When he received the invitation, Li Yi was in North America to accompany Xu Nannan and her children.
However, Li Yi still agreed.
But he didn't plan to go back. Anyway, he just needed the work to be in place.
Of course, it is definitely not that easy even for Li Yi to make a "love short film" that can make people feel amazing.
Li Yi actually doesn't have a clue yet, but fortunately he still has time.
On this day, Li Yi and Xu Nannan left their poor baby behind and went shopping together.
Of course, instead of visiting luxury stores or the like, Xu Nannan took Li Yi mainly to visit old stores.
Come and try it quickly. 】
According to Xu Nannan, it is much more interesting than those fashionable and expensive luxury goods.
Li Yi also felt that this was indeed the case.
Obviously Xu Nannan had made preparations. She took Li Yi to visit old stores.
This type of store is usually not that busy, and the area it is located in is not a particularly prosperous area.
But it has a special taste.
"Huh?" Arriving at the door of a vintage boutique house, Xu Nannan suddenly let out an exclamation of surprise.
"What's wrong?" Li Yi looked at Xu Nannan with some confusion.
"Hey, have you seen that person?" Xu Nannan said to a short-haired girl outside the window of the second-hand boutique house.
"Well, what? Do you know him?" Li Yi glanced at him, still looking confused.
"I've met her before, but I don't count as acquaintance. When I came last time, she was interested in an old pocket watch in the store, but she didn't seem to have enough money. But when I came last time, she was a little different from now. "Xu Nannan said.
"When I saw her before, she had waist-length hair..."
"I was very envious at the time, but I didn't expect that this time she would actually cut off her enviable waist-length hair." Xu Nannan said with a look of regret.
Li Yi couldn't help but take another look at the other party, but at this time, the other party walked into the store and walked out quickly.
Li Yi and Xu Nannan walked into Jack's old store.
"Hey old Jack!"
"Hi, Xu, you haven't been here for a long time."
Xu Nannan and store owner Jack greeted each other.
"Did she buy that pocket watch?" Xu Nannan asked.
"Yeah!" Old Jack nodded.
"There seems to be a story between her and that pocket watch?" Xu Nannan asked curiously.
"Yes, that pocket watch once belonged to her husband! She had always wanted to buy it back, but the money was never enough until she sold her long hair..." Old Jack said.
Through Old Jack's words, Li Yi and Xu Nannan learned that the girl's husband was once a financial elite, but because of the global economic crisis, he was completely bankrupt before liberation.
Her husband also jumped from the building.
Everything that was once was washed away.
The former home was sold, including everything!
And the girl, after searching for a long time, finally found her husband's pocket watch. It was his first birthday after they got together, and she bought it for him.
It was just that her family was in decline, and she wanted to buy it back but didn't have enough money. After a long time, she sold her enviable long hair and finally raised enough money, but her husband's favorite long hair was gone.
Xu Nannan sighed while listening.
But Li Yi had a memory that was somewhat similar to this story.
He actually thought about what kind of short film he wanted to make.
Although it is not a short film, but a short story, I have to say that it is definitely good enough.
The result should be good.
It just so happened that this story also took place in a foreign country, so Li Yi didn't need to go back to find actors, he could just find actors here in North America and film it.
In fact, although the theme of love is said to be eternal, it has been an absolutely eternal topic for many years.
Perhaps pure love films are no longer mainstream, or perhaps there are very few romance films that can be called stunning.
But I have to say that the theme of love exists more or less in any movie.
In fact, all kinds of routines have been used to death. It is really more difficult to shoot any amazing routines than other subjects.
After all, the earliest movies were about love, and from ancient times to the present, there are too many classic and popular stories about love.
In China, there are love stories about Liang Shanbo, Zhu Yingtai, Hou Yi and Chang'e, and so on.
There are also many love stories like Romeo and Juliet abroad.
Short films are about creativity. To a certain extent, it is more difficult to be truly stunning.
In fact, speaking of it, Li Yi is really not particularly optimistic about the theme of Penguin Video this time.
The theme of love is large enough in scope, and the theme is classic enough, but the problem is that such a theme is really not suitable for short films.
However, this time Li Yi is relatively confident in his love-themed short film, because to put it bluntly, the routine of this short film is not new, but it is interesting enough.
For the short film "The Gift of the Magi", I have to say that O. Henry's short story is really great. The key is that the text alone is actually very visual.
Literature itself is narrative, and the use of narrative perspective plays a big role in it.
Most of the scene descriptions and psychological descriptions in "The Gift of the Magi" use the third-person omniscient perspective.
In fact, this is similar to the shooting lens of a movie, because most of the time the lens language is actually shot from a third perspective.
In this way, the third person is also used the most, because the third person naturally allows readers or viewers to bring their own perspective.
What impressed Li Yi most was that the narrative structure of this game was very interesting in itself, especially the scene in which Della was counting money, in which this perspective was used to narrate the story.
Secondly, the conversion of perspective is used. It is also similar to the director's lens switching. While using the omniscient perspective, he selectively switches to the third-person limited perspective, that is, using the character's perspective or vision to narrate in order to make up for the omniscient perspective to describe Jim's return home. The final reaction!
Just like when readers read, they will know everything in advance, but the people in the story do not know.
There is a passage in it that is particularly interesting:
"Jim stood in the doorway of the house. His eyes were fixed on Della. His expression was incomprehensible to her and made her hair stand on end. It was neither anger nor surprise nor dissatisfaction nor disgust. It was not an expression she had expected at all. .”
All these narratives are from Della's limited perspective. They only describe Della's personal feelings and uneasiness. Why Jim reacted like this is unknown to Della and the readers. At the end, the author also used this limited perspective to create suspense. When Jim saw the watch chain Della bought for him, he had no reaction and just smiled, so that as readers, we don't know why Jim reacted like this.
But it is easier to do this when shooting it with a camera!
