"You see? Do you really understand? ”

In a quiet and chic private restaurant not far from Wanyu Mall, Jiang Wen stared at Zhou Cheng, who was sitting opposite him, with a questioning look.

Jiang Wen understands that there are too many obscurities in his film, and he also deliberately disrupts the timeline and story line, just to make his film more dramatic.

He doesn't believe that anyone can understand it once they watch it, because his play is not something that can be fully understood by a normal person's mind.

When Jiang Wen asked this question, Jiang Wu, Gu Xintong, and Zhou Yun, who came with Jiang Wen, were all looking at Zhou Cheng, and Zhou Cheng shook his head: "I don't understand, because I'm not crazy?" ”

"Crazy?" Gu Xintong was a little surprised.

"The theme of Mr. Jiang's play is a crazy word, the four subsections of this play: spring, summer, autumn, and winter, in fact, correspond to the four themes of madness, love, guns, and dreams. It means that the era was crazy, and people were crazy. Hehe, in the end, the audience was also crazy after watching it. ”

"Haha..."Before others understood the meaning of this sentence, Jiang Wenle said: "Just these words to you, I know that you understand most of this play." ”

"Got it?" This is Jiang Wu's question, and Zhou Yun, who has participated in this play, showed surprise on his face.

"Smoke?" Jiang Wen did not answer Jiang Wu's question, but took out a cigarette in Zhou Yun's dissatisfied gaze, took one for himself, and threw one to Zhou Cheng: "Say, what don't you understand?" ”

"Mr. Liang, there should be a prototype for this story." Zhou Cheng picked it up and sniffed it on his nose first, and then lit it.

"You see that, too?" Jiang Wen was not surprised this time, first nodded, then looked at Jiang Wu and said: "This is a true thing I saw in the compound, Jiang Wu, you may not remember it when you were young." What impressed me the most about him was the smile he had on his face when he died. ”

Jiang Wu thought for a while: "I vaguely heard that it seems that he was still an overseas Chinese who came back from Indonesia, and in the end he was slandered for misconduct and hanged in the boiler room behind the compound." ”

Zhou Cheng sighed: "The role of Mr. Liang is the only normal person in this play, and it is because he is not crazy that he committed suicide with a smile." ”

"Oh, I thought I was killed by Mr. Huang." Gu Xintong looked at everyone else looking at him, and was a little embarrassed to say the origin of his conclusion: "At that time, he broke through the adultery between Teacher Tang and Dr. Lin, and was killed by Teacher Tang and Dr. Lin, so Mr. Tang was sent down later." ”

"Teacher Liang should have committed suicide." Zhou Cheng looked at Gu Xintong, who was a little ignorant, and explained the meaning of this scene in the play: "His hands are in his pockets, it should be the arrogance of the literati against that era." He was smiling, and he was finally relieved and happy. ”

"He is worthy of being a top student in the Department of Literature of Nortel." Jiang Wenchong gave Zhou Cheng a thumbs up, looked at the wine and food, and said to Zhou Cheng with a wine glass: "Zhou Cheng, I salute you, this time I believe you really understand!" ”

"We also have a drink, and it's rare to see Jiang Wen have such a big praise for a young man." Jiang Wu also picked up his glass.

"I am very honored to be recognized by these two teachers." Zhou Cheng accompanied the two of them to have a drink, Gu Xintong and Zhou Yun drank juice, and they were the ones who were responsible for driving later.

Putting down the wine glass, Jiang Wen sighed with emotion: "The main reason why I made this movie was that that era had a great impact on me, and my youth was spent in that era. ”

"It's just that the movies of that era will be banned." Zhou Yun said with some concern: "The release of the film "Sunny Day" can be regarded as a policy release. ”

"That's why I'm not so straightforward, and try to make the story as subtle as possible." Jiang Wen extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand: "I won't shoot in the future, "Sunny Days" and this drama can be regarded as my farewell to that era." ”

A few more drinks were made, and Gu Xintong asked the question in his heart: "Mr. Jiang's "Sunny Day" is classified as a romantic realist theme, what about this one today?" Is this the same theme? ”

"What subject?" Jiang Wen picked up the wine glass, hesitated for a moment, looked at Zhou Cheng and asked, "Zhou Cheng, what kind of subject do you count this as when you do writing work?" ”

Zhou Cheng, who had a slightly shallow amount of alcohol, was already a little drunk at this time, and blurted out when he heard Jiang Wen's inquiry: "Magical realism, this is the theme of magical realism." ”

"Marquez?" Jiang Wu thought of the representative of this theme.

Zhou Cheng nodded at Jiang Wu: "Yes, it's Marquez, like "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which belongs to magical realism. ”

"I've watched "One Hundred Years of Solitude" more than a dozen times, and each time I have new insights. That's why I borrowed some of those episodes. After all, Jiang Wen was not arrogant enough to be comparable to the master, and raised his glass after sighing: "We toast the master, I just learned a superficial." ”

"To the master."

After another glass, Zhou Cheng was even more drunk, and said to Jiang Wen: "Teacher Jiang, there may be a sentence that I don't like very much, but I still want to say it." ”

"Zhou Cheng, you've drunk too much." Gu Xintong, who knew how much he drank, was worried that he would say something inappropriate, so he wanted to interrupt: "Teacher Jiang, don't mind, Zhou Cheng only drinks three or four taels, and he has drunk a little too much." ”

"Tell the truth when you're drunk." Jiang Wen looked at Zhou Cheng indifferently and said, "Let's say, for so many years, I have heard everything that I don't like." ”

"Teacher Jiang is atmospheric!" Zhou Cheng toasted him with another glass of wine and continued: "Mr. Jiang, the content of your play is too obscure and difficult to understand, and not everyone is interested in interpreting your play little by little. So I'm afraid the box office of your drama is worrying. ”

Gu Xintong hurriedly interjected: "Zhou Cheng, don't talk nonsense, Mr. Jiang's "Sunny Days" didn't have a good box office, I remember that the company has data, and the box office took 50 million when it was released in 95. ”

"It's different, the two movies are different." Zhou Cheng shook his head: "The times are different, and the audience is different." More than ten years have passed, and the current intervention of entertainment industry capital is too great. I understand Mr. Jiang's intention to wait until after the Venice Film Festival to release the film. But at this year's Venice Film Festival, "Lust and Caution" directed by Li Yu should be the biggest winner. ”

Listening to Zhou Cheng's words, Jiang Wen's face gradually sank, and the situation that Zhou Cheng said was a reality that he had been worried about but did not dare to face.

Taihe Media is 18 million, Emperor Pictures is 20 million, plus his own investment of 2 million, the total investment of this film has reached 40 million. In this way, the domestic box office must be at least more than 80 million to recover the cost, which is a bit too much pressure for the literary film "The Sun Also Rises".

As Zhou Cheng said, the current entertainment industry has gradually been occupied by capital. The last time "The Devil is Coming" was banned, it has made some domestic film and television companies close the financing door to the film directed by Jiang Wen, and even the more familiar Wang brothers are also evasive about Jiang Wen's new project, if this time it continues to lose money, then next time Jiang Wen will have a new project, I am afraid it will be more difficult to finance.

Gu Xintong tugged at Zhou Cheng's clothes, signaled him to stop, and then raised his cup and said to Jiang Wen: "Teacher Jiang, Zhou Cheng has drunk too much." Your film will be a great success at the Venice Film Festival. ”

"Thank you!" Jiang Wen took a dry glass and said with emotion: "Zhou Cheng is right, I'm just a little too idealistic." I'm afraid it will be difficult to raise funds in the future. Unless you beg your grandfather to tell your grandmother, kneel and beg them to invest. ”

"Don't be afraid, if no one else invests in the next drama, I will invest in it. We, Yanjing masters, are going to stand and earn money. ”

"Damn, I'll just stand and earn money at you, have a drink."

"Dry ......"