I'm the director, I'm not bad

Chapter 553 551. Not bad

"17 minutes..."

Xiao Yang, the editor of "Tongtian Empire", said to his companion who was watching the movie together, Guo Xiaoshi, who is also the recording assistant director of "Tongtian Empire", said:

"Whose movie have you seen in 17 minutes that is like the whole chorus?"

"...just a trick."

Compared to Xiao Yang's amazement, Guo Xiaoshi, who seemed to be in his early thirties, had no expression on his face.

Although his voice was low, the sourness in his tone could be heard.

After giving his own conclusions, he said:
"I haven't seen it before... Now that I see it... Heh, Xu Xin is quite scheming. The movie is stuck in the Venice Film Festival, and the song it makes is a well-known song in Italy. The movie is only 17 minutes long. It can mobilize emotions... Tsk tsk, he still plays with mentality."

"..."

Xiao Yang was speechless.

Although everyone is stirring the horse spoon in the same pot, they are all crews under Huayi's banner.

But it doesn't mean he agrees with Guo Xiaoshi's words.

Although he is the editor, the other party is the audio producer.But as practitioners, some sensitivities are still there.

Regardless of whether it is deliberately pandering or not, the real essence is... "The Hawthorn Tree", it is very appropriate to use the melody of "Goodbye, friend" here.

Most of the songs of that era were introduced from the Soviet Union, with a strong color of rebellion.

And this song praising revolutionary friendship should be put here as it should be.

Nothing wrong.

What's more, in the first 16 minutes of this movie, there are not only songs.

It hides... a lot.

There are thoughts, related pre-buried bedding, and some very intriguing details.

Neither deep.

In Xiao Yang's eyes, Xu Xin did not deliberately show off his skills.

Everything expressed in this movie can be seen as long as one has the most basic film and television aesthetic theory.

This was especially to his liking.

Besides, Liu Yifei was the biggest surprise for him.

He is not a fan of Liu Yifei, but he does not hate this person.

Or...Liu Yifei may have forgotten, but Xiao Yang had contact with her.

Right on top of that "The King of Kung Fu."

As one of the editors of "The King of Kung Fu", he was responsible for a small part of the editing work on the role of "Golden Swallow".

When Liu Yifei came to dub, he took out the clips that needed to be dubbed.

As for Liu Yifei's impression at that time, he thought it was very good.

In Huayi, I have seen this brother and that sister a lot.

Liu Yifei is the rare kind of person who is not too picky about the environment, and the assistant is not so busy.

Nice touch.

Even at the banquet where the film was finished in-house, the two had a glass of Coke.

Later, although the company fell out with Liu Yifei...but it was the company that fell out. What does it have to do with my editor Xiao Yang?
After two years, they reunited with each other again.

Although Xiao Yang is not confident that Liu Yifei will definitely remember him, it does not prevent him from appreciating the film and television works she brought from the perspective of a former work partner.

First of all, the editing of this movie made Xiao Yang feel very comfortable.

Anyone who does editing knows it.

At the beginning, everyone wanted to show off their skills, and they all liked to show off their skills. They couldn't wait to shake the camera [-] times a frame to show the awesomeness of the editor.

After working for many years, the editors will find that... rather than showing off their skills, their more work is to turn those films that ordinary people can't accept one after another into "" Can see" works.

And the reason why Xiao Yang likes this movie that exudes a down-to-earth storytelling temperament so much is because...he has edited "The King of Kung Fu" and knows how many horrible scenes there are in that movie.

But the composition of the movie was too complicated, and Liu Yifei couldn't be blamed for the fact that the movie was bad.

It's more like a product of acclimatization and people simply fooling you.

Therefore, because he has been in contact with Liu Yifei at this moment, he is happy from the bottom of his heart when he looks at Liu Yifei in the camera.

Applaud each other for their performance in this drama.

Regardless of what was said in the later period, at least the first ten minutes or so earlier really gave Xiao Yang a new understanding of Liu Yifei.

In the first stage, Xu Xin handled it perfectly.

This is his recognition of the entire film as an editor.

As long as this rhythm is maintained, it has nothing to do with how the plot develops, at least in terms of the overall rhythm, it is complete.

As for peer prejudice...

Just listen to it.

And Xiao Yang's thoughts at this moment are the thoughts of many film critics present.

No matter at home or abroad.

As professional filmmakers, they can praise good movies, but in essence, they come to watch them with the idea of ​​being critical.

But at least the first 17 minutes...

Whether it's the soundtrack, the acting skills of the male and female protagonists, or the plots that have already happened, they all saw something...very new.

It is not a new technology or art, but a style.

It turns out... there is more than just suffering and hatred.

It's not just kung fu movies that look good but have a weak plot core.

"Under the Hawthorn Tree" is a movie... very good.

At least for those 17 minutes.

……

And the following story is the same as the temperament of the movie given by Xu Xin.

Whether it's Jingqiu's "capitalist roader" family or some of the things she went through to stay in school, Xu Xin's handling is quite restrained.

When Jingqiu returned home, she just showed a sad expression when she thought that she would never see her third child again.

Then he silently picked up the kraft paper envelopes at home.

Fold it skillfully and seal it with glue.

These envelopes are to supplement the household.

When Jingqiu's mother came back, she saw her busy daughter, and her joy was only fleeting.

Then he also picked up a bunch of envelopes, and at the same time, he was still nagging Jingqiu to try to stay in school as a teacher.

In Xu Xin's handling of the whole movie, the setting of "family" is not a warm home.

Home, of course, must be warm and affectionate.

But considering that era and the title of "capitalist roader", he endowed Jingqiu and Jingqiu's mother in this family with the feeling of "behaving with their tails between their legs".

Intimidated.

At the same time, it also makes the role of Jingqiu more reasonable.

And Liu Yifei's acting skills also perfectly controlled this "inferiority".

From the walking posture, to the slow voice and cautious feeling of speech and demeanor... directly using the contrast, the audience saw a completely different Jingqiu.

Jingqiu in the county town is like a caged bird.

She was completely different from the girl who smiled at every turn when she was in the countryside.

Because she couldn't see Jing Qiu's smile, Liu Yifei used her eyes more to express her inner emotions.

So in the scenes in the entire county, she feels like a marionette, living in the midst of her mother's wishes and the crime of wearing a "big hat" on her head.

During the process of the film, Xu Xin reduced all unnecessary sounds.

The background music didn't come on once.

Even wherever Jing Qiu went, there were very few people.

At the same time, the color tone is also more metaphorical.

The blue that can be seen everywhere, the blue khaki work clothes, the blue to black roof of the house, and the darker sky...

And in order to make this kind of blue produce a sense of immersion, and at the same time add the taste of "bitterness and sweetness" to it, the appearance of the third child was also arranged by Xu Xin at night.

Under the blue-black sky that is not completely black, under a dim street lamp.

The third child was standing under the street lamp.

And when Jingqiu walks into the light and shadow that symbolizes lighting up her heart, she will lose her inferiority complex and anxiety, and at this moment, she seems to be transformed into a bird flying high again...

Everyone who watched unconsciously smiled.

Very simple way of shooting.

The same simple inner description of the characters.

But... with that quiet temperament, and the quietly sounded variation version, Lang Lang personally played the slow piano solo "BELLA CIAO".

The night in this county seemed to come alive completely in the girl's smile.

"Wow~"

When seeing the beautiful smile of the girl under the street lamp, the exclamation from less than half of the audience was the best compliment to Liu Yifei.

Unconsciously, her face became hot.

Fortunately, in the dark auditorium, others couldn't see her blush.

And she turned her head unconsciously, looking at Xu Xin who fell unconscious on his back...

That touch of shame turned into helplessness again.

If this is played by Mimi... If you still dare to sleep, I respect you as a man...

Ugh……

Resisting the thought of pinching Xu Xin's nose and calling him up, she shook her head helplessly.

……

The whole movie progresses slowly in Xu Xin's unhurried narrative style.

Gradually, the audience also understood.

Every time this girl named "Jing Qiu" appears in the walking scene, it represents a kind of alternation of time.

The way she traveled was short, and the time transition was short.

The longer the journey, the longer the time span.

During this period, Jingqiu and the third child's mentality changes, including the determination of the relationship, and the furtive emotions, perfectly integrated with the "big birdcage" environment of the entire county.

That warm light, starting from the street lamp at night, gradually moved towards dawn.

To the dawn, to the day, to light up the girls all.

The entire dark blue tone was quietly dispelled by the appearance of the third child again and again.

And the smile on Jingqiu's face is finally no longer inferiority and affectation.

The relationship between the two has developed rapidly.

Everything is so beautiful.

And the progress of the movie, unknowingly, is more than halfway.

The story develops until Jingqiu finds out that the third child is hospitalized.

The word "leukemia" appears for the first time in the whole story.

Instantly wakes up those who have been immersed in the peaceful and unique atmosphere of this film...

Is it abrupt?
Very abrupt.

In the original work, the third child suddenly got leukemia, which is also very abrupt.

But in the movie, Xu Xin had already laid the groundwork in advance in the work of the geological exploration team described by the third child.

Jingqiu asked the third child what they were looking for, was it a coal mine?When it was about other ores, the third child always kept silent.

Obviously, what this team of geological exploration team is looking for is secret.

Before Jingqiu found the third child in the hospital, she also went to the exploration team once, and learned from the conversation with others that the third child did not belong to the exploration team.

Like some other geologists, he belongs to a special team.

All of these foreshadowings are pre-buried for the rationality of the third child's leukemia.

Therefore, when Jingqiu asked the third child "Do you have leukemia", the third child simply denied it.

Said it was just a "little cold".

But Xu Xin has made sufficient preparations for the decoration.

The brand-new hospital gown on the third child, the color of the blue and white stripes is heavier than that of the hospital gown that has been washed many times.

At the same time, the third child's lunch box is also blue and black, not aluminum.

All the small hints have labeled this dark blue and death.

And in this scene, Liu Yifei finally showed his acting skills of switching four emotions in one second.

First, the anxiety when asking seriously, then the joy when getting the answer, the sadness that urgently needs to be vented after the joy, and the last touch of strength...

All the emotions are reflected in the gaze of the third child after he replied "It's just a common cold".

The emotional advancement is quite complete, and the connection is just right.

When the tears in those eyes did not fall, the first reaction of the audience at home and abroad was:

"It's time for you to hug her."

But Xu Xin once again hid this emotion.

It suppresses the feelings of both parties, and also suppresses the emotions of the audience.

It's like ammunition that continues to be loaded into the barrel.

Still dissatisfied.

Not yet.

Next, as the plot progressed layer by layer, the two finally ushered in that scene... which was dubbed "the cleanest sex scene in history" by the crew.

Two people, one room.

The ambiguity of being alone and widowed began to brew.

However, this ambiguity did not make people have any charming desires, on the contrary, many people frowned.

Could it be... the director really wants to...

Some of them dare not think.

Obviously the whole film is carried out in such a clean and quiet atmosphere, although in the part where the two swim, one can feel the ambiguity of the skin-to-skin relationship between men and women blending.

But if there is really going to be a sex scene...

That atmosphere...

But there was nothing left.

I'm thinking about it.

In the dark room, Jingqiu had already said the words "I can't let you stay with me like this...you lie down beside me".

Oh no……

I don't know how many people frowned.

Rarely, this time they didn't want any depiction of a relationship between a man and a woman.

Instead, I hope the director can finish filming it in such a peaceful atmosphere...

Why must there be "sex"?

Why can't Jingqiu and the third child spend a night that is warm on the surface, but hides a parting night in the heart?
Could it be that Jingqiu was supposed to be pregnant with the third child and live alone at that time...?
Some people have already begun to think about the follow-up plot.

But rather...

Xu Xin seemed to have guessed their thoughts in advance.

When I saw the third child lying down, lifted the quilt covered by Jingqiu, and put his hand inside...

"OH NO..."

I don't know who made a voice of resistance.

No one agrees.

But deep in my heart I agree.

This director ruined the film... The third child shouldn't have done this... What Jingqiu needs is to be protected, not... eh?

When the slow camera began to pan, representing the bulge of the third child's arm going down a little bit...

Suddenly, the screen changes.

Jingqiu's apprehensive eyes with a little uneasiness suddenly appeared.

Then, the screen switches again.

The third child pulled his hand out.

Followed by that, there is five fingers intertwined with Jingqiu.

"..."

"..."

"..."

He just wanted to hold Jingqiu's hand...

"call……"

Xu Xin, who didn't know what he dreamed of, let out a slight snoring sound.

Everything is under control.

……

1 hour and 26 minutes exactly.

When the darkness ends, the scene of Lao San and Jing Qiu walking towards the coach station one after the other appears.

26 minutes 10 seconds.

The picture of Jingqiu and Lao San in the car appeared.

In 15 seconds, Jing Qiu secretly glanced at the third child, but the third child kept frowning until he found that Jing Qiu was looking at him before showing a smiling face.

At 43 seconds, by the river, the third child watched Jingqiu board the boat to the county seat.

At 27 minutes and 09 seconds, Jingqiu, who had come to the other side of the river, found that the third child on the other side of the river had been following her along the river bank.

At 27 minutes and 33 seconds, Jingqiu stood still.

For a full 1 minute and 33 seconds, there are no lines.

There is no dialogue.

Even the camera, except on the car, gives medium and long shots.

Silence is like gold.

Then, at 27 minutes and 35 seconds, Xu Xin used a super wide-angle lens, with the middle of the river as the dividing line, Jing Qiu was on the right side of the screen, and the third child was on the left.

Obviously it's just the span of a screen, but this distance seems to be as far away as life and death, and the sense of distance is born!

it's time.

When the shells had been filled to the point where they could not be filled, he finally handed the fuzes to the hands of the people.

On both sides of the river that represents life and death.

Compared with this river that has been flowing for an unknown number of years, these two tiny human beings are so insignificant, so insignificant.

And the stillness of the picture seemed to make everyone's heart stop for a beat.

until……

The picture suddenly showed Jingqiu.

Jingqiu is laughing.

Smiling very happily, smiling extremely happily, waved in the direction of the other side of the river in the camera.

He didn't speak, but suddenly took the initiative to make a gesture of embracing the circle with his hands.

That's hugging the third child.

Right now, there is no one around.

Only then can the girl show her heart without any scruples.

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At the same time, the guitar sounded rapidly.

At the same time, there was another... It sounded like a human voice recorded by a machine with too old recording equipment, and a hoarse and hurried male voice began to sing.

It is still "BELLA CIAO".

Or rather, there is no second accompaniment for the whole hawthorn.

Just a different version of BELLA CIAO.

And this version of "BELLA CIAO" was written by Zhou Qin, the third lead singer of Xi'an Choir.

The radio was contributed by Jay Chou, a microphone that Elvis Presley personally used in Las Vegas.

Zhou Qin's slightly hoarse but high-pitched voice, after being recorded by this antique microphone with a stiff diaphragm and a bit dull, but with the sound of gold and stone, presents a rush that is as explosive as a bomb feel!
In this rush of singing and guitar, her smile slowly became stagnant after appearing in the camera for about three seconds.

Then doubts popped up.

As for wondering why...

The screen changed again, and a puff of smoke slowly passed through the river.

After the smoke passed, the third child's motionless figure appeared.

Seeing that he didn't move, the audience understood why Jingqiu was confused.

But in the next second, the third child in the distant shot raised his hands.

Jingqiu's hesitation instantly dissipated without a trace.

But at this time, after singing a short section of the song again, it accelerated again.

At this moment, the screen suddenly switched to a close-up of the third child.

Lin Juxin burst into tears, collapsed to the point where she couldn't help herself, but the silent expression, and the trembling but trying to maintain the hug, like a bomb, matched with the smooth guitar and hoarse voice, Accelerated bombing reached everyone.

"!"

All of a sudden, the emotions accumulated for nearly 90 minutes broke out at this moment.

Finally, everyone understood the music and the purpose of this scene.

The third child... just like this song, getting closer and closer to death... right?
I didn't know the meaning of the song when I first heard it.

But when I realized it, I looked at the two people in the camera... Everyone's heart was like this song that accelerated for the last time after completing a bar...

Along the river, towards the grand death...

"hiss……"

Sun Youwei touched the goosebump on his arm...

Suddenly I feel that this song is so harsh...

It was like a heavy punch hit him in the face.

Be caught off guard.

Bang!
And finally, the three dull drums hitting the guitar box sounded.

The silent performance of more than two minutes ended here.

As soon as the screen changed, Jing Qiu had walked a long, long way.

The movie... came to the last PART.

……

In the end, the 109-minute movie shot ended with a mature woman standing alone under the hawthorn tree with her back to the camera.

The blow of the bomb left everyone covered in cuts and bruises.

So much so that... in the last paragraph, when they saw the death of the third child, their sorrow had been vented in advance, and it was replaced by a kind of... the calmness of accepting reality after time has passed.

And the movie ended in this calm.

However, outside the fixed screen, the melodious sound of a harmonica came.

"Ah, goodbye, friend~"

"Ah, goodbye, friend~"

"Oh friend, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye..."

"Whenever people~"

"Pass through here~"

"Everyone said~ how~ so~ beautiful~ beautiful~~~~~~~~"

"Flowers~~~"

In the melodious melody of the harmonica, the clean and clear singing echoed throughout the auditorium of the University of Venice.

With the screen slowly turning black...

Finally started scrolling the subtitles.

"Director: Xu Xin"

"Supervisor: Zhang Yimou"

"Starring actors: Liu Yifei, Lin Shenxin"...

pat.

The lights are on.

"..."

"..."

"..."

For a moment, the people sat on the chairs in a daze, staring blankly at the big screen, not knowing how to react.

The melody that reverberated in their minds comforted their restlessness and calmed them down time and time again.

Calmly looking at the staff list on the screen...

It was almost dead silent.

But at this moment, the dazzling lights shone, and Xu Xin finally woke up.

"Um...it's over?"

Not loud, not small.

But it attracted the attention of Sun Youcai who was also sitting quietly on the chair.

Turning to look at the sleepy young man...

The middle-aged reporter, who was clearly a fan of Liu Tao, unconsciously closed the notepad with ten or twenty pages of thick fonts at this moment, looked at Xu Xin, and applauded sincerely:

"Crack, crack, crack..."

And he takes the lead.

The domestic and foreign audiences in the venues woke up like a dream.

The group of foreign buddies quickly followed the applause and joined the team.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

In the ocean of applause, Xu Xin was stunned...

Feel the praise from the applause...

A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Voila.

Isn't this a good response...

(End of this chapter)