Xu Hengzhou sat on the back seat of the motorcycle, feeling the wind blowing the cigarette butt around him and smearing his face, only to realize that he had unconsciously put the cigarette in his mouth.

Well, that's how it feels.

He went home first.

The home of the tree.

The crew then arrived.

The venue has already been set up.

Xu Hengzhou started his performance as if no one was around—the daily life of the tree.

He went into the house, poured a glass of water to drink, and called out to Mom, but no one answered.

He looked at the dust on the table, wiped it clean with his sleeve, went out of the house, walked around the yard, and straightened the position of the lid antenna of the pot, so that it was facing the sky.

Only then did he pause, took the cigarette butt out of his mouth, and clamped it in his hand.

Puffing out a puff of cigarette, he stood quietly inside the courtyard wall, staring out the courtyard to the east.

Li Yaohui connected the camera when Xu Hengzhou was tinkering with the antenna, and shook the camera with Xu Hengzhou's movements, until Xu Hengzhou stood and stared, and then cut the shot to fix it on Xu Hengzhou.

Xu Hengzhou watched the smoke in front of him dissipate, and only walked out of the courtyard in a few steps.

The camera is black and bright.

Director Han Jie saw the next frame appear on the monitor-

Xu Hengzhou strode to his mother, who was burning paper money under the tree.

He walked up to his mother without the slightest hesitation, but his tone was vague, and his expression turned his head very unnaturally, avoiding what his mother was doing: "What are you doing, what are you doing?" ”

The mother is also an experienced veteran actor.

When she heard Xu Hengzhou's question, she separated the wad of paper money one by one and scattered them in the copper basin, and said in a natural tone like a homely person:

"I dreamed of your dad and your brother last night. Ask me for money and burn some for them. ”

Xu Hengzhou heard his mother talk about his father and his brother in a dream, and immediately turned his head to look at his mother, with some inexplicable hope on his face, but he heard his mother say that the two of them only asked for money in the dream, and they didn't mention themselves, so he turned his head back and bit the cigarette holder.

I heard my mother say again: "Erzhu's factory has occupied all our land, and you don't want to talk about it." ”

He didn't answer, just lowered his head and smoked.

Li Yaohui cut off the camera on the picture of Xu Hengzhou bowing his head and smoking.

This one plot point is even if the filming is over.

Xu Hengzhou lowered his head and waited for the director to shout "card".

The next scene, as clearly written in the script, is a night scene.

It had to be filmed at night.

But he waited a minute and didn't wait for the director to call "card".

The old actor who also played the mother without waiting for director Han "Ka" directly took the lighter at hand and burned the paper money in the copper basin, and the flames burst out in an instant.

She looked at it for a second and sighed, turned around and left.

Xu Hengzhou: ......

He couldn't stand still, so he raised his head and took a few steps forward, picked up the shovel next to the copper basin, and gathered the paper money that had not been lit into the center of the flame.

When the ash burns up, it is piled up and pressed down.

It's all burned out.

So he carried the brass basin to the edge of the tree, poured ash on it, and pressed it into the crack in the root of the tree.

At this time, the director still did not shout "card".

Li Yaohui walked up to Director Han Jie and asked with his eyes.

Director Han Jie pointed to a camera set up next to him and whispered, "You don't need to move the camera position, just use this to shoot." ”

Li Yaohui still doesn't understand too much.

Director Jia Zhangke knows very well that if you want to say that you can play, you still know how to play art films.

He explained to Li Yaohui: "This guy plans to let Xu Hengzhou play from this moment until the end of this movie." Xu Hengzhou plays more and less, you just pick the shots that you are interested in and the requirements of the script, and the rest of the camera is placed here anyway, what can be recorded from this angle is recorded, and what cannot be recorded is forgotten. ”

Lai Yiu-fai: !!

Xu Hengzhou: ???

He didn't hear what the director was talking about, though.

But it is clear that the situation of not shouting cards now is not that they ignore it, but that they deliberately do not shout.

So what's the situation now?

Is he going to keep playing?

What to play?

Xu Hengzhou was a little dazed, but the actor didn't hear the director shouting to stop, so he had to keep acting, he chose the most labor-saving way to go back to the tree directly, leaned against the tree, and then stared at the director's direction in a daze.

After paying tribute to the deceased relatives, how normal it is to stay for a while!

Although this time in a daze seems to be a bit long.

Ten minutes passed.

An hour passed.

Two hours passed.

Three hours passed.

Another three hours passed.

Xu Hengzhou was the crew that arrived close to 11 a.m.

Then it took half an hour to play.

I was stunned for nine hours.

How long Xu Hengzhou stood by the tree, and the crew stood quietly in place and waited for him.

Xiao Liu looked at the completely dark sky and stomped on his sore legs.

The first time she saw a scene, it was filmed like this.

It's okay to shoot for nine hours in a row without resting, and the big guys don't eat yet!

Originally, she had an attitude of watching a drama at first, but later she saw that everyone was so serious, and she became serious, and in the last few hours, her mood became even more solemn.

She looked at Xu Hengzhou, who was leaning against a tree in the center of the set, the silhouette of the other party was dim under the dim starlight, but her eyes were fixed on the side of the crew's camera, which was full of indissoluble ice and blood madness.

This description may be a little more figurative.

But forgive her for nine hours of cranky thinking based on what the script reads.

Thinking about it, it's hard not to give all kinds of deep meaning to the silent gesture of the man in front of you.

Xiao Liu suddenly had a trace of curiosity in his heart, what was Xu Hengzhou thinking about in the past nine hours?

It was almost half past eight and almost nine.

Xu Hengzhou suddenly moved.

Lai Yaohui immediately set up a camera and began to shoot.

Director Han Jie swallowed slightly in his throat and made a gesture.

The props team immediately set a fire on the eaves in the distance.

Xu Hengzhou raised his head, his gaze condensed on the flame that lit up in the darkness.

Slowly bowing his head again, not far away, the props team quickly set up a fire, and an elderly actor turned his back to Xu Hengzhou's direction to add firewood to the fire.

The actress who plays the mother approached Xu Hengzhou.

Xu Hengzhou lit another cigarette, heard familiar footsteps, and spoke: "Mom." ”

He let out a long sigh: "My eyes are spent. ”

"I saw something, my eyes were spent."

Xu Hengzhou rubbed his face vigorously and shook his head: "I didn't see anything." ”

Lai Yaohui turned off the camera at the right time.

This plot point is filmed.

Xu Hengzhou is not like during the day, when a plot point is completed, he breathes a sigh of relief in his heart, but follows the feeling of the moment and is completely immersed in it.

and took the lead and went into the house.