"Things didn't develop as you thought. You can't blame me. I've done what I should do."
After sending Chen Siqi away, An Jian sat alone in the room for a long time.
It was his wife who knocked on the door and asked him if he wanted to have dinner, so he came out to have dinner with his family.
After dinner, his little daughter pestered him to tell stories.
His wife saw that he was worried and knew that he had encountered something recently.
After returning from the "Silent Stairs" crew "due to illness", An Jian basically locked himself in his room, rarely leaving the room, and never leaving the house.
It was not until nine o'clock in the evening that he received the call.
"Lu Yanhe did not take over the director's position as you thought, and this is beyond my control."
"Of course, but you can still stand up and accuse Lu Yanhe , the reason why you left the crew of "Silent Stairs" was because he had a disagreement with you, so he kicked you out of the crew."
"That's not what we said before, and I did it too. Nothing like this will happen!”
"We never thought that Lu Yanhe would not take over." The other party smiled, "An Jian, you know what you did back then. You have done even more disgusting things than this. Why are you pretending to be me?" Ben Chunliang'? "
An Jian said angrily: "I just used Xin Siyang's script idea. Isn't this the case in the industry at that time? "
"There are many such things in the industry, but Xin Siyang committed suicide."
"His suicide has nothing to do with me. He has suffered from depression for a long time."
"How do you know? It has nothing to do with you?" The other party's tone was full of threats, "Maybe it was because you stole his screenwriting ideas and became the last straw for him?"
An Jian glared angrily.
"We already agreed that I would resign as the director of "The Silent Staircase", and you will no longer threaten me with this matter!"
"Director An, why are you so naive?"
An Jian smiled.
"If we hadn't been providing you with some jobs over the years, how would you have supported your family?" the person on the other end of the phone said, "Take those two movies of yours that no one has read and copied other people's scripts. TV series? ”
An Jian's face turned completely dark.
"Indeed, you are right about one thing."
"Huh?"
"Why do you think I am so naive?" An Jian put away his face. With an angry look on his face, he said, "Chairman Huang, if you are going to continue to threaten me with past events, then let's see who has the worse information."
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
An Jian stood in front of the window, looking at the dark night outside the window.
A cold light reflected from the window fell on his face.
Indifference, perseverance.
"I have fulfilled my promise. If you want others to see how you treat your promise, let's give it a try."
After An Jian said this Then he simply hung up the phone.
He stood there for several more seconds before coming back to his senses and letting out a long breath.
A cold sweat ran down my back.
“Dong Dong”, his wife knocked on the door again.
An Jian walked over and opened the door.
"Are you okay?" His wife looked at him worriedly and asked, "I cooked soy milk."
An Jian took the cup and smiled at his wife.
"The matter is over, let's watch TV together for a while."
His wife's eyes, which were still a little worried at first, immediately glowed with light.
“Okay, what are you watching?”
“Isn’t today Sunday? It should be playing at the Jump Theater, right? Do you want to watch it?”
"Okay."
There was a little more excitement in his voice.
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On the day Lu Yanhe set out for Malaysia, it rained heavily.
Originally, he thought the flight was going to be delayed. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the airport, the heavy rain stopped and the plane could take off on time.
He had just finished shooting a drama that only took a week to shoot, and now he was going to shoot a movie that he only had a week to shoot.
Lu Yanhe has always known that the filming time for the film and television projects he participated in was relatively short, but he did not expect that it would become shorter and shorter.
Wang Biao joked and said: "This time I joined the group, it feels like the time it takes to attend an event."
Usually when Lu Yanhe joins the group, he has four or five suitcases filled with all kinds of things. Things you need for food, clothing, housing and transportation.
But this time, Lu Yanhe brought a large suitcase, daily changes of clothes and toiletries.
However, Huang Tianlin originally hoped that Lu Yanhe could provide more shooting time.
But Wang Biao disagreed when communicating with them.
Because Lu Yanhe only has a few scenes in the script, there is not such a large amount of filming.
If the filming is really not finished, then it can be postponed any longer.
If more shooting time is given directly, then maybe Huang Tianlin will shoot other scenes in between, keeping Lu Yanhe waiting.
Wang Biao did this to ensure that Lu Yanhe’s work would not be neglected——
Although it seems difficult to imagine that there are still people who would neglect Lu Yanhe in the field of film and television drama work.
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Actually, Huang Tianlin also had complicated feelings towards Lu Yanhe.
If he says that he doesn’t want to cooperate with Lu Yanhe, it is definitely a lie.
There is no director in the world who wouldn't want to work with an actor like Lu Yanhe.
However, since it was confirmed that Lu Yanhe would participate in this movie, his producers and investors have all shown a fanatical attitude of "promise to Lu Yanhe whatever he wants."
This made Huang Tianlin feel very uncomfortable.
Not only did he feel that his authority as a director had been weakened, but more importantly, he felt a sense of unease.
It is as if, because of the participation of Lu Yanhe, the focus of this work suddenly fell on Lu Yanhe.
Neither the director nor the movie itself matters.
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"Tropical Rain" has been filming for some time.
The filming of this movie was quite difficult.
Huang Tianlin is a person who has very high visual requirements for movies.
For one shot, he could make the whole crew wait for four or five hours for daylight, just to wait until the light in the shot achieves the "moist feeling" he wants.
Because the last film was shortlisted for the Toronto International Film Festival, and this film also stars Lu Yanhe, he has sufficient funds for the production of this film.
If he wanted to, he could even take his time filming for four or five months.
Huang Tianlin himself is not a director willing to shoot in a very industrial style. Why must we finish shooting this or that scene today——
His planning is not that strong. Many times, the shooting plan just helps him figure out what scenes he needs to shoot.
Many times, he would even change the content of the original script when he got to the scene.
So, he originally hoped that Lu Yanhe could give him more time.
Although the character played by Lu Yanhe does not appear much, every scene is exciting, and it is the climax of the story of this movie.
The more emotional and tense the drama, the more he hopes to get every detail right.
However, Lu Yanhe’s team was only willing to sign a one-week performance contract no matter what.
Huang Tianlin was very angry.
Even if his producer said: "No famous actor can give you a long time to make your arrangements. For an actor like Lu Yanhe, you only have a few scenes in your script. It’s good if he can give you a week. Don’t forget, we don’t have much salary to give him.”
Huang Tianlin lost his temper again and said: "Then don't come to act!"
Producer: "If he doesn't come to act, where will your movie be sent? You don't want your movie to go The top four in the world? Are you going to Toronto again? Or to Tokyo or Busan?"
Huang Tianlin was silent.
"Tianlin, don't lose an extremely precious opportunity because of your arrogance."
"Your attitude towards him makes me feel that this movie does not belong to me anymore. I am just his servant."< br>
“No, it’s not that you are his servant, but that he is your nobleman. I don’t mean that you want Be grateful, but don't resist, don't reject him because of your pride, okay?" The producer said, "You are a director with unparalleled talent. You deserve to be on a bigger stage, but you need to be recognized. The opportunity that people see, Lu Yanhe is your opportunity."
Huang Tianlin looked calm.
The producer patted him on the shoulder.
"Lu Yanhe will be on the set soon. Think about it carefully."
"Brother Hai, why did you help me make my first movie?" Huang Tianlin suddenly asked.
Yuan Hai smiled and said, "I told you that you have the talent to make movies, so I am willing to help you make movies."
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Yuan Hai Hai still remembers the day when he discovered Huang Tianlin. Looking back, it was really a bit like a comic book or a movie or TV drama.
It was at a venture capital meeting.
It is the job of all producers to go to venture capital, especially independent producers like Yuan Hai.
He does not work for a large film company, but relies on the contacts and resources he has accumulated in this industry to work on projects one by one.
After finding a good project, I started to contact various film companies to obtain filming funds, find a director, and prepare a filming team.
There are actually many producers like Yuan Hai around the world.
The first thing Yuan Hai heard from Huang Tianlin was that he said angrily to another person: "You didn't understand what my script was about!"
Because Huang Tianlin spoke in Chinese, Yuan Hai took another look.
He saw a young, green face full of anger and dissatisfaction.
At venture capital meetings, faces like this are not uncommon.
Yuan Hai is ready to leave.
Suddenly, he heard the man standing opposite Huang Tianlin say in a condescending and sarcastic tone with utmost contempt: "Who do you think you are? Your script is rubbish. I can't even understand it. Why do you think others can understand it? I don’t know how many young people I see every year who are rich and think they are talented. They are arrogant and narcissistic. They don’t know that what you have is not talent at all, but cynicism.”
Huang Tianlin’s face turned red. They were blushing, and many people around were looking at them.
At that moment, Yuan Hai looked at Huang Tianlin and sighed softly in his heart.
Because he also came from the stage of a young man, he also experienced being ridiculed, ridiculed and laughed at in person. At that moment, Yuan Hai walked over.
"You have a script, right? Why don't you show it to me."
Originally, Yuan Hai just wanted to help Huang Tianlin out of trouble.
Huang Tianlin turned his head in disbelief when he heard what he said.
His eyes were bright, as if a flame suddenly burned.
Yuan Hai was thinking at that time that this young man was a little different from the people he usually saw who were unrecognized for their talents.
With some people, you only need one glance, a chance glance, and you will know that he may not be very eye-catching, but he is an artist who is incompatible with his surroundings.
If you weren't someone who was out of tune with this world, you wouldn't have those blazing eyes like a lion.
Looking at the script he wrote, it is crude and contains a lot of expressions such as "walking flames" and "silent boulders" that cannot be converted into images.
However, Yuan Hai felt something vigorous, fresh, and ready to come out from his script.
So, he began his first cooperation with Huang Tianlin.
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"Hello Yan He, we finally met. The last time you came to Malaysia, I was not here and you just went to Paris." Yuan Hai personally picked up Lu Yanhe at the airport.
He was enthusiastic and very polite to Lu Yanhe.
Lu Yanhe smiled and shook hands with Yuan Hai and said: "Hello, Mr. Yuan."
Yuan Hai was wearing a T-shirt and jeans, not like a producer from a big studio Suits and leather shoes.
"Director Huang is filming on site, so he can't come with me to pick you up." Yuan Hai said with a smile, "We have been waiting for you to come over."
Lu Yanhe smiled.
Judging from the last time I dealt with Huang Tianlin, he may not be so eagerly waiting for him to come over.
“I have wanted to come over for a long time. I originally wanted to come over a few days in advance to familiarize myself with the crew, but I took over a drama not long ago and just got out of the crew, plus some other things that haven’t been released yet. The completed work was done only yesterday "Finished." Lu Yanhe asked, "Mr. Yuan, how long do you plan to shoot "Tropical Rainy Season" this time?"
Yuan Hai said: "It is expected to take about 120 days. According to the current progress, it may take more than 120 days." A few days.”
Lu Yanhe was quite surprised when he heard this.
Mainly because except for "Fire", Lu Yanhe has basically never made a movie that took more than two months to shoot.
"Tropical Rainy Season" doesn't seem to be the kind of movie with multiple scenes and complex scheduling. Why does it take so long?
Before, Lu Yanhe only looked at how long he would take to shoot, and did not care too much about the shooting time of the entire movie.
Yuan Hai: "Because Director Huang has very high requirements for polishing each shot, he often shoots for five or six hours for one shot."
Lu Yanhe was even more surprised when he heard this.
Yuan Hai got into the car with Lu Yanhe and sat in the back with him.
He took out a tablet and handed it to Lu Yanhe.
“This is some material we have already shot, you can take a look.”
Lu Yanhe took the tablet and put on the headphones.
After seeing this, he realized why it took Huang Tianlin so long to make such a movie.
What is the texture of photography and vision in a movie? Every frame is annotated.
In the materials that have been shot for "Tropical Rainy Season", every shot and every person has a very high-end and delicate texture.
The texture of this picture reminds Lu Yanhe of the King of Sunglasses. He is also a director whose personal style can be clearly identified just by looking at the camera. Of course, the picture of "Tropical Rain" is not the same as his style. In fact, it is more like the softness of Japanese movies combined with the literature and freshness of Wes Anderson, presenting a delicate feeling like a still life oil painting. .
The children in the material have a large number of shots taken from various angles, from top to bottom shots from the stair railings, side shots from other people's perspectives, close-ups from the reflection of the glass... different The camera creates a child with different sides, a sense of secrets and stories.
But for a child to feel this way——
Lu Yanhe felt it was amazing.
After all, children are often the cleanest and easiest people to see through on the screen.
After watching, Lu Yanhe took off his headphones, smiled at Yuan Hai, and said, "No wonder it takes so long to take the photo. These lights... all look like natural light?"
Natural light and artificial light The light and shadow effects reflected by light are very different.
Lu Yanhe will always remember watching "The Revenant" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. How good that movie was and how amazing DiCaprio was in acting. He actually doesn't have much of an impression, but he remembers the true feelings that movie brought to him. The scenery is like a high-magnification documentary, and the breath you exhale seems to be so real that it hits your face, the tranquility, blue, leaden gray and tongues of fire in the true natural state.
“Director Huang’s last movie didn’t seem to adopt such a demanding lens language.” Lu Yanhe said.
Yuan Hai: "For the last movie, we only raised 200,000 US dollars to shoot that movie. For this movie, we got more production funds."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
Just like a chef's cooking skills also depend on the quality of the ingredients, a director's talent and skills also depend on whether he has the money to realize them.
Yuan Hai asked: "Yan He, after you finish filming this movie, do you have any other work arrangements?"
Lu Yanhe said: "There are some jobs that are being connected. I have to ask them for details."
< br>He motioned to Wang Biao who was sitting in the passenger seat.
“My work is all handled by them, and I don’t even know it very well myself.”
Yuan Hai: “Okay, if you have time after the filming, please give me a chance. Let me show you around Malaysia ”
Lu Yanhe said with a smile: "Mr. Yuan, you don't have to be so polite. After I finish filming, the crew should still have a lot of scenes to continue shooting, right?"
"Yes." Yuan Hai nodded, "Just spare two or three days. The time is still available "Yes."
"I don't dare. If you have time then, Mr. Yuan, just tell me which places are worth visiting. The crew is busy filming."
Between the two of us. All polite.
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Originally, the script of "Tropical Rainforest" was sent to Lu Yanhe, and it was picked up by Chen Ziyan, who was the one who wrote it.
Chen Ziyan wanted a script for a literary film. When Yuan Hai heard the news, he actively tried to make connections through people he knew.
Thus, this cooperation came about.
Yuan Hai is very positive about cooperating with Lu Yanhe.
Although Huang Tianlin has always been a little conceited and has a lukewarm attitude towards Lu Yanhe, Yuan Hai has shown great enthusiasm and welcome to Lu Yanhe from beginning to end.
All the way to the shooting location.
Yuan Hai first took them to the place where they were staying.
The shooting location was a remote village.
“There are no good hotels nearby.” Yuan Hai took Lu Yanhe and the others out of the car. In front of them was a very beautiful building with a courtyard. “This is my friend’s house. It has been cleaned by someone. You can live here for a while.”
Lu Yanhe walked in with some surprise.
He did not expect that in such a remote shooting location, far away from the city, there would be a log-style building that looked like it had just been built.
"Thank you." He said to Yuan Hai, "Are we free to use the rooms here?"
"Yes." Yuan Hai nodded, "But only on the first floor, second floor The rooms on the first and third floors are locked.”
Lu Yanhe nodded.
“The environment here is really nice, thank you.”
Yuan Hai: "I hope you enjoy shooting here."
Yuan Hai took Lu Yanhe around the house.
"Your friend must be very rich. He built such a building specially, but he seems to have never lived there."
There are very few traces of life in the house, and there are all kinds of equipment. , very complete, but not much traces of use.
Yuan Hai chuckled, "He flies all over the world and rarely has time to stop in one place. This house was a whim he had a year ago and thought he could retire here, so he started building it. ”
"Then he doesn't mind if I move in?"
"He doesn't mind. On the contrary, he is very welcoming." Yuan Hai said, "He has seen your movie, so he immediately responded to my request. I agreed. If you live here, it only takes about thirty minutes for us to go to the shooting location every day. If you live in the city, it will take one and a half hours."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
“It’s much more convenient to live here.”
“I don’t know what you need. Anyway, if you need anything in life, you can contact me at any time, or Just ask your agent to contact me." Yuan Hai emphasized again, "I hope your filming experience on the set of "Tropical Rainforest" will be a very pleasant and comfortable one."
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Lu Yanhe took some photos of this house and sent them to Chen Siqi.
Chen Siqi replied: Do you want to buy it? Where is this house?
Lu Yanhe: ...This is the place where the Malaysian crew arranged for me to live.
Chen Siqi: Oh, I thought you had taken a fancy to a house somewhere and wanted to buy it.
Lu Yanhe: Aren’t you coming to Malaysia soon? I'll send it to you. If you come over, you can stay here too.
Chen Siqi: I'll come over the day after tomorrow. You can send me the address then. I'll come over after I finish my work here.
Lu Yanhe: OK.
Lu Yanhe added: However, I think we can indeed plan what kind of house we will live in in the future.
Chen Siqi: What are you doing? Don’t you want to find someone to design and build a house yourself?
Lu Yanhe: This way the house can fully satisfy your ideas.
Chen Siqi: I don’t have so many ideas. I am a pragmatist.
Lu Yanhe: Don’t you have any imagination about our future home? Do you not love me?
Chen Siqi: ...You are enough.
Lu Yanhe laughed, the corners of his mouth raised high.
Wang Biao put the things away and saw the corners of Lu Yanhe's mouth raised on the sofa. He winked at Zou Dong and asked him to take a look.
Zou Dong glanced at it, with a smile appearing in his eyes.
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How thorough and detailed is Yuan Hai’s work?
He also specially arranged a person for Lu Yanhe during this time to be responsible for cooking and cleaning for Lu Yanhe and the others.
Wang Biao said: "Although this is a small crew, the producer has considered every aspect very carefully. All the quilts and mattresses here have been replaced with new ones, and local phone cards have been prepared for us. ”
This is because the place here is remote and the network may not be good in every place.
"Just, Brother Lu, can I ask you a question?" Wang Biao suddenly asked.
Lu Yanhe nodded: "If you want to ask, just ask. Why are you and I so secretive and hesitant?"
Wang Biao laughed and said, "Actually, it's not just It's just that others don't understand why you acted in "Tropical Rains", and I don't understand either, but I don't understand It's different. I think it doesn't matter if it's a small crew and a small budget. Many good movies are not made with high budgets. However, Huang Tianlin is obviously not very enthusiastic about you. Why do you have to endure someone who doesn't treat you that well? A passionate director, come to make such a movie?”
Lu Yanhe smiled.
"You think he is not warm and enthusiastic towards me, and seems as if I... don't care about my reputation and has lowered his attitude, don't you?"
Wang Biao said : "Yes, of course, I know Xiao Brother Lu, you always said that you don’t have to be too high.”
“Well, you can’t be too low either,” Lu Yanhe said, “But I don’t think I’m too low.”
Wang Biao was stunned.
"It's not that he really looks down on me, nor does he really want me to appear in his movies. All his rejection and resistance to me come from the fact that he is a new director who has just started, and I have already He is a famous actor, and he feels inferior and even anxious."
Lu Yanhe looked at Wang Biao seriously.
“If he was belittling my acting ability and contradicting me, I would give up the film without hesitation, but for a sensitive director with a flawed character, I actually don’t feel that way. Said...I'm not respected anymore."
Wang Biao was thoughtful.
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"Lu Yanhe is already here?"
After Yuan Hai returned to the set, Huang Tianlin saw him and the first thing he asked was Lu Yanhe.
"Yes, I'm already here. I just settled in." Yuan Hai said to Huang Tianlin, "After you finish filming, remember to say hello."
Huang Tianlin He sighed muffledly.
“Okay.”
Yuan Hai looked at him, "He spoke highly of the material you shot before and liked it very much."
Huang Tianlin was stunned and looked at Yuan Hai with some surprise.
"Didn't you expect that?"
Huang Tianlin curled his lips, "He was just being polite to you."
"Whether he was being polite, you can tell him later Got it.”
"Even if he likes it, he only gave us a week of shooting time." Huang Tianlin said to Yuan Hai.
Yuan Hai seemed to know why Huang Tianlin had always had such an attitude.
He didn't take it to heart.
He only said: "Tianlin, have a good time filming. "Tropical Rainy Season" is a good movie. Even if he only gives you a week to shoot, once you finish filming, he can take you to the international The Big Four."
"What then?"
"Then you will have the opportunity to become famous in the world of film circles." Yuan Hai said firmly, "At that time, tell me what you think of Lu Yanhe."
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"Monster Sword" is about to be signed, and those who want to make money can invest. (End of this chapter)