I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 645 643. Separation and turning the tide

Now, Xu Xin feels more or less like a daughter-in-law.

If before this sentence, he looked at the movie... it was a bit like looking at a fresh pile of cow shit.

So after this sentence, when he was watching this movie, it felt a bit like... someone was feeding cow shit to his mouth.

This is definitely not a joke or a joke.

Lens language has a very clear level of expression.

If two people are having a conversation, and you are going back and forth with each other, then even if the two curse at each other and say the antonym of Hui Gen in front of the audience, the audience does not need to be angry.

Because this is the conflict between the characters in the play.

Not the person but the matter.

But what was that shot of Uncle Ge just now?

Originally, when the feet were pressed, he and the girl were lying on the sofa together and having a conversation.

This is a kind of language to describe the scene. No matter what the two people talk about, it is a matter between them and has nothing to do with the audience.

Whether the audience likes it or not is up to the audience. The lines of the characters in the play are designed this way.

But... when Uncle Ge said the sentence "he is poor", he had a very obvious picture of staring at the camera.

Those words were said to the camera.

Although the design of this segment is that two people are hosting the show, this little trick of nesting is purely for the fourth wall.

Uncle Ge clearly told everyone by staring at the camera:

"This is what I say to you."

It’s not the flight attendants in the picture who can still laugh out loud after hearing this, nor is it the so-called fictitious “audience”.

With his gaze, he told people outside the fourth wall who saw this movie:

"Poor people hate those who have been poor. What they want to do most when they turn over is to boss people around even harder."

This is not an over-interpretation.

Let’s take the simplest example.

Uncle Ge once filmed an advertisement for China Travel Card.

This is the source of the slogan “Travel to China, I think it works”.

Uncle Ge spoke to the camera throughout the whole process.

So the question is, who is he talking to?

director? Lens? Or an actor?

Or is it the viewers who watched this ad?

Although Feng Xiaogang played a camera nest here to express that the stewardess was watching this show.

But……

Everyone is not stupid.

Who are these words, full of superiority and contempt, talking about?

Aren't we talking about these "stewardesses" who watch this fictional program?

People are hurting you, looking down on you, and despising you from the bottom of their hearts.

However, it can also make you laugh out loud.

Using a condescending attitude that belongs to a cultured person, he insults these common people who don't understand anything.

And then you can’t hear it and still make you laugh...

This is why after hearing this line from Uncle Ge, Yang Mi said the words "Wang Shuo is dead".

The talented writer who denounced elitism now lives like them.

"well……"

Suddenly, he sighed.

Watching Director Feng continue to speak clever lines on the screen:

"Because baby penguins live in Antarctica."

"Hahaha~"

There were bursts of laughter in the theater.

Xu Xin didn't laugh.

Even if this is very authentic Feng's humor.

He was just thinking about one thing...or had a plan.

That is... After returning home, he wanted to watch Director Feng's movies again, from his debut period to "Tangshan Earthquake".

The reason is for no other reason than to explore, learn from, and think about.

Among Director Feng's movies, his favorite is "Party A and Party B".

Firstly, it was because the plot of "A Day Trip to Sweet Dreams" was so classic and one of the funniest humors he had ever encountered in his childhood.

Secondly, it’s because the play contains descriptions of northern Shaanxi. When I was a child, I watched it and felt that it was my hometown and it was very friendly.

Although everyone is about to start a fight now, to be honest, he boasts that he has no hatred against anyone in the Beijing circle.

They have not tricked themselves, nor have they harmed them.

The reason why everyone has conflicts is because they are in the same world.

People in the arena involuntarily.

Everyone depends on their ability.

But... as a colleague, he doesn't believe that a director is born to look at everyone in the world from the perspective of elitism under such exquisite packaging.

And... he seems to be a poor boy?

It shouldn't be like this.

Therefore, he wanted to watch it from beginning to end, and through the movie, he could understand what kind of change in Director Feng's mentality had taken place, leading to his current attitude towards things.

Look, understand, find opportunities, sort them out, and remind yourself.

He was quite scared.

I am afraid that I will live like Director Feng before I know it.

Under the mediocre white dream of extreme self-consciousness, what is gone without knowing it will never return.

Therefore, even if this movie brought a spoonful of cow shit to him, he still continued to endure it and wanted to finish it.

Because he has become interested in Feng Xiaogang's transformation.

but……

After the auction, the film's style suddenly took a turn.

Li Xiangshan spent 500,000 yuan on a bottle of wine at the auction, took it to a western restaurant to drink with Qin Fen, and when he took off his socks to reveal the melanoma...

Suddenly, the pace of the film is different.

The color of love begins to fade.

A feeling of "having a happy life and a happy death" came to my face with a somewhat magnanimous and open-minded feeling.

Xu Xin was stunned when he saw it.

Qin Fen began to prepare a farewell party for Xiangshan.

The middle clip is a very smooth and progressive plot, including at the preparatory meeting, Qin Fen used his usual humor to make a death farewell ceremony, and the atmosphere was so relaxed.

But Xu Xin's brows were always furrowed.

because……

Split.

The rhythm of the film is... fragmented.

The first half is a plot of an old donkey eating young grass, and the young grass is pretentious.

Taking a deeper look, it is actually two views on marriage...or to put it more broadly, the differences between two people, two generations, and two genders seek to collide.

But after Li Xiangshan became terminally ill, the film changed from a discussion of this view of marriage to a view of major life events such as "a happy life and a happy death."

To be honest, these two views are both wonderful when taken alone.

If he had filmed this, it would have been two complete movies.

The roles played by Qin Fen and Shu Qi are one part, and Li Xiangshan's "short" life is another part.

He has full confidence in making both films well.

But if you put the two perspectives together...

In Xu Xin's view, there are only two outcomes.

Either it is extremely bloated, or it is irreparably fragmented.

If an inexperienced director tries his best to cram his own ideas into the movie, it will be bloated.

Director Feng is obviously the latter.

He... overestimated his level.

In other words, confidence in oneself is too strong.

Let him feel that he can handle this film.

But in fact……

At least among professionals, it's fragmented.

Although Xu Xin could probably guess later that it might be Li Xiangshan's death that sublimated Qin Fen and Shu Qi.

But... the flavor of forcing one's sorrows to compose new words will become stronger.

Love and marriage have never been related to life and death.

True beauty is not, should not, and "preferably not" be based on death.

The best thing would be for the two of them to live a happy and disease-free life.

Director Feng, this is too far-fetched.

He was thinking, and in the picture, Li Xiangshan's final "confession" to everyone who came to attend the farewell party today began.

At first, Xu Xin didn't listen much, just thinking about why he chose such a fragmented shooting rhythm.

Is it the flaw of the story? Or do you want too many things and finally find that you cannot give a satisfactory result?

But immediately he heard Li Xiangshan’s lines:

“Anyway, I can’t complain about life anymore.

I deserve it.

Even if I don’t deserve it, I’ll get it too.

To put it into detail, none of those here today can be considered as fucked up.

The most unreliable one is not unreliable at all..."

In the picture, relatives and friends who came to attend the farewell party burst into laughter.

But Xu Xin began to listen to the lines attentively.

This line is...interesting.

Yang Mi's expression was more direct.

After hearing these words, her body suddenly sat upright.

She doesn’t know whether her husband understands or not.

But she was so familiar.

This kind of humor between the lines...

It’s so Lao She’s style.

But Lao She didn't like swearing.

So far, among the books that Yang Mi has read, he is the only one who can use Lao She's tone, mixed with his own swear words, and yet be able to construct a kind of fucked-up language that is both humorous and alley-style, and yet makes people applaud. , and only Wang Shuo.

This line is definitely written by Wang Shuo himself.

and……

She also suddenly felt the rhythm of the film change when Li Xiangshan revealed his melanoma.

“Being loved again and again.

He also loved others many times.

In the end, I still have to say that I don’t know how to value it.

We have failed to live up to a lot of kindness and good intentions.

There are those who have been offended,

Someone who secretly has a grudge against me.

I am here,

He also paid for it with death..."

"Living is a kind of practice,

I am very ashamed to report to you that Li Xiangshan has not achieved anything good through his cultivation in this life.

He's too busy.

Busy making money, busy drinking, busy having emotional crises.

I have been busy with my own practice. "

"Are you afraid of death? Xiangshan. Hokkaido farmers greet you."

"Afraid. It's like walking at night, like knocking on a dark door. You don't know whether there is a colorful world or an abyss behind the door..."

Hearing this, Xu Xin couldn't help but sigh:

"well……"

So, wouldn’t it be good to split it into two themes?

This line is used to make the final summary and ending, to record Li Xiangshan... It is just like what was said in the poster behind:

"I've loved it, I've been depressed, I've lived it, I've been familiar with it."

Not good?

Are you unaware that this script is fragmented?

Or is it that we are being pushed forward step by step by the capital power behind us, with no way to look back?

Or...

In the end, your old man's ability can only go so far?

Or maybe...

You have initially realized that your path has gone astray...have the idea of ​​​​turning back and transforming but have no way to start?

Suddenly, Xu Xin discovered...

It’s really worth watching this movie today.

Because he understood a lot about Director Feng from the side.

And these things reminded him all the time of the importance of what the old man said to him in the past, which made him deeply rooted in the soil.

at the same time……

It's like a...signal.

Or weigh it.

Originally, although he told Qi Lei his guess, he was afraid that the people in the Beijing Circle would drag the Northwest Circle down and die without a fight in the endless arms race.

But……

Now he suddenly discovered something.

That is... from a movie perspective, Beijing Circle... is not insurmountable.

Because he saw Feng Xiaogang's upper limit.

His upper limit...has reached this point.

And myself...

Although he didn't dare to be particularly confident, he still felt that he should be able to go further than the other party...

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

Um.

That's right.

…

"According to insiders, Qin Fen and Xiaoxiao officially got married in 2030. That year, Mr. Qin was already 70 years old. Many strange things happened during this period, which we will describe later."

The movie ends.

The ending song begins.

The lights come on.

Yang Mi pulled on her mask.

finish watching.

She was not in a hurry to leave, but looked at Xu Xin immediately:

"how do you feel?"

"...how do you feel?"

Xu Xin asked back.

The mood is peaceful.

At this time, Yang Mi no longer had any intention of nauseating.

Without even noticing that the couple next to her were eavesdropping, she expressed her truest thoughts.

"My feeling is that Director Feng spent 1 hour and 20 minutes to output to me a test paper on marriage and love values ​​that in my opinion is completely off-topic. Some parts of this test paper are ridiculously wrong. Some parts were barely adequate. And these questions were added together, and I got a total of 30 points."

"100-point system?"

"Well, 100 points."

Yang Mi nodded firmly.

Xu Xin thought for a while and seemed to have no objection, so he just continued to ask:

"Then what? The last 40 minutes are full of Wang Shuo's flavor of life and death. How many points would you give?"

"I give full marks to this 40-point essay. I thought Wang Shuo was dead, but he didn't. He is still the best writer in my heart. So, I give full marks!"

There was no other emotion in Yang Mi's eyes.

Just two kinds.

Rejoice and joy.

Fortunately Wang Shuo did not die.

Glad Wang Shuo is still alive.

After hearing this, Xu Xin stood up, motioned to his wife to go out, and said:

"That means the total score is 70 points?"

"Yes. The first half was a mess, but my essay was well written and turned the tide. What about you? What score would you give?"

"Well……"

Xu Xin thought for a while and said:

"I have no objection to your score, but in the overall evaluation, I may deduct 5 points for the reason that the writing is not neat."

"65?"

"Um."

"……Why?"

"Because, from the director's point of view, its rhythm is fragmented. The first part is the collision of marriage and values, and the director's overly clear... It can even be said to be the output of personal opinions mixed with private goods. The second half is an abrupt turn. The feeling of separation is too serious, so I deducted 5 points. But I agree with your point of view. In the end, it was Wang Shuo who turned the tide. Li Xiangshan's monologue sublimated the movie. It made Qin Fen watch for more than an hour. Efforts turned into futility... Of course, I'm not talking about acting. I'm talking about artistry."

The two of them were walking in the passage leading to the exit of the theater.

Walking slowly and leisurely.

The voices of the discussion were not hidden, they were just chatting in a normal tone of voice.

After Yang Mi walked, she instinctively turned her head...

I met a couple's eyes.

The boy and girl had been staring at her, but when they saw her suddenly turning back, they quickly looked away.

"...?"

Yang Mi glanced at the two of them and didn't care.

Just after making sure there was someone around, he stopped talking.

Holding Xu Xin’s hand, she said:

"Let's go home, I'm tired."

"good."

Xu Xin nodded.

…

"What a pity...I was still thinking about getting a group photo."

Looking at the departing figures of Yang Mi and Xu Xin in front of her, the girl said with some regret.

But the conversation immediately changed and he said again:

"But they seem to be a perfect match...did you hear what they said?"

"Um."

The boy nodded, recalled something, and said:

"I think it makes sense. This movie made people feel really uncomfortable when watching it from the beginning. What did Xu Xin mean by that word?"

"Split?"

"No, just describe the second half..."

"...It's a joy to live and die."

"Yes, yes, this is the first time I heard this word."

"I think what he described is quite right. And like Yang Mi, I particularly don't like that sentence about how poor people will bully the poor even more after they turn around. It's so annoying..."

"Me too, it sounds uncomfortable."

"Um……"

The girl responded and then said:

"Let's go? Let's go eat, I'm already hungry... Hehe, today's experience is so amazing, I'll post it on Weibo!"

As she spoke, she took out her phone.

The boy didn't care either.

The girl lowered her head and wrote cracklingly:

"I met Yang Mi and Xu Xin by chance in the cinema! What a surprise! They actually came to see "If You Are the One"! But from her and Xu Xin's comments, the movie was average. Feng Xiaogang is not as good as Wang Shuo, well, I I think it’s right too!”

send.

success.

After posting on Weibo, she held her boyfriend's hand and went to eat happily.

…

Early morning on the 23rd.

Xu Xin yawned lazily and glanced at the time.

0:27.

"Are you out?"

The sleepy Yang Mi asked.

"without……"

Before Xu Xin finished speaking, suddenly, a text message was sent to his cell phone.

Yang Mi opened her eyes instantly and got into his arms:

"how is it going?"

Then she saw the content of the text message.

The text message was sent by Qi Lei.

The content is very simple.

""Hawthorn Love", first-day box office: 30.31 million."

"Ah! Thirty million!? Is it as good as "Let the Bullets Fly"?"

Yang Mi's eyes widened in surprise.

But before he finished speaking, there was another "ding" sound.

"If You Are the One 2, first-day box office: 33.75 million."

"..."

The original excitement came to an abrupt end like a duck being grabbed by the neck.

Lost...lost?

Just as she was about to say something, her husband replied quickly:

"Okay, I got it. Let's talk tomorrow if I have anything to do. Brother Qi, good night."

After sending it, he threw the phone aside.

"Go to sleep?"

"Well……"

Looking at Xu Xin with a calm face, Yang Mi was stunned for a moment, then nodded:

"good."

So, turn off the lights and go to sleep.

in the dark……

"Lost three million?"

After hearing his wife's words, Xu Xin naturally held his milky-smelling son in his arms, smelled the baby's smell, and responded:

"Um."

"...Are you okay?"

she asked again.

Xu Xin chuckled:

"ha."

No answer.

A literary and artistic film, it lost out to a commercial film with a box office of three million, which was promoted by several big-name celebrities and half of the entertainment industry.

Did you lose?

He doesn't think so.

not to mention……

This is just the beginning.

In fact, the content of these two chapters is the fundamental reason why I got stuck yesterday.

I have been thinking about whether the way I designed the plot is considered to be containing personal goods. Because I believe there must be people who like to watch "Fei 2".

And to tell you the truth, I also enjoyed watching it back then.

But... Thirteen years later, when I went back to watch this movie because I was writing a book, I suddenly discovered a lot... whether it was a prophecy or a distortion, in short... I didn't like it very much, and even couldn't Something to accept.

Just like the pretentiousness of smiling. As well as the feeling of being a bitch and a bitch, and what he did during the "trial marriage".

I want to write, but I'm afraid readers will think I'm carrying personal information.

But if I don't write it... the conflict in the outline cannot be reflected.

Therefore, you should be able to tell that in these two chapters, I praised and criticized them, criticized them and praised them, and tried to describe this plot from the fairest perspective.

I write carefully, walking on thin ice.

After all, if some words are not handled well, it will cause trouble in the region.

Therefore, I would like to express my special desire to survive here. First, I have not distorted any content in the movie, and the plot passages described are all from the original film.

Second, I asked several authors including Yanjing, as well as friends and college classmates about Wang Shuo’s status in Yang Mi’s heart. And I am originally from Zhuozhou, which is very close to Yanjing. I have also read Teacher Wang Shuo's books, and I strive to describe them with the most realistic readers' feelings.

Third, I would like to apologize to the readers who like "Fei 2", I'm sorry. If you feel something is wrong, just treat it as the plot of the novel requires it, don’t take it seriously, I’ll give you a hug.