This director needs to apologize

Chapter 218 Hate Iron Is Not Steel

At 7: in the evening, Chen Yiming waited for Xiangrui and Megan who were tired of travel.

We haven’t seen each other for half a year. Megan’s Chinese is progressing rapidly and her daily conversations are already quite fluent.

People not only have money but also work hard. We can't think about it in detail. The more we think about it, the more desperate we become.

After ordering food and serving tea, the three of them drank and chatted.

This time there was no need for Xiangrui to be the interpreter, and the conversation was much more comfortable. Chen Yiming asked Meghan directly if she came to Magic for tourism or business.

When Megan opened her mouth, her tone was exactly the same as Lily's. She was clearly Xiangrui's roommate, but the Chinese master was someone else. The inside story is worth pondering.

"It's all about travel and business. I'm going to break up with my boyfriend to relax, and Xiangxiang is filming. I'll come over and be an intern producer with the team."

Chen Yiming thought of the handyman on the set of "Super Sense". He was tall, thin, and taciturn. He had never spoken in his mind, and he worked hard without complaining.

Honestly, it’s not surprising that we broke up.

Chen Yiming quickly interrupted his thoughts, turned to Xiangrui and asked, "Director Fu Da, how is the script revised? When can we start filming?"

Xiangrui tons tons drank a cup of tea, put down the cup and replied, "In the third draft, there are still a few details that have not been smoothed out. The key is the jokes in campus life. After one month of collecting stories, I still feel that it is not interesting enough.

By the way, Yiming, I have a problem now and I want to ask you for advice. "

Chen Yiming stretched out his right hand, signaling that he was all ears.

Xiangrui couldn't wait to say, "The first time I read the outline you gave me, my first reaction was the image of a two-line narrative.

According to my vision, the two lines of the male protagonist’s student days and the female protagonist’s student days are intertwined and intertwined like a Möbius strip.

When I wrote the first version of the script and compared it to the storyboard, a problem arose.

Unlike the double plot of "Super Sense", the double plot of "Love Letter" does not have suspense elements, but is about daily life on campus.

My intention is to show different images of the same thing from different perspectives, but if I talk about one thing twice and there is no suspense, the whole process will be very boring.

Then I changed the second version of the script based on the first version of the storyboard. When I dismantled the second version of the storyboard, the problems did not decrease, but became more.

It is difficult to balance the smoothness of the narrative with the fun of watching the movie. "

Chen Yiming was speechless. Instead of answering, he asked instead, "Xiangrui, in the Dagang I gave you, is there even a single sentence about dual-line narrative?"

Xiangrui was a little confused and said in a daze, "If you send a message, you will receive a message in reply. Isn't it obvious?"

Chen Yiming held his forehead and sighed, "Boss, what I learned the most at USC is probably commercial film narrative.

"Love Letter" is a youth romance film. The most important thing is, isn't it a two-way secret love?

In commercial films, telling the story clearly is the first priority. On this basis, the only way to do tricks is at the technical and editing levels.

You haven't even figured out the main line of the story, and you've started to mess with the two lines and return the Möbius strip. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

You just said that telling the same thing twice would be boring. This just shows that you have not grasped the core of "Love Letter".

Campus life, especially campus life in China, is an unchanging, day-to-day rhythm.

What "Love Letter" wants to do is to tell the same thing in different flavors from different perspectives. This is the true meaning of two-way secret love.

Different flavors lead to different interpretations, and different interpretations lead to different choices. Otherwise, it would not be a two-way secret love, but a two-way love! "

As Chen Yiming narrated, Xiangrui had already consciously taken out his notebook and started recording.

In this regard, Xiangrui still has the professional qualities of a creator. He always carries a small notebook and pen with him to record sudden inspirations.

After finishing writing, Xiangrui read it several times, with a look of sudden enlightenment on his face.

Director Fu Da lightly slapped his cheek, ""Super Sense" had such a profound impact on me. After reading your outline, I was led into a ditch by inertia.

No wonder it is said that a director only makes one movie in his life, and the soul imprint of his debut film is really not a lie. "

Chen Yiming sneered, "Don't flatter yourself, your debut film is "Super Sense", it's obviously the previous short film, okay?

Women's self-reconciliation is the theme of your movie, and it has nothing to do with the two-line narrative. "

Xiangrui smiled coquettishly, and then said seriously, "I will revise the script immediately and try to finalize it before the end of the year and form a team." Chen Yiming then reported the "good news" he had just received, "Xiangrui, I just met Uncle Ma in the afternoon. He said that in the project "Love Letter", no matter how much money it costs, Moying will be responsible for investing half of it."

Xiangrui was immediately stunned when he heard this, and then murmured after a while, "I didn't expect that I, a newcomer who has just returned to China, would also worry about too much money when making a movie."

She was stunned for a while, then she smiled at Megan, then turned to Chen Yiming and begged, "Yiming, we agreed before that Bo Jue will be the controller, you will produce and I will direct.

I was still thinking about letting Meghan take a share, but now you tell me that Uncle Ma has been keeping half, how are you going to divide the pie? "

Chen Yiming shook his head and said, "I have nothing to talk about investment. You'd better wait until Da Zhuang comes back and let him fight a family lawsuit with his father. As for Megan's participation in the investment, I don't think it's a big problem."

He suddenly looked at Meghan, "Ellie, how did you think of investing in Chinese movies? It's very troublesome for overseas funds to come in and out. The investment share is enough to offset the handling fees and interest."

Megan's lips curled up in a gentle smile, and her voice was very soothing, "My father has an IT business in China, and investment companies are also readily available. It is not troublesome to invest in "Love Letter" by borrowing their channels.

Hollywood is very unfriendly to outside money and there are too many black box operations, so I never thought about starting a career in Hollywood.

Rather than investing in Hollywood commercial blockbusters, I would rather work with outstanding filmmakers outside Hollywood to make movies that interest me. "

Looking at his state, Chen Yiming can only be said to be rich and willful.

While talking, the waiter began to serve the food. The three of them ate. Chen Yiming ordered eight dishes and one soup.

Because he didn't know Meghan's taste, Chen Yiming chose the safest Huaiyang restaurant. It turned out that he made the right choice and Meghan had no taboos.

The topic during the dinner still revolved around movies. Knowing that Chen Yiming was filming an ancient war movie with a female protagonist, Megan was very interested.

Chen Yiming asked Xian Ge Zhi Ya and immediately invited Megan to visit the set next year.

Xiangrui was more concerned about the successor to her assistant director position. Once she heard whether it was an external hire or a one-on-one replacement, she felt that she was good again.

According to her, working as an assistant director for Chen Yiming twice was equivalent to a two-year internship in Hollywood.

Chen Yiming asked Xiangrui, did you have any considerations about the actors in "Love Letter"?

If the team is formed by the end of the year and production starts in the first quarter of next year, we will start talking about actors now, and the schedule is not that easy.

Xiangrui looked troubled, "I have initially shortlisted a few candidates, but I am not very sure about them. Let me tell you and take a look.

Your script outline didn't mention the story's historical background. There are only two dates. The starting point of the story is high school, and the ending of the story is a classmate's wedding.

I think this should be a story that spans ten years. The male and female protagonists are sixteen or seventeen years old in the early stage and twenty-seven or seventy-eight years old in the later stage.

There are naturally two methods of casting. One is to select a group of actors aged 24 or 25 to play from beginning to end; the other is to select two groups of actors, one large and one small, to play adults and high school students respectively.

I personally prefer the first type. The actors' emotions and movie-watching experience are relatively coherent, but the requirements for acting skills are relatively high.

It's okay to play an older person, but it's more difficult to play a younger person, which requires the actor to have a sense of a boy or girl.

I want Liu Dongjun to give the lead role a try. He is a high school student himself, so he can be seen as a true character. After starring in "1951", his acting skills are enough to handle the role of a small person in a big role.

There is another alternative that I found from a Qing Dynasty drama that has become very popular recently. His name is Ye Zuxin. He was born in 84 and is 27 years old. He is very young and not very handsome, so he fits the character of the male protagonist very well.

Compared with male protagonists, the selection range for female protagonists is much wider, because it is much easier for girls to pretend to be young than for boys.

Due to position issues, the second heroine could only be chosen at a lower level. The problem is that Liu Dongjun's current status is not easy to determine, and Ye Zuxin is at the 18th tier level, so it is not easy to choose the heroine. "

The more Chen Yiming listened, the more disapproving he became. He reached out and tapped Xiangrui, and said in an iron-clad tone, "You are the director, not the producer. Isn't the starting point for casting the role not to fit the role and the acting skills?

Damn it, is that what you should worry about?

As long as you think it's appropriate, tell the producer to bring International Zhang over to star with Ye Zuxin.

You don't dare to make requests confidently before the shooting starts, and then you expect dozens or hundreds of people from the whole crew to be able to do their best after the shooting starts?

You can't always ask Lily to calm things down for you every time you film, right? "

Xiangrui was so angry at Chen Yiming that he realized that he had chosen the wrong footing.

For the project "Love Letter", she was only the director and part-time screenwriter. To put it bluntly, she was just a part-time worker, not the project's main controller.

Making the movie well and getting the best results is her first priority, instead of like in "Super Sense", where she had to do everything by herself.

(End of this chapter)