"Let those who grow moldy with merriment die off quickly and let the children grow up as they should" "This day will come and they will name children after my poetry" "Mayakovsky wrote this verse when he was 22." "The Soviet poet who died at 37" "loved to recite in places where people gathered" "They say his voice was loud and clear and his mind was nimble" "The young men and women of his time were all crazy with love for him" "They would recite along with him just like young people today sing along with their favorite pop singers" "Screenplay:" "Liao Yimei" "Director of Photography:" "Cao Yu" "Starring:" "Chen Jianbin" "Qin Hailu" "Art Designer:" "Wei Ning" "Music:" "Zhang Yang Editor:" "Kong Jinlei" "Director:" "Meng Jinghui" "This is the bag I grabbed" "As soon as I boarded the plane I stowed my bag in my overhead compartment." "When we landed, I retrieved it" "This bag has exactly the same color and zipper as mine" "I really didn't steal anything" "Then where is your bag?" "I don't know." "Can you prove this is the bag you took?" "I can't remember." "I get nervous when I fly" "Why did you come to Beijing?" "To visit friends." "Where is your ID card?" "In my own bag." "What do you do for a living?" "Nothing." "You must do something I write" "What do you write?" "Poetry" "You're a poet?" "What's your name again?" "Ouyang Yunfei" "Have you ever heard of this guy?" "No." "I've heard of Gorky" "Gorky was no poet Li Bai was a poet" "Right, Li Bai..." "What poems have you written?" "Can I make a phone call?" "What number?" "1331010557" "That's not in this service area Can I make another call?" "What number?" "02184048381" "Xiao Xia, it's me Yunfei Please don't hang up." "I'm in a little trouble here I've lost my papers" "Can you talk to them?" "Tell them I'm a good man not a thief" "Please" "Hello" "Yes, I understand" "Thank you" "She says she has never heard of anyone named Ouyang Yunfei." "What kind of airport security was that?" "I lose my bag and you interrogate me like a thief?" "It's absolutely outrageous" "You do look like you could be a thief" "So do you" "You're so stupid" "Couldn't you just write a poem on the spot to prove you're a poet?" "Write a poem on the spot?" "You think I'm like you- just open my mouth and verses come out?" "Why did you come here?" "Why did I come here?" "Never heard of anyone named Ouyang Yunfei" "Then no one needs to know my business anymore" "No one has any hopes for me" "I'm all alone" "I've come to a strange place to find a friend I haven't seen in years, but I don't know what kind of life lies ahead of me" "As spring arrives there is a trend of using technology in farming" "A new method of raising black chickens is on the rise" "College student Chen Xiaoyang is leading the poor farmers down the road to prosperity." "the new industry of raising black chickens has made significant progress" "Unlike dark chickens" "Chen Xiaoyang hadn't changed" "The first time I met him was at a Youth Poetry Conference ten years ago" "Back then he was just beginning his career and was making quite a name for himself in poetry circles" "Once there were no longer girls who liked poets he dropped from the poetry ranks" "He stayed busy keeping up with all the latest social trends and tried every stylish kind of Chinese industry that had potential" "At the end of the 20th century he finally discovered the ideal occupation raising chickens" "This black chicken egg has 10%/% of the cholesterol of a regular chicken egg" "And it has fifty times the Vitamin E content" "In comparison white-shelled eggs are utter chicken shit" "I don't want to allow our people to eat chicken shit" "I want to drive white eggs away from all the tables, and replace them with healthy black eggs" "This is only the beginning understand?" "Do you have a bean-bag pillow here?" "No, why?" "Yunfei, your bag was found" "Someone from the airport sent it over to the Feixiang Restaurant" "Shall I send someone to go get it?" "I'll go myself" "Huang Mao!" "I didn't do it on purpose" "I won't charge you and let's just forget it, ok?" "A pack of Lucky Strike You think he meant to?" "Yes." "He shaves people's eyebrows right off" "What do you want?" "Xiao Guo is a fool" "Wang Mei's dad is trying to marry her off to Huang Mao" "Why the hell did he go running to that barbershop?" "Xiao Guo is an idiot What a waste of height" "He'll never have money like Huang Mao" "Do you have Lucky Strike brand?" "You want 555 brand?" "Marlboro" "Hey, are you ok?" "(Yunfei's Collected Poems)" "You have to register to retrieve your luggage" "Name?" "Ouyang Yunfei" "Age?" "31" "Gender?" "Male" "Work unit?" "None" "Current address chicken farm" "Airport Chicken farm" "Where did you move from?" "Somewhere else Where?" "Shanghai" "Reason for coming?" "Marital status?" "Single." "Check this over." "Sign your name" "What about my ID card?" "How rude" "Your grades are getting worse and worse" "Thanks" "Why are you so quiet?" "Your tomatoes are too small" "I'll bring larger ones next time" "Flying to Shanghai?" "Of course not" "South Air 767-CZ310 to Hong Kong" "Got it." "Thanks" "What a pain" "How annoying" "The train starts taking away faces and newspapers taking hands and coats and souls" "The mute child searches for his lost voice in the dew just like me looking for traces of you in a crowd" "What does it mean?" "I don't get it" "Do you want to know?" "Yes" "Did you take your medicine?" "Yes" "Drink some water I did" "Do you want some black chicken soup?" "Do you have some white chicken soup?" "Ouyang Yunfei, I'm fed up with you" "I only have black chickens, black eggs and black chicken soup" "Do you want it or not?" "I've taken care of you since college" "Now you're a grown man..." "and I'm still taking care of you" "And Xiao Xia as well..." "Don't mention Xiao Xia to me again" "Don't say Xiao." "Don't say Xia" "Did you and Xiao Xia split up?" "Right" "Is that why you are so messed up?" "How am I messed up?" "It's you who's messed up" "Look around this damn place you live!" "Now I'm in this damn town with these damn people the damn hotel, the damn elevator and the damn clerk" "This place doesn't bother the chickens Why does it bother you?" "I'm a person, not a chicken" "That's right, you're a person You're even a poet" "Would that poet like to lie down and rest?" "You don't have a bed How can I rest?" "Ok, Ouyang Yunfei" "I'll give you a bed" "What is all this stuff?" "A pillow?" "Not just any pillow a bean-bag pillow" "Why a bean-bag pillow?" "Guarantees me a good rest" "What else do you have here?" "Get your dirty hands off my collection of poems" "Leaving home without underwear without a razor with only a pillow and a book of poetry that's what you get for being a poet" "You must be full of pride being a chicken-farmer, huh?" "You must be full of regret being a poet, huh?" "My loneliness is like the last eye of someone going blind" "I will forget time, mood, life and lock myself up with words and paper" "Fields, forest, villages often have airplanes passing overhead" "I know this is my last stop" "What kind of car is it?" "A 2000 Santana" "I meant what color?" "Red" "And that one?" "White" "Blue." "Why does it look green to me?" "Maybe" "I never wanted to be a painter" "I just want tobe a fight attendant" "Who does it harm if I see grey as black?" "I'm not colorblind" "I'm just weak at differentiating colors" "Just because I can't tell blue from green they made a decision" "Your life is over your dreams are gone all your efforts are wasted" "You can go nowhere but stay here" "I know the flight schedules" "June is the rainy season in Shanghai." "and entry to the Louvre in Paris is free the first Sunday of every month" "I know the exact height a flight attendant should be to reach the luggage and that her lipstick must be dark red or rose red" "But what good does it do me now?" "None" "There is always some kind of problem isn't there?" "There is always some kind of problem isn't there?" "Whose life turns out the way they want?" "Everyone inevitably encounters all kinds of problems" "Look at me" "I have claustrophobia" "You're a poet, right?" "I've seen your collection of poems next to your pillow" "First door on the left to buy chickens, second door to buy eggs" "I'm looking for Ouyang Yunfei" "What do you want me for?" "I'm getting married My name is Xiao Guo" "I am marrying Wang Mei a mail-carrier here" "We've known each other for a long time" "Even though her parents don't approve we are a good match" "What do you want me for?" "Wow, your black chickens are really black!" "I'm Xiao Guo the electrician from the power supply department..." "What is it that you want?" "!" "You are a poet Help me write a poem" "I'm afraid I can't help you" "Why not?" "Because I don't write poetry anymore" "Forget it then" "Hey, you took my lighter" "What's going on?" "Have you memorized it all?" "They switched booklets on me and told me not to try again" "Fang Fang you're not getting any younger" "Find a boyfriend and get married" "I'm leaving here no matter what" "Good." "You can still leave here even if you aren't a flight attendant" "I refuse to be a receptionist once I leave here" "And by the way I do have a boyfriend" "Have you met the poet?" "Poet?" "What poet?" "We've never had a poet from these parts before" "We don't even have anyone who has met a poet" "Dr. Hu, have you ever heard of claustrophobia?" "Claustrophobia?" "A pack of Luckystrik I don't have any" "A pack of Zhongnanhai then I don't have any" "Aren't those Zhongnanhai?" "They're fake" "Which ones are real?" "Marlboro" "How much are those?" "$20" "$20 for one pack of Marlboros How much?" "$10" "Why wouldn't you write a poem for Xiao Guo?" "Did you tell him to ask me?" "Yes" "He is my classmate from primary school" "He's marrying Wang Mei next Saturday" "But Wang Mei's parents want to her to marry Huang Mao" "So Xiao Guo wants to cheer her up for their wedding" "So it was your idea to have him recite a poem at the wedding?" "Yes, why not?" "It's a good idea" "Of course it is" "But I don't write poetry anymore Why not?" "I'm breeding chickens now" "I've never heard of a poet breeding chickens before" "Well, now you have" "So don't tell anyone I'm a poet anymore, ok?" "Why?" "Because today people need eggs not poems" "Xiao Guo needs poem" "He wants to give Wang Mei a poem" "Can't he give her two cartons of black chicken eggs instead?" "Fine, give him two cartons of black eggs" "No problem I can easily give him black eggs" "You can't give him black eggs You should give him a poem" "Get two cartons of Luckystrike tomorrow" "You can't eat the same black eggs twice" "Too profound" "The ignorant black egg is fearless" "Too unsophisticated" "The black night gives me black eyes with which I search for black eggs" "Too obscure" "You raise the chickens I'll take the eggs we both profit" "Too old-fashioned You sound like a country doctor" "On the banks of the winding river black eggs are scattered all around both near and far, high and low" "Too undynamic" "How about on the boundless sea...?" "You have to make the black eggs more fierce" "Black eggs or white eggs that is the question to quietly accept the onslaught of poisonous arrows from white eggs or to rise up and fight back..." "I want to be like a hard-knocking unbreakable, impenetrable, unsmashable indestructible black egg!" "That's it." "That's great What's so great about it?" "You can't even come up with an advertising slogan" "How can you call yourself a poet?" "What about you?" "Look where you live the people, the hotel the elevator, the elevator help" "And I'm supposed to write poetry?" "!" "Yunfei, even if my life is the worst" "I still manage to feed you" "I would like to recite a poem" "I'd like to recite a poem" "I'd like to recite a poem" "I'd like to recite a poem" "I'd like to recite a poem" "This is for my bride." "I will be a tree if you will be the blossom on the tree" "I will be a blossom..." "I will be a blossom if you will be the dew" "I will be the dew if you will be the sunshine" "That way we can be together my beloved" "If you will be the sky" "I will become a star my beloved" "You are a mail-carrier and I am a letter" "wandering everywhere along with your bicycle never to be delivered" "If you will be my bride" "I will dedicate myself to being your groom" "There's one more thing I want to tell everyone" "I have installed all new fuses" "Bravo!" "Hey, Xiaoyang" "Hi." "I have to go do something" "I'll be right back." "Don't leave" "Here, have this." "It's strong" "Drink it" "Buddy, I drank it all down" "You have to support our performance" "I've been hearing that all night I'll tell you the truth" "I'm just a chicken-farmer" "You were a poet before" "We have read your poems and we really dig you" "Right now we're only short $20,000 of assistance funds" "How much?" "20,000" "Let's figure it out" "The cost of one black egg is 23 ø add 90%/% for disease prevention breeding, feed 20%/% for packing and transport" "Altogether, for me to make $10,000 how many black eggs do I have to sell?" "That is to say, how many black eggs are you guys planning to move out of here?" "Hey Buddy, I drank it all tonight" "Just help us out, ok?" "I'm too tired Some other time" "You get 8,333.333 eggs for $10,000" "If you round it off and double it altogether we need 16,666 dark chicken eggs" "Not dark chicken, black chicken" "Black chicken, black chicken" "Write a farm song for my black chicken breeding farm" "We've never written songs for other people before" "Buddy, these guys do heavy metal" "No matter what you pay them they'll never change their style" "I just want a heavy metal farm song to sing to myself" "I don't want this little sum to change your artistic principles" "One should respect another for upholding his principles" "Buddy, have a drink" "I drank the whole thing so help us perform, ok?" "What are you doing?" "Oh, he wants your money too?" "When we were children we all wrote essays entitled My Dream" "Mine was to become a writer like Lu Xun" "Chen Xiaoyang's changed every year so his dream has already come true many times" "But my dream is still just a dream" "Mayakovsky" "Soviet poet" "Nobody reads his poetry anymore" "Did he write during the day or at night?" "What do you mean?" "Every poet has his own writing habits" "Tolstoy wrote at night" "Jack London wrote in the morning" "What about you?" "I've changed my mind about writing" "Everyone comes up with dreams easily when young so everyone is a poet" "But poets are useless" "No they're not" "Tell me what use I have then?" "Colors" "You are my colors" "There is a woman who believes that my pen brings colors to her world" "I must lift my empty brush like a soldier lifts his empty gun" "Stand still" "Don't move" "Check for police." "Look all around" "Look up, up here" "Hey Buddy, want some pirate disks?" "No." "Wait, wait" "Take a disk." "Really, you need it Trust me" "I don't want it People need them at every stage of life" "You especially You definitely need one" "I have all kinds" "Do you have one that teaches how to write poetry?" "You're a poet How do you know?" "I..." "What are you doing?" "In the past if you wanted one you'd have to trade your soul." "Now it only costs $10" "Ok, I'll take one Good" "Do you have exact change?" "Nothing, the bookcase is full of books" "Nothing else..." "Where did you go?" "I waited for you for hours" "Take a bow" "Arm in arm" "Sneaking around in the middle of the night" "Why aren't you sleeping?" "A broken bed ridden with lice..." "I saw someone in the shower" "I'm back We're back" "The black eggs sold out at market in three days" "All sold out All bought by old ladies" "And old men Why did they sell so well?" "Why?" "Because our advertising slogan was so good" "You're right Who wrote it?" "Why, me of course I wrote it" "I'll sing for everyone" "They'll know I wrote it I'll thank everyone" "I'll bow to everyone I'll kneel to everyone" "They'll know I wrote it" "Who's there?" "What's wrong Fang Fang?" "What's the matter?" "My Yunfei will not be part of this" "You can't do this to me" "Hey, Xiaoyang." "Xiaoyang" "I'm ok." "Never mind" "Just forget it" "Why are you doing this to Xiaoyang?" "Look what he's making you do" "Baths, saunas, singing dancing, drinking" "Is this what you should be doing?" "He'll make you just like everyone else" "I want to be like everyone else" "You can't be like everyone else." "But I am" "You can't be." "You are a poet" "Some poet." "I'll level with you" "That wedding poem wasn't written by me." "It's by Petofi" "I haven't written a poem in three years" "You are a brilliant poet" "The mute child searches for his lost voice in the dew just like me looking for traces of you in a crowd" "Anyone who can write like that is a genius" "I have weak nerves I can't sleep without my pillow" "I have claustrophobia How can I call myself a poet?" "What are you doing?" "Open the door" "Open the door" "I know about claustrophobia" "It's when you can't stand small spaces" "You can't stay confined in a dark room for too long" "You can't take elevators or airplanes" "If you can't adapt to the environment you might get nervous, even howl and even have night sweats Some faint" "But these can all be cured" "What are you afraid of?" "Look, you are better now" "Do you want to be a poet?" "Take this short-cut into postmodern poetry" "A short-cut" "Realist Futurist Romanticist poetry" "Naturalist Symbolist Hyperrealist poetry" "Philosophical Love Narrative poetry" "Please input a topic." "You are a poet!" ""Black and White Oranges"" "I've never feared small spaces sealed airplanes..." "I fear other things not being taken seriously being forsaken by others lacking talent, being a failure" "Who doesn't fear that?" "The triumph of Ouyang Yunfei's new poetry" "Hello friends Welcome to today's program" "Let me introduce our guest" "The very famous poet Ouyang Yunfei" "Isn't that Fang Fang's boyfriend?" "One of the victories of poetry is that it shows the need for poetry in our current generation" "As a poet how do you view this generation?" "Last time I saw him he was stuck in the elevator" "Poetry requires perpetual revolution" "Every poet constantly distorts the world before his eyes" "It is an overthrow of the reality of life a healing medicine, an antidote" "That's bullshit" "Now I would like to discuss the great concept of poetry" "Today is the grand opening of the supermarket" "I have prepared a poem to present to everyone" "Savor the flavor the class, and popular trends" "Perfume, coffee, karaoke DVDs" "Buy a car, buy a house and don't forget to buy stocks" "And pursue the courage to live a good life" "Do you like cheese?" "It's a specialty of France" "Do you drink Coke?" "That's American" "Love to eat roast duck that's a Beijing specialty" "Been to the Great Wall yet?" "The best in China" "Date with your lovers," "Or join WTO" "Recently I've seen you at all kinds of occasions" "Are you enjoying your overnight success?" "Good evening friends" "Welcome to this edition of Partner Program..." "Our lives are like poetry" "Our lives are like poetry" "Our lives are like poetry" "Xiao Guo, what is this?" "Oh, this is poetry!" "Our lives are like poetry" "New Works Publication Reception" "Yunfei, let me introduce you to some friends" "This is Tian Pingyuan This is Yunfei" "Hello, hello It's an honor to meet you" "This is Tian Pingyuan" "As a result of his arguments with celebrities he himself is now a celebrity" "Get acquainted" "This is Ma Ge" "He wrote a book called A Great Man Like Me" "I'm a director" "I'll film your book and it will be a big hit" "How do you film poetry?" "Weizi, ten years ago he was a novice" "Now he is still a novice" "Mao Mao is a beautiful woman writer" "Everyone wants to sleep with her but they don't dare for fear their sexual abilities will be made public" "This circle isn't as praiseworthy as 10 years ago but at least they like to get together more now" "I run into them at every occasion" "Suo Ping and his wife are both writers" "They write about each other and agree not to reveal their writings to each other" "The journey from small satisfaction to great satisfaction..." "What?" "Nothing" "Li Tong must be a brilliant scholar because I can't understand any of his books" "Easy now." "Don't fight" "Don't fight." "Slow down" "Hey, what did the chickens eat to get like this?" "These are Australian ostriches I bought them" "Our next step is breeding ostriches" "Australian purebred ostrich" "They are gentle and they like to associate with poets especially famous ones" "I've never eaten ostrich eggs before No problem" "Once the breeding succeeds I'll give you an ostrich hen" "Slow down" "Hey, easy now, easy" "Disk has expired!" "All information is erased!" "System inoperative!" "Why haven't you been coming home to sleep?" "Where have you been the past few days?" "Say something" "What's wrong with you?" "What did I do wrong?" "What the hell do you want me to do?" "Don't ever bother me again" "Where are you going?" "Let me go" "Go home" "Where're you going this late at night?" "What does it matter to you?" "Running these damn steps, damn road damn bridge, damn lights, damn air" "Have you shouted enough?" "No" "What a day!" "What a life!" "Give me a smoke a light" "How are the ostriches?" "Same" "The chickens?" "Same" "How's the poetry?" "Same" "Fang Fang?" "Same" "You know why I envy you?" "Why?" "You have no hope" "But you make women burn with hope for you" "You know why I envy you?" "Why?" "You know full well that there's nothing you can do to change things but still you try desperately to change them" "I'm the best!" "We're both the best!" "When people ask you how you are able to write poetry" "How do you answer?" "Natural talent" "And reading 300 Tang Poems" "You should answer because" "I eat Chen Xiaoyang's black eggs every day" "That's ridiculous" "Do you eat them or not?" "Yes" "Do you eat them every day?" "Yes" "When people ask you you should answer because I eat Chen Xiaoyang's black eggs every day" "I will not say that Why not?" "Just to piss you off" "I'll give you my chicken farm" "I don't want it Why not?" "Just to piss you off" "I'm not raising chickens anymore" "You'd have stopped raising them a long time ago" "Why?" "It's stupid" "You'd have stopped writing poetry a long time ago." "Why?" "It's stupid" "As white as white As white as new" "As white as when you first moved in" "Ai-jia Paint" "I can't take it" "When I'm with you I feel awful" "I'm not saying it's you you're wonderful" "But I'm not the person you think I am" "Do you understand?" "I want to be a successful poet so much" "All I want is to make you proud of me because it's you who renewed my desire to live" "But the more I try the worse I get" "I give up" "Let's just give up" "You are my red the color of the sun setting" "You are my blue the color they use to describe the sea" "You are my pink the color of a ripe peach" "You are my blue the color they use to describe the sky" "You are my colors" "You are my white" "I know this is the color of snowflakes" "And I know yellow the color of our skin" "You are every red yellow, blue, and white" "And then there's black the color of these feathers" "Did the people from the epidemic prevention station come yet?" "Where is Xiaoyang?" "I don't know" "I haven't heard from him all morning" "His cell phone is turned off" "He didn't come with you?" "No" "He didn't tell you anything?" "Nothing" "How many diseased chickens are there?" "About 30 or 40" "They're already isolated but it's spreading fast" "I'll call him" "There was no signal" "Hurry." "Go isolate the diseased chickens" "Chen Xiaoyang disappeared" "No one could find him" "He left because he wanted to so it did no good to look for him" "He was able to forsake everything like that" "I underestimated him all along" "Even best friends can often feel this way about each other" "Why do you call me a poet?" "I'm not a poet" "I am a weeping child" "See, I'm just spilling tears" "Why do you call me a poet?" "My sadness is the sadness of everyone" "I've had minor joys but I'd be ashamed to tell you how little they are" "Today I wanted to die" "I wanted to die only because I'm exhausted only because seeing the angels on church windows made me ambivalent about love and sadness" "Now I'm as peaceful as a mirror a sad mirror" "See, I'm not a poet" "I am just a sad child looking for death" "Don't be surprised by my sadness and don't ask me about it" "I'll only be able to say something pointless" "My tears before death are like rosary beads" "I am not a poet" "I am just a quiet child" "I love the life of every common thing" "I see emotion fading for those unattainable things" "But you laughed at me You don't understand me" "I think I am troubled" "I die a little every day just like those unattainable things" "I'm not a poet" "I know if I want to be called a poet" "I should live a completely different life" "I look at the blue sky getting lost in the fog with clouds forming" "like the torn clothing of an escaping prisoner" "I see my last chance at love being covered over" "This love was as vibrant as the red cheeks of a sickly patient" "I'm sure she went to Hainan to get some sun and eat crabs" "Fang Fang said she is never coming back" "Fang Fang never did come back She left her job at the hotel" "Recently planes adjusted their routes farther away from the town" "I think of her when a plane flies over" "Maybe she looks down from the airplane" "One night, I had a dream" "A tree was growing in the yard and poem after poem was growing on the tree" "They were all real poems written on write paper rustling in the wind" "Fang Fang and I collected poems from the tree into a basket" "They were huge!" "Chen Xiaoyang sent a postcard wishing us peace but it didn't say where he was" "But we don't have to worry about him" "He always has a new idea" "Any news from Fang Fang?" "No" "Are you going to leave?" "Wang Mei is pregnant" "Congratulations" "I need your help with something What?" "Choose a name for our child" "What's your surname?" "Ma" "I'm not going to write poems anymore" "I'm not going to raise chickens anymore" "At the age of 31" "I shaved my head like Mayakovsky" "I know I'll probably never be the kind of poet he was but I shaved my head just like him" "He once said" "People must choose their way of life and have the courage to uphold it" "I hope" "I have at least had his kind of courage" "Translator:" "Claire Conceison"