Nortel standard screening room.

The light and shadow flow on the screen, the conflict between student Zhou Xu and teacher Chen Wei is intensifying, and Chen Wei's roar makes every audience at the scene tremble.

At the moment, "Burst Drummer" is being screened. Nortel has a tradition that whether it is a teacher or a graduate, as long as a movie is made, it will bring the movie back to the school to organize a movie.

"Burst Drummer" completed the post-production work in early July and has been sent to the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for review, but Zhang Ran is busy filming "Before Dawn", so it has been delayed until now.

The 100-minute movie was over quickly.

I don't know who was the first to applaud, and then there was applause. The leaders and teachers present all knew that Zhang Ran had a definition of "Bursting Drummer" - chicken blood films, and now they completely felt this, they only felt that their hearts were stirring and emotional, and they almost wanted to yell twice, and the whole person was like being beaten with chicken blood.

Zhang Ran heard everyone's applause, and there was no special expression, this reaction was expected by him.

Zheng Dongdong said incredulously: "When I first read the script, I felt that the story was good, and it would be a good-looking movie, but I didn't expect it to be so good-looking. The rhythm of the whole film is so good, it doesn't drag on for an hour and a half, I can see my blood boiling, and the whole movie can only be described as hearty!"

Other teachers also praised the movie: "A very enjoyable inspirational film, maybe only paranoia can reach a situation that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, and at the same time it is shocking and I can't help but have a sense of embarrassment!"

"This is not an inspirational movie, I really can't agree with Chen Wei's three views. If a teacher does not know how to pull out the seedlings and teach them according to their aptitude, then he is a spiritual thug who indulges in his personal world. It's horrible!"

"yes, I think so too. The whole movie sends chills down my spine!"

Zhang Huijun looked at Zhang Ran and said, "This film is very good, but the Hollywood style is too obvious, I don't know which film festival you are going to send to participate?"

Zhang Ran said: "This kind of Hollywood-style film will not be accepted, so we plan to send it to the Tokyo Film Festival first, and then send it to the Sundance Film Festival!"

Zhang Huijun nodded and said: "The Tokyo Film Festival pays more attention to discovering newcomers and gives newcomers more opportunities. Our Qingying Studio has not had a good work in the past few years, and now we rely on your film to turn over, if you have any difficulties, you can report it to the school!"

The afternoon after watching the film. Zhang Ran registered on the official website of the Tokyo Film Festival, and then went to the post office to send the CD of "Bursting Drummer" to the organizing committee of the festival.

The mail is sent out, and all that's left is to wait for the festival to announce its shortlist in mid-September.

Zhang Ran is very confident in this.

The original version of "Burst Drummer" won a number of nominations, including the Oscar for Best Picture, and this version filmed by Zhang Ran is different from the original in other aspects, but it is much richer in lens language, and it should not be a problem to be shortlisted for the Tokyo Film Festival.

Everything that needs to be done now is done, and nothing else. Zhang Ran is relatively leisurely, so he plans to write the script of the movie he will make next during this time.

Zhang Ran has long made up his mind that the next movie will be a science fiction film. And I'm going to the United States to shoot. There are two main considerations, the first is to take students to the United States to avoid SARS when the time comes, and the second is to hope to train their team through cooperation with the American team.

For what exactly shoots. Zhang Ran has always been more entangled, whether it is to copy other people's movies from memory. Or find your favorite novel to shoot. Copying movies directly from memory is relatively simple, and there are more options. The certainty of success is relatively large, but he always feels that it is not very interesting to shoot purely American stories, and if he finds a novel to shoot, not to mention the effort, the key is that the risk is relatively large.

However, after watching the finished film of "Burst Drummer", Zhang Ran became more confident in his ability, and he felt that he was capable enough to make the movie he wanted to make. So after weighing it, he decided to find his favorite story to shoot.

After making this decision, Zhang Ran took a plane to Rongcheng, and then stopped a taxi to No. 11, Section 4, Renmin South Road. It is a sacred place in the hearts of Chinese science fiction fans, and it is also the location of Science Fiction World magazine.

In 1979, the Xichuan Provincial Association for Science and Technology founded a popular science magazine called "Science Literature and Art", which was the predecessor of the "Science Fiction World" magazine. At that time, publications in the same style as it included "Science Fiction Ocean" in Beiping, "Wisdom Tree" in Tianjin, "Science Age" and "Science Fiction News" in Heilongjiang, which were known as the "four journals and one newspaper" of Chinese science fiction.

In that era of ruins waiting to be rebuilt, "Science Literature and Art" easily reached a circulation of 200,000 copies. The same is true for several other science fiction newspapers. But soon, under the dual effect of political and market pressure, the sales of science fiction magazines plummeted, and several other magazines could not resist and closed down one after another, only "Science Fiction World" was struggling to persevere.

At its most difficult time, only 700 copies of the first issue of "Science Fiction World" were sold, so the editors had to push the cart to sell books on the streets. With his love for science fiction, "Science Fiction World" survived the most difficult years and slowly moved towards glory. Today, Science Fiction World has become the world's best-selling science fiction monthly.

Zhang Ran is a fan of science fiction, and he has visited the magazine before, and he is familiar with it again at this time. He took the elevator directly to the 6th floor, and the editorial office of "Science Fiction World" was the same as he remembered, a large office, in which more than a dozen people worked. Zhang Ran glanced at the door and prepared to go inside.

At this moment, a beautiful girl of eighteen or nineteen years old walked up. As Nortel's teacher, Zhang Ran has seen too many beautiful girls, so his gaze barely stays on the other party's face.

But the girl was stunned when she saw Zhang Ran, a pair of eyes swirled on Zhang Ran, and just as she was about to pass by Zhang Ran, she opened her mouth and asked, "Excuse me, are you Zhang Ran?"

When Zhang Ran heard this, he couldn't help but look at the girl, it seemed that he had seen it somewhere, and after thinking about it carefully, he remembered who it was, it was Xia Qi, a famous beautiful science fiction writer in later generations. Science fiction is generally divided into hard science fiction and soft science fiction, and Xia Jia's works are softer than soft science fiction, because they are jokingly called "porridge science fiction". Although Zhang Ran has no love for her works, she still said very kindly: "I'm Zhang Ran, hello!"

"It's really you! I didn't expect to meet you when I visited Science Fiction World magazine, I'm really lucky!" Xia Ji looked at Zhang Ran and cheered, and the whole person looked very excited. She is a science fiction fan, and she was admitted to the Department of Physics of Peking University this year, so she made a special trip to Chengdu to visit her favorite "Science Fiction World", but she didn't expect to meet her favorite director. She originally planned to wait until she went to school in Beiping in September, and sneaked into Nortel to find Zhang Ran to sign an autograph, but she didn't expect to meet her here.

She opened her backpack excitedly, took out a pen and a small notebook and handed it to Zhang Ran, looked at Zhang Ran expectantly, and asked, "Can you help me sign it?"

"Of course you can!" Zhang Ran smiled kindly. To his supporters, he is sure to greet him with a smile. He took the pen and wrote in his notebook: "I wish every day a happy day, and all my wishes come true!"

Xia Ji put away Zhang Ran's autograph and said with a smile: "I especially like your "Time Prisoner", it's really great! Cao Lin and Cai Yan are very compatible, it's a pity that they are not together." When your new movie is released, I will definitely go to the cinema to support!"

Zhang Ran smiled and nodded: "The movie has been filmed, you can see it at the end of the year, it is a particularly good movie!"

Not far away, a tall and thin male editor couldn't help but look at Zhang Ran when he heard "Time Prisoner". When he saw Zhang Ran's face clearly, a shocked expression appeared on his face, and he couldn't help but scream: "Ouch, this is not Zhang Ran!"

As soon as he shouted, the entire editorial department looked at the door, and almost everyone recognized Zhang Ran. The male editors were relatively calm, but several female editors suddenly dropped their jobs and surrounded Zhang Ran as if fans saw their idols.

"Zhang Ran, I especially like your "Time Prisoner", I have watched it several times!"

"Sign me!"

Zhang Ran didn't expect the editors to be so enthusiastic and was taken aback. He is neither a star nor an idol, and he never thought that he would be so popular.

In fact, the editors of "Science Fiction World" are more eager to see Chinese science fiction movies than ordinary audiences, but in terms of the situation of Chinese films, they can't see a glimmer of hope, but the appearance of "Time Prisoner" allows them to see this possibility, and Zhang Ran's "Science Fiction World" readership makes them see the possibility of turning the novel into a movie in their hands, so they pay special attention to Zhang Ran. At this moment, they were naturally overjoyed when they suddenly saw Zhang Ran appear in the editorial department.

Zhang Ran was not in a hurry to say his purpose, and after getting to know the editors, he signed autographs for them, took a group photo, and then visited the entire magazine under the leadership of the two female editors.

After chatting with the editors for a while, Zhang Ran came to the editor-in-chief's office and met the editor-in-chief, Alai.

Alai is a well-known writer who won the Mao Dun Literary Award two years ago for his novel "The Dust Settles". He originally thought that science fiction needed the support of economic foundation and technology, and it was still too early for China to make science fiction films, but the success of "Time Prisoner" made him change his mind, and felt that although it was impossible to make a Hollywood science fiction blockbuster under the existing conditions, some low-cost science fiction films were still possible.

Now seeing Zhang Ran's visit, he is very happy, and Zhang Ran talks endlessly about his views on Chinese movies and Chinese science fiction, and his whole eyebrows are dancing.

Zhang Ran also talked about many of his own opinions, film technology, Chinese science fiction, and American science fiction. After a while, he explained his purpose: "I am preparing a new film recently, this time I am going to make a science fiction film, but I don't have a suitable story in my hand for the time being. There are a lot of good stories in Science Fiction World, so I'm going to buy a few novels. ”

Alai couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, Zhang Ran was ready to put the novels on "Science Fiction World" on the screen, which is a good thing to celebrate for both "Science Fiction World" and Chinese science fiction. I can't help but ask, "I don't know which novel you want?"

Zhang Ran smiled and said: "There are quite a lot, Liu Cixin's "Mountain Village Teacher" and "The Wandering Earth", He Xi's "Exotic" and "Six Beings of the Realm", Wang Jinkang's "Mercury Sowing" and "Seven Shells", and Zhang Xiaoyu's comic "Fly"!" (To be continued.) )