China becomes an exciting paradise in 21 century. Xiao Long, a young Chinese Hip Hop fan. Henry, a foreigner came to China with grandpa’s hand book to find his new life. They had totally different lives but were bundled by destiny and had stinging clash. It was not easy to tell right or false. Xiao Long proposed to be a Hip Hot star with the help of Henry. But his life ran into the ground after he accidentally broke into a pirate movie produce line. Xiao Long swore to fight with pirate with help of friend. As their investigation went deeper, all the fact were pointing to Henry. But the truth started to make Xiao Long confuse. Who is the one standing behind the whole thing? Pirate? Henry? Or ourselves? Start 8.26th 2007. Producer: Ma Li, Li Yue Hang Director: Gao Yi Xin Scriputs: Gao Yi Xin, Gu Man, Lv Xin Action Director: Li Jun Jie Photography Director: Xiao Sha About thE story —— Gao Yi xin Life: I am living in a real world. I like seeking after truth. And I am living in an entertaining world, which is very China. I saw those singers and artists how work for company. They have passion but are paid little. Why does it happen all the time? The market is bad. There is no margin to make money because of pirate. By the same time, I saw a case in a New Weekly magazine taking about pirate: A singer was unhappy with the impact to his own CD selling brought by the pirated CDs and started to investigate by himself. As a result, he was threatened by the pirate organization and could not continue. Another story: There is a bar we went to quite often. The boss would like to sell it and go back to his hometown. It was always my dream to own a bar. But I had no money to afford it. After a few days we were told the bar was taken by the packman always selling pirate movies there. It is just a mite on an elephant. All these cases are telling me: Our lives are being attacked by pirate. Therefore, my movie has a beginning. People need money! （roles setting） Li Xiao Long: He wants to expose that pirate group he found to revenge for his poor life – he is so poor even his girlfriend left him. Ya Dong: One million for a record album and I can make you 2 MTV for free. (A producer never gets tax from productions, it is just flubdub and gulf.) Mu Mu: That will be great if I can have a real record company. But doing shows makes more money. Zhang Yang: Give me one million, 800 thousands will also do, just RMB! I can make a great movie!! Xu: Records company cannot make money with the surrounding of pirate records. Maybe I have to do something to sensationalize.. Zhuang sun zi: Our new era never repeat and follow other’s way. I am who I am. I am fashion. I am popular, and I have market. Wang Quan An & Jia Jia: If I want a singer, I get a singer. It’s just a piece of cake. Lala & Anbin: Let’s take all the money. Tell the boss that Li Xiao Long took it. We got rich. It was correct not to kill him. ZhuAn & Fa: We can do anything you want, If you do what we want. Henry：Now it is easy to make money in China. But it is hard to tell for how long you can keep making it. If you have relationship and understand China well, you can have anything you want. …… Kidnapping plan (Main clue): When a problem (lack of money) appears, we should find a clue to let all the people sick on it. This clue is a result but not the reason of the problem we have. Therefore it can’t solve the problem. Therefore this clue itself is a joke. It can never really solve the problem as the point of the problem is the piratical environment. (Record company is always bothered by the pirate and depressed market. This is also the reason why they have not made any record for Li Xiao Long. However, Li Xiao Long’s disappearance made them a great opportunity to sensationalize.) 2 million is running (another clue) The story will be boring if only has one clue. There is another clue on the side of the pirate group. These two different clues interact with each other on the main characters; give us a better chance to see the problem of our world clearly and objectively. Refer to the script, Li Xiao Long’s sudden appearance to the underground pirate produce line really made the boss M nervous. He decided to transfer the money and the mother record as soon as possible. He ordered his two men, An Bing and La La to sent to money to the oversee mother record provider. These two clues structure the skeleton of the story. Audience may be attracted by the suspense: Is Li Xiao Long kidnapped? How about the 2 million? This movie has a lot of singing and dancing. Sounding music, beautiful pictures and full of modern feeling emphasized the movie’s style and rhythm. Further more, people who showed their talents but could not publish records, have nowhere to use their talent. By the competition of singing and dancing, we can clearly see the changing of our cultural environment. The contrast of eastern and western culture is seen everywhere in this movie. Find the root (digging the theme) In order to really find the underground pirating factory, Xiao Long and his friends decided to go back to the club where he was attacked. Coming back here, they were taught a lesson by Henry who was said to be the leader of some gang. Not only did they find the pirating factory, but also they were told that the root of pirating was the existing of the high tech and the lack of healthiness of the law and policies. The world was so big that it was impossible to find them hiding. Henry’s attitude annoyed Li Xiao Long and his friends. He reminded Xiao Long with the foreigner invaders in the last century and Xiao Long was very happy to use violence to fight back. In this movie, we are trying to illustrate the current status of the world wide pirating and let people realize that it is the world’s pain rather than just China’s. China is just one of the victims been paid much attention to because of the large mount of population and fest developing speed. Together with Li Xiao Long’s investigation, audiences will realize that pirating has already been a value existing in our culture. If let it be, The naissance of great movie (climax) Before long, the record company, gangsters, kidnapper and new force of the Entertainment all came together. Li Xiao Long settled all of them including Henry who represented the western evil force. People were temporary satisfied of being heroes when the police came. With the appearance of the faked climax of this movie, we are entertaining the audiences as well as making them urge to know the truth behind it. Before uncovering the truth, the movie tempts the audiences again. The world is round (the truth) Suddenly the story comes back to the bar in which Li Xiao Long and his friends discuss this case. It turned out that all above was imagined by them. They were just making story. None of the people was the same as they thought. When they were complaining that there was no perfect ending for this story to meet the standard of a great movie, the packman selling pirated movies came in and said would like to meet their needs to provide all kinds of good movies, all pirated of course. Then people finally woke up to know that what they were racking their brains to find was just around them assaulting their lives. As to themselves, they were just the abettors. They were very angry about this and fought with the packman. They were all asked out of the bar which was seen as a base of them. They finally realized that it was proven by the fact that if they don’t change some of their habits, the thing that would ruin their lives was not pirate but themselves. The fact would prove that the root of pirate was never possible to destroy unless people destroy their own mind of stealing and copying. The root was our selves. The world is round. Our selves were the person who would be found in the end of our seeking. Cast: |
