1990: Starting from Baojia Street

This short plot at the beginning has already told the audience in advance that this movie has a great relationship with music.

After "Teacher Lin" finished the concert, he returned to his hometown and attended his mother's funeral.

The movie does not give too many scenes to explain the funeral, but the story really begins when a person who wants to stay away comes to see Lin Ai.

Mo Yuan is Lin Ai's old classmate. He found Lin Ai with teacher Zhou Xuewen's diary, and then the scene followed the contents of the diary back to fifty years ago.

In the picture, Zhou Xuewen, played by Li Xuejian, is carrying a suitcase and walking towards the entrance of Chidi Middle School.

Zhou Xuewen is the new superintendent of Chidi Middle School. He is a middle-aged man who looks slightly overweight and honest.

The tone of the movie is very dark. Although it is not a rainy day, the whole school looks very eerie and gives people a very depressing feeling. If they did not know that this is a school, the audience might think it is a prison.

The first person Zhou Xuewen saw when he arrived at school was a little boy. The boy was holding on to the iron gate of the school, waiting for his father to pick him up. The boy's father would not pick him up until Sunday, and today was not Sunday. .

The two chatted for a while, and an old man walked out.

"Mo Yuan!"

Hearing the old man's shout, the audience also realized that this cute little boy turned out to be the old man who just went to see Teacher Lin.

Seeing the old man coming out, Zhou Xuewen took the initiative to introduce himself as the school's newly appointed superintendent, and then followed the old man and Mo Yuan into the school.

Through the chat between Zhou Xuewen and the old man on the road, the audience knew that Zhou Xuewen was once a music teacher in a middle school, and they also knew that the principal of this school had played the trumpet before.

The principal loves music, which is undoubtedly good news for Zhou Xuewen, and the audience thinks so too.

But later events proved that this was not the case. In this repressive school, the principal was the source of darkness.

The rules of the school are very strict, not much different from a prison, and most of the children here are very naughty, not like students in ordinary schools at all.

Because the principal implemented a very cold management method on the students, the children's minds were severely imprisoned.

When Zhou Xuewen arrived, he was teased by the students.

Faced with the teasing of the students, Zhou Xuewen was certainly very angry, but he still endured his temper and treated the children as tolerantly as possible.

Later, Zhou Xuewen discovered the children's sensitivity and interest in music, so he tried to persuade the principal to organize the children to form a choir.

Although he encountered difficulties, Zhou Xuewen overcame them one by one and finally established this orchestra.

Zhou Xuewen started to train the choir from the most basic music skills and composed his own music and lyrics to create music for children.

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The movie does not have thrilling scenes, but the pace is not slow, and seemingly ordinary scenes can attract the audience to continue watching.

Some viewers even felt a little passionate watching the band slowly grow step by step.

The most important thing is that in this movie, the fit between the music and the plot is almost perfect, and the music created by Zhou Xuewen is of a very high level.

For example, Lin Ai's voice is as ethereal as the sound of nature. Zhou Xuewen wrote a song "Breeze on the Sea" specifically for him. This is a song that combines solo singing and accompaniment. It is quiet and indifferent at first, and then Yuan Hao and the clarinet play it softly. The melody theme and Lin Ai's lead singing make people feel like a spring breeze.

Just like "The Artist's Life", the carefree singing of the children in the rhythm slowly removes the haze of the original school.

At this point, viewers also noticed that the film's tone began to brighten.

Many people know that film music is the direct link to convey emotions in movies, but they did not have such deep feelings before watching "Spring of the Cowherd Class".

Compared with many musicals, this kind of movie that "moistens things silently" and integrates music into the plot can not only make people feel the charm of music, but also feel the profound narrative space of the movie because of the music.

Zhang Yimou stared at the big screen the whole time without moving his eyes for a moment.

He felt extremely emotional in his heart. Apart from other things, in the field of combining film and television music with film and television images, I am afraid that there will be no opponent who can compete with Zhou Yan.

And now for Zhou Yan, music is no longer his only powerful weapon.

Each of Zhou Yan's films is more mature and exciting than the last.

Thinking back to five years ago, when he was in Qiaojiabao, Zhou Yan was still learning how to draw storyboards from them, but now he was able to complete such a movie.

Speaking of which, Zhou Yan has advantages that other directors don't have.

Zhou Yan is a musician and a writer. He has the ability to write stories and score movies, so his movies have a very strong integrity.

He doesn't worry about scripts at all. From his debut to now, he has written all his movies himself.

Zhang Yimou envied this very much. Zhang Yimou himself could not write good stories, so he could only adapt the excellent works of those writers.

When the movie was about to end, Zhang Yimou suddenly heard a burst of crying from behind. It was very small at first, and then became louder and louder.

Later, the sound was so loud that Zhang Yimou couldn't help but turn around and saw a group of people in the back row, all wiping away tears and sobbing.

This makes Zhang Yimou feel strange. The movie is indeed touching, but it is not so exaggerated, and it is only this part that makes people cry.

What is so special about these people?

Hearing these people sobbing made him feel quite uncomfortable.

When the movie ended, the audience burst into applause.

The guests sitting in the front row were relatively restrained, while the students in the back row were working harder than the others.

Zhou Yan is the idol of young people, especially among these college students, his reputation is very high.

Amidst the applause of the crowd, Zhou Yan stood up, turned around and bowed to express his gratitude to the audience.

The lights on the scene turned on, the host walked onto the stage, summarized the progress of the ceremony, praised the movie, and then announced the end of the ceremony.

At this time, the guests stood up one after another and congratulated Zhou Yan.

Wang Junzheng came up and gave Zhou Yan a thumbs up, "Brother, it's a good movie. The plot is good, the technique is good, the music is good, the actors' performances are good, and the production level is high." She said several good things about it, all from the bottom of her heart.

In fact, when she praised Zhou Yan, she was also a little envious. Apart from everything else, the production level of "Spring of the Cowherd Class" was much higher than that of "Reply from Heaven".

This level of production is reflected in various hardware such as photographic equipment, recording equipment, etc., and these things are all exchanged for money.

Each step of the production is a little different, and when combined together, the overall texture is much different.

Since the filming of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly", Zhou Yan has not been short of investment. Nowadays, it is extremely difficult for most domestic directors to make a movie with a cost of tens or even millions. But for Zhou Yan, the cost of making a movie is Investments of hundreds and tens of millions.

Because he has money, Zhou Yan can always find better equipment, better materials, and props without having to worry about anything.

But then again, Zhou Yan is indeed worthy of Tomson investing money in him, because the money can definitely be earned back.

Just take the movie "Spring of the Cowherd". It is by no means a commercial film, but the box office is not low. The movie has a good rhythm, a complete story, and excellent audio-visual effects. Coupled with Zhou Yan's own fame, there must be many Fans are willing to spend money on this movie.

Now even if Tomson doesn't invest in Zhou Yan, there are still a lot of people coming to Zhou Yan with money, because everyone knows that as long as it is Zhou Yan's movie, it is impossible to lose money, the only difference is that you make more or less.

The current development of Tomson Pictures is inseparable from Zhou Yan. "The Sixth Sense" and "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" are the
Next to him, Chen Kaige laughed and said, "Director Wang has already finished praising me. I can only wish the movie a big hit. This movie will definitely have a global box office of 50 million. We are waiting for you to treat us to dinner."

Zhou Yan looked at his watch and said, "It's getting late, let's go eat quickly."

After speaking, he looked specifically at the audience in the third and fourth rows and asked the staff to arrange these people.

After Zhou Yan explained, Zhang Yimou and the others realized that the audience in this scene were all the family members of the young actors.

No wonder these audiences cried, it turned out to be because of their children's performance.

In fact, the reason why these viewers cried was not only because the children acted in the movie, but more importantly, the plot of the movie reminded them of the changes in children in reality.

These children have some problems to some extent, but just like in the movie, through this filming, the children have been changed.

During the filming of the film, a lot of things were recorded. If there is a chance later, it may be edited into a documentary and released.

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When Zhou Yan and the others went to eat, Shuichi Ishiguro, thousands of miles away, was watching a TV Asahi special program.

TV Asahi is the TV station that Quan Neon pays the most attention to Zhou Yan and has the closest relationship with Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan's new album will be reported by other TV stations this time, but TV Asahi directly broadcast the special program on the same day, which is very efficient.

The content of the program is that the two hosts went to the video store in the morning to buy the "Yulin Ling" album.

It turns out that the popularity of the new album is relatively high when it is released. The host also deliberately chose a video store with a lot of people, so the photo was taken with a crowd of people.

At the scene, they will randomly interview some music fans who bought "Yulin Ring", and also play some simple games. For example, if the interviewee only needs to name three Zhou Yan's songs, he or she will receive a new album.

What Ishiguro Shuichi didn't expect the most was that the TV station actually produced a signed album of Zhou Yan. As long as the interviewee answered a question more related to Zhou Yan, he could take it away.

I have to say that TV Asahi has a really good relationship with Zhou Yan. The album was just released today and they have already gotten a signed album.

This shows that TV Asahi has contacted Zhou Yan a long time ago and is preparing to produce this program.

After finishing the exterior scene, the host returned to the studio and started listening to the album "Yulin Ling", commenting on it while listening.

This step may seem simple, but it is actually not easy, because music is copyrighted, and TV stations can’t just play it if they want to. If they dare to play it directly, they must have negotiated the copyright issue in advance.

So it can be seen from this that TV Asahi is well prepared.

Ishiguro Shuichi is not a loyal fan of Zhou Yan, but he also likes Zhou Yan's music and even bought a "Mysterious Country" album.

In fact, this is also the state of most Neon people. Ordinary people are not very enthusiastic about Zhou Yan, but they like Zhou Yan's music.

I often listen to Zhou Yan's music, but I don't pay special attention to Zhou Yan's news.

Recently, there has been a lot of publicity about Zhou Yan's new album in Neon China, and Ishiguro Shuichi has also passively paid attention to it.

However, Ishiguro Shuichi was very busy these two days, and he knew that the video store would be crowded these two days, so he didn't want to go to the video store to squeeze in with others, so he didn't go to the video store to buy an album.

Now TV Asahi has produced a special program and also plays tracks from Zhou Yan's new album, which is just right for him.

If the music on the new album doesn't appeal to him, then he can save some money by not buying it.

But after the host played a few songs, Shuichi Ishiguro knew that he would not be able to save money on buying the album this time.

"Drinking the Water of the Yangtze River Together", "Previous Life", and "Someone Like You", these three songs directly conquered Shuichi Ishiguro.

This is not over yet, there are songs like "you and beautiful" coming later.

He had heard this song, more than once, because it was sung by Mariah Carey.

Mariah Carey is the most famous non-native female singer in Neon. Her performance in Neon is even better than Madonna.

After the release of her new album this time, it also topped the charts consecutively.

"The song "Young and Beautiful", like "Someone Like You" and "Past Life", is the soundtrack of the movie "Sense and Sensibility". Many viewers may feel that this song is very familiar, because it was recently played on Neon The song "young and beautiful" released by Hong and became a hit was written and adapted from this song of the same name."

On TV, the host introduced the song very thoughtfully.

Kuroishi Shuichi didn't pay attention before. He didn't expect that this song was actually written by Zhou Yan.

Not all the songs were played in the program, because the entire album was very long, and the entire program was only just over an hour, which was not enough to play all the programs.

At the end of the program, the host said with a smile, "If you think this album sounds good, then go to the video store to buy it quickly. I can tell you responsibly that the remaining songs are also very good."

"In addition, there is good news. Just now, our reporter from Yanjing called us. He has attended the premiere of Zhou Yan's new movie "The Spring of the Cowherd Class". He told us that the movie is very beautiful. . Also, Zhou Yan said personally at the scene that he will probably hold a concert in Neon next year. You can watch the movie and Zhou Yan’s concert next year.” (End of this chapter)