independent filmmaker

Seeing that Xie Lansheng was calm and breezy, Hua Guoguang was a little puzzled: "Where can I find extra performers?"

Xie Lansheng pinched his waist with one hand: "Go to the door and put up a notice, saying that a movie is being filmed here, and all the extras have run away. We are now recruiting temporarily, with food and drink included, and a reward, 10 yuan a day."

He originally wanted not to say that they were filming a movie at all, but just invited passers-by to "participate in the children's birthday party" and shoot the most authentic birthday party, but then he remembered the "portrait rights" often said in Europe and the United States, and felt that it was still Don't shoot first and then say it's better to cut first and then play.Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" once lost a lot of money to a passer-by after the film was released because he mistakenly photographed it.Xie Lan was afraid that some people would feel uncomfortable by the trick of filming first before giving money.

"But..." Hua Guoguang said, "A temporary recruit can't act?!"

"Well," Xie Lansheng lifted up the storyboard in his right hand, looked at it, closed the book with a flick of his hand, and threw it on the table beside him, "Let's not shoot according to the storyboard."

"...???"

"According to the current situation, it is impossible to shoot according to the storyboard. Let's use the most basic operations to finish the filming." Xie Lansheng believes that Qi Yong can take on this important task.

Hua Guoguang hesitated a bit: "Can this work?"

"Okay," Xie Lansheng said, "For a few important guests, let's let the crew play."

"This……"

"Okay, let's post it."

Hua Guoguang also had no choice but to nod: "Okay."

It didn't take long for Hua Guoguang to recruit 60 people to be ensemble performers.Xie Lansheng matched them with the characters that will appear in the film according to their gender, age, clothing temperament, etc., and gave them new identities, such as Li Fangfang's roommate, Li Fangfang's uncle, Li Fangfang's uncle, Cai Kuan's high school classmate... …Finally, 6 people were eliminated and Hua Guoguang continued to recruit.

After everything was finalized, Xie Lansheng asked half of them to go to the toilet to change their clothes.Participating in someone else's birthday party must not be too casual. Lan Sheng had already prepared costumes for the group performers of the Little Red and Green Gang, but looking at it now, some people dressed themselves more in line with this scene, and everyone has different styles The same seems more real.

After everyone was seated, the filming of the last scene of "Consummation" started.

For several key guests, Xie Lansheng let his own performers.Xiaohong, Xiaolu, Hua Guoguang, Jia Ting and others all wanted to go.

He transformed himself first before stepping onto the stage to describe his happiness, but he was exhausted physically and mentally, while "Li Fangfang" held the child in his arms and was once again in a daze.The parents on both sides beamed with joy and said, "I have made my wish in this lifetime!"

After drinking a cup of yellow soup, Caikuan and his wife took turns to toast.Li Fangfang is still breastfeeding, so she can take care of the whole family alone.Under the guidance of his parents, he turned around from table to table, and then his parents smiled and introduced one by one, and every guest said: "Your daughter-in-law is so beautiful!" "Your little grandson is so cute! "This day is what Caikuan's parents have longed to see the most for decades—their family is an enviable family in the eyes of everyone.

They actually vaguely feel that their son and daughter-in-law are not happy, but so what?Life is already so complete, they are just naive.

The parents of the two families kept laughing, and everyone's eyes were full of envy. Hua Guoguang's character pointed out the theme of the movie: "Cai Kuan, Fang Fang, you two are in Beijing, the husband and wife are loving, and the children are cute, it is too perfect Family!"

Lan Sheng found that the film effect was even better than before.

First of all, because the extras were recruited temporarily, Xie Lansheng didn't show the introduction, and they all really thought that the protagonist of the movie was perfect.

Secondly, in fact, Xie Lansheng does not understand the different characteristics of different people very well.

Now, at the free "birthday banquet", some people eat and drink desperately because of free food, and when they are full of wine and food and are about to leave, some people even mix the wine left over from several tables and carry it in their arms I plan to sneak it away and drink it later!Without Lan Sheng's signal, Qi Yong turned around and clapped his hands.

There are also some people who are obviously very high-quality and have a good temperament. They should come to watch the filming. Lan Sheng has assigned such people to a table to play classmates. At first glance, they are different from ordinary extras.

The filming was orderly, and soon the last scene of the whole film was carried out - at the end of the first year banquet, after boasting about the couple, everyone found that the child had a white hair, and burst into laughter: "You You're only one year old, you're old!" "What do you have to worry about!"

In this way, amidst the joyful laughter, the movie "Consummation" was officially completed.

Xie Lansheng expressed his gratitude to the "group performers" in the middle of the venue, and asked Hua Guoguang to give 10 yuan per person as a salary, and Hua Guoguang did as well.

Xie Lansheng originally thought that there would be nothing else to do next, and all the extras would leave after getting their salaries, so they retreated to the edge of the stage.Unexpectedly, Xie Lansheng saw a student walk over hesitantly after taking the money, and asked him: "Excuse me, are you the director?"

"...Well," Xie Lansheng said, "yes, I am the director."

After getting the answer, the boy said happily: "It's really interesting to make a movie! I won't spend this money! It will be a souvenir!"

Hearing this, Xie Lansheng was stunned.

The other party asked again: "Director, can you sign it? It's on this banknote! I want to keep it as a souvenir!"

It was the first time in the five years since filming that someone asked for an autograph. Xie Lansheng's chest felt hot, and he said emotionally, "Of course."

After finishing speaking, Xie Lansheng walked to the table covered with red cloth, bowed down, and wrote the words "Xie Lansheng, "Consummation"" stroke by stroke on the "souvenir".The other party obviously didn't know him, but he was still very happy.

When other people saw the boy get the director's autograph, they all rushed over with banknotes, and said to Lan Sheng, "Director, director, can you also sign here?"

Xie Lansheng responded one by one, lying on the table, unable to straighten his waist, and gave the extras one by one, with a smile on his lips.

These ordinary Chinese people are not doing it for money or fame. They just find the movie interesting, feel that the moment is precious, and want to leave a memory for a lifetime.

How great.

More and more people came to sign, and in the end, everyone who was a group performer didn't want to spend this salary anymore.

Lan Sheng signed dozens of copies, his fingers were a little sore, but he was happy.

As a director, he was respected by ordinary people in his own country for the first time.

…………

That night, before the breakup, the crew had a wrap-up dinner as usual, and Xie Lansheng invited everyone to the newly opened "Rodgers Restaurant", which was a bit more upscale than McDonald's and mainly served non-fried food.

While eating, Xie Lansheng talked about the work arrangement after finishing filming: "Tomorrow Xinye will go to ABCLAB in Australia to watch the post-production in person. It will take a week at the fastest to send the film from here. Xinye has a visa, so you can see it with your own eyes. Effect."

Little Red and Little Green: "Oh oh oh oh..."

The focus group who came back from the United States asked, "Why did you go to Australia to do it?"

Xie Lansheng smiled: "On the one hand, the effect is better. On the other hand, in China, if you don't have a shooting permit, you can't find a printing factory. My first film was to raise funds to go to Australia to do post-processing, editing, light distribution and other steps. All of them are only enough to do it once. Others, some people, such as Sun Fengmao, asked a film factory that no longer developed to use an old machine to develop it. The printing factory uses the leftover potion to print, such as Zhang Kai. Now we are not too poor, and we try our best to do it outside. I sold a few copyrights, and Feng Mao and Zhang Kai were also taken abroad after winning the award. Fengmao received funding from the French Southern Fund and the Rotterdam Fund in the Netherlands, and Zhang Kai received investment from the studio of Japanese director xxx."

"I see," everyone was very interested, and then asked like Xie Lansheng's former companions, "Director Xie, why did you resign from the studio in the first place?"

"Me?" Xie Lansheng took another sip of wine, "It's still because I can't make the film, Xiaoxiang Factory asked me to wait for five years. The others are almost the same. Zhang Kai resigned after receiving the first month's salary, because," thought Xie Lansheng laughed again, "Zhang Kai was the last one on the Shanghai Film Studio's payroll. He counted and found that there were 70 directors in front of him, and the factory standard is three or four a year."

"Hahahaha!"

Xie Lansheng was a little sad: "Even if the situation of young directors is better than before, almost no one can really become a director. Private companies have opportunities and provide competition, but there are only so many factory labels, and the big directors are still monopolizing. The difference That is, the director stopped filming in the studio, and was loaned out by the studio to shoot in a private company.” Now, private companies with an investment of more than 70% can buy bids—buy bids from studios, but the number of films Still limited, China still believes that culture is not an industry, nor can it be an industry.

Several people who graduated from the director sighed softly when they heard this.

"Okay," Xie Lansheng poured another glass, "I chose a different path, and now, some people also choose this path. But," Xie Lansheng became excited again, "In the past, the movies we made were foreign People can see that now, if they can be spotted by pirate disc dealers, "you can come to China!" "

"..." The focus person who came back from the United States said, "It's so sad to count on piracy."

"It's nothing." Xie Lansheng already felt that this was a great happiness, and said, "It would be great if it could be stolen...it can be spread in China. Meeting people on the big screen...it's too far away, I dare not Think." In Xie Lansheng's eyes, this is almost the only way out for young directors.Participating in European and American film festivals, if they can sell some of their international copyrights like myself, they can be screened on a small scale. If not, film festivals are the only chance for their films to appear.Now, he is personally happy if pirated VCDs can become a new channel.

He hastened his troops and sharpened his knives, just to be stolen.

After saying this, Yu Qianzi, Hua Guoguang and others all sighed, and said: "Your level is so high, and your photography is so good, but you can't be known by everyone."

"Oh, thank you, I dare not take it anymore." Xie Lansheng's eyes brightened, "In short, the goal of this "Consummation" is to be stolen by pirates, so that Chinese people can also have the opportunity to watch it."

Xin Ye turned to look at him, feeling startled: Xie Lansheng has experienced all the ups and downs in the world brought to him by "movies" in these years, but he still has the heart of a child.

"Well," Little Red and Little Green raised their wine glasses, "Then I wish Dao Xie his wish come true!"

Xie Lansheng liked to hear this, so he drank the wine with a jerk.

Then, Yu Qianzi also said: "I wish Dao Xie your wish come true!"

Xie Lansheng said thank you again, and also raised his neck and drank the wine.

Everyone made a big circle of respect, and after drinking, Xie Lansheng's face was completely red, even his neck was red, his eyes were full of alcohol, he clenched his hands in circles and coughed a few times before his mouth, saying: " Enough is enough, don't drink, don't drink."

Yu Qianzi said, "You really drank a lot."

Finally, around ten o'clock, Yu Qianzi took out his camera to take a group photo for the whole crew.Qi Yong does not take pictures, he only takes pictures, because Qi Yong said that the composition of photography and the composition of photography are completely different, and they are two different things. He does not want to touch the camera, for fear that the composition of the camera will affect his profession.Xie Lansheng also once again felt that he was very lucky to have Qi Yong-although this guy loves money, he is unambiguous about his profession.

…………

When they came out again, a few people left the group, and the rest went back to the hotel.

Xie Lansheng got drunk in the Mercedes-Benz, drunk.The light of the street lamp flew past his eyes moment by moment, and gradually, he fell asleep leaning against the car window.

Then, perhaps because he was so drunk, when Xie Lansheng opened his eyes again, he found that the car had stopped, and he was being held in both arms by Xin Yingdi, walking towards the hotel.

Inexplicably, Xie Lansheng was in a trance.

He went back to four years ago, because there was no letter of introduction, he coughed up blood with the old village chief, and Xin Ye hugged him like this.That night the moon was big and bright, and the moonlight was clear and white. He said to Xin Ye: "ILoveYou, the translation is 'the moonlight is so beautiful tonight'."

Xin Ye's hands hugged his knees, like a hot iron, boiling all the blood in Xie Lansheng's body.

My mind is even more dizzy.

Maybe because his nerves were numb, he didn't bother to move or speak, so he was taken to the door of the room in Xinye's arms.He even took the initiative to take out the key and asked Xin Ye to open the door of the room under his knees.

The entrance was a bit narrow, and Xin Ye saw that Xie Lansheng was still lazy, he smiled and walked sideways, and only put Xie Lansheng on it when he reached the big bed, removed his shoes and socks for him, and went to the bathroom to take them out again. I took out the toothbrush, washbasin and towel for the toothbrush, let the drunk first brush the tooth, and then wash the face.

Xie Lansheng really didn't want to move. After obediently asking someone to wipe his face, he opened his eyes and looked at the other person, only to find that his face was really charming.

I seem to... like it a little bit.

What do you like?

Do you like the other party's modern and western style, like the other party's knowledgeable knowledge?Like the other side hit the nail on the head?Do you like the other party to be chic and uninhibited, and like the other party to be unrestrained?Do you like the other person to understand yourself?Like his deep affection, like his frankness?

Not good.

Under the anesthesia of alcohol, all the most complex things disappeared, leaving only the simplest idea in the brain.

It just seems to like it a little bit.

Xinye stood on the ground with one leg and kneeled on the bed with the other. Just after wiping his face, Xie Lansheng watched silently between the other's knees.

Quite suddenly, he remembered a past event. After a while, he stretched out his hand to hold Xin Ye's cheek, looked carefully at the corner of the other's mouth, and said, "Xin Ye, smile."

"……Um?"

Xie Lansheng said stubbornly again: "Smile."

Xinye really laughed lightly.

Xie Lansheng kept staring at the corners of the other party's mouth, and when he finished laughing, he said disappointedly: "No."

"Nothing?"

"It's just not." Xie Lansheng said to himself inexplicably aggrieved. He poked the corner of Xinye's mouth, then looked, poked again, suddenly raised his head and glanced at both sides, and finally put him on The ink pad from the contract signed on the bedside table was taken, opened, dipped in it with the index finger, and dotted on the skin on both sides of Xinye's mouth, dizzy again, and dyed.

"...What are you doing?" Xinye frowned, "You're so drunk after finishing a job."

Xie Lansheng still stared at Xinye's handsome face, and smiled: "Okay, this time it looks like half of it, it's not completely different, I can accept it."

"What the hell are you going crazy about..."

Lan Sheng's hand slowly moved to the back of the opponent's neck, crossed his fingers, and then suddenly exerted force with his hands, turning over and lying on his side, and Xinye above him naturally lay down as well.

Xin Ye said, "What are you doing..."

Lan Sheng continued to play with Xin Ye on his own, let him lie on his back on the bed, leaned over again, still on his side, resting on Xin Ye's arm, as if he was in the other's arms, and said: "Xin Ye, sleep Bar."

Xin Ye: "..."

He froze for seven or eight seconds, adjusted Xie Lansheng's sleeping position in his arms, let Xie Lansheng's head rest on his own shoulder socket, and let Xie Lansheng's hand cross his abdominal muscles and waist, so that The two cuddled tightly together like lovers, slowly closed their eyes, breathing heavily in the middle of the night.

He said sleep, then sleep.

Xinye didn't know why Xie Lansheng painted on his cheeks twice, but Xie Lansheng knew it very well.

At the age of 18, everyone fantasized about what their lover would be like. At that time, Lan Sheng thought about it for a long time, and told a meeting that he thought was very beautiful at that time. Dimple is deeply in love with a girl."

For a long time, the literary and romantic Xie Lansheng stubbornly believed that he would fall in love with a girl deeply because of a pair of dimples.

But in the drunkenness just now, he realized that it was impossible.

There is nothing like love at first sight.

He also remembered when his grandma told him stories when he was young, and he always asked, "What happened later?" But one time, his grandma said, "Afterwards, I don't know. The world is unpredictable."

Grandma was right.

He's sorry for the dimple girl.

He is in love with a man.

The author has something to say: PS: You cannot write on RMB!It was just ignored in those days!

Hey, the director looked vigorous and resolute, but he was quite good at acting like a baby behind his back.