After sending Tang Wei home, Gu Zhi didn't return to his rental house until around the early hours of the morning.

Lying alone in bed, for some reason, unable to sleep for a long time.

Later, Gu Zhi simply stopped sleeping, got up and turned on the light, walked to the desk, picked up the pen and wrote.

It wasn't until 4 o'clock in the morning that he put down the pen in his hand, looked at the new work with satisfaction, and fell asleep.

···

It is now the end of July, the weather is hot and unbearable, and the streets and alleys of the capital are full of an inexplicable restlessness.

Half of the year 2000 has passed, and many major events have happened in the film and television industry during this period.

At present, the princess, who has an unshakable position in the Chinese national song scene, is an undisputed hot figure, but people's eyes are not on her songs, but more on her love life.

First, the marriage change with Dou Wei caused countless reporters and media to follow up and take candid photos, and then on June 12, the princess and Nicholas Tse participated in the celebration party of "In the Mood for Love" directed by Wang Jiawei, and held hands with Nicholas Tse on the spot, and the relationship was officially exposed.

The two of them split up and merged, and more than ten years later, they got married and divorced one after another, and finally came together again, the twists and turns in the middle are bizarre and fickle, and the plot is even more romantic than idol dramas.

Speaking of Wang Jiawei's "In the Mood for Love", this is another major event that has caused a sensation in the entire Chinese film and television industry this year.

This movie is called one of the most classic Chinese movies by the media, the actor Liang Chaowei won the Cannes, Golden Horse, and Golden Statue Best Actor, and the heroine Zhang Manyu won the Golden Horse and Golden Statue Queen.

Later, it won or was nominated for the best foreign language film in the highest awards at five national film festivals, and is one of the highest-rated Chinese films in European and American film critics so far.

Needless to say, people who like the literary and graceful style of this movie will love it to death.

As for Gu Zhi, there are only two evaluations of it - one is called "beauty" and the other is called "pretending".

After the director of Hong Kong Island finished speaking, it was the turn of the director who bent the bend.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Li Amine was released in the mainland on July 8, and Gu Zhi watched this movie many times in his previous life, but he didn't go to the cinema this time.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" can be said to be a martial arts film tailored for Westerners, and its success is undoubted, for the first time, the name of a Chinese person is included in the Oscar column for best foreign film.

Since then, Li Amine has become famous in the world and established his status as an international director.

Zhang Ziyi, who is only 21 years old, has also officially started her journey from the domestic stage to the international stage, and this is only her second film.

Zhang Ziyi's starting point is high, it can be said that she crushed 99% of female stars at the beginning of her debut, and then she sang all the way, experienced all kinds of contradictions and conflicts, and finally became one of the professional actresses with the best acting skills and the highest reputation among Chinese movie stars.

Then back to the mainland film and television circle, in mid-May, Jiang Wen's self-directed and self-starred film "The Devil is Coming" went to the Cannes Film Festival without passing the radio and television censorship and won the Grand Jury Award.

Due to the illegal competition, Jiang Wen received an administrative punishment from the Film Bureau for not being able to serve as a director for five years.

This movie was invested by China Film, and because Jiang Wen participated in the competition privately, Han Sanping was even more angry.

That time happened to be the filming stage of "Butterfly Effect", and Han Sanping had been dealing with this matter, so he didn't have time to go to the crew at all.

At the same time, Feng Xiaogang's "A Sigh" has also been filmed, and he announced on July 4 that the film would be released nationwide in September.

Of course, this is Director Feng's skillful hype, and neither Gu Zhi nor Ning Hao responded to this.

Director Feng is an old-timer after all, and the last press conference Gu Zhi spoke arrogantly, and he had already offended him.

Now it's even more useless to talk about it, Gu Zhi doesn't want to admit it and feels that there is no need to completely stiffen the relationship, so he simply doesn't respond.

And they haven't even decided on the release date yet.

In addition to the above, there was a sad event in the first half of the year.

At 7:30 a.m. on July 17, the famous performing artist Zhao Lirong passed away peacefully at home due to lung cancer at the age of 72.

At the memorial service on July 27, 10,000 people said goodbye, including Gu Zhi, all the crew members of "The Butterfly Effect" went to participate.

Teacher Zhao Lirong's sketches are one of the memories of a generation of people for the Spring Festival Gala, and until Gu Zhi was reborn, her sketches would still be broadcast on the TV screen from time to time.

It is a pity that a generation of people's artists has passed away in the world.

··· There is a three-minute silence...

After attending the memorial service, Gu Zhi and Ning Hao began to deal with the post-production of "The Butterfly Effect".

The whole post-production work is very tedious, the first thing is to develop the film, and if you don't wash the film out, you can't do anything.

Now has not completely entered the era of digital photography, last year the Huaguo Film Bureau just introduced the first batch of digital photography instruments, even if Gu Zhi wants to use it in "Butterfly Effect", it is not his turn to use it in terms of qualifications.

There must be no mistakes in the film development, otherwise the entire crew's two and a half months of hard work will be in vain.

In the end, Liu Qi personally took the production team of China Film to send the film to the Beijing Film Studio to ensure that the printing process was foolproof.

Liu Qi has been following the group since the filming of "Butterfly Effect" started, serving as a producer on the set, and Han Sanping seems to be deliberately promoting her and cultivating her as a producer of China Film.

Gu Zhi and Liu Qi are also used to cooperating, and with her staring at the whole process, they can rest assured.

The film is developed and processed for formal post-processing.

From picture editing, sound editing, to soundtrack, recording and mixing, color grading, sound effects production, special effects production, etc., a series of things need to be done by the production team themselves.

As a science fiction movie, special effects shots are not the main focus of "Butterfly Effect", there are only a few special effects in the whole film, which can make the audience understand that the hero's consciousness begins to cross.

Sci-fi movies don't necessarily need special effects to blow up the sky, and there are many low-cost sci-fi movies abroad, among which there are not a few classic films.

For example, the famous "This Man is from Earth", not to mention the special effects shots in the whole film, the whole film takes place in a small house from beginning to end, and several protagonists are chatting and talking in the room, which constitutes a complete movie.

But it is indeed a science fiction movie, a science fiction legend that does not require any special effects, and uses language as a medium to build a mysterious science fiction world.

Similarly, 1997's "Kill in Another Dimension", which has almost no end to special effects, and the scenes in the movie are always in the same cube room on the outside, which is a classic case of winning with creativity in low-budget films.

"Butterfly Effect" is similar to these two movies, the special effects are not the most important, the editing of the film is the most critical place.

Through editing, the lives of adulthood and childhood are interspersed, showing the results of changing the past and influencing the future.

Gu Zhi had seen this movie and was most familiar with the film, but he had never edited it, so the editing was done by Ning Hao himself, and Gu Zhi was assisted by the side.

Other aspects of the post-production of the film are mainly handed over to the China Film production team to be responsible for control, and Ning Hao is responsible for coordinating the work and reviewing the results.

Gu Zhi followed the whole process, studied hard at the whole stage, and strived not to let go of a small detail.

Post-production was well underway, and it was soon August in the middle of the day.