Chapter 9 Chapter Eight The Movie Doesn't Exist

Another gray cloud appeared on the screen, I looked at Bai Su, and she made a gesture, indicating that she hadn't done anything.I said, "What do you mean? I saw the tension." Bai Su said: "The video tape has not finished playing, but it seems that the video has been recorded here." I pressed "Quick Forward", but it went to the end, and no screen appeared again. I couldn't help being annoyed and amused: "Hey, this is really appetizing. I admit it's a good movie. Try to contact the director or the film company. How much did we watch? About a quarter of it, I want to watch the rest."

This stop, of course, is completely passive, because the rest of the video tape is just blank. I picked up the phone, made a call to Xiao Guo, told him about the situation, and asked him how long it would take to find out. His voice was full of confidence: "Three minutes to ten minutes." I put down the phone and said: "That woman seems to be a prostitute. The young man secretly hid the gold nuggets and asked her to escape with him. I'm afraid there will be no good results. Prostitutes have seen through life and don't believe that there is such a thing as love." Something happened."

Bai Su sighed: "This... film can be said to go deep into life. Have you noticed that there are some jars and boxes on the woman's table? One of the jars is wood shavings, which is the woman from the past. There is something for combing hair, and there is a white thing in a box, I'm afraid you can't tell what it is." I didn't notice those details, anyway, the video is there, I can watch it again, I reversed the video, so that it stopped at the scene of the woman trimming her own eyebrows, and I saw the can of "shavings" on the table and next to the mirror ", I also saw that irregular white thing, half submerged in water, I really don't know what it is.

Bai Su smiled: "That's gouache, when you need to use it, take it out and put it on a smooth stone to grind it out, and use it on your face." I couldn't help laughing, and pointed to a small box of red things: "Then this must be rouge, wait a minute, look, there seems to be a month card hanging on the wall, what year is it?" It can be seen on the wall that there is a month card hanging on it.The month card, that is, the form of the monthly calendar has not been much different from the current one since such a thing appeared. It is nothing more than a colorful picture with the year, month and day added. The month card that can be seen at this time has a picture of a beautiful head, which is not very Clearly, but the characters of the year, month and day cannot be read clearly.

Bai Su looked at it for a while: "This beauty's head seems to be a trademark of a cigarette brand." I suddenly waved my hand: "That's right, 'Beautiful Cigarettes', the promotional slogan is 'Everything is beautiful, everything is beautiful', it was a popular brand around the early years of the Republic of China." Bai Su said "hmm": "Then it can be assumed that the time background is at that time." I let the video tape rotate slowly, searching the screen for details that I had overlooked when I watched it for the first time, and found a corner of a New Year picture, which seemed to be a carp.

Ten minutes later, Xiao Guo called. His tone was not as confident as before: "Can you provide some more information?" I said: "The dialogue of the film is all in the dialect used by the characters, many dialects in western Sichuan, the hero and heroine are all unfamiliar to me, of course it was filmed by a Chinese, no, I don't think it is produced in mainland China, even if they shoot well Come out, it won't be filmed like this, okay, I'll give you another ten minutes." I put down the phone, Bai Su said: "He can't find the source of this movie?"

I was a little dissatisfied: "I see that he has regressed. For such a big movie, go to the film industry to inquire about it, and someone will know it immediately." While waiting for Xiao Guo's call, we re-watched some clips to pass the time. After re-watching, we can still feel the huge shocking force.Bai Su repeatedly looked at the scene at the beginning of the group of strange shots, her brows were knotted, not knowing what she was thinking. After another ten minutes, Xiao Guo called again, his voice was a bit embarrassed: "No one knows that there is such a movie, you said you watched a video tape, maybe it was specially shot for the video tape ?There's been a lot of production of this type lately."

I was a little annoyed: "I know that kind of production is all low-cost shoddy production, but what I see is a large-scale production that exceeds the international standard. Even if it is a video tape, won't you check it from that side?" Xiao Guo's voice was very frustrated: "Okay, give me... another 20 minutes." I said loudly, "Thank you." I put down the phone, Bai Su was still looking at those shots over and over again, it was the group where the camera angle suddenly changed, I couldn't help asking: "What do you want to discover?" Bai Su replayed it again: "Look at this change, does it seem like the camera was suddenly placed on the ground—I mean, on the stone platform?"

I shook my head: "The camera has a shelf." Bai Su immediately said: "Sometimes, in order to pursue the dynamic, the director will ask the photographer to put the video tape on his shoulder and start shooting." As soon as I heard it, I understood what Bai Su wanted to prove, and I couldn't help laughing: "What do you want to say? You want to say that the photographer put down the camera at this moment, and went to stop the bleeding and bandage that person?" Bai Su didn't smile, and actually admitted that she thought so, and nodded slowly. I waved my hand and was speechless. It was incomprehensible. Someone was injured in the film. No matter who came to save him, it made sense. It didn’t make sense for the cameraman to save him.

I said: "Of course not, the director deliberately arranged two mysterious characters. Although this arrangement is not very good, there is only one possibility for the photographer to put down the camera to heal the injury—" Bai Su said: "Yes, there is only one possibility: there must be no other people around." I laughed out loud: "Also, that person was really injured, not from the movie." Bai Su didn't say anything more, I am naturally not familiar with her expression of thinking about a very difficult answer, but I really don't understand what she has to think about.

Xiao Guo called again. This time, his voice was reminiscent of the wailing of a bereaved dog: "Yes... I'm sorry, I have checked everything, even the Israeli side—" I said loudly, "Israelites will not spend so much money to pan for gold in the Jinsha River, they will go to photograph the miracles of Moses." Xiao Guo hurriedly explained: "I mean, we have checked everything that can be asked, and there is no such film." Of course I wouldn't have a good voice: "You don't want to tell me that what I saw was an experimental film over eight centimeters, right?" Xiao Guo hurriedly said: "Of course not... According to your description, this is a blockbuster movie, and it may be due to the absolute secrecy during the filming process." I sighed: "Xiao Guo, if you can't find it, you can't find it. Don't make excuses for yourself. Movies are made to be seen by a large number of audiences. Publicity is extremely important. Keep it secret, why?" Xiao Guo's voice was extremely embarrassing: "Give it to me..." I said, "Forty minutes?" Xiao Guo sighed: "Not enough, give me four days, and I will bring a group of friends from the film industry to watch this film." I had no choice but to say: "This is a good way, but unfortunately, my study room will become a test room." Xiao Guo ignored my sarcasm and hurriedly put down the phone.I proposed to watch it again from beginning to end, and Bai Su agreed. After about twenty minutes, I affirmed once again that if such a film is unknown to the world, then the fate of this genius (or lunatic) director is too great. It's sympathetic. In the next three days, Xiao Guo invited so many people from the film industry, which was beyond my expectation, batch after batch, including directors, screenwriters, actors, producers, producers of various film companies, filmmakers, etc. History researchers, film data collectors, film critics, film and television journalists, photographers... more than 100 people who have some relationship with the film industry came to see this video tape. These people's rich knowledge of movies can be said to be the best in the world. Some of them can casually mention a scene in a movie forty-three years ago, and some know that Sri Lanka is currently filming. What are some of the movies in the movie, some can name the actors who had a cameo in a certain German film twenty-six years ago, and some can remember every movie produced by major companies over the years . The film absolutely attracted everyone who came to watch it. Several producers watched it more than ten times and shouted wildly: "Who is this director? Can someone who has never acted before have such achievements?" Yes, every actor in the film has been studied one by one, proving that from the main characters to the secondary characters, none of them have ever participated in any film. Everyone agrees with me that the man with the broken leg is a real man with a broken leg, and there have been examples of this in the history of film. Everyone also agreed that the set of "weird shots" was completely unreasonable. Some suggested that it might be a "raw film". An authoritative film critic said: "This film captures the most direct ugliness in human behavior." The film critic continued: "However, it cannot be released at all, because human beings do not want to see their own ugliness, or in other words, those who have the right to rule now do not want all human beings to know this ugliness." During these three days, the sentence I said the most was: "According to you, this film doesn't exist at all?" This is really unreasonable. The video tape is clearly there. Through a series of mechanical operations, everyone can see this film, but the film does not seem to exist: Who invested in it?Who filmed it?Who performed it?When and where was it filmed?Neither know anything. It was impossible, but it did happen. For my question, almost everyone shook their heads, and no one could answer it. During these three days, Wen Baoyu came several times, and each time I blocked him from the study and told him that a film was being shown inside, which was "absolutely not suitable for children" and he could not watch it. The first few times, Wen Baoyu listened to it with a ghostly expression, and misunderstood the meaning of "absolutely not suitable for children". On the last day, he knew that it was "absolutely not suitable for children" in the constant conversations with the departing people and from the newspaper reports. It's a movie of some kind. (On the third day after people came to watch it, there was a report in the newspaper: the mysterious film, shocking. The content of the film fragments was explained in detail, and it was also explained that no one knew who filmed it.) Wen Baoyu insisted on watching it, and his reasons were very good: "Hmph, it's just a bloody movie, so what's so strange about it, even if the blood flows into a river, it's all red dye, and it's not like there has never been a real blood flow in history , don’t we need to study history?” This kid was already able to speak well, but now he is more and more articulate. I have no reason to refuse him, so I had to let him read it again. He kept admiring while watching it. It’s as real as it gets, almost like a documentary.” At that time, there was another producer who was very experienced in the film industry. Hearing him say this, he laughed: "My child, do you think documentaries must be true? There are so many falsified documentaries." Wen Baoyu turned his head and thought for a while: "I mean, this film really seems to be happening, and someone secretly filmed it." At that time, Bai Su was also present. After listening to Wen Baoyu's words, she looked over at him: "Xiao Bao, why do you have such a feeling." Wen Baoyu said: "Because everything seems too real." I couldn't help laughing: "Do you know what is real or not? You don't know anything about the time, place and background of this film, or the real situation at that time." Wen Baoyu looked contemptuously: "Using a knife to kill people is always the same no matter what time and place it is. Isn't the fighting we have seen real enough?" I laughed: "No matter how real it looks, the result is still fake." The film producer suddenly said: "In the United States, such a thing happened. Because there were a large number of audiences for small sexual abuse movies at that time, and the audience demanded that the movies be made realistically, some criminals abducted girls. Doing real abuse, and then filming it, it is a real thing, it looks natural and lifelike. Later, the case was solved, and there were really girls who were tortured to death." Wen Baoyu and Bai Su listened intently, and I felt a chill down my spine: "Could it be that fifty-eight people really died and one was injured in order to film this massacre?" The producer hurriedly said: "Of course not, I just suddenly remembered such a thing." Bai Su, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "There is a person who should be invited to watch this film." Wen Baoyu and I asked in unison: "Who?" Bai Su said: "Father! I know that in his early years, he had been to the gold panning area of ​​the Jinsha River as a guest of the leader of the elder brother's association. He is very familiar with everything there. I should invite him to have a look." Bai Su asked Boss Bai to take a look, and I naturally agreed. Since the photographer of this film could not be found, the matter became very confusing and extremely mysterious. Old man Bai may not be familiar with movies, but he is well-informed. Listening to his opinion is naturally useful. I nodded and said, "I'm afraid he won't come." Bai Su said: "I will send him a telegram." It would be best if Bai Su came forward and invited Boss Bai to come. Bai Su went to write a telegram, and the producer left.At this time, almost all the people who should have seen the clips of this film have seen it, even those who shouldn't, such as Wen Baoyu, have seen it, but no one can understand the ins and outs of the film. When Bai Su went to send a telegram, Xiao Guo came. After he sat down, he didn't speak for a long time. Wen Baoyu had seen Xiao Guo several times, and seeing his expression, he wanted to tease him, but seeing Xiao Guo's unkind expression, he didn't like it. Did not dare to make mistakes. After a while, Xiao Guo said in a muffled voice: "With such a big battle, I still can't find out the origin of this film, so I can only say that the film may not be filmed on the earth." Wen Baoyu smiled: "The filming is It must have been filmed on Earth, and it is possible that the photographers were aliens." In the past few days, in order to deal with so many people watching the video, I felt very tired, so I waved my hand: "Forget it! Anyway, someone sent me this box of video, without end, if he wants me to watch it After finishing, I will definitely send the rest to me.” Xiao Guo was bored for a while, and then said: "I will continue to investigate, and I will tell you as soon as I have results." Wen Baoyu rushed to say: "There is a second episode of this movie, I want to watch it." I just nodded my head, and Wen Baoyu murmured to himself: "It's a pity that Chen Changqing went to the mountain to learn Taoism. Otherwise, let him open his eyes and hear what he has to say." I was not angry: "His Meaning, I’m afraid it’s the same as yours: the film was taken by aliens.” Wen Baoyu moved his lips and said something. Just at this moment, Daiso yawned.When a person yawns, due to a large amount of relaxation, the eardrum will be expanded by the expansion of the air. At that moment, the hearing is blocked, so I did not hear what he said clearly. I did not ask, and he did not repeat it. . Two days later, there was no news from Xiao Guo, and there was no video tape, but a telegram came from Boss Bai. The message was very simple: "Please check the entire volume of Tang poems..." Bai Su and I took out all the poems of the Tang Dynasty and looked up which volume and page the boss Bai mentioned in the telegram. We couldn’t help but get angry. It turned out that they were two lines of Wang Wei’s poem: “In my old age, I only like to be quiet. care." Naturally, he expressed that he had no interest in this matter at all. This was expected, under normal circumstances, Bai Su and I must have looked at each other and laughed it off.But this time, Bai Su was surprisingly stubborn: "If he doesn't come, let's go." I was taken aback: "It's so far away, let him watch a 20-minute video? There is no TV in his farm." Bai Su said indifferently: "We will take it." Bai Su seldom makes such unexpected decisions, and since she has made a decision, there is no force that can make her change her mind.So, after buying a small VCR and a small TV, I went to France to ask Boss Bai to watch the video. On the plane, I thought there was a reason for the incident, but I didn't know what the "cause" was, so I asked Bai Su.Bai Su took a deep breath: "I can't say it, but I always feel that if he sees the old man, he will be of great help."