Chapter 029: Puppy Love
When Chen Jianbin heard Xu Hengzhou say this line, he suddenly returned to the moment when he performed Song Weidong in "Tale of Twenty-Four Cities".
This seven-minute performance has to say more than 1,300 words of lines.
When Chen Jianbin just got the script, he swept down the lines at random, and found that half of the front was nonsense to him.
In other words, in any film work, this kind of meaningless long and cumbersome lines in the nature of memories are nonsense.
He could imagine that the viewer must have become more and more bored when he saw the first half of the seven-minute performance, and he might lose interest in less than a minute.
Who wants to listen to you, a middle-aged man in his 40s, reminisce about his childhood?
What is the difference between this for the audience and listening to the older generation in their own family repeat the glorious history of their youth every day?
But he is a professional actor after all.
No matter how boring the plot is, no matter how boring the lines, he has to study the flowers.
Not to mention, from three and a half minutes.
That is, this line that Xu Hengzhou said, whether it was when he read the script at that time, or when he heard Xu Hengzhou say it at this moment, it hit his heart at once.
instantly had an emotional resonance with the director and the film.
It is as if a tentacle has quietly stretched out from the depths of his heart, and he is directly placed in the unpredictable and turbulent era.
The majestic sense of history swept over the years, making the tentacles tremble.
For this whole performance, the first long three-and-a-half-minute self-description is used to wait for the tentacles to slowly drill out and be cautiously tempted.
If there is no boring foreshadowing in the first half, then no matter how shocking this line is, it will not be felt.
Therefore, Xu Hengzhou's performance in the first three and a half minutes is very important.
Originally, Chen Jianbin actually had a scrutinizing attitude when he saw the excitement at first.
After all, Xu Hengzhou was wearing an inappropriate costume and a handsome white face to play a middle-aged deputy director of a factory.
No matter how you think about it, it's quite outrageous.
Let's put it this way, Xu Hengzhou's lines at the beginning can be regarded as a circle, but the realistic conditions and environment are here, and there is no change of costume, no makeup, and no venue, so it is difficult for people to have a sense of substitution.
What's more, this is still a documentary pseudo-documentary performance clip.
But from the moment Xu Hengzhou directly crossed the camera and handed the director a cigarette behind the camera, Chen Jianbin felt divine.
When it comes to the only connection between the factory and the outside world is the fight, the arrogant attitude of waiting for the camera or the director to ask questions also makes his eyes shine.
Sometimes you watch a performance, and you're looking at people.
But sometimes you look at a feeling.
In the first three and a half minutes, Xu Hengzhou made everyone on the scene unconsciously ignore Xu Hengzhou's outfit at this time and his overly young face through his plain but real performance.
On the contrary, through Xu Hengzhou's self-description of himself in the lines a few minutes ago, he depicted the image of a child of a big factory who was born, grew up in a factory, and took the factory as his home.
The period of life that Xu Hengzhou said in a self-described tone was his own, but it didn't seem to be just his own.
Everyone found that after Xu Hengzhou finished saying that shocking line, the whole person's performance state changed dramatically.
The last moment was still sighing with heaviness.
The next moment, the body shook slightly.
With a spring smile on his face:
"I'm also a puppy love."
Also - that's a wonderful word.
It's like he was able to get out of the mood of the death of a great man so quickly, mentioning the beauty of his youthful and ignorant early love.
It should also be able to quickly get out of the factory transfer, which makes people feel a little sad and uneasy, look back on the good spring of the past, and look forward to the bright future of the future.
Xu Hengzhou licked his lips: "Early love, this early love, 16 years old, is 16 years old, I was in my second year of high school." β
After thinking about it, it is said that it is early love, but it doesn't seem to be early love.
"We're here, high school is a two-year system, that is, I graduated in the last two years, and I graduated in the second year of high school, and I talked to a friend when I graduated."
"Their family is from the Northeast, and they also came from this Northeast, and then when they graduated, they were admitted to this Southwest Medical University.
Xu Hengzhou swallowed hard and cleared his throat:
"This opposition, mainly because we were at that time, the welfare of our factory in all aspects was very good, my family, that is, if you are admitted to this university, then if you are assigned to another place after graduation, what should you do?"
He tapped twice on the table with his index finger: "You have to let me stay in the factory, it's my dad's class." β
Xu Hengzhou opened his eyes and opened his eyelids a little.
"Learn technology, technology is popular."
"At the time."
"I'll stay in our factory."
As he spoke, he lit the red paint countertop: "At that time, our factory was really, not bad." β
"You see, it's 78 years, when we fought back against the outside world. The demand for munitions is particularly large, and our factory keeps getting orders. But it won't work in a few days, the efficiency of the factory is getting worse and worse, and it is at this time that the woman's family will not agree to their daughter to deal with me anymore. β
Xu Hengzhou scratched his head: "What I remember is that one day, on the day she broke up with me, I was rollerblading, well, she came to me, just in the ice rink, isn't there that kind of net around?" It's the kind of wire net. β
As he spoke, he gestured: "Isn't there a hole in this barbed wire?" She was standing outside with a popsicle, and I was standing inside. And then she gave me the popsicle, and I ate it, and she fed me, and when she had two bites, she said to meβ"
"What did she say, she said that we are too young and emotionally immature."
"I understood as soon as I heard it, and when it was over, I followed her words, and I said that we should break up!"
She immediately picked up and said, "You brought it up."
Xu Hengzhou showed a smile, bitter or sweet: "Ha, she said in turn, this is what you brought up." I said yes, yes, I brought it up, and she left. β
Speaking of which.
The aura that Xu Hengzhou had been chasing in his mind flashed again.
He asked the director behind the camera, "Guess what I found?" β
Jia Zhangke couldn't figure out what Xu Hengzhou would say, but he was looking forward to it: "What? β
Xu Hengzhou was happy: "I found out that the rebroadcast of "Blood Coagulation" on Satellite TV during this period of time is the one played by Yamaguchi Baihui, the particularly famous apricot head, she doesn't look back, and it is this hairstyle when she turns around." Then, my wife, who is from the materials department, loves to watch the replay of "Blood Coagulation", and I also watch it. β
With a self-mocking smile on his face, he looked straight at the camera: "I, although I fell in love early, I couldn't get married early; But although this is good, early love failed, but I also married a very good wife. β
This is the end of the show.
Jia Zhangke couldn't speak for a long time.
The applause at the scene was very warm!
When the applause stopped, Director Jia Zhangke spoke up and asked Xu Hengzhou: "Can you perform the temperament of a farmer?" β