After the break, Cao Zhiqiang once again plunged into intense shooting.

How to say it, if Cao Zhiqiang was still a little rusty and uncomfortable in filming on the first day, then after three days of continuous shooting, he has completely entered the state, and it can even be said that he is crazy.

That state is very strange, as if Cao Zhiqiang suddenly became two people.

One is himself, also called the self, who is still the same as he is.

and the other is the character Xia Qiu in the play, a character imagined and created by Cao Zhiqiang.

Although Xia Qiu is a character created by Cao Zhiqiang, he borrowed a lot of film and television characters he had seen in his previous life, but he also added something of his own.

For example, some small actions of Cao Zhiqiang when he was a child in his previous life, as well as some of the insights he had when he was young, were all rubbed into the character of Xia Qiu, and then released in the process of playing with Zhu Lin and others.

No wonder many people said in my previous life that being an actor was very cool, not because of how much money I made, but because the filming process was very cool.

Cao Zhiqiang doesn't know what it feels like to play a supporting role, anyway, if you play the leading role, it feels very cool.

The kind of temporary substitution of other people's characters, to interpret other people's lives, and then play against beautiful women, it feels really good.

Among them, the process of playing with Zhu Lin is the coolest, because acting with Zhu Lin is mainly a love scene.

The ambiguous feeling that I want to think but don't dare to say, as if there is no yet, and the tangled psychology of just wanting to see each other more and just want to stay with each other for a while is not an ordinary itch.

Even if it's acting, you can go deep into it, and it's very cool.

It's just that this kind of coolness is not the kind of coolness that is cool to the end, but a kind of dark coolness.

No wonder everyone likes to play ambiguous.

This kind of ambiguous feelings, which are entangled and entangled, but are still unreasonable and chaotic, are really fascinating.

In addition to the emotional drama with Zhu Lin, Cao Zhiqiang's other emotional dramas are mainly family and friendship.

The family line mainly refers to the plot of him and his two younger sisters who depend on each other, which is mainly reflected in the beginning of the film, the middle of the film, and the end of the film.

The overall interaction with the two younger sisters is actually not very much, but they are all very important.

It can be said that the two younger sisters are actually one of the ties of the male protagonist, or one of the obstacles.

In this drama set by Cao Zhiqiang, although there are a lot of narrations, the background of Cao Zhiqiang is mainly explained more clearly, but the female teacher Wen Xue played by Zhu Lin is deliberately very vague.

For example, in the whole film, it is only known that Wen Xue is an intellectual family, but who Wen Xue's parents are and whether she has brothers and sisters is not mentioned in the film.

This is mainly because Wen Xue doesn't mention it herself, she never mentions her family's affairs.

But from her words and deeds, her food and clothing, you can see that her family conditions are not ordinary, and even from the proficient Japanese that she occasionally speaks, and even knows the poems in the "Manyoshu" in the Japanese poetry switchboard, there will be a lot of unusual speculations.

In other words, Wen Xue's definition is elegant and mysterious, she herself is an existence that looks gentle and amiable, but it is actually difficult to get in touch with people, and she is a kind of coldness in her bones.

Deliberately blurring Wen Xue's background, just like the blank space in a painting, can give people more room for imagination, and also make this love more pure and unpredictable.

In other words, let's not talk about the age and identity gap between the male protagonist and the female protagonist, purely from the perspective of the background gap between the two people, it is not a little bit worse.

Normally, it is impossible for these two people to be together.

And let Xia Qiu, played by Cao Zhiqiang, have two more sisters as a burden, which seems to be a burden, but it is actually a step, or an excuse.

Because on the surface, the reason that prevented Xia Qiu from following Wen Xue was that Xia Qiu still had to take care of her two younger sisters, but in fact this was not the case.

If you think about it carefully, you will find that even if Xia Qiu is an adult, even if Xia Qiu is single and not dragged down by her two younger sisters, then when Wen Xue chooses to leave, Xia Qiu will not be able to accompany her.

Because Wen Xue is going back to her hometown, she will inevitably face Wen Xue's family, and a family like Wen Xue will inevitably not be able to tolerate a useless low-level student like Xia Qiu.

It can be said that when Cao Zhiqiang made this movie, he carefully and deliberately buried a lot of details in it, and then used family affection and love as the main line to suppress those hidden dark sides, so that the overall style presents bright colors, and makes this tragic love full of more uncertainties, or full of hope and possibility.

Therefore, in the role of Cao Zhiqiang and his two younger sisters, that is, Yu Feihong and Qiao Simei, they showed a somewhat clumsy, but very responsible big brother image.

The mother died early, and the alcoholic father suddenly ran away with the widow and didn't want the three of them, forcing the eldest brother to take on the responsibility of supporting the whole family in advance.

Such a setting is both down-to-earth and sympathetic.

The eldest brother knew that his father was disappointed to despair after he ran away, and finally reborn from despair, shouldered the heavy responsibility of supporting the whole family, and began to repair leather shoes while learning, how could he not arouse sympathy and pity?

As for the two younger sisters, they are different.

Xia Hua, the eldest sister played by Yu Feihong, belongs to a very sensible character from the beginning.

After his father ran away with someone, he accidentally learned that his eldest brother secretly went out every night to set up a stall to repair leather shoes in order to support the family.

However, after knowing that the eldest brother polished the shoes, Xia Hua did not make a noise, nor did she feel ashamed, but in order to give the eldest brother face, she kept pretending not to know, not only helping with housework every day, but also helping the eldest brother cover up, he is a very sensible, very understanding of the eldest brother's suffering, and often chatting with the eldest brother.

The little sister Xia Yue played by Qiao Simei belongs to the hairy child character who didn't understand anything at the beginning.

Because when her father ran away with her widow, she was still young next month and was not sensible, so whether it was the eldest brother or the second sister, she always lied to her, saying that her father went to other places to do big business, which caused Xia Yue to think that her father was very powerful.

Because she was protected too well by her eldest brother and second sister, Xia Yue was a little unrestrained at first, and she ate and drank lavishly, crying at every turn, saying that she was going to Zhao's father.

To put it simply, at the beginning, Xia Yue was a nasty character.

But soon, after a conflict, Xia Qiu told the truth of the matter in frustration, and then Xia Yue ran out of the house crying, and then the family looked for her sister together.

When I find my sister, it's a story of the family reconciling and overcoming difficulties together.

It can be said that the interaction with the two younger sisters is a family interaction, and it is also the process of Xia Qiu gradually becoming an adult from a child.

If you say that the encounter with Wen Xue made Xia Qiu understand the dedication in love.

Then the interaction and communication with the two younger sisters made Xia Qiu understand the responsibility in family affection.

When there is a conflict between love and family affection, how to choose is a difficult problem.

From a personal point of view, Xia Qiu certainly prefers Wen Xue and longs for love.

From a family point of view, Xia Qiu can't give up his two younger sisters, and he must take on the responsibility of supporting the family.

On the surface, this is a conflict between family affection and love, a conflict between personal desire and personal responsibility.

But in fact, the conflicts in it are not only this, but also include the conflict of identity and status, and the conflict of human feelings.

It's just that the conflict of identity and status is hidden, and it is not as obvious as the conflict between family and love.

In the interaction with the two younger sisters, it was Yu Feihong who played the most with Cao Zhiqiang, not Qiao Simei.

In addition to the fact that Qiao Simei is too young, has no acting experience, and is not suitable for filming too many scenes, it is mainly a relationship between people.

Qiao Simei's setting is a naughty first, then sensible child setting, she is a simple child, highlighting a cute and simple.

Yu Feihong is different, her setting is a precocious girl, she is the military advisor behind Xia Qiu's eldest brother, and many of Xia Qiu's things that she can't say to others will tell her.

Therefore, there will be a lot of separate dialogue scenes between Cao Zhiqiang and Yu Feihong, highlighting Xia Hua, the eldest sister, who is a small ghost and smart and cunning.

For example, supporting the eldest brother to bravely pursue love, supporting the eldest brother to confess to the other party, supporting the eldest brother to ignore the world's vision, etc., are all said through the mouth of the eldest sister.

To a certain extent, the eldest sister Xia Hua is actually the mouth of some viewers, saying what many people want to say.

Moreover, there are many golden sentences in it.

For example, Xia Hua encouraged her eldest brother Xia Qiu, and there was a sentence: "If you don't give it a try, how do you know it won't work?" ”

There are others like: "As long as you persist and don't give up, there will always be hope for success!" ”

"If you like someone, do you have to be so troublesome?"

"Big brother, come on, always support you!"

In fact, Yu Feihong's role was originally not so much, it was Yu Feihong who asked for more scenes, and Cao Zhiqiang also felt that adding some family scenes appropriately could not only extend the movie time, but also enrich more content and make the characters more full, so he agreed.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang and Yu Feihong have more scenes.

Even, Cao Zhiqiang still has a feeling.

That is, if you continue to add drama to her like this, then this drama may become the story of the West Chamber.

He is a scholar, Zhu Lin is a young lady, and Yu Feihong is the matchmaker.

Therefore, in order to make this drama not so lengthy, not to dominate the guests, and let the family part take away the love, Cao Zhiqiang later decisively rejected many of Yu Feihong's requests, reducing his family interaction with his two sisters.

After all, the theme of this drama is pure love, not family affection.

It's okay to add a little bit of family drama, but it's not good to add too much.

As for friendship, that is, classmate love, neighborhood love, the portrayal here is relatively light.

Moreover, Cao Zhiqiang did not deliberately portray the friendship as lofty, but more down-to-earth, or more realistic.

Movies of this period often like to portray how kind and friendly neighbors are, how much they like to help others, but in reality this is not the case.

Just look at the situation of the old courtyard, the kind of situation of mutual defense and calculation is the real state of the world.

As for the love between classmates, Cao Zhiqiang is also the actor Xia Qiu, set up as a person who doesn't like to socialize, usually has no friends, and the only friend around him is a young and classmate who has a good relationship.

And through the mouth of his classmate, he also said some of the reality of the school.

That is, in school, only those students who study well are the people of the year in the school and class, whether it is a teacher or a student who studies averagely, they usually revolve around those students who study well.

As for students like them who don't study well, naturally no one cares, no one pays attention, and most of them are left to fend for themselves.

The teachers in this period may really have good morality, but the teachers also have some preferences.

Students who study well and have sweet mouths will naturally care more about the teacher.

And the kind of students who are not good at studying and are usually bored, the teacher will naturally care less.

That is to say, in school, classmates are also divided into three, six, nine and so on.

You may not be classified by parental status, but you will be classified according to your academic performance.

The best learning is one layer, the second learning is one layer, and the poor learning is another layer.

Different strata are clearly distinguished, and it is basically more difficult for the bottom circle to integrate into the upper circle.

These things, in fact, are reality.

It's just that Cao Zhiqiang is very vague about the display of these realities, and he doesn't say it explicitly, but quietly shows this reality through small unconvincing rhetoric and realistic examples.

For example, after Xia Qiu knew that the male classmate who framed Teacher Wen Xue, she plucked up the courage to go to the other party and asked the other party to tell the truth and apologize, and was immediately ridiculed by the other party.

The biggest reason is not because the male classmate is not ashamed, but because the male classmate is a good classmate who studies well, and there is a huge difference between Cao Zhiqiang's class.

So even for the sake of face and identity, the male student who stole Teacher Wen Xue's bra and made Teacher Wen Xue fall into rumors and slander would not agree, and after Xia Qiu's continuous ridicule, he was angry and found someone to beat Xia Qiu together.

In the whole process, the cowardice and hypocrisy of the students were vividly displayed.

At the same time, it also shows that students who study well are not necessarily students with good moral character.

In other words, Cao Zhiqiang buries metaphors everywhere in this movie, which will change the rhythm of a big bad movie in the 21st century.

But in this era, this is synonymous with rich content and profound meaning.

And today's films, especially feature films, are about depth.

If you don't have a metaphor, you're embarrassed to tell people that you're a feature film.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang hides not only ordinary moral problems, but also the seven deadly sins of arrogance, jealousy, anger, laziness, greed, gluttony, and lust, which is a more Western-leaning metaphor.

For example, the father of the bad classmate is a big fat cook who likes to take public meals home to eat, and he usually likes to overeat, and he is also good with a widow outside, corresponding to gluttony and greed, and it is obvious that he is using the stupid pillar as the prototype.

And the mother of the bad classmate is obviously synonymous with anger and arrogance.

As for the bad classmate who stole Teacher Wenxue's bra and didn't dare to admit it afterwards, it was obviously lust, jealousy and laziness.

In short, Cao Zhiqiang never thought that he could express what he wanted to express in a movie, just like writing and painting, and let the actors express it with their performances.

This feeling of commanding others and performing what you want is really not ordinary comfort, and there is even a feeling of being in control of life.

No wonder they all say that movies are the director's world, and sure enough.

The reason is that the plot of the movie is more condensed and more coherent, and it belongs to the viewing experience in one go, so it is more about the director's ability to integrate.

Unlike TV dramas, episode by episode is disconnected and filmed, it depends more on the screenwriter's script ability, and the quality of the director cannot be said to be unimportant, but it is not that important.

Movies are different, the director has the camera, can change the script and character design at will, and has absolute power.

But the most dominant one is Cao Zhiqiang's state, that is, producer, director, screenwriter, starring, four-in-one!

Among them, the most inconspicuous, but the most important role is actually the producer.

Because he, as a producer, is responsible for distributing money.

And everyone is willing to come over to shoot, just to make money, and there are no other superfluous ideas.

In this situation of mastering the money bag, Cao Zhiqiang has the highest decision-making power, and naturally has the right to speak on the entire set.

In the case of having the right to speak, no matter how good the director and actors are assisted, and the other crew members are obedient, it will naturally come naturally.

Therefore, even though this is Cao Zhiqiang's first time trying to make a movie, he has been in a high-level position from the beginning and has a different status from the beginning, so he also enjoyed the supreme treatment from the beginning.

As a result, the entire crew is almost like revolving around him, as if he is supporting the entire crew alone.

This is, of course, an illusion, but the reality is not.

But to a certain extent, one person supports the entire crew, and this sentence is actually not unreasonable.

After all, from the very beginning, Cao Zhiqiang was actually responsible for all the expenses of the entire crew.

The one who gives the money is the uncle, and I can't be deceived.

This also reminded Cao Zhiqiang of Aunt Ximen.

No wonder Aunt Simon had such spicy eyes at the time, and she could still play with a group of small fresh meat at that time, and play the first beauty, isn't it because she is the gold owner?

The father of the gold lord is the real father!

In this way, in this situation where it is almost a word, or a crew revolves around one person, the filming process is quite fast.

It was originally scheduled to take a month, but in fact, it only took 21 days, and the whole movie was completed.