Chapter 356 Sophie's Choice
Yang Ye arrived in China with the "Kill Bill" crew and was warmly welcomed by Beijing Film Studio.
The level of domestic film shooting is extremely backward these days. You can learn a lot from the teams in Hong Kong and Hollywood.
Nakamori Akina also arrived in the capital at this time. She had always wanted to film, so Yang Ye arranged a small role for her in "Kill Bill."
A beautiful girl killer with side bangs, shawl hair, baby make-up, wearing a sailor uniform, knee-high white socks, and is good at using flying chains.
She has a duel with Adjani in the movie!
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After arriving in the capital, the group went to Xiangshan non-stop to shoot exterior scenes.
Yang Ye did not choose to shoot at the Tomb of Prince Chun, the original filming location of "Kill Bill".
Because at this time of year, the red leaves in Xiangshan are all over the mountains and fields, which makes it more beautiful to take pictures.
However, the actors suffered a bit, because the average temperature in Beijing in November was only 10°C, and in order to better demonstrate the martial arts movements, the actors could only wear thinner clothes.
Yang Ye had no choice but to shoot for two hours at noon every day when it was the warmest, and then call it a day.
Otherwise, it would be troublesome if Ajani becomes sick from the cold.
The white eyebrow in "Kill Bill" is a forced king.
In order to enhance his character, the movie uses a special scene to tell his story.
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At night, a bonfire was burning in a ruins.
Bill (Yang Ye) sat on a broken piece of wood, holding a flute in his hand, playing a few times casually while telling Beatrice (Adjani) the story of Bai Mei.
Adjani lay on her side opposite the bonfire, leaning on her hands and listening with a smile.
“A long time ago, in China. It is said to be in... 1003 AD.
One day, Bai Mei, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, was walking on the street, thinking about questions that only a peerless master like Bai Mei would think about.
In other words... no one knows what he is thinking. "Bill spread his hands.
"Giggle! "Beatrice was happy. She looked at her lover with a smile, admiring his little humor.
"At this moment, a Shaolin monk came towards him.
Just as they passed each other, Bai Mei...
He nodded kindly to the Shaolin monk, almost inscrutably.
But this nod received no response.
Is that Shaolin monk deliberately humiliating Bai Mei?
Or did he not understand Bai Mei’s kindness?
The monk's true intention is unknown, the only thing known... is the consequences of what he did.
The next morning, Bai Mei came to the Shaolin Temple and asked the abbot of Shaolin to draw his sword and kill himself as an apology.
At first, the abbot wanted to appease him, but found that Bai Mei's anger was hard to get rid of.
After that, the White Lotus Sect went on a killing spree and bloodbathed Shaolin. No monks in the temple were spared.
Since then, there has been a legend that Bai Mei knows the unique martial arts of Five Thunders Pierce the Heart..."
Beatrice listened with interest and couldn't help but sit up and said: "Can you Can't you tell me, what exactly is the Five Thunders Pierced Heart Palm? ”
Bill played with the flute in his hand and said: "Anyway, it is... the most deadly move in martial arts!"
Bill said and gestured with one hand: "If he attacks you with five fingers, you will be hit. Five different internal forces, and then he will let you go, but within five steps, your heart will burst and you will fall to the ground and die!"
"Did he teach you this trick? "
"No, his Five Thunder Heart Piercer Palm has never been passed down to others. Having said that, what I appreciate most about you...
My dear, you look older than your actual age. Smart, so, remember what I said...
No matter what Bai Mei says, you must obey him. If you dare to show the slightest disrespect, he will immediately dig out your eyes.
If you piss him off in the American way, he'll break your spine like a twig. "
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In the next scene, Adjani is going to become a disciple.
Yang Ye warned: "Remember, never ridicule, never contradict, At least the dock will be like this for a year or two, and you have to let Baimei slowly accept you.
He hates white people, despises Americans, and looks down on women! So, people like you... take some time. "
"Goodbye! "After Yang Ye finished speaking, he drove away in a broken car.
...
Beatrice carried her luggage and slowly climbed up the steps.
< br>On the top of the mountain, a white-browed Taoist with white hair, white eyebrows and white beard, wearing a white robe, is meditating.
Beatrice knelt down and said respectfully in Chinese: "Master!"
Bai Mei opened her eyes slightly and complained: "Your Chinese is so bad, I can't understand it at all! I don't understand I asked you to speak, so don’t say anything. Can you speak Mandarin? "
"I'm Japanese!"
"I didn't ask you Japanese. , I asked you if you can speak Cantonese."
"A little bit!"
"You are here to learn martial arts, not to learn how to speak. If you don't speak Chinese, I will treat you like a dog! Is your master Bill?"
"Yes!"
"Your master said that you have studied martial arts. What have you learned?"
"I am proficient in Japanese kendo."
"Huh! Japanese kendo? Are you kidding? Japanese kendo is worse than anything... You can speak Japanese? I hate Japanese people the most!”
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After a dialogue scene was played, Luo Lie played Bai Mei's arrogance and arrogance to the fullest.
Yang Ye praised: "It's very good, Lao Luo, he acted so well!"
Luo Lie has been acting for decades, and it's easy to play such a tough king.
However, Luo Lie is now working for Yang Ye, and he can act cool, but he doesn’t dare to show off to Yang Ye. He smiled and said: "Young Master Yang, you are flattered."
Yang Ye clapped his hands and said: "Ready, let's start filming!"
The next step is Baimei trying Beatrice's swordsmanship. In the original version, the heroine used Chinese swordsmanship and also held her back. Jianhua, this is obviously wrong.
So Yang Ye revised it to the point where the heroine uses Japanese kendo to challenge Bai Mei, and then is completely tortured by Bai Mei.
For this purpose, a long-handled sword was placed on the weapons rack.
After everyone was ready, Yang Ye ordered: "Lao Luo, remember, you must be aggressive and arrogant enough!"
"No problem!"
Yang Ye turned back and told Adjani: "Now you are facing a peerless master, so if his kung fu is displayed, you must show a surprised look."< br>
“Understood!”
“Okay, let’s start!”
After Yang Ye finished speaking, he handed the scene to Yuan Heping and sat back to the monitor.
While watching, he chatted with deputy director Zhang Jinzhan: "Director Zhang, when will the Japanese-style izakaya I want be built?"
"It will be completed within half a month!"
"Thank you for your hard work!"
Zhang Jinzhan was sent by Beijing Film Studio to assist the crew of "Kill Bill" this time, and was responsible for overseeing all the work of Beijing Film Studio's co-production and on-site execution.
This man graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and was in the same class as Zhang Yimou. He was later given the title "China's First Assistant Director".
Because this person has been working as an assistant director throughout his career, mostly on big projects.
For example, Brother Kaizi's "Walking and Singing", "Farewell My Concubine", "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin"...
Lao Mouzi's "Hero", "The City Is Full of Gold" A"...
Li Yin's "Lust, Caution", Chen Kexin's "The Call to Action", John Woo's "Red Cliff"... Zhang Jinzhan spent a few days with Yang Ye, and felt that Yang Ye had no airs, so he said; "Yang Ye Director, I think you are different from other directors.”
"Oh, what's different?"
"You are completely creating, not doing manual labor."
"Is it possible that other directors do manual labor?"< br>
“I have also worked with several groups. Compared with them, you are completely ‘acting as a director’, while the directors I worked with before had to spend 70% of their energy on various practical matters. As for chores that have nothing to do with the director.”
“That’s because my team is highly professional and can perform their duties, so I naturally don’t need to intervene in everything.”
"Also, it's incredible that you don't work overtime during the filming and take holidays on weekends."
"This is not surprising. In Hollywood, everyone is like this. People are not machines. They need to rest and have fun. . ”
Speaking of rest, as a Chinese, it is really a bitter experience.
Before joining the WTO in 2001, except for civil servants, the vast majority of Chinese people basically had no concept of rest. They worked until death all year round and only took a few days off during the New Year.
The so-called "weekends" were still a condition for joining the WTO, but in the end they were in vain and were not complied with at all.
fraud!
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While Yang Ye and Zhang Jinzhan were chatting, Ajani had been tortured to death by Luo Lie.
Because Bai Mei is a peerless master and Beatrice is a rookie, when the two compete, Beatrice is always easily knocked to the ground by Bai Mei.
For the sake of filming effect, Adjani could only be thrown to the ground over and over again, leaving her in disgrace.
This made Yang Ye quite distressed. He looked at the time and saw that it was already past three o'clock, so he shouted: "Ka! Let's stop here today and call it a day!"
After he finished speaking, the stage manager quickly took the down jacket. He stepped forward to put it on for Adjani, but Adjani refused to accept it and said stubbornly: "Director, I can still continue filming."
Yang Ye pointed to the sky and said, "We still have to go down the mountain."
Then he couldn't help but say: "Pack up, rest for twenty minutes, and then go down the mountain!"
Everyone started to pack their things, Yang Ye waved to Adjani and said: "Don't be so brave, come and sit! ”
Zhang Jinzhan saw this and quickly moved out of the way.
Adjani came over obediently. Yang Ye let her sit on his little horse, took out a thermos cup and said, "Drink some hot tea!"
The weather is too It was so cold that Adjani's white skin turned into red skin. She took a sip of hot tea and immediately felt much better.
Yang Ye said: "Don't show off, your health is important."
"I got it!" It felt good to be cared for.
Adjani drank hot tea, looked at the red leaves all over the mountains and fields, and praised: "This place is so beautiful, it makes me feel like I'm in Canada."
Yang Ye smiled lightly and said: "Would you like to go hiking tomorrow weekend? The Great Wall?”
“Okay, I was in a hurry last time. I only went to Sichuan and didn’t even visit the capital.”
……
In China. In the capital of , Adjani, a delicate French rose, was taking her time filming movies, and when she had free time, she and Yang Ye would visit the places of interest in this ancient capital.
In the capital of France, Sophie Marceau, another delicate French rose, is struggling to borrow money from everywhere to terminate her contract with the company in order to make a movie.
Not long ago, she received a movie script called "Wild Love" handed to her by the great Polish director Andrei Polanski.
The story comes from "The Idiot" by the great Russian writer Dostoyevsky, but the background of the story is moved from the Tsarist Russia to modern France.
Because there were a lot of fruit scenes in the script, it was decisively rejected by Gaumont Company, which did not want to damage Sophie's image of an innocent girl.
But... 18-year-old Sophie Marceau is in her rebellious sophomore period, and she is unwilling to accept the mercy of the company.
She wants to try something different, she wants to be herself!
She dismissed the company's attempt to threaten her with moving out of the contract, so she decided to raise her own funds and terminate the contract with the company.
The instigator of all this, the shabby driver, is an old fox, who is twenty-six years older than Sophie.
Now he is calm and silent, waiting with peace of mind for this little French beauty to fall into his arms!
The shabby driver’s philosophy of picking up girls is not to take the initiative, not to refuse, and not to be responsible.
He always treats everything in the outside world calmly. No matter how the outside world questions him, he never explains.
He did not give Sophie any advice or decision, he just told Sophie: Be yourself!
Then Sophie brought her own dry food and ran towards him without thinking about her own safety.
Axiba, you are really a high-level horse rider, the king of picking up girls!
To be honest, Yang Ye's methods are a bit far behind this one.
Both of them "kill people and kill their hearts", but the price Yang Ye pays for picking up a girl is a hundred times higher than that of a shabby driver.
However, Yang Ye's wealth is ten thousand times higher than that of a shabby driver, so he doesn't really care. If he has money, don't spend it, but keep it to buy a coffin?
Moreover, the shabby driver just waits and waits for the beautiful woman to come to his door. The target is relatively random.
Yang Ye took the initiative and targeted the female stars he had lusted after in his previous life.
Not only does he want their people, he also wants their hearts, and he also wants them to give birth to monkeys for him.
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Just when the shabby driver thought he had a plan, something happened, and a spoiler joined in.
In a cafe in Paris, Jean-Jacques appeared in front of Sophie, bringing with him the work that had just won the Goncourt Literary Prize, "The Lover" by Marguerite Duras.
The Prix Goncourt is the highest literary award in France. Unlike the Mao Dun Literary Award in China, it is also a guarantee of bestsellers.
Every November, after All Saints' Day, freshly released Goncourt Prize-winning works will be placed in the most conspicuous places in major bookstores in France. Many French people will habitually buy a copy. .
Jean-Jacques solemnly said: "Miss Sophie, I plan to put "The Lover" on the big screen. Ms. Margaret Duras will personally serve as the screenwriter. I hope to ask you to play the heroine Jane."
Sophie was shocked: Such a pie-in-the-sky thing actually fell on me?
The Goncourt Prize for "The Lover" is still hot, and Duras is a writer and screenwriter that Sophie admires.
As early as twenty-five years ago, Duras became famous all over the world with "Hiroshima Mon Amour", which even broke the French box office record at that time.
Sophie doesn't want to make those boring campus movies. She hopes to make more in-depth literary and artistic movies, and "Lover" is just such a movie.
Compared with Andre plagiarizing Dostoevsky's ideas and moving passages from the novel to modern Paris, "The Lover" written by Duras himself is undoubtedly more original.
Sophie was in trouble. She hesitated and said: "But... I have agreed to star in "Wild Love" directed by Andrei Polanski."
"Have you signed a contract?"
"Not yet!"
Sophie is seeking to terminate the contract with Gaumont Company. Before that, if she signs a contract with the junk driver without authorization, the consequences will be She couldn't afford it.
Sophie asked: "When will you start shooting?"
"Next summer, we will go to Vietnam to shoot. You know, this story takes place in the summer."
"Can I... first After filming "Wild Love", will you film "Lover" again?" Sophie asked hesitantly.
Jean Jacques shook his head and said: "No, the production company hopes that "Lover" will be your breakthrough performance. If you finish filming "Wild Love" first, this breakthrough will not exist. ”
Jean Jacques’s intention was very clear, both movies must be taken off.
If I had taken off my clothes first in "Wild Love", then I would have lost the gimmick of taking off my clothes for the first time in "Lover".
This is a huge loss for the production company of "Lover".
So, Sophie can only choose one of the two.
Sophie was very confused: "Excuse me, which production company is it?"
"Three film companies: EMI Pictures, Hollywood's United Artists, and Hong Kong's Poplar Pictures Produced and distributed worldwide! ”
Sophies are all stupid. EMI is the largest film company in France, United Artists is one of the eight major film companies in Hollywood, and Topol is the largest film company in Asia.
As a film practitioner, she certainly knows how powerful these companies are.
"Can I... think about it?"
Sophie wanted to say loudly: "I do!"
But after all, she agreed to the shabby driver first, as a human being To be trustworthy, she decided to talk to the junk driver first.
Jean Jacques said calmly: "Of course!"
(End of this chapter)