Squirrel and Carp Green [Entertainment]

Director Qian Jin is similar to Zhou Yuanshan. He was an advertising director in his early years, but the difference is that he had the opportunity to transform very early. He started directing TV dramas more than ten years ago. He once single-handedly exported many popular urban genres. drama.

The directors Song Shuwen knew all seem to have a movie dream. Qian Jin wrote a parent-child theme script five years ago, but he is not Zhou Yuanshan after all, and he is not crazy enough to mortgage his house and car to make a movie. It was patiently soliciting investment and negotiating sponsorship. It was not until three years ago that the film was made.

But at that time, it was the era when commercial films were popular, and foreign big productions were rampant on the screen. Few people would pay attention to a parent-child theme movie, so the box office results were tepid, and Qian Jin could only turn around and continue to direct his most recent film. famous urban drama.

Now he is leading Zhao Mingqi and Song Shuwen to shoot the movie "Two People" which is his second movie, and he also wrote the script of this movie many years ago, but until he reached an exchange of benefits with the film and television company executives, After filming the urban drama that made him almost bald, he successfully got investment and was ready to start filming.

After all, the world is such that it is difficult for an actor who wants to act in a play he likes, and it is also difficult for a director who wants to make a play he likes.

When Song Shuwen got the script of "Two People", he thought it was a romance movie when he saw the title, but after reading it, he found it was not.

This drama is the same as Director Qian Jin said, the protagonists are only him and Mr. Zhao Mingqi, and the main content is the daily life of an old man and a young man.It is very simple and soothing, there are no ups and downs in the story, and it is not even deliberately sensational. It is not like any domestic movie describing the parent-child relationship, which arranges a lot of gossip to remind the audience-hey, you should cry.

But under the simple and soothing plot, is director Qian Jin's extremely solid screenwriting skills. He used very real plots to perfect the whole story little by little, and let a pair of grandparents and grandchildren who have no blood relationship surround a small room because of life. The battle of wits and courage, stumbling, and finally formed a wonderful family relationship.

Song Shuwen was drawn into the story when he saw the first page, and he realized that a long time had passed after reading the whole script.

He couldn't help but read the script again, and then sent Qian Jin a message:

"Thank you for this story."

The film crew was chosen in an urban village in Jiangcheng, and next to the urban village was the Jiangcheng Film and Television Academy. Song Shuwen had done short-term performance training at the Film and Television Academy, so he was no stranger to the environment here.And it hasn't been too long since he graduated, and it won't make people play again if he plays a student again.

That's right, in this movie, Song Shuwen plays a student majoring in choreography and directing. He also formed a band with friends outside of school. He is the lead guitarist of the band and usually sings in bars with friends in the band.

But although resident singing can bring him income and give him the confidence to be financially independent, the next problem is that he can’t go back to school before the school’s dormitory check. But after all, he has to go back to school during the day, so he can only choose to rent a house in the surrounding area.

Considering the rent and living costs, Song Shuwen could only settle in a small yard in a village in the city near the school.

So in the first scene of the first scene of the movie, Song Shuwen, who was performing at night, carried a guitar on his back, rode a small electric donkey to rent a house, and then knocked open a small dilapidated yard.

"I see you have a room for rent?"

With a smile on his face, Song Shuwen asked embarrassingly to Zhao Mingqi who was standing in the yard, looking at him with a vigilant face.The latter looked at Song Shuwen for a long time, then opened the courtyard door a little, and asked, "What do you do?"

"I... want to rent a house."

"I asked what you do."

"Oh, I, I'm a student."

"Student? Show me your student ID card."

It's no wonder that Zhao Mingqi reacted this way, because Song Shuwen's attire didn't look like a student at this time.

He was carrying a 41-inch guitar, wearing a bomber jacket on his upper body, and a pair of Martin boots of the same color under his black pants.

The staff responsible for the costumes specially selected a short waist jacket for him for this scene, which visually elevates his waistline significantly, making it look like his legs are crazily long.And it seems that in order to show the identity of the band's guitarist, the makeup artist also specially added an earring on his ear.

This outfit doesn't really look like much, but in the eyes of the old man played by Zhao Mingqi, the waist-tucked jacket and earrings are the words "improper" written on his face.

Fortunately, Song Shuwen really brought his student card and quickly handed it to Zhao Mingqi.The latter took the student ID card and compared it for a long time before letting Song Shuwen in.

"I'm just renting out a hut. It was originally used as a utility room. I tidied it up a few days ago and found that it can still be lived in. I don't expect it to be rented out."

Zhao Mingqi was talking, and brought Song Shuwen to a hut in the yard that looked like an illegal building. The room looked very cold, and there was a musty smell in the room, and Zhao Mingqi deliberately did not turn on the lights. It can be seen that the lighting in the room is not very good.

Seeing this, Song Shuwen immediately retreated in his heart, and was about to leave without even asking the price.

And Zhao Ming knew from Song Shuwen's appearance that he didn't like this room at all, so he laughed in his heart.

Of course he knew that the environment of his room was not good, and he had to tidy it up before he could live in it.Therefore, his estimated rent is also very low, only one-third of the normal single room price (Note 1).But he deliberately didn't talk about the rent first, just to make Song Shuwen quit. After all, he "responses" to Song Shuwen, a young man with earrings.

Song Shuwen still had a performance at night, so he walked towards the gate of the courtyard with his guitar on his back, but at the moment he was about to step out of the gate, he suddenly asked, "How much is this room a month?"

Zhao Mingqi was being questioned, and held back his reluctance to speak, but seeing that Song Shuwen had no intention of leaving, he reluctantly said, "The monthly rent...two hundred and five."

Zhao Mingqi's psychological price was actually only two hundred, and he added fifty just before he opened his mouth, just to make up "two hundred and five" to make Song Shuwen sick.

But when Song Shuwen heard the price, his first reaction was that it was really cheap, and even the shabby little room that was about to mold was pleasing to the eye.

Editing and directing is really costly. Leaving aside the initial training fees and tuition fees, if you want to be serious about editing and directing, you must have at least a high-end computer that can edit and move movies, and a SLR with decent image quality. Supporting all kinds of lenses.

The reason why Song Shuwen works part-time as a musician is not to burden the family. Although he earns a lot, he has to live on a budget. Therefore, when renting a house, he also considers the rent in addition to the location.

So he immediately turned around and walked back, saying, "I'm renting for a long time."

The author has something to say:

Note 1: I used to study undergraduate in the prototype city of Jiangcheng, and now I am studying here as a graduate student. I remember that in the past two years, the rent of a single room in the community around the school was 700-800/month, and that of the nearby urban village was 600/month.When I was renting a house during the postgraduate entrance examination, I actually saw a room in a small courtyard. It was very dilapidated, and the surrounding environment was messy and unsafe, but it was really cheap, only more than 200 a month.At that time, I thought that I was a strong man with a height of 1.8 meters. I had practiced boxing for several years, and I was fearless without chaos. I was almost ready to rent it.

But then I thought that I came out to rent a house for the sake of quietness, so I had to add money to rent a surrounding area.The happiest thing about living in the community is that it is very close to the cafeteria and food court, and you can buy food just downstairs (laughs).