secret movie

The first day of official shooting.

The script and shooting notice were lacy and placed messily on the folding chair. The salty sea breeze poured in through the open window, and the pages made a rattling sound, almost being blown away.

A half-full bottle of mineral water was brought up in time.

Zhao Yuan, who had quick eyes and quick hands, breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on the empty chair beside her, but her eyes were glued to the filled-in notice sheet.

This is her crew.

It is no longer a small fight in the student days, but a formal film crew with a meticulous and precise personnel arrangement. Each department performs its own duties and runs like a gear.

Zhao Yuan recalled the popular report last night, which was released by a well-known media in the film circle. Akeno?

The sentences in the article comparing her with Lu Mingye came to mind, and Zhao Yuan felt absurd in her heart. Looking at the name of Duan Shu in the actor column on the bulletin board, she still finds it inconceivable.

Zhao Yuan still remembers the phone call she received after the screening of Bilian a year ago, and she even clearly remembers every word she heard that day.

"Hello, I saw your short film "Prisoner Bird". It is very touching. Do you want to make it into a feature film?"

"Thank you, of course!" She jumped up from the sofa when she was worrying about whether she could stay in this big city after graduation, "Which company are you...?"

The distorted voice at the other end was in stark contrast to her, extremely calm.

"I'm Duan Shu."

Among the [-] graduation joint short films presented by all the graduates of the school this year, the already famous senior chose her story, which completely changed her fate ever since.

While distracted, that clear voice suddenly sounded beside her.

"Is the morning going well?"

Zhao Yuan subconsciously stood up, straightened her back, and turned to look at him: "It's going well. Today's time is very loose. It's mainly about running in... Brother, why are you here?"

Duan Shu smiled: "It's okay to stay in the room, come and have a look."

Although Zhao Yuan had been in contact with Duan Shu many times during the early preparation of the project, she still couldn't get rid of the restraint engraved in her bones.

In the second year after she was admitted to the director department of Jiangying, she knew how far behind the urban children's artistic accumulation was, so she spent all day analyzing the camera clips in old movies. The detective role hovering between innocence and gloom in "A Murder", won his first actor trophy with his unique expressiveness.

This unique name has gradually entered the public's field of vision. Zhao Yuan also heard more stories about Duan Shu from her classmates, but she never dared to imagine that she would one day work with him.

But at this moment, Duan Shu was close at hand, looking at everything in order on the set, his calm eyes only stayed for a few more seconds when he passed the stick in the hands of the sound engineer.

A few days before the start of work, there will be some non-heavy scenes to help the whole crew get in touch with each other. Today, Duan Shu's scene is scheduled for the evening, and there is only one scene. He could have come by then.

"If there are any problems that cannot be solved, you can tell me, or communicate more with the producer Lao Li, he has a lot of experience."

His tone was soothing and contained a kind of calming power.

"Understood, I will, thank you, senior brother." Zhao Yuan responded to his words, but couldn't help repeating, "Thank you, senior brother."

Duan Shu was much taller than her. Hearing this, he looked down at her and smiled lightly: "It's okay."

Zhao Yuan surged up courage out of nowhere, and said in a low voice, "If only I could have been born a few years earlier and be in school at the same time as my brother. I really want to see Bilian that year with my own eyes."

Duan Shu was not surprised, he had heard this sentence from many people.

So he nodded slightly, as if to answer this sentence, as well as the unfinished words behind him.

If only time could come back.

But that's impossible.

In the beginning, Duan Shu was not very popular in Jiang Ying. He didn't come from an acting major, but from the recording department, which was far from being well known.

Some departments will require short film assignments, and students need to find students from different departments to help, divide the work and cooperate, and at least make up a mini-crew including director, photography, recording and actors.

Duan Shu is good at speaking and good at technology, so many students of the same level or different levels will ask him to make recordings. The unexpected turning point happened in his sophomore year.

The male number two that was found in advance by a certain group fell ill temporarily. He was a vase character who only needed to show affection. The director rushed to the doctor for a sudden illness, and grabbed Duan Shu, who was the best-looking boy among all the boys on set at the time, and asked him to help replace him. .

This is a situation that often occurs in student production groups. Anyone may be temporarily caught to play a role. Duan Shu agreed, and the director and others collectively breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that the filming plan could be completed as usual.At that time no one could have predicted what would happen next.

He handed over the recording bag and pick rod to the scene recorder who replaced him, taught him to operate the switch, read the script for 5 minutes, changed his clothes, and then walked into the camera.

This is a simple and relaxed campus love story. The lively and beautiful heroine chooses the more connotative and interesting one among the two boys who fall in love with her.

The filming started, the director took the place of the scene and typed the board, the heroine and the heroine were laughing and chatting in the empty classroom, the male number two passing by knocked on the door, looked at the sweetheart sadly, and then called out her name in a low voice.

The heroine in the script should be shaken, but after hesitating, she still stays in place, watching the loser in this emotional wrestling leave in frustration.

But in reality, looking at those eyes full of loneliness and affection, she forgot the lines she should say, and even stood up involuntarily, walking towards him.

The whole cast was dumbfounded.

It took a long time for the brain-destroyed director to remember to call the card. After the sound, Duan Shu's expression quickly returned to normal, but the heroine didn't recover for a long time. Someone asked her curiously what she was thinking.

She said: "He looked so sad, as if he would disappear if he turned around, and when he looked at me, he really liked me very much, like a real liking."

In front of the vase male No. [-] played by Duan Shu, the humorous male protagonist completely lost his charm.

A group of students chattered and discussed for a long time, and decided to change the script on the spot, and changed it to the direction that no matter how interesting the soul is, it can't compare with the beautiful skin.

On the day of the classroom screening, the director’s teacher mercilessly criticized this story with deviant values, but he had to admit its success: “Leaving aside the values, the logic of this short film is self-consistent, but it has nothing to do with the plot. It’s all supported by this actor, his performance gives the story great convincing power—what department is he from? Or did you find an actor from outside?”

From then on, many more people came to find Duan Shu to play a role than to ask him to be a recording.

As long as there is time, Duan Shu will not refuse. His face often appears on the projection screens of different classes, but no one gets tired of it.

He is good-looking, but he never overshadows the characteristics of the characters because of his appearance. He can blend into every character without any obstacles. After makeup and styling, he completely becomes the person who originally only existed in the script. , It was not until the end credits came out that the students realized: Oh, it turned out to be Duan Shu again.

In the year before graduation, students from all departments will apply for joint graduation assignments supported and funded by the school. The quality of the finished film will be much higher than that of ordinary students. Best chance on the road.

In these short films, some people can invite well-known actors to play the leading role to bring the quality of commercial movies to the short film, but more people can't do it. Fortunately, they know a treasure that has not been discovered by the outside world.

So Duan Shu was screened at the Bilian Exhibition in his junior year. Among the [-] short films brought by his brothers and sisters, he appeared in ten of them. From the young first love to the middle-aged frustration, all of them are accurate and unforgettable. .

The representative of the film and television company invited by the school to watch the exhibition, when he sat in front of the screen and saw the fifth part, finally couldn't hold back his surprised eyes, and whispered.

This well-spoken student from the recording department became the most dazzling person in the graduation season that year.

That year's Bilian also became the session that the students talked about the most. There has never been such a special grand occasion since the big screen in the standard auditorium was occupied by the same face for a long time.

And the heroine who stood up and walked towards Duan Shu in the camera a long time ago had a crush on him for a year, and finally secretly decided to give up after the screening week was over.

She knew that the male number two, who looked sad, was about to go somewhere out of her reach.

Everyone knows that Duan Shu's future will not be limited to this.

At that time, Duan Shu didn't realize it. He sat in an inconspicuous corner, quietly watching these sincere or ingenious works. Among them, his favorite one was "White Forest" filmed by his brother Lu Mingye from the director department. ", which happens to be starring him, he plays an ordinary person who gradually loses control in the predicament of life, and finally becomes a desperate murderer.

A few days later, Lu Mingye approached him excitedly, saying that a company wanted to invest in him and let him expand this story into a full-length film. Those people said a lot, and crime suspense is a type of movie that is very popular with capital at the moment. , the cost is low, it is easy to produce dark horses, it doesn't matter if it is literary or artistic, the box office and word of mouth can always account for the same... and so on, but these are not important.

"It's not important, don't worry about those nonsense." Lu Mingye held his arm tightly, "The important thing is that I can make movies! Duan Shu, make movies with me, the male number one is still you, it can only be you." you."

He was even a little incoherent.

"With me, we made it into a feature film that everyone can see. I still have a lot of notebooks, all of which are stories I like. I want to shoot them one by one in the future. I want to shoot those that will last forever. The stories that live, the stories that can be engraved in the hearts of the audience, are my movies—and your movies too!"

Duan Shu looked at him for a long time, seeing this young and enthusiastic face shining under the sun, then he smiled and nodded: "Okay."

He didn't tell Lu Mingye how many invitations from artist management companies he had rejected, nor did he tell him that he originally planned to become a sound engineer step by step like most of his classmates.

Duan Shu liked all kinds of voices since he was a child, so he chose to major in recording as a matter of course. He doesn't hate acting, but the former makes him feel more comfortable.

But being with the sound is lonely, there is no such a person there who will illuminate him with his burning and pure dreams, making him seem to have indirectly touched this kind of thing that sounds illusory.

So he modified his life plan silently and embarked on a road full of unknowns.

Duan Shu has no desire for money or fame, so he puts all his energy on the story and the characters themselves, and does not do anything meaningless.Over the past few years, he has consistently taken Lu Mingye's dream seriously, as if he had a dream himself.

It feels good to have dreams, and it feels good to have company.

Until Lu Mingye, under the growing halo and glory, forgot his original words, left behind those stories on the desk that he expressed his desire to express in one go, and chose to dream a bigger dream, wrapped in vanity and false fame. big dream.

Duan Shu saw this change earlier than Lu Mingye himself.

He was powerless, but on a certain summer night a year ago, he returned to his alma mater by accident, quietly watched the graduation works shot by the strangers, and then chose Zhao Yuan from them.

Zhao Yuan is passionate, "The Prisoner Bird" is moving, and the hearts of young people are always filled with dreams of conquering the world with sincerity.

But some things can never be repeated.

In the sudden intrusion of memories, Duan Shu was absent-minded for a long time, until Zhao Yuan's worried voice woke him up.

"Brother, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

He came back to his senses and smiled as usual: "It's nothing, I just lost my mind."

"That's good, but senior brother, you seem to be very tired." Zhao Yuan said cautiously, "Did you not get a good rest last night... Do you need to change rooms?"

Duan Shu shook his head: "Don't bother, it's not because of the room, I'll go back first, and come back when the time is almost up."

Zhao Yuan naturally had no objection, and sent him away with concern, and soon devoted herself to the shooting of the next scene, staring happily at the screen displayed on the director's supervisor.

But Duan Shu stayed in the room alone, staring at the gray-blue scenery outside the window, staring blankly all afternoon.

In the sound of the never-ending rushing waves, he almost didn't think about the plot of "The Prisoner Bird", and completely left this growth story with the director's own semi-autobiographical color behind him.

He wondered if he had made the wrong choice. At the fork in the road of fate, maybe he should go to the other side, the side where he was immersed in loneliness from the beginning, it was better than the loneliness that he got and then lost.

But now Duan Shu can no longer be an ordinary sound engineer.

—and it seems that the need to do so has also been lost.

He has nothing to worry about, and he doesn't lack anything, but he doesn't know what to do next.

With the lessons learned from Lu Mingye, he can no longer take Zhao Yuan's dream as his own as he did in the past.

No one stays the same forever.

In a room filled with sea breeze, Duan Shu gazed at the birds flying past the island.

The pure white tail is like poetry flowing down from the clouds.

There was the occasional din from the studio in the distance, but there was silence around him. In this silence of no one around, there were only flickering poems and burning and deep breathing.

He seems to have experienced a similar scene, the solitude and secrets with his back to the crowd, and there seems to be a faint touch in his ears.

But Duan Shu forgot everything related to that person.

He doesn't remember many people and things.

So it doesn't matter.

In the evening, Duan Shu returned to the set that had been set up in advance with a normal face.

He has already changed his clothes and put on his makeup. The appearance of this character made him lose the handsomeness and scenery of yesterday. He looked downcast, as if he had changed himself.

This old house with a simple setting is the home of Yanzi, the character played by Zhang Jiayan in the film.

When shooting film and television dramas, scenes with the same scene are generally arranged together to save time and cost for transitions and sets, instead of shooting in the order of the plots.

Almost all the scenes of "Prisoner Bird" are on this island, and the setting is not complicated, so the estimated shooting period is less than one month, and Duan Shu's scenes are concentrated in the first ten days.

This is a slightly fantasy story. The heroine Yanzi, who was born on a remote island, wants to escape from this cage locked by poverty and ignorance all her life. In her long struggle with the people around her, she can always see A phantom that used to live in this house.

That is a man who loves painting, a demented alien in the eyes of the villagers, and the only consolation for Yanzi when he feels pain.

Swallow will talk to the painter whom only she can see, and this incomparably real phantom will also respond to her after a long time and space, like an absurd dream.

The scene shot today was the last time Yanzi saw that shadow in this house, and it was also the brightest moment in the whole story. Zhao Yuan wanted to put this brightness on the first day when everyone was full of energy. over.

Swallow finally stole the key to lock the boat. In the dusk full of red catkins, she looked back at the old house where she had been imprisoned for more than 20 years, and saw a man with old clothes and disheveled hair sitting in the corner, holding the newly completed man in his arms. handed her the painting.

In the painting, there is an immature swallow, whose eyes are full of expectations for this world. This is a moment where fantasy and reality are intertwined, and the swallow shrouded in the dusk has long since grown up. She showed him a pure smile, and reached out to take the pair. A non-existent painting, and strode away without looking back.

She will go to a future without shackles and infinite brightness.

The unknown painter was still sitting there, with the same smile on his face, but an indescribable sadness that seemed to disappear in the next second.

In fact, he has indeed disappeared, he is just a phantom that has died in the cage, and there will be no tomorrow, but he still smiles, as if he doesn't know that everything is over.

The paint that has not yet solidified remains on the fingertips, and the dim figure is submerged by the gorgeous colors and the setting sun.

The camera zooms out slowly along the track, and the picture freezes at the moment when the dilapidated door closes.

No one yelled, and the whole set was engulfed by that strong emotion. It took a long time before the voice gradually recovered, and I woke up suddenly from this absurd and broken dream.

The field worker opened the door, and Zhao Yuan, who was very satisfied with this article, walked over quickly, wanting to say something to the outstanding actor. Zhang Jiayan, who was deeply affected outside the camera, calmed down and walked back with enthusiasm After leaving the room, the photographer looked back at the materials in the two cameras repeatedly, checked every detail in the picture, and wanted to make sure it was perfect, but the assistant came up bewilderedly with a tissue and a water glass...

But Duan Shu, who was sitting on the ground, buried his head in his knees, and did not move for a long time. The downcast painter curled up in the corner, and the scattered paint was still, as if he had built an invisible barrier, making everyone stop involuntarily. pace.

In the darkness made up of warm body, Duan Shu closed his eyes, thinking about one thing very calmly.

He is not a painter in the story, he has not disappeared, and this is not a fantasy movie world.

But he really couldn't feel his hands anymore.

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