"Fenyang is both unfamiliar and familiar to me. It was unfamiliar because I had never been here before. It was familiar because it was similar to my hometown. It looked decayed but was also very beautiful and ancient.”Wang Jun organized his words and said.
"Hmm? Decaying, this word was very suitable. Perhaps she was reborn from the ashes.”Jia Zhangke looked at Wang Jun and seemed to be more interested in him. In the past, he was just looking for someone who didn't have the traces of an academic's standard performance. Now, he was looking forward to it.
"Everyone, get in position!" The script supervisor shouted at the top of his voice.
"The camera is okay!" Yu Liwei said.
Gu Zheng, the script supervisor, hit the board excitedly. The sound of the board hitting echoed.
"Begin!"
In the heavy snow, Wang Jun, who was playing Cui Mingliang, stared at Yin Ruijuan's window. He saw Yin Ruijuan's figure through the window. His eyes seemed to be blurred and there was something unclear.
Yin Ruijuan saw Cui Mingliang through the window. She seemed to be listening to her father's nagging seriously, but she was actually thinking about how to get out. Cui Mingliang stood on the high city wall and stood in the snow-white space, looking so independent.
Yu Liwei gave a long shot, making Cui Mingliang look even more lonely. "What a coincidence." Cui Mingliang said with a Shanxi accent.
"What a coincidence, I saw you long ago." Yin Ruijuan replied.
Cui Mingliang moved back and forth to bring some warmth to his body. He said with an unnatural expression,""I saw you too."
Yin Ruijuan glanced in the direction of her house, her expression unchanged. "My dad can see it. Let's go down and talk.”
The two of them slowly walked down the narrow path beside the city wall and arrived at the foot of the city wall. Yin Ruijuan, played by Jia Zhangke's wife, Zhao Tao, took the initiative to start a conversation. "I haven't been with Zhong Ping recently."
"Why should I go with them?" Wang Jun's eyes were filled with confusion.
"Zhang Jun's family still doesn't know about Zhong Ping, right?”Yin Ruijuan was expressionless, and Zhao Tao could always use a stoic face to perfectly interpret the role.
"I should know." Cui Mingliang paced back and forth. Under the seemingly indifferent expression, a glint flashed across his eyes. Outside the camera, Jia Zhangke's expression tensed up, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face.
However, he didn't interrupt the two of them. "What's wrong?"
"I'm fine."
"Zhong Ping's family seems to be quite satisfied with Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun even went to their house for dinner yesterday.”Yin Ruijuan was still expressionless when she heard Cui Mingliang's words. She didn't even have the interest to discuss this topic with him.
There was another silence between the two of them. It seemed like a century had passed, at least in Cui Mingliang's opinion. He paced back and forth uneasily, his seemingly calm expression surging with an uneasy heart.
"Your dad is really interesting." Cui Mingliang didn't know what else to say. He could only casually throw out a topic to ease the atmosphere.
"What's the point?" Yin Ruijuan looked ahead.
"Similar to the KGB." Wang Jun said casually.
Yin Ruijuan was a little displeased." How can you say that? That's my father. After my mother passed away, my father was quite worried about me.”
"What's there to worry about? I think you've already become the subject of military control.”Wang Jun's face revealed a trace of dissatisfaction, showing Cui Mingliang's dissatisfaction.
"What are you talking about?" After saying this, the two of them were silent for a long time. Cui Mingliang really couldn't stand this oppressive atmosphere. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and took a deep puff to relieve the stagnant air around him.
Yin Ruijuan seemed to have sensed it as well. Her eyes were fixed on the ground. "What are you doing tomorrow?"”
"Work." Cui Mingliang replied numbly.
Yin Ruijuan raised her head and glanced at Cui Mingliang." My aunt wants me to meet a man tomorrow.”
Cui Mingliang's apathetic expression instantly shattered, and Wang Jun's pupils constricted. He suddenly raised his head and looked at the other party. His expression relaxed and returned to the indifferent look that had nothing to do with him. "Blind date?" He asked calmly.
However, the hand in his pocket clenched tightly, revealing his uneasiness.
"They arranged it." Cui Mingliang slowly exhaled the smoke that had entered his throat, not knowing what to feel. "Alright, someone will arrange it for you.”He wanted to give her a smiling expression, but for some reason, he could not smile.
"My second aunt said that he was a doctor, a student of the workers, peasants and soldiers.”
Dentists are good, university students are good." Cui Mingliang forced a smile.
"Why are you so happy?"
"Nothing much." The two of them looked at the fire that Cui Mingliang had just lit for warmth. After a long silence, the fire in their eyes was very clear. It was like hope and longing.
The Jia Zhangke here gave a long shot. Long shots were Jia Zhangke's style, and almost every movie had one.
Jia Zhangke would record and portray the living appearance of the low-class people in China through the use of "long shots", which showed the unique narrative charm of his films.
As a folk director from the grassroots, Jia Zhangke always pursued the penetrative power of realistic images. He had always been a maverick, using the camera language to describe the fate of ordinary people in the period of social transformation.
He even bluntly criticized the lack of attention to real life in contemporary Chinese movies. The fourth-generation directors were obsessed with ethics, the fifth-generation directors were obsessed with historical fables, and the sixth-generation directors were intoxicated by urban rock and roll. Faced with Hollywood, Chinese movies chose to surrender one after another. Jia Zhangke's movies showed a strong human concern.
As a representative of the sixth generation of Chinese directors, Jia Zhangke had won many domestic and international awards with his unique expression techniques and artistic attainments.
He strived to show the living conditions of the grassroots in a realistic picture that resembled life itself. He perfectly rooted the long shots in his movie, allowing the audience to have more time to think, understand, and reflect while watching the movie plot clearly.
"Good! Cut!" Jia Zhangke shouted excitedly. When Wang Jun walked over, Jia Zhangke didn't say anything. He simply patted his shoulder.
Wang Jun didn't feel that his performance was interesting, because he never thought that he knew anything about movies, nor did he understand what acting was. He was just trying his best to bring himself into the character's emotions and thus enter the realm.
He imagined his reaction when he met such a girl in the past, but he unintentionally did it naturally without much acting. Just like that, Station filmed at a very strange pace.
It was strange because it always seemed to have a difficult birth. The production team encountered a sandstorm at the beginning, and the production team stopped for a week because of the sandstorm. One day, when Jia Zhang was watching the scenery in class, he saw a fire dragon running along the wires after the wind blew them together and short-circuited them. He was frightened and afraid of getting an electric shock, so he couldn't work at all.
There were more than 60 crew members in the film crew. Everyone stayed in the hotel for a week. This was simply a disaster for the film crew. Everyone was in a panic.
After the sandstorm passed, they started to shoot movies that required some snow scenes. They were always afraid that it wouldn't snow because in 1998, Fenyang didn't snow for a year. As a result, they had to shoot one scene after another. Other than the snow scenes, they couldn't shoot because they didn't accept any scenes.
Just like that, Jia Zhangke filmed all the parts related to the snow scene that could be filmed. After that, everyone's job was to sit there and wait until the snow stopped and melted before continuing to shoot. These difficulties made the entire crew feel that the filming was particularly long. Originally, it had only been ten days, but it felt like half a year had passed. Everyone felt that it was too long.
In addition, during such a long period of writing, Jia Zhang's lessons were constantly changed. The most important direction of the change was that the original script introduced the ways of the world very clearly. For example, Yin Ruijuan, what did she do later? Why did she become a tax collector? There were all causes and effects. However, when they were filming, Jia Zhang suddenly didn't want to film anymore. He felt that there was a problem with the narrative, so he stopped.
He felt that it should be changed. As a girl in a county town, be it a girl or a boy, everyone knew what happened in her life and why those things happened. Moreover, there was no need to explain. Those were not the most important. There was also the mutual understanding between people. How much could you understand?
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