"Director Wu, welcome to Phoenix, if you want to talk about the scenery of Phoenix, you definitely don't have to choose, the film crew is also willing to come over, some time ago there was a crew called "Red Sorghum" who came to us to shoot!"

The tour guide assigned to Wu Jianye and others in Phoenix City is a young man in an office, named Geng Lianjie, who also likes to watch movies on weekdays, and is more diligent in talking and doing things, and he is also talking endlessly about the situation here for Wu Jianye.

Wu Jianye smiled: "I know that crew, Zhang Yimou of the crew is a college classmate with us!"

The filming location of the crew of "Red Sorghum" is in Zhenbeibao, Zhang Yimou rushed over with the crew not long after selecting Gong Li, and it is estimated that the time has been started for half a month.

"Oh, I didn't expect Director Wu to be so close to Director Zhang, this is fate, if Director Zhang's movie can also be filmed in our Phoenix City, it will definitely become a good story!"

"Well, let's take us to Zhenbei Fort first!" Wu Jianye said.

"Okay!"

The group drove three cars to Zhenbei Fort, and the arrival of Wu Jianye and others still had some impact here.

When I came to Zhenbeibao to inquire, Zhang Yimou and they were filming, Wu Jianye also wanted to see the filming venue here first, and then go to visit the class after watching it, and Zhang Yimou would have time.

Zhang Xianliang has no idea of building Zhenbeibao Film and Television City now.

However, in the later generations, Beibao Film and Television City also came out of countless classics, "Red Sorghum", "New Dragon Gate Inn", and "Journey to the West" all used this place as a filming location.

In fact, the first films to be filmed here were "One and Eight" filmed here by Wu Jianye's classmate Zhang Junzhao, and "Wrangler" directed by Xie Jin, which was also filmed here.

It's a pity that because of the particularity of the environment here, it is always worse than Hengdian Film and Television City. In the era when Wu Jianye was reborn, there were very few crews who came here to shoot.

After going around the perimeter of Zhenbei Fort, Zhao Fei took countless photos, all of which had to wait until Wu Jianye had a meeting with the entire behind-the-scenes team after he went back, and wanted to find the most suitable venue for his own shooting in these scenes.

What Wu Jianye is looking for is the location of the Dragon Gate Inn, which is located in the yellow sand of thousands of miles in the movie, which is a heartbreaking beauty.

In the endless yellow sand, there stands a Dragon Gate Inn, where there are countless stories.

Looking at the sky, Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Let's see here today, and I'll go to a few other places tomorrow." ”

Zhao Fei also put away his camera and sighed: "It's so beautiful here!"

Wu Jianye smiled: "It's definitely no problem for you to come and see it by chance, but what if you let you live here for a long time?"

Zhao Fei hurriedly said: "Forget it, I prefer life in Yanjing!"

Wu Jianye smiled "haha" and didn't say anything, whether it is the Longmen Inn in "New Dragon Gate Inn" or the separate city towers in "Journey to the West", it looks like there is indeed a kind of heart-warming beauty in the movie.

But if you want people to live here forever, I'm afraid ten out of ten people won't want to.

"Let's go, let's go see Lao Mouzi!" Wu Jianye waved his hand, and everyone got into the jeep and went to the village where the crew of "Red Sorghum" was located.

This is a typical northwest village, and before Wu Jianye and the others entered the village, they saw Zhang Yimou, Gu Changwei and others finishing their work.

Wu Jianye drove the car directly and accelerated towards Zhang Yimou and the others, and the jeep drove through the rolled up dust, so that they couldn't see who was sitting in the car, but they were still startled when they saw a car crashing towards them.

Wu Jianye was not far from them, and directly stepped on the brakes, and then the dust stirred up directly caused Zhang Yimou and the others to fall into the dust.

"Who's so lacking in morality!" Jiang Qian couldn't help but scold.

"Haha, how about it, comrades, the leaders have come to condolence on your life!" Wu Jianye laughed and walked down in the car.

Hearing that it was Wu Jianye's voice, Zhang Yimou and the others were relieved, but as old classmates for many years, Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei stopped at that time, threw the guy in their hands, and chased directly after Wu Jianye and Zhao Fei.

"Old Wu, you kid is too bad!" Zhang Yimou and Gu Changwei chased while shouting

"It can only be said that you don't have the eyesight to see, and you don't know how to hide when you see the car crashing over!" Wu Jianye shouted while hiding.

How could Wu Jianye and Zhao Fei let them catch it, they also ran away.

Soon the crowd saw the four men chasing through the dust.

Gong Li, who was on the side, couldn't help but say: "I've never seen Director Zhang have such a ......" In the end, Gong Li didn't know how to express it.

When she first joined the group, she found that Zhang Yimou was very serious, and all her attention seemed to be in the movie, and it was the first time that she behaved like a big boy.

Jiang Qian smiled and said: "It's nothing, Angkor and Director Zhang are both classmates of Class 78, I heard that when they were in school, the relationship was very good, and this film also has the investment of Angkor court culture." ”

Gong Li let out an oh whisper.

The four of them made a fuss for a while before it was over, but by the time the four of them returned to everyone, they were already disgraced.

"Lao Mouzi, you kid is still so wilted, you have learned to dig the file. Wu Jianye shook his hair, since he was filming "Fun Jing Daughter Country", he cut a bald head, Wu Jianye has become accustomed to short hair.

"Don't talk nonsense!" At this time, Wu Jianye found that Zhang Yimou was a little shy.

Wu Jianye didn't think much about it, patted the car he was driving, and said: "The things in the trunk are for you to improve your food, hurry up and find someone to carry it out, damn, I almost didn't smoke me to death this way." ”

When Zhang Yimou heard this, he hurriedly asked people to open the trunk and move all the food brought by Wu Jianye to their yard.

Looking at the chickens, ducks and fish in the trunk, the crew of "Red Sorghum" also applauded.

The crew of "Red Sorghum" borrowed a total of two compounds here, Zhang Yimou, Gu Changwei, Jiang Qian, Gong Li and others lived in one compound, and some others lived in another compound.

The chicken, duck and fish moved into the compound where Zhang Yimou lived, and naturally someone was responsible for cooking.

And Wu Jianye and the others were in the yard, washing the dust on their bodies.

"I thought it would take a while for you to come over!" Zhang Yimou said, wiping his face with a towel.

When Zhang Yimou left in Yanjing, he knew that he was going to come here to shoot in Wu Jianye.

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "It's better to finish the selection early, and start the set earlier." ”

Zhang Yimou sat on the mound in the courtyard and asked, "How long are you going to stay here this time?"

"Two or three days, there are still a few places I haven't seen, and I will go to Dunhuang after reading it. Wu Jianye said.

"Oh, what about the official shooting?"

"It's estimated that it will be the second half of the year. ”

"Then we won't be able to meet, and I'm done filming at that time!" Zhang Yimou said.

Later, Gu Changwei and Zhao Fei also joined the chatting process.

"How are these actors?" Wu Jianye asked.

Gu Changwei said with a smile on the side: "This Jiang Qian is really good, but he has his own ideas too much, and he has to quarrel with Lao Mouzi in three days." ”

Zhang Yimou also shook his head and smiled bitterly after hearing this, but he also had to admit that Jiang Qian was indeed a very good actor.

"What about the actress he chose?" Wu Jianye walked up to Gu Changwei with a smile and asked.

Gu Changwei complained: "At the beginning, it was not very good, but this is also a good seedling, and now it has completely entered the state." ”

Later, Gu Changwei told Wu Jianye the story of Gong Li's new entry into the crew.

It turned out that when the crew first came to the filming location, Zhang Yimou asked Gong Li to learn the lifestyle of rural women here.

You have to learn what to feed chickens, ducks, carry water, and chop firewood.

“....... I remember that Gong Li was wearing a fancy bat shirt at that time, so she went to fetch water, there were wooden barrels here, there was no water in the buckets, and she walked around the yard by herself, hey, by the way, according to you, that picture is too spicy to the eyes!"

"Haha!" Wu Jianye couldn't help laughing, in his memory, he only knew Lao Mouzi and Gong Li, in this movie, they must have secretly fallen in love, but he really didn't know the story that appeared in the filming of the whole movie.

Zhang Yimou defended Gong Li on the side: "She also just came, so naturally she didn't know, and then I asked her to study with the women in the village, and it didn't take long for her to look decent!"

Listening to Zhang Yimou's defense of Gong Li, Wu Jianye showed him a meaningful smile, and Zhang Yimou's rough face turned slightly red.......

After chatting for a while, they shouted that they could eat.

Before Wu Jianye and the others came, Zhang Yimou and the others were able to sit down at almost two large tables, but today there were more Wu Jianye and others, and they borrowed a table from the people in the village, and there were three tables of people.

Wu Jianye and Zhang Yimou sat together, next to Zhao Fei, Gu Changwei and others, and sitting opposite were Jiang Qian, Gong Li, Feng Pants and others.

"How was it, did you have any difficulties during the shooting?" asked Wu Jianye.

Zhang Yimou shook his head and said, "It's going well." ”

"Hey, don't you husband and wife always have such a tacit understanding, okay?

Wu Jianye and Zhang Yimou were chatting about the movie, when they heard Gu Changwei's funny voice next to him, Wu Jianye looked up and saw that Jiang Qian and Gong Li also had a chopstick spinach.

Looking at the appearance of other people in the crew, they are obviously used to Gu Changwei's ridicule.

Jiang Qian said nonchalantly: "If you want to eat, you can clip it, it's okay!"

"By the way, are you going to shoot that scene tomorrow?" Wu Jianye didn't take it seriously, and casually continued to ask Zhang Yimou about the filming.

However, this time Wu Jianye did not get Zhang Yimou's answer, he turned his head and found that Zhang Yimou was looking directly at Gong Li, there was still a trace of doubt in his eyes, and Gong Li was a little blushing.......

That's interesting!

Wu Jianye smiled, and then did not chat with Zhang Yimou again, but concentrated on dinner.

In the evening, Wu Jianye and the others did not leave, but decided to squeeze in with Zhang Yimou and others for a night.

At night, Wu Jianye lived in Zhang Yimou's room, and Zhang Yimou's mood had recovered at this time, and he was chatting casually with Wu Jianye.

"In the past, everyone said that I had been interested in movies for a long time, but in fact, what really sparked my interest was when I filmed "Yellow Earth" with Kaige two years ago, and now I am filming "Red Sorghum", not a desire for a self-entertaining movie, but a yearning for the rapid integration of the suppressed oriental culture into the world through movies. ”

At this time, Zhang Yimou's eyes flashed with light, but he also revealed huge pressure.

Compared with later generations of film directors, directors of Zhang Yimou's generation, no matter whether they are good or bad, they always add a lot of other pressure to themselves in addition to the movie itself, which is a responsibility and the pursuit of their generation.

Wu Jianye said with a smile: "There are few domestic movies like "Red Sorghum", those near-perfect Chinese war films will seem a little monotonous in this era, and everyone is eager to see something new to open everyone's unanimous thoughts. ”

Zhang Yimou's face showed a smile of surprise: "Yes, now the Chinese people are crazy obsessed with Nietzsche in the West, and his 'Dionysian spirit' stimulates many people like me, I have traveled a lot in the past two years, I have seen that everything in the vast land is experiencing the prosperity of rebirth after the catastrophe, people are eager to expand themselves with fresh blood, and the spiritual joy seems to be able to explode in just a moment, but no one can give everyone a reason to break out, so I chose Mo Yan's " Red Sorghum Family!"

Zhang Yimou, who used to be taciturn, was very excited when he talked about his thoughts on the movie at this time, which was very different from his previous image.

Wu Jianye understands that this is the emotion of a person who has just begun to work on his inner thoughts.

said with a smile: "Then shoot it well, our court culture has invested in this drama, and if it can be successful, our court culture will also be stained." ”

Zhang Yimou pursed his lips, "Lao Wu, what we are talking about now is the art of film, can you not be so cliché." ”

Wu Jianye, where is he used to Zhang Yimou.

"Nonsense, it's not cliché, where did you get the money to invest in your movie!"

Ideals and reality always collide so inadvertently.

Zhang Yimou snorted, but he still felt that he couldn't say anything about Wu Jianye, so he had to shut up.

Wu Jianye smiled proudly.

At this time, he thought of Feng Pants next door, the development route of the two is really different, Lao Mouzi's debut is the peak, in terms of official recognition, Lao Mouzi can be said to be famous, but later he also bowed to capital and began to switch to commercial films.

As for Feng Pants, he first made great achievements in business, and then turned his head to pursue official recognition.......

"Alright, you go to sleep first, I'll go out for a while. Zhang Yimou said suddenly.

Wu Jianye shook his head with a smile, and didn't ask Zhang Yimou why he went out!

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