The authorities are fascinated, director Zhang Da not only wants the box office, but also wants to maintain a high artistic value of the film, but he uses too much force and excessively exaggerates the theme idea that the theme of the film itself can bear.

In other words, in order to achieve the movie effect he wanted, Director Zhang elevated the role of Qin Shi Huang and turned him into a tall Ming monarch, creating a violent dramatic conflict, and this is the core character of the film, which resulted in the theme of the whole film being vain and lacking the realism of human nature.

This is Li An's judgment.

Li An doesn't plan to say what he thinks, there is no need to say it, because he doesn't think he is smarter than Director Zhang, he is just a bystander, and his movies must have such and such problems, and the other party can't see it.

Therefore, he has been encouraging Xu Teng to boldly say, after all, this large-scale zuò movie in the mainland is very rare, and it is a very difficult tempering to be able to shoot it, if you try to fix some problems in the post-editing, Director Zhang will definitely thank Xiao Xu for thinking about it in a few years.

Anyway, Xu Teng doesn't care about offending people, what if he offends?

Li An has a prediction that Xu Teng's film and literary talents are very good, he also has a background and money, and he will become a very important film investor in the mainland in a few years.

Such a classmate Xiao Xu is really not afraid of offending a big director.

"Xiao Xu, you are actually very talented as a screenwriter, it's a pity not to make movies, anyway, it's just small talk, you might as well think of some more practical ideas for Director Zhang?" Li An, as always, continued to cheer Xu Teng, and Xu Teng was a little embarrassed.

"Then I'll continue to talk nonsense?" Xu Teng also realized that he still had to be more modest, Director Zhang and Li An are different, although they are both big directors, Li An has a very casual personality, understands his temperament and talent, and can tolerate his publicity.

Director Zhang is Cameron from the mainland, who is a tyrant, and he basically doesn't know anything about Xu Teng.

"It's okay, you can say whatever you want." Director Zhang took a sip of tea, but he was actually a little anxious in his heart. He can accuse Xu Teng of talking nonsense and not knowing how to pretend to understand, but he can't say that Li An is talking nonsense, and Li An is indeed using a very euphemistic way to build a reshoot and re-edit, after all, such a big investment.

"If I come to be the main creator, I first have to dilute the role of Qin Shi Huang, and push the plot from rationality, if there is a master as a killer, then there must be a master as a guard, then I will create a guard who is a top master, with a very high spiritual realm, and the killer must be related to the past entanglement. Instead of staying with Qin Shi Huang all day, the guards roamed around, monitoring and tracking down the killers. These martial arts practitioners will definitely die in the end, because this is their fate, and it is also their pursuit. ”

Xu Teng was really modest this time, looking like he was chatting casually, "Director Zhang, I'm really talking nonsense, don't take it seriously, my idea is to lower the film to a Hong Kong film." ”

"It's not a Hong Kong film, it's more like Akira Kurosawa's tragic fatalistic style." Li An's voice was very low, he was indeed too tired, but he was still cheering Xu Teng, "Xiao Xu means to hide the macrocosm inside the entire movie, so that this group of chivalrous people is marginalized, small characters, and tragic, and the past, present, and ending of these little people are combined together to form a condemnation and metaphor for the war." ”

Speaking of this, Li An didn't say anything more and asked Xu Teng, "Right?" ”

"Yes." Xu Teng nodded silently, and didn't say a word more, he was really not calm in his heart, big director, I really said it casually, you have to play this kind of lofty theory!

Zhang Yimou was very silent, and he roughly understood in his heart, Li An was hinting to him that his idea did not conform to the film ethics of European and American academics, and it was best not to praise the concept of ending war with war, a bit fascist.

Therefore, as soon as he told the theme and story of the film, as well as his intentions, Li An was very silent and kept silent, even if Xu Teng was not precise enough, he still encouraged Xu Teng to say a few more words.

"When the world dies, the people suffer, the world prospers, the people suffer, the world is divided, and the people are also suffering." Zhang Yimou sighed a little, feeling that he was really using too much force this time, and grasped the wrong combination point between commercialization and art.

No one said a word.

Xu Teng didn't dare to echo and say "yes", that would be too pretending, because this kind of internationally renowned director doesn't need his affirmation at all, and he doesn't have this qualification.

He drank tea silently and didn't say a word, the movie "Hero" definitely created a new peak of Chinese mainland movies in terms of picture sense, and the acting skills of Goddess Zhang Yanyu should also be praised.

At least compared to the later "Wuji", "Hero" can definitely score 7 points in the field of commercial blockbusters, and the artistic value and "The Red Lantern Hangs High" are definitely not comparable - this is the inevitable result of not having the support of original novels.

For example, Li An's "Brokeback Mountain" that won the Oscar for Best Picture and directed is also the novel itself that gives enough humanistic feelings and artistic value, and the reshoot is beautiful and accurate, and it is inevitable to win the award, and the minimum must be the Golden Globe Award.

Novels, novels, novels, important things are said three times, a movie wants to win a top award, a good theme, a good novel, it is really indispensable.

This is a living room with floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides, modern baroque decoration style, located on the second floor of the Yangtze River Music Center, more than 100 square meters, very quiet, in the ginkgo forest of Nightingale Mountain.

In another 10 years, as the thousands of ten-year-old ginkgo trees in the surrounding area slowly grow and blend into the mountain and environment, the scenery here will be dazzling and poetic from October to November each year, just like Roysdal's famous painting "The Cabin in the Woods".

Xu Teng sat in this living room with the three masters, quietly comprehending life, silently pretending to be forced, and trying to dance with them.

The atmosphere was peaceful and awkward.

"Lao Zhang, there is one thing." Li An was a little fortunate to cheer up and divert the topic of "Hero", after all, everyone has not seen the work yet, and it is inappropriate to rush to conclusions.

The idea is a bit fascist, it is definitely not good, what should be said, he also said it through Xu Teng's mouth.

"What?" Zhang Yimou has a bit of a headache, because now he has to re-change the theme, there are too many shots to reshoot, and the post-editing has to rewrite the lines and re-dub, which is a big project.

"Have you seen the situation in the school's film and television center?" Li An has a new topic to say, ask Zhang Yimou first.

"Not yet, have you seen it?" Zhang Yimou was in a mess in his heart, and he was thinking about how to persuade investors to give more than 10 million yuan, so that he could pull the crew back to the northwest for refilming.

"Now there is a not-so-good trend in the United States, the cost of special effects and post-production is getting higher and higher, I looked at their film and television center, and I thought about wanting to build a special effects production center here, a lot of special effects work can be done here, and the cost should be able to save a lot." Li An's meaning is already obvious, it is not cost-effective for him to do this alone, find a few more directors to join forces, and the special effects that can't be done are made in the United States, and the special effects that can be done are made here, which can save a sum of money.

"You can try, I also invited special effects studios in Australia and the United States this time, and it cost more than 10 million yuan for just a dozen shots." Zhang Yimou nodded, feeling the same way.

"How much more can the school invest in?" Li An will definitely not pay for this special effects production center by himself, but he wants to try it and subcontract part of the special effects contract of "Terminator 3".

"In terms of infrastructure investment, we still have money, and the key is that there is a lack of talents in related professions." Xu Teng roughly estimated and gave Li An and Zhang Yimou a quasi-number, "If both of them have this willingness to cooperate, we can invest 100 million, and then increase tens of millions in the budget every year in the future, improve the overall technical level year by year, and gradually cultivate talents in this area." ”

"If you say 100 million, it should be enough for the time being." Li An scratched his head, calculated in his heart, and soon looked at Zhang Yimou again, which roughly meant that it must be cost-effective. He didn't tell Zhang Yimou, he was ready to shoot Xu Teng's novels continuously, and he would be a regular partner for ten years, and all the three sci-fi movies "Source Code", "Blue Star Giant", and "Interstellar" were filmed.

Coupled with the "Terminator 3" that he is ready to take over, and the "Moon" that he thinks Xu Teng can try to invest in filming by himself, these five science fiction movies will take at least ten years to complete, and a large number of special effects with low and medium technical difficulty can be completed in China, which can save a little bit.

"Then let's try." Zhang Yimou was a little perfunctory, he had chatted for so long before, and knew that Li An admired Xu Teng very much, and was ready to shoot Xu Teng's novels continuously, one after another, without worrying about the script at all. Now that he has finished filming "Hero", it is not clear where the next script will be and what genre he will shoot.

"A few masters, you can't go hungry to engage in art, just eat a casual meal and drink two glasses in the cafeteria at noon." Xu Teng got up and wanted to lead a few artists to dinner, ready to flash after eating, just now he pretended to be too forced, and he was very worried that Director Zhang Yimou would turn around and kick him downstairs.

The conversation was not very pleasant, and the dinner party in the school staff cafeteria at noon was quite embarrassing.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Director Zhang Da went back to the hotel without the strength of alcohol, probably to find a place to think slowly for a while, Li An happened to live in the same hotel, and the two went back together.

As soon as he got into the car, Zhang Yimou couldn't help but bury Xu Teng, "What's the situation with that kid, I haven't seen the film, just give me a stick head-on?" ”

"It's a little flamboyant, but it's real and it's genius, maybe it's my personal bias, but I appreciate this kid very much." Li An didn't want to say bad things about Xu Teng, he felt that Xu Teng was right, and he really didn't dare to say those words to his face if someone else did, after all, not everyone had a kind of thing, and he dared to be polite to Lao Zhang.

"You can take a look at his novels first, they are very ideological and humanistic value, "Source Code" is a little worse, over-focusing on religious themes and thankless genres, "Blue Star Giant" and "Interstellar" are not the same, very good." Li An said a little more modestly, because he is as accurate as Cameron's judgment, "Blue Star Giant" will be a historical masterpiece once the texture is filmed.

"Oh?" Director Zhang was quite surprised, he didn't expect Li An to have such a high evaluation of Xu Teng.

"Xiao Xu still has a book in his hand, which has not been published, and he chatted in their canteen in the morning, which is also a good subject for making movies." Li An said casually, cheering for Xu Teng, anyway, he didn't worry about Director Zhang grabbing the theme, this is the type that Cameron is good at, and he is not sure that he will finish the filming.

"What subject?" Director Zhang was really interested.

"He's a science fiction writer, the book is called "Dark Universe", and I heard him talk about a general story, which is indeed a bit too dark, but it's still a good theme...... Very good subject matter, the only problem is that it is very difficult to shoot. Li An was a little embarrassed.

"How old is this kid?" Director Zhang actually didn't see Xu Teng's actual age, he was estimated to be about twenty years old, and he was still a young man.

"'84...... Maybe it's 83 years old, nineteen years old, so it's a genius writer. Li An was a little embarrassed, how could he have these achievements when he was nineteen years old.

"It's really small." Director Zhang doesn't want to say anything else now, go back and read other people's novels first, and you have to figure out how deep this talented man's artistic skills are.

If he is really a lover of literature and art, and he casually says a few words about the subject matter of a movie, then forget it, Director Zhang is unwilling to lower his status and debate with a young man, the problem is that Li An lifted Xu Teng too high.

Back at the hotel, Zhang Yimou immediately asked his assistant to get all of Xu Teng's novels, and he started reading "Blue Star Giant" that Li An and Cameron were scrambling.

The speed of reading books of big directors is very slow, especially the science fiction novels of Xu Teng, who are professional and kill all kinds of young people and judges, this time is a full two days, dizzy, I have never read this niche type of science fiction before.

Zhang Yimou watched it four times before he read "The Giant of the Blue Star" thoroughly, very embarrassed, and very envious of Li An, because if a director can make such a novel into a movie, it is really enough, is there any other pursuit in this life?

It wasn't until this moment that he understood why Li An wanted to promote Xu Teng so much, this is really a genius writer, if he wants to have the opportunity to shoot such a subject, how to lift a student is not too much.

He can even say that this book is aimed at the film in all aspects, from the subject matter to the characters, to all kinds of creativity, all kinds of amazing imagination, as long as it can be fully expressed with film technology, it is a truly epoch-making masterpiece.

It's a pity that a movie of this level can't be made in China, it can't be made, and I don't know how much budget and how many special effects it will take to finish it.

Zhang Yimou even suspects that Li An is not capable of doing this, even in Hollywood, there may not be more than five directors who can shoot this novel, whoever gets it will get a row of golden figures, and the best picture basically can't run away.

It is a very painful thing to put such a good novel in front of a great director and not be able to shoot it.

Zhang Yimou thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to call Xu Teng, preparing to take over the filming of "The Moon", first make a small science fiction film, and then wait and see, if there are investors to follow up and allow him to shoot Xu Teng's other novels, it will definitely be better.

has a genius like Xu Teng, what other commercial films do you make, what kind of Chinese New Year movies do you make?

He made a phone call, waited for a long time, Xu Teng didn't answer, and he was a little apprehensive. Because before leaving Yangtze River College that day, he was not in a very good mood at the banquet in the school staff cafeteria, and the words he said to Xu Teng might be a little ugly.

Zhang Yimou regrets it now, he really doesn't know that Xu Teng is a talented man of this level.

The call finally came through.

A woman with an extremely pleasant voice, slightly panting, a little nervous, "Hey." ”

"I'm Zhang Yimou, is Xiao Xu here? There's something very important, and I'd like to make an appointment with him to talk about it. Zhang Yimou has some impressions that Xiao Xu, a talented man, is indeed surrounded by several beautiful women, one of whom is a female assistant, whose voice is particularly beautiful, like Wu Nong's soft words.

"I'm sorry, Director Zhang, our leader...... It's busy, please wait for half an hour. The other party couldn't wait to hang up the phone.

Zhang Yimou was surprised, what is the situation? (To be continued.) )