1990: Starting from Baojia Street

On the evening of April 30th, Zhou Yan started filming the scene where Zhou Xuewen meets Lin Lin for the first time.

For this scene, the crew waited from morning to afternoon, just to wait until the light in the office was the best.

Towards evening, the light in the office finally met Zhou Yan's requirements.

But as soon as they started filming, there was a noise behind them.

Zhou Yan heard the noise and slammed the table, "Who is making the noise!"

His shot shocked everyone at the scene, and the surrounding area fell silent instantly.

Seeing that it was quiet, Zhou Yan gave Zhu Lin a gesture, "You continue."

Zhu Lin was also startled just now. When she heard Zhou Yanrang continue, she took a breath and started to regain her composure.

After all, he is a professional actor, and he quickly regained his form.

After Zhu Lin finished her personal shot, Li Xuejian walked in again.

In order to ensure that there would be no mistakes in this scene, Zhou Yan had led them to rehearse it many times before, and both of them were already very familiar with it, whether it was the moves or the lines.

So the two of them did a very good job in the subsequent filming, and they passed in just one shot.

"Very good, one more guarantee."

After the second filming was over, Zhou Yan turned around and asked, "What did you do just now, so noisy?"

After he finished asking, Xu Feng walked out of the crowd and said with a smile, "Director Zhou, I'm really sorry for disturbing your filming."

Seeing Xu Feng coming, Zhou Yan made a textbook change of expression, and his face was instantly filled with a smile, "Sister Feng, you didn't tell me in advance when you were coming, so I could have someone pick you up."

"You are insinuating that I came at the wrong time."

"No, no, absolutely not. I'm so happy that Sister Feng can come." Zhou Yan stood up directly and said loudly, "Mr. Xu came to visit the crew. To celebrate, our crew will take an eighteen-hour holiday."

Many people initially thought that Mr. Xu was too proud to give Zhou Yan a day off as soon as she came to Zhou Yan. However, after thinking about it, they found that something was wrong. It is now around six o'clock in the evening. An eighteen-hour holiday would last until after eight o'clock tomorrow. That is not normal. Start work?

Xu Feng rolled his eyes at Zhou Yan, and then said with a smile, "Forget it's a holiday. Let Director Zhou finish work early tomorrow, and I'll treat everyone to dinner."

"Going to the city?" Zhou Yan asked.

"No, it's fine here. I'll make the arrangements."

"Okay, thank you, Mr. Xu."

Others also thanked him, "Thank you, Mr. Xu."

"No thanks, no thanks."

Zhou Yan explained a few words to the assistant directors, and then said to Xu Feng, "Go to my office."

"it is good."

After the two arrived at the office, Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Sister Feng, you came too fast. I thought you would have to wait for some time to come."

"I'm fine, so I came here. I was shocked by you at the scene just now. This is the first time I've seen you with such a bad temper."

"It took a lot of effort to wait for the right light, and I was really anxious."

"It's understandable. It's actually good for you to get angry because of nothing, otherwise the staff will be scared."

"No, why didn't I understand? Sister Feng, if I don't lose my temper, they are afraid. But if I lose my temper, they are not afraid anymore?"

"Because people who lose their temper are humane. Controlling emotions is a skill, but it is a terrible thing for a person to be able to control his emotions very well at all times."

Zhou Yan nodded, "It does make sense, but I don't think you usually lose your temper, Sister Feng."

"My anger has been given to my two sons and my husband, and you can't share it." Xu Feng said with a smile.

"That's really a pity. By the way, you've read the script of "Winner". How did it go?"

"I really want to tell you this. After reading the script, I was deeply touched. It is a very good story. But although the script is good, it still needs a good director. If you don't recommend Huo Jianqi, I think Wang Xiaoshuai is quite good. It suits this script.”

Zhou Yan understood Xu Feng's thoughts. No matter what, Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhou Yan worked together three times. The first two times were successful, and Wang Xiaoshuai's independently produced films also won awards. Xu Feng must trust him very much.

But Huo Jianqi is different. Huo Jianqi has never directed any movie independently before and has been doing art design for other movies.

In terms of resume, Huo Jianqi was not convincing at all. His only advantage was Zhou Yan's recommendation.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Huo Jianqi is definitely more suitable for this movie than Wang Xiaoshuai. Sister Feng, you have to believe me on this, not only in terms of style, but also because the creator of this script, Su Xiaowei, is Huo Jianqi's wife."

"Oh, it turns out we are still a husband and wife team. If I find another director, it will be like beating a mandarin duck. I really can't do this. Okay, since you think Huo Jianqi can do it, then let him do it. I will treat you Full trust.”

After these years of cooperation, Xu Feng has grown more and more trustful in Zhou Yan. If she only trusted Zhou Yan's personal talent before, she now also trusts Zhou Yan's vision of people.

Wang Xiaoshuai and Senior Lu, whom Zhou Yan recommended before, performed very well.

To take a step back, Zhou Yan was wrong this time. The loss was only more than one million, which was nothing to the current Tomson.

Tomson has developed so well in the past few years that it can help the Tomson Group.

Something happened to Xu Feng's husband Tang Junnian before, and he needed 20 million, which was all given from Tomson Film Company.

If Tomson Company didn't make any money, this level would really take some effort.

"Then do you want me to call Huo Jianqi over for a chat?" Zhou Yan asked.

Xu Feng nodded, "Okay, but I want to ask you first, how much do you think is appropriate for this movie?"

"For this script, one million to one and a half million should be enough. Too much money will put too much pressure on Huo Jian."

"Okay, I probably know. You can invite him over and I'll have a chat with him."

"Ah."

Then Zhou Yan called Huo Jianqi to the office, and Xu Feng told Huo Jianqi face to face that he was willing to invest 1 million in their film. The model was still the same as before, which was to cooperate with Yanjing Studio.

When Huo Jianqi heard the good news, he was naturally very excited and kept thanking Xu Feng.

"Mr. Xu, thank you so much."

Xu Feng smiled and said, "You should thank your wife and Zhou Yan. Without your wife, there wouldn't be such a good script. Without Zhou Yan's recommendation, I wouldn't trust you."

"Yes, I am also very grateful to Director Zhou."

Xu Feng said this because he wanted to cultivate a relationship with Zhou Yan. After all, Huo Jianqi's thanks were of little use to her.

"Of course, I hope you don't disappoint me. I will be the producer of this movie myself."

Zhou Yan joked, "Then he will be under great pressure."

"What you said makes me look like a difficult person. Whether it's you or Chen Kaige, when I was working as a producer, I didn't always solve your problems. When did I create problems for you?"

"Yes, yes, I made a mistake."

……

The next day, Xu Feng stayed with the group for a day.

In the evening, the crew finished work early, and Xu Feng also arranged a feast. She had people buy the ingredients yesterday and cooked them directly in the cafeteria.

After dinner in the evening, Xu Feng left that night. Before leaving, she told Zhou Yan something. The rights to remake "The Sixth Sense" have been confirmed to be given to Colombia. The final negotiated royalties for the remake were one hundred $550,000.

Warner also offered the same price, but Xu Feng knew about Zhou's cooperation with Columbia, so he didn't get too stuck on the copyright fee and gave it to Columbia directly.

In fact, even if you don't care about Zhou's face, Xu Feng will probably give it to Columbia in the end. After all, because of Zhou's participation, Columbia directly raised the filming budget to 20 million US dollars, and this does not include the 150 million US dollars. Fifty thousand dollars in royalties.

In this way, Columbia will have an advantage over Warner.

However, if it weren't for Zhou's company, Xu Feng would definitely delay the matter further.

Of course, when signing the contract, Xu Feng was also careful and wrote the budget and five-year period in the contract. If Columbia does not film within five years, the right to reshoot will be void.

In fact, Xu Feng didn't need to worry about this, because when Zhou was discussing cooperation with Columbia, he stipulated that the film must be produced within three years, which was much stricter than the five years stipulated by Tomson.

Columbia didn't care at all about these terms, because they bought the rights to remake "The Sixth Sense" and originally planned to start filming immediately.

Their plan is to start shooting the movie in the second half of this year and release it next year. After all, major studios focus on efficiency.

Now that the rights to reshoot have been won and the director has basically been decided, they will need to find a reliable screenwriter and then decide on the actors.

As the male protagonist, Zhou Yan decided on Bruce Willis or Kevin Costner, and the most important ones left were the young male protagonist and the female protagonist.

……

"Spring of the Cowherd" filmed all the footage on May 16th, which was a little faster than originally planned because the concert footage was not shot, which saved some time.

On the day the movie was finalized, Jiangjuntuo was very lively, and the crew held a grand finals banquet.

After being tense for more than a month, everyone breathed a sigh of relief on the final day.

Some staff members who have not worked with Zhou Yan before are lamenting Zhou Yan's high efficiency, while those old people who have worked with Zhou Yan several times are lamenting that this shooting is the most boring and most efficient of all Zhou Yan's movie shootings. once.

During the filming process, many people even felt that the movie was a bit too bland, especially the two veteran actors Li Xuejian and Wang Xueqi, who did not perform well.

There seems to be no explosive scenes in the whole movie. Some scenes that look very inspirational are just over-the-top and not passionate at all.

In fact, the movie can also be made more passionate, such as how Zhou Xuewen and his choir overcame difficulties and obstacles and finally became famous.

But this is not the case in the movie. Zhou Xuewen worked hard to form a choir, but ultimately left sadly.

But no one doubts that this movie will be successful because the director is Zhou Yan. The old people who follow Zhou Yan all know how magical Zhou Yan is in movies, and this movie is Zhou Yan's strong point. All the music in it was done by Zhou Yan himself.

Even though the story looks dull when shot, the music in it is really nice, especially the child named Li Haining, whose voice is really nice.

The music in the movie alone is worth the price of admission.

……

On the second day after the closing banquet, Zhou Yan ran into the editing room and stared at the editor as he cut the film.

Not long after he arrived in the editing room, a bunch of people gathered around him, including several assistant directors and some people in the factory, such as Wang Junzheng, who were all very curious about Zhou Yan's new movie.

Even Han Sanping came over to take a look.

Editor Lao Yang looked at the large group of people surrounding him and felt very stressed. When editing "Farewell My Concubine" before, it didn't receive so much attention.

However, everyone watched for a while and left in a sensible manner, without further delaying the editor's work.

In the end, only Han Sanping stayed and pulled Zhou Yan aside.

He smiled and said, "You are so efficient. The filming of "The Sixth Sense" has just been completed, and Huo Jianqi's new movie is about to start filming."

"Mr. Xu has already told you, right?"

"Well, I told you. She said she expected to invest more than two million yuan. Huo Jianqi is a new director. Mr. Xu is really courageous."

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "When I made my first movie, the final cost was 8 million. That's what I call courage."

Han Sanping couldn't help but twitching his lips, "Are you making fun of me?"

"No, I just want to say that Mr. Xu is indeed very courageous."

In fact, when Zhou Yan was filming "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly", the budget was not that big at the beginning, and the reason why Xu Feng liked Zhou Yan was because of Hou Xiaoxian's recommendation.

In addition, Zhou Yan had already made a short film at that time and won a film festival award, so he had some qualifications.

But Zhou Yan was also very strange, because Xu Feng told Huo Jianqi that he would give one million, but he told Han Sanping that he would give two million.

He probably wanted Han Sanping to take this project seriously.

"It just so happens that your movie is finished filming. I will directly transfer some people from your team to work with Huo Jian. We have just worked together and are familiar with them."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, that's good. People from Yanjing Factory, isn't this all a matter of your words, Third Brother?"

"No, I actually want to tell you that I want to second Jiang Mengfei and Hong Xin to Yanjing Factory."

Zhou Yan said unexpectedly, "Are you still paying attention to them?"

"That's natural. They are all old people who have cooperated with you several times. Of course I have to pay attention to them."

"There are so many people in Yanjing Factory, so there is no need to transfer people, right?"

Han Sanping shook his head, "Although there are many people, there may not be many that are really useful. Jiang Mengfei and the others are your people, and you are my brother. They will always be of the same mind as me."

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes. It seemed that Han Sanping didn't have enough control over the Yanjing factory.

That's right, the original factions of these people in Yanjing Factory are very complicated. Even if they are of the same mind as Han Sanping on the surface, they may not be the same secretly.

Jiang Mengfei and Hong Xin were from the Chang'an Factory and were seconded to the Yanjing Factory. They were basically clean and had nothing to do with any of the factions in the Yanjing Factory.

And with Zhou Yan's relationship, these people will naturally support Han Sanping very much.

Zhou Yan naturally agreed to this matter. He had always wanted to bring Jiang Mengfei and the others together to form a fixed team, but it was unrealistic to ask them all to give up their establishment and work in his studio.

It would be best if Han Sanping could transfer them here.

"Do you want me to tell them about this?"

"You don't have to do anything. You just have to ask them who wants to stay, and then give me a list."

"Okay, I see."

……

As soon as Hong Xin arrived at the studio, she saw Jiang Mengfei sighing.

"Why, the movie is finished and you're not happy to have some time to rest?"

"It's nice to be able to rest, but now the movie is finished and we are about to return to Chang'an."

"What should we do? Sooner or later we have to go back."

"How about I go tell Lao Zhou and let me stay in his studio? His film studio needs people anyway."

"You don't want the establishment? And Zhou Yan has no project now, so he can still support you in vain?"

"Then I don't want..." Jiang Mengfei originally wanted to say he didn't want the money, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind and said, "I'll just ask for less salary."

"No matter how little you ask for, it will still be a pressure for Zhou Yan."

Jiang Mengfei curled his lips. He knew that Hong Xin was right, and that he really wanted to stay. He had nothing to do every day, and he was also anxious.

He looked at Lin Juan who was not far away, "Juan'er, do you want to stay?"

Lin Juan lowered her head and fiddled with the small alarm clock on the table, "I can do it."

Hong Xin rolled her eyes at Jiang Mengfei and signaled Jiang Mengfei to stop talking.

They all knew what Lin Juan was thinking about Zhou Yan.

Originally, Hong Xin thought that Lin Juan's thoughts would fade as time went by, but now it seems that this girl is stuck and can't get out.

Lin Juan is already quite old, but she has never talked about marriage, and she has never even had a boyfriend.

Sometimes Hong Xin also laments that it is not a good thing to meet someone who is too stunning when she is young. Zhou Yan left such a deep imprint on Lin Juan's heart.

Fortunately, when she met Zhou Yan back then, she was no longer a young girl in love with her, and she was no longer resistant to Zhou Yan, otherwise she would have been like Lin Juan.

Hong Xin sighed, silly girl Lin Juan, Zhou Yan is like a star in the sky, just look up occasionally, if you insist on getting close, you will burn yourself.

Among them, the one who wants to stay the most is definitely Lin Juan.

Jiang Mengfei at least made a mistake. He quickly turned to Hong Ben and asked Hong Ben on the other side, "Brother Ben, what about you? Do you want to stay?"

Hong Ben said with a smile, "Of course I want to, but Director Hong is right. If there is no project in the middle, we can't let Director Zhou support us. After working with Director Zhou several times, it's a bit awkward to work with other directors now." awkward."

"Of course I'm not happy, I have less money and more work to do, and I'm still angry. Lao Zhou is so generous and open-minded in his work."

"That's right."

……

A few people were chatting when Zhou Yan walked in with a smile, "What are you talking about?"

Hong Xinxiao said immediately, "Nothing, we are all talking about filming."

Zhou Yan nodded and looked around the office, "How many others are there from Chang'an Factory?"

"I have a rest today. Many people didn't come. What do you want, Lao Zhou?" Jiang Mengfei asked.

"Well, I have one thing to tell you. Director Huo Jianqi is going to shoot a new movie soon. It is also invested by Tomson and is cooperating with Yanjing Factory. Director Han values ​​you very much. What he means is that he might as well send you Let me ask you who is willing to be seconded to Yanjing Factory."

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, several people in the office looked at each other in surprise.

They were still talking about this just now, and Zhou Yan came to ask for secondment. This must be such a coincidence.

Jiang Mengfei immediately raised his hand, "I will be the first to sign up."

Hong Ben raised his hand and said, "I'll sign up too."

Zhou Yan looked at Hong Xin, who thought for a moment, nodded and said, "I probably have no problem, but I need to discuss it with my family."

"Well, no problem, no need to rush, you can give me an answer in the next few days."

Then Zhou Yan looked at Lin Juan again, "Juan'er, where are you."

Lin Juan looked at the table and nodded, "I can do it."

"I won't go and ask everyone else one by one. Hong Ben, you are responsible for informing me and summarizing everyone's opinions to me later."

"Okay, Director Zhou, don't worry."

"By the way, Zhou Yan, after we come here, how will we arrange food, accommodation, and office work? Are the food, accommodation, and office arrangements at Yanjing Factory quite tense?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It's okay, it's still the same, food, accommodation and office are all with me."

"Then you can support us?" Jiang Mengfei said.

"No, at least the salary is paid by Yanjing Factory." Zhou Yan smiled, "Don't think too much, come here if you have the conditions, and go back if you don't. No matter what, I will make a movie next time , I will still look for you.”

"clear."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Okay, you guys are busy, I'm leaving."

After Zhou Yan left, Jiang Mengfei clenched his fists and said, "What is a dream coming true? This is a dream coming true."

Lin Juan raised her head and glanced at Jiang Mengfei's clenched fist, with a smile on her face.

When Hong Xin saw the smile on Lin Juan's face, she sighed deeply. (End of chapter)