When Zhang Ran walked into the private room, Yu Minghai was talking casually with a short-haired man of more than 40 years. Yu Minghai told Zhang Ran on the phone that the producer he was looking for was Xiangjiang director Zhang Zhiliang, and the short-haired middle-aged man was obviously Zhang Zhiliang.

In the Xiangjiang film and television circle, there is a saying of "Wen Zhang Wu Xu", Wu Xu is talking about Tsui Hark, and "Wen Zhang" refers to Zhang Zhiliang. In the early 90s of the last century, "Caged People" was a peak of Zhang Zhiliang's creation, not only won the Grand Jury Prize at the Tokyo Film Festival, but also won the Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

However, Zhang Ran doesn't like Zhang Zhiliang, and the "Butterfly on the Shoulder", which pitted investors and almost jumped off the building, is Zhang Zhiliang's handiwork. It's very normal for movies to lose money, and there are a lot of movies that pit investors, but it's really a bit too much for investors to almost jump off the building.

An investor with a movie plot gave him a lot of freedom out of sympathy and trust in Zhang Zhiliang, and began to say that he would make a commercial film, but Zhang Zhiliang kept asking for more investment, and finally spent 70 million. When the film was ready, the investors were dumbfounded, the movie was completely literary and artistic, and it was impossible to recover the investment at all, so they discussed with the director whether they could re-cut it. As a result, Zhang Zhiliang had no sympathy for investors, declaring that art was priceless and resolutely refusing to cut it. In the end, "Butterfly on the Shoulder" lost a lot, and the investor almost committed suicide.

However, Zhang Zhiliang, who claims that art is priceless, cut other people's films without mercy, when he supervised Zhang Zuoji's "Gunshots in the Night", and cut the 123-minute movie to 67 minutes. In the end, Zhang Zuoji scolded him in Hokkien at the Xiangjiang Film Festival: "Fuck your mother!"

Zhang Ran is not worried about Zhang Zhiliang messing with his own films, the film is shot by Qingying Studio, he has absolute dominance, outsiders are not allowed to interfere, Zhang Zhiliang, the producer, is only in name.

Although Zhang Ran doesn't like Zhang Zhiliang, this person can be as famous as Tsui Hark, and he still has strength, as long as he uses it well, he can become a big help to himself. Zhang Ran gained a lot from cooperating with Zheng Dongdong before, and he believed that he would be able to learn something this time, so he was still quite polite: "Presumably you are Mr. Zhang Zhiliang, it is better to meet than to be famous, and I will be fortunate to meet!" Zhang Ran walked up to Zhang Zhiliang, stretched out his right hand, and smiled.

"It's a blessing. Zhang Zhiliang gently shook Zhang Ran's hand, and said with a smile, "I read your script, it is quite wonderful, I wonder who can write such a good script, who will it be?

"Director Zhang is exaggerating, you are a senior on the same level as Tsui Hark, my script can enter your eyes, I will be woken up laughing when I really fall asleep. Zhang Ran laughed, everyone loves to listen to compliments, and he is no exception.

Zhang Ran originally wanted to boast about the exaggerated Zhiliang movie, saying that he had learned a lot from his movie, but he found that he had watched "Ink Attack", "Butterfly on the Shoulder" and "The New White-Haired Witch", all three of which have not yet been filmed, and he doesn't know how to start if he wants to boast.

"Okay, let's stop complimenting each other, let's sit down and talk, the politeness will be endless. Yu Minghai clapped his hands and laughed.

After sitting down, the tea was poured, and the three of them continued to chat.

Zhang Ran asked about the situation of Xiangjiang films, although he was not very interested in the Xiangjiang film market, but he was still quite interested in Xiangjiang films, Xiangjiang is a treasure trove of film talents, especially in the field of commercial films. Zhang Ran will definitely make commercial films in the future, and there is a shortage of talents in the mainland for stunts and martial arts instructors, so they must be found in Xiangjiang.

From Zhang Zhiliang's words, Zhang Ran knew that he had a movie "Panic Holiday" last year, although he didn't say how the box office was, but from his disappointed look, he knew that the box office was undoubtedly a fiasco.

After chatting for a while, the topic also got to the point. Zhang Ran said: "Director Zhang, now the cooperation between Xiangjiang and the mainland has become the trend of the times, although our drama is not a commercial film, we still hope to cooperate with Xiangjiang, which can be regarded as laying the foundation for future cooperation, which has to trouble you!"

He didn't say the reason for the censorship, but found a fair reason.

"Of course this is no problem, I still have a bit of fame in Xiangjiang, and it is not difficult to find some crew members!" Zhang Zhiliang smiled, Yu Minghai told him that the crew would hire some members of Xiangjiang.

"If Mr. Yu is looking for someone else to be the producer, that's fine, but since you are looking for Director Zhang to be the producer, I still hope that you can participate in the filming of the movie. I'm a new director and I've only made one film so far, so I hope to learn a little bit more from you. Zhang Ran said politely.

Zhang Zhiliang nodded, since he came to be this producer, he definitely didn't want to be just a decoration and do nothing, he showed a smile on his face: "Now the Xiangjiang film market is becoming more and more sluggish, it is becoming more and more difficult to attract investment, and it is already the trend of the times to go north, and I also hope to communicate more with young directors in the mainland." ”

He is telling the truth, he really wants to communicate with Zhang Ran, Zhang Ran's script is very exciting, especially this conflict between art and reality, which he has always wanted to express, but has not expressed, Zhang Ran's story really inspired him.

While discovering Zhang Ran's advantages, he also discovered Zhang Ran's shortcomings, Zhang Ran's description of the characters and the entire social environment is not delicate enough, and this is what he is best at. He felt that Zhang Ran's story, coupled with his delicacy, would make the whole movie a masterpiece.

Zhang Ran nodded: "Let's talk about the script and talk about the specific views." ”

Zhang Zhiliang muttered: "The whole story is quite novel, there is a strong emotional conflict between the characters, and the reactions are also very realistic, but I think the three lines of this story are unbalanced. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"The story is divided into three lines, the girlfriend is a bit painless, although she is nominally the heroine, but the role is not as many as the supporting roles in some films, the main intention is to show the actor's attitude and obsession with jazz. The same is true of the family line, the role of the father also seems dispensable, only the scene at the dinner table illustrates the situation of the male protagonist. ”

"The family and girlfriend line is to show the conflict between the protagonist and mainstream values, one is family, the other is love. Zhou Xu succeeded on the stage in the end, but he lost a lot of things, whether it was worth it or not, this is a question. I hope that after watching the movie, you will have something worth thinking about!"

Zhang Ran felt that Zhang Zhiliang's understanding of the script was biased, and immediately explained to him the conception of the script, the relationship between the characters, and the thinking change process of the male protagonist.

Zhang Zhiliang listened to Zhang Ran's statement very carefully, and when Zhang Ran finished speaking, he put forward his opinion: "I think you haven't explored the theme of the script enough. He paused, saw that Zhang Ran's expression had not changed, and continued: "According to what you said, use family and love to show the conflict of values, then you should give family and love more space to show." Especially in the love part, you give too little space. After reading the script, I couldn't feel how deep Zhou Xu's feelings were for Chen Xin, and when he lost this love, I would have a little regret, but there was no particularly strong emotional impact. If you give them more space, the movie will have more depth!"

Zhang Ran shook his head with a smile and said: "I still want to tell a good story when I make this movie, and the story is the core of the movie." I'm trying to show the clash of values, but these are incidental. To be honest, art and reality, love and career, these questions are so big that I don't think I have enough depth to explore them in depth. ”

Zhang Zhiliang glanced at Zhang Ran: "You obviously raised the question, why don't you go deeper and discuss it in a deeper place?" If you give the heroine Chen Xin more space, it will make this discussion more in-depth, it will give the audience more thinking, and the movie will have a higher artistic value!"

"I also want my film to have depth, but if you do what you say, it will slow down the rhythm of the whole movie and lose watchability. If I were asked to sacrifice visibility for depth, I wouldn't agree!"

"You're not right, art is priceless, you can't sacrifice artistry for the sake of viewability!"

"If I smash this movie, no one will invest in me anymore. I don't have the opportunity to make a movie, what kind of art can I talk about?" Zhang Ran spread his hands with a helpless expression, then looked at Yu Minghai and said, "Mr. Yu, if my movie is very artistic, but it loses at the box office, will you invest in my next movie?"

Yu Minghai snorted and said: "I won't pay it, this movie has the cooperation of the two of you, how can I pay it!"

Although Yu Minghai didn't say it explicitly, the meaning was already obvious.

From the moment Zhang Ran walked into the room, Zhang Zhiliang was observing, he was able to write such an excellent script at a young age, he must be a proud person, but after meeting, he found that Zhang Ran was humble and his posture was very low, Zhang Zhiliang pointed out that his script was not good enough, and he could discuss it peacefully. It's just that when Zhang Zhiliang made a suggestion, he was able to stick to his position and refused to back down at all.

Zhang Zhiliang has worked hard in the film industry for many years and has seen many young directors, but there are really not many such as Zhang Ran. It's easy to work with such a director because he's humble, but it's hard to work with because he has his own principles of doing things and won't compromise easily. Zhang Zhiliang doesn't know what the effect of this collaboration will be, but he is looking forward to it, and he really likes this story.

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