Life is like a play, all depends on kissing skills

This film, written by Gu Zheng and planned to be directed by Cheng Longqian, is tentatively titled "Poyun".The male protagonist is called Chu Yun. After reading the book, Xia Lan thinks that either Gu Zheng hides this side in his heart, or he ideally portrays such a person.

Chu Yun is a handsome and hearty public student studying abroad in the 80s. His parents are divorced, his mother's family is in Shanghai, and his father's family is in Hong Kong.Chu Yun is also the most promising group of young people. He went to Beijing for school and was sent to the United States by the government. No one is more proud than him.

At that time, women wanted to "marry out", and the TV station broadcast "Follow Me", Chu Yun, a proud son of heaven, came to New York with glory, but seemed to fall into a whirlpool.

Here, he is no one, he can't understand English, and he can't understand people with a little accent. It takes several minutes to count coins in the store to pay, but the cashier still can't figure it out. I ask you for ten Six dollars and seventy-nine, you can just give me twenty dollars, why should you give me an extra one and seventy-nine?

In the school, there is a clear distinction between Chinese students and foreign students. China sees foreigners who smoke, drink and pick up girls, and they are dissolute.Some Chinese students began to keep their ears to the outside world, studying in the library day and night, studying hard and going back to build the motherland, or staying in the United States to eat and drink.Some Chinese students, especially those from rich and powerful families, are more promiscuous than Americans, and they can't go together with Americans, they can only wander with each other.

Chu Yun is a very pure and tenacious person. He has experienced the first wave of shock and frustration, and he has been very dissolute for a while, but he can smoke marijuana, drink a lot of wine and dance all night, but he has not touched Woman, he was drunk and wanted to bring a gun to the battle, all the poses were done, and finally he waved his hand and said: No, I don't like double *.

But he is different from other people who like to play, not only in this one, but while he is playing, he can also tell who is good and who is worth dating. After playing for half a semester, he made a good friend from China and a good friend from the UK. One of the two is the head of the overseas Chinese student organization, and the other is the vice chairman of the school's student union.

From then on, Chu Yun started a life like hanging out.

He joined the student union, established a good relationship with the teachers, studied finance, and through the relationship with British students, he got mixed up with the bosses to play golf. From a foreigner who was out of place and had nothing, he became a perfect integration into the local society. , and even have their own contacts and small influential figures.

It is worth noting that during this period, Chu Yun became interested in photography, even surpassing his enthusiasm for the main course.Under the influence of various art schools and an open environment, he has a higher and better vision for life, and gradually becomes more and more different from the people around him.

What's more, he and his good friend, the leader of the second male foreign student, had a vague and ambiguous relationship. , take care of yourself.

However, in this relationship, Chu Yun has always been very dissociated. Although he often seems to show something, it can be seen that he does not have that kind of thought for his friends.When Xia Lan read the script, she suspected that because she was bent over, she saw many ways. If she were a straight man, she might think it was an ordinary brotherhood.

This side kick is really powerful.

But Chu Yun's real love experience is more subtle, even sad.

He got acquainted with an extremely elegant Chinese female teaching assistant through books. The two of them seemed to have no clue at first, but they gradually became exciting like frogs boiled in warm water.For a young man like Chu Yun, he should have chased after him happily and abandoned him happily, but the female teaching assistant is several years older than him, and she is also a teacher, besides, she already has a diamond ring in her hand.

But the female teacher's husband is a rotten person who spends his days and drinks, and his relationship with her can be said to exist in name only.

The two seemed to be really just friends at first, chatting about Shanghai, Hong Kong, the panic when they first came to the United States, and the loneliness and strangeness they felt all the time when they were abroad.In the United States, it’s okay for students to talk to teachers of the opposite sex, but Chu Yun and the female teacher are always very reserved and forbearing. They always meet at the stairs and chat for a few words. If they are seen, they have to separate quietly. go their separate ways.

The two of them had a waltz-like relationship, you retreated and advanced, you advanced and retreated, you wanted to occupy, I turned around, I wanted to indulge, but you refused with correct and gentle eyes.

The female teacher began to wait for him at the stairway, and sometimes for some reason, the two walked in the maple forest on the campus, just talking, and then separated for some reason.

Always very reserved, no one reveals a trace of embarrassment.

This is still sweet, but also has a lot of bitterness, and it is also dense and fuzzy.For example, at the school party, Chu Yun saw the female teacher and her husband, but also at this party, he and the female teacher danced a dance. During the dance, the female teacher secretly took off the ring.

There are many other things. The female teacher found out that her husband was cheating, and the second male number found out that Chu Yun was having an affair with the female teacher.Chu Yun began to smoke frequently, and the pictures he took faded a lot of color, forming his own style.And when he also found out about her husband's cheating, the female teacher held his hand amidst all kinds of temptations.

Chu Yun was very excited, but he didn't hold her back, and he didn't break away. He just said: I'm going back to China soon, and I can take one more person with me.

On the day of returning to China, the female teacher did not come, so Chu Yun went back to look for her regardless of the obstruction of the second-class male.The female teacher was at school and asked him two questions.

Do you believe in love?

Do you believe that I love you?

Chu Yun nodded.

The female teacher asked: What if I don't go with you?

Chu Yun was silent for a while, but still said: I believe, I know.

Chu Yun returned to China, entered the bank, became a well-known photographer, and then studied film and became a director.He changed from a high-spirited boy to a deep but still pure man.He and the female teacher had looked for each other three times, once they didn't see each other, once they saw a figure from behind, once they looked at each other for a long time, finally smiled and walked together.

In the script, the audience does not know whether they are together or not. At the end, Chu Yun took a group of photos about clouds, went to the top of the snow-capped mountains in Tibet, and threw a stone towards the clouds in the sky.He was at more than 6000 meters, the stone may or may not have passed through the cloud, he took a picture and saw the cloud broke.

The cloud is still there, and it is indeed broken. The most important thing is that there is a stone like that flying towards the cloud.

After reading the script, Xia Lan's first feeling is that this book can be sold well. The key is to find a popular and talented actor, second actor, heroine, etc., who can play the inspirational card, because Chu Yunni When it hits the plot of wind and water, it is easier to do in publicity than ordinary literary films.The cost of the film is not high, coupled with Cheng Dao's name and word-of-mouth promotion, it is easy to pay back the cost, and it is not difficult to make a lot of money.

But what really left a deep impression on Xia Lan was the subtle but incomparably catchy feelings that were ready to come out but seemed to have no waves.

Tsk tsk, commercial literary film.

Gu Zheng just likes this kind of book, and it also needs the public, with the classic big plot as the skeleton, but also with artistry, describing small plots, and even anti-plots.This is also Cheng Longqian's style, he wants to sell money to be popular, but also wants to win awards.This is of course difficult, but only those who can do what others cannot do can be called real bulls and stand at the top.

From this point of view, Cheng Dao and Gu Zheng are exactly the same as the master and apprentice.

Xia Lan wondered for a while whether Gu Zheng also had a male classmate and a female teacher when he was in the United States. From time to time, he thought about how to bring in such a sense of the times, and how to grasp the huge span and changes of the characters.

As Gu Zheng said, it is really difficult to perform well.

Xia Lan thinks that he can play Cheng Feiran well, but he may not be able to play other extremely demanding roles well. He has a feeling of wandering about half full, and he only knows that he has to work very hard, very hard.

Gu Zheng took him to have a meal with Cheng Longqian, and told Cheng Dao directly: I like people like Chu Yun, and I like Xia Lan because they are very similar in nature. Xia Lan is highly recommended by him as a screenwriter , must be the first candidate for Director Cheng.

Although Cheng Longqian is an international director, he has no airs at all. He was very kind when we first met.However, Xia Lan heard from Gu Zheng that Cheng Dao is actually very dark-handed. If he doesn't do it, he won't.

Sure enough, Cheng Longqian looked at Xia Lan: "He's quite pure and energetic, but look at how timid he is!"

So much so that Xia Lan went to dinner with Cheng Dao later, and brainwashed himself that Cheng Dao was an ordinary old man, and he could be his friend, so he showed a smooth painting style throughout the whole process, which finally made Cheng Dao less critical.

Director Cheng still hesitated, but Gu Zheng said bluntly: "Don't think that you are the only one who knows how to shoot, I am also a director."

Cheng Longqian choked on him: "I can win a big prize, can you?"

Gu Zheng said, "Why can't I?"

Director Cheng: "Tch, the producer hired me."

Gu Zheng: "I made it up, believe it or not, I can snatch the director's position?"

Cheng Dao muttered something, the boss was upset, and looked at Xia Lan sadly, as if saying: Look, look at my apprentice.

Xia Xiaolan, the apprentice's apprentice, immediately changed his mind and said to Gu Zheng, "Teacher Gu, why are you talking to Director Cheng?"

Cheng Longqian smiled and pointed at Gu Zheng: "Look, you can't be a director, even actors dare to hate you!" Afterwards, he treated Xia Lan much better, he is really kind.

In the nearly two months before the role was decided, Xia Lan appeared on the show and acted in a drama. Gu Zheng talked to him about the play "Poyun" when he had time, and asked Cheng Dao to tell him the play together.Xia Lan found a special teacher to train the vocal form. His lines have been greatly improved under the training of "And the Light and Dust", but his body is relatively weak, so he has been practicing emphatically.

During this period, Xia Lan's popularity has been rising steadily, mainly because his variety show has been on the air, with fixed exposure every week. His talent, his character of attracting fans... Wait, wait, it seems that there is nothing about him not attracting fans, which made him quickly become popular. Taking Weibo as a side reflection, the number of fans soared to more than 500 million, which can also be said to be a traffic niche. up.

On the contrary, he now loses the freedom to go out and hang out.

Two months later, Cheng Longqian basically found actors, except for the male lead and the second male.After more than a dozen auditions, Xia Lan finally won the male number one. Together with Gu Zheng, she was helping Cheng Dao to think who could take over the elegant, extravagant, romantic, and showy male number two. Cheng Longqian directly The decision was made: "Xiao Zheng, isn't this expensive scumbag looking like you!"

Gu Zheng: "..."

I'm so upright, why both of them say I look like a scumbag.

Xia Lan became excited: "Mr. Gu, are you going to take it? You have recently finished the production, and you have been doing research in school. You haven't written a new script or directed a new movie. It's very free. Take it, take it."

Gu Zheng: "..." That's great, I was betrayed by my cohabiting boyfriend just like that.

Gu Zheng wanted to fight back: "I'm about to make an effort to direct a particularly powerful film, and compete with Director Cheng for the award, so I don't have time."

But Xia Lan looked at him with shining eyes, and Gu Zheng immediately began to waver, wanting to cover his eyes very much.Director Cheng looked at Gu Zheng, then at Xia Lan, and didn't know what he saw, and finally slapped his thigh: "Okay, Gu Zheng, the number two male is you!"

Gu Zhengxiang was dying: "Cheng Dao, I..."

Director Cheng Longqian put on a straight face, as if you dare not agree?If you dare not agree, I will dare to black hand you.

"..." Gu Zheng propped his forehead helplessly, "It's quick to shoot anyway, take it, let me take it."

It's unbearable for one or two people to threaten and lure him like this.

But Gu Zheng made a request. He has never acted in a drama, and he has never acted in a TV series. This movie is his screen debut, but he is also popular and has fans, but the fans are quite reserved and elegant. He can cooperate. Publicity, but you can't fire him as a traffic niche, he is an actor, not a star.

Cheng Longqian sneered: "I thought I would be popular as soon as I appeared on the big screen, can you be more popular than Xiao Xia? Ha ha!"

Xia Lan has completely turned into Cheng Dao's dog leg, and answered solemnly from the side: "Hehe!"

Gu Zhengyong looked at him with threatening eyes: "..."

Xia Lan flinched and sat upright, as if I was so serious.

Cheng Longqian sneered again: "Besides, film performances are different from drama performances. If I let you do it, I still have to audition. You may not be able to act better than Xia Lan."

When Xia Lan heard it, she was very excited, and became even more dog-legged. She said loudly: "Really?" Then she faced it, quite proudly, "That's right! Director Cheng said so!"

Gu Zheng: I think your butt is itchy!

So much so that Gu Zheng ignored him until he got home, which made Xia Xiaolan go all out.Tempted, finally sacrificed the itchy ass, was forgiven.

Smoking an afterthought cigarette, lamenting how difficult it is to be in love.

Before he finished smoking, he was caught for another day's meal.

In this way, Xia Lan and Gu Zheng joined the team. At the beginning, they wanted to enter the state and cultivate their feelings. At the same time, Director Cheng would do some training, lecturing and so on.A crew is full of celebrities, and the heroine is also in charge of traffic. She is both a cheongsam goddess and a fairy in ancient costumes. Nice guy, pretty straight forward.

As for Gu Zheng, he deserves to be a super talent who can write, direct, and act. Even if the drama is turned into a movie, he enters the drama in a second and shines in a second. On the first day of filming, his acting skills are terrified People who haven't seen his play before.In the entire group, only Xia Lan could catch his scene.

Xia Lan was very proud immediately, feeling that she was supernatural.

But it’s good for everyone to get used to it, and Gu Zheng’s superb performance has also driven the acting level of the entire group, especially when Mr. Gu has no part in the play, as the original author and the screenwriter who is a teacher on his own job, he is basically Cheng Once the director narrates the play, he will also narrate the play again, quickly turning the entire group of actors into his own students.

Everyone thought they would be annoying, but they didn't expect Gu Zheng to have a unique charm when he spoke, and because he was the original author and the second male number, sometimes his opinions even surpassed that of Cheng Dao, and there were not many elderly people in the group Actors, a group of young people, gradually fell in love with listening to Gu Zheng's lectures, and some regretted that they were not his students.

Xia Lan secretly poked and felt that her rivals in love had doubled, but she was too fascinated, and had to wait until she realized that Gu Zheng had often exhausted her charm and was admired by people.But Mr. Gu is gentle and courteous to everyone except himself and Cheng Dao, and has a proper distance, especially to the opposite sex, he is a gentleman and polite, which can be considered to make Xia Xiaolan feel more at ease.

Everyone got along very well in this drama, and they often performed super-level. The biggest problem of the whole drama still appeared on Xia Lan.

When Xia Lan looked at Gu Zheng, who played the second male lead, she couldn't help showing her feelings for him. For the heroine, either she couldn't get into the play, or her feelings were too exposed, which always lacked charm.

Cheng Longqian was very angry and said to Gu Zheng: "Look, look, this little fresh meat you found!"

Xia Lan was bitter in her heart, if she acted well, she would call her Xiao Lanlan, but if she couldn't act well, it would imply that she was a fresh meat with no acting skills.

Xia Lan then worked hard to adjust her state, thinking about the reserved and suppressed feelings, she couldn't help but think that when she and Gu Zheng were outside, she obviously wanted to hold hands and look at each other like ordinary couples, but they had to be far apart, and sometimes their eyes would be blurry. control.Not to mention that recently Xia Lan dared not go out in full armor. This kind of depression is indeed obvious and intense.

Gradually, the feeling of his acting was much more correct, but the keen director Cheng still found some gaps.

Cheng Longqian pinched his chin: "Why is your play a bit bitter?"

Xia Lan nodded, thinking that she would get rid of suffering from his relationship with Gu Zheng.

How can it not be bitter?

He asked Gu Zheng like this, Gu Zheng looked at him with complicated eyes, and when Xia Lan came to his senses, he found that Mr. Gu seemed to be a little distressed.

Xia Lan quickly changed the subject with a smile: "Actually, I don't mean anything else, I... I'm groping around."

Gu Zheng grabbed him, took a breath, and returned to a professional demeanor: "It's not bitter, at first it was because I didn't have extravagant expectations. But later it wasn't because of this, and later it was a bit bitter, but the bitterness was not ordinary, because Chu Yun believed The other party loves him, knows that the other party loves him, as long as they love each other, even if they can't be together, for a person like him who is sincere and idealistic, after all, bitterness will not be greater than sweetness."

"Chu Yun is like this, like a black stone on the top of a snow mountain, he is very simple and simple." Gu Zheng said, "I know you are like this too."

Xia Lan lowered her head and smiled, pinching Gu Zheng's fingers, feeling a little touched for some reason.He thought, the important thing is not that Yunpo is not broken, but that he can clearly know Yunpo, believe in Yunpo, can still be like that stone in the cold, and still throw that stone with all his strength.

If there is a very important point in the theme of "And the Light and Dust", in layman's terms it is: don't do it.So what is the theme of "Broken Cloud"?

Yes……

Xia Lan closed her eyes, savored it, and gradually had an idea, and opened her eyes again, feeling that her heart had opened up a bit.

Maybe there is a sense of integrity?

Maybe there is always courage, not fear of the unknown and the distance?

But what is certain is that there is one point, that one point, that makes the whole script seem bitter, but it is not bitter, but full of vitality.

At first it was not seeking results.

And then...

Be bright and always believe.

The main part of the movie was filmed in the United States, but the schedule was very busy. During the period, Xia Lan and Gu Zheng shared a standard room, and the two of them played various silent games, which felt like they were on a honeymoon.But then things got worse, Gu Zheng's part was filmed ahead of schedule, Xia Lan was in the group by herself for a month, and felt lovesick again.

But this is impossible, Xia Xiaolan was worried, thinking that many artists broke up because they were too busy with work, less gatherings and more separations, so she would contact Gu Zheng whenever she was free.But Gu Zheng has an advantage. Although he is always mistaken for a scumbag, he can actually give people a sense of security. He will never be impatient. He can never finish talking about love. money……

So much so that during the period of separation, Xia Lan sometimes even felt that there was no sense of crisis.

During the filming period, Xia Lan gained a lot and grew up very fast, which made the whole group look sideways.He used to be talented, but he didn't know how to use it. He was diligent, but the method was always wrong. At this time, he felt a little accumulated, or he finally got through the two veins of Ren and Du, as if he had mastered some secrets, some essence, feeling The whole person has settled down, becoming more able to receive information from the outside world, and better able to form his own nourishment, and his gaze reveals a bit of wisdom from time to time.

In the words of Cheng Longqian: Boy, you have become more and more like a person recently.

In terms of feelings, an accomplished and capable director like them can only be considered a person if he shows some appearance. Xia Lan was not considered a person before.

There's just one thing that's quite frustrating.Xia Lan and Gu Zheng co-produced a movie, which aroused rumors that the two were gay. When she heard about this, Xia Lan was still in the United States and was relatively calm, but it could be heard that Gu Zheng had a relatively strong reaction to this incident, and seemed quite upset.After that, Xia Lan felt that Gu Zheng seemed to be working harder than ever.He used to be like Superman, but now he almost turned into a Saiyan, took over the job of directing a movie, and started to work hard every day for it, wishing he could have 48 hours a day.

Xia Lan felt this state even more when she returned to China. Gu Zheng was either working or studying, and sometimes he would meditate alone. He looked very deep and sexy, but it was still quite worrying.Fortunately, sex.Life can still be guaranteed, and no matter how busy and hard the work is, it can't obliterate the desire.The joy of looking forward to.

But even though they have been very busy, Gu Zheng still treats important days very seriously. After all, he is a magical man who plays romance every now and then and gives huge sums of money when he disagrees with each other.Of course, all Xia Lan's money should be given to him. The two of them don't care about the money and leave it to the financial planner for planning.

Xia Lan's birthday is on June [-]nd, the day after Children's Day. If the astrological analysis is true, he has the characteristics of a Gemini, but compared to a Gemini, sometimes he is more like a Taurus in May. Even if the astrolabe theory is involved, There may be several stars that belong to Aries.

On June [-]nd, Gu Zheng was free. From twelve o'clock in the morning, celebrating his birthday until twelve o'clock in the evening, he basically did everything. It was so romantic that Xia Lan suspected that she was the heroine of an idol drama.The most important thing is that after the twelve o'clock bell, Gu Zheng gave Xia Lan the last gift.Xia Lan found that the two of them really liked to send contracts to each other. This time, what Gu Zheng sent him was a new agency contract.

Surprise mixed with shock, Gu Zheng didn't know when, he bought a film and television company together with Brother Gu...

Moreover, although this company is small in scale, it is quite famous in the industry...

On how scary it is for rich people to fall in love.

Xia Lan's jaw was about to drop, Gu Zheng clicked on the terms of sharing: "Twenty-eight, you eight, Xia Xiaolan, you are treated by a first-line big name."

Xia Lan didn't know what to say, Gu Zheng pinched his chin, thinking: "Otherwise, we might as well change it to Xia Lan's studio, anyway, our family holds the majority of shares."

Xia Lan threw him down violently, and once again dedicated her ass devoutly.

There is really nothing to repay. Apart from working hard to make money for the boss, I can only take the initiative to ask the boss to unspoken rules.

In July of that year, after the two of them finished filming the movie, something happened. However, for Xia Lan, who was confident and living a fulfilling life at this time, this incident was almost negligible.

One is to find out that the people who broke the news about the relationship between Xia Lan and Gu Zheng were bought by Fan Renjing.

The second is that Fan Renjing finally went to jail, and was sentenced to ten years in prison for misappropriation of funds and tax evasion.

The author has something to say:

*Small surprise is that the two acted together~

"Broken Clouds", a tribute to my beloved "In the Mood for Love", I can't forget Tony Leung's male god, Maggie Cheung's cheongsam, depressing and heart-pounding, maddening attraction, from now on the synonym of literature and art is, "In the Mood for Love"~