1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Chapter 70 The Wind of the Kite (7.1k)

This piece is much shorter than "Kite". Chen Kaige felt that it was less than 2 minutes, and he listened to it in just a while.

After the song ended, Wang Jun was rewinding the tape and listened to it again.

Although Zhou Yan said before that there is still one piece that has not been recorded, in fact, in Wang Junzheng's view, the soundtrack work for "Reply from Heaven" is almost completed.

In addition to "Kite", Zhou Yan also wrote more than a dozen pieces of music for "Reply from Heaven". These pieces are not long, the short ones are only a few seconds, and the long ones are only 30 seconds.

Such a large number of songs should be enough for a movie lasting more than an hour.

As for the last piece of music Zhou Yan mentioned, he did not elaborate on it, so Wang Junzheng thought it would be very short like the previous short paragraphs, but he did not expect that it turned out to be such a big surprise.

Chen Kaige heard summer in the song, while Wang Junzheng heard more about childhood, her own childhood.

When he was a child, Wang Junzheng was a tomboy, still a child, "running around" in the streets and alleys with other children in the yard every day.

In a daze, it seemed as if the old street scene of Yanshi decades ago came to her through time and space. The names of Xiao Nier, Er Mao, Da Zi... each of her childhood playmates gradually became clear in her mind. Notes jump.

After the second song ended, Wang Junzheng let out a long sigh of relief, and then smiled, "Zhou Yan, you gave me another surprise! I can't wait to see the song dubbed into the movie. This song what is it call?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Wind."

"What feng?"

"The wind of a kite."

Because the movie was shot in spring and there were no scenes of summer, Zhou Yan did not use the original name "Summer" and changed it to "Wind".

This song will be used in the movie scene where two children are chasing and playing in the alley, and the grandfather is chasing behind them. Zhou Yan originally wanted to name it "Chasing the Wind", but after thinking about it, he removed the word "Chasing" and left only one wind.

"The wind is pretty good." Wang Junzheng smiled and nodded, then asked Zhou Yan, "Do you have time tomorrow morning to record the final version of the song?"

The sound quality of the music recorded by Zhou Yan using his Walkman was not up to par, so it certainly could not be directly edited into the movie. Professional equipment would also be needed to record the final version.

"No problem." Zhou Yan nodded: "Then I'll go over tomorrow morning and record the music."

In fact, in addition to the piano, Zhou Yan also added a little violin to this piece, but it didn't matter. The soundtrack was originally recorded in separate tracks, and he could do it by himself without having to find anyone else.

However, Zhou Yan couldn't handle the final recording of "Memory of the Forbidden City" alone, and he couldn't play the drums well.

"Okay, you sit here for a while, and I'll go to the editing workshop to take a look."

Wang Jun was unloading the tape from the cassette player, and then took the tape out of the office. She was going to the editing workshop to listen to the song "Wind" in front of the film.

After she left, Chen Kaige said with a smile, "It can be seen that Director Wang really likes this piece of music."

"As long as Director Wang likes it, the soundtrack mainly serves the movie."

Chen Kaige took out a cigarette from his pocket and pretended to give one to Zhou Yan. Before Zhou Yan could refuse, he lit the cigarette himself.

When Wang Jun was in the office, he had some scruples and didn't dare to light up a cigarette. Sister Wang had a bad temper, and she would start a fight if she couldn't stand it, and she wouldn't save anyone any face.

After lighting up the cigarette and taking a comfortable puff, Chen Kaige smiled and said, "Zhou Yan, if we have the opportunity in the future, let's work together."

The cooperation he was talking about was naturally to ask Zhou Yan to be the soundtrack director, rather than like this time in "Farewell My Concubine", where Zhou Yan was just the second in command of the soundtrack team.

The previous song "Kite" and today's song "Wind" made Chen Kaige salivate. If such a good song is used in a movie, it will definitely add a lot of points to the movie.

Chen Kaige has already thought about it. If he makes some more tender movies in the future, he can ask Zhou Yan to cooperate. His talent in this area is obviously outstanding.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "There should be a chance."

He also reviewed Chen Kaige's later movies in his mind. From the perspective of soundtrack, I am afraid that only "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and "Changjin Lake" can interest him a little.

In his opinion, the possibility of cooperating with Chen Kaige in the future is probably not very high, so his smile just now was somewhat perfunctory.

……

"Dong dong."

In the office building of "BJ Literature", the editor-in-chief Liang Jinguang was reading the manuscripts sent by each group in his office. Suddenly he heard a knock on the door and raised his head.

There was a young man standing at the door. He was not tall and looked about 35 or [-] years old. Liang Jinguang had never seen him before.

"Hello, are you Editor Liang?" the man asked with a smile.

Liang Jinguang raised his eyebrows, "Are you Huang Jianxin from Chang'an?"

The man smiled and nodded, "Yes, it's me. I called you before."

"Come in and sit down." Liang Jinguang stood up with a smile and poured a glass of water for Huang Jianxin. "I was wondering when you would come over this morning."

Huang Jianxin took the tea cup and said with some embarrassment, "I was supposed to arrive in Yanjing last night, but something happened on the way and we didn't arrive until noon. I'm really sorry."

"It's normal for something to delay you." Liang Jinguang smiled and waved his hand, and then got down to business, "You said on the phone that you were interested in "Knife in Clear Water". Do you want to make it into a movie? TV drama?"

"Movie."

When he heard that he was going to make a movie, Liang Jinguang also raised his eyebrows, "I am naturally happy and supportive of the works published in our magazine being adapted into movies, but you also know that film and television licensing is the author's business, so you need to do this Talk to the author.”

Huang Jianxin nodded, "I know this, so I also want to get Teacher Zhou Wan's contact information from you."

Liang Jinguang thought for a while and said, "It's not good for you to go to him directly. Some authors don't like others to rush over and disturb them. Let's do this. I'll ask someone to explain the situation to him first and ask for his opinion. If he If you are willing, you can meet and talk. If you are not willing, forget it."

"Is Teacher Zhou Chan in Yanjing now?" Huang Jianxin asked.

"Here, if you are not in a hurry to do other things, just wait in our club for a while. If you have other things to do, come back tomorrow."

"Then I'll wait a while."

Huang Jianxin came to Yanjing this time just for "The Knife in Clear Water", so he naturally hoped to finalize the matter as soon as possible.

Before coming, he thought it would be best for the magazine to give him Zhou San's contact information, and then he would go directly to Zhou San to talk about licensing the work.

But he didn't expect that Liang Jinguang protected the writer's privacy and was unwilling to give him Zhou Chan's contact information directly. In this case, he could only wait.

Then Liang Jinguang went to tell the novel team and asked them to find someone.

……

Zhou Yan chatted with Chen Kaige for a while, and before Wang Junzheng came back, he said goodbye to Chen Kaige and returned to school.

As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Zhou Yan saw Hua Yang sitting on the stool next to his bed, staring down at the ground in a daze.

"Editor Hua, why are you here?" Zhou Yan asked in surprise.

When Hua Yang heard Zhou Yan's voice, he raised his head and a smile suddenly bloomed on his face, "Zhou Yan, I've waited for you to come back."

Seeing him like this, Zhou Yan was also curious, "Why are you waiting for me?"

"Good thing." Hua Yang stood up and walked to Zhou Yan, grabbing Zhou Yan's sleeve, "Hurry up and follow me to the club."

Zhou Yan was confused by his actions, but he still followed him out the door. After walking a few steps, Hua Yang explained, "Today a director came to the club, and he seemed to be interested in "The Knife in Clear Water" I’m very interested, and the president asked me to come find you.”

"Knife in clear water?" Zhou Yan looked confused, "Didn't this just come out?"

"So, it's warm."

Zhou Yan asked again, "Which director is it?"

Hua Yang shook his head, "I don't know his specific name. I only know that his surname is Huang and he is not tall."

With this little information, Zhou Yan couldn't guess which director it was.

In fact, he didn't really want to make this trip. Logically speaking, since the other party wanted to ask him to authorize his work, he should pay him a visit. There was no reason for him to make the trip. This kind of forcefulness was gone.

However, due to Hua Yang's kindness, Zhou Yan didn't say anything and followed Hua Yang to their magazine by bike.

When they arrived at the club, Hua Yang took Zhou Yan to the reception room.

Because the waiting time was relatively long, Huang Jianxin could not stay in Liang Jinguang's office all the time, so he chatted with Liang Jinguang for a while and was taken to the conference room by Zhong Xinghua, the leader of the novel team.

Zhou Yan followed Hua Yang into the reception room. When he saw Huang Jianxin, he was surprised and said, "Brother Jianxin?"

On the road just now, he was wondering who this Director Huang was, but he had no clue after thinking about it all the way. Unexpectedly, he turned out to be Huang Jianxin.

Huang Jianxin is the director of Chang'an Studio and lives in the same dormitory as Liu Qing.

During that time, Zhou Yan, Huang Jianxin and Liu Qing played cards every night and became very familiar with it.

The main reason is that Huang Jianxin and Liu Qing have a very good relationship. They both entered Chang'an Studio in the same batch. One is in the props team and the other is a recorder. They are both very inconspicuous positions.

But later Huang Jianxin performed very well and rose all the way. In 85, he independently directed the feature film "The Black Robe Incident", and won the Best Debut Film Award at the New Era Decade Film Awards for this film.

Since then, he has officially embarked on the path of directing, and later made the movie "Reincarnation". This film was sent to compete abroad. Although he did not win any awards, it also gained him a lot of fame.

Liu Qingze has been working as a prop master, and their life trajectories are completely different, but their relationship is still very good. When nothing happens, Huang Jianxin will buy some liquor for Liu Qing to drink.

When Zhou Yan lived in Chang'an Studio, he drank with them twice.

Huang Jianxin was originally chatting with Zhong Xinghua. When he heard Zhou Yan's voice, he turned around, with an expression even more surprised than Zhou Yan's, "Zhou Yan?!"

Then he thought of something, and stood up as if his butt had been taped, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"You are pregnant every week, are you pregnant every week?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Brother Jianxin, are you talking to me? Zhou Wen is my pen name. You are Director Huang?"

The other two people present were also confused. Zhong Xinghua asked, "Director Huang, do you know Zhou Chan?"

"We know each other, of course we know each other, we are roommates."

As soon as these words came out, Zhong Xinghua and Hua Yang became even more confused.

These two are actually roommates?What roommate?
Seeing the doubts on their faces, Huang Jianxin smiled and explained, "Zhou Yan spent some time in our studio before, and he lived in our dormitory."

Although Huang Jianxin thought his explanation was quite clear, Zhong Xinghua and the others were still full of doubts.

Why did Zhou Yan go to Chang'an Studio?He also lives in the same dormitory with Huang Jianxin. Isn't he a student of the Composition Department of Yangyin University?

Although he still didn't understand, Zhong Xinghua didn't ask further. He just smiled and said, "Since you know each other, it's easy. You two can talk directly about the film and television licensing matter. In our reception room, you can do whatever you want. use."

"No, no, since it's Zhou Yan, let's go talk somewhere else." Huang Jianxin smiled, then turned to Zhou Yan and said, "Old Liu and the others are still waiting downstairs."

Afterwards, Huang Jianxin went to say hello to the editor-in-chief Liang Jinguang, and then went downstairs with Zhou Yan.

...The Delica van from Chang'an Studio was parked behind the "Yenjing Literature" office building. When Zhou Yan and Huang Jianxin walked to the side of the van, Liu Qing was already asleep on a pile of fabrics in the back row.

Zhou Yan patted the window and shouted at the top of his voice, "It's on fire."

Liu Qing woke up all of a sudden. He first looked inside the car, and then looked outside. He didn't see any fire spots, so he muttered, "Where is the fire? You're just talking nonsense to me."

After saying that, Liu Qing fell back to sleep.

But as soon as he lay down, he jumped up again and stared at Zhou Yan blankly.

"Zhou Yan?"

His voice was full of doubts, "Am I dreaming?"

Huang Jianxin had already sat in the passenger seat and turned to Liu Qing and said, "Old Liu, you are not dreaming, this is Zhou Yan. Get up quickly and drive. Find a place to fill your stomach. The two buns you ate for lunch." It’ll be all gone in a moment.”

Liu Qing turned over and got up and asked, "Is your matter settled?"

"Even if it's done, it's not done yet."

"Are you playing charades with me? Have you solved it?"

Huang Jianxin smiled and said, "You drive first and we'll talk on the way."

……

"So, the article "Knife in Clear Water" was really written by you?"

Ten minutes later, in a shabu-shabu restaurant on the roadside, Liu Qing stared at Zhou Yan with wide eyes. They never expected that the writer Huang Jianxin came all the way to find was Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan smiled, "Didn't you collect letters for me before? I thought you knew I submitted articles to magazines."

Liu Qing raised the corner of his mouth, "I know what the hell! There are so many letters every time, how can I look at where they are sent one by one? And even if I saw you received the letter from the magazine, I never thought that this novel was You wrote it."

Huang Jianxin poured the meat into the copper pot with a smile, "Old Liu, I am going to criticize you. You have already seen that Zhou Yan received the letter from "Yanjing Literature", and you also know that the author of "The Knife in Clear Water" is named Zhou Chan. , why can’t you think that Zhou Wen is Zhou Yan?”

"Who knew he received the letter from "Yanjing Literature"?" Liu Qing muttered, and then said, "Let me ask you, when you heard about Zhou Wen, did you think of Zhou Yan at all?"

Huang Jianxin defended himself, "It's not like there's not even half of it..."

"Huh." Liu Qing didn't believe it at all. He looked at Zhou Yan again, "Zhou Yan, your pseudonym is really ugly. What is called weekly delivery? It's not as good as dystocia..."

Huang Jianxin tugged at Liu Qing and said with a serious expression, "Old Liu, pay attention to your tone. The person sitting in front of you now is not Zhou Yan, the little brother who used to hang out with us every day, but Zhou San, a well-known writer. I If I can’t get the authorization for this movie, it’s all up to you.”

Zhou Yan laughed, "Brother Jianxin, don't be shy. I haven't published a few novels in total. How can I be a great writer?"

Huang Jianxin joked, "You are not satisfied with this. How many people can publish novels in "Yanjing Literature" at the age of 20?"

Liu Qing nodded seriously, "Yes, this is really powerful."

Zhou Yan was startled when he saw Liu Qing's serious expression, thinking that he had found new material for this fan.

Huang Jianxin took out a large piece of mutton with chopsticks from the copper pot, put it in Zhou Yan's bowl, and said with a smile, "Then about this authorization..."

"No problem." Zhou Yan responded very simply, and he accepted Huang Jian's new mutton.

Hearing Zhou Yan's promise, the smile on Huang Jianxin's face became even brighter, "I knew your brother was reliable."

Liu Qing imitated Huang Jianxin's tone just now and yelled strangely, "What are you kid? His kid's name is Teacher Zhou."

Huang Jianxin did not argue with him and nodded very cooperatively, "Hey, Teacher Zhou."

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, "Why are you scolding people?"

After saying this, all three people laughed.

"Come on, have a drink."

Huang Jianxin picked up the wine glass again, and the three of them clinked their glasses.

They were not in a hurry to go back today, and Liu Qing didn't have to drive, so he also drank.

After a glass of wine, Huang Jianxin talked about the licensing fee, "Licensing fees seem to be increasing this year, but our funds are indeed not enough. All I can give you is 3000 yuan."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Three thousand is enough."

The price of three thousand was definitely high a year and a half ago.

At that time, the licensing fee for Su Tong's "Wives and Concubines" was [-], which was already the highest price in the country.

But over the past year or so, the market has continued to rise, and three thousand is no longer considered high.

Of course, it can never be said to be low. The current film and television licensing fee for a novel is basically this price.

In fact, this thing is not accurate, it depends on who is making the movie.

Huang Jianxin wanted to make "Knife in Clear Water" without corporate investment. The studio paid for it himself, so the budget must be average.

However, for example, Zhang Yimou signed a contract with Time Company, and Chen Kaige cooperated with Tomson Films. The funds are provided by these companies, and the budget must be much higher. It is not impossible for the licensing fee of the work to reach as high as [-] to [-] yuan.

In fact, even if the price is a little lower, Zhou Yan doesn't care. Huang Jianxin is a potential stock. He later directed two historical blockbusters, "The Founding of the Party" and "The Founding of the People's Republic of China". Now that they are on good terms, it will definitely not be a loss.

To take a step back, even if Huang Jianxin is not a potential stock, Zhou Yan is willing to give Liu Qing a friendly price just because of Liu Qing's face.

Hearing that Zhou Yan had no objection to the price, Huang Jianxin picked up another wine glass and drank one alone with Zhou Yan, "Zhou Yan, to be honest, I feel like I'm in a dream today. When I came here, I kept thinking about what kind of teacher Zhou Yan is. Are people easy to communicate with?"

"He didn't tell lies." Liu Qing testified to Huang Jianxin from the side. "He was always muttering about this along the way."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "When will this plan start?"

"Let's think about the script first. The factory has been very busy recently. The shooting will be arranged later." Huang Jianxin sighed slightly.

"It's all a waste of time." Liu Qing seemed to be drunk, and he slapped the table while talking, "Didn't all our time this year be wasted by Lao Mouzi? If it weren't for him, would we be so busy?"

Zhou Yan heard him mention Zhang Yimou and asked curiously, "By the way, when I went to Chang'an at the beginning of the year, you said that the filming of "Chicken Feathers in a Place" was going to start. What's going on now? Haven't you guys gone to Chongqing yet?"

"He's gone!" Liu Qing let out a long sigh, "He's back again. Just one word from him. Dozens of us went to Chongqing and stayed for such a long time. We didn't film a single scene, and we said we wouldn't film anymore."

"What do you mean?" Zhou Yan asked confused.

"What do you mean, you're just fooling around because you're a great director!"

Huang Jianxin saw that Liu Qing was a little dizzy from drinking, so he took the initiative to take over the conversation and said, "I heard that Director Zhang couldn't find the feeling of shooting in Chongqing, and then he saw another novel that felt particularly interesting, so he changed his position. , now I’m ready to shoot this novel.”

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes and asked, "What novel?"

"Wanjia Litigation." Huang Jianxin said a name.

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows. Sure enough, Zhang Yimou would eventually shoot "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit". Before, he was still thinking that his arrival would change Zhang Yimou's director career so quickly. Now it seems that he has overthought it.

In fact, Zhou Yan really wanted to see changes.

He has seen "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" by Zhang Yimou, but he has not seen "Chicken Feather" by Zhang Yimou. If he can see it, it will be a new experience.

He also understood why Liu Qing had so many complaints.

From Zhang Yimou's point of view, he follows his inner feelings, shoots only when he feels it, and places it when he doesn't. This is respect for art.

But from the perspective of these staff members, they have spent so long on this project, and now it changes at any time, which is indeed very uncomfortable.

Some people are more open-minded. Anyway, they are paid a dead salary. No matter what they film, it is not a film. No matter how you change, it will not affect my salary. But Liu Qing's character obviously cannot do it.

Zhou Yan sighed slightly, the reality is that if a director becomes famous, there will naturally be countless people behind the scenes who have to make sacrifices.

"Come on, keep drinking and ignore those silly things."

Liu Qing patted the table and started clinking glasses with Zhou Yan and the others again.

In the second half of the meal, it turned into Zhou Yan and Huang Jianxin pulling Liu Qing to stop drinking too much. However, no matter how they tried, Liu Qing finally drank himself down.

Liu Qinghe didn't worry about anyone else when he lay down, he just lay down on the table and fell asleep.

Looking at Liu Qing who had fallen asleep, Huang Jianxin said with a smile, "This guy just talks about working in Director Zhang's crew, but he is more serious than anyone else."

Zhou Yan nodded. He agreed. Liu Qing was the kind of evil person on the surface.

"Brother Liu is a sweet-tempered person, and I especially like to deal with people like him."

"Otherwise, how do you think we have gotten along after all these years?" Huang Jianxin smiled, burped again, and then asked Zhou Yan, "Has your "Antfly" been sent for awards? Is there any result now? "

Zhou Yan scratched his head. He also knew that Time Company was going to take "Antfly" to the film festival, but he didn't know exactly which film festival or project it would participate in.

It is impossible for Times Company to contact him specifically for this matter, unless there is a good result in the end.If a small project like this is to participate in a film festival or competition, I won't spend money to hire director Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan's round trip abroad may cost more than the filming of the movie itself.

"Actually, I don't even know what competition I participated in." Zhou Yan said truthfully.

Huang Jianxin also understood the situation and nodded, "I heard that I participated in more than one film festival, including the famous Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, and a short film festival in Brazil, but I can't remember the name. I heard Director Zhang mention it before."

"Well, he has more contact with the era and knows more than me."

Zhou Yan had never heard of the famous Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, let alone the Brazilian Short Film Festival. Even Huang Jianxin couldn't name it. It must be a small award.

Huang Jianxin smiled and said, "I heard that the Brazilian film festival starts around July, so I asked you if you have any results."

Zhou Yan shrugged, "I haven't received any news. If it was held, it probably didn't win any awards. Is the Clermont International Short Film Festival in France you mentioned famous?"

Huang Jianxin said with a smile, "Of course it is famous. It has been held for more than ten years. It can be said to be the largest international short film festival in the world and the second largest film festival in France after Cannes. If "Antfly" can win this award , then your worth will be different."

Zhou Yan became interested and asked, "When will this film festival be held? What are the requirements for participating?"

Huang Jianxin thought for a while and said, "The time should be winter. I haven't really studied the specific competition requirements. You have to ask the Times Company about this. They have dedicated people to study this."

Zhou Yan nodded thoughtfully. He could pay attention to this Claremont International Short Film Festival.It had been a long time since he had contacted Hou Xiaoxian and the others. He could find time to call Hou Xiaoxian and ask.

Huang Jianxin saw that Zhou Yan was interested in the Clermont International Short Film Festival, and said with a smile, "There is still some hope for "Antfly"."

Zhou Yan also smiled, knowing that Huang Jianxin was comforting him.

"Antfly" is good, but it may not be worth winning the grand prize. The whole short film does not express enough things. The key lies in the imagination at the end. This kind of film will suffer a lot in participating in film festivals.

If he really wanted to perform at the Clermont International Short Film Festival, he would have to try other works.

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