Chapter 254 Thunderous Applause
One night, in an empty teaching building, a boy was practicing jazz drums.
He is Chen Yinjie, a freshman at Yanjing Institute of Modern Music.
Although Chen Yinjie is a freshman, he has good basic skills and is very passionate about jazz, especially jazz drums.
At this time, the camera slowly advances, giving people the feeling that other people are peeping and approaching.
The scene cuts again and it turns out to be a teacher who wants to listen to Chen Yinjie's rhythm.
Chen Yinjie complied, and then the teacher asked him to double the swing speed and gradually speed up the rhythm.
Chen Yinjie worked very hard, but obviously could not satisfy the other party. When he looked up again, the teacher had already left.
This is the beginning of the film.
Catherine Brea guessed at the role of the teacher at the beginning. From her experience, this teacher was not a common teacher who teaches and educates people.
You can see it from the director's lens language.
Whether it’s the peeking and advancing shot at the beginning, or the teacher’s formal appearance, the lighting is all hinting.
Although the details are unclear, there is no doubt that this person is an important role.
The next plot is a street scene at night.
In order to prepare for the Olympic Games in Yanjing, the streets are very clean and tidy. At night, there are a lot of people and traffic.
Catherine was surprised by the modern urban scenery of Yanjing, which looked like a modern developed city.
At the same time, she was also guessing the style of the film. Judging from the title of Exploding Drummer, it should be a musical film.
However, the overall lighting is very cold, like an urban crime theme.
A famous genius like Chen should not make stupid mistakes, so is this intentional?
Katherine guessed.
Chen Yinjie met his father at the cinema, and they had a conversation about what happened today.
His father told him to open his mind and that he could have multiple choices in life, but Chen Yinjie did not agree.
The camera comes to Chen Yinjie’s band.
This band is not a very professional big band.
Chen Yinjie is a substitute in the band and is responsible for helping the main drummer Zhou Jie to translate the music scores.
During the performance, a man came in from the door.
It is the teacher who appeared before, Li Xuechang.
He was obviously a higher level than the orchestra’s teacher. He immediately took over the situation and directed the trumpet, trombone and other musicians in the orchestra, letting them play individually.
The comments in the middle were non-committal and did not look like approval.
Before leaving, Chen Yinjie was picked and taken away.
Chen Yinjie was very happy and went to see his girlfriend that day to tell her story.
My girlfriend is very happy for him.
The new band is in sharp contrast to the previous environment, and the atmosphere is much more serious.
As soon as the time reached nine o'clock, Li Xuechang showed up on time, and there was no sound in the classroom instantly.
All students stand upright.
Li Xuechang took off his coat, looked around like an emperor, and then introduced the newly arrived backup drummer Chen Yinjie.
Today's rehearsal music is "Flash", with a strong and dynamic rhythm.
The first few sections are relatively soothing, and Li Xuechang nods frequently with the same enjoyment.
His ears are very keen and he can directly hear which of the four trumpeters is playing wrong and point it out in time.
Chen Yinjie has been listening to the performances of the seniors, trying to keep up.
Suddenly, Li Xuechang stopped the rehearsal and said that a certain classmate's performance ran away and asked him to come forward.
Everyone fell silent.
“If you don’t even know that you are out of tune, then why are you playing jazz?”
Li Xuechang asked the curly trombonist, “Xiao Chen, do you think you are out of tune? "
After hesitating, Xiao Chen's Curly admitted that he was out of tune.
Then he was extremely insulted by the furious teacher, and then kicked out of the band.
It wasn’t until Xiao Chen left that Li Xuechang said lightly,
“Let me explain, Xiao Chen was not out of tune just now. It was Li Kang who was out of tune, but he was not out of tune. If you don’t know, you don’t deserve to be here.”
Catherine was really shocked when she saw this paragraph.
This teacher seemed very kind, but suddenly he got angry and cursed, it felt like a thriller.
She began to get a rough idea of the film's style.
Sure enough, later Li Xuechang officially showed his "strict teacher" style.
Chen Yinjie became the new "Xiao Chen".
When he was dissatisfied, he would throw a chair at him, but he narrowly avoided it.
In order to make Xiao Chen understand the rhythm, I slapped him repeatedly to make him remember it.
Verbal attacks and insults are commonplace.
The Chinese language is rich in variety, and it really shines here.
Catherine didn't quite understand this, and it wasn't very easy to understand with the help of a translator.
Jiang Wen and Jia Zhangke felt that they had learned a lot. It turned out that Hua Wen could curse such dirty words.
I heard that the script was written by Xiao Chen. This guy is also a ruthless person.
In fact, Chen Linfeng took this from netizens of later generations, a certain shithole app, and the Zaun district of a certain game, which brought him a lot of inspiration.
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In this high-pressure situation, Chen Yinjie had no other choice but to practice harder.
I spent most of the day practicing, occasionally meeting my girlfriend and talking about jazz.
When my hands were worn out, I put a band-aid on them and continued practicing the drums in my dreams.
During the next important performance, Chen Yinjie helped keep the music score of the main drummer.
As the opening was approaching, the music score was lost.
Li Xuechang scolded, "You can't perform on stage if you lose the music score. What kind of drummer are you?"
Chen Yinjie volunteered and said he could do it.
The performance went well.
In this way, Chen Yinjie officially became the main drummer.
When he was satisfied with his ambition, Li Xuechang hired a backup drummer.
But it was Zhou Jie, the main drummer of Chen Yinjie’s original band.
Zhou Jie was quickly recognized and took over the position of the main drummer.
Chen Yinjie was so stimulated that in order to practice drums, he felt that falling in love was a waste of time, and he even broke up with his girlfriend.
In a subsequent practice, Li Xuechang showed rare weakness and even cried.
It turned out that his favorite protégé died. According to him, he died in a car accident.
After a brief emotional moment.
As if to vent his emotions, Li Xuechang set high demands on the three drummers in the team. They must play 400 beats per minute.
The three drummers each made their hands bleed from the beating, and they continued playing until late at night.
In the end, Chen Yinjie relied on his hard training to achieve the requirements and win back the position of the main drummer.
This time he did not dare to feel proud at all.
Another important performance.
Unexpectedly, Chen Yinjie, who was rushing to the venue, found that the bus he was riding had a flat tire and could not drive.
He hurriedly changed the taxi, but did not notice and forgot the drumstick on the bus.
Li Xuechang reprimanded, "If you play the drum without drumsticks, it is no different from taking an exam without a pen, or going to the battlefield without a gun."
And announced that Chen Yinjie had lost the qualification to be an official drummer.
Chen Yinjie broke out and said loudly, "I am the best drummer here. I must participate in this performance and I will prove myself."
Li Xuechang restricted him Get the drumstick back within ten minutes, "I'll give you a chance, but as long as you hit a wrong note, I will XXX (expletive) XXXX."
Chen Yinjie hurried back to the place where it happened to get it Return your own drumstick.
Fortunately, the bus was still there, but when he was returning, he was in a car accident because he was too anxious.
Chen Yinjie, covered in blood, climbed out of the car.
He did not go to the hospital, but ran to the performance venue, and finally arrived at the venue before the performance.
However, due to excessive blood loss and lack of physical strength, it was really difficult to support the second half.
The performance naturally collapsed. Li Xuechang went directly to the stage and announced coldly, "Now you can get out forever."
Chen Yinjie, who couldn't bear it anymore, knocked Li Xuechang down and punched him hard in return.
Chen Yinjie was expelled from the school for beating the teacher.
Before leaving, a teacher in the school told him that the proud student Li Xuechang mentioned before was not in a car accident, but actually committed suicide due to too much pressure.
The teacher said that the school was also investigating Li Xuechang’s teaching issues, and suggested that Chen Yinjie could participate in reporting Li Xuechang. Everything would be anonymous and would not be known to the outside world or the person being reported.
In this way, Li Xuechang was also fired.
A few years later.
Chen Yinjie accidentally walked into a bar and found that the piano player inside was actually Li Xuechang.
The two of them sat down to have a drink.
Li Xuechang said frankly that he no longer teaches music at Yanjing because of a student’s report, but he still works in the jazz industry.
He appeared to be open-minded.
During the conversation, Li Xuechang expressed his educational philosophy.
“I’m not just a conductor, but I also want to squeeze the limits of the musicians’ abilities. Have I told you the story of Charlie Parker?”
“Joe Jones hit him on the head. "Yes, think about it. If Joe Jones comforted him and felt that he had done a good job, would there be a Charlie Parker later?
‘Almost’ and ‘not bad’ are the biggest lies and obstacles in art. There is nothing more harmful than the two words ‘not bad’. "
Chen Yinjie asked, "Aren't you worried that doing this will force a genius away or crush him? "
"Those who are crushed are not geniuses. Geniuses will not give up because of this pressure. Every successful person in history has proved this.
As the saying goes, if you are not crazy, you will not survive. Musical geniuses are all forced. Unfortunately, I have never met such a genius. No matter what, I don’t think what I did is wrong. ”
In this conversation, Li Xuechang showed that what he values most is actually Chen Yinjie.
When I recruited a new drummer, I actually knew that Xiao Zhou was not as good as Xiao Chen, so I did this purely to motivate him.
Before leaving, Li Xuechang said that he had an important concert recently, playing Xiao Chen's best music, and invited him to be the drummer.
Chen Yinjie never gave up on his music dream and readily agreed.
Johnny Depp frowned. Watching the scene in the bar, Chen seemed to agree with the coach's philosophy. Isn't this about reconciliation?
If so, it's a bit mediocre.
Originally, he quite liked the rhythm of the play.
The Devil’s teacher’s performance was very good, and even the concept he just expounded in the bar was quite to his liking.
But it would be a bit boring if the ending ended like this.
Catherine doesn’t think so, she thinks from the perspective of a writer.
The story should always surprise people. If the beginning shows the meaning of reconciliation, then the ending will definitely not be like this.
At least with Chen's level of storytelling, it shouldn't be a vulgar reconciliation plot.
The plot continues to move forward.
Chen Yinjie is very excited about the new stage and feels that his future is bright again.
Before the performance was announced, Li Xuechang walked up to Chen Yinjie.
“Do you think I’m a bad guy?”
"Huh?"
"I know the person who reported it is you." Li Xuechang's eyes were full of hatred.
In Chen Yinjie’s shocked eyes, Li Xuechang walked to the center of the stage and announced the next performance.
It was not the piece that was agreed upon before, and Li Xuechang did not give him a new score.
This kind of competition-style performance is not an impromptu solo, it must be performed strictly according to the score.
The consequences can be imagined. Facing the unfamiliar music, Chen Yinjie was in a mess.
With such a poor performance on such an important occasion, his drumming career is really going to end.
And this is Li Xuechang’s purpose.
Chen Yinjie left the stage sadly, and his father greeted and comforted him backstage.
And he was not content with this.
There were only two ways before him at this time. One was to simply disappear from the jazz stage.
The second thing is...
Chen Yinjie came on stage again and sat on the drum seat.
The band members and Li Xuechang all looked at each other, confused as to what he wanted to do.
The drum beats again, and it’s “Calavin” that Chen Yinjie is familiar with.
His confidence led the musicians to follow the rhythm without waiting for instructions from the conductor.
Although Li Xuechang was dissatisfied, the situation was at this point and he could only take command.
Chen Yinjie's performance was perfect, bringing the whole orchestra up, and the rhythm and speed were impeccable.
Gradually, a smile appeared on Li Xuechang's face, and he temporarily forgot about revenge. The two seemed to complement each other and achieve each other's success.
When the song ended, Chen Yinjie did not stop. The lights dimmed and the drums continued.
After a few seconds, the lights turned on again, and Chen Yinjie officially entered a higher realm.
Although Li Xuechang has a bad temper, he does know his stuff. He was still questioning at first, but gradually he could hear the subtleties of the other party.
Chen Yinjie is in a special state, his performance is getting better and better, and Li Xuechang really puts aside other thoughts and concentrates on guiding.
Worldly grudges are no longer important at this moment.
After an extremely exciting prelude, the audience burst into applause, and another wave of performances by the orchestra began.
The whole film ends.
Johnny Depp was stunned.
Is this considered reconciliation or no reconciliation?
Let’s talk about reconciliation. This coach clearly wants revenge. Let’s talk about no reconciliation. In the end, the two of them seemed to have transcended worldly emotions and immersed themselves in the art world.
It feels like this ending is like the vulgar ending he predicted before.
But when he really looked at it, he felt that the ending was much better than he expected.
Katherine also felt that the ending was unexpected.
She thought about the teacher's revenge, but she did not expect the male protagonist's response.
Everything can be left to art, even if there are still quarrels and confrontations later, at least at this moment, art is supreme.
With such an open ending, it can be said that it ends exactly where it should end.
Jiang Wen and Jia Zhangke looked at each other and could feel each other's surprise.
Having heard this story before, you will still feel deeply moved when you actually see the feature film.
The shots and lighting in the film are very particular, and it doesn’t look like a novice director at all.
Especially after Li Xuechang officially appeared later, warm colors were used throughout the whole process, which was in sharp contrast to the cold colors in the early stage.
But the emotion is completely the other way around.
Normal warm colors generally give people a warm or relaxing feeling, but when Li Xuechang appears, under the dim light, the surrounding area will appear darker, giving people a gloomy feeling.
Obviously the lighting is sufficient, but it doesn’t feel that way.
Same in the early stage, there was almost no light source, but the relaxed atmosphere of the screen was very obvious.
Jiang Wen sighed in his heart, no wonder Xiao Chen dared to boast. Although his work must be the best, this kid is not a fuel-efficient lamp.
Jia Zhangke was surprised by the subject matter of the work. The literary and artistic sense displayed by such an urban scene is not weak at all.
The two of them applauded in unison.
The surrounding audience seemed to be awakened and applauded one after another.
The audience burst into thunderous applause that lasted for a long time.
Chen Linfeng breathed a sigh of relief. His changes this time were actually not too small.
Including the setting of a girlfriend, because Chinese people do not inexplicably date and fall in love just because they met once, so Liu Qianxi was the girlfriend from the beginning.
In addition, all the characters' lines have basically been adapted into Chinese, and Li Xuejian's curse words are completely localized.
In the previous band, except for the drummer, who was very professional, the rest of the music was more hip, and he also made corrections this time.
Many changes have been made to the place where the protagonist loses the drumstick, the lighting and lensing of some scenes, Li Xuechang’s teaching philosophy, and the perspective of the protagonist’s father.
He is very worried about whether these changes are correct, but judging from the current feedback.
The effect should be pretty good?
Because most of this chapter is about movie content, and I am worried about being criticized, so I changed the word count to 9K today.
Everyone can give feedback on whether you like the way the movie content is written, and it will be used as a reference in the future.
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