"Xiao Sun. Do you know, when Brother Chen Kai wanted to write the script of "Farewell My Concubine" by himself, his father Mr. Chen Huaikai asked me how I was, and I directly said that Brother Kai didn't pay attention to the plot when he made movies before, he was too obsessed with poetry, and the film was very dull, and the old gentleman also agreed, which made me write "Farewell My Concubine". ”

Sun Yi: "Teacher Lu, drink slowly." ”

Tian Zhuang: "Hehe, it's these old sesame rotten grains again." ”

"Back then, Leslie Cheung went to northern Shaanxi to shoot "East Evil and West Poison" to transfer in Xi'an, and specially asked me to meet, he wanted to ask me to make an appointment, saying that he would try to be a director himself in the future.

After Lu Wei drank the wine, cup after cup, he became drunk quickly, and began to tell Sun Yi about the old past.

Sun Yi took a sip of wine and listened to peanuts with relish, not everyone can know these "secrets" of their fifth-generation director's period.

"Xiao Sun, let me tell you that when we made movies, our demands were very simple, that is, to make a good movie, which is as many as a movie now, and to win awards, make a lot of money, and praise female stars, thinking about all beautiful things, they are all traitors."

Sun Yi's eyes narrowed, who are they talking about?

"'97. "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin", he asked me to help me read the script The plot is messy and the characters can't stand, I asked him if he is down-to-earth when he uses investors' money to make experimental movies under the banner of commercial films. ”

He replied, "It's very down-to-earth!"

"Old Lu, you've drunk too much."

"Don't worry about it, Tian Zhuang, that is, you have been banned for ten years and are a little self-aware, otherwise I will even scold you."

“.”

Lu Wei drank again, opened his scarlet eyes, patted his chest vigorously, and said: "Before the filming of "The City Full of Golden Armor" invited me to read the script, I put forward a bunch of opinions, Xiao Sun, guess what he said? ”

How dare Sun Yi answer this, he shook his head again and again.

"He said, put aside my opinion for now, as far as his name as a director, plus the combination of Chow Yunfa, Gong Li, and Zhou Jie, the box office is worth 200 million."

"Hmph, in the end, it really fucking went up to 200 million."

"I wrote the script of "On the Red Cliff", I want to make an epic that belongs to our Chinese people, but what are the things in the end."

Lu Wei's body shook a little, and Sun Yi hurriedly helped him. "Teacher Lu, slow down, slow down."

Unbeknownst to him, Lu Wei actually grabbed Sun Yi's arm, looked at him with burning eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "In this industry, when you have more and more power and more and more resources, you will become more and more narrow-minded, thinking that you are omnipotent, but this is not right." ”

"When I was filming "Farewell My Concubine" and "Alive", I was very happy, I thought we were finally starting, but I didn't expect that it would be the end."

Lu Wei shook and picked up a glass of wine again, and saluted Sun Yi, "This film, shoot it well." After speaking, he was ready to drink it all, but as soon as the sip of wine reached his lips, the whole person fell on the table with a "poof", unconscious.

Sun Yi's whole body was there, and what echoed in his ears repeatedly was what Lu Wei had just said to him, and he felt heavy in his heart for the first time.

With a "snap", Tian Zhuang lit a cigarette sullenly, took a deep breath before slowly saying as if replying: "Old Ruby is more serious to anyone, but he is also the purest about movies. Better than all of us. ”

That night, Sun Yi didn't know how he got home, it wasn't that he drank too much, on the contrary, his consciousness was normal, but his brain was very messy.

Liu Yifei was not there, the small courtyard suddenly seemed much more deserted, Sun Yi sat on the sofa alone, put his legs on the coffee table, and lit a cigarette.

Originally, during the banquet, he listened to Lu Wei's words as gossip, but after listening to it, the last few sentences made him feel the burden on his shoulders, which was the ardent expectation of the older generation of filmmakers.

In fact, he is still a little entangled with this "Untouchable", whether to completely adapt it into a Chinese story, or to shoot it according to the original version, that is, a foreign story.

According to the original version, this film has a global box office of more than 400 million, although it did not win any awards, but the reputation is booming, and the money is also soaring, which can also enhance his status in China.

In recent years, it has become more popular to export to domestic sales.

But that's a foreigner's story after all.

Money can be made at any time, the commercial blockbusters in his mind are gone, and he can make money at will, but there are very few good movies that can be adapted into Chinese stories.

Just be willful and change your mother's thing.

Thinking of this, Sun Yi sat up, re-opened the script, and began to think about the role of the actor.

This movie must be high-matched.

In the whole film, there are 4 main characters, two male characters, the male protagonist Philip, and one of the male protagonists, Dries, the two of them occupy more than 70% of the scenes in the whole film.

There are also two female characters left, although there are not many scenes, but throughout the film, Philip's butler and secretary.

The rest can be counted as supporting roles, such as Dries's mother and brother, the florist of the Philip family, and so on.

Regarding the choice of the male protagonist Philip, Sun Yi immediately had four names in his mind, and then he wrote them directly in the script.

"Chen Zhiming, Zhang Guoli, Wang Zhiwen, Li Jianjian."

These four can be said to be the top acting skills among the Mesozoic actors in the Chinese film and television industry.

To use an analogy, as long as the age is not too excessive, no matter what type of role it is, among the four of them, there is always a suitable one.

But who to choose, Sun Yi made a difficulty for a while.

After thinking about it, he still crossed out the name of Mr. Li Jianjian first, and a few days ago he noticed a news that Mr. Li Jianjian was recuperating and preparing for laryngeal cancer surgery, and at this time he was really not suitable to let him work anymore.

The remaining three people, needless to say, Zhang Guoli is very familiar with him, as for Wang Zhiwen, he also cooperated in "Send You a Little Red Flower". It's Big Guy Chen, Sun Yi has never been in contact.

First of all, excluding acting skills, just the suitability of the role, Philip should be a mature, stable, charming, elegant, intelligent, and kind person, but he feels lonely and helpless because of his physical disability.

In terms of appearance and temperament, Mr. Wang Zhiwen seems to be worse.

Sun Yi gave priority to Zhang Guoli and Chen Daoming.

The performance styles of the two are not quite the same

Zhang Guoli's style is plain and simple, does not focus on performance techniques, and focuses on inner experience to get close to the emotions of the characters, which belongs to the so-called "life-oriented" performance style in performance theory.

Chen Zhiming, the performance is more angular and angular on the drama stage, the performance techniques are richer, and he likes to use rhythm, pause, sonority, figure, etc., which belongs to the so-called "dramatization" style of performance theory.

The acting skills of the two are equal, but Sun Yi feels that this film is still more "life-oriented", and as a high-level paraplegic character, there is not so much space for Chen Zhiming to play.

After the analysis, the first choice was Zhang Guoli, and Sun Yi didn't care about the night, so he directly called Uncle Zhang.

"Hey, Xiaoyi, what's the matter at this late hour?"

"Uncle Zhang, I have a book, I don't know if you're interested."

"Huo,It's rare.,Your new book?"

"Yes."

"I've given you all the schedules before the Chinese New Year."

"Yo, Uncle Zhang, don't you want to read the book first?"

"Let's not talk about this, your book, I can trust it, just arrange someone to send the script over when you have time."

"Hehe, Uncle Zhang, I'll send you an electronic version first, you can take a look first."

"Okay."

Sun Yi rearranged the script on the computer, and then sent an email to Zhang Guoli.

Next, he began to consider one of the male protagonists, Dries, who is an optimistic, brave, somewhat rebellious young man, immature and a little short-tempered, and his personality should be contrasted with Philip's maturity and stability.

has to be a little handsome in appearance, Sun Yi's original idea was to find Zhu Yawen to play, but now that I think about it, if you want to perfectly express the characters in the story, it seems that there is no one else except him, the director and editor.

In the original version of this film, he focused on the director's position, and if he starred in it, he would inevitably be a little distracted, afraid that it would affect the overall effect of the film.

Well, there's no problem, no, there's an old man to check it.

Thinking of this, Sun Yi marked his name behind Dries' character.

Looking at the time, it was already late, and Sun Yi was ready to wash up and sleep.

As soon as I was lying on the bed, my mobile phone rang, and when I picked it up, it was Uncle Zhang.

"Xiaoyi, when will your movie start?"

"The sooner the better, and strive to finish the shooting before the end of the year."

"Well, give me a week to prepare."

"Ah, Uncle Zhang, do you have something to do?"

"I'm going to lose 30 pounds."

When checking the information, I found Lu Wei's interview record, this big guy really dares to say it.

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(End of chapter)