Chapter 70 The Wind of the Kite (7.1k)
This piece of music is much shorter than "Kite". Chen Kaige felt that it was less than two minutes and he listened to it in just a while.
After the song ended, Wang Jun was rewinding the tape and listened to it again.
Although Zhou Yan said before that there is still one song that has not been recorded, in fact, in Wang Junzheng's view, the soundtrack work for "Reply from Heaven" is almost completed.
In addition to "Kite", Zhou Yan also wrote more than a dozen pieces of music for "Reply from Heaven". These pieces are not long, some are only a few seconds long, and some are only twenty or thirty seconds long.
Such a large number of songs should be enough for a movie lasting more than an hour.
As for the last piece of music Zhou Yan mentioned, he did not elaborate on it, so Wang Junzheng thought it would be as short as the previous short paragraphs, but he did not expect that it turned out to be such a big surprise.
Chen Kaige heard summer in the song, while Wang Junzheng heard more about childhood, her own childhood.
When he was a child, Wang Junzheng was a tomboy, still a child, "running around" in the streets and alleys with other children in the yard every day.
In a trance, it seemed as if the old street scenes of Yanshi decades ago came to her through time and space. The names of Xiao Nier, Er Mao, Da Zi... each of her childhood playmates also gradually changed in her mind. Gotta get clear and dance with the notes.
After the second song ended, Wang Junzheng let out a long sigh of relief, and then smiled, "Zhou Yan, you gave me another surprise! I can't wait to see the song dubbed into the movie. This song What's it called?"
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Wind."
"What's the wind?"
Because of the movie. It was shot in spring, and there were no scenes of summer, so Zhou Yan did not use the original name of "Summer" and changed it to "Wind".
This song will be used in the movie when two children are chasing and playing in the alley, and the grandfather is chasing behind them. Zhou Yan originally wanted to name it "Chasing the Wind", but after thinking about it, he removed the word "Chasing" and left only one wind.
"Feng, it's pretty good." Wang Junzheng smiled and nodded, and asked Zhou Yan, "Do you have time tomorrow morning to record the final version of the song?"
Zhou Yan If the sound quality of the music recorded with the Walkman does not meet the requirements, it cannot be directly edited into the movie. Professional equipment must be used to record the final version.
"No problem." Zhou Yan nodded: "Then I will go over and record the music tomorrow morning."
In fact, in addition to the piano, Zhou Yan also needs to add a little violin to this song. But it doesn't matter. The soundtrack was originally recorded in separate tracks. He can handle it by himself without having to find anyone else.
However, Zhou Yan couldn't handle the final recording of "Memory of the Forbidden City" alone, and he couldn't play the drums well.
"Okay, you sit here for a while, I'll go to the editing workshop to take a look."
Wang Jun was unloading the tape from the radio cassette player, and then walked out of the office with the tape. She wanted Go to the editing workshop and listen to the song "Wind" in front of the film.
After she left, Chen Kaige said with a smile, "It can be seen that Director Wang really likes this piece of music."
"As long as Director Wang likes it, the music is mainly for Film Services.”
Chen Kaige took out a cigarette from his pocket and pretended to give one to Zhou Yan. Before Zhou Yan could refuse, he lit the cigarette himself.
When Wang Jun was in the office, he had some scruples and didn't dare to light up a cigarette. Sister Wang had a bad temper. She would start a fight if she couldn't stand it, and she wouldn't save anyone any face.
Lighting up the cigarette and taking a comfortable puff, Chen Kaige smiled and said, "Zhou Yan, if we have the opportunity in the future, we will also cooperate."
The cooperation he mentioned was naturally Ask Zhou Yan to serve as the soundtrack director, rather than like this time in "Farewell My Concubine", Zhou Yan was just the second in command of the soundtrack team.
The previous song "Kite" and today's song "Wind" made Chen Kaige salivate. If such a good song is used in a movie, it will definitely add a lot of points to the movie.
Chen Kaige has already thought about it. If he makes some more tender movies in the future, he can ask Zhou Yan to cooperate. His talent in this area is obviously outstanding.
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "There should be a chance."
He also reviewed in his mind the movies that Chen Kaige later made. If he considered it from the perspective of soundtrack, I'm afraid it would be "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and "Changjin Lake" can interest him a little.
In his opinion, the possibility of collaborating with Chen Kaige in the future is probably not very high, so his smile just now was somewhat perfunctory.
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"Dong Dong."
In the office building of "BJ Literature", the editor-in-chief Liang Jinguang was reading the manuscripts sent by each group in his office. Suddenly he heard a knock on the door and raised his head.
There was a young man standing at the door. He was not tall and looked to be in his mid-thirties. Liang Jinguang had never seen him before.
"Hello, is this Editor Liang?" the man asked with a smile.
Liang Jinguang raised his eyebrows, "Are you Huang Jianxin from Chang'an?"
The man smiled and nodded, "Yes, it's me. I called you before."
"Come in and sit down." Liang Jinguang stood up with a smile and poured a glass of water for Huang Jianxin, "I'm going to call you this morning." I was wondering when you would come over."
Huang Jianxin took the tea cup and said with some embarrassment, "I was supposed to arrive in Yanjing last night, but there was something wrong on the road, so we didn't arrive until noon. "I'm really sorry."
"It's normal to be delayed by something." Liang Jinguang smiled and waved his hand, and then got down to business, "You said on the phone that you were impressed by "The Knife in Clear Water." Interested, do you want to make it into a movie or a TV series? "
"Movie"
When he heard that he was going to make a movie, Liang Jinguang also raised his eyebrows, "I am naturally happy and supportive of the works published in our magazine being adapted into movies, but you also know that film and television licensing is the author's business, so you need to do this Talk to the author."
Huang Jianxin nodded, "I know this, so I also want to get Teacher Zhou Chan's contact information from you."
Liang Jinguang thought for a while and said. , "It's not good for you to go to him directly. Some authors don't like others to rush over and disturb them. Let's do this. I'll ask someone to explain the situation to him first and ask for his opinion. If he is willing, you can meet. Let’s talk. If you don’t want to, forget it.”
“Is Teacher Zhou Chan in Yanjing now?” Huang Jianxin asked.
"Here, if you are not in a hurry to do other things, just wait in our club for a while. If you have other things to do, come back tomorrow."
"Then I'll wait for a while."
Huang Jianxin came to Yanjing this time just for "The Knife in Clear Water", so he naturally hopes to finalize the matter as soon as possible.
Before coming, he thought it would be best for the magazine to give him Zhou Chan’s contact information, and then he would go directly to Zhou Chan to talk about licensing his work.
But he didn’t expect that Liang Jinguangting protected the writer’s privacy and was unwilling to give him Zhou Chan’s contact information directly. In this case, he could only wait.
Then Liang Jinguang went to tell the novel team and asked them to find someone.
...
Zhou Yan chatted with Chen Kaige for a while, and before Wang Junzheng came back, he said goodbye to Chen Kaige and returned to school.
As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Zhou Yan saw Hua Yang sitting on the stool beside his bed, staring down at the ground in a daze.
"Editor Hua, why are you here?" Zhou Yan asked in surprise.
Hua Yang raised his head when he heard Zhou Yan's voice, and a smile suddenly bloomed on his face, "Zhou Yan, I have waited for you to come back."
Seeing him like this, Zhou Yan was also curious, "Why are you waiting for me?"
"Good thing." Hua Yang stood up and walked to Zhou Yan's side, grabbed Zhou Yan's sleeve, "Hurry up and follow me to the club. "
Zhou Yan was confused by his actions, but he still followed him out the door. After walking a few steps, Hua Yang explained, "A director came to the club today, it seems. I am very interested in "The Knife in the Clear Water", and the president asked me to come over to you."
"The Knife in the Clear Water?" Zhou Yan looked confused, "Didn't this just be published?" br>
“So, it’s warm.”
Zhou Yan asked again, "Which director is it?"
Hua Yang shook his head, "I don't know the specific name. I only know that my surname is Huang and that I am not tall."
That's all. , Zhou Yan couldn't guess which director it was.
Actually, he didn’t really want to make this trip. Logically speaking, since the other party wanted to ask him to authorize his work, he should pay him a visit. There was no reason for him to make the trip. This was not a good idea at all.
However, due to Hua Yang's kindness, Zhou Yan didn't say anything and followed Hua Yang to their magazine by bike.
When they arrived at the club, Hua Yang took Zhou Yan to the reception room.
Because the waiting time was relatively long, Huang Jianxin could not stay in Liang Jinguang's office all the time, so he chatted with Liang Jinguang for a while and was taken to the conference room by Zhong Xinghua, the leader of the novel team.
Zhou Yan followed Hua Yang into the reception room. When he saw Huang Jianxin, he was surprised and said, "Brother Jianxin?"
On the way just now, he was wondering who this Director Huang was. , but I didn’t have a clue after thinking about it all the way, and I didn’t expect it to be Huang Jianxin.
Huang Jianxin is the director of Chang'an Studio and lives in the same dormitory as Liu Qing.
During that time, Zhou Yan, Huang Jianxin and Liu Qing played cards every night and became very familiar with it.
The main reason is that Huang Jianxin and Liu Qing have a very good relationship. They both entered Chang'an Studio in the same batch. One is in the props team and the other is the scene recorder. They are both very inconspicuous positions.
However, Huang Jianxin performed very well and rose all the way. In 1985, he independently directed the feature film "The Black Robe Incident", and won the Best Debut Film Award at the New Era Decade Film Awards for this film.
Since then, he has officially embarked on the path of directing, and later made the movie "Reincarnation". This film was sent to compete abroad. Although he did not win any awards, it also saved him a lot. fame.
Liu Qingze has always been a prop master. Their life trajectories are completely different, but their relationship is still very good. When nothing happens, Huang Jianxin will buy some liquor for Liu Qing to drink. .
When Zhou Yan lived in Chang'an Studio, he drank with them twice.
Huang Jianxin was chatting with Zhong Xinghua when he heard Zhou Yan's voice and turned around. The expression on his face was even more surprised than Zhou Yan's, "Zhou Yan?!"
Then what did he think of? , the whole person seemed to have had his butt taped, and he stood up with a look of disbelief on his face.
“You are Zhou Wen, Zhou Wen is you?”
Zhou Yan smiled, “Brother Jianxin, are you talking to me? Is Zhou Wen my pen name? Wrong, are you Director Huang?”
The other two people present were also confused. Zhong Xinghua asked, "Director Huang, do you know Zhou Chan?"
"Yes, of course we do. We are roommates."
As soon as these words came out, Zhong Xinghua and Hua Yang became even more confused.
These two people are actually roommates? What roommate?
Seeing the confusion on their faces, Huang Jianxin explained with a smile, "Zhou Yan spent some time in our studio before, and he lived in our dormitory."
Although Huang Jianxin thought his explanation was quite clear, Zhong Xinghua and the others were still full of doubts.
Why did Zhou Yan go to Chang'an Studio? He also lives in the same dormitory with Huang Jianxin. Isn't he a student of the Composition Department of Yangyin University?
Although he still didn't understand, Zhong Xinghua didn't ask further. He just smiled and said, "Since you know each other, it's easy. You two can talk directly about the film and television licensing matter. Let's talk directly. You can use this reception room as you wish.”
“No, no, since it’s Zhou Yan, let’s go talk somewhere else.” Huang Jianxin smiled, then turned to Zhou Yan and said, “Old Liu and the others are still here. I’m waiting downstairs.”
After that, Huang Jianxin went to say hello to the editor-in-chief Liang Jinguang, and then went downstairs with Zhou Yan.
...The Delica van from Chang'an Studio was parked behind the "Yenjing Literature" office building. When Zhou Yan and Huang Jianxin walked to the side of the van, Liu Qing was already asleep on a pile of fabrics in the back row.
Zhou Yan patted the window and shouted at the top of his voice, "It's on fire."
Liu Qing woke up suddenly and looked inside the car first. Then he stretched his head and looked outside. He didn't see any fire, so he muttered, "Where is the fire? You're just talking nonsense to me."
After saying that, Liu Qing fell back to sleep.
But as soon as he lay down, he jumped up again and stared at Zhou Yan blankly.
"Zhou Yan?"
His voice was full of doubts, "Am I dreaming?"
Huang Jianxin had already sat on the passenger seat and turned to Liu Qing said, "Old Liu, you are not dreaming. This is Zhou Yan. Get up quickly and drive. Find a place to fill your stomach. The two buns you ate for lunch have melted completely now."
Liu Qing turned over and got up and asked, "Is your matter settled?"
"It's done, but it's not done yet."
"How about playing riddles with me? Have you got it done?"
Huang Jianxin smiled and said, "You drive first, and we'll talk on the way."< br>
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"So, the article "The Knife in Clear Water" was really written by you?"
Twenty minutes later, in a shabu-shabu restaurant on the roadside, Liu Qing looked at Zhou Yan with wide eyes. They never expected that the writer Huang Jianxin came all the way to find was Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan smiled, "Didn't you collect letters for me before? I thought you knew that I submitted articles to magazines."
Liu Qing raised the corner of his mouth, "I You know what? There are so many letters every time, how can I look at them one by one? And even if I saw the letter from the magazine, I would never have thought that this novel was written by you."
Huang Jianxin poured meat into the copper pot with a smile, "Old Liu, I am going to criticize you. You have seen Zhou Yan receive the letter from "Yanjing Literature", and you also know the author of "The Knife in Clear Water" It’s called Zhou Chan, so why wouldn’t you think that Zhou Chan is Zhou Yan?”
“Who knew he received the letter from “Yanjing Literature”? Liu Qing muttered, and then said, “I just asked. You, when you heard Zhou Yi, did you think of Zhou Yan at all?”
Huang Jianxin defended himself, "It's not like there's not even half of it..."
"Huh." Liu Qing didn't believe it at all, and looked at Zhou Yan again, "Zhou Yan, your pseudonym is really ugly, what is Zhou Wen? There is nothing better than dystocia to hear where to go..."
Huang Jianxin pulled Liu Qing and said with a serious expression, "Old Liu, pay attention to your tone. The person sitting in front of you now is not the one who used to be with us every day. The little brother Zhou Yan we hang out with is Zhou Chan, a well-known writer. If I can’t get the authorization for this movie, it’s all up to you.”
Zhou Yan laughed, “Brother Jianxin, don’t be shy. I haven’t published a few novels in total, so what’s a great writer?”
Huang Jianxin joked, “You are not satisfied with this. How many novels can you publish in “Yanjing Literature” at the age of twenty? Personal? ”
Liu Qing nodded seriously, "Yes, this is really powerful."
Zhou Yan was startled when he saw Liu Qing's serious expression, thinking that he had found new material for this fan.
Huang Jianxin took out a large piece of mutton with chopsticks from the copper pot, put it into Zhou Yan's bowl, and said with a smile, "Then about this authorization..."
"No problem." Zhou Yan He responded very simply, and he also accepted the new mutton brought by Huang Jian.
Hearing Zhou Yan’s promise, the smile on Huang Jianxin’s face became even brighter, “I knew your brother was reliable.”
Liu Qing imitated Huang Jianxin's tone just now and yelled strangely, "What are you kid? His kid's name is Teacher Zhou."
Huang Jianxin did not argue with him and nodded very cooperatively, "Hey, Teacher Zhou."
Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, "Why are you swearing?"
After saying this, the three of them laughed.
“Come, have a drink.”
Huang Jianxin picked up the wine glass again, and the three of them clinked their glasses.
They were not in a hurry to go back today, and Liu Qing didn't have to drive, so he also drank.
After a glass of wine, Huang Jianxin talked about the licensing fees, "It seems that licensing fees are increasing this year, but our funds are indeed not enough. What I can give you is only three thousand "
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Three thousand is enough."
Three thousand was definitely a high price a year and a half ago.
At that time, the licensing fee for Su Tong's "Wives and Concubines" was 4,000, which was already the highest price in the country.
But over the past year or so, the market has continued to rise, and three thousand is no longer considered high.
Of course, it cannot be said to be low. The current film and television licensing fee for a novel is basically this price.
Actually, this thing is not accurate, it depends on who is making the movie.
Huang Jianxin wants to make "Knife in Clear Water" without corporate investment. The studio will pay for it himself, so the budget must be average.
However, for example, Zhang Yimou signed a contract with Time Company, and Chen Kaige cooperated with Tomson Films. The funds are provided by these companies, and the budget must be much higher. It is not impossible for the licensing fee of the work to reach as high as 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
Actually, even if the price is lower, Zhou Yan doesn't care. Huang Jianxin is a potential stock. He later directed two historical blockbusters, "The Founding of the Party" and "The Founding of the People's Republic of China."
Taking a step back, even if Huang Jianxin is not a potential stock, Zhou Yan is willing to give Liu Qing a friendly price just because of Liu Qing's face.
Hearing that Zhou Yan had no objection to the price, Huang Jianxin picked up his wine glass and drank one alone with Zhou Yan, "Zhou Yan, to be honest, I feel like I'm in a dream today. When I came here, I kept thinking about this week. What kind of person is the production teacher? Is it easy to communicate? "
"He didn't lie." Liu Qing testified to Huang Jianxin from the side. "He kept mumbling about this along the way. ”
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "When will this plan start?"
"Let's think about the script first. The factory has been very busy recently. The shooting will be arranged later." Huang Jianxin sighed slightly.
“It’s all a waste of time.” Liu Qing seemed to be drunk, and he slapped the table while talking, “Didn’t our time this year be wasted by Lao Mouzi? If it weren’t for him, would we have Are you so busy?"
Zhou Yan heard him mention Zhang Yimou and asked curiously, "By the way, when I went to Chang'an at the beginning of the year, you said that filming of "Chicken Feathers in a Place" was going to start. What's the situation now? Going to Yudu?"
"Go!" Liu Qing sighed deeply, "He's back again. With just one word, dozens of us have been staying in Yudu for such a long time. The movie was not filmed, and it was said that it would not be filmed.”
"What do you mean?" Zhou Yan asked confused.
"What do you mean, you are just fooling around because you are a great director!"
Seeing that Liu Qing was a little dizzy from drinking, Huang Jianxin took the initiative to take over the conversation and said, "I heard it was Director Zhang didn't find the feeling of filming in Yudu, and then he saw another novel, which was particularly interesting, so he changed his position and is now preparing to shoot this novel. "
Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes and asked. "What novel?"
"Wanjia Lawsuit." Huang Jianxin said a name.
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows. Sure enough, Zhang Yimou would eventually shoot "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit". Before, he was still thinking that his arrival would change Zhang Yimou's director career so quickly. Now it seems that he has overthought it.
Actually, Zhou Yan really wants to see changes.
He has already seen Zhang Yimou's "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", but he has not seen Zhang Yimou's "Chicken Feather". If he could see it, it would be a new experience.
He also understood why Liu Qing had so many complaints.
From Zhang Yimou's point of view, he follows his inner feelings, shoots only when he feels it, and poses when he doesn't feel it. This is respect for art.
But from the perspective of these staff members, they have spent so long on this project, and now it changes at any time, which is indeed very uncomfortable.
Some people are more tolerant. Anyway, they are just getting paid. No matter what I shoot, it is not a shoot. No matter how you change it, it will not affect my salary, but Liu Qing's character obviously can't do it.
Zhou Yan sighed slightly. The reality is that when a director becomes famous, there are naturally countless people behind the scenes who have to make sacrifices.
"Come on, keep drinking, don't care about those trivial matters."
Liu Qing patted the table and started clinking glasses with Zhou Yan and the others again.
In the second half of the meal, it turned into Zhou Yan and Huang Jianxin pulling Liu Qing to stop drinking too much. However, no matter how they tried, Liu Qing finally drank himself down.
Liu Qinghe didn't worry about anyone else when he lay down, he just lay down on the table and fell asleep.
Looking at Liu Qing who had fallen asleep, Huang Jianxin said with a smile, "This guy just talks about working in Director Zhang's crew, but he is more serious than anyone else."
Zhou Yan nodded. He agreed. Liu Qing was the kind of evil person on the surface.
“Brother Liu is a sweet-tempered person, and I especially like to deal with people like him.”
"Otherwise, how do you think we have gotten along after all these years?" Huang Jianxin smiled, burped again, and then asked Zhou Yan, "Has your "Antfly" been sent for awards? Is there any result now? "
Zhou Yan scratched his head. He also knew that Time Company was going to take "Antfly" to participate in the film festival, but he didn't know exactly which film festival or project it would participate in.
It is impossible for Era Company to contact him specifically for this matter, unless there is a good result in the end. If a small project like this is to participate in a film festival or competition, I won't spend money to hire director Zhou Yan.
Zhou Yan’s round trip abroad may cost more than the filming of the movie itself.
“Actually, I don’t even know what competition I participated in.” Zhou Yan said truthfully.
Huang Jianxin also understood the situation and nodded, "I heard that I participated in more than one film festival, including the famous Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, and a short film festival in Brazil, but I can't remember the name. I heard Director Zhang mention it before. "
"Well, he has more contact with the era and knows more than me. "
The more famous French Clermont Fe. Zhou Yan had never heard of the Lang International Short Film Festival, let alone the Brazilian Short Film Festival. Even Huang Jianxin couldn't name it. It must be a small award.
Huang Jianxin smiled and said, "I heard that the Brazilian film festival starts around July, so I asked you if you have any results."
Zhou Yan shrugged, "I didn't get any news. , if it has been held, it should not have won any awards. Is the Clermont International Short Film Festival in France very famous?”
Huang Jianxin said with a smile, "Of course it is famous. It has been held for more than ten years. It can be said to be the largest international short film festival in the world and the second largest film festival in France after Cannes. If "Antfly" can win this award , then your worth is different."
Zhou Yan became interested and asked, "When will this film festival be held and what are the requirements for participating?"
Huang Jianxin thought for a while. , said, "It should be winter. I haven't really studied the specific competition requirements. You have to ask Time Company about this. They have dedicated people to study this."
Zhou Yanruo has something to say. He nodded thoughtfully, he could pay attention to this Clermont International Short Film Festival. It had been a long time since he had contacted Hou Xiaoxian and the others. He could find time to call Hou Xiaoxian and ask.
Huang Jianxin saw that Zhou Yan was interested in the Clermont International Short Film Festival, and said with a smile, "There is still some hope for "Antfly"."
Zhou Yan also smiled, knowing that Huang Jianxin was comforting him.
"Antfly" is good, but it may not be worth winning the grand prize. The whole short film does not express enough things. The key lies in the imagination at the end. This kind of film will suffer a lot when participating in film festivals. of.
If he really wanted to perform at the Clermont International Short Film Festival, he would have to try other works.
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