1990: Starting from Baojia Street

The three new songs played at the party suddenly made Li Yuanyuan energetic. She sat up straight and prepared to listen to the songs carefully.

Shang Wenya is different from Li Yuanyuan. She pays more attention to the plot of the movie.

After this dance party, Shang Wenya felt that the male protagonist was a very introverted person and was not very good at handling relationships with friends, which made the atmosphere on the scene so awkward.

The next day, the protagonist's father told him that all the men in their family had a special ability, which was the ability to travel back to the past.

The operation is also very simple. Just find a dark space, such as a closet, then make fists with both hands and think about the time you want to go back.

At first the male protagonist didn't quite believe it and thought his father was playing a joke on him, but later he still tried it.

What he didn't expect was that it really succeeded and he returned to the previous night.

When he returned to the dance, he chose to dance with the female classmate next to him when the lights dimmed, thus avoiding embarrassment from happening again.

When seeing this, Shang Wenya raised his eyebrows and thought to himself, is this still a science fiction movie?
Although the name of the movie is "Time Traveler", she had never thought that the movie would have a science fiction element and that the protagonist would have the ability to go back to the past.

Many movies have discussed the idea of ​​going back in time, and each director presents something different. I don’t know what answer Zhou Yan will give.

Just when Shang Wenya was expecting the hero to use his abilities to do something big, he actually just used his abilities to please his sister's friend Qin Yu, and his methods were very clumsy.

In the end, the male protagonist did not win Qin Yu's favor.

No matter when he chose to express his feelings to Qin Yu, he was rejected by Qin Yu without exception.

Later, the male protagonist left home and went to Hong Kong, where he became a trainee lawyer. He worked from nine to five every day and nothing major happened.

Twenty minutes had passed at this point in the movie, but the heroine still hadn't appeared. Shang Wenya was getting a little anxious.

She wanted to see the hero use his abilities, but she didn't see it. She wanted to see the heroine, but twenty minutes had passed and she still didn't see it. Of course she was getting anxious.

Li Yuanyuan, who was sitting next to her, had a completely different mentality. She focused most of her energy on music, and the rest of her energy was also on the pictures of the movie.

I have to say that Zhou Yan's film is really beautiful. It was like this from the very beginning when the male protagonist lived at home. She even became interested in the filming location because of the previous footage, and thought it would be nice to visit the location when she has time.

The male protagonist came to Hong Kong and became a trainee lawyer. His life seemed quite boring, but the music that was vague in the background and not at all overpowering, as well as the textured pictures, made Li Yuanyuan feel very comfortable.

The movie does have a slow pace, but she really likes it.

Of course, Shang Wenya's expectations were soon met.

Twenty minutes into the movie, the protagonist's childhood friend takes him to a special restaurant.

The restaurant was dark and without any lights. Led by the waiter, they shared a table with two girls.

In the darkness, the four of them started chatting together.

At this time, the heroine appeared.

In fact, only the heroine's voice appears.

For more than two minutes afterwards, the big screen was black, with only sporadic light. Nothing could be seen clearly, and only the voices of the characters could be heard.

After seeing this part, many people were stunned. They didn’t expect that there would be more than two minutes of "dark scenes" in a movie.

The key point is that although there are more than two minutes of "black scenes", they don't feel boring at all, because the dialogue between the male and female protagonists is very interesting.

And because they were in the dark, the atmosphere was very special, a little strange, a little ambiguous.

Although only two minutes had passed in the movie, the time shown in the movie was nearly three hours, which means they chatted in the dark for nearly three hours.

It wasn't until the 25th minute of the movie that the heroine finally appeared.

The Joey Wong in this movie is not as beautiful as in "The Sixth Sense".

The first time she appeared, she was wearing a very ordinary, even a bit rustic dress, her hair was not straight, and she had bangs.

This kind of makeup greatly reduces Wang Zuxian's beauty.

However, when the heroine lifted the curtain and came out, the audience was still stunned by her beauty.

What makes the audience feel beautiful is the perfect light in the camera. The light shining from above the heroine's head saves her makeup.

Ordinary audiences just think it is beautiful, but people in the industry are already sighing that the lighting here is really well done.

From the audience's perspective, they will only notice the light source coming from behind the heroine.

In fact, in order to create such light and shadow effects, the lighting arrangement on the scene is very complicated.

This kind of "single light source" can easily cause problems when shooting, because the light is too dazzling, causing the portrait to be weakened in the lens.

In order to solve this problem, at least thirty light sources were placed in front of Joey Wong, and even candles were used.

After the static lighting was solved, we had to solve the dynamic lighting. A lot of thought was put into the scene settings during shooting and the protagonist's movement settings.

If you give less consideration to any step, it will be impossible to achieve such an effect.

Actually, this scene only lasts a few seconds, but Zhou Yan attaches great importance to it because it is the first appearance of the heroine.

The first time is especially important.

The effect Zhou Yan wants is to make the audience think that the heroine herself is not a particularly beautiful woman, but gives people a particularly comfortable feeling. At least from the perspective of the male protagonist, she must be good-looking.

It is not a difficult thing to photograph a beautiful actor to look beautiful, but it takes a lot of effort to photograph a beautiful actor to look both beautiful and ugly.

If the balance tilts slightly towards one side, the effect will not be achieved.

Zhou Yan's ultimate goal is to let the audience slowly accept Wang Zuxian's new look and feel the charm conveyed by the character itself, rather than Wang Zuxian's own beauty.

As it turned out, the effect Zhou Yan wanted was basically achieved.

Many viewers even separated the heroine from Joey Wong. After all, the makeup of this character is different from all of Joey Wong's previous roles.

At this time, a new background music sounded, soft, ambiguous, and slow, making people's breathing slow down. Shang Wenya really likes this scene where the hero and heroine meet for the first time. The subtle feeling is just right, and the emotions between the two are ready to burst out, but not too exaggerated.

At this time, a song that Li Yuanyuan liked very much appeared. The male singer had a deep voice and the lyrics were affectionate and moving.

“The buttons on your collar
The color of your hair
I think I see you everywhere
......"

This song is longer than the previous ones, and the melody runs through the two people's first meeting.

Li Yuanyuan couldn't help but sigh again that when Teacher Zhou composed the music for her movie, he was willing to use some raw materials, and many of them were songs.

Only twenty-five minutes into the movie, four and a half nice new songs have appeared. Why do I say four and a half? Because there is a song at the beginning that Li Yuanyuan is not sure whether it is a new song or not, and it sounds a bit like a song on the radio.

In addition to these four and a half songs, there are also a lot of pure music soundtracks. Probably half of the 25 minutes has music soundtracks.

There is a lot of music, but it doesn't make the film feel full. Many times, the soundtrack appears vaguely, and if you don't listen to it intentionally, you won't even notice it, because the music has been integrated into the film and is not separate.

After the male and female protagonists met, they left their contact information and thought that things would develop smoothly.

However, in order to help his roommate save the failed performance, the male protagonist chose to use his ability and return to the corresponding time.

Only after helping his roommate did the hero realize that he had lost the heroine's contact information. He hurried to the restaurant where they met, but he arrived too late and the heroine was gone.

Just like that, the hero missed the heroine.

When seeing this, Shang Wenya felt a little strange. Since the male protagonist has the ability to travel through time, why doesn't he go back again, remember the female protagonist's phone number, and then travel through time again to help his roommate? Anyway, from what he has seen so far, it seems that there is no limit to the number of times the male protagonist's ability to travel through time.

I don't know if the male protagonist is stupid or not, he didn't think of this at all, but ran to the art exhibition foolishly and waited for it, just because he heard the female protagonist talk about the art exhibition when they were chatting that night.

He waited for many days and finally got the heroine, but unfortunately, the heroine already had a boyfriend.

However, the male protagonist found out that the female protagonist and her boyfriend met at a party, so he carefully asked about the time and place, then traveled through time and intercepted the female protagonist.

……

When Li Yuanyuan heard a song playing at the party, she suddenly couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Shang Wenya looked at Li Yuanyuan in confusion, and the latter whispered, "Listen to the lyrics."

After hearing what Li Yuanyuan said, Shang Wenya also began to listen to the lyrics carefully, and then couldn't help rolling her eyes.

The song played at the party was pretty nice, but the lyrics weren't so good. The general meaning of the lyrics was: Although I already have a lover, I still think of you all the time.

Listening to the lyrics, it has a bit of an unfaithful vibe to it. Zhou Yan putting the song here is really a bit of a spoof.

If you think about it carefully, it makes sense. After all, what the male protagonist is doing here is to steal the girl's girlfriend.

This time of poaching was very successful, and afterwards the two of them progressed very quickly. They lived like a couple every day, going to work together and going home together.

It was also at this time that the song "How Long Will I Love You" that the audience had been looking forward to appeared.

Before, everyone had only heard the pure music version, but this time, hearing the version with vocals in the movie, the feeling was suddenly different, especially when combined with the scenes of the male and female protagonists going to work and coming home together, it was very sweet.

Later, the hero proposed to her, and the heroine went back with him to meet his parents, and the marriage was quickly settled.

The wedding scene is definitely the most exciting part of the movie, which can be seen from the audience's reaction.

When the heroine appeared in a dress, many people could be heard exclaiming in surprise. This was definitely the most beautiful moment for the heroine in the whole film.

The whole wedding was warm and funny, and some audience members even laughed from beginning to end. Especially when it was raining heavily, the laughter in the concert hall was particularly obvious.

The key is that the opera-like background music forms a sharp contrast with the movie images, making people feel very funny.

The movie is more than halfway through, and it feels very relaxing the whole time.

The love between the hero and heroine is not earth-shattering, but it feels very sweet, and occasionally there are some little episodes that make people laugh.

However, the movie is still halfway through, and it is destined not to be always sweet.

In the next hour, Zhou Yan prepared knives for the audience.

The first knife was the protagonist’s sister. She had a car accident on the way to the protagonist’s house and was hospitalized. The reason for the accident was that her boyfriend cheated on her.

In order to prevent his sister from getting into a car accident, the male protagonist decided to go back in time and save his sister.

He succeeded, but discovered a problem: his child was replaced.

His father told him that after having a child, he could not travel back to before the child was born, otherwise the child might become someone else, which means the original child would disappear.

In order to get the original child back, he had to make a new choice and let his sister continue her previous fate and be injured and hospitalized.

It was just a small knife. After all, my sister was fine except for some minor injuries, and she even found love again after she recovered.

But after experiencing this incident, the audience discovered that this movie seemed different from what they had imagined before.

The so-called special ability to travel into the past sometimes becomes a shackle.

When there is suddenly one more choice in life, those who need to make a choice will experience a kind of pain that ordinary people cannot experience.

Of course, here, everyone’s feeling was not very obvious until Zhou Yan handed over another knife - the protagonist’s father was about to die.

At this point, the tone of the movie suddenly changed, from its original sweetness to gradually becoming heavy, and the audience had more things to think about.

After his father passed away, the male protagonist often traveled back to the past because of his special abilities to see his father who was still alive.

For the male protagonist, his father is not actually dead.

But later, when the man was about to have his second child, he went to see his father for the last time.

At the beginning, Shang Wenya couldn’t understand why the male protagonist was so conflicted, but when she put herself in his shoes, she found that things were not that simple.

When a person has more and more ties, he will become more and more hesitant when faced with the idea of ​​going back to the past, because going back to the past means that he may lose everything he has in the present. (End of this chapter)