This star is from the earth

No matter how much time has passed, Director Sun still remembers that the day before he graduated and left school, the tutor called him to his home and chatted with him about his future development. A full glass of wine, when clinking glasses, said a few words to him:

"If the accumulation of water is not thick, it will be weak to support a big boat. If the accumulation of wind is not thick, it will be weak to support large wings."

"What is worthy of the name? It means that if you do your job well, your reputation will come naturally."

"...Among the students in this year, you must be the fastest one."

"Xiao Sun, you are talented, protect it...don't waste it."

"With the work, I will go to see it when the time comes, er, I will go to see it when the time comes..."

When he was in school, although he was a top student, he was still a little hesitant about the future. He didn't know whether to go to the crew to experience first, or go directly to the rivers and lakes. The mentor's encouragement to tell the truth after drinking burned on his heart like a brand, dispelling the fog of the past few days.

The sadness of graduation didn't stay in his heart for long. Soon, he brought a few people together and started shooting.

He shot a short film with bare hands, relying on intuition, patience, drive, and enthusiasm, and won an award at the Shanghai Film Festival. In the film critics, he has become a promising rising star, and countless people are looking forward to his feature-length film. He felt that what his mentor said was right and that he was talented.

A boss invested in him to make a feature film, and the money wasn't too much, but he was happy enough. The boss told him to "play to the fullest", so he tried his best to make a masterpiece.

Each work is a chapter in the author's spiritual history.

The work came out, and after it was sent to the film festival, it received a flood of bad reviews, "I don't know what to say", "I can see the narrative ambition, but I didn't manage it well, I was too confident, and the rhythm collapsed", "Last year's Did he make the movie?"...

The film critics said that he was not ready yet, and he couldn't control the long story, and he felt the same way.

Later he joined the crew as an assistant director and screenwriter. In just five years, he participated in the shooting of twelve films.

Among them, he has worked with new directors as well as well-known directors, filmed commercial films, and also filmed art works. Regardless of whether the film's final score is good or not, directors who have worked with him commented that he is "very easy to use".

Director Sun is also happy, feeling that he has learned a lot, and if he makes another film, he will not fail.

A director who has worked with him introduced investors to him. Director Sun pretended to be a grandson several times and won the investment, but the condition is that the male and female protagonists must use the people introduced by the investment. Director Sun is no longer young. In the past few years of experience, he has learned the rules of the world, the opinions of sects, and seen Vanity Fair, Ambition Party, Hongmen Banquet, Cowhide Bureau...Here, everyone sometimes punches each other for what they want Sometimes when talking about wine, the ideal is to seek skin with capital. Knowing that this might be his best chance, after a few drinks, he agreed.

The filming process was very tormenting at one point. The actor was difficult to deal with on the one hand, and on the other hand, he ended the filming several times. He went back to the room to look at the results of the day, and asked himself "Is this what I shot?", and then several times Breaking down, waking up with hair on the pillow every morning, this is the first time he has been afraid of movies in so many years.

He was relieved when the movie was finally finished. He didn't even wait for the news of the later stage of the film. He said that he was not ready yet, and he was almost there. He would make his own film after he made up that point, and then continued to be an assistant director. And he has never heard of the follow-up news of this movie.

Ten years have passed, and he is nearly forty years old, about to be middle-aged.

He didn't forget that he was looking for "that point", but no matter how long it had passed, he always felt that he was still a little bit, just a little bit. During these years as an assistant director, he could write scripts, direct, edit and dub later, but he still didn't know what was wrong.

Year after year, new directors emerged one after another. Looking back at Mu Ran, he has already missed the period when he was the most productive. Everyone thinks he is very good, but after all no one is willing to invest in him.

Even if he planned to pay for the film himself, his wife would not spend the money for him. Even if his wife agreed, the two failures made his morale drop to the bottom, and he dared not take any risks.

In the circle, the myth that a small cost is desperate to turn over is indispensable, but why did such a good thing happen to him? There is a rule of three in the circle, as long as he fails once again, he will have no chance for the rest of his life.

He worked diligently as the assistant director, his strength became stronger and stronger, and his reputation became bigger and bigger.

The mentor's encouragement often echoed in his mind, and he laughed when he thought of it. The well-deserved words at the beginning were finally realized, but compared to the expectations of the instructor, the word "deputy" was added in front of the director. Sometimes he wants to ask his mentor what he should do next. But he no longer dared to meet his mentor. How could he have the face to meet his mentor?

Before he could bring his work to meet his tutor, the tutor died of a sudden cerebral infarction.

He clearly said he wanted to see his works, so why did he just leave?

Director Sun went to the funeral. The tutor's wife was almost eighty years old, and she thought he looked familiar, so she raised her eyelids and asked if he was a student of the tutor. He didn't dare to look at the cloudy eyes in front of him, he hesitated for a long time, and finally fled in a panic. It was raining that day, and he ran and ran, crying and running, just like a dog.

Since then, he hasn't thought about making a movie of his own for a long time. Occasionally, a friend is willing to recommend investment, and Director Sun has the final say and politely refuses to go back.

Film is also a craft.

It’s like writing an article. Before writing for the first time, I searched for information and materials, and thought about it several times before writing. Have to revise back and forth. Although there are flaws here and there after writing, the sincerity of the hard work is clear at a glance, and the sense of accomplishment arises spontaneously. It's different when you write more. After getting familiar with the hands, the brain will think about being lazy, turn on the power saving mode, know what should be here, what should be there, the writing speed will become faster and faster, the brain cells will be consumed less and less, and the creation will become a thing of the past. Physical work.

The same goes for movies.

The 45-year-old Director Sun has a very high reputation in the industry. The reason he is different from other assistant directors is that he does not routine or lazy when shooting movies, and cherishes every hard-won opportunity to direct the film. , Every shot is as sincere as the first time.

He guarded the aisle for new directors, pointed out the maze, and acted as a shooter for bad film directors. Some actors who transformed into directors were also waiting for his schedule. After the success of the film, seeing that the praise in the newspapers that should have belonged to him was attributed to others, and the bright spots that he originally thought of became the bright spots on other people's resumes, he has been indifferent.

His edges and corners are like his increasingly protruding belly, becoming more and more rounded. Moreover, he is just an assistant director.

He had already forgotten the [that point] that he had been waiting and looking for in his heart.

Director Sun felt that he had lost hope of becoming a director, and thought that he would only be an assistant director forever.

Until he met Han Jue.

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