Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 394 Sure enough, it is right not to ask for help

He found that Xu Qingdong was concentrating on writing on his stomach all the time, and he didn't even notice that Cao Zhiqiang came in, so Cao Zhiqiang coughed deliberately first.

As a result, Cao Zhiqiang coughed three times, but the other party still didn't respond, he was still typing with his shirt on, with a cigarette in his mouth, and he didn't even look up.

In desperation, Cao Zhiqiang had no choice but to say: "Director Xu, it's me! Cao Zhiqiang!"

Xu Qingdong frowned and raised his head slightly.

Looking up, Xu Qingdong blinked and realized Cao Zhiqiang and Xiang Dongfang behind him.

"Well, Cao..."

As soon as I said this, Xu Qingdong realized something, quickly took down the cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, snuffed it out in the ashtray crowded with a pile of cigarette butts, and then quickly stood up: "Oh, President Cao, why are you here? ? How embarrassing is this?"

Immediately afterwards, Xu Qingdong looked at Xiang Dongfang, and said hastily, "Wait a moment, I'll go back to the room and change clothes."

"Forget it." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "It's all old men, I..."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang was taken aback suddenly, turned his head to look at Xiang Dongfang, and instantly understood what was going on.

"Secretary Xiang." Cao Zhiqiang said to her, "You go back first, I will chat with Director Xu alone here."

Xiang Dongfang smiled slightly: "Why don't I wait for you outside."

"No need." Cao Zhiqiang said, "It's so sunny outside, it's not appropriate for you to wait outside."

"It's okay." Xiang Dongfang said, "I'll just go outside and find a shady place."

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "Well, then you wait for me at the door of this room first."

"Yes." Xiang Dongfang nodded, and then left the room.

Only then did Cao Zhiqiang turn around, and said to the embarrassed shirtless guy Xu Qingdong, "Director Xu, why are you here?"

"Hi." Xu Qingdong smiled, "Isn't that what it is, is it clean here, there are no people, I can do whatever I want, shirtless.

It's not like being in the director's office, where you have to dress neatly, which is really boring. "

"What are you writing?" Cao Zhiqiang asked again, "So engrossed?"

"Hey, you really asked the right question!" Xu Qingdong patted his slightly protruding belly with a laugh, "I was going to look for you, but you just came.

I am rewriting the script, which is the script of "Love in Guting" that you gave me last time. "

"Rewrite the script?" Cao Zhiqiang frowned, "Isn't the script already written? Why rewrite it?"

"because……"

"and many more!"

Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand and interrupted Xu Qingdong: "Let's not talk about that first, old Xu, can you go out? I mean, can you work elsewhere, or do you have to stay here?"

"Yes, why not?" Xu Qingdong said, "I'm a director. When I'm not working, the management here is very loose. I don't have to stay in Beijing Film Studio."

"That's good." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "Then get dressed and come with me, and bring all the things you want to write, and I will take you to a good place."

"Where are you going?" Xu Qingdong frowned.

"Jianguo Hotel!" Cao Zhiqiang said.

"Jianguo Hotel?" Xu Qingdong was taken aback, "Why did you go there?"

"Nonsense." Cao Zhiqiang said, "That's where I live, and it's more comfortable there than here. At least, there's plenty of air conditioning there, so you don't need to be shirtless.

Although shirtless is very comfortable, but...

Forget it, let's not talk about that, just ask if you want to go.

If you go, just bring your things and follow me, I will open a room for you, let you write well, and we can chat well.

If I don't go, I will leave immediately and never stay.

Fuck you, you're too hot, like a steamer, I can't stand it. "

"Wait!" Seeing Cao Zhiqiang about to leave, Xu Qingdong hurriedly said, "Go, who can say no? But, it's just lunch..."

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "I invite you, three meals a day, all right?"

"Hey! You should have said it earlier!" Xu Qingdong chuckled, "If you say that, then whoever doesn't want to go to his grandson."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head: "You, you, if you say so earlier, it's over. Hurry up and change your clothes. When you get back to the place, I'll tell you some good news."

"Success!" Xu Qingdong smiled and nodded, "I have good news too. When we get there, let's tell each other, hahaha."

Just like that, since there were only two men, Cao Zhiqiang and Xu Qingdong, in the room, Xu Qingdong didn't hold back any more, just put on the leather sandals, and then found a gray short-sleeved shirt to put on.

Afterwards, Xu Qingdong found a leather bag, put the manuscript paper and ballpoint pen on the table into it, and turned off the electric fan. Then, with the bag under his arm, he said excitedly to Cao Zhiqiang, "Let's go, my lord?"

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, turned and left the room, only to find that Xiang Dongfang was waiting under the eaves at the door.

At this time, the outside of the house was also very hot. In just a short while, Xiang Dongfang's forehead was covered with sweat, and even his chest was wet.

But don't say, this kind of sweaty Xiang Dongfang is so attractive that Cao Zhiqiang couldn't help swallowing.

Well, it's purely hot, just a little dry mouth.

"President." Xiang Dongfang laughed immediately, "You came out?"

"Ahem!" Cao Zhiqiang cleared his throat, "Yes."

Immediately afterwards, he found that Xu Qingdong had also come out, and Cao Zhiqiang immediately put on a straight face and said, "That's right, it's too hot today, we're going to Jianguo Hotel, chat slowly at my place, you... want to come together?"

"Okay." Xiang Dongfang smiled, "I am your secretary, I will go wherever the president goes."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded, turned to Xu Qingdong and said, "Let's go, old Xu."

After that, the group came to the car in front of the office building and got into the car together.

This time, Cao Zhiqiang was in the cab, Xu Qingdong was in the co-pilot, and Xiang Dongfang sat in the back.

Sitting like this is convenient for Cao Zhiqiang to chat with Xu Qingdong, and the air-conditioning in the driver's cab and the co-pilot's seat is relatively sufficient, and Xu Qingdong is particularly afraid of heat.

That's right, this car has air conditioning, which is a relatively rare configuration these days.

After the car started and the air conditioner was blown, Cao Zhiqiang asked while driving: "Old Xu, what is the good news you said? Also, don't call me President Cao, just call me Xiao Cao."

"President Cao..."

"Hey!"

Cao Zhiqiang interrupted Xu Qingdong: "Didn't you just say that, let's not do this in private. I will call you Lao Xu, and you can call me Xiao Cao."

Xu Qingdong chuckled: "Okay, Xiao Cao."

"That's right." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled.

Xu Qingdong smiled again and said: "It's Xiao Cao like this. Didn't you say before that you don't plan to make movies in your own name, and want to find a film studio to be affiliated with? I found it for you."

"Oh?" Cao Zhiqiang turned his head to look at Xu Qingdong, then continued to stare at the front and said, "Which factory did you find?"

"Does the Youth Film Factory know?" Xu Qingdong asked.

"Youth Film Factory?" Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "You don't mean the Youth Film Factory attached to Nortel Academy?"

"Yes, that's the one!" Xu Qingdong smiled and said, "I showed the script to the relevant person in charge of the Nortel Youth Film Factory, and they said the script was good, there is no problem, if it is our self-raised funds and equipment , you can rely on their unit to shoot, and you can apply for release in their name after the filming is over, but..."

"But what?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

Xu Qingdong said: "However, they require film actors to use their Nortel students or teachers as much as possible, and as for the script, they think it is too thin, with too few conflicts, and they want it to be thicker, especially adding a little history and reality."

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "It's okay to say that the previous one asked the teachers and students of Beidian to participate in the performance, but the script is too thin. What exactly do you mean?"

Xu Qingdong said: "Let's just say, the subject matter of this script is good. The conflict between the teacher-student relationship is very exciting and impactful, but the open ending at the end is not very good. It is best if the lover finally gets married." A happy ending for the family."

"Ah?" Cao Zhiqiang frowned, "That person really said that?"

"That's what you said." Xu Qingdong nodded.

Cao Zhiqiang curled his lips: "Isn't this nonsense? The essence of this story lies in what you can't ask for, the balance between desire and restraint, the restraint of reality and the conflict of emotions, and the rationality in dreams.

To be more precise, two people who have loved but can't be together are actually the most reasonable and touching part.

It would be unreasonable if the two really had lovers and finally got married.

Let me ask you, the hero is only 16 years old, can he marry a 26-year-old female teacher?
And in the ending part, the female teacher has to resign and leave that school to live in another city.

Can the male protagonist abandon his younger siblings and elope with a female teacher ten years older than himself? "

"Obviously not." Xu Qingdong shook his head.

"Isn't that enough?" Cao Zhiqiang shrugged and then sighed.

"My story, don't look at how beautiful the process is, how it heals, how it goes in both directions, but in the final analysis, it is a forbidden love.

Since it is a taboo, you must respect the taboo, and don't try to break the taboo at every turn.

In other words, we can think about why there is such a taboo, but it does not mean that the taboo must be wrong and must be broken.

If nothing else, just talk about the teacher-student relationship.

In movies, we can use this as a gimmick to stimulate everyone's hormones.

But in reality, if there is a teacher-student relationship around us, what would you think?
In other words, if you have a child and your child's teacher falls in love with a student, can you rest assured that the teacher will continue to educate your child? "

"No!" Xu Qingdong shook his head, "Maybe I don't object to other people's teacher-student relationship, but if one of the teacher-student relationships is my child's teacher, then, then I must feel uncomfortable."

"That's right!" Cao Zhiqiang continued driving, "Old Xu, you are an adult and you have experienced more things, so you should understand that although this story is beautiful, underneath the beauty is actually a cruel reality.

The female teacher in the movie, already 26 years old, is an adult with a more mature mind.

And at her age, it happened to be the time to talk about marriage.

In this society, if she doesn't get married at this age, it will be difficult to find a partner when she gets older, and physiologically speaking, it will also have an impact on fertility.

It can be said that according to the current understanding of the general public, if you calm down, you will hope that what the female teacher in the movie should do is to work hard, and then find a reliable man to marry and form a normal family instead of being with students. fall in love.

As for the male lead in the movie, he is only 16 years old, still a minor, and he is ignorant of everything.

Especially love, what do children of this age know about love?They are more of desires dominated by hormones.

Of course, the male protagonist here is not only because of hormones, but also because of the family environment, there is a desire to be healed, to be understood, to have a person, to cuddle with each other, and to keep each other warm.

But no matter what, the real dilemma lies there.

If the male protagonist wants to get married, according to our country's marriage law, he has to wait until he is at least 22 years old.

In the meantime, he has to wait at least six years!
Six years later, the heroine will be 32 years old.

During these six years, if the heroine would suffer much censure and trouble if she just waited for him, would the hero know?Can you understand?

And six years later, who can be sure that they will not change their minds? "

"I don't think it's a problem." Xu Qingdong said, "If it's true love, it's only six years, and it's gone in a flash. It's okay for Yang Guo and Xiaolongnv to be separated by 16 years, let alone six years."

"Yang Guo and Xiaolongnv?" Cao Zhiqiang was taken aback, then turned to look at Xu Qingdong, "Oh, have you seen Jin Yong's The Legend of Condor Heroes?"

"Hey." Xu Qingdong smiled, "Don't look down on people, I've read almost all of Mr. Jin Yong's novels, and I've read The Legend of Condor Heroes at least twenty times."

Cao Zhiqiang was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

That's right, let's not mention Xu Qingdong's background, just talk about Xu Qingdong's identity as a director, and it's not difficult to get some Jin Yong's novels.

After all, although Jin Yong's novels are not as popular as they were later, in fact, some pirated versions, especially traditional Chinese characters, have long been popular in small domestic circles.

Xu Qingdong is considered to be in the cultural circle anyway, and it is normal to be able to read Jin Yong's martial arts novels.

Jin Yong's novels are not considered banned books now, and even the chiefs like to read them, let alone Xu Qingdong.

"That's right, their love may be stronger than gold, unwavering." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"But don't you think it's superfluous to have to force a happy ending of being together six years later?

A movie is not a TV series, so you don’t need to add all the content, what you need is the essence.

And this kind of ending with the scene where the female teacher leaves, this kind of open ending, don't you think it's better?

At that time, if you are an optimist and hope that they will be together, just imagine that they will meet again in six years.

If you are a pessimist, you think that they will be separated from each other and will not be together in six years.

This way everyone is satisfied, isn't it good? "

"It's just that this kind of unpleasant feeling is not good." Xu Qingdong said, "People said, it's better to have a good ending, and it's better to enrich the background.

For example, isn't China and Japan friendly now?

People have said that it is best to add a Chinese-Japanese background to this teacher.

For example, the grandfather of this teacher may be a soldier of the Eighth Route Army in my country, and his grandmother may be a Japanese nurse who stayed in China. Then they came together because of love, and even though they have suffered hardships, they have always been friendly to our country. my country and Japan are friendly.

At the same time, it also shows some of our common people's friendliness to Chinese-Japanese mixed-race children, which makes us more generous and more in line with the main theme of Sino-Japanese friendship. "

Hearing this, Cao Zhiqiang was speechless for a while, if he was not still driving, he would have scolded his mother.

It's just a simple romance movie, why does everything have to have a main theme?Do you want to do this?
Sure enough, it is right not to ask for help.

I still have my own film studio, and I am the master of my own territory. This is the real freedom!
(End of this chapter)