Shao Yingying got two pieces of news, first, "Crazy Jewels" caused a boom in China, although this movie did not achieve an unexpectedly high box office, but after this boom, Ning Hao may get a good box office even if he comes up with any movie. Word-of-mouth is always the box office of the next film; Second, "Hippie Smiling Face" has been cut, and Lao Xu decided that Tong Dawei would play Shi Lei and Huang Lixing would play Niu Pengwei without saying hello to Shao Yingying when he entered the filming, and now he is reporting for review and waiting for release.

Shao Yingying, who followed Wang Jiawei among the grandmasters, was estimating the energy of the play "Hippie Smiley", and at the same time, he made a phone call to Wang Zhongjun and asked him to help recommend "Hippie Smiley" to be submitted for review in Cannes.

This time, when he followed Wang Jiawei around the world, Shao Yingying rarely asked about Cannes, in fact, not all the awards on the territory of foreigners are high.

Wang Jiawei said that he had heard a rumor, but did not say whether the rumor was true or not, saying that when Kitano Takeshi funded Jia Zhangke's film and sent the film to Cannes, Jia Zhangke met Li Amine at a cocktail party, and Li Amine was saying to the chairman Jacob, 'Jia Zhangke is a great director, it is not easy for him to help him more'; even Pierre Risian, who is an extremely important planner and film critic in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, once said something like this: 'In the early days of Jia Zhangke's career, I gave him a lot of help. All the films I recommend, I dare not say all of them, but most of them will be shortlisted' in fact this Pierre did not lie, under his recommendation. Many good films from Vietnam and Cambodia have entered the Cannes Film Festival.

Hearing this, Shao Yingying glanced at Wang Jiawei, is this director who has been rated as a master of postmodernism by many 'petty bourgeoisie' a little too pessimistic? It seemed that a dark smell was heard in his words. It's no wonder that there is always a thick gloomy plot in Wang Jiawei's films.

However, Shao Yingying was still fully prepared for this, he found Jiang Wen and asked Jiang Wen to help contact Cannes, after all, people have played on this plate, so they will not be as strange as him. Jiang Wen and Wang Zhongjun worked together, and the shortlisting of "Hippie Smiling Face" in Cannes has basically been finalized. In the end, whether you can win the prize is another matter.

Jiang Wen agreed, and seemed very busy, and hung up the phone without saying a few words.

At this time. Shao Yingying has been running with Wang Jiawei for more than a month, and the text materials collected by the two are enough to have two large suitcases, and the video materials can fill a hard disk.

The key is that Wang Jiawei is too good at ink, for example, when he asked someone about Tai Chi Grandmaster Yang Luchan, and asked about another character in the middle. Wang Jiawei has to find out the ins and outs of this character. More focused than the intelligence department, even the slightest flaw; If there is a third character, the same is true, although it is not enough to check the eighteenth generation of the ancestors, but from the enlightenment teacher to how to become famous, it must be mastered, and sometimes even prefer to run from the southernmost part of the country to the northernmost part of the country, in order to ask one or two questions. See one or two people.

Along the way, Wang Jiawei didn't shake hands when he saw people. Instead, he takes out a pen and notebook first, and as soon as something that interests him appears, he writes it down completely.

Shao Yingying still remembered the appearance when they went to visit the master of Xingyi Boxing, Wang Jiawei stared at the expressions of others, and hurriedly wrote down the book in his hand, and when Shao Yingying peeked, he found that Wang Jiawei had memorized all the various demeanors of this grandmaster in words that only Wang Jiawei could understand.

It's like 'someone is like a cliff, you know he's there, but you don't dare to take a step forward', people and cliffs, what kind of metaphor is this? But if you really feel the temperament of that person in the atmosphere at that time, it is appropriate.

Perhaps, this is the world of monsters, and in that world, there are always things that Shao Yingying can't understand.

They ran from the end of the New Year to the middle of summer, waiting for Wang Jiawei to say: "It's almost." At that time, they ran for half a year, plus last year's time, I'm afraid it will take more than half a year.

When Shao Yingying and Wang Jiawei returned to Xiangjiang to create the script, but the script was about to be created, Wang Jiawei still only had two characters in his mind, one was Ip Man, who had attracted him for many years, and the other was someone he didn't know who it was.

During their visit, there were too many images of martial arts women, and Wang Jiawei couldn't determine which one he wanted or which one he would give up.

In the end, it was Shao Yingying who said: "Let's create an original one, don't want deeds, just wind bones." ”

This sentence made Wang Jiawei make a quick decision, original!

But his original character turned out to be not Gong Er, but the entire Gong family, and even when this family was created, there was no surname at all, only a shell.

The surname was added by Shao Yingying, and Ma San's role was also created by Shao Yingying, when Shao Yingying made the character icon according to Wang Jiawei's ideas, Wang Jiawei liked it very much, but he didn't set the script according to Shao Yingying's "The Grandmaster" that Shao Yingying had seen, and Gong Er didn't take revenge at all.

Seeing that this Shao hero is stupid, Gong Er and Ma San can be regarded as the end of the boss fight in the movie, although it is not Ip Man who shoots, there is also a hearty fight scene......

Before Shao Yingying could give his opinion, Wang Jiawei took out the second half of the script the next day, seeking revenge on the front line!!

Shao Yingying knew why Wang Jiawei wrote like this without saying hello, because writing like this can pull the box office, Gong Er retired from marriage in order to take revenge, and the first line of the sky is unknown, so he first went to Yuezhou to do it with the impoverished Ip Man, and learned from Ip Man's mouth that it was not him who let Gong Er withdraw from the marriage, but Ma San's revenge for killing his father.

In this story, each character has enough time to express himself, all the characters are connected, and the entanglements of several people are also done with all their hearts, which can be called a model of commercial films.

However, the taste is wrong.

If this "The Grandmaster" is filmed, Wang Jiawei will not be Wang Jiawei.

In his films, cheating can be exempt from moral condemnation, decadence is an attitude of life, and typical commercial film techniques such as revenge and boss fighting should not belong to Wang Jiawei's world at all.

If the male protagonist and the heroine will never have anything to do with it in the original movie, but the two intersecting lines intersect at one point, it is acceptable, but now the plot of this script is completely a 'again' map, and a line of heaven connects these two people together at the end of the story.

Fortunately, there is still time, he calculated that Wang Jiawei will definitely overturn the script and start all over again, so in the process of writing the script for the first time, Shao Yingying didn't invest much, so why invest in the book that he knew would be changed?

"Boss Shao, let's discuss the cast."

When Wang Jiawei appeared at the hotel with a script written by the two of them day and night with dark circles under his eyes, Shao Yingying thought that what Wang Jiawei was going to say was: "I'm sorry, the script has to be restarted." Unexpectedly, Wang Jiawei directly finalized the script.

Pressure.

The pressure of Huayi to give a large price and the pressure of fighting Zhang Yimou actually made Wang Jiawei give up a lot and began to move closer to commercial films, even if Wang Jiawei didn't mention 'Zhang Yimou' along the way, but judging from Wang Jiawei's appearance, Shao Yingying knows too well the psychology of this stubble man in sunglasses, he wants to win, he wants to win more than himself!

Wang Jiawei is the leader of Xiangjiang literary films, and Zhang Yimou is the leader of mainland literary and artistic films, and neither of these two wants to lose in the battle. What's more, Wei Jiahui has already won once at the box office, will he Wang Jiawei admit that he is worse than Wei Jiahui?

"Okay." Shao Yingying jumped out of his thoughts, faced Wang Jiawei and said, "The actor ......"

"I want to use Liang Chaowei, but I don't know the schedule...... I'll give Wei Zai a call. Wang Jiawei remembered his old partner, the person who plays Ip Man must have a kind of elegance on him, and he must not be a big man like Shao Yingying.

Shao Yingying stopped Wang Jiawei and said: "No need to fight, the schedule is set, and it will be kept for our Huayi from the end of October to January." ”

Raising his head in surprise, Wang Jiawei took off his sunglasses for the first time when he still had to continue working, and a trace of joy appeared in his eyes when he looked at Shao Yingying: "Let him ......"

"To learn Wing Chun, you must learn all the routines before November, and the master you are looking for is Leung Siu Hung, a disciple of Ip Man. I have also been informed. ”

Wang Jiawei shook his head, it was the first time he had met someone who could understand him so well.

"Gong Er, you must not know who I want to use, because we haven't worked together!" Wang Jiawei looked at Shao Yingying and said.

Shao Yingying didn't show off, he took out his cigarette normally, got up from the sofa sitting side by side with Wang Jiawei and said: "Zhang Ziyi, the schedule is the same as Liang Chaowei, learning gossip, and the master he is looking for is the heir of Baguazhang, Ge Chunyan." ”

"Hiss......" Wang Jiawei inhaled in surprise and continued to ask, "Are you ......?"

"Liang Chaowei is the only one who meets Ip Man's temperament in my heart, and Zhang Ziyi is also on the right path to play Gong Er, this is the person I want to find in my heart, just try to talk about it. If you still ask, I will sue you, I want to find Zhang Zhen in the first line, he has worked with you, as for Ma San......"

"If you keep talking, Ma San, I don't believe you can still be with me!"

Wang Jiawei leaned back on the sofa and said very seriously.

"Zhang Jin."

Wang Jiawei finally laughed and laughed heartily: "No! ”

"Huh?" Shao Yingying looked at Wang Jiawei in surprise and said, "Isn't it? ”

"No, I want you to play Ma San!"

Shao Yingying said a little incomprehensibly: "I've only been following you all these days, and I haven't been in contact with Xingyi Boxing at all, how can I act?" ”

"Learn." Wang Jiawei said very easily.

"Wang Sunglasses, it's true that the heart picture challenges me, but it is Zhang Weiping who challenges me, Zhang Weiping will not appear in his own movie to act, right? You don't have to let me appear, as long as you shoot the scene well, and it's the same with me as an executive producer. Shao Yingying never wanted to show his face in Ip Man's play, he just wanted to participate in the production of zuò, this play did not fit his acting style, and none of the tasks were different from him.

Wang Jiawei shrugged and said, "So, you are stronger than him." (To be continued......)