Duras gives some advice on empty mirrors at the end of the novel.
She suggested that if you make a movie, you can shoot some scenes and use them as external elements of the film, a "countryside", the hometown of the characters in the book, and the hometown of the film.
She gave many examples:
The blue sky filled with starlight.
In the hazy night, there is an endless river with no boats in sight.
The sun rises from the river, illuminating the rice fields and the endless, silky white straight roads.
Children driving buffalo on the road.
A cruise ship between Tianshui, sailing along the endless rice fields on the shore.
Heavy rain. Landing on rice fields, rivers, and villages composed of thatched huts. Landing on a thousand-year-old forest.
Landing in the mountains on the border with Siam. It landed on the faces of the children who looked up to catch the rain.
The sky is blue after the rain, and the sky after the rain is transparent and clear, cloudless.
The cloudless blue sky...
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She felt that these images could be used as cutaway shots.
Since Yang Ye has watched the original version of "Lover", Yang Ye occasionally gives Jean Jacques some advice when scheduling the shots.
It's just a suggestion, feel free to listen or not.
However, these suggestions often coincided with Jean Jacques's thoughts, which shocked him.
From this, he deeply admired Yang Ye and began to take the initiative to discuss with Yang Ye.
Jean Jacques asked Yang Ye: "Nick, do you think these empty shots that Duras gave examples are useful for movies?"
Yang Ye thought for a while and said: "It is useful, because People living in cities have a beautiful pastoral imagination about poor and backward places, and they have a yearning like Ye Gong loves dragons.
In ancient China, there were some people known as landscape poets. They were keen on describing and poeticizing rural scenery. The dignitaries living in the city were very fond of these poems.
Although the era of poetry has passed, we have movies and lenses. We take these pictures and intersperse them in the movies. This will give those people living in the city a short-term tranquility in their impetuous hearts. . "
Yang Ye's point of view made Jacques feel very novel. He said: "There are also people like this in Europe. We call them lakeside poets. People can indeed get tranquility from their poems.
Yang, I find your idea of using lenses instead of poetry very interesting. Ms. Duras mentioned the concept of rurality, which shows that she also understands this truth. ”
Yang Yexin said, what’s the point? In a few decades, after the rise of short videos, there will be people who specialize in doing this.
There is a girl named Li Ziqi who beautifies rural life and makes videos, thus gaining huge traffic.
From this perspective, Li Ziqi is the contemporary Meng Haoran.
Of course, this is not to say that Li Ziqi can compete with Meng Haoran, but that what she does is essentially the same as Meng Haoran.
They are all poems about rural life, and after photoshopping, they are shown to city people to satisfy their fantasies about the countryside.
It’s just that one uses the lens as the carrier, and the other uses text as the carrier.
Jean Jacques felt that Yang Ye's words made sense, so he took people everywhere to photograph the pastoral scenery of the Mekong Delta.
Of course, not too many of them were used in the movie. They only serve as an adjustment and access lens, and will not take over the main focus.
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Although Yang Ye is the leading actor, his role in the movie is only half that of Sophie Marceau.
Because the movie also tells about the heroine’s school and family affairs, Yang Ye was not involved in these scenes.
So he lived a leisurely life in Vietnam, and in the end he simply split up into two groups:
Let Jacques take people to take pictures of the school, while Yang Ye took people to take pictures of the Mekong River scenery, and treat it as a trip.
In this way, the progress was very fast. After staying in Vietnam for about twenty days, the crew completed the filming and returned to Hong Kong to start shooting indoor scenes in the studio.
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At this time, Priscilla Chan has successfully signed with Baiyang Records, and the new album is being produced intensively under the auspices of Luo Dayou.
Yang Ye took the time to take Sophie Marceau to the recording studio to record the theme song of "Lover", the French version of "When You Get Old".
This song was written in French by Duras himself, and Yang Ye originally planned to let Teresa Teng record it.
But she had a big belly, so she forgot about it and let Sophie Marceau sing in the end.
Although Sophie is not a singer, she likes this song very much and is eager to try singing the theme song.
Yang Ye brought Sophie to the recording studio and happened to meet Luo Dayou and Priscilla Chan.
After Luo Dayou went to Hong Kong, he saw Hong Kong's professional royalty system and the Songwriters Association, as well as the city's tolerance for artistic creation. He swept away the decadence in the United States and became passionate.
He straightened his curly hair, threw away his sunglasses, and became a literary young man again.
Yang Ye asked casually: "How did the song recording go?"
Luo Dayou said: "I'm looking for someone to write lyrics." Yang Ye looked confused: "Is there any need to look for it? ”
There are not many talented composers in the Hong Kong music scene, but there are a lot of talented lyricists. There is no shortage of them.
Luo Dayou said: "Let me ask you something, if someone scolds you, how would you respond?"
Yang Ye raised his eyebrows and said: "Of course, beat him. Ah!"
Luo Dayou's face froze and he said: "It's not a personal grudge, what if it's a different philosophy?"
"Oh, what's the matter? Me?”
"I originally wanted to ask Lu Guozhan to help Xiaoxian write lyrics, and he agreed. But he was a guest on Radio Hong Kong two days ago and said that you have fallen."
Yang Ye was stunned: "How did I offend him? ”
Lu Guozhan is a master of Hong Kong poetry. He has written many classic lyrics and won the Golden Needle Award in 2015.
Luo Dayou said: "Lu Guozhan launched the 'No Love Song Movement' last year, and a lot of people originally responded. But you made a piece of "Kiss Goodbye" for Zhang Xueyou, which was all love songs. It was a big seller. His efforts were in vain and became a joke."
The "Non-Love Song Movement" was a new wave in Hong Kong's lyrics industry in the mid-1980s. The founder, Lu Guozhan, was tired of writing a large number of lyrics about love between men and women for a long time. Therefore, it is proposed to seek new breakthroughs in the field of non-love songs.
Although the idea was good, it ignored the market taste and violated business principles, and it soon came to nothing. Lu Guozhan was also boycotted by the record company and no longer asked him to write lyrics. Therefore, his interest waned and he faded out of the poetry world.
Luo Dayou explained: "He thinks that the "Under the Lion Rock" and "Pearl of the Orient" you wrote before are very wonderful and good words, but in the past two years, all you have written are bitter love songs that cater to the market. , you have fallen."
Yang Ye understood the reason and said nonchalantly: "Oh, so that's what happened. Just fall, as long as you can make money."
Luo. Dayou asked: "Aren't you angry?"
Yang Ye said: "There are many people who love me in this world, and they also scold me. Are you so angry? Oh, it's because he scolded me, so you Are you planning to find someone else to write lyrics? ”
Luo Dayou said: "That's what happened. After all, you are the boss, and we think we still have to worry about your face."
That's what Luo Dayou said, but Yang Ye didn't see it from his expression. Come out, as if you have something to worry about.
If he cares about Yang Ye, then he is not Luo Dayou. He is a person who wants to use music to change the world. Although his heart has become cold now, his arrogance is still there.
Yang Ye asked: "Lao Lu should rarely get lyrics writing jobs now, right?"
"Yes, after he launched the non-love song movement, he was boycotted by major record companies ”
"Then why did you ask him to write lyrics?"
"Because he has a high level of lyrics!" Luo Dayou said matter-of-factly.
"That's it, let's keep his words!"
"Brilliant!" Luo Dayou gave a thumbs up.
Yang Ye didn't take it seriously and said, "That's it! Come on, Xiannu!"
Priscilla Chan stood aside and listened to the conversation between the two. She admired Yang Ye's big heart and said sweetly: "I know, Mr. Yang!"
Priscilla Chan's first album after joining Baiyang Records Scheduled to be released on Christmas, the title song is a duet with Zhang Xueyou's love song "Lovesickness in the Storm".
This approach is to use Zhang Xueyou's popularity to promote Priscilla Chan.
Secondly, when Yang Ye was listening to songs with a certain dog in the original time and space, he once saw a comment:
There are many love songs sung by Jacky and the princess, but none of them are good. It would be great if they sang "Lovesickness in the Storm".
Yang Ye felt at that time that it made sense to ride on a horse!
Now that I have the opportunity to realize my dream, of course... make arrangements!
As for the original title song "Dancing Street", because it is a cover song, although the copyright was purchased and included, it was not featured.
Priscilla Chan is a newcomer that Bai Yang Records strongly supports. It would be too shameful if Bai Yang Records produced the first album for her and the title song was a cover of Ta Ma.
This shows that Yang Ye does not value her! Therefore, it is impossible for "Dancing Street" to be the main feature.
Priscilla Chan was a cover singer in her original time and space. Almost all of her well-known songs were covers of European, American and Japanese pop music, except for "Where Do We Meet in Life".
Yang Ye looked through Luo Dayou's music score before and found that he had already written this song, so he filled in the lyrics with a wave of his hand and made it the second hit of Priscilla Chan's new album.
With Yang Ye and Luo Dayou personally producing such classics as "Where Do We Meet in Life" and "Lovesickness in the Storm", it is difficult to imagine whether this album will be popular.
Zheng Donghan laughed and said that he had heard the sound of money falling.
Yang Ye stopped talking nonsense with them and started recording songs with Sophie Marceau.
After taking two steps, he suddenly turned back and said:
"There is a handsome guy named Aaron Kwok in the agency, who is a good dancer. I hired him to shoot the MV for Xiannu's "Dancing Street" as a backup dancer. Let’s go!”
Poor Aaron Kwok, Yang Ye finally remembered him, but he was just a dancer on the horse!
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Yang Ye being scolded by Lu Guozhan was just a minor episode, and he didn't take it to heart at all.
Besides, people just say that he is degenerate and writes love songs every day to make money. This is not a scolding, it is just telling the truth.
Yang Yexin said: "I will release "Queen's Road East" next year and swell your face."
Hey, didn't you just say you don't take it to heart? (End of this chapter)