tearjerker director

Chapter 1059 Maggie's Gift

When he received the invitation, Li Yi was accompanying Xu Nannan and her children in North America.

However, Li Yi still agreed.

But he is not ready to go back, anyway, all he needs is for the works to be in place.

Of course, it is definitely not so easy even for Li Yi to make an amazing "love short film".

Li Yi actually didn't have a clue yet, but fortunately there was still time.

On this day, Li Yi and Xu Nannan left their poor baby and went shopping together.

Of course, instead of visiting those luxury stores, Xu Nannan took Li Yi mainly to visit those old stores.

According to Xu Nannan's words, it's much more interesting than those fashionable and expensive luxury goods.

Li Yi also felt that it was true.

Apparently Xu Nannan had done the preparatory work, and the shops she took Li Yi to visit were all those very old shops.

This kind of store is usually not so lively, and the location is not particularly prosperous.

But it doesn't have a special taste.

"Huh?" Xu Nannan suddenly let out a sound of surprise when he came to the door of an antique boutique.

"What's wrong?" Li Yi looked at Xu Nannan with some doubts.

"Here, did you see that person?" Xu Nannan said to a short-haired girl outside the window of the antique boutique.

"Well, what? Do you know him?" Li Yi glanced at him, still puzzled.

"I've seen it, but I don't know it. When I came last time, she took a fancy to an old pocket watch in the store, but it seemed that she didn't have enough money. But when I came last time, she was a little different from now. " Xu Nannan said.

"When I saw her before, she had waist-length hair"

"I was very envious at the time, but I didn't expect that this time she would actually cut off that enviable waist-length hair." Xu Nannan said with a regretful expression.

Li Yi couldn't help but look at the other party more, but at this moment, the other party walked into the store and walked out quickly.

Li Yi and Xu Nannan walked into Jack's old shop.

"Hi old Jack!"

"Hi, Xu, you haven't been here for a long time."

Xu Nannan and the store manager, Old Jack, greeted each other.

"She bought that pocket watch?" Xu Nannan asked.

"Yeah!" Old Jack nodded.

"She seems to have a story with that pocket watch?" Xu Nannan asked curiously.

"Yes, that pocket watch used to belong to her husband! She wanted to buy it back, but she never had enough money until she sold her long hair," said old Jack.

Through Old Jack's words, Li Yi and Xu Nannan found out that the girl's husband was once a financial elite, but because of the worldwide economic crisis, he went bankrupt once he returned to before liberation.

Her husband jumped off the building as a result.

Everything that was there has been washed away.

The former home is being sold, including everything!

And that girl, after searching for a long time, finally found her husband's pocket watch. It was his first birthday after they were together, and she bought it for him.

It's just that the family is in trouble, and she wants to buy it back, but she doesn't have enough money. After a long time, she sells her enviable long hair, and finally raises enough money, but her husband's favorite long hair is gone.

Xu Nannan sighed while listening.

But Li Yi had a memory in his mind, which was somewhat similar to this story.

He thought about what kind of short film he was going to make.

Although it is not a short film, but a short story, but I have to say, it is definitely good enough.

The effect should be fine.

Coincidentally, this story also took place in a foreign country, so Li Yi didn't need to go back to find actors, and just find actors here in North America to shoot it.

In fact, the theme of love, although it is said to be eternal, has been an absolutely eternal topic for many years.

Perhaps pure love movies are no longer mainstream, and perhaps romance movies seem to have few works that can be called amazing.

But I have to say that the theme of love exists more or less in any movie.

In fact, all kinds of routines have been used badly. It is really much more difficult to shoot amazing routines than other themes.

After all, the earliest movies were about love, and since ancient times, there have been too many classic and popular stories about love.

In China, there are Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai, Houyi Chang'e, and other love stories circulating.

There are also many loves like Romeo and Juliet abroad.

And short films focus on creativity, and to a certain extent, it is even more difficult to truly achieve amazing levels.

Actually speaking, Li Yi is really not particularly optimistic about the theme of Penguin Video this time.

The theme of love is big enough, and the theme is classic enough, but the problem is that such a theme is really not suitable for short films.

However, this time Li Yi's love-themed short film, he is still more confident, because this short film, to put it bluntly, is actually not a new routine, but it is interesting enough.

In the short film "The Gift of the Magi", I have to say that O'Henry's short stories are really good. The key point is that the words alone are actually very visual.

The novel itself is narrative literature, and the use of narrative perspective plays a big role in it.

Most of the scene descriptions and psychological descriptions in "The Gift of the Magi" use the third-person omniscient perspective.

In fact, this is similar to the shooting lens of the movie, because the lens language, most of the time, is actually shot from the third perspective.

In this way, the third person is also used the most in novels, because the third person naturally allows readers or audiences to bring their own perspective.

What impressed Li Yi the most was that the narrative structure of this novel is very interesting in itself, especially the scene of Della counting money in the novel, which is narrated from this perspective in the novel.

Secondly, the transformation of perspective is used in the novel.It is also similar to the director's lens transition. While using the omniscient perspective, it selectively switches to the third-person limited perspective, that is, uses the perspective or vision of the characters in the novel to narrate in order to make up for the omniscient perspective to describe Jim's return. Reflection after home!

Just like when the reader reads, he will know everything in advance, but the people in the story don't know it.

There is a passage in it that is particularly interesting:
"Jim stood by the doorway of the house, his eyes fixed on Della, in a way she could not understand and horrified her. It was neither anger nor surprise nor resentment nor disgust, not at all what she expected. .”

All these narratives are described from Della's limited perspective, only Della's personal feelings and uneasiness. Why Jim reacts in this way is equally unknown to Della and the readers.At the end of the novel, the author also used this limited perspective to create suspense. When Jim saw the watch chain that Della bought for him, he didn’t react and just smiled, so that we, as readers, don’t know why Jim reacted like this. .

But it is easier to do this when shooting with a lens!
(End of this chapter)