Tan Dun was stunned for a moment, and read silently in his heart: "One of the most thrilling plots, but the flamenco music performed in dance reflects the emotional reversal...... will have an unexpected sense of cold humor" chewed, and then took a deep breath and looked at Li Xiaole and said:

"Director Li is really different, it's really interesting to have such a wonderful idea."

"Whimsy works, but it still doesn't feel perfect." Li Xiaole puffed his eyes and said, thinking that these directors who are messing around in the mainland are not professional, and all Korean TV dramas have already dubbed for separate characters, they should take a look at "Queen Seondeok", the voice engineers of South Korea not only match the main characters with separate music, but even arrange some scenes separately, this kind of well-made level is something that mainland film and television should have learned a long time ago.

You must know that the pinnacle of the soundtrack of Chinese TV dramas is "Journey to the West", and the first song in it is a creation work, but I don't know that Weishenme has completely ignored this part now.

"I have an opinion." Tan Dun smiled gently.

"Say it." Li Xiaole said casually.

"Your music is so complete, many times you have to empty a beat of 'quiet'" Tan Dun said in a deep voice.

"Empty a beat 'quiet'?" Li Xiaole suddenly raised his head, feeling that the artistic conception of these words was extraordinary, and then looked at Tan Dun carefully, a very ordinary face, simple and unpretentious, thick eyebrows curved like a crescent moon, and a melancholy wrinkle appeared at the corner of his mouth and under his eyes, making him look like he was unwilling to ask about the world, tired and sad.

But his eyes are bright and wise, and there is a kind of artistic atmosphere that sees through the ups and downs of the world.

Although Li Xiaole didn't know him, his intuition told him that the person in front of him was definitely not an ordinary person, so he immediately got up and bowed to Tan Dun: "Please advise." ”

"What do you think music means for movies?" Tan Dun asked curiously.

"An important part of expressing the storyline." Li Xiaole blurted out.

"Yes." Tan Dun slowly looked at Li Xiaole with his eyes, nodded appreciatively, and said: "The most direct role of music is to use sound expressions and music to express feelings, the key is not only to express clearly, but also to achieve the realm of moisturizing things silently." ”

Li Xiaole was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "The realm of moisturizing things silently, making music silent?" Isn't that a paradox? ”

Tan Dun smiled, looked at Li Xiaole's confused expression but asked with great interest: "This is the experience that I only want to get after 30 years of making music, you have to think about it." ”

Li Xiaole smiled bitterly: "Don't embarrass me, I don't know much about music, just tell me." ”

Tan Dun said happily: "I just want to impress you more, if you don't want to think about it, then I can tell you directly." ”

After a few seconds of silence, Tan Duncai said slowly: "In fact, the soundtrack, after all, is to serve and the movie itself to move people's emotions, just like your soundtrack, which is very innovative, the unique technique makes people unforgettable, and the fast-paced soundtrack is varied, but have you thought about it, this is precisely the shortcoming of this soundtrack." ”

Then he asked, "Do you know music theory?" ”

Li Xiaole's face was slightly red, and he shook his head to indicate that he was a layman.

Tan Dun smiled with relief: "It's okay if you don't understand, you just listen by feeling." As he spoke, he handed Li Xiaole a pair of earbuds, and after putting on the headphones, he put his hand on the volume control.

Li Xiaole listened to his own soundtrack again, and he felt completely different, the soundtrack in the original version gave him a slightly chaotic feeling, and it was the same after Ning Hao finished the dubbing just now, but now it is much smoother and more natural to listen to, so many complex soundtracks together seem to be abrupt.

Of course, all this is due to the relationship between the hand in front of him controlling the volume, Li Xiaole couldn't help but open his mouth wide, he was surprised to find that this man was completely musical, and in each piece of music, just eliminated a few pieces of music, and he felt much better.

"I understand~ I just filled the whole piece of music with the soundtrack......" Li Xiaole took off the headphones and suddenly realized.

"You got it so quickly?" Tan Dun was surprised.

Li Xiaole was puzzled: "What's so difficult about this, just like Chinese paintings often have to leave a place on the drawing paper as a 'blank' to make the amplification painting more harmonious, the music should also have some pauses, leaving the listeners to temporarily forget the existence of music in the movie, so that they can focus more on the story itself, so as to listen appropriately, but forget after listening to it, the so-called 'moisturizing things silently' is what it means, right?" ”

Tan Dun looked at Li Xiaole and was stunned for a while, before he sighed: "Director Li, your musical talent is so high, you are really better than me, you are right, but it is not entirely correct, it is like fifty chairs sitting on fifty people, if the regulations are not allowed to change positions, and it is not allowed to go away, naturally there will be no changes, but if there is one less person and an empty chair comes out, there will be a lot more changes."

"In other words, the vacated syllables should not only be forgotten, but also left room for them to imagine and fill the gap with imagination?" Li Xiaole's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought that his works often have a feeling of "too full", that is, this "blank syllable" is missing.

"Alas, you are ...... It's a shame not to study music. Tan Dun looked at him and felt sorry for him, the director in front of him was far better than many musicians he had seen.

"I would venture to ask, are you surnamed Zhao or Tan?" Li Xiaole looked at Tan Dun with reverence.

"Weishenme asked?" Tan Dun suddenly laughed.

"Because those who can teach me these things and can appear here, I think there are only two teachers, Zhao Jiping and Tan Dun." Li Xiaole said with a straight face, just that sentence, he felt that he was not only for the soundtrack, but also for film and television, he seemed to have grasped some kind of mysterious truth.

In the past, he simply divided the movie into a bunch of data, although he stacked the data together with his enthusiasm, but there was still something metaphysical, which was an insurmountable gap between him and directors with deep background, such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, but at that moment, he seemed to feel that he had the possibility of jumping over.

At this time, Tan Dun's phone rang, and the person inside told him that he had already contacted the recording studio of Wheat Field Music, and the equipment over there was better, and the music master also stood up, and stretched out his hands to Li Xiaole with a smile:

"Director Li, no matter what my surname is, I hope that one day in the future we can have the opportunity to work together in films."

"Yes, definitely." Li Xiaole stretched out his hand and shook it tightly, he knew what Tan Dun meant when he said the word "future", what was the point of knowing who he was at his current level? When you can really reach the same height as him, that's when you really get to know him.

Looking at Tan Dun's back, Li Xiaole also felt a pity and excitement in his heart, and felt that the hot feeling in his chest was boiling, what a wonderful thing it would be if he could create those great movies together with such a real top figure in the film and television industry in the future.

Wait...... One day, he will be able to gather these most Haode filmmakers in the mainland and create a work that shakes Shijie.

***

After the post-finishing was completed, Li Xiaole watched the feature film in the screening room of China Film in accordance with Han Sanpin's requirements, and as a result, Han Sanpin and Han Xiaoli, the two big and small Han presidents, were serious and serious from the beginning, but after seeing the end of 105 minutes, they were already laughing so much that their faces hurt.

Of course, after Han Xiaoli, who was from the academy, finished laughing, he still criticized Li Xiaole's shortcomings: "The plot of your movie is good, but the shooting is too messy, too many imitations of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino, and the soundtrack is too messy......"

"I think it's pretty good." Han Sanpin smiled and expressed different opinions: "The technique is quite innovative, it is normal for us old antiques to be unaccustomed to it, and now the market needs something new, and the people just like it." ”

Han Sanpin's standard is obviously very simple, is it funny for these 105 minutes? As long as the purpose of being funny has been achieved, the current Chinese movies are like a dying old man, don't say anything to calm him down and recuperate, it would be good to give him a cigarette to cheer him up.

Han Sanpin nodded, so that the stone in Li Xiaole's heart fell to the ground, the most feared ghost gate for making movies in China, the two audits of the Film Bureau and the Radio and Television Bureau, if he did not have Han Sanpin as the producer, this novel comedy would only have to be edited with a lot of plots before it could be released.

Then Li Xiaole is going to start thinking about the issue of release, weishenme he will not return to China to make movies until 2002, the most critical point is that in June of this year, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Culture issued Document No. 1519 "Implementation Details on the Reform of the Film Distribution and Screening Mechanism", and established the first batch of 31 cinemas in 23 provinces and cities across the country. There are 1,019 theaters and 1,834 screens.

Among them, for filmmakers, one of the most important things has appeared, called "cinema ticketing system, computer networking", without this thing, the box office of mainland movies basically really benefits only 50% at most.

What's so funny about this?

Because the previous movie theaters were all accounted for by themselves, the box office and the benefits were all decided by themselves like ordinary hotels and restaurants, and a movie sold 100,000 tickets, but he reported only 50,000 box office, and the remaining 50,000 box office became the gray income of the theater.

Most of the theaters are state-run institutions, and no one will check them.

After the implementation of the cinema system, the theater has become a networked computer system to sell tickets, and each movie ticket issued by the computer system has become an invoice itself, and most of the movie box office can be handed in.

Then some people may ask, Weishenme, whether it is Jiang Wen's "Bright Days" or Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum", can achieve a box office of more than 40 million?

The reason is very simple, at that time, the system was called self-made self-broadcast and self-buying, the cinema was a contract system, the upper-level enterprises issued their own tasks, and the audience was organized by the upper-level institutions, and it was rare to buy tickets to watch movies in the cinema by themselves, which belonged to the "administrative box office".

For example, a certain iron and steel plant was approved by the Cultural Bureau to require employees to organize to watch "Red Sorghum", and the steel factory directly paid to the film factory according to the number of employees watching, and this kind of box office will naturally not be low, to put it bluntly, it is supported by the state.

In the late '90s, this system was gradually abolished, and all the film investors who had been doing so for the past few years suddenly realized that they couldn't even recoup their costs.

Many movie lovers must have fantasized about going back to the 90s to make a movie that achieved more than 100 million box office in China, which is actually extremely naïve, because the difficulty is far greater than getting 1 billion box office after 2010.

Han Sanpinye is very curious, what method does Li Xiaole, a young director who has created a commercial film miracle in South Korea, want to use to market this film in the mainland?