Fringe artists in the entertainment industry

Chapter 401 399. The whine of the train

After the performance, the actors of the art troupe all returned to the troupe's bus, and the captain was calling their names one by one.

When I called Cui Mingliang, no one answered. Cui Mingliang was the last to get on the bus, wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket.

Naturally, he would be scolded by the captain for being late, but Cui Mingliang was not afraid either.

The captain smoked a cigarette and looked at Cui Mingliang's thorny head, and said unhappily: "Do you have any organizational discipline? With so many people waiting for you, is there a bit of collectivism?"

Cui Mingliang looked at him and said, "Don't blame me. Why are you late? I didn't delay the performance."

"I didn't delay the performance. How good do you think you performed?"

Cui Mingliang said unconvinced: "I will act the same way you do."

"What are you acting? Is the train calling you a train?"

"I've never been on a train. I know how the train is called." Cui Mingliang said as he got on the bus and sat on his seat, not paying any attention to the captain's accusation.

The captain threw away the cigarette butt impatiently and said: "You have never taken a train or eaten pork and you have never seen a pig running."

Cui Mingliang put his hands into his sleeves and said unconvinced: "I've seen pigs snort."

Everyone in the car suddenly laughed. The captain said a few more words before letting him drive. The car started and the lights in the car went out.

The car was moving forward slowly, but the young actors in the car were all having fun imitating the sound of the train whistle in the movie, and their songs floated through the darkness into the distance.

More than ten minutes later, Chen Li'an stood on the roadside and stamped his feet. It was really cold this winter, and his breath turned into mist.

Jia Zhangke looked at Chen Li'an who was smoking and said, "Go back and soak your feet later. It's not as warm as the capital today."

Chen Li'an shivered and threw away the cigarette butt, looked at Jia Zhangke and said: "Your movie has too many metaphors. I won't talk about the characteristics of the times in the lines. Just now, you turned off the lights and sang. Who drives a car in the middle of the night and turns off the car?" Lamp, you're afraid that people won't hit you, right?"

Jia Zhangke was speechless and hesitated for a long time before saying, "I can't be too direct."

Chen Li'an patted him on the shoulder and said, "Just kidding, you are the director, movies need artistic processing."

After Chen Li'an finished speaking, he shivered and got on the bus. He put his hands in his sleeves and never took them out. He didn't feel warm until he returned to the hotel in the county town.

The conditions of the small hotel were indeed poor. Chen Li'an was on the phone while soaking his feet.

Listening to the girl on the other end of the phone calling daddy, my heart suddenly felt much warmer. We have three small cotton-padded jackets, so we are not afraid of the cold at all.

Early the next morning, Chen Li'an went back to filming as usual. No matter how many lines in the play contained words from the past, Chen Li'an still spoke with enthusiasm.

Isn't that what happened in 1979? Those people said they were used to it, and most people actually didn't understand what the words they said meant. Anyway, people who talked about things always liked to say those words.

Authority, Cui Mingliang always likes to say it when I teach Cui Mingliang a lesson, and Cui Mingliang also learns to say it back.

In the warm room, Cui Mingliang was wearing cotton trousers and drinking tea, urging his mother to make the trousers faster. His mother said a few words and then went to listen to the chat between his father and his brother.

After a while, her mother came out with two pairs of pants. Cui Mingliang and his brother each had one pair. They were the most fashionable bell-bottom pants.

The younger brother took the pants and put them on easily, but Cui Mingliang's pants were too small and it was very difficult to put them on.

Finally I put it on and it was tight.

The snow in Fenyang was very heavy, and the snow on the ground was still very thick. Cui Mingliang stood in the snow in the yard and his father said a few words, and then went to the county cinema.

The street around the cinema is also dilapidated, with songs still playing on the radio, and vaguely visible slogans on the walls beside the square.

Cui Mingliang came with his good friend Zhang Jun, and Yin Ruijuan and Zhong Ping were waiting.

Zhong Ping was Zhang Jun's partner and the first one among their group to wear bell-bottom pants. Zhong Ping looked at Cui Mingliang's ill-fitting pants and asked curiously.

Zhang Jun took the initiative and said that the bell-bottom pants were the same as his own. Cui Mingliang also smiled and said that he was learning from the advanced ones.

The young people joked for a while, but Yin Ruijuan said she didn't have any movie tickets and asked Cui Mingliang to buy them.

Cui Mingliang liked Yin Ruijuan and left with a smile.

The foreign movie "Vagabond" was shown in the cinema. In the dark cinema, the screen was very bright.

Chen Li'an tugged on his bell-bottom pants, looked at Jia Zhangke while smoking, and asked, "Did you really watch this movie when you were a kid? Or did you just find it randomly?"

"I've seen it. This is the film I found at the Cultural Affairs Bureau." Jia Zhangke said.

In the dark, Chen Li'an was smoking a cigarette and watching the big screen. He felt that Jia Zhangke was serious about the film. From the scenes to the props and even every line, they were carefully researched.

In the later scenes, Cui Mingliang and Yin Ruijuan were arrested because they didn't buy tickets. The two of them walked in the snow and came to the cave dwelling to talk about each other's concerns.

Yin Ruijuan was arranged by her father to go on a blind date with a college student or a dentist.

Cui Mingliang paced back and forth while smoking a cigarette, sniffing and repeating: "College students are good, dentists are good."

The art troupe seems to be good, but Yin Ruijuan's policeman father looks down on it and thinks Cui Mingliang is just a street gangster.

This relationship seems to have been suddenly put on a comma.

After filming this scene, the crew stopped. Jia Zhangke had to wait for the snow to melt before filming the rest. According to his plan, filming would last until April.

Chen Li'an is also quite helpless. If the director is more serious, he can only wait.

Chen Li'an was not idle when the crew was taking a break. He rode a 28-bar bicycle and strolled around Fenyang.

After the walk, I went back to the hotel to chat about movies with Jia Zhangke and the others and have some drinks. There are many snacks in Fenyang, and Chen Li'an tasted them all during this time.

It doesn't look like I'm here for filming, but like I'm here to experience life. I feel so relaxed.

Many people in the crew were quite curious about Chen Li'an's behavior, so Zhao Tao came over and asked him why he was wandering around.

Chen Li'an was sitting on his bicycle at the time, looking at Zhao Tao and saying only one sentence, and then he rode his bicycle to eat sesame paste cold skin in the next street.

"It's almost the 21st century. There are still many Cui Mingliang here, waiting for the train to the outside world. I don't know when their platform will be opened."

Zhao Tao looked at Chen Li'an's back and felt quite sympathetic to what he said. He was playing a young man from twenty years ago, but wouldn't there still be these people twenty years later?

The times are developing very fast, but also very slowly. It is so slow that some people have spent half their lives without waiting for their train.

It is not easy for those who can get out, and they are not willing to come back, and they will be out of place when they come back.

After the snow melted, the crew resumed filming as normal.

The weather has warmed up, and many things have changed. Zhang Jun went to Shencheng to visit his aunt and came back, bringing back many fashionable gadgets.

Toad mirror and big radio.

A group of young people listened to songs and danced like people in big cities in a dilapidated house.

Cui Mingliang couldn't dance. He closed his eyes and twisted his body awkwardly, as if he was boxing, and moved his hands back and forth.

No one would say that his dance is not good-looking. Everyone's dance is not good-looking. No one knows how to dance this dance.

Just like Cui Mingliang said that he has never taken a train and cannot call a train.

When Chen Li'an was filming this scene, he always thought of himself. He also followed fashion, had long hair and sang rock music, but he actually didn't know what these fashionable things were.

Chen Li'an didn't know what rock and roll was at that time, and Cui Mingliang didn't know what break dancing was either.

No matter what he is!

They are just pursuing the outside world, just like a frog standing at the bottom of a well who sees someone dancing at the mouth of the well and jumps a few times. It doesn’t matter what they are dancing.

It's just that when I'm jumping around, I feel that I'm in line with the times and that I'm closer to the outside world.

The entire first half of the movie follows this tone. The love-hate entanglement and trivial matters of the four young people reveal the sadness of the impact of the times.

The establishment of the cultural troupe was cancelled, and was contracted by private parties.

Yin Ruijuan gave up her dream and joined the tax bureau. She wore her uniform and rode through the streets every day.

Zhang Jun made Zhong Ping pregnant. After seeing the colorful world outside, he felt that he did not belong here. He did not want to get married, so he took Zhong Ping and aborted the child.

The art troupe had no subsidy and had to go out to make money. Cui Mingliang was very excited and did not leave the art troupe. He wanted to continue to be a literary and artistic worker, pursue his dreams, and see the outside world.

However, the first stop of the cultural troupe was the countryside, and the second stop was the coal mine. They did not go to the big city. Cui Mingliang was extremely disappointed.

But on the way, Cui Mingliang saw the railway. He jumped out of the car excitedly and ran towards the railway. The young people in the regiment also ran towards it.

However, they still failed to catch up with the passing train. They only saw the back of the train, a dark coal truck pulling towards the big city outside.

Cui Mingliang stood by the railway track and watched the train leave. He just stood and watched it drive away.

After filming these scenes, Chen Li'an was silent for a long time. He understood Jia Zhangke's feelings for his hometown.

The torrent of development of the times passes by the young people here just like this train. The only thing that can leave is the coal mine that the development of the times requires.

Chen Li'an stood on the hillside and smoked for a long time. He caught up with the dividends of the times, but many people failed to catch up.

There is also a lot of invisible sorrow behind the bonus. No matter how much the sixth generation directors are scolded, it is they who have allowed more people to see these traumas.

No matter what Chen Li'an thinks, the movie still has to be filmed.

Art troupes, a product that has been eliminated by the times, quickly lost their market. No one asked them to perform. Even if they performed on the roadside, no one stopped to take a second look.

After Cui Mingliang returned to Fenyang, he seemed to have recognized the reality and no longer looked forward to his own platform.

When he and Yin Ruijuan met, they both knew what they should do. They got married and had children.

The last scene of the movie is in Cui Mingliang's home. He lies on the chair and falls asleep. Yin Ruijuan holds the child in her arms and stands in front of the kettle to play with the child.

The boiling kettle whines like a train whistle, but no one will be excited about it.

Cui Mingliang lay on the chair and fell asleep tiredly, while Yin Ruijuan only had children in her eyes.

Their platform did not appear in the end, and the train that allowed them to board did not appear in the end.

After filming all the scenes, Chen Li'an and Jia Zhangke drank all night.

In the end, under the paralysis of alcohol, I forgot all this and left Fenyang with a million bucks in my car.

Chen Li'an has his own platform and his own train. There are many people on the train. He will not stop in one place.

Even if the scenery outside the car window is shocking, the final destination will be dazzling.

The train in Fenyang will appear in twelve years, and the young people here will get on the train and listen to the whistle of the train heading towards their future.

(I have been too busy at work recently, and my condition is not good. My life is in a mess. My writing may not be very good. I will write well in the future. I will live up to everyone’s support!)