1990: Starting from Baojia Street

"I heard that Maria will come today, but I don't know if it's true."

While lining up to enter, Selena kept looking into the concert hall, trying to find Mariah Carey.

Her boyfriend Paul laughed beside her and said, "I just heard someone say that Mariah Carey has indeed arrived at the scene."

"That's great, maybe she can sing live."

Paul shrugged, "I don't know."

For the premiere of "Sense and Sensibility", the organizers released a total of more than 500 tickets to the general audience, and Selena and Paul were two of the lucky ones.

Although the concert hall is large and can accommodate nearly 3,000 people, after all, it is a movie, not a symphony performance. In order to ensure the viewing effect, the organizer cannot open so many tickets.

In addition to the general audience, plus some staff, media workers, and some local guests, the total number of people present was more than 700, and even the first floor was not full.

Because there were not many people, the process of checking in and entering was very fast. After a while, most people had entered the hall and found their seats.

Not long after Selena and the others sat down, the host announced that the premiere ceremony had officially begun.

The host smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. If you don't play well, we will claim that the piano is not tuned properly."

After the production representative finished speaking, the host began to invite the creative staff to come on stage and let them share their creative thoughts and feelings about the film.

When the female voice sounded, there was a burst of exclamation because they recognized that it was Mariah Carey's voice.

He took a breath, then placed his hands on the cold keys.

There may be many people in the audience who have not heard the previous two songs, but when this song plays, almost everyone can recognize it. This song has become so popular recently that you can listen to it everywhere on TV and radio. get.

I have to say that it is really not easy for female celebrities. On such a cold day, Mariah Carey stepped out wearing a strapless dress.

Then he introduced why Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and others were invited to participate in the performance. Finally, he also mentioned Zhou Yan, telling how difficult it was to invite Zhou Yan to score the music. Of course, he also praised Zhou Yan by the way. .

This piece has a light, humorous melody, and is very simple to play. It also allows Zhou Yan to get familiar with the piano and do a brief warm-up.

These audiences were arranged in advance, and basically everyone was exposed to rain and dew. All the creative staff present were taken care of, including Zhou Yan.

"Then now, the stage is handed to you."

For example, when Columbia invited An Li to be the director, they considered it for a long time and praised An Li.

However, this program was arranged in advance, and Zhou Yan had already warmed up beforehand, so his fingers were not stiff.

At this time, Mariah Carey slowly walked up from the stage.

After this part was over, the host invited a few lucky viewers to come on stage to interact with the creators.

Then a very brisk melody sounded. This was not "Young and Beautiful", but "Happiness" from the "Piano Boy" album.

Zhou Yan nodded, turned around and walked to the piano.

While he warms up himself, he can also warm up the venue, arouse the audience's hearing, and pave the way for the subsequent performances.

After this part was over, the host smiled and invited the creative staff to go down, but when Zhou Yan walked down, he suddenly said, "Y, please stay for a while."

When the piano sounded again, a graceful female voice appeared on the scene.

Zhou Yan also came on stage, but most of the time it was the director chatting with the leading actors. When the session was about to end, the host specifically cueed Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan nodded and took the microphone from Emma Thompson next to him, "When scoring this movie, most of my inspiration came from Emma's script. I saw a lot of contemporary themes in the script. Re-interpretation, so in addition to classical elements, there are many modern elements in the soundtrack.”

After stopping Zhou Yan, the host smiled and said to the audience, "Many viewers present must have heard a song recently, which is "Young and Beautiful" which has been dominating the charts some time ago. As soon as this song was released, it caused a stir The response was huge, it became the number one single in the first week of release and remained the number one for ten consecutive weeks.”

The content of the ceremony was very simple. First, Bregman, the representative of the producer, took the stage to introduce the background and production process of the film, and then thanked all the people who produced the film.

The host smiled and said, "This is exactly what you are good at. As we all know, in your music, the combination of classical and modern music is very beautiful. So besides style, can you tell us more about it?"

When she sang the chorus, she finally walked up to Zhou Yan.

"I'd better not say too much, otherwise there will be a lack of mystery when watching the movie. And music is a very subjective thing. Let the audience judge for themselves how the movie's soundtrack is."

He did not sit down in a hurry, but bowed to the audience before sitting on the piano bench.

Of course he couldn't finish "Tears". He only played a short section and then continued with "Young and Beautiful".

He sat on the piano bench and looked around. Just when the audience looked confused and didn't understand what he was going to do, he put his hand on the piano again.

"I've seen the world
done it all,had my cake now
......"

After Zhou Yan finished playing the prelude, he suddenly stopped.

Hearing Zhou Yan say on the stage that he was not very good at playing the piano, Linda in the audience couldn't help but smile. She knew that Zhou Yan was very good at playing the piano.

"Y, it's rare to see you appearing on such an occasion. As the soundtrack director of this film, can you talk about the soundtrack?"

"That's true, okay, thank you very much for sharing."

It was quite cold in Toronto in December. Zhou Yan only wore a suit, which was not very cold-resistant.

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "I'm not very good at playing the piano. I hope everyone won't be too harsh on me."

Zhou Yan gave a thumbs up, "Very good suggestion."

During this process, Bregman's words will definitely contain a lot of exaggerations to highlight how difficult it was to make this movie.

"Some people may not know that the original song of this song is the soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility". Y also happened to be here today. I would like to ask Y if he can fulfill everyone's wish and play this song for us on the spot. Music? We’ve got the piano ready for you.”

After "Hidden Joy", he followed up with "Tears" and slowed down the rhythm.

The tempo of the song is very slow, and Mariah Carey's pace is also very slow, as if every lyric is stepped on by her feet.

"will you still love me, when Im no longer young and beautiful."

Although this is a concert hall, many people could not help but sing along in low voices.

Selena is one of them, she loves this song so much.

Selena was originally a loyal fan of Mariah Carey, and this new song was particularly to her liking. When this song first came out, she would call the radio station every day to request this song.

She is actually not interested in movies like "Sense and Sensibility". She only paid attention to this movie because of this song. Now that she can hear Mariah Carey singing this song live, she feels like It's a dream.

Compared with other singers of the same level, Mariah Carey actually does not have many live performances, so the opportunity to hear her sing live is relatively rare.

Selena never thought she would see Mariah Carey perform at a movie premiere. Moreover, Maria’s accompanist was Y-chou, the original composer. Although he is far less well-known in North America than Maria, he is a solid musician after all, which makes Selena feel particularly proud.

Just now, Zhou Yan said that he was not very good at playing the piano. Selina thought it was true, but now she found out that she had been deceived. Could it be that he didn't know how to play the piano?

Although Selina doesn't know much about piano, Zhou Yan's piano playing style is not comparable to that of ordinary piano players.

When Zhou Yan played the piano, he fit Selena's imagination of the piano prince.

No matter what kind of man he is, as long as he puts on a suit and plays the piano, he will give people a very handsome feeling, and Y-chou is indeed very handsome.

An Li sat under the stage, watching the performance on stage, and could hardly hold back his words.

At that time, he chose to invite Zhou Yan to serve as the soundtrack director of "Sense and Sensibility" for many reasons, the most important of which was of course that he valued Zhou Yan's musical talent.

But he never expected that there would be such a surprise. Even before the movie was released, the soundtrack was already popular all over the country.

No one needs to tell An Li how popular this song is. He can often hear this song himself.

Now the premiere has invited Zhou Yan and Mariah Carey to perform live, and the effect is really great. An Li had never thought that a premiere could have the effect of a concert.

It's a pity that there are still too few spectators at the venue today. If the entire concert hall was full of spectators, the atmosphere would be particularly good.

But there is nothing that can be done. If there are too many people at the scene, the viewing effect will be really bad. An Li even felt that the more than 700 spectators at the scene today were too many.

And inviting so many audiences is not very friendly to local cinemas.

In fact, when he took over the film, An Li did not have high expectations for the film's box office. After all, film adaptations of literary classics such as "Sense and Sensibility" have commercial shortcomings.

If it hadn't been for the good results of "Little Women" last year, Columbia wouldn't have even thought about filming "Sense and Sensibility."

Although they have tried their best to make movies that are popular with ordinary audiences, it is very difficult to compare with those blockbuster movies.

Moreover, Columbia's box office expectations for this movie are not particularly high. Although the production cost is 16 million US dollars, they will be satisfied as long as the global box office can exceed 20 million US dollars.

After all, there are many ways to make money on a movie like this.

When they first started planning to shoot their movie, there were already copyright dealers in contact with Columbia about copyright matters.

But these things are not urgent. The film has been submitted to the film festival. If it can win some awards at the film festival, the copyright will be sold easily.

Colombia made this film and found An Li. They originally had this in mind. They wanted to use this film to win awards at film festivals. An Li's achievements in film festivals are obvious to all.

Speaking of which, he and Zhou Yan can be considered rivals this time, because this time "Sense and Sensibility" and "Springtime of the Cowherd" were both selected for the Berlin Film Festival.

But overall, Anli has a greater advantage.

First of all, "Sense and Sensibility" is a classic, with a literary buff bonus. In addition, An Li is a frequent visitor to film festivals and has won several awards before.

The most important thing is that Zhou Yan's age is too disadvantageous.

Although the film festival does not set any age requirements for directors, so far no director in his twenties has been able to win the festival's grand prize.

At the age of 36, An Li won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival for "Pushing Hands". He is already a very young director.

But there should be no problem for Zhou Yan to be shortlisted this year. No matter how the film turns out, the Berlin Film Festival will definitely give Zhou Yan and Thomson Film Company a face and give them a shortlisted spot.

And An Li believes that Zhou Yan's movie will definitely be very competitive.

Although he has not seen the original film of "Spring of the Cowherd Class", he knows Zhou Yan. Since Zhou Yan can send the film to the film festival, he must have some confidence in the film.

Just when An Li was thinking about the Berlin Film Festival, the performance on stage had ended, and Zhou Yan and Mariah Carey bowed down to greet the audience.

The audience applauded loudly, calling the two to perform on stage again.

But today is not a concert or concert after all, but the premiere of "Sense and Sensibility". It is impossible for the two of them to dominate the show, so the show ends here.

After the performance, several guests came to the stage to deliver speeches, and then the official movie began.

……

After the movie started, most people focused on the movie pictures and storyline, but Linda pricked up her ears and listened intently to the music in the movie. As long as it was a song that appeared in the movie, she would not listen to any of it. miss.

Although Linda works in the music industry, she rarely pays attention to the soundtrack of the movie.

But today she discovered that the soundtrack of "Sense and Sensibility" was really surprising. In addition to "Young and Beautiful", there were many other eye-catching songs.

The songs Marianne sang were often accompanied by the song that Colonel Brydon appeared in, Elinor's song, the song when Colonel Brydon came back with Marianne in his arms during the storm...

Every song in it fits perfectly with the movie scene.

In many movies, excessive use of soundtracks can make people feel bored.

There are a lot of songs in "Sense and Sensibility", but they don't feel inconsistent at all. It makes people feel that the soundtrack should appear in these places, and the soundtrack is just right.

In addition, what surprised Linda the most was that some of the songs in it felt like they could be made into songs with lyrics, especially the song that often accompanied Colonel Braden.

Although that piece of music does not appear continuously and completely in the movie, it does appear in different places. If the piece of music is connected together, it will be like a complete song.

The whole song is full of regrets. It has a very strong emotional stimulating effect and is very catchy. The last point is particularly important. A popular song must be catchy and easy to remember.

In fact, not only Linda paid attention to this, Mariah Carey also paid attention to this.

She was very surprised that there was music in this movie that could be turned into a song.

So while watching the movie, she couldn't help but turn her head and look at Zhou Yan who was not far away.

If she had heard this piece of music at that time, she would probably have included it in the new album as well. I just don’t know if the results can be as good as "Young and Beautiful".

……

The premiere of "Sense and Sensibility" was very successful. After the movie was played, the audience stood up and applauded the movie.

Some guests also began to congratulate An Li.

After watching it, they knew that the movie would not do too poorly at the box office.

And Zhou Yan, amidst the lively congratulations, was already on his way back to Los Angeles.

Because there were many people around An Li and the others, he did not go to say hello to An Li, but just said to Bregman.

The two came together, but Zhou Yan had to go first. Although Bregman would also go to the concert to watch the performance tomorrow night, he didn't have to be in a hurry, as long as he arrived in Los Angeles tomorrow. (End of chapter)