080 Collection of love themes - before the sugar and the knife
The plot of the MV for "Those Years" is a shortened version of "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years".
I deleted a lot of foreshadowing and went straight to the theme.
The male and female protagonists were lovers on campus, and eventually fell in love with each other. However, as they grew older, due to the personality of the male protagonist, they had a quarrel and broke up during a heavy rain.
Many years later, the heroine got married, and the hero attended her wedding dressed up. He thought about bringing back the heroine's heart with a kiss and snatching the bride away, but in the end he chose to give his blessing.
In a certain middle school, Cao Xuan met Zeng Li in school uniform.
The school uniforms were specially designed by Cao Xuan. Ordinary school uniforms are too simple and the color matching is hard to describe. After all, the MV still needs some aesthetics.
So he put on a streamlined school uniform with white background, black and blue edges.
From a practical point of view, this kind of clothes is not resistant to dirt, and the clothes are not very roomy. It is fine in spring and autumn. In winter, if you can’t put a cotton jacket on it, you will just have to wait for the cold.
And as you age and your body shape and height change, you have to replace it with a new one, which is also expensive.
But regardless of practicality, just in terms of appearance, the colors are bright, refreshing, the clothes are slim and slim, and they look really beautiful when worn on the body.
If any school uses this kind of uniform, the rate of puppy love among students can increase by at least 30%...
If we talk about the Xiao Long Bao heroine in the original version of the movie, she has a pure and family-next-door style and is known as the nation’s first love face.
Then Zeng Li in the MV is the kind of beautiful school beauty with elegant temperament and exquisite appearance that makes people stunned and addicted at a glance.
The former makes people close and fond of her, while the latter silently regards her as the white moonlight that he will never forget.
Cao Xuan had always known that Zeng was so beautiful that she could withstand a beating, but this time he was still dazzled by Zeng Li, and it took him half a minute to recover.
"If I met you when I was in school, I don't know how many fights I would have to fight for you."
"What's the meaning?"
"Beauty is a curse, you overestimate a little boy's resistance to a beauty like you."
"Then when you were in school, did you meet any beauty that made you irresistible?"
"No, when I was in school I was deaf to what was happening outside the window. I only focused on reading books about sages. I even forgot how many female classmates there were in our class."
"Then you worked so hard, why did you fail the college entrance examination?"
"...Ahem, Director Chen, it's getting late, it's time to start shooting."
Looking at Mr. Cao who was running away, a bit of cunning flashed in Zeng Damei's eyes, and she went to wait while humming "Love Must Have a Last Resort" in her mouth.
"Your image in my mind can never go away... I have no choice but to fall in love with you..."
………
Why the theme of love is so impressive? Cao Xuan has already summed it up in the last time he filmed "Fairy Tale".
Four words, sugar in the front and knife in the back.
The previous plot is crazy about sprinkling sugar, as sweet as you want it to be, and it will be sweet to the hearts of the audience.
After the candy is sprinkled, the knife begins, and the torture will be done in any way. The knife will break the audience's heart and make the audience cry. It will be difficult for the audience to forget.
"Fairy Tale" is a cure for incurable diseases, which separates heaven and man forever.
"Those Years" is about watching your lover marry someone else. It may not be that sad, but the sadness and sadness are hard to calm down, and in a sense it touches people's hearts even more.
After all, not many people have experienced the death of a loved one, but the powerlessness and pain of broken love can definitely be experienced by many people.
The MV follows the plot sequence and shoots the previous school plot first.
The heroine Zeng Li is a top student in school and Cao Xuan is a bastard in school. They are in the same class and have no intersection at all.
But one time, the school beauty was harassed by someone, and the scumbag stepped forward to save the beauty. After that, the school beauty began to pay attention to this classmate who had never paid attention to her before.
I found that although he didn't like studying, he had a lively personality, was loyal and warm-hearted, and was very popular among his classmates.
Several male classmates in his class all had a crush on the school beauty, but he was the only one who showed disdain and remained unruly in front of the school beauty.
This performance was almost not difficult for Cao Xuan and Zeng Li. On the contrary, some of the group performances were a bit lacking and they needed to do it again from time to time.
Fortunately, there is no need to be particularly harsh, because the MV is originally short, the focus is always on the male and female protagonists, and the extras are mostly tool people, which can basically meet the needs of the scene.
The school scene was filmed for two days and one night, all during weekends when the school was on vacation.
The time was very tight, and there was almost no rest. After one scene was filmed, the next scene followed immediately.
After several interactions, the male and female protagonists fell in love with each other, and the male protagonist confessed his love. The female protagonist was reserved and wanted to encourage the male protagonist, so she made him a condition.
When the male protagonist passes her monthly exam, she agrees to be her girlfriend.
Therefore, the male and female protagonists studied hard, studying day and night, holding a book on duty during the day, and on dates they would ask each other questions on the blackboard and answer them.
If the male protagonist slacks off a little, the female protagonist will urge him to study, although in the end the male protagonist still fails the female protagonist's exam.
But when she graduated from high school, the heroine agreed to be his girlfriend.
Compared with similar youth love themes in later generations, such as pregnancy, car accidents, jumping off buildings, school belles falling into prostitution, and top students turning into scumbags, this plot is simply extremely positive.
But the beauty came to an abrupt end here, because the male protagonist's immaturity made the female protagonist repeatedly disappointed, and finally the two broke up in a heavy rain.
Cao Xuan waited for two days for this rain scene, but the weather forecast was inaccurate, so he had no choice but to use sprinklers to artificially rain.
It's March, the weather hasn't completely warmed up yet, and many people are still wearing winter clothes.
In the MV, in order to look good, the characters wear thin autumn clothes. They usually have to put on military coats to keep warm after filming. Rain scenes directly test the actor's physical fitness.
Cao Xuan himself was not afraid, but he was worried about freezing Zeng Li, but Zeng was very professional as an actress and only replied with four words.
"No problem, shoot."
This rain scene is the key to the MV. Without it, Cao Xuan could only grit his teeth and shoot.
It was night, and the weather happened to be the coldest in recent days, with the lowest temperature already reaching below zero.
Cao Xuan and Zeng Li Film and Television were dressed in autumn clothes and were watered five or six times by a sprinkler truck. It took more than 40 minutes to finish filming this rain scene.
By the time the filming was over, Cao Xuan, a grown man, couldn't bear it, let alone Zeng Li, who was so cold that his face turned pale.
Cao Xuan turned on the air conditioner in the commercial vehicle, then blocked the four windows and asked Zeng Li to change into clean clothes.
Later, seeing that Zeng Li was still trembling a little, Cao Xuan wrapped her in a military coat. Seeing that she still felt cold, he simply hugged Zeng Li into his arms, causing her body to physically heat up.
Zeng Li was shocked and wanted to get up and break away. Cao Xuan patted her: "Don't move. I'll let you go when it gets warm."
Zeng Li couldn't struggle anymore. She blushed and closed her eyes as Cao Xuan held her in his arms. He walked all the way without asking Cao Xuan to put her down.
Cao Xuan asked Zhu Jiang to drive to a highly confidential private clinic, prescribed some medicine to prevent frostbite, and then headed to his Haidian apartment.
"Where is this?"
"I bought a house before. The reporters in Oishizuo knew too much about it. I found it too noisy, so I sometimes lived here."
Cao Xuan took Zeng Li into the apartment, gave her a brief tour of the work, and then gave instructions.
"You go take a hot bath first. There are new toiletries in the cupboard under the bathroom. I'll make two bowls of ginger soup. After drinking it, you'll feel sweaty. You'll be fine the next day."
"Um."
Zeng Li nodded obediently, and went to Cao Xuan's kitchen to cook some ginger soup, then simmered some rice, and took out some dishes, planning to stir-fry two shredded pepper pork and scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
When Zeng Li came out from the shower, Cao Xuan was cutting tomatoes and pointed at the ginger soup in the pot.
"Drink ginger soup first, watch TV for a while, then eat for a while."
Zeng Li did not watch TV, but sat next to the kitchen, holding a soup bowl, sipping ginger soup, and watching Cao Xuan cook with gentle eyes.
After a while, the food was ready, Cao Xuan served the dishes, and Zeng Li took the initiative to get the bowls and chopsticks. This was the tacit understanding the two had developed when they "lived together" in the courtyard.
But last time, it was Zeng Li who cooked and served the dishes, and Cao Xuan, the "patient", helped her.
After finishing the meal, Zeng Li and Cao Xuan cleared the dishes together, and then sat on the sofa to watch the TV series "Never Close Eyes" together.
Watching Sun Honglei teasing Yuan Li on TV, Cao Xuan shamelessly pulled Zeng Li into his arms again.
Zeng Li did not struggle this time, but rested his head on Cao Xuan's shoulder, and the two of them cuddled up and watched an episode of the TV series.
The night is already dark and it's time to go to bed.
Cao Xuan ran to the bathroom and took a quick shower. Just when he was about to see his beauty again, he found that Zeng Li's room was locked.
"I have to film tomorrow, so go to sleep."
Listening to Zeng Li's somewhat suppressed laughter in the room, Cao Xuan wished he could find a hammer and smash down the door...
