1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Chapter 72 He also made movies (first update 3.4k)

Zhou Yan was accustomed to arriving for appointments in advance. Chen Kaige told him that he could arrive before nine o'clock. He arrived at Yanjing Studio at eight twenty.

Of course, he was not the only one who came early. There were already five or six people in the director's office, chatting together at the moment.

As soon as Zhou Yan entered, these people looked over.

"Zhou Yan, here we come." Chen Kaige smiled and said hello to Zhou Yan, and then introduced to a few people next to him, "This is Zhou Yan, the live music director of our crew."

Most of the people looked at Zhou Yan with curiosity.

The position of live music director is quite strange in itself, and Zhou Yan is a bit too young to be closely related to the word director.

Chen Kaige introduced several people next to Zhou Yan.

"This is our screenwriter, Teacher Lu Wei."

Zhou Yan smiled and walked up to shake hands with Lu Wei, "Hello, Teacher Lu Wei, long time no see."

Lu Wei also smiled and nodded, "Well, long time no see, Zhou Yan."

Chen Kaige patted his forehead and said suddenly, "By the way, Zhou Yan spent some time in Chang'an Studio before, you should have met him."

What he said was correct. Zhou Yan and Lu Wei had indeed met at Chang'an Studio. Although they were not particularly familiar with each other, they had spoken to each other several times.

Chen Kaige introduced Zhou Yan to the woman next to Lu Wei, "This is the original author of "Farewell My Concubine", teacher Li Bihua."

Li Bihua is in her early 30s, wearing a pair of large black-rimmed glasses. Her appearance is unattractive and her smile is a bit reserved.

"Mr. Li, hello."

Zhou Yan greeted her, and she just smiled in response.

The other two people, deputy directors Bai Yu and Jin Ping, and Zhou Yan also greeted them one by one.

After getting to know each other, Chen Kaige said with a smile: "The office is too messy. Let's go to the conference room and wait. It will probably take a while for the others to arrive."

When they arrived at the conference room, deputy director Jin Ping was busy pouring water for everyone, while another deputy director Bai Yu was responsible for picking topics and setting the mood.

The few people chatted for a while, and Zhou Yan also discovered that it was basically Chen Kaige talking to the two assistant directors. In addition, he occasionally made remarks, and Lu Wei and Li Bihua didn't speak much.

It can be seen that the relationship between the two screenwriters and the director is average.

Although Zhou Yan usually likes to take the initiative to stir up topics, he didn't want to talk too much in today's atmosphere. Sometimes it's not good to talk too much.

This slightly awkward atmosphere lasted until [-]:[-], until investor Xu Feng arrived.

"I've kept you all waiting."

Before Xu Fengren entered the conference room, her capable voice came in.

After entering the office, she greeted everyone very enthusiastically, without leaving any one behind.

Although she only met Zhou Yan once, she was able to remember Zhou Yan and call him by his name accurately, "Zhou Yan, it has been more than half a year since we last saw each other at Teacher Zhao's house, right?"

Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "Well, it happened last year."

"It's okay, we can see each other more often during this time."

Xu Feng maintains the right amount of enthusiasm for everyone, and it is easy for people to like her, especially when she is a film investor. This enthusiasm makes it easier for her to win the favor of others from top to bottom.

Shows of kindness by those in power are naturally more useful than those of ordinary people.

After she arrived, the atmosphere at the scene became much better, and Lu Wei and Li Bihua, who had been silent before, were both willing to speak.

After a few more minutes, the office gradually became lively, and the two male protagonists, Zhang Fengyi and Leslie Cheung, also arrived at the scene.

Because there were too many people, it was naturally impossible to introduce them one by one on the spot. Everyone nodded and said hello and sat down, so Zhou Yan did not strike up a conversation with Leslie Cheung and the others.

Leslie Cheung was in his 30s, at the peak of his career. To Zhou Yan's surprise, Leslie Cheung's Mandarin was already very good, without much of an accent.

However, Zhou Yan didn't hear a few words from him. He seemed quite introverted in reality. It might be because he was new here and was not familiar with everyone. It would be better to get familiar with him later.

Compared to Leslie Cheung, the other male lead, Zhang Fengyi, is much more cheerful. His laughter is the loudest in the room as soon as he enters.

Zhang Fengyi is one of those people who are familiar with each other. He can find something to talk to whenever he meets someone. Compared with Zhou Yan, his way of chatting with people is more aggressive. He is the kind of rough guy who can be seen at a glance.

He often crosses the line with his words, but most people think it's due to his personality and don't take it to heart.

Zhang Fengyi doesn't have many works, but he is quite famous in China, mainly because his debut went very smoothly. He acted in "Camel Xiangzi" ten years ago when he was still in school.

Because it is a masterpiece and the filming was really good, the movie received a good response at the time and was very popular in society. Zhang Fengyi suddenly became a well-known film niche.

When it was almost nine o'clock, just when Zhou Yan thought that everyone attending today's meeting had arrived, another bright figure appeared at the door of the conference room.

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows when he saw the person coming. He didn't expect that Dong Wenmiao would also come to the crew.

Today's Dong Wenmiao is very different from before. He has not lost the ascetic style before. He has taken off the glasses that cover half of his face. He wears a refreshing white shirt on the upper body and a light blue floral skirt on the lower body.

Dong Wenmiao is not tall, but because of the high waistline of the skirt and the high heels, she looks quite slender.

Seeing Dong Wenmiao coming, Xu Feng stood up and waved to her enthusiastically, "Miao Miao, this way."

Dong Wenmiao nodded and walked over.It seemed that Xu Feng and Dong Wenmiao were very familiar with each other. As soon as Dong Wenmiao sat down, Xu Feng started talking to her enthusiastically.

Xu Feng's enthusiasm for Dong Wenmiao is very different from her enthusiasm for others, which can be seen from her hand holding Dong Wenmiao's arm.

Dong Wenmiao also noticed Zhou Yan sitting opposite her at this moment. She raised her eyebrows slightly and continued talking to Xu Feng.

Zhou Yan smiled, thinking that she was saying hello to him when she raised her eyebrows.

At nine o'clock, the meeting officially begins.

Zhou Yan originally thought that today's meeting would be about the director and producer arranging tasks and coordinating work for other departments, and nothing else.

But he never imagined that there were many places in the script that were not well coordinated.

There were several times when Lu Wei and Chen Kaige had arguments because of different opinions on the script. Of course, they were both more restrained and the arguments were relatively minor. After a few lines of argument, they didn't say anything more.

Zhou Yan always felt that Lu Wei didn't think highly of Chen Kaige.

Although Lu Wei didn't have much contact with Zhou Yan, he also knew that he was still a person who cared about the situation. Before, in Chang'an Studio, he had a good relationship with ordinary employees and had no airs. He was not the kind of person who liked to follow dogma and forcefully Arrogant person.

There is also Li Bihua, who usually doesn't speak at all. Only when Lu Wei is quarreling with Chen Kaige, she will follow behind and give Lu Wei a few words.

As for Chen Kaige, he doesn't seem to have a good impression of Li Bihua. He has a crooked mouth to begin with. If he displeases someone, his mouth will become even more crooked, which is very obvious.

The entire creative team seems to be incompatible with each other... no, not even in appearance. Only Xu Feng keeps mediating in the middle. Fortunately, she is the boss's wife, so everyone listens to what she says.

Zhou Yan feels that the core of this crew is not the director Chen Kaige, but the investor Xu Feng.

If Xu Feng hadn't been in the middle, the team might not have been able to form.

In a two-hour meeting, nearly half of the time was spent discussing the script, and the other half was basically spent on arranging tasks for the actors and other trivial matters. From the beginning to the end, there was not a single sentence related to the soundtrack.

I did mention a few words about clothing, but not much.

And none of the script issues that were discussed were resolved.

By the time the meeting ended, Zhou Yan felt that it had been a lonely meeting. The only thing that was certain was that several filming locations had been selected, namely Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall, Dacheng Hall of Confucius Temple, Ditan Park and Fu Jen Catholic University.

A series of nodes such as the shooting start time were not given.

There was a meeting at nine o'clock. By the time the meeting ended, it was already eleven o'clock. Xu Feng arranged for them to go to the hotel for dinner.

Zhou Yan rode here by himself. The hotel was far away and it took too much time to ride there, so he followed the proprietress Xu Feng's car, and Dong Wenmiao was also in the car.

When they got to the car, Zhou Yan smiled and said to Dong Wenmiao, "I didn't expect Teacher Dong to be in this crew."

Dong Wenmiao nodded, "I didn't expect you to be here either."

Hearing the conversation between the two, Xu Feng was a little curious, "Miaomiao, have you known Zhou Yan before?"

Zhou Yan explained with a smile, "Director Zhang Yimou filmed Raise the Red Lantern before, and Teacher Dong and I were both there."

Xu Feng nodded, "By the way, Miaomiao, you went to help in "Raise the Red Lantern" before. That drama was quite hard, running in such a remote place. Our drama is much better, it is in Yanjing City inside."

Then Xu Feng looked at Zhou Yan again and said with a smile, "I heard from Kai Ge that you have made a soundtrack for another movie of theirs during this time?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "Yes, "Reply from Heaven" directed by Wang Junzheng has been filmed and is now in post-production."

Xu Feng said with a smile, "It's not bad. You can be independent at a young age. When I see you, I feel that I am already old."

When a woman says she is old, she probably wants to hear others say she is young.

Zhou Yan naturally understood this truth. He was about to praise Xu Feng when he heard Dong Wenmiao suddenly say, "He has made a movie before."

Hearing this, Zhou Yan looked at Dong Wenmiao in surprise, who had no special expression on his face.

The reason why Zhou Yan was surprised was that Dong Wenmiao said this at this time, as if he wanted to recommend him in front of Xu Feng, but Dong Wenmiao had a weird temperament, and Zhou Yan couldn't figure it out.

Xu Feng was indeed interested, "Zhou Yan, have you ever made a movie? Has it been released?"

"It's just a short film, it can't go to the cinema." Zhou Yan said modestly.

"Short films are not easy either. Directing is not something that ordinary people can do."

"Mainly thanks to the two directors Zhang Yimou and Hou Xiaoxian. I learned a lot from them on the crew at that time. Later, Director Hou also supported me and contacted Time Company to sponsor me to complete the film."

Zhou Yan said this not out of modesty, but mainly because he wanted to show off his strength to Xu Feng without showing anything, so that Xu Feng would know that his short film was not shot casually, but was made with the help of two famous international directors. .

This trick did work. Xu Feng became more interested in his short film, "Do you have a copy on hand?"

Zhou Yan shook his head, "No, after the film was edited at Chang'an Studio, it was sent directly to Time Company without passing through my hands."

"That's a pity. I really want to see this movie of yours." Xu Feng looked a little regretful, and then she laughed again, "But it doesn't matter. I can ask Mr. Qiu to watch it later."

Zhou Yan didn't tell Xu Feng about the award-winning "Antfly". He took the initiative to say it himself, which had no effect. Mainly, he was not in a hurry to get a chance with Xu Feng, as long as it could be buried in Xu Feng's heart. Just one seed will do.

With Time Company, he doesn't have to worry about finding investment for his next short film project for the time being.

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