Chapter 541 "Coco"
The original English name of "Coco" is "Coco".
Coco is actually the name of the great-grandmother of the protagonist Miguel in the play. Coco is also the daughter of another male protagonist, Hector.
Therefore, although the Chinese name of this movie is "Coco" and the main plot line does revolve around "music dream", its real core content is "life and death" and "family".
When Xu Xiyu was making this movie, he thought about adapting it locally, but after thinking about it for a long time, he finally gave up.
Because in most countries in the world, the expression of death is solemn. Few festivals with this theme are turned into a "celebration" like Mexico's Day of the Dead.
The content of this movie is too deeply and completely bound to the Mexican Day of the Dead and other Mexican cultures. If you want to modify the background, it would be equivalent to rewriting a new book.
Xu Xiyu doesn't think he can write a better one, and even if he writes it, he may not be able to make a film of the same level as "Coco".
After all, there is indeed a gap between the script and the finished film, otherwise "Wangxian 2" would not have been so thorough.
As a movie that Xu Xiyu would revisit from time to time, "Coco" is naturally easier to reproduce.
However, Xu Xiyu still changed one thing.
He changed Coco's name to Vivian, which is written as Vivian in Chinese.
As for why the name was changed, I think it doesn’t need too much explanation.
At this time, in the reading room of Dual Shadow, only Xu Xiyu and Hu Ningwei were sitting side by side.
Looking at the debugging screen on the screen and smelling the faint fragrance of lily of the valley coming from Hu Ningwei's body, Xu Xiyu suddenly said with emotion: "You said that this year goes by so fast, it always feels like a dream. ”
Hearing this, Hu Ningwei looked at Xu Xiyu with confusion, not quite understanding why he suddenly said such a sentence.
"Did you come to see "Coco" when it was being produced?" Xu Xiyu said again.
"I used to come here often, but after my brother and I discussed splitting up the family last year, I haven't come much since I was too busy." Hu Ningwei shook her head.
"I come here often, and this film can be said to have been made while watching me."
"Isn't this how it should be? This is your work." Hu Ningwei said with a dumb smile.
"To be precise, this is the work I gave you." Xu Xiyu retracted his gaze from the screen and turned towards Hu Ningwei.
Hu Ningwei was already looking at him, so the two people's eyes naturally came into contact.
After just looking at each other for a second, Hu Ningwei leaned away, wrapped her arms around his arms, leaned her head on his shoulder, and asked in a tone that sounded both expectant and emotional: "You said, there really will be undead." The world? ”
"If you think it is, then it is." Xu Xiyu reached out and stroked her face.
After hearing this answer, Hu Ningwei stopped talking. Instead, she just leaned on Xu Xiyu's shoulder quietly and watched the movie on the screen start to play.
She knew what the story of "Coco" was about, so she had been looking forward to seeing the finished film.
Now, when Xu Xiyu actually picked her up to watch the finished film, she found that she was inexplicably evasive and panicked.
Very strange.
Really weird.
Hu Ningwei really didn't know why she had such a mentality, which made her a little uneasy. I can only hold Xu Xiyu's arms tighter to gain some peace of mind.
Xu Xiyu could naturally feel that something was wrong with Hu Ningwei's state, but she didn't say anything to comfort her. She just sat quietly with Hu Ningwei.
For such a young girl in her early 20s, whose grandfather is old, both parents are dead, and her brother is in prison, the themes of family and life and death are really heavy.
In fact, it’s not just Hu Ningwei.
For Xu Xiyu, why not?
Hu Ningwei still had photos and videos of her parents to look at, but Xu Xiyu could only look at the sketches he drew to recall his family, friends, and even all the old people on Earth that he accidentally remembered.
Some people have not been contacted in many years, and it is not even sure whether they have contact information.
But when Lan Xing accidentally remembered it, Xu Xiyu would always feel a sense of longing. This feeling may only be experienced by the traveler himself, but it is difficult to describe it to others.
Thinking of this, Xu Xiyu said again: "You will graduate in one month, right?"
"Well, it's so fast. I was only a freshman when I met you." For a moment, Hu Ningwei suddenly understood what Xu Xiyu just said, "time flies so fast."
So, she added in a complicated tone: "I never thought at that time that you would become a father so soon."
These words made Xu Xiyu fall into a trance again.
yes.
I am almost going to be a father.
Now that I think about it, I was greedy to keep Lu, Ke, and Yang all because I might not have wanted to use them to fill the void in my "family relationship."
Especially Lu Qinyao, this was the first "relative" he met in Blue Star. Blue Star's parents are very good, but after all there is a veil between them that can never be broken through.
Thinking of this, Xu Xiyu suddenly lost all interest in talking.
Fortunately, the movie finally started playing at this time, and his silent behavior did not seem abrupt.
Speaking of which, the first half of the movie "Coco" is somewhat "comedy" and "relaxing".
Until the appearance of that classic shot, the tone of the entire movie began to become haunting.
An undead soul turned into golden dust and disappeared into the world under the singing of Hector, the true ancestor of the young male protagonist Miguel, because the last person in the world who remembered him was gone.
As time passed by, classic lines and pictures began to appear in front of the two people.
"If no one remembers you in the living world over there, you will disappear here."
"Listen to me Miguel, the world of the dead relies on memory. If your relatives and friends still remember you and enshrine your photos, you can walk across the bridge to visit them on the Day of the Dead, but I can't. No one has enshrined you. My photo.”
"Mig, she almost forgot about me."
"Who?"
"My daughter, my Weiwei."
"Mig, it's daybreak and we don't have much time. I just hope she can know that daddy loves her."
"Xiyu~~ don't watch it, let's not watch it, okay?" A burst of pleading mixed with sobbing began to come, and Hu Ningwei's emotions had already broken through.
Especially those two sentences by Hector: "She almost forgot about me, my daughter, my Weiwei", and the sentence "I just hope she knows that daddy loves her".
As I just said, she knows what story "Coco" is about.
But how can a boring script have the impact of a film complete with music, lines and images?
Hu Ningwei's tears never stopped from the second half of the movie.
The scenes in the movie slowly became blurred in her tears, but it was this blur that made her, the "protagonist," feel a stronger sense of immersion.
Xu Xiyu was actually very sad, but he didn't shed any tears because he was so involved in the production of this film that he became numb.
So, he sighed, reached out and took out a few pieces of paper, and while wiping Hu Ningwei's tears, he said: "Don't be sad, you haven't forgotten them, haven't you."
Hearing this, Hu Ningwei did not reply and was still sobbing.
Seeing that she really couldn't stand it any longer, Xu Xiyu stretched out his hand and hugged her into his arms, saying softly: "Okay, okay, I won't look anymore, let's go back."
Hearing this, Hu Ningwei shook her head in Xu Xiyu's arms.
If I say I don’t want to watch it, it’s just because it’s too uncomfortable, not because I really don’t want to watch it.
Just like that, Hu Ningwei huddled in Xu Xiyu's arms. She continued to watch the movie with her eyes and nose red. She cried for a while, and her mood eased a little.
It was not until Miguel sang the song "Please Remember Me" to her great-grandmother Vivian that Vivian naturally sang along that Hu Ningwei burst into tears again.
As an old woman, she remembered.
She remembered her father, and this song that her father, Hector, wrote for her. Miguel's young voice and Vivian's old voice symphony, and Hector, who originally disappeared forever because he was forgotten, finally regained his "rebirth" at the moment of being remembered.
Many people always belittle "happy endings", thinking that they are forcing a family reunion or "making dumplings and dumplings". Many people even think that only a tragic ending can reflect the depth of the work.
But such a situation does not exist in "Coco".
God knows how much Xu Xiyu cried when she saw Coco singing "Remember Me" along with MiG.
God knows how deeply moved he was when he looked at Coco, who couldn't remember anything, but at the last moment she recognized her family clearly and told the story of her parents.
A good work brings a huge emotional experience to the audience.
Just like this, Hu Ningwei burst into tears again.
Cry, keep crying.
The film's creative team, who she also knew and was crying, also came over to comfort her. Until Xu Xiyu sent her home, her body was still twitching from time to time.
She didn't know whether she was sad or not.
She just wanted to cry.
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The countless grievances, worries, fears or other emotions in my heart seemed to be released together this time.
Mr. Hu, who was at home, didn't misunderstand anything when he saw his granddaughter crying like this, because he knew what the two of them were doing today.
He even knew what story "Coco" was about, and it was Hu Ningwei who told it to him.
"Can I go and have a look?" The old man made this request for the first time.
But before Xu Xiyu could reply, he shook his head and said: "Forget it, I'm old, I can't stand this."
After saying this, he seemed to have thought of something again and said to Xu Xiyu: "Can you give me a copy and show it to Ning Tian?"
Although Hu Ningtian is inside, it is not a big problem if the old man wants to send a movie in for Hu Ningtian to watch.
But Xu Xiyu shook his head and said: "It's better to say goodbye, right? It's better not to be too emotionally unstable inside."
"That's right." Mr. Hu nodded, "If this child Ning Tian starts crying, it will be harder to stop it than Ning Wei."
"Hahaha." Xu Xiyu laughed in agreement after hearing this. To be honest, he also wanted to cry. He heard that it would help soothe the liver and relieve depression, but he found that he couldn't cry at all.
So, I could only stay with Hu Ningwei for a while, greet the pregnant Qin Shangqi, and then say goodbye and leave. He has never stayed at Hu's house, not now, and probably not in the future.
On the way back, for some reason, Xu Xiyu always felt that the melody of "Remember Me" was echoing repeatedly in his mind, which gradually made him fall into a trance.
He arrived home in a daze, and after saying hello to his parents who were watching TV in the living room, he went straight to the second floor and entered the study.
After arriving in the study, he took out a sketchbook from his drawer.
There are more than a dozen paintings in the sketchbook, depicting his father, mother, and younger brother. Yes, he is an only son here on Blue Star, but he has a biological brother on Earth.
While flipping through the paintings, Xu Xiyu inexplicably began to hum the song "Please Remember Me". As he hummed, he became stunned again.
I don't know how long I stayed there before there was a "click" and the study door was pushed open.
Xu Xiyu came back to her senses, closed the sketchbook in a panic, and then turned to look at the person who came. It turned out to be Ke Xinying with a big belly.
"What are you doing? Sitting here alone?" As Ke Xinying spoke, the person had already come closer.
"Nothing." Xu Xiyu shook his head.
"How is the finished film of "Coco" going?" Ke Xinying also knew what Xu Xiyu was doing today.
"It's very good. It's about as good as I expected. There shouldn't be any problems. Using it to compete with "Super Family" is simply an insult to this film."
Ke Xinying nodded when she heard this and pondered for a moment before asking again: "How is Weiwei?"
"I couldn't stop crying. I was still crying when I got home."
"You didn't cry with me?"
"Why am I crying? I've watched this movie so many times. I'm already numb. I can't cry even if I want to." Xu Xiyu chuckled and shook his head.
Ke Xinying didn't say anything after hearing this, but reached out to touch the sketchbook that Xu Xiyu had closed.
Seeing this, Xu Xiyu wanted to stop him, but he felt that it was too weird to stop him, so he could only pretend not to care and let Ke Xinying take away the sketchbook.
"Actually, I've always wanted to ask you, who is this painting?" Ke Xinying asked while turning the pages gently.
"You said you've always wanted to ask, have you seen these before?" Xu Xiyu was a little strange.
"I looked at it once when you put it on the table before."
"Oh, no one. It's just practice. I'm an art student, so I have to practice my skills from time to time." Xu Xiyu still pretended to smile naturally.
When Ke Xinying heard this, she nodded noncommittally.
At this time, Xu Xiyu came around to her side and helped her sit down. He stood behind her and gently pressed her shoulders: "Are you tired? There are two babies in your belly."< br>
"If someone forced me to have a baby, I might feel tired, but these two babies are what I look forward to. I will only feel happy and not tired." Ke Xinying smiled.
"This..."
"Yang Xueqing also said this, right? She did suffer, but I think she is happy with it." Ke Xinying said it first.
Then, before Xu Xiyu could reply, she said to herself: "Speaking of which, in the past few months, my uncle and aunt have told me a lot about your past."
"What happened in my past?"
"Yes, you were naughty and sneaky. They said, I never dreamed that you would be like this. It's like you suddenly changed into a different person after graduation."
As soon as these words came out, Xu Xiyu's massaging hand paused, and then he rubbed it again and said: "People have to grow up after all."
"It's strange to say that I had a lot of free time during this period of pregnancy. I became obsessed with reading novels. The novels talked about time travel, rebirth and the like. I read a lot, and one time I dreamed that you were someone else. people of the world.”
"I also dreamed that I was the Jade Emperor."
"Then am I not the Queen Mother?"
"Yes, my dear, do you think the strength of my massage is okay?"
"The technique is average."
"Then let me practice hard in the future."
"Hahahaha." Ke Xinying laughed and stretched out her hand to pull Xu Xiyu's hand down until it reached her stomach.
Ever since, the position of the two of them was that Xu Xiyu hugged her from behind and placed his palms on her high belly.
"Touch." Ke Xinying said again.
"Touch what?"
"Touch your baby and give your wife a hug."
"Haha..." Xu Xiyu was amused by these words. Just when he was having fun, his eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of the sketchbook opened next to him.
The father, mother, and younger brother in the sketchbook seemed to be looking at him, Ke Xinying, and their babies.
At this second, a sour feeling rushed from the soles of Xu Xiyu's feet to his forehead, and a feeling of emotional overflow that he had never experienced before hit him instantly.
Dad, Mom, Brother.
Are you...are you okay?
I'm fine.
I'm almost going to be a dad.
(End of chapter)