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Chapter 409: Distinguishing Two Contradictions, Catering to the Gaze of "Hidden in the Dust" (13)

In this plot about the female liar, if the husband did not show up with anyone, it would basically be the original sensational version.

The original version is of hard value.

Whitewash the female scammer, find her humanity and her bright spots.

There are very few, almost no, scammers who encounter difficulties.

Shen Santong used the original plot to reverse the female liar's character, and then made a second reversal and turned it back.

Inspired by "Lost in Thailand".

Xu Guangtou plays a prop master who takes out a prop gun in "Heart Flower" and a police ID in "Lost on Journey".

Guo Jingfei is equivalent to the role of Lei Jiayin.

"Wo Nima" is a tribute to the "Nima" in "Happy Birthday 1".

There are many little easter eggs in this drama that are related to Shen Santong’s previous movies.

The design of the police ID scene, in addition to referring to the prop gun in "Heart Flower", was partly inspired by a short video that Shen Santong had watched.

A thief or robber stopped a car and snatched a man's wallet from the window.

Then he rummaged through his wallet, took it out and saw that it was a policeman.

The expressions are wonderful.

It's a reaction that could be put in an acting textbook.

From being arrogant, to being extremely confused, to being scared and helpless, and finally begging for mercy without tears.

He was watching from the side and following his companions in the robbery. When he found that they had robbed a policeman, he ran away.

The policeman in the car pulled out his gun, and the thief who couldn't escape outside the car window was almost scared to death.

Shen Santong originally wanted to arrange for Li Chenggong to take out a simulated toy gun, which would be more exciting.

But there is a bug in the logic.

"Heart Flower" has a prop gun and drives it by itself.

Li Chenggong took a plane and a train, but he couldn't pass security with his toy gun.

They also considered using toy handcuffs as an alternative to toy guns, but handcuffs cannot be brought on board airplanes either.

Although toy guns and handcuffs were not used in the female con man's line, they still appeared at the beginning of the movie.

Li Chenggong casually put the toys designed by his eccentric employee into his bag. Before boarding the plane, he remembered that he could not take them with him, so he gave them to his subordinates who were seeing him off.

Double preparation.

The first foreshadowing is to put it into the bag at the beginning.

Throwing away the toy gun and handcuffs and leaving only the ID props is the second foreshadowing.

When the female swindler's plot comes to an end, bring back both tails and the overall effect will be better.

At least it's better than the original.

To whitewash those who do bad things and give them the name of goodness not only shields the bad guys, but also insults those who do good things.

Confusing the nature of the matter.

Good or bad, in the end, they all seem the same.

Actually they are different!
The female swindler is not a member of the people, she is a criminal, the opposite.

It is not an internal conflict, but a conflict between the enemy and us.

The same goes for the milk issue, Shen Santong just nodded.

I won’t find any excuses for Sanlu.

They cheated their own people and did not provide any reasonable compensation afterwards.

You deserve to be abandoned.

Don’t blame the enemy for being cruel. If the enemy is not cruel, can he still be called an enemy?

The movie will use fast editing to explain the outcome of the female con man's story.

Li successfully helped Niu Geng get his money back, and also got back the money he had left behind.

Because of the fake certificates, he was criticized and educated, and the certificates produced by the toy factory were confiscated.

The female swindler was put in jail and will have to spend the new year in there.

My husband is fine.

Leave one to look after the children.

After all, it's a movie, and it's released during the Spring Festival. It doesn't feel good to catch everyone.

In fact, Shen Santong thought about exaggerating the child.

The three children cooperated with their scammer mother very tacitly.

The son contacts his father.

After Dad came back, he laughed at Li Chenggong and Niu Geng: "Haha! They believed it! They believed it! Look, sister, they believed it! It's funny!"

Then, they handed the painting to their little daughter, who was also overjoyed: "Brother, they believed it! It's so fun!"

After thinking about it, I gave up.

It's not easy to pass the review.

In reality, children in such families will indeed be distorted, but it is not good to show it.

It's still about the portrayal of adults. After all, it's the Spring Festival period, so just stop there.

Maintaining Shen Santong's consistent film style, it leaves plenty of room for interpretation.

The female liar's family is very cunning.

The male scammer may seem vicious, but he is actually not a criminal.

Even female scammers will not be detained for a long time and will be released after a period of detention.

Even the people in the police station are already familiar with them.

There is no way to deal with this situation.

If you interpret it, you can reveal a lot of things.

Professional con men live a very comfortable life, including the female con man’s husband, Shen Santong, who has a complete character arc.

Only a small portion of it was captured in the movie.

The female con man's plot is just a side plot of this road movie, and it only happens briefly.

Just explain things clearly.

It took two days to finish filming the con man scenes.

Turn to the interior of the bus.

This plot is in the first half of the movie.

The movie time is January 09, 1, the morning of the 24th day of the Chinese New Year.

In the prequel, Li Chenggong and Niu Geng took a train to Guangshui. The train had a problem, so they had to take a bus to Jiangkou.

The original version was that there was a landslide ahead of the railway, everyone got off the train, and Li Chenggong took the bus instead.

The Shen San Tong route has been changed. Due to heavy snow, after the train arrives at Guangshui Station, it must wait for snow removal, emergency repairs and overhaul before it can depart again.

Wait at least one day.

The original train crew did not make any arrangements and left people behind halfway, so everyone got off the train in a hurry, which was not very logical.

In Shen Santong's version of the movie, there will be a scene where the crew refunds the tickets and money to passengers who are unwilling to wait.

After coming out of the train station, Li Chenggong wanted to take a long-distance bus from Guangshui to Changsha.

In the original version, the driver said that if you can’t reach Changsha, you can first take a bus from Guangshui to Jiangkou, and then take a long-distance bus to Changsha.

There is a location bug here, it is not Jiangkou, it should be Hankou.

Jiangkou generally refers to Jiangkou County in the northeast of Guizhou.

Guangshui is located in the northeast of Hubei, 800 kilometers away from Jiangkou.

The journey takes more than ten hours, requires a long-distance bus, and deviates from the final destination, Changsha.

The original version may refer to Sanjiangkou, located in Hankou, HUB Province, where the Han River flows into the Yangtze River.

Shen Santong was changed to Hankou.

In the scene where they take the bus from Guangshui to Hankou, the scenes are still very shabby and dilapidated.

Shen Santong did not change everything.

Guangshui is located in the northeast of GZ Province, and its economic development level is not as high as that of big cities.

The film shows the imbalance between regional development.

Considering that the current voting base is mainly in first- and second-tier cities, it also satisfies the psychological needs of urban audiences.

Audiences in first- and second-tier cities also stare.

The later work "Hidden in the Dust" caters to the gaze of the big city.

It is not a real rural area, but a rural area that satisfies some people’s imagination.

It’s not exactly the same as watching the Eastern-themed films made by fifth and sixth generation directors in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s in the United States and Western Europe, but the mentality is similar.

The academic school has produced a large number of such directors. As the Western economy is in trouble and cannot afford the cost of film production, these directors re-export the films to domestic audiences.

It is actually a market segment.

The production costs are controlled within a few million or tens of millions, and celebrities take a pay cut to join the film.

It is aimed at audiences in one or two cities who have special tastes, have certain moral needs, enjoy an illusory sense of morality, experience the illusory sufferings of the people, and complain without reason.

If you are lucky, you may win awards abroad and earn some copyright money.

The production costs and revenues are covered by the domestic market, and sales abroad amount to pure profit.

It’s just that this kind of subject matter is dangerous.

The fifth and sixth generations cater to the Western perspective, which in itself has an anti-treasonous flavor.

There are some problems with the creative process of this kind of thing, as it is easy to market it in this direction.

Even if the producer just wants to make money and doesn't want to oppose it.

Some forces active in the Chinese Internet will also give it a "yellow robe" to achieve their own KPIs.

Generally speaking, the producer will accept this phenomenon by default.

I think this is also traffic and can promote the movie.

Then it got out of control and was taken off the shelves.

(End of this chapter)