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Chapter 192: Platform Premiere

The next day, "Station" premiered. Compared with "Durian Piaopiao" the previous day, it is obvious that the organizer's treatment is completely different in terms of the scale of the theater or the number of screenings.

Wang Dalun followed Lao Jia, Yu Liwei, and two producers, Shinsan Ichiyama and Jacob, to welcome guests with a smile. That's right, it's just to welcome guests. In addition to the audience, there are more than 20 film dealers invited, and they are all God of Wealth!

The most eye-catching films in the twenty shortlisted films, in addition to the American movie "When Night Comes", which has a high reputation for the Golden Lion Award, has not yet premiered, and is "Stand Up", which naturally attracted the attention of the majority of media, and a lot of people ran out of the gun.

When Chen Guo brought Qin Hailu and the others, he looked at the reporters surrounding the door, and the long crowd of ticket buyers lined up in front of the ticket hall, with a bitter expression on his face. It was obvious that he was not very confident that his video would win the award.

"Director Jia, congratulations, congratulations!"

"Director Chen, Xiao Qin, welcome, welcome!"

Old Jia rarely wore a straight suit today, and his hair was taken care of by Wang Dalun. The excited expression on his face was hard to suppress. In the cinema that accommodated 300 people, in addition to the guest seats of the first few brands left, they were almost full. Even the tickets for the next game have been sold out.

Compared to the cold reception of "Xiao Wu" in Berlin, it can now be described as a hot topic. What's more important is that "Stand Up" has always been his first movie in his mind. He also told Wang Dalun that "Stand Up" is a stone in his heart. If he does not complete it, he will not be able to start a new job.

"You are so lively here, we have no hope when we get there." Qin Hailu came to him and whispered. While feeling moved, the girl's eyes were full of envy.

No wonder, this girl was spotted by a great director to play the leading female role in the first filming, and then came to participate in the Venice Film Festival and saw all kinds of big stars who were only seen in movies at the opening dinner, which were undoubtedly full of fantasies. But yesterday's deserted premiere really made her see the reality clearly.

"Actually, you acted very well." Wang Dalun smiled and said. After watching the premiere yesterday, Chen Guo took her to interview with reporters, and did not hesitate before leaving.

Qin Hailu pursed her lips and said nothing. She just saw her performance on the screen yesterday. To be honest, she was still very proud. Looking back on every detail of filming, and even going to that place to watch for half a month in order to play a good role. Only I know the taste, but think about it now, everything is worth it now. Perhaps the movies she made in the future will be as popular as "Stand Up".

The time has come, and the premiere process is basically the same. The main creators are arranged in unison in front of the screen. The host introduces and briefly answers several questions from the reporter. Compared to Lao Jia, Wang Dalun, who has participated in three film festivals, seems familiar.

Back to the seat, the lights dimly, and the screen lights up.

Wang Dalun only watched the first half of the whole movie, and it is said that a lot of modifications were made during the editing of the whole movie.

The film began with a condolence performance of the county art troupe in 1979. In the commune auditorium, he performed "The Train Runs to Shaoshan", exaggerated actions and model lines. This performance seemed to give a footnote to the end of Mao era. One era has passed and another unknown era is coming. The performance ended. In the old-fashioned shuttle bus, the leader was counting the number of people, and several so-called protagonists appeared one after another by shouting "arrival". Under the dim light, most of them only heard the sound and did not see them. They were just a group of ordinary people who could be drowned by history at any time. A "arrival" was enough to show that they once existed.

In the early stages of the long-term or panoramic films, fixed shots are rarely moving, monotonous, dull, or there is a kind of tranquility, a kind of dead silence before dawn. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, the surface of undercurrents was calm. In the later stages of the film, the shots became vivid without realizing it, which also seemed to indicate that the world has been completely turbulent and tranquility has become out of place.

The days are so dull, just as the lives of most ordinary people. However, behind the seemingly dullness, there has been a change in the reform and contract of the art troupe. Yin Ruijuan did not choose to travel around the country with the troupe and stayed alone in the county town. Cui Mingliang, Zhang Jun, Zhong Ping and others embarked on the road of performing in the cave. The tractor was bumping and slowly drove out of the county town where they lived for a long time. They sat behind them, watching the scene behind them fading away little by little. I think they were full of passion and infinite longing.

When leaving Fenyang, Cui Mingliang may have a ray of heartbreak and a stubborn heart. The first performance was in Qijiazhuang to celebrate the village's electricity. The village cadres said on the stage: ", always follow." At this time, it has become so uneven. The people in the audience responded to the village cadres' "forever defending the Party Central Committee" with noisy. From the moment they stepped out of Fenyang County and made a living, this world is no longer the same world as before, and everything is quietly and profoundly changing.

Year after year, the performance team changed from tractors to Dongfeng; the song changed from "The Field of Hope" to "The Little Girl Under the Street Lights"; traditional musical instruments were replaced with electroacoustic equipment; the troupe was also absurdly renamed to Shenzhen Pili Rouzi Orchestra, and was renamed repeatedly, so that when the leader introduced his troupe, he even said the name in a bad way; Eryong became a "rock superstar" who returned from a visit to the United States; absorbed the "red and pink" Mimi, haha... a group of young and passionate souls were wandering around and around the land of Shanxi filled with coal ash.

When the melody of "Standup" appeared for the first time, the car threw an anchor on the dry riverbed. The driver and the team leader got out of the car to check. Cui Mingliang climbed into the cab, found a tape bored and inserted it into the car recorder. The familiar melody floated out.

Long waiting for a long platform

The long train carries my short love

The noisy platform is waiting lonely

Love that only starts, not love that I return

Oh, lonely platform

Oh, lonely waiting

...

The roar of the train came from a distance, and Cui Mingliang was the first to react. He jumped out of the cab and ran towards the train while shouting. The young man shouted and jumped out of the truck, followed closely behind, running wildly like crazy. When they climbed onto the railway bridge panting, the train had already left with a whistle sound. Looking at the train that was leaving, what frozen on their faces was excitement, desire, or a hint of loss and loss.

The era of "Standup" was a decade of prosperity in reform and opening up, and a decade of unprecedented liberation of thought. The film did not deliberately highlight the magnificent background of the times, nor did it pile up the changes of years, but it was ingenious and calm everywhere, and made people feel the heartbeat of the times, cutting to the pulse of history: Cui Mingliang's mother helped them sew and modify their bell-bottom pants, the Indian movie "The Wanderer" released in the cinema, the three listened to Teresa Teng's "Wine and Coffee" on the radio at Zhang Jun's house, and the Sino-Vietnam War was broadcast in the barber shop.

The front line news of Farkashan, the American drama "Garrison Expendables" that year was only half broadcast. After Zhong Ping's first perm, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 10th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was rehabilitated. Zhang Jun carried a four-horn recorder carrying a four-horn recorder when he returned from visiting relatives in Guangzhou. During the abortion in the hospital, the military parade for the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was paraded by the commander of Beijing Military Region, the bright voice of the album "87 Fanatic", and the melody of "Desire" at the end of the film, the face of youth only added a little vicissitudes, but an era has ended forever.

"Standup" has few eye-catching drama, and is as ordinary as your youth. Choi Mingliang and Yin Ruijuan have gone from confession to falling in love and breaking up. Choi Mingliang always tilted his head, rolling inside, but always looked cynical; Zhong Ping resolutely ran away, Zhang Jun pulled his duckling to roar all night in "Genghis Khan". The subsequent camera quietly left long hair, a big beard, and a cigarette in it. Always staring at the distance alone, not the uniqueness of a "literary and artistic worker". Only one can experience the taste. The film does not intentionally mean it.

The intense emotional conflict was exaggerated, without using stories to romance those young years, nor deliberately creating a tragic atmosphere. It is even hard to say who is the protagonist of the story. In the face of times and history, everyone is small. That generation went with the flow of time and faced the various changes that quietly came from society; that generation was wandering in reality and ideals, with ideals far away, as far away as Ulaanbaatar, reality was very close to the life and death contract in the hands of Cui Mingliang's cousin; that generation was unwilling to go with the flow but was so unstoppable.

When the passion of youth is exhausted by ten years of wandering, and when the dream of youth is surrounded by the desolation that cannot be escaped, they return to silence in confusion, not choices, because they have no right to choose at all. It seems that they are walking every step, but in fact, the shadow of the times affects and even determines people's lives everywhere. Zhang Jun and Zhong Ping, who were originally determined for life, fell apart because of a unique prostitution-catching incident in that era. Every little episode of the life of a small person is often accompanied by the occurrence of national events on the radio. The times are rolling, and personal destiny has not stopped in the torrent.

Eryong opened a small shop. Zhang Jun picked up a pair of scissors and cut off his long hair full of lovesickness, but he was still confused. At the end of the video, the camera freezes on a sunny afternoon. A staff dormitory seemed to be the dialogue between Chow Yun-fat and Sally Yeh in "Blooded Two Heroes" from the video hall downstairs:

"I'll take you to another place later."

"Why?"

"It will be better for your eyes when changing to a cleaner environment."

"Okay, I want to move to the beach, hoping to see the sky and hear the sound of waves."

"You pack up and I'll be here soon."

A hero and beautiful woman can just leave, but your youth cannot escape the shackles. In the still shot, Cui Mingliang is lying on the sofa and falls asleep. Yin Ruijuan is teasing the child while taking care of the kettle. The water boils, and the sharp bees are getting louder and louder, finally covering up all the noise around her...

There were completely different choices at the beginning, one chose to travel far and the other chose to be stable. Ten years later, they had different paths. But who could say that Yin Ruijuan had never had a dream? "She was actually very arrogant and secretly passed the provincial song exam."

The dreams and passions, the yearnings and persistences of the past have been crushed by the wheels of history for ten years, and they have returned to the platform where they set out. The platform is the place where they set out and the place where they return; there is only the ideal of starting, but no youth of returning.

Lao Jia used his quiet and slow long shot to record the true nature of life. He told an epic of a small person. Even though he was a group of small little people, he was still exuding his persistence in ideals and passion for youth, but even if he was persistence and passion, he still could not stop the disappearance of youth and the disillusionment of ideals.

The film lasts three hours and ten minutes, and almost no one left the stage in the middle. When a long list of cast members began to roll on the screen, the lights suddenly lit up, and a group of people seemed to be suddenly exposed to the theater, solidifying various expressions, as if they had instantly transformed a world.

"Wow..." After a few seconds, someone started to stand up and applaud. Then, the audience all the audience was slapped hard.

Lao Jia seemed a little at a loss, but Wang Dalun next to him quickly pulled him up and waved to the audience behind him. "Standard" became popular before it was broadcast. After watching the entire movie, the audience, including the media, critics and film producers were not disappointed. After watching the movie for three hours and ten minutes, everyone did not feel bored, but were all excited.

As a movie that spans ten years, "Platform" has no grand theme and shows the historical change of the country and individual from the perspective of a group of ordinary young people, and of course it also has delicate and sincere love, which is undoubtedly in line with the appetite of Westerners. Lao Jia was very excited, and this treatment did not exist in "Xiao Wu".

The staff then brought a few chairs in front of the stage and faced interviews from more than a dozen media outlets including France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, etc.

The host is very experienced and uses Italians' unique speech and gestures to make an opening remark. Listening to the translated meaning, he first talked about his personal thoughts and used a lot of shocking words such as epics.

When asked, the media threw more questions to the small oriental man who was not astonishingly beautiful in the center. Of course, some people also asked Wang Dalun. One of them still remembers "East Palace and West Palace" and specially asked him to talk about his different feelings about acting in these two movies.

The first day of the premiere was full, and the comments on the next day were very enthusiastic. Some media even asserted that "Standup" is very likely to win the Golden Lion Award for Chinese films for the second consecutive year after last year's "No One Can Leave".

Another French film critic said this in the newspaper: "The respect and understanding of life of ordinary people in the film describes some ordinary little people as important history. History is no longer the great people, but those little people who are busy with their dreams and life. Only then can they truly experience the transformation of history and form the real annotation of history. It can be said that this film is an epic of those little people."

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