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Chapter 90
Chapter 90: Symphony of Fate
Just because of Xia Xiqing's reply in the comment section, Zhou Ziheng floated around for a week. Every day when have something to do, smirk at Xia Xiqing and do some weird things.
One day, Xia Xiqing was watching a movie in Zhou Ziheng's bedroom. He heard movement downstairs. When he went downstairs, he found that it was Zhou Ziheng and Zhao Ke. They were carrying two large cardboard boxes. Everyone is hesitant.
"What are you holding in your hands? Let me help you."
"Hey, no, no," Zhou Ziheng laughed dryly and kicked Zhao Ke's leg with his foot, "Let's go to the rooftop."
"Is there a key to the rooftop?" Xia Xiqing frowned in confusion.
Zhou Ziheng nodded, "I was in charge of the property yesterday." After speaking, the two of them carried the boxes upstairs.
When he passed by, Xia Xiqing glanced at the English on the box.
I always feel a little familiar, but can't remember it for a while. It wasn't until before going to bed at night that Xia Xiqing remembered that he seemed to have seen a similar cardboard box at Xia Zhixu's brother before, but his brother's place was equipped with an astronomical CCD, a photographic device.
What is Zhou Ziheng doing with that thing?
When you think about it, it's not surprising. Brother Xia Zhixu studied astrophysics, and Zhou Ziheng studied physics. It's normal for the two to have the same hobbies.
The selection of "Track" into the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival was not publicly announced at first. It was not until the official announcement of the selection list in early December that the official Weibo account of the "Track" film was officially announced, and it was announced that the schedule would be shifted to the opening of the Berlin Film Festival. the same day.
[@filmtracking official Weibo: The movie "Tracking" directed by Kuncheng@chengchengchengzi, starring Zhou Ziheng@actor Zhou Ziheng and Xia Xiqing@Tsing_Summer has been rescheduled on February 3rd! The "Fate Edition" 1 minute and 30 seconds notice was officially released. Live like ants, fight for your life! ]
During the post-production period, Kuncheng and the production team also called Xia Xiqing several times to ask him for advice from the perspective of art.
"Your identity is special. You are not only a painter, but also Jiang Tong in the play. We need to show the world in his eyes from Jiang Tong's perspective."
Xia Xiqing immediately understood the meaning of Kuncheng. What he needed was to use artistic means to restore the world that Jiang Tong saw as much as possible in the eyes of the audience.
On the day the preview came out, Xia Xiqing was also very nervous. This nervousness could almost be compared to the first time he participated in the auction of his own paintings. Different from painting, this film uses his complete person to interpret a soul that is very similar to him. This kind of creation is extremely rare for him, and it may never happen again.
So even though he had already participated in the whole process of filming, the moment he saw the trailer, his heart was shaken a little.
Because it is the first trailer, it is only one minute and thirty seconds long, and the content and plot that can be told are very limited. The opening scene is of Gao Kun, played by Zhou Ziheng, sitting in that crowded and dilapidated clinic.
"You didn't tell me what was wrong with me?"
"Why, you still want to have terminal illness."
The door of the clinic slammed shut, and the walls were covered in graffiti, with small advertisements like psoriasis glued to it, intertwined with the bright red paint prints of fake certificates, covering each other like people who have done a scandal.
In the shot, there are only a pair of legs walking in the muddy narrow alley. The black jeans are splashed with mud spots. The elongated shot shows the chaotic community like a decaying ant nest, where people from all walks of life from the bottom of society wear it. A ten-second shot is like the epitome of the lowest-class world. The scolding is mixed with the cries for the children to go back to eat, and the shouting and hawking are mixed with the piercing whistle of the crowded culvert. But these are just background sounds, and the real voiceover accompanies those legs that keep moving forward.
[Your mother ran away after giving birth to you. She was tricked into giving birth! ]
[A mother has a dog that has no mother. ]
[My father is also dead, and another grandmother dies, and they all live together, one nemesis. ]
[What kind of work are you doing in the city! Are you an adult? I don't dare to use child labor, go go, don't delay Lao Tzu's business! ]
[Hey, why can't survive. Save what grandma, save yourself these days. ]
[If you have the ability, go to the big hospital! Poverty for a lifetime! ]
Those voices got louder and louder, mixed together like countless out-of-control machines, and finally fell silent under a screeching noise.
The screen is completely black, and the sound of gasping can be heard in the darkness.
"I have AIDS." There was a brief calm in the voice.
When the picture lit up again, it was the picture of Gao Kun smashing the iron door of Aaron's rental house. With a loud bang, Gao Kun's distorted face was exposed in the gap between the railings.
"AIDS! Did you know?!"
Under the effect of montage, the green wall outside the iron gate gradually turned into a nighttime convenience store covered with green filters.
Gao Kun, who had cut off his palm, smeared scarlet blood on the shelves of the convenience store indiscriminately, wandering on his legs like a lonely soul, until he walked to the last row of shelves near the warehouse with the blood stains, met another pair of footsteps, and opened the old glue. But the clean white sneakers and the gray convenience store uniform pants.
The camera shot only the lower body. The man in uniform released his hand, the box he was holding fell to the ground, and the ground was covered with colorful lollipops.
The orange lollipop changed again and turned into an orange sunset. In the shadow reflected on the wall, a weak voice curled up on the ground and was beaten to the point of being unable to stand up.
The sound of music suddenly accelerated, and the two images began to interlace. They were also tracking perspectives. One was the emaciated figure following in the dark, and the other was the limping back following the road in the setting sun. Switching, eventually becoming two faces close to each other in the blaring of the music.
The picture flickered, Gao Kun pinched someone's neck fiercely, blue veins burst out, and even his voice gritted his teeth.
"I can't die silently alone..."
When this sentence ended, the screen suddenly went out.
Drops of blood appeared in the black screen, which gradually turned into two characters of tracking, but the blood color faded again and again, and the light and shadow were interlaced, like the glow of the sunset shining through the gaps of black paper-cuts.
The screen cuts off, all the background music disappears, and there is only a panic-stricken silence.
In the camera, Jiang Tong is standing with empty hands. His pupils are flashing and his face is pale.
A lollipop rolled to the feet of the person standing opposite. He picked up the candy with his blood-stained hands and handed it to Jiang Tong.
The last shot is a close-up of Gao Kun.
He wiped his face with his bloody hands, and showed a smile to Jiang Tong, or the audience.
Shady, twisted, terrifying. Desperate laugh.
The screen was completely black again, and the list of creators appeared on the screen. The last lines in the preview are in my ears, and the voice is trembling, but it shows a firmness that will not admit defeat.
"Damn it...do you deserve to die?"
Although he had seen all the scenes, Xia Xiqing was shocked by this first preview, especially Gao Kun's last smile, which was the first time he met Jiang when his mentality was completely collapsed. Tong.
Xia Xiqing was pleasantly surprised that in terms of art, the director did take his suggestion. The color tone in the trailer is different from the dark and hard tones used in many previous reality films. It is some very rich and even sticky high-saturation and low-brightness colors. set up.
Moss-like wet emerald green walls, bright red viscous blood, the late-night light green filters of the convenience store, mint-colored culverts, orange-red lollipops and the sunset in the sugar water tablets.
"In Jiang Tong's eyes, the world is both good and rotten, and he wants to survive because of this. Moreover, he likes to paint, such a person who likes art in his bones, even the rotten world is rotten in his eyes. nice."
This is Xia Xiqing's original words, how wonderful it is to reproduce the video through a whole production team.
Once the preview was released, it was heatedly discussed by netizens. Not to mention, the traffic of these two leading actors is almost unmatched at the moment, but they are different from the traditional traffic. One of them is a national actor of the 20th generation who has played for more than ten years, and there are almost no bad movies in the leading roles. , It is rare not to go to the art academies to be admitted to the famous school by the ability of the academic elite actor.
The other is even more legendary. He became famous overnight by his face. In fact, he was a painter who created an oil painting at an auction price of 800,000 at the age of 15. After going out of the closet, he almost became a pioneer of the LGBT community.
With these two people together, plus a cutting-edge director who has won awards abroad many times with independent films, plus a lot of sensitive themes, it's hard not to be discussed by the public.
[@Self-study rushed to me: An Alpha who doesn’t want to be a physicist is not a good actor. ]
[@ Rice Sweetest CP: A beauty Gong who doesn’t want to be a good actor is not a good painter. ]
[@False Smart: My god, that last laugh gave me goosebumps, I swear I’m not a fan of Zhou! ]
[@Am I sick: Zhou Ziheng should have won the award too, I smelled the nomination after watching the preview. ]
[@rainbow hall biubiubiu: Originally, I saw Xia Xiqing didn’t want to watch it [I didn’t mean to scold him to question his professionalism in performance, but after watching the preview, I was actually really fragrant? ? ? ]
[@OHlala: Xia Xiqing is so good-looking... [I am addicted to beauty and cannot think]]
[@SWood: Don’t watch movies with traffic, fans are just accusing and commenting, aren’t you embarrassed? ]
[@Who gets married first is the dog: I'll go with the long legs that fill the screen... Zhou Ziheng's red hair is really handsome, I didn't even recognize it at first glance, the last laugh is too evil! ]
[@FilmPeter Pan: From the perspective of the trailer, the production is still very conscientious. Whether it is the camera or the music, the sincerity of the producer can be seen, and the color tone is also very special. On the contrary, there are The more beautiful the more tragic feeling. When I heard the last line, I really got goosebumps. Zhou Ziheng is a top student in the film industry, and his good performance as always will make everyone ignore his efforts. I think this movie might be able to give him an award. In addition, Xia Xiqing's last appearance was still very pleasant. In the past, he had a lingering upper-class temperament, which was innate, but it was worn away in the movie, which was very suitable for the movie "Like an Ant". The setting is surprisingly good. ]
[@Our Us: Originally not interested, many people mentioned this film when Xia Xiqing came out of the closet, saying that he had promiscuous sex with AIDS, so he would act in this film. At that time, I felt that some people’s hearts were really dirty. Look. Now it seems that this movie is really a sincere work. How many people dare to touch this subject? I will also support a movie ticket for Xia Xiqing's stubbornness when he comes out of the closet. ]
Although there are many discordant voices, especially a group of homophobic middle-aged straight male netizens accumulated in the October storm, most of the voices are good, and the quality of the trailer is here, it is difficult not to be convinced .
Xia Xiqing is a person who is not very likely to be shaken by other people's evaluations, but when he is affirmed, no one will feel moved.
It is a lucky and happy thing to be a surprise under low expectations.
As the main creator, Xia Xiqing retweeted the official Weibo announcement very cooperatively.
[@Tsing_Summer: I was born human, I am not wrong. ]
If Jiang Tong is played by another actor, this sentence in the forwarding will not cause any discussion. It just so happens that it is Xia Xiqing who has experienced the come out storm. This kind of grafted emotional bond can easily let everyone substitute Xia Xiqing's perspective. , resulting in a subtle empathy, which binds actors and roles even more.
Soon, Zhou Ziheng, who was shooting a perfume advertisement, also reposted it on Weibo.
[@Actor Zhou Ziheng: Hello Gao Kun, you are not wrong. ]
Xia Xiqing was busy in December. It was precisely because of the previous turmoil on the Internet that the exposure of the art museum attracted an explosive flow of visitors. Although most of them knew little about art, many people were better than deserted ones. Xia Xiqing also In the attitude of good management, he carefully kept the things left by his mother. In this situation, he had to work overtime with the team to hold meetings and make some plans to limit traffic. At the same time, he also specially did some special activities for non-professionals. , similar to the popular science of art.
Originally, he thought that these things would not be too busy, but the actual operation was much more troublesome. As a person like him who only painted since he was a child, now he has to learn the experience of business management from scratch. For the activities of the art museum on Friday, Xia Xiqing stayed up for three or four nights, personally selected the collections displayed, and invited well-known domestic art masters to give lectures. Even Zhou Ziheng, who has always been busy with his work, felt distressed.
"Why do you fight so hard?" Zhou Ziheng draped a thick blanket over Xia Xiqing, who was sitting in front of the workbench. He was still in front of the desk to modify the design.
Xia Xiqing raised his head and turned his neck, "Do you know why Jiang Tong is so poor and has to work several jobs to rent that old rental house? He can just rent a single room and live a better life by himself."
This is something outside the script, Zhou Ziheng hesitated for a moment, and suddenly understood.
But he didn't say it. Xia Xiqing just smiled and lowered his head to continue.
Zhou Ziheng hugged him from behind and kissed the top of his head.
Because Jiang Tong wanted to keep the house where he and his mother once lived together.
On December 21st, at 3:00 pm on Friday, the event planned by Xia Xiqing started. As the owner of the art gallery, he also attended the event in formal clothes. Many fans of Xia Xiqing came down from the stage. These fans are also very obedient, and there are no aids such as banners with lights. They come in a low-key, not noisy, very orderly manner.
Xia Xiqing specially made a flower basket by himself and asked fans to put letters in the basket, but not long after the event started, the flower basket was already full and could no longer be filled.
"Boss, many people brought gifts, do you accept them?"
Originally thought it was the norm in the fandom, Xia Xiqing shook his head, "No gifts, but letters."
"But there are too many gifts. We put them in the corner of the outer hall at first, and now that corner is a little too big..."
"Who asked you to pile it up, I already said that you are not allowed to collect it." Xia Xiqing, dressed in a black suit, held his headset in his hand, and hurriedly walked to the outer hall, who knew that he said again, "No boss, They insisted on giving because..."
"Don't make excuses, I'll..."
"Because they said it was a birthday present for you, and there was a big cake."
Xia Xiqing's footsteps suddenly stopped.
Birthday?
He took out his mobile phone sluggishly and unlocked the screen, December 21.
It seems like it's really his birthday...
He has been so busy and chaotic recently that he has no time to take time into account. Besides, since the incident on his tenth birthday, he has never had a good birthday.
Looking at the girls who were waiting in line at the ticket checking area, Xia Xiqing had mixed emotions in his heart. They are very obedient, not noisy or noisy, without any support, they just quietly put the letter away, stuff the gift to the staff, quietly, not even saying a happy birthday, for fear of disturbing themselves.
It is a happy thing to be able to harvest the love of others at any time.
Xia Xiqing called his assistant, "Go, buy me as many flowers as possible, pink roses, for these girls, one per person."
The assistant quickly managed the matter. While checking the tickets, he gave flowers one by one to the fans. Xia Xiqing cut the big cake and shared it with everyone.
Soon, the assistant pushed another shelf, covered with dark blue velvet.
"Mr. Xia, this is also a gift for you."
Xia Xiqing didn't have time and didn't raise his head, "I'll put it in the outer hall for a while..."
"Would you like to take a look first?"
He raised his head and glanced suspiciously at the shelf. Under the crystal lamp, on the shiny velvet was a card with the words Happy Birthday written on it.
The moment he saw the signature, Xia Xiqing couldn't help being stunned.
From: Thief.
He stretched out his hand, a heart beating thumping, each pounding against his barren and empty chest, as if resonating with the velvet covering.
Lifting the cover, Xia Xiqing saw an oil painting with a beautiful woman sitting in the middle of the painting.
It was the mother he painted when he was fifteen years old, and it was also the first painting in his life that was auctioned off.
After ten years of wandering and wandering, he finally returned to his side.