Xiangjiang old events [entertainment circle]

Regarding the concept poster of this movie, Su Yun drew more than one.

In addition to the one at dusk, the other one also has huge buildings and the backs of people as the main elements, but the difference is that this one was shot at night.

This is a picture of standing on the roof at night and looking down. The element of "people" is compressed into a small and weak existence like ants. Coupled with the blue tone of the night scene, the square tall buildings and the center of the picture are the main body of the picture. In the depression, the trance turned into a bottomless abyss that devoured everything.

When the size gap between people and objects is maximized in this way, the shock brought by it can often further arouse the deepest fear in people's hearts.

And this method was also used by Su Yun once at the beginning of the movie, as the focus of the attention--at the beginning of the movie, the male protagonist Jiahui, dressed in a cheap suit from social animals, sits in the company of the gentle background music, Get on the taxi to the outskirts of the Walled City.

Old Hong Kong films always like to use the urban scenery as the background, with the classic operation of the left and right cast and crew lists. Su Yun is no exception this time: this shooting method is a relatively cost-effective way to show the prosperity of the city. Way.

The screen interweaves several rounds of close-ups of the prosperous modern city and Jiahui sitting in the car, and then, the imitation No.1 perspective from the window of the car begins.

On the streets at dusk, the young policeman who finished his day of patrol work was led by his seniors, and gradually moved from a residential area with a sense of smoke and age to a modern urban area.

On the contrary, Jiahui's taxi was driving from the urban area to the residential area.

When people and cars pass by each other, the vigor of the little policeman and the gloomyness of Jiahui create a sharp contrast at the moment of intersection.

By the time the taxi arrived at the destination, it was almost dark.

Jiahui paid the fare and walked down with the suitcase, only to see the street lamps on the side of the road and the lights lit by merchants and residents on the street, forming a light path that illuminates the transition period between dusk and night.

Going a little further along this light path, the originally slightly overlooked and occasional close-up scenes gradually changed to looking up at the front as the angle of view moved up——

The disorderly buildings formed a natural city wall barrier. On the uneven roofs and terraces, the shadows of debris swayed gently with the night wind, and the lights lit by the residents of the city were scattered all over the place. In the outermost high-rise body, those old years with fine dust seem to be vaguely hidden in this complex of old and new buildings, giving people a glimpse of the traces of the torrent of history.

It's like using him as a boundary to divide a place that is so close to each other into two different worlds.

Behind it is a new world that strives to expand towards modernization, constantly rushing on the road of development; in front, it is a deformed fortress forgotten by time and space in a corner, like a dormant in the dark. The wounded monster is waiting for the final blow before its demise.

The impact of this picture was so great that the foreign audiences who watched the premiere at the Berlin Film Festival at that time were fascinated by it and talked about it constantly.

The East Asia that most foreigners like to see is nothing more than this backward, poor, pitiful, dilapidated modern oriental sentiment.

It's a pity that, captured by Su Yun's black technology, this well-known backward dark area in Xiangjiang seems to be infused with vitality beyond time and space because of the shooting technology and production that don't seem to belong to this era. A long history of mystery.

Obviously it is a real place, and it is obviously a real real scene shooting, but it is far more weird and psychedelic than the set set and fictional modeling.

So in this instant, a kind of numbness and madness that can only be helpless because of being unable to change, merged into this strange junction of history and future, light and shadow, civilization and primitive.

In order to avoid "The Postman from the Rooftop" and its troubled brother "Out of the Walled City" from being modified by relevant departments, Su Yun simply used Zhao's platform and her own popularity to directly cross the On the Xiangjiang side, the film was sent to the Berlin Film Festival as the premiere of the selected film.

Although the management is not as strict as that of later generations, it is not mandatory that the films selected for the film festival must be sent to the corresponding regions for premiere during the election period; but it is found that the films that are premiered at the film festival are obviously more likely to win Afterwards, it became a tacit unspoken rule to send the film to the corresponding area of ​​the film festival for the premiere.

When Su Yun participated in Venice before, she was regarded as a newcomer to the Fish Pond Bureau, so she managed to take advantage of the "premiere" in the Asian region and then sent to the European and American regions for the "premiere"; The attitude towards it is much stricter.

The reason for choosing the Berlin Film Festival is that the style of the film is biased towards the preferences of the Berlin Film Festival, and the second is that the Berlin Film Festival is held in February. This operation method can have the opportunity to go to the Oscars for the best foreign language film after going to Berlin. nominate.

As for winning... As far as the old-school white judges of the Oscars and the unspoken rules of age and qualifications, at Su Yun's age, there is no need to think about it.

Being able to send it to the Oscars is due to the fact that Zhao Rifu himself is the founder of the local film review and approval department.

But after trying to win the nomination, when she is a few years later, when she is older, those "hidden rules and shady scenes" earlier will become the biggest booster for her to win the award.

The small calculations in Su Yun's heart are quite loud, and the plot of the movie, along with Su Yun's setting, gradually shifts from the huge building complex to the characters.

The hero, Jia Hui, walked in the narrow alleys of the Walled City. The suit that looked cheap and rustic on the outside turned into a high-end product that didn't fit in inside the Walled City. Thanks to his grandfather Cao, who was tied to a cane, he came out early to pick him up. After he went home, he was not surrounded by the neighbors as a monkey.

Uncle Cao broke his leg a few days ago, and it is temporarily inconvenient to work as a postman for a while, but at this time, he can find someone to take his place; so these days he is still walking slowly with a cane Sending letters seems to be very difficult.

When I was in distress, I received a call from my grandson saying that I wanted to live with him for a while, so the old and the young hit it off and made an appointment to meet.

However, considering that few people who left the city were willing to come back, Uncle Cao tentatively asked Jiahui the reason when he was packing his things.

Jia Fai's father was sent by Uncle Cao to study abroad long ago, and then settled in a foreign country. After returning to Hong Kong after studying abroad, Jia Fai also joined the famous real estate company Hongfa Real Estate to work. Why did he suddenly resign?

Jiahui's tone sank, and he told his grandfather about the serious seniority in the company. As a newcomer, he was suppressed by his seniors and his manuscript was stolen by his colleagues, so he resigned in a fit of anger.

But he couldn't fill his stomach with the temporary anger. After resigning, he couldn't find a job, and he was too embarrassed to ask his parents who lived abroad for help. up.

And the reason why Uncle Cao still lives in the city is not because his children and grandchildren are unfilial.

On the contrary, Jiahui's father persuaded him to live out many times, but he was only thinking about his job as a postman, and he was reluctant to part with his old neighbors, so he even quarreled with Jiahui's father several times.

In the end, Jiahui's father was so angry that he let him stay in the walled city, threatening that if he didn't come out, he would never go back.

"Hey, I have lived for so many years and worked for so many years. How can I let go all at once?" Old Uncle Cao looked at his grandson, whom he hadn't seen for many years, and sighed, "It's rare for you to have the opportunity to come in. I will also take you to get acquainted with the Walled City, although you were not born here, the Walled City is always the root of your grandpa and me."

"But this kind of place should have been demolished a long time ago. Look at these, here and there..." Jiahui frowned, with a look of reluctance.

"How can it be so easy to dismantle?" Uncle Cao sneered, "It was said to be dismantled decades ago, but it still hasn't been dismantled - besides, who would dare to dismantle it?"

"Grandpa, the times are different now. After the agreement is really made, it can be demolished at any time... Ah!" Jiahui hadn't finished speaking, and he was hit by Old Man Cao's cane.

After receiving a cane and a reprimand, Jiahui reluctantly started working with Uncle Cao: After all, the fundamental reason why he came to the Walled City was to take over Uncle Cao's job as a postman.

On the one hand, it will allow old man Cao to take a good rest, and on the other hand, it will also allow him to earn some wages to support himself.

"It's fine if you come back, you're the only one willing to work in the walled city, and you won't be hungry, and most people won't deal with the postman." Uncle Cao said, "Like those big companies outside, a company that compares An unscrupulous family, just like the 'Hongfa' you used to have, more than ten years ago, there was an incident of oppressing the orphans and widows left behind by the workers. It was the people in our Walled City who staged a protest together to help the widow. Returned her husband's death pension..."

After such accidents on the construction site, it is not uncommon for workers' death pensions to be owed or embezzled privately these days. Therefore, Jiahui, who was not at all interested in this, responded with a few perfunctory words, and followed Uncle Cao out of the house.

Before going out, Uncle Cao asked him to wear a hat.

Jiahui shook his head again and again: Originally, it was already dark enough in this walled city, and if he wore a hat, he might not be able to see the road clearly.

What's more, his big brown satchel and white T-shirt and sweatpants look very like a postman in a walled city, and with a peaked cap, it is really a complete three-piece set as standard, stylish and lifelike... …

He just came here temporarily for some reason, but he didn't intend to stay in the city for a lifetime like his grandfather, Uncle Cao.

And this job is said to be a postman on the rooftop, but how often can it actually run on the rooftop?

Aren't most of the people who walk on these strange and mysterious roads such as the laneways, stairs, planks built illegally by residents, scaffolding made of bamboo poles, and windows of various sizes?

Since there is not much time to bask in the sun, why not need to wear a hat?

Jiahui, who was thinking this way, was suddenly shot a "flying arrow" from top to bottom by someone upstairs when he followed Uncle Cao through a certain narrow path.

Looking at the thick green phlegm that was almost wiping his forehead, and looking back at the old man Cao who looked back in front of him, "I don't listen to the old man's words, I will suffer in front of my eyes", Jiahui endured and endured, at least he endured the tragic scene The urge to call out.