I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

  Chapter 152 150. Two people, two lamps, one day

  The unexpected situation on Yang Mi's side slightly disrupted Xu Xin's thinking about shooting.

  It’s not that he doesn’t agree with his girlfriend to go…

  I just think that Zhu Wushuang, as a supporting role throughout the ten episodes, is perfect after showing the sadness of insecurity from her appearance to her departure later.

  The overall tone of "Wulin Biography" is still mainly cheerful.

  But it is like a delicious cake exuding a sweet fragrance. If it is always very cheerful, it may feel a little greasy.

  So, the character "Zhu Wushuang" should be like the layer of chocolate chips on top of the cake cream.

  The entrance will be bitter.

  But it is precisely because of this bitterness that it sets off the "sweetness"...that is to say, in the rivers and lakes, the place called Tongfu Inn, a comfortable atmosphere created by everyone's efforts.

  He felt fine.

  But now they have to put a layer of impromptu chocolate sandwich on the cake.

   It's quite speechless.

  But his girlfriend has already said, what can he do?

   Pet ​​chant.

   Just a hard pet.

   She said what she said, and asked her to pick all the stars in the sky.

but…

  Favorites belong to favourites, Xu Xin would definitely not agree if the changes were made blindly because of the plot.

  Because if you don't do it right, this temporary idea will become a kind of overkill.

   Caused the character itself to change its taste.

  Thinking about it...

  He glanced at the busy crowd, and walked out of the studio with the phone in hand.

  The sun is very good today, and Taichung is a little bit warmer than Taipei.

  He sat on the pvc boards piled up on the side to arrange the venue, and made a call.

   "Beep beep...hey, big boss, what's the matter?"

  Over the phone, Liu Momo's voice rang.

   "Ha~"

  Hearing this title, Xu Xin couldn't help laughing:

"where?"

   "Ireland."

"…Um?"

  Xu Xin was taken aback:

   "Where is Ireland?"

"…Europe."

   It can be heard that Liu Momo's tone is a little speechless.

   "Uh... oh~~~"

   Xu Xin suddenly realized:

   "UK, right?"

"…Um???"

   Liu Momo was also taken aback, but immediately realized what Xu Xin said, and was completely speechless:

   "It's Ireland! You got it upside down!"

   “…Isn’t it? Isn’t Great Britain just like Great Britain and Northern Ireland?”

   "The two are not the same thing... No, they are not the same country. Although they are next to each other, Britain is the United Kingdom, and Ireland is Ireland... It doesn't mean that Great Britain and Northern Ireland belong to Ireland! How did you learn geography?"

   "Uh, so what is Northern Ireland?"

   "Yes... are you busy?"

  Really unable to stand this kind of ignorance, Liu Momo simply chose to skip this question.

  Xu Xin was not entangled, and asked:

   "What are you doing in Northern Ireland?"

   "It's Ireland, big brother!!... Forget it, let it go. The "Once" we invested in will be launched in March this year. I'm here to run the theater..."

"oh oh…"

  Xu Xin never asked why this so-called "Once Upon a Time" was filmed so quickly.

  It is true that he is an investor, but he also promised that he will never interfere with the operation of Headwind Entertainment.

  So directly say:

   "Let me tell you something. On the side of "Wulin Biography", Director Shang just called my girlfriend and said it was..."

  After talking about the extension of Zhu Wushuang's role, Liu Momo responded:

   "Well, so you mean?"

"Although I am the investor in that play, you are the producer and producer, so it is better through you. Please convey my meaning and ask Director Shang not to change the script indiscriminately... If you really want to give If Wushuang adds drama, then it should also follow the original setting of Zhu Wushuang, and continue to reflect her sense of wandering and helplessness. As for whether to give her a good ending in the end, I respect his choice, but the core of the character cannot Change."

"...Okay, I understand what you mean. But...you have to be prepared. This kind of temporary script modification, especially for TV dramas, requires a lot of work to add or delete roles in the mature script. The crew It may be delayed for a while."

   "Don't be afraid of the delay, if it's a big deal, just treat it as a holiday. It's been filming for almost half a year... Let Director Shang not feel pressured. If it doesn't work, I'm adding some investment..."

"impossible!"

  As soon as Xu Xin finished speaking, Liu Momo directly interrupted his words:

   "This precedent must not be set."

"Why?"

"Because this will greatly reduce the producer's voice and persuasive power on the set. As the management, what we have to do is to strictly control the cost, and these difficulties that belong to the actors and even the crew should not be considered by the management first. Are you going to take all the responsibility?... Too easy to talk will damage our prestige, and after setting this precedent, every movie and TV series in the future may have directors who have ideas in this regard. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, we must not make additional investments. Especially This kind of wholly-owned work can easily put us in a situation where we passively follow the director."

"Well…"

  After listening to Datong's professional analysis, Xu Xin couldn't help but say:

   "I am also a director..."

   "But you are my big boss."

   Liu Momo on the other end of the phone said firmly:

"Leave this matter to me, and I will handle it. When I signed the contract, I told the monk director that your friendship contract lacks a necessary binding force. What, it’s easy to lose money. He doesn’t believe that… he created this situation by himself, and we don’t need to pay for him.”

   "Uh...don't bother Director Shang. Director Shang can do this because he values ​​friendship, so...you only need to communicate with him about Zhu Wushuang, and let's not talk about other things, okay?"

"…good."

   Liu Momo responded:

   "But I hope that as a big boss, you can understand... some things really can't be soft-hearted."

   "If I hadn't softened my heart, I wouldn't have let you invest so much money in "The Man From London"..."

  Xu Xin rolled his eyes. When Liu Momo heard it, he said directly:

   "I have faith in that movie..."

   "I know, that's why I support you...I just want to express a meaning, that is...we still have to show some friendship when we do things, right? Sister Mo, we are different from foreign countries after all. You can't be too local..."

   "..."

   Liu Momo on the other side of the phone was silent for a while, then said:

   "Okay. Anything else?"

   "No, on this matter, you can discuss it with Director Shang in advance. I will focus on shooting her scenes in the past few days, and let her finish early. Let Director Shang change the script as soon as possible."

   "Hmm...how is your filming going? Is the progress fast?"

   "It's not bad, it's going well. How?"

   "Remember to notify me when the editing of the play is finished. If the quality is acceptable, you can send it to Cannes for review."

"Um?"

  Xu Xin was taken aback for a moment, but his eyes lit up immediately.

"you can do it?"

"…What?"

   "Go to Cannes! Are you related?"

"Well…"

  Although he understood that Xu Xin had misunderstood him, Liu Momo still said:

"Yes, but sending to Cannes does not mean being shortlisted. Cannes receives many submissions for films every year, and there will be judges below to review and select the shortlisted films. It is still very easy to send here for review, even if you don't Me, you can also send it directly. But whether you can be shortlisted or not depends on the jury in Cannes. But from me, it is sent directly to some judges. If you get approval, then the chance of being shortlisted will be even greater Some... It depends on your script. I heard from Uncle Zhang that Director Zhang Yimou has confidence in you... Don't make a bad film. Cannes accepts new directors very well, but if the quality is too bad ...disgraceful."

"Understood."

  Xu Xin is happy:

   "Ha, this is really a bargain for nothing, right? ... Okay, I understand, let's just say that. "Wulin Biography", Sister Mo, please take care, we will be in touch when the time comes."

   "Okay, then I hang up."

   "Well, take care of yourself, bye."

  Hung up the phone, Xu Xin suddenly felt that the uncomfortable urgency in his heart became stronger.

   I really want to finish filming in the afternoon, edit in the evening, and screen tomorrow...

   This urgency made him a little anxious unconsciously.

  I can only smoke a cigarette to choose relief.

  After smoking a cigarette, he threw away the cigarette butt, turned back to the recording studio, and then saw Jay Chou and Huang Qiusheng reviewing the script.

  From afternoon to night today, there are concentrated scenes of the father and son in the film and television.

   A few scenes of eating at home have to be added.

  Although he still doesn't know why, he doesn't like Huang Qiusheng...but at least he and Jay Chou have sparks.

   And this is also confirmed in "Initial D".

   And this kind of tacit understanding was actually reflected in the first eating scene between the two of them.

  …

This scene is about Ye Xianglun's father, Teacher Ye, who came back from school and found that the meals were cooked very late in the past few days, so he asked his son why the cooking time was late recently, did he have a girlfriend, and then the father and son had a quarrel After a few dialogues representing their respective worldviews, it ends.

  This is the first scene, and the second scene is the scene where Mr. Ye plays the guitar to make his son happy after Xiaoyu disappears in the middle of the play. In the third scene, the two of them danced a ballroom dance, including the later discovery of the piano score, Mr. Ye's story about the girl Lu Xiaoyu 20 years ago, etc., all of which will be filmed here.

  The estimated shooting time is two to three days.

   Now is the first game.

  Xu Xin likes to use lighting as a potential language in the lens to express the mood of the characters in this movie.

  Because he thinks this is beautiful...

  So in this scene around the dining table, he did not use the conventional fixed lens, but still let Li Pingdong sit on the slide rail, and used the technique of panning the lens to shoot from different angles.

  And this play shows the foundation of the character's inner world, on the display behind the dinner table for two.

  It is still a desk lamp.

  But it was so hanging that the lighting engineer scratched his head.

because…

  What the director asked was really weird.

  First of all, Xu Xin asked both of them to have lights behind them.

  OK, this is easy.

  Use light to set off the background, which is the most basic operation of light photography.

   No problem.

But…

   Please, can the following request not be so excessive?

  Can you be an individual?

  What is "the surface lights of the father and son are the same color, but as the father, there must be two kinds of lights"?

  You explain to me.

  What is "another color, on the surface it should represent the calmness and objectivity of being a father, but the core is warm and caring"?

   Also, what does it mean to be "calm, not too calm, caring must not overshadow calm, but you must not show weakness"?

  Big brother.

   Please, can't you speak human words?

   Just for this request, the lighting engineer suffered from insomnia a few days ago.

  Finally, after repeated arguments, he showed Xu Xin what he had made, and only then did he get an affirmative answer. As an expression feature that highly reveals the inner world of the characters in today's scene, it is very inconspicuously blended into the camera.

   Four dishes, two bowls of rice, and one casserole of soup.

  A dining table, and the father and son sitting opposite each other.

  The audience was silent.

  Accompanied by the dressing up of the recorder, the shooting began.

   Huang Qiusheng's play is indeed not mentioned, and because he has collaborated in a movie before, Jay Chou and his play can't be seen as unfamiliar.

  In the picture, Li Pingdong's camera is moving slowly at a constant speed.

  Xu Xin sat in front of the monitor with earphones on, and nodded while watching the father and son's seemingly normal eating movements.

   "Why do you prepare the dishes every day when I come back?"

   While eating, ask.

  When asking a question, the food is on the edge of the mouth, and after the question, put it in the mouth.

  The rhythm is very natural.

   But there is a problem...

  Xu Xin keenly noticed that the props served a bit too much rice...

   But he didn't call to stop, but planned to take a picture first to find out how he feels.

   Then I heard what Jay Chou said.

  He coughed lightly at first, as if looking for an excuse, looked around the four dishes he had cooked, and asked:

   "Don't you think it's delicious?"

   "Come on, you have a girlfriend, right?"

   I have to admit that Huang Qiusheng's acting skills are really good. At the beginning, his profile in the camera was very rigid. It's like a parent who doesn't support their son's puppy love.

   It feels normal.

   But after asking this sentence, an unconscious smile spread on his facial expression.

  Some gossip~

   But just right.

   Xu Xin frowned subconsciously.

   It's not that there's something wrong with his acting... but that he's thinking about one thing right now.

  Why does such an actor with superb acting skills have a natural dislike?

   Still the same reason.

  I can’t say why, but I just don’t like it.

   It's weird.

   But the drama of "father and son" is still going on.

"No…"

  Jay Chou shook his head with his rice bowl in his hand:

   "I went out with Alang and Abao~"

   "Alang Abao...I knew it was Alang Abao!"

  Miss Ye, played by Huang Qiusheng, put down the chopsticks directly, but did not lift up the hand that put down the chopsticks, but replaced it with a silent knock on the table to emphasize the importance of his speech:

   "You don't make friends like this! They smoke! They don't listen to music! They're bad people!"

   While speaking, Li Pingdong froze the camera.

   seems to represent the dignified atmosphere of this father-son conversation, and at this time, Xu Xin said to Zhang Xunwei next to him:

   "Ah Wei, for the record, there should be background music for this scene, it should be more classical, more relaxed and lively."

   "Good director."

  Zhang Xunwei nodded quickly.

   After Teacher Ye finished speaking, Jay Chou raised his head in the frozen scene.

  He raised his head, and the camera began to swing in a small range again, and began to move slowly in the direction of Jay Chou on the right.

   "If you don't listen to music, you are a bad person?"

   After saying this, the camera did not stop moving, but slowly revealed a warm decorative lamp emitting soft light behind Jay Chou.

  Xu Xin shook his head with some emotion.

  The master is the master...the ability to control the details of the lens.

  Because that's what he wanted.

  The desk lamp behind Jay Chou was not added casually, but represents a kind of persistence.

  The reason why he said that bright and relaxing music should be used here is actually to create that even if the conversation between the father and son seems to be somewhat conflicted, it is actually confined to the dinner table chat, or...in this small family.

  The feeling of home should not be heavy and depressing, and the conversation between the father and son is too big.

   Especially this line "They don't listen to music, they are bad people".

  This sentence is too extreme.

   It is definitely not appropriate to say that it is too big. But if the father comes to educate the child and hopes that the child will stay away from these "bad guys", the scale will be eased.

  The bright music, and the camera is always limited to the dinner table, all to reduce the pressure on this sentence.

  The subtext is "This is the father teaching his son to stay away from bad friends" rather than "extreme".

  And Ye Xianglun asked the rhetorical question "If you don't listen to music, you are a bad person", and the reason why the lights behind were exposed at the same time.

  Father is educating his son.

   is the level of "little" conversation between father and son.

  But Ye Xianglun’s question “If you don’t listen to music, you are a bad person” is expressing your own view on “big”.

   That is to say, in this world, not only good people must listen to music.

  This is his point of view, his cognition, and this cognition is based on the world view, not today's conversation among "Xiaojia".

   Therefore, the light represents Ye Xianglun's persistence that is warm and soft, but still radiates light.

   After persisting, Ye Xianglun said:

   "Hey, I'm embarrassed by your appearance~"

   After finishing speaking, Mr. Ye, played by Huang Qiusheng, spoke together with the camera that started to turn back from Jay Chou, and there was an inexplicable "sickness" in his tone:

   "Difficult? Why are you difficult?"

   While speaking, he picked up the chopsticks again.

   It was at this juncture that the camera shifted to Huang Qiusheng just right.

  Then, after a blank breakpoint appeared in the conversation between the two, Huang Qiusheng asked earnestly:

   "Don't make friends like this, you know?...Huh?"

"okay."

   Jay Chou responded perfunctorily and put down his chopsticks.

  Looked around, came a sentence:

"I am full."

   After speaking, he left the panning camera lens.

   And just when Xu Xin wanted to stop, and then started to shoot close-up shots, planning to change his empty job later to make up for this leaving scene, Huang Qiusheng made a poking motion and muttered:

   "Lose weight, you... ah?"

   Jay Chou was a little stunned and didn't respond.

  But Huang Qiusheng didn't continue talking, but shook his head slightly, seemingly helpless, and continued to chatter and eat until Xu Xin shouted:

   "Okay, okay. Jay returns to his position and prepares for a close-up."

  The reason why there is a fault in the middle is to prepare for the close-up of this section.

  So, the two of them didn't move, and the film crew began to assume that they were aiming at the fixed camera positions of the two. Xu Xin, on the other hand, looked at the camera just now and sighed.

   What a cast.

  I also know that I can make up for the incongruity in the lens, saving a piece of film.

  But why can't I like it...

   Soon, the close-up assumption is over.

  Xu Xin personally went to the camera aimed at Huang Qiusheng and looked at it. After confirming the position, he pointed at Huang Qiusheng:

   "Teacher Huang, when you are teaching later, you should tilt your head slightly. Come on, try it."

  Hearing this, Huang Qiusheng nodded and looked at Jay Chou opposite:

   "I care about you."

  He tilted his head and just blocked a blue light.

  Xu Xin gave a thumbs up directly:

   "OK, that's it. Perfect... ready to go."

  Following his words, Huang Qiusheng maintained the action of putting down his chopsticks and tapping the table with one hand.

   "Come, three, two, one, go."

  After the words fell, Huang Qiusheng tilted his head and blocked the blue side of the double-headed desk lamp behind him.

   And this lamp is the lighting engineer that Xu Xin almost killed.

  Many people may find it difficult to understand why it is so difficult to get a simple double-headed desk lamp.

  The answer is actually very simple.

  The blue lens language, in addition to representing melancholy and eternity, also has an important symbolic meaning, which is rationality.

   And these two desk lamps, one is the same warm color as the lamp behind Jay Chou.

   represents caring and warmth.

  The other stop is this blue light, which expresses rationality.

  Typically, blue light bulbs are cool white.

  But Xu Xin's request this time forced the lighting engineer to also replace the bulbs inside with warmer colors.

  The meaning of each of these double headlights is different.

  First of all, Huang Qiusheng tilted his head and said the lines:

   "I only have one son from you."

   "I'm worried about you, you know?"

   It's that simple. When he said this, he tilted his head slightly, covering the head of the warm blue lamp.

   Only the dim yellow light color remains.

  That represents the care, warmth and command of a father or a leader with a dominant position in the family to family members.

  It is always on, just like the always-on light that appeared in the camera when Jay Chou asked the phrase "If you don't listen to music, you are a bad person".

   is the display of worldview.

  It is also the insistence of being a father.

  Caring for children is the belief throughout.

  The blue light covered by the slight tilt of the head belongs to the father's "little love".

  Why blue? Because the father's mood at this moment is calm and rational.

   But like this lamp.

  Calm and rational, just superficial.

   is the shade of the lamp.

   And why use warm yellow instead of cool white under the blue shade?

  The reason is here.

  In the final analysis, no matter how rational you are, the starting point is always warmth and worry.

  The father's concern and worry are wrapped in calmness, rationality, and objectivity. That's why he was able to say the words "If you don't listen to music, you are a bad person".

   When he said this, the warm yellow light behind him was always on, expressing concern.

  But why did Xu Xin ask him to cover the blue light again?

   This is the third level of meaning.

  Although the father's warmth, care, and worry are wrapped in calmness, objectivity, and rationality, the words he utters are very unpleasant at first glance, and may even be questioned by his son as wrong.

   But this is the symbol of the so-called Chinese father and son.

  It’s like my dad and myself...

  Whether it is calm, objective, or rational, or what kind of warmth and worry is hidden in the heart... the words that can be expressed are a kind of "unspoken" hiding.

  Hide your emotions, and use the status of an absolute leader and leader inherited from your genes to forcefully announce your decision.

  Hide emotions, not good at words, you just need to do what I say, don't question me, and don't question me.

   Even, you don't have to understand my approach.

  But in the future you will definitely understand my good intentions.

   This is Xu Xin's understanding of the relationship between himself and his father, or... the relationship between father and son.

  The always warm yellow light, or the hidden blue light, are actually just a reflection of my father’s heart. After hiding, only the firmness and unquestionable words remain.

  A close-up shot.

  He only passed the light of a double-headed desk lamp, and concealed it, and then completely deconstructed it...or showed everyone his own point of view.

  Maybe many people will not care...

   But Xu Xin felt that it would be best if someone could understand it, and it’s okay if they don’t understand it.

  As long as the movie looks good, it’s fine.

   Unfortunately...

  Li Pingdong understands.

   Sitting on a chair, looking at the covered blue light in my lens...

  He sighed subconsciously.

"well…"

  Although after a few days of shooting, he has already seen that this young man belongs to the kind of filmmaker who knows that his first duty is to let the audience understand the story first. The second duty is the old-school filmmaker's style of adding one's own ideas and language to the film.

   also admitted that this young man is really outstanding.

  I really like this kind of style that distinguishes the primary from the secondary, clearly distinguishes the two from each other, and will never overwhelm the other, but is perfect, rich, and even continuous.

   But in his heart, he always felt that this young man was still far from a top director.

until today.

   He finally decided.

  I was a little bit wrong...

  In his first film, he has already shown the idiosyncratic style of a director with a strong personal symbol...

   Absolutely a genius!

   Genius in the true sense!

  As long as he can follow his own style and persistence...

  In the future movie hall of fame, there must be one of his most dazzling chairs, and he will definitely leave a strong mark on Chinese movies!

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  (end of this chapter)