What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 111 The Eternal Superstar

The heavy snow was falling profusely, Jiang Shiyu was lying in the snow and bathed in the pure white snowflakes, her fair face was covered with white snow, which looked unusually pure and thorough.

There was no sound around, and the air was filled with cold sorrow. It was impossible to tell whether she was breathing in the ice and snow, as if she had died.

The light gradually brightened, the camera zoomed out, and snowflakes had begun to cover her body.

Suddenly she opened her eyes, her body twitched, and she gasped violently.

Of course she didn't die, she just lay in the vast snow, motionless for a long time, so absorbed in thoughts and memories that she forgot to breathe.

She stood up and shook off the snow from her body. She was dressed in black like mourning, and the atmosphere of sadness and despair continued to permeate.

What follows is a close-up of her hands. Her fingers, which were red from the cold, were convulsed, and she was at a loss when she tried to grab something.

She looked up at the sky again, as if she was looking for something, and the snowflakes fell silently.

And finally a panoramic, top-down camera angle.

Jiang Shiyu staggered forward on the endless snow field, walking down the mountain step by step on the white snow.

As the camera rises, the houses in front of us are clusters of secular houses, as if entering the world from heaven.

"This is the opening title I designed. When the camera is raised to the highest point, the picture shows the house on the vast snowy field and her tiny figure. At this time, the title of the black "Love Letter from Heaven" is released."

Both Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu said it well, it was very artistic and could bear to be savored carefully.

Yang Shu also praised Jiang Shiyu's performance: "Although there are no lines in this performance, the helplessness and despair in your eyes are well expressed. There is a special beauty, with a lonely and desolate atmosphere, which is very moving. "

Ning Song also agrees with this: "That's why women should be pretty and filial."

It's a bit of a clown, men should be pretty in soap, women should be pretty in filial piety, traditional filial piety is white, and Europe and the United States are all black.

All the scenes in Xueyuan were filmed in Liaoyuan. It was very hard work, the temperature was low and the wind was very strong. The crew had to be extra careful when carrying equipment up the mountain to be careful of slippery roads and broken things.

If you are careful, you cannot work with thick gloves, so if you are not careful, you will easily get frostbite. Three days after starting work, several people have frozen their fingers and ears.

The work was stressful and tiring, and the snow-related scene was only a few minutes long, but it took a week to film.

Many scenes require a lot of preparatory work, such as the scene of Jiang Shiyu walking down the mountain, the crew rehearsed many times in other places before the official shooting, in order to pass it once.

The location was selected by Yangshu a few months ago. Only Jiang Shiyu’s footprints can be left on the pure white snowfield, and the natural snowfield cannot be artificially processed. If it is retaken, special effects must be used to erase the redundant footprints in the later stage. , will be more troublesome and more time-consuming.

The close-up of Jiang Shiyu's face lying in the snow seemed simple, but it was taken several times, which was quite laborious.

The snowflakes kept falling, and Jiang Shiyu's eyelashes could tremble slightly, but according to Yang Shu's request, she must not exhale or spit out white air for at least 2 minutes.

Not breathing for 2 minutes is a challenge for ordinary people. Jiang Shiyu would be better if he practiced yoga all the year round, but he was still choking after three reshoots.

And for the sake of looking good, the black coat is made of woolen, so she can't wear thick duck down, which is not enough to keep out the cold. She has to control her facial expressions while holding her breath. In the end, her body froze and she was so dazed that she almost stopped breathing.

Afterwards, she said: "Fortunately, I put a walkie-talkie not far above my head, and no one called me. I really froze to death here."

Because it is a medium and long-term scene, Yang Shu directed her to perform on the walkie-talkie.

In the play, the hero fell to his death while climbing a mountain, and there was a cemetery scene, which was also filmed in the local cemetery.

Although it was filming, they also gave Yang Shu a red envelope as a sign of bad luck, but Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu were very taboo when pasting his photo on the tombstone made of props, and insisted that the props completely destroy the tombstone after filming .

Yang Shu doesn't care, the special encounter makes him have a special attitude towards life and death, and he often has a strange thought: "I traveled in 2022 in my last life, will I encounter the same fate in the same year in this life?"

This idea is too absurd. If you really burp and travel through time every year, wouldn't you fall into a closed loop endlessly and become an infinite flow of life.

However, no one can guarantee that it will never happen again, so once I think about it, I can't help feeling a little anxious.

And it's very contradictory. If everything you work hard for will eventually dissipate, and all you experience are the scenery on the road, then why bother to worry too much, the Buddhist system will be more comfortable.

But more often than not, I am not reconciled, trying to make up for myself, reluctant to let go of people and things that I care about, so I want to have everything.

This is really a thinker among the reborn, who can establish a theoretical foundation for himself no matter how messy he is.

After filming the cemetery scene, I could feel that both Liu Man and Jiang Shiyu were touched, and their attitude towards Yang Shu was obviously much gentler when they got along, which is also an unexpected gain.

Exposure to death usually makes people mature quickly. It is said that the earlier a child realizes the existence of death, the higher the IQ, and the fear and resentment of death almost run through life.

Although the original "Love Letter" is famous in film history for its beautiful pure love style, the more core theme running through the whole novel is actually death.

Only the core of the tragedy is touching, and the story is high-level. Of course, Yang Shu had to emphasize this point when writing the screenplay. Both Jiang Shiyu and Liu Man's plays have always followed a death line.

The film begins with Jiang Shiyu commemorating his dead boyfriend, so he sends a letter to heaven, which is the context of the whole play.

The character played by Liu Man also experienced the grief of his father's death. As soon as he appeared on the stage, he told Liu Man in a letter that he had a cold, and then in the memory of the hero, the disease developed into pneumonia, which almost killed her.

Therefore, the life trajectories of the two heroines in the film are both indelibly marked by death. They are both struggling with death, hoping to find a way to reconcile with it for the rest of their lives.

Jiang Shiyu finally reached a reconciliation with death after learning about her fiancé's life experience through letters from heaven, and Liu Man's reconciliation with death was not only reminiscing about her secret love with the hero, but also through communicating with her grandfather.

Yang Shu invited Guo Minkai to play the grandfather. The reason why he was invited was the successful cooperation before. Another important factor was that this part of the film was filmed in Changchun, and he happened to be from Changchun, so he had a certain identity and temperament. .

Ning Song is also from Changchun. He said that he had special feelings when he went back to his hometown to film. The use of the camera seems to have a special inspiration, which is very handy.

"It should be the ancestors who helped."

The topic of death is quite heavy. After filming the scene in which Liu Man is seriously ill at midnight and Guo Minkai carries her to the hospital for first aid, a group of people sit exhausted and chatting on the steps of the hospital.

Guo Minkai was a little emotional: "Decades have passed, I haven't been back to Changchun to film for a long time, and I'm old in a blink of an eye."

Ning Song joked with a smile: "It sounds like I will return to my hometown in the future."

Guo Minkai didn't shy away from this topic: "Don't say I really thought about it that way, I was born here and buried here."

Yang Shu also joined the topic: "I heard that in the future, space burial will be launched, and the ashes will be placed in satellites in synchronous orbit to truly become stars."

Guo Minkai: "It's a good idea, it feels like eternity."

A group of people looked at the starry sky.

"It also matches your status as an old superstar."

"I'm not a superstar."

"I hope that the satellite can be bound to the APP at that time, and relatives and friends can receive a reminder in the middle of the night: Your uncle just flew overhead."

(End of this chapter)