Chapter 136 "Your Name" Premiere (Part 2)
"The comet that only appears once every 1,200 years finally arrived a month later.
"It is estimated that within a few days, the comet will be visible to the naked eye."
"Observation institutions around the world are preparing for observations..."
Listening to the morning news on the radio, Luo Sanye's family ate quietly around the table, with no one speaking.
"Grandma, let's go."
After eating, Sanye tied a ponytail with a red rope, put her schoolbags on her back and went to school together with her sister.
The Sanye family lives halfway up the hillside of the town, and there is a winding cement road leading directly to the main part of the town down the mountain.
The sisters were walking along the edge of the concrete road when a bicycle carrying people came speeding towards them.
"Sanye, good morning!" Zhou Yang, who was holding Zhu Yawen around his waist, greeted warmly from the back seat.
The two of them played Luo Sanye's classmates Lin Keyan and Axiang.
"Good morning, Katsuhiko and Axiang." Mitsuha responded enthusiastically.
"Good morning." Lin Keyan smiled and greeted Sanye, turned around and said to Axiang with some disgust: "Get down here quickly!"
"What are you doing, you cheapskate!"
The two of them were fighting and quarreling, which made Sanye sigh: "You two have such a good relationship."
"Who has a good relationship with him/her?" The two retorted in unison.
Lin Keyan, who looked at Sanye, noticed that the red rope that tied her ponytail was tied with a bow today, and said with a smile: "Sanye, your hair is tied up very well today."
"It was really scary yesterday."
"It's like being possessed by a ghost."
"Oh, there are no ghosts in this world." Axiang patted him dissatisfied, "We Sanye have been under too much pressure recently."
Luo Sanye, who was sandwiched between the two men, had a puzzled expression on his face.
"Wait a minute, what are you talking about?"
When the movie was shown here, many smart viewers saw it.
"Director Wu is using a little trick." Jiang Wen chuckled, "The scene at the beginning where the heroine wakes up and touches her breasts, and the scene after eating, are not on the same day."
"He directly deleted the middle day through a transition, making the audience mistakenly think that after the body-swapping heroine woke up, she went out to cook and eat."
"Actually, the heroine who was having dinner later was the original product without changing her body."
"A common trick used in many movies is to disrupt the order of the plot through editing and make the audience confused."
"Do you still need to say it?" Chen Kaige, who had a very unhappy relationship with Jiang Wen because of the strikeout of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin", sneered and said, "I saw it when the camera switched."
"My sister said before that the food was ready, but the heroine was frying eggs again in the camera. Doesn't this imply that it's not the same day?"
Jiang Wen's smile froze, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Damn, this old boy really has sharp eyes.
Wu Yuan also laughed out loud.
Regardless of how good Director Chen's future films will be, he is indeed experienced and can see all the details Wu Yuan buried at a glance.
But it doesn’t matter if others can’t see it.
Next in the movie, two of Sanye's classmates explained the situation to her.
"You said yesterday that you couldn't remember your seat."
"My hair is still messy and not tied up with a headband."
"And I actually wanted to play basketball with other male classmates after class."
"It's almost like a different person."
On the school playground, the three of them sat in the corner and talked about the very different Sanye yesterday.
"No way," Sanye said a little depressed, "Speaking of which, I feel like I've been having a strange dream recently."
"In the dream, I seemed to be experiencing another person's life."
"But when I woke up, I couldn't remember what happened in the dream."
"I know!" Lin Keyan slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "According to the theory of parallel worlds, you must have experienced your own life in a parallel world in your dream."
"There are countless parallel worlds in this world, and there is you in these worlds, but their life experiences and lives may be completely different from yours!"
The more Lin Keyan talked, the more fantasy he got. Ah Xiang, who couldn't stand it anymore, interrupted: "Stop talking, you are talking too much."
But Sanye listened with great interest: "It would be great if that were true."
"I'm really fed up with this town."
"It's small and crowded. It's surrounded by Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake. There's nothing there."
"There is only one canteen, no coffee shop, no bookstore, no bar, dance hall and skating rink. Every day at six or seven o'clock, the lights in the town are turned off and no one is around."
"It's so boring!"
Next, the plot of the movie mainly revolves around Sanye's life in a rural town.
I go to school during the day, and after school I help my grandma weave fabrics with my sister, making dyed fabrics with local ethnic minority characteristics, and go to the fields to help weed and turn the soil.
Whenever I feel tired from work, my only enjoyment is to go to the only canteen in town, spend two yuan to buy a bottle of glass soda, sit on the stone bench at the door, and take a nice sip.
I have to say that Liu Yifei is really beautiful, and she is pure and beautiful.
One advantage of a pure-looking heroine is that it can easily arouse the audience's desire for protection.
Especially when you see her working for the family, sweating profusely from exhaustion, with broken hair sticking to her cheeks, holding a glass of soda and taking a sip, with that satisfied smile on her face, it makes people even more heartbroken.
In fact, Wu Yuan has beautified it a lot.
Rural girls in this era have to work harder and feel more sad than Luo Sanye.
Even Sanye's life in the movie is much better than that of rural girls in backward areas in 2020.
It can only be said that this movie is positioned as campus love after all, not a realistic theme.
Breaking away from reality is a means that many movies must do.
Of course, the plot of the girl stepping on the wine song, which Wu Yuan prepared solemnly, was also shown.
Thanks to the good lighting of the lighting technician, this plot was put on the big screen, and the effect was simply beautiful.
The guests who can come to the premiere are more or less masters in the circle. Naturally, they will not look at this plot superficially, and most of them are mainly based on appreciating the beauty of the lens.
That is to say, look at it with the eyes of appreciating "art".
But Jiang Wen is different. He looked at Liu Yifei on the screen with a smile like a flower, holding her white and rosy beautiful feet and stepping on the wine song, and made a "tsk tsk" sound from his mouth.
"Director Wu still knows how to shoot, this shot is really beautiful."
Jiang Wen is a bit similar to Quentin. He also likes to show physical beauty in movies.
Look at the film "Evil Never Dies" he shot. There are many "selling meat" clips of Peng Yuyan and Xu Qing in it.
Later, when the film was released, reporters asked him what the meaning of these clips was and whether there was any artistic expression. As a result, Jiang Wen said very bluntly: "It doesn't have any meaning, it's just good-looking and beautiful."
"Don't you think it's good-looking? Don't you think it's beautiful?"
This question confused the reporters. It was the first time they saw such a straightforward director.
But we have to admit that Jiang Wen is right. Xu Qing's buttocks are really good-looking, and the audience loves to watch it!
And Wu Yuan's idea is actually similar to Jiang Wen.
He shot this scene of stepping on the wine song, and there was really no artistic expression. He just thought it was good-looking.
Sometimes you don't have to think deeply when watching a movie, what this plot is for, and what the deep meaning of that plot is.
Director Kaige just can't figure this out. He always wants to put a lot of his own ideas into the movie. Even if it is a commercial film, it still has to play with depth and express various so-called "high art", which makes people confused.
Chen Kaige watched Liu Yifei stepping on the wine yeast on the screen, and various close-up shots, wondering if Wu Yuan wanted to express something, or if there would be any foreshadowing in this plot later.
As a result, he was wrong, there was no other foreshadowing at all.
The first 20 minutes of the whole movie were basically relatively straightforward, and the audience was led to understand Luo Sanye's life through the camera following her.
Until one night, Luo Sanye, exhausted, sat on the lawn on the hillside with her sister and shouted to the meteors in the sky: "I don't want to stay in this small town anymore."
"If there is a next life, I hope to be a handsome guy living in Beijing!"
So the handsome guy living in Beijing really appeared.
Lin Wenjie, who disappeared at a quick glance at the beginning, reappeared, and the real part of the movie with dense laughter began.
Sanye, who exchanged bodies with Lin Wenjie in a dream, began to feel the life of a high school student in a big city.
Lin Wenjie also began to experience the life of a small town girl.
The two of them broke into each other's lives, causing a lot of trouble to each other, and also brought a lot of jokes to the people around them.
Sanye, who has always been quiet and sensible, becomes a sunny and cheerful boy every now and then, getting along with the boys in the school, playing basketball together, and drinking soda with each other.
When bullied by the teacher in class, he will bravely resist, and even play tricks on the teacher in return.
So much so that Sanye, who has changed back to his body, actually received a love letter from a female classmate
And Sanye, who has entered Lin Wenjie's body, is also enjoying the fun and delicious things in the big city. With her experience of helping her family since she was a child, she has completed Lin Wenjie's restaurant work very well.
Unlike the big city kids who are clumsy and can't do waiter work, Sanye is very handy and at ease when doing waiter work.
And Sanye, who is thoughtful and kind and gentle to others, also easily gets along with colleagues in the restaurant, and even makes Sun Meimei, the flower of the restaurant, a little moved by her, and takes the initiative to invite her on a date.
The two people who would never meet originally, every day of exchanging bodies, while bringing some troubles to each other, also help each other change a lot of things.
After gradually adapting to the days of swapping bodies, both of them wrote down their requirements for each other, what they forbade each other to do, and most importantly, each other's name in their notebooks.
The first half of the entire movie is lighthearted and humorous. The embarrassing jokes of swapping bodies, coupled with the changes in interpersonal relationships caused by the different personalities of both parties, make people laugh from time to time.
If the entire movie continues in this style, it will be a lighthearted and enjoyable romantic comedy.
But of course Wu Yuan will not do this.
After switching back to his body again, when Lin Wenjie dated Sun Meimei for a day under his own identity, he found that the goddess he once admired and secretly loved seemed to no longer cause any waves in his heart.
Sun Meimei also felt that the boy in front of her seemed to be different from the one she liked.
And in his heart, I don't know when, another girl has already lived in it.
After realizing this, Lin Wenjie had an idea in his mind.
He wanted to meet Sanye in person, instead of swapping bodies with her in his dreams.
He recalled the name of Sanye's hometown town that he had heard after the body swap, and searched for this town on the Internet for the first time.
However, the first news that came out of the search made him sluggish.
"A major disaster caused by a meteor shower that occurs once every 1,200 years, Bixi Town in southern Yunnan was hit by a meteor and destroyed!"
In the news, there was a photo of Bixi Town after the disaster. A large meteorite crater replaced the originally prosperous and warm mountain town.
And this news was actually three years ago.
"Impossible, this is impossible!" Lin Wenjie held his head with both hands and murmured in panic.
"Such a big accident, I can't not know!"
He had no impression of the news of this natural disaster before!
Suddenly, a large section of memory emerged in his mind, which was the report he saw on TV three years ago, and the memory of the subsequent disaster relief news.
All 3,457 people in the town, no one survived.
It seemed that this memory was deliberately forgotten before, and now it suddenly came to mind.
The plot took a sharp turn for the worse.
The smiles on the faces of the guests in the screening room also disappeared.
Zhang Yimou nodded slightly, he already knew how to shoot the next plot.
"Next, the hero will try every means to save the heroine." He said calmly.
The story is not complicated. In fact, commercial films do not need complicated stories. The easier it is for the audience to understand, the better.
And a simple story does not mean it is not good.
The image of Sanye created in the first half of the movie is very good. She is kind and sensible. Although she complains about the boring life in the small town, she still faces life positively every day.
The most important thing is that the whole town gives people a warm atmosphere. It cannot be said to be a paradise, but it is definitely a quiet, peaceful and warm place.
Such a beautiful and warm town, any person with normal moral values does not want to see it destroyed by natural disasters.
Naturally, the audience's hearts were also tightened, hoping that Lin Wenjie could change this past history, save this town, save the kind and sensible Luo Sanye, her lovely sister, and gentle grandmother...
This is why Wu Yuan put his perspective on Luo Sanye in the first half of the movie. If he didn't make this character and this town come alive, he wouldn't let the audience resonate with the male protagonist after the plot reversal.
The movie is still going on.
Thinking of all this, Lin Wenjie asked his father for money and immediately bought a ticket to southern Yunnan. He didn't believe that Sanye was dead, and he had clearly exchanged bodies with her in his dream.
Sister, grandmother, A Xiang, Lin Keyan, and everyone in the town.
Each of them is a fresh and warm life in Lin Wenjie's memory!
He didn't want to believe it all, so he flew to Yunnan Province at the fastest speed and found a person who knew the location of the town. Under his leadership, he climbed a mountain opposite the town.
Looking away, there was only a dilapidated ruins and a meteorite crater filled with lake water.
"Impossible, this is impossible!"
"I remember this high school, the playground, and the mountain next to it clearly. How could it become like this!"
The local middle-aged man who brought him here sighed: "You also know about the disaster three years ago."
"All 3,457 people in the town died under the meteorite."
"Dead?" Lin Wenjie looked blank and his eyes were distracted. "Dead three years ago?"
"How is it possible!"
He frantically took out a diary from his backpack and opened it in front of the middle-aged man in a panic as if he had grabbed the last straw.
"Look, her diary is still good!"
"What diary?" The middle-aged man asked in astonishment.
Lin Wenjie quickly turned it over again and looked at the diary, but found that the daily life records that Sanye shared with her and the various rules of body exchange that were clearly written on it before had all disappeared completely.
The whole diary was empty.
All traces of her existence in this world disappeared.
Lin Wenjie collapsed on the ground, as if all his strength had been drained.
"What is going on?"
The previous chapter was blocked, and the next chapter is still being written. It is recommended to read it tomorrow.