Chapter 13: This Kneeling is a Classic in Film History
The actors were seated at the table.
All the stage crew were off-camera.
The tree was timid, afraid, avoiding, and pretending to be magnanimous: "Erzhu, you occupied my family's land without even telling me in advance."
Wu Li plays Er Zhu, who looks drunk, with a large gold ring on his finger. He points at the tree and shakes it up and down while smoking: "I'll tell you."
"I am creating a perfect new life for you."
"do you know?"
As he spoke, he was part drunken, part boasting, part arrogance, and part ruffian.
Everyone looked at Wu Li, and there was only one word in their minds: awesome.
This acting is really good.
However, once the trees started talking, everything changed.
Everyone looked at the tree. They didn't think that this was the director or Han Zhou. They only knew that this was the tree.
Don’t say anything about what the people around you say, just do it.
The second pig wants to play a trick on the tree.
As soon as Shu sat at the table, everyone else drank beer, so Erzhu asked Shu to pour some white wine.
Now, the second pig is dazed and wants to give the tree trunk one.
Shu dodged and circled: "If you do this, we two brothers will just do it for the sake of courtesy. We still have to help others later. We have work to do!"
Erzhu was not upset at this time, he just leaned back and said: "You are not giving face to your brother, right?"
Shu smiled and said, "We'll drink till we die tonight."
Of course Erzhu was unwilling, saying that night is night and noon is noon.
At this time, Shu tilted his head and said with a smile: "This is not giving your brother face."
Erzhu burst into anger at this time: "What's wrong? I'm still making things difficult for you."
Then the second pig stood up and insisted on drinking from the tree.
In this embarrassing and embarrassing situation, Shu tried to get back on his feet, so he said, "You're relying on your brother-in-law being the village chief to act so arrogant, right?"
Erzhu was hit in a sore spot, but this was not something Shu should say, so Erzhu exploded and asked Shu to kneel down and apologize.
Erzhu shouted loudly, and the people at the surrounding tables naturally heard it.
A large group of people around saw the fight and came to try to stop it.
When the groom Gao Peng saw this, he hurried over and pulled the tree, while another group of people pulled the two pigs.
Gao Peng pulled her aside and said, "Forget it, forget it. I'm getting married. Stop making trouble."
Old classmate Chen Yixin and others pushed Erzhu to other places: "Erzhu, no, no, no."
“Crack!”
Han Zhou is both the lead actor and the director.
But no assistant director is needed.
Because once the shot is long enough, Han Zhou will say "cut" after waiting for a few seconds.
"Okay, the sixth shot of Gao Peng's wedding is over, and we are preparing for the first shot inside the house."
At this time, many people quickly started moving, some moving the camera, some setting up the scene, and some putting on makeup.
Those who had nothing to do went to look through the script.
It's written that way in the script, so it doesn't seem like a big deal.
Now Han Zhou and Wu Li are acting opposite each other, and the performance is so amazing that it makes people feel that it is simply amazing.
Many people only noticed some small details after flipping through it.
For example, this is not the first time that Erzhu has not given face to Shu.
Last time, Xiaozhuang hit Erzhu's car parked there, and Shu asked Erzhu to give him some face and let it go.
Erzhu said at that time, what does it have to do with you?
This shows that Brother Shu has no face in front of Erzhu.
However, why was the second pig angry at the tree?
Logically speaking, such a person with no status and no ability is usually the object of everyone's ridicule. What is there to be angry about?
In fact, it has been explained clearly before.
At that time, Erzhu was wearing a pair of high-end leather boots and Shu accidentally stepped on him.
At that time, no one paid much attention to this shot. It was just a close-up of a pair of leather shoes being stepped on, but no one paid attention to it.
Now it's strung together.
It turns out that Erzhu has been unhappy with the tree for a long time. Although Erzhu looks rich and powerful, he is actually a very narrow-minded person.
The key point is that he is not only narrow-minded, but also wants to learn from others to say one thing in public and another behind the scenes.
But he is a reckless person, so he can only be so cunning.
The image of an uneducated, reckless second-rate man who becomes rich and powerful because of his social connections, and then wants to emulate the upper class, but is not good at learning and does not use his brain much, and is a face-conscious nouveau riche, is created in this way.
Soon, the room was decorated.
Because the room was not big, all the staff were crowded together on one side with their backs against the wall.
The camera was pointed at one side of the door and window.
Gao Peng and his mother brought Shu Ge into the house.
Gao Peng's mother didn't know what happened, she only knew that Shu and Er Zhu were quarreling: "You must have drunk too much again, come and lie down on the bed."
The tree was leaning to one side and the other, and it looked exactly like the drunkards we have seen who said stubbornly: "It's okay, it's okay, you guys go take care of the guests, I'm fine, don't worry about me."
The crew members knew from the script that Shu Ge was forced to drink by Er Zhu, but he didn't drink at all.
Why is Brother Shu drunk and staggering?
Because Brother Shu is using this to cover up himself. From Brother Shu's perspective, getting drunk and making trouble is definitely better than being pointed at and scolded when sober.
Gao Peng and his friends had no idea whether Shu had drunk alcohol or not, and they really thought Shu was drunk.
Erzhu and Shuge are actually the same kind of people.
It’s just that Erzhu’s brother-in-law is the village chief, so he opened a mine and made money.
As for Brother Shu, the eldest brother was mistaken for a hooligan and was hung up and beaten by his father, but he accidentally strangled him to death.
My father died soon after.
My mother is just an ordinary, elderly rural woman.
My third brother is a taxi driver.
When it comes to being a person and doing things, Brother Shu is better than Erzhu.
At this moment, Erzhu broke into the scene and pointed at Brother Shu angrily.
The others held Erzhu tightly and said, "We are all good friends, stop making trouble."
Gao Peng's mother: "It's Gao Peng's big day today, why is he making a fuss? He is so ignorant!"
Erzhu didn't care and pointed at Shuge: "You still don't admit it, right?"
Since everyone else went to pull Erzhu, there was no need for Brother Shu to pretend to be drunk.
He stood there with nowhere to put his limbs, as if thinking.
It didn't take long. After a second of thinking, Brother Shu spoke up: "Brother."
The others were still pulling Erzhu, and Erzhu shouted, "Get out of the way!"
Brother Shu raised his voice: "Brother!"
Er Zhupai pulled the others aside and pointed at the tree: "Let him speak!"
At this time, Brother Shu lowered his head and said crookedly: "Brother, just now, there were too many people outside, I was wrong."
After saying that he was wrong, Brother Shu just knelt down.
This action caught everyone present by surprise.
When reading the script, many people were wondering how Brother Shu would kneel down.
At this moment, Brother Shu did not kneel down, his spine was pulled out and his body collapsed.
Erzhu pointed at Shuge, who was kneeling on the ground with his head down, and said, "I find you annoying when I see you like this."
"You should learn this lesson from now on, okay?"
At this time, old classmate Chen Yixin seemed to have finished dealing with things outside and hurried in. Seeing this, she pulled Erzhu .
After Erzhu vented his anger, he stopped trying so hard.
Gao Peng's mother also went to take Erzhu away.
Gao Peng tried to help Shu Ge get up, but Shu Ge just couldn't get up.
Chen Yixin: "You go and do your thing, I'll do it."
Chen Yixin couldn't even pull up a kneeling person.
“Crack!”
Han Zhou stood up.
No one was prepared for how quickly Han Zhou could get into and out of the role.
In fact, Han Zhou was not leaving the play quickly, but entered another play.
One second he thought he was a tree, the next second he was part of the director's play.
On the scene, "Bang!"
Some people applauded.
Then some people started to applaud.
Then, there was crazy applause.
No one had ever seen such a wonderful kneeling.
This kneeling was like a person's spine being pulled out, and he could no longer straighten his back or stand up.
Even veteran actors in their forties or fifties who have been in the industry for thirty years may not be able to perform such acting skills.
A new actor starring in a new director's role, this kneeling was shocking.
If everyone used to think that Han Zhou was Brother Shu.
Now, everyone is no longer concerned about evaluating his acting skills, but is thinking about one question: what kind of person is Brother Shu?
Outside the door, Erzhu, or should I say Wu Li, walked in again. He looked as if he had successfully won the house lottery.
It can be imagined that Wu Li was very happy after watching this scene continuously.
The joy of acting is probably an experience that many actors will never experience in their lifetime.
Only when the strongest dramatic conflict breaks out and the opponent is an extremely strong one can it be satisfying.
Wu Li was very happy today.
"Director Han, awesome!"
Han Zhou: "You are awesome, you are awesome!"
Starting from this kneeling, all the realistic content was filmed.
What follows is a very psychedelic plot.
Looking at the script, no one knows what happens next.
Which things are when Shu Ge is awake, and which things are when Shu Ge is confused.
No one can even analyze which of the later plots, as a continuation of the previous plots, actually happened in reality.
Everyone knows that only after this film is finished can we see what is really going on.
Even the finished film is hard to understand.
"Hello Mr. Tree" is different from those movies that are deliberately pretentious and difficult to understand.
Some people like to film a story in a way that the audience cannot understand.
It is called artistry.
Mr. Tree is different. Mr. Tree is something no one can understand.
Because, how can a normal person understand the story of a madman?
Because how can one person understand another person's life circumstances?
This movie is not complicated, what is complicated is the people themselves.
Just like other so-called art films, which are basically a collection of MVs, Hello Mr. Tree has almost no music, only an interlude "The Train is Leaving Soon" and Mr. Tree's elder brother sang "A Fire in the Winter".
That song represents the fashion and avant-garde nature of Big Brother in Shu Ge's mind, and serves the story, nothing else.
This movie is so simple, but it just makes people feel incomprehensible.
Because as people watch the movie, they are no longer watching the story, but the person of Brother Shu.
No one can understand Brother Shu.
Therefore, Han Zhou had already anticipated that from this kneeling until the end of the shooting, the crew would go through a long and very low-pressure shooting period.
Han Zhou had no choice. Han Zhou was not a real great director and didn't know how to deal with things on and off the stage.
Fortunately, except for the new male and female protagonists and myself, the new director, everyone else in the crew is well-known and accomplished veterans in the industry, so I didn’t care.
However, from this day on, Han Zhou had an job: he had to start writing new songs.
"Tomorrow's Superstar" is being filmed and broadcast episode by episode, and it is almost time for Han Zhou to perform.
