Chapter 481: Filming Begins
The song "Sunshine Girl" from the Japanese band Moumoon, which was also a single album at the time, was on the public chart for two consecutive weeks, and was also changed to Chinese, English, romanized and other versions.
"Pretty good for you. Sunshinegirl, Sunshine Girl, and your voice temperament is also very consistent. Ye Zheng said: "Just this song." "Thank you Ye Dong!" Chiba Lia happily took the song sheet from Ye Zheng's hand, she was entangled for a week and didn't dare to come to Ye Zheng, but she didn't expect that after coming, the problem was easily solved. Although I haven't seen the song sheet yet, what is there to doubt about the song that Ye Zheng swears so to?
Feng Shujun looked at the song sheet in Chiba Liya's hand with envious eyes, secretly clenched her fists, and said to herself in her heart Come on. She understands that Ye Zheng's song will of course not be given to whoever wants it, and if she wants to get it, she has to work hard to get that qualification. If it was her luck to get to know Ye Zheng because of Li Chen, then what she had to do was not to waste this luck in vain. "Come, sing it. Ye Zheng said with a smile. r>
"Huh?" Chiba Lia didn't expect Ye Zheng to say this, so she was surprised and worried: "Are you singing here?" "Yes, no problem, right?" Ye Zheng asked with a smile. "I'm going to take a look first. Chiba Lea was a little nervous, Ye Zheng and Guo Meimei were here, she subconsciously regarded this as Ye Zheng's test for her. "Well, give you ten minutes to familiarize yourself with the melody. Ye Zheng did temporarily take a look at her strength, and said: "Have you watched last year's variety show interview, after I created it on the spot, Xiao Qi and they only took a few minutes to familiarize themselves with the song score, and then they can sing." ”
"Mmmm, I've seen it!" Chiba Liya said, "Ye Dong, I will also do my best!" Ye Zheng nodded, motioned for Chiba Leya to study the song sheet on the chair on the side, and then asked Feng Shujun: "Have you looked at it in the company, do you have any ideas?" "I will also do my best!" Feng Shujun said. Ye Zheng smiled and said, "Come on, you don't know how much psychological pressure your sudden change has brought to Li Chen." ”
"What's wrong?" Feng Shujun said in surprise, looking at Li Chen. Before Li Chen could say anything, Ye Zheng continued: "It's nothing, it's just that I can see that my brother really likes you...... You all have to work hard, and besides, you two have to be good too. Whoever loses, don't blame me for being unkind. ”
Feng Shujun was a little surprised by Ye Zheng's words, and her heart tightened. To be honest, he didn't like Li Chen so much. In fact, Li Chen's worries are not wrong, if Feng Shujun is going to be in the entertainment industry in the future, and he has seen more handsome, rich and talented male stars, if he is still with Li Chen, it will be abnormal. When a person's identity is different, the position is different, and the surrounding environment is different, the ideology will also change dramatically, and there will be differences between two people who are originally similar.
For Li Chen, Feng Shujun didn't think about it so much. She just thought that she wanted to seize this opportunity and be able to soar in the future. Even she secretly thought that if she dumped Li Chen and found someone more capable to fall in love and backing up, it would definitely be smoother in the future. She even thought of Ye Zheng. But Ye Zheng's words woke her up all of a sudden! The opportunity was given by Ye Zheng, which is right. But why did Ye Zheng help her? It was because of Li Chen. If it weren't for Li Chen, Ye Zheng would have paid attention to her, an ordinary sophomore? What are you kidding, in this society, many talents still can't find opportunities!
Ye Zheng said that whoever loses, he will be polite. But Feng Shujun would not doubt that Ye Zheng's words were simply said to her and beat her. Since Li Chen is his good friend, in other words, if Li Chen dumps Feng Shujun, Ye Zheng and him will still be friends. But if she failed Li Chen, Ye Zheng's anger was not something she could bear. For a moment, her expression changed a few times, and then she pursed her lips and smiled: "How could it be......"
"That's good. Ye Zheng nodded, it seemed that Feng Shujun understood what he meant. Then he said: "We were talking about one thing just now, Li Chen wants to start his own business, so I said you all have to work hard." "Start a business?" Feng Shujun asked in surprise, "Why did you suddenly start a business again?" "You can suddenly want to be a singer and actor, why can't I want to start a business?" Li Chen asked rhetorically.
Feng Shujun was choked for a moment, slightly embarrassed, opened her mouth and said, "Okay, let's discuss it later." "Ye Dong, I can do it!" Chiba Lea's voice sounded. "Sing it. Everyone looked at Chiba Leya, Chiba Lea suppressed the tension in her heart, and a relaxed and cheerful song sounded.
Ye Zheng nodded slightly, Chiba Liya's voice is indeed good, and this song was sung by her. The light and cute melody gives a cool feeling. After singing the song, several people in the room applauded, and Ye Zheng also applauded and smiled: "Yes, continue to practice more and do a good job of this single." ”
"Uh-huh!" Chiba Lia nodded happily and excitedly. ...... When he woke up, Wang Xiaobao took away the arm around his neck, looked at the woman who was still asleep, and then sat up listlessly, leaned on the pillow, and picked up a box of cigarettes from the pillow. I took out a cigarette, lit it with a lighter, and took a puff. Feeling the smoke in the mouth, the breath between the nostrils and the lobes of the lungs, I felt that the whole person was much more energetic. Reach out and pick up the remote control of the TV again, turn on the power, and choose a random station, China Television Movie Channel is replaying last year's movie "A Chinese Ghost Story".
The movement and smoke of the TV woke up the person who was asleep next to him, and the woman was dazed, and her arm was on his body again, and she hummed a little coquettishly: "Baby......" "Huh?" "What time is it?" "I don't know, it's nine o'clock." Wang Xiaobao said casually. The woman woke up suddenly, and shouted: "It's nine o'clock, it's broken, it's broken! I promised the director that I would definitely be in the crew before ten o'clock! Now I must be late, and I will be scolded!" While speaking, she hugged Wang Xiaobao with both arms, and said with a smile in her eyebrows: "It's all your fault, I tossed so late yesterday to ...... to sleep" "Well, then you should get up quickly." Wang Xiaobao's eyes kept staring at the TV screen, looking at Ning Caichen and Xiaoqian on the screen, his expression seemed to be a little lost and gloomy, and he took another puff of cigarette and muttered: "Ye Zheng......"
"But people don't want to get up! People want to hold you like this!" the woman leaned on Wang Xiaobao's chest. "Then you don't go today. Wang Xiaobao raised his hand and touched the woman's face, lowered his head and kissed the woman's forehead. "No, I can't. The woman pouted and said, "I can't delay the filming ...... because I'm alone," "Then get up and clean up." Wang Xiaobao whispered: "It's good to have a movie to make......" Listening to Wang Xiaobao's words, the woman's face panicked, and she hurriedly said: "Baby, I didn't mean to say it......"://
Wang Xiaobao smiled: "It's okay, I'm used to it." I haven't been filming for three years, and I don't know what it's like for the whole crew to wait for me to film...... You should wake up early, and don't always make people wait like I did. At first, they were willing to wait, but after waiting for a long time, they would rather change actors...... ""Baby, don't be sad." The woman raised her head and kissed Wang Xiaobao's face, and her fingers drew circles on Wang Xiaobao's chest: "I'll talk to the director another day, and arrange a role for you, right?" Wang Xiaobao's brows suddenly wrinkled, and he said unhappily: "I, Wang Xiaobao, am not so down that I need to rely on women to eat!"
"Baby, I was wrong!" The woman said nervously again: "I'll never mention this again, don't you be angry, okay?" She looked at Wang Xiaobao with begging eyes, making a pitiful look, and gently shook Wang Xiaobao's arm. "Hmm. Wang Xiaobao nodded, picked up the remote control and changed the channel, and the music channel of China Television was playing a selection of songs by the Black Butterfly Band. "It's Ye Zheng again......" he whispered softly. r>
"Baby......" the woman called him again, and there seemed to be some apprehension in her tone. "What's wrong?" Wang Xiaobao asked. "You ......" The woman seemed to be very worried, but she couldn't help but ask: "...... and Fu Qiuyu...... Have you broken up?" Wang Xiaobao was slightly stunned and said, "No." ”
"Hmph!" the woman snorted, pursed her lips, and said dissatisfiedly: "You promised me that you would break up soon! But you haven't broken up yet! You don't have me in your heart at all!" Wang Xiaobao said, holding the woman's hand and putting it on his chest: "You touch, you listen, my heart is pounding, what is that? Is that the heart beating? No! That is an affectionate call to you! Listen, Juanjuan, Juanjuan, Juanjuan......" "Hmph!" Juanjuan was angry and happy, and said angrily: "I don't care, give you another week, you must break up!"
"Let's talk about it. Wang Xiaobao said casually. "Hmph!" Juanjuan angrily began to get dressed, Wang Xiaobao sat there motionless and watched TV, and changed the channel again, and found that what was being played was actually a replay of "Soldier Assault". He frowned, took the cigarette to the end in one breath, exhaled slowly, shook his head gently, and said helplessly: "It's still Ye Zheng...... Ye Zheng ...... "Watching TV unintentionally, Wang Xiaobao was thinking about some other things. Juanjuan got up and washed up in a huff, and then was about to push the door out, Wang Xiaobao raised her head and said, "I'll pick you up from your crew in the evening, and we will go to dinner together in the evening." ”
"You go find your autumn rain!" Juanjuan huffed. "You said it, but I didn't say it. Wang Xiaobao said casually: "It just so happens that I haven't seen her for a week, and I guess she misses me a lot." Wang Xiaobao was the only one left in the newly opened empty room on the side of the overpass, he lit another cigarette, took a deep breath, then watched the program on TV, and sighed silently: "Now in the whole country, the most beautiful person is Ye Zheng." Can there be many people who remember my Wang Xiaobao?" slowly got dressed and picked up a book from the TV: "The Literacy of Comedians".
He glanced at it casually, threw it on the table, and sighed, "Life is a tragicomedy...... If I had understood this truth many years ago and understood more about the truth of being a human being, I would not have ended up like this. Now, alas, ...... "jingle bells...... The phone rang. Wang Xiaobao picked up his mobile phone and looked at it, and found that it was Du Sanming calling. "Du Sanming?" Wang Xiaobao muttered a little, he and Du Sanming were not too familiar. The two met a few years ago when they were in some partnerships. At that time, he Wang Xiaobao was a comedian with a bright future, and Du Sanming was also the leading comedy master in China. In terms of the limelight, it is about the same.
But in the past three or four years, Du Sanming is still a master of comedy, not only himself, but even several apprentices under his door are constantly scripted for TV dramas and movies. And every year's Spring Festival Gala, he is also indispensable. He has been a frequent visitor to the Spring Festival Gala for more than ten consecutive years, even if he has the intention of gradually fading out of the Spring Festival Gala stage over the years, he still hosts behind the scenes, and sends several of his lovers to the Spring Festival Gala stage. Moreover, the sketch ideas opened up by Ye Zheng have added a way of life for Du Sanming.
Du Sanming's scenery is still the same, and he is next to Ye Zheng, which can be said to be still bright. But he, Wang Xiaobao, has not received a script as the protagonist for three years. Even the scripts of some supporting roles are mostly obtained by relationships. Three or four years, in heaven and on earth. Thinking about these things, Wang Xiaobao answered Du Sanming's call.
"Hello Mr. Du, I'm Xiaobao!" Wang Xiaobao's voice was extremely polite, now is not what it used to be, if it was in the past, he could have laughed and joked with Du Sanming, but now, he had to put on a more respectful attitude. "Is Teacher Xiaobao in Yanjing?" asked Du Sanming. Wang Xiaobao's heart chuckled, and he hurriedly said, "Yes, I'm in Yanjing!" "Do you have time today? Du Sanming asked with a smile. "Yes, there is time! You can tell me about it, and I'll go over!" Wang Xiaobao said. Du Sanming said a café, set a time of eleven o'clock, and hung up the phone, while Wang Xiaobao hurriedly washed up. He didn't know what Du Sanming called him, but he didn't dare to slack off. In the past, it was he who often neglected others to end up like this. Now he doesn't dare to repeat the mistakes of the past.
However, he suddenly thought of what Du Sanming said, and someone wanted to talk to him about something. It doesn't seem to be Du Sanming. But who can make Du Sanming a messenger? Looking for himself is nothing more than making movies. In terms of film and television, he has a good relationship with Du Sanming, and he can let Du Sanming speak...... He suddenly thought of someone, and his heart stirred. "Wang Xiaobao is a very talented person, and he is willing to work hard!" In the car, Zhou Wen drove the car, Du Sanming and Ye Zheng sat in the back row, Du Sanming said: "Speaking of which, about ten years ago, Wang Xiaobao entered the film and television industry.
At that time, of course, he played some small roles, often some roles that didn't even have lines, his acting skills were good, and there were many tricky roles, everyone would call him over. At that time, on Yanjing's side, he was also famous in the dragon set. "But Wang Xiaobao is very ambitious and ambitious, and he is not satisfied with being a trick. Even if you are doing tricks, you always have some ideas of your own. For example, you ask him to play a small soldier who has no lines to go into battle to kill the enemy, and then he is killed by the protagonist with a knife. Originally, the script arranged for him to come over with a knife and just lie down. But he had to scream, and then he slowly collapsed in pain over his wounds, sometimes having to roll to die completely. Du Sanming laughed as he spoke: "Later, I heard that once he happened to take over the play directed by Long Peiqi, and he was going to play a person who was shot to death. But when someone shot him, he didn't shake it for a long time
"Ye Dong can call me Xiaobao. Wang Xiaobao said respectfully, and asked, "I don't know what kind of drama this is?" Listening to Wang Xiaobao's question, Du Sanming also pricked up his ears and prepared to listen carefully, Ye Zheng has been talking about nonsensical performances, and he is also emphasizing that this is a comedy, but he has never told him what kind of drama this is.
"This drama is related to Journey to the West. Ye Zheng laughed a little mysteriously. "Something to do with Journey to the West?" Wang Xiaobao and Du Sanming were both stunned: "Could it be a remake of one of the plots?" In this world, "Journey to the West" is also a classic masterpiece, which has been circulated for hundreds of years and has a wide influence. In the 80s, Huaxia TV invested in making "Journey to the West" into a TV series, just like the CCTV version of "Journey to the West" that year, which became an immortal film and television classic. Later, the TV series was remade many times, and several of the big productions also received a lot of ratings, but the reviews were far inferior to the classics of the eighties.
Later, some people came up with some ideas, which was to remake and adapt one of the plots into a movie. Anyway, because of the map-style plot mode of "Journey to the West", the plot can be completely independent of the story, so a number of movies based on "Journey to the West" have emerged, some are faithful to the original work, and some are greatly adapted...... As a result, there are such as "Emotional Daughter Country", "The Beautiful Life of Gao Laozhuang", "Nezha vs. Sun Wukong", "The Story that Tang Seng and Little White Dragon Have to Say", ...... Although most of the reviews are not good, there are also many that have achieved good box office results, such as last year's "Nezha vs. Sun Wukong", which has no depth, no thought, and no connotation, but still won a box office of 360 million and a good result of 500 million overseas sales. The reason for this depends to a large extent on the progress of science and technology. The mature and exquisite wonderful fighting pictures produced by the computer, and the application of three-dimensional animation technology, make many people addicted to its wonderful pictures.
Taking this as an example, using wonderful special effects to make up for the connotation of the plot has also become a foothold for everyone to remake and adapt "Journey to the West". So Ye Zheng mentioned that the story was related to "Journey to the West", and Wang Xiaobao and Du Sanming subconsciously thought it was so. "It's not a remake, it's a big adaptation. Ye Zheng smiled: "This movie, I planned to be about three hours long. Subvert the original plot of "Journey to the West" and interpret a tragicomedy. ”
"Three hours!" Wang Xiaobao gasped, startled by Ye Zheng's words. "Hmm. Ye Zheng nodded: "Actually, I originally planned to make two parts, but considering that it would be better to put them together after all, I simply combined the two into one." Of course, the plot can't be cut too much, so in terms of length, it will be equivalent to the length of two movies. ”
"This ......," Wang Xiaobao frowned. "What's the matter, scared?" Ye Zheng looked at him with a smile. "No!" Wang Xiaobao hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Ye Dong, please tell this story first, I'll listen to it." ”
Du Sanming also couldn't wait to listen, very curious about how Ye Zheng would subvert the traditional "Journey to the West", tragicomedy? Wasn't it originally a comedy? How did it become a tragicomedy? Ye Zheng nodded and said slowly: "This story is like this...... Sun Wukong escorted Tang Sanzang to the West to learn scriptures, but halfway through he conspired with the Bull Demon King to kill Tang Sanzang and stole the Moonlight Treasure Box...... "The story told by Ye Zheng is naturally the classic movie "Journey to the West" in his previous life.
The story of this well-known rebellion myth has created a movie legend. It has successfully created a number of immortal classic characters, disseminated classic lines and dialogues, and gave birth to a group of loyal "big talk fans", leaving a strong mark on film culture.
Such a classic, Ye Zheng will naturally not lose it, and it is bound to be filmed. Time and Space Film and Television were established, and three films were filmed, "Suzhou River" and "Can't Do Without You" are biased towards literature and art, and they are destined not to win too high a box office, nor will they have much influence. Therefore, the focus of time and space film and television is still on the movie "Journey to the West". Originally, this movie was divided into two parts: "Journey to the West: Moonlight Treasure Box" and "Journey to the West: Cinderella". But Ye Zheng felt that this was not good. In the previous life, although "Journey to the West" was widely acclaimed, when it was released in Hong Kong in 1995, the total box office of the two films combined was only more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars, although it was not miserable, but compared with its popularity later, it was too far and too far behind.
When it was released in Beijing at that time, both films only ended up with a box office of about 200,000, which was really low. At the root of it, taking apart a film is a reason. For example, when many people mentioned "Journey to the West" later, most of what they thought of was the second half of "Journey to the West: Cinderella", and what they thought of was the love between Supreme Treasure and Zixia Fairy. And the director at the time, Liu Zhenwei, also regretted that the film should not be divided into two episodes, even if there is a lot of material, it should be condensed as much as possible. It's better to overwhelm the audience than to discourage them.
Liu Zhenwei remembered this lesson. Ye Zheng naturally did not dare to repeat the mistakes of the past. Another very important reason is the current situation. In 1995, the film's presentation and form type seemed a little too avant-garde. It is not favored by many people in the industry. Because this movie contains too many genres, action, comedy, sci-fi, tragedy...... At that time, many people couldn't accept this kind of movie that was a bit out of the times for a while. And at that time, the managers of many film companies also felt that the film was "too noisy and noisy", and they were not optimistic, so there was no publicity.
These reasons led to the poor box office of "Journey to the West", but for the current environment of the times, the methods that seemed avant-garde and excessive in 1995 are now decent. This is not a problem. In terms of publicity, time and space film and television will naturally make a big splash. Therefore, Ye Zheng is ready to make a big deal about this movie, not only at the domestic box office, but also to enter overseas strongly. If "The Two of Us", which created a box office success for feature films last year, can be regarded as the first shot of time and space film and television, then "Journey to the West" is a heavy artillery attack. "The Supreme Treasure used the Moonlight Treasure Box to travel through again and again, but the Moonlight Treasure Box suddenly malfunctioned, and it actually brought him back five hundred years ago. And at this time, the Zixia Fairy was walking towards him......"
Ye Zheng took a sip of coffee, looked at the two people who were already immersed in the story, and continued: "The above is the plot of the first half, and the following is the second half. This Zixia Fairy and her sister Qingxia were originally the wicks of the sun and moon lamp in front of the Buddha's throne......" Telling this story, Ye Zheng was also excited. The thing he is most excited about is to bring out the classics of his previous life. What I look forward to most is that the classics of the previous life can create brilliance in this world again.
After drinking two cups of coffee and talking for half an hour, Wang Xiaobao and Du Sanming listened carefully and didn't say a word. The more they listened, the more amazed the two of them became, and the more they admired Ye Zheng. Such a plot and such a subversive whimsical idea completely exceeded their imagination of "Journey to the West". The story of the four masters and apprentices taking the Western Scripture to kill demons and eliminate demons can be made up like this?
If it weren't for the familiar characters and monsters such as spider spirits and white bone spirits, it would be hard to believe that this story was adapted from "Journey to the West". Is this an adaptation? No, it's a completely new story!
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