Yanshan outside Beijing.

A vast plain area where dozens of tents have been entrenched.

This is exactly where the crew of the movie "The Last Emperor" was filmed.

A yellow van creaked to a halt nearby.

"I'm sorry for you, master."

Li Yange took out the money and handed it to the driver, collected the money he had found, and after he thanked him, he got out of the car directly.

The small grassland, the Xiaoyan Mountain, which has not yet been greatly developed, reveals the freshness of the air.

"Yan Ge!"

Ning Ying, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately stood outside the crew and waved hello after seeing Li Yange.

"Sister Ning."

Li Yange walked over with a big bag.

"Let's go, the director is waiting for you."

Ning Ying took his duffel bag and led him to a large tent not far away.

Soon, the two entered the tent, in which sat director Bertolucci, male protagonist Zunlong, female protagonist Chen Chong, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, and an unknown foreigner.

"Li, you're just in time, come and sit."

Seeing the visitor, Bertolucci warmly beckoned Li Yange to sit down.

"Thank you." When Li Yange walked over, he smiled and nodded with Zunlong and the others.

There was a charcoal fire burning in the tent, and it was warm, and not long after coming in, Li Yange felt a little hot, took off the black scarf around his neck, and put it on the chair.

The foreigner glanced at Li Yange, didn't care who the person was, and said in an unkind tone: "The company is very dissatisfied with the progress of your shooting, and Manager Rum hopes to see the sample as soon as possible, otherwise the follow-up funds will not be able to arrive."

And the company agreed that the box office of the film would be very unsatisfactory after its release, so they hoped to be able to shoot and release it in time for the year, so that they could participate in the Academy Awards, and maybe attract a little North American fans by winning the award. ”

"They can't do that!"

Bertolucci said unhappily: "We still have a lot of scenes that have not been filmed, and it is already very good to be able to finish filming in January next year, but it is impossible to release it before the film festival, and the follow-up editing, soundtrack, and dubbing will take time." ”

The specific period of the Academy Awards is different from year to year, but it is usually in March every year, and now it will be January in two days, leaving them with only two months, even if the film is finished now, post-production will take at least one or two months.

And if you want to win the Academy Awards, you have to go to public relations, and other films that want to be selected started public relations as early as last year, and they want to fight for the Oscars before they even finish the movie, which is simply unrealistic.

The foreigner said harshly, "But it's a decision from the company's side, and you have to do it." ”

"But the investors of this film are not the only ones in Daoao." Bertolucci replied equally unceremoniously.

The film is co-produced by Italy's Yanco Film Company, Britain's Daoao Film Company, and China Film Co-production Company, and the Italian and British sides are the main investors in terms of funds, but without the Chinese side providing the venue and permission to shoot it, they have no way to go to the Forbidden City to make a movie.

"You!"

The foreigner was obviously angry, and after glaring at Bertolucci viciously, he got up and was about to leave, and when he reached the entrance of the tent, he stopped and turned back and said, "This is Manager Rum's decision, you can do it yourself!" ”

Bertolucci ignored him, don't look at the other party is a producer sent by the British company Daoao, but in fact, he is a dominant family in the crew.

On the one hand, it is because the funds were brought by Bertolucci, and he personally discussed with the relevant departments when he came to the mainland to shoot in the Forbidden City, so it can be said that if it were not for the foreign system, he could not only be a director but also a producer.

"Alright, the unpleasant guy is gone, let's talk about the soundtrack."

After the foreigner left, Bertolucci looked at Li Yange with a smile and said, "Li, the piece you made with the dragon is fantastic, I hope you can make a better soundtrack here in the future." ”

Li Yange smiled: "Good director." ”

Not long ago, the song he wrote with Sakamoto Ryu happened to be the movie song of the same name "The Last Emperor".

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Time flies, like a meteor chasing the moon, in a blink of an eye, it will be January 1987, and it will be the New Year in more than 20 days, and the crew is still working overtime to shoot.

The most recent scene is the filming of Pu Yi conspiring with the RB people to establish a puppet Manchuria, and re-ascending the throne as the emperor.

Interestingly, after Ryuichi Sakamoto made a cameo role as an RB spy, director Bertolucci also asked Li Yange if he wanted to play a cameo role.

This was naturally rejected by Li Yange.

Just kidding, there are few positive roles among the last emperors, either braids or RB people, how could Li Yange want to make a cameo, and he doesn't know how to act, making a cameo is purely a waste of film.

But I don't know if it's the director's bad taste, this day was filmed at a drinking party held after Pu Yi ascended the throne, and the spy played by Sakamoto Ryuichi naturally wanted to play, and David Byrne was also arranged by the director as a foreign consul, as for Li Yange's words, he also put on a suit and played a background wall at the request of the director.

The scene of the cocktail party is a group scene, but the focus is still on Zunlong and Chen Chong.

After filming the scene where Ryuichi Sakamoto showed his side face, he held a wine glass full of clear water, walked to Li Yange's side, and talked to him in a whisper.

"Mr. Li, I wonder if you have any ideas for releasing an album?"

"Releasing an album?"

Li Yange was stunned by this.

"Yes, I sent the samples of those tunes you composed back to the island country, Polygram Records is very interested in your work, and I hope to have the opportunity to work with you."

Polygram Records?

For this company, Li Yange can be described as thunderous, in the eighties and nineties, almost eighty percent of the singers in Hong Kong and Taiwan have released albums in this company, singing in KTV that year, after ordering a singer's song, the MV that appeared, the first line is Polygram records.

Li Yange said: "The songs I wrote are pure music, not songs, and they are also interested? ”

Mr. Lee may not know much about PolyGram, which is currently one of the largest record labels in the world, and in addition to promoting pop singers, they also release high-quality artwork. Mr. Li, those original songs of yours, anyone who knows how to do it will be willing to help release them. ”

After such a long period of contact, Ryuichi Sakamoto admires Li Yange's talent very much, especially the song "The Original Scenery of Hometown" blown out with Xun, the silence revealed in the song is fascinating.

This is undoubtedly a kind of spiritual comfort for the people of the island countries who are about to face economic collapse after the "Hiroshima Agreement" announced by the governments of the island countries in September 1985.

You must know that before September 1985, the economic strength of the island countries can be said to be the best in the world, and it is not much better than the United States, otherwise there would be no famous saying that the businessmen of the island countries "want to buy half of the United States".

However, after the Hiroshima Agreement, the yen depreciated sharply, and in 1986, in just six months, the yen rose from 240:1 to 118:1 against the dollar.

It's almost halved.

Subsequently, the real estate and stock markets of the island countries were also fueled by the banks to create a huge bubble, and the island countries' economies showed a false boom, and the stock market soared to 40,000 points.

The Wall Street predators who came up with the Hiroshima Agreement behind the scenes felt that the time had come to cut leeks, so they poured out of their nests and used huge sums of money to sell the stock markets of the island countries on a large scale, and the stock market plummeted all the way to 10,000 points.

Last year, the number of people who committed suicide by jumping off a building in the island country alone was staggering.

One can imagine how collapsed the people of the island country were at this time.

This is also why Ryuichi Sakamoto was able to quickly attract the attention of Polygram Records after Li Yange's songs were sent to the island country. Thanks to the fact that at this time, there was an atmosphere of silence, decline and despair in the society of the island country all the time.

In this case, a song that can comfort people's hearts is so precious.

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