In the bedroom, Li Yunshu and her boyfriend stared blankly at the curly font title for a while before they realized that the video was no longer playing and that the protagonist's story had come to an end.
"Wow……"
Li Yunshu was filled with emotion for a moment, but could not express his specific feelings.
"In the end, the plot actually looped back to the beginning, so it was so coherent."
The boyfriend sighed, reached for the remote control, and called up the progress bar again, "What? Eleven minutes?!"
It’s actually so long!
Isn't this a commercial?
"No wonder it feels like so long." Li Yunshu still had a dull expression on his face, "No, not only because of the length, but also because of the large amount of information in the content, and the characters in it spanned decades. After reading it from beginning to end, it feels like...like..."
She spoke very slowly at first, and then slowly returned to normal as she regained her ability to think.
"What does it look like?" the boyfriend asked.
"Yeah, that's the word -" Li Yunshu scratched his head, "Ah, I thought of it, Huangliang Yimeng!"
The boyfriend had an epiphany: "It's true!"
At the beginning, the protagonist walked into a dusty warehouse, and because of a pocket watch, he started a time and space journey. During this period, he traveled to various periods and experienced all kinds of life. Finally, he opened his eyes in the same place, as if nothing had happened, and as if nothing had happened. After years of vicissitudes of life, the protagonist wakes up from a dream, and becomes deeply aware of the charm of antiques and antiquities, and becomes a collector. From then on, he is committed to sharing the history, culture and precious feelings between people with the world.
Very clear and easy to understand theme.
"Compared to an advertisement, it's just like a movie!" Li Yunshu calmed down and became more and more excited as he spoke, "It's also a beautiful science fiction micro-movie with lots of fashion elements!"
My boyfriend deeply agreed: "The transitions and special effects are really amazing, and the music is also amazing. It's like a work of art... Huh?"
While he was speaking, he accidentally touched the button of the remote control, a familiar piano sound came, and a commercial played again on the projection screen.
"Watch it again!" Li Yunshu grabbed the snacks excitedly.
The boyfriend had no objection, and the two started watching from the beginning again, looking forward to the blond and blue-eyed protagonist's amazing time and space drag show.
However, this time the content was different. When the protagonist changed into the final tuxedo, the Vintage title appeared in the center of the screen, as if it was the end.
Li Yunshu and her boyfriend were both stunned. This time, it was the boyfriend who reacted first:
“So this is the design!”
He clicked on the playlist, and sure enough, when he had just watched the full version of the micro-movie, the official resource area at home had been updated with some shorter clips, forming a collection of Vintage endorsement ads.
"In other words, this commercial, when viewed together, is a movie with a clear plot, but when taken apart, it is a series of vintage commercial short films - as expected, these are only about one or two minutes long, which is what we usually watch. That kind of advertising!"
My boyfriend clicked through the videos in the collection one by one.
"Wow, what is this about killing two birds with one stone... killing two birds with one stone?"
Li Yunshu joked to himself, "Good guy, it's like a stone hitting a flock of birds!"
Continue to play the next video, the duration and ending are still the same, the gentleman in tuxedo and the girl with freckles look at each other affectionately from a distance, the title of Vintage appears, and a series of words starting with RE flicker and change, telling the audience that instead of "revisiting, reminiscing, returning, "Reminiscence", what the Vintage brand values most is "reappearance".
Feel it, recall it, rather than become it, let yourself be the carrier and inheritor to reappear the classics.
Just watching this short video, it is exactly the style and atmosphere that a high-end brand should have, and it is very successful as an advertisement.
The two of them watched it several times.
"Tsk, this structure is so beautiful. It starts with a pocket watch and a silky dress show. Even if there is no plot behind it, it can still make people dazzled——"
"BGM is an important dividing line, and a song is a short story. For example, in the case of Tuxedo Gentleman and Little Freckled Girl, the product is obviously perfume!" Li Yunshu answered knowingly, "A bottle of perfume lasts for a long time, which makes life in modern times People can feel the retro time from the taste, and looking at each other from the distance is really beautiful!"
"The horse riding that follows is even more amazing. Audiences who have watched the eleven-minute full version will know that this is a girl with freckles who bought perfume and was attracted by the riding clothes when she was about to walk out the door. But it doesn't matter if you haven't seen the previous part. Because the heroine looked at the vintage doll and touched her grandma’s doll, and the ins and outs of the murder were clearly explained in one flashback. The moment the scene between the doll pony’s head and the real horse’s head changed, I got goosebumps!”
"Yes, ah, ah, I just discovered that the person riding the horse must be the heroine's grandmother, right? Wow, this sense of time... When the child is young, he only thinks the doll is cute, but when he grows up and sees the real Only then did I realize that maybe my grandma was wearing such handsome clothes and riding such a handsome horse, so heroic and high-spirited!"
"Then grandma's hat was blown away, and the ribbon on the hat turned into a red-haired woman's hair tie? A hair tie? Anyway, she used it to tie her hair--"
"It's a hair tie. I think this may be to express that an item had one purpose in that era, but it had a new use in later eras?"
"It makes sense. Just like the diaries of many literary masters, they were just diaries in their time, but many years later, in our view, these are the wealth left by the masters, the life stories they narrated, the emotions and thoughts they expressed, and Authentic handwriting and so on are of immeasurable value.”
"It's true... Ah, I'm going too far. The red-haired lady with the headband and the gentleman in the suit who proposed to her are the grandparents of the blond male protagonist in the back. I didn't understand this before. Fortunately, the male and female protagonists got married at the end. The memories are solid - wow, no, it’s so confusing to talk about. The male protagonists who hold the pocket watch and get married are both played by Brother Jue, and they both have blond hair and blue eyes..."
"How about a name to distinguish it? The one played by Brother Jue is called, uh, the protagonist. After that, the guy playing with the radio is called the male protagonist. He is one of the many dreams that the protagonist has in his life."
"Okay! So it looks like it's a plot within a plot. When the protagonist travels through time and space, the 'possessed' male protagonist also travels through time and space."
"It's like this. But although it's very confusing when talking about it, it's quite clear when you look at it in the micro-movie. Even if the process is very confusing, you can understand it when you think about it after watching it all. I didn't pay attention to who the director was just now, but he is so good at filming. "
"Yeah. That's... the male protagonist's grandparents proposed and danced in the hall. Then... Oh! No wonder!!"
Li Yunshu clapped his hands vigorously, "Do you still remember that transition? The two dancing people were frozen into old photos and appeared on the photo wall. Then the male protagonist sat on the ground in front of the photo wall and played with that one. Well, that doesn't seem to be the case. Radio, I remember when I was little, my dad would use it to listen to English tapes... What’s its scientific name?”
The two young men looked at each other, and finally the boyfriend came up with the answer after taking pictures and reading the pictures:
"Walkman, pretty old stuff."
"Oh——" Li Yunshu said with a look on his face, "Increased trivia.jpg", "Uh-huh, this interruption made me forget what I just analyzed."
"Old photos." My boyfriend reminded me.
"Oh yes!" Li Yunshu was excited again, "Looking back now, why did the scene change to an old photo? This implies that the couple and the male protagonist are related. Otherwise, how could their photos appear on the wall of the male protagonist's room? What? Damn it, at the time I naively thought it was just a transitional tactic, but I didn’t expect it to be a foreshadowing!"
"No, this director is really clever." The boyfriend said and looked at the production information, "Greyson...Greyson?"
"Hey!" Li Yunshu couldn't laugh or cry at his cleverness.
"Ahem, it should be Grayson, right?" The boyfriend stopped laughing, "His plot is a within-a-thread story. The protagonist travels through time because of a pocket watch, and the male protagonist is almost the same, because he travels through time because of a retro Walkman."
"It's not so much time travel as it is being played with by time." Li Yunshu said with a chuckle, "It's really interesting to change the clothes of the confused face and change into a boy and a girl!"
"After that...did he go to a disco nightclub? A nightclub of that era."
Li Yunshu nodded repeatedly: "Then I met the heroine in the nightclub! Ah, but the freckled girl from before can also be regarded as the heroine... Then this red-haired one can be called the male lead."
She suddenly had an idea, "Oh, there's another cunning design here. Because the actors with red hair and green eyes are all played by the same actor, so I was confused at first, but later I learned that it was a man. After the protagonist’s grandparents, the plot was connected again! It was precisely because the hero’s girlfriend and grandma looked so similar that the grandfather took out the wedding dress that his grandma wore in nostalgia.”
"Hiss, that's right. I haven't thought of this level yet." The boyfriend suddenly realized.
“In the nightclub, the male and female protagonists even got to know each other in modern times!”
Li Yunshu's thinking became clearer, "Both the official wife and the male protagonist seem to have experienced traveling through time and space. In other words, they actually knew each other when they traveled to the nightclub of the previous era! So there was 'Past Life', and then The moment they recognized each other as time travelers through the pendant in the present day, the two immediately fell in love again.”
"Beef beer."
The boyfriend applauded sincerely, not only for his girlfriend's analysis, but also for the director's originality and Qin Jue's performance.
"Wait a minute, there is a subplot in the middle." He suddenly thought, "The male protagonist had dinner with the lady in the gorgeous dress."
"I'm thinking about this too. From this point of view, it can only be explained that it is the male protagonist of a certain life."
Li Yunshu hesitated, "Or are they ancestors from decades or even centuries ago? Well, it's not impossible..."
"The main feeling behind the pendant is that both the male protagonist and the official partner can walk in the flow of time. It's just that Brother Jue is the main spokesperson of Vintage, so his role is the focus, while the official partner's role is... For example, she also had a candlelight dinner with herself who was a man a long time ago. These exist in the background and logic of the story, but they were just not filmed for us to see."
"Hmm... quite reasonable." The boyfriend nodded slowly while understanding, and then found evidence, "I think it's a reincarnation, not an ancestor. Because the gentleman in the tuxedo and the girl with freckles looked exactly the same, maybe they were the same at that time. Behind the hint?”
"Yes!!" Li Yunshu stood up and said, "I almost forgot about this!"
"Then there is also a back-and-forth echo here. In the front are men from the old era and girls from the new era, and behind are women from the old era and boys from the new era. Wow!"
"Wonderful -" the boyfriend made an intoxicated voice after savoring it carefully.
"After dinner between the retro lady and the modern male protagonist, the male protagonist returns to modern times, and the complete plot of this set-within-a-set is over. The whole line is probably...
"The male protagonist first started a space-time journey because of the Walkman, and then because he entered for the first time? His ability was unstable? In short, he was played with time and disguised.
"Then, he finally traveled to an era permanently, which was the nightclub and dance hall, where he stayed steadily and met his official match who could also travel through time.
"And then, he, who was a lady in his previous life, summoned himself to have dinner with him, and after the meal, he was sent back to the original modern world?"
Li Yunshu pondered his thoughts, "Why do I suddenly feel that that lady is so powerful? She seems to be some kind of powerful person who has mastered the Tao..."
"This short film is only eleven minutes long, so why are there so many foreshadowings and character settings?!" She scratched her hair wildly in pain and joy.
The boyfriend smiled and took Li Yunshu's hand and put it in his palm:
"Ignore this for now. After returning to modern times, when the male protagonist meets, dates, and gets married to his official wife, do you think he will become 'improved' in the future? It's the part where he played the piano at the wedding. He calmly Second cross-dressing——"
"The second time?" Li Yunshu questioned.
"Yes, although it is already the third time for the actor Jue Ge, let's put the protagonist aside first, not counting his first catwalk. The male protagonist only has two times, one is a walkman, he is flustered and unskilled, The next time was a wedding, calm, elegant and masterful in constantly changing eras and costumes, and this time there were no women's clothes, which I think may be proof of his mastery."
"Wow... dear, new idea!" Li Yunshu gave a thumbs up.
"Then I thought about it, well... the scenes where the male protagonist changed clothes turned into bubbles, which should mean that the male protagonist's life is completely complete, so one of the protagonist's 'yellow dreams' has also awakened. He is in Open your eyes in the warehouse.”
"It makes sense, it totally makes sense!" Li Yunshu chirped to her boyfriend, "We are so awesome!"
The boyfriend came over to her with a smile and asked for a kiss. The two of them looked at each other for a while, and then Li Yunshu suddenly said:
"By the way, Brother Jue actually wore women's clothing..."
The plot was so exciting and the pictures were so beautiful that she had just forgotten such explosive news.
"Don't tell me, I didn't recognize it at first sight," said the boyfriend. "It's actually... quite harmonious. It doesn't have that weird feeling of a man dressing up as a woman."
"Maybe this is because good-looking people are good-looking regardless of gender." Li Yunshu sighed with his heart, "Qin Jue, what a great face!"
"But Brother Jue has a pretty big frame, and even the women's clothing isn't very rugged... I even doubted the special effects on the girl with freckles. That long skirt, that waist, and her butt, ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong!"
"Hey." Her boyfriend pinched her cheek.
"Why? You just want beautiful women!" Li Yunshu said confidently, "He's so handsome when he rides a horse! He's so handsome when he wears perfume! Hey, he's so handsome after all!"
"And the sales were a great success! There are so many beautiful styles, so many clothes and jewelry with stories that make me want to buy them too..."
Li Yunshu was crying, his little face was distressed, and a new look appeared on his face.
"Dear, you said..." She looked at her boyfriend with "unkind intentions", "Brother Jue has already dressed up as a woman, and the effect is so good, how about... you...?"
The boyfriend's body trembled.
"Ahem, baby, did our conversation just go off the rails? You see, what we originally said was that this advertising micro-movie is a magical and complex science fiction film when taken together, and it will not affect the advertising if it is taken apart..."
Li Yunshu listened to his boyfriend changing the subject in a panic, and secretly laughed.
"That's right, I started analyzing the plot and foreshadowing while talking."
She stopped teasing him, and followed his words, clasping her fingers and saying, "Let's review it from the beginning. The first song, the protagonist's pocket watch travels through time and space, a cross-dressing show; the second song, a bottle of perfume connects the old and new eras, Past and present life; the third song, pony dolls and riding clothes, time makes people grow old, and kind elders also have their own passionate youth when they are young..."
"The fourth song is about aristocratic love decades ago, noble and elegant; the fifth song is about the changes in gender and clothing in the era of the Walkman, and the characteristics of modern nightclubs; the sixth song is about going back in time to the palace era ?The luxurious and elegant dinner once again opened up the dialogue between the old and new eras..."
"In the seventh song, the male protagonist gets acquainted with his girlfriend because of a piece of vintage jewelry. The grandfather sees his grandson's lover and thinks of his wife, the old couple and the bride and groom... Wow, this paragraph is very touching when viewed independently; the eighth song , the gentle drag show of the wedding piano, like a review of different eras; in the end, the protagonist who came to the warehouse was deeply fascinated by vintage clothes and became a well-known collector."
After Li Yunshu finished speaking, he was filled with emotion.
"Brother Jue! And that unknown teacher Grayson!"
She looked at the paused video on the projection screen and said, "You're so good at filming! You don't want your life!!"
