Chapter 159: Childhood Journey to the West

Timely update, Liu Zhenwei sat at the desk, frowning anxiously, and his two curved and thin black eyebrows hung down like a figure of eight.

After the script was written, I thought it was very good to read, no worse than those current movies. However, he read it again, thought about the original intention, and felt that this script did not express his original intention at all. In his anger, he tore up all the pages of manuscript paper.

In the past two days, he has repeatedly revised the script on his hand, and has not finalized it, in addition to his dissatisfaction, another important reason is that he needs to do something to divert the anxiety and ambivalence he has been feeling during this time.

After thinking about it for three days, Liu Zhenwei finally decided to call Huang Ziqiang, although he decided, he still had a little concern about failure. So he was still a little timid, his hand had already touched the microphone and then retracted again. My mind is a mess, sometimes distressed, sometimes irritable.

He rubbed his hands together and walked back and forth in front of the telephone as if he were standing on a red-hot iron plate.

After walking back and forth several times, Liu Zhenwei finally made up his mind and no longer hesitated, and reached over to get the microphone.

Jingle bells!

A hurried phone rang suddenly, Liu Zhenwei was so frightened that he was in a hurry, the microphone was picked up and slipped off his hand, and when he stabilized his mind and picked up the microphone again, he only heard a busy beep.

Damn, why did you hang up the phone! Liu Zhenwei slapped his head hard, eager to hit the wall.

At this moment, the phone rang again, and Liu Zhenwei stepped forward with an arrow step, grabbed the microphone and said "hey".

"Produced by Liu. I'm Huang Ziqiang, you still have to remember me, right? ”

Liu Zhenwei seemed to have been hit by the immobilization method, standing in place, stunned, as if he had lost consciousness.

All this is unbelievable, how did Huang Ziqiang know that he wanted to call him, or how did Huang Ziqiang coincidentally remember to call him at this time?

Huang Ziqiang "fed" several times on the other end of the phone. Liu Zhenwei came back to his senses at this time.

He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself before asking Huang Ziqiang what was wrong.

"Mr. Lin wants to see you!"

The news from Huang Ziqiang's mouth made Liu Zhenwei like five thunderbolts. His head was buzzing and swollen. A vibration passed through his body like an electric current, and he felt that he had never been so excited, nor so awake; The level of excitement and sobriety cannot be expressed in words. There is no other way to appreciate its depth than your own feelings.

His eyes would be red with excitement, his short, thick fingers would tremble unconsciously when he grasped the microphone, and his voice was shorter than usual, as if he couldn't breathe a sigh of relief, "What...... When? ”

"Just today!"

"In such a hurry, I must not be prepared." Liu Zhenwei knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but when he calmed down a little, there were countless questions swirling in his mind: Why did Lin Youlun know his name? Why did he ask to meet him?

"What else are you going to prepare, let's get over there. Mr. Lin is already waiting for you over there. ”

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Lin Youlun suddenly remembered Liu Zhenwei, completely because of an accident before the start of filming of "Shaolin Football".

The director who was in charge of the filming of this film was in a car accident by Shaw Brothers, and there were many disagreements within Shaw Brothers about the director candidates.

Think about it. Lin Youlun's eyes fell on Liu Zhenwei.

As soon as he thought of Liu Zhenwei, Lin Youlun remembered the "Gambling Saint" he "borrowed" from him, and accidentally lost Liu Zhenwei's famous work, and thought about compensating him.

In the later generations, "Shaolin Football" was directed by Zhou Xingchi himself, and the producer of this film was Liu Zhenwei. …,

Zhou Xingchi didn't think about becoming a director himself at this time, while Liu Zhenwei worked as a film producer for several years. It's just right for him to direct this film.

Liu Zhenwei didn't know what Lin Youlun was thinking, he hesitated when he went out, and finally brought the script he had been revising in the past two days, thinking that success or failure would be in one fell swoop.

Liu Zhenwei took a taxi and rushed to the café where he had made an appointment, and Lin Youlun had already arrived first.

Seeing Liu Zhenwei, the first thing that Lin Youlun thought of was the Bodhi ancestor known as "dear grapes", just looking at Liu Zhenwei's appearance, he would only think that he was a very honest and honest person, but this guy was "the most elusive nerve knife in Hong Kong movies".

Liu Zhenwei's films always like to do crazy and exaggerated things, and at the same time absorb the essence of cartoon comics, with the entertainment structure of game ridicule, unbridled creative imagination, and unconventional genre interpretation, so that his films present unique characteristics.

When shaking hands, Lin Youlun noticed the script that Liu Zhenwei was holding in his other hand.

"Is Mr. Liu going to show me this script?"

Liu Zhenwei also saw the script in Lin Youlun's hand, but at this time, he had to suppress the curiosity in his heart and handed his script to Lin Youlun with both hands.

"I figured out a story by myself, and I didn't write it well, so I asked Mr. Lin for more guidance."

Lin Youlun picked up the script in his hand and said with a smile: "Just now I was thinking about what I should do when Mr. Liu reads this script. ”

Lin Youlun was very curious about what was written in the script that Liu Zhenwei brought, and after handing over the script of "Shaolin Football", he couldn't wait to open Liu Zhenwei's script.

The 101st chapter of Journey to the West's Moonlight Treasure Box, Lin Youlun was stunned when he saw the name, and an indescribable sense of familiarity came to his heart, and then looked at the beginning of the story Sun Wukong vs. Guanyin, Tang Sanzang was merciful, and he was willing to exchange his life for Sun Wukong's rebirth plot, he was already very sure, this is the "Journey to the West" that was later regarded as a classic by countless people.

After filming this movie in later generations, after more than ten years, Zhou Xingchi went to a university in the mainland to give a speech, and even he couldn't remember the wonderful confession of the Supreme Treasure, but the students in the audience could recite it in unison.

There was once a sincere love in front of you...... Familiar words, the past surging and tumbling in my mind like a flood. Everything in the past swirled in front of Lin Youlun's eyes, swaying back and forth.

The fragments of memories add melancholy to the memories, and when Lin Youlun arranges these fragments together, searching for the things that have disappeared in this world from those fragments, but exist alone in the memory, Lin Youlun's feelings are besieged by those memories.

I don't know how long it took for Lin Youlun to break free from the memories of the past. raised his eyes, but saw Liu Zhenwei's face that wanted to speak and stopped.

"I've been watching it for a long time?"

"It's been more than three hours." Liu Zhenwei's throat rolled with difficulty, and it took him more than half an hour to finish reading the script of "Shaolin Football". After that, he watched Lin Youlun motionless there in a daze, and wanted to remind him several times, but he was afraid that Lin Youlun was thinking about something important and didn't dare to speak. More than two hours. Liu Zhenwei didn't know how he survived.

"Looking at Mr. Liu's script, I suddenly remembered some things from before, and I lost my mind unconsciously." Lin Youlun smiled apologetically, picked up the coffee in front of him, and it was already cold now.

Before Lin Youlun could speak, Liu Zhenwei had already called the waiter and asked him to serve another cup of hot coffee.

"Let's talk about the script you have first." Lin Youlun put down the cold coffee and looked at Liu Zhenwei, "What do you think?" ”…,

"This movie is a bit demanding on special effects." Liu Zhenwei told the truth, this is the only feeling he has after reading the script.

"The special effects techniques applied in this film will be more mature than "Tales of the Night". So don't worry too much about that. ”

Lin Youlun motioned to Liu Zhenwei to continue with his eyes, but Liu Zhenwei didn't know what to say.

"So that's no problem?" Lin Youlun nodded, and then said, "I want to ask Mr. Liu to be the director of this movie, you shouldn't refuse, right?" ”

Liu Zhenwei only felt the blood on his body rolling like boiling water, and the small drum in his chest was pounding. Although he guessed this result from the time Lin Youlun asked him to read the script, it was a different feeling to confirm the news from Lin Youlun's mouth.

Liu Zhenwei's lips moved, a thousand words stuck in his neck and couldn't speak, and he blushed before he said the three words "no problem".

Liu Zhenwei thought that Lin Youlun would continue to talk to him about "Shaolin Football". Unexpectedly, after Lin Youlun received his affirmative answer, he immediately changed the conversation, but he talked about the script he brought.

"How did Mr. Liu come up with the idea to write this story?"

Liu Zhenwei had not yet recovered from the excitement of being a "Shaolin Football", and when he suddenly heard such a question, his brain paused for half a minute, and then he realized that Lin Youlun was waiting for his answer.

"When I watched "Journey to the West" when I was a child, I felt that Sun Wukong was very pitiful, because he never had the opportunity to choose his own path in life. At the foot of Wuzhi Mountain, Tang Seng negotiated conditions with him, saying that if you don't follow me to the west to learn scriptures, you will continue to be pressed under the mountain, and then Sun Wukong can only follow to learn scriptures. At that time, I thought, if I were Sun Wukong, the first thing I would do after I came out would definitely be to kill Tang Seng, I would never go to get the Western Scriptures, and I would run away. Then I thought, if Sun Wukong is not a very good person, how can I turn him into a better person, give him a little affection and humanity, and add a love relationship. This is how I really felt when I watched "Journey to the West" when I was a child, and I wrote this script to realize my childhood dreams and ideals in the form of a movie. ”

Lin Youlun took the waiter's newly exchanged coffee, listened carefully to Liu Zhenwei's words, and suddenly had a strong urge in his heart to help him realize this dream, but the name "Journey to the West Chapter 101: Moonlight Treasure Box" made him hesitate.

"It's too long." Knowing that this was just a name that Liu Zhenwei came up with temporarily, he said: "This name is not distinctive, and the audience is not interested in hearing it, so it is better to call it Journey to the West." ”

Liu Zhenwei said Nuo Nuo in his mouth, and secretly smiled bitterly, the boss is really the boss, so he changed the name of the script after reading the beginning. But it can also be seen from this that Lin Youlun's style of doing things is very patient when reasoning and domineering when making decisions.

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(In Hong Kong films, the only thing that really made me watch it many times was "Journey to the West", in fact, I played the online game of "Journey to the West" first, and then watched this movie, I don't know if there are any friends like me, it's really a time flies!) There is one more chapter today. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) Timely updates,