Get off work and become the Godfather of Rock and Roll

Chapter 203 Farewell to Master Lun
The latest episode of the documentary was aired last night.

It was a quiet night and the delivery guy was running around, delivering all kinds of disposable items.

The knight is like a low-profile version of Ghost Rider, shuttling between cities.

In various screening rooms, fans arrived on time and waited comfortably for the visual feast, almost taking away all the business from the cinemas.

Jin Dagu's Caizhou Hotel was once again packed with people. Whenever the documentary was broadcast, regular customers would flock to the restaurant, if for no other reason than to squeeze together and watch it.

Many film schools and communication universities have held film viewing events, and there are very few documentaries that both conform to the public's aesthetic taste and can excite students who are about to enter this industry.

Everyone was eagerly waiting for it. Mai Zishan and Xu Hao went in for seven days, and there was no negative effect at all. The documentary became more and more popular.

But this time, it was the most confusing episode in history for everyone.

Xu Hao adopted a dual-main narrative line.

One line is about Wanjie selling egg-filled pancakes.

It was lighthearted and entertaining, and everyone was laughing while watching it. Who would have thought that such a talented person could come out of a detention center.

It was so funny to see a bunch of people taking out 20 yuan in a frustrated manner and then receiving an egg-filled pancake the size of a palm.

But the other main plot is completely confusing.

This line begins with Xu Hao's initial work as a stalker at a convenience store, and tells the story in detail.

Gradually, the audience understood the theme of this line and knew how Mai Zishan and Xu Hao got in.

But what follows is very confusing.

In other words, it makes people feel very sad.

I know your topic is depression, but I didn't expect this would make me depressed.

Chen Rui, how did you get reincarnated? Will you be reincarnated?
If you don’t know how to reincarnate, can you please not try to reincarnate blindly?

It makes people feel depressed.

The audience was very dissatisfied, and more importantly, no rock songs had been performed so far.

The topic began to soar in popularity online.

"I wanted to relax, but it was so heartbreaking."

"Xu Hao and Mai Zishan should be detained in the detention center for another seven days, the crime is that the filming was too cruel!!"

This is the evaluation of the vast majority of viewers, as the dishes served in this episode were not to their taste.

But at the same time, in a conference room at the Yenching Film Academy.

A group of bald middle-aged men wearing plaid suits, most of them wearing glasses, all of them are a little fat, and they all give off an air of: As long as I stand there, you can smell that I am a senior professor, a scholar, or a president.

For them, this dish is just perfect!

Many of them are judges for major film festivals and documentary awards. They make a living by giving reviews all year round, and all their skills are honed through their mouths.

Unlike most audiences, they don’t like suffering, because life is already damn bitter.

And this group of people just like to see the suffering of all living beings.

Then I was moved by myself, feeling that I cared about people's livelihood and the perspective of ordinary people, and was shocked by my huge conscience.

I am truly a conscientious scholar!

"I remember Xu Hao wasn't from an academic background, right? He seems to have switched from being a photographer to a director."

"That's right, Xu Hao used to be a photographer, and later he became a director.

I thought he was not professional enough before, but I didn’t expect that his work today would have such an academic flavor, standard and power!”

"Documentary is about abandoning beauty and choosing ugliness. This is art!"

A group of people were discussing enthusiastically, as if they were the real creators.

Today is their usual day for watching movies, and they often choose to watch new documentaries in preparation for the award selection list.

It just so happened that a new episode of "Another Life" was online, and the theme happened to be depression, which they were interested in, so they chose to watch it.

Zhu Shi has a lot of say in this. After all, he is one of the judges of the Golden Phoenix Award and a professor in the directing department of a famous media college in China.

"This episode is really good so far, it captures the kind of depressed life

This is a necessary element for social documentaries to win awards. It is necessary to show a compassionate perspective. "Zhu Shishi commented at the right time. "Oh, Professor Zhu's words are like gilding this documentary. The chances of winning awards have skyrocketed." Someone immediately echoed.

Zhu Shi smiled and said, "It can be said that Xu Hao has his own understanding. I met him two years ago. He was a bit eccentric at that time and always wanted to shoot something different."

"I warned him, saying, 'You have to follow the mainstream aesthetics of the awards community, otherwise how are you going to win an award?

If you can’t win an award, how can the copyright appreciate in value? If the copyright can’t appreciate in value and the investors can’t get their money back, who will want you to make a film in the future?”

"It seems that my knocking worked." Zhu Shi said with satisfaction.

"That's for sure." said another person in the room.

His name is Bao Baowen, and he is a famous art director in the film and television industry. Although he himself is not an award judge, his father is.

"Just follow this path, because life is broken and there is no reversal or savior. Advanced aesthetics is actually about examining suffering."

Zhu Shi made another comment, and the others nodded in agreement.

In this conference room, everyone is an elite, and they like to watch the busy, miserable masses.

Because they are not one of them.

……

As time goes by, the two narrative threads seem to intersect.

Wan Jie and Chen Rui have already met and are eating lobster together.

Mai Zishan was being harassed by the buffet manager, who asked him which platform he was on to become a restaurant explorer. He asked, "I'll follow you."

Mai Zishan said that we have a process for visiting restaurants and cannot communicate too much with the people in the restaurant. If fans see it, they will say there is a transaction. Also, please serve a few more plates of lobster.

These scenes made the audience breathe a sigh of relief, but they still felt uncomfortable. They hoped that Chen Rui would stand up!
Resist!
……

There was no music, no rock music, and even few people taking photos or checking in.

But there are still quite a few people, and there are a lot of shared bicycles parked there.

Today's salt industry is different.

A week before the start of the era, a movie-quality screen was installed on the wall outside the salt factory, which is perfect for watching documentaries.

The night wind is just right tonight, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, so everyone is watching the documentary outside, just like a movie being shown at the entrance of the village.

The audiences who come to the Salt Industry are all people who have experienced the passion of the Salt Industry countless times, and they all believe in it.

I believe this episode will never end like this.

Otherwise, it's not rock at all.

……

In the backyard of the salt factory, Mai Zishan was tuning the strings of his guitar, with people gathered around him.

Including Wanjie.

Wanjie came to the salt industry and was amazed at the scale of the industry. He finally began to try to listen to Mai Zishan's songs.

The final comment was: "I think you should buy an authentic album of your songs to listen to."

This is a huge recognition.

Chen Rui actually came to the Magic City with them.

He was just sent to the hospital by Lin Xinyue because of a mild concussion.

At the same time, Lin Xinyue contacted a school in Shanghai and was able to study there on a temporary basis, and then settle the issue of student status later.

She did all this on her own initiative, which made everyone marvel.

Liu Shuangcheng, don’t be the boss anymore. We only need Sister Lin to move towards the era.

And at this moment, for Chen Rui, a new life is about to begin and wonderful things are about to happen.

He was sitting on a clean white bed in the hospital, and the picture playing on his phone was the heavy rain that day.

His breathing moved with the camera. Chen Rui looked up and saw the brightly lit metropolis outside. The clean room made him feel as if he were in another world.

……

(End of this chapter)