Chapter 15 The Story of the Brain in a Vat
The first group of Beijing Film Academy's second test takes about an hour. The examiners will ask some questions to the candidates to briefly understand whether the candidates have certain potential. On average, each candidate will have about five minutes.
Although the examiners worked hard to maintain their serious and restrained masks, the other candidates in the audience discovered their appreciation for the boy interviewing now.
Five minutes have passed, and the bearded examiner on the stage, Hou Keming, asked another question.
"Give you the keyword 'coffin', and you will create a short story."
As soon as the examiner finished speaking, the candidates below were in a panic. With indescribable envy and jealousy, they were more worried and afraid of the examiner.
No wonder the teacher in the training class said that Beijing Film Academy will also eliminate two-thirds of the candidates in the second exam. The difficulty of this problem is a multiple test of the candidates' reaction ability, knowledge, pulling pieces, and language organization ability.
Hearing this, they couldn't help but think. If the examiner asked them a similar question, where would they start?
This is not as easy to fool around like other questions. Just like the previous one answered "The thing that impressed the most in the art exam these days", if the language was not organized, the audience would follow his messy description, take a few steps and jump a few times, and the narrative of the whole thing seemed illogical.
After all, director is a storytelling profession. Whether a story can be told well is the standard for evaluating the good or bad of a director. The camera is the director's eyes, the actor's eyes, and the audience's eyes. The audience can penetrate into the story through the camera.
When the camera is gone, the director becomes a storyteller. Then through the descriptions he mentioned, you can still get a glimpse of the appearance of the story. This is the director's ability.
"Xia Wei opened her eyes from her sleep. She had just had a nightmare and dreamed that she was attacked by a black shadow from behind. Fortunately, it was just a dream. However, when she took out her cell phone and turned on the flashlight and noticed her current situation, she realized that she was locked in a box.
The box? Maybe it is a coffin? She felt scared when she thought of this.
Xia Wei finally recalled that the shadow in her dream was not actually her fantasy, she was really attacked from behind.
But why did I be locked in a box in a coffin-style style?
Just why am I here?
Xia Wei was puzzled, and she felt more afraid and panic.
After coming to her senses, she began to knock on the cover of the coffin desperately and shouted for help, but unfortunately she was waiting for silent silence."
After thinking for a while, Jiang Shan started to tell the story. His tone was very calm and he did not contain more emotions, as if he described everything he saw from the perspective of God.
The more he highlights his calmness and restraint, the more attractive this story is.
The story begins with everyone's attention. Who is that black shadow? Why did he lock Xia Wei in the coffin? How should she escape? Can she escape?
These doubts are like helicopters hovering in everyone's minds, seducing their curiosity and allowing them to listen patiently according to Jiang Shan's description.
"I cried even though I cried. Xia Wei calmed down and remembered that she called 110 on her phone to call the police. During the call, she felt a small bug crawling up on her arm, which further aroused Xia Wei's inner horror about the darkness and unknown.
Fortunately, the phone finally answered, and she hurriedly described her experience to the police. When the operator asked her about her specific location, Xia Wei stopped.
The police operator was busy asking her not to hang up the phone. The police would locate it according to the signal. The police asked her to describe the surrounding environment during this period, so that the police could determine the location.
Xia Wei hurriedly described her experience just now. Then there were water drops on her face on the coffin board. The air in the coffin became thinner and thinner. She felt that her breathing was getting more and more difficult. Not only that, she also heard the sound of a piano playing around her, and Xia Wei noticed that her coffin was being pushed and moved.
Her heart was completely panicked, and the suspect seemed to be pushing her to the place to be buried.
After more than ten minutes, there was still no movement. She began to call 110 in a hurry again, but the police's reply once again made her mood sink to the bottom. The police found a swimming venue that was disrepaired in the past based on the location signal and description, but no trace of her was found.
At this time, her cell phone was completely out of power, and Xia Wei cried in despair. However, when she thought she was dead, a noise suddenly came from outside the coffin, as if the police were coming to control the suspect. Soon, footsteps sounded outside, and the coffin board was pried open, and a long-lost light shone on Xia Wei's face. Seeing the police in front of her, she finally realized that she was saved."
Jiang Shan told this story seriously, and the audience around him was even more fascinated. When the heroine who heard the story was finally saved, the parents breathed in a breath, and it was obvious that happy ending.
When Hou Keming heard this, he couldn't help but nodded slightly. Although there were still many points in the story that could not be explained and the overall story was a little immature, Jiang Shan in front of him was indeed a very potential young man. If he had to give an evaluation, then Jiang Shan's rating in Hou Keming's heart was "a", which was absolutely a talent that could be created!
Just when everyone thought the story ended, Jiang Shan did not stop his telling.
"A couple of old people's hospital in Beijing were waiting anxiously by the doctor's examination results.
The attending doctor checked the patient's pupil reaction with a flashlight and called the two old people aside. The name written on the medical record at the end of the bed was 'Xia Wei'."
When Jiang Shan’s story came to this point, not only the candidates were stunned, but even the examiners were concentrated. What was going on with this story?
Is all this the heroine's fantasy?
Among them, Hou Keming pays more attention to Jiang Shan’s next description. The story should be reversed at this point.
"The television in the ward was playing Richard Clayderman's piano recital, and the beautiful piano sound came.
The nurse walked in and gave her an injection on her arm.
After chatting with the attending doctor, the couple sat back to the bedside. The woman was crying while holding a wet towel to help her daughter wipe her cheeks briefly.
‘Xia Bed Xia Wei, I’m going to take a picture of her brain’, the couple helped the nurse push the bed out of the ward.
In the endless darkness, Xia Wei was still trapped in the coffin. She could detect the water droplets on her face, hear the vague sound of piano, feel the little bug crawling on her arms, and also find that she was being pushed and moved.
But all the roars and shouts she did were like streams that flowed into the ocean, unable to cause any fluctuations..."
All the clues in the story are revealed at the end, and this reversal can be said to be beyond everyone's expectations. Even Hou Keming, who has always been calm, couldn't help but whisper "Okay".
Chapter completed!