The Director's Road of Airflow

Lu Ming hasn't officially graduated from NYU yet, because "Don't Tell Mom" ​​received a good response, some domestic economic companies offered him an olive branch.

The agent Lu Ming signed when he was an artist expired about a year ago, and if he signs a company again, he will join as a director.

Haoyue Film and Television is backed by the Internet giant R&C company, with sufficient funds and recruiting talents, and wants to rapidly expand its market share in the mainland entertainment industry.Lu Ming is an excellent candidate for their cooperation. As a director, he has a good debut film, good artistic taste, a professional background, a high starting point, and more importantly, has its own traffic and high topicality. A movie has been finalized by Lu Ming. As a director, even if you choose two unknown newcomers as the leading roles, you are not afraid that the movie will be silent.

The word "Lu Ming" means enthusiasm.

Lu Ming is still very cautious about his career plan as a director. After receiving the invitation from Haoyue Entertainment, he thought about it for a while.The way a director works is quite different from that of an actor. Directors don’t care much about their attention and exposure. These data are meaningless to directors, and there is no need to consider the fit between personal image and brand, traffic Whether it is high or not, can you bring the goods.

The career development of directors is often constrained by the shortage of investment, and investment cannot be obtained. No matter how much you like the script, it is difficult for you to approve the project.Movie awards and box office are the most important performance as a director, both of which cannot be bypassed by public relations and marketing.

Some budding young directors usually look down on the concepts of public relations and marketing. For them, talking about money is so vulgar that it simply tarnishes their pure and flawless artistic ideals, which is unacceptable.The director is going to make a literary film. Even if the literary film cannot be shown in theaters, no matter how poor the film schedule and box office are, it will not bow to the commercial market.

Lu Ming didn't think this was a lofty idea, but rather funny.

If you are satisfied with your story, of course you hope to bring it to more people. You will long for someone to watch your film, be touched and have some ideas, so that you will get some feedback.When a story told with heart is taken seriously by an audience, the satisfaction gained as a director is unprecedented.Maybe not everyone is like this, at least Lu Ming is like this.

But if you want to be able to develop the film industry in a long-term and stable way, and have the space to pursue artistic ideals, you can't distract too much attention on how to attract investment, sponsorship, and how to publicize awards. It is really easy for a person to completely lose his position when facing the commercial market.

After several comparisons, Lu Ming still chose Haoyue Film and Television, which was the company that gave him the most freedom among the companies that offered him an olive branch. It had almost no requirements for him, except that he had to make a movie first. "Snowman" also found him a designated actor.

After reading the script, Lu Ming found that the story is smooth, and some plot twists are a bit blunt, but they are not flawed. He has the confidence to bring the story back to the main line.

After signing with Haoyue Film and Television, after many years, Lu Ming received a message from his agent asking him to do business.

Lu Ming has been avoiding this question.

He has also broadcast live, and has also accepted interviews with several media, and has officially returned to the public eye.

But he was very resistant to triggering Weibo.

Because he hasn't updated a post for almost three years.

Lu Ming suspended the use of social media. His intention was not to cut off from fans, but to keep a distance from the noisy voices of the outside world, try his best to keep his mind clear, not to be influenced by external forces, and to explore more possibilities of his own.

But objectively speaking, he hasn't had any positive interaction with his fans in three years. Now, when he first posts on Weibo, it seems that he uses people to move forward and not to use people to look back.It seems that he is going back to the mainland entertainment industry to make money now, so he thinks of his fans again, and post a post on Weibo pretendingly.

Lu Ming thought over and over how to write the first Weibo copy after three years. He thought about it, but he couldn't think of any sincere words that could calm the dissatisfaction of fans. made a video.

This video is a silhouette of Lu Ming's three years of living in NYU. It is collaged with various life fragments. He casually took pictures of children chasing balloons on the street. He recorded the footage of their group rushing to the deadline, and everyone turned into scissorhands and frantically edited the footage.These pictures are very real, and there is no logic in putting them together. Lu Ming originally used this as a video diary. After thinking about it, he released a part of it, a 30-minute clip, and shared it with fans.

Lu Ming really couldn't find a good way to convince his fans that he didn't just treat them as tools to make money, but could only think of sharing the most real fragments of his life so that everyone could see his sincerity.

The word "fan" doesn't go well with "director".How can the director have fans?Directors only have fans.

In some people's eyes, Lu Ming has successfully transformed into a director by relying on the reputation of his debut work, so why should he care about the constraints of traffic stars?He is no longer an idol, nor an actor, but a cutting-edge director who has almost stood at the top of the domestic entertainment chain. The big director who comes to lick the cake with traffic fans, why do you still care about the opinions of these fans?

If Lu Ming thinks the same way, then he is not Lu Ming.

He doesn't want fans to feel disrespected, not because he still expects to exploit the residual value of his remaining fans, let them give him the box office data for his next movie, and act as his natural troll without some marketing money.

No matter what step Lu Ming has taken, he always remembers that he was able to see the light on the road of pursuing his dream of acting at the beginning, because a group of strangers paid for him without asking for anything in return.Lu Ming has always believed that rights and responsibilities are equal. If you get something, you must bear something.You can't just want the popularity, cheers, and starlight when you were 15 or 6 years old, and then when you step onto a new stage, you should discard those in the past.

It was every journey that brought him to the place where he stands now. Lu Ming didn't want himself to become completely different because of the so-called change of identity in the eyes of outsiders.

Everyone who is taken seriously can feel the other's intentions.

When Ai Cao watched the video shared by Lu Ming, she also felt the most authentic fragments of his life that Lu Ming wanted to share with them across the ocean, jet lag, and three-year time difference.

It wasn't filmed by an illegitimate student, it wasn't locked by a paparazzi camera, it wasn't the fan circle rumors circulating among Zhan sisters, it was the most authentic life in Lu Ming's own eyes, some very warm, and it's hard not to love life after seeing it beautiful moment.

When He Rui saw this video, she was a little devastated. In real life, she is an overseas student studying for a PhD in East Asian culture. In the online world, she has a Douban ID called "Grapefruit Smashed Ice Bing".

Grape has broken ice ice, the first team leader of Douban Wuxin mage group, Lu Ming stepped on fans No.1, built a mocking group with more than 2 people at its peak, and they focused on mocking Lu Ming at that time People, other stars are not allowed to discuss.

This matter alone seems crazy, even He Rui herself couldn't believe how she could be so crazy in the first place. When she was 19 years old, seeing Lu Ming fall in love, lack ambition, and act perfunctorily, she felt that she had suffered the most unacceptable betrayal ever.

Many experiences and ideas, He Rui will not tell others on the Internet, even her friends in real life think she is a girlfriend fan, turn off the fan and step on it, and come to comfort her. Lu Ming has bad eyesight. point.

Being in love is one reason, but not the main reason for her going off fans.She doesn't hate Zhang Tianyi, on the contrary, this is one of the few female artists she likes in her entertainment industry. She is the same age as her, young and smart, graduated from hand in hand, and self-motivated. Such a girl is nothing like a girlfriend. It's hard to accept. Among the fans who have collapsed, she can be called lucky.

What really made her lose her fandom was Lu Ming's terrible state at the time. He had no ambition visible to the naked eye. When acting, his expression was stiff and his body language was exaggerated. He couldn't see any plans for his future career.

He Rui can accept other people's mediocrity, but she can't accept Lu Ming's depravity.

He Rui started chasing stars in the summer of 2015. She finished her senior high school entrance examination and aimed at the mathematics competition class of A Middle School, but her grades were only enough to get into F Middle School, not to mention the competition class, and she didn't even get the admission score for the parallel class of A Middle School.

This was a huge blow to He Rui, who had been going smoothly since she was a child. Before her high school entrance examination, she never thought about the possibility that she would not be able to pass the entrance examination. This possibility never stayed in her mind for a short time. .

At the beginning of the summer vacation, He Rui was very autistic and woke up from dreams many times. For a 15-year-old girl, it was a big deal that she failed to pass the A-level exam. She even thought that if she didn't get into A middle school, she wouldn't be able to get in touch with the best students in the city, she wouldn't be able to get into P university, she wouldn't be able to go to the company she wanted to work for, and she wouldn't be able to be the person she wanted to be. She had planned the course for herself before, and thus began her life of failure.

He Rui really thought so at the time.

It was a chance to see Lu Ming participating in a variety show. When I turned the channel, I saw Lu Ming, who was about to lose the game, chanting his life philosophy to the camera, "If you can't do this thing, you can't do another one." It’s over. Didn’t other people tell you all these things? Maybe what they said is right and makes sense. There is a high probability that it will be difficult for you to make a comeback, but this is only a probability. How do you know it’s on you? If a small probability event does not happen, you will come back against the wind? Other people’s opinions can’t influence your life, can they? They are just like you, they don’t know what you will experience in the future. What hasn’t happened is just waiting for you made a change."

From then on, for He Rui, Lu Ming was almost like a spiritual pillar. The consequences of the collapse of faith were terrible. Her reckless stepping back stemmed from her strong dissatisfaction with Lu Ming.

After the Wuxin mage group transformed into a public group, He Rui gave up the position of group leader to another netizen, and the name Lu Ming disappeared from her life later.

She hadn't heard these two words mentioned by others for a long time, until not long ago, a student from her mentor told her: "Do you know Lu Ming? His work is going to be shown at the NYU Student Film Festival. I have a ticket. are you going?"

She didn't go, and He Rui was so close to New York and she didn't want to watch it. After Flip was launched, she didn't watch it either. She accidentally slid to the popular Weibo and clicked on the video shared by Lu Ming. Then she re-evaluated Lu Ming.

She originally wanted to click the cross immediately and quit the video, but in the first scene, the picture of a little boy chasing balloons on the road in the sunset caught her attention.

After watching the 30-minute video in one go, she clicked on "Don't Tell Mom". After a month behind the online movie viewing crowd, He Rui finished watching this work in her dormitory alone.

She is already a 25-year-old adult, she knows how to restrain her emotions, she never cries easily, and studying social science keeps her vigilant against overflowing emotions.She didn't cry today either, she just put down the coffee in her hand and shelved the thesis she was about to write. She needs to rest, she needs to nestle in her warm and soft little bed, let the comfort of the duvet cover the thorns on her body .

She doesn't want to make things difficult for herself, and if she thinks about it more, she may blame herself and regret it.After experiencing some breakdowns during her Ph.D. study, she began to consider the possibility that Lu Ming also had some mental health problems.

She dared not think of the possibility.

When she was about to fall asleep, Douban showed a new message, which was a private message from the current Douban Wuxin mage group leader.

On the same day, the Douban Wuxin Mage Group updated the group rules, no longer listing Lu Ming as a prohibited artist, and they can freely discuss and praise freely in the future.

The author has something to say: We pretend it is 4.15 now, this is the second update.No more late nights, really.