This actor doesn't look like a good guy

After filming "Magic Phone", Jiang Bai had nothing to do. Although there was live sound recording during filming, this was only for the convenience of post-editing. After post-editing, they actors had to re-record the sound. Dubbing.

However, the dubbing work is not that urgent. It takes a long time in post-production. After all, there are special effects, which is also quite troublesome.

At this time, it was still some time before the filming of "The Legend of Bruce Lee" started, but during the waiting period, Jiang Bai still had a lot of things to do.

One is that "The Proposal" is about to be released, and Jiang Bai has to cooperate with the promotion. In addition, "The Sun Also Rises", Jiang Wen's first self-written, directed and starred film after his return, is also about to be released. For this For the movie, Jiang Wen even went to find Neon's music master Joe Hisaishi and wanted to ask him to help compose the music.

Jiang Wen still remembers that he took a sample to Neon specifically for this song.

After Joe Hisaishi saw the sample, he really liked it. He felt that the scenes in it were very dreamy, so he accepted the cooperation. Then he asked Jiang Wen what his requirements were for the soundtrack. Jiang Wen said directly, just follow it. My plot and scenes will be used as the soundtrack, and as for other requirements... it just needs to be a little better than Mozart.

Hisaishi Joe didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at first, thinking that what Jiang Wen said was just a joke. However, when he finally finished the music, Jiang Wen felt dissatisfied after listening to it. He bluntly said that it was not as good as Mozart's. It didn't feel as heroic as Mozart's. Hisaishi put his cigarette butt on the piano on the spot, pointed at Jiang Wen's nose and cursed, I'm not Mozart, I can't compose music like his, I quit!
Later, the assistant hurriedly came up to persuade him, and then Joe Hisaishi made a new score. After listening to it this time, Jiang Wen said he was very satisfied, and it was indeed better than Mozart.

Later, Jiang Wen also listened to this piece of music like a treasure to Jiang Bai. After listening to it, Jiang Bai couldn't help but admire that this piece of music was really awesome.

"As expected of a music master, this song is really good. We can ask him to do it again when we make movies in the future."

Jiang Wen's face was as happy as a flower blooming: "Of course, this music is really good. It took half a year to complete this piece. But, we are here We were talking about you when we were chatting. Didn’t you win an Oscar for your score before? They also praised you for your awesomeness and said that they could ask you to sit down and have a chat when they are free."

"That's fine."

Jiang Bai agreed immediately.

At the same time, Jiang Bai also agreed to help stand on stage during the promotion of "The Sun Also Rises".

At the premiere, Jiang Bai sat down and watched the film. I felt that the film itself was quite good.

Although the name of this movie has the same name as a novel by Hemingway, the content is different, and this sentence actually comes from a religious classic: "One generation comes, one generation goes, the earth remains forever, the sun rises, the sun sets ,The Sun Also Rises."

At the same time, there are a total of four stories in this movie. The first and third stories both borrow the plot of the original short story "Velvet". Although the original work only has [-] words, Jiang Wen captured the essence.

The first story is about madness. It was set in the spring of 1976 in a village in southern China. Jiang Wen’s wife Zhou Yun played the role of Ma. She dreamed of a pair of fish shoes with yellow whiskers. , after waking up, she went to the street to buy shoes and met her son who was playing truant. Then she rushed to the school and forced her son to drop out.

On the way home, she hung her new shoes on the big tree by the roadside, and then went to the field to use them. When she came back, she found that the shoes were missing. This is the origin of this story, and after that, her mother went crazy.

The second story is also in 1976 and takes place in a university in the east. Old Tang He, played by Jiang Wen, is having an affair with another character, and the other character likes another teacher.

The third story is the continuation of the first story, and the fourth story is the beginning of all stories. The crazy mother in the first part and Aunt Tang in the second part are riding camels, talking and laughing on the road, In the end, the two separated on a fork in the road.

These four stories seem illogical and confusing in structure, but Jiang Bai feels that the correct order of these four stories should be four, two, one and three.

Every frame tells a story, and every detail is considered.

Jiang Wen spoke energetically on the stage about his original intention of making the movie, and while he was talking, he also pulled Jiang Bai up and talked for a long time, saying that without Jiang Bai, there would be no such great movie.

Then he told the story of when he invited Joe Hisaishi to compose the music.

Immediately afterwards, the movie was released. Although Jiang Bai helped promote it, the box office on the first day of release was still unsatisfactory, only getting more than 500 million.

The movie's reputation after its release was also polarized.

People who say it's good can praise this movie to the sky, but people who think it's not good bluntly say that this movie is useless.

The movie is indeed very profound, and you need to think carefully and watch it over and over again to understand what Jiang Wen wants to express through this movie.

And most people naturally don't spend that time thinking, because movies are entertainment for them, not for learning.

So in the first week, the box office was only 800 million.

However, Jiang Bai later went to participate in the promotion of "Tou Ming Zhuan". In comparison, "Tou Ming Zhuan" was much better. During the promotion, the audience's voice was very high. After all, there were Li Lianjie, Jiang Bai and Liu Dehua and other three actors are starring, and Li Lianlian wants to win the Best Actor with this movie, so he has spent a long time polishing his literary skills.

The box office on the first day of release was more than 4000 million, and the reputation is not bad, especially Li Lianlian's acting skills and the wonderful fighting scenes and grand war scenes.

"It would make sense if the actions were designed by Jiang Bai, but I didn't expect that in addition to being able to design the actions, Jiang Bai also designed the scenes very well."

"But Li Lianlian's acting skills are indeed a bit unexpected. Before, I always thought he could only fight and act cool."

"But according to the current trend, I feel that the movie is going to lose money. I invested [-] million, and now the box office is only [-] million after one week of release. This will definitely not be able to make back the money. Unless the movie can sell [-] million, it can start making money."

Jiang Bai also feels that the movie will definitely not be able to make back its original investment, but he has not invested in it. If it can't make it back, it won't be able to make back its original investment. At least the current reputation is still good.

Just speaking of word-of-mouth, the reputation of "The Sun Also Rises" is explosive. The more the movie is released, the better the reputation is, but the box office is getting lower and lower.

In the end, "The Sun Also Rises" only took in 3000 million at the box office. That was because Jiang Bai couldn't stand it anymore and helped with advertising.

"That is to say, the number of domestic theaters has increased a lot in the past few years, otherwise this film would not even be able to reach 2000 million." Jiang Bai couldn't help but sigh.

You must know that in this movie, Jiang Wen got more than 1000 million by selling the iron, and the remaining 5000 million was invested by Jiang Bai.

"Brother, you lost more than 5000 million this time. It's my fault, brother. Come to my house for dinner tonight. I will take out the bottle of good wine I treasure and make up for it for you."

Jiang Wen was like this, a carefree person, but at the same time he would keep others' favors in mind. However, after losing more than 5000 million, he naturally didn't have the money to pay it back to Jiang Bai, so he could only make up for it in his own way.

"It's okay, it's money. We'll make money after spending it. There's no guarantee that you'll make money by investing in a movie. But no matter what, brother, you've finished shooting this movie. At least you've fulfilled one of your dreams, and the movie has been completed." It’s really awesome. If they don’t like to watch it, they can’t appreciate it.”

"Hahaha, that's a good thing to say. What does it have to do with my movie being good if they don't appreciate it?"

"That is, I knew from the beginning that this movie would not make any money, but the reason why I was still willing to invest was because I thought the movie was good and I would take the money." Jiang Bai said.

That night Jiang Bai went to Jiang Wen's house for dinner, and Zhou Yun brought out a table full of dishes.

The three of them were very happy to eat, and Zhou Yun also drank a little less, but most of them were still drank by the two of them. After drinking, they felt that it was not enough, so Zhou Yun took out another bottle for them, opened it and continued. Drink, the food is enough anyway.

After drinking, Jiang Wen looked at the remaining dishes on the table, and simply pulled Jiang Bai and said, "I said you don't go back today, just stay here, otherwise I have to worry about your safety on the road. The problem is, we happen to be sleeping in that room, so we can continue drinking tomorrow, and there’s nothing else to do anyway.”

"Brother, is this okay? You and your sister-in-law can go live there. I can live alone."

"It's okay, we just live together. I drank and your sister-in-law disliked me."

At this time, Zhou Yun also said: "That's right, you men are stinking after drinking. You two can go live alone. I'm happy to be alone." Finally Jiang Bai agreed and spent the night in the guest room of Jiang Wen's house. After a whole night of dealing with two grown men on a double bed, Jiang Bai didn't think it was a big deal.

At noon and night on the second day, and at noon and night on the third day, Jiang Bai was always here. He would drink at meal time, drink tea after drinking, chat while drinking tea, and then lie down in bed to sleep after chatting for a while. , go to sleep, and continue drinking at meal time.

The whole thing is a state of drunkenness and dreams.

After drinking on the fourth night, Jiang Bai said that he had to go back tomorrow anyway. He had other things to do after he went back and could not continue drinking.

"Just drink for two more days and it will last for a week."

"I can't do it, I can't do it, Brother Jiang, I really can't do it. I still have things to do over there. I have a TV series that I have to prepare. I'm an action director, so I can't just let it go all the time."

"Hey, action director, that's pretty cool. What kind of movie is it?"

"The Legend of Bruce Lee."

"It's awesome. It sounds like a CCTV TV series. You have to pay more attention to this."

At this time, Zhou Yun came over: "Snacks, what kind of snacks? You two still need some snacks. We don't have any at home. I'll buy them for you."

"There are no snacks. I asked Jiang Bai to serve snacks on his new movie."

After hearing this, Zhou Yun laughed so hard that she said she had heard wrongly.

But just as they were going to bed at night, Jiang Wen suddenly sat up while the two were chatting.

"What's wrong, Brother Jiang?"

"It's okay, I want to show you something."

After saying that, he got up and went back to the master bedroom and brought a folder over.

"what is this?"

"It's a script, you have to read it first."

As he spoke, he also turned on the lights in the room.

Jiang Bai just sat on the bed in his underwear and read the script.

The more you look at it, the more fascinated you become.

After reading it, I breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment he also understood what Jiang Wen meant.

"Brother Jiang, when will this movie be shot?"

"next year."

"How much?"

"I estimate it will be [-] million anyway."

"Okay, I voted."

"readily!"

Later, Jiang Wen told Jiang Bai the story again and said that he had not yet decided on a title for the movie.

But the script of the movie was adapted from Ma Shitu's novel "Ten Stories of a Night", and then he started to tell Jiang Bai how he came across the novel at that time, what he thought when he was working on the script, and There are a lot of ideas and thoughts when it comes to making this movie in the future.

"Jiang Bai, why don't you also play a role in it?"

"The number one male."

"You can be the leading male lead! You have acting skills and a good image. As long as you want to act, then you will be the leading male lead in this movie!"

"Hahaha, Brother Jiang, I'm just kidding. You're better at playing the male lead. Just give me another role later."

"As for other roles, Ma Bond and Huang Silang are not very good. How about you play Hu Wan?"

"Hu Wan can do it, then I will play Hu Wan. Anyway, I am happy to play the villain."

"But have you thought about who to play the other roles?"

"For other roles, Huang Silang, I want to find Zhou Runfa, but he may be more expensive, but I think there is a reason why people are expensive. Also, for Ma Bond, I want to find Ge You. Ge You is an old friend. I I told him, he will definitely come and act for me, and the price can’t be too expensive, and the county magistrate’s wife, I think Liu Jialing is pretty good.”

After hearing this, Jiang Bai thought for a while: "Why don't you find your sister-in-law to play the role of the county magistrate's wife?"

"She can't play this role. I want her to play the role of Hua Jie."

"Sister Hua, that's okay, but can my sister-in-law agree?"

"I agree, your sister-in-law is not that picky, and this role is tailor-made for her." Jiang Wen said, "Third brother, I want to find Liao Fan. We are familiar with each other. I plan to let my brother play the martial arts examiner. , but there are still two roles that I think we can discuss, which is the second child. I want to find Shao Bing, but didn’t you two have something like that before?"

Shao Bing did have some trouble with Jiang Bai before. The reason was in "The Swordsman". Originally, Linghu Chong was Shao Bing, but because Shao Bing acted like a big star in the crew, he was replaced by Zhang Jizhong, and then he came up .

Moreover, he and Shao Bing also had some unpleasantness on the set.

"It's okay, he has acted in some other films in the past few years, and they are actually quite good.

Besides, those were all grievances from a few years ago. When the time comes, everyone can just sit down and have a few glasses of wine. "Jiang Bai is not that stingy. Speaking of which, he has to thank Shao Bing. In addition, he is developing well now, so there is no need to vent his anger.

"Another character is Xiao Liuzi. I want to find Zhang Mo for this Xiao Liuzi." (End of Chapter)