Chapter 617: New Magic of the East

After leaving the editorial office of "Esquire", Yang Lin was relieved, and he was no longer willing to face Song Jie, who had obvious menopausal symptoms.

So far, all the things he has done to return to China have been done, although he has not been rested at all, but watching the box office of his movie rush to it like a rocket, it is needless to say that this is the feeling.

Sitting alone in his nanny car, Yang Lin waited for He Hong, Zhang Qian and others to come down, he took out his mobile phone and looked at the short words of Liu Yifei's reply, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

"Okay." It's just two words, but this shows that Liu Yifei no longer complains about him, if he takes the initiative again, maybe the reunion is just around the corner.

Now that Liu Yifei's leg injury is close to healing, he will be able to resume the filming of "The King of Kung Fu" immediately. And Yang Lin will fly directly to Peru tonight, where he will continue to shoot "Raiders of the Lost Ark". What a pity it is that two people, who were already close to thawing, had to be postponed to the future because of their respective jobs.

The song "Breathing Pain" has been circulating on the Internet, and Liu Yifei even hid it from the rest of the people and spent a lot of money to buy a genuine CD to listen to. She put the plate into the computer, and Yang Lin's voice came out melodiously, without amazing singing skills, no soaring high notes, and some were just sad to the bones.

Liu Yifei always thought that this breakup hurt her more than Yang Lin, but from this song, she could feel Yang Lin's reluctance and remorse, and then she replied to the text message sent by Yang Lin for the first time.

But there was no response after that, and the excitement slowly sank to the bottom, if Yang Lin knew that he was discouraged at the most critical moment, he might regret committing suicide.

It's December 21, 2007, and the year-end inventory is almost over, and "Mei Lanfang", a film with infinite beauty at the Venice Film Festival, has officially been selected by China to represent the mainland to compete for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

And Yang Lin's "Transformers" won several technical awards at this year's Academy Awards, namely the Best Visual Effects Award, the Best Sound Synthesis Award, and the Best Sound Effects Editing. And Yang Lin was successfully nominated for the Best Song Award for his popular song "Newdivided" in Transformers. And the song will be played at the Kodak Theater on the day of the awards ceremony.

This is the first time that a Chinese filmmaker has appeared on the stage of the Academy Awards, although Ang Lee has won the Oscar for Best Director before, but he is only a Chinese-American after all, and he is not as good as Yang Lin, a pure Chinese who grew up under the red flag.

Now the news has not been officially released, this time because of the Hollywood screenwriters strike. As a result, many institutions have been paralyzed. Yang Lin also learned the news through Michael Bay.

As a filmmaker and musician, Yang Lin is very excited to be nominated for an Academy Award, which is the temple in the hearts of all actors, just like the Grammys or Vienna are for music.

Even if he is a finalist for the Best Song Award. Yang Lin also has enough reasons to be proud, after all, he created a history, and he broke into the nomination in the first year he landed in Hollywood. Not to mention that the two movies he participated in will compete for the little golden man.

"Welcome back, my friend! You don't know I'm half dead by the worms! Harrison Ford made a rare joke, and he gave Yang Lin a hug.

Inside the movie. He plays the role of Yang Lin's father, and the father and son venture together in the dangerous rainforest to find the mysterious crystal skull.

In private, the two are also excellent friends, Harrison Ford has no frame at all, and like an old naughty, he has a very young mentality.

"Oh! I guess I'll be killed when I get back, so there's nothing big going on this week, right?" Yang Lin looked at Spielberg, who was wearing a peaked cap and short-sleeved shorts. He asked with a sigh of relief.

"What can go wrong, I'm done filming my rival with Cate Blanchett here, hiding in the refrigerator to escape the nuclear bomb explosion, and the screenwriter is too talented." Harrison Ford spread his hands with a helpless expression.

While talking. Cate Blanchett walked over in a military uniform, she didn't look at all as elegant as the Elven Queen of the Rings, and now she was a typical female soldier, and she was good at giving orders.

"Yang Lin is also back? When the time comes, the two of us will team up and take leave to participate in the Academy Awards. I hope to be able to get back a few little gold figures. Kate's wonderful performance in the movie "Free Ride" earned her unanimous approval from the Screen Actors Guild and she was the top seed for Best Supporting Actress this time.

Spielberg heard the conversation. couldn't help sneering, pointed at Yang Lin and said: "As soon as you come back, you will talk about the Oscars, it is better to put on makeup if you have time, today's scene is very heavy, everyone has to fight on two speeding jeeps, it is very difficult, especially Yang Lin, here is a scene specially used to set off you, you must grasp it well!" “

As soon as he came back, it was the main event, but Yang Lin was very excited, because he could be said to have the most action scenes in the movie. Even if he is not as experienced as Dr. Jones, he is young, strong, skillful, and witty, and he is simply the best actor in the next movie.

For Spielberg's contempt, everyone chose to ignore it, he naturally didn't care about any little golden figures, he had already taken so many little golden figures, naturally it didn't matter. For Yang Lin and Cate Blanchett, who are shortlisted for the first time, it is exciting enough.

When he came to the dressing room, Yang Lin sat in a familiar position and asked his exclusive makeup artist to help. And Zhang Qian came over excitedly with a stack of scripts.

"Before, you said that there was no plan for 2008, but now I will bring you the script, and you can choose it yourself. There are several good scripts in it, one is "Painted Skin", which is known as the new fantasy of the East, and there is "The Dragon and the Phoenix", as for the rest of the movies, you have to dig it yourself. “

Yang Lin has a great interest in the oriental new fantasy in Zhang Qian's mouth, because he knows that in the future, many domestic costume films will be equipped with this name and use this as a gimmick to promote, but in fact, there is no oriental new fantasy in the real sense!

In recent years, because of the magnificent and huge "Lord of the Rings" series, "Harry Potter" series and "Tales of the Night", etc., filmmakers are no strangers to Western fantasy. And this proposal of oriental new fantasy is obviously to dig out the stories in our oriental culture in response to this situation, and the Liaozhai series is the best choice.

The new magic is based on new innovations, and the classics are rewritten to find another way, for example, this time Yang Lin got the script adapted from Pu Songling's Liaozhai series, "Painted Skin". This story should be considered a household name, and it has been translated into many Chinese, and there are many audiences.

But a story that gathers thriller, magic, love, and ethics has been changed beyond recognition, not only the era has changed from the Qing Dynasty to the Qin and Han dynasties, but even the small town in the south of the Yangtze River has become a desert wilderness, becoming a romance film dressed in magical clothes.

Thinking of this, Yang Lin was a little moved, although there are many problems with this script, but he is interested. The story is very good, the gimmick is very good, the point is that Yang Lin wants to practice his skills with this movie, even if he is not a director, he must make the new magic of the East truly enriched, and it is no longer an empty shell.

"You go check to see if I can join the investment in this film, and contact the screenwriter and say I have a better idea. It's a very interesting movie, if I become the originator of oriental new fantasy, the real meaning of oriental fantasy! “

Yang Lin and Zhang Qian both talked through Chinese, and the American makeup artist couldn't understand what the two people were saying, but turned Yang Lin into a little Ah Fei with dedication.

Although the words are simple, it is not so easy to get it in reality. At that time, Tsui Hark adapted the classic crew "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan", and invited the most professional special effects team in Hollywood and a large number of top Chinese actors to shoot a good movie.

At this point, the appetite of domestic audiences has been raised, and the general special effects are not eye-catching at all, and only the same CG as "The Lord of the Rings" is shocking enough. However, CG is a real act of burning money, and you can't afford it with little investment.

The viewing needs and vision of domestic audiences are being cultivated more and more by Hollywood movies, and the visual effects and viewing effects of films are very important to whether they can attract audiences to the theater. And the "big scenes" and "crowd tactics" that used to attract the audience have also made the audience feel "notfashion" and aesthetic fatigue, and Chinese films can only seek to "connect with the world" and play CG. The magic theme has become the best CG gladiatorial arena because of its unbridled imagination and the creation of spectacle, wonderland, and wonders.

Movies with small investments don't mention magic at all, and the $15 million and contract investment of 110 million yuan in "Painted Skin" is just that, which is far from enough in Yang Lin's opinion, so he wants to invest himself.

"Harry Potter", "The Lord of the Rings", "Twilight" and other magical novels have supported the genre of Western magic films, and in China, although fantasy, fantasy, and magic movies have not formed a climate before, and occasionally wonderful works have appeared, but they are all based on successful literary/comic works.

Now the rapid development of online novels, there are many oriental fantasy themes on the Internet, the most eye-catching of which is naturally "Zhu Xian", this novel is known as the first magic book on the Internet, but Yang Lin loves the Chinese and Western fantasy compatibility, and the atmospheric, hot-blooded "Tomb of the God".

In his opinion, "Tomb of the Gods" is fully capable of becoming a classic movie like "The Lord of the Rings", as long as it is filmed, there will be no problem. However, the framework of this novel is too large, and the time and technology required are not generally comparable, Yang Lin is now pinning his hopes on the improvement of "Painted Skin", and "Tomb of the Gods" will be postponed.

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Happy Chinese New Year's Eve, if there are children's shoes who are still at work and school, I would like to express my condolences to you!

Whew, when will we get our recommendation tickets coquettish! It's Monday soon, can you get up once?