On the hospital bed, Tong Liya's right leg was put in a plaster and hung at the end of the bed. She opened her eyes drowsily and looked at Chen Kun walking towards her.
"Your friend told me." Chen Kun sat down in front of the hospital bed and looked at Tong Liya's injured leg and the scratches on her face with some distress.
"Thank you for coming all the way to see me." Tong Liya originally looked at Chen Kun and turned her head back, just looking at the ceiling, her tone a little strange.
"If it were you, you would do the same thing." Chen Kun was also like a simple greeting between friends, as if it was the concern of an ordinary friend.
Tong Liya turned her head slightly again, looked at Chen Kun who was getting younger, and sighed, "You are getting younger and more handsome. I really wish you hadn't come and seen me like this."
As he spoke, he turned sideways impatiently and covered his injured face with his hands.
"The doctor said that if you recover well, you can still walk normally." Chen Kun comforted softly, and then said, "I will take you home and I can take care of you."
"I don't want to go back."
"Then I'll stay with you."
Suddenly, Tong Liya looked irritated and shouted defiantly, "I don't need you to pity me!"
A dialogue scene, a very ordinary, even clichéd scene,
In domestic idol romance dramas, it's a very bloody scene where one of them likes each other, but one of them is in a bad situation, so they rudely drive the other away.
Li Qian watched the performance on the monitor, and when Tong Liya's mood changed later, he also felt a toothache. This performance was a bit like an idol love drama.
"Click!"
Before the performance was over, Li Qian couldn't stand it anymore and stopped.
"Pause."
Li Qian stood up and walked to the hospital bed, patting Tong Liya's calf that was hanging in the air.
"Don't get up, just lie down. We've been together for a long time, but you were in a car accident and lost half of your life, and you're still so angry."
"Don't shoot, the leg is broken into five sections. If you shoot again, it will break. Be more serious." Tong Liya educated Li Qian seriously, "Even if it is a break, you must respect the plot and be immersed in it!"
"..." Chen Kun couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Li Qian shook his head, "Why don't you put so much effort into filming? Look at your previous performances, change the background, and change into younger clothes. Even if you say it's an idol love drama, some people will believe it."
"Isn't it like this? Because I was injured, my leg was broken, and I might even be disabled. The best version of myself is no longer there, and I feel that I am no longer worthy of him who is slowly becoming perfect.
Moreover, I rejected him before, and now I feel very uncomfortable. It is normal to have a big reaction." Tong Liya looked at Li Qian with a look on her face that said she didn't understand.
"It's normal to be older, and you have to watch some movies. Young love movies don't matter, but you are already in your twenties in the movie. You were young before, but after the car accident, you started to become mature and mentally mature. At least you don't
He yelled with full strength, and he was not so strong in this injured state." Li Qian explained.
He turned around and looked at Chen Kun, "Your problem is a little bigger than Yaya's."
Suddenly turning his gun, Chen Kun also listened carefully. As long as the problem is big, it doesn't matter if he takes the blame.
Li Qian said, "The sadness on your face is so obvious when you come in. Think about what this character has gone through before. The most difficult wars to resist the United States and aid Korea, the battles of Changjin Lake and Songgu Peak, and witness countless comrades with your own eyes."
Sacrifice in various tragic ways.
Later, in the Great Gobi Desert, I saw contemporary scientists and volunteers, using abacus to create my country's first mushroom egg in such a difficult environment. After all this, a car accident with a broken leg should not be so... obvious."
Chen Kun hesitated, "But is this my lover?"
"It's just a broken leg. The sadness needs to be reflected in the eyes, which is enough for this character. It's a bit too much to have an obvious expression of grief on the face, and the whole scene is inconsistent," Li Qian said.
People who are killed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood are not so prone to big changes in expressions.
Of course, the most important thing is actually related to the overall style of the movie. For such a male protagonist, a witness to history and a bystander in history, indifference is one of the best labels.
The sadness and care in the eyes don't require too many unnecessary expressions.
If there was no such history, it would be more expressive.
Performances should be viewed as a whole, so there are often films where the actors are obviously good at their acting, but when placed in the plot, they seem a bit disharmonious.
The filming continued, and this time it was much better. Chen Kun's eye scenes were also one of the best in the Mesozoic era.
Tong Liya is a dancer herself. She understands the sadness of a dancer breaking his leg, and the feeling that the relationship between the two people has never returned to the past. For an actress who is delicate in her own right, this kind of scene will be difficult for her.
He is also naturally good at it.
The past that cannot be returned is the content of this scene.
What they have to do is to be a little dull compared to other romance films, and not to be too intense and ruin the overall atmosphere and the character of the male protagonist.
Filmmaking is a skill-based job, not based on what is reasonable and realistic.
After the fourth time, the scene was successfully completed.
Tong Liya, who had been lying on the bed all morning with her left leg hanging all morning, was finally able to get up. She put her left leg down and gently hammered it a few times. She felt a little numb after hanging on it.
"Let's go, prepare for the next show." Li Qian came over to greet the two of them.
Tong Liya lightly tapped her feet on the ground and asked, "Isn't the next scene on the schedule the scene where we meet again after more than ten years?"
"Yes, the second meeting when we meet again." Li Qian flipped through the planned plan.
"Why do I feel that this love scene is very awkward and fragmented. The first time we met was just a few short scenes, and then jumped to more than ten years later, it is still the same. This love scene is a bit unlike reality.
Love." Tong Liya said a little confused.
Chen Kun also followed, "I suddenly felt this way, as if there is no process but only results."
"Remove the appearance, that's how it is."
Li Qian smiled and said, "In the span of several decades, we have reunited four times after a long absence. There is only so much time, so there is no way to explain it. This means that many processes in the middle are omitted and passed through in one stroke."
"Rejuvenation" is still a romance film on the surface, and the main plot is still about love.
However, this love is a little different from ordinary love movies.
She loves him and he loves her. It seems that if these conditions are met, they should be together as a matter of course.
But this is not the case in the movie. After the hero came back, he rejected the heroine's love, even though he also loved the heroine.
The rejection was because it was not pure love. Just as the heroine later rejected the hero, she said, "Do you want me to give up my life?"
Neither of them can realize that the other person is everything to them, and the lives they want to live are different.
It wasn't until he left again and came back for the second time that the hero experienced more. Not only did he gain more understanding of life, but he also understood that lost time cannot be recovered.
The heroine has also passed the time of chasing her dream of dancing. She is no longer young and has completely matured inside.
So when they were almost forty years old, at this perfect golden age, when they were completely matched mentally and physically, they had no hesitation and were together without any reservation.
But the birth of his daughter made him afraid, because he would slowly become younger and become a child.
In order to let his daughter grow up like a normal person and not to burden his lover, he kept all the inheritance left to him by his biological father and left again.
When he was almost sixty and looked like a boy of seventeen or eighteen, he came back again, glanced at them, and left again.
In the end, he was seventy years old and already had Alzheimer's disease. He looked like a child of a few years old and only remembered his lover's name. He was sent back by the police and remained there until he became a baby.
After leaving four times and coming back four times, the emotional drama between the two was fragmented, ignoring the process and leaving only the result.
"But in this case, can the audience really empathize with this love scene?" Tong Liya still doesn't understand. Before, she made one love movie a year, and which one didn't focus on showing the beginning and process of falling in love.
Li Qian smiled and shook his head, "Don't underestimate the audience's imagination. Blank space is a very important technique in movies."
In a two-hour movie, nothing can be said. A director who doesn't leave blank spaces is definitely not a good director. Many directors seem to tell the story very clearly and the story itself is very funny, but it just seems boring.
This means that the explanation is too detailed and too wordy. Movies should leave room for the imagination of the audience. Based on what they see, they can figure out the process logically and have a more immersive feeling.
What's more, the point of reverse growth perfectly fits this kind of plot. With the protagonist of reverse growth, everything makes sense and is easy for the audience to understand.
There are not many emotional scenes in each meeting, and the next scene comes in the 1980s, when they come back to meet each other for the second time.
In the 1980s, the actor accidentally participated in the filming of the "Journey to the West" crew's daughter's country segment as a handyman.
After watching the filming of this only love scene, he thought of his lover more and more. At this time, both of them had reached their prime, and he chose to go home.
The second meeting was much calmer than the first time, they were both mature, and the meeting was just a somewhat joyful hug.
Hugging was not easy either, and I had to take photos many times in a row.
"Click!"
"Click!"
In just a few seconds, Li Qian shouted "ka" more frequently. He kept shouting "ka" and felt a little bad.
It's not easy to get angry, otherwise there will be trouble at night.
With a pat on his thigh, Li Qian waved to the worker next to him, "Go and get them a mirror to look at!"
"The makeup is gone?" Chen Kun and Tong Liya, who had gotten the mirrors, felt a little strange and took pictures from all angles.
"No, do you want to touch up your makeup?" Tong Liya asked.
"I love you, you big-headed devil!"
Li Qian walked over angrily, pointed at the mature face in the mirror and said, "You are almost thirty, almost forty, and people at this age are still hugging like young lovers?"
"Then how should I repay you? Aren't you happy? You have been waiting for the other party for many years."
"Happiness is happiness. Twenty-year-olds look like twenty-year-olds who are happy, and thirty or forty-year-olds look like thirty-forty-year-olds who are happy."
Li Qian simply looked around and found an assistant director and a makeup artist. They were all in their late thirties and almost forty, "Old Wang, Sister Zhou, you two, please hold each other and take a look."
"Ah this..."
Assistant director Lao Wang and makeup artist Sister Zhou were stunned, and then they looked at each other in unison, full of disgust.
"Hurry up, hold one and show them how to do it." Li Qian urged.
Give me a demonstration?
Chen Kun knew that he was taking the blame again, he was thirty-seven, and the hug scene was perfect, but there was something wrong with Tong Liya.
In the end, the two succumbed to Li Qian's power, hugged each other awkwardly, and then quickly separated, each taking a few steps back.
"You see, people of this age are different from young people, not to mention that they haven't seen each other for many years. When they come over and hug them, they are not only happy and surprised, but also a little bit awkward and awkward."
Li Qian faced them both, but he spoke to Tong Liya.
"I understand." Chen Kun responded immediately.
"I understand." Tong Liya also suddenly understood.
Let it brew for a while and then start shooting again five minutes later.
This time, after the two of them looked at each other, Tong Liya's face with the vicissitudes of time and maturity became a little more awkward and awkward. She held her hands in front of her and kept squeezing her own hands before hugging each other.
The details of each age are very important. Compared with the male protagonist who uses facial expressions to capture the role after he is fifty, and no longer uses real person makeup, the heroine will only be played by teacher Qin Yi when she is almost seventy years old.
Even if she is 50 or 60 years old, Tong Liya will act in makeup herself.
Women are different from men. Especially in romance movies, appearance is very important. It is impossible to find an old man to play the role.
Moreover, the male protagonist's body shape has changed. After all, he has the figure of a child and the appearance of an old man.
There is no need for the heroine, even if she is 50 or 60 years old, she can play it by herself, just like those famous female stars in Hong Kong in the 1980s. Although they are obviously still very old-fashioned, they occasionally appear in entertainment news and put on makeup.
It still looks a little bit as beautiful as it once was.
You can put makeup on your appearance, but the characteristics of each grade cannot be ignored.
...
During this period of time, I have been filming emotional scenes in Magic City. I also shot some indoor scenes in the studio, as well as some scenes where the actor traveled around the country and could be shot in Magic City.
October passed quickly, and November arrived. During the filming break at noon on the 3rd, Su Lun, who was half the executive director and assistant, came over and said, "Boss, Teng Huatao called and said "Waiting...
About the premiere of "The Wind Comes"."
"Premiere? Isn't it the evening of the 10th? The schedule has been changed?" Li Qian asked.
"No, he asked if you have time to attend the premiere." Su Lun added.
That's it. Li Qian thought for a while and shook his head, "Just say I'm too busy and I'm catching up."
"Okay." Su Lun didn't say anything. He walked aside and was about to call Teng Huatao back.
Li Qian stopped Su Lun, "Forget it, I'll get back to him personally."
"Director Teng, congratulations on the movie being released soon. My crew is too busy to catch up and may not have time to go to the premiere. I just told Xu Zheng yesterday that I won't be able to go to the premiere of "囧囧", so I wish you all the best in advance.
It was a huge hit at the box office.”
He called back with some embarrassment and threw the phone to Su Lun.
"You really won't go to the premiere of "Waiting for the Wind." You don't pay too much attention to Director Teng." Although Tong Liya knew that Li Qian was not optimistic about this film, she didn't even go to the premiere, which was a bit unexpected.
"Why don't you take it seriously? If you don't take it seriously, I will call him back personally."
Li Qian shook his head, "I really don't have time. The premiere was so noisy. It took more than a day to come and go. If I went, what about the subsequent "Thailand" and "Police Story 2013"? I also invested a lot.
The time has passed, so I might as well not go."
It's just a premiere, so he shouldn't be so glass-hearted. He would feel uncomfortable if he didn't go. He was filming a movie right now.
...
Teng Huatao, who was far away in the capital, heard Li Qian's words and his voice rose to a higher pitch.
"Director Li doesn't have time?"
"Sorry to bother Director Li, I wish you good luck with the filming."
After hanging up the phone, Teng Huatao's excitement as the movie was about to be released suddenly calmed down and he still didn't believe it.
I, a director with a gross revenue of 600 million, didn’t even attend the premiere of his new film?
Li Qian's lack of attention made Teng Huatao feel very uncomfortable.
With a box office of 600 million, Li Qian earned 200 million. This time, I personally told him in advance that he didn’t even have time to come.
Even if I'm filming, it doesn't matter if I take a day off to do it.
As for Li Qian saying that he didn't have time to watch "囧囧", he was automatically ignored by Teng Huatao.
One of its predecessors cost 200 million and the other 600 million. Xu Zheng's "囧" is completely incomparable to his "Waiting for the Wind".
Teng Huatao, who has suddenly become a great director, has received countless praises this year. Whether it is producers, actors, or CEOs of major companies, all kinds of capital have praised him to the sky.
The first movie had a box office of 600 million, and Teng Huatao happily accepted all the praise.
However, Li Qian didn't have time to attend the premiere, but he was given a slap in the face.
Contrary to what Li Qian thought, Teng Huatao was really a bit conceited, and he felt more and more that Li Qian just didn't pay attention to it. He mentioned it to "Waiting for the Wind" during the Double Eleven period before.