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Back home, Xie Lansheng began to prepare the two films he was going to make.

He wanted the movie on Arts Union to be called One Day.Strictly speaking, "One Day" is actually a documentary, not a feature film.

Xie Lansheng has always focused on marginalized groups, such as rural women, or gays and lesbians, but now he realizes a problem, even a big problem: none of the directors of literary films pay attention to mainstream people.The mundane encounters of mainstream people—pets dying, friends moving, parents arguing, dreams ruined—are not taken seriously, so Xie Lansheng's next two films will revolve around this theme.

During the preparation of "One Day", Lan Sheng will ask the public a very simple question: "If your brain develops a disease and you lose your memory, you can only remember one day in the past few decades, the only day, Which day would you choose? What happened that day?”, and collect answers from the society.This "past few decades" may be 20 years, 40 years, or 60 or 80 years.Xie Lansheng will choose some answers he likes very much, answers with a wide range of meanings, and put them together to make a movie.

Xie Lansheng believes that it is quite suitable for screening in the Arts Federation.Most literary and artistic films do not have amazing picture effects, so audiences often feel that going to the cinema is a waste. Therefore, Lan Sheng believes that the "emotional contagion" of this film is very important. It needs to make the audience think that "going to the cinema" is necessary—— , Everyone will be more touched and feel more in the face of common experiences.

Xie Lansheng wanted to hand over the whole process of collecting materials to Xin Ye.A company like Deep Blue Films is good at advertising, and at the same time, Xin Ye must fully understand what he wants.

Xie Lansheng called up the storyboard script of "Going to Yueyang", which was going to be uploaded to the Internet.

Because I wanted to shoot, Xie Lansheng even finished the storyboard script of "To Yueyang".

Xie Lansheng's storyboard is very thin, and it has become thinner and thinner over the years.He adds reference notes for each shot of the movie, for example, here clothing/makeup can refer to page x of a certain magazine, here scene can refer to a certain color illustration of a certain painting, and here lighting can refer to page x of a certain movie Minutes... Every time, the other main creators are dumbfounded when they see these preparations.

"To Yueyang" is also a movie about mainstream groups, about broken dreams.The protagonists of this film are several young people in a small city. Some of them like to sing, some like to dance, some like to draw, some like to play ball, and some... They learned a text, Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower", in the text The writing is extremely beautiful, "Holding the distant mountains, swallowing the Yangtze River, the vast soup, the horizon is endless; the morning sun and the evening are cloudy, and the weather is myriad." So, several young people made an agreement to work hard for 18 years after graduation, and wait for the day when they become famous Go to Yueyang, where "not to be happy with things, not to be sad with oneself".And the second half of the movie is their journey.Contrary to imagination, they all compromised with life and became the "adults" they hated one by one.

As for "what happened" in the past 18 years, "Going to Yueyang" will not fully describe, but Xie Lansheng will use a lot of metaphors and other artistic techniques to let the audience piece together everyone's past experiences, for example, the boy who likes to dance No. [-] had no choice but to give up because of being laughed at by his "mother", while No. [-], the male who likes to draw pictures... In this way, on the one hand, it can create topics, trigger analysis and discussion, and let smart "major netizens" show off and show off. On the one hand, it can also introduce the implicit charm of literary films.

After flipping through the storyboard for a while, Xie Lansheng sat down at the table and began to write the shooting plan, including the date of each scene, main characters, secondary characters, number of extras, necessary props, equipment...not at all sloppy.The inspiration needed to write this thing is not less than other times, and the director must have a complete concept for each scene.

Unlike when he was young, Xie Lansheng likes to allocate more time to shooting and less time to production after the age of 40.He is not very picky about the later stage.On the contrary, he has become more and more affectionate towards the main creators, especially the actors.

Xie Lansheng has deep feelings for all actors.He often feels that, maybe, the actors themselves don't know that during the process of acting, they have revealed the deepest part of their hearts and every corner of their souls to the director, without any cover.A good director knows everything. An actor's movements, facial features, eyes, and language on the set will betray his experience, his thoughts, and his emotions.Every movement he makes symbolizes a leak.As for Xie Lansheng, he cherishes the "sweeping view" of the actors very much, and even feels that there is no more charming moment than an actor willing to release his heart.

So he's getting better and better with actors.

For example, for underage male and female protagonists, Xie Lansheng will shoot in the actor's hometown regardless of the cost, so that the actor can go home every day, and the parents can often visit the set, because the other party will not be very disturbed and nervous.

Xin Ye often said that Xie Lansheng's feelings are too full, whether it is for movies or actors.He even said that he has a lot of affection for every set, every prop, and every soundtrack.Of course, the love for lovers is the most.This is not the case for Xin Ye, basically, he only likes Xie Lansheng.

Of course he also likes movies, but strictly speaking, when he works on Deep Blue, his responsibilities take up most of the responsibility—rather than playing a few roles, he wants to support the industry.The desire to survive and conquer in his bones is also one of the reasons, but Xinye is very clear that for Shen Lan, what drives him is not extreme love, passion, and impulsiveness.

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Xie Lansheng wrote on the third floor until Xin Ye came back.

The chef prepared the dinner according to the dietitian's request, and then left. Xie Lansheng and Xin Ye sat at the table and chatted while eating.After Xinye heard the news of the exclusive investment of "Xinwei Video", her good-looking eyebrows were obviously frowned, and she was a little worried.

Lan Sheng touched his finger: "Let's take a step at a time, I really want to try the 'Internet'. Moreover, Wen Yuan said, because I am a great director, they basically won't be overconfident here. .”

Xin Ye could only nod: "...um."

After eating, Xie Lansheng used his mobile phone to surf the Internet while Xinye was playing with the dishwasher.

As soon as he opened Weibo, he saw a lot of "@"!

He clicked in, his face burning hot.

A marketing account posted a spliced ​​collection of "super-large-scale in movies" video clips, which add up to seven or eight minutes.

The marketing account wrote in the text: [Let's take a look at the super-large scale in movies over the years!In addition, Xie Lansheng really knows how to play, there are many tricks, and he is full of lust. 】

Xie Lansheng: "..."

He clicked on the video.

Videos are sorted by year.

The first part of the "1996" period was Xie Lansheng's movie "Consummation".In the video, while imitating sprinting, Xinye rubbed his ears and temples together, grabbed Xie Lansheng's ankle that was protruding for the camera with one hand, slid up the instep, pinched the big toe with three fingers, and gently rubbed the belly of the toe.Then, the second, third...

"..." Xie Lansheng continued to read.

His "Galaxy" was also on the list, 2001.

The male and female protagonists are by the pool, the male protagonist is standing in the water, and the female protagonist is lying on the "shore".The camera is on the woman's feet, which sway gently in the water.Then, suddenly, the heroine's legs stretched straight, her snow-white toes hooked up, and as she was kicked out of the water, the water splashed by her feet, and the camera took a time-lapse close-up of the water splash, which was very enchanting and beautiful.

Followed by "Boundless Land", 2006.

In front of the frost-covered window, there are two figures faintly visible, and the audience can vaguely see the heroine stepping on the window sill.Suddenly, the heroine's two palms hit the glass and pressed the frost flower. In the next few seconds, the frost flower gradually melted, and the heroine's hand became clear, as if she had to use the cold frost to cool down her whole body.

And Skylight, 2012…

Click on the comments, a lot of people are randomly posting:

[Sure enough, the other directors are too uncreative!The main character can only scream!Xie Lansheng is amazing, touching ice, kicking water, convincing! 】

【Xie Lansheng is really good at YY. 】

[Not explicit at all, so beautiful. 】

Lan Sheng: "..."

He didn't expect his sex scene to be superior to others, to be the best in the world.

But all of his inspirations come from real life.

Xie Lansheng still remembered the time when the two of them were shameless by the swimming pool. In the end, at the moment when they were dying, he unconsciously straightened his right leg, and the splash of water was crystal clear in front of him.And the time when he hugged tightly in front of the frost flowers, he put his hands on the ice, but still felt like he was in a burning heaven.

Xinye always has new tricks.Just last night, Xinye was kissing the Lansheng tattoo on the back of his neck, and at the same time wiped the leaked thing on the front and back of his thighs, letting himself be wrapped by the other party.

It's too...

Over there, Xin Ye turned on the machine, walked back, and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"..." Xie Lansheng sent the video to the instigator, and Xinye watched it carefully, then let out a chuckle from his throat.

"Look at you," Xie Lansheng preemptively said, "What are you thinking about every day. I have been called a porn master."

Xin Ye raised his eyes: "If I put everything into practice, you will have three times as many materials. Some things you think about during the day, and some things you dream about at night."

Xie Lansheng fell silent.

Xin Ye smiled, raised Xie Lansheng's chin from behind, made Xie Lansheng look up, and kissed him between the eyebrows.

Xie Lansheng read the comments, but he didn't expect that Weibo suddenly collapsed for no reason.

"???" He thought the network was down, but it wasn't until a few minutes later that he realized that the Weibo had crashed due to too much traffic.

At this time, the number one title of the hot search is extremely shocking:

[Li Xian takes drugs. 】

It says:

[On December 12, after reports from the masses, a 24-year-old director from Hunan, Li, was arrested in a community in Chaoyang District, Beijing. It was confirmed that this director was Li Xian, who filmed "The New Hairpin in a Bun". 】

"!!!"

Xie Lansheng was really dumbfounded.

He knows that many directors like to rely on it to seek inspiration and shoot new films. Some directors of the same generation once asked Xie Lansheng to "play around", but he refused.

But Li Xian...not so much.

Although, at the beginning, because of his mother, Li Xian was forced to marry someone he didn't like and make movies he didn't like, but after being promoted to the altar, he paid more attention to fame and fortune, and his talent was exhausted a little bit. After his wife passed away in 2010, he seemed to be even more confused. Two consecutive commercial blockbusters were criticized for being incomprehensible. Until last year, Li Xian suddenly contributed another masterpiece.

But... Is this for inspiration?

Lan Sheng still couldn't believe it.

The author has something to say: I did some research and found that the major directors who were arrested for taking du include Zhang Yuan (twice), Zhang Yibai, who else is there... Even Zhang Yimou has said that the atmosphere in the industry is not good, and many colleagues have I persuaded him to eat "yaotouwan" for inspiration...he refused.

Ang Lee wrote the reference pictures behind the storyboard.His early producers said Ang Lee's storyboards were particularly detailed.