As soon as Chen Feng's attitude relaxed, Long Yue's heart immediately breathed a sigh of relief, he nodded suddenly in understanding, and sat down again with his body facing forward, "Since Director Chen knows so much about ancient Qin culture, he must have a better idea?" ”

was countered to the army, Chen Feng was not flustered, but he had a formed story in his heart, but before telling his story, Chen Feng decided to test Long Yue first, "Have you heard of the explorer Sven. Hedin? ”

Of course, in order to shoot this film, Long Yue himself did his homework, "In Sweden, his name can be on the same level as Nobel." ”

Chen Feng nodded, "In Heding's expedition career, there are two achievements that have made him famous all over the world. One is to discover the ancient city of Loulan, and the other is to fill in the large blank space of XZ on the map. Of course, this is all from the perspective of the EU, and Hedin has incorporated them into the Western knowledge system for the first time through precise descriptions. ”

"I've read his biography, and I think he should have been a world-class icon in his time, when many Western leaders were proud to befriend Heding, and Lord Kouren, the British Governor in Afghanistan, promised to provide all the conditions to help Heding explore XZ, but unfortunately he left his post immediately." Long Yue finally found a talking point with Chen Feng on a common topic, and his excellent eloquence finally had room to display.

"But Hua doesn't see it that way, and they classify Hedin as a colonialist explorer like Stein."

"Why?" Long Yue asked with some doubts, "If it weren't for Heding, the Chinese people don't know when they would have discovered the ancient city of Loulan, and he has also explored many unknown areas of XZ..."

But these things did not bring tangible benefits to China at that time. Instead, a large number of artifacts were taken away by explorers from the West. Chen Feng made a very imaginary analogy, "If the original manuscript of the declaration of freedom of the United States is placed in a museum in Huaguo, as a person from the United States, you want to study this period of history, and you still get an application from Huaguo, and then you get only a photocopied attachment, what would you think?" ”

Long Yue was speechless. Chen Feng then joked: "In the European Union and the United States, all the famous museums can see the cultural relics of China. But I haven't heard that the museum in China has a collection of foreign cultural relics. Today, the museum collections of the European Union and the United States are so rich, and Hedin and the explorers who came after him are indispensable. ”

"I've seen Hedding's autobiography, My Adventure. In his concept, XJ and XZ are just Huaguo's sphere of influence, not Huaguo itself. Respect for the sovereignty of China was a long time later. In this sense, it is not wrong for us Chinese to attribute him to colonial explorers. ”

Long Yue showed a bewildered look on his face, "Is the evaluation of Hedin himself good or bad, does this have anything to do with our movie?" ”

"Of course it matters," Chen Feng put away the playful expression on his face, "The ancestors of the Egyptians are not ancient Egyptians, and no matter how you shoot your film, it will not have much impact on the current Egyptians." But the progress of civilization in China did not disappear as in ancient Egypt, where their ancestors lived thousands of years ago. If the film doesn't want to miss the Chinese market, then the basic theme of the film can't touch the sensitive bottom line of the Chinese people. ”

Seeing that Long Yue still didn't understand it, Chen Feng gave another example: "Just like Stein is a shameful robber in the eyes of the Chinese, he stole a large number of cultural relics from Dunhuang. Trafficking into the European Union. But in the eyes of the EU, Stein is a brave adventurer, and it is best not to appear in the film about controversial topics and characters like these. ”

"You wait" Long Yue took out a notebook from his bag, took out a brush, and recorded the main points that Chen Feng said. …,

After saying so much, the coffee cups in front of the two of them were already visible. After letting the waiter change, Chen Feng began to tell the story he had already conceived, of course, in the beginning of the film, in order to connect with the first two films of "The Mummy", he made some modifications.

"The mirage-like legend of the 'sand-buried ancient city' has been circulating for centuries among the inhabitants of Kashgar, Rajlik, Malabashi, Yarkand, the oasis on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Lord Conston of England was also an adventurer, and his father once traveled with Hedin across the Taklamakan Desert and then left behind an astonishing secret. ”

"It is said that in addition to discovering the ancient city of Loulan in the Taklamakan Desert, Heding also discovered another mysterious ancient city, under which there is a place called a 'ghost cave' in Conston's father's diary, which is said to be full of airports and traps, and seems to preserve a rare treasure, but unfortunately the entire expedition team was in a situation of lack of water at that time, so it did not go deep into it and hurriedly returned. Later, Heding entered China several times, which seems to be related to the mysterious ancient city that was not made public by him. ”

In 1902, Conston organized an expedition into the Taklamakan Desert, but in the end he was left in vain. In order to fulfill his father's legacy, Constance organized another expedition into Xinjiang after the end of World War I. According to the clues left by his father, Conston made a major breakthrough in this expedition, and they seemed to have found the ancient city that was more mysterious than Loulan, but in the end, due to disagreements within the expedition, the expedition ended in vain. ”

Having learned the lessons of his failure, Constance returned to England after 10 years of preparation, culminating in 1933 to organize a massive expedition into the heart of the Taklamakan Desert. They split up and explored, but in the end they returned only with one expedition, and the other Constance himself led the expedition into the vast Taklamakan Desert, where they were never heard from. ”

The beginning of a story alone had already fascinated Long Yue, and when Chen Feng stopped to drink coffee, he couldn't help but ask, "Has he found that mysterious ancient city?" ”

Chen Feng shrugged his shoulders while drinking coffee, Long Yue realized that he was a little anxious, he smiled, and then obediently closed his mouth.

Everyone thought Conston had died in the desert, but his daughter Sophie was convinced that he was still alive and decided to organize an expedition to collect her father, but she lacked an experienced and trustworthy companion to accompany her. At this time, she was recommended to O'Connor, who lived in London. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )