B-level director

Chapter 46 Restart

When having breakfast the next day, Tianlu explained the whole story to Qi Geer word by word with blood and tears.Brother Qi just patted his head nonchalantly: "Thank you for your hard work."

Tianlu couldn't laugh or cry all day, Geer Qi didn't need his explanation at all, he just wanted to find a reason to go to him.Fortunately, Tong Yiru is no longer entangled, and the two can live a peaceful life hand in hand.After thinking about it, all the thrilling accidents that have happened so far all originated from the movie that couldn't be started at all.He said to Qi Geer very seriously:

"Let's not get involved in that movie anymore. Uncle Hai can do whatever he wants. Anyway, Ban Wu is in charge, so let's quit!"

Brother Qi drank the milk in one gulp, and said, "I don't want to quit. Uncle Hai values ​​this film very much, and I plan to make it well."

"You really care about Uncle Hai."

"Ah."

Cheng Tianlu put down his chopsticks, "I'm jealous!"

Brother Qi was amused by him, and added two spoonfuls of sugar to his coffee, "Eat something sweet, to neutralize it. I have something to ask you. You are familiar with Ban Wu. If he has nothing else to do recently, please ask him Come to the set to sit down?"

"Uh?"

"I haven't studied film systematically. Many things are based on blind guessing, and the technology is also rough. Will Ban Wu be willing to guide me?"

"Work hard!" Cheng Tianlu was very surprised, "You are used to being the emperor of the earth, are you willing to be recruited?"

"I want to do a good job with Uncle Hai's film, and I'd better get a serious award. If this film is finished, it will be regarded as a repayment to Uncle Hai. This is the last time, and I will not help him with work after it is finished."

Cheng Tianlu thought for a while: "Uncle Hai is so persistent about this matter, what does he have to do with that village?"

"He is the same as the butcher in the mine. He remembers living in a village when he was a child. When he grew up, he went back and saw that the village was still there, but it was different inside. It was different from his memory."

"Being away for decades, it's normal to have changes."

"He is not talking about changes in development. There are always some things that are not easy to forget when he was a child. He remembers often picking up small snails by the river, but now there is no river within [-] kilometers of the village. The appearance of the school and the direction of the street are completely different. It's different. Except for the name of the village, it's not the same place."

"That's easy to explain, the adjustment of land administration. It's not uncommon for villages to merge, relocate, and change names."

"He thought so too. He forgot most of what happened when he was a child. Perhaps picking up snails was his own imagination. Until the beginning of this year, when the butcher case was finalized, he read the report you wrote."

"Well, the butcher is like him. The memory in his head is different from most people. He is not the only one who thinks that the village has disappeared... That's not right. It should be said that the village has been replaced by an impostor."

"He and the butcher's hometown are both in the same area. Both of them have confused memories. How can it be such a coincidence? There is also the unlucky painter Domi. Uncle Hai thinks that they came from the same place - I don't know why here , the shell is still there, but everything inside has changed."

"It's too mysterious! In the past few decades, our country has changed tremendously, and the waves have washed away the sand. Naturally, many things cannot be traced clearly. People's memory is connected with feelings and emotions. Feelings are biased, so we write news on the basis of personal narratives. , but also to check other people's statements and physical evidence to avoid distorted legends." "Then you checked that village, and what did you find?"

"Butcher and Uncle Hai's statement is different from most people's. Logically speaking, of course they are wrong."

"There must be more people, right?"

"Aren't you carrying it?" Cheng Tianlu smiled: "Collective memory is not necessarily correct, but why is it wrong? Everything has a reason. In a remote small place, hundreds of people 'remembered' wrong at the same time, unless there is something wrong. The stars came to guide them, treated them all as experimental subjects, and cleaned their memories."

"It's not impossible..."

"Okay, okay, leave your imagination to the movie. The truth of real events is usually very boring. The house next door has never seen anyone go out, and there are women crying every night. There is a high probability that it is a pyramid scheme; Yelling in the same place, probably a leak in the floor; it's just so boring."

"Just because you can't find a motive doesn't mean there isn't one. I believe in Uncle Hai."

"Hey you!"

Brother Qi fed the sandwich into Tianlu's mouth, "A person who doesn't trust his friends around him, and believes in outsiders who can't beat him, probably reads too much and eats too little.

Stop being jealous and eat bread. "

From that day on, Qi Geer no longer stuck several projects at the same time like an octopus.He terminated the shooting plan he was talking about, hurriedly finished the work in hand, and shifted his mind to Uncle Hai's film.

On the other hand, I have to move to a new office all day long, and I have to publish magazines without interruption. I am also busy like a spinning top.When he went to the studio again, Ban Wu had been stationed there for two months, wearing white socks on his feet and holding a vacuum flask for the elderly, just like his own home.

Tianlu felt relieved.He opened his mouth to invite Ban Wu to guide Brother Qi. Ban Wu was quite unhappy at first, and said to Cheng Tianlu implicitly: "Your relationship with him...is good, but there is no need to put yourself in it. Feelings are feelings. A career is a career. He is taking a wild path, which is not good for you."

Cheng Tianlu thought over and over again, and decided not to hide it anymore: "I am with Qi Geer, but I help him not only because we have a good relationship. Take a look at his works," Cheng Tianlu put Qi Geer's The comics and storyboards were all printed and piled up at the bottom of the feet, reaching knee height.

Seeing Cheng Tianlu put the piles of papers on the table, Ban Wu was surprised: "So many?!"

"That's right. Which young director have you seen who spend so much time and thought on the screen? They are busy telling stories about routines and exaggerating their little ideas. Brother Qi is uneducated and doesn't read books. I just want to realize the picture in my mind. He has his own aesthetics, and it's not messing around, take a look?"

Ban Wu quickly flipped through a few pages, and gradually his turning hands slowed down.After reading more than twenty pages, he sighed and said, "All right."

Ban Wu has no filming this year, and found the satisfaction of being at the helm again on Qi Geer's set.After shooting one shot, Ban Wu nodded and said, let's do it again, change the shooting method, how do you think about it?

The cameraman and lighting engineer complained endlessly: "This scene took more than a dozen shots, are you still here?"

Brother Qi thought for a while: "No matter how the camera is positioned, it's just two people talking, so what does it matter how you shoot?"

"Movies are shots! The movement of the shots should be informative. Hitchcock shoots murders, not details, and uses God's perspective to look down at a person stabbing another person to death with a knife. In a few seconds of the shot, the audience dies before they can react. Looking at it from the top down, people are fragile creatures, and they can’t save themselves or others, so this shot is a classic thriller. To make a movie, you must learn to use the camera to tell things.”

Brother Qi responded like a good student: "Understood."

Cheng Tianlu watched the excitement for a while, and thought to himself, Brother Qi's team was really tossed.He looked around and found Ling Lingjiu in the corner.

Ling Lingjiu's chubby face looked solemn when he wasn't laughing, and he joked all day long, "The Buddha is meditating."

"Hey, what else can I do if I don't cultivate my mind and character?" He said in a complaining tone: "Brother Qi treats filming as homework again, our budget is going to explode, and we can't keep up with the progress, so we have to pray for the blessing of Buddha. "

"Aren't budgets and schedules your producer's responsibility?"

"Look at what you said, I want to have such a great authority, so without further ado, I'll go and spank Brother Qi's ass first. What stimulated him?"

"People always have to grow up. Brother Qi doesn't want to be the king of bad movies. It's a good thing. Someday you will win the Palme d'Or on behalf of the country. It's so beautiful!"

"Don't, I don't want the golden palm and the golden ax, I just want to do a good job of the project, the investors are happy, let's work together!"

Cheng Tianlu shook his head secretly, but it was inconvenient to say anything else.

All day long, he waited until the end of work, but this scene still hasn't happened, which is unbelievable on Qi Ge'er's set.Everyone in the shed was exhausted, the air was sluggish, and all the staff were invited to eat a lot, but it didn't help much.Among these people, only Qi Ge'er is full of energy, looking through the shots he has taken intently.

Cheng Tianlu handed the ice cream to Ban Wu, "The director has worked hard! How is this student Qi Geer?"

"It's not good. I know more than him in my freshman year at the Film Academy. I have made more than 20 films at this level. How did I get the investment? Actors, special effects, and scripts, none of them passed the test."

"Society is becoming superficial. The more exciting and superficial things are, the more people will pay for them." Cheng Tianlu catered to him, and then said in a joking tone: "You are a master in making movies. You should talk to Brother Qi about making money." study."

Ban Wu raised his head and held his back: "Tianlu, what you said is wrong, Brother Qi and I are not in the same system at all, he has his channels, and I am a serious film investor with some international funds. no the same!"

Cheng Tianlu smiled secretly in his heart, and said: "I am a layman speaking in layman's terms, don't take offense. It's not easy to take care of brother Qi, you always worry about it."

Ban Wu: "It's true to worry about it."

Brother Qi shouted over there: "Director, come and see!" Ban Wu immediately trotted over like clockwork.Looking at his back all day long, he inexplicably thought of his old father with a knife mouth and a bean curd heart...

Something moved on the roof, and Cheng Tianlu shook his whole body, and shouted: "Director, be careful!"

When Ban Wu heard this, he stopped and froze.As soon as he raised his head, Brother Qi had already rushed over, hugging him and dodging to the side.With a loud bang, a large piece of gleaming steel blade fell down and fell to the floor.

Ban Wu was in a cold sweat.This steel blade is a killing mechanism in the movie. According to the script, when the steel blade falls, the victim will be cut into two parts neatly. He cannot die for a while, and he has to climb a few meters forward before raising his head.The props are naturally not that sharp, but they are not light, and hitting someone on the head is also a disaster.

Cheng Tianlu and Brother Qi: "Is the director okay?"

Ban Wu's face turned pale, and he complained: "I said earlier that the film set is not a playground, nor is it a haunted house. You can't install such dangerous things! People come and go here, what if there is an accident?"

Brother Qi also felt shameful, and called the prop master: "Brother Sen, why did the steel knife fall by itself?"

Brother Sen looked panicked, probably terrified, and apologized again and again: "Maybe the room is too hot, and the steel wire or iron sheet is a little deformed. This prop was installed for four or five days. The scene should have been filmed long ago, and it took several days." God, it's normal to be unbearable."

"What are you talking about!" Ban Wu was angry, "Where the filming progress is, the prop master has to follow up at any time, this is your duty!"

Brother Qi moved his lips, but didn't speak.Tianlu watched coldly, while Brother Sen pursed his cold lips, his face livid.Ban Wu continued: "Brother Qi, don't use this kind of prop as soon as possible. It's inefficient and inefficient. The whole world is using computer special effects, and you're still making steel with your own methods."

Brother Qi lowered his head slightly, and said obediently, "Okay, I'll think about it."

The studio was burning quietly like a stewing furnace.Until Ling Lingjiu yelled: "Don't be dazed, it's time to wrap things up, it's time to go home. Brother Sen, clean up the mess quickly, and have a snack later." After he finished speaking, he ignored no one, picked up his bag Leave the set.