this is a new story.
Lu Chengkang looked at the time, and at half past nine in the evening, he unconsciously sat all day.
After thinking about it for a while, he dialed Meng Shi's number.
"Your call is on a call, please call later."
The old man went to bed early, and Old Man Lu fell asleep at eight o'clock.
I was woken up by a phone call in the middle of nine.
The old man picked up the phone, and a voice that he could not forget sounded, "Old man, your second child is broken!" ”