Cao Ye stayed in the company very late that night.
At the end of the month, it was a busy time. He planned to work overtime to finish the remaining days of work. It happened that Lomon didn't have any films to be released on the National Day of November this year, so he could go to Shanghai for a while.
At around eleven in the evening, when Cao Ye left the company to go to the underground parking lot, Liang Sizhe sent a video invitation.
Cao Ye picked it up as he walked: "It's the next night show?"
Liang Sizhe seemed to have walked to the parking lot of the crew, the light was dim, and there was noise on the lens, which didn't look very clear.
The camera only stayed on Liang Sizhe's face for a few seconds, then swayed, as if turned and lowered, and then Xiaomeng's face appeared on the screen.
"There's a little kid who wants to tell you something." Liang Sizhe said outside the camera.
"Brother Xiaoye, this is the star badge for you." Xiaomeng's hand dangled on the screen, dragging out the afterimage, as if he wanted to put the star badge on the screen, but he couldn't find the camera. Location.
After a while, another hand appeared in the screen, holding Xiaomeng's wrist and helping him align the badge with the camera.
Cao Ye could almost imagine Liang Sizhe's current posture - half squatting on the ground, holding the phone in one hand and holding the child's wrist in the other.
"I'll put it on when I go back." Cao Ye said to Xiaomeng with a smile.
Xiaomeng only appeared on the screen for a few seconds and then ran away, the camera swayed again, Liang Sizhe got up and got into the car.
Cao Ye heard Song Qingyan whispering outside the screen, "It seems that some paparazzi are secretly filming", Cao Ye jokingly replied, "What are you secretly filming? Do you have an illegitimate child?"
The camera turned to face Liang Sizhe's face. Although it was a very low angle of death, the edges and corners of his jaw were unexpectedly beautiful. Liang Sizhe turned his face and glanced out the window, and said with a smile, "You have mastered the paparazzi's routine, maybe it's true." Ye recalled that in the bathroom the night before, Liang Sizhe's frown, his Adam's apple rolling, and a sigh that suppressed his emotions.
After Liang Sizhe finished drinking the water, he picked up his phone again. Seeing Cao Ye sitting in the car, he asked, "Want to go home?"
"Go to your house." Cao Ye said.
"Going to my house is also going home." Liang Sizhe said with a smile.
Cao Ye really planned to visit Liang Sizhe's house. "Thirteen Days", "Red Boys and Red Girls" and "Wangchuan Zhichuan" on the video website were all deleted versions. Before returning to Beijing, he asked Liang Sizhe, Liang Sizhe said that all the films stored with him are full versions.
"Do you really want to see my version?" Liang Sizhe said at the time, "Then do a good psychological construction before watching."
"So exaggerated?"
"It's okay, you can try it."
More than half an hour later, Cao Ye drove to the door of Liang Sizhe's house.
Pushing the door and entering, the room was empty. Cao Ye turned on the overhead light. When changing shoes, he looked at the room and couldn't help but guess how Liang Sizhe felt when he got home after each movie was finished.
It should be similar to himself, Cao Ye thought. He didn't have any special enthusiasm for going home, he just changed to a more comfortable but quieter place to sleep.
So instead of going home, he prefers to go to Yinsi's small theater to stay and chat with those filmmakers of the same age who have many ideas, so that he will appear less lonely.
The screening room on the second floor was still the same as when he was there last time. Cao Ye was a little emotional when he entered this room again. If he hadn't accidentally discovered that Liang Sizhe was watching the same surveillance screen twice in a row, he might have been deceiving himself even now.
He stood in front of the exhibition stand and looked at the row of films starring Liang Sizhe.
After ten years of debut, Liang Sizhe is not very productive. In addition to the "Liang Sheng Zhu Meng" that he directed, Liang Sizhe has acted in ten films so far, averaging one per year. It is no wonder that some people always say that he is lucky, but the output is low. All are fine products.
Cao Ye picked up the DVD case of "Red Boy, Red Girl", Liang Sizhe on the cover was facing the camera, with a lit cigarette between his fingertips, as if he was staring at a certain place to empty it.
Cao Ye suddenly realized why when he saw Lin Huan for the first time, he felt so familiar. It left a mark in my mind.
When I went to the crew a few days later, Lin Huan was also facing the camera from this angle. He mistakenly thought it was "love at first sight", and with Lin Yan beside him, he started chasing Lin Huan after half a month. Thinking about it now It seems that the person who made him fall in love at first sight was not Lin Huan, but Liang Sizhe.
It's just... absurd.
So let's start with this movie. I have to admit that he is really curious about Liang Sizhe's cross-dressing appearance.
Cao Ye put the video disc in the projector and sat on the carpet. The picture on the screen gradually turned from dark to bright. The dim sensor light in the corridor came on. He stepped on the stairs with high-heeled shoes, and his steps were a little messy. But I could feel the man was drunk.
Stepping up the stairs with high heels, the jingle of keys rang, and the man opened the door and walked in.
The ends of the long hair hung down, and the man bowed down, rubbed the smudge on the toe of his shoe with his fingertips, took off his shoe, and walked into the house with bare feet.
A woman's voice came from another room, an elderly, somewhat shrill Shanghainese, asking why he came back so late.
"I want to make money." The man said angrily. It's a man's voice.
The stockings and skirts were taken off and thrown to the ground, and then the camera moved up and moved to the mirror. The topless man supported the edge of the table with his hands, and bowed to look at the red lips in the mirror. Patiently answering the words outside the door: "What are you urging? Did I urge you to die early?"
The camera moved further up, revealing an incoherent face in the mirror. The man wet his handkerchief with water and wiped the makeup off his face little by little. He was humming a little tune from time to time and was beaten by the door. cut off, and then he would curse a few times impatiently.
The words at the beginning of the film jumped out, and the four characters of "Red Boy, Red Girl" were twisted, and Cao Ye recovered a little.
Li Twen. If I remember correctly, before the results of the Academy Awards came out, almost all film critics said that Liang Sizhe would be the biggest surprise in the Chinese film industry that year.
Originally, I couldn't imagine what Liang Sizhe looked like in a different outfit, but when the scene jumped out, I realized that this character actually had a strange fit with Liang Sizhe.
No wonder why Cao Xiuyuan used Liang Sizhe as the protagonist again at that time. It is hard to imagine any other actor who could play such a Li Nian.
The title receded, and in a feasting environment, Li Tian carried the wine to the private room of the karaoke hall.
Li Tian is very beautiful, but this kind of beauty can't dilute his masculine features. Anyone who looks at him can still recognize that he is a boy in his early twenties.
Li Tian was working in a karaoke hall and was among a group of escort girls. In the words of the proprietress, Li Tian was dedicated to serving those perverted men. They knew that Li Tian was a man, and they were interested in him and used him at the same time. Words insulted him - "Are you really a man? Do you have a handle? Does that handle work?"
When they said this, Li Tian sat silently on the side. He wasn't too flattering and looked a little cold, but this coldness made those men even more excited.
Li Nian is short of money, his mother is seriously ill, and he needs this job as a wine companion. Although the woman beat him and scolded him every day since she discovered his transvestite a few years ago, Li Nian still had to earn money to treat her.
This job of accompanying wine made Li Nian begin to resist wearing women's clothes, because every time he wore them, it meant that he had to endure the situation of being humiliated again.
In the second half of the film, Li Tian, who had been swallowing his breath, finally broke out and fought with the guests. Half of his wig was torn off, he was stepped on by the men under the soles of his shoes, and his skirt was torn in the fight. When he left the private room, he received news that his mother was critically ill, and rushed to the hospital in embarrassment. He was waiting at the door of the hospital when a man leaned over and put a suit on him.
Li Nian put on women's clothes again at his mother's funeral. Everyone who came to the funeral home looked back at him, but he ignored it. He bought a fresh bunch of flowers and placed them under the tombstone, staring at the man in the black-and-white photo for a while.
He quit his job as a wine company that night, and when he came home, he stepped on high heels and danced a dance under the moonlight. Just like the title, the camera only shoots his calf, and the red high heels are knocking on the floor with the dance steps, which looks beautiful.
The ending song sounded, and Cao Ye didn't return to his senses for a long time.
No wonder Cao Xiuyuan scolded reporters after the awards ceremony. Liang Sizhe's subversive performance in this film is amazing enough, but it is really unfair that he failed to win the best actor with this film.
I have to admit that in this film, Cao Xiuyuan is good enough as a director. When Li Nian took off his high heels at the beginning of the film, he bent down and carefully wiped off the smudges on them. In the middle and later sections, he returned home and kicked off the high heels, one shoe. After kicking all the way, the other shoe hit the wall heavily. With this detail alone, you can see the change in Li Nian's attitude towards his transvestites.
Cao Ye went to find the relevant information of that year. The news said that the ending clip of "Red Boy and Red Girl" was rewritten by Cao Xiuyuan himself. The screenwriter originally wanted to end the scene where Li Nian wore a different dress to attend his mother's funeral, but Cao Xiuyuan added the dance under the moonlight at the end.
The reporter who wrote the report was probably a fan of Cao Xiuyuan, and said that there was probably only Cao Xiuyuan in the Mainland, and he would add such a beautiful and hopeful ending to a film about transvestites.
Cao Ye recalled the dance under the moonlight. He thought that what Liang Sizhe said was probably true. He had not watched Cao Xiuyuan's films in the past ten years, and he almost forgot how the god in his mind shined when he was young. .
This film made him realize that Cao Xiuyuan, who was not his father, really shined brightly, but he has been shrinking himself in the shadow brought by Cao Xiuyuan over the years, refusing to stand a little further away from his identity as a son, standing in a " From the perspective of "people", objectively evaluate Cao Xiuyuan.
Let's watch another film, Cao Ye was stunned for a while, and then walked to the shelf, "Wangchuan" or "Thirteen Days"
"Thirteen Days" is a shared memory between him and Liang Sizhe, maybe he can watch it together with Liang Sizhe... Just why there are only one box of other films, but two boxes of "Thirteen Days"? Is it the difference between the abridged version and the uncensored version
Thinking like this, he picked up the DVD and stared at the cover of "Thirteen Days" for a while. The cover was familiar to him. It was Liang Sizhe's WeChat avatar.
He opened the disc case, and a thin piece of paper floated out of it.
Cao Ye didn't have time to bend over to pick it up because he saw the photos in the disc box.
He recognized at a glance that the photo was taken on Yin 4th Street, to be precise, it was the snowy Yin 4th Street in winter. Because he once asked Huang Ying to take a picture for him whenever it snows in Yinsi.
He picked up a few photos inside, which were taken from different angles, on the street, at the end of the alley, in front of the Lanyan Gate, and also took a photo of Xiaobai standing in the middle.
He crouched down and picked up the paper that had just fallen to the ground. The ink handwriting on the paper has faded and looks old, but the handwriting on the back of the paper is still very clear. The vertical line is Liang Sizhe's handwriting - "Happy 17th birthday, another Xiaoman in the world. You will always be The most beautiful boy."
This is not the first time Cao Ye has heard this, but now he realizes with hindsight that Liang Sizhe's last words were addressed to him on the night of the Academy Awards ceremony.
At that time, he thought it was an illusion to see each other, but now he realized that Liang Sizhe, who was standing on the podium, was indeed looking at him, and they were really looking at each other at that moment.