On July 23, Century Summit held a press conference at the Park Hyatt International Trade Center, announcing that Feng Xiaogang had become the signed director of Century Peak. Before the press conference, a short documentary "Xiaogang Open" was played on the big screen, reviewing Feng Xiaogang's entire creative process.

After the short film ended, the spotlight turned on, the door on the left side opened, and Feng Xiaogang walked in with a smile. After taking the stage, he made a simple speech, saying that he joined the pinnacle of the century because he hoped to go further in film creation and find more possibilities. At the same time, he also said that he liked the positioning of the Internet Film Company at the peak of the century, and he believed that under the influence of the Internet, some traditional rules of Chinese films are being rewritten, and a new era of rapid change has arrived.

Later, Gao Jun, the vice president in charge of the film and television business Century Peak, appeared and talked about his cooperation with Feng Xiaogang at the beginning, full of hope for the future, and then he announced that Century Summit and Feng Xiaogang officially cooperated. The peak of the century will loosen the constraints on Feng Xiaogang's creation, and will give Feng Xiaogang greater creative freedom, allowing him to shoot more and better works.

However, Gao Jun did not respond directly to the signing fee that the media was most concerned about, but only said that he was giving a reasonable price that both parties could accept.

At this press conference, Zhang Ran did not show up, but he recorded a video on the set of "One Man Puts on the Light". In the video, Zhang Ran first apologized to Feng Xiaogang, saying that now that the film is shooting at a critical moment, he really can't pull away, so he couldn't play this press conference. At the same time, he spoke highly of Feng Xiaogang, saying that he was a national director and the director who best understood what the Chinese people wanted. This praise made Feng Xiaogang smile from ear to ear.

Feng Xiaogang's joining the pinnacle of the century naturally attracted some discussion from the media, but Zhang Ran didn't have time to pay attention, because the crew was about to shoot a heavy scene, which can even be said to be the most exciting scene in the whole movie. With a bomb strapped to his body and a security guard tied up in the supermarket, Lao Huang uses his wit and reflexes to capture the steel slag alive, which is the ultimate duel between Lao Huang and the steel slag.

In order to shoot this scene well, Zhang Ran began to prepare seven days ago, and this preparation is not the preparation of props and equipment, but also the preparation of physical condition. The steel slag killed someone, fled for half a year, and his accomplices were arrested again, his mental state must be highly stressed, like a taut bow; in addition, he has no money, and he is always in a state of not having enough to eat, and compared with before, the whole person will definitely lose a lot of weight.

In order to bring himself closer to the state of steel slag, Zhang Ran began not to take a bath seven days ago, allowing himself to smell of sweat, and three days ago he began to reduce the amount of water he drinks, did not eat, and ate dry food such as biscuits and raisins when he was hungry. Shancheng is a famous furnace city, the end of July is the hottest time, Zhang Ran does not drink water every day, only eats dry food, it is really uncomfortable.

However, for actors, the body does not only belong to themselves, they have to be thin when they should be thin, they have to be fat when they should be fat, everything should be based on the needs of the plot; the actors in this play are very hard, Zhang Jingchu hasn't said a word for most of the year; when Li Xuejian experienced life, he went out with the police every day, and practiced with Xiao Young to catch up, everyone worked hard, Zhang Ran didn't want his performance to drag everyone back.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, Zhang Ran came back from the conference room and saw that Zhang Jingchu had not yet slept, wearing headphones and sitting on the bed with a book to read. He walked over, patted her on the shoulder, and said in sign language, "I won't sleep tonight, you don't have to wait for me, go to bed early, right?"

According to the development of the plot of the movie, Xiao didn't know real sign language at the beginning, and after falling in love with the steel slag, in order to facilitate communication, the two began to learn sign language. In order to get closer to the real state of the characters, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu did not learn sign language at the beginning, but learned while filming during the filming, and now the two of them can communicate fluently in sign language.

Zhang Jingchu looked a little puzzled, and gestured: "What's the matter? There is your play tomorrow, and it is a heavy scene, how can you not rest?"

Zhang Ran replied: "The steel slag killed someone, fled for half a year, and now the accomplices have been arrested, the state of the whole person is abnormal, in a state of high mental tension, the whole person will have a very serious sense of burnout in it, I have to get myself close to that state, the skin, the bloodshot in the eyes, I have to get close to that state, I want to find how he felt that day." So, I plan to stay up all night in the living room to bring my physiology closer to the character. ”

Zhang Jingchu put the book on the bed, got up and said, "I'll accompany you!"

Zhang Ran smiled at her: "No, staying up all night, it's not anything else, then you need someone to accompany you! Besides, girls get old all night, I don't want my daughter-in-law to become old soon, go to bed early!"

Zhang Jingchu looked at Zhang Ran, shook his head very stubbornly, and gestured: "I want to accompany you!"

In recent months, Zhang Jingchu has been a little deep in the play, and her whole personality has changed a little, becoming a little stubborn like Xiao, Zhang Ran can't help her, so he said: "Then stay with me for a while, and come back to sleep when you are sleepy." ”

Zhang Jingchu smiled and made a "good" gesture.

Coming out of the bedroom, sitting down on the sofa in the living room, Zhang Ran turned on the computer and browsed the news on the Internet; Zhang Jingchu sat quietly on the side, doing nothing, just sitting very quietly.

Zhang Jingchu was originally an otaku girl, and she liked to surf the Internet when she had nothing to do, but she hadn't touched the computer much in recent months.

After reading the current affairs news, Zhang Ran began to flip through the entertainment news, and soon a message caught his attention.

The Organizing Committee of the 66th Venice Film Festival announced the list of juries and the list of shortlisted films for the main competition unit. Ang Lee served as the chairman of the jury of this year's film festival. Among the 23 films announced in the main competition unit, two Chinese-language films were shortlisted, "Prince of Tears" directed by Yang Fan of Hong Kong and "Love" directed by Zhang Yimou.

Previously, "The Wolf Disaster" directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang was very popular before, but I didn't expect it to be defeated, and the media was deeply surprised. However, the Venice Film Festival has a habit of surprise films, and at the last minute a film will be announced in the main competition, so anything is possible.

Zhang Ran saw that the media were aggrieved when they lost "The Wolf Disaster", and he was happy, now you are aggrieved for "The Wolf Disaster", and when the movie is released, I will see how you scold!

At this moment, Zhang Jingchu came over with two cups of coffee, one for himself to drink, and one for Zhang Rande

Zhang Ran didn't dare to drink more, so he took a sip, raised his eyes to look at Zhang Jingchu, and then kissed her lightly on the cheek: "Thank you, daughter-in-law!"

Zhang Jingchu didn't speak, just smiled at him.

Zhang Ran continued to read the news, compared with the defeat of "Wolf Disaster", the media paid more attention to Zhang Yimou's new film "Love", in recent years, Zhang Yimou's films have been mainly commercial blockbusters, and the reputation is quite bad; these commercial blockbusters have exposed one of Zhang Yimou's shortcomings, that is, the lack of screenwriting ability; Zhang Yimou's movie "Love" filmed this time, the script was written by Zhang Ran, and Zhang Ran is a director who is recognized as a storyteller in China, this time Zhang Ran and Zhang Yimou are merged, so everyone is quite confident in the quality of "Love".

In 93, Zhang Yimou was a judge of the Berlin Film Festival, and contributed a lot to Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet" winning the Golden Bear Award; in 07, Zhang Yimou served as the chairman of the Venice Film Festival and strongly supported "Lust and Caution", and finally Ang Lee returned with the Golden Lion Award for the second time; now that Ang Lee is the chairman, Zhang Yimou took the film to participate in the competition, so will Ang Lee return the favor and let Zhang Yimou return with a big victory? The media is very much looking forward to this.

Zhang Ran didn't watch the finished film of "Love", I don't know how Zhang Yimou made it, but he is very confident in this movie, although many people have been shouting that Zhang Yimou is exhausted in recent years, but in fact, Zhang Yimou's level is still there, mainly because of the script;

Zhang Ran flipped through the list of shortlisted films in Venice this year, if memory serves, the winner of the Golden Lion Award is "Lebanon", this film uses the perspective of the tank to present the cruelty and horror of war, the performance technique is relatively unique, but the other aspects of the film are relatively mediocre and of average standard.

In terms of quality, "Love" should be able to win "Lebanon", but the biggest obstacle is that Zhang Yimou has already won the Golden Lion twice, in this case, the judges will definitely have concerns and will not easily award the third Golden Lion, so it is difficult to say who will win the award in the end.

When it was almost three o'clock, Zhang Ran glanced back at Zhang Jingchu and found that she was asleep leaning on the sofa. He smiled and shook his head, got up and picked her up gently, carried her back to the bedroom, put her on the bed, took a blanket and gently covered her, and then went back to the living room to continue to stay up late.

At half past five in the morning, Zhang Jingchu woke up. When she came to the living room, she saw that Zhang Ran was still surfing the Internet, her face was gray, and her eyes were bloodshot, so she was a little distressed, and gestured: "You squint for a while, I'll keep watch, I won't let you sleep longer!"

Zhang Ran smiled and waved his hand: "It's okay, I'm fine!"

At six o'clock, Zhang Ran left the computer, cheered up, and then began to wash. While washing, he stood in front of the mirror, observing his face and eyes, feeling closer to the state he wanted.

After washing, Zhang Ran came to the sauna of the hotel. Early in the morning, the sauna room of the hotel was originally closed, but Zhang Ran greeted the hotel in advance, so he entered the sauna smoothly.

Zhang Ran sat in the sauna, while taking the sauna, he held his own lines, reading them quietly while watching, looking for the feeling of the characters.

The temperature in the sauna is above 40 degrees Celsius, and in such a high temperature, there is a lot of sweating, so you need to replenish water when you take the sauna, drink water before the sauna, and drink water during the steaming process, but Zhang Ran didn't drink a sip of water during the whole process.

Zhang Ran has been taking a sauna every day in the past few days, and he insists on not drinking water during the steaming process, hoping to make his body less hydrated, make his face firmer, thinner, and make his state closer to the character.

After steaming for half an hour, Zhang Ran came out of the sauna, changed his clothes, and came to the crew's car.

Soon Zhang Jingchu got in the car, she took out a bottle of nutrition express, stuffed a bag of raisins into Zhang Ran's hand, and motioned Zhang Ran to eat a little, after all, she had to film for a while, and it was still not okay to eat nothing.

Zhang Ran took two sips, ate a few more raisins, and then put them down. He couldn't eat too much, and to keep himself hungry, the steel slag was in a state of not being full.

On the way to the filming location, Zhang Ran looked out the window, the sky was gray, and the air was filled with a long-lasting haze, and in the carriage, the song of "Go Home When It's Cold" echoed.

Looking at the tall buildings around him and looking at the unfamiliar streets, Zhang Ran felt a sense of sadness in his heart, there are countless houses in this city, there are countless people, but there is no life of his own, his own home, he seems to have been abandoned by the whole world, even if he dies like this, no one will shed tears for himself.

At this moment, Zhang Ran felt the sadness and despair in the heart of the steel slag that morning very clearly.

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