My girlfriend is from the future!

Contrary to Li Wang Wenwen's appearance, the films he made have very rough camera effects. Part of the reason for this is related to the film's budget. This can be said to be a common problem with this type of low-budget literary films.

The other part may be related to the director's personal style. In Li Wang's shots, there are always some turbulent, confusing, and congested city scenes. They appear so prosperous and cold, and the group of people he tells about through the lens are indispensable. , so young, energetic, and full of confusion in his eyes.

Among the towering buildings, they looked like ants in a hurry.

These are pictures that are very characteristic of the times. Speaking of which, for each generation of directors in our country, their most famous works also belong to the era when they were young. For example, the well-known fifth generation directors, they Most of the works produced are inseparable from the feelings of the country and the times, such as "Alive", "Yellow Earth", "Youth", etc.; the sixth generation directors are represented by Chief Jia, Lou Ye, Lu Chuan, Ning Hao, etc. The characters they photographed range from the county town to the city, which are microcosms of urban development, each process that has yet to see the results.

Of course, if you ask them to shoot other subjects, they can also shoot, and there are some wonderful works among them. But the interesting thing is that the best they took is undoubtedly the world that belonged to the first 40 years of their lives. If you ask them to shoot now Something that reflects contemporary young people?Don't talk nonsense, even if it is filmed, people will still criticize it as a green-painted work by an old cucumber. The Douban score can only average 6 points at most.

Then some people may ask, why can Spielberg and James Cameron make movies like "Ready Player One" and "Avatar" that can attract the attention of contemporary young people when they are 80 years old and the other is [-]? A piece of work that amazed you?

This is actually a problem that is reflected in the spiritual environment from the material environment. In reality, there are no earth-shaking changes in the United States 50 years ago and now, but our country is different. Sometimes the material world develops too rapidly. On the spiritual level, Before there is time to build, it is easy to create an ideological disconnect with the current developing society, which leads to a generation gap between people. The thoughts of the previous generation are reflected in film and television works. In this generation, The young man could smell a strong smell of decay in his heart.

This phenomenon is very common in the fields of film, television and literature. After all, people's vision is limited after all, and it is not fair to look at the past with the present eyes, but there is no doubt that every generation of filmmakers focuses on their present. The young people of this world will one day be called "old antiques" in the future, but at this moment, their works are the rising sun that shines on this era.

The version of "Cosmic Back Street North" that He Tianran has seen so far probably only filmed less than half of the script, with a duration of only 42 minutes. Many important scenes were not filmed, so the plot is really not coherent, but the entire film The unique temperament revealed and the warmth of the 22-year-old at the time really attracted all of He Tianran's attention.

He Tianran has seen too much of Wen Liang's intelligence. Although she has not changed much in appearance or personality in the past three years, Li Wang's camera shows that the girl has lost her former strength and is wearing a plain face. Running and searching in the sea of ​​people in the city, her eyes every moment revealed a kind of desolation and confusion after losing something she loved.

This is a state that He Tianran has never seen in Wen Liang...

"The person I'm looking for may not even know who I am, just like no one else knows his existence except me now, so from this aspect, we are equal, but I should be better than him , because there is such a person in my memory, it seems that my life has gained a little more weight..."

"The name of his band is "The Last Butterfly in the Universe". This name now reminds me of the story of Zhuang Zhou's Dream of Butterflies. Do you think I was just dreaming? Otherwise, everyone would die overnight. I don’t recognize him anymore, but I still remember him. If I wake up one day, he might reappear. When I think about it, the word "reality" suddenly becomes cute in my mind. .”

"My relationship with him? He studied astronomy. He used to describe his relationship with his fans this way during a concert. I think it is also very suitable to describe the two of us...

He said that there is a definition in astronomy called the Roche limit. Planets and satellites will continue to approach due to gravity, just like the earth and the moon, but there is a safe minimum distance between them. Once the Roche limit is exceeded, the tidal force will It will tear the satellite into pieces, and then the shattered and collapsed planet will turn into stardust, gradually gathering around the planet and evolving into a ring.

His context at that time was to keep fans distanced from him, but I think his original intention may be to want a hug until death...

Who knows, I guess. "

"..."

"..."

Listening to Wen Liang narrating her monologues and lines in a confused and slow tone in the film, He Tianran's spirit also fell into her journey of light and shadow of search. After 10 seconds of enjoying this incomplete film, For minutes, the man did not take the initiative to have any communication with Li Wang, and the other party did not provide any unnecessary explanations except briefly completing some plot points from time to time.

Film works, especially literary and artistic works, are to a large extent an art of "questioning". Not everything in this world has a standard answer, so when the creators create these works, they do not have a standard answer in their hearts. Must know exactly what they want to express...

But the works that can make people come up with a series of stories and have a long lasting aftertaste, so that they can keep asking their hearts for many years afterward. They are all wrapped up in a story that can be either plain or ups and downs, and it can make you feel A good question that touches your heart, and then you can ponder and think about it again and again for the rest of your life.

The film stopped abruptly in the middle of the plot. He Tianran was still proud of watching it, and at the same time he was full of questions. He asked Li Wang:

"Does the character 'Tianle' really exist? Or is the Ah Shui played by Wen Liang actually the 'Tianle'?"

This question is the biggest suspense of this film. In the film, the band lead singer Tianle, whom Wen Liang has been looking for, never really appears from the beginning to the end. This can't help but remind people of various films where the protagonist is looking for In the end, that person is his usual reversal trick. Anyway, it's the same with multiple personalities, amnesia, and timeline loops.

"Director He, do you think it is necessary for this person to exist?"

Li Wang did not answer directly, but asked rhetorically.

He Tianran thought:

"I can understand you saying that they are the same person. After all, Tianle is a projection of Ah Shui's ideal life, so she wants to get Tianle back so much and wants everyone to remember him again.

But compared to this kind of contrast and indistinctness, I still hope that there really is such a person, and that his disappearance really experienced some wonderful events, even if it is just as a background setting, even if it is just a few jokes in the end The nature of the lines is understated, allowing the audience to guess the truth and falsehood on their own, which is better than Ah Shui and Tian Le coming alone..."

He paused, thinking about his words, and then said:
"Let's be more 'warm'. After all, the existence of such a person is very important to Ah Shui."

Li Wang smiled and said:

"It seems, Director He, you are really a very soft-hearted person."

Regarding the other person's comment that he used the word "soft" to describe himself, He Tianran smiled and shook his head and joked:
"Yukio Mishima has a good saying. Although many young people are ignorant, they all know that only love described in art is true love, and their own love is just a poor imitation.

So you see, everyone in a generation of literature has expressed the cruelty of reality in this way. As an audience, I naturally want to see it. I want to see the ending. But after all, this is your story, and everything is decided by you. I am very I know what it feels like to be coerced by capital and the audience’s wishes, so I never embarrass artists. "

Li Wang was silent for a few seconds, and finally shrugged helplessly:

"There was this person in the design at the beginning, but as I was filming, I also fell into a kind of confusion. I felt that whether this character really existed did not seem to depend on me as the director."

"Why?" "Because Ah Shui... well, it can also be said to be because of Wen Liang... Director He, what do you think of her performance in this film?"

He Tianran turned his attention to the screen again, and he pulled the progress bar to find several important scenes again. There is no doubt that Wen Liang's performance in "Universe Street" is something he has never seen in his previous works. What I saw was that a fiery and young heart gradually became numb and cooled down through years of searching and growing, but that obsession drove her to keep searching. Wen Liang interpreted this state vividly. Let He Tianran say sincerely:

"To be honest, Director Li, I'm a little envious of your talent. Wen Liang's outstanding performance has never appeared in my camera. It seems that my directing ability has limited her talent. You let her When I judge her, it really makes me feel ashamed."

Li Wang quickly waved his hand:

"No, no, Director He is overly praised. This is not my fault. On the contrary, it is precisely because of Wen Liang's outstanding performance that it makes me distressed..."

"distressed?"

Thinking of the previous question and his feelings after watching the entire film, He Tianran, a fellow traveler, immediately understood what Li Wang meant.

"Are you trying to say that Wen Liang's performance in the film is beyond your control?"

Li Wang didn't show any embarrassment when his troubles were revealed. He nodded with a wry smile and said frankly:
"That's right. When I was on the set, I was filming slower and slower. At the worst point, I couldn't finish two scenes in a week. The reason was that I was also affected by Wenliang's performance, which prompted me to shoot every day. Ask yourself a question, what kind of person should this 'Tianle' be, so that he can be worthy of a girl like Ah Shui, who has been searching hard for three years...

I originally thought that since the script was already determined, this character and these events should be like this, but when I really saw Wen Liang enter the role of Ah Shui, from words to a living person, appearing in my camera At that moment, I truly realized the struggle of the characters and their own powerlessness and confusion when we discuss issues like 'the weight of fate'. "

When we want to discuss a question or tell a story, even if we don’t need to get an accurate answer, but your life experience is not enough to support such a spiritual core, then the final result will undoubtedly be "telling sorrow for new words" ".

The director's main responsibility and privilege is to tell stories, while the actor's responsibility and obligation is to accept the director's guidance and meet the requirements of the script while creating authentic and believable behaviors. Therefore, the better the actor, the higher the director's requirements will be. The higher, sometimes a wise actor will hold back until he is sure he can trust your taste, knowledge and intelligence.

If the director himself is a bad person and doesn't know what he wants, and the actor cannot get effective information from the director's feedback, then he will withdraw from the relationship of "actor obeys the director" and start self-observation, self-direction, and interpretation. Create some character scenes that were beyond the original imagination of the director.

This is undoubtedly a phenomenon that challenges the director's authority, but in terms of consequences, such "freedom of expression" also has good and bad effects. For example, some of Xing Ye's performances are completely typical of the characters overpowering the drama, so when When we watch Xingye's movies, we don't care at all who the director is, because as long as you give Xingye a scene and a character, you can see a genius performance.

But in most cases, such problems are completely disastrous. Wen Liang's performance in this drama is very good, but not good enough. She can support her role, but not enough to support the core of the entire drama. , and the occurrence of this situation made Li Wang, as a director, gradually fall behind in telling this story, which affected him to the point where he began to hesitate about the meaning of "searching" in the script.

When a director reflects on the script because of the vividness of a character, it means that there are actually many things in this story that he is not ready for.

But fortunately, these were all three years ago.

He Tianran joked and comforted:
"Now think about it, Director Li, it wasn't entirely a bad thing that you had to stop filming because of the financial breakdown. If you had been in your condition and finished filming the script, and the final film was released, the effect might not be as you expected. But now Well, how about it, are those problems still bothering you now? Or is it that Director Li's directing skills have improved to another level and he has figured out a solution? "

Li Wang touched his nose in embarrassment, "Why does Director He have so much confidence in me? Are you not afraid that I will never recover?"

"Didn't you just say, who in this world doesn't make mistakes? It's better to come earlier than to come too late, when it's irreversible. Now that you can appear in front of me, it means that you have figured out a lot of things."

He Tianran returned Li Wang's previous worries about Wen Liang to the other party. He raised his wine glass and before the other party recovered, he bumped it with the wine glass placed on the table and drank the last part of the glass alone. A little residual wine.

Seeing He Tianran's behavior, Li Wang smiled brightly.

Although this was the first time these two people communicated, He Tianran felt surprisingly close to Li Wang. Li Wang felt a kind of straightforward personality charm in each other.

Li Wang picked up his glass of wine. Looking at his expression, he didn't know what he was thinking, but then he suddenly smiled, imitated He Tianran's example, raised his head and drank the wine, and said:
"Having said that, about last year, I saw a video, and suddenly I had a specific image of the character 'Tianle' in my mind. If there is a chance for this film to be restarted, I really want to ask him to The person in the video came to help me play the role of 'Tianle'."

Perhaps because of the alcohol, although He Tianran's face was slightly drunk, his eyes were shining because of this topic.

"That's a good thing. Putting aside the plot of the drama itself, I'm really curious about what kind of person you can find, Director Li, to suppress Wen Liang's performance in this drama. What kind of video? Actor? Looking for a video of your audition? Does he have any past works?"

Li Wang shook his head, "I'm not a professional actor. I just found the video on a surfing line before and saved it."

After that, Li Wang took out his cell phone, rummaged for a while, and handed it to He Tianran.

The lights were already on outside the office window. The man took the phone and clicked on the video. In the picture, the crowded underground passage made the camera shake. Several guitar strings were heard, and the originally noisy human voices suddenly stopped. The camera of the mobile phone also turned around with the sound, and He Tianran's pupils suddenly shrank. Then, the song of a man who was not old but full of story came from the mobile phone...

How I want to hug you, in the time of mountains and rivers...

The sea of ​​people is the distance between you and me, it doesn't matter even if it's a little late...

The person who sings is himself...

And the picture on the phone is exactly the scene when Wen Liang took her to the University Town subway to attend the butterfly pop-up concert...

How I want to comfort you, in a story with no ending...

The dream will never stop. Are we all afraid of losing it?
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... (end of this chapter)