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From Mingzheng's perspective, Antarctica looks like another planet.

He was born in the tropics, so he is actually a little afraid of the cold. Although his physical fitness is better than others, he still doesn't quite adapt to the cold.They arrived when it was slightly warmer, but the weather was tens of degrees below zero and Mingzheng was still in a trance.

On the day of arrival, Li Zhiyuan looked at the scene in front of him and sighed: "This is the real end of the world and the cold fairyland."

Mingzheng pressed his windproof cap, and couldn't help but answer: "In my impression, the content of that book has nothing to do with Antarctica."

The assistant director joked beside him: "Ming Zheng, have you read that book?"

...inexplicably feeling insulted.

Mingzheng rolled his eyes behind the sunglasses while trembling, "I am both civil and military, and I love reading. When I was in high school, I was..." He paused, "Commissioner of literature and art."

Now everyone was silent, Li Zhiyuan looked him up and down for a while, and commented with a smile: "It's a waste to not be a sports committee member."

Mingzheng: "..."

When you come to a new place, you are always excited at the beginning. Everyone talked and laughed together for a while, and looked at the glacier and snow scene, and they were all in a good mood.

It was the first day of disembarkation. They disembarked and arrived at the filming location, where they joined the expedition team that had been waiting here early.

As the filming gradually got on track, everyone was exhausted physically and mentally by the continent of Antarctica.

After all, it is not a suitable place to live. There is no mobile phone signal, it is inconvenient to go to the toilet, it is inconvenient to eat, it is inconvenient to take a shower... All kinds of inconveniences in life are challenges, and they also make their shooting progress extremely slow.Fortunately, the crew was well prepared, and even though the shooting was very difficult, they still overcame the technical difficulties. There are always more solutions than difficulties.

The most difficult thing to overcome seems to be everyone's psychological pressure.

The polar regions are beautiful, but even the most beautiful scenery will make people feel monotonous after a long time.

The world seems to have lost other colors, leaving only a piece of white.

The content of this plot in Antarctica is actually very thin, it is a journey of Chen Zhou going deep into Antarctica step by step.Li Zhiyuan wanted to pursue a realistic effect. The crew had contacted an expedition team before and asked Ming Zheng to join them to live together. The camera hid in the dark to film their lives here.

In fact, the plots of Li Zhiyuan's literary films in the past were very weak. He likes to emphasize emotions and camera language, and use fragmented shots to render a certain emotion. This film is the most complete one among all his films.

Li Zhiyuan's most common saying is: "Don't try to understand literary films, but feel them."

Chen Zhou's journey in Antarctica happens to be the type of filming that Li Zhiyuan is best at. A lot of empty scenes and lonely life trajectories of characters gradually fill up the ending of this story.

Li Zhiyuan didn't tell him much about plays anymore.Mingzheng even felt that he was already half separated from the crew. He was like an ordinary tourist who came here to explore, eating and living with the members of the polar expedition team, and completely integrated into the life of the small team.

Sometimes when he stays with the team for a day, he even forgets that he is still filming. It is only when he deliberately looks for it that he finds out that, um, there is a camera behind him.

Life is very simple.There is no mobile phone signal, not much entertainment, and no external interference. The thing that needs to be considered every day is food and clothing.

The cold seems to slow down the speed of thinking and make people enter a very numb state.

His emotions have always been suppressed, and he was slowly pushed to a very subtle breaking point by the plot, because of the environment and the pressure of filming.

In fact, at the beginning, Mingzheng was puzzled about taking pictures in Antarctica, but when he finally arrived, he realized that the feeling of loneliness here really fits Chen Zhou's state, and there is no other place more suitable than this place. .

The snow and glaciers here have a kind of awe-inspiring beauty, which will make people calm and sentimental.

Because Antarctica is in the period of perpetual day, Mingzheng gradually loses all sense of the passage of time.Close your eyes and go to sleep, and when you wake up, it's still daytime, and it goes round and round, every day.

It seems that half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

The footprints of the crew gradually traveled across the three Antarctic islands.

The only thing on this continent that makes Mingzheng happy is small animals.

During the few days of shooting in Penguin Island, when he didn’t need to shoot, he squatted in front of a few penguins, holding his head and watching eagerly. He only thought their clumsy penguin steps were so cute, and he couldn’t get enough of them.

The staff could only be forced to stare at him. It always felt like he was waiting for an opportunity to attack the penguins... There are regulations in Antarctica, and small animals are not allowed to be disturbed or touched. They are afraid that Mingzheng will not be able to resist.

One day Li Zhiyuan couldn't help but talk about him, telling him not to salivate and stare at the little penguin, it was scary.

Mingzheng still looked at the penguin in front of him, and said to him, "I really want to take one back for Zheng Guanyu to play with."

Li Zhiyuan glared at him: "...just fantasize about it, think about reality."

During the filming in Antarctica, Ming Zheng hardly spoke a few lines.Even in those moments of life when Chen Zhou was with everyone in the expedition team, he was always silent, watching the distance quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.

The expedition team gradually approached the pole.

Chen Zhou's last take was the most difficult to shoot, they took almost a week to shoot.The requirements for the weather are relatively high, and the shooting difficulty is also very high. Li Zhiyuan wanted a scene with howling winds and snowflakes, like the end of the world.But it was a coincidence that it was sunny for several days, and they waited for a few days before they finally got the kind of weather that Li Zhiyuan wanted... The sky was a little gray, the wind and snow were heavy, and it was very appropriate to describe it as a cold fairyland.

When filming the last scene, Ming Zheng felt very heavy.

The indescribable feeling may be because I know that I really want to stay away from the role of Chen Zhou.

In the wind and snow, Chen Zhou originally followed at the end of the team, but he didn't know what he noticed, and suddenly patted his companion on the shoulder, pointed in a direction and said, "I want to go there, and walk for a while by myself."

His companions obstructed him to no avail, so Chen Zhou insisted on embarking on the journey alone.

He broke away from the team and walked towards the place where the wind and snow were deepest.

He is the only one left in the camera, and the white snow and glaciers in front of him.The camera zoomed in a little bit and brushed past his shoulders... Another camera was taking a close-up of his face.

His eyes were strange, looking straight ahead.It was a very focused and gentle gaze.

Although there is only a white expanse of snow in front of him.

Look into his eyes and you'll think there's a glacier there too.

Mingzheng knew that this scene was already a farewell.Not only is Chen Zhou saying goodbye to Gao Xiaoyu, but he is also saying goodbye to this story.He stared at the empty white in front of him, looked at it seriously, and felt that he seemed to be merging with the sky and the earth, and his body seemed to become lighter and more transparent...

Love has nowhere to go, and the world may not really end.Fleeing to the coldest place may be pointless, just self-deception.

But it doesn't seem to matter, many things are meaningless.

The snow all over the sky was like pieces of soft feathers, floating all over the sky one after another. The snowflakes fell on Chen Zhou's body and shoulders. In a daze, he felt that he was being hugged by Gao Xiaoyu.

Chen Zhou opened his mouth slightly, and said three words softly.

No one heard what he said.

Those three words scattered into the heavy snow, and disappeared in the wind in the next second without a trace.

The camera zooms out, Chen Zhou's figure is getting smaller and smaller in the snow, and in the aerial camera shot from God's perspective, he becomes a small shadow... and finally disappears slowly in the wind and snow.

Li Zhiyuan shouted loudly: "Cut——"

After this shot is shot, the whole movie ends here.

The director yelled, and all the staff immediately cheered in the snow to celebrate the successful conclusion of the play.

But Mingzheng still looked at him motionlessly. The photographer closest to him felt that something was wrong, so he hurried over to check...

He saw that there seemed to be tears in Mingzheng's eyes, but because the temperature was too low, the tears couldn't fall, and the water stains stuck to the corners of his eyes, which had frozen into fine scum.

He was in a strange state. He closed his eyes first, and then tentatively took a step forward, as if he couldn't tell where he was.

The cameraman was taken aback, not knowing if he wasn't in the show or what, he hurried over and asked, "Mingzheng, are you okay?"

Mingzheng stared at the void, and said weakly: "Please call Director Li, I can't see."

At the same time, Zheng Guanyu, who was doing arm rehabilitation in a hospital in Shanghai, suddenly lost his eyesight, became dizzy, and felt a dull pain in his chest.

He covered his eyes for a moment.

The doctor who was pressing his hand was startled: "What's wrong?"

Zheng Guanyu also felt a little baffled, and the doctor didn't touch other places on him, why did he feel uncomfortable everywhere?

"It's okay, my eyes were a little blurry just now." Zheng Guanyu signaled the other party to continue pressing, "Maybe I didn't sleep well."

The doctor nodded and said with concern: "I know you are busy with your work, but you still need to pay attention to your body. Look at your hand. We agreed to come twice a week. You didn't come on time last week, and... "

Zheng Guanyu could only smile stiffly and was scolded by his rehabilitation doctor.

Usually, Zheng Guanyu is very cooperative when he comes for rehabilitation, but today Ah Mai doesn't know what's wrong with him, he is a little restless and restless.

When he came out of the hospital, Zheng Guanyu hurriedly got into the car, frowned and began to make phone calls in the car.

He called almost all the phone numbers of everyone in the crew. He knew that there was no signal at the place where the crew was filming, but he kept calling... After the call, Zheng Guanyu began to flip through the chat records of the crew's WeChat group, back and forth turn.

Sitting on the side, Ah Mai felt Zheng Guanyu's anxiety. After thinking for a moment, he comforted him and said, "Brother Mingzheng will contact you as soon as he gets his phone. It's normal that we can't get in touch now. Wechat after the filming is over." The group will definitely say it."

Zheng Guanyu frowned: "Why do I feel... something is wrong."

It's not right.

In fact, during the two months when he lost contact with Mingzheng, he felt something was wrong every day.But today this feeling is especially strong, the deep uneasiness made him very anxious, especially the moment when he felt his eyes go dark in the hospital today...

People sometimes have a strange premonition.You can't even find any evidence to support that bad feeling, but it just feels wrong and weird.

The more I think about it, the more something is wrong, and the more I think about it, the more worried I become.

Zheng Guanyu poked the phone and said to himself, "Nothing will happen to him, right?"

Ah Mai looked at him for a while, then sighed: "Brother Mingzheng will be fine, there are so many people on the set watching...Don't think about Brother Guanyu, don't look at your phone either, just take a rest."

Zheng Guanyu put down his phone, stared out the window and stared blankly for a while.

A few seconds later, he turned his head and said to A Mai: "Tomorrow's work has been postponed, and the work after that will also be postponed. Tell Yang Shu. You look at the ticket now, and I will fly over to pick you up."

Ah Mai was taken aback, and hurriedly persuaded: "But Director Li didn't say how long they will shoot in Antarctica. If we go there, we may have to wait for a long time, and your work will also be delayed. We can't really go to the Antarctic Circle. ! When the time comes, Director Li..."

Zheng Guanyu interrupted him with a frown: "It doesn't matter, just reject it. Book a ticket for me, immediately, right now."