Director’s Legend

When commemorating the death of Michael Jackson on the scarf, Shao Shuaijun felt that his mood became depressed as MJ passed away. As a young man, Shao Shuaijun gradually grew up amidst MJ's singing and charming moonwalks.

When Shao Shuaijun was young, it was the most glorious era of MJ. When Shao Shuaijun grew up a little, the myth worship of MJ began to rise in China. How many young people have been popularized by spacewalking, and how many people have been influenced to grind the soles of their shoes day and night, just to look handsome in front of girls.

There is also the crotch-grabbing movement that many girls call "nasty". Seeing girls swaying, wanting to look but not daring to look, don't mention how proud they are.

For Shao Shuaijun, for many people who are gradually growing into adults, mj is synonymous with the age of youth.

Today, the memory of an era has fallen.

Even though he was not a fan of MJ and knew about MJ's death in his previous life, he still felt very heavy in his heart.

At night, Shao Shuaijun read and re-read the script of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" in his study. This is the movie he plans to direct after the end of "Pounding Heart". "Teddy" and "The Hunger Games" are already behind him. However, now Shao Shuaijun suddenly lost his passion.

After a long time, Shao Shuaijun closed the script and called Louis Renard. With Mitchell Bruce getting more and more involved in the company's operations, Louis Reiner has replaced him as a producer and has been confirmed as the casting director for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".

"Hello, Louis. I'm Shao Shuaijun. Have you handed over your actor invitation plan to the actor union?"

"Not yet, what's the matter Shao?"

"In this way, I don't want to submit the plan for the time being. I have decided to postpone the shooting of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". I may have other plans now."

"Do you want to change the script for filming?"

"Yeah, but maybe I won't be shooting a movie in Hollywood. If there is no accident, I will go back to China to shoot a movie."

"Back to China? Shao, why don't you shoot in Hollywood, this is the center of global movies. You should shoot movies here." Louis asked puzzled.

"Hehe. Suddenly I'm not in the mood, and I want to go back. Louis, it's getting late, let's just say that. You make preparations first. I may come back to film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" in a few months."

hang up the phone. Shao Shuaijun rubbed his forehead.

mj passed away. The movie "Old Boy", which he had decided on a long time ago, is also time to shoot. Shao Shuaijun wanted to shoot this movie very early to commemorate his lost youth. Just because of some concerns. Delayed so far. Now that MJ has left, Shao Shuaijun finally decided to complete this tribute to his dream.

Now that the decision has been made, Shao Shuaijun no longer hesitates.

The next day, I rushed back to the country with Li Xiuxiu. After returning to the Dream Chasing Apartment, I immediately dug out the outline of the "Old Boy" script that had been sealed for more than a year.

"Husband, is this "Old Boy" the story related to the song you wrote in "The Voice of China" back then?" Flipping through the outline of the script, Li Xiuxiu asked.

Shao Shuaijun nodded: "Yes, there are some stories that have been buried in my heart for a long time, and I want to tell them."

"Old Boy" is a micro-movie inspired by the song of the same name by Chopsticks Brothers. It is called "Old Boy" of Eleven Degrees of Youth. microfilm. One of the hottest ones is "Old Boy".

The film tells the story of two ordinary older youths, participating in the talent show, and rediscovering their youthful past. Xiao Dabao, one of the male protagonists, was a gangster in middle school. He had bullied many classmates including Wang Xiaoshuai, one of the male protagonists, and Bao Xiaobai, the future oss.

In the process of fighting off-campus gangsters, Xiao Dabao and Wang Xiaoshuai became good friends out of their mutual love for Michael Jackson, practicing singing and dancing together. After many years, one of the two unsuccessful careers became a wedding host and the other a hairdresser.

Life is unsatisfactory, and for the bonus, they will regain their dreams of the year. The two participated in Bao Xiaobai's program "Happy Boys" who has become a producer, trying to regain their youth.

Because it is a micro-movie, it is only 42 minutes long, and the content is not explained much, but a song at the end, coupled with the expressions of countless people who are not satisfied with their lives watching the show, still infected countless people. The number of official on-demand broadcasts on Youku.com alone reached 88.98 million times.

With a unique black humor, the film mocks and remembers the lost youth, which goes straight to the heart.

The only downside is that due to the constraints of the production cost and length of the microfilm, the scenes are simple, the make-up is not good, the acting skills of the actors are a bit exaggerated, and many plots end in a hurry without any development. I have to say this is a pity. If Shao Shuaijun wants to make it into a movie, he needs to repackage this story into a real movie.

Since returning home, Shao Shuaijun couldn't wait to devote himself to the transformation of the movie, lighting up the night battle.

Li Xiuxiu came several times to urge Shao Shuaijun to rest, but Shao Shuaijun said it was good, but did not take any action. The story about youth springs up at this moment, and he urgently wants to capture these inspirations and create a youth movie that can touch the soul.

Finally, after a week of hard work, the script of "Old Boy" was completed.

The story takes place in this era. On the talent show stage, the wedding host Xiao Dabao and the barber Wang Xiaoshuai are standing on the stage together, preparing to perform. Among the merciless questions from the judges, "What do you do for work?", "How old are you?", "Do you know that you look old?", "Do you think you will be popular?" Among the embarrassing questions, the two recalled the past.

In middle school, Xiao Dabao was the leader of the gangsters in the school, and Wang Xiaoshuai was an admirer of Michael Jackson. Both of them liked the school belle. Xiao Dabao often takes pleasure in bullying other classmates, and at the same time, he often brings a group of cronies, such as Bao Xiaobai, to stop the school belle on the way, playing the guitar and singing, hoping to attract the school belle's attention, but Luo Hua is often ruthless .

Once Wang Xiaoshuai was teaching MJ to dance and be handsome on the playground, and the girls clapped around Wang Xiaoshuai. Xiao Dabao asked Bao Xiaobai to push the garbage truck and quietly passed by. Then Xiao Dabao was very angry when he saw Xiaohua talking and laughing with Wang Xiaoshuai. In fact, the school belle is just sending a tape of MJ to Wang Xiaoshuai, her crush, for her classmate Fat Girl.

The next day Xiao Dabao led someone to arrest Wang Xiaoshuai, and took off his pants in front of the girls, especially Xiaohua. The humiliated Wang Xiaoshuai was in agony, so he could only continue to imitate MJ to relieve his depression. And Xiao Dabao continued to bully his classmates, continued to show love to the school belle, and showed his heroism by bullying Bao Xiaobai and others, but all ended in failure.

Xiao Dabao, who knew Xiao Hua didn't like him, threw away the guitar.

Later, once a gangster outside the school heard that Xiao Dabao was abusive, so he took someone to beat up Xiao Dabao and Xiao Dabao's friends. Since then, Wang Xiaoshuai and Xiao Dabao have become good friends.

The two often play together, singing MJ's songs and dancing MJ's dances together, gradually attracting the attention of girls, and the school belle also favors them. Later, the two decided to perform MJ's classics together at the school's New Year's Eve party. As soon as the two of them appeared on stage, they were warmly welcomed by the girls, and the school beauties especially cheered vigorously.

Unexpectedly, Bao Xiaobai, who was holding a grudge, also had a crush on the school belle. Seeing the school belle cheering for the two of them, he turned evil and cut off the school's electricity. The only chance to show off was gone like this.

Many years later, Xiao Dabao became the host of wedding celebrations. He often failed to receive events because of poor hosts, and lived in poverty. On the other hand, Wang Xiaoshuai married the fat girl who had a crush on him, and ran a small barber shop, and his life was equally difficult.

Once on the way from get off work, Xiao Dabao was distracted when he heard the news of MJ's death, and crashed a Mercedes-Benz. It turned out that the owner of the car turned out to be Bao Xiaobai, who was often bullied by him back then, and became the producer and judge of the popular talent show "China's Good Boy". What's more, Xiaohua married Bao Xiaobai.

The life with Bao Xiaobai is not satisfactory, Xiaohua feels that she is a canary in a cage, and Bao Xiaobai often goes out to fool around and socialize. So when the old classmates met, the school belle was very enthusiastic. When Xiao Dabao and Wang Xiaoshuai learned that their lives were unsatisfactory, Xiaohua asked Bao Xiaobai to let them participate in the draft after returning home.

And let Bao Xiaobai promise to let them enter the top ten and get a bonus of 50,000 yuan.

"China's Good Boy" is a talent show, which is divided into auditions and semi-finals. There is no audience in the auditions, and the semi-finals are broadcast live on TV. If you enter the top ten in the competition area, you can get a bonus of 50,000 yuan.

Bao Xiaobai still vividly remembers the past more than ten years ago, and he doesn't like the school girl's enthusiasm for them, so he agrees on the surface, and secretly decides to let the judges pass the audition for the two, and then shame them when they are on TV. , and eventually eliminated. At the same time, they told the two that as long as original songs are used in the semi-finals, there is a great possibility to impress the judges and successfully advance.

Xiao Dabao, who didn't know it, actively urged Wang Xiaoshuai to form a team to participate. But the fat girl disagreed, feeling that the two of them were not of a good enough standard, and it would be embarrassing to go up. Therefore, Wang Xiaoshuai did not agree, and Xiao Dabao returned disappointed. But at night, Wang Xiaoshuai had something on his mind and couldn't sleep, so he quietly got up to practice dancing.

After the fat girl got up at night, she found out that her husband was so eager to perform. She relented and agreed to form a team with Wang Xiaoshuai and Xiao Dabao to participate in the draft. The two left their jobs to concentrate on dancing and singing, and wrote an original song, hoping to be included in the top ten in the region.

The audition passed smoothly.

It was finally going to be broadcast live on TV, and the audience was all watching the contestants born in the 90s, and no one welcomed the two old boys. Only the fat girl cheered for the two of them in the audience, and kept calling her old classmates to watch TV.

Then, back to the competition scene, the judges followed Bao Xiaobai's instructions and humiliated the two of them.

The two who were humiliated sang this original song "Old Boy" with the last sliver of dreams... (to be continued...)