Grand Los Angeles Hotel.

Seeing that the main creative members of the crew of "The Last Emperor", except for Zun Long who was filming, most of them gathered again, and Bertolucci had a smile on his face, and it could be seen that he was very happy that the members who had left the crew and could voluntarily come to help promote the announcement.

Although the root cause of this "voluntary" comes from the opportunity to win an Academy Award.

Bertolucci asked: "Lee, Long Yi showed me the record you released in this book, the music is very well written, and you play it very well, does that instrument Xun really have the history of thousands of years as Long Yi said?" ”

Li Yange nodded and said, "Yes, the history of Xun can be traced back to 7,000 years ago, and it is one of the oldest musical instruments in China. ”

"Wow, 7,000 years old, it's so old, I think it's the oldest instrument I've ever heard, not one more." Bertolucci was surprised, it was hard for him to imagine that a musical instrument could be seven thousand years old, if he didn't know Li Yange's character, he definitely thought that the other party was lying.

"Yan Ge, I remember that a few years ago, a flute made of bones was excavated in China, and it seems to have a history of six or seven thousand years, right?" Chen Chong remembers that a few years ago, there seemed to be an archaeological news reported on TV, saying that a very old bone flute had been found.

"Well, the excavation of a bone flute at the Jiahu site is about 8-9,000 years old, which is the first time in the history of the world that an ancient musical instrument more than 7,000 years old has been discovered." Speaking of this excavated bone flute, Li Yange saw it when he went to the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in his last life, and the overall shape is similar to the bamboo flute we use today.

"Eight or nine thousand years? Oh my God, that's two or three times more than the history of our Italy. Bertolucci's mouth was wide open and his face was full of disbelief, the history of Italy dates back to the tribal era more than 4,000 years ago, and this bone flute instrument is older than the history of one of their countries.

"By the way, the director just said that you released an album in this book?"

At this time, Chen Chong reacted and looked at Li Yange in surprise.

"Well, in June, I released a pure music album in Yueben."

"Then I'll have to get someone to buy one and listen to it."

"I still have one, if you want to hear it, I'll let Shaojun bring it to you later."

"Okay, just listen to your masterpiece!"

Chen Chong smiled, after she finished filming the movie "Taipan" last year, she has been in the United States for half a year, and there has been no opportunity for a new movie, so when she heard that the director was going to sprint for the Oscars, she also came over spontaneously, thinking that if she could be nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress with "The Last Emperor", then she would not be worried about not receiving Hollywood movies in the future.

After chatting for a while, Bertolucci officially talked about the next public relations work.

There are two kinds of public relations in Hollywood, one is to give gifts to the judges in various names, and the second is to do what they like, build a good relationship with the other party, and then try to get the other party to vote for their own movie.

Originally, this kind of public relations thing was not Li Yange's turn, but in the American film school, there are many older judges who especially like classical music, and now there is a very, very famous Chinese cello musician Yo-Yo Ma in the United States, considering that this musician and Li Yange are both Chinese, in order to win over those older judges who love classical music, Bertolucci had to invite Li Yange to the United States.

As for why Ning Ying, Zun Long and Chen Chong are not considered, the main consideration is that Li Yange himself is also an excellent musician, and his identity as a musician is similar to that of Yo-Yo Ma, so I think we can talk together.

"Yo-Yo Ma?" Li Yange raised his eyebrows, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, he didn't expect Bertolucci to ask him to come to the United States, but he actually wanted to make a good relationship with Yo-Yo Ma and ask the other party to help canvass for votes.

"Yes, Lee, you may not know Youyouma, he is currently the most famous cello musician in the United States!"

In order to understand Yo-Yo Ma, Bertolucci has also asked someone to find the other party's information in the past few days, and I have to say that this very famous cello musician in the United States does have a proud cost.

When he was 7 years old, Yo-Yo Ma and his sister performed at the Washington Cultural Center, which was appreciated by then-President John F. Kennedy and his wife.

When he was 16 years old, he held a solo cello recital at Carnegie Hall in New York.

When almost all musicians were able to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York, Yo-Yo Ma had already become a regular visitor to Carnegie Hall, but whenever there was a show for him that day, the tickets would be sold out the morning before.

The year before last, in 1985, the 30-year-old Yo-Yo Ma won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo for the first time, which completely introduced the Chinese cellist into the field of vision of the American public.

After all, compared to concert halls, the Grammys are the focus of more ordinary people's attention.

For Yo-Yo Ma, Li Yange definitely knows more than Bertolucci, after all, as a very accomplished Chinese in the global classical field, it is difficult for Li Yange, as a compatriot, not to pay attention to it.

Li Yange still remembers that Yo-Yo Ma's theme song of the same name for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is refreshing, and the innovative neo-classical violin music with Chinese elements is refreshing, and his three "Silk Road" released in 1998 are no less than Kitaro's album of the same name in 1980.

Thinking of this, Li Yange shrugged his shoulders and said, "Director Bertolucci, I understand what you mean, but I don't know Yo-Yo Ma." ”

"It doesn't matter, Long Yi knows him, and not long ago, I took your album in Yueben, as well as a few soundtracks made for our movie, and he listened to them, Youyouma is very interested, and I also asked Long Yi to know you, if I know that you are coming to the United States, I think I will definitely ask you to meet."

Is this a long time ago? Co-author: I'm a tool?

Hearing Bertolucci's words, Li Yange couldn't cry or laugh in his heart.

I have to admit that Bertolucci really took great pains to win the Oscars, and in order to win over the judges who like classical music, he thought of Yo-Yo Ma as he liked, considering that the other party was Chinese, and even called Li Yange from China.

For the sake of votes, he tossed back and forth, if he didn't win a few awards, Li Yange felt really sorry for Bertolucci's careful study.

Thinking of this, Li Yange pondered for a moment, looked up at Bertolucci, and said: "Director Bertolucci, I can try to mention this matter to Yo-Yo Ma, as for whether the other party is willing, I dare not guarantee it, after all, there is still a big difference between Chinese and Chinese." ”

Yo-Yo Ma is a second-generation Chinese, who has received Western ideas since he was a child, and what he has learned is Western classical music, which is very different from the folk music that Li Yange learned in his previous life.

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