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"Ahem, Mr. Lu Yang, can you tell me your thoughts in detail?" Gu Cancan gave Lu Yang a big smile, it was really Lu Yang, the director of the embroidered spring knife.

You must know that there are few directors of the new generation who can play, but Lu Yang is one.

The joy in Gu Cancan's heart couldn't be hidden.

Lu Yang is not a person from Bright Video, he is not affiliated with a film and television company, he is now just a newcomer who has just graduated from Nortel's directing department, compared to most of the students who are unemployed after graduation, he is not bad, before being selected by Bright Video, he was an executive director in a digital film crew, and he can be regarded as accumulating a certain amount of experience.

"I, to be honest, wanted to make a martial arts movie like no other. Three months ago, I saw a book, "The Love of Soji Okita" by the Japanese writer Ryotaro Sima, and I saw that a marginal swordsman with a political mission fell in love with the daughter of an ordinary family, and was in a moral and emotional dilemma. To be honest, the ordinary emotions of marginal people always move me, so I wanted to make a martial arts movie, focusing not on the enmity of the rivers and lakes, but on the lives and emotions of the marginal people. Lu Yang has such a literary style in his bones, and he speaks in a literary manner.

Gu Cancan nodded, according to Lu Yang's description, she became more and more sure that Lu Yang was talking about embroidered spring knives.

The short film of chasing and killing Wei Zhongxian should not have appeared in the original time and space, Gu Cancan has no impression of this, but it does not prevent her from judging this short film, this short film is full of strong personal style, although the shooting technique is still a little immature, and individual shots are not handled well, but in terms of editing, color and narrative rhythm, it is quite good.

Gu Cancan, who has been in the directing industry for two years and has experience in shooting four films, not only looks at the quality of a video from the plot, but also learns to judge the director's directing level from the composition, lighting, rhythm, and color system of the shooting.

"Mr. Lu, now that martial arts films are in decline, even the two martial arts works shot by big directors such as Zhang Yimou have received rave reviews, and the box office of martial arts films released in the past two years is very unsatisfactory, and if martial arts films want to be well-made, the investment will be more than 10 million, and now few investors are willing to invest in shooting martial arts films." He Yueran sighed.

What He Yueran said is also the truth, and the status quo is like this.

If we talk about the decrease in the number of martial arts movies, this is related to the development of mainland theaters. From Feng Xiaogang's Chinese New Year movies at the end of the last century to Zhang Yimou's "Hero" in 2003, although martial arts films have made great contributions in the development of Chinese-style blockbusters, due to the hard conditions of martial arts films themselves, they are still not mainstream genre films.

Although martial arts movies have picked up in recent years, compared with other genre films, they are still unpopular and niche.

In terms of cost, the investment in martial arts films is huge, and the cycle is too long, which does not meet the requirements of short-term profitability of theaters.

The audience of martial arts movies is relatively limited to a single group of fans who love martial arts, but it cannot form a linkage between groups, and the requirements for the actors' martial arts skills and action design are too high, which further increases the difficulty coefficient of casting for the movie.

Many people think that there are a lot of martial arts movies in their childhood, which is based on the inflow of Hong Kong martial arts films through discs, and many people watched a large number of Hong Kong martial arts movies in the video hall when they were children, and the video hall has cultivated a large number of mainland fans.

This is inseparable from the boom in national arts that year, coupled with the popularity of martial arts literature and martial arts comic books, it has also led to the development of martial arts movies, such as "Shaolin Temple", "Mysterious Buddha", "Wulin Zhi" and other classic movies are hard to find. But with the fading tide of national arts, martial arts movies are inevitably declining.

But with the popularity of theaters and the development of the Internet, many martial arts complexes are a kind of nostalgic existence for the audience, they may be in love with martial arts films, but this love is not enough to support them to enter the cinema, plus the quality of martial arts films in recent years is worrying, and the box office is sluggish, It is reasonable that He Yueran is not optimistic about martial arts films.

Lu Yang listened to He Yueran's words, he couldn't help but be anxious in his heart, his hands were crossed and clasped together and kept twisting, he looked at Gu Cancan, but found that Gu Cancan had a noncommittal expression, and his heart sank, but with his dream of martial arts movies, he still retorted: "I don't think martial arts movies are unpopular, but those movies are not good." Miss Gu, you may not understand that you are a girl, Mr. He always had a dream of being a hero when he was a child, right? ”

Gu Cancan wanted to say that I could actually understand it, but when I thought about it, I needed to explain a lot, so I lost the interest in raising the bar.

He Yueran nodded honestly and sighed: "Yes, I grew up watching martial arts movies in Xiangjiang Taiwan, I have watched classic movies such as "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Undefeated in the East", and "Smiling Proud Jianghu" more than once, and I have also thought about the young man fighting the sword Jianghu. ”

"That's right! I think we Chinese people should still have expectations for martial arts movies. Lu Yang said eagerly, "It is true that martial arts are in decline, but if an excellent martial arts film can appear, it will be able to arouse the audience's enthusiasm for watching the movie." ”

Seeing Lu Yang trying so hard to convince her and He Yueran, she couldn't help but laugh and said to Lu Yang: "I read the script you wrote, frankly speaking, the narrative structure is a bit messy, if you shoot according to the current script, you still can't escape the fate of being criticized as a bad movie, I think the story is good, but it still needs to be revised and improved." Mr. Lu, I have proposed some revisions to the script you sent me, so go back and take a look. ”

Although she was criticizing Lu Yang's script, Lu Yang's eyes lit up, and the meaning of Gu Cancan's words was that if the script could be approved by her, she could agree to invest in filming.

"I can refine the script!" Lu Yang said excitedly.

Gu Cancan stood up, walked to the window, turned his back to He Yueran and Lu Yang, yawned a lot, filmed for a day, and had to talk to Lu Yang in the middle of the night, Gu Cancan really felt tired.

Lu Yang saw the tiredness on Gu Cancan's body, and took the initiative to say goodbye.

Gu Cancan stopped him and said seriously: "Mr. Lu, don't be in a hurry about the script, a good script needs time to grind out slowly, and when the script is perfected, it's not too late to think about shooting." In addition, I suggested that Mr. Lu shoot two films first to practice his shooting skills. ”

Lu Yang understood that this was saying that his directing ability still needed to be improved, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "I understand, but how can there be so many films for us newcomers to shoot and practice, in fact, even if you want to do on-set notes, some crews also need to build relationships." ”

What he said is also true, as Gu Cancan understands, so many film and television graduates every year, the vast majority of them can't find their favorite jobs.

However, what Lu Yang is worried about is exactly what the bright era needs.

Gu Cancan's face showed a smile like a little aunt, and a seductive voice like a wolf grandmother: "If you want, you can come to the bright era, we now have many shooting plans and need capable directors." Seriously, I think Mr. Lu is quite talented, but he lacks some opportunities to get started. And the Bright Times can provide such an opportunity. ”

In the face of Gu Cancan's sudden olive branch, Lu Yang said that it was false not to be moved, but he didn't want to bind himself to a certain company, so after hesitating, Lu Yang said: "Thank you, but I want to think about it." ”

Gu Cancan smiled and nodded.

After Lu Yang left, He Yueran asked cautiously: "Mr. Gu, are you very optimistic about him?" ”

"Quite a talented guy." Gu Cancan commented: "There are not many directors who can make high-quality martial arts movies, and Lu Yang's short films give me hope." ”

He Yueran was surprised: "Xiao Gu always likes martial arts movies? ”

"Yes, I personally like our Chinese special dramas. It's just that martial arts movies in recent years are indeed a bit disappointing. Previous martial arts films have the charm of rivers and lakes and martial arts, from Zhang Che Chuyuan to Tsui Hark Cheng Xiaodong and even to the costume films dressed in martial arts at the end of the year, this charm that attracts martial arts fans to awaken the chivalrous dream in their hearts is more or less there. Now there are fewer or even none. This kind of very mysterious thing is the key to determining the quality of martial arts films. From Lu Yang's short film "Chasing Wei Zhongxian", I saw the shadow of real martial arts. Gu Cancan praised Lu Yang without hesitation.

He Yueran didn't expect Gu Cancan's evaluation of Lu Yang to be so high.

"Okay, let's not talk about it for now, Mr. He, I'm going home, I'm sorry to let you stay so late." Gu Cancan could see that He Yueran should also be very tired.

Looking at the time, it was already eleven fifty p.m., close to the early hours of the morning.

He Yueran smiled: "It's okay, when you are busy with work, it is common to work overtime until two or three o'clock in the morning." Mr. Gu, then how do you go home, or I'll send you? ”

"No, no, I have a driver. The development of bright video is very good, thanks to Mr. He. ”

"It's a matter of duty."

……

It was almost twelve o'clock in the morning, Gu Cancan thought about it and didn't go back to the villa where she lived now, but went to the small house she bought herself.

Grandparents sleep lightly, and if she comes home at this time and wakes up the old man, they may never be able to sleep again.

Gently opening the door, Gu Cancan was about to slip his slippers and suddenly paused, and there was a pair of small brown boots at the entrance.

It's Wang Xiaoxiao's shoes.

Gu Cancan's heart was agitated, he changed his slippers lightly, and was about to go to the bedroom, when he heard a lazy voice from the bedroom: "Cancan? ”

The voice was vague, and it was obvious that Wang Xiaoxiao was awakened by the sound of Gu Cancan entering the door.

Gu Cancan's voice unconsciously became gentle: "Xiaoxiao, it's me, did I wake you up?" She pushed the door open slightly.

There was a night light in the room, Wang Xiaoxiao sat up on the bed, her left arm was propped up on the bed to support her body, her eyes were half-squinted, her body was a little shaky, she had just woken up from a deep sleep, Wang Xiaoxiao was still a little confused.

She was wearing a milky white suspender pajamas, the pajamas were low-cut and sleeveless, and the magnificent depth appeared in front of Gu Cancan so unabashedly, and she was about to come out.

Maybe it was a little cold, Wang Xiaoxiao's right hand grabbed the quilt that slipped to her waist and draped it on her body indiscriminately, inadvertently covering the beautiful scenery, and also making Gu Cancan come back to her senses.

Seeing Gu Cancan, Wang Xiaoxiao's eyes were still squinting, pursed her lips and smiled happily, and her lazy voice had a nasal voice that had just woken up: "Cancan, why are you still here so late, what time is it?" ”

"Today's filming time is a little late, and I'm afraid that going home will affect my grandparents. Hey, Xiaoxiao, why didn't you go back to school? ”

"Hmm, didn't I follow the teacher to do the case of the backdoor listing of Beijing Culture recently, I worked too late today, and it happened that their addresses were nearby, so I came over to sleep."

As she spoke, Wang Xiaoxiao gradually became energetic.

Speaking of which, the two haven't seen each other for more than half a month, Gu Cancan rushed to shoot the broken love for thirty-three days, Wang Xiaoxiao followed the teacher to toss and go public, and the two of them were busy like dogs, and even tonight's meeting was an accident.

At this time, Gu Cancan was exhausted, his big eyes flickered, and his eyelids were obviously unable to hold on.

"Cancan, you go to bed quickly." Wang Xiaoxiao said distressedly.

"Well, I'll go take a shower first." Gu Cancan took off his coat with a yawn, threw it on the sofa casually, and took off his sweater as he walked.

"Hey, pajamas." Wang Xiaoxiao shouted.

Gu Cancan had already walked into the bathroom.

"It's really worry-free." Wang Xiaoxiao muttered and got up and put on a thick coral velvet nightgown, and then walked over with Gu Cancan's nightgown.

The sound of rushing water was already ringing in the bathroom.

"Cancan, you didn't take your pajamas." Wang Xiaoxiao whispered.

"Oh, pass it to me."

Wang Xiaoxiao slowly pushed open the door, Gu Cancan did not lock it, and then Gu Cancan's emaciated back met her eyes.

The water droplets in the unkempt head rushed to fall, hitting Gu Cancan's white and dazzling back, and some of the water droplets splashed happily, as if crystal pearls were crossing a graceful arc in the air under the illumination of the light. There are also some water droplets that converge into a thin stream of water that slides down the curve of Gu Cancan's back, and narrows abruptly to his waist, which is a thrilling arc.

"Chan...... Cancan, I put my pajamas on the shelf. Wang Xiaoxiao's voice trembled a little.

"Hmm." Gu Cancan responded, turned the hair hanging in front of his eyes from bottom to top with both hands to the back of his head, and then half-turned around and smiled at Wang Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao, if you come to wash it too, let's take a mandarin duck bath." ”

"Phew, I don't want to wash it with the washboard." Wang Xiaoxiao felt that her face was hot, took a sip, and quickly ran out.

"Washboard?" Gu Cancan muttered, "What's wrong with the washboard?" I'm flat-chested, I'm proud, and I'm the country and province cloth. ”

After taking a shower, Gu Cancan walked out of the bathroom in thick pajamas, and then saw Wang Xiaoxiao, who was already waiting with a hair dryer.

"Cancan, come, I'll blow your hair."

Gu Cancan obediently walked over and sat down, this feeling of being cared for was really good.