Wu Yuan chatted with Mayday for a long time and asked them a lot of requirements for soundtrack creation.

For example, the theme song needs to be written around the theme of "I've been looking for you since your past life".

Another episode is written around the "story of a teenager's first love".

The last song can be played freely by Mayday.

As for the soundtracks of the four pure music, Wu Yuan didn't ask for anything, so he asked them to write suitable interlude music according to the story of the script and the plot points he marked in the script.

Ashin and the monster all agreed.

Creating a soundtrack for a film is not something you want, you have to create it according to the scope and theme given by the director.

Wu Yuanti's requirements are not harsh at all.

In the next few days, they continued to stay in the capital, meeting with Wu Yuan from time to time to discuss the creation of the soundtrack, and it took a week to reach a preliminary agreement with Wu Yuan.

After that, they will go back to Treasure Island first, and in addition to other work, they will write these soundtracks for Wu Yuan as soon as possible, and hand them over to Wu Yuan for review, and then revise them if they are not satisfied.

1.2 million is not easy to earn.

Wu Yuan was very face-saving and personally went to the airport to see them off.

The problem of the soundtrack has been solved for the time being, and Wu Yuan on the Industrial Light and Magic side has also been contacted.

They don't have time to do big special effects, so they need to queue up normally, and it is estimated that they will have to wait until next year.

But like this kind of special effects, which add up to a total of one minute, Industrial Light & Magic agreed to give Wu Yuan a queue.

In particular, the special effects he needs are ready-made or semi-finished in ILM's material library.

Hollywood's science fiction films and disaster movies don't need special effects of meteorites and meteor showers.

Wu Yuan only needs to provide the finished film, and Industrial Light and Magic can render it in about half a month, which is still without drawing much resources and manpower.

However, the price is not much cheaper, and the preliminary negotiation is 60,000 US dollars for 24 frames per second, and Wu Yuan will probably need to spend less than 4 million US dollars for this.

With a flick of his hand, 30 million yuan was gone, and in exchange for only a little more than 1 minute of special effects in total.

It's too expensive!

It is so expensive that Wu Yuan is thinking about whether his own company should also enter the field of special effects production as soon as possible.

10 years later, the domestic film special effects market will also usher in an explosion, under the blue ocean of capital, everyone loves to make blockbusters, shoot special effects blockbusters, and most of them are looking for special effects companies in Japan, South Korea or Europe and the United States to outsource special effects production.

If you make this money for foreigners, you might as well earn it for yourself!

is to be a special effects company, the money to spend is not a small amount, Wu Yuan has to make more money before he can invest in this bottomless pit.

Thinking of making money, Wu Yuan thought of the "Light and Shadow Times Film Production Company" that he had just established, and then thought of Zhang Guorong, who was preparing for the promotion of "Stealing Hearts" in the capital recently.

This is the general of the company that he has long admired!

After sending Mayday and returning home, Wu Yuan made a phone call to Zhang Guorong.

"Hey, Zhang Sheng!"

"Are you still in the capital? Come out and get together! ”

......

Beijing, Houhai.

Originally, this was just a calm small inner lake in the backyard of the capital, but after the epidemic ended, everything was different.

Trapped in the city and yearning for fresh air, the people of Beijing urgently need a place for leisure and entertainment.

As a result, Shichahai, which was originally a quiet water, poured into a large number of people.

In the next year, from the south edge of Houhai to the north edge of Qianhai, a large number of bars will spring up like mushrooms after a rain, turning this place into a lively bar street.

Fortunately, it is only the beginning of May 2003, and there are not as many bars in Houhai as in later generations, only five or six.

When Wu Yuan passed through Mei Lanfang's former residence and stepped on the silver ingot bridge made of white marble, he came to Houhai.

As soon as he looked up, the sparkling lake came into Wu Yuan's eyes.

The willow trees by the lake, under the blowing of the breeze, swayed their branches, and the weeping willows touched the surface of the lake from time to time, splashing the water ripples.

I have to say that this picture is still very beautiful, coupled with the spire of the Forbidden City wall reflected in the distance on the lake, it is even more brick red and willow green, which is beautiful.

It's a pity that Wu Yuan was not moved by this beautiful scenery at all, and hurried to a bar called "Blue Lotus" by the lake without stopping.

Having grown up in the capital since he was a child, he has long been familiar with the scenery of Houhai.

Not to mention that the current Houhai is far from being as "good-looking" as he saw in his dreams.

I remember that when he was 25-35 years old in his dream, he liked to play in Houhai very much.

At that time, Houhai was a bustling city, with all kinds of antique small bars, small tea rooms and cafes dotted.

All kinds of colorful flags and signboards standing along the lake flutter in the wind, and young ladies wearing cheongsams solicit customers everywhere to push wine.

In the evening twilight, sitting along the lake with a few friends, drinking wine as a song, is also pleasant, relaxed, and has a special taste.

At that time, Wu Yuan was an old frequent visitor to the taverns and tea pavilions such as the seaside, the lakeside, the left bank, the white maple, the encounter, the mermaid, and the dream of Paris.

Even the Starbucks on the northern edge of Houhai, he often comes to drink.

Usually after a night of hangover, come here for an early morning coffee pick-me-up.

Compared with that time, Houhai is much more deserted now, but it is also more antique.

There are no crowds, lively shouting.

Wu Yuan got off the Yindian Bridge, turned left and went south, walked along the lake, and after entering an alley, he came to the door of a bar.

Blue Lotus Bar.

Later, the bar was renamed Left Bank, and there was a coffee shop next to it, also called Left Bank Coffee, which seemed to be the same owner.

So much so that for a long time, Wu Yuan thought that the "coffee on the left bank" sung in Dong Chou's song "Confession Balloon" referred to the coffee in this shop.

He also thought that Dong Chou often came to Houhai to play, and even knew that the coffee on the left bank was delicious.

Later he learned that it was a beautiful misunderstanding.

......

The Blue Lotus Bar is renovated from a courtyard house, and it is full of the flavor of the old capital.

Large bamboo chairs, old-fashioned furniture and ornaments abound, except for the large sofa in the inner room of the bar.

As soon as Wu Yuan came in, he saw that Zhang Guorong's whole person was trapped in the big sofa, and his expression was very comfortable.

"Coming?"

"This bar is good, it's a great place to relax your tired body."

Zhang Guorong stretched comfortably on the sofa, then sat up straight and beckoned Wu Yuan to sit down.

"How did you find this bar, it's open so early?"

Wu Yuan sat down opposite Zhang Guorong and stretched his waist comfortably: "The bars here in Houhai are all open at noon. ”

"As for this bar, it hadn't opened when you filmed "Farewell My Concubine" in 92 years, of course I don't know."

Wu Yuan glanced at Zhang Guorong a few times and confirmed that although his face was a little tired, he didn't see any melancholy and depression, and he looked quite normal.

This made him breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and it seemed that he had changed Zhang Guorong's fate.

Then Wu Yuan can rest assured that he will find him to give the Hong Kong circle a little eye medicine.

After taking the cocktail handed by the bartender and taking a sip, Wu Yuan opened his mouth and asked, "Zhang Sheng, "Stealing Hearts" will be released next month, right?" ”

He has watched the finished film of "Stealing Hearts", and watched it in the internal viewing room of China Film.

The finished film is not bad, I can't say how amazing it is, but it is very mature, not like a newcomer's work.

Although there is an obvious style of the king of sunglasses, the imitation is very good, and it does not give people the feeling of painting cats and tigers.

Wu Yuan is not sure how much the box office will be, but he can be sure that Zhang Guorong still has a future as a director, not the kind of director who is destined to only make bad movies.

So Wu Yuan came to recruit Zhang Guorong again.

On the one hand, I want to add more directors to my company to do projects, and on the other hand, I also want to give some eye medicine to the Hong Kong circle that is about to go north on a large scale.

Why?

Because Wu Yuan next, he took out a script from the briefcase he brought.

This is the movie script that Wu Yuan was preparing for Zhang Guorong after the filming of "Stealing Hearts".

The movie is called "If Love".