Huayu: I'm reborn, but you still force me to be a scumbag?

Chapter 245 Mother's Last Dance

Choi Sulli stayed on the crew for only three days before returning to Seoul.

Chen Nuo knew that there she would face some cruel truths.

Whatever kind of person her mother was in her memories, she certainly had nothing to do with the woman who now treated her like a piece of trash.

But what about Lu Xiangyu's mother Huizi?

What kind of person is she?

Bong Joon-ho deliberately let Chen Nuo and Kim Hye-ja shoot their own scenes separately, waiting for Choi Sulli to leave on the third day. The two protagonists of this play, the old and the young, are finally going to start their direct dialogue.

Chen Nuo feels that this is the gentle side unique to Korean directors.

Then in the first scene, Kim Hye-ja NGed 17 times.

The scene where Huizi bailed out Noh Sang-woo, who had followed Yoon Tae to take revenge on others, from the police station and then fed him roasted chicken took a whole day to shoot.

So in the end, Jin Huizi looked at Chen Nuo very seriously. She did not collapse, but knelt on the ground and fell to the ground with an attitude of calm acceptance.

"I'm sorry, Chen Nuoxi, I don't think I can act in movies anymore. I'm really sorry for making you eat so much."

Bong Joon-ho seemed to be hesitant to speak.

As a film aiming for the Palme d'Or, if one of its core characters fails to portray the natural maternal love, all his preparations will be in vain.

Bong Joon-ho had to admit that at this moment, a trace of regret emerged in his heart.

Is Kim Hye-ja really the right role?
The unfamiliarity in emotional connection with this actress, who hadn't acted in a movie for 10 years, really made him feel at a loss as to what to do.

It is impossible to change the actress, so how can we make her perform well?

All the crew members held their breath and watched this scene.

Chen Nuo suddenly smiled and said, "Mom, why don't you just call me Xiangyu from now on. Can you drive, Mom?"

The moment Chen Nuo called her "Mom", Jin Huizi was stunned.

Yes, it’s such a simple truth, but she, who has been acting for almost 30 years, doesn’t even understand it as well as a young person in his early 20s.

If she still uses his honorifics in real life, how can they play the role of a mother and son who depend on each other for life and death in the movie?
Jin Huizi breathed a sigh of relief, breaking away from the heart-broken state just now, and said with a smile: "Yes, Xiangyu, I will."

Chen Nuo turned to Feng Junhao and said, "The director has been working for so long. How about we take a couple of days off? I want to go out for a drive with my mom. I've been to Korea many times. But I don't think I know anything about it."

Chen Nuo and Jin Huizi's three-day and two-night journey began.

Chen Nuo doesn't even have a driver's license in China, let alone Korea, but Jin Huizi is in good spirits and driving seven or eight hours a day is no problem.

The place where two people communicate most is not outdoors, but in the small enclosed space of the car.

They talked constantly while driving on the highway, stuck in city traffic, and eating in parked cars.

From the trivialities of life to family relationships, from love to hate, and from hate to everything.

At this time, the two professional actors understood very clearly what they should do.

Although this can be called a rough way of building relationships, it is an incredible behavior for many actors, because how can relationships be built quickly?

But these two people are not ordinary actors after all.

When the Hyundai finally returned to the village in Daegu, Chen Nuo rubbed his stomach and said, "Mom, I'm hungry."

Next, Bong Joon-ho saw this scene on the small screen of the monitor.

After paying a thick stack of bail, Keiko took Xiangyu back to the grocery store she ran.

In the cool light, in the back room of the grocery store, Keiko cooked a chicken for Xiangyu.

As soon as it came out of the pot, steam was still coming out, and Huizi brought it to the table.

Without hesitation, she began to tear the chicken on the plate anxiously, because her son Xiangyu had been detained in the detention center for a day and must be hungry.

Her movements were jerky and her whole body seemed to be moving restlessly, which formed a sharp contrast with Chen Nuo who was sitting quietly and saying nothing on the other side.

There was no sound in the picture at this time.

But the worn-out bowls on the table, the mottled tabletop, the broken window, the steaming chicken on the plate, the patch on Huizi's elbow and her messy gray hair, and the fingers that were now red from being burned, all seemed to be telling a plain yet passionate story.

It is plain because mother's love is like water, silent and deep. It is hot because mother's love is like fire, indestructible.

Bong Joon-ho watched this scene and couldn't help but murmur in his throat.

More than 20 years ago, it was in this village that his mother, who was emaciated due to a serious illness, fed him a meal.

That scene had already become the second heart in his body, and now its beating could be clearly heard in his ears.

Chen Nuo does not have as deep feelings as Bong Joon-ho, but he does have his own insights on maternal love.

For him in the past, maternal love was a kind of nostalgia.

So, he almost settled down in LA in his previous life.

Everything I see in Choi Sulli,
He also felt that maternal love was a cup of poison that would lead to a slow death.

His cognition is reflected in his sometimes lucid and sometimes foolish performance.
Especially when the film was in the middle, performing the scene in the police station, when he uttered that tearful question, he added an impromptu line at the end.

"Mom, did you want to kill me, or did you want to...save me?"

Why save me?

Because death is also a kind of redemption at certain times, isn’t it?
This means that Lu Xiangyu, or Chen Nuo, still gave an option of belief at this time, which is closely tied to the theme of the film that everyone is black and white, good and evil.

Bong Joon-ho was behind the monitor when he heard this unplanned line and was stunned for a long time. When he saw Chen Nuo and Kim Hye-ja crying in the camera, he sighed deeply and said "over".

At this point, the film takes an unpredictable direction.

The director rarely speaks out loud to direct the actors every day, and basically just says "go" and "do it again".

The leading actor disappears as soon as he finishes work, and he doesn't communicate with anyone when he takes a break on the set during the day.

Kim Hye-ja also changed her appearance from before, and became as stiff to everyone as the high protruding cheekbones on her face.

By the end of the filming, the atmosphere of the entire crew was like a pot of black sesame paste that couldn't be stirred.

Because this damn movie, this script polished by Bong Joon-ho and is darker than the original, and the human nature it tells is more complex.

Originally, everyone in the film had both good and evil sides, but in this version, a new hidden line was added.

The old man who picks up garbage, Yoon Tae, and even the policeman are all suspected of murder, making whether Noh Sang-woo killed the high school girl an unsolved mystery at the end of the film.

Chen Nuo brought this mystery that was different from the original, and he also brought a different ending to this movie that was different from the original.

August 2008, 8 was the day when Chen Nuo finished filming his last film.

Bong Joon-ho also filmed the last scene of the movie on this day, hoping to stir up Chen Nuo's emotions one last time to see if some effect could be achieved.

Bong Joon-ho actually has three designs for the ending, and Chen Nuo did not participate in the other two. As for this one, he needs to see the effect before deciding whether to use it and how to use it.

This is Bong Joon-ho's directing style. He uses editing skillfully and has mastered various narrative techniques to perfection, making the audience fall into his psychological traps one after another during the viewing process and be stunned by his reversals one after another.

His style was deeply influenced by Hitchcock, and he and Wang Mojing developed two completely different art forms.

However, Bong Joon-ho was able to enjoy a scene that day that is usually only enjoyed by Wang Jiawei.

On the crowded bus, Chen Nuo performed a solo dance that stunned everyone in the crew and almost made Bong Joon-ho bite his teeth.

In the film, at this time, Huizi finally picked up Noh Sang-woo who was released from prison after being cleared of charges. On the bus going home, the movie should have ended like this, but when a burst of music suddenly sounded on the radio in the car,
Chen Nuo, who had been looking out the window, suddenly seemed to have left the world and stood up slowly and stiffly.

He walked into the aisle, into the scene car, opened his mouth, and laughed for no reason.

Behind this smiling face, there was a pair of dull eyes. He began to dance his limbs without any rules, like a broken puppet who was twitching and dancing wildly because the strings were broken.

Every movement was not aesthetically pleasing, however, under the golden studio light, Chen Nuo's completely improvised crazy dance caught everyone present at the scene's attention.

Bong Joon-ho was looking at the images on the monitor, and the feeling in his heart was indescribable.

In fact, he had asked Kim Hye-ja to dance once before, and that scene was filmed three days ago.

The plot of the play is that in order to cover up the fact that her son is the real murderer, Huizi killed the witness, an old scavenger, and then walked to a wilderness covered with golden weeds, and suddenly, she started dancing.

In that dance, Huizi seemed to know everything and yet seemed to have forgotten everything.

That was a scene Bong Joon-ho was very proud of.

The purpose of arranging this scene was to show Huizi's emotional world through behavior, reflecting the fact that her inner world has since become a wasteland.

When Kim Hye-ja was filming, he knew that Chen Nuo was watching from the side, but he didn't think much about it.

Bong Joon-ho never expected that on the last day, Chen Nuo would suddenly do this.

After understanding the purpose of his filming, Chen Nuo gave Lu Xiangyu a unique interpretation.

On this bus filled with soft golden light, Chen Nuo, who was dancing, was the opposite of Jin Huizi. He seemed to have forgotten everything, yet seemed to have known everything.

This bright, dazzling, and ubiquitous white sunlight is just like his inner world.

That has nothing to do with beauty, it is the light of annihilation in Lu Xiangyu's inner world.

From then on, his soul was like this pure white light, nothing else could exist.

Bong Joon-ho stared at the screen on the monitor without blinking, and waited until the music ended. When he saw Chen Nuo slowly stop dancing, he opened his lips that seemed to be glued shut and said, "CUT."

Bong Joon-ho did not stand up immediately, but sat in front of the monitor for a while until his assistant said with a sigh, "Director, the dance performed by Chen Nuoxi may be the saddest dance I have ever seen in my life."

Bong Joon-ho then took a deep breath, stood up, took the flowers from his assistant, and walked into the studio.

Chen Nuo was bending down to hug Jin Huizi and saying something in her ear, which made Huizi smile happily.

Seeing him come in, Jin Huizi smiled and said, "Xiang Yu said that he would go to Africa with me in the future to help the people there."

Bong Joon-ho also laughed, "That's a really good thing."

He handed the flowers to Chen Nuo and they hugged each other.

At once, many emotions were choking his heart. Bong Joon-ho recalled the scene of their first meeting in Shanghai last year. He had so many words to say that he didn't know what to say.

I just feel that my decision to let this person star in my movie was a very right gamble of fate.

Finally, Bong Joon-ho couldn't find any words to say that wouldn't sound corny, so he could only ask, "My brother, if I asked you to do the dance again, would you still be able to do it?"

When Chen Nuo heard this, he immediately laughed: "Brother, are you serious?"

Bong Joon-ho also laughed, his fat face showing many layers of flesh, and shook his head and said, "No, I'm kidding. Thank you for such a wonderful performance. I will edit it well."

Chen Nuo smiled and said, "You won't cut them all off, will you?"

Bong Joon-ho smiled and said, "No, I will definitely put your unique performance in a suitable place in the movie."

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Not to mention that Bong Joon-ho felt it was unique, even on the way back to Seoul from Daegu, Chen Nuo was still savoring the last dance.

When he saw Kim Hye-ja dancing, he was stunned by the actress' performance.

That ancient and desolate feeling does not seem like a dance, but rather some kind of mysterious ritual.

In the past few days, before he went to bed at night, that scene was in his mind.

Unexpectedly, the emotions that had been brewing for several days finally burst into an extreme outburst.

I definitely can't do it again.

I really want to see what it looks like in front of the camera.

Unfortunately, I left in such a hurry that I forgot to check the playback in front of the monitor.
We can only wait until the premiere in Cannes next year to see how he dances this dance.

Qi Yuntian was sitting in the front seat, looking at his phone. He suddenly turned around and asked, "Are you feeling emotional?"

Chen Nuo couldn't help but look at him with admiration, "Brother Tian, ​​you also understand this now!"

Qi Yuntian smiled and said, "If I remember correctly, my mother seems to be the acting teacher in your school?"

Chen Nuo laughed and said, "Don't be so polite. Just say it directly. He is the acting teacher with the highest tuition fee in the country. Huang Lei is far behind him."

Qi Yuntian chuckled and said, "That's all thanks to your roar at the Oscars."

Chen Nuo waved his hand and said, "It's also because Teacher Li taught me well, otherwise I wouldn't be able to go on stage."

The two laughed for a while, and Qi Yuntian said with emotion: "It seems that you are really out of the play, so let's talk about your next new play."

Chen Nuo couldn't help but look out the window, "Brother Tian, ​​we are still in Korea, right? The road signs outside are still some weird drawings. I just finished shooting less than two hours ago. What new drama? Are you a little anxious?"

Qi Yuntian sighed and said, "It's not me who's anxious, really. It's someone who hasn't filmed for a long time and is anxious. In fact, not long after the Olympics ended, a senior called me. After knowing that you were still filming, he asked me to show you the script as soon as possible. He said that you had promised him before that you would work with him on a new drama."

Chen Nuo remembered who it was. It was indeed the case, and it was indeed someone he could not refuse from for any reason.

I couldn't help but be surprised and said, "No way? So fast? How old is he? Doesn't he ever take a break?"

Qi Yuntian said: "It's not surprising. If he was going to make a movie, he would have taken a break for several years. I guess he has countless scripts in his hands, just waiting to be filmed one by one."

"The key is that he said it very nicely. He said that among all the actors in China, you are the one he wants to work with the most. Then he asked me for the schedule of your next movie. I can't refuse, right?"

It is indeed impossible.

The Olympics had just passed, and Director Zhang's current reputation throughout China was at its peak. It was not an exaggeration to say that after the opening ceremony, he became famous all over the world.

Just look at the video on YouTube about the opening ceremony of the Nordic Olympics. After almost every opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in the future, there will be many Chinese and foreign netizens leaving messages, expressing their longing for the Olympics and their wonderful feelings.

Whose credit is this?
In a sense, it was after this grand event that the Chinese people's national pride gradually gathered together, and the world also got to know China again.

So, when Zhang Yimou, one of the biggest contributors to this, was asked for schedule time, how could he refuse to give it?
Just like Mr. Li Ning, who ran around the square and successfully lit the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony, stunning the world and applauding. Mr. Li Ning had called before and said that when he returned to China, they would invite him to the Li Ning headquarters to renew his contract. Could he not go to discuss the contract renewal?

Even if the other party can offer sponsorship fees, it will definitely not be enough to keep up with his worth abroad.

But so what?

Under such circumstances, Zhang Yimou's new film is definitely the focus of attention of the Chinese people and people in the circle.

The old man himself knows this 100%.

Then what kind of movie would he want to ask him to make?
It can't be those three guns, right?

If it is true, don't blame him for not giving face. Anyway, even if the king of the world comes, he can't film with Xiao Shenyang.

Chen Nuo couldn't help but ask, "Does the script he gave you have a name?"

Qi Yuntian shook his head and said, "No. I just took a quick look and it's a romance movie."

(End of this chapter)