Chapter 453: Melodious Music, Wei Ming Returns to Jingcheng

Later, Wei Ming calculated that he had to return to Jingcheng.

Not to mention that the Mao Award was a major event entrusted by Mr. Mao Dun before his death. Back then, the old gentleman dragged his sick body to write a moving preface for him, and passed away shortly after. That was the last text in his life. Just for this inheritance, Wei Ming had to support this scene regardless of whether he won the award or not.

Another thing was that December 20th was Sister Lin's birthday. He didn't catch up with his own birthday, but he still had to spend this birthday with her, and by the way, pass the script of the People's Art Theater to her through Sister Lin.

It was just that he didn't know if Sister Xue could make it back. Only when the three were together could it be called a home.

In addition, his correspondence graduation exam was also in mid-December. Although the school could make an exception for him to choose another time for the defense, Wei Ming thought about just getting it done in one go.

However, Wei Ming wanted to return to Jingcheng, but he couldn't rest assured leaving the four children here. Although there were many people in the crew who could watch them, he was the first person responsible, so he thought about just taking all the little brats back this time.

And he didn't plan to bring them back again after taking them back. He simply took this opportunity to let them wrap up. Other crew members could return to Chengdu to rest, and this time was probably about a week to ten days.

This would definitely invisibly increase costs, and now the cost had long exceeded 500,000, so any increase was borne by Wei Ming himself.

The only thing he felt sorry for was the several leads and main creators, Li Li Baotian and Ge Ge Cunzhuang and his son, so Wei Ming decided that their expenses in Chengdu during this period would also be his responsibility, letting them have a happy little vacation.

After deciding, Wei Ming had a meeting with Han Han Sanping, Chen Chen Kaige, and the others that night to discuss.

Everyone had no objection to Wei Ming returning to Jingcheng to attend the Mao Award ceremony. They all felt that Wei Ming would definitely win the award, so he should go back if he should.

Next, they adjusted the shooting plan for one night, planning to finish all the children's scenes in the next three days. If they couldn't finish, they would leave Xi Zi's part for last and prioritize the other children first.

This included a very heavy scene: Teacher Zhong leaving school to return to the city, and the students folding paper airplanes to see him off.

For this scene, a school in a suitable location was specially rebuilt during the early preparation. Every day, equipment had to be transported up and down the slope to film the school scenes.

Now it was finally time to film. All the child actors were concentrated in the school, listening to Teacher Zhong calmly finish his last lesson, and then said: "Class dismissed."

The students didn't move. Teacher Zhong carried the luggage that had been prepared long ago, and outside there was a tractor waiting for him while chewing grass.

From the moment Li Li Baotian walked out of the classroom, Zhang Zhang Yimou's camera had been behind him, not giving the actor a front face, from the classroom all the way out of the school, down the slope, and seeing the tractor.

Zhang Zhang Yimou was amazed. Li Li Baotian's acting was also too good. Just looking at his back, he could feel the rich emotions in Teacher Zhong's heart.

What was relatively obvious was the reluctance toward this group of students, a bit of relief for setting things right, and a touch of determination to die. Several small pauses were just right. Even his back could act. Zhang Zhang Yimou, as a "perspective," was looking forward to him turning his head.

Until the tractor driver raised his hand in surprise and pointed behind Teacher Zhong...

Actually, there was nothing behind him now, but Teacher Zhong needed to turn around and make an expression of relief and emotion after seeing the paper airplanes flying out of the window.

After filming Li Li Baotian's expression enough, switch perspectives and film the students.

The students' acting was not as good as Li Li Baotian's first, and secondly, there were too many actors. If one didn't film well, they had to redo it, so the main time was spent on the students' side.

Fortunately, Xi Zi didn't drop the chain. This section was the most critical, and he was the one. The bond between Chen Pipi, who had no relatives, and Teacher Zhong was also the deepest.

At this time, Teacher Zhong already knew that his wife had committed suicide after he left. His soulmate was gone, and the meaning of his life had also disappeared. Although it wasn't explicitly stated, Wei Ming used many techniques to hint that he might commit suicide after returning to the city to deal with his wife's funeral.

Although he had helped many children walk out of their spiritual dilemmas, he himself couldn't walk out.

But now Chen Pipi chased him out, hoping to live with Teacher Zhong.

Teacher Zhong refused. His heart was already dead, but he still comforted Chen Pipi: "The principal will adopt you. In the future, you call him Dad, and you will be Uncle to Shitou."

Ge Ge Cunzhuang, Old Ge, this character was finally considered a good person, unlike Ge You's character, who was bad to the end.

However, when Teacher Zhong got on the tractor and the car started and walked for a while, he suddenly shouted to stop.

Wei Ming let Zhang Zhang Yimou set the camera further away. He wanted to film a long shot, a fixed shot.

The tractor was at the golden section point of the lens, and Chen Pipi was outside the frame.

This scene was without accompaniment in Wei Ming's handling, completely quiet.

It wasn't until Teacher Zhong left the frame and hugged Chen Pipi into the frame, got on the car, and the car left, that the music sounded.

The two waved goodbye to the classmates behind them together.

After this shot was filmed, Xi Zi, who was easy to enter and exit the play, suddenly cried.

At this time, the camera filming the behind-the-scenes was also on, facing Xi Zi.

Wei Ming asked him: "Why are you crying? You haven't wrapped up yet. There are still a few scenes after returning from Jingcheng."

Wei Xi wiped his tears and sobbed in a low voice: "I cry, I cry because I know Teacher Zhong won't die."

Li Li Baotian gave a thumbs up and praised: "A natural good actor!"

Chen Chen Kaige, this assistant director, was also secretly wiping tears, a big guy over 1.8 meters tall crying like a child. At this moment, he really wanted to write a poem.

Feng Feng Xiaogang only had one feeling: to be a director, you have to film a movie like this to not have come in vain!

At this moment, a seed of an art director was buried in his heart.

Zhang Zhang Yimou knew that Director Wei Ming hid Teacher Zhong's death wish very obscurely. Except for Li Li Baotian's subtle performance, there were also many hints in the camera language, which were arranged very cleverly, but not a single place was explicitly stated.

But as long as you understand these, and then look at this scene, see Chen Pipi stand out, see Teacher Zhong accept him, you will have a kind of: It's really good, Teacher Zhong once redeemed Chen Pipi, and now Chen Pipi also redeemed Teacher Zhong.

This is a two-way rush, a two-way redemption.

There is a warm power in Teacher Wei Ming's works. It is not extreme enough, but it doesn't mean it has no power. This scene was filmed very movingly.

After this heavy scene was filmed, the scenes of Wang Fei, Liu Lin, and Wu Jing were all finished. Wei Ming could now send them back to Jingcheng.

Of course, Xi Zi also had to go back together, go home to see his parents and sister, and then come again.

Wu Jing secretly walked to Wei Ming's side: "Director, I haven't filmed enough yet, and I can't bear to part with everyone. Why don't I come back with you."

It wasn't winter vacation yet, and being here was equivalent to having an early vacation.

"Look at how clever you are." Wei Ming laughed, but didn't agree. He hired a private tutor for them. You haven't been to school for several months, and you can't be absent from the final exam, right?

In addition to the four child actors, Wei Ming also planned to take Pingping and Xiao Fangfang, letting them see their eldest sister and eldest nephew.

These were six little brats. Wei Ming was worried that he couldn't watch them, and couldn't tie them together with a rope.

So Wei Ming decided to let Chen Chen Kaige go back to Jingcheng, and by the way, put the filmed materials back to the Children's Film Studio, and then comb through the materials from the beginning to see if there was any need for reshooting.

Actually, most of these materials had already been reviewed by the Emei Film Studio before, and there were no big problems.

In addition, Hu Hu Weili, who was responsible for the music, also had to go back. His music materials had accumulated enough, and the next step was to produce.

Chen Chen Kaige asked Director Wei: "Then how do we return to Jingcheng?"

Wei Ming: "Of course, by plane. Old Han is responsible for opening the certificate."

Seeing that they were going to take a plane, Feng Feng Xiaogang was so envious. He heard from Zhang Zhang Yimou that he had also taken a plane, and the plane even brushed past a place called Kowloon Walled City, which was so exciting.

Feng Feng Xiaogang thought sourly, I'm afraid the nightlife in Hong Kong is even more exciting.

He had heard from Chen Chen Kaige how yellow *The Witness* was filmed. It seemed it was filmed in that kind of place. Old Zhang could also be considered someone who had eaten and seen things.

When the three big and six small nine people appeared at the airport, even Chen Chen Kaige was a bit excited. For this flight, he changed into the most formal clothes. After all, it was his first time too.

Wang Fei was a half-grown child and could help Wei Ming share the responsibility of looking after the younger brothers and sisters.

Before boarding the plane, she counted the heads once, and after confirming there was no problem, she looked at Wei Ming again.

Eh? This watch changed again?

She remembered that at first it was a Shanghai watch, later it was changed to a Swiss watch, and now it was changed to a Japanese watch, looking very sci-fi and also very expensive.

Wang Fei sighed. With you like this, who knows what you will be corroded into in Hong Kong.

The Swiss watch changed in the middle was the Rolex sent by A-Min. It wasn't that he was going back to Jingcheng, so he changed to the one from Sister Lin.

This Rolex wasn't cheap. Zhou Zhou Huimin didn't lack this bit of money now. Two albums sold well, and she shared a lot, already a little rich woman.

And she also earned quite a bit in the stock market.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index in 1982 had fallen by more than 50% from its peak to now, which could be called a stock market crash, especially after Margaret Thatcher's kneel, it fell by 25 points.

But because of Wei Hong's prior arrangements, they both earned quite a bit.

In a good mood, A-Min also went to attend the wedding banquet after receiving Joseph Koo's wedding invitation.

Joseph Koo and Liza Wang were officially married. At the wedding were friends in the music scene and colleagues from TVB.

A-Min sat with Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. Because of their colleague relationship, these two had been very close recently, often performing together. A-Min even suspected that there was something between them.

But Leslie Cheung denied it. He recently met a friend named Daffy Tong, who worked at Standard Chartered Bank.

The neighboring table was full of middle-aged and elderly people. Many were sighing about how much money they lost in the stock market. Huang Zhan and the senior composer Wang Wang Fuling were also chatting.

Wang Wang Fuling recently received an invitation from the Hong Kong Youth Federation to write a new song.

This song was to fight back against the Japanese textbook incident, so it could be considered a designated topic, requiring patriotic elements and national feelings in the lyrics.

Wang Wang Fuling sincerely invited Huang Zhan to fill in the lyrics for this song.

Because of the Japanese invasion of China, Huang Zhan also left his hometown since childhood, following his parents to Hong Kong. For this invitation, he gladly accepted and exchanged with Wang Wang Fuling on the spot.

Later, seeing that the little girl Zhou Zhou Huimin also came, Huang Zhan also casually took out a small gift and gave it to her. ===== CHAPTER 454 =====