"Wow, boss, you are very fashionable today, so handsome!"
"Thank you, you're also beautiful today!"
"Boss, this is a small gift for you. I wish you a day and a day every year!"
"Thank you for making money!"
In the morning, He Xin came to the company and walked into the office with a bunch of blessings and gifts. Today is April 1st, April Fool's Day in the West, and his 30th birthday in his life.
He deliberately looked in the mirror, a white vertical blue striped shirt, a beige casual suit, jeans, and his legs were deliberately folded, with his ankles exposed, his markless socks, and a pair of brown Italian handmade leather shoes.
He does look a little young and handsome, and he can't help but feel a little secretly proud.
During this period, my wife might have been too bored at home, so she began to focus on dressing up her clothes and shoes every day, without any other decorations. If he hadn't been strongly right, she would have to take the hairstylist in her team.
They all need to be recruited at home.
His hairstyle has always been relatively casual. In the past, he always had a flat head for filming convenience. He only had a hair condom to adapt to different characters.
Just like when he first met Xu Bald Head, he thought that the other party had filmed a series of Li Wei, who deliberately shaved his head for the sake of filming. Later he realized that he was dying early, and that he was bald was quite interesting.
It was completely invisible from the forehead to the top of the head, and there was still hair next to it and on the back of the head. The He Sanshui style he played in "Night Club" was his real appearance.
But this look is too obscene, so he just shaves it. It's quite troublesome. It is said that every morning he has to walk around with an electric shaver. When he appears on the camera, his assistant's first thing is to take out the electric shaver.
The stubble on both sides and the back of his head was shaved, presenting the audience with a naked image of a brown egg.
He Xin, when he was filming "The Piano of the Steel", he attached great importance to the role of Chen Guilin, and he specially grew hair. Then when he played Jiang Wenli's "See You in Heaven", he shaved his head again, but Cheng Hao said he was still
The hair looks good when it grows longer. Maybe it's because he's old, so he feels that it's a bit unsteady when he always holds his flat head.
His current hairstyles are basically the slightly messy, and his hair is slightly natural wavy after growing, which adds a bit of unruly.
In fact, he didn't have any feelings about his birthday. He didn't celebrate his birthday very much since his parents passed away in his previous life. It was only after he was with Cheng Hao that he would celebrate his birthday seriously every year. In the past, he always used to be outside or called four or five friends.
Everyone is lively, or candlelight dinner in the world of romance. But today is a special day, the whole birthday of the thirty years old. As the saying goes: Standing at thirty, from today on, he will soon enter an important node in his life.
Thinking about it, I have been in this world for almost eleven years, from the age of nineteen to thirty, and thinking about my mediocre life in my previous life when I lived in a small county town in my hometown, this life is like a dream.
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
The knock on the door interrupted his feelings and shouted casually: "Come in!"
Ning Hao pushed the door in with a big bag and smiled and said, "Happy birthday, A Xin!"
As he said that, he put the big bag in his hand heavily on his desk: "Your birthday gift!"
"What's it?"
He opened the bag and looked at it. There were two big gift boxes inside. When he saw the packaging, he knew that it was a 15-year-old Moutai in the gift box. He immediately smiled and said, "You are so polite, thank you!"
"I originally thought everyone would drink it together on your birthday. Since you are spending your time at home this year, just keep it for yourself and drink it slowly."
Since Cheng Hao got pregnant, he has completely quit smoking and finally quit drinking.
Ning Hao's gift was given to him, but on Ning Hao's 30th birthday, he also specially gave him an Alai eight-mm antique camera with Zeiss lens produced in Germany in the 1950s.
It made Ning Hao love it.
"There is also a new book from Cheng Er."
Then he took out a script from his bag and handed it over.
When He Xin took it, he saw two simple words on the cover - Border.
When I opened it, the story summary actually had only one sentence: This is a story about Xiao An, a girl she hijacked, who was raised by the solitary dealer, who was hijacked by him. After they grew up, they fell in love and became husband and wife. They were chased by the police, gang hunting and Xiao An’s father’s resentment.
Surrounded by a story of trying to survive in despair.
Hey, it's interesting.
"This is not a story about Stockholm syndrome, right?" He asked casually as he turned down.
"It's probably a little bit of meaning, but it's not about this. You can tell if you continue reading."
As he said that, Ning Hao smiled, but at the same time he said with a hint of regret on his face: "My senior brother is really talented. I'm sure you will be shocked after seeing it!"
He Xin was surprised to get such an evaluation from Ning Hao.
Because this guy doesn't look like he smiles normally and is very polite to everyone he sees, he is actually very proud at heart. Apart from his idol Chief Jia, he admires, this is the first time He Xin has heard that he admires a colleague so much.
"Then you make tea yourself, I will read the masterpiece of Director Cheng first."
"Okay, look slowly, I'll say goodbye first." Ning Hao stood up from the chair.
"Where are you going?"
He patted and hung it on his shoulder bag: "I made an appointment with Teacher Wang to discuss the script."
The teacher Wang mentioned by Ning Hao is Wang Hongwei, a teacher in the Director Department of Beijing Electric. He is the original author of "Green Grass" and one of the screenwriters of "Stone" and "Racing" Crazy Series.
The script of "The Golden Robbery" he is currently at hand is troublesome to modify because of its congenital shortcomings. It has been several drafts. Not only He Xin is not satisfied, but he himself is not satisfied. However, because "Not"
"The Man District" was killed, this guy kept breathing, and wanted to give up but was unwilling to accept it. He could only brainstorm and try his best to improve it.
After Ning Hao left, He Xincai calmed down and looked at the script in his hand.
As Ning Hao said, he was shocked when he finished reading the first time because he had never seen such a stylized script. After reading it, he couldn't wait to read it for the second time, and then the third time...
Although the entire script is divided into six chapters: overture, dog, daughter, past, Mengxiu Station and the Last Supper, the overall summary should be two stories, or two lines of the same story.
The first line is the main line of the story, which takes up a large area and is also the theme of the whole script. It tells the story of a solitary dealer who was discovered by the police during a transaction when he was young. When he was abducted by the dentist's daughter when he was running away, he kidnapped the dentist's oldest daughter when he was abducted.
, Later, he was raised, and ten years later he became a singular lord, and the dentist's daughter also became his wife...
The second one is the deputy line, telling the story of a policeman and his sister...
The two lines are cleverly linked by a killer and two solo dealers.
However, after careful consideration, it is not difficult for He Xin to find that many of the plots and narrative techniques in this script look familiar, with the shadows of "Pulp Novels" and "Dogs in the Water".
It is not difficult to understand. In the current domestic creative directors, except for Wang Xiaoshuai, Lou Ye, and Chief Jia, the so-called famous directors behind the sixth generation, including Ning Hao and Lu Chuan, all have their own unique names.
A habit of learning and paying tribute to Hollywood directors.
Cheng Er is no exception, but compared to Ning Hao and Lu Chuan, he seems more implicit. For example, in his first feature film "The Third Man" that He Xin had watched before, Gao Yuanyuan tied Xu bald head up to interrogate him.
The plot is very similar to the plot of the little Loli, played by Allen Page, interrogating the perverted photographer in Hollywood director David Sred's "Hard Fruit Candy".
Of course, he did not simply use it as a philosophical approach, but used it very cleverly.
Now the situation in the script of "Border" is roughly the same. Cheng Er borrows the narrative skills and the creative style of some plots in Quentin's works, but at the same time, his and Quentin's works often have the greatest creative style of long dialogues.
The difference, or the deliberate way to go, is that there are really few dialogues in the script of "Border".
He probably adheres to the principle: if there is no need, do not add substance. If the dialogue is saved, save as long as you can. There is no nonsense. It is more about showing the inner scene through the performance of the actors.
In other words, this script has high requirements for actors. This is exactly what attracts He Xin the most.
The first Chinese actor in history to be crowned the Berlin Best Actor. Such a great honor is no exaggeration to describe it as successful. Therefore, He Xin is more willing to challenge some difficult and high-end roles. In the "Border" in front of him
The character of the solo vendor undoubtedly satisfies all his fantasies about the expected character.
And he found that Cheng Er, who had only met once and was a little shy and unspeakable, was actually a very smart guy. He would use the opposite minimalism to conceal his use of the theory. He was learning from Quentin.
At the same time, it draws a clear line between the two. The two are mixed without any sense of incongruity. On the contrary, it also establishes its unique high-end temperament with an overall simple style.
In this way, the style is directly improved. The genre film, the style and literary style are perfectly combined.
He immediately stopped hesitating and called Ning Hao with one call.
"This book must be taken down. I want to play the solo dealer in it!"
Ning Hao smiled on the phone: "I knew you would be moved, no problem!"
...
In the evening, He Xin drove the Audi Q7 slowly in the dense traffic of traffic during the evening rush hour in the East Third Ring Road. At this time, he was still thinking about the book "Border" that he had been studying for almost a day.
It should be said that the biggest difficulty in performing the role of the solo trader in the book is to be attentive, but this kind of role has no reference and can only be understood by yourself.
This is not a stereotypical seller, or even a villain in the traditional sense. He is meticulous, calm and rational, cruel and ruthless, and has no lack of human tenderness and kindness.
Moreover, he found that the name border was very interesting. This is not only a story that took place on the border, but also a border in people's hearts, a border between good and evil, a border between life and death, a border between emotions, etc.
A phone ringing interrupted his thoughts.
"Where are you?" The wife's voice came.
"It's a bit congested on the road, and it's almost at Liangmaqiao."
"Then hurry up, the home is ready."
"Yeah, I got it."
After passing Liangma Bridge, the road from East Third Ring Road to Gongti North Road was cleared. After entering the community, I parked my car at the basement and quickly went upstairs.
When he walked to his own room door, he saw that the door opened from inside before he could get the key. His wife stood at the door with a smile and greeted her: "Happy birthday!"
"Thank you, come, wife, hold one!"
He opened his arms and hugged his wife. When he walked into the house, he found that flowers were blooming everywhere on the dining table, on the coffee table, and on the TV cabinet. What's even more exaggerated is that there were ribbons and balloons on the roof.
"Wow, it's a bit too grand, right?" He was really surprised and happy.
"It's time to celebrate your birthday, you should have a birthday atmosphere."
At this time, Dad Cheng came out of the kitchen with a smile and said to him: "Happy birthday, A Xin!"
"Thank you, dad!" he said quickly.
When he walked to the kitchen door, he saw that Ma Cheng was busy working hard, so he quickly washed his hands and went in to help.
"Hey hey, Ah Xin, don't move today."
"Mom, it's okay, I'll do it!"
"Today is your birthday. You don't have to do it. If you want to get your dad, go have a tea and have a rest, and the meal will start soon."
Cheng's mother forced him out of the kitchen and refused to let him get involved.
He Xin sat outside and looked at the busy figure of Cheng's parents in the kitchen, and felt very sad, but his nose seemed to be a little sore. When he went out this morning, the old couple deliberately did not remind themselves, just wanted to surprise themselves when they came back in the evening.
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This scene has been a long time since I remembered that when I was on my birthday in my previous life, my mother would always give him a bowl of noodles; and when He Xin was a teenager, his father would always cook on this day to make his favorite sweet and sour pork ribs.
The rosy eel silk celebrated his birthday.
Although Cheng Hao helped him make it lively and romantic every time, he always lacked the warmth of his family, but today he finally felt it again.
Cheng Hao came out of the room with a box wrapped in gift paper, walked to him and sat down, held his arm and smiled: "Why are you alone in a daze?"
"Oh, no."
"Here, I'm going to give you a birthday gift." Cheng Hao handed the box.
"Yo, thank you! What?"
"Hehe, you can tell by taking it apart by yourself!"
He opened it and saw that the box contained a belt and a big "H" word, which destined that the gift was expensive.
"How is it, do you like it?"
"Uh, of course I like it!"
He couldn't say that the gift was really a nouveau riche and asked again, "When did you buy it?"
"I have bought it a long time ago, I'll give it to you when you celebrate your birthday today! Hey, why do I think you are not very happy and don't like it?"
"Of course not!"
He Xin hugged his wife into his arms and whispered in her ear: "Actually, you have given me the best gift!"
Of course, Cheng Hao knew what the best gift was. Seeing him laughing, he looked like he was very worthy of beating, but he couldn't help but look at him and said, "Hmph, I know!"