It was at that moment that Shang Yechu realized just how utterly wrong Zheng Bohan had been.
Li Yiming loved Li Ruhui. It was not merely the love of a soldier for a comrade, nor simply the love of a teacher for a student, nor just the love of a woman for a man.
Li Yiming also understood Li Ruhui's love. Li Ruhui's love was the worship of a lost person to a guide, the following of a non-believer to the builder of faith, and the yearning of a person who had wandered for half a lifetime for a pillar.
That feeling was so deep and complex, it permeated everything silently. It was buried beneath the perilous reality, placed after far too many more important matters. So much so that only at the moment of death did Li Yiming have time to suddenly look back and glance at this emotion that had been hastily conceived in the darkness of the era.
It was too late.
So that's how it is. It turns out that the relationship between Li Yiming and Li Ruhui can be summed up in just these three words.
It's too late.
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After filming, Xu Hanwen told Shang Yechu the truth.
To make himself look like a real corpse, Shi Shan volunteered to lie down in the snow beforehand to freeze it.
To achieve the best effect, Shi Shan only took the most basic protective measures inside his clothing to prevent himself from actually freezing to death. As for his exposed head, face, neck, and hands, naturally, no measures were taken. The ashen complexion and stiffness in his hands and feet were entirely natural, not makeup.
Shi Shan had asked to wear those wet clothes. Even the water on his head and face was genuinely sprayed on.
The temperature near the Rujiang River was a good 25 degrees Celsius below zero. A gust of river wind chilled your wet clothes to the bone. Lying in the thick snow, without any preparation, you were instantly frozen to the bone.
Wan Xiaojun strongly opposed it, but unfortunately, she couldn't fight against Shi Shan. He simply wouldn't listen to her.
Xu Hanwen's sour face wasn't because Shi Shan was unprofessional for using a stunt double, but because he felt Shi Shan was being too frivolous. He worried that if Shi Shan got sick from the cold, they couldn't afford to dismantle the entire production crew to compensate for it.
After much haggling, although they were afraid of taking responsibility, their desire for better filming results outweighed their fear. In the end, Xu Hanwen and Shi Shan made an electronic agreement and then agreed.
All of this was done behind Shang Yechu's back. Otherwise, the best effect wouldn't be achieved. The shock Shang Yechu felt when she lifted the white cloth was genuine; no matter how many times it was reshot, it wouldn't have the same effect.
Just as she had no grounds to blame Shi Shan for using a stunt double a few hours earlier, Shang Yechu, upon learning of this, had no reason to blame the director and actors for keeping it from her.
To outsiders, this was merely an unconventional attempt by Shi Shan due to his excessive dedication. Only Shang Yechu knew perfectly well that Shi Shan did this to help her get into character.
During yesterday's rehearsal, Shang Yechu and Shi Shan discussed the issue of emotional processing. Shang Yechu believed that Li Yiming's reaction upon seeing Li Ruhui's corpse was more shock than grief.
Trusting the organization and Li Ruhui's abilities, Li Yiming never believed that Li Ruhui was dead. Therefore, upon seeing the corpse, Li Yiming should have acted like a dam—a dam that had been dry for many years, suddenly breached by a world-destroying flood.
Shi Shan then said thoughtfully, "So, you mean you want to make Li Yiming go from 'not believing Li Ruhui is dead' to 'Li Ruhui is really dead' in an instant?"
Shang Yechu remembers answering, "Yes, even faster than a flood."
Romantic scenes are Shang Yechu's weakness, something Shi Shan knows all too well. In the few romantic scenes in "Half a Sky" (which Zheng Bohan calls friendship), Shang Yechu always appears composed but lacks dynamism. There are no flaws, but nothing particularly striking.
This level of skill would be more than enough for handling other scenes, but it's not quite sufficient for the scene depicting Li Ruhui's death.
Shang Yechu's poor performance yesterday was precisely because he was fully aware of this.
For this reason, Shang Yechu consulted Qi Ming, Xu Hanwen and Shi Shan many times, but no matter how talented Qi Ming was, it was too much to ask her to explain "complex love" to Shang Yechu at her age of seventy or eighty.
Xu Hanwen was an even bigger tyrant. He bluntly told Shang Yechu, "You don't know how to love anyone at all. Stop wasting your time on useless things. Don't squander what little talent you already have."
Only Shishan remains.
Shi Shan took a complete account of Shang Yechu's predicament and, in this scene, used the simplest and most straightforward method to drag Shang Yechu into that situation, causing the flood to completely breach the dam!
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