Chapter 28
Early that night, Qiao Yi Qiao called a relative he hadn't contacted for a long time.
"Hello, cousin Qiao Juan!" Qiao Yiqiao's voice was very clear.
The other party took a long time to respond lazily: "If you have to fart, do it now!"
Qiao Yiqiao: “…”
It is said that father and son are connected by heart. How come you are nothing like my Uncle Qiao Huan?
"Look, are you still short of people?" Qiao Yiqiao asked, "I have a dozen kids here who are very interested in gang life. I want to take them to experience the real life. I wonder if it's convenient for you. Is there any way?"
"Tsk," Qiao Juan said in a bad mood, "What do you think this place is, a kindergarten? Uncle Bai and I are on a mission!"
"I know, I know," Qiao Yiqiao said carefully, "These kids don't want to study anymore and want to go down this path. You must have some jobs that aren't too dangerous."
"Well, you know what, we are indeed short of people," Qiao Juan thought for a while, "How are they doing academically? I don't want anyone who doesn't study well. They are too much of a burden."
As expected, academic qualifications are now required in the underworld.
Qiao Yiqiao said silently: "They... have great potential."
"Okay, I'll file an application with the higher-ups," Qiao Juan paused, "How's your father's health?"
"He's recovering normally," Qiao Yiqiao's tone softened. "Even you know that recuperation abroad is very expensive. I don't know if my father will live to be a hundred years old. I don't know how much it will cost..."
Qiao Juan felt an unspeakable conspiracy when listening to his cousin's voice: "Just say it!"
"Okay," Qiao Yiqiao smiled politely, "Can you pay for the tickets for the dozen or so kids here to go to your place..."
"Get lost!" Qiao Juan roared. "You really want to come over? I tell you, it's impossible! Uncle Bai is going back to the mainland to report on the mission. He can just take people over to give you an experience."
"That's great, that's great. We will definitely take care of Uncle Bai's meals," Qiao Yiqiao said politely. "We look forward to your arrival."
…
The next day.
Qiao Yiqiao brought Ming Ziqin, Daqiang, Ji Ran, the two Wangs, Ahua, Su Lang, Wang Song and some younger brothers from both camps to the airport to pick up the plane.
Ming Ziqin and several former bad boys had excited expressions on their faces and kept chattering at the airport. On the contrary, Su Lang and Wang Song were very calm and fell asleep immediately while waiting.
"Brother Lang," Ming Ziqin poked Su Lang's arm, "Why are you sleeping all the time?"
Su Lang put on his eye patch and said, "You'll know when the boss really comes. Also, don't call me Su Lang outside. Call me by my code name."
Ming Ziqin was curious: "What's your code name?"
Su Lang said calmly: "Ibrahimovic."
"Puff," Ming Ziqin spurted out a mouthful of juice, "Why is it called Ibrahimovic?"
"Because Ibrahimovic is very ordinary, but the boss said that I have countless possibilities in the future." Su Lang pointed at Wang Song, "His name is Celebi, remember, don't call me by my real name."
"Okay." Ming Ziqin felt that everything was new and fresh. "Then should I also give myself a name? I'll call myself Pokébi. I like Pokébi the most."
"You can't," Su Lang turned over, "You are not from Xi Cui, so don't name yourself after Pokémon. Just call yourself Xiao Ming."
Ming Ziqin curled his lips: "Okay."
Soon, the plane landed.
A dozen tall and strong male creatures in suits walked to the boarding gate.
Ming Ziqin immediately became excited: "Which one is Boss Bai? The one with the scar on his face? Or the one with bulging muscles that are about to burst through the sleeves of his suit?"
Qiao Yiqiao shook his head: "Neither."
The big men in suits dispersed and a middle-aged man wearing glasses and looking very gentle walked out from the middle.
"Uncle Bai, here!" Qiao Yi Qiao greeted him.
Bai Jike looked at the scene of the airport pick-up and nodded: "Let's go."
The group quickly returned to school.
In this short night, they also transformed the school.
The first floor of the school still has classrooms, but the second floor of the school has undergone some minor renovations and has become a "gang safe house."
The teachers also told the students that if they wanted to join gangs, they should go to the second floor, and if they wanted to continue studying, they could just stay on the first floor.
All the members of the Xicui Gang insisted on staying on the first floor, while most of the bad boys went directly to the second floor.
The corridor on the second floor was crowded with people, all wanting to catch a glimpse of the real underworld boss.
Of course, what they didn’t know was that standing before them was China’s strongest undercover agent, aka Nightwing.
Bai Jike stood in front and said calmly: "Okay, be quiet, let me tell you about the main composition of our Sabah Gang."
All the bad boys, including Ming Ziqin and others, were listening attentively.
"The main business scope is divided into several sectors. The first is online gambling, which is a legal industry in the local area and also our most profitable industry. The second is credit services, and we also do debt collection. Similarly, we have a local license. The third is security business, which is commonly known as protection money, but we have to sign contracts with local merchants. The fourth is real estate and shops; the fifth is financial securities; and the sixth is IT business."
After he said this, the whole place fell silent.
Ming Ziqin boldly asked, "Excuse me...what about pornography, gambling and drugs?"
Bai Jike raised his eyes and glanced at him: "Is there any need to do those illegal businesses that don't make money?"
Bad boys: "..."
Bai Jike continued, "Okay, I've read your information. I've divided you into six groups. Go find the leaders of your respective groups to receive your tasks."
After saying this, Bai Jike left with a dashing back.
The remaining dozens of bad boys looked at each other in confusion.
Ming Ziqin, Su Lang and eight other bad boys were assigned to the online gambling group which was said to have the highest profits.
The one who led them was the big brother who had a scar on his face and looked tough, his surname was Li.
Brother Li examined the eight people assigned to him and frowned: "How are you doing in math?"
Several people: "Uh..."
"Forget it," Brother Li pouted, "I brought the questions here, you guys take the IQ test first."
then.
In the next two hours, they...did a set of papers.
After finishing, they handed the papers to Brother Li.
Brother Li put on his glasses and started marking the papers.
Twenty minutes later, Brother Li shook his head and said, "You guys all have IQs between 100 and 130. You are hopeless."
Several people: "What?"
Brother Li said: "If you have an IQ below 140, there is no need to continue learning mathematics. If you can't learn mathematics, you naturally can't participate in the calculation of online gambling winning rate and profit rate, so you can't do this."
The bad boys who originally just wanted to fight and kill: "Then what can we do?"
Brother Li took out several laptops from behind him, and then threw a pair of headphones to each of them.
"Be a customer service representative," said Brother Li coldly. "Open the first folder. It contains customer service scripts, which are your responses to questions raised by users. You should read through the book this morning. There will be an exam at noon. If you fail, there will be punishment. Do you understand?"
When several people heard that there was a punishment, they immediately started to carry it hard.
The morning passed quickly, and Brother Li tested several people. It turned out that two of the bad boys failed.
"Take them to the punishment room." Brother Li shook his head. "They are hopeless. They don't have enough IQ to memorize it. After the punishment, go to Group 3 to watch the scene."
Punishment Room...
God knows what the punishment is in the underworld!
The wailing sounds from next door soon came, and the sound was clear to the ears.
It didn't stop this afternoon.
Ming Ziqin started his afternoon work while hearing the constant wailing from next door.
"Hello, what can I do for you?"
"Fuck your crappy casino, where's my money?!"
"Please be patient. I will check the recent water flow for you."
"Hurry up, I don't believe I've already lost! You must be the ones manipulating this!"
"Dear, you have indeed lost..."
“%……%……&￥@!”
Ming Ziqin hung up silently.
Start the next one.
In one afternoon, he was scolded more than 40 times.
The problems solved were all “My money is gone”, “I can’t find my password”, “My withdrawal has not yet arrived” and so on.
Even though he has a good personality, he will still curse in the end.
What’s more, the most unfair thing is that he has been working so diligently to solve problems for customers, but in the end he still received several 1-star bad reviews.
All bad guys!
Until the sun set, he looked at the dark sky and cursed "damn" in his heart.
This was nothing like the gang life he had imagined!
"Okay, time is almost up, your group can call it a day."
At Brother Li's command, the six people finally looked up.
There were four big words written on everyone’s face: “I’m going to die.”
"Today is your first day at work, and the intensity is relatively low. Because our online casino is open 24 hours a day, you will be divided into three shifts in the future, rotating every eight hours." Brother Li added.
This undoubtedly added another layer of huge gloom to the six already desperate people.
"Also, don't think you've finished your work for today," Brother Li asked again, "Who knows Excel? Raise your hand."
Ming Ziqin raised his hand weakly.
When he was in the US, he often helped with life coordination work and barely knew a little about spreadsheets.
"Okay, you will be the team leader of the six of you. You will count the number of people served, service scores, reporting rates, etc. for each person today..." Brother Li sent Ming Ziqin a table. "There is an algorithm in it that can calculate the contribution rate of each of you to the gang today. The lowest one will be punished, and then the others will be weighted to distribute today's salary."
It took Ming Ziqin another two hours to complete the table.
Fortunately, his contribution rate is not the lowest.
While watching the lowest-ranking bad boy being dragged to the punishment room, he also received today's salary.
64 yuan.
It’s really cool.
"That's not right, Brother Li." Ming Ziqin was making his last stand. "Look at this calculation, the money I should get today is 80 yuan."
"Don't you want to pay taxes? You have to pay 20% tax during the internship period," said Brother Li, as if it was a matter of course. "We are a legitimate gang. Do you want to evade taxes? What are you thinking!"
Ming Ziqin: “Bitter.”
Bitterness is gang life today.
So he dragged his tired body back to the dormitory.
Those members of the Xicui Gang who studied hard had already returned to the dormitory.
"How do you feel today?" a student from the Xicui Gang asked gloatingly, "Is gang life fun?"
Ming Ziqin was no longer able to answer and waved his hands.
“Hahaha,” the Xicui Gang burst into laughter, “So, the opportunity to go to school is so precious.”
Looking back, their boss also used all kinds of boring work to advise them on the value of learning.
It is completely different from the bloody scene that everyone imagines. This is basically the situation on the road now. Everyone is civilized and money-oriented. Who would still fight and kill all day long? It's unhealthy.
The only thing that Ming Ziqin felt somewhat comforted about was that it wasn't just him, but those assigned to other groups were not much better off.
Ji Ran, who was assigned to Group 2, the debt collection group, spent the day working on Excel spreadsheets to calculate the financial status of each receivables party.
Daqiang, who was assigned to the third security team, practiced basic security routines all day long. He was thrown to the ground dozens of times by his instructor and his whole body was bruised.
Wang, who was assigned to the fourth real estate group, made sales calls all day and his throat was dry.
Ah Hua, who was assigned to the fifth financial securities group, spent the whole day learning about finance. His brain was no longer working and he looked like a dried corpse. When he was sleeping, he kept talking in his sleep, “Quick…Clear the warehouse…”
The worst off were those who were assigned to the sixth IT group. Today, because none of the members had learned the most basic IT knowledge, they were all sent to the punishment room.
As for what exactly is in the punishment room...
These people kept silent, which led to everyone's speculation.
That night, nearly one-third of the people quit the gang and returned to the first floor to continue their studies.
They can’t learn well, and they can’t fight well either, so they have lost their way.
But Ming Ziqin was not convinced in his heart.
He felt that life in the underworld would not be so hard and he would definitely be able to make it.
With this mentality, he started the next day's work.
In between receiving guests, he did not forget to learn mathematics, hoping to pass the exam and get promoted.
However, the opposite happened.
He had been scolded by different customers for a long time, and his mind was a mess because he was secretly learning mathematics.
As a result, his contribution rate that day was the lowest.
Punishment room.
He trembled as he looked at a standard tiger chair placed inside the room.
A man in a white coat walked in with a very creepy smile.
"Is this your first time being punished?" the man in the white coat said, and put a spherical instrument on his head.
"Don't be nervous," the white coat smiled, "this is just to see what you are afraid of."
Then, different images flashed rapidly before his eyes, containing all kinds of horrible things.
And his real-time brain waves were also faithfully recorded by the instrument.
Half an hour later, Ming Ziqin was soaked all over.
The man in the white coat walked up to him with the record sheet and analyzed, "Oh, so you are most afraid of cockroaches and spiders. Tsk, you are still a child after all."
Ming Ziqin felt that he was exhausted and asked weakly, "Is it over?"
The man in the white coat smiled and said, "Of course not, the real punishment has not started yet!"
Ming Ziqin trembled: "What kind of punishment is this? Are you going to beat me? Or break my fingers?"
"Of course it's not that violent. We are a legitimate gang. How could we do such a low-class thing?" The man in the white coat put a pair of VR glasses on Ming Ziqin's head. "The punishment time is ten minutes. Please enjoy it."
So, for the next ten minutes, Ming Ziqin was swimming in a sea of cockroaches and spiders.
The most hateful thing is that the man in the white coat would touch him from time to time, giving him a "4D" experience.
Ten minutes to go.
Ming Ziqin screamed continuously and his legs went limp.
Before leaving, the man in the white coat handed him a USB flash drive.
“This is your performance video. Please use this as an inspiration and work hard in your next work~”
Ming Ziqin returned to the dormitory after suffering humiliation.
He will never admit defeat!
Late at night, he opened the mathematics textbook and read it carefully.
But mathematics is not something you can learn just because you want to.
Just as he was gritting his teeth, a member of the Xicui Gang looked up at his bed and laughed: "Hey, isn't this the knowledge we just learned today?"
Ming Ziqin was stunned.
What……?
The Xicui Gang member grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth: "If you want to learn, I'll teach you."
Ming Ziqin: “…”
ah.
He suddenly realized, what is he doing?
Didn’t we agree to be a good person? Why…why am I studying now!
…
In the following week, half of the people withdrew from this social practice every day.
Until the end, there were only a few participants.
Ming Ziqin studied and worked as a customer service representative at the same time, and he also had to ensure the quality of his work and enough sleep.
After a week I was exhausted both physically and mentally.
Then he took another test.
Sure enough, even after learning math, my IQ didn't improve much.
Brother Li patted him on the shoulder and said, "Although your IQ is not high enough to be qualified for other positions, our customer service department also has a promotion mechanism."
Ming Ziqin felt that he had grasped a ray of hope and asked hurriedly, "What mechanism?"
"You can be promoted to customer service team leader," Brother Li thought for a while, "and then to customer service manager, then customer service supervisor, then customer service director, etc. We are slightly better off than state-owned enterprises, so you don't have to wait for many years, but it should still take one or two years."
Ming Ziqin was stunned.
This lasted for a year or two...
How could he possibly do that?
"Have you thought about your future path?" Brother Li asked, "If you think this is a shortcut, you are wrong. This path is also very difficult to walk. Those who reach the top are all people with special skills."
Ming Ziqin nodded: "I understand."
After a week of experience, Bai Jike left with his team.
All the bad boys are like eggplants hit by frost, exhausted both physically and mentally.
Ming Ziqin returned to the familiar classroom of Class 6. After much thought, he made a major decision: "I still want to study."
As soon as these words were spoken, all the bad boys fell silent.
Then they responded one after another.
"Yeah, maybe I still need to learn."
"Don't you think studying is easier than joining a gang?"
“In fact, the opportunity to learn is quite valuable…”
"I really didn't expect that after joining the gang, whether I can do well or not still depends on my studies..."
Behind tens of thousands of cameras, Qiao Yi Qiao breathed a sigh of relief when he heard everyone say this.
It seems that this evil dragon has been reversed before it was formed.
Su Lang looked at the group of guys with colorful hair saying they wanted to study, and smiled: "I guessed you would be like this, but the entrance examination for that high school is less than a month away, is it still in time?"
Ming Ziqin was also not confident: "I don't know..."
"It's okay, we're here to help you," Su Lang looked at Ming Ziqin, "Don't forget, we only have ten chances to transfer to the best high school, and not just you, all of us are vying for it."
Ming Ziqin was stunned.
"But don't worry, we won't use those dirty tricks, it's purely fair competition," Su Lang smiled even more, "However, Uncle Bai still left us a very effective incentive."
Just as he finished his words, two real gang members in suits appeared at the front of the classroom.
Behind them, there is a smiling devil in a white coat.
"These two are new to the gang, so they are not afraid of being on camera," Su Lang said. "From now on, we have to complete the teacher's tasks every day. We will use the algorithm to calculate the least motivated person, and then... the punishment room will be ready. This is a new method that our teacher came up with after being inspired by the gang. Isn't it interesting?"
Ming Ziqin immediately felt dizzy.
He still remembers the feeling of being covered with tiny cockroaches and spiders.
A little itchy and a little nauseous...
"Hah! I will... hah... I will study hard... hah!"
Ming Ziqin said seriously as he took the book.
…
Due to various unexpected events, the filming continued until after the entrance test for that high school.
In the following half month, there were no major disturbances, but a passionate scene of everyone studying hard.
They study very hard, hanging their heads on the beams and piercing their legs with awls.
Whether it was the bad boys or the people from the Xicui Gang, although they were rivals, they were no longer enemies. The topics they talked about every day changed from "how to fight" and "how to get along in society" to "how to solve that problem?" and "if you slack off again, you will be caught and sent to the punishment room"...
The days of hard work always go by quickly.
The big exam is finally here.
Ming Ziqin was very nervous.
It was the first time in his life that he felt so nervous.
Being nervous means caring, and the reason for caring is because of serious investment.
He suddenly felt that this feeling was very novel.
Finally, three days after the exam, he received the results.
He ranked 6th among all.
Although it was not a very good result, it was far beyond his expectations.
Daqiang ranked 68th. After seeing the result, he patted Ming Ziqin on the shoulder and said, "Boss, don't think that it's over just because you go to a good high school. We will continue to go to school, too. We still have to keep competing."
Ming Ziqin looked at him with a smile: "Definitely."
The early morning sun seemed to make everything look brand new. A group of teenagers with colorful hair were drinking soda on the playground, all smiling from the bottom of their hearts.
They don't even realize it.
What a great time it is.
Everything.
CUTEND.
…
When everyone steps out of the campus, they will be greeted by a broader future.
Even though there are some twists and turns, the final result is that the bad guys are punished and everyone becomes better.
This is the most beautiful HE in reality.
Qiao Yiqiao always sees this statement in books: Film is the art of creating dreams.
He now has a deeper understanding of this sentence.
In the coffee shop.
Qiao Yiqiao and Ming Ziqin sat opposite each other.
"So, how do you feel now?" Qiao Yiqiao asked, "Have you decided to continue studying?"
"Yes, no matter what, I have to finish high school first," Ming Ziqin said with a smile, "In fact, I always thought studying was boring before, but now it seems that it is quite interesting to have a group of people to accompany me."
In fact, through this period of filming, Qiao Yi Qiao has gained a deeper understanding of human nature.
Everyone wants to take shortcuts; this is laziness ingrained in us.
Especially teenagers.
Whether it is learning textbook knowledge or learning some special skills, the process is painful.
But after a period of pain, these things bring a great sense of accomplishment.
On the contrary, clubbing, fighting, getting tattoos, and falling in love are very easy things and you can feel happy while doing them.
This is why teenagers choose to do these things.
But over time, the happiness from these things is gradually decreasing.
People will go further and further on the road of pursuing excitement.
In order to make people want to learn and not adapt to short-term happiness, in addition to internal motivation, some external support is also needed.
In fact, when Qiao Yiqiao was managing the gang before, he did the same thing unconsciously.
People often say that a director's debut film is most likely about his or her own life.
Qiao Yiqiao also thinks so.
He never got any golden rules for success, but was always exploring, whether it was managing a gang or making movies.
Are there any problems with this movie? There are many.
But at the same time, this exploration also brings many different characteristics to this movie.
All of the above were what Qiao Yi Qiao thought of when he was thinking about how to edit the film.
Let’s go back two weeks.
Since there were no longer so many uncontrollable events happening on campus, he began to think about how to edit.
The first question to be faced is what the main plot of this movie is.
After several days of thinking, Qiao Yi Qiao had a relatively clear idea.
What I want to tell is the story of an idol who has been bullied and finds ways to heal himself after joining a school environment that also has bullying.
Faced with the proposition of healing himself, he has many options, such as forbearance, leaving, or... fighting back.
Ming Ziqin chose the latter.
But after the successful counterattack, even though he knew it was a social experiment, he still wanted to continue living like this.
Because of human nature, children who have just received a little warmth do not want to leave this environment.
At this point, the only external event is the real gang experience.
After the experience, all the characters changed and it became a youthful and passionate film, and ended.
In fact, the main events are very clear.
Every transformation of the protagonist also has relatively solid motivations and reasons.
After figuring this out, Qiao Yi Qiao began the editing work.
As his debut film, he still wanted to edit it himself.
Moreover, no other editor follows the material from beginning to end and is as familiar with it as he is.
After all, the amount of material for this movie... is extremely large.
Thousands of cameras and three months of filming, all in all, the material totaled an astonishing 9 million hours.
Of course, even if Qiao Yi Qiao was a god, it would be impossible for him to finish reading all these materials.
There is no need.
At this time, the film structure that director Wang Yige had taught played a big role.
The 120-minute film is divided into three acts, with the first act lasting 30 minutes, the second act lasting 60 minutes, and the third act lasting 30 minutes.
There are more than a dozen beats in total, and it is very obvious how the plot should develop in each beat.
The first thing Qiao Yi Qiao determined was the midpoint, a position also known as the "pseudo-victory".
Obviously, it should be the plot where Ming Ziqin defeated Mao Mao.
With this anchor point, the other beats become apparent.
Although the overall shooting and style are very literary, for the most basic framework, Qiao Yiqiao still chose the steady and solid commercial film framework.
After setting the rhythm, he just needs to find the corresponding plot in the materials.
Now that the idea has been determined, the subsequent editing work will not be that complicated.
Three weeks had passed by the time Qiao Yiqiao finished the rough cut.
But when Qiao Yiqiao watched the finished film, he felt that it was... a little off.
Qiao Yi Qiao carefully analyzed the reasons why it felt a little off.
In fact, the first half of the film is okay. It's quite cool to see how an idol reacts to real school bullying, how he gathers victims and fights back.
But in the second half, Ming Ziqin repented and studied hard, and everything went smoothly.
Even a little boring.
In fact, according to his original design, the "social experiment" was not explained in the film, but was only used as a promotional point.
But Qiao Yiqiao suddenly thought, what if this matter was revealed after the middle of the film? What would happen?
Later it became a confrontation between the director's intention and Ming Ziqin's intention.
Moreover, the previous plot can be explained in the second half, explaining how it was filmed, what problems were encountered, and so on.
Qiao Yiqiao had a very wild idea that he could even cut in the conversations between himself and Mao Mao, and between himself and Ming Ziqin.
The second half becomes a collective "creation" film.
This structure, this way of integrating the director's intentions and the actors' intentions into the film, has been successful in both "Camera Never Stops" and "The Great Buddha Plus".
Those movies were even designed on purpose, but their movies are born with this gene and appear more real.
That's why Qiao Yiqiao made an appointment to meet Ming Ziqin.
After hearing this idea, Ming Ziqin also agreed to do so.
He doesn't mind exposing parts of his inner self.
So, the two of them started the next recording.
After defeating Mao Mao, Ming Ziqin would say, "Although I have experienced a lot of bullying, it is still very painful when it really happens to me...", "After defeating Mao Mao, I looked at these little brothers and thought, what should I do?", "Studying sounds too tiring, it's better to be comfortable like this..."
Of course, this is the general meaning, but Qiao Yiqiao helped Ming Ziqin design it to make these words very interesting.
Qiao Yiqiao also expressed his own assumptions about human nature and the contrast between different people's practices.
From big changes like Ming Ziqin's several transformations to small changes like some supporting characters, such as Daqiang who wanted to give up studying, but later felt that he could not continue like this and picked up his textbooks again, all were written into it.
The effect he hopes for is that when the audience watches the first half, they think it is a designed movie, but there will be some outrageous details in it.
For example, when filming a study scene, someone suddenly picks his nose, someone snores for no reason during class, etc...
It just doesn't feel like it's acting.
Then, in the middle of the film, everyone is told directly that the previous part was indeed not acted.
It's all true.
We originally only wanted to shoot up to this point, but who knew that the protagonist would suddenly turn into a dragon.
So the director designed the plan to bring him back on track, and a group of people changed and started to study hard.
It is also at this stage that we discuss whether forcing the victims to fight back together is the only way to solve school bullying? How to heal later, how to make the protagonist study hard again...
When a group of bullied people gain the ability to bully others, how can they give up this ability?
Of course, the film did not show them actually using this ability to bully others, it only brought them back on track when they had this thought.
It wasn't that Qiao Yiqiao didn't want to reshoot a scene where Ming Ziqin actually bullies others after defeating the evil dragon. In that scene, his facial expression, the forbearance in his body language, the sense of satisfaction, and the confusion as to whether it was right or not, and all these details are worth exploring in depth.
But in the end he gave up, not wanting his movie to have such a deliberately designed plot.
And most importantly, the first half is already very depressing (even with some outrageous details).
In the second half of the film, Qiao Yiqiao still hopes to bring a light-hearted and interesting story to everyone through this narrative method.
Reality is already too bitter, and he doesn't want to impress the audience with its heaviness.
Watchability and entertainment are always his top priorities.
But it is under such entertaining packaging.
In fact, it is a very realistic issue.
Three weeks later, Qiao Yiqiao completed the final cut.
He was in a state of panic.
Because the internal preview is about to begin.
Tu Yu, Xiao Fu, Xiao Lan, Sister Wu, Mr. Qian and others gathered in the movie screening room of Huarui Entertainment.
During the playback, Qiao Yiqiao was particularly nervous and kept staring at various details, worrying that the editing was too jumpy, or that some details were too nonsensical, etc.
In the latter part of the film, he was afraid that this narrative style was too new and too author-oriented, and that others would not be able to understand it.
At first he paced frantically at the back of the screening room, unable to fit in his seat.
But gradually, he actually looked into it.
Others reacted the same way.
After the initial nervous anticipation wore off, they quieted down.
The first half was heart-wrenching, but in the second half, laughter could be heard from a few people from time to time.
There was even a scene where Qiao Yiqiao and Ming Ziqin had an argument during the narration, and both of them talked about what was the best thing for a victim of bullying to do.
Although the topic is heavy, the lines are designed to be very interesting.
Several people kept laughing, and then fell into deep thought.
It was not until they saw Ming Ziqin was actually admitted to a good school that they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The film ends with a rising sun.
After the screening, Qiao Yi Qiao stared at everyone nervously.
Everyone was silent, as if they were thinking about how to phrase the question.
Finally, it was Mr. Qian who spoke.
"Director Qiao, the budget for the entire film is only 1.5 million?"
Qiao Yiqiao thought for a moment and said, "I haven't done the color adjustment yet, but I'm afraid... I won't need that much."
"Well," Mr. Qian thought for a long time and said slowly, "Then Director Qiao, I think you may have created a miracle."!
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