1990: Starting from Baojia Street

Chapter 96 The Magical Circuit ([-]-in-[-])

Hearing Guan Jinpeng's name, Zhou Yan's brain began to spin rapidly, thinking, did Leslie Cheung give him a job?

Of course Guan Jinpeng knows that "Rouge Button", "Ruan Lingyu" and "Lan Yu" were all filmed by Guan Jinpeng.

The most recent one should be "Ruan Lingyu", but this movie was already filmed last year when I saw the news. When Zhang Manyu arrived in Shanghai, the TV station reported it with great fanfare.

In other words, the movie has been filmed and we are looking for a soundtrack?However, the timing is probably not right. For a movie that was shot last year, there is no way that we still haven’t found a soundtrack director.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Yan said, "Of course I know Guan Jinpeng. The "Rouge Button" you played before was directed by him, right?"

Leslie Cheung smiled and nodded, "Well, he recently filmed a biographical movie "Ruan Lingyu", did you know?"

"I know, I saw it on the news, this movie should be released soon."

"Do you know who the heroine of "Ruan Lingyu" is?" Leslie Cheung asked again.

"Zhang Manyu?"

Zhou Yan was a little confused by Leslie Cheung's question. He found that Leslie Cheung was a bit difficult to figure out. Sometimes Leslie spoke very directly, but sometimes he liked to foreshadow a lot, which could make people anxious to death.

"Well, Zhang Manyu recently received another film, and the director is Tsui Hark."

Sure enough, Leslie Cheung talked about Tsui Hark from Maggie Cheung.

Zhou Yan asked tentatively, "What then?"

He was afraid that Tsui Hark was not the end of the topic, and Leslie Cheung would introduce other characters later.

Leslie Cheung said with a smile, "The movie Tsui Hark is going to shoot is called "Green Snake", and this movie is adapted from Li Bihua's novel "Green Snake"."

Hearing this, Zhou Yan was stunned.

Good guy, after a long detour, we come back to Li Bihua. Zhou Yan really doesn’t understand why Leslie Cheung started this topic with Guan Jinpeng. Even if Leslie Cheung doesn’t directly talk about Li Bihua, but talks about Tsui Hark first, Zhou Yan can understand. .

It made Zhou Yan think that Leslie Cheung was going to get work for him from Guan Jinpeng.

However, Leslie Cheung didn’t think there was any problem with what he said. The reason why he started with Guan Jinpeng was because he had just met with Guan Jinpeng some time ago, and he also learned from Guan Jinpeng that Zhang Manyu had recently accepted a movie from Tsui Hark. .

Later, when he talked to Tsui Hark on the phone, he learned that the movie Zhang Manyu accepted was the "Green Snake" adapted from Li Bihua's novel of the same name, which he had rejected before.

So Leslie Cheung said this in the order of the things he himself experienced. He felt that this was more organized and complete.

And he thought it was quite interesting, so he went round and round and back again.

But it didn't sound like that to others, and he didn't tell everything he had experienced, so Zhou Yan naturally couldn't understand his brain circuit.

Zhou Yan's reaction also made Leslie Cheung a little disappointed. He thought Zhou Yan would be very surprised and lamented why it was such a coincidence, but Zhou Yan just looked at him and waited for him to continue.

After a pause, Leslie Cheung said, "I recommended You to Tsui Hark."

"Me?" Zhou Yan frowned and asked with a puzzled look on his face, "Do you want me to score this movie?"

Leslie Cheung smiled and shook his head, "No, I recommend you to play Xu Xian."

Zhou Yan was stunned, "You want me to play Xu Xian?"

"Well, I talked to Tsui Hark on the phone two days ago. He asked me to play Xu Xian, but I felt that this role was not suitable for me, so I recommended you to him. I think you are in "Raise the Red Lantern" His performance is very much like that of a weak scholar." Leslie Cheung smiled and said, "If you have any ideas, you can talk to Tsui Hark."

Zhou Yan twitched his lips. In his impression, the design of the character Xu Xian in "Green Snake" was not very pleasing. After watching the movie, many people only remembered Xu Xian as a scumbag who had no responsibility.

Leslie Cheung himself did not take this role, probably because the character design did not suit him.

Otherwise, as Li Bihua's leading actor, Leslie Cheung has no reason to refuse.

Zhou Yan is very interested in making movies, but he doesn't have a particularly strong desire for acting, so he doesn't have much interest in the role of Xu Xian.

But Zhou Yan thought that he could talk to Tsui Hark. On the one hand, he could broaden his network of contacts. On the other hand, even if he didn't play Xu Xian, he might be able to find other jobs, such as soundtrack guidance.

The main reason is that the job of directing the soundtrack does not require him to follow the crew every day, so it will not affect his work too much.

Moreover, Leslie Cheung was kind enough to help him out, and he also wanted to give people face.

After thinking about it, Zhou Yan nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll talk to Director Xu."

Seeing Zhou Yan nod, Leslie Cheung also laughed, "Well, I'll give you his contact information later."

In fact, Leslie Cheung gave Zhou Yan a job, partly because he really felt that Zhou Yan's performance in "Raise the Red Lantern" was good and somewhat consistent with the traditional image of Xu Xian, and on the other hand, he also wanted to save He Wuming's face.

While studying opera with He Wuming, Leslie Cheung admired He Wuming very much. Boss He was not only a good singer in Peking Opera, but also knowledgeable and talented. He was a very powerful person.

Boss He has a very good relationship with Zhou Yan, and Leslie Cheung can see that. Boss He is in a good mood every time he sees Zhou Yan.

Moreover, Leslie Cheung also knew that Li Bihua had a good impression of Zhou Yan. When chatting before, Li Bihua mentioned Zhou Yan several times.

……

After getting Tsui Hark's contact information from Leslie Cheung, Zhou Yan received a message on his pager the next morning before he had time to contact Tsui Hark.

"I'm Tsui Hark, please dial XXXX"

Zhou Yan didn't expect Tsui Hark to take the initiative to contact him, so he found a number and called back.

"Hello."

After the call was connected, a Cantonese greeting came from the other side.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Is it Director Xu? I am Zhou Yan."

When he heard it was Zhou Yan, Tsui Hark on the opposite side switched to Mandarin and said, "Hello, Zhou Yan, have you eaten?"

This ordinary yet strange greeting made Zhou Yan laugh, "I've eaten, Director Xu."

After a brief greeting, Tsui Hark did not exchange any more pleasantries and went straight to the topic, "Leslie Cheung recommended you to play Xu Xian. What do you think? If you are willing to participate, I will go to the mainland in a while and we can meet Let’s have a chat.”

Zhou Yan asked with a smile, "Director Xu, where are you going to shoot this movie?"

Hearing that Zhou Yan was paying attention to the filming location, Tsui Hark probably understood what he meant, so he smiled and said, "My initial idea is to film in Wuyi Mountain. Of course, it may also be filmed in other places, such as Hangzhou."

"When will the filming start?" Zhou Yan asked again.

"Next summer will be July and August, because there will be a lot of scenes in the water, so it will be easier to shoot in summer."

Tsui Hark patiently explained that he guessed that Zhou Yan was probably considering the scheduling issue, which he often encountered. For example, this time he originally asked Zhou Runfa to play the role of Fahai, but Zhou Runfa's schedule was not available.

Although Zhou Yan is a new actor, it is not incomprehensible to have scheduling issues.After all, "Raise the Red Lantern" that Zhou Yan just participated in is currently very popular. Maybe Zhou Yan has received invitations to other movies by now.

The reason why Tsui Hark wanted to meet and chat with Zhou Yan was because Zhou Yan participated in "Raise the Red Lantern". Although he is a new actor, he is still popular.

Moreover, Tsui Hark originally planned to invite Gong Li to participate in "Green Snake", but Gong Li's schedule was not available, so he had to give up. In addition, Tsui Hark also planned to invite Ma Jingwu, who played Mr. Chen in "Raise the Red Lantern", to participate.

When he heard that the filming would start in July or August, Zhou Yan nodded. This time period was good and it would not affect his school work.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Director Xu, I am personally quite interested in this movie and I am very much looking forward to meeting you."

Tsui Hark also smiled, "Then let's meet and chat when I arrive in Yanjing."

"When will Director Xu be here?" Zhou Yan asked.

"February."

Of course Tsui Hark would not make a special trip to meet Zhou Yan. There are several characters in this movie who were also found from the mainland, such as Ma Jingwu.When he goes to Yanjing in February, he will meet these actors together.

After talking about the business, Tsui Hark didn't talk to Zhou Yan anymore, and the two of them hung up the phone.

……

After hanging up Tsui Hark's phone, Zhou Yan was about to go to the piano room, but halfway there, he suddenly received another paging message.

"Xu Feng XXXXX"

It's a string of Shanghai phone numbers.

Zhou Yan turned back and rushed to the phone booth. Fortunately, there was no one in line at the moment, so he picked up the phone again and dialed.

When Xu Feng received Zhou Yan's call, he was surprised, "Why did you reply so quickly?"

"Because I'm near the phone booth." Zhou Yan smiled and asked, "Sister Feng, what do you want from me?"

"Good thing."

Xu Feng laughed. Her laughter was so contagious that Zhou Yan could feel her happiness on the other end of the phone.

"I have received news that "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" has been shortlisted for the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival."

Zhou Yan raised his brows, no wonder Xu Feng was so happy, this was indeed good news.They hurriedly cut out the short film in order to gain something at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.

Now that the film has been shortlisted, it can be considered a big step.

"How many works are there in total?" Zhou Yan asked.

"More than 500 films were registered, and 75 films were shortlisted."

Zhou Yan was slightly disappointed when he heard that 75 films were shortlisted. With so many films shortlisted, the probability of winning is not high.

As for the number of more than 2000 registrations, Zhou Yan also knew that many of them must be top-ups.For China, France is far away, and it is very difficult for Chinese directors to send their films to the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. However, for Europeans and even French locals, it is an easy task to send their films to the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. A very easy thing.

Many students who live nearby will even send their semester works to participate in exhibitions. Anyway, this thing costs nothing. Not to mention winning awards, maybe with luck, it will be favored by some copyright distributors and sell it for some money.

There are all kinds of other people out there who will shoot something as long as they have the equipment at hand.

Among the works received at film festivals, there are often random tapes, such as home videos recorded by someone.

"When will their film festival be held this time?" Zhou Yan asked.

Xu Feng smiled and said, "I was about to tell you this. The film festival is from January 27th to February [-]th, which coincides with the Chinese New Year. Do you think it is convenient to arrange a time to go there? If you can, you can Arrange for a visa as soon as possible.”

Zhou Yan frowned when he heard the time. This year's Chinese New Year is on February [-]rd, which coincides with the film festival. It can't be wrong.

If it weren't for the Chinese New Year, Zhou Yan really wanted to go there, but he had promised Zhou Qing and the others before that he would go back to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and now he suddenly let go, which made him feel a little sorry.

Of course, the main reason is because this is a short film festival. If it were Cannes, Palme d'Or, or Venice, then he would definitely choose to participate in the film festival without any hesitation.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "Sister Feng, are you going?"

"I can't go. If I go to the film festival and don't celebrate the New Year at home, my two sons will definitely make trouble." Xu Feng also heard that Zhou Yan didn't want to go, so he smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't go, anyway, Hou Xiaoxian You have to go. If you really want to win an award, let him collect it for you. In fact, getting the trophy is secondary. The main thing is that there will be many copyright distributors participating in the film festival, mainly selling films."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "If it's about selling movies, then there's no point in me going."

“I can’t say it’s useless, I can only say it’s not very useful.”

"..."

Don't these two sentences mean the same thing?
"Then I'd better not go. I'll go home for the New Year. I've already made arrangements with my family in advance."

Xu Feng smiled and said, "It's a good thing if you don't go, you can save some travel expenses, but when the follow-up feature film needs to be promoted, you still have to be present at some activities."

"I know this, and I will definitely cooperate when the time comes."

"It's okay then, just wait for the news with peace of mind."

After hanging up Xu Feng's phone, Zhou Yan rushed to the piano room again.

Halfway through this time, he suddenly heard someone calling him.

"Director Zhou."

Zhou Yan turned around and saw Yu Feihong standing at the intersection leading to the teaching building and the piano room, looking at him with a smile.

"Yu Feihong?" Zhou Yan was a little surprised when he saw Yu Feihong, "Did you come to see me?"

Zhou Yan felt very strange, what day is it today and why are so many people looking for him?
But Yu Feihong shook his head, "No, Director Zhou, I was waiting for a friend. I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that I happened to meet you."

Zhou Yan was even more surprised, "Do you have any friends in our school? I haven't heard you mention it."

Yu Feihong had spent a lot of time in Yangyin before, but Zhou Yan had never heard her say that she had friends in Yangyin.

Yu Feihong smiled and said, "I haven't had time to report to you that I have friends in Yangyin."

"Then you should pay attention next time." Zhou Yan followed Yu Feihong's words and joked, and then said, "When will your friend arrive? Just let you wait here? It's cold today."

It's been very cold in Yanjing these days, and Zhou Yan saw that Yu Feihong wasn't wearing much, just jeans, a turtleneck, and a plaid coat. Zhou Yan felt cold just looking at it.

This girl is still too young and doesn't know the importance of keeping warm.

"It should be here soon..."

Before Yu Feihong finished speaking, Zhou Yan saw Xu Yuhong from his class walking out of the teaching building. Xu Yuhong walked this way with concern and said as she walked, "Feihong, why are you staying outside? It's so cold."

Zhou Yan looked at Xu Yuhong walking this way with a surprised look on his face, "Do you know each other?"

"Ang, can't we get to know each other?" Xu Yuhong smiled crookedly and took Yu Feihong's arm, "Let's go, Feihong, let's go shopping."

Yu Feihong smiled and waved to Zhou Yan, "Goodbye, Director Zhou."

Zhou Yan also raised his hand and waved. Looking at the retreating figures of Yu Feihong and Xu Yuhong, Zhou Yan couldn't figure out how they met.

At this time, a gust of cold wind blew, Zhou Yan shrank his neck, crossed his arms and walked towards the piano building.

……

The semester music exchange meeting went very smoothly. Many people came that day to listen to "Croatian Rhapsody". When the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra came before, many people did not hear it and were very sorry.

The composition department classroom was full of people, and there were not enough chairs to sit in, so they stood. They couldn't stand, so they ran to the door. There were two to three hundred people in the originally small composition department classroom.

Zhou Yan didn't feel anything, but the 88 Composition students were more and more excited. Before the concert started, they were all gearing up, waiting for the concert to show off their talents.

In the end, they performed really well.

88 Composition’s semester work exchange meetings in the past few years, this semester is considered the highlight moment, even more so than the performance of "Memory of the Forbidden City" last semester. The main reason is that these students have made rapid progress this semester, and the works they have submitted are all Better than last semester.

At the end of the concert, the head of the department fully affirmed and highly praised the students' performance.

Xu Lang almost burst into tears when he heard Shi Wanchun's praise.

In the past few years, their 88-level compositions have been too suffocating. They were sandwiched between 87 and 89. Their father did not love their mother and their mother did not love them. Unexpectedly, now that they are in their senior year, the situation has suddenly improved a lot, which makes them feel like they can counterattack. a feeling of.

They also knew that it was all related to Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan's substitute teaching for Li Bingyang is one thing, but the most important thing is that since Zhou Yan came to their class, their class has received countless times more attention than before.

Although they knew that it was Zhou Yan who was receiving the attention, some eyes would always look at them when they passed by Zhou Yan, so they had unprecedented enthusiasm for learning.

After the semester works concert is over, it’s basically the rhythm of vacation.

Zhou Yan didn't stay at school for a few days before taking the train back to Jinling.

……

Zhou Yan originally thought that since his house had not been occupied for a year, there would definitely be a peculiar smell inside, but as soon as he opened the door, he felt that the air was very refreshing, and there was no peculiar smell at all except for a hint of sandalwood.

Look at the incense burner on the altar table. People should often come here to burn incense.

Only then did Zhou Yanzhe remember that before leaving at the beginning of the year, he gave Zhou Hong a key.

Apart from the fact that there is no peculiar smell, the house is clean from inside to outside, from top to bottom. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as spotless. Someone should clean it frequently.

If someone just comes to clean it, that's fine. The key is that there are a lot more things in the house.

The phone was installed at the beginning of the year, but what happened to the TV cabinet, coffee table, and sofa in the living room?And what's going on with this big color TV?

No need to ask, Zhou Hong must have bought these things.

Although Zhou Qing had some pocket money, he couldn't afford so many things. This color TV alone would probably cost tens of thousands, not to mention a set of exquisite sofas, coffee tables, and TV cabinets.

……

Zhou Yan arrived home in the afternoon. He rested for a long time, had a good sleep at night, and went to his grandparents' house the next morning.

As soon as he arrived, he saw a large family, nine brothers and sisters, everyone except Zhou Hong, the second oldest, was there.Among the elders, Zhou Yan's father Zhou Yaowen was also absent.

The business at home seems to be very busy recently. Zhou Yan and Zhou Hong talked on the phone a few days ago. Zhou Hong said that he and his father should be back late during the Chinese New Year.

As soon as Zhou Yan entered the door, Zhou Jiajun's passive skill was triggered.

"Hello, third brother."

The cry also alarmed the men in the council chamber and the women in the kitchen.

Grandma was the first to run out of the kitchen. As soon as she saw Zhou Yan, grandma touched his head and kept calling "good grandson".

The old man Zhou Minnong was particularly opposed to touching the child's head. He wanted to say a few words, but in the end he held back.Little Laosan only comes back for a few days throughout the year to let his wife touch his head.

The old lady grabbed Zhou Yan's hand and kept asking, have you eaten yet?Are you dressed warmly?Have you been bullied outside?
Only when Zhou Yan's hand was warmed up did the old lady finally let it go.

Zhou Yan followed his grandma to the kitchen to greet the two aunts, and then ran to the "meeting hall" to chat with his grandpa and uncle.

Grandpa Zhou Minnong was also very happy to see Zhou Yan coming back. He looked at Zhou Yan up and down and said, "It looks like he is doing well outside. He has put on a little more weight than when he came back last year."

"I eat a lot during this period." Zhou Yan nodded with a smile, and then asked, "How is grandpa's health lately?"

Zhou Minnong said with a smile, "Don't worry, I can live for a few more years, so you don't have to worry about it for the time being."

Zhou Yanze smiled and said, "Of course you don't need to worry about us, but we still need your care, so you must take care of yourself."

Zhou Yu patted Zhou Yan on the shoulder and said, "Look, the third child in our family is getting better and better at talking now. We have all seen your performance in "Raise the Red Lantern", and now you are also a star. , there are colleagues in our agency asking me for your autographed photo."

When he said this, Zhou Yu deliberately said the word "signed photo" very hard. Zhou Yan knew what he meant, and he must be talking about Gong Li's signed photo.

However, Zhou Yan could only shrug, because he had not met Gong Li during this period and could not ask Zhou Yu for an autograph or photo.

At this time, uncle Zhou Yaohua pushed up his glasses and said with a smile, "The movie is indeed good. In our unit, we could hear people discussing it every day some time ago, including you."

The teenagers who were watching TV over there heard them talking about "Raise the Red Lantern" and coaxed them to take out a video cassette from the drawer and put it in the video cassette.

Without asking, he knew that what they were going to show must be "Raise the Red Lantern". Zhou Yan couldn't help but hold his forehead. The video tape of "Raise the Red Lantern" hasn't started to be sold yet, so the video they were watching was probably Piracy...

(End of this chapter)