Shen Xixiong watched the Han Zhou edited version in the morning.
As a director, Shen Xixiong clearly discovered that Han Zhou's editing was to rewrite the story himself, and then use the shots taken by Tan Ailin and Han Jiaxin to piece together the puzzle pieces one by one to put the movie together.
Fortunately, Tan Aileen is so unskilled that the clothes in all shots represent the same season.
Otherwise, this wouldn't be editable.
Although clothes are mixed, the audience may not care about it, after all, washing and changing clothes is normal.
When Shen Xixiong watched the original version before, he had no idea what the story of the movie was about.
But now, at least there is a main storyline.
The story is actually very simple. Ding Qian, an older single white-collar urban woman, meets her college sweetheart Zhou He at work, which awakens her memories of campus life.
At the beginning, Ding Qian was a cheerful girl. She hoped that after entering the university campus, she could start dating her childhood sweetheart, neighbor brother Chu Chen, and become a real couple.
However, Chu Chen suddenly left without saying goodbye and has not been heard from since.
At this time, Ding Qian regained her happiness and gained friendship with the help of her roommates.
The story begins with a quarrel. Ding Qian fights for a phone with Zhou He, whom she doesn't know, in a telephone booth. During the quarrel, she breaks an architectural model made by Zhou He.
Zhou He got hot-headed and pushed Ding Qian over.
Ding Qian, who had always been spoiled, had never suffered such an injustice, so she wanted to seek revenge on Zhou He. Her way of revenge was to knock over Zhou He's plate every time so that he could not eat.
Zhou He knew that he had been impulsive that day, so he could only endure it.
However, time and time again, Zhou He exploded, and the reason was not because he was angry because Ding Qian knocked over his meal.
What makes him angry is that there are many people in this world who cannot afford to eat, and Zhou He himself is one of them. Zhou He's parents have to lift countless levers at the construction site to raise enough money for tuition, let alone living expenses.
Zhou He could tolerate not having food to eat because of doing something wrong, but he could not tolerate this kind of revenge by wasting food.
Ding Qian suddenly realized that what she was doing seemed to be very bad.
At such a youthful age, the curiosity that arose from hatred soon turned into love.
Ding Qian found that she fell in love with this boy, so she started to pester him madly.
The two also became lovers.
As graduation approached, when the two were choosing jobs, Ding Qian was happily planning for the future.
But they didn't know that Zhou He was going to study abroad. Born into a poor family, he just wanted to climb up the social ladder.
At this time, Ding Qian's roommate of four years was in a car accident.
Ding Qian lost her love and friendship, and suddenly felt that life was unpredictable and everything was out of her control.
Many years later, Ding Qian met her childhood sweetheart Chu Chen and finally figured out something.
It turned out that Chu Chen once caught Ding Qian's mother having an affair with his father. Chu Chen couldn't accept being the daughter of a woman who destroyed his family, so he chose to leave without saying goodbye.
After understanding this, Ding Qian decided to fall in love with her childhood sweetheart Chu Chen again.
But Chu Chen still cannot accept this love.
At this time, Zhou He, who had become a well-known designer, returned to the city.
Because of work, Ding Qian and Zhou He met again.
Both left without saying goodbye, one because he couldn't accept love, the other because he couldn't face separation.
This time, Chu Chen still doesn't want to accept Ding Qian, while Zhou He wants to regain his youth.
The story ends with Ding Qian and Chu Chen becoming husband and wife.
Although Chu Chen is not as good as he remembered, due to family reasons, he developed many bad habits and has a controlling nature.
Although Zhou He looked greasy in college, he is now clean-cut, more handsome, and successful.
But Ding Qian still chose Chu Chen.
Because Chu Chen once taught Ding Qian how to love, and when she met Zhou He, Ding Qian learned how to love someone.
Looking back, Ding Qian discovered that it was not Zhou He who lacked love, but Chu Chen was the one who lacked love.
Youth just passes by like this.
This plot is 85% similar to the previous life's "So Young"
It is 95% similar to the novel version.
In the original novel, the heroine chose her childhood sweetheart's brother at the end, but in the original movie, the heroine did not make this choice.
But to be honest, this version is better than the original in terms of the presentation of the small plot. The original director has no aesthetic ability and no writing skills. Although Han Jiaxin's main line is poor, her writing is really very touching, and some of the lines after filming can touch people's hearts.
However, after Han Zhou's editing, the main plot of this movie is still not as good as the original.
Because no matter how much editing is done, it is impossible to make the plot perfect.
It's like a person makes a pot of chicken soup, but the soup is bland and the chicken is overcooked and inedible.
Another person took out the chicken, added a lot of seasonings, and blended the flavors very well, but it was impossible to turn the overcooked chicken into beautiful chunks of cold chicken.
Therefore, Han Zhou specifically noted where useless empty shots or shots of character details were used and where voice-overs were needed to complete the main story.
After watching the film, Shen Xixiong felt that this movie could make a lot of money!
And it looks like I could win a prize!
this……
How come a rubbish movie becomes a gold cake after being edited by Han Zhou?
This is not scientific!!
But this is not Shen Xixiong's biggest doubt.
Shen Xixiong's biggest doubt is...
"Hey, Han Zhou, what does childhood sweethearts mean?"
Han Zhou was stunned for a moment, and responded: "Childhood sweethearts are a pair of boys and girls who grew up together, and then..."
Having said that, what Han Zhou searched through his memory made him understand why Shen Xixiong asked this question.
These two idioms come from Li Bai's poem "Changgan Xing":
[The man comes riding on a bamboo horse, playing with green plums around the bed.]
Living together in Changganli, the two children have no suspicion of each other. 】
There is no Li Bai in this world at all.
Therefore, only the literal meaning can be interpreted without the effect of idioms and allusions.
However, this seems to be the literal meaning, so it doesn't matter if you use it directly.
Shen Xixiong: "Oh, it means literally, right? Wouldn't it be too awkward for the audience to understand?"
Han Zhou: "Don't overestimate , but don't underestimate them either."
Shen Xixiong thought for a moment and said, "I'll send your edited version to Tan Aileen. Come to my house for dinner in the evening. Tan Aileen and Han Jiaxin will be there then."
Han Zhou calculated the time. The Spring Festival period would end tonight, so tonight was quite important for "Kung Fu".
"I can't stay until ten at most. After ten I have to leave."
Shen Xixiong: "Ten o'clock? You wish. I go to bed at 9:30 every day and finish my meal at 8:30 at the latest."
Han Zhou laughed awkwardly: "That's quite appropriate, okay."
…
In front of the computer, Tan Aileen and Han Jiaxin finished watching the movie.
The two looked at each other.
Very confused.
Tan Ailin: Is this the movie I shot?
Han Jiaxin: Is this the story I wrote?
Both of them saw confusion in each other's eyes.
Tan Ailin: "Or... let's change our careers..."
Han Jiaxin nodded: "I think so too."
It’s not that Han Jiaxin doesn’t want to write this story smoothly.
But, she really couldn't do it .
She wanted to express the regrets of youth.
And Tan Aileen wants to express the beauty of youth.
She wanted to express the wasted youth.
And Tan Aileen wants to express the vitality of youth.
Both of them have a lot to express.
Ask Han Jiaxin to write a story that expresses nothing and is purely interesting. Han Jiaxin can do it.
But with many restrictions on the subject, Han Jiaxin couldn't do it.
The script was bad enough, but Tan Aileen still used her clumsy skills to shoot it, which was to build a building with three pillars and four walls on a crooked foundation.
The fact that this building can be seen as a building is already impressive enough to the other crew members.
This is just like a saying on the Internet: "When you see a female driver getting into a car accident, you will wonder if she paid for her Level 2 and Level 3 licenses."
"When you see the male driver in the car accident, you will wonder if he is illiterate and that he guessed the answers to Section 1 and Section 4."
Most car accidents involving female drivers are due to problems with their driving ability.
Most car accidents involving male drivers are caused by not following traffic rules.
The same goes for filming a movie.
If a female director messes up a film, nine times out of ten it’s because she’s not proficient in directing techniques.
If a male director fails in a film, it is most likely because he is too blindly confident in the market.
The only thing in common is that the car accident scenes are all ugly.
If the original version of this movie was released, it would actually have no impact on Tan Ailein and Han Jiaxin.
Because even if you can't understand a movie, there are still people who can 'understand' it.
People who 'understand' it will say: This movie is not for ordinary people, so it is art.
Then win a few awards, make the audience question life, and then "The Emperor's New Clothes".
Then, after ten or eight years, someone very smart finally understood the movie.
In an instant, many people came out and said, "Huh? So that's what it means!"
"That's great!"
'No wonder it won an award!'
But the problem is that now, someone has changed something that is incomprehensible and turned it into something that anyone can understand.
This is a bit... too hurtful to one's self-esteem!
Tan Aileen and Han Jiaxin had lost themselves and were lost in the noise of bullshit eight hundred years ago.
After all, when these two are put together, many investors would lose money to make movies for them.
Moreover, the organizing committee of the film festival treated them like their own aunts... No, they were even closer than their own aunts!
Two ignorant women kept thinking, oh, so this is art?
Even though I don’t really understand it, I was able to create art in my films, which shows that it’s a talent. It doesn’t matter whether I understand it or not. When making a movie, isn’t it all up to God’s will?
It’s God’s will, it’s hard not to win the prize!
Today, they suddenly understood one thing.
That's what I took a picture of before. Bullshit! No! No!
A 24-year-old young man, without a team, wrote a new story alone.
Then we edited this new story using the footage we shot, which neither of us could understand the story behind.
Then suddenly I understood it.
After Tan Ailin and Han Jiaxin communicated with each other, they immediately realized that something was wrong.
Everyone recognizes that cursive writing is an art, and ordinary people cannot understand the calligraphy of the cursive masters in history at all.
But there is absolutely no possibility that someone can cut down every word and rearrange them so that everyone can understand it.
Because every character written by the Saint of Cursive Script is a work of art, you need to understand this field to appreciate how awesome the characters are.
As for me, every word I write can be recognized by ordinary people, but when put together, it makes no sense.
Now someone cut out each word, used it to spell out a pattern, and wrote a story that was powerful enough to conquer the readers.
Is this because the handwriting is good?
This has nothing to do with whether the words are good or not!
After the two realized how incompetent they were, they became a little upset.
Tan Ailin: "This kid is quite nosy."
Han Jiaxin: "Give him some trouble."
Tan Ailin: "What do you mean?"
Han Jiaxin: "The mountain man has a clever plan!"
…
Shen Xixiong's home.
Shen Xixiong's wife brought out a table of dishes.
Han Jiaxin: "Oh, it smells so good, Aunt Long!"
Shen Xixiong's wife: "Haha, your cooking skills haven't deteriorated, have they? I'm used to eating in the office cafeteria. I haven't cooked for a long time."
Tan Ailin: “It smells so good!”
Han Zhou felt like he had a cold. Where was the fragrance?
Shen Xixiong tried to hold back his laughter.
Shen Xixiong's wife, Aunt Long: "Xiao Han, just treat this place as your own home, don't be restrained."
Han Zhou: "Then I can't help it!"
Han Zhou rushed to the kitchen and started scrambling.
Then he brought out a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and poured his rice on it.
Han Jiaxin looked at the scrambled eggs with tomatoes and reached out with her chopsticks.
Han Zhou opened Han Jiaxin's chopsticks: "Sister, this is my bowl!"
"Why are you putting food in other people's bowls?"
Han Jiaxin was angry: "Am I old?"
To be honest, 38 is quite old, but for a woman in the circle, it is still too early. Han Jiaxin looks only about 28 or 29.
Han Zhou: "Everyone knows that Fourth Uncle Han is my biological fourth uncle, and you are my biological elder sister. Isn't it wrong to call me elder sister?"
Tan Ailin: "Isn't it natural for your elder sister to eat your food?"
Han Jiaxin nodded: "Yes, this dish will be confiscated."
Aunt Long doesn’t really care, because she knows very well that the food she cooks isn’t very delicious.
But when we go to Shen Xixiong's house for dinner, are we eating the food cooked by Aunt Long? No.
After feeling aggrieved for a long time, Han Zhou seemed not to want to eat anymore.
Han Jiaxin and Tan Aileen shared the scrambled eggs with tomatoes and ate a lot of Aunt Long's dishes.
Han Jiaxin smiled and said, "Oh, it's delicious."
Tan Ailin: "Your craftsmanship is pretty good, you are worthy of being from Shu Province."
Han Zhou smiled: "As long as the two sisters are happy."
Aunt Long: "Why is the range hood still making noise? Did you forget to turn it off?"
Han Zhou stood up: "I'll go and turn it off."
When Han Zhou returned, he brought a pot of steamed sea bass: "Auntie Long, I saw you had a fish and couldn't help but steam it."
Han Jiaxin and Tan Ailin: “???!!!”
Han Zhou: "Are you full? Do you want something else?"
"You're welcome."
Shen Xixiong: "Fortunately, my belly is big."
Han Zhou: "Fish head or tail?"
Shen Xixiong: "What are you talking about? Can't you just choose your belly?"
Han Zhou: "It's unhealthy for the elderly to eat too much fatty food."
Aunt Long laughed out loud.
Shen Xixiong: “…”
"Head."
While Han Zhou was eating, Han Jiaxin asked: "Aunt Long, my brother is pretty good, right?"
Aunt Long smiled and said, "The young man is very handsome. I heard from Old Shen that he is the director with the highest box office among those under 40 years old right now?"
Han Zhou: "Keep a low profile, I'm the highest in a single department. If you add it up, there are seven or eight people who are higher than me."
Aunt Long smiled, "Amazing, talented."
Han Jiaxin: "That's right, my little brother is great at making movies, his TV shows have high ratings, he's the top-rated person in TV dramas, he's handsome, he sings well, he can write songs, and he even wrote two songs for our new movie, he's really amazing!"
Han Zhou picked up a piece of fish and said, "It's for a fee."
Han Jiaxin continued: "Look, Aunt Long, the cooking skills are great. The sea bass is steamed and looks like garlic cloves, just like the chef in a hotel."
Han Zhou: "Thank you, thank you. I'm just doing it casually."
I'm not being modest. The last time Han Zhou cooked for himself was in his senior year of high school.
However, my familiarity with this world, combined with my deep memories of my past life, made it easy for me to make simple dishes like steamed vegetables.
Han Jiaxin smiled and said, "I think he and Qiqi are a perfect match."
Han Zhou: “???”
Qi Qi? Is she Shen Xixiong's daughter? A daughter born in old age?
Aunt Long laughed: "Qi Qi is only in her third year of high school."
Han Jiaxin had a gossipy expression: "It's better to be older, so that you can be caring and considerate!"
Aunt Long: "That's good. Since he's a boy, it doesn't matter how much older he is than the girl."
Aunt Long looked at Han Zhou, just like a mother-in-law who likes her son-in-law more and more.
Tan Ailin: "Aunt Long, you don't know, how many girls of Qiqi's age don't like Han Zhou?"
"If you don't believe me, call and ask."
Aunt Long: "Qi Qi is still in school. She has evening study today."
It’s worthy of being a senior year in high school. Even the daughter of the director of CCTV has to attend classes during the Spring Festival.
Han Zhou understood what was going on. Was it a random matchmaking?
Han Zhou: "This is really bad. Everyone knows that I have a girlfriend."
Shen Xixiong: "That's right. Anyone with eyes can see that you and the little girl from the An family are having an affair. The audience can see it, and the only thing left is an official announcement ."
Aunt Long didn't understand the entertainment industry, so she looked at Shen Xixiong and asked, "Really?"
Han Jiaxin: "Oh, it's just a rumor, don't take it seriously."
"If you don't believe me, ask Han Zhou. He is definitely not in a relationship with An Lan."
Han Zhou thought to himself that Han Jiaxin was the one who was in control. This woman was really in control. Han Zhou really didn't dare to admit it!
Han Zhou was thinking that if this movie was edited into "So Young", it might not be powerful enough. Could it be changed into "Love to the End"?
Han Zhou looked at Aunt Long and smiled, "Aunt, you don't have to look at the hens to eat eggs."
"Children like to blindly like stars."
"Director Shen knows what kind of people celebrities are."
"I'm not a good person either, please don't."
Han Jiaxin never expected that Han Zhou would say in person that he was not a good person.
Aunt Long doesn’t understand things in the entertainment industry, but she’s not stupid. However, she is also very curious. Such an honest child, who honestly says that he is not a good person, what has he done?
Seeing Aunt Long's confusion, Han Zhou said, "You know, Sword of Moye has been taken off the screen, because it was my only rival, so I took it off the screen."
Aunt Long: "Then why don't you show the inner world?"
Han Zhou: "Because the Earth's Core World was introduced by An Lan's family, and the Speed ​​Pass Group in the United States now has a cooperative relationship with me. Dozens of my young employees, directors and screenwriters are studying there."
Aunt Long nodded: "You are an honest child. It is better to be bad in public than in secret."
Han Zhou turned to look at Han Jiaxin and smiled: "I have an outline, can you write it into a movie?"
What is Han Jiaxin's strength? She writes good short stories.
To put it bluntly, it means good writing.
What is the weakness? I can’t write a good main plot.
To put it bluntly, there is no logic.
But, wouldn't it be fine if Han Zhou gave her the outline, asked her to complete it, and then revise it herself?
In fact, Han Jiaxin is the most suitable screenwriter for New World.
Today, this elder sister randomly arranged a love match. Wasn't she angry that her dream bubble was punctured? However, the fact that she was wrapped in such a sugar-coated bullet for more than ten years shows that she is not deep-minded.
It's easy to solve. Just find her something to do and everything will be settled.
Tan Aileen gave Han Jiaxin a look.
However , Han Jiaxin had just added Han Zhou's WeChat message and received a document, which she read attentively.
Soon, Han Jiaxin looked up at Han Zhou in shock.
Han Jiaxin felt that she would never be able to write a script that was even one percent as shocking as the above outline about medicine.
However, if this thing is to be made into a script, there is a lot of room for creativity!
Han Jiaxin started thinking about it immediately.
Tan Ailin: “???”
Rebellion?
Han Zhou looked at Tan Ailin: "I have a great photographer friend who might be planning to shoot an urban romance drama about a wild girl and a boy falling in love."
"The lead actors are tentatively Lu Jin and Shan Koukou."
"Are you interested in being the nominal director?"
If Han Zhou has seen Tan Ailein's movies, it is equivalent to seeing this person.
With this style of movie, this guy is too easy to guess.
She is obsessed with looks, and all the actors in this movie are very good-looking.
Lu Jin is the most suitable person for her movie, and Lu Jin and Shan Koukou played Gongsun Ce and Pang Feiyan. Both their fame and acting skills are well-received at this stage.
Tan Aileen likes to cook with good ingredients the most, even though she always ends up with a pot of honeycomb coal.
She couldn't refuse this kind of thing.
Tan Ailin was puzzled: "A great photographer who transformed into a director? You are not talking about Chen Dayong, are you?"
"Not interested."
Han Zhou knew that this woman was not interested.
Tan Aileen has a very perverted habit and likes to be a matchmaker.
And it was arranged by the crew.
It seems that this kind of thing makes her feel very accomplished.
Chen Dayong, who has a family, has no chance when he comes to her.
So, Han Zhou: "Chen Xiaoyong."
Tan Aileen felt that her secondary professional mission was activated. There was a huge question mark above her head, and a scroll was slowly opening!
Shen Xixiong said seriously: "Go ahead."
"In fact, you are the best person for this job."
Tan Aileen was stunned.
Shen Xixiong: "You know everything a director should learn, but you don't know how to use them yourself."
"A great photographer like Chen Xiaoyong can string together all the techniques needed to make a movie, but there are many things he doesn't know."
"It might be good for both of you if you cooperate."
Shen Xixiong was the master that Tan Ailin had kowtowed to. When the master spoke, Tan Ailin took advantage of the situation and said, "Okay, I'll do it."
Han Zhou looked at his watch and said, "I've been busy editing movies these days and haven't been back to the company much. I have to go back, Aunt Long."
"Director Shen, see you next time!"
Aunt Long smiled and said, "What's the use of calling the station director? Just follow your elder sister Jiaxin and call him Uncle Shen."
Han Zhou: "Uncle Shen..."
These three words reminded him of a comedian in his previous life who had suffered from chronic back injuries.
Shen Xixiong smiled and said, "Go ahead. The seven-day box office data for Kung Fu during the Spring Festival is out. It's time to adjust the publicity plan."
Han Zhou picked up his coat and put it on, then turned to look at Tan Ailin and Han Jiaxin: "According to the plan I wrote, we will add the narration to "So Young" and release it in the summer vacation. We will try to make 700 million yuan, maybe even 800 million yuan."
"If you win an award, don't thank me on stage. Just pretend it had nothing to do with me."
After Han Zhou left, Tan Ailin looked at Han Jiaxin and asked, "How much did the six movies we worked on together make at the box office?"
Han Jiaxin opened the calculator on her phone: "Let me calculate..."
"Seven million and eighty thousand..."
7.08 million, keep 700 million and strive for 800 million...
Tan Ailin: "This is a humiliation..."
Han Jiaxin: “…”
"No matter how you say you shouldn't thank him for winning the award, I must thank him, thank him as much as I can, and let others know that he wrote the main script and did the editing."
"Give him the positions of executive director, number one screenwriter, and chief editor!"
Tan Ailin: "Of course! Why don't you let us mention him? Why do you insist on mentioning him?"
Shen Xixiong: "Okay, you two, you are almost forty years old, why are you acting like children?"
"Only Han Zhou won't bother with you. If he gets ruthless, you should stop doing this business in the future."
"And it won't offend Han Lao Si and Tan Lao Wu, do you believe it?"
Aunt Long now understood what Han Zhou meant when he said that he was not a good person.
Han Jiaxin's mind returned to her new job: "Seven hundred million? I wonder how much box office he plans to get from this outline? This outline should lose money if it is filmed, right?"
Tan Ailin: "I don't know which movie I'm going to make, he's prepared to pay hundreds of millions."
"I risked everything to support Lu Jin."
Shen Xixiong remained silent.
Han Zhou? Losing money? Compensating? How can this guy compensate for what he brought out? Unless aliens came over the day before his movie was released and bombed all the movie theaters on Earth, otherwise... there is no way he can compensate!