Zhang Ran drove home, and as soon as he opened the door, he smelled a burst of aroma. On this day, Zhang didn't eat well. I can't eat at noon wearing a mask. After selling the rock sugar gourd, he flew back to Lanai Island, ate a little on the plane, and now he is really a little hungry.

Zhang Ran walked into the kitchen, put his arms around Zhang Jingchu's slender waist from behind, and said softly: "Wife, I'm back! Wow, it's so fragrant!"

Zhang Jingchu smiled and said, "Why did you come back so soon, and you didn't accompany your two precious apprentices?"

Zhang Ran smiled: "How can I have so much spare time to accompany them, of course, I mainly miss you and my daughter!"

Zhang Jingchu asked while busy working: "What do you want to eat?" I'll make it for you!"

Zhang Ran said: "What do you do and what do I eat, to be honest, I'm really a little hungry!"

Five minutes later, Zhang Ran sat down at the table, gobbled it up, and quickly swept away the food in front of him. Zhang Jingchu was just about to ask, do you still want to eat? I'll make you some more. The little girl suddenly started crying, and Zhang Ran immediately ran back to the room and coaxed her baby girl.

When Zhang Jingchu finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks and came to the living room, Zhang Ran was holding the little girl and playing high. The little girl giggled when she was raised high by Zhang Ran, and she was very happy and bright.

When Zhang Jing saw the little girl smiling so happily for the first time, she couldn't help but smile: "Be careful, don't drop the smile!"

Zhang Ran put the little girl on the sofa, hugged Zhang Jingchu's slender waist with both hands, and lifted her up.

Zhang Jingchu screamed "ah" in fright, and laughed and scolded in mid-air: "I hate it, let me down!"

The little girl seemed to see a particularly fun game, and she clapped her hands and giggled: "Mommy is high!"

After Zhang Ran put Zhang Jingchu down, he said to the little girl: "Mom, I don't know what's wrong! she doesn't play such a fun game as she lifts high, we despise her!" As he spoke, he lifted the little girl into the air again.

After playing with the baby girl for a while, Zhang Ran put the little girl on the sofa, took Zhang Jingchu's hand and said: "Daughter-in-law, you know that I have always wanted to put Zhang Chunru's story on the screen, and this drama will be fully launched after the New Year." I want you to play Zhang Chunru. Biopics are particularly difficult to act, not only do they have to look similar to the real people they play, but they also need to learn their movements, imitate their accents, imitate their demeanor, and even the overall temperament needs to be shown correctly! Among Chinese actors, the only actor whose face shape is close to Zhang Chunru's and who has enough acting skills to support this role is you!"

Zhang Jingchu has not acted for nearly three years, she originally planned to wait for her child to be three years old and go to kindergarten before returning to filming, but she knew that Zhang Ran had been preparing for this scene for ten years, and she knew the weight of this scene, so she naturally would not refuse: "No problem!"

Zhang Ran said very seriously to Zhang Jingchu: "There is a place where we must pay special attention to this play, in order to play the role of Zhang Chunru well, we must read Zhang Chunru's book, and we must read the information of the Nanjing Massacre; that is the darkest page in human history." Reading those materials can have a negative impact on people's psyche. Zhang Chun committed suicide because of depression, and it is difficult to say that her depression has nothing to do with reading a lot of historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre. In Nanjing in 1937, Weitling and others protected more than 10,000 women and children, and was known as the Living Bodhisattva. She also suffered from severe depression and eventually committed suicide. There have already been two great women who have given their lives because of this, so we must be careful. ”

Zhang Jingchu knew that Zhang Ran was worried that she would fall into the role like she was playing "One Person's Lights", so she patted Zhang Ran's hand lightly and said firmly: "I am a very mature actor, and you have also taught me a lot of psychological adjustment skills, and I can regulate my emotions." I've watched Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre" and Zhang Chunru's mother's "Zhang Chunru", you can see if I'm not good, I'm not affected at all! Acting in such a scene will definitely have an emotional impact, but I can adjust it!"

Zhang Ran nodded slightly: "I believe you can adjust it well, but we still have to be careful." It is said that Gao Yuanyuan had mild depression after performing "Nanjing, Nanjing". So, in the process of preparation and actual filming, you have to receive psychological counseling every week, otherwise I will definitely not let you act. ”

After Zhang Jing first decided to play Zhang Chunru, she began to prepare for playing Zhang Chunru, first adjusted her appearance, like Zhang Chunru, combed her hair back, and then tied it up. At the same time, she began to read various materials about the Nanjing Massacre, and imitated Zhang Chunru's accent based on the audiovisual materials left by Zhang Chunru.

The walls of the study were plastered with photographs of Chunru, as well as a large number of photographs of mass graves, massacre sites, victims, and a map of Nanjing from 1937. The layout of the whole room is close to the state of the studio when Zhang Chunru wrote "The Nanjing Massacre". Zhang Jingchu believes that this will allow her to better understand Zhang Chunru's state of mind and better enter Zhang Chunru's heart.

At the same time, Zhang Ran also began to get busy with the preliminary work of Zhang Chunru's film. There are a lot of roles in this movie, and in addition to Zhang Chunru, the absolute heroine, there are two characters that are particularly important, Weitling and Rabe.

Zhang Chunru is like this story, Zhang Ran's original idea was to make a simple biopic. On December 13, 1994, Zhang Chunru participated in the Nanjing Massacre Photo Exhibition in Los Angeles, and those bloody materials evoked her memories of her ancestors' encounters in Nanjing, as the beginning of the film. The movie ends with her suicide on November 9, 2004. describes how Zhang Chunru changed from a weak girl to a keen and resolute fighter, and finally went to death.

In the past ten years, Zhang Ran has constantly revised and adjusted the script, and the current script is very different from the original idea. The whole story begins with Zhang Chunru's exhibition about the Nanjing Massacre in Los Angeles, and ends with the climax and end of the film after the publication of the book "Nanjing Massacre" and Zhang Chunru's debate with Toei Ambassador Kunihiko Saito on a live broadcast on PBS.

In that debate, Kunihiko Saito claimed that Toei had apologized. Zhang Chunru retorted that Dongying had never formally said humility, and Dongying's so-called apologies were all words "regret" and "regret". Zhang Chunru also said, since you said that you have been humble, then now you apologize in front of the audience in the United States. As a result, Kunihiko Saito did not dare to apologize, but said that for the "Nanjing Incident", we realized that something very unfortunate had happened, and the Japanese army had committed atrocities. As a result, many American viewers understood that what Zhang Chunru said was true, and Dongying people have not officially apologized and have been avoiding this issue.

Zhang Ran took the debate between Zhang Chunru and Kunihiko Saito as the ending of the movie, in addition to this is a rare head-on conflict, which can be used as the climax of the movie, there is also a very important purpose, that is, Zhang Chunru has always hoped that Dongying people will officially apologize. But now, Zhang Chunru has been dead for ten years, and the people of Dongying still haven't officially said humility. Zhang Ran felt that it was his duty to inherit Zhang Chunru's legacy and tell the world that until today, the people of Dongying still have not formally humbled themselves for what they have done!

According to Zhang Ran's current thoughts, this movie is not only about Zhang Chunru's story, but about the story of "Weitling's Diary", "Rabe's Diary", and Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre". The film focuses on how Zhang Chunru created "Nanjing Massacre", interspersed with how "Weitling's Diary" and "Rabe's Diary" were written and discovered, so as to show the courage and conscience of human beings in the face of darkness.

In Zhang Ran's film about Zhang Chunru, Weitling and Rabe are very important, so it is necessary to find actors who are both physical and spiritual to play Weitling and Rabe.

At the end of last year, Zhang Ran met with German actor Ulrich Tucker to discuss cooperation. Ulrich Tucker is one of Germany's leading actors, having starred in films such as "The Eavesdropping Storm" and "The White Ribbon", and he played Rabe in the Sino-German co-production "Rabe's Diary". In fact, actors like Tukel are generally reluctant to repeat themselves, but he really wants to work with Zhang Ran and is willing to play Rabe again.

At the time of the Nanjing Massacre, Weitling was 51 years old and had been in China for 25 years, she was very Chinese, always wearing cheongsam and high heels, and she was also very fluent in Chinese. In the "Weiterling Diary", there is such a record, once, Weiterling saw a little Chinese boy wearing the armband of the sun flag to bring food to his sister, so he stepped forward and said: "You don't have to wear the sun flag, you are Chinese, your country has not died! You have to remember what year and month you wore this thing, you should never forget!" Without fluent Chinese, she would not have been able to do this.

To play the role of Weitling well, the actor must be fluent in Chinese, at least presentable. If it is like the final Chinese level of the movie "Neverending", don't say that the audience does not forgive, Zhang Ran himself will not forgive himself.

There are very few Hollywood actors who can really speak Chinese, and there are only two in Zhang Ran's impression, one is Pei Chunhua and the other is Mira Sovino. However, the two of them did not look like Weitling at all, Weitling was chubby and had a particularly pronounced round face, so there was no way to use the two of them, so they had to find something else.

If Zhang Ran's movie is with Weitling as the protagonist, with Zhang Ran's fame and influence, Hollywood stars will definitely rush to act, and they will definitely learn Chinese. But the problem is that there are not many scenes in this movie, and in this case, it is more difficult to make people proficient in the super difficult Chinese.

Before the Chinese New Year, the casting director told Zhang Ran that actress Amy Adams was willing to play Weitling. Amy Adams is a typical round face, and she has a slightly chubby build, which is somewhat similar to Weitling's appearance, and her acting skills are good enough that she has been nominated for 6 Oscars so far. With her playing Wetling, it should be a good choice.

However, it was already approaching the Spring Festival, and Zhang Ran was too busy to meet with Amy Adams, so he recommended several books about the Nanjing Massacre to her, and agreed to meet on the twelfth day of the New Year.

That morning, Zhang Ran went to a coffee shop on the island to meet with Amy Adams. It was an elegant and quiet room, there were not many people in the store, to be precise, there was no one else except Zhang Ran and two clerks.

Zhang Ran sat by the window, slowly stirring the coffee, and then picked up the cup with his right hand and took a sip. He put down his glass, turned on his computer, and flipped through the news.

After flipping through two pieces of news, Zhang Ran heard the voice of the clerk greeting customers, and subconsciously raised his head, and saw the clerk talking to a chubby beauty with red hair and a floral dress. The person who came was none other than Amy Adams. Zhang Ran saw that Amy Adams' eyes were looking at him, so he smiled and nodded at her.

Adams said a word to the clerk beside him, and then walked over to the table where Zhang Ran was. After she sat down opposite Zhang Ran, she looked at Zhang Ran and smiled: "Mr. Zhang, hello! I'm really happy to see you!"