White shirt, black trousers, a pair of old-fashioned black half-frame glasses, a decent Sanqi style. There is a pen in the pocket of the shirt, and an old-fashioned briefcase in his hand. At first glance, he looks like an everyday person.
Commonly seen here are small government cadres or state-owned enterprise cadres.
Regarding the character Ma Xuewu, He Xin is relatively well prepared. He has written several short biographies about this character. For example, Ma Xuewu's mother is a middle school teacher. He lost his husband when he was young, and he passed the entrance examination through his own efforts.
After going to college, he came to work and live in a big city. Through someone's introduction, he married a city girl, Li Baoli.
In the novel and script, the character Ma Xuewu is described as coming from the countryside, which He Xin feels is not accurate. Since his mother is a middle school teacher, he should at least have an urban household registration. To be precise, he should come from a small town.
family.
Regarding Ma Xuewu's family, the novel only mentions it briefly, but he judged from the description of Ma Xuewu's mother in the novel that her mother should be a relatively strong, sensible person, but someone who would protect her shortcomings.
This is easy to understand. A widow lives alone with her son and at the same time raises her son to be a college student. In this way, the mother must have a strong character and be a strong mother! Of course, as an educated middle school teacher, she still understands this.
Reasonable.
It may be precisely because of this kind of growing environment that Ma Xuewu has a docile and somewhat cowardly character. According to the timeline in the novel, Ma Xuewu and Li Baoli were both born in the mid-to-late 1960s.
As a college student in the 1980s, Ma Xuewu was still very popular. At that time, the country vigorously promoted younger and more educated cadres. Under this background, even if Ma Xuewu had a weak character, he could still sit in a state-owned university in his thirties.
The position of director of the factory office.
The marriage between him and Li Baoli was probably because Li Baoli was a girl from a big city, even though Li Baoli had no education. In fact, everyone's life circle was very small in that era, and the so-called love like that of later generations was really rare. Many men and women were both.
After an introduction, a blind date, and if you are right, you can basically start a family.
Although Li Baoli has no education, Ma Xuewu likes her because she is a girl from a big city. Marrying such a girl means that she has truly established a foothold in a big city and become a real city person.
The gap between urban and rural areas was really huge at that time, especially people living in big cities had a natural sense of superiority towards people from rural areas and small places. At the same time, the 1980s was an era that respected knowledge. Li Baoli was interested in
It is Ma Xuewu’s identity as a college student.
But Ma Xuewu and Li Baoli have opposite personalities. He is the kind of person who doesn't say anything out loud, keeps things in his heart, and just does it directly. Baoli is a woman who says whatever she thinks, outspoken and kind-hearted. Such a combination, from the perspective of personality,
Speaking of which, it is actually inappropriate.
From the inside, He Xin doesn't like people like Ma Xuewu at all. Although Ma Xuewu seems gentle on the surface, doesn't talk much, and never blushes, he often suppresses everything.
In my heart, people feel like they are sinister.
He Xin had a neighbor in his previous life who was like this. He came from a small town in the county. His parents died early. After graduating from high school, he joined a state-owned unit in the county. In the 1970s and 1980s, a high school diploma was considered an educated person.
He also works in an office in the factory and is responsible for some writing work.
Because his parents died young and his family was poor, he married into a wealthy family who lived on the same street as He Xin's family. In those days, a "rich family" simply had many brothers and sisters, all working in popular commercial units, but most of them had little education.
, especially his wife, who is famous for being fierce and fierce in their street, very similar to Li Baoli.
But what is different from Li Baoli is that this woman is only cruel to outsiders, but she is almost obedient to her own men. I have never heard her say anything bad to her own men.
This man usually doesn't talk much, behaves elegantly, and always cleans up. But he seems to be incompatible with their large family. What's more exaggerated is that the bowls and chopsticks used for eating must be separated from the family members. Every time he eats, he always
He takes out his own special enamel bowl and chopsticks, scalds them with boiling water, and then serves the food as if it were served in the cafeteria. If a member of the family has touched this dish with chopsticks, then sorry, he will never touch this dish.
He is not even very close to his two biological sons.
Later, as the supply and marketing cooperatives and commercial units in the county were in recession, many were closed and others were laid off. However, because of the critical moment, he boldly contracted a workshop in the factory and made a profit, and later opened his own factory.
In the past, his family took good care of him. Even though he was a bride-in-law and was incompatible with this big family, the family was always very tolerant of him and never caused any embarrassing incident. When he got angry, he should be nicer to the family. But he
But without any hesitation, he divorced his two sons and went to live with a beautiful young female accountant in the factory. Only then did the family realize that he had been involved with this female accountant for a long time.
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Although there were various conflicts between the two parties during the divorce process, the family never got any credit from him. Later, as his business grew bigger and bigger, he simply moved to the provincial capital Hangzhou and ignored his two sons.
Regardless, his ex-wife was sick and even died without even coming back to see her. So for a long time, the legend of this man who was usually silent but cruel and wolf-like at critical moments has been circulating in their street for a long time.
Of course, Ma Xuewu's cowardly character is not as vicious as this scumbag, but at their core they are the same person.
For example, he filed for divorce from Li Baoli without even considering the children.
For example, when he cheated on his female colleague, I originally thought that he was a timid person with a treacherous heart but no courage, but in the end he just did it without saying a word.
For another example, he lost his job and chose to jump directly into the river when he felt that his career and reputation were lost. This is an extremely irresponsible behavior. If only he could think more about his old mother or his lovely son,
Therefore, you will not directly choose to give up your life.
These are destined to make him much more cruel and selfish than Li Baoli, who looks sharp and unforgiving on the surface.
In this way, He Xin basically knew how to portray the character of Ma Xuewu, so he used the scumbag neighbor in his previous life as a template and added some cowardly elements in his character.
Speaking of which, before the true identity of the scumbag neighbor was exposed, He Xin was once very curious about this man and even admired him a little. For example, he learned his cleanliness habit from that man.
A 28-inch bicycle with a 50% to 60% new Phoenix cowhide seat. He Xin rode the bicycle from the gate of Erqiao Community in Yangtze River Committee for a whole morning and took photos along the 107 National Highway. Sometimes he sat in the car and followed the photos.
Sometimes I stop at intersections to take pictures.
This is the route that Ma Xuewu usually takes to work. It was very troublesome to shoot. In the end, it may only be a transitional shot of one or two seconds in the finished film.
In the afternoon, we transferred to Hanyang Special Vehicle Manufacturing Factory.
This is an old state-owned enterprise, but at this time it has basically stopped production due to poor profitability. In order to take care of the face of the old state-owned enterprise, the crew specially replaced the original factory sign with peeling paint and cracking into the fictional "Hankou Special Vehicle Manufacturing Factory"
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This is Ma Xuewu's workplace, and a striking sign is erected in the green belt next to it, "Come to work happily and go home safely."
The location here is very good, with the Han River in the north, Guishan Mountain in the back, and across Qingchuan Street is the Nan'anzui River Beach Park, which was washed out by the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River.
The factory still welcomed the crew's choice of location for filming. The cement pavement leading to Hannan Road from the factory entrance was clean, and the factory specially arranged dozens of workers to serve as extras to cooperate with the filming.
Most of the workers put on lead-gray work clothes that the crew bought from the Hanzheng Street Commodity Market, and some also wore casual clothes. Those who wore work clothes were all workers in the workshop, and those in casual clothes mostly sat in the office. Some of them rode bicycles, and some walked.
, crowded into the factory gate under the command of the deputy director.
The scene was very lively, and the man watching the gate was so excited that he said: "I haven't seen such a lively work scene in a few years. It's a pity that it's just a movie and not real."
It is very sad to say, and it explains in one sentence the pain of state-owned enterprise reform in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
"Hey, Lao Wan, are you okay?"
"coming!"
Wan Qian ran out of the temporary dressing room next to the doorman.
This girl is an actress who graduated from the Department of Acting at the Shanghai Theater Academy. When Wang Xiaoshuai was filming "I'm Nineteen", this girl was one of Qinghong's candidates. It is said that this girl's acting skills are good, but her peach blossom eyes are not suitable for Wang Xiaoshuai.
In the imagination, Qinghong was innocent, but in the end she chose the older Gao Yuanyuan.
This time Wang Xiaoshuai cast her to play Zhou Fen, Ma Xuewu's colleague and cheating partner. Apart from her image and acting skills, the most important thing is that she is cheap enough. Director Wang is used to this kind of careful calculation.
It is said that this girl starred in many dramas when she was in theater school and was well received in the industry. After graduation, she starred in several TV series, but the response was mediocre. Later she moved to the music industry, released an album, and won several awards.
A small award in the music industry, but unfortunately it never became popular.
In fact, He Xin is most annoyed by the so-called three-dimensional development of film, television, singing and the like. In his opinion, a good actor should be a pure actor. It sounds unreliable to sing and act at the same time.
Many big directors use famous singers, often out of consideration for box office. For example, Jay Chou in "The Golden Armor" released last year. As a musician, he is first-rate, but as an actor, he may not even be third-rate.
Not really.
This year, he changed his career to become a director and made a movie called "The Secret That Cannot Be Told", which was released in China during the summer. He Xin has not seen this movie, but he only heard that this movie was openly dissed by fans of Feng Xiaogang.
The box office performance of the movie may also be a secret that cannot be told.