Li Shengyao didn't stay in Shanghai for too long, participated in a few activities, and then communicated with Da Mi Mi for two nights, and then hurried back to Yanjing.

During his time in Shanghai, although he could see big stars, big directors, and beautiful women every day, and heard all the praise, he always felt unreliable and felt that he was fully committed to "La La Land".

Although he didn't know anything about music, he couldn't help Lu Guanting and Tang Shuchen in terms of soundtracks.

Although he had already said that he would not disturb Lu Tang's creation, he still couldn't help but think of "La La Land".

Naturally, he wouldn't interfere with Lu Tang and the others, but he still wanted to return to Yanjing, so if Lu Guanting and Tang Shuchen had any problems, maybe he could give some suggestions for the first time.

In short, he couldn't feel at ease in Shanghai, so he quickly rushed back to Yanjing.

Da Mi Mi is cool, and he doesn't understand him very well when he returns to Yanjing.

He didn't explain, it just meant that there was an emergency.

However, when he returned to Yanjing, he thought that he really couldn't help, and he was worried about disturbing Lu Tang and the others, so he stayed at home quietly and accompanied the women and children.

On this day, the sun lifts the clouds and pours sunlight on the earth again.

Birds sing and swim among the snowy branches.

Chen Hao was cooking pork ribs and corn soup, and the sweetness of corn and the aroma of pork ribs wafted through the kitchen and spread to the hall through the crack in the door.

Li Shengyao accompanied his son to watch the baby bus, and happened to play an English song.

He was stunned, and inexplicably thought of the theme song "City of Stars" of "La La Land".

He was slightly stunned, and then excitedly turned on his mobile phone to record and hummed.

In his previous life, he liked to listen to Jay's songs, and he didn't listen to many other people's songs, and Leehom's songs were only a few of the more famous.

As for film and television drama songs, I listen to them even less.

He knows the theme song "Encounter" of "Love Hotel", as well as the theme song of "Da Chang Jin".

I don't know anything else, after copying "Encounter", he thought he would never be able to copy the song again, but just now he suddenly remembered "City of Stars", which made him excited.

The melody of the City of Stars is simple, with no ups and downs.

However, this song sung by men and women is indeed quite romantic and very in line with the artistic conception of the movie.

After the release of "La La Land" that year, this song was quite popular all over the world.

If Li Shengyao can copy it, he will definitely not be polite.

Not long after, Li Shengyao recorded the humming "City of Stars", and suddenly found that the room was much quieter, and turned his head to see Chen Hao, who was stunned.

"What's wrong?"

"Are you singing?"

"Well, singing, what's up? Does it sound good? ”

"I thought you were chanting."

Li Shengyao stretched out his hand and flicked Chen Hao's forehead, "Teach you a lesson at night." ”

……

At 10 o'clock in the morning on January 20, 2014, Li Shengyao came to the headquarters of Fenghua Film and Television Company and met Lu Guanting and Tang Shuchen, as well as Li Lianhua and Wan Yueming.

After twenty days of hard work, the duo has completed the soundtrack of La La Land.

The two of them now invited Lee Shengyao to come and test the results.

As for Li Lianhua and Pan Yueming, they came to sing the promotional song of "La La Land".

The two of them had a lot of business activities for a while before, and now they are only rushing out the time.

This promotion song was naturally written by Lu Guanting and Tang Shuchen.

Li Shengyao and Li Lianhua greeted Yueming, and then entered the viewing room to watch "La La Land" after the soundtrack.

Lu Tang and the others followed.

Lu Guanting gave a thumbs up, "Director, this movie is so good, I think it's the best movie you have ever made, I will buy a DVD collection." ”

Different people have different preferences.

Lu Guanting is more emotional, he likes such romantic movies.

When Li Shengyao heard this, he was happy.

It is not certain whether the movie will be a big hit in the future, at least someone will like it.

He then watched La La Land with Lu Tang.

The effect is very good, Lu Guanting is worthy of growing up in a beautiful country, a master of Chinese and Western music.

Li Shengyao said to be romantic, classical, gentle, and brisk.

It is reflected in the soundtrack, and several songs composed by Lu Tang and the others are also very exciting.

He was personally very satisfied, and felt that the work of Lu Tang and the others had met his expectations.

Lu Guanting was quite nervous, at first he kept looking at Li Shengyao, and then as the movie gradually deepened, he focused on the movie.

At the end of the movie, Lu Tang shook hands and fed Li Shengyao a mouthful of dog food, and he regretted that he didn't bring Chen Hao over.

"Director Li, what do you think?"

"It's great, it's even better than I imagined, Mr. Lu, Mr. Tang, fortunately."

Lu Guanting breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good if you like it." ”

Tang Shuchen asked, "Director Li, what is the level of the best soundtrack of the Cannes Film Festival in previous years, do you think we have hope?" ”

Li Shengyao was slightly stunned, and then replied: "It's hard to say, of course I personally like your works, but sometimes it is not necessarily the best work that wins the award, and the judges of the Cannes Film Festival will balance the number of film awards." ”

Like the Oscars, it is relatively rare for a film to win several awards in the three major film festivals.

The Oscars are winner-takes-all, and the three major film festivals will strike a balance and take care of other films.

Lee Shengyao is also not sure if "La La Land" can get the best soundtrack.

In his previous life, "La La Land" won the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for Best Score, but it didn't win the Best Score at the Venice Film Festival, so Sister Shi won the actress.

Hearing this, Tang Shuchen nodded.

"Mr. Lu, Mr. Tang, when you are at the Cannes Film Festival, do you want to travel to Cannes, the cost crew is all covered."

When Lu Guanting and Tang Shuchen heard this, they were a little moved.

This time, the soundtrack of "La La Land", they have been preparing since last year, and it is definitely the movie that the two of them have been preparing for the longest time.

They are also looking forward to this work.

The other two live on Hong Kong Island, with elderly and children at home, and although they are well-known music masters, their income is not very high.

The two of them rarely travel, and it is a rare thing to be able to go to Cannes to have a fun.

Li Shengyao clapped his hands, "Okay, then it's decided, when the crew books a ticket for you, you depart from Hong Kong Island, and we can meet in Cannes." ”

These two are talented, and maybe they can work together in the future.

As for the cost of a little travel, of course Li Shengyao will not care.

The three of them then left the viewing room, Lu Guanting was in a good mood, so he said to Li Shengyao: "Director Li, do you want to go and see Li Lianhua and their situation and listen to the movie promotion song." ”

"Okay."

Not long after, Li Shengyao and the three came to the recording studio and saw Li Lianhua and Yan Yueming who were recording.

To his surprise, Li Lianhua and Qiang Yueming both knew how to read the score.

It seems that he has no talent in this area.

Li Shengyao sat down quietly, and then listened to Li Lianhua and Yue Minglu's song.

After listening to it a few times, he couldn't help but glance at Lu Guanting.

I can't say that this promotion song is bad, but it seems a little sad.

Li Shengyao felt that the style was somewhat similar to "What to Ask for in Life", he thought of the "City of Stars" he recorded a few days ago, so he took out his mobile phone and said to Lu and Tang: "Teacher Lu, Teacher Tang, I was playing with children a few days ago, and I accidentally thought of a tune, so I hummed it, how about you help me listen to it?" ”

Lu Guanting and Tang Shuchen both widened their eyes, looked at Li Shengyao in a daze for a while, and then came back to their senses, and then immediately nodded, indicating that they could listen to it.

The two of them had never heard that Lee Shengyao could compose, so they were naturally very surprised at this time.

Li Shengyao then played the humming version of "City of Stars".

When Lu Guanting heard the sound from his mobile phone, his eyes immediately lit up, and he could feel that this song was melodious, gentle and interesting, and it was very suitable for male and female duets.

Soon after, after the mobile phone finished playing, Lu Guanting immediately fell into deep thought, thinking about the score of this piece.

Tang Shuchen was the first to react.

"Director Li, it's very good, I feel that I can let Li Lianhua and Yue Ming sing, this song is more suitable than the promotion song we wrote."

"Really? Teacher Tang, I don't know how to compose music, you help me compose music and fill in the lyrics, let the two of them sing this again, and we will have two promotional songs. ”

"Okay, that's a trifle."

Not long after, Li Lianhua and Yan Yueming both knew that Li Shengyao had created a song and wanted to sing it to them, both of them looked at Li Shengyao in shock, they never expected that Director Li still had this talent.

……

Li Shengyao's copy of "City of Stars" is just a small episode, it is just an extra promotional song for "La La Land", which can be regarded as the icing on the cake.

In fact, "La La Land" has always had a lot of news and is very popular, and many viewers know that this is Lee Shengyao's third work to participate in the Cannes Film Festival.

On Fenghua Video, Reuters photos of La La Land, as well as some small videos of clips, have millions of views.

After solving the soundtrack of La La Land, all work was suspended.

Because the Lunar New Year is coming soon, Lee Shengyao arranged for the employees of the special effects team to go home for the New Year, and agreed that after the New Year, the special effects team would work at full speed to produce the relevant special effects of "La La Land", and strive to complete the production in two and a half months.

In addition, Li Shengyao himself also took Chen Hao's child back to his hometown.

The 2014 New Year is still the same as before, and it feels no different.

Lee Shengyao was still very busy during the Chinese New Year, not only to deal with the greetings of relatives, but also to have many friends and partners calling to pay New Year's greetings.

As the boss of Fenghua Cinema Line, basically those filmmakers will call him, hoping that his movies can get more schedules.

And the actors and directors in the Chinese-speaking circle also hope that Li Shengyao can give their films more schedules, either to invest, or to help publicize.

In such a situation, there are a lot of people who call him.

There are three places on both sides of the strait, and at this time, the mainland film market has exploded, and the stars on Hong Kong Island are more active than in previous years.

Some people who don't usually have much contact with him have come to him.

For example, Guo Biting, who acted in "Little Times" with Da Mi Mi, had in-depth exchanges with Li Shengyao before, but then there was no contact.

Now Guo Biting is a little famous in the mainland with "Little Times".

She wanted to go further, so she took the initiative to contact Li Shengyao and hinted that she could continue to communicate.

Li Shengyao was noncommittal and did not give a clear answer.

The main thing is that he is too busy, and he has to go to the Berlin Film Festival next.

This is a plan he has long made to take "Dalian by the Sea" to the Berlin Film Festival.

And he has already hooked up with Da Mi Mi, even if he goes to Shanghai, he will give priority to satisfying Da Mi Mi.

He therefore did not give a positive reply.

However, for "Dalian by the Sea", he has to pay a lot more attention.

Zhang Songwen and Lu Han called, and Li Shengyao told them about going to Berlin to attend the film festival, and asked them to spare time, and if they didn't get it, they would solve it with him.

SM Company is ambitious, and has long hoped that Lu Han will follow Li Shengyao to improve his qualifications, and will not stop Lu Han.

And Zhang Songwen had already said hello to his agent, and he didn't pick up film and television dramas after the year, so he was waiting to go to Berlin.

So the crew of "Dalian by the Sea" made an appointment, and they set off from Yanjing together on February 10 to Berlin.

This year's Berlinale starts on February 11 and runs until February 21.

In 2013, the three major Chinese films in Europe were relatively quiet, and if it weren't for October's "Three Billboards" and "Outing" awards, they would have barely made a splash.

And 2014 is different.

It's not just Lao Mouzi's "Return" that has been confirmed to participate in the Cannes Film Festival.

Diao Yinan's "White Sun Flame" is confirmed to participate in the Berlin Film Festival, in addition to "Tuina" directed by Lou Ye.

These two masters of literary and artistic films can be said to be strong in the competition.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, the Berlin Film Festival in 2014 was simply the prosperity of Chinese films.

"Flame of the Day" won the Golden Bear Award, "Tuina" won the Silver Bear Award for Artistic Contribution, and Liao Fan won the Best Actor Award.

The Chinese film won three awards, which is definitely a major event worth recording.

Li Shengyao was actually a little hesitant, he was not sure if he would bring "Dalian by the Sea" to the competition, whether it would change the award situation in his previous life.

After thinking about it again, he decided to compete.

The main thing is that he believes in the quality of "White Sun Flame", "Tuina", and "Dalian by the Sea", and he believes that the participation in "Dalian by the Sea" can make Chinese films shine more, rather than distracting the brilliance of "White Sun Flame" and "Tuina".

So he didn't push it back, and arranged for someone to sign up for "Dalian by the Sea".

After making an appointment with Zhang Songwen and Lu Han, Li Shengyao was at home, accompanied by his wife and children, and waited quietly.

As in previous years, Li Shengyao left his hometown with his wife and children on the fifth day of the first month, rushed to Yanjing, and then contacted the employees who stayed in the company, first to eat together, and then to prepare for the Spring Festival dinner.

Around the seventh day of the new year, more and more employees rushed to Yanjing to work.

Li Shengyao organized the employees to have a meal together on the ninth day of the new year, and also gave out a lot of red envelopes.

It's a condolence from the boss.

After this meal, he was temporarily busy with his affairs in the country.

Next, let the special effects team do special effects for "La La Land", and he can't interfere in this regard.

All his energy will be focused on "Dalian by the Sea", and after a short rest, he will go to Berlin with Zhang Songwen and Lu Han.

(End of chapter)