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12 years ago, the producer of "Farewell My Concubine", Ms. Xu Feng, the owner of Tomson Pictures, once commented on the director of Kaige: "I appreciate Chen Kaige's 'self' when he was filming "Farewell My Concubine", but "self 'It can't be too strong. If the director is too self-centered, he may not be able to shape every detail of the film...Chen Kaige's choice of script is not accurate enough.

"He is a very proud person. At first he thought that "Farewell My Concubine" was a very popular story, but he refused to accept it. After my 200 hours of lobbying, Chen Kaige, who had considered it for a year and a half, finally accepted the filming. Back then When I saw the script of "Feng Yue", to be honest, I didn't like it, but he insisted on shooting it, and the later results proved that my feeling was right.

"It's best not to let Chen Kaige choose the story when making a movie, because the movie he really wants to make will definitely not be good, and the movie he doesn't want to make will definitely have a good effect after being persuaded by us. "Farewell My Concubine" is a good example .”

And Cheng Yu'an's evaluation of him has never changed: "A born poet and artist, with the best text interpretation ability and artistic aesthetics in China, if he is obsessed with the creation of art films, he is very likely to become a pioneer like Akira Kurosawa." Everyone who is famous in history, but "Farewell My Concubine" made him and ruined him. Director Chen's ability to create business stories is very poor, and he needs a super strong and superb creative team like Xu Feng and Lu Wei 20 years ago. Only by holding on can he make a good film.”

But the problem is, after "Farewell My Concubine", there is no one who can hold Chen Kaige.

"Along with the Gods" has already scored [-] million box office in its first release. Faced with such a result, Chen Kaige chose to change the topic.

You talk to him about achievements and competition, and he tells you about feelings and hardships along the way:
"It took six years to make such a movie. How many six years are there in a person's life? But at this time I thought, should I also regard myself as a dervish, because I have movies like this?" A belief can guide me to endure humiliation, to be diligent, not to be vulgar, rich and honored, not to be obscene, powerful and not to be subdued, and poor and humble to be moved. In the past six years, I feel that I have become a dervish, and I am a beggar , I want to keep doing it.”

"I want to tell everyone that even the most ordinary staff, without you, there would be no movie. The movie was made by all of you, not me, Chen Kaige." Chen Kaige said, "After a movie comes out, there are always people who like it. , if someone doesn’t like it, I will face everything with a calm heart.”

Look at the speaking level of the director.

But he still didn't directly respond to the reporter's question, ""Along with the Gods" surpassed 9 million in the first weekend, is "The Legend of the Demon Cat" a lot of pressure?"

But the director said it like this, and the reporter was too embarrassed to ask further questions.

In the Oriental Movie Metropolis, after the production crew of "Mulan" moved to Qingdao, it will take a few days to set up, and work will not start so soon.

Cheng Yu'an arranged a screening of "Legend of the Demon Cat" for the crew to watch.

"Are you an enemy?" Liu Yifei said.

"It definitely doesn't count." Cheng Yu'an denied his wife's statement, "Apart from the company's movies, I can't watch anything else?
"This film is not bad. I heard from my colleagues who came back from the screening that director Kai Ge performed very well this time." …

Cheng Mufan seems to like "The Legend of the Demon Cat" very much. While watching it, Yiyi barks and asks his parents what it means to act in it from time to time.

But after watching it for half an hour, Cheng Mufan became impatient and wanted to go out.

Liu Yifei couldn't help it, so she asked her assistant dy to take her out to play.

"Legend of the Demon Cat" is relatively long, more than 2 hours.

Liu Yifei cried again after watching it!

In fact, Cheng Yu'an was also very moved after watching this film, but Cheng Yu'an wanted to save face and didn't show too much in front of the crew.

"I like this movie." Liu Yifei walked out of the cinema, holding Cheng Yu'an's arm and walking back, the little girl walked in front wearing thick clothes, "especially what Bai Juyi said to Kong Hai: 'Understood? You just walked into this room Just say you understand, you know what hard work is before you have tasted the torture of me writing poems and begging for one word in the cold winter night!'”

After watching it again, Liu Yifei can actually remember the lines so clearly.

"After Bai Juyi said this, tears came down my eyes."

These words of Bai Juyi can easily resonate with creators.

Cheng Yuan was also very touched by this sentence.

Cheng Yu'an looked at her daughter who was walking slowly in front of her, and said with a smile, "I also like "The Legend of the Demon Cat". This should be the best movie after the opening song director "The Promise"."

"The Legend of the Demon Cat" is followed by "".

From a director's point of view, Cheng Yu'an not only looks at the story, but also the structure, photography, art, expression of thoughts and so on of the entire movie.

"However," Cheng Yu'an expressed his concern, "The audience will definitely feel that the two parts of "Legend of the Demon Cat" are too separate."

"Yes, yes, I also have the same feeling." Liu Yifei agreed with this statement, "The story of Bai Juyi, Kong Hai, Chen Yunqiao and the demon cat was told so well in the beginning, why did Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan start to be told later, with Chao Heng's story in the middle?" Diary transfers are too blunt."

Cheng Yuan tightened Liu Yifei's hand, which was in his pocket, and said with a smile, "You have also been a producer of several films, and I gave you a supplementary class, and I didn't even read the structure and ideas of "The Legend of the Demon Cat" Come out, it seems that your level has regressed."

"I've regressed, so tell me quickly." Liu Yifei said coquettishly.

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Cheng Mufan, who was walking in front, slipped and fell to the ground.

She didn't cry, and before Liu Yifei went up to hug her, she got up by herself, patted her body, and turned to Cheng Yu'an and Liu Yifei and said, "It's okay."

Cheng Yu'an smiled and said, "You deserve it for wrestling. It's hard to walk. Move this, touch that. It's cold and the road is slippery, so be honest."

The family continued to move forward, and Cheng Yu'an continued to teach Liu Yifei:
"Although Chen Kaige has also made a lot of bad movies, don't underestimate a director who has made "Yellow Earth", "Kid King" and "Farewell My Concubine".

"I haven't read the original novel, but in this two-hour movie, Chen Kaige stuffed a lot of things into it.

"Let's not talk about fine art photography, Chen Kaige's strength. Let's start with the front and back structure that you are most confused about. It seems to be split, but in fact it is closely connected. I think Chen Kaige played a very bold structural innovation here-Song Ci's Up and down.  …

"If you think about the structure of "The Legend of the Demon Cat" now, is the first half narrative and the second half lyrical? It is very similar to the upper and lower lines of Song Ci."

"Can you still interpret it like this?" Liu Yifei knew that a movie is different in the eyes of the director than in the eyes of the audience, but she didn't expect Cheng Yu'an to interpret "Legend of the Demon Cat" in this way.

The family entered the hotel elevator, Cheng Mufan shouted: "Dad, I want to press it."

"Okay, let you press the elevator." Cheng Yu'an picked up her daughter, "Do you know which floor we live on?"

"I don't know." Cheng Mufan didn't know how to count.

"Press this." Liu Yifei pointed to the button and said, "Floor 21."

The daughter obediently pressed 21.

Back in the room, Liu Yifei became very interested and asked her husband to continue talking about "The Legend of the Demon Cat".

Cheng Yu'an went on to say: "Moreover, Chen Kaige's upper and lower columns are very closely related.

"The demon cat wanted revenge on Chen Yunqiao, why didn't he just kill him? Why did he torture him and his wife like this? Because the demon cat reenacted the whole process of Tang Xuanzong's killing of Concubine Yang Gui."

Seeing that Liu Yifei was puzzled, Cheng Yu'an explained: "The demon cat found Chen Yunqiao and didn't kill him immediately, but made him a fortune. This corresponds to Tang Xuanzong who had a prosperous age. After scaring him, let him Chen Yunqiao mistakenly thought that he was safe, and held a big banquet in Hu Yulou, which corresponds to the feast of bliss 30 years ago. Chen Yunqiao was Tang Xuanzong who was so self-confident at that time. Chen Yunqiao strangled his wife Chunqin, which corresponds to Tang Xuanzong. Xuanzong killed Yang Yuhuan. In the end, Chen Yunqiao went crazy, which was actually arranged by the demon cat, which made him end up in the same end as Tang Xuanzong, except that Tang Xuanzong was gouged out by the demon cat.

"The witnesses of the first half of the story, Kukai and Bai Juyi, correspond to Bailong and Danlong in the back.

"This is the structural innovation of "Legend of the Demon Cat"."

Then, Cheng Yu'an spent two hours breaking apart the structure and thought expression of "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and telling Liu Yifei to listen to it.

Liu Yifei was so fascinated by it that she didn't even respond to her daughter urging her to take pictures of herself sleeping.

"It turns out that you can still interpret a movie in this way." After Cheng Yu'an finished speaking, Liu Yifei benefited a lot, "You said how smart you are, and you only watched it once, how could you see so many things."

"I don't even have this ability, how can I get the Palme d'Or." Cheng Yu'an even boasted.