"I heard that Maria will come today, but I don't know if it's true."
While queuing to enter, Selena kept looking into the concert hall, trying to find Maria Kay Li's figure.
Her boyfriend Paul laughed next to him, "I just heard someone say that Mariah Carey has indeed arrived at the scene."
"That's great, maybe She can sing on the spot.”
Paul shrugged, “I don’t know.”
For the premiere of "Sense and Sensibility", the organizers released a total of more than 500 tickets to the general audience, and Selena and Paul were two of the lucky ones.
Although the concert hall is large and can accommodate nearly 3,000 people, after all, it is a movie, not a symphony performance. In order to ensure the viewing effect, the organizer cannot open so many tickets.
In addition to the general audience, plus some staff, media workers, and some local guests, there were only more than 700 people on site, and even the first floor was not full.
Because there were not many people, the process of checking in and entering the venue was very fast. After a while, most people had entered the hall and found their seats.
Not long after Selena and the others sat down, the host announced that the premiere ceremony had officially begun.
The content of the ceremony was very simple. First, Bregman, the representative of the producer, took the stage to introduce the background and production process of the film, and then thanked all the people who produced the film.
During this process, Bregman’s words will definitely contain a lot of exaggerations to highlight how difficult it was to make this movie.
For example, when inviting An Li to be the director, Columbia considered it for a long time and praised An Li for a long time.
Then he introduced why Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and others were invited to participate in the performance. Finally, he also mentioned Zhou Yan, telling how difficult it was to invite Zhou Yan to score the music. Of course, he also mentioned Zhou Yan praised him.
After the production representative finished speaking, the host began to invite the creative staff to come on stage and let them share their creative thoughts and feelings about the film.
Zhou Yan also came on stage, but most of the time it was the director chatting with the leading actors. When the session was about to end, the host specifically cueed Zhou Yan.
"Y, it's rare to see you appearing on such an occasion. As the soundtrack director of this movie, can you talk about the soundtrack?"
Zhou Yan nodded and said from Emma Thompson, who was standing next to her, took the microphone and said, "When scoring this film, most of my inspiration came from Emma's script. I saw a lot of contemporary reinterpretations from the script, so in In addition to classical elements, there are also many modern elements in the soundtrack. "
The host smiled, "This is exactly what you are good at. As we all know, in your music, there is a mix of classical and modern music. The combination is very beautiful, so besides the style, can you tell me more about it?”
“I’d better not say too much, otherwise it will lack a sense of mystery when watching the movie. And the music is. It’s a very subjective thing, let the audience judge for themselves how the film’s soundtrack is.”
"That's right, okay, thank you very much for sharing."
After this part passed, the host invited a few lucky viewers to come on stage to interact with the creative staff.
These audiences were arranged in advance. Basically, they were all exposed to rain and dew, and all the creative staff present were taken care of, including Zhou Yan.
After this part was over, the host smiled and invited the creative staff down, but when Zhou Yan walked down, he suddenly said, "Y, please stay for a while."
After stopping Zhou Yan, the host smiled and said to the audience, "Many of the audience present must have heard a song recently, which is "Young and Beautiful" that has been dominating the charts some time ago. As soon as this song was released, it caused a huge stir. The response was such that it became the number one single in the first week of release and remained the number one for ten consecutive weeks.”
"Some people may not know that the original song of this song is the soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility". Y also happened to be here today. I would like to ask Y if he can fulfill everyone's wish and play this song for us on the spot. Music? We have prepared the piano for you."
Zhou Yan said with a smile, "I don't know how to play the piano. I hope you won't be too harsh on me."
Hear Zhou Yan. When she said on stage that she was not very good at playing the piano, Linda in the audience couldn't help but smile. She knew that Zhou Yan played the piano very well.
The host smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. If you don't play well, we will claim that the piano is not tuned properly."
Zhou Yan gave a thumbs up, "Very good suggestion."
"Now, the stage will be handed over to you."
Zhou Yan nodded, turned around and walked to the piano.
He did not sit down in a hurry, but bowed to the audience before sitting on the piano bench.
It was quite cold in Toronto in December. Zhou Yan only wore a suit, which was not very cold-resistant.
However, this program was arranged in advance, and Zhou Yan had already warmed up beforehand, so his fingers were not stiff.
He took a breath, then placed his hands on the cold keys.
Then a very brisk melody sounded. This was not "Young and Beautiful", but "Happiness" from the "Piano Boy" album.
This piece has a light, humorous melody and is very simple to play. It also allows Zhou Yan to get familiar with the piano and do a brief warm-up.
While he is warming up himself, he can also warm up the venue, arouse the audience's hearing, and pave the way for the subsequent performances.
After "Secret Joy", he followed up with "Tears" to slow down the rhythm.
Of course, he couldn't finish "Tears". He only played a short section and then continued with "Young and Beautiful".
There may be many people in the audience who have not heard the previous two songs, but when this song plays, almost everyone can recognize it. This song is so popular recently, TV , radio, can be heard everywhere.
After Zhou Yan finished playing the prelude, he suddenly stopped.
He sat on the piano bench and looked around below. Just when the audience looked confused and didn't understand what he was going to do, he put his hand on the piano again.
When the piano sounded again, a graceful female voice appeared on the scene.
"I'veseentheworld
doneitall, hadmycakenow
..."
When the female voice sounded, there was a burst of exclamation, because they heard it, it was Ma Leah Carey's voice.
At this time, Mariah Carey slowly walked up from the audience.
I have to say that it is really not easy for female celebrities. On such a cold day, Mariah Carey stepped out wearing a strapless dress.
The rhythm of the song is very slow, and Mariah Carey's pace is also very slow, as if every lyric is stepped on by her feet.
While singing the chorus, she finally walked up to Zhou Yan.
"willyoustillloveme,whenImnolongeryoungandbeautiful."
Although this is a concert hall, many people can't help but sing along in a low voice.
Selena is one of them, she loves this song so much.
Selena was originally a loyal fan of Mariah Carey, and this new song was particularly to her liking. When this song first came out, she would call the radio station every day to order it. this song.
She is actually not interested in movies like "Sense and Sensibility". She only paid attention to this movie because of this song. Now she can hear Mariah Carey singing this song live. , she felt like she was in a dream.
Compared to other singers of the same level, Mariah Carey actually does not perform many live performances, so the opportunity to hear her singing live is relatively rare.
Selena never thought that she would see Mariah Carey perform at a movie premiere. Moreover, Maria’s accompanist was Y-chou, the original composer. Although he is far less well-known in North America than Maria, he is a solid musician after all, which makes Selena feel particularly proud.
Just now Zhou Yan said that he was not very good at playing the piano. Selena thought it was true, but now she found out that she had been deceived. Could this mean that he could not play the piano?
Although Selina doesn't know much about piano, Zhou Yan's piano playing style is not comparable to that of ordinary piano players.
When Zhou Yan played the piano, he fit Selena's imagination of the piano prince.
No matter what kind of man he is, as long as he puts on a suit and plays the piano, he will give people a very handsome feeling, and Y-chou is indeed very beautiful.
An Li sat under the stage, watching the performance on stage, and could hardly hold back his words.
At that time, he chose to invite Zhou Yan to serve as the soundtrack director of "Sense and Emotion" for many reasons, the most important of which was of course that he valued Zhou Yan's musical talent.
But he never expected that there would be such a surprise. Even before the movie was released, the soundtrack was already popular all over the country.
No one needs to tell An Li how popular this song is. He can often hear this song himself.
Now the premiere ceremony has invited Zhou Yan and Mariah Carey to perform live, and the effect is really great. An Li has never thought that a premiere ceremony can have the effect of a concert. Come.
It's a pity that there are still too few spectators at the venue today. If the entire concert hall was full of spectators, the atmosphere would be particularly good.
But there is nothing we can do. If there are too many people at the scene, the viewing effect will be really bad. An Li even felt that the more than 700 spectators at the scene today were already too many.
And inviting so many audiences is not very friendly to local cinemas.
Actually, when he took over the film, An Li did not have high expectations for the film’s box office. After all, film adaptations of literary classics such as "Sense and Sensibility" have commercial shortcomings. .
If it weren’t for the good results of “Little Women” last year, Columbia would not have thought of filming “Sense and Sensibility”.
Although they have tried their best to make movies that are popular with ordinary audiences, it is very difficult to compare with those blockbuster movies.
And Columbia's box office expectations for this movie are not particularly high. Although the production cost is 16 million US dollars, they will be satisfied as long as the global box office can exceed 20 million US dollars.
After all, there are many ways to make money for a movie like this.
When they first started planning to shoot their movie, there were already copyright dealers in contact with Columbia about the copyright.
But these things are not urgent. The film has been submitted to the film festival. If it can win some awards at the film festival, the copyright will be sold easily.
Colombia made this film and found An Li. They originally had this in mind. They wanted to use this film to win awards at film festivals. An Li's achievements in film festivals are obvious to all.
Speaking of which, he and Zhou Yan can be considered rivals this time, because this time "Sense and Sensibility" and "Springtime of the Cowherd" were both selected for the Berlin Film Festival.
But generally speaking, An Li has a greater advantage.
First of all, "Sense and Sensibility" is a classic, with a literary buff bonus. In addition, An Li is a frequent visitor to film festivals and has won several awards before.
The most important thing is that Zhou Yan’s age is too disadvantageous.
Although the film festival does not set any age requirements for directors, so far no director in his twenties has been able to win the festival's grand prize.
At the age of thirty-six, An Li won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival for "Pushing Hands". He is already a very young director.
However, there should be no problem for Zhou Yan to be shortlisted this year. No matter how the film is produced, the Berlin Film Festival will definitely give Zhou Yan and Tomson Film Company a face and give them a quota of shortlists.
And An Li believes that Zhou Yan’s movie will definitely be very competitive.
Although he has not seen the original film of "Spring of the Cowherd Class", he knows Zhou Yan. Since Zhou Yan can send the film to the film festival, he must have some confidence in the film.
Just when An Li was thinking about the Berlin Film Festival, the performance on stage had ended, and Zhou Yan and Mariah Carey bowed down to greet the audience.
The audience applauded loudly, calling the two of them to perform on stage again.
But today is not a concert or concert after all, but the premiere of "Sense and Sensibility". It is impossible for the two of them to dominate the show, so the performance ends here.
After the performance, several guests came to the stage to deliver speeches, and then the official movie began to play.
……
After the movie started, most people focused on the movie pictures and storyline, but Linda pricked up her ears and listened intently to the music in the movie. As long as it was a song that appeared in the movie, she would not listen to any of it. miss.
Although Linda is a practitioner in the music industry, she rarely pays attention to the soundtrack of the movie.
But today she discovered that the soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility" was really surprising. In addition to "Young and Beautiful", there were many other eye-catching songs.
The songs Marianne sings are often accompanied by the song when Colonel Brydon appears, Elinor's song, the song when Colonel Brydon returns with Marianne in his arms during the storm...
< br>Every song in it fits the movie scene very well.
In many movies, excessive use of soundtracks can make people feel bored.
There are a lot of songs in "Sense and Sensibility", but they don't feel inconsistent at all. It makes people feel that soundtracks should appear in these places, and these soundtracks are just right.
In addition, what surprised Linda the most was that some of the songs in it felt like they could be made into songs with lyrics, especially the song that often accompanied Colonel Brendan.
Although that piece of music does not appear continuously and completely in the movie, it does appear in different places. If this piece of music is connected together, it will be like a complete song.
The whole song is full of regrets. It has a strong ability to stimulate emotions and is very pleasant to the ears. The last point is particularly important. A popular song must be pleasant to the ears and easy to remember.
In fact, not only Linda paid attention to this, Mariah Carey also paid attention to this.
She was very surprised that there was music in this movie that could be turned into a song.
So while watching the movie, she couldn't help but turn her head and look at Zhou Yan, who was not far away.
If she had heard this piece of music at that time, I am afraid she would have put it into the new album as well. I just don’t know if the results can be as good as "Young and Beautiful".
……
The premiere of "Sense and Sensibility" was very successful. After the movie was over, the audience stood up and applauded the movie.
Some guests also began to congratulate An Li.
After watching it, they knew that the movie would not be too bad at the box office.
And Zhou Yan, amidst the lively congratulations, was already on his way back to Los Angeles.
Because An Li and the others were surrounded by many people, he did not go to say hello to An Li, but just said to Bregman.
The two came together, but Zhou Yan had to go first. Although Bregman would also go to the concert to watch the performance tomorrow night, he didn't have to be in a hurry, as long as he arrived in Los Angeles tomorrow. (End of this chapter)