I remember that after watching Zhang Guoshi's "The Hawthorn Tree", many people began to boast that it was the purest movie.
This is because the heroine and the hero basically hold hands, and then the hero carries the heroine on his back, and there is no other contact.
But in the eyes of those who are familiar with movies, such bragging is really too much.
In the 1990s, there was such a movie. It was hailed as a classic of love movies, but it was definitely much purer than "The Hawthorn Tree".
Because in this movie, the boy with the same name and the same surname didn’t even say a word of love to the girl with the same name!
But the gentle affection radiating from the bones makes people feel a little distressed.
Many plots in the story are unforgettable.
This movie is "Love Letters".
It started out as a novel of the same name by Shunji Iwai, but because it was so popular, Shunji Iwai adapted it into a movie and directed it himself.
Then the movie turned out to be even more successful than the novel, and exploded the film market across Asia. Its critical acclaim was soaring, making it a classic of its generation.
In fact, if people watch it in 10 years, they will feel that there are still some deliberate carvings in this kind of movie, and there are also some very childish aspects.
However, no one can deny the touches that pure love brings to people.
Especially those young people who are not college graduates love it very much!
The younger the people are and the less they have experienced the cruelty of society, the more they will yearn for the best and purest things.
Although these do not exist, the desire for beauty is still the most endearing quality of children and young people.
Therefore, when they look back at the touches brought by "Love Letter" when they grow up, they will only smile and continue to struggle with this damn difficult life, but they will never regret when they saw "Love Letter" touched and liked.
The filming of "Love Letter" was not difficult.
The plot of it is two clues, with two parallel narratives at different points in time.
The heroine played by Miho Nakayama communicates with the girl who has the same name as her fiancé Fujii Shu through letters, which also connects the lives of the two people.
The most important character is definitely Nakayama Miho, but her fiancé Fujii is also an important supporting point throughout the book, and it is he who supports the overall context of the story.
The young female Fujii's role was ranked second to the two of them, but her extremely pure appearance and temperament were also very outstanding.
The role of the remaining male protagonist's successor friend is weaker.
There are only four main characters in "Love Letter", or the first three people.
The rest is just some supporting roles, and they are basically just a make-up, so they are not important at all.
The characters are not complex and the structure is simple, which is one of the important reasons why Shen Huan chose this movie.
This means that as long as the leading actors work hard, the whole movie can be sustained.
And the cost is very small.
In addition to the role of Miho Nakayama, which requires an actress with very good acting skills, the two Fujii trees can choose actors who have just debuted, or students from film schools.
Even if the shooting location needs to be changed several times, the overall cost of 5 million to 8 million is definitely enough.
After pondering these factors, Shen Huan said silently in his mind: "Good Lord, I want to redeem the movie 'Love Letter' by Shunji Iwai."
"I can't see others being better than me" was not an answer, but the next moment, the movie "Love Letter" appeared in Shen Huan's mind.
As if they were engraved in Shen Huan's mind, the fragments of the scenes flowed by with incomparable clarity.
Shen Huan can remember every sentence of the conversation clearly.
No, I don't remember it, it's as if he was in the movie, watching their story.
The good man is indeed a cowhide! !
After sighing, Shen Huan lowered his head and started typing on the computer.
The original book of "Love Letter" is about 100,000 words. If it is expressed in a movie, it will not use 100,000 words at all.
But Shen Huan was not a professional screenwriter. He was worried that Zhu Mei would not understand what he had written, so he simply described the entire plot from beginning to end.
He included the actors' lines, their expressions and moods at the time, as well as Shen Huan's emphasis on a certain memorable episode and his narration.
Young people in the new era are not too slow at typing on computers, especially Shen Huan who had previously learned computer shorthand and could type up to 3,000 words per hour, so for a script of about 100,000 words, it took him a lot of time to type. It was written in three days.
In fact, it doesn’t take three days.
But when he just started writing, Shui Qianyu brought him food and saw him typing desperately, so he watched for a while.
She couldn't stop now. She immediately asked Shen Huan to save the document. She went out and bought a simple printer and copy paper to print out the script of "Love Letter".
"Why is it so frustrating to write?"
"How is it possible that we can be attracted to each other without saying a word?"
"How stupid, this Fang Shu! He got injured after just running a few steps, what a fool!"
"Well... the tragedy is not good! Shen Huan, please change the ending for me! The man Fang Shu was rescued, but lost his memory, but he recovered after a few years. When he saw that his fiancée was married, he resolutely went to find her Fang Shu, the two of them are happily together!"
“…”
No matter how mature and grown-up Shui Qianyu may be, she is still just a 14-year-old girl at heart.
Looking at such a story written by Shen Huan, Shui Qianyu was just curious and amused at first, but later, she was attracted by the storyline and could no longer stop and was immersed in the story.
Although Shen Huan wrote a script, not a book, she could still accurately feel the poignancy hidden in pure love.
Shui Qianyu didn't like tragedies at all, so she forced Shen Huan to revise it.
To be honest, the ending she came up with was also a good happy ending.
But if this ending is brought out, if nothing else is mentioned, at least the award will be gone.
All the judges are changed!
They don't like beautiful things in the world, they just like tragedies and weird expressions! !
Shen Huan's movie was originally intended to make Zhu Mei famous, so it was impossible to modify it.
Besides, those literary and artistic young people also like this kind of tragedy the most. In their eyes, it seems that only tragedy can last forever.
Shen Huan himself doesn't like tragedies, but for the sake of awards and praise, he had to follow the original work.
But the result of not listening to Shui Qianyu's words was that she almost cried as she muttered.
How could Shen Huan see such a scene
With a headache, he thought for a long time and finally came up with a way to get the best of both worlds.
"Xiao Shuishui, after the movie is released, we will publish this book. In the book, I will write a happy ending as you said, okay?"
“Keep your word!”
"I promise!"
"Hmm~~Hook~~"