Text/The Unpoetic Swordsman I think, before reading the longest preface in the history of "Fate Hunter", you must read the whole book.After you finish reading that novel, you will know everything I will say next very well, every bit of moving. Everyone knows that since I shot the 26-minute short film "Three Sounds of Fortune" at the end of 2008, I have tasted the joys and sorrows of making a movie from scratch. I feel that I have stepped into a new world that I have never seriously thought about before. I know I won't just let it go.reluctant. I have only just figured out a small part of the outline of the movie world, and everything is still vague, so leaving with a reluctant expression is not my fighting style.Life is not about "solving achievements and breaking through barriers", and the combat experience of life is definitely not "as long as you have done it"-it is good if you have published a book, written a song, written a script, or made a movie That's right, the so-called every time you finish something, just tick off that item of resume-life is not as good as passing, at least my life is not like this.

I want to make the resume column of movies more handsome, beautiful and powerful, without any regrets. I wanted to make another film, this time of course a feature film over a hundred minutes long. Although I feel very passionate, I will not say hypocritically that making a movie is my dream.Such a statement is not only hypocritical, but also too blasphemy to the film workers who have been working in the circle for a long time. But I can say with firm will that it is indeed my dream to shoot "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years"—for those who have the original novel in their hands, turn to page 283, and I write this a paragraph:

I hope that in Shen Jiayi's heart, I will always be the most special friend. Childish me, I want Shen Jiayi to always remember that Ke Jingteng is the only person who never kissed her at the wedding.I want to cherish even such a little bit of specialness.I am not just a commentary on her life, but also many unique pictures. After the decision, I watched the moment when the bride and groom were kissing, and suddenly thought of a very special and passionate scene.A special version ending that is enough to draw our youth story to the movie. As early as 2005, I planted the seeds of the film when I attended Shen Jiayi's wedding, but I thought that the identity I would be associated with the film adapted from this novel would be the screenwriter, and I never thought it would be the director.Now that I am finally qualified as a director, I certainly want to interpret my youth by myself.

Having made a decision, I didn't waste time "drawing up a plan" and I immediately started to do it. I started writing the script behind closed doors, and in less than a week I finished the first draft version 1.0, thinking I was a genius.But in the end, there were more than 50 revisions, revisions, large-scale flips to destroy the structure, and small-scale digestion and research. It took ten months to complete the writing.I'm serious, and I've shot the wayward version of the movie over and over again in my head when I wrote the script. Although the box office of "Love to the End" is only about 8 million yuan, but because my short film "Three Sounds of Fortune" received a good response, three film companies took the initiative to ask me to make a feature film after it was released, and one of them proposed the filming funds As many as 60 million, this number is too much for a new director... The sky is falling!

But in order to recycle smoothly, these film companies want me to give priority to filming themes that can be released in the mainland (since I have written so many books, it should not be difficult to pick a theme that can be released in the mainland), so I appreciate their kindness , because no matter how many films I will make in my life, my first feature film must be "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years", and the shooting method and expression style I imagined will definitely not be able to enter the mainland . To like someone, you have to do something you don’t like once in a while, and to fulfill your dreams, you have to do something you’ve never been good at—so I also started raising money.My earnestness infected my agent Chai Zhiping, sister Chai, maybe she also wanted to know if I would be a good director, so Sister Chai took over the work of raising funds. In addition to Sister Chai investing herself, she also found other people who were willing to work together. Note shareholders.

In order to have more resources, I submitted the script to the National Film Guidance Fund with one hand, and submitted it to the Excellent Screenplay Award of the Executive Yuan with the other hand.But I didn't rely on the injection of the sponsorship - I told the judges on the spot during the sponsorship interview: "I won't bluff, bluff that the movie can't be made without your sponsorship, I said, even if there is no sponsorship , I can shoot movies as well. I am a very willpower person. I am not here to say that some Chinese films are difficult to shoot. If I leave here empty-handed in the end, I will start shooting movies as usual, but with the help of the counselor, The movie will definitely be better." So I took away the highest amount of 5 million for the rookie group of the year.thanks.

So I made my plan public, openly dealt with my dreams. The Chinese world has always admired those who work silently and work hard. When these humble people succeed, others will give them warm applause for their efforts like ducks.But what no one thought about was the potential advantage that these silent doers have: when they fail, no one will know they tried. My problem is that I'm too stinky, I always tell the dream I want to achieve first, and then spend all my efforts to pursue it.The first disadvantage of talking openly about the goal I am going to is obvious, that is, when I fail, everyone will know that Jiuzhidao has eaten shit this time.The second shortcoming is also obvious. When I succeed, everyone will not appreciate that I have finally realized my dream. The villagers will only remember "that nine-knife who talks about dreams, I feel too proud", Ke Ke .

There are many shortcomings, but I am such a guy who speaks up when I have something to say. During that long period of script creation and preparation, I not only announced the progress of the film on my blog, but I also eagerly added this passage in the last ten minutes of many campus speeches: "I will be shooting a film in the summer of 2009 The feature film, The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years, will be shot in Changhua, because the story happened in Changhua, and the movie will be shot in Jingcheng Middle School, because the story happened in Jingcheng Middle School, and my film will not be discounted, because my youth... no discount!"

At this time, the audience will give me quite warm applause, giving me vanity and happiness, and at the same time giving me courage. But I failed. The film did not start shooting in the summer of 2009 as scheduled, because I underestimated the careful preparation of the film, and overestimated the strength of the industry to support me (or it should be said, I overestimated the industry’s assessment of the film’s cost. The ability to recycle), all the progress is not as smooth as I imagined. More importantly, I am a new director, and I desperately need a very good photographer to assist me, but all the well-known photographers either say they don’t have the time, or they think the subject matter of the film is not suitable for their previous shooting style and reject me.I'm a little hurt.

When I encountered difficulties, I was frustrated, but not so frustrated that I wanted to run away. Someone said: "Dreams that will be laughed at when spoken out are of value in practice. Even if you fall, your posture will be very heroic." This person happens to be myself. The movie hit the rocks, but as long as I don't give up, the ship named Dream will not run aground. I kept trying to get everything together, I set out to interview all the main actors, hand-picked the snippets of the script and asked the interviewed actors to audition with real performances, and I watched all the performances from the bottom, thinking about how they felt on the screen.

I used the old team as the main team to organize the crew, confirm the main staff members, and I kept going back and forth to Changhua, Taipei to confirm the shooting cooperation conditions of the main scene Jingcheng Middle School. I held script meetings with two executive director friends at my home... The talk is still the same, I still add this paragraph in the last ten minutes of the campus speech: "In the summer of 2010, I will shoot a feature film 'The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years', and the film will be shot in Changhua, because the story happened In Changhua, the film will be shot in Jingcheng Middle School, because the story happened in Jingcheng Middle School, my film will not be discounted, because my youth... will not be discounted!" I spoke very passionately, and the audience at the scene still gave me quite warm applause. While receiving encouragement on the stage, I was secretly worried that if all of this still fails, everyone will only know that I have failed, but they will not know that I have really put in effort-the result is everything, failure is failure, failure A dream is equal to a talk.I have been baptized in folk culture for a long time. Fortunately, I am not only very hardworking, not only lucky, but also quite bold. In order to show my confidence to Sister Chai, during a behind-the-scenes discussion after an actor's audition, I pressed the table very solemnly and said: "Sister Chai, I will never regret what I want to say now, it is impossible to regret it, I say it and it counts.” "Tell me." Sister Chai always looked at me with deep meaning. "Sister Chai, I want to throw money down too." "Oh?" "Really, no matter how much I say I have confidence, it sounds too fake. If I really have confidence, shouldn't I prove it with real actions? If I invest myself, I will also lose money when the movie loses money." It hurts..." "What a miserable compensation! No compensation!" Sister Chai laughed and interrupted me: "We have to think positively!" "Yes, I won't pay, so I'm greedy, so I not only need to be a director, but also a shareholder! When this movie succeeds, I will have my share. I don't want to and I won't miss it, so I want to use our The selected actors, as long as the script is good and everyone shoots it well, the movie will be a hit without a big star!" I have investment, which gave Sister Chai confidence and strengthened my own spirit. Then I centered on Chen Yanxi, who played the goddess Shen Jiayi, and created a group of main actors "full of infinite unknowns".Hao Shaowen, a former child star who was super fierce when he was a child but acted in a movie for the first time when he grew up, Ao Quan, the first brother of Lollipop who also has a lot of jealousy, although he is a blog queen, he has never acted in movies at all. Cai Changxian, the singer and host of "Monga", and Yan Shengyu, who won the Golden Harvest Award for Best Actor but lacks market popularity.Of course, there are also 100% newcomers who have no acting experience at all, but play the most important male lead, Ke Zhendong. Is it scary? It's not over yet. Finally we interviewed the photographer Zhou Yixian.On the surface, we pretended to interview Ah Yin sternly, but in fact I shouted in my heart: "Don't reject me again! This is obviously a very good script!" In the end, Zhou Yixian, a photographer who has never made a movie, said " Well, anyway, if you dare to use me, you guys are pretty badass.” Jiba declared that he boldly carried the movie camera RED ONE. The horror is not over yet. My two friends who are executive directors, although they have shot many small MVs, commercials, and experimental short films, have never participated in the production of feature films, and the production company we hired, Jinghantang, is also the first The first time we contracted a feature film, all the staff we recruited were all under the age of 38. Some young people still entered the film crew as hard workers based on the premise of "I like Jiu Dao, and I want to see how he makes movies". interns. To be honest, this is really a lineup of unexploded bombs! But I am not qualified to say anything about others, because the director myself is the biggest super unexploded bomb hahahaha! Regardless of the superficial composition of the actors or staff, this crew is definitely not a golden lineup that can capture the pages of major media, but on the other hand, we have nothing to lose behind us. As for the front——As long as you dare to step out, The possibilities ahead are endless. Really, what I want to make is not a skit, not an experimental work, not a stream of consciousness, but a really good-looking popular movie.I feel from the bottom of my heart—as long as I am determined, the crew will be "loving", and as long as everyone works together to really produce the soul of the script, the movie will be very good! During this period of time, I silently hoarded manuscripts, kept meeting with everyone, and silently endured the doubts and ridicules from the villagers about my filmmaking: Is it because I can’t get along with writing, so I have to go to become a director?Wow, even Jiu Dao went to be a director, that means anyone can be a director these days?Hush nine knives before watching!Is it too small to watch movies if you become a monk halfway and learn from others to be a director? It doesn't matter, the Internet is my wings, but also my karma. Only when I can truly accept that there are as many people in this world who don't like me as there are people who like me, can I calmly be myself. Everything depends on the final picture of the movie, which determines all the gestures in which the world talks to me. Just when I had an agreement with Jingcheng Middle School that the crew would enter the school to start filming in August, and just before I was full of confidence to start reading books and acting training with the actors, the next thing happened was what I wrote in the blog "BUT !The most powerful thing in life is this BUT! The dark incident mentioned in ": The largest shareholder who joined in the early stage of the movie suddenly withdrew its capital just before the movie was about to start shooting. The capital was withdrawn, and the key 10 million yuan also evaporated. I'm super shocked. A good thing suddenly doesn't count?How can it not be counted! As long as I can't enter Jingcheng Middle School to shoot on time during the summer tutoring in August, it will be a sentence that the film must be postponed for a full year, and the filming in Jingcheng can only be postponed to the next summer vacation.Otherwise, change schools.Of course, if I can't find the missing 10 million for a long time, it's not a problem of Jingcheng Middle School not allowing us to make movies during the weekday class, but a problem of not having enough funds to shoot movies! Bite the bullet, in fact, I can only bite the bullet now, I said to Sister Chai with enthusiasm, I have paid for all the funds that the film lacks, and I plan to use the royalties I have accumulated over the years to deal with this one. Taking risks, I said: "I have bought a car and a house, but from now on I can finally say that the most expensive thing I have ever bought is a dream." Just because of this line of dialogue that I thought was handsome, Sister Chai nodded, and my movie dream continued to burn. Now, I'm going to tell you a behind-the-scenes story that I haven't finished yet... Just when the film was on the verge of faltering, with only two weeks left before the production officially started (i.e. began to burn money), my confidence was actually in a wonderfully masochistic false enthusiasm, that is, "there is no way out. forced to be brave".This state of mind made me secretly frightened. At that time, TV producer Wang Weizhong was filming a program called "Discovering Taiwan's Genius", and one part of it was filming me.One day, the program production team followed me into Jingcheng Middle School to interview the teachers who had taught me in the past, and asked them: "What kind of child is Jiu Dao in middle school and high school?" At this moment, teacher Zhou Shuzhen, who had taught me Chinese for three years in middle school, smiled at the camera and took out a graduation yearbook.I'm totally terrified! This graduation yearbook is not an official hard-shell yearbook, but a "graduation message notebook" that everyone in our class took turns writing a few pages to send to the teacher on the eve of graduation from junior high school. The content is nothing more than self-expectation and dedication Thanksgiving and blessings to teachers and so on.Back then, apart from writing their own, everyone was also curious about what other people wrote to the teacher, so they wrote and read, the progress was slow, and it took a long time to pass in everyone's drawers before they were finally done.After many years, Mr. Zhou is still well preserved. I watched Teacher Zhou Shuzhen facing the camera, and smiled and read out the self-expectation written by Ke Jingteng, who was still a knife: "I want to tell you, teacher, that I am very happy, and, my name is Ke Jingteng, I want you to know , I will be successful in the future... I will definitely help everyone I can, and I will be a kind person... I will keep my heart and be very happy, because I know that I will realize my ideal .” More or less I felt a little moved, but at the time my mind was thinking of something else. I remembered. I remembered one afternoon, 17-year-old Ke Jingteng, who was already a sophomore in high school... As soon as the camera of the program production team left the teacher, I hurriedly borrowed the graduation message notebook from the teacher, quickly turned to the part I wrote, and saw the three quiz papers that I had almost completely forgotten. The three in-class test papers were, as expected, glued abruptly to the notebook as agreed. A memory that has been buried for a long time surged out in the depths of my mind. From the first year of junior high school, when I held Shen Jiayi's hand and danced to send off the graduates, I secretly liked Shen Jiayi. I like it very much. Shen Jiayi's only interest is to study hard. In order to get close to her, I had to force myself to study hard because my grades were bad.Day and night I do math, read English, memorize physics and chemistry, and write test papers, just to make Shen Jiayi look up to me and not think I'm a fool.The grades also slowly improved. After entering high school, we continued to study in the same school. Shen Jiayi studied in the social group, and I studied in the natural group.The cow is still a cow when it is brought to Beijing, and the dog can’t change eating shit (Chinese teacher: Nine knives, would it be too mentally retarded to use this idiom at this time!), Shen Jiayi went to high school, and her perverted interest still hasn’t changed. For tutoring, Shen Jiayi will stay in school alone, and open a classroom to study alone. In order to protect her and get closer to her, I also stayed in school to study. It’s just that I’m a fake. In order to prevent Shen Jiayi from finding out that I stayed in school because of her, I opened other classrooms to study, but I would deliberately read English aloud to let Shen Jiayi in a nearby classroom know that I was also staying in school. Every night until 9:15, Shen Jiayi would slowly walk behind me with a box of Osmer sandwich biscuits and stab me on the shoulder with the biscuits.At this time, I would pretend to be surprised and turn my head: "Oh, you also stayed in school?" Very fake. Afterwards, we would eat biscuits together and chat about many trivial things, about my two brothers, about her three sisters, about classmates’ gossip, about Shen Jiayi’s idol, Master Zhengyan, and about “Air English Magazine” Talk to the English idioms copied from the "Reader's Digest" Zhuji Collection, and talk about the most popular math problems today... and then work together to solve it. At nine fifty, we packed our schoolbags. I took my bicycle and walked through the dark campus with Shen Jiayi, walked slowly to the school gate, and waited for Shen Jiayi's mother to drive her home. Shen Jiayi smiled and said goodbye to me, got in the car and closed the door, I waved my hands behind me as if nothing had happened, but secretly exerted force on my feet, praying in my heart that the traffic light at the alley will turn red soon, so I can park beside the car as fast as possible, yes Looking at Shen Jiayi in the car window, she yelled, "Hey! Your mother drives very slowly!" I hate winter vacation, I hate summer vacation. My greatest pleasure during the holidays is to line up at the entrance of the Changhua Cultural Center library. As soon as the door opens at seven o’clock, I rush in through the crowd, quickly occupy my seat with a schoolbag, and then throw it at the speed of light. A stack of books occupied the seat opposite, and then began to pray that Shen Jiayi would come to the cultural center to study today. Often, I will put a flower at the door of Shen Jiayi's house.As soon as she opens the door and sees flowers, she will know that I have been here. I don't know staff notation or even read numbered notation, so I hummed and wrote more than a dozen songs for Shen Jiayi.I always hope that one day she will hear my heart, but I dare not let her understand the love I hide in my heart. The nine knives that many people know from the media are described as very explosive. It seems that the nine knives in adolescence were very rebellious. They had no time to beat the instructors and beat the principal when they had time. Such a spicy image. But in fact, in every picture of my youth, I was studying hard.They're all reciting words, they're all doing math—all of them, Shen Jiayi. I really, really like Shen Jiayi. For a long time, I felt that as long as I could be with Shen Jiayi in this life, I would be invincible. It doesn't matter which university I go to or what kind of job I do in the future, because I have already met the girl I like. When the children are together, not only can they not complain, but they also win in an all-round way. Seventeen-year-old me who likes Shen Jiayi so much, one day I went to a temple in Nantou or Caotun to worship during a family trip. I asked for a lottery when I worshiped the Bodhisattva. together forever?" That time, I got a lottery.Impressive: "You don't need to be blessed, you don't need to seek, you will never stop exhausting your scheming. In the yang world, you don't know the yin world, and the officials and laws are like furnaces and you are not free." Signed poems and published Li Shimin's travel notes in the underworld.Hell?Mom! Even though I was a bad fart at the time, I was devastated when I asked for such an important thing and received such a response.On the one hand, I am very dissatisfied, very angry, and on the other hand, I can't help but start thinking about this love... One day after thinking about it, 17-year-old Ke Jingteng went to the teacher's office, borrowed the graduation message notebook from Teacher Zhou Shuzhen, and added three pages of quiz papers in it. As for the three newly added in-class test papers, of course no other students except Mr. Zhou had read them. One of the pages, verbatim, is as follows: May you be happy forever. Many things are so beautiful if you observe today's events with future psychology. Be calm about everything that goes wrong, but seek to be happy every day. God-sent, meet by chance. By Ke Xiaosheng, 1994. Of course, this ambiguous sentence was not addressed to Teacher Zhou Shuzhen. But it wasn't for Shen Jiayi either. It was Ke Jingteng, who was only seventeen years old in the second grade of high school. With a strange mood, he wrote a message to the future Ke Jingteng who would have a chance to see a page in the future. What did the seventeen-year-old Ke Jingteng really want to say? There is no need to guess, and there is no need to figure it out. As soon as I saw this passage, especially the six words "Heaven-sent, meet by chance", I remembered everything... Seventeen-year-old Ke Jingteng thought to himself, maybe the future Ke Jingteng really can't catch up with Shen Jiayi, he must be very sad and upset.But it doesn't matter, if the future Ke Jingteng sees this message, he will definitely think of it, remember... that seventeen-year-old Ke Jingteng, that Ke Jingteng who loved Shen Jiayi deeply, was very happy, very happy, seventeen years old He is shining brightly. How old is Ke Jingteng going to see this message again? Seventeen-year-old Ke Jingteng certainly didn't know. but I know. When the future Ke Jingteng has accumulated countless luck and coincidences, he will be able to see it again. That is fate. So on the eve of the biggest adventure in his life, Ke Jingteng, 32, saw the message from Ke Jingteng, 17, at the moment when he encountered the greatest setback.He remembered.He remembered everything. He remembered how much he liked Shen Jiayi back then. That Ke Jingteng who deeply likes Shen Jiayi is truly invincible, much braver than the nine knives who say that life is non-stop fighting all day long. "Really, I lost to you." Looking at that page, I couldn't hold back my tears and kept laughing. I said that everything that happens in life has its meaning, but the message that is happening to me now is too extraordinary. Mark Twain said: "Real life is often stranger than fiction, because real life does not need to take into account the possibility." It is so well said that this kind of powerful passion happened in my weakest time without time difference. Stranger than fiction, more incredible than fiction. Moved by wanting to recall it again, I went back to my hometown in Changhua and took out two large cardboard boxes, which were full of letters written by Shen Jiayi, notes passed on in class, textbooks used together, and mathematics on which I exchanged solutions and ideas. examination paper.I re-read them one by one. Those letters are really boring, the content is full of trivial matters, although I like Shen Jiayi very much, but every time I read the letters before, I only think that Shen Jiayi is a long-winded and mother-in-law girl, except for blindly encouraging me to study hard , and encouraging me to seriously pursue the direction of life, etc., are completely irrelevant. As I was reading it, I suddenly realized that I was really a super stupid. Although the contents of these two boxes of letters are very boring, if Shen Jiayi didn't like me very much, why would he write so many letters to me in those years?And how come I have been working with me, a guy with ordinary qualifications, to solve mathematics? I close the carton. I know exactly what to do next. This time I am truly fearless. I want to shoot "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" with the happiest mood. This time, I will leave a new message in the movie.I want to show the 17-year-old Ke Jingteng hidden in my soul. The 32-year-old Ke Jingteng not only has not forgotten the agreement with each other, but also has a way to make a movie that makes our youth shine. We are all very happy. In this way, during the three-month official preparation and filming period, with only the funds of Sister Chai and myself, we fought side by side to complete the filming.After the film was finished, new investors were added to bring more powerful resources to help us post-production and marketing.That's pretty cool. Abandoning everything and sacrificing everything, in exchange for dreams like moths to a flame, is not my passion. Embracing everything and approaching dreams with confidence and love is what I yearn for. After shouting the first "ACTION" in the hot summer, everything I have so far has been used. The love-hate friendship of the crew members, the persistence in love, the devotion and trust in the actors, the leadership ability that I don’t know if I am competent, the youthful memories of those years, the song I wrote to Shen Jiayi back then, the youthful and emotional love of the director for the first time. No fear, the obsession to joke around in the desperate situation of endless shooting, the screenwriter who destroyed and reconstructed for ten months, explained the interpretation of the script, the special preference for the scene, and asked my favorite illustrator to help design clothes, I asked my favorite designer to make posters, my intuition for picking songs purely out of selfish reasons, my understanding and requirements for film soundtracks, the series of special effects that I desperately imagined, my hard-worship of idols and even flowering and fruiting, I resisted Cranky's own efforts, my accumulated ten years of reader support extras, my love of cheating...this is my Gul punch. I dedicated all my talents to this movie - "Those Years, The Girl We Chased Together". Finally I can proudly say: "I'm done filming the movie". The movie was shot in Changhua because the story happened in Changhua. The movie was shot at Jingcheng Middle School, because the story happened in Jingcheng Middle School. My movies don't discount -- Because my youth is not discounted!