Chapter 470: Chapter 371: No Way Out (Part 2)
Zhou Yun nodded.
After breakfast, Song Chi tidied up the table and went to the study.
Zhou Yun took the script and sat on the balcony.
The sun was out today, the balcony was filled with golden sunlight.
She lazily read the script on the balcony.
"Falling Leaves" was really well written, and so was the character Wan Duoyan.
Among the roles Zhou Yun had played before, only the shampoo girl in "Warm Little Horse" bore some similarity to Wan Duoyan.
But in that play, she was just a supporting character with limited room to perform, whereas in "Falling Leaves," there was ample space to showcase Wan Duoyan.
The core essence of this story is actually reflected in the title itself.
There is a phrase called "falling leaves return to their roots," which essentially refers to the multitude of stories and the deep-seated words in the heart of the character Wan Duoyan, who went abroad to the United States when she was very young, and one day returns to her homeland of China.
Such stories are most afraid of being overly melodramatic or having the ’correct’ set of values.
It’s not that this kind of filming is wrong, but when done this way, it only moves the one who creates it.
Not everyone experiences the pain of leaving their homeland, but everyone surely has moments when they can’t help but feel deeply for their place of origin.
Compared to the emotions in teenage love, in marriage, or other common stories and feelings we see, this kind of "big" emotion is often hard to convey.
It’s hard to describe in words without becoming sentimental rhetoric.
It’s hard to portray in pictures without becoming forced propaganda posters.
It’s also hard to depict in films without becoming a PowerPoint that touches you and me.
The preciousness of "Falling Leaves" lies in the fact that on the surface, it tells a series of ordinary events that happen to a young woman after she returns to her country: nothing much develops, she meets a handsome man, realizes she’s been duped by him, has conflicts with relatives she’s blood-related to, impulsively decides to leave after a fit of anger, and may even melodramatically get stuck with a man waiting by her door for revenge. If you take this story as a slice of life, it could very well stand as such, but behind these series of events, Zhou Yun could very keenly feel an emotion similar to yearning from Wan Duoyan.
This emotion actually runs through the entire script from beginning to end.
Throughout the story in the script, Wan Duoyan never says "I love" or "I will stay"; she’s not someone who can express her feelings openly.
Yet in those moments when she cannot express herself, Zhou Yun understands what Wan Duoyan is trying to say.
In "Falling Leaves
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