I'm not just a director

"No, why!"

In the lounge, Jiang Wen slammed the table with a very angry expression.

Jiang Pei'an on the side was overjoyed, and everyone else standing nearby couldn't help laughing.

Jiang Wen really lost his wife and troops this time.

He had a conflict with Jiang Pei'an on the set and was photographed.

In the evening, he invited the crew to dinner to apologize, but there was no sound at all on the Internet.

The news of "Jiang Wen playing a big name" was quickly discussed on the Internet.

It was even ranked on the hot search list for a while.

Netizens also commented and forwarded the post one after another, and their words were full of criticism of Jiang Wen.

Even his previous involvement on the set of "Looking for a Gun" was revealed...

Seeing Jiang Pei'an grinning, Jiang Wen was also happy. He calmed down the anger on his face and said:

"Director Jiang, they say that to untie the bell, you must tie the bell. I see that the comments on the Internet are all your fans. You have to explain this matter to me."

Jiang Peian smiled and nodded, saying:

"Teacher Jiang Wen, if you are willing to treat all our colleagues on the crew to another big meal, I will definitely consider it."

After hearing Jiang Pei'an's words, the staff nearby also started to boo.

Jiang Wen waved his hand and said with a smile:
"It's not just a treat for dinner. Don't worry, as long as you explain it clearly to me, I'll be responsible for treating everyone to dinner!"

Having said this, he rolled his eyes, as if he had an idea, and said:
"By the way, Director Jiang, I just heard that my assistant has something called Weibo that is quite popular right now.

Your fans are discussing me on Weibo, and this matter has also been on the hot search topic called "What is it?" Can you also help me with this thing? "

Jiang Peian asked in confusion:

"Why do you suddenly want to do this?"

Jiang Wen scratched his head and said:

"I have some ideas. I'll try it on this Weibo when the time comes."

Hearing this, Jiang Pei'an didn't pay attention and nodded. He lowered his head and looked at the time and greeted everyone:

"Ready to start work."

"Good director."

……

"Let the Bullets Fly" has three studios in Guangdong Province, including Huang Silang's home, Kaiping Zili Village.

The location of Echeng is Gangningwei, Shuibu Town, Taishan City.

And the place where Huang Silang and County Magistrate Ma competed many times - the Mei Family Courtyard in Duanfen Town, Taishan.

The crew has basically been here for less than two months, and at this time the entire "Let the Bullets Fly" has officially entered the countdown.

The day before leaving Guangdong Province, Jiang Wen suddenly knocked on Jiang Peian's door.

Night, ten o'clock.

"You haven't rested yet?"

Jiang Peian looked back and saw that it was Jiang Wen. He thought it was...

"A little disappointed to see that it's me?"

Jiang Wen smiled and held a black leather bag in his hand.

Jiang Peian shook his head and said:
"I don't know what you are talking about, sit down, drink or tea?"

After nearly two months of getting along, our relationship seems to have gotten closer. Our words are less polite and more familiar.

Jiang Wen wanted to drink, but he patted his black leather bag and said:

"Let's have tea."

Jiang Peian looked back at him, his eyes falling on his black leather bag intentionally or unintentionally.

Jiang Peian made two cups of black tea, and after passing one cup to Jiang Wen, he took out his mobile phone and started tinkering.

Jiang Wen took a sip of tea and said with a smile:
"Haha, I'll give you a little time. Have you made an appointment with someone tonight?"

After sending the text message, Jiang Peian put away his phone and said with a smile:
"This is not an appointment with you."

Jiang Wen curled his lips.

Although Jiang Peian's actions are relatively secretive, things will still fall into the eyes of interested people.

Jiang Wen could probably guess his relationship with Hu Jing.

But I don’t have any other ideas, after all, this circle is too chaotic.

A female actor once revealed an old story when she was on the show. A director once asked her to go to Macau to accompany him for a week at a price of 500 million.

He even threatened to delete all her scenes in the play if she didn't agree.

The actress's revelations undoubtedly revealed the "fig leaf" that hides evil in the entertainment industry.

Many people know that the entertainment industry is a very deep place, with a mixed bag of people and all kinds of explicit or implicit "hidden rules" everywhere.

Even many insiders couldn't believe the deal between the director and the actor.

However, countless people still flock to this circle that can change their fate against the will of heaven.

Who doesn’t want to gain power, become famous, and reach the pinnacle of life?
It’s just that there are indeed those who change their fate against the will of nature, but it’s only a very small minority, and the vast majority of people will become cannon fodder.

It goes without saying that Damimi was a top artist in the domestic entertainment industry in later generations, but she also almost encountered unspoken rules at the beginning.

Not long after she debuted, a director sent a text message at one o'clock in the morning, asking her to go to his room alone to discuss the script.

She immediately understood what the other party meant, so she pretended not to hear it, hoping to fool him in this way.

As a result, she suffered retaliation from the other party the next day, and her female lead was replaced for no reason.

Also subject to unspoken rules is Ying'er, who became popular after starring in "Thousands of Mountains Snow".

The director's words were even more explicit. He asked Ying'er to come to his room at night and have to do the scene on the bed.

If you describe the hidden rules as a scene in bed, people without any level of education may not be able to express it.

Although she later lost this role, she protected herself very well.

After all, there are many roles, and you can still fight for others in the future...

Whether active or passive, this kind of thing will be the humiliating experience that many female stars least want to see.

Of course, compared with what happened to Lan Jieying, Zhang Ziyan and others, these people pale into insignificance.

The inside stories and unspoken rules of the entertainment industry are nothing new.

Female celebrities who appear beautiful on the surface actually have their own difficulties. Life is never an easy meal.

Therefore, Jiang Wen guessed the relationship between Hu Jing and Jiang Peian, and he would not lie.

Of course, when he saw Hu Jing and Jiang Peian secretly flirting on the set, Jiang Wen knew without guessing that there was definitely no power-for-money transaction between the two, and there was no issue of who was forcing the other.

Jiang Peian is a young man, and Hu Jing is not very old either.

One is talented and handsome, the other is as beautiful as a flower, it is normal for them to be together.

"So this is what you came here to talk about today?"

Jiang Peian naturally knew what Jiang Wen was talking about.

But what if you know? Jiang Wen is a smart man. He knows very well what to say and what not to say.

Jiang Wen drank the black tea in the cup in one gulp, as happily as drinking.

Then he took out a stack of documents from his wallet and handed it over.

Jiang Peian took the document and asked: "Script?"

"Take a look."

Jiang Peian suddenly realized that Jiang Wen was banned from directing for five years because of "The Devils Are Coming".

From 2000 to 2005, this guy is going to be unblocked!

And the script he handed over was exactly his puzzling movie.

"The Sun Also Rises".

This is not a movie that everyone can understand, nor is it a movie that everyone will like.

Some people just hate the jumping and neurotic nature of its expression, such as Zhou Yun in the movie who shouted "Alyosha, don't be afraid" over and over again at the top of her lungs.

Of course, there are also people who like it very much, even though they may not understand the movie.

"The Sun Also Rises" is indeed difficult to understand.

On the one hand, it is not a traditional linear narrative and tells stories according to the logic of time and reality.

Instead, the completely cinematic language, combined with the circular narrative technique, integrates the four stories into one theme, making it appear fragmented.

On the other hand, the film involves a lot of symbols and metaphors, which makes it even more difficult to understand.

In fact, when watching the movie "The Sun Also Rises", you should choose a specific perspective, which is the way of reading poetry and fables.

You can even put yourself in someone else's shoes and tell the history from 1958 to 1976 in a poetic and allegorical way.

What would you say?

That would make the movie less difficult to follow.

In "The Sun Also Rises", every character experiences absurd plots.

But these plots are unified in the intertwining of dream and emotion.

The strange death of the character becomes the final destination of the film, expressing the incompleteness and impermanence of life.

However, the film also reflects the permanence and fearlessness of life. The characters' desire for a better life makes them constantly fight.

"The Sun Also Rises" uses magical realism to express the complex themes of life. Although the story is tragic, the soul struggle of the characters shows a strange beauty...

The script is not too thick, and Jiang Wen’s handwritten annotations can be seen in some parts.

When writing about certain places, Jiang Wen would also use his soul painting skills to fill in a few shots or camera shots.

Jiang Peijing turned over the script quietly, while Jiang Wen sat aside and said nothing.

After about forty minutes, Jiang Pei'an put down the script and was filled with emotion.

Some people say that "The Sun Also Rises" is a masterpiece.

It is a film that requires digging into details and breaking through appearances.

In addition to the sense of accomplishment of connecting all the clues, the imagination that is affected by a certain moment can also make moviegoers feel happy.

This kind of resonance and empathy does not come from a complete story structure to a large extent, but a kind of obscured emotion.

For The Sun Also Rises, this obscuration is both intentional and unintentional.

It's intentional because hiding it in this place can express the idea better than telling you directly.

Unintentionally, because this place itself is blank and forbidden.

Whether intentional or not, "The Sun Also Rises" is a movie that requires imagination to understand.

From 76 to 58, from the lament to the overture, that period of history accompanied the train, leaving waves of roar on the track.

……

The room was already filled with smoke, and Jiang Wen on the side seemed to be a big chimney that was constantly blowing out smoke rings.

Looking down again, I saw that there were so many cigarette butts thrown in front of me without even realizing it.

"Why did you suddenly think of writing such a book? What a waste of money."

Jiang Peian put out the cigarette in his hand and said.

Jiang Wen smiled and said:
"I invited a reviewer in October last year. Do you know the reviewer? He was the screenwriter of my film "The Devil Is Coming".

And Yi Hongbo, you know Yi Hongbo, right? he is the one……"

In Jiang Wen's rambling description, Jiang Peian finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

In October 2004, Jiang Wen invited Shu Comment, Yi Hongbo and other close friends to his home for dinner.

As everyone fell into a "coma" due to the wine and meat, Jiang Wen told a four-paragraph story.

Wang Shuo said that Jiang Wen's description of the scene was superb, as if he had experienced the scenery himself, leaving you with no other choice but to praise it.

The commentary says that he tells you a story like this:

A pair of feet appeared in the picture. The sand was white sand, pure white, and no one had walked on it.

And when ordinary people describe it, they may say, once upon a time, there was a person, so and so...

Sure enough, after the story was told, everyone was speechless, stood up and applauded, and unanimously voted to abandon the original script and pursue Jiang Wen's third directorial work:
"The Sun Also Rises".

This time Jiang Wen was stimulated by the short story "Velvet" by the writer Ye Mi, which made Xinjiang Province songs ring in his mind.

Almost all of Jiang Wen's films are adapted from literary works.

However, his adaptation only takes one ladle to drink.

Wang Shuo read the script of "Sunshine" and even said that it was Jiang Wen's stuff and had nothing to do with me.

Jiang Wen said that after reading "Life", "The Devil" popped into his mind. The storyline changed so much that the author of the novel, You Fengwei, was so angry that he filed a lawsuit in court.

Ye Mi later saw the adapted script and asked why you guys went so far.

After getting acquainted with "If You Have Something to Say", and after the battle of "Devils", Commentary became an indispensable central figure in Jiang Wen's "Screenwriter Team".

The review said that when Jiang Wen made a movie, he crammed several movies into one.

Save him a script, enough to write seven or eight others...

This time it's even more significant.

The review said that Jiang Wen had a superstition, that is, he insisted that his third work was very important and must be shot well.

On May Day this year, before the opening ceremony of "Let the Bullets Fly," Jiang Wen invited screenwriter Guo Tuxing to the studio of the Working People's Cultural Palace.

Guo Tuxing was the screenwriter of "The Sun Also Rises" later, and he belonged to the drama circle.

He first let Guo Tuxing listen to a movie.

After listening to it, Guo Tuxing was puzzled: The story is quite complete and all the details are there. Why would I need to find a screenwriter if I could just write it myself?
Afterwards, Jiang Wen showed him the well-bound script written by the reviewer.

After reading Tu Xing, I became even more puzzled: Isn’t this well written?

Guo Tuxing reluctantly revised one draft and then went to the team to read the script.

After reading, Jiang Wen took the lead in applauding and said:
I applauded his reading. It was so good that he basically didn’t change it much.

Jiang Wen later combined the review and Guo Tuxing to revise the script.

Quietly ask the assistant to listen carefully and if a fight breaks out inside, intervene quickly...

After the script was revised countless times and finally finalized, Jiang Wen invited Ah Cheng over for advice.

Ah Cheng said that movies are usually short stories, at most a novella, but "The Sun" is a full-length novel.

He said this filming was extremely difficult.

But Jiang Wen was very handsome, and he described "looking for a movie" this time as "constantly chasing and intercepting him."

...(End of chapter)