Chapter 612
Hong Guang became famous again, and this time it was directly affirmed by many foreign film and television circles and media. And Peony, who made a movie for the first time, won the Best Actress Award at the world's first-class film festival and was nominated for the Best Actress Award at the second-level film festival, and directly became a hot star.
"I didn't learn to film, so I pay more attention to feelings when filming, and many times I rely on feelings to act, and this kind of script is also very suitable for me. Peony said in the interview: "And when it comes to thanks, what I am most grateful to is Director Hongguang and Ye Dong, it is they who have changed my fate!"
Facing the cameras and microphones around her, the crowded reporters, Peony had a smile on her face, she was used to such a big scene. But when she said this, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. When Ye Zheng and Hong Guang rescued her and selected her as the heroine of "Suzhou River", her emotions were still immersed in the pain caused by falling out of love, and she didn't feel too deeply about it. But when she gradually came out of that state and completely returned to her normal life, she suddenly realized how lucky she was.
The film of Time and Space Film and Television, Ye Zheng's work, is directed by Hong Guang, who has become famous in recent years, and in this play, the two roles of Meimei and Peony are played by one person, and the role is the heaviest. There are many young female stars who want to star in this play. But this luck finally fell on her, an ordinary girl who had never had any acting experience.
In the face of some people's criticism, Peony read the script over and over again, practiced over and over again, tried again and again, and once he had kung fu, he either wanted to figure out the script, or humbly communicated with those professional actors and directors and photographers in the crew, desperately absorbing the knowledge of performance and growing rapidly. Her hard work and her talent are obvious to all, and after the film was filmed, everyone was also satisfied with her performance, and people with a vicious eye have pointed out that Peony is very likely to become famous because of this movie.
Peony didn't have any ideas about this at the beginning, she just hoped that the movie she starred in could be liked by someone and have a good box office. And after so many months of filming and studying, she found that she had truly fallen in love with being an actress. Now she has officially taken "Peony" as her stage name, and has signed a contract with Time and Space Film and Television for several years.
She sometimes thinks that she may win awards and become famous, but she didn't expect this movie to get such a high evaluation, in the film and television industry, almost all the evaluations of this movie are praise, which is expected, after all, the insiders look at the doorway, the filming skills and performance techniques of this movie are all very characteristic and worth studying. But the layman watched the excitement, and they also felt that the box office of this movie might not be too high. didn't expect it to become a miracle of domestic literary films, even surpassing the highly acclaimed "The Two of Us" and "Can't Do Without You".
And Peony himself has also received great praise for this play, and is known as the most valuable new artist Ye Zheng has unearthed this year. With the influence of the movie and the deliberate packaging and promotion of time and space film and television, Peony already has a group of fans, and his value has jumped to the level of a quasi-first-class actor in one fell swoop. This is definitely something she didn't expect, she jumped into the river on impulse, and she never imagined that her fate would change because of this.
In that most painful and darkest moment for her, God gave her the most precious gift. Peony always remembered this sentence, and became more and more grateful to Ye Zheng and Hong Guang for the opportunities and changes she received. And with the gradual deepening of the understanding of Ye Zheng and the space-time group, Peony also admires Ye Zheng more and more. Whether it is his various creative talents or his ability to manage the company, as well as his principled temperament to do things...... "In this film, you can see two kinds of love, one is a fairy tale and the other is reality. Peony's courage, determination, and infatuation with the motor are fairy tales.
And the difference between Meimei and "me" and the frivolous indifference to love is reality. Actor Peony plays two roles with completely different personalities in this movie, but the characteristics and feelings of these two characters are vividly displayed, which is touching. She is really a very talented person, after all, relying on feelings to act, which is not something that every actor can do. Ye Zheng said at the box office celebration, and also elaborated on his views on this movie and love.
"The movie tells the story of what happened along the Suzhou Creek, surrounded by different motors, peonies, Meimei and others, there are ruins, construction sites, cruise ships, broken boats, fish in the river, and all kinds of garbage...... In fact, our lives, in chronological order, are like a river, full of stories and garbage. Each of us has something we don't understand, and naturally we have different concepts about things like love. All kinds of people are flooded together to make up the social group. There are so many different stories happening every day, and how many stories can be recorded and how many will be forgotten......"
"The story in the movie, you can take it as real or as fake. It's just a story that a lot of people can make up. And each of us, is it true or false? The garbage and motor peonies floating in the Suzhou Creek, as well as us, may not be outdated and difficult to distinguish between true and false...... "As for whether you want to continue your current love story or wait for the next love, everyone has their own answer in their hearts. We are not telling you anything, and we are not trying to express a pointed point of view about love, which you can see as a metaphor of unknown meaning......"
"Which one do you believe in love? reality or fairy tale? Everyone's choice is different. People who believe in fairy tales will be happier, but they may also be deeply hurt. People who don't believe in fairy tales will have less expectations, and if they don't, they won't be disappointed...... I suddenly thought of a sentence, who would spend ten years waiting for a person who traveled far away, and who would still want to go back and find that person after ten years of traveling......"
Ye Zheng's words also aroused the emotion of many people. "This gray and somewhat dim movie, I don't want to watch it anymore, the story in it reminds me of a girl, a story about waiting in the past, and when I faced him, I asked similar silly questions like Meimei. But I don't know, you don't come to me like a motor looking for a peony. "I don't know what you guys think, but I'll spend my whole life waiting for someone who really loves me......"
However, at the celebration party, there was a more interesting episode, which was proposed by a reporter, about Peony and Ye Zheng. Peony's talent in film acting has naturally been confirmed, and although the future is unpredictable, it now seems to have succeeded. However, she also has her own flaws, that is, her voice is hoarse, a bit similar to the voice of a male duck, which also makes many people who like peonies regret it.
After all, now actors and singers are one, and it would be a pity if a good actor couldn't make a difference in music. So a reporter thought of Ye Zheng and asked: "Mr. Ye, as we all know, your ability to compose songs is also the top in the world, if you say second, no one dares to say first......" "Hehe, I never thought so." Ye Zheng interrupted him with a smile, and then motioned for the reporter to continue.
"Your ability to compose songs is very strong no matter what. Then we all know that because of Miss Peony's special voice, many people seem to have no chance with the music world, so I want to ask, can you write a song suitable for Miss Peony to sing?" And Ye Zheng immediately performed a live creation ability in front of the public media at the celebration party, a song "Fluttering" in more than ten minutes, although he didn't understand the song score Peony took half an hour to grow under Ye Zheng's teaching, but it didn't take long for him to be dismissed because he offended the company's senior management, he was Guo Meimei's cousin, so Guo Meimei arranged him to the space-time group.
It just so happened that everyone felt that Ye Zheng's identity needed a bodyguard, so he became Ye Zheng's personal bodyguard part-time driver. As for Coco Zhou, as Ye Zheng's secretary, she actually has a lot of things to deal with every day, sometimes she is busier than Ye Zheng, Ye Zheng feels that this girl is very tired, and she has no time to fall in love, which is really strange and pitiful, so she was exempted from the job of a part-time driver and handed over this job to Du Yan. Don't look at people, Wang Jie and Park Hye Kyo have confirmed their relationship, and they have publicly admitted it in front of the media!
It is in a sweet and sweet period of love. Ye Zheng felt that a woman like Coco Zhou, who was devoted to her career, was still not suitable for his concept. But it seems that my sister hasn't been in love until now, and I've graduated from college for two years, and I don't even have a first love at the age of 25. A well-known director in the drama industry, his sister Ye Zheng, it's not easy to find a boyfriend?
Ye Zheng suddenly felt that there were too many facts to worry about, everything in the company was already busy, and he still had to care about everyone's private life...... For example, Xiao Qi, who was sitting next to him at this time and rested his head on his shoulder. There were only two of them sitting in the car, so Xiao Qi was a little unscrupulous, her head resting on Ye Zheng's shoulder, her long hair was spread out on Ye Zheng's chest, and she was holding a mobile phone in her hand, watching Ye Zheng's "The Condor Heroes" that she was now serializing.
Wong Kar-wai's film style is undoubtedly unique, he is accustomed to using a unique image language to show a certain highly abstract state of existence of people in the modern city, the kind of world without purpose, somewhat absurd, full of a sense of fatalism, he is good at creating a state, through a specific atmosphere, color, language style, actors' body movements, environment, etc. 56
This style narrates a feeling of urban alienation, a nostalgia for the past, and a variation from multiple perspectives. and an atmosphere of struggle, escape, wandering, and abstraction that wants to communicate with each other. And Wu Menglong's film style is different from Wong Kar-wai, he also likes to use some Wong Kar-wai-style ways, but in this regard, it is not as incisive as Wong Kar-wai does. In particular, Wong Kar-wai's language style, the kind of poetry that looks like aphorisms and drifts away, is full of literary and philosophical flavors.
These things can also be found in Wu Menglong's films, but it can be seen that this is what he is looking for but has not yet reached that height. But even to the extent that he has already achieved is already very popular, and his style is slowly taking shape, and it is not impossible to reach the heights of Wong Kar-wai in the future. And of course, every director has each director's specialty, and some of the favorite features in Wu Menglong's movies are also not found in Wong Kar-wai's films.
Film is the art of the director, and the style of a movie basically lies in the director, the same script, different directors can shoot different feelings. is like "Journey to the West", if it weren't for Ye Zheng staring, Ye Zheng wouldn't dare to guarantee what Cangshuiyue would make the movie look like. Ye Zheng admired Wu Menglong very much, and he had long had the idea of cooperating with him, and originally planned to talk to him during the film festival, but Wu Menglong had something to do a few days ago, and he only arrived in Yanjing today.
Ye Zheng thought about looking for him at the awards party again, but he didn't expect Wu Menglong to appear in their lounge. "I came here to look for you, I want to talk to you about the movie "Suzhou River", some time ago I heard a friend recommend it, only to know that there is such a movie, so I watched it. And then I just fell in love with it. Wu Menglong said: "I am very inspired by the shooting techniques and style of this film. ”
Ye Zheng smiled slightly, he was not surprised by Wu Menglong's words, when Lou Ye made the movie "Suzhou River", everyone said that this movie was very "Wong Kar-wai", and the style was very similar to Wong Kar-wai, and Wu Menglong was also in this style, so he would naturally be inspired. "As you know, this style is very similar to mine, so I was as excited and happy as if I had met my family. Then I met Director Hong the other day and talked to him about this style. Wu Menglong continued: "There is a harvest! However, Director Hong said that this film was actually filmed under your guidance, in which the use of lens light, including post-editing and production, is controlled by you. He told me that if I came to talk to you, it would definitely be very beneficial. ”
He smiled and said, "So I came uninvited." "I see. Ye Zheng said with a smile. "Hmm. Wu Menglong nodded: "Speaking of the editing of this movie, after analyzing it with the editors of our crew, I am really amazed by practice, in the movies of the past few years, in terms of editing skills, there is no one who can surpass this movie! Especially the opening paragraph is too ingenious!" Ye Zheng nodded lightly, the editing of "Suzhou River" is indeed superb, so that some netizens in the previous life sighed: "More than ten years have passed, and no one has been able to beat the editing of the opening of Suzhou Creek." ”
"I've heard of your name for a long time, and it's not an exaggeration to describe it like thunder, but when I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation, and it was a dragon and phoenix among people!" Wu Menglong looked at Ye Zheng carefully and exclaimed.
Ye Zheng said politely: "Mr. Wu has won the award, I am just a junior, and there are still many places to learn from Mr. Wu's predecessors, and I also highly respect Mr. Wu's movies." If I have the chance, I really want to cooperate with Mr. Wu!" "I also have this intention, there are still many places I want to ask you about the filming of the movie!" Wu Menglong said.
"Don't dare to be. Wu Menglong shook his head lightly: "Originally, I had a limited understanding of you, and I just thought that your script was very well written, but when I saw "Suzhou River" and stopped Director Hong's words, I came to you with great emotion, thinking that you and I probably have the same movie concept." But I chatted with Director Cang for a while just now, and I realized that you actually participated in the filming of "Journey to the West", and I just watched this movie today, which is completely different from "Suzhou River", which shows that your style and concept of the movie are diverse......"
He sighed softly: "It's really amazing, it can be seen from "Suzhou River" and "Journey to the West" that your grasp of these two styles has reached a fairly mature level, it's too hard to imagine, how can a person master two styles that are so different at the same time, not to mention how old you are......" Xiao Qi chuckled on the side: "If Mr. Wu understands his achievements in music, he must not be too emotional, these are all trivial matters." ”
"That's right. Cangshuiyue also smiled lightly, she had been in contact with Ye Zheng for a year, and she was also impressed by the talent of this little boss. For example, this "Journey to the West", if she is allowed to shoot it herself, she will definitely not be able to shoot this effect. During the filming process, she also had disputes with Ye Zheng because of some places, but most of the time, it was Ye Zheng who persuaded her. And she had to admit again and again that Ye Zheng's method was better than she thought.
Wu Menglong was stunned, and then suddenly, the person in front of him was a ghost, his musical talent spanned ancient and modern, and he mastered various types and styles of music skillfully in his hands...... He is a creator who does not stick to a specific style. If that's true for music, why can't it be true for movies?
But think about it again, you are already so unreasonable in terms of music, how can you be unreasonable in terms of movies? This is too unreasonable, right? However, Ye Zheng touched his nose and agreed with Xiao Qi's words: "What Xiao Qi said is right, in fact, Mr. Wu, I have just stepped into the film and television industry, and in the future, I am afraid that there will be many different types and styles of movies and TV series to come out!"
"This, uh, okay!" Wu Menglong said helplessly: "Then I look forward to you also bringing a storm to the film and television industry, these years, high-quality movies seem to be getting more and more difficult to produce, everyone is waiting to see good movies! "What's your idea? Tell me, the main thing is that you think there's something flawed. "Then I'll tell you about it. Ye Zheng was not polite, thought about it and began to say: "I think one of the flaws of this movie is that you seem to be trying to expound an emotional thing, it may be philosophical, it may be thinking, but your elaboration is not incisive enough......"
Ye Zheng and Wu Menglong chatted, he had watched several of Wu Menglong's movies, so he knew more about his movies. Ye Zheng said bluntly when he spoke, and found out some of the imperfections in Wu Menglong's movie. Of course, although Ye Zheng has mastered so many movies, his own film concept is actually very fragmented. It's just that when he was in college in his previous life, he took a few elective courses in film and read a lot of books on this subject, and now the content of these books is also deeply imprinted in his mind, which contains a variety of film styles. Among them is Wong Kar Wai style.
So Ye Zheng recalled what he had seen, and at the same time said his own opinions, in fact, he already has a certain level now, if he takes the script to film, it is no problem, but time does not allow him to soak in a movie.
With Ye Zheng's narration, Wu Menglong gradually became fascinated, and many of Ye Zheng's words inspired him. He has been looking for a certain style, a certain way of expressing cinematic art. Although his achievements have been recognized by the outside world, he himself feels that there is still a lot of room for improvement.
However, it was like a bottleneck, and he couldn't find a breakthrough on his own. However, Ye Zheng's words were like a pair of hands suddenly clearing the dark clouds above his head for him, revealing the blue sky and white sun. "I think what you want to express can be characterized as a more abstract sense of reality, using some fragmented environments, things, and seemingly messy stories to express a concept, which is not necessarily specific to a certain point. But we can find it in reality. A lot of people use movies to reflect reality, but you don't take the traditional route, you reflect through representative stories and so on. When the audience watches your movie, they think of themselves, most likely because of a detail, a fragment, or a sentence or two. Ye Zheng said.
"Yes, yes!" Wu Menglong nodded again and again, feeling like he had found a confidant, and he was excited. "But it's a pity that you haven't done a good enough job of dealing with some details and clips. Ye Zheng said bluntly: "So, it will lead to a ...... Feeling of constipation. "Poof!" Xiao Qi, who was drinking water, squirted out a mouthful of water. But Wu Menglong nodded solemnly: "Yes, you said a lot, what do you have any opinions on this?" Ye Zheng briefly said some of his own opinions, giving Wu Menglong some inspiration, and Wu Menglong admired Ye Zheng more and more in his heart.
If he didn't see Ye Zheng, he would never believe that a person who is invincible in music can still have such profound insights in movies. And it's not just one...... The more he thought about it, the more shocked he became.