Chapter 72 He has also made movies (first update 3.4k)
Zhou Yan is used to arriving for appointments in advance. Chen Kaige told him that he should arrive before nine o'clock, and he arrived at Yanjing Studio at 8:20 .
Of course he was not the only one who came early. There were already five or six people in the director's office, chatting together at the moment.
As soon as Zhou Yan entered, these people looked over.
"Zhou Yan, here we come." Chen Kaige smiled and greeted Zhou Yan, and then introduced to a few people next to him, "This is Zhou Yan, the live music director of our crew."
Most of the people looked at Zhou Yan with curiosity.
Live music director, this position itself is quite strange, and Zhou Yan is a bit too young, so the word director is not closely related to it.
Chen Kaige introduced several people next to Zhou Yan.
“This is our screenwriter, Teacher Lu Wei.”
Zhou Yan smiled and walked up to shake hands with Lu Wei, “Hello, Teacher Lu Wei, long time no see.”
Lu Wei also smiled and nodded, "Well, long time no see, Zhou Yan."
Chen Kaige patted his forehead and said suddenly, "By the way, Zhou Yan spent some time in Chang'an Studio before, you should "I've met."
He was right. Zhou Yan and Lu Wei had indeed met at Chang'an Studio. Although they were not particularly familiar with each other, they had spoken to each other several times.
Chen Kaige introduced the woman next to Luwei to Zhou Yan, "This is the original author of "Farewell My Concubine", teacher Li Bihua."
Li Bihua is in her early thirties, wearing a pair of big shoes He wears black-rimmed glasses, looks unattractive, and looks a little reserved when he smiles.
"Hello, Teacher Li."
Zhou Yan greeted her, and she just smiled in response.
The other two people, deputy directors Bai Yu and Jin Ping, and Zhou Yan also greeted them one by one.
After getting to know each other, Chen Kaige said with a smile: "The office is too messy. Let's go to the conference room and wait. It will probably take a while for the others to arrive."
Arrived at the conference room , the deputy director Jin Ping was busy pouring water for everyone, while the other deputy director Bai Yu was responsible for picking topics and setting the mood.
The few people chatted for a while, and Zhou Yan also discovered that it was basically Chen Kaige talking to the two assistant directors. In addition, he occasionally made remarks, and Lu Wei and Li Bihua didn't speak much.
It can be seen that the relationship between the two screenwriters and the director is average.
Although Zhou Yan usually likes to take the initiative to stir up topics, he didn't want to talk too much in today's atmosphere. Sometimes it's not good to talk too much.
This slightly awkward atmosphere lasted until 8:50, until investor Xu Feng arrived.
“I’ve kept you waiting for a long time.”
Before Xu Fengren entered the conference room, her capable voice came in.
After entering the office, she greeted everyone very enthusiastically, leaving no one behind.
Although she only met Zhou Yan once, she was able to remember Zhou Yan and call him by his name accurately, "Zhou Yan, it has been more than half a year since we last saw each other at Teacher Zhao's house, right? "
Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Well, it was last year."
"It's okay, we can see each other more often during this time."
Xu Feng maintains the right amount of enthusiasm for everyone, and it is easy for people to like her, especially when she is a film investor. This enthusiasm makes it easier for her to win the favor of others from top to bottom.
The show of favor by a superior person is naturally more useful than the show of favor by an ordinary person.
After she arrived, the atmosphere became much better. Lu Wei and Li Bihua, who had been silent before, were both willing to speak.
After a few minutes, the office gradually became lively, and the two male protagonists, Zhang Fengyi and Leslie Cheung, also arrived at the scene.
Because there were too many people, it was naturally impossible to introduce them one by one on the spot. Everyone nodded and said hello and sat down, so Zhou Yan did not strike up a conversation with Leslie Cheung and the others.
Leslie Cheung was in his thirties, at the peak of his career. To Zhou Yan's surprise, Leslie Cheung's Mandarin was already very good, without much of an accent.
However, Zhou Yan didn't hear him say a few words. He seemed to be quite introverted in reality. It might be because he was new here and was not familiar with everyone. It would be better to get familiar with him later.
Compared to Leslie Cheung, the other leading actor Zhang Fengyi is much more cheerful. His laughter is the loudest in the room as soon as he enters.
Zhang Fengyi is one of the most familiar types. He can find something to talk to whenever he meets someone. And compared to Zhou Yan, his way of chatting with people is more aggressive. I know he's a rough guy.
He often crosses the line when he speaks, but most people think it’s due to his character and don’t take it to heart.
Zhang Fengyi doesn't have many works, but he is quite famous in China, mainly because his debut went very smoothly. He acted in "Camel Xiangzi" ten years ago when he was still in school.
Because it is a masterpiece and the filming was really good, the movie received a very good response at the time and was very popular in society. Zhang Fengyi suddenly became a well-known film niche.
At almost nine o'clock, just when Zhou Yan thought that everyone attending today's meeting had arrived, another bright figure appeared at the door of the conference room.
Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows when he saw the person coming. He did not expect that Dong Wenmiao would also come to the crew.
Today's Dong Wenmiao is very different from before. He has not left the ascetic style before. He has taken off the glasses that covered half of his face. He is wearing a refreshing white shirt on the upper body and a light blue shirt on the lower body. Colorful floral skirt.
Dong Wenmiao is not tall, but because of the high waistline of the skirt and the high heels, she looks quite slender.
Seeing Dong Wenmiao coming, Xu Feng stood up and waved to her enthusiastically, "Miao Miao, this way."
Dong Wenmiao nodded and walked over. It seemed that Xu Feng and Dong Wenmiao were very familiar with each other. As soon as Dong Wenmiao sat down, Xu Feng started talking to her enthusiastically.
Xu Feng's enthusiasm for Dong Wenmiao is very different from his enthusiasm for others, which can be seen from her hand holding Dong Wenmiao's arm.
Dong Wenmiao also noticed Zhou Yan sitting opposite her at this moment. She raised her eyebrows slightly and continued talking to Xu Feng.
Zhou Yan smiled, thinking that she was saying hello to him when she raised her eyebrows.
At nine o'clock, the meeting officially begins.
Zhou Yan originally thought that today's meeting would be about the director and producer arranging tasks and coordinating work for other departments, and nothing else.
But he never imagined that there were many places in the script that were not well coordinated.
There were several times when Lu Wei and Chen Kaige had arguments because of different opinions on the script. Of course, they were both more restrained and the arguments were relatively minor. After a few lines of argument, they didn't say anything more.
Zhou Yan always felt that Lu Wei didn't think highly of Chen Kaige.
Although Lu Wei doesn’t have much contact with Zhou Yan, he also knows that he is still a person who cares about the situation. Before, in Chang’an Studio, he had a good relationship with ordinary employees and had no airs. It’s not that A person who likes to preach dogmas and argue hard.
There is also Li Bihua, who usually does not speak at all. Only when Lu Wei is criticizing Chen Kaige, she will follow behind and give Lu Wei a few words.
As for Chen Kaige, he doesn't seem to have a good impression of Li Bihua. He has a crooked mouth to begin with. If he displeases someone, his mouth will become even more crooked, which is very obvious.
The entire creative team seems to be incompatible with each other... no, not even in appearance. Only Xu Feng keeps mediating in the middle. Fortunately, she is the boss's wife, so everyone listens to what she says.
Zhou Yan feels that the core of this crew is not the director Chen Kaige, but the investor Xu Feng.
If Xu Feng hadn’t been in the middle, this team might not even be able to form.
In a two-hour meeting, nearly half of the time was spent discussing the script, and the other half was basically spent on arranging tasks for the actors and other trivial matters. There is nothing about the soundtrack.
I mentioned a few words about clothing, but not much.
And none of the script issues that were discussed were resolved.
When the meeting was over, Zhou Yan felt that it had been a lonely meeting. The only thing that was certain was that several filming locations were selected, namely Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall, Dacheng Hall of Confucius Temple, Ditan Park and Fu Jen. University.
A series of nodes such as the shooting start time were not given.
The meeting was held at nine o'clock. By the time the meeting ended, it was already eleven o'clock. Xu Feng arranged for them to go to the hotel for dinner.
Zhou Yan rode here by himself. The hotel was quite far away and it took too much time to ride there, so he followed the proprietress Xu Feng's car, and Dong Wenmiao was also in the car.
When they got to the car, Zhou Yan smiled and said to Dong Wenmiao, "I didn't expect Teacher Dong to be in this crew."
Dong Wenmiao nodded, "I didn't expect you to be here either."
< br>Hearing the conversation between the two, Xu Feng was a little curious, "Miao Miao, have you known Zhou Yan before?"
Zhou Yan explained with a smile, "Previously director Zhang Yimou filmed "Raise the Red Lantern" , Teacher Dong and I are both here."
Xu Feng nodded, "By the way, Miaomiao, you also helped in "Raise the Red Lantern" before. That movie was quite hard, it was so remote. This place is much better. It’s in Yanjing City.”
Then Xu Feng looked at Zhou Yan again and said with a smile, "I heard from Kai Ge that you did a soundtrack for another movie of theirs during this period?"
Zhou Yan nodded, "Yes, Wang Junzheng The director's "Reply from Heaven" has been filmed and is now in post-production."
Xu Feng said with a smile, "It's not bad. You can stand alone at a young age. When I see you, I feel like I have already. Old. "
When a woman says she is old, she probably wants to hear others say she is young.
Zhou Yan naturally understood this truth. He was just about to praise Xu Feng when he heard Dong Wenmiao suddenly say, "He has made a movie before."
Hearing this, Zhou Yan looked at Dong Wenmiao in surprise, who had no special expression on his face.
The reason why Zhou Yan was surprised was that Dong Wenmiao said this at this time, as if he wanted to recommend him in front of Xu Feng, but Dong Wenmiao had a strange temperament, and Zhou Yan couldn't figure it out.
Xu Feng was indeed interested, "Zhou Yan, have you ever made a movie? Has it been released?"
"It's just a short film, it can't go to the cinema." Zhou Yan said modestly.
“Short films are not easy, directing is not something ordinary people can do.”
"Mainly thanks to the two directors Zhang Yimou and Hou Xiaoxian. I learned a lot from them on the crew at that time. Later, Director Hou supported me and contacted Time Company to sponsor me to complete the film."
Zhou Yan said this , not to be modest, but mainly to show Xu Feng his own strength without showing anything, and let Xu Feng know that his short film was not shot casually, but that it had the full help of two internationally famous directors.
This trick really worked, Xu Feng became more interested in his short film, "Do you have a copy on hand?"
Zhou Yan shook his head, "No, the film is in Chang'an Studio After cutting it, it was sent directly to Time Company without me. "That's a pity, I really want to see your film." Xu Feng looked a little regretful, and then she laughed again. He got up and said, "But it doesn't matter. I can ask Mr. Qiu to come and see you later."
Zhou Yan didn't tell Xu Feng about the award-winning "Antfly". He took the initiative to say it himself, which had no effect. Mainly, he was not in a hurry to get a chance with Xu Feng, as long as it could be buried in Xu Feng's heart. Just one seed will do.
With Time Company, he doesn’t have to worry about finding investment for his next short film project for the time being.
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