Lao Jia's community is not too far away, although everyone does not have a Beijing hukou, but it does not prevent them from becoming a sunrise masses. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info asked the address of the tea restaurant, washed up, changed clothes, and shouted home Rose, who was out of fun, and drove Xiao Xiali over.

Lao Jia arrived early, and was sitting there drinking tea, when he saw Wang Dalun walking in, his eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "Yo, your daughter-in-law helped you pick up your dress, right?"

Originally, Wang Dalun was dressed quite casually at home during this time, either a jacket or sportswear. It's not that he doesn't have clothes, the endorsement brand's new products every year help him from the inside out, and his girlfriend often buys him clothes, he just thinks it's troublesome, what is convenient to wear. This time Fan Ziyi came back, and saw that he was wearing a hundred unpleasant clothes, so he simply matched his clothes and pants, what clothes with what pants and shoes, wrote them on paper and pasted them directly on the wardrobe. It's also convenient, just wear it according to the content on the paper.

For example, today's black high-necked cashmere sweater, with a camel-colored short coat, a plaid Burberry scarf around the neck, and slightly tight navy blue corduroy pants underneath, with a short hair, people look particularly energetic.

Wang Dalun ignored him, there was enough heating in the restaurant, he took off his scarf, took off his short coat, sat down and took a sip of tea, and then said, "You're alone, what about my sister-in-law?"

"How can she be free, she still has classes in the morning. ”

After graduating from graduate school, Lao Jia's wife stayed at the film academy to teach.

There is a food cart pushing around in the tea restaurant, and you can take whatever you want to eat, Wang Dalun took a fried dumplings, a Portuguese egg tart, a basket of xiaolongbao and steamed pork ribs with tempeh.

Lao Jia asked for a bowl of chicken porridge and a small plate of cold jellyfish, and when he ordered so much, he couldn't help but say, "Can you eat it?"

"You called me over early in the morning and won't let me eat?"

"Okay, eat, eat!"

Wang Dalun was already hungry, and in the past week, his physical exertion was relatively large, so he should really make up for it.

"Actually, you had a good chance of winning the best actor at the Nantes Tricontinentals Film Festival this time, but it's a pity!" Lao Jia took the spoon and scooped the porridge in the bowl a few times, and sighed.

"What's the pity, didn't the movie win the award, and you didn't win the best director. Wang Dalun stuffed a xiaolongbao in his mouth and said vaguely.

It's not that he pretends to be calm, it's not like when he first participated in the Matabrata International Film Festival in Argentina, he cared about whether he could win an award, such as this Venice Film Festival, the actor Javier Badem who won the actor in "When Night Falls", he also watched this movie, and the actor was good, convinced! Besides, he didn't win the actor, I think he won the "East Palace and West Palace" at the International Film Festival in Italy, which is called Taomi won the Best Actor, but he didn't go to Zhang Yuan at that film festival, and he didn't have any trophies, just a certificate, and it was not framed. He didn't care at all, Fan Ziyi cared very much, and specially went to frame it and hung it in a conspicuous place in the living room very solemnly.

"How's your documentary going, when will it be filmed?"

Wang Dalun ate quickly, Lao Jia's bowl of porridge had not yet been drunk, and he had already swept away the xiaolongbao, shrimp dumplings and egg tarts. He drank tea and looked at Lao Jia Dao, who had a worried expression on his face as long as he didn't smile.

"The initial idea is already there. Lao Jia finished the chicken porridge in the bowl in two bites, put down the bowl, wiped his mouth and said.

"Still shooting in Fenyang?" Wang Dalun picked up the teapot and filled his cup with tea.

Lao Jia took a sip of tea, shook his head and said, "I plan to go to Datong to shoot." As he spoke, he said with a little excitement: "Actually, Datong is a legendary city to me. You may not know, but everyone in our mountains and west says that it is very chaotic, a scary place, and I want to go there and see it. And there is still a legend circulating that is particularly tempting to me. It was rumored that Datong was going to move away, because the coal mines there had been exhausted, and the miners were laid off, and then it happened to be the development of the great west, saying that all the miners would be moved to Xinjiang to extract oil. Legend has it that everyone there is having fun in time, and even the most ordinary restaurants have to book a seat 30 minutes in advance, or there will be no seat at all. ”

"True or fake, is it so exaggerated?" Wang Dalun was surprised when he heard what he said.

Lao Jia smiled: "I don't know, but this is groundless, and it may not be without reason." I just want to see how people live there and take pictures of it. ”

Paying attention to the marginalized people in society has long become something in Lao Jia's bones, which is also a unique symbol of Jia Zhangke's films. He told Wang that Datong was a decaying industrial city, and that he wanted to show the unique "public space" exuded by a decaying industrial scene.

In these years, smoking is not prohibited in the indoor public space of the capital, and the two fill their stomachs, smoke, drink tea and chat. Lao Jia said that he was very moved to participate in the Nantes Three Continents International Film Festival this time. He said that there is a real respect for cinema, and it is there that successful directors such as Abbas, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Cai Mingliang were discovered, and it is also there that many films that were originally unknown or ridiculed have been found to have their true value.

"What's the current situation of your "Seafood", are you still filming it?" chatted for a while, and Lao Jia suddenly asked again.

"Shoot, of course. Wang Dalun said, smiling wryly and spreading his hands: "But I don't have any money, so I can only shoot with DV." ”

"Actually, the script of "Seafood" is really good, it's a pity not to use film. Lao Jia frowned, and then said: "Brother Yu has read the script and likes it very much, and he also asked me to ask you if you are interested in cooperating with Hutong Productions?"

"Cooperation?" He remembered that Lao Jia wanted to direct this drama before, and said: "Of course it is good to cooperate, but Zhu Wen must direct this drama himself, and if he really wants to cooperate, he has to talk to him." ”

"That's fine, or you can call him right now and ask him over, and I'll talk to him first." ”

"Cheng, I gave him a call. ”

Lao Jia's proposal was undoubtedly a surprise, and Wang Dalun hurriedly called Zhu Wen. The thing hadn't gotten up yet, and it was far away, so when he hurried over, it was almost an hour.

"Director Jia, hello, hello!"

Although Zhu Wen entered the circle very early, he wrote Zhang Ming's "Wushan Yunyu" in 95, but Lao Jia is now considered famous, and this product is still very polite.

"Hello, Mr. Zhu!"

"Hey, don't, don't dare to be a teacher, it's still Lao Zhu. ”

The two exchanged pleasantries and went straight to the point.

In fact, Zhu Wen's idea is very simple, he just wants to shoot what he wrote, but he has to use DV to shoot it because he has no money, and he doesn't consider the distribution and copyright of the work after it is filmed.

However, he is not a person who does not know how to be flexible, when he learned that Hutong Productions was interested in investing, and Lao Jia was also very optimistic about his script, he immediately warmly invited Lao Jia to be the producer of his film.

Of course, Lao Jia talked about just an intention, a week later Jacob came to the capital in person, the four of them met, Jacob respected Lao Jia's opinion, and immediately said that Hutong Production was willing to cooperate, and at the same time invested 500,000 yuan, and the copyright belonged to Hutong Production after the filming, but Zhu Wen as a screenwriter and director can still enjoy box office dividends.

Of course, it is good for someone to invest, but the figure of 500,000 is a bit embarrassing, plus the hundreds of thousands raised by Zhu Wen is more than 600,000, it stands to reason that with 16 mm film, save some points when shooting, and try to control the film consumption ratio within 1 to 5, it is estimated that it is enough. But Wang Dalun thinks it's a pity to use 16 mm for such a good book, the previous "Xiao Wu" used 16 mm film, but the quality of this picture is too rough.

As soon as the two of them combined, they simply upgraded the film to 35 mm, and the film consumption ratio was compressed to 1:3 as much as possible. This kind of film consumption ratio is probably the standard for filmmaking in the early 80s, when film was tight, which meant that a shot had to be shot at most three times, or it would be a waste of national resources.

When making a movie, even the actor with the best acting skills will always have ups and downs when performing, or sometimes the director has a sudden inspiration, so a movie should be refined, that is, it is necessary to shoot it several times and choose the best shots from it.

Of course, not everyone can be so extravagant, it depends on the investment in movies, like the current domestic movies with an investment of three or four million, the shooting average film consumption ratio is basically about one to five or six. Of course, big productions like Zhang Dadao and Chen Dadao are filmed, they don't shoot waste, and the film consumption ratio is more than 1:10.

As for the famous domestic "pit" director Jiang Wen's film consumption ratio for filming "Sunny Days", the film consumption ratio reached 1:15, setting a record for domestic directors, and the later "The Devil is Coming" spent more than 4 million yuan on film alone, setting a record again. Although Lao Jia's "Platform" spends about the same amount of film as him, the length of "Platform" is much longer than that of "The Devil is Coming", so even the wayward Lao Jia is not as good as the "pit" director Jiang Wen in terms of film consumption.

But it is precisely for this reason that the films they make are all high-quality and can win awards at international film festivals.

And "Seafood" has to compress the film consumption ratio to one to three, which means that only about 400 minutes of material can be filmed, but Rao is like this, and the cost of film will also reach hundreds of thousands. This requires the actors to rehearse over and over again before the official shooting, but fortunately, there are only two main actors in "Seafood", Wang Dalun and Zhu Wen's girlfriend Yanzi, it's okay to work hard.

There is also the film crew to compress as much as possible, the photography is Zhu Wen's buddy, called Liu Yonghong, the situation is a bit similar to Zhu Wen, also halfway monk, used to study architectural design, and later because of his love for photography, and applied for the film academy photography department, last year's documentary "The Wind in the Capital is so big" by him was also shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival Youth Forum unit.

Zhu Tattoo is also a producer, screenwriter, director, and editor, and his girlfriend is not only the female number one, but also the assistant director and production director. After the preparation of the entire crew, there are less than 20 people, which is almost the same as when "Xiao Wu" was filmed.

As for the salary, at this time, Zhu Wen can't say it at all, and of course Wang Dalun won't mention it, everyone is saving up their strength and must make a good movie. (To be continued.) )