Zhang Shan is an ordinary office worker who returns home after a busy day.
The life of a single dog is so interesting. You can lie down when you want to, or lie down when you want to. Even if you want to spend the whole day standing upside down at home, no one will care.
Zhang Shan excitedly opened the game, only to find that the entire game was shut down for maintenance...
So Zhang Shan opened Penguin Video.
When you open Penguin Video, there is a large movie poster recommendation on the screen.
Among them are Han Zhou, Ye Manyi, Liu Xi, Zhou Guoqing, and several veteran actors who can be seen frequently.
Zhang Shan took a look and saw that the heroine was Ye Manyi, so he didn’t really want to watch it.
Zhang Shan had no idea who the male lead was.
However, Zhou Guoqing's appearance aroused Zhang Shan's interest: "Science fiction?"
After seeing that it was a science fiction film, Zhang Shan clicked on the ad.
He was already a Penguin member and bought the broadcasting rights for five dollars. Previously, this broadcasting right could be played repeatedly within three days, but now it has been changed to two days.
As soon as the movie started playing, the screen was filled with comments:
[Is there something wrong with your mind to write this script? 】
This sentence dominated the barrage area on the screen.
No matter who you are, when you watch a movie, you may or may not read the barrage, but at least you will be attracted by these identical barrages, right?
Zhang Shan is not the kind of person who hates spoilers. On the contrary, Zhang Shan really likes to ask others about the next plot when watching TV or movies.
Unless I watch a movie in a cinema, I will watch it with the barrage turned on.
Indifferent, vast, and transparent, the picture begins with music that has these characteristics.
What is shown in the picture is a mountain in winter, and it is a low mountain.
Hengdian is originally a small plain, but there are still some mountains nearby. The shooting of these aerial shots shows Chen Xiaoyong's skills and the shots are very good.
The name of the movie was also shown on the screen.
This Man From Earth
The scene switches, and the story begins with Gu Lang, played by Han Zhou, putting goods into an old Modu car.
At this moment, the barrage is introducing:
[This is an old Modou brand car, probably from the late 1980s . ]
In order to make the plot reasonable, Han Zhou set the film's time in the late 1980s, which was equivalent to the early 1980s in his previous life.
At this time, Gu Lang was wearing a knitted sweater, and Ye Manyi and others walked over.
Zhang Shan looked at the screen. The barrage of comments gradually increased, so he kept looking at it from time to time.
【Ye Manyi is so beautiful! 】
[I haven't seen Ye Manyi for a year. Did she secretly give birth to a child? ]
[So, in the late 1980s, the location is in Zhejiang Province, and this group of people are professors and teachers at Zhejiang University at that time. What is this science fiction film about? ]
There was nothing to hide, and the plot soon gave the answer.
Gu Lang has resigned from Zhejiang University and is leaving the university.
The history professor was very puzzled: "You are only in your thirties, and you are already very popular among students. Everyone in the history department office likes you. You are also one of the candidates for the dean of the department. You can even afford a car, although it is a second-hand one... Why do you want to give up this job? Go into business?"
[Going to the adult industry? I won’t feel sleepy if I talk about this! ]
[This old lady, a Chinese scholar, looks very familiar]
[According to the old lady, is this portrait of Wu Daozi a real painting? Or at least it is all made of Tang Dynasty paper and imitated by someone else? ]
[So, where are the laser cannons? Where are the UFOs? Where are the aliens? Aren’t we going to start yet? I can’t wait!]
Everyone entered the house and complained about why Gu Lang wanted to leave without saying goodbye and was in such a hurry to pack up and leave.
Gu Lang said that he didn't like the sadness of saying goodbye, so he prepared to leave alone.
There was nothing good to offer, so they finally took out a bottle of Wen Yongsheng.
Wen Yongsheng is the best type of Laojiao liquor produced in Lu City, Sichuan Province. Several old professors looked at this wine with shining eyes.
And it seems that several people have never been to Gu Lang's house.
So they all looked around.
There was a bow and arrow from the Three Kingdoms era hanging on the wall. I picked it up and looked at it. It would have been fine if I hadn't looked at it, but when I looked at it, I found that it was actually the real thing. Although the arrow shaft and bow were imitations and not the real thing, the arrowhead was actually real.
But anthropologists saw something fascinating.
A stone knife.
Anthropologists could tell at a glance that this thing belonged to the Shangshan site.
When the Shangshan site was mentioned, the historian immediately became interested. He took the stone knife and looked at it, and found that this was actually the stone tool making method of the Paleolithic Age .
"From the material, it looks like this is indeed a stone knife from the Shangshan site... There are stone knives from the Paleolithic Age at the Shangshan site? We used to think that the Shangshan site was just a Neolithic site. In other words, the Shangshan site is at least more than 10,000 years old."
Gu Lang said that he bought this thing from a roadside stall and only spent a few cents on it.
As several people kept asking, Gu Lang was not very willing to say why he left.
But after asking again and again, Gu Lang asked: "What if there is a person from the Shangshan ruins who survived to the modern era and lived for 11,000 years?"
Except for the old lady who was a Sinology scholar and also a religious studies scholar, all the other professors present were professors of natural sciences, and everyone started discussing the topic.
Finally, the historian said: "You said you were an early person from the Shangshan site. You said you were a caveman?"
"So I move every ten years before people realize that I won't age." Gu Lang: "Or... you can also think of it as if I'm writing a science fiction novel, assuming that there is such a person, what would happen?"
Caveman is not the name of a certain race or tribe, but the name of an era.
From 30,000 years ago until humans began to live in houses, all humans were called cave dwellers.
Including Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, etc.
[No way? Doesn't that look like a monkey?]
[Funny, modern science shows that there is almost no difference between people ten thousand years ago and people today.]
[There is no difference in intelligence or brain capacity, but we eat better, so our average height is slightly higher.]
[If there was an individual who was taller at that time, it would be normal for him to appear taller now. ]
After the discussion started in the barrage, Zhang Shan habitually began to do two things at once, focusing more on the barrage.
[I think what Gu Lang said is correct. How can a person remember where his home was when he was a child? The topography of mountains and rivers is said to have not changed, but if a landmark tree falls down in a certain place, people may lose their way.]
[Who would remember what street scenes were like in the east, south, west, and north when they were young? I have long forgotten. ]
[He had no way to answer the historian's tricky questions. Indeed, the people of the Shangshan site did not know that they were from the Shangshan site. It was not until scientists named the site Shangshan that he was sure that he was probably born in the Shangshan site.]
[Yes, in history, the people of the Shangshan site did not call themselves Shangshan people, just like the people of the Sanxingdui site did not call themselves Sanxingdui people, but Shu people, or even ancient Shu people.]
[Gu Lang's answer is impeccable. Indeed, even if he had personally experienced it, the fact that the weather gradually warmed up and the tribes began to move northwards was all written in textbooks. After all, it was researched by so many scholars. Even if he lived in this era, it would be impossible for him to tell a story that contradicted the research.]
As the topic deepened, all the professors were confused.
In a particularly brilliant move, the anthropologist held up a Paleolithic stone knife and asked Gu Lang, "Do you collect any souvenirs of your past life?"
Gu Lang picked up a ballpoint pen and said, "Would you collect a pen for decades? I don't collect anything without any souvenirs. The one in your hand was also bought by me at a street stall, not made by myself ten thousand years ago. I'm giving it to you."
The barrage exploded at this time, densely packed:
[Please note that the most technologically advanced item in this sci-fi film, the ballpoint pen, has appeared! ]
Zhang Shan was delighted when he saw the comments: "Don't try to fool me."
After laughing, Zhang Shan also felt that he was completely unable to refute Gu Lang's words.
Indeed, it was after the Shangshan site was named that Gu Lang determined, based on maps and the topography of each province, that he had lived in Zhejiang Province in his youth, so he was a person from the early Shangshan site era.
People at that time did not remember the years, but with the changes in the means of living and production, he used the results of archaeological research and excavations to complete his own story of the past thousands of years.
[Just a simple and superficial mention of the Battle of Zhulu? Avoiding it because of the war? What a pity, this paragraph could be expanded in depth! ]
[Why didn't you talk about the Battle of Zhuolu in detail, but instead talked about the protagonist going west to Sanxingdui, the ancient Shu Kingdom? ]
[Perhaps not enough has been excavated at Sanxingdui, so the screenwriter doesn't need to look up information so rigorously? ]
[This is a bit ridiculous. He said he walked south from Sanxingdui to the seashore. Doesn't that mean he has reached the country of Asan? Is there a road there?]
[Yes, there was a Southern Silk Road in ancient times, and its starting point was the ancient Shu Kingdom. In addition, a few years ago, a small amount of seashells from the A-Da Ocean were excavated in Sanxingdui.]
[However, that was a very later era, and it is not the same as what Gu Lang said. ]
[This is a bit ridiculous. Gu Lang actually said that Sanxingdui had a large number of bronze artifacts in prehistoric times. So far, no bronze artifacts have been discovered in Sanxingdui. Only pottery and jade artifacts have been discovered in Sanxingdui.]
Many people who understand the comments think that the screenwriter deliberately left loopholes.
The audience who didn’t understand were drawn into the story by the rhythm of the story.
They also wanted to see if there were any loopholes in Gu Lang's next words and whether they could find Gu Lang's loopholes.
Gu Lang described that he had been to the seashore in prehistoric times and then returned to the Central Plains.
“Have you ever met anyone like you?”
Gu Lang fell into deep memories: "More than 2,600 years ago, I met a man. He told me his story, and I told him mine."
"We corroborated each other's stories about immortality, but we couldn't be sure whether the other party was making up stories to deceive us."
"Later, I once saw a patrolman wearing a turban in the Magic City Concession. I took a quick glance at him."
"Maybe he discovered me too. When I went to the police station, he had already left China."
Sensitive comments have already discovered the problem:
[Two thousand six hundred years ago, Ah San? The Immortal?! What are you hinting at?]
[Nonsense, Siddhartha Gautama, Sakyamuni. ]
Soon, the audience was not disappointed.
The historian asked Gu Lang if he had ever seen the mythical man.
Gu Lang was unwilling to answer.
So everyone knows that this is tacitly acknowledged, that one has really seen the mythical person.
The female student asked: "Is it Huangdi?"
"Chiyou?"
Gu Lang: "Chiyou is not a name, his name is Yi Gu, he is a very smart man, I heard that he invented the knife and the spear, but he was not able to defeat the Yellow Emperor."
"I said that at that time I was already living in Sanxingdui, the ancient Shu Kingdom, so I had never met him."
Here Gu Lang went out for a while, and the heroine played by Ye Manyi followed him.
Unlike others who doubt Gu Lang, the heroine believes Gu Lang and says that she likes him. She has liked him since the first day he came to Zhejiang University’s office.
Gu Lang said he knew it, but he couldn't accept it.
Because of too many times of falling in love and parting, Gu Lang is no longer willing to love.
But the heroine said she was willing to give everything.
Gu Lang asked back: "Ten years?"
The two men returned to the room. The old biologist, who was already very old, launched a sneak attack and was knocked to the ground by Gu Lang in an instant.
"Practice for another thousand years and then come find me again."
[So, the protagonist is definitely not writing a novel or making up a lie, because he likes the heroine and it is impossible for him to reject her just because he is making up a lie. ]
In fact, from the early to the middle stages of this movie, the audience is convinced that the protagonist is immortal, and the most crucial part is the expression of love.
The better this part is performed, the better the effect.
Although Ye Manyi is a small star, she is not a complete traffic star, so this part was handled well.
There is no need to talk about Han Zhou's acting skills. Han Zhou didn't act at all. He directly immersed himself in the role of Ye Manyi's unrequited lover.
When Zhang Shan saw the comments here, he agreed with them and clicked the play button to continue playing.
Historian: "Laozi?"
Gu Lang: "Don't discuss this issue anymore."
In fact, when filming this part, Han Zhou wrote three versions of the lines and shot it three times.
The three versions are shocking version, teasing version, and confession version.
In the end, Han Zhou chose to edit the confession version.
When Han Zhou was revising the script, he would not encounter any problems that he could not describe or connect, because once he thought of a plot, he could search for related film and television works in his mind and complement each other.
But Han Zhou really hadn't thought about the plot yet, because he had no answer in his mind, so he wrote three versions.
In the original plot, because there are so many religious people in the West, the dramatic conflict of the pot-smashing is very strong.
However, after Han Zhou finished filming, he found that the failed version was not suitable for the Chinese context.
So I chose the confession version, because I am a wise man, so I can confess in this way.
The historian was very confident and leaned forward: "Don't want to talk about it?"
"Could it be...you are me!"
Although Gu Lang was unwilling to talk about it, he did not deny it after being seen through.
The old lady lost her composure for the first time and rolled her eyes: "I am a person who was born old, and you are a person who is forever young."
"Besides, there are many descriptions of Laozi in the history of Taoism, but none of them describes him as a handsome man over 1.8 meters tall."
Gu Lang asked back, "Which Taoism are you talking about?"
"Is it Huang-Lao Dao? Or is it the Taoism of the Spring and Autumn Period?"
"Or maybe the Five Pecks of Rice Sect? Or even the Yellow Turbans Taiping Dao that existed at the same time and used the word Tao?"
"Or is it the Northern School Maoshan? Or is it Zhongnan Mountain? Or is it the later Wudang? Or is it the Shenxiao Dao that was canonized four hundred years ago? The Zhengyi Dao? Or is it the Tianshi Dao that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Tianshi family?"
"There have been many Taoisms in history, and each of them is far away from the time when I was called Lao Dan."
When a person admits that he is Laozi, Laodan, Taishang Laojun, and the Lord of Dao and Virtue, for the Chinese people, it is tantamount to showing his holiness.
But for scholars, it's another matter.
"So... have you ever met Confucius?"
Gu Lang smiled: "He is the smartest person I have ever met."
“He learns from a lot of people, and he learns from me.”
"At that time, I just taught some people some knowledge, but after he acquired the knowledge, he accepted many, many disciples and passed on the knowledge."
"Now I think if other people had taught it widely, perhaps Confucianism, which runs through Chinese history, would have disappeared and China would have been deeply affected."
The biologist was curious: "So, you were really stopped by Yin Xi when you were leaving Hangu Pass to the west, and you wrote the Tao Te Ching."
Gu Lang: "It's not the Tao Te Ching, it's the Virtue and Dao Jing. The Tao Te Ching was revised by people after the Han Dynasty, and it has been revised a lot."
"After I left Hangu Pass, I headed west along another route."
"But what I didn't expect was that I had arrived at a place that had been reached thousands of years ago."
"Here, I met the man who claimed immortality like me."
"And he was sitting under a tree."
The old lady rolled her eyes again. "I've been studying religious history all my life. So I've been studying you alone?"
Gu Lang smiled: "Shakyamuni was very young. Although he was immortal, he said at the time that he only lived for 800 years."
"So I passed on to him my experience of more than 9,000 years, including the ideas that sprouted during the Spring and Autumn Period in the Central Plains."
"He put all these things together, and his preachers called him the Buddha."
The old lady: "Fortunately, there is Christ. "
Gu Lang: "In fact, after communicating with Sakyamuni, I went all the way west and came to a place covered with yellow sand."
"I told that young man something."
"Later, I heard that he told others that there was a being who was wiser and greater than him."
“Well, when I saw the Nestorian teachings passed down during the Tang Dynasty, I remembered the young man I once taught.”
The biologist consoled him: "At least there is still one Yishilan left."
Historians remind us: "In fact, Ishram and Christianity believe in the same God and the holy land is the same city. The only difference is that the prophet of Ishram is Muhammad, while the prophet of Christianity is Christ."
As the discussion deepened, the section on theology came to an end.
The plot order of Han Zhou's version is different from the original version.
Han Zhou did not arrange for psychologist and psychology professor Chen Rui to return, but arranged for him to come here at this time.
The sky has darkened.
Psychologist, Chen Rui, played by Zhou Guoqing, considered Gu Lang from a psychological perspective.
Gu Lang also answered them one by one.
Chen Rui: "I believe you are a mentally sound person, so have you ever thought that maybe through some physiological or psychological mechanism, you can absorb the life of others and keep yourself alive forever."
"Just like the ancient legend of absorbing Yang Qi and absorbing Yang life?"
“Maybe you don’t even know about this mechanism?”
"Or maybe you were not born as a human at all, but some kind of humanoid creature?"
The psychologist was unable to expose Gu Lang's "lie" so he chose to change the angle. He fully acknowledged what Gu Lang said about his immortality and asked Gu Lang whether he had any psychological burden.
Gu Lang's expression at this time is very wonderful, much more wonderful than the original version.
Guilt, memories, hesitation, contemplation, relief, and another guilt.
Chen Rui kept observing Gu Lang, but in the end he couldn't confirm whether it was true or not.
Chen Rui touched his coat and said, "You know, the government is promoting the confiscation of guns. I was planning to hand in my gun."
"I didn't expect to be called here by them."
"Now I have a gun, if I hit you with it, will you die?"
Gu Lang himself didn't know whether he would die like this.
Chen Rui: "Or if I shoot you in the arm, we can see it recover?!"
"When someone you know well or someone close to you dies, do you feel guilty?"
"Or is it the kind of person who survives a disaster and thinks to others that it is me who should die and you who should live?"
Gu Lang said that he also felt guilty and had thought about it, but there was no use thinking like that.
Chen Rui reached into his coat and this time, he took out a real short-barreled musket: "Do you really think so?"