I make a thriller, it's God chasing and feeding

Chapter 416 [Different Recording Methods]

Lu Zhengyi really thought about it for a long time about what kind of script to choose and how to shoot it for his comeback work.

The child has grown up and gone to college. The pressure on the family is much less, and he has a lot of time every day to think about this matter.

One week, two weeks, one month, half a year...

Another year passed and Lu Zhengyi still had no clue.

People will always be limited by their own cognition, even him.

Of course, it is in the film and television industry.

In fact, Lu Zhengyi's cognitive limitations are more serious than those of others.

In his mind, there are not only the movies shot in this world, but also the movies shot by those directors in the past world.

The shooting of a movie is nothing more than from the first perspective or the third perspective.

A movie must have a protagonist, and the camera will follow the protagonist's perspective to present the story to the audience.

A movie must...

This kind of cognitive limitation applies to the film industry, no matter what kind of person Lu Zhengyi is, no matter how many magical objects he has in his hands, or how many extraordinary people he knows.

No matter how special they are, once they are recorded in front of the camera, what will be presented to the audience is just a picture.

What if...

Let people feel it for real.

No, no, no, that's not a movie, that's a special event.

That will have to be handled by Taoist Master Guanshan and his department, and by then the relationship will have turned into hostility.

"It's really troublesome."

Lying on the sofa at home, Lu Zhengyi tilted his head back, like a middle-aged stay-at-home who had not worked for years and had lost all motivation.

Of course, it’s just the expression on the face.

There are very few things that can make Lu Zhengyi so distressed.

The reason is not because he is very powerful and omnipotent, but because there is nothing that he cares about particularly.

As long as you don't care, you won't be troubled.

But it just so happens that making movies is something he cares about more.

"It would be great if Lao Zhang was here, so we could discuss it."

Lu Zhengyi couldn't help but recall the person who often discussed with him during the filming. "I thought about it for so long alone, but I had no idea at all."

All the usable shooting ideas have been used up.

It’s like as time goes by, more and more people write songs, and sometimes when I listen to the accompaniments, they always feel the same, and I can hear the shadows of several songs in one song.

More and more people are writing articles. The content and rhythm are the same. Just change the name of the protagonist and it can be read as the same book.

It’s not because people like to follow other people’s paths, but there is no other way, everyone can only create within this framework.

No matter how much you create, it is difficult to break out of this framework and completely deviate from the content that people are familiar with.

The same goes for movies. Lu Zhengyi has made and watched a lot of them, and he has tried all the techniques and means he can think of.

But as a comeback, it must be more novel, more interesting, and more...scary than the previous films.

“How should I shoot it?”

Scenes emerged in Lu Zhengyi's mind, all of which were films he had filmed before.

During the filming process, everyone made suggestions, some inspirations that came to my mind occasionally, and... the initial ideas.

"reality."

Lu Zhengyi suddenly sat up on the sofa and walked upstairs.

"reality……"

He continued to chant, of course, he had to be realistic enough.

My creative concept has always been "reality", making people really feel that there seems to be something in reality, and whether I, as a director, am hinting at something.

This takes advantage of the fact that people like to think more and more, and want to have some "independent thinking". When you become famous, you don't need to explain yourself, people will naturally "analyze" and "interpret" your films.

Sometimes, they can even analyze and interpret things that even the director himself has not thought of.

However, no matter how much Lu Zhengyi shows the truth through the lens, it can only be a scene in the film. If it really touches reality and allows some people to truly feel the content of the film, it will be a big event.

The pursuit of truth must be limited and cannot exceed the scope of film.

On the one hand, we have to break the framework of shooting, but on the other hand, we cannot exceed the scope of the movie and bring things into reality.

Lu Zhengyi came to the screening room and played "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village".

Everything seemed to have gone back to more than 20 years ago, when I had just started filming.

From his current perspective as a director, the production of this film is as rough as an elementary school student drawing. Many of the picture details and connections could be much better.

"Speaking of which..."

Lu Zhengyi was watching the play and suddenly remembered something.

He stood up and went back to the room to search.

After a while, Lu Zhengyi came back with a few fixed hard drives.

As for the content inside, they are all behind-the-scenes footage of his works.

"Yes, yes, go this way."

"Xiao Ming, can you please move away? You are always blocking the camera."

"Teacher Chu, it's time to put on makeup."

When he clicked on the contents of one of the hard drives, familiar figures appeared on the screen.

Chang Zhengwei, Zhang Yuming, Yu Li, Zhang Yu, Chu Renmei...

Their faces all look the same as they did more than 20 years ago.

Chang Zhengwei used to wear glasses and looked gentle. Recently, after he filmed that historical film and won the Best Actor award, he gradually began to plan to get married. Anyway, there has been no news about his filming in the past few years.

Xiao Ming now has a buzz cut and a beard. He looks a little haggard and sighs often. But twenty years ago, he was still a young man and looked very energetic.

Yu Li met the crew more than 20 years ago, not long after she graduated. She was in the prime of her youth. She looked like a flower in a simple white shirt and without any makeup.

Now when Lu Zhengyi sees her in some fashion advertisements, she has started to wear smoky makeup and dress up fancy.

As for Zhang Yu...

All that's left of the person is his photo, which is hung on the tombstone. Some time ago during the Qingming Festival, Lu Zhengyi went to visit his grave and accompanied his family to help clear the weeds in front of his grave.

By the way, I confessed to him in front of his grave that I had been running out of inspiration recently, and asked if I could have a dream so that I could discuss this with him in the dream.

Of course, this is impossible. The people have been gone for more than ten years and have long since dispersed.

Then there is Chu Renmei...

Wei Kang was walking around the set holding a camera. At that time, they didn't know what Chu Renmei's situation was, and they still treated her as a "human being".

In the picture, she was wearing the blue costume, sitting obediently in front of Xiaowei, without saying a word.

"Teacher Chu has such good skin, so white and smooth."

Xiao Wei said, "It's just a little... cold. Is it too cold? Teacher Chu, I have ginger tea over there. Would you like a cup?"

"Hey."

Lu Zhengyi couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene.

I didn't notice it much when I was editing the film, but now, after more than 20 years, I rewatched it and couldn't help laughing.

"No, it's so cold, do we really have to go to the lake to shoot? Otherwise, let's borrow the scenery from the film and television base next to it and find a warm water pool to shoot."

"Director Lu is really something. Isn't this embarrassing? It's so cold, I feel it's quite dangerous, and there is no safety guarantee."

"Wait, she jumped down, hey hey hey hey! Hurry up and save her, save, save..."

The scene continued, and Lu Zhengyi even heard someone whispering, "Why is she floating upright?"

This seemed to be on the set at the time and he didn't hear it.

"Ah ah ah ah ah."

"There's a ghost, there's a ghost!"

"Equipment, don't forget to take the equipment!"

Then, the screen spun around and fell to the ground. A noisy cry for help came from outside the screen. No one was visible, but the fear and tension in those people's hearts could be clearly felt.

"How does this work?"

“The artistic content is very high…”

Afterwards, there was another faint voice recorded by the camera.

Lu Zhengyi couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth again. This was what he was discussing with Zhang Yu.

But then, the fallen camera recorded a very subtle scene. Chu Renmei walked ashore from the lake wetly, and her long robe slid across the sandy ground, leaving a deep water stain.

Throughout the entire scene, the camera only captured her lower body and her black hair that covered her face. She was very quiet throughout.

"interesting."

Lu Zhengyi watched all the filming materials of "Old Corpse in the Mountain Village", and there were also some additional content, such as the wrap-up party to celebrate the birthdays of the crew members.

All the footage was intermittent. Sometimes it was held up by the camera crew including Wei Kang, sometimes it was footage taken by employees with their mobile phones but had their phones confiscated, and there were even surveillance footage.

There are tens of thousands of video files in a hard drive, and the combined capacity is about to burst the entire hard drive.

From day to late at night, when his mother came to call him for dinner, Lu Zhengyi always refused.

Even when his wife came home from work overtime and asked him to go to bed, he refused.

Immerse yourself in it completely, for one day, two days, three days...

Lu Zhengyi has a fairly regular schedule, from eating to sleeping and exercising. When he is not working, his daily routine is very regular.

But this does not mean that he must eat and sleep.

He doesn't actually need to.

From the old corpse in the mountain village to the curse and double pupils...

Not only the behind-the-scenes footage, Lu Zhengyi also showed the main film.

For a whole week, he didn't step out of the cinema.

If he had not refused to let anyone into the house, others might have thought he had starved to death in there.

For example, mother.

Although she knew that her son might be special, she didn't ask, so she didn't know many things.

My father-in-law and mother-in-law also came once, but left after visiting.

The wife has been very relieved.

Zhang Xueming knew very well what kind of person her husband was.

A month passed quickly, and Lu Zhengyi finally finished reading all the contents on the hard drive.

When he walked out of the cinema and was illuminated by the sunlight outside the corridor window, he looked no different from a month ago.

Dirty, shabby? No, even the hair is the same length.

It was as if time had stopped for him the moment he entered the cinema.

In contrast, time for other people keeps moving forward.

Yes, everyone, including my wife.

"Why didn't you tell me? Didn't you come over in the next few days?" As soon as Lu Zhengyi walked out of the house, he heard his mother talking about Zhang Xueming receiving an IV in the hospital, so he hurriedly drove to the hospital.

"Seeing you're so busy, I regained my fighting spirit."

Zhang Xueming lay on the hospital bed, spreading her hands helplessly, "But it's obvious that I'm no longer the same person I was when I was young. I worked overtime for several days and was admitted to the hospital directly."

Lu Zhengyi was even more helpless than her. He came to the bedside and pulled a chair to sit down. “Do you like work so much?”

This is not the first time he has asked this question, and the answer should be the same.

“People always have to do something.”

Zhang Xueming answered casually, "You're actually right. The older I get, the more I can notice changes in my body, especially my thinking ability. I can't calm down like before and think a lot."

"But the older I get, the more I realize that I like to work, or I want to leave something behind."

“Everyone will die eventually. No matter how long or short one’s life is, in the eyes of future generations, it may be just a paragraph or a page.”

Hearing these words, Lu Zhengyi had a very strange feeling.

"Indeed, I just felt it, that short life."

He said with a smile, "It's different now. Now we have videos to record. In one month, I watched more than 20 years of my life and more than 20 years of life of the crew."

Yes, a month.

Through the behind-the-scenes footage, Lu Zhengyi clearly saw the people he was familiar with, from rising sun to thriving and finally to declining sun.

Especially for those who have already "left", it is even more emotional.

All the colorful people eventually turned into black and white.

"That wasn't just now."

Zhang Xueming shook her head. "You stayed in there for a whole month."

She paused and said, "So, rather than enjoying life, I want to leave behind something more glorious, even if I am not in such a position, but an ordinary person."

"Rather than lying in bed and dying peacefully, I would rather be on the side of the road or on the side of a bridge and see someone almost get hit by a car or jump off a bridge."

"At that moment, I jumped in without hesitation to save him. Even if I died in the end, it would still be a great achievement."

I don't want to be a hero, I just want a more exciting ending.

Lu Zhengyi didn't say anything every time he heard about this.

On the one hand, he felt that he should respect her choice because this was what she wanted to do, and that birth, aging, sickness and death were part of human nature.

But on the other hand, he hoped that she could live longer and that he should stop her.

Very contradictory.

He also began to feel conflicted.

“My idea has not changed since the beginning, to work hard, take over the light and shadow, and make it even more brilliant.”

Zhang Xueming looked at his silence and said, "Before I met you, my plan was to just find someone of equal status, a man, have a contract marriage, have a child without interfering with each other, and then divorce."

"I just need an heir who can inherit my business and my path, just like my grandfather passed it on to my father, and my father passed it on to me."

"But after meeting you, my thoughts changed, and I had many other thoughts. I thought about going on together, about watching you achieve your goals, and about..."

Change you.

She looked at her expressionless husband in front of her in a trance.

She didn't say the last three words.

Zhang Xueming likes to do challenging things. After discovering that Lu Zhengyi is so special, she actually has an idea - to make him feel emotional again.

It's like taking a bent person and straightening him back to his original position.

Make an impossible relationship possible.

She wanted to be the one and only special person in his life.

But under the current circumstances, Lu Zhengyi has become the only special person in his life.

But I have no way to confirm whether I have changed him.

He is such a good actor.

He pretends to be a normal person too well.

Up to now, Zhang Xueming can be sure that except for himself and a very small number of people, no one else knows Lu Zhengyi’s true feelings.

Including those people from the Mei Limao crew.

The Lu Zhengyi in their eyes is different from the Lu Zhengyi in front of them.

In their eyes, it is a "person" who has been processed through interpretation. He has set up a persona for himself, has his own stance, and has a certain personality.

And the one in front of me seems to be...an existence that is difficult to describe in words.

"Do you have any inspiration for your new film?" Zhang Xueming stretched out her hand and held his big hand. "Tell me, how do you plan to make your comeback film?"

"Well, I have some ideas." Lu Zhengyi held her hand with his backhand, "You should have a good rest and don't worry about these."

He refused to communicate with her about the filming.

(End of this chapter)