The camera slowly moved out of the village, and the dog barking became stronger and stronger. The Cannes Film Palace is equipped with a holographic sound system, and the audience clearly felt that the dog was four or five meters away from the left of the camera. As long as the camera moves to the left, everyone can see the dog. But at this moment, the camera suddenly stopped.

The camera switches, close-up shots, Li Xuejian's face with a ravine appearance on the big screen. He looks straight ahead, without any sadness or joy, and looks a bit like the old farmer in Luo Zhongli's oil painting "Father".

Panoramic shot, an altar is arranged in the open space at the entrance of the village, Li Xuejian stood in the center of the altar, and hundreds of villagers stood below the stage, both men, women, young and old.

The camera switches quickly, the incense table is filled with smoke, and all the offerings of melons and fruits are available; two water tanks are painted with Dragon King, and the tank is filled with water; a black dog tied firmly with a rope is still screaming.

In the close-up shot, Li Xuejian shouted in a desolate voice: "Dragon Prince, show your spirit! Dragon Prince, show your spirit! Dragon Prince, show your mercy and make some rain!"

After reciting the tribute, Li Xuejian raised his hands with his hands, his palms facing the sky, and shouted loudly: "Kneel down!" After that, he took the lead in kneeling on the ground, with men, women, young and old crawling on the ground behind him. At first glance, he looked like a scattered area, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

"Kowtow!" Li Xuejian shouted, leaned down, pressed his hands on the ground, and knocked his head to the ground. The villagers behind him all bent down, bowing down, and bowing their heads, extremely pious.

"Two kowtows! Three kowtows..."

After kneeling down, the black dog was led to the altar and tied between two water tanks with a rope. Li Xuejian looked at the sun above his head, and then said to the black dog: "If you are thirsty, drink it, eat it when you are hungry, and yell at the sun when you are neither hungry nor thirsty. As long as you bite the sun and the rain falls, you will be released!"

The black dog seemed to understand Li Xuejian's words, and the dog's head was tilted to the sky and barked one after another.

As the black dog barked violently, the camera slowly shook to the sky. There was no cloud in the blue sky, and there was no trace of clouds. The vicious sun was spraying violent flames, trying to roast the whole world through. Then, four blood-red words "Scarlet sun" appeared in front of the audience, and then the names of the main creators appeared one after another.

Jia Zhangke let out a sigh of relief. He liked to shoot the real life of the people at the bottom of society and had also filmed rural themes, but he knew that if he was asked to shoot this story, he would definitely not be able to shoot this level, and he would not be able to shoot the demeanor of the Emperor Queen.

There is a movie in the history of Chinese film that has made this kind of demeanor, that is, the masterpiece "Loessland" completed by Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou. To make such a movie, the director must not only have superb skills, but also have enough mind and demeanor.

Sofia Coppola remembers Roger Ibert said in "The Great Movie" that the word epic refers not to a big cost, big production, but big ideas and big vision; "The Scarlet Sun" is an epic movie with big ideas and big vision. Her father should be able to shoot such a movie when she was young, but she could not shoot it no matter what.

After the subtitles, the camera slowly shook down from the sky, with a large panoramic view. Li Xuejian was walking towards the entrance of the village on the street with his hands behind his back.

Wang Luodan walked towards him with water. When she saw Li Xuejian, she put down the bucket and asked, "Zheng Ye, what's going on this year? In previous years, as long as the dog barked for three or five days, at most seven days, the sun would bark, and it would be windy, rainy or cloudy. But this year it has been half a month, and there is no sign at all."

Li Xuejian looked up at the sun above his head and sighed: "I'm afraid this rain won't fall!"

Li Xuejian walked out of the village and came to the altar. He found two tanks of water that were sun-dried by dogs. One tank was dried, and the other saw the bottom. When he looked at the black dog, his hair was curled up and he completely collapsed on the ground. Seeing that the dog was pitiful, Li Xuejian untied the rope tied to the dog, and sighed and said, "You go, it won't rain."

The dog struggled to get up, walked forward a few steps, and suddenly hit the wall. The audience was startled, and a scream rang out at the scene. The dog turned around and rang into the tree again. The audience exclaimed again. The audience didn't understand what was going on, and they all felt that the dog was crazy. The ancestor on the screen didn't understand, and went over to pull the dog's ears, wanting to see what was going on.

Close-up, the dog's eyes were melted by the sun, leaving only two dry wells under its forehead.

The audience was shocked. Some female audience even covered their eyes and couldn't bear to go and see them.

Li Xuejian looked at the sun in the sky and murmured: "This dog's sun is so poisonous, it has sunlighted the dog's eyes!" He looked down at the blind dog lying on the ground and said: "You said how you live in the future? Why don't you be a companion with me!"

In the close-up, the blind dog seemed to understand, whimpering, tears rolled down his blind eyes. It stretched out its tongue to lick Xianye's hand, as if expressing gratitude.

The softest part deep in the audience was hit. What a smart and sensible dog, it was so pitiful!

Li Xuejian touched the blind dog's head and asked it to go home with him, but the blind dog took two steps and collapsed on the ground again. Li Xuejian sighed, went back to the village to fetch some water for the blind dog, and brought some food.

Li Xuejian was feeding blind dogs, but suddenly he heard someone shouting something. When he heard it, someone was shouting "The clouds are coming." He looked up at the horizon, and a large dark cloud was floating towards this side.

In a close-up, someone was beating the gong "dang" and the panoramic view, a man on the village street beating the gong and shouting loudly: "Sow it's time to plant autumn! Planting autumn! God let us plant autumn!" A group of children also shouted: "Sow it's time to plant autumn! Planting autumn!"

The elderly in the village call, children call, men call, women call, and villagers gather on the village streets like rivers, flowing from east to west, then from west to east, and then from the village to the ridges. The villagers take out the stored seeds, plant them in the soil, and wait for God to rain.

Only three days later, the dark clouds dissipated, and the scorching sun was burning on the ridge as hot as ever. The villagers realized that the drought would continue and the rain could not fall, so they began to discuss escaping famine. Xianye is the oldest old man in the village, and everyone wants to listen to his opinions. Xianye said to go east, Xuzhou is the east, and it will be there for thirty or fifty days, and people live a good life there.

The villagers packed up their bags and prepared to escape from the famine, and Xianye also packed up their bags. On the morning of leaving, the villagers gathered in the village; and Xianye thought of looking at his own land, and he knew that he might not be able to come back after he went there.

On the screen, Li Xuejian came to the soil and looked around. The ground was yellow and there was no trace of green. He took a few steps and suddenly stopped, with a look of shock on his face. On the dry ground, a touch of green was particularly eye-catching. It was a corn seedling that had just broken through the ground, tender and green, just like a baby who had just been born.

Li Xuejian squatted in front of the corn seedlings and said softly: "We are all going to escape from the famine, why did you grow? We are leaving, what should you do?"

The camera switches, a close-up, Wang Luodan's half of her face under the strong sunlight. She stared blankly at the front, her forehead was covered with fine sweat beads, and her hair was pressed against her scalp, which was wet. The sweat beads slowly gathered together and turned into a large drop of sweat, slowly slid down from her forehead along her cheeks, and finally disappeared under the camera.

The camera is filled with various sounds, the cry of children, the screams of poultry, and the sounds of people talking, in a mess.

Someone asked, "Isn't you really going with us?"

"He is too old and doesn't want to die in a foreign land!"

"But if he doesn't leave, he will die!"

"He said, it's all dead anyway, I'd rather die at home."

The camera slowly pulled back, and the camera turned into a panoramic view. Behind Wang Luodan were villagers who fled the famine, some of whom were supporting the elderly and carrying bags, some were pushing wheelbarrows, some were dragged by their parents; there were also pregnant women with big belly in the crowd, struggling, and everyone's eyes looked helpless and confused...

The lens rises into the air and pushes it towards the village at a 45-degree angle. A typical diagonal composition can enhance the depth of the picture. The camera slowly passes through the crowds of people fleeing famine, penetrates the empty path, and passes through the empty village...

As the camera went on, Li Xuejian and the blind dog appeared on the screen. Li Xuejian walked forward slowly with his hands behind his back. There was no green at all in the mountains and ridges, and the whole world was full of dry colors. Li Xuejian walked into the land, squatted down, and looked at the tender corn seedlings.

The camera slowly pushed over, and in the end, only half of Li Xuejian's face was left in the camera. Like Wang Luodan, his forehead was covered with sweat, and his wet hair was pressed on his scalp. The difference was that his eyes were extremely firm and flashed with hopeful light.

There are many art film directors present today, many of whom like to use long shots, and the level is extremely high, such as Ceylon. But after watching Zhang Ran’s long shot, the directors present were extremely impressed. This was the first time they saw a long shot with this symmetrical structure. Even Godard praised: "This shot is really beyond imagination!"

Jia Zhangke also admired this shot very much, but what he admired the most was not the symmetrical structure, but Zhang Ran's accurate grasp of the audience's psychological rhythm.

This long shot went from passing the fugitive crowd to Xianye’s appearance, with more than 0 seconds of empty shots, empty mountain roads, empty villages. The long shot would have slowed down the pace of the movie and made people feel procrastinated. With such an empty shot, it should make people feel procrastinated and boring. However, when Jia Zhangke watched it, he did not feel any procrastination.

The reason why this effect was achieved was that when the scene started, the conversation between several people told Xianye to give up escaping famine and stayed. The audience wanted to know where Xianye was and what they were doing now, which created suspense. When the audience looked at this scene with suspense, they would look for Xianye in the camera, so naturally they would not feel delayed.

The movie continues, jumps and cuts, and the big panorama. The entire shot is almost filled with mountains. Only a small part of the upper part of the screen reveals the sky. The Xianye and the blind dog on the hillside are so small that they may disappear at any time. Everyone has left, and this village and this mountain range, there is only an old man and a blind dog.

The huge feeling of loneliness was like a rock hitting the audience's heart, and the silence and desolation were eating the audience's heart. Almost everyone was thinking that the villagers had left, and there was another drought. An old man and a dog, how could they live!

The camera switched, and the panoramic view. With a few dog barking, the blind dog ran out from the place where the world was connected. Then, Li Xuejian also walked out slowly. His figure had lost a lot, but his eyes were as firm as ever.

In the close-up, Li Xuejian seemed to have seen something and had a smile on his face. The camera switched, Li Xuejian's subjective shot, in the center of the ground, the corn seedling has grown to the height of chopsticks, and is as green as a spurt of water in the reddish-brown sunlight.

The camera cut back, Li Xuejian turned his head and asked the blind dog: "Did you see it? It's so fragrant, you can smell the fresh and tender seedlings of water for ten miles and eight miles!" The blind dog raised his head at Li Xuejian, rubbed his legs, and ran towards the corn seedlings without saying a word.

Li Xuejian took off his white cloth shirt, kneaded it into a ball, applied it on his face, put it under his armpit, and walked to the corn seedlings. He squatted on the ground and looked at the corn seedlings, with a glimmer of loving eyes, as if he was looking at his children and grandchildren.
Chapter completed!