"Rooftop"

Three Days

"You're Happier Than Before"

"Snail"

Open Love

"Sister, Have You Slept?"

"Starlight"

……

PS: (All the above songs are Jay Chou's songs, but except for "Xingqing", the other songs were written by him before he was eighteen years old, Wu Zongxian, Xu Ruyun, Wang Leehom...... ）

Sure enough, after looking at the lyrics and songs, Jay Chou took care of all the songs on his record.

Chen Qiming paid attention to the melody of the song to see if there was any potential for golden songs.

In less than a dozen minutes, he roughly finished reading these lyrics and songs.

All in all, the quality of the songs on Jay Chou's record is very good.

However, although the quality of the lyrics and songs is good, it is too average.

That is, there are no songs in the album that are of better quality than the others.

Only "Xingqing" is easier to become popular in Chen Qiming's opinion.

"Do you have any ideas?"

Seeing Chen Qiming's face groaning, Liu Ciwei couldn't help but ask.

"It's okay, so be it! Remember to put a little more resources on them when promoting, and follow the B-level project! ”

After coming back to his senses, Chen Qiming put down the lyrics and songs.

He was just thinking about whether he should give him two of Jay Chou's future songs.

But it's better to think about it.

Jay Chou is still young now, so he can let him hone it himself.

And this guy is very talented, so it's not bad for him to take the route he created in his dreams.

Don't interfere with him.

In addition, you should put some pressure on him.

For example, he copied all his future golden songs and asked him to recreate some golden songs.

lest there will be too few golden songs in the Chinese music scene in the future.

In the following days, Chen Qiming stayed at home for a while, accompanied his mother, and handed over some work in Asia.

In March, he will go to the United States to shoot the movie "Changing Face", which will not be filmed in two or three months.

For such a long time, Chen Qiming needs to do some handover of a lot of work on the Asian side.

At the beginning of March, Chen Qiming took over all the work in Asia and once again stepped on the plane to the United States.

When he came to the United States, he first went to Paramount Pictures.

He has some objections to his role in "Changing Face" and needs to renegotiate with Paramount and John Woo.

Because this face change invited Chen Qiming.

So a lot of the settings in the movie have changed a lot from the dream.

According to the original plan, Chen Qiming's role should be Li Hua, the boss of the American Chinese gang.

But considering that he is now the pride of the Chinese and is not suitable for playing this kind of role that damages the face of the Chinese, after he came to Paramount, he proposed the idea of changing the role to Paramount.

Paramount didn't want to agree to Chen's suggestion.

The script of the film has already been completed, and the screenwriting work will become very difficult for the temporary higher role.

But in the end, considering Chen Qiming's popularity, Paramount finally accepted this condition.

Changed his role as a mob boss to a police detective.

As for his original role, he was replaced by Nicolas Cage.

In fact, it's just a role reversal.

However, after swapping roles, many of the characters' settings also need to be readjusted.

In the original setting, there were actually a lot of other Asians who appeared.

But because of the change in Chen Qiming's role, the original Chinese gang was directly changed to the foreign gang where Nicolas Cage was in the dream.

The script was re-changed, and although Paramount found the best screenwriter to work on it, it inevitably delayed the filming date of the movie.

Filming was postponed from the beginning of March to March 20.

During this time, Chen Qiming was holding the unfinished script and retreating at home alone to figure out the role.

The addition of Chen Qiming has changed a lot in the plot of this very high-quality film in the dreamland.

Of course, the most important thing has not changed, that is, just like the original core plot, this is a story that mainly tells the story of two protagonists who get each other's lives after experiencing a swap of identities.

Nicolas Cage's character in the film, Kester, is a mob boss.

Once he designed to kill the Interpol who had been tracking him for 8 years - Chen Li (played by Chen Qiming).

But he didn't expect the plot to fail and kill Chen Li's son by mistake, which made the two completely form a bitter enmity.

Kester in the movie is very clever and is able to cleverly evade Interpol's tracking every time.

Interpol finally arrested him and got him into trouble.

Kester planted a gas bomb in the crowd, but the exact location of the installation was not revealed.

In order to find out the bomb, Chen Li, who is the same size as Kester and has the same height, decides to change his identity with Kester.

Kester's identity is then used to find out who installed the gas bomb.

But there are also difficulties in identity exchange, although Chen Li and Kester are very similar in shape, but the appearance of the two is different, and even the skin color is different.

In order to successfully swap identities, Chen Li used the latest face-changing technology and skin color conversion technology to turn him into an existence exactly like Kester.

After the successful operation, Chen Li woke up first with the help of his assistant, and then quickly threw himself into the task.

Kester, on the other hand, did not wake up after the operation and was put into custody.

After he came to his senses, he quickly killed the police officer who was guarding him under the negligence of the guards.

and killed several key personnel who knew about the matter one by one.

This face-swapping plan itself is a high-level secrecy operation, not to mention that Kester is very clever and directly kills all those who know.

So the fact that the two swapped identities became an eternal secret.

On the other side, after changing his face, Chen Li became the gangster Kester.

He immediately uses his unique identity to infiltrate the gang and investigate the truth.

At the same time, it also helped the Kester family resolve the conflict and let the daughter who had gone the wrong way know that she was lost.

After Kester became a police officer, he did not follow Chen Li's old-fashioned path and was incompatible with other Interpol.

Instead, he used his unique Western humor to resolve the conflict between Sean and his Interpol colleagues.

And, in order to play the role of Chen Li well, he began to learn a lot about Chinese culture to ensure that his role was not exposed.

To this end, he even personally traveled to China to visit a kung fu master and learned the real Chinese kung fu from him.

To be honest, the difficulty of playing after the two people's identities are swapped is definitely hellish difficulty.

People from different countries, different skin colors, and different cultures have to play each other, and you can imagine the difficulties involved.

Kester, in particular, needed to learn Chinese, the world's most difficult language, Kung Fu, and even 5,000 years of Chinese history.

Damn, Kester has learned to vomit.

On the other hand, it is Chen Li.

Eating with chopsticks, he suddenly had to use a knife and fork to play rugby, which he didn't know how to play.

It's hellish too.

In general, the new version of "Changing Face", in addition to the general plot direction.

In fact, a lot has changed in terms of content.

This is mainly because of Chen Qiming's joining.

His addition has increased the highlights of the movie a lot.

For example, how people from two different cultures learn from each other's cultures.

Among them, there will definitely be a lot of Chinese elements added.

For example, Chinese kung fu, and some other things about Chinese theater culture.

Regarding this point, Chen Qiming and John Woo have a very tacit understanding to try to add this aspect of culture to the film.

After all, this is a good opportunity to promote Chinese culture, and as Chinese, they will not let go of such an opportunity.

Time passed, and more than ten days finally passed, and in a blink of an eye, the time came to the twentieth.

On this day, "Changing Face" officially entered the filming stage.

Well, it's not a change of face, this project has been renamed "Swap Identities" after some re-evaluation.

The filming of "Swapping Identities" did not take the green screen shooting, which has been popular in recent years, but chose the more difficult live-action shooting.

There's no way around it.

In the movie, Kester needs to travel to many scenic spots in China to shoot.

As far as the scenery of the Great Wall is concerned, what kind of green screen can be made.

I really have the money to build that scene, and I may have shot several films on the spot.

In fact, Chen Qiming felt that the filming of this movie was quite challenging.

He and Nicolas Cage almost have to challenge two roles.

Yes, two roles.

Kester at the beginning of the movie is played by Nicolas Cage, and Chen Li is played by Chen Qiming.

After the identity is exchanged, the roles of the two will change, and Chen Qiming will shoot with Kester's personality and name, and in the same way, Kester is the same.

In addition, the cooperation with Nicolas Cage is also a pleasure for Chen Qiming.

At this time, Nicolas Cage is not the king of bad movies in the future dream.

Now he is one of the hottest movie stars in Hollywood.

The movies he starred in in recent years have basically been box office hits.

In terms of acting, Nicolas Cage just won the Best Actor award at last year's Oscars.

is an out-and-out Oscar winner.

The scene with the Oscar winner, this is what Chen Qiming has been looking forward to for a long time.

And Nicolas Cage did not disappoint Chen Qiming.

Playing with him, Chen Qiming felt very cool.

Of course, in the same way, the same is true for Nicolas Cage and Chen Qiming.

Chen Qiming's two Golden Horse actors, a Golden Statue actor is not for nothing.

Although he has not won the international actor, in the field of filming, the current Chen Qiming is definitely an actor.

He just doesn't make much filming.

If he shoots a lot, he will definitely be comparable to Leung Ka-fai and Tony Leung among Hong Kong and Taiwan actors.

When filming between actors, if there is no gap between them, it is easy for actors to have a good relationship on the set.

This is the case with Chen Qiming and Nicolas Cage.

One of the two is mainly engaged in the singer industry, and the other is a pure actor.

Although there are business conflicts between each other, there are not many.

At the same time, the two had no grudges before.

Therefore, without grievances and business conflicts, the two became good friends after staying in the crew for a few days.

In his free time, Nicolas Cage would ask Chen Qiming about some Chinese culture.

Chen Qiming will ask Nicolas Cage to teach him how to shoot.

Anyway, in the United States, as long as you have money, you can play with any gunman.

Chen Qiming tried AK.

Good guy, the recoil is really strong, and Chen Qiming's shoulders have been sore for two days.

The American scene was filmed for nearly two months.

Most of the scenes in this drama were still filmed in the United States.

Including a lot of gunfights, they were filmed directly on the streets of America.

For actors, filming in the United States actually has many benefits.

There is an actors' union in the United States, and as long as you join the actors' union, you will be protected by the union.

When filming, if you encounter any difficulties, the union can help solve them.

For example, the time of shooting.

Eight hours a day, if you exceed this time, you will either add money, or the union will go out to trouble the production company, and you will not be bullied anyway.

Of course, this is not gratuitous.

Membership in a trade union is protected by a fee.

For example, Chen Qiming, after he joined the trade union, he directly became the highest level of membership.

But on the other hand, he paid $500,000 to get this highest level of membership. (Life membership, the screen actors guild is capped at $1 million)

After paying so much money, the actors' union naturally wants to give him the best service, otherwise his money will not be in vain.

Therefore, during this time in Hollywood, Chen Qiming was very comfortable.

Eight hours a day, not even a minute.

Anyway, I go to the bubble bar on time every day, and I make an appointment with Bai Mei and the like.

In the drama "Swapping Identities", Chen Qiming's salary is not a lot.

Under his own fight with the Actors' Guild.

He received $6 million, second only to Nicolas Cage's $7 million.

A movie is millions of dollars.

It's no wonder that everyone envies Hollywood.

Here, as long as you can break out, billionaires are not a problem at all.

And this movie should be regarded as the movie with the highest salary Chen Qiming has received in recent years. (His own investment does not count).

At the same time, his salary is also the highest among Asian actors, including all actors in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The news that Chen Qiming got a salary of $6 million in Hollywood also spread to Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This caused quite a stir.

It made many people red-eyed.

Many people called Chen Qiming to ask him if this salary was real.

For example, Jet Li.

Since his wife Li Zhi lost a lot of money in business, Jet Li has been filming to repay the money.

Recently, his deed of sale with Yongsheng is also coming to an end, and it is said that the Xiang family and his wife intend to let him go to Hollywood.

Chen Qiming has some speculation about this.

The plate on Yongsheng's side has been getting smaller and smaller in recent years.

Stephen Chow and Wang Jing left, and Andy Lau officially ended his contract with Yongsheng in the middle of last year.

Jet Li seems to have only one or two contracts with them.

The departure of a large number of pillars has greatly reduced Yongsheng's status in the film and television industry.

In addition, I heard that Xiang Boss was going to change his career to gambling, and all the funds went over there, so he couldn't make a blockbuster.

So, Yongsheng is already thinking about quitting.

In the case of quitting, Jet Li wanted to leave early.

The Xiang family and his wife worked happily with him.

Therefore, they plan to let him go, and as for the remaining two dramas, they plan to wait for Jet Li to become famous in Hollywood before filming.

When the time comes, you may or may not make a lot of money.

(End of chapter)