"Nowadays, very few young people are willing to make these kinds of movies. Your lighting, shadows, and lines are all very particular, and they all have imagery... It's such a particular film, so I also paid attention to it."
"I think I felt very ashamed as a father at that time. That's why I said this, and it didn't affect my feelings even if I said it."
"What do you think? Director Fang."
Fang Yi: "That's too polite. Just call me Xiao Fang."
Li Xuejian insisted, "Director Fang."
Fang Yi stopped arguing. Instead, he gave Li Xuejian a thumbs up and said, "The changes are really good. You are worthy of being a senior."
Li Xuejian did not take any credit, but praised Fang Yi for his well-written book.
The two of them were exchanging polite words back and forth, but suddenly felt bored. They stopped talking and looked at each other and smiled. At this time, the rest of the crew applauded.
This is the legendary "play modification", and both parties are very polite. The purpose is not to add luster to themselves, but to improve the movie.
Li Xuejian read the entire script, and it was indeed useful.
After this, Fang Yi was inspired to create a scene for the father and son, and designed a story line, which did not necessarily need to be used in the theatrical version. However, if it was to be used for awards, these things could be used.
The amount of material is one to three. It’s not up to you to decide what the final movie will look like.
When Sunglasses King was filming "Days of Being Wild", he cut out all the scenes of the protagonist Hua Tsai, and naturally those carefully designed story lines were abolished.
Director Liu Zhenwei learned of the news, took the scraps of "Days of Being Wild", re-edited them, and added his own re-creation, and a new film "Forever" with Andy as the male protagonist was released.
The funniest thing is that this by-product of waste recycling has a box office similar to that of "Days of Being Wild", but the cost is much lower.
Li Xuejian had no objection to Fang Yi's change of the script. He didn't mind the trouble, but felt it was an honor. He was very interested and stayed on the set of "Love Letter" for a few more days.
He plays the role of a worker in a steel factory. He rides a bicycle back and forth to and from work every day. His life is not very prosperous, but he lives comfortably. This kind of life lasted for more than ten or twenty years, until one day, there was a mass layoff of state-owned enterprise employees.
, vigorously. At first, he thought he was being tricked and wanted to be assigned according to the situation. However, after several troubles, he discovered that the team leader who fired him had also been laid off.
He rode his bicycle and asked from house to house. From fear to despair: It turns out that everyone has been laid off.
Lao Yin began to pay attention to the news to see if anyone would uphold justice for him. There were always loudmouths in the newspapers. However, there was only one voice at that time. On the black and white Panda TV, he complained that they were lagging behind the times.
, is a big burden for the country. It is impossible not to be laid off. You must have the courage to consciously lay off. Lao Yin was so angry that he wanted to smash the TV, but he was reluctant to do so.
Lao Yin didn't understand those big truths. What he understood was that his income had been reduced and his status had also been reduced. Not only was he no longer respected for making steel, but on the contrary, under the guidance of the news, others only felt that he
It's a moth that ruins the overall situation.
Workers gathered at the factory gate, waiting for the promised layoff pay to survive the difficult times. However, they received the news that two-income families could only get one share.
It doesn't matter, Lao Yin,
Divorce quickly, planning to get two shares and then get back together.
The ending was not as good as expected. In the end, he could not even get a share. One cadre ran away with the layoff pay of more than a thousand employees in the factory, leaving everyone destitute.
Angry, Lao Yin took the lead and led other workers to seek an explanation. The factory director hired a lawyer and said, "You must abide by the law and cannot act recklessly."
The workers said, "We also violated the law when we were fired. Why didn't we talk about it then?"
The factory director shook his head, "This is one moment, not that moment."
He also said, "If you mess around, your children will not be well off in the future. Whatever I did, my son will pay for it. The wrong things you do will be recorded in the files for three generations - unless you immigrate and become a foreigner."
,can you?"
The factory director spoke faster and more confidently, and the workers opened their mouths and retreated speechlessly.
The chimney of the steel factory, accompanied by Lao Yin's pride and curses, eventually became a hurdle that he couldn't get over. He poured all his frustration and dissatisfaction with life into his children: this kind of pouring is not frequent beatings and scoldings.
, but painstaking support year after year, day after day.
The winter of that year was quite cold. There were only two people at home, Lao Yin and Xiao Yin. On the Spring Festival Gala, they first performed a sketch of "If I don't get laid off, who will get laid off?". The laughter of the sketch actor Huang Hong made the father and son even more bitter.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
Then, Teacher Liu Huan sang boldly:
"If the heart is there, the dream is there, it's just a matter of starting over~"
While singing, Xiao Yin asked Lao Yin: "Where is mom?"
"separated."
"How did you leave?"
"I don't blame her for not having money."
The father and son hugged each other and cried.
Yin Chuan has since become silent and precocious. He rides the bicycle left behind by his father. On his way to school, he will pass by tall chimneys and sometimes stop there:
Whether he misses his childhood, the factory, or both is left to the audience to think about. Anyway, the chimney is going to blow up.
At this point, the "Memories" part of the movie "Love Letter" in the Northeast region is completed, and most of the entire movie is completed. The contemporary part of the youth film is not the focus.
In the "Memories" section, the only thing left is to photograph the blasting of the old industrial area.
In fact, there are quite a few films that reflect the changes of the times. Some of them are described as the main plot, which will not win the box office. Jia Zhangke is like this in almost every film; some are like "Love Letter", as a hidden plot, as a
The adjustment for realism is not overly colorful.
However, this kind of movies all describe a phenomenon: most people don’t really know what happened, they think they are just incompetent, and they still want to go back to the past.
They have been eliminated by the times.
In "Please Praise Me", Yang Hongqi is like a fool, constantly repeating things that were normal in the last era but are very strange in this era. The character seems very unreal, but this is for the sake of drama.
This kind of contrast is needed to make the audience laugh while also knowing what the director is trying to say.
In mid-April, the crew received news of the chimney explosion and waited early in the safety zone.
Fang Yi, who was riding a bicycle, was far away from the chimney, but in the camera, he seemed to be right underneath.
Fang Yi looked back and forth at the screen frequently, feeling quite nervous. The digital camera was good for this, being able to see the screen in time. If it was like "Let the Bullets Fly", it was shot with film. If there was a flaw in the shot, it would be all over.
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There is no second chimney to blow up for you.
For this scene, everyone has rehearsed more than ten times in advance. China Film Group also contacted the steel factory in advance, and the countdown of the explosion will be synchronized to the crew.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, uu Reading www.uukanshu.com, the stewards began to make gestures and count the seconds.
"Ten, nine, eight..."
Fang Yi, who was riding a bicycle, happened to stop in front of the camera. For the sake of artistry, he took off his glasses, and the wind blew his hair.
When I read zero, there was a rumble, like Mount Buzhou being knocked down by Gonggong, and the world collapsed.
After the noise and dust passed, there was nothing there.
Fang Yi picked up the bicycle and rode in the direction of the school again.
After he came out of the painting, the assistant director shouted "Cut!"
But he still rides.
The assistant director didn't know what to do and didn't dare to wake him up. What if Fang Yi acted on the spot? He could only use gestures to guide the photographer to shoot Fang Yi's back.
Watching him getting further and further away, and riding to the end of the road, the entire crew remained silent.
After a while, Fang Yi accelerated and rode back again.
"Why didn't you say stop?"
"You shouted, you are too into the fun."
After Fang Yi heard this, he muttered something that no one could hear clearly. He subconsciously looked back at the chimney, and it was indeed gone. "Let's go, the show here is finished."