On this day, a very famous visitor suddenly came to the crew of "Love Letter".
Wintour Robey, Artistic Director of the José Film Festival.
He didn’t come here by himself, but was brought here by director Wang Zhong.
Lu Yanhe was surprised when he received the news from Director Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong invited Wintour Robey to China to participate in the Yuming International Film Festival in July through his personal relationship. The film festival has not yet started, so Wang Zhong invited Wintour. Er Robert has come to Jiangzhi.
Wintour Robey is a typical person who is not well-known at the public level, but is well-known in the film industry.
The artistic directors of the four major international film festivals are actually such people.
They control which films can enter the main competition unit, which films can be shortlisted for other units, and which films can only be rejected.
This is not just a matter of honor, for any film company, it involves interests.
If you are shortlisted for a film festival, OK, your film will have bargaining capital - this is especially true for those low-cost independent films.
At the beginning, the crew members did not know the identity of this foreigner.
Later, when the news slowly spread, a surprised question appeared in everyone's mind.
An idea that didn’t need to be reminded popped up in their minds: Is it possible that the movie "Love Letter" will be shortlisted for the Jose Film Festival?
No one dared to think so before Wintour Robey came.
Because many of them think that the script of "Love Letter" is very ordinary, it is a bloody youth love story.
It is also because many of them feel that Lu Yanhe is a director for the first time. Even if he has a certain reputation internationally, he will not be able to go directly to the top international film festivals. At most, he will be able to go to some other ordinary film festivals. circle, such as the Yuming International Film Festival that will be held soon.
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Lu Yanhe briefly told Wintour Robbe about the film he was filming, and introduced him to Chen Bige and Zhang Ruozhi.
In fact, Chen Bige has known Wintour Robbe for a long time. This time, Chen Bige also won the Best Actress at the Hollywood Film Festival with the movie "Rouge", and once again consolidated her position in the Chinese film industry. Prior to this, Chen Bige was already a representative filmmaker of Chinese-language films.
Lu Yanhe’s introduction was to introduce that Chen Bige is also the protagonist of this movie.
Looking at the entertainment industry around the world, there are not a few actors who have transformed into directors.
Wintour Robbe was not surprised that Lu Yanhe wrote, directed and starred in a movie.
After all, "Rouge Button" and "People on the Road", which were shortlisted for the Hollywood Film Festival, are both screenwriters by Lu Yanhe. He is obviously a young man with ideas and creative talent.
Wintour Robey actually admires Lu Yanhe very much.
As a newly emerging filmmaker in Chinese-language films, Lu Yanhe has made a lot of appearances in the international film industry in recent years. As artistic director Wintour Robey, although many people are eager to win his favor, he is also eager for new filmmakers who have the potential to become masters of the generation in the future.
To maintain its influence and status in the world film community, it is crucial for a film festival to constantly discover new blood and cultivate its own lineage of filmmakers.
Wintour Robey and Lu Yanhe went to see the recently shot material.
What I was watching happened to be the scene where Lu Yanhe and Zhang Ruozhi were in the library.
Zhang Ruozhi's deer-like eyes were as bright as a layer of paint in the dimly lit library room.
The look she casts at the window from time to time does not require a line at all.
Just such a picture, a shot, is enough to explain everything.
Film is the art of lenses.
And when she followed her gaze, beside the window, next to the white, light-transmitting curtains, a handsome and silent boy leaned against the window, looking at his hands expressionlessly. books inside.
This is the original shot, without any post-production light adjustment, color correction or filtering.
However, because the lighting requirements are very high when shooting, this was selected from several hours of material. Even the original footage is very beautiful.
Very cinematic, very subtle and beautiful.
Wintour Robey showed a somewhat surprised expression and said: "These shots are so beautiful."
For Wintour Robey, he spends every year There are so many movies to watch. He can be the artistic director of the Jose Film Festival, and his aesthetic vision for movies must be extremely high. When he said this, Lu Yanhe believed that in addition to his superficial goodwill, he must also be somewhat sincere. In fact, Lu Yanhe was very satisfied with the shots of the movie "Love Letter", which completely met Lu Yanhe's imagination.
The two photographers Liu Bige borrowed, Bao Wenliang and Wu Zhou, are strong and young, and their skills are really good. They all have ways to fulfill Lu Yanhe's request. Liu Bige spends very little time personally taking photos.
Wintour Robert showed surprise when she learned that Liu Bigo, the director of "Late Spring", was personally the photography director for Lu Yanhe's new film.
He didn't seem to have expected that a director of Liu Bige's level would actually come over to serve as a director of photography when he was at his peak.
Wintour Robey was on set for four hours.
When Lu Yanhe was filming, Wintour Robbe was also nearby, chatting with Wang Zhong, Liu Bige and Chen Bige, while observing curiously.
Just in time, this scene was filmed when the female Aijiki was on duty in the library. Another girl who was on duty with her liked the male Aijiki and wanted to confess her feelings to him. play.
This girl is an actress who came through the audition.
A girl from Jingyi, a freshman, is named Yifan, a very artistic name.
Lu Yanhe didn’t know if she changed her name later, or if her parents gave her this name when she was born.
According to Lu Yanhe's opinion, this girl is also very beautiful, but she is a different kind of beauty, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and lush hair made of a wig.
At first, the hairstylist thought Lu Yanhe wanted to make the girl look ugly. Lu Yanhe knew at a glance that the hairstylist had misunderstood him.
“You still have to be good-looking, but this girl has to be a little nerdy, a little paranoid, a little reckless and outright.”
Yifan was surprised to hear Lu Yanhe's positioning of the role she played.
"So does my character have such a setting?"
After she got the script, she originally thought that this was just a typical foil role.
As long as she has the opportunity to make a movie, and there are still many scenes and lines, she really wants to play even a supporting role.
Even Jingyi’s teachers agreed that she would come out to take on the drama - under normal circumstances, students at Jingyi are not allowed to come out to take on the role during their freshman and sophomore years.
This also shows that the teachers at Jingyi believe that their students will not suffer any disadvantages when they come to Lu Yanhe's crew to act.
One more thing, Lu Yanhe’s teacher is Luo Yuzhong.
Luo Yuzhong is from the Beijing Art Circle.
The teachers at Jingyi will naturally take more care of Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe said to Ivan: "Every character, as long as it appears in the script, must have a meaning for his existence. Otherwise, why bother writing about such a person?"
Ivan nodded thoughtfully.
"Look, our "Love Letter" actually has a large proportion of the ambiguity and feelings between boys and girls, right?" Lu Yanhe said, "The relationship between men and women Huai Jingshu is Not expressing one's feelings to each other, missing each other, and even It turned into an irreparable regret, but you dared to express your feelings and express your feelings directly. Even if you were rejected in the end and cried shamefully, it did not become your regret. There is a secret love and a confession Bai, and those naughty students who teased and teased them. For the female Aijingshu, your failure to confess is a memory of the male Aijingshu, but for you, in your world. Here, the female Aijing Shu is the supporting role, and you are yours Protagonist, you must first understand this character from your perspective."
Ivan took a deep breath and said, "I feel like I understand it, but I don’t understand it very well."
Zhang Ruozhi listened thoughtfully.
Lu Yanhe said: "It's okay. It doesn't matter if you don't understand. We can just shoot it a few more times."
On the set, Lu Yanhe was a director who was not in a hurry.
Because it was his first time as a director, Zhao Yuheng made a shooting plan for him in the summer, and the time was very generous. Lu Yanhe had enough time to shoot slowly.
Because, the actors filming in the summer are basically young actors, and they are basically actors with no filming experience. When filming in this situation, they will definitely need to spend more time getting familiar with and training them.
What makes shooting even more stressful is winter. There are many scenes and a lot of scheduling, including various scenes, studio shooting, outdoor scenes, and some scenes with a lot of people. However, correspondingly, the actors at that time were all very mature and very good actors. Chen Bige, Wan Xin, Li Songfan... were all actors who were very good at acting. This meant that there would be a lot less NG during filming. time, the efficiency will be improved a lot.
Wintour Robbe was shocked to see Lu Yanhe directing the actors on the scene and instructing various departments to make adjustments according to his requirements. The whole process was very stable and not irritable.
After all, Wintour Robbe actually knows very well that as a species, nine out of ten directors have a bad temper.
There is no way, the shooting scene is an extremely stressful environment, and there are few directors who will not be driven crazy by this environment.
Lu Yanhe was not driven crazy, just because he had done a lot of preparation work from the beginning, and all departments were controlled so that they did not dare to cause chaos in the open. Xin Zixing was in charge of logistics and finance, Luo Yuzhong went through the plans of each department several times to prevent Lu Yanhe from getting into trouble, and Liu Bige sat in charge of the scene. When Lu Yanhe couldn't express his instructions clearly, he was often the one to take the next step. A bridge of communication. And Zhao Yuheng, the experienced executive producer, helped Lu Yanhe solve all the problems and troubles. Lu Yanhe only had to ask for it, and then someone would help him realize it. Lu Yanhe really didn't feel pressured because he couldn't finish filming the movie.
Liu Bige said to Wintour Robbe: "If you ask people in our Chinese film industry, you will know how everyone evaluates him. Among many people In his eyes, he is a genius who can succeed in anything he does.”
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The news about Wintour Robey's visit to the crew of "Love Letters" was not kept secret. She is willing to disclose her itinerary in China, which is also increasing the influence of the Jose Film Festival.
So, the official account of the movie "Love Letter" posted a group photo of everyone.
Wintour Robbe, the artistic director of the Spanish Film Festival, visited the filming site of "Love Letter" and had an intimate exchange with Lu Yanhe, Liu Bige and Chen Bige.
This scene was also called by some media: Lu Yanhe’s international influence on philately increases by one.
In fact, this is not Lu Yanhe's influence, Wang Zhong brought him here.
Lu Yanhe himself never thought that inexplicably, many things would become his influence and his contribution.
After the news came out, people from several film companies, including Longyan Pictures and Ruyi Pictures, came to inquire whether "Love Letter" would participate in the Jose Film Festival.
Lu Yanhe could only laugh and laugh, and replied that the movie has not been finished yet, and he doesn’t know whether he will participate in film festivals in the future.
In fact, Wintour Robbe did send him an invitation, hoping that Lu Yanhe would send him a copy after he finished filming the film. He hoped that the film could be screened in Hollywood world premiere.
However, Lu Yanhe had not decided whether to do this. Because it is not that simple for a film to participate in an overseas film festival. It is also an economic expense.
If you are not shortlisted for the relevant units and just go to the premiere, then if you add up all these things, this trip may mean millions or even tens of millions of funds.
"Flowers on the Stars" went to the Jose Film Festival for its premiere, which cost a lot of money.
Can "Love Letter" be shortlisted for the official unit?
Wintour Robert didn’t say anything, and Lu Yanhe himself didn’t know for sure.
If it was just to go there to do a premiere and get some media coverage, Lu Yanhe felt that the effort and benefit may not be directly proportional.
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At this time, the summer season has entered into full swing.
New films are constantly entering the market, but most of them fail. Many films that have been produced for several years are sentenced to death in theaters in just two days.
The high risk and cruelty of the film market slaps every practitioner in the face.
The few dark horses that came out in the past have inevitably given rise to some optimistic thoughts in many people's minds.
Reality poured cold water on us.
Entering its third week of release, "City Raiders" has basically failed to make a dent in the box office, lingering at close to 300 million.
"Nine Yin" also failed to follow up, and a little dark horse seemed to have seen the end.
Currently, the only ones still running on the market are "Angry Crow" and "Angry Road". The long tail effect of these two movies exceeds the normal rules.
Especially the former, it's summer time, a lot of kids are on vacation, and they're bringing their families to watch this animated movie, and two or three people can buy a ticket. At the same time, many adults also come here to visit.
"Unfortunate" is running a little slower, but very steadily. The box office on weekdays can also maintain a drop of less than 10%. Entering its third week, the box office on weekdays has not dropped below 2,000. Ten thousand.
Jia Long said that it was mainly due to the fact that there were no new competitors among the new films released in the third week, which gave "The Journey" a new window to enjoy the dividends of the market.
At this time, "On the Road" also announced that the film will be released in five Asian countries including South Korea, Thailand, and Singapore on August 2. In Japan, it will be later due to convention. a little.
Actually, it is basically difficult for the movie "Journey on the Road" to get a good box office overseas, because the jokes, jokes and social environment contained in it can only be seen in the context of Chinese society. To be able to empathize.
The purpose of announcing the overseas release at this time is mainly to create a new round of publicity for the domestic release and to stimulate the market potential that has not yet been squeezed out - you see, this movie is already popular enough to be released overseas. Aren't you coming to see it yet?
After more than three weeks of filming, "Love Letter" finally ended its summer filming.
July has come to an end.
Lu Yanhe had a meal with all the members of the film crew, expressing his gratitude and posing at each table.
I won’t say anything unnecessary.
It’s not that it’s finalized, it’s still going to be filmed later.
Lu Yanhe also invited He Yunlan over.
This time the film was shot in Jiangzhi, especially the shooting at Jiangzhi Middle School. He Yunlan was very helpful in coordinating the filming.
He Yunlan is just a pity that the winter part of this movie was not shot here.
It may not snow in Jiangzhi in winter.
They had to find another place.
Lu Yanhe said to He Yunlan: "I still have a movie on hand, a fairy tale theme. I will continue to shoot it in Jiangzhi later. Then I will ask Brother He for your help again."
He Yunlan said: "We are still so hospitable to each other. What do you want to do? If you are willing to bring the crew to our place for filming, I know what I can do. I will definitely do it 100%."
Lu Yanhe and He Yunlan each filled a glass of local brew. The rice wine was drained in one go.
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The box office of "Awkward" reached 570 million.
A crime-suspense movie called "The Explosive Needle" was released and became a huge hit. It also got a first-day box office of 80 million when it was released on Wednesday.
The male lead Li Yuefeng almost destroyed his image, playing a skinny and persecuted person who escaped from a criminal organization.
The heroine Zhang Lan plays a charming boss lady who picks up this man who has passed out on the ground from the door of her house.
In order to get himself out of danger, the man played by Li Yuefeng pretended to be in love with her and asked her to help him get out of trouble, but she really fell in, and therefore, fell into the crisis caused by him.
Half of the filming schedule for "People on the Road" was lost in one fell swoop.
Lu Yanhe discussed with Jia Long and held a live broadcast to talk about the interesting things behind the film production. At the same time, he also revealed that there may be plans for a second part of "On the Road".
As a niche comedy-themed movie with a very good reputation, no one expected that the movie could achieve such box office results.
It can be said that this movie made the two main creators Jia Long and Lu Yanhe a lot of money.
In the long run, this movie may bring tens of millions in dividends to both of them.
At this time, it is actually reasonable that they want to develop a sequel.
Their announcement of this news was actually to further stimulate the box office performance of "The Lost Road".
However, Yannian Film and Television, the film's producer and distributor, is anxious.
What?
Sequel?
A highly acclaimed comedy movie that may have a box office of 700 million was about to develop a sequel, but you didn't tell them?
What do Lu Yanhe and Jia Long mean?
Do you want to bypass them for development?
Yannian Film and Television really didn’t expect that the movie “On the Road” would perform so well at the box office.
Many people in the industry also said that this movie was released at the wrong time. If it had been released during the Spring Festival, with the theme and reputation of the movie, it would have grossed at least one billion at the box office.
This is the compatibility between the subject matter and the schedule.
During the summer vacation, everyone’s interest in watching movies with this background theme is greatly reduced.
Just like in Hollywood in the United States, the schedule around Halloween must be reserved for horror movies.
There will definitely be no other movie trying to compete for the Halloween slot.
Because the audience will not choose other movies at this time.
Yannian Film and Television immediately contacted Lu Yanhe and Jia Long.
Why don’t you call us for the sequel?
We were the company that reached out to you when you couldn’t find anyone willing to give you the conditions you wanted for your movie.
Emotional cards fly.
But Jia Long just said lightly: "We don't want to experience another movie that was originally scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival and was suddenly informed that it had to make way for other movies."
The reason why "Unfortunately" was released in the summer is because Yannian Film and Television wanted to reserve all their promotional resources for the Spring Festival period for Cheng Shiyan's "Beetle Project 2." (End of this chapter)