I'm not just a director

Chapter 236 The Four Leading Stars of "Heroes"

Hengdian Film and Television City, Qin Palace.

This was built by Director Chen in 97 for the filming of "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin".

It covers a total area of ​​800 mu, with a building area of ​​11 square meters.

The majestic buildings vividly show the majestic momentum of Qin Shihuang's annexation of the six countries and his unification of the world.

Except for "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin" in this hugely expensive palace.

It is also the birthplace of blockbuster films such as "Hero" and "Kung Fu King".

This can be regarded as a special contribution made by Director Chen to Huaxia Film and Television.

When Jiang Pei'an arrived in Hengdian, the entire crew of "Heroes" was advancing the filming work in an orderly manner.

He came here this time to thank Lao Mouzi face to face, and to meet Zhang Ziyi to discuss the filming work in the future.

"Director Zhang, how are you doing recently? Did the filming go well?"

Jiang Pei'an brought some fruit to visit the crew of "Hero".

Lao Mouzi became thinner and darker. Now, even if he was thrown into the field, he was almost the same as a farmer with his face facing the loess and his back facing the sky.

Occasionally, a look of light flashed from the dark eyes, shining brightly.

"Here you are, what else do you bring?"

Lao Mouzi smiled, the wrinkles on his face became more obvious, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

"Director Zhang, you reluctantly let Ziyi come over to help me. I don't have to thank you in person."

Jiang Pei'an said with a smile.

At this time, the crew was taking a lunch break, and Jiang Pei'an entered Lao Mouzi's director's office.

His office is very tidy, with some manuscript paper and pictures on the desktop.

This is the storyboard script of Lao Mouzi, who was born as a photographer and has high requirements for the aesthetics of the picture.

The movie "Hero" can be said to fully display Lao Mouzi's professionalism.

The exaggerated color contrast and stunning camera scheduling fully demonstrate the Chinese cultural heritage.

"Hehe, it's a bit messy, come on, sit down."

Lao Mouzi tidied up the table and invited with a smile.

"I came in from the outside just now, and I was frightened by your battle. It was densely packed with people."

Jiang Pei'an is not an exaggeration, although there are only seven main characters in "Heroes".

But the entire production crew has reached more than 300 people in front of and behind the scenes.

The whole crew is like a giant dragon, and Lao Mouzi is the head of the dragon.

At the same time, he is also the person with the most energy and the most hardships in the whole crew. Sometimes a scene needs to be shot dozens of times.

Sometimes for a shot, he even went through mountains and rivers, and sometimes after the shooting, Zhang Yimou had new ideas or better natural shooting conditions and had to reshoot.

At first, there was news that the filming of "Hero" was not going well, except for natural conditions and some objective reasons.

Lao Mouzi's rigor can be said to bear the main responsibility...

Hearing this, Lao Mouzi smiled slightly and said:
"It's not that your "Inception" is going to fight me in the news, and your crew will definitely not be inferior to mine."

Jiang Pei'an touched his nose in embarrassment, smiled bitterly and said:
"It's all fabricated by some unscrupulous media for the sake of performance. You are a senior, and I dare not fight you."

Lao Mouzi glanced at him and said expressionlessly:
"It's true, "Taken" didn't beat "Happy Days" to the point where it couldn't fight back.

Now I still rob my actors and put them together. This behavior of mine is called an enemy. "

"Director Zhang, what you said, how can I tell you that I have told you before? What you said is too outlandish. We are all for Chinese movies."

Jiang Pei'an said flatteringly.

Zhang Yimou shook his head, smiled and said:
"Okay, don't be poor with me, Ziyi should rest in the green room, you can go directly to her."

"Hehe, that's fine. I'll treat you to dinner tonight. I'll go there first."

Jiang Pei'an got up and said with a smile.

"Go."

Walking out of Lao Mouzi's office to the actor's lounge, Jiang Pei'an saw a few nanny cars parked next to the crew on the way.

Needless to say, Jiang Pei'an also knew that this should be the resting place for those four.

Since the filming of "Hero" started, rumors have been spread all the time.

For example, Li Lianjie, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Manyu and other Hong Kong actors played big names and refused to be interviewed, and even insulted the reporter.

In fact, several people did not want to be distracted by interviews during filming, so they proposed to the investor not to accept interviews during filming.

And write this article into the contract.

Moreover, in order to cooperate with Lao Mouzi, these people all reduced their salary.

This is somewhat similar to Cheng Long.

However, several people still enjoyed some special treatment in the crew.

Not only do you not stay with the staff, but everyone has their own RV...

Jiang Pei'an followed the crew to Zhang Ziyi's lounge, where Zhang Ziyi was reading the script.

"Director Jiang, why are you here, and when did you arrive?"

Zhang Ziyi asked in surprise.

"Just arrived, just came to see you."

"I came to see me specially, aren't you afraid that your Jingjing will be jealous?"

Zhang Ziyi joked.

"Hehe, it's not like she's doing something shameful. Why is she jealous?"

Jiang Pei'an said with a smile.

"Hahaha, I have already heard Director Zhang talk about the role, what role does Director Jiang plan to arrange for me this time?

Let me tell you in advance, if it’s not the heroine, I won’t accept it. "

Zhang Ziyi joked.

She has known Jiang Pei'an for several years and can be considered an old friend.

When Jiang Pei'an and Zhao Fantian "fighted", she also spoke out in support.

Today, she has accumulated popularity through the two movies "My Father and Mother" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

At present, it can be regarded as a very popular group of actresses in China.

In China Opera 96, she is considered to be the best group on the road of acting.

Hearing her words, Jiang Pei'an directly took out the script and said with a smile:
"Heroine, you must have a heroine to be worthy of our Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Queen."

After taking the script from Jiang Pei'an, she flipped through it, only to find that her name was written in the female lead column.

Zhang Ziyi was surprised and said:

"Director Jiang, I'm, I'm just joking, I'll definitely support your play even if it's a supporting role, the heroine... why don't you leave Jingjing?"

"Uh... she is also one of the heroines."

Jiang Pei'an said with a smile.

Zhang Ziyi breathed a sigh of relief, and said:
"So that's the case, otherwise I really don't know how to face Jing Jing in the future."

Jiang Pei'an shook his head and said:

"Jingjing doesn't care about these things, do you have any scenes to film this afternoon?"

Zhang Ziyi shook her head and said:
"I don't need to go to the theater this week. Most of the time I spend watching Sister Manyu and Brother Jie acting and studying on the sidelines."

"That's fine, you read the script first, and give me a letter of approval before tomorrow."

"it is good."

Looking at the back of Jiang Pei'an leaving, Zhang Ziyi was a little lost.

"Jingjing has such a good eye..."

In the evening Jiang Pei'an invited guests, Zhang Yimou, Li Lianjie, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Manyu, Zhang Ziyi and others attended.

Li Lianjie met before, but Zhang Manyu and Liang Chaowei met for the first time.

Seeing the two sitting together, Jiang Pei'an suddenly felt like eating melons.

Zhang Manyu was married to a French director at this time.

When she first got married, Zhang Manyu didn't accept any scripts.

It wasn't until Sunglass King found her and handed "In the Mood for Love" to her that she was willing to come out to film this drama.

That is to say, Zhang Manyu and Liang Chaowei have an affair in this drama.

When "In the Mood for Love" was released, everyone could see that the tacit understanding and relationship between the two people was very unusual.

So all kinds of rumors were almost flying around at that time.

Now the two play the couple again in "Heroes", Can Jian Feixue.

Old Mouzi's bad taste.

Interestingly, Zhang Manyu took time to divorce her French husband during the filming of "Hero", that is, in May of this year.

It made the scandal between the two even more noisy.

After all, Liang Chaowei was not married to Liu Jialing at this time.

They are all people who have been in the entertainment industry for many years, and they may be a little restrained when they first meet each other.

But after a few pleasantries, the atmosphere at the dinner table immediately became lively.

Zhang Ziyi took the initiative to stand up and pour wine for those present.

Li Lianjie sighed:

"At that time, Pei An went to Hong Kong Province to find me, hoping that I would play the leading role in "Taken".

At that time, I rejected it because I had a role to play. Now that I think about it, I really missed it. "

Li Lianjie's mouth is not an excuse.

"Kiss of the Dragon" is the police and gangster action film "Kiss of the Dragon" planned by Luc Besson for "Twentieth Century Fox".

At the same time, it is also tailored for Li Lianjie.

And this film will also become Li Lianjie's most representative work on the Hollywood screen.

Of course, its box office data is only more than 6000 million, which can only be said to be mediocre.

But its disc sales have reached more than 1 million US dollars.

Hearing this, Jiang Pei'an smiled slightly and said:
"Brother Jie, it's not that we can't work together, I'm planning to shoot this movie, you can come and have fun..."

"Cough cough."

Before Jiang Pei'an finished speaking, Lao Mouzi immediately coughed twice. He glared at Jiang Pei'an, and said angrily:

"Feelings, you kid came to me to play the autumn wind, Ziyi has been abducted by you, and now you want to touch other people.

I might as well pull all the actors into your crew to go through the play once. "

As soon as Zhang Yimou said this, everyone in the room burst out laughing.

At the same time, he also looked at Jiang Pei'an with admiration, and scooped up actors in front of other directors.

Quite courageous!
Jiang Pei'an answered with a smile:
"I happened to meet Director Liu Zhenwei and Liu in Hong Kong some time ago.

Director Zhang, let's discuss something, why not learn from directors Liu Zhenwei and Wang Jiawei back then.

Invite the main characters of you to play a guest role in my "Inception".

Let's also create a mainland version of "East Makes West". "

Hearing Jiang Pei'an's words, Liang Chaowei and Zhang Manyu burst out laughing.

I suddenly remembered the dark life of being controlled by the King of Sunglasses for three years when I was filming "Evil in the East and Poison in the West".

As a result, Liu Zhenwei led the original team to complete the classic Hong Kong comedy "East Makes West" in only 27 days.

Zhang Yimou shook his head, smiled wryly and said:
"The box office of "Evil, West Poison" was only more than 900 million when it was released. You are definitely not at ease."

"Hey, just kidding."

After several people finished their meal, Jiang Pei'an was arranged to rest in the "Hero" crew hotel.

Before the meal, Zhang Ziyi and Jiang Pei'an expressed their willingness to act in "Inception".

Jiang Pei'an left her a copy of the script and asked her to go back to the capital to sign the contract.

"I always feel like I'm going back like this, and I'm a little sorry for traveling so far."

In the room, Jiang Pei'an rubbed his chin in thought.

As he spoke, he touched Li Lianjie's room next door.

"Brother Jie, are you asleep?"

Li Lianjie opened the door and saw Jiang Pei'an.

"Pei'an, can't you sleep? Come in quickly."

Li Lianjie said enthusiastically.

"Hehe, I want to chat with you, Brother Jie."

Jiang Pei'an walked into the room and said with a smile.

"Okay, would you like tea or coffee?"

Li Lianjie asked with a smile.

"I'll just drink some plain water."

Jiang Pei'an smiled and cast his gaze on Li Lianjie's table.

On the table is the script of "Hero", with dense handwritten small characters on it, it should be Li Lianjie annotating the script.

"Didn't bother you, brother?"

Jiang Pei'an asked.

"Hehe, I'm just looking at it casually. There will be a literary drama tomorrow. You also know that I was born as a star. Relatively speaking, literary drama is a bit weak, so I need to watch it in advance."

Li Lianjie took a bottle of mineral water and said with a smile.

"Brother Jie, you are really dedicated."

"Hehe, hard work can make up for one's weakness."

Li Lianjie said with a smile.

The two chatted for a while, Jiang Pei'an didn't hide anything, and said directly:
"Brother Jie, I came here this time to invite you to participate in my movie "Inception"."

Hearing this, Li Lianjie hesitated for a while, hesitatingly said:
"Pian, I had a phone call with Jackie some time ago, and I know he is in Beijing now.

I also know that you have already cooperated. To be honest, if I participate in your movie again, will it be a bit uncomfortable? "

Cheng Long and Li Lianjie are two people, one is "Big Brother" and the other is "Kung Fu Emperor".

Except for the two people working together in the future "King of Kung Fu", the rest is probably in passerby movies like "The Founding of a Country".

Although both of them started out with kung fu, their ways are very different.

Cheng Long was mainly born in kung fu comedy. Under the kung fu craze caused by Bruce Lee, he stepped out of his own comedy kung fu movie.

Li Lianjie imitated Kung Fu movies everywhere in Hong Kong at that time, using his own kung fu routines to create a different movie-watching vision.

A set of movements was done smoothly and smoothly, so chic and unrestrained, it stunned everyone.

It turns out that Kung Fu can not only be played funny, but also so beautiful.

In "The King of Kung Fu", the two fought each other for more than ten minutes, but there was no winner, and the game was tied.

This is mainly to take care of their respective fans and future development routes.

However, the private relationship between the two is not bad, and group photos often flow out.

Jiang Pei'an had already thought about this problem before inviting Li Lianjie.

Both of them are very famous, so who will play the leading role and who will play the supporting role?
Who is better at kung fu?
Who is the positive character and who is the negative character?

Who has more roles and who has fewer roles?
These have to be arranged in advance as a prerequisite.

Otherwise, if something goes wrong, Jiang Pei'an will offend the two huge fan groups and their respective bosses...

(End of this chapter)