Chapter Ninety-Four: Co-Director

That night, when Hongyue hugged her sleeping boyfriend who was lying on top of her, she thought about a question in her heart, that is, what did Wang Yang want? He once said that making movies is just playing with tickets, how can he get serious while playing?

When she got up in the morning, Hongyue thought it through, and she felt that she had to remind Wang Yang that the time for playing tickets was over.

"Wang Yang, why don't you hire a producer, or co-director."

"What's wrong?"

"Are you tired?"

Wang Yang touched his nose, he smiled and said, "Then who do you think I invited?" ”

"You let me read the script first!" Hongyue rolled her eyes and said, she still doesn't know what the movie Wang Yang wants to make is, but she knows that it is definitely not "The First Close Contact".

After the two of them washed up and had breakfast, Wang Yang took out the tablet and handed it to her, and handed the entire script of "Early Spring" to Hongyue to read.

The story goes like this-

College life in the context of the 70s, Xiao Cai and Xiao Ming are brothers who live in the same dormitory, Xiao Cai is a boy who takes his feelings seriously, and he likes a school girl named Xiao Wu. Xiao Ming is a romantic playboy who often changes girlfriends, he goes back and forth between the three girls of Xiaoshi, Xiaoyan, and Xiaofei, and they all get pregnant.

The story focuses on premarital sex, unmarried pregnancy, and lesbianism, and the script focuses on the various choices made by four girls with different personalities when faced with such an event, and the impact of this event on their future path and fate.

Through an infatuated Xiao Cai and a flowery Xiao Ming, the personalities of the two male protagonists are completely different, and the relationship between the two eventually leads to an inevitable tragic love story.

This is not the point, when Hongyue read the script, she was also shocked, because there are a total of six protagonists, and the complex emotional drama is extremely brain-burning.

Xiao Cai likes Xiao Wu, Xiao Shi likes Xiao Cai, Xiao Ming likes Xiao Wu, and Xiao Yan likes Xiao Shi.

Xiao Wu died of a terminal illness, Xiao Shi committed suicide by jumping off the building while pregnant, Xiao Yan gave birth to a child for Xiao Ming, Xiao Cai raised Xiao Yan and Xiao Ming's children by mistake, Xiao Cai and Xiao Fei after the abortion were together, and Xiao Ming disappeared.

"The script is really well written, I think I know who to oversee it." After reading this script, Hongyue also felt that Wang Yang was invincible, such a brain-burning literary film is definitely the best niche film that has never been produced in the industry.

Not to mention the release, it will simply become one of the top ten banned films and enter the blacklist of the Huaxia Radio and Television Bureau!

"Who, please?"

"Jia Zhangke!"

Jia Zhangke, who was born in 1970, won 7 film festival awards for his first work "Xiao Wu" shot at the age of 27, making Lao Jia famous, and "Xiao Wu" was also a banned film that year.

Lao Jia was recently running around for the just-written script "The Good Man of the Three Gorges", he learned from a friend that someone wanted to ask him to make a movie, and subconsciously wanted to refuse, but after his friend passed the script to him, he immediately changed his mind.

So that afternoon, Lao Jia wore a peaked cap and sunglasses and met Wang Yang and Hongyue in a quiet café.

Before coming, Lao Jia heard from a friend that the other party was a young man, a writer who had just become famous, and only after he met Wang Yang and Hongyue did he know how young the young man was.

"Did you really write the script for early spring?" Lao Jia is still very convinced that an 18-year-old young man can write such a profound theme, which can be described as a standard literary and artistic youth who is still poisoned by reality.

"Teacher Jia, can I say that I was nurtured by you and Director Lou Hua?"

"Who is Director Lou Hua?" Lao Jia has never heard of this director.

Wang Yang was stunned, he didn't expect Lao Jia to exist, and Lou Hua actually disappeared into this time and space.

Lou Hua's most classic film work is "Suzhou River", which won the Golden Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Best Film Award at the Paris International Film Festival, and was selected as one of the top ten films of the year by Time magazine.

Lou Hua, like Lao Jia, is the kind of director who banned films.

The banned film is not a bad movie, but the movie is too real, and it will shock people's souls after watching it.

Lao Jia pondered for a while and said: "Please ask me to supervise "Early Spring", why don't I work together to make this movie?" ”

Hongyue hurriedly responded: "Of course you can, Teacher Jia." ”

"Hmm." Lao Jia coughed, Wang Yang smiled and handed over a cigarette, he added: "Teacher Jia, if you come to cooperate with me, I will give you a director's salary of 12 million." ”

"Good! The afterlife is terrifying! As soon as Lao Jia heard it, he slapped the table and agreed, obviously, Wang Yang is currently famous, and Lao Jia has become famous, he is now short of money, and now the two are cooperating, one gets money, and the other can enjoy fame, it is a match made in heaven.

After inviting Lao Jia, in fact, the crew not only had one more director, but also one more screenwriter, and the most important thing was that Wang Yangqing was idle, and "Early Spring" was also thoroughly promoted, and he also took the initiative to explain everything to the outside world.

"Early Spring" is not "The First Close Contact", it is the first film script that Wang Yang tried to write, and it is also a literary film that he and Lao Jia worked together.

After the news came out, netizens also talked about it.

"The big health care actually came together with Lao Jia Na, and this is for the best screenplay, best screenwriter, and best director!"

"The big health care is so bad, I actually started to brush the B grid!"

"That's right, the big health care has gone bad, this is to transform into a realistic theme!"

Netizens all know that Wang Yang is playing tickets, but they don't know that in the first half of the month, Wang Yang has played seriously and is fascinated.

There is no way, the job of directing is easy to play addictive, because there is no one who is not fascinated by the right to command others, especially the star actors to work.

On October 16th, Wang Yang, Hongyue, and Lao Jia returned to the Suzhou and Hangzhou crews together.

The addition of Lao Jia is undoubtedly good news for the actors, Wang Yang is a novice after all, and now there is one more director, as long as the script can be discussed together, if the two have the same smell, it will only be a good thing for the crew.

For example, it is very common for a movie to have two directors and five or six screenwriters, such as the famous Hong Kong film "Infernal Affairs", which is co-directed by Lau Weiqiang and Mak Zhaohui.

“Action!”

"Cards!"

"What do you think, Lao Jia?"

"One more look."

“Action!”

"Over!"

Sure enough, after Wang Yang invited Lao Jia, he had an extra veteran to help, and in terms of communication with the actors, including communication with the photographer, the footage shot became more and more satisfying.

The work progress of the film has accelerated, and Wang Yang is more leisurely, and the crew can even consider a two-pronged approach, that is, Lao Jia and him will shoot in groups.

For example, filming Tong Dapseudo and Yang Liying today, the other four actors also have other scenes, at this time, Lao Jia and Wang Yang can choose the scenes they want to shoot according to their own ideas.

There is no doubt that in this way, "Early Spring" may be completed at the end of the year in more than two months.