You look so sweet [entertainment circle]
Chapter 58
Although Li Wenxiu said he needed to be checked, he still had work tomorrow, so they lay in bed chatting for a while at night, and then went to sleep.
After resting for a day, Cheng Lixue finally adjusted his state.He shoots movies step by step every day. Although there is still a gap between him and Luo Yuanjie, he has gradually found his own rhythm.
After another half a month, Luo Yuanjie was finally discharged from the hospital.
At that time, Cheng Lixue hadn't washed her hair for three days, and her long hair was tied into a ponytail randomly. Because of the huge pressure, the previously lively and cheerful girl became tense and depressed.
Because a problem with a prop delayed the progress of the shooting, she sullenly scolded the head of the prop team who was 1.8 meters tall so that she couldn't lift her head.
Cheng Lixue got angry, she was still angry, but when she looked up, she saw a familiar figure.
She couldn't believe it, and blinked blankly.
The person at the door smiled at her.
Only then did Cheng Lixue realize that it was true, and her eyes turned red.
"Master, you have lost a lot of weight."
After staying in the hospital for more than half a month, Luo Yuanjie's clothes were empty, but he seemed to be in good spirits, because he was thin, showing a bit of toughness.
"It's been hard work for you these days," Luo Yuanjie walked over, still with that unhurried attitude, "It's the first time managing such a large crew, are you still used to it?"
"Well," Cheng Lixue nodded, "Everyone is very cooperative."
It's the first time for a little girl to hold a mirror, how can it be really smooth sailing.When he first came in, he heard the staff complain that the assistant director was so aggressive.
But this is helpless, girls have gender disadvantages when they are directors, and Cheng Lixue is too young and not well-known, so she can't suppress these people if she is not fierce.
But since she didn't say anything, he just pretended not to know.
Luo Yuanjie took today's storyboard draft and looked down at it: "Where did it go?"
Cheng Lixue immediately told him the progress.
This was the last time Bai Jingnian met Tang Feng before going abroad.
After returning from Weihai Island, Bai Jingnian has been resisting the coming of separation.
He never told Tang Feng that he was going to study abroad in September.Because he subconsciously felt that separation was the end.
But no matter how much he cherishes it, days are like grains of sand in his hands, which will always slip through his fingers bit by bit.
At the end of August, Tang Feng heard the news from someone else.
"I, I actually haven't thought about going or not." The long-standing worries were finally exposed at this moment, and Bai Jingnian panicked instantly, "That's why I didn't tell you, I didn't mean to..."
"Shh, I don't blame you." Tang Feng whispered, "I just think that if you let me know about this earlier, I can still make preparations with you."
"Get ready for work?" Bai Jingnian opened his eyes wide and looked at Tang Feng in surprise, "Aren't you going to break up with me?"
"Why do you want to break up?" Tang Feng narrowed his beautiful peach blossom eyes, and his face rarely darkened, "Do you think I will break up with you if you go abroad?"
Bai Jingnian remained silent.
"Or do you want to separate from me?" Tang Feng asked him.
"How is it possible!" Bai Jingnian blurted out.
"Then what are you worried about?" Tang Feng said slowly, "I don't know what other people think, but being in a different place is not a problem for me. Could it be that if you are not by my side, my love will be gone? I love you , even across the world, I will go to see you."
Bai Jingnian stared blankly at Tang Feng, his whole heart was sore and soft, as if soaked in a hot spring.He never thought that Tang Feng would support him so much.
This was the first time he felt so strongly that he was being loved.The tip of Bai Jingnian's nose felt sore for a while, and he forcibly held back the choking in his heart.
"Don't worry, things are not as difficult as you imagined. You have winter and summer vacations, and you can come back during the holidays. And I have free working hours, so I will try my best to find you." Seeing Bai Jingnian still staring at him blankly, Tang Feng suddenly After a pause, he said directly, "If you don't worry anymore, I can resign from my position as a distinguished professor at the University of Fine Arts and go abroad with you..."
"No need!" Bai Jingnian hastily interrupted him, and panicked, "You don't need to sacrifice so much for me, it's enough that you are still willing to be with me."
"Then are you still fighting with me?" Tang Feng pinched the tip of his nose.
"No..." Bai Jingnian lowered his head in embarrassment, but he couldn't control the corners of his mouth.
Since then, the two began to live apart in different places.
They traveled back and forth across the ocean and saw less time, but every time they met was as sweet as when they were in love.
This kind of life lasted for a year. One day, Tang Feng suddenly said that he wanted to build a house in the countryside.
Tang Feng had an old house in the suburbs, which was abandoned when it was passed down to his generation.Because no one took care of it for many years, the house collapsed in a rainy day. People from his hometown contacted him to repair it. Tang Feng recalled the days when he and Bai Jingnian were in Weihai Island, and felt that it would be better to build a small villa by himself.
He told Bai Jingnian of this idea, and the latter readily agreed.
For Bai Jingnian, this is not just building a house, but more like two people who are not recognized by the world, building their own home in this euphemistic way.
When he came back from vacation again, Bai Jingnian threw himself on that house.They planned and designed together, helped with the construction workers, and occasionally leaned against each other in their free time, imagining when the house was completed.
Although the days at that time were hard, they were also happy.
After a whole year, the construction and decoration of the house was finally completed.
There is a huge garden outside the house. The front yard is covered with cement to make a garage, and only a single pagoda tree sapling as thin as a wrist is planted.
The garden in the backyard took a lot of thought. Bai Jingnian was very interested in planting loquat trees. Tang Feng agreed to his suggestion, but unfortunately he was frozen to death that winter.
In the main part of the building, the first floor is the dining room, kitchen and reception area, and the second floor is completely open except for the load-bearing wall. Half of it is Tang Feng's studio, and the other half is Bai Jingnian's work area.There are two rooms on the third floor, except for the master bedroom where they live, there is only one guest room.
From the beginning of the design, it was not intended to entertain guests. It can be said that this is a world that belongs entirely to them.
On the day the house was built, Tang Feng called Bai Jingnian overseas.
That is, this year, Bai Jingnian completed a personal independent film and won an important award overseas.After four years, Bai Jingnian finally began to make his mark in the star-studded Hollywood.
On the phone, Bai Jingnian told Tang Feng about his results, and said with great interest that he would be able to go home soon.
They were so happy at that time, no one expected that an accident would come at this time.
……
Because of the need to shoot the construction process, this villa was reproduced on the set at a 1:1 ratio of Luo Yuanjie's old house.
On the day the house was built, Luo Yuanjie stayed on the set for a long, long time.
After a while, he turned his back and wiped away his tears, then smiled gratifyingly.
Xie Xinqian retracted her gaze, her nose felt a little sour.
Suddenly, he became frightened.Fear of going to the end of the story.
Li Wenxiu quietly accompanied him, and said to him silently and reliably, "Don't be afraid."
But the day finally came.
At the end of November, "Long Summer", which has been filmed for half a year, finally came to an end.
The last scene is Xie Xinqian's crying scene, which is also the highlight of the whole film.The story enters the last turning point here, and completely moves towards an irreversible ending.
Before the filming started, Xie Xinqian had been brewing emotions for a long time, and it naturally entered Bai Jingnian's heart.
Emotions emerge little by little.
At the beginning, he could still receive the information from the outside world, but soon, he couldn't notice the existence of the camera and the machine, and he couldn't even perceive the snowflakes falling on him.
He was overwhelmed by the loss of a loved one.
From deep love to separation, from attachment to loss, all emotions whizzed through his body, as if his internal organs were completely destroyed.
Is this how Luo Yuanjie felt back then?
Sadness was shallow at first, like a trickle in the forest, followed by a brook after a heavy rain, then a roaring river, and finally, sadness flooded his mind like a tsunami.
The tears were completely uncontrollable.
Xie Xinqian stood in the lively crowd and wept.
At first, he just wept silently, then he shrugged his shoulders and let out an uncontrollable sob. Then, his crying became louder and his face became more and more sad. Finally, he raised his head and let out an almost The wailing sound of throwing up the heart.
Faced with such a crying face, no one can remain indifferent.
Everyone present was moved to tears, only Luo Yuanjie stared at the monitor calmly, like an emotionless machine.
After the filming was over, the staff members all lowered their heads and wiped away their tears, but Luo Yuanjie just watched the replay on the monitor without saying a word.
He watched it over and over until Cheng Lixue realized something was wrong and called out "Master".
As if the puppet instantly returned to its soul, Luo Yuanjie's chest trembled, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood under the eyes of everyone, and the person also fell down.
"Master!!" Cheng Lixue rushed over to hug him, and more people rushed over.
"This mirror can..." Luo Yuanjie left these words with difficulty, and fell ill completely.
Only then did Xie Xinqian learn that Luo Yuanjie was already so seriously ill.
That's why Cheng Lixue still has to work on the ferry, so the editing team has to work overtime to edit the film, so the crew speeds up the shooting progress...
But he didn't know anything, and even thought that it was really a small cold.
Xie Xinqian closed her eyes, only feeling a dull pain in her chest.
It's just that he cried for too long just now, and now his eyes are dry, and he can't shed a single tear.
He turned his head slowly, looking at Li Wenxiu with empty eyes: "The director..."
As if his heart had been squeezed severely, Li Wenxiu hugged Xie Xinqian tightly into his arms, and said after a long while: "He has cancer."
Xie Xinqian was startled, the cold wind blowing into his wide-open eyes made it astringent and painful.
That afternoon, Luo Yuanjie was sent to the hospital for treatment, and the main creative team also went to the hospital for company.After 8 hours of rescue, Luo Yuanjie's condition finally stabilized.
With no time to rest, Cheng Lixue immediately led the editing team to edit the film.
In the morning of the next day, Li Wenxiu contacted a healer.
"No." After listening to Luo Yuanjie's situation, the A-level healer shook his head, "Our treatment is an exchange of equal value, and even Luo Yuanjie cannot pay the price of treating terminally ill patients."
After half a year, Li Wenxiu heard the same answer again.
All options have been exhausted, and the only thing they can do is to wait.
In early January, after two months of non-stop work by the editing team, the first edition of "Long Summer" was finally edited.
It was a sunny day, and the winter sun was warm and dazzling. Luo Yuanjie recovered his spirits rarely, and even gave them some editing suggestions.
In mid-January, the editing of the final version of "Long Summer" was completed.
This kind of film is destined not to be screened in China. Although the crew sent the film to the radio and television for review, they just went through the process without any hope.
At the beginning of the plan, the crew planned to participate in the Venice Film Festival next year, but they did not expect Luo Yuanjie's situation to become so bad.During that month, all senior executives of Sirui Media traveled around, actively communicating with foreign theaters for the release.
But the efficiency in foreign countries is too low, the process can be delayed for several months, and Luo Yuanjie's health is declining, the last thing they have is time.
When he was at a loss what to do, he did not expect that the country would turn around and turn around.
"In view of Director Luo Yuanjie's outstanding contribution to Chinese-language films, and the high artistic level of the film "Long Summer", after consultation with radio and television, an exception is allowed to release "Long Summer" in China, but classification measures must be taken. And there can be no overly revealing shots."
This news was like saving people from fire and water. The entire crew acted quickly, and it took only 7 days to complete the film revision and approval process.
On January 1, the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, the premiere ceremony of "Long Summer" was held in Beijing, and it will be released nationwide on the first day of the first lunar month.
On the day of the premiere ceremony, Xie Xinqian, Li Wenxiu and the rest of the main creative team attended the scene.There was no sponsorship invitation for the event, and the procedures that could be saved were all saved, and the stars were dressed in a low-key and simple way, as if they were really just watching a movie.
The entry speed is very fast, the theater seats are filled one after another, the surrounding lights are dimmed, and the movie is about to start playing.
Cheng Lixue was sitting under the stage in a black suit, with a dignified and solemn face. There was an empty seat on her left for Luo Yuanjie who was still in the hospital. On her right were Li Wenxiu and Xie Xinqian who were also wearing black suits.
Before the broadcast started, Cheng Lixue received a call. After hanging up the phone, she was in a state of disarray. She even got up and left regardless of the premiere.
Li Wenxiu held her down: "Where are you going?"
Cheng Lixue was shaking all over, and it took a long time to utter a word: "Master...Master, he was sent to the emergency room..."
Li Wenxiu's pupils shrank suddenly, but his left hand was still pressing on Cheng Lixue's arm, and the back of his hand had bruised veins due to the force.
"You can't leave. What will happen to this movie if you leave? Who will be on stage to give the director's presentation? Who knows how much effort Mr. Luo has put in behind the scenes?"
Cheng Lixue's expression changed from panic to bewildered, from eagerness to sadness.After a moment of stalemate, she sat down on the seat again, covering her face and crying: "Then what should I do..."
"You are not a doctor, and it is useless to go there now." Li Wenxiu said in a deep voice, "You are his apprentice, what you should do now is to stay here, and then help Director Luo complete the last link of his wish."
"This is something only his apprentice can do."
Cheng Lixue pursed her lips, as if she had made up her mind.Li Wenxiu is right, it is useless for her to go to the hospital now, she still has her own work to complete.
The young girl raised her head and turned her eyes to the big screen again.
At 2 p.m., the premiere ceremony of "Long Summer" officially began.
The first is the classification reminder: This movie contains elements such as minority emotions, and it is recommended that audiences over the age of 18 watch it.
The subtitles faded, and the first scene slowly appeared on the screen.
The first thing that catches the eye is a tall locust tree, which blooms in the sunshine of early summer.
Beside the window on the second floor, a man in his 50s was looking at the flowers in a trance.Opposite him sat a girl in her early twenties. The girl followed his line of sight to look at the Sophora japonica flowers outside the window, then looked up at the painting on the wall, and asked curiously: "Master, this painting is the one that was painted." a tree?"
The man nodded slowly.
"But why do the trees grow differently?" The girl was a little puzzled.
The camera moved to the painting on the wall. Although the yard is the same as the building, the tree in the painting is also blooming, but the shape of the tree is very different from the one in the yard. There is a dark red shadow on it, as if it has been blurred. Dirty in general.
The man was silent for a long time before he said, "Because this is a painting from 30 years ago."
"30 years ago?" The girl opened her eyes wide in surprise.
But the man stopped answering. He focused all his attention on the painting, as if he wanted to see himself 30 years ago through the painting.
The wind outside the window became louder, accompanied by the sound of rushing waves.
The camera cuts from the yard to the bustling pier. 32 years ago, Bai Jingnian, who was still a college student in the director department, squeezed off the ferry with a backpack on his back. The surrounding people were noisy and the sea wind was strong. There was a faded sign beside the pier, which read " Weihai Island" in three big characters.
The young Bai Jingnian lodged in the deserted villa of his mentor, traveling around the island day and night to find inspiration.
He photographed the waves hitting the reef, the wind blowing the woods, the fishermen worshiping in the church, and the fish dying on the beach...
The world in his lens is getting richer, but still not vivid enough.
Until a rainy day, he met a new tenant in this villa—a young painter Tang Feng.
The movie screen becomes brighter from here.
The blue water, the clear sky, the gorgeous Bougainvillea...
On this desolate and romantic island, they cautiously probed and verified, and finally kissed each other on Qixi Festival.
During those days, it seemed that even the air was sweet.
Even if they left Weihai Island later, even if Bai Jingnian went abroad later, they still stick to this precious relationship.
When the country house was built, the audience in the theater couldn't help being happy.
When they heard on the phone that Jingnian Bai had completed an independent film and won an award, they smiled as happily as Tang Feng.
The day Bai Jingnian returned to China happened to be the 80th anniversary of the University of Fine Arts.Because a student performed "I Only Care About You" by choreographer Teresa Teng, the two recalled their romantic time on the island. In order to watch the show, they directly arranged to meet at the school.
The reunion after half a year, Bai Jingnian could hardly contain the joy in his heart.
It was snowing in Beijing that day, but the plane was miraculously not delayed.Bai Jingnian took a taxi to school by himself, planning to surprise Tang Feng.
The road was slippery in the snow, the car was driving very slowly, and there was even a series of car accidents on the opposite road.
Bai Jingnian felt uncomfortable for a moment, but it was quickly overshadowed by the joy of reuniting with Tang Feng.
After an hour and a half, the taxi finally stopped at the gate of the school.
Bai Jingnian arrived at the agreed place, but he didn't see Tang Feng's figure for a long time.No one answered the phone, so I went to the office to find someone, and someone said he had just gone out.
There was no such thing as a mobile phone back then, so Bai Jingnian could only wait at the scene bored, watching each program absent-mindedly.
The school celebration of the University of Fine Arts was booming, surrounded by excited students, even if they were all wearing raincoats, they couldn't hide the enthusiasm on their faces.
Bai Jingnian was a little restless, he wanted to find Tang Feng, but was afraid that Tang Feng would miss him when he came back, so he could only sit there anxiously, raising his wrist frequently to check the time.
The program list became shorter and shorter, and soon came the performance of "I Only Care About You".
Bai Jingnian couldn't wait any longer, and finally decided to leave to find someone.Unexpectedly, a person suddenly rushed out from the side, and said eagerly that a professor in the courtyard had a car accident.
Bai Jingnian was startled, then he strode forward, grabbed the student's arm and asked, "Who did you say got into a car accident?"
The students were frightened by his serious expression, and it took a while to come back to their senses, and stammered: "Tang, Tang Feng, the distinguished professor of the oil painting department..."
The expression on Bai Jingnian's face changed instantly.
Another student ran over. He was holding the radio carefully, and the anchor's voice without any emotion came from it.
"At 2:12 p.m. today, a traffic accident occurred on the airport expressway leaving Beijing. Two people were killed and 2 people were injured. One of the dead was taxi driver Li Minqiang, and the other was from the Oil Painting Department of Beijing University of Fine Arts. Professor Tang Feng..."
He couldn't hear what happened next, Bai Jingnian froze in place as if his soul had been sucked out, his eyes turned white for a while, and there were only ringing in his ears.
I don't know how long it took for the five senses to gradually return, and then he heard Teresa Teng's singing, which was beautiful and passionate.
"If one day
你 说 即将 要 离去
我 会 迷失 我 自己
Into the boundless sea of people”
"No promises
只要 天天 在一起
我 不 能 只 依靠
Pieces of memories live on"
The snow gradually increased, covering the cold corpse.Bai Jingnian stood sluggishly in the playground, his lips were already pale from the cold.
Scenes from the past emerged in his mind, the rainstorm they met for the first time, the Qixi Festival when they made love, the tavern where they talked to each other...
In the blink of an eye, Bai Jingnian seemed to be back in that tavern again, Tang Feng was wearing a white shirt, smiling and singing to him "Let time go by, I only care about you..."
Gradually, the singing in my memory combined with the singing in my ears, and was overshadowed a little bit, and finally only the sweet and melodious female voice remained.
Heavy snow fell on Bai Jingnian's hair and shoulders, and the people on the stage were singing:
"So I beg you
don't let me leave you
I can't feel anything but you
A trace of affection"
Hearing this, Bai Jingnian couldn't hold back his tears anymore, and wept loudly.
This last scene is a long shot of up to 3 minutes.
The director covered the entire camera with Xie Xinqian's face, and recorded all his emotional changes in a gentle and cruel way.
People looked at Xie Xinqian's crying face and felt his sadness, regret and pain...
Then burst into tears like him.
Three minutes later, Teresa Teng's singing ended, the screen went black, and a subtitle slowly appeared.
"This movie is adapted from a true story. Bai Jingnian is based on Luo Yuanjie, and Tang Feng is based on He Yanqing."
"On June 1990, 6, Luo Yuanjie met He Yanqing for the first time on Weihai Island."
The accompanying picture is a photo with a sense of age. The man with a tense expression can clearly see the outline of Luo Yuanjie when he was young. Next to him is the young He Yanqing, with a sunny smile.
"On August 1990, 8, Luo Yuanjie and He Yanqing participated in the Weihai Island Qixi Festival and officially established their relationship as a couple that night."
In the dim night, the orange firelight outlined two young faces, they stood stiffly in front of the camera, but couldn't hide the excitement on their faces.
"On September 1990, 9, Luo Yuanjie went overseas for further studies, and the two ushered in a brief separation."
……
"On December 1992, 12, when Luo Yuanjie returned to China, He Yanqing picked him up with a painting. He was killed in a car accident on the way to the airport at the age of 28."
The accompanying picture is a news report photo of the accident scene. The reporter avoided direct shooting of the deceased, but chose a relatively warm angle to explain the death.The final picture of the death scene released was a blood-stained oil painting—it was a small country villa, and tall locust trees were blooming in clusters of flowers on a bright spring day.
The subtitles scroll slowly, and the last one is:
"In January 2000, Luo Yuanjie emigrated overseas and remained unmarried all his life."
……
The ending song slowly streamed out, and the list of the main creative team scrolled on the screen.
In the auditorium, Xie Xinqian let out a breath slowly, her eyes and nose were all red.
At the end of the car accident, he held back his tears. Unexpectedly, the editing directly followed the real-life chronology.Obviously it is just a straightforward description, but the yellowed photos make the emotion in the movie spanning 30 years of time and space hit the face, and hit every audience in front of the screen accurately.
Xie Xinqian covered her eyes, her shoulders kept trembling.
A handkerchief was handed over from the left, and Xie Xinqian took the handkerchief and wiped away her tears.
"Is it better?" Li Wenxiu held his hand, his voice hoarse and hoarse.
Xie Xinqian nodded, barely holding back her tears.
Unexpectedly, when he looked up, there was a clip next to the subtitles, all of which were pictures of Li Wenxiu he took on the island.
Before the filming started, Luo Yuanjie gave Xie Xinqian a video camera and asked him to take some random material, saying that it might be released in the film.
At that time, Xie Xinqian was very enthusiastic and took a lot of scenes that were missing. He didn't see it in the feature film and thought that editing was useless, but he didn't expect it to be used in this kind of place.
The sweeter the past, the more painful it is to learn the ending.
Looking at the sweet scene on the island, Xie Xinqian thought of the separation at the end again, and she burst into tears with distress.
It wasn't just him, the whole movie theater heard gasps one after another.Even Li Wenxiu, who rarely showed his emotions, couldn't help but shed tears at this moment.
When the ending song ended, the screen turned into darkness, and the lights in the cinema came on, but no one cheered and applauded. People were immersed in the aftertaste of the story, and there was a long silence.
……
At the same moment, in the emergency room of the hospital, Luo Yuanjie, who was in a coma, suddenly moved his finger. Immediately afterwards, his tortuous electrocardiogram turned into a smooth straight line.
The doctor stopped what he was doing and shook his head slowly.
……
At the premiere ceremony, the hoarse voice of the host finally sounded: "Thank you to the crew of "Long Summer" for bringing us such a wonderful story. Next, please invite the main creative team to come on stage to share the creative experience of the film."
Cheng Lixue was holding the microphone, and she was already sobbing. After a long time, she choked up and said: "I just received the news that Director Luo Yuanjie...he failed to rescue him and has been declared dead."
There was an uproar.
The next day, a sentence was added at the end of the official screening version of "Long Summer": "On January 2023, 1, Luo Yuanjie passed away at the age of 20."
……
The release of "Long Summer" has aroused great repercussions, not only because it is the first same-sex movie released in China, nor because it is Luo Yuanjie's posthumous work, but more importantly, it is emotionally moving.
Those viewers who recommended to others after watching the movie talked about love the most.
According to film critics, this is a universal emotion that transcends gender and age and co-exists in human beings for a long time and space.
Under this kind of explosive word of mouth, although the government restricts movie audiences to those over the age of 18, it still can't stop the audience from going on and on.
After the film was released, it successively inspired people in the know to speak, revealing some details that had never been announced.
——I am a student of the 90th class of the Oil Painting Department of Beijing University of Fine Arts. I remember very clearly on the day of the 80th anniversary. When the news of the death of Professor He Yanqing came, a stranger stood beside us and cried. He almost lost his breath in the end.At that time, I thought it was a classmate who knew Professor He, but I didn't expect it to be his lover. 30 years, may the deceased rest in peace.
——I am a student of the 91st class of the oil painting department. When Professor He gave us a class, he once took out a portrait to explain to us.At that time, his paintings were already sold very expensively, and this painting was especially asked a lot, but he never sold it, and only occasionally put it on display in the school.We asked him who the person in the painting was, and he said it was his most important person.I didn't understand it at the time, but after watching the movie, I realized that this was his lover.
——My father is an art student in the class of 89. He said that He Yanqing was a man of the hour in their school. There were countless men and women, teachers and students, and rich and rich women who showed favor to him, but he didn't accept any of them.The question is that there is a partner, a long-distance relationship, and the wife has gone abroad.At that time, my dad thought it was an excuse, but they didn't expect it to be true.
……
Unexpectedly, there are such details behind it. Netizens cried again, expressing their dissatisfaction, and carried out various forms of secondary creation.
Among them, the most widely circulated is a mixed-cut video made by Ji Zong UP——
【What can I use to keep you?Use the frozen picture, use the memory, use the love of a lifetime]
The theme song is "What Can I Use to Keep You" by Fu Lu Shou. Xie Xinqian opened the video and found that the lyrics and the picture have reached an amazing resonance.
"You forgot the cold wind that blew through the wound
If you believe it, it will be a lifetime without pain or itching.”
The video shows the days when Bai Jingnian just came to Weihai Island and did not meet Tang Feng.
"Why do you want to sing when you see the snow falling
Why do tears fall when you let go"
The picture shows Tang Feng admiring the first snow alone in China, and Bai Jingnian couldn't help crying when he went abroad to study.
"One by one
miss one by one
over and over again
let go one time at a time
laughing loudly
growl
flashing scene by scene
sting me"
This is the moment when they tested each other, hesitated, and suspected that the other party liked someone else on Weihai Island.
"Because enjoying its splendor
for enduring its rot"
The previous scene is the bright bougainvillea on the tree, and the next scene is the rotten loquat in the field.
"You said don't love, and you are reluctant to let go
So life is bitter like a song"
Bai Jingnian found out his feelings for Tang Feng, he didn't want to face it, but he couldn't take his attention away from Tang Feng.
……
"You will silently hold the spark and wait in the darkest hour
You are broken when the familiar murmur pierces the ear"
On the night of the Qixi Festival, they kissed on the colorful beach to make love; it was also that summer afternoon, they blended physically and mentally on the bed.
"One by one
miss one by one
over and over again
let go one time at a time
laughing loudly
growl
flashing scene by scene
sting me"
The scene switches to the flight that Bai Jingnian returned to China 2 years later.He drove away happily, and across the road was a flash of bright red, dazzling.
"Because enjoying its splendor
for enduring its rot"
The screen switched to Luo Yuanjie's real life story.
Off-screen, Luo Yuanjie won best director awards one after another, but He Yanqing was frozen in the news report of the car accident.
"You said don't chase, and you are reluctant to let go
So life is bitter like a song"
In the movie, Bai Jingnian and Tang Feng are running by the sea; outside the movie, the elderly Luo Yuanjie walks alone in the loneliness of the sea.
"What are you in this vast galaxy
What are you in her gentle eyes"
The starry sky on the Qixi Festival, the eyes looking at each other.
"You are shining and falling and reluctant to let go
So life is as bright as a song"
Tang Feng had a car accident, and Bai Jingnian cried bitterly in the snow.
"You must see the flowers bloom
You must wait for the swallow to return
thinking they'll all come back
You swore to die for this."
Thirty years later, the branches of Sophora japonica were hanging in the courtyard of the villa, Xie Xinqian and Li Wenxiu were smiling happily on the tree, Luo Yuanjie watched them lost in thought.
The music ended, and the last scene of the video was Xie Xinqian's speech at the opening ceremony interview.
The boy's voice was a little hoarse, with faint sobs: "During filming, I once asked Director Luo if he had any regrets, and he said no."
"Never had."
All the pictures and sounds disappeared, and on the black background, only one line of large characters remained:
If my life was repeated, if I could make a new choice, I would still land on this island and fall in love with that person. ——Luo Yuanjie
After watching the video, Xie Xinqian faced the blank screen and remained silent for a long, long time.
Netizens in the comment area have long been wailing:
【Help!I cried a lot just after watching the movie, and now I finally recovered. I didn’t expect to see this video again, and I couldn’t stop my tears! QAQ]
[It's too hurt, it's too hurt, the pain of peeling the skin and cramps, it's even more uncomfortable when I think it's real.It is impossible to imagine what kind of mood Luo Yuanjie was in when he made this movie...]
[Title kill me!What can I do to keep you?Use freeze-frame pictures, use memories, and use a lifetime of love. TAT】
[Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Now Director Luo is gone too]
[I don't care, they must meet again in another world!Then live happily ever after! 】
……
In addition to the second creation, there are more and more film reviews of "Long Summer". Under the analysis of enthusiastic netizens, every detail inside and outside the play has been dug out.
Why doesn't the pagoda tree on the wall match the real pagoda tree?
Because that painting was imagined by He Yanqing. On the first day the house was repaired, He Yanqing simulated in his mind the future with his lover 30 years later, a future that would never come because of a car accident.
Why did Luo Yuanjie shoot Xie Xinqian and Li Wenxiu picking Sophora japonica?
Because he saw himself 30 years ago through this scene.If there hadn't been that accident, it would have been him and He Yanqing who picked flowers under the tree.
Why is there a corner missing from the villa's well-planned garden?
Because that was the vacancy left by the loquat tree being frozen to death, and with He Yanqing's departure, it became a hole in Luo Yuanjie's heart that could never be filled.
And now, he threw himself into that void without hesitation...
After 30 years, he finally found him.
The author has something to say:
Finally finished writing, I cried to death, the abuse points of this book are all in this chapter QAQ
After the end, I will make up a special episode of Luo Chongsheng
And, there are a lot of quotes in this chapter, so leave a message to send a red envelope~
After resting for a day, Cheng Lixue finally adjusted his state.He shoots movies step by step every day. Although there is still a gap between him and Luo Yuanjie, he has gradually found his own rhythm.
After another half a month, Luo Yuanjie was finally discharged from the hospital.
At that time, Cheng Lixue hadn't washed her hair for three days, and her long hair was tied into a ponytail randomly. Because of the huge pressure, the previously lively and cheerful girl became tense and depressed.
Because a problem with a prop delayed the progress of the shooting, she sullenly scolded the head of the prop team who was 1.8 meters tall so that she couldn't lift her head.
Cheng Lixue got angry, she was still angry, but when she looked up, she saw a familiar figure.
She couldn't believe it, and blinked blankly.
The person at the door smiled at her.
Only then did Cheng Lixue realize that it was true, and her eyes turned red.
"Master, you have lost a lot of weight."
After staying in the hospital for more than half a month, Luo Yuanjie's clothes were empty, but he seemed to be in good spirits, because he was thin, showing a bit of toughness.
"It's been hard work for you these days," Luo Yuanjie walked over, still with that unhurried attitude, "It's the first time managing such a large crew, are you still used to it?"
"Well," Cheng Lixue nodded, "Everyone is very cooperative."
It's the first time for a little girl to hold a mirror, how can it be really smooth sailing.When he first came in, he heard the staff complain that the assistant director was so aggressive.
But this is helpless, girls have gender disadvantages when they are directors, and Cheng Lixue is too young and not well-known, so she can't suppress these people if she is not fierce.
But since she didn't say anything, he just pretended not to know.
Luo Yuanjie took today's storyboard draft and looked down at it: "Where did it go?"
Cheng Lixue immediately told him the progress.
This was the last time Bai Jingnian met Tang Feng before going abroad.
After returning from Weihai Island, Bai Jingnian has been resisting the coming of separation.
He never told Tang Feng that he was going to study abroad in September.Because he subconsciously felt that separation was the end.
But no matter how much he cherishes it, days are like grains of sand in his hands, which will always slip through his fingers bit by bit.
At the end of August, Tang Feng heard the news from someone else.
"I, I actually haven't thought about going or not." The long-standing worries were finally exposed at this moment, and Bai Jingnian panicked instantly, "That's why I didn't tell you, I didn't mean to..."
"Shh, I don't blame you." Tang Feng whispered, "I just think that if you let me know about this earlier, I can still make preparations with you."
"Get ready for work?" Bai Jingnian opened his eyes wide and looked at Tang Feng in surprise, "Aren't you going to break up with me?"
"Why do you want to break up?" Tang Feng narrowed his beautiful peach blossom eyes, and his face rarely darkened, "Do you think I will break up with you if you go abroad?"
Bai Jingnian remained silent.
"Or do you want to separate from me?" Tang Feng asked him.
"How is it possible!" Bai Jingnian blurted out.
"Then what are you worried about?" Tang Feng said slowly, "I don't know what other people think, but being in a different place is not a problem for me. Could it be that if you are not by my side, my love will be gone? I love you , even across the world, I will go to see you."
Bai Jingnian stared blankly at Tang Feng, his whole heart was sore and soft, as if soaked in a hot spring.He never thought that Tang Feng would support him so much.
This was the first time he felt so strongly that he was being loved.The tip of Bai Jingnian's nose felt sore for a while, and he forcibly held back the choking in his heart.
"Don't worry, things are not as difficult as you imagined. You have winter and summer vacations, and you can come back during the holidays. And I have free working hours, so I will try my best to find you." Seeing Bai Jingnian still staring at him blankly, Tang Feng suddenly After a pause, he said directly, "If you don't worry anymore, I can resign from my position as a distinguished professor at the University of Fine Arts and go abroad with you..."
"No need!" Bai Jingnian hastily interrupted him, and panicked, "You don't need to sacrifice so much for me, it's enough that you are still willing to be with me."
"Then are you still fighting with me?" Tang Feng pinched the tip of his nose.
"No..." Bai Jingnian lowered his head in embarrassment, but he couldn't control the corners of his mouth.
Since then, the two began to live apart in different places.
They traveled back and forth across the ocean and saw less time, but every time they met was as sweet as when they were in love.
This kind of life lasted for a year. One day, Tang Feng suddenly said that he wanted to build a house in the countryside.
Tang Feng had an old house in the suburbs, which was abandoned when it was passed down to his generation.Because no one took care of it for many years, the house collapsed in a rainy day. People from his hometown contacted him to repair it. Tang Feng recalled the days when he and Bai Jingnian were in Weihai Island, and felt that it would be better to build a small villa by himself.
He told Bai Jingnian of this idea, and the latter readily agreed.
For Bai Jingnian, this is not just building a house, but more like two people who are not recognized by the world, building their own home in this euphemistic way.
When he came back from vacation again, Bai Jingnian threw himself on that house.They planned and designed together, helped with the construction workers, and occasionally leaned against each other in their free time, imagining when the house was completed.
Although the days at that time were hard, they were also happy.
After a whole year, the construction and decoration of the house was finally completed.
There is a huge garden outside the house. The front yard is covered with cement to make a garage, and only a single pagoda tree sapling as thin as a wrist is planted.
The garden in the backyard took a lot of thought. Bai Jingnian was very interested in planting loquat trees. Tang Feng agreed to his suggestion, but unfortunately he was frozen to death that winter.
In the main part of the building, the first floor is the dining room, kitchen and reception area, and the second floor is completely open except for the load-bearing wall. Half of it is Tang Feng's studio, and the other half is Bai Jingnian's work area.There are two rooms on the third floor, except for the master bedroom where they live, there is only one guest room.
From the beginning of the design, it was not intended to entertain guests. It can be said that this is a world that belongs entirely to them.
On the day the house was built, Tang Feng called Bai Jingnian overseas.
That is, this year, Bai Jingnian completed a personal independent film and won an important award overseas.After four years, Bai Jingnian finally began to make his mark in the star-studded Hollywood.
On the phone, Bai Jingnian told Tang Feng about his results, and said with great interest that he would be able to go home soon.
They were so happy at that time, no one expected that an accident would come at this time.
……
Because of the need to shoot the construction process, this villa was reproduced on the set at a 1:1 ratio of Luo Yuanjie's old house.
On the day the house was built, Luo Yuanjie stayed on the set for a long, long time.
After a while, he turned his back and wiped away his tears, then smiled gratifyingly.
Xie Xinqian retracted her gaze, her nose felt a little sour.
Suddenly, he became frightened.Fear of going to the end of the story.
Li Wenxiu quietly accompanied him, and said to him silently and reliably, "Don't be afraid."
But the day finally came.
At the end of November, "Long Summer", which has been filmed for half a year, finally came to an end.
The last scene is Xie Xinqian's crying scene, which is also the highlight of the whole film.The story enters the last turning point here, and completely moves towards an irreversible ending.
Before the filming started, Xie Xinqian had been brewing emotions for a long time, and it naturally entered Bai Jingnian's heart.
Emotions emerge little by little.
At the beginning, he could still receive the information from the outside world, but soon, he couldn't notice the existence of the camera and the machine, and he couldn't even perceive the snowflakes falling on him.
He was overwhelmed by the loss of a loved one.
From deep love to separation, from attachment to loss, all emotions whizzed through his body, as if his internal organs were completely destroyed.
Is this how Luo Yuanjie felt back then?
Sadness was shallow at first, like a trickle in the forest, followed by a brook after a heavy rain, then a roaring river, and finally, sadness flooded his mind like a tsunami.
The tears were completely uncontrollable.
Xie Xinqian stood in the lively crowd and wept.
At first, he just wept silently, then he shrugged his shoulders and let out an uncontrollable sob. Then, his crying became louder and his face became more and more sad. Finally, he raised his head and let out an almost The wailing sound of throwing up the heart.
Faced with such a crying face, no one can remain indifferent.
Everyone present was moved to tears, only Luo Yuanjie stared at the monitor calmly, like an emotionless machine.
After the filming was over, the staff members all lowered their heads and wiped away their tears, but Luo Yuanjie just watched the replay on the monitor without saying a word.
He watched it over and over until Cheng Lixue realized something was wrong and called out "Master".
As if the puppet instantly returned to its soul, Luo Yuanjie's chest trembled, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood under the eyes of everyone, and the person also fell down.
"Master!!" Cheng Lixue rushed over to hug him, and more people rushed over.
"This mirror can..." Luo Yuanjie left these words with difficulty, and fell ill completely.
Only then did Xie Xinqian learn that Luo Yuanjie was already so seriously ill.
That's why Cheng Lixue still has to work on the ferry, so the editing team has to work overtime to edit the film, so the crew speeds up the shooting progress...
But he didn't know anything, and even thought that it was really a small cold.
Xie Xinqian closed her eyes, only feeling a dull pain in her chest.
It's just that he cried for too long just now, and now his eyes are dry, and he can't shed a single tear.
He turned his head slowly, looking at Li Wenxiu with empty eyes: "The director..."
As if his heart had been squeezed severely, Li Wenxiu hugged Xie Xinqian tightly into his arms, and said after a long while: "He has cancer."
Xie Xinqian was startled, the cold wind blowing into his wide-open eyes made it astringent and painful.
That afternoon, Luo Yuanjie was sent to the hospital for treatment, and the main creative team also went to the hospital for company.After 8 hours of rescue, Luo Yuanjie's condition finally stabilized.
With no time to rest, Cheng Lixue immediately led the editing team to edit the film.
In the morning of the next day, Li Wenxiu contacted a healer.
"No." After listening to Luo Yuanjie's situation, the A-level healer shook his head, "Our treatment is an exchange of equal value, and even Luo Yuanjie cannot pay the price of treating terminally ill patients."
After half a year, Li Wenxiu heard the same answer again.
All options have been exhausted, and the only thing they can do is to wait.
In early January, after two months of non-stop work by the editing team, the first edition of "Long Summer" was finally edited.
It was a sunny day, and the winter sun was warm and dazzling. Luo Yuanjie recovered his spirits rarely, and even gave them some editing suggestions.
In mid-January, the editing of the final version of "Long Summer" was completed.
This kind of film is destined not to be screened in China. Although the crew sent the film to the radio and television for review, they just went through the process without any hope.
At the beginning of the plan, the crew planned to participate in the Venice Film Festival next year, but they did not expect Luo Yuanjie's situation to become so bad.During that month, all senior executives of Sirui Media traveled around, actively communicating with foreign theaters for the release.
But the efficiency in foreign countries is too low, the process can be delayed for several months, and Luo Yuanjie's health is declining, the last thing they have is time.
When he was at a loss what to do, he did not expect that the country would turn around and turn around.
"In view of Director Luo Yuanjie's outstanding contribution to Chinese-language films, and the high artistic level of the film "Long Summer", after consultation with radio and television, an exception is allowed to release "Long Summer" in China, but classification measures must be taken. And there can be no overly revealing shots."
This news was like saving people from fire and water. The entire crew acted quickly, and it took only 7 days to complete the film revision and approval process.
On January 1, the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, the premiere ceremony of "Long Summer" was held in Beijing, and it will be released nationwide on the first day of the first lunar month.
On the day of the premiere ceremony, Xie Xinqian, Li Wenxiu and the rest of the main creative team attended the scene.There was no sponsorship invitation for the event, and the procedures that could be saved were all saved, and the stars were dressed in a low-key and simple way, as if they were really just watching a movie.
The entry speed is very fast, the theater seats are filled one after another, the surrounding lights are dimmed, and the movie is about to start playing.
Cheng Lixue was sitting under the stage in a black suit, with a dignified and solemn face. There was an empty seat on her left for Luo Yuanjie who was still in the hospital. On her right were Li Wenxiu and Xie Xinqian who were also wearing black suits.
Before the broadcast started, Cheng Lixue received a call. After hanging up the phone, she was in a state of disarray. She even got up and left regardless of the premiere.
Li Wenxiu held her down: "Where are you going?"
Cheng Lixue was shaking all over, and it took a long time to utter a word: "Master...Master, he was sent to the emergency room..."
Li Wenxiu's pupils shrank suddenly, but his left hand was still pressing on Cheng Lixue's arm, and the back of his hand had bruised veins due to the force.
"You can't leave. What will happen to this movie if you leave? Who will be on stage to give the director's presentation? Who knows how much effort Mr. Luo has put in behind the scenes?"
Cheng Lixue's expression changed from panic to bewildered, from eagerness to sadness.After a moment of stalemate, she sat down on the seat again, covering her face and crying: "Then what should I do..."
"You are not a doctor, and it is useless to go there now." Li Wenxiu said in a deep voice, "You are his apprentice, what you should do now is to stay here, and then help Director Luo complete the last link of his wish."
"This is something only his apprentice can do."
Cheng Lixue pursed her lips, as if she had made up her mind.Li Wenxiu is right, it is useless for her to go to the hospital now, she still has her own work to complete.
The young girl raised her head and turned her eyes to the big screen again.
At 2 p.m., the premiere ceremony of "Long Summer" officially began.
The first is the classification reminder: This movie contains elements such as minority emotions, and it is recommended that audiences over the age of 18 watch it.
The subtitles faded, and the first scene slowly appeared on the screen.
The first thing that catches the eye is a tall locust tree, which blooms in the sunshine of early summer.
Beside the window on the second floor, a man in his 50s was looking at the flowers in a trance.Opposite him sat a girl in her early twenties. The girl followed his line of sight to look at the Sophora japonica flowers outside the window, then looked up at the painting on the wall, and asked curiously: "Master, this painting is the one that was painted." a tree?"
The man nodded slowly.
"But why do the trees grow differently?" The girl was a little puzzled.
The camera moved to the painting on the wall. Although the yard is the same as the building, the tree in the painting is also blooming, but the shape of the tree is very different from the one in the yard. There is a dark red shadow on it, as if it has been blurred. Dirty in general.
The man was silent for a long time before he said, "Because this is a painting from 30 years ago."
"30 years ago?" The girl opened her eyes wide in surprise.
But the man stopped answering. He focused all his attention on the painting, as if he wanted to see himself 30 years ago through the painting.
The wind outside the window became louder, accompanied by the sound of rushing waves.
The camera cuts from the yard to the bustling pier. 32 years ago, Bai Jingnian, who was still a college student in the director department, squeezed off the ferry with a backpack on his back. The surrounding people were noisy and the sea wind was strong. There was a faded sign beside the pier, which read " Weihai Island" in three big characters.
The young Bai Jingnian lodged in the deserted villa of his mentor, traveling around the island day and night to find inspiration.
He photographed the waves hitting the reef, the wind blowing the woods, the fishermen worshiping in the church, and the fish dying on the beach...
The world in his lens is getting richer, but still not vivid enough.
Until a rainy day, he met a new tenant in this villa—a young painter Tang Feng.
The movie screen becomes brighter from here.
The blue water, the clear sky, the gorgeous Bougainvillea...
On this desolate and romantic island, they cautiously probed and verified, and finally kissed each other on Qixi Festival.
During those days, it seemed that even the air was sweet.
Even if they left Weihai Island later, even if Bai Jingnian went abroad later, they still stick to this precious relationship.
When the country house was built, the audience in the theater couldn't help being happy.
When they heard on the phone that Jingnian Bai had completed an independent film and won an award, they smiled as happily as Tang Feng.
The day Bai Jingnian returned to China happened to be the 80th anniversary of the University of Fine Arts.Because a student performed "I Only Care About You" by choreographer Teresa Teng, the two recalled their romantic time on the island. In order to watch the show, they directly arranged to meet at the school.
The reunion after half a year, Bai Jingnian could hardly contain the joy in his heart.
It was snowing in Beijing that day, but the plane was miraculously not delayed.Bai Jingnian took a taxi to school by himself, planning to surprise Tang Feng.
The road was slippery in the snow, the car was driving very slowly, and there was even a series of car accidents on the opposite road.
Bai Jingnian felt uncomfortable for a moment, but it was quickly overshadowed by the joy of reuniting with Tang Feng.
After an hour and a half, the taxi finally stopped at the gate of the school.
Bai Jingnian arrived at the agreed place, but he didn't see Tang Feng's figure for a long time.No one answered the phone, so I went to the office to find someone, and someone said he had just gone out.
There was no such thing as a mobile phone back then, so Bai Jingnian could only wait at the scene bored, watching each program absent-mindedly.
The school celebration of the University of Fine Arts was booming, surrounded by excited students, even if they were all wearing raincoats, they couldn't hide the enthusiasm on their faces.
Bai Jingnian was a little restless, he wanted to find Tang Feng, but was afraid that Tang Feng would miss him when he came back, so he could only sit there anxiously, raising his wrist frequently to check the time.
The program list became shorter and shorter, and soon came the performance of "I Only Care About You".
Bai Jingnian couldn't wait any longer, and finally decided to leave to find someone.Unexpectedly, a person suddenly rushed out from the side, and said eagerly that a professor in the courtyard had a car accident.
Bai Jingnian was startled, then he strode forward, grabbed the student's arm and asked, "Who did you say got into a car accident?"
The students were frightened by his serious expression, and it took a while to come back to their senses, and stammered: "Tang, Tang Feng, the distinguished professor of the oil painting department..."
The expression on Bai Jingnian's face changed instantly.
Another student ran over. He was holding the radio carefully, and the anchor's voice without any emotion came from it.
"At 2:12 p.m. today, a traffic accident occurred on the airport expressway leaving Beijing. Two people were killed and 2 people were injured. One of the dead was taxi driver Li Minqiang, and the other was from the Oil Painting Department of Beijing University of Fine Arts. Professor Tang Feng..."
He couldn't hear what happened next, Bai Jingnian froze in place as if his soul had been sucked out, his eyes turned white for a while, and there were only ringing in his ears.
I don't know how long it took for the five senses to gradually return, and then he heard Teresa Teng's singing, which was beautiful and passionate.
"If one day
你 说 即将 要 离去
我 会 迷失 我 自己
Into the boundless sea of people”
"No promises
只要 天天 在一起
我 不 能 只 依靠
Pieces of memories live on"
The snow gradually increased, covering the cold corpse.Bai Jingnian stood sluggishly in the playground, his lips were already pale from the cold.
Scenes from the past emerged in his mind, the rainstorm they met for the first time, the Qixi Festival when they made love, the tavern where they talked to each other...
In the blink of an eye, Bai Jingnian seemed to be back in that tavern again, Tang Feng was wearing a white shirt, smiling and singing to him "Let time go by, I only care about you..."
Gradually, the singing in my memory combined with the singing in my ears, and was overshadowed a little bit, and finally only the sweet and melodious female voice remained.
Heavy snow fell on Bai Jingnian's hair and shoulders, and the people on the stage were singing:
"So I beg you
don't let me leave you
I can't feel anything but you
A trace of affection"
Hearing this, Bai Jingnian couldn't hold back his tears anymore, and wept loudly.
This last scene is a long shot of up to 3 minutes.
The director covered the entire camera with Xie Xinqian's face, and recorded all his emotional changes in a gentle and cruel way.
People looked at Xie Xinqian's crying face and felt his sadness, regret and pain...
Then burst into tears like him.
Three minutes later, Teresa Teng's singing ended, the screen went black, and a subtitle slowly appeared.
"This movie is adapted from a true story. Bai Jingnian is based on Luo Yuanjie, and Tang Feng is based on He Yanqing."
"On June 1990, 6, Luo Yuanjie met He Yanqing for the first time on Weihai Island."
The accompanying picture is a photo with a sense of age. The man with a tense expression can clearly see the outline of Luo Yuanjie when he was young. Next to him is the young He Yanqing, with a sunny smile.
"On August 1990, 8, Luo Yuanjie and He Yanqing participated in the Weihai Island Qixi Festival and officially established their relationship as a couple that night."
In the dim night, the orange firelight outlined two young faces, they stood stiffly in front of the camera, but couldn't hide the excitement on their faces.
"On September 1990, 9, Luo Yuanjie went overseas for further studies, and the two ushered in a brief separation."
……
"On December 1992, 12, when Luo Yuanjie returned to China, He Yanqing picked him up with a painting. He was killed in a car accident on the way to the airport at the age of 28."
The accompanying picture is a news report photo of the accident scene. The reporter avoided direct shooting of the deceased, but chose a relatively warm angle to explain the death.The final picture of the death scene released was a blood-stained oil painting—it was a small country villa, and tall locust trees were blooming in clusters of flowers on a bright spring day.
The subtitles scroll slowly, and the last one is:
"In January 2000, Luo Yuanjie emigrated overseas and remained unmarried all his life."
……
The ending song slowly streamed out, and the list of the main creative team scrolled on the screen.
In the auditorium, Xie Xinqian let out a breath slowly, her eyes and nose were all red.
At the end of the car accident, he held back his tears. Unexpectedly, the editing directly followed the real-life chronology.Obviously it is just a straightforward description, but the yellowed photos make the emotion in the movie spanning 30 years of time and space hit the face, and hit every audience in front of the screen accurately.
Xie Xinqian covered her eyes, her shoulders kept trembling.
A handkerchief was handed over from the left, and Xie Xinqian took the handkerchief and wiped away her tears.
"Is it better?" Li Wenxiu held his hand, his voice hoarse and hoarse.
Xie Xinqian nodded, barely holding back her tears.
Unexpectedly, when he looked up, there was a clip next to the subtitles, all of which were pictures of Li Wenxiu he took on the island.
Before the filming started, Luo Yuanjie gave Xie Xinqian a video camera and asked him to take some random material, saying that it might be released in the film.
At that time, Xie Xinqian was very enthusiastic and took a lot of scenes that were missing. He didn't see it in the feature film and thought that editing was useless, but he didn't expect it to be used in this kind of place.
The sweeter the past, the more painful it is to learn the ending.
Looking at the sweet scene on the island, Xie Xinqian thought of the separation at the end again, and she burst into tears with distress.
It wasn't just him, the whole movie theater heard gasps one after another.Even Li Wenxiu, who rarely showed his emotions, couldn't help but shed tears at this moment.
When the ending song ended, the screen turned into darkness, and the lights in the cinema came on, but no one cheered and applauded. People were immersed in the aftertaste of the story, and there was a long silence.
……
At the same moment, in the emergency room of the hospital, Luo Yuanjie, who was in a coma, suddenly moved his finger. Immediately afterwards, his tortuous electrocardiogram turned into a smooth straight line.
The doctor stopped what he was doing and shook his head slowly.
……
At the premiere ceremony, the hoarse voice of the host finally sounded: "Thank you to the crew of "Long Summer" for bringing us such a wonderful story. Next, please invite the main creative team to come on stage to share the creative experience of the film."
Cheng Lixue was holding the microphone, and she was already sobbing. After a long time, she choked up and said: "I just received the news that Director Luo Yuanjie...he failed to rescue him and has been declared dead."
There was an uproar.
The next day, a sentence was added at the end of the official screening version of "Long Summer": "On January 2023, 1, Luo Yuanjie passed away at the age of 20."
……
The release of "Long Summer" has aroused great repercussions, not only because it is the first same-sex movie released in China, nor because it is Luo Yuanjie's posthumous work, but more importantly, it is emotionally moving.
Those viewers who recommended to others after watching the movie talked about love the most.
According to film critics, this is a universal emotion that transcends gender and age and co-exists in human beings for a long time and space.
Under this kind of explosive word of mouth, although the government restricts movie audiences to those over the age of 18, it still can't stop the audience from going on and on.
After the film was released, it successively inspired people in the know to speak, revealing some details that had never been announced.
——I am a student of the 90th class of the Oil Painting Department of Beijing University of Fine Arts. I remember very clearly on the day of the 80th anniversary. When the news of the death of Professor He Yanqing came, a stranger stood beside us and cried. He almost lost his breath in the end.At that time, I thought it was a classmate who knew Professor He, but I didn't expect it to be his lover. 30 years, may the deceased rest in peace.
——I am a student of the 91st class of the oil painting department. When Professor He gave us a class, he once took out a portrait to explain to us.At that time, his paintings were already sold very expensively, and this painting was especially asked a lot, but he never sold it, and only occasionally put it on display in the school.We asked him who the person in the painting was, and he said it was his most important person.I didn't understand it at the time, but after watching the movie, I realized that this was his lover.
——My father is an art student in the class of 89. He said that He Yanqing was a man of the hour in their school. There were countless men and women, teachers and students, and rich and rich women who showed favor to him, but he didn't accept any of them.The question is that there is a partner, a long-distance relationship, and the wife has gone abroad.At that time, my dad thought it was an excuse, but they didn't expect it to be true.
……
Unexpectedly, there are such details behind it. Netizens cried again, expressing their dissatisfaction, and carried out various forms of secondary creation.
Among them, the most widely circulated is a mixed-cut video made by Ji Zong UP——
【What can I use to keep you?Use the frozen picture, use the memory, use the love of a lifetime]
The theme song is "What Can I Use to Keep You" by Fu Lu Shou. Xie Xinqian opened the video and found that the lyrics and the picture have reached an amazing resonance.
"You forgot the cold wind that blew through the wound
If you believe it, it will be a lifetime without pain or itching.”
The video shows the days when Bai Jingnian just came to Weihai Island and did not meet Tang Feng.
"Why do you want to sing when you see the snow falling
Why do tears fall when you let go"
The picture shows Tang Feng admiring the first snow alone in China, and Bai Jingnian couldn't help crying when he went abroad to study.
"One by one
miss one by one
over and over again
let go one time at a time
laughing loudly
growl
flashing scene by scene
sting me"
This is the moment when they tested each other, hesitated, and suspected that the other party liked someone else on Weihai Island.
"Because enjoying its splendor
for enduring its rot"
The previous scene is the bright bougainvillea on the tree, and the next scene is the rotten loquat in the field.
"You said don't love, and you are reluctant to let go
So life is bitter like a song"
Bai Jingnian found out his feelings for Tang Feng, he didn't want to face it, but he couldn't take his attention away from Tang Feng.
……
"You will silently hold the spark and wait in the darkest hour
You are broken when the familiar murmur pierces the ear"
On the night of the Qixi Festival, they kissed on the colorful beach to make love; it was also that summer afternoon, they blended physically and mentally on the bed.
"One by one
miss one by one
over and over again
let go one time at a time
laughing loudly
growl
flashing scene by scene
sting me"
The scene switches to the flight that Bai Jingnian returned to China 2 years later.He drove away happily, and across the road was a flash of bright red, dazzling.
"Because enjoying its splendor
for enduring its rot"
The screen switched to Luo Yuanjie's real life story.
Off-screen, Luo Yuanjie won best director awards one after another, but He Yanqing was frozen in the news report of the car accident.
"You said don't chase, and you are reluctant to let go
So life is bitter like a song"
In the movie, Bai Jingnian and Tang Feng are running by the sea; outside the movie, the elderly Luo Yuanjie walks alone in the loneliness of the sea.
"What are you in this vast galaxy
What are you in her gentle eyes"
The starry sky on the Qixi Festival, the eyes looking at each other.
"You are shining and falling and reluctant to let go
So life is as bright as a song"
Tang Feng had a car accident, and Bai Jingnian cried bitterly in the snow.
"You must see the flowers bloom
You must wait for the swallow to return
thinking they'll all come back
You swore to die for this."
Thirty years later, the branches of Sophora japonica were hanging in the courtyard of the villa, Xie Xinqian and Li Wenxiu were smiling happily on the tree, Luo Yuanjie watched them lost in thought.
The music ended, and the last scene of the video was Xie Xinqian's speech at the opening ceremony interview.
The boy's voice was a little hoarse, with faint sobs: "During filming, I once asked Director Luo if he had any regrets, and he said no."
"Never had."
All the pictures and sounds disappeared, and on the black background, only one line of large characters remained:
If my life was repeated, if I could make a new choice, I would still land on this island and fall in love with that person. ——Luo Yuanjie
After watching the video, Xie Xinqian faced the blank screen and remained silent for a long, long time.
Netizens in the comment area have long been wailing:
【Help!I cried a lot just after watching the movie, and now I finally recovered. I didn’t expect to see this video again, and I couldn’t stop my tears! QAQ]
[It's too hurt, it's too hurt, the pain of peeling the skin and cramps, it's even more uncomfortable when I think it's real.It is impossible to imagine what kind of mood Luo Yuanjie was in when he made this movie...]
[Title kill me!What can I do to keep you?Use freeze-frame pictures, use memories, and use a lifetime of love. TAT】
[Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Now Director Luo is gone too]
[I don't care, they must meet again in another world!Then live happily ever after! 】
……
In addition to the second creation, there are more and more film reviews of "Long Summer". Under the analysis of enthusiastic netizens, every detail inside and outside the play has been dug out.
Why doesn't the pagoda tree on the wall match the real pagoda tree?
Because that painting was imagined by He Yanqing. On the first day the house was repaired, He Yanqing simulated in his mind the future with his lover 30 years later, a future that would never come because of a car accident.
Why did Luo Yuanjie shoot Xie Xinqian and Li Wenxiu picking Sophora japonica?
Because he saw himself 30 years ago through this scene.If there hadn't been that accident, it would have been him and He Yanqing who picked flowers under the tree.
Why is there a corner missing from the villa's well-planned garden?
Because that was the vacancy left by the loquat tree being frozen to death, and with He Yanqing's departure, it became a hole in Luo Yuanjie's heart that could never be filled.
And now, he threw himself into that void without hesitation...
After 30 years, he finally found him.
The author has something to say:
Finally finished writing, I cried to death, the abuse points of this book are all in this chapter QAQ
After the end, I will make up a special episode of Luo Chongsheng
And, there are a lot of quotes in this chapter, so leave a message to send a red envelope~
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