"After Juliet Dies", as the name suggests, is a movie about family grievances.
The story takes place in modern times. Two companies with the same business scope are incompatible with each other, but the children of the two fell in love with each other at first sight, and finally eloped together.
But on the way to elope, there was a car accident.
The mistress is dead.
"This story takes place after Juliet's death." Director Chen waved his hand, "A smile to wipe out grievances? It doesn't exist. Because only Juliet is dead, Romeo is not dead."
If this is Shakespeare's story, Romeo will still die for Juliet after he wakes up in the hospital, but the author of this script is Director Chen's royal screenwriter Li Shanzhu... This man didn't know what he went through when he was young, so as long as he was In the script he wrote, one of the hero or heroine in it must be a scheming bitch.
"Romeo isn't dead. After he woke up in the hospital, he found that the two companies had already fought to the death. Going down, the two companies will collapse in the end, and finally the third company is cheap. Romeo had to endure the grief in his heart and found a girl who looked exactly like Juliet, and then he taught her to be Juliet. ."
The girl managed to deceive everyone, including Juliet's father.
Even the male protagonist himself is gradually beginning to be confused, is Juliet really dead? Did he just have a nightmare? The car accident was actually a dream. Juliet was not dead. She was right in front of him, in his arms, looking at him with loving eyes as always.
Until the end, things came to light.
All face the same question - Juliet is dead, what happens to the living
"Juliet's cast has been decided, as for Romeo." Director Chen's eyes swept over the three people in front of him, "I will choose from the three of you."
Chen Shuanghe knew that his choice would be fair. Between fame and acting skills, Director Chen always preferred acting, but others didn't think so. As soon as Director Chen left, the other two immediately pointed to him.
"Hey, I think we're just here to go through the motions. After all, it's a father and son soldier."
"Shh, be careful to hear him."
A group of little people. Chen Shuanghe didn't bother to pay attention to them, he walked out of the room and went to the dance studio to practice dancing.
Because "After Juliet" is a musical.
Before, it was not that there were no musicals on the market, but they were not popular. Most people watched it as a comedy, and joked that the people in it would dance whenever they disagreed.
But "After Juliet Dies" is different. It wears the skin of a musical, and the bones of a crime romance are wrapped under the skin. Li Shanzhu's script greatly complements the fun of the musical, making the film an instant hit, becoming the One year's box office champion, and then set off a wave of musical crazes, but until 2017, there is still no film that can surpass it.
The film can achieve such a great success, although the script has been changed more than 100 times, but it is also inseparable from the sweat of the hero and heroine in the dance room.
"Zhao Yufen." Chen Shuanghe thought while pushing open the door of the dance room, "She was the heroine of "After Juliet's Death" last time, will it be her this time? She had a good relationship with me last time. I have a lot of stuff, this time it should be…”
He froze at the door.
The dance room is surrounded by large mirrors. Two people dance in the dance room. Their shadows are everywhere. The two of them form a grand dance.
One of them is Zhao Yufen. She is a girl with slightly pale features. Such a look is a bit too ordinary in the entertainment industry, so after "After Juliet", she has almost never acted in an impressive performance. character, all her light seemed to burn out in the scene of "After Juliet."
Now she is dancing ballroom dancing with another young man. The young man doesn't seem to know how to dance and is being led by her. The two of them are chatting and laughing, and it takes a while to notice Chen Shuanghe at the door.
"Chen Shuanghe?" The young man stopped dancing, walked towards him, and extended his hand in a friendly manner, "Hello, I'm Qu Yan, who is a guest of Juliet's father."
Chen Shuanghe looked at him without blinking... the masked man behind him.
Unlike Shi Zhongtang, who had a hippy smile, he was a masked man with a slightly gloomy temperament. He was wearing a white coat that only old people like to wear now, with a snow-white and innocent mask on his face, standing silently behind Qu Yan. .
"Speaking of which, why do you want to be the heroine's father?" Zhao Yufen smiled at Qu Yan, "I heard that you turned out to be the heroine."
Chen Shuanghe keenly noticed that he glanced in the direction of the masked man, and then smiled: "I have been the male protagonist of many films, and now I want to take a short break and challenge different types of characters."
"Wow, you are amazing!" Zhao Yufen showed admiration.
"It's not that great..." Halfway through Qu Yan's words, the masked man behind him suddenly stepped forward and came close to his ear. The lips behind the mask opened and closed, and Qu Yan's lips also opened and closed. The personal voices merged into one, and said to Chen Shuanghe in front of him, "My daughter is dead, why are you still alive?"
This is a line in the script, but for some reason, when it came out of his mouth, there was an unusually real hatred.
The dance room was silent for a while, and then Zhao Yufen suddenly raised her hand and patted Qu Yan's arm, and said with a smile, "Oh, why did you enter the role of a father so quickly?"
"Then why don't you call me dad soon?" Qu Yan laughed at her, but looked behind Chen Shuanghe...
What could be behind him? Not the same as the masked man.
It's so strange, they can see the masked man behind each other, but Zhao Yufen can't see it, and neither can the others. Why is this
After that, Chen Shuanghe approached Qu Yan in private several times, and discussed this matter with him in a roundabout way. What surprised him was that Qu Yan was very resistant and alert. He seemed very reluctant to discuss this matter with others. Even began to deliberately avoid Chen Shuanghe.
"Don't you understand yet?" Shi Zhongtang said in Chen Shuanghe's ear, "He is a puppet, everything he says, everything he does, and everyone he makes friends with is not of his own will, but of his own accord. Instructed by the person behind him... He is afraid of you, afraid that you will follow such a shortcut like him."
"But you will disappear." Chen Shuanghe turned to look at Shi Zhongtang, "The day you disappear, the shortcut will also disappear."
"Yes, I will disappear." Shi Zhongtang's laughter came from behind the mask, "But not now... Brother Chen, at least now, I'm on your side."
"Why?" Chen Shuanghe asked his heart.
"...I think about it." Shi Zhongtang tilted his head and thought, "In order to be handsome in front of a certain girl?"
... What the hell is this reason? Chen Shuanghe had already let down his guard against him, but after hearing this, he didn't know whether he should believe him or not. On the other hand, after Qu Yan clearly showed his dislike for him, Chen Shuanghe's next path became more and more difficult.
"The curse of child stars."
"Insiders broke the news: There were originally only two candidates for the male lead, and the extra one was a related household."
"Director Chen said in an interview that his favorite actor is actually Qu Yan."
Can't these tabloids be stopped!
Chen Shuanghe tried hard to block the news from the outside world, but there were always people who, intentionally or unintentionally, passed these news into his ears.
With everyone talking about gold, Chen Shuanghe felt that the eyes of everyone looking at him gradually changed.
The word genius has not been mentioned for a long time, but words such as "connected households" and "child stars" have been mentioned repeatedly.
"Mom, are you feeling better? Dad is fine, I... I'm fine too." That day, Chen Shuanghe practiced alone until late at night, calling his mother on the sickbed and walking down the stairs, "The things in the newspaper can be trusted. I have a good relationship with the crew, especially Zhao Yufen who plays the heroine, she is very kind to me and gives me a lot of help... "
He suddenly stopped and looked downstairs.
Although he could not see the people downstairs, the sound of their footsteps and voices reached his ears.
"Chen Shuanghe seems to like you very much." Qu Yan's voice
"Is there?" Zhao Yufen sighed, "But I don't like him very much, he's very rude. Last time in the dance room, you took the initiative to shake hands with him, but he ignored you. …”
When their voices disappeared completely, Chen Shuanghe slowly descended the first flight of stairs.
Walking out of the gate, looking at the pale moon in the sky, he was silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "Is my memory true?"
Shi Zhongtang: "Huh?"
"I became famous when I was young, and I became an actor before I turned 30. Everyone likes me, and people recognize me wherever I go." Chen Shuanghe stretched out his hand to the moon, "...Is this memory true?"
The moon seemed so close, but it was actually so far away that he could not even touch its edge with his outstretched hand.
"Sometimes I think the world is illusory, the world is fake, my memory is fake, and I am also fake." Chen Shuanghe withdrew his hand and turned to look at Shi Zhongtang, "And you are also fake, it's me The illusion of too much pressure, in fact, I have never been an actor, everything is my illusion, my dream."
He sighed: "It's time to wake up from the dream now."
Abandoning the idea of going home, Chen Shuanghe walked through the door again and returned to the dance studio. Without turning on the lights, he danced alone in the dark. Occasionally crystal liquids scattered in the air, maybe his sweat, maybe it was his sweat. his tears.
Suddenly his foot twisted, and he fell on the ground with a bang. After a long time, he turned around and lay flat on the ground, covering his eyes with his hands.
"What a stupid kid." Shi Zhongtang crouched beside him, bowed his head and smiled at him, "It's just a role, why are you working so hard?"
"What do you know?" Chen Shuanghe said dully.
"Of course I understand, it's not hard to guess the mind of a child like you." Shi Zhongtang said with a smile, "I just want me to comfort you."
"I do not have!!"
"Haha, I want to be comforted, I want my efforts to be recognized, I want to use my talent to change something, it's human nature, you don't have to feel shy."
Chen Shuanghe sat up from the ground unbearably, glared at him and said, "Don't say it, you seem to know me very well!"
"But I do know you well." Shi Zhongtang smiled, "and I must thank you."
Chen Shuanghe: "Huh?"
"I know you better than you think, and I know her better than you think." Shi Zhongtang was still squatting beside him, but his eyes slowly turned towards the closed door, "... I know, see She will be unbearable when you look so miserable. Because the two of you are actually very similar people, one has no father since childhood, and the other has no father since childhood, you both love your mother deeply and want to be recognized by your mother I want to go back to the past and change my mother's tragic fate."
Da, da, da... Footsteps sounded outside the door, from far to near.
"Of course, the most important thing is that in her heart, any punishment has a limit. After evading the ticket, her life has been tampered with for two years, which is enough." Shi Zhongtang looked at the door and stood up slowly, "She won't just watch you. Dead, because in the final analysis, you haven't done anything. The person that Boss Qu really hated died more than a hundred years ago... Are you right, Ning Ning."
Ning Ning
Chen Shuanghe followed his line of sight.
The door was pushed open silently, a slit gradually widened, and a vague figure stood at the gate.
Without the light on, Chen Shuanghe couldn't see who she was, but looking at Shi Zhongtang's back, he couldn't help feeling that this man had been waiting for this moment.
Through time, through space, through different bodies, embrace the same you.
"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Shi Zhongtang hugged the woman at the door and said gently, "Can you give me a hug, Ningning."
small theater:
Brother Stone: "Stupid brother, let me teach you how to fall in love."
Three minutes: "Everything is up to you, brother."
Little Angel: "No, no, no, I'm your brother! QQ"
Ah Xia: "Axi, I came back from a business trip and found that I have blacked out two shades, and I can't write pure love anymore..."