象山农民的电影梦
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“我要读书，我要上大学；我要读书，我要上大学……”屏幕上，一个身着白衬衣的姑娘跟在妈妈的身后，一直喃喃自语。
这是电影《荷花庵》的开场一幕。2011年11月2日，象山农民章承祖拍摄的电影《荷花庵》剪辑完毕，首次闭门“公映”。
1小时12分钟的时长里，屏幕上出现一个个画面：好胜的农村女孩董芳，父亲早逝，家境贫困，一心考大学却落榜，精神严重受打击。母亲让女儿寄住在荷花庵静养，荷花庵附近有个采药郎林可珂，初中毕业却志向高远，自学中医中药知识，把董芳身和心的病都治好了――结局是大团圆。
剧情似乎并没有什么悬念，章承祖一直微笑着欣赏成果，直到片尾慢慢滚动出一串长长的名单，他的眼眶开始泛红了。
“宁波火车南站卖地图的郑爱云――4万元；宁波某医院退休职工管云芬――2万元；齐齐哈尔某地村民金立梅――3000元……”
“这些都是我的‘投资人’，没有他们，也就没有这部电影。”章承祖显然有些激动。
故事的“入口”，就在这里。
梦想一部公映的电影
章承祖出生在象山大徐镇一个普通农民家里，他接过父辈的“锄头”，本来一辈子就这样平淡无奇了。
不过，“好事儿”的他，在家务农时，竟萌生了自己写小说的念头。1992年至2003年期间，他一共写了五六个小说本子，《荷花庵》是其中之一。
2006年，象山县城的一件大事彻底改变了这个仅有初中文化农民的命运。当年，象山影视城迎来了第一个剧组――黄晓明版《神雕侠侣》剧组，剧组在当地广招群众演员，一天给几十元报酬，章承祖有点心动了。
“用现在时髦的话讲，那是我第一次‘触电’，演店小二，一闪而过的那种。”即便如此，电影这种新鲜玩意还是在章承祖的心里扎了根：为什么不把小说改成电影剧本呢？这一大胆的念头，便衍生出现在的《荷花庵》剧本。
章承祖说，剧本灵感来源于自己年少时的一段美好而懵懂的回忆。“荷花庵在象山确有出处，很多年前我去荷花庵时，就碰到过两个年纪轻轻、相貌清秀的出家人。我很疑惑，他们为什么要出家？背后是不是有什么故事？后来我再慢慢地吸纳当时的一些社会背景，根据自己的想象添加进了一个男主角，把这段爱情故事丰富起来，这才有了现在完整的剧本。”
章承祖把《荷花庵》的剧本给身边不少人看过，大家都觉得故事不错。他暗自下决心，要把这拍成电影。
“那时就是一门心思，也不管自己行不行。”章承祖说，为了更快地上手，每次一有剧组来影视城，他总是抢着去当群众演员。“在周星驰的《长江七号》里，我也露过脸呢，就想学学人家是怎么拍电影的。”
2009年6月，在一家影视公司的帮助下，章承祖的《荷花庵》正式拿到了国家“摄制电影许可证”。章承祖想，拿到许可证就能找到企业家投资，拍摄完成以后，他还要申请公映，把电影搬进影院。
然而，有人告诉他，一部电影从创作到最后上映要翻过三座“大山”：第一座“大山”，是剧本审查立项；第二座，是找到资金投入拍摄；第三座则是发行公映。当光影的梦想一步步投射到这个普通农民的现实生活时，章承祖发现，困难才刚刚开始。
摆地摊老人成“大股东”
宁波火车南站还没拆建时，70多岁的郑爱云每天风雨无阻地在门口卖地图。有时候，她的摊位上还会摆上些报纸和杂志，这样一天下来，也就赚个几十元生活费。
谁曾想到，就是这样一个艰苦过活的老阿婆，竟然是《荷花庵》最大的“投资人”。
在章承祖原先的设想中，为电影《荷花庵》找投资方不会太难。“这个剧本格局很小，所需的资金不多，大概50万元就够了。宁波老板这么多，少买一辆车或许就够我拍成这部电影了。”
但事实却远远不像章承祖想的那样简单。拿到“许可证”快两年了，章承祖始终没有找到投资人。
“对你的执著和梦想，我们很佩服，资助你一点钱没问题。但是要投资的话，这钱赚得回来吗？”这是很多人抛给章承祖的一句话。他找了很多企业、影视公司，甚至也跟一些导演接触过。他们对剧本很感兴趣，但是最终到落实投资阶段，全都打了退堂鼓。
“一个农民，从来没有搞过影视，能拍好电影吗？”一个巨大的问号，横亘在章承祖的面前。从剧本立项到审查公映，有两年的有效期，过了这段时间，“许可证”就要失效了。
章承祖逐梦电影遇阻的消息不胫而走，很多人伸出了温暖的手。卖地图的郑爱云阿婆，送来了辛苦攒下的4万元；宁波某医院退休职工管云芬，拿出了2万元，她曾是章承祖在宁波打工期间的邻居；还有远在千里之外的齐齐哈尔人金立梅等等。
于是，这部电影有了11位平民百姓“投资人”。
“这些给我投资的人，自己都不富裕，尤其郑阿婆的钱，我实在不忍心用。”章承祖最后只收了5000元，把剩下的35000元还给了她。热心人的捐助，加上又向自己的亲戚借了一些，章承祖终于募集到了8万元资金。
打工仔搭起的“草台班”
8万元，能拍成电影吗？
“拍一部成本最低的电影，最少需要三四十万，即便我们学校有这么多专业设备和制作班底，也未必能把成本压到8万元。”这是浙江工商职业技术学院影视动画专业老师的专业意见。不过，章承祖不认输。
“没钱请演员，就咱村民自己演，导演、场记……凡是能干的活，我都自己来。”在章承祖的剧组里，大部分演员都是主动请缨并经过章承祖挑选的志愿者。演男主角的，是在宁波打工的湖南小伙子宋利，演女主角的，则是安徽籍外来工董林琳。章承祖掰着手指算算，整个剧组里，只有摄影师沈建明有拍摄经验，11名演员都是首次“触电”，有时候一个场面要NG个上百次，不过每个人都很刻苦认真。
那段时间，在鄞州五龙潭风景区内总能看到这样的画面：一台简易陈旧的DV录影机前，一群“草台班子”认真地演绎着每一幕剧情。DV机的后面，三五个人目不转睛地看着只有手机大小的显示屏，不时交头耳语……
没有收音器，为了不出现杂音，用一根竹竿连着话筒来收音。没有摇臂，要拍摄长镜头，用几根木棍拼接，中间加个滑轮来模拟摇臂效果。虽然设备条件简陋，但大家都想方设法克服困难，尽量拍摄到最好效果。“因为资金有限，演员和不少剧组成员都是义务参加拍摄，我能为他们提供的，只有拍摄期间的食宿。”章承祖有些内疚地说。
电影后期制作交给了浙江工商职业技术学院“169影视工作室”，这算是电影里唯一的专业“操刀手”。工作室共12个学生，以3个学生为骨干，对影片进行后期制作，配音、剪辑、校色等整整花了一个多月时间。
“他们是用陈旧的小高清机拍的，现在很多新出的数码相机的录影的画面都比这要好，这对后期制作要求很高。”“169影视工作室”的负责人徐健民老师感动于章承祖的坚持，决定免费帮他实现这个“电影梦”。
章承祖充满期待。目前，电影《荷花庵》正在进行最后的配音完善和转换格式。
拍摄条件虽然简陋，但场记却一丝不苟。
Though the set is simple and crude, artists work hard and seriously.
演职人员在看DV录影机中已拍的镜头。
The crew and actors play back the footage on a digital camera they just created.
拍戏之余，章承祖吹起了树叶哨。
Zhang Chengzu plays a leaf as the flute during a break.
演员正在揣摩剧本中的情节。 Actors study the script.
《荷花庵》正在拍摄中。
The filming of Lotus Temple is under way.
A Villager’s Filmmaking Dream Comes True
By Chen Guangshu, Ding Hua
Zhang Chengzu looks ordinary, just like his fellow residents in Daxu, a rural town in Xiangshan, a county in the seaboard of Zhejiang Province. Yet he is different from his fellows. He dreamed of making a film of his own for years and now he has made a feature film. He is waiting for the completion of the final touches to the film and a government license to screen it to the public.
Before he dreamed of making a film, he wrote five stories from 1992 to 2003. The stories would have stayed in a drawer forever if he had not been employed as an extra in a big-investment television series at a filmmaking location in Xiangshan in 2006. The opportunity enabled him to earn some money and see for the first time in his life how people filmed a drama. This eye-opening experience changed his life forever.
He wondered whether one of his stories could be filmed too. The idea fascinated him. He chose a story, turned it into a script and called it “Lotus Monastery.” The inspiration was based in his boyhood-year memory. He ran into two young monks when he was visiting a monastery in Xiangshan. The boy wondered why the two had chosen to be monks. He tried to figure the puzzle out in the story. The romance is about a girl suffering from a serious illness. The family sends the girl away to stay at a local monastery. A young monk there happens to be versed in traditional Chinese medicine. The monk cures the girl of the disease and they fall in love.
Zhang showed his script to many people and those who read it agreed it was good. Zhang determined to make a film on the script. He was determined. Whenever it was possible, he tried to grab jobs at the filmmaking location so that he could see how professionals made films.
In June 2009, he acquired a filmmaking permit from the government through the help of a professional filmmaking business. With the permit, Zhang tried to find investment. He thought he needed 500,000 to make the film. His efforts went fruitless and investors turned him down. Those big investors said politely that they admired Zhang’s dream and tenacity and that they had money, but could the film make money?
The permit was valid for only two years and time was running out. Zhang’s friends and acquaintances came to his help. Zheng Aiyun, a granny who is a street vendor selling city maps to tourists at Ningbo Railway Station, gave Zhang 40,000 yuan. A retired hospital staffer named Guan Yunfen invested 20,000 yuan. Finally, 11 investors chipped in and Zhang had 80,000. All these investors are ordinary people. Zhang did not take the offer of 40,000 from the map vendor. He took only 5,000 yuan from her.
A teacher at Zhejiang College of Industrial and Commercial Technology said that the lowest budget for making a film would be 300,000. Zhang chose the cheapest way to make the film. Most actors were volunteers. Zhang paid food and accommodation. None of the eleven actors had had any experience of acting. Sometimes a scene needed filming more than 100 times before it was okay. The crew used a single and simple digital camera. They also made-do some devices. The postproduction was handled by three students at a film production studio of Zhejiang College of Industrial and Commercial Technology. They spent more than a month polishing and adding finishing touches. The postproduction gave the three young editors a lot of trouble. The video quality was worse than that of many cell-phone cameras. Of course, they did not charge a cent for the work.
“Lotus Monastery” has been screened to a limited number of people. Zhang has watched it. The first time he watched the film, what made him weep was not the story, but the credits showing the names of the 11 investor-benefactors who made his dream come true. The film will soon be submitted for a screening permit.