After the crew gathered in the mountain city, Zhang Ran summoned a group of crew members for dinner. After drinking two rounds of wine, Zhang Ran looked at everyone and said: "Our film is an experimental movie, and the things we experiment with are particularly difficult, if everyone has any good suggestions, or ideas, you can put them forward, as long as it is a good thing, we can try it!"

The remake of the film began soon, and since it was a remake, the content remained the same, but the shooting method was adjusted, and the whole shooting was considered a breeze.

However, because Zhang Ran has new ideas from time to time during the filming process, many contents are filmed over and over again, and even many scenes that are not planned for reshooting have also been reshot, so the filming progress of the movie is relatively slow.

In the last filming, Zhang Jingchu was too deep in the drama and eventually suffered from hysterical aphasia. This time, Zhang Ran paid great attention to this problem, and every night before going to bed, he would sit in front of Zhang Jingchu, hold Zhang Jingchu's hand, and let her say it fifty times: "Less than is just a part of my body that can be done, but she is not me", "I can become less than, but she will never be me".

However, after the film was filmed for a week, Zhang Ran had to temporarily put down his work and return to Beiping.

This year marks the second year of the Asian Film Academy, which has expanded to five majors, including film production, visual effects, makeup design, sound design, and script writing. As the dean of Yaying, it is impossible for Zhang Ran to be absent from such an important event as the opening ceremony.

At the opening ceremony, Zhang Ran gave an impassioned speech and announced an idea that in his junior year, the school will support the students of the directing department to shoot a short film collection similar to "I Love You in Paris", and each person will make a 10-minute short film, a total of 120 minutes, titled "Peking Story", which will be screened nationwide.

After the opening ceremony, Zhang Ran did not rest, and rushed back to the mountain city non-stop to continue the filming of "One Person's Lights".

On the night of September 12, Zhang Ran was sitting on the bed to supervise Zhang Jingchu to strengthen her psychological defense, when her mobile phone suddenly rang, it was Zhang Yimou's phone. Zhang Yimou should have won the grand prize, if it was an ordinary award, he would not have called me at this time, he immediately connected the phone and said with a smile: "Lao Mou, congratulations on winning the golden lion and becoming the triple crown champion of Venice!"

Zhang Ran guessed correctly, Zhang Yimou won the Golden Lion Award.

The film "Love" Zhang Yimou adopts a realistic style similar to "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", calm and cruel, coupled with the outstanding performances of two old artists, Jin Yaqin and Zhu Xu, the film received a full house as soon as it debuted in Venice, and film critics gave the film the highest score of 4.1 in competition in the festival house programme. "Love" did not disappoint everyone, and finally defeated "Lebanon" and won the Golden Lion Award.

Zhang Yimou won the Golden Lion Award twice in 1992 with "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit" and in 1999 with "No One is Missing", and ten years later, he won the Golden Lion Award for the third time with "Love", and also became the first director in the world to win the Golden Lion Award three times.

Zhang Yimou, who achieved the Golden Lion Triple Crown, was a little excited, but he was still very modest: "Thank you, Zhang Ran! This time I can win the award, mainly thanks to your script, such a good script, even if it is a second-rate director, it will not be bad to shoot!"

Zhang Ran smiled: "Not necessarily, let me shoot, it is estimated that there will be problems!"

Zhang Yimou smiled: "You are too modest, you can challenge multi-part montage, what else can't you make?

Zhang Ran said: "It's so-so, I'm learning from Wong Kar-wai now, filming a scene repeatedly, filming all the tricks I can think of, and finally choosing the most suitable one from it." ”

When Zhang Yimou heard this, he said with emotion: "I really envy you, you can shoot whatever you want!"

Zhang Ran smiled and said: "I envy you! Venice Golden Lion Triple Crown, the only one in the world! Next, it's time to hit the Oscars, with your level, plus the theme of "Love", as long as there are no mistakes in public relations, the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film can be said to be handy!"

Zhang Yimou laughed: "I can't say that, this year's "White Ribbon" in Cannes and "Sad Milk" in Berlin are very strong, and there may be dark horses that can be killed at any time, it is really difficult to say about winning the Oscar." ”

Zhang Ran remembers that the winner of next year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is Argentina's "Mysterious Eyes", which is indeed a very good movie, but the director's level is not as good as Zhang Yimou, and the theme of "Love" is more ingenious, plus Zhang Yimou has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film three times, but he has returned home three times, and he can get a lot of sympathy votes, and it is not a big problem to win "Mysterious Eyes".

Zhang Ran said confidently: "Don't worry, this year's Summit Entertainment will go all out to impact the Oscars, we will do our best for public relations, it is almost impossible for the Oscars to win awards without public relations, so you adjust your state and prepare for the Olympic public relations, this is very tiring!"

Oscar is Zhang Yimou's knot, he very much hopes that he can win it, and immediately said: "I listen to your arrangement!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ran exhaled softly, if there is no three-year grinding of the opening, the multi-part montage is like a distant star to me, untouchable! I robbed you of the opening ceremony, then I will help you win the Oscar, and use the little golden man as compensation!

In the following days, Zhang Ran continued the filming of "One Person's Lights", continued his exploration of audio-visual language, and strived to present the almost lost multi-part montage. It wasn't until September 19 that the filming of the film was completed.

After the filming, Zhang Ran began to bury his head in editing, ignoring things outside the window, and did not even participate in the premiere of "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic" on the 22nd.

After a week of editing, the final version of the movie "One Man Lights Up" is finally complete.

Zhang Ran himself is more satisfied with the movie, and now this version is indeed much better than the previous version, the movie has indeed achieved its own high level, and the completion of the multi-part montage is also quite high.

Hollywood attaches great importance to the audience, and after the first cut is completed, the film company will often hire a special research company to recruit the audience for a test screening, investigate and analyze the audience's reaction to the film. After the test screening, the film company will make adjustments to the film based on the audience's feedback, such as re-cutting the ending that is more in line with the audience's expectations, deleting the plot that the audience dislikes, or even reshooting scenes that the audience does not understand. Therefore, for Hollywood blockbusters, reshoots are a fixed process, and each film has a dedicated reshoot period.

After the editing of "One Person's Lights" was completed, Zhang Ran also conducted a test screening again, but the members who participated in the test screening were still Ning Hao and their directors, in addition, the actors of the crew, as well as Zhang Jingchu and Yu Feihong also came.

Yu Feihong is also a director, her understanding of movies is professional, she didn't watch it long before she realized the power of this movie, the use of various montages is simply perfect, the use of sound is even more superb, the style of the whole movie is quite different from the style of Zhang Ran's previous works; if Zhang Ran's previous films were close to Hollywood, then this movie is closer to European movies.

If you're looking for excitement, you'll be disappointed.

The movie is relatively cold, the style is more depressing, but there is extreme compassion for human nature and the world.

Yu Feihong knew that Zhang Jingchu didn't speak for a long time for this movie, and even suffered from hysterical aphasia, she believed that Zhang Jingchu's performance must be very good, and when she watched the whole movie, she found that Zhang Jingchu's performance was even better than she imagined, it was not a performance at all, Zhang Jingchu really made herself smaller!

This is a performance comparable to Gong Li's Qiu Ju and Maggie Cheung's Ruan Lingyu, she believes that Zhang Jingchu will sweep the major awards in the next year or so, and it will be forever engraved in the history of Chinese film!

Yu Feihong is very happy for her friends, but as an actor, she is a little envious, being able to play a role smaller than this is a dream for any actor!

Ning Hao: They watched "A Man with Lights" a month ago, and when they watched it again, they found that the movie has changed a lot, and the current version uses more sound techniques, and these sound skills greatly expand the off-picture space, so as to show the helplessness and loneliness of the characters in reality, therefore, the temperament of the whole movie is more depressing, gloomy, and has a sense of desolation.

When it comes to the space of the movie, many people think that the space of the movie is the space of the picture on the screen. In fact, in addition to the visible picture of the movie on the screen, there is also an invisible space, which is the space outside the picture.

The space outside the painting is the space outside the frame, which is a space that the audience cannot see, but can feel, and is a space of imagination. Why can't the audience see it? Because the director didn't shoot it, or didn't shoot it completely. For example, in the short film "The Tuner", when the tuner is tuning in an old woman's house, there is a long inner monologue shot. In the shot, the protagonist is tuned in the foreground, while the hostess is in the back room, and the viewer cannot see her, but through her shadow change, the viewer can feel her action of tidying up the protagonist's coat. Through the shadow of the old woman, the director constructs an off-screen space.

The current version of "A Man with Lights" has a lot of use of off-screen space, and Zhang Ran's main method of constructing off-screen space is sound, and he uses off-screen dialogue, ambient sound and music to construct off-screen space, so that the film has a strong sense of reality.

"One Man Puts on the Lights" has an excellent beginning, which is a masterpiece, and the last time I watched it, the ending was a little weaker and a bit anticlimactic, and now the movie has an ending that can match it. Aesthetically, the film is almost perfect and impeccable in every aspect!

At the end of the film screening, Ning Hao and the others collectively stood up and applauded warmly.

Ning Hao looked very excited, grabbed Zhang Ran's hand and congratulated: "Teacher Zhang, congratulations! It's so strong and wonderful! This is the best movie I've seen in recent years, it can be said to be a great movie, whether it is the director, photographer, or actor, it may be perfect, it's amazing!"

Ding Sheng danced and said: "It's comparable to the godfather, it's the same multi-part montage, it's the same outstanding!" The last time I watched it, the ending was a little weaker, but now the ending is as good as the opening scene, it's amazing!"

Li Xuejian smiled and stretched out his hand to Zhang Ran: "Congratulations, Zhang Ran! This is really a good movie!"

"Thank you, Mr. Li!" Zhang Ran and Li Xuejian's hands clasped tightly, and a smile of excitement bloomed on their faces.

Zhang Ran's excitement was not over, and on this evening, he answered a call from Anna Wintour: "Robin, yesterday Miucia Prada told me that due to the failure of the Prada Group's listing, they lack working capital, and the Prada family hopes to find a new shareholder, the Asian market is the largest market for luxury goods, therefore, they hope that this shareholder is preferably Asian, which will help Prada expand its business in the Asian region, I don't know if you are interested in Prada?"

Zhang Ran has been waiting for this day for many years, and finally waited for this day, how could he miss it, and immediately said: "Interested, of course interested!"