The place Liu Bingbing photographed is located in a village deep in the mountains of Guizhou Province. Many buildings in this remote area have not changed much for decades.
Many program crews specifically choose this kind of place to start, such as a certain deformed program, specifically choose this kind of place.
There is also a group of professionals engaged in photography and painting who come to these areas, because whether it is film and television, photography or painting, if you want to win awards, you usually follow the customs route, and the limitations of big cities are the same buildings and chain stores.
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Art is worthless if it doesn't have some storytelling and interpretability.
For example, if your camera is focused on a farmer with his face facing the loess and his back to the sky, his face will be full of the wind and sun, the bitterness, the limitations of life, and the story of the weather-beaten story.
People can interpret and feel this intuitive content.
These photographers specialize in taking pictures of this, and some painters specialize in painting this. Why do they take pictures of this kind? Painting this type of thing? Of course they take shortcuts, because this can make people remember the bitter and sweet, and can make people have discussions.
, topical, and the most important thing is that most of the domestic judges are born after 5060. They like this kind of thing, and foreign people like this kind of thing even more. This is what they think it is, not that we have a better economy than them.
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On the other hand, there are fewer and fewer houses and scenery in remote areas. All big cities and towns in economically developed areas are the same. If they are the same, they will lose their characteristics and uniqueness.
This is why many foreign buildings have not been demolished for hundreds of years, and they have to spend years and decades on repairs and maintenance from time to time, just to preserve their uniqueness, historical memory, humanistic memory, and stories.
This time Zhao Mingyang found a team to customize a movie for Liu Bingbing, just to win awards. It made no money at all and had to lose money. This kind of film is really a loss-making business in this period, but it is easy to win awards because the shooting cycle is long.
, the film pay is low, and many big names don’t do this type of film. The time it takes to film one film may cost hundreds of millions in commercial value.
Mainly, the production team of this type of movie wants people with acting skills, otherwise it will be difficult to win awards.
The filming location was a remote small village, and the only person in charge of this village was the village chief.
The crew talked to the village chief and rented some houses and venues, and asked some people in the village to serve as group members. Each person who participated was given a hundred yuan a day. This made the people in the village very happy. One hundred yuan a day.
, which is a huge sum of money for them.
After all, many people basically have no external income, especially the elderly, and can only wait for their children to give them some money during the holidays.
The crew rented a row of houses, and the environment of this place basically retained its appearance forty or fifty years ago.
There are still earth houses with straw roofs. Nowadays, let alone these straw houses with earth walls, many people don’t even see straw. In the past, straw was fragrant, and every household in the village would pile it up like a mountain.
Waiting in front of your house for the straw harvester to harvest the straw.
These straws will be taken to the paper mill, and the worst fear is that some naughty children will set off firecrackers and light them. Once lit, the straw pile will catch fire in an instant.
These scenes are becoming more and more difficult to see now, so the crew searched for a long time to find this place.
Many rural areas are now filled with buildings, and the effect of taking pictures is almost the same as taking pictures of high-rise buildings in the city. The effect of taking pictures is not good.
Mainly roads. Many rural roads are cement roads. The crew wanted to find villages with all dirt roads. It is difficult to find such places, so they can only find them in very remote areas.
Zhao Mingyang and Lao Wu came here on foot carrying large backpacks and suitcases. The main reason is that cars cannot be driven, the road is too narrow, there is a section of the road up and down the mountain, and there is also a section of the road with a wooden bridge.
, currently there is a big river below, and you have to walk across a wooden bridge of 20 to 30 meters to reach the village where the crew went.
Zhao Mingyang and Lao Wu were walking on the swaying wooden bridge. Lao Wu was tall and strong. He was carrying a big backpack and a suitcase on each shoulder.
Zhao Mingyang followed him. Lao Wu walked very fast. Zhao Mingyang looked at Lao Wu's back and followed him. The wooden bridge was really too shaky, and Zhao Mingyang was a little scared.
If Zhao Mingyang walks around a few times, he should get used to it. No wonder this village can retain its appearance decades ago. Think about how difficult it was for people in the past to live here. It can be said that they are basically isolated from the world. It is too long to cross the river.
It's difficult, because the river and both banks are in a concave shape, so it's impossible to cross the river by boat, so we can only use cableways and bridges.
After crossing the river, there was another very difficult dirt road. When he arrived at the village, Zhao Mingyang seemed to have returned to sixty years ago overnight, or even longer.
Old Wu put down his suitcase and looked here, which reminded him of many things. The place where he was born used to be like this, but then it changed a lot. The main roads in the village were all cement roads, and every house was built with a two-story building. But
In each building, there is only one old man looking at the house alone.
The old people are too old to walk, and young people in the village no longer want to be in the village. The Internet has brought not only changes in technology, but also in people's hearts. Many people have never been exposed to the outside world before. Because the Internet has seen it, they can no longer
I can't wait any longer.
Zhao Mingyang made a call to a staff member of the crew. I have to say that our country is really good at infrastructure construction. Basically, there are no dead ends in communication. Not only communication, but also electricity.
If it is due to cost considerations, it is actually unprofitable and loss-making to provide electricity and build communication base stations here. However, the country hopes that everyone in every corner can get the greatest protection, so this is an investment regardless of cost.
Generally speaking, electricity and communications are not available in places like this abroad, mainly due to cost issues. Projects that continue to make losses are difficult to understand in capital countries.
For example, when we open mountains and build roads, the population in some areas is actually very small, but we are still doing it so that everyone can get a guarantee.
The crew and director personally came to receive Zhao Mingyang, and it was Zhao Mingyang who came. Everyone knew that he was the boss of the company and the investor of this film.
Zhao Mingyang brought everyone some food and drink, and also brought thirty cartons of cigarettes. This was Liu Bingbing telling Zhao Mingyang that many people here had trouble buying cigarettes, so everyone would save on smoking.
Zhao Mingyang brought so many cigarettes this time, which was enough for them to smoke, because the crew and director totaled less than twenty people.
In addition to cigarettes, there was food and drink. Zhao Mingyang brought a lot of compressed snacks, such as beef jerky, as well as some alcoholic beverages and milk.
I contacted the local delivery company and asked them to deliver 50,000 yuan worth of supplies. They wouldn't deliver them for less than this price because it was too difficult to get around here.
Zhao Mingyang instantly gained the favor of everyone on the crew. In order to avoid risks, Zhao Mingyang and Liu Bingbing did not communicate excessively, because a scandal was fatal to Liu Bingbing, especially if it was related to the company boss, it would be even more troublesome.
Zhao Mingyang secretly brought a lot of daily necessities to Liu Bingbing, such as sunscreen, mosquito repellent, mosquito repellent bracelets and some changes of clothes.
When she came, Liu Bingbing didn't expect the environment to be so bad, and it was really troublesome to carry supplies here. She had to walk from the bottom of the mountain to the top and then go around in a circle to cross the river at the bottom of the mountain.
I didn’t bring many things with me and left them in the car at the foot of the mountain. It would take four or five hours to go back and forth, so everyone didn’t want to leave the village easily. It was too troublesome, and you couldn’t just bring your own things with you.
When we come back, we need to take the group with us.
The weight of the collective things is added, so if you bring such things, you have to be like Zhao Mingyang and Lao Wu. You can come in a single trip and bring a lot of things, but it is really tiring to bring so many things. Zhao Mingyang and Lao Wu
Lao Wu also stopped and went, and it took the two of them more than two hours to get there despite their relatively good physical strength.
Because of this, no one was willing to leave. Liu Bingbing had arranged for her assistant to go out for a collection, but when the assistant came back, a passerby sprained her ankle. Liu Bingbing had to film every day, and she was too embarrassed to ask other crew members to help her buy some personal items. Mainly because of the need here.
I wash some clothes by hand. There is no washing machine or dryer, so I can only dry them naturally. It may take a day or two or a week, depending on the weather.
You can take a bath every few days, but you have to wash your feet and the like. This makes Liu Bingbing very uncomfortable. She only brought three sets of changes of underwear, and she couldn't even wash them every day, let alone change them.
Zhao Mingyang specially prepared a gift bag for everyone. It seemed that everyone received similar things, but what Liu Bingbing received was different.
The director asked the chef of the crew to cook some meals for Zhao Mingyang, which were chicken, duck, fish and the like collected from the local village.
Zhao Mingyang and Lao Wu were assigned two rooms. Zhao Mingyang put his things in the house. Looking at the carefully tidied room, he could still see the sense of age and shabbyness. The walls were all pitted, the floor of the house was covered with dirt, and the bed had not been tidied up.
, but the wear and tear on the edge of the bed can still be seen. This bed is probably no less than thirty years old.
It is said that this was the home of the richest man in the village. Later, the richest man and his family left here, and the place became empty. The richest man and his family never came back. I don’t know how poisonous the richest man in the village was at that time. There were only one or two hundred people.
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Zhao Mingyang changed the sheets and took out the duvet and pillows. It was so humid here and there was a stuffy smell in the room.
The window is very small, just in the shape of a field, with a very small hole. The door is a two-door wooden door that has faded to grayish white, and there is a latch inside.
The room, which is almost 20 square meters, is very empty, with only a bed and a chair. The table and chairs were borrowed by the crew from other people for Zhao Mingyang to use.
Zhao Mingyang looked at the roof and suddenly thought of one thing, what is the purpose of struggle? Isn't it just to live better and eat better?
Anyone who praises suffering and poverty is wrong. No one wants to endure hardship, and no one wants to experience suffering. Life is too short, and no one wants to live a better life.
It's okay to let Zhao Mingyang live here for a few months to relax, but Zhao Mingyang is not willing to let Zhao Mingyang live here for more than half a year, because he has experienced the prosperity and convenience outside, unless someone who has never left here in his life can bear it.
I live in loneliness because I have never seen the outside world, so I have no intention of leaving.
