Run, Best Actor!

The "Guo-Gong duo" acted quite quickly. With Liu Tai-le's ample financial support, the two went full steam ahead and quickly assembled the production crew.

Therefore, filming for "The Thinker in a Wheelchair" began in Yanjing at the end of August.

After being edited by Gong Ge'er and Guo Fan, and further polished by Liu Taile, the final draft of "The Thinker in a Wheelchair" has the following general plot:

Wang Xiang was originally a skydiver. During a skydiving accident, his parachute failed to open fully. Fortunately, he managed to get caught on a large tree before landing and survived.

But when he fell, he hit his lumbar spine, resulting in paralysis of his lower limbs, and he will have to use a wheelchair from now on.

This incident caused Wang Xiang to become gloomy, and he usually stayed at home and never went out.

Over time, his family worried that he might develop depression.

In an attempt to cheer him up, his friends Zhang Yong and Li Gan forced him to go out and try all sorts of new and unusual things.

However, these two are clearly best friends who are not on good terms.

For example, three people went to steal watermelons from a melon field, but they ran into the melon farmer. The two good guys ran away, leaving the disabled person there alone to face the melon farmer with a pitchfork...

The three of them went to play soccer, and the two shameless ones made Wang Xiang the goalkeeper...

The three went to the ice rink. Despite Wang Xiang's strong objections, the other two pushed him onto the ice, causing him to fall off...

The three went to a foot massage parlor and hired a pretty female masseuse to massage Wang Xiang's feet. Then they ran into Uncle Hat...

Three other people went to do cosplay. Those two dressed up Wang Xiang as Stephen Hawking and lectured a group of anime fans on theories like time, black holes, and general relativity...

Okay, it's clearly a tribute to the friendship story of Yu Hua and Shi Tiesheng.

It was through various funny and embarrassing stories that Wang Xiang regained his confidence in life.

Later, encouraged by his family and friends, Wang Xiang participated in a wheelchair racing competition for the disabled and won the championship!

A former powerhouse, though his wings have been broken, is still a powerhouse.

Well, that concludes with a simple, heartwarming, and healing story.

But the story is only two-thirds of the way through at this point!

There's still a third of the time left!

It was later revealed that all three were astronomy enthusiasts and enjoyed watching the stars together when they were children.

Wang Xiang became a skydiver because he "wanted to get closer to the stars."

Zhang Yong and Li Gan were still a little afraid that December 21, 2012, was the end of the world.

Later, Wang Xiang, who had regained his cheerful demeanor, comforted the two, saying, "Don't worry, the end of the world is fake, the sun will rise as usual tomorrow!"

That night, Zhang Yong and Li Gan went to sleep early with their families, while Wang Xiang sat by the window, looking at the night sky, and didn't sleep a wink.

The next day, Wang Xiang's two best friends came to visit him to celebrate that the doomsday prophecy was false, only to find that Wang Xiang had suddenly started keeping a snail as a pet.

"It seems to have a special connection with me; it happened to climb onto my window last night."

Wang Xiang explained to his family with a smile.

The two best friends simply thought that Wang Xiang was just adding a new hobby to his life.

After the two left, Wang Xiang's expression suddenly changed, becoming as profound as a god!

The camera zooms in on the snail's two tentacles, slowly enlarging them to reveal a wrecked outer space warship on each of the tentacles!

The pre-Qin dynasty scholar Zhuangzi and his followers wrote in the chapter "Zhuangzi: Zeyang": "There is a country on the left horn of a snail called the Chu clan, and there is a country on the right horn of a snail called the Man clan. They often fight each other for land, leaving tens of thousands of corpses. They chase the defeated enemy and only return after fifteen days."

The story gave rise to the idiom "the conflict between the barbarians and the Chu state".

Zhuangzi, standing on a grand temporal and spatial perspective, sharply satirized those war criminals who disregarded the lives of the people and launched wars to satisfy their own selfish desires.

Zhuangzi transforms the large into the small and the small into the large, and through this dramatic contrast between the large and the small, he intensifies the satirical meaning.

The nation is vast, yet the nation in Zhuangzi's story is so small that it exists on a snail's horn. This nation on a snail's horn fights bloody battles for land, making it clear how insignificant the struggle is. With just a few strokes, Zhuangzi depicts the intensity and cruelty of war—"tens of thousands of corpses lay strewn about."

The metaphor of fighting so fiercely for a piece of land in the horn of a snail is incisive and serves as a wake-up call.

The proverb tells us that history is long, but life is short; the universe is vast, and humans are insignificant. If we trouble ourselves with petty gains, fight for honor and disgrace, lose our true nature as human beings, and lose the joy of being human, then it is as if we have lived in vain.

But the two warships here are Liu Taile's "spoils of war".

At this point, a flashback will be shown, immersing the viewer in a world full of science fiction elements.

Meanwhile, 150 billion light-years away from Earth, in a place currently undetectable by Earth's space telescopes, there are two planets with intelligent life, waging an interstellar war over resources on the other planet.

The laser particle beams from the battle between the two warships spread across a galaxy spanning tens of thousands of light-years.

A laser beam fired from the warship's main gun struck an even more distant target.

There was a wormhole there. The beam of light entered the wormhole, traveled through it for billions of light-years, and came out from the other side of the wormhole.

The other side of the wormhole is the Milky Way, and the final destination of this laser beam is Earth on the night of December 21, 2012!

This is the origin of the 2012 doomsday prophecy.

Wang Xiang is a true genius, a top-tier academic achiever.

He loved observing stars since he was a child, and from the various data he observed, he discerned the truth behind the doomsday crisis.

He then found inspiration in the novel "The Three-Body Problem".

Using the materials he could find, he created a "super mirror".

Yes, he's an amateur scientist.

The theories he presented when cosplaying Stephen Hawking were all correct.

That skydive wasn't actually an accident; Wang Xiang launched this "super mirror" into the air.

The bad news is that the "Super Mirror" shattered into tiny powder.

Good news! The mirror reflection worked, reflecting the laser beam directly back through the wormhole.

Return to that battlefield and detonate both sides' warships simultaneously.

The wreckage of the two warships arrived here through a wormhole. Under the influence of various force fields, they became extremely small and drifted down onto Wang Xiang's window.

At that moment, there happened to be a snail near his window.

And so, the two warships, as white as dust, landed on the snail's two tentacles.

Every bite and sip seems preordained.

At the end of the short film, Wang Xiang looked up at the sky once again, his eyes deep and a mysterious smile on his lips.

……

Clearly, Gong Ge'er has a truly wild imagination.

Guo Fan is also a "madman," or perhaps he wants to use this short film to realize his "science fiction dream," adding all sorts of ideas into it.

Liu Taile now only hopes that his investment will be useful.

"Brother Le, I've heard so much about you! It's a pleasure to meet you!"

Xiao Yang and Wang Taili shook hands with Liu Taile with big smiles on their faces.

"It's a pleasure to work with you."

Liu Taile responded with a smile, "I also thank you both for being willing to star in this short film."

Yes, the Chopstick Brothers were found by Guo Fan and will play the roles of Zhang Yong and Li Gan in the short film.