The rehearsals after joining the group were very hard, and the three of them rehearsed at least 8 hours a day, over and over again, and it was common for them to rehearse for 10 hours.

Zhang Yimou followed the crew every day, and as the rehearsal progressed, he was also constantly running in with the crew and modifying the setting and photography plan.

Liu Yifei made a small report to her husband in private: "I have long heard that Director Zhang is energetic, but I didn't expect it to be true, at such an age, working seventeen or eighteen hours a day, young people can't consume him." ”

Zhang Yuanjun said: "Legend has it that the director was captured by aliens when he was young, and then he opened his mind to be a director in the movie. ”

Liu Yifei is interested in this: "There is also this kind of legend, you tell me, I haven't heard of it." He dragged a chair and sat in front of Zhang Yuanjun.

Zhang Yuanjun said: "I don't know the specifics. ”

"Just pick up what you know." Liu Yifei doesn't ask her husband to really say that he is ugly.

Zhang Yuanjun then said: "Director Zhang used to be the photographer of director Chen Kaige, you know. ”

"Yes." I don't know where she found a bag of melon seeds, looking like she listened to the story and watched the show.

"85 years or 86 years, it should be 85 years, when Chen Kaige filmed "The Great Military Parade", Zhang Yimou once again gave him a photographer, and he was in the crew, saying that he saw a UFO with a glowing disc, and many people saw it.

Zhang Yimou was covered by the UFO's light mask for a few minutes, his mind was blank, and it took five or six minutes to wake up. Then the flying saucer took the beam and flew away. After filming "The Big Military Parade", he acted in "Old Well", won the actor, and became a director the next year to shoot "Red Sorghum", and everyone knows the rest of the story.

Many people say that Zhang Yimou was washed by aliens at that time, and he was also instilled with film knowledge, which is why he was so energetic and became a director so smoothly.

"However, it is said that after the aliens washed Zhang Yimou's muscles and marrow, he only instilled film knowledge into fine art photography and left, so Zhang Yimou has inexhaustible energy, and his art and photography skills are super strong, but his aesthetic and screenwriting skills are not particularly good, so his movies have become more and more unattractive in recent years." Zhang Yuanjun grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the melon seed bag on Liu Yifei's lap.

After listening to this, Liu Yifei smiled: "Maybe the aliens are in a hurry to leave, so they didn't have time." ”

Zhang Yuanjun said: "Anyway, it's such a story, just listen to it." Don't be stupid, hehe, look for a director to verify. ”

"I'm not that stupid." In fact, Liu Yifei flashed this thought in her heart just now.

"Could it be a hallucination? Or other things, aren't there a lot of them on TV, and in the end they are all mistakes, or something. ”

Zhang Yuanjun said: "I don't know this, but with such an excellent director, the audience is willing to believe that there should be some legendary story happening to him." ”

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"Master of Hypnosis" is scheduled for May Day this year, and the exact date is April 29, two days before the start of the holiday.

When "Hypnosis Master" was finalized, there were some worries about schedule competition, and there were mainly two blockbusters in front of "Hypnosis Master" on May 1st this year - "Frozen: The Gate of Rebirth" and "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch: Bright Moon Heaven".

The former brings together Zhen Bullet, Wang Baoqiang and Huang Shengyi, and Zhen Bullet has a good appeal in the field of action movies; The latter is joined by Fan Bingbing and Huang Xiaoming, and it is a costume blockbuster, and the outside world is unanimously optimistic that it can win this year's May Day.

Although "Hypnosis Master" has Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei, the box office elixir, the hypnotic suspense theme is too unpopular in China - the success of "Inception" does not mean that Chen Zhengdao can also succeed.

Therefore, the media generally believes that the results of "Master of Hypnosis" will not be very good, "However, with Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei, the film's profitability should not be a problem, but I am not optimistic about the overall results." ”

The good news now is that Berner has adjusted "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch" from April 25 on May 1st to the Qixi Festival, Yu Dong is said: "The summer market has a large capacity and high popularity, and the Qixi Festival is a weekend, and the opportunity is better than now." ”

Yu Dong also gave the film a gold sticker: "Take the initiative to adjust the file, first, to loosen the fierce market and let everyone take a breath; Second, it is also to loosen the constraints on yourself, there is no need to stare at such a schedule to compete for a while, it is wisest to choose the most suitable time for the film and strive to maximize the box office. ”

Berner shifted gears, and Wanda certainly liked to hear it.

However, Zhang Yuanjun was dissatisfied with Wanda's putting "Hypnosis Master" in the May 1st gear - too timid!

With Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei in hand, they dare not enter the summer file?

Is it really because of the small cost and unpopular theme of "Hypnosis Master"?

China Film will be on "Embroidered Spring Knife" in August this year, it is also a small cost and a small director, the whole group of actors in "Embroidered Spring Knife" is not as big as Zhang Yuanjun alone, martial arts is still a dying theme, he dares to enter the summer file, and he doesn't know what Ye Ning is afraid of.

Zhang Yuanjun strongly advocated that the film enter the summer file, but Shi Xiaoye and Ye Ning both chose to be safe and stay in the May Day file, which is not so competitive.

Although Zhang Yuanjun also participated in the investment of "Hypnosis Master", he still chose to respect the opinions of the producer in terms of schedule.

The stage on which "Master of Hypnosis" made its debut chose this year's Beijing International Film Festival.

The film was selected as the closing film of the festival.

On the afternoon before the closing ceremony, the crew also finished the premiere of the movie, and in order to reflect the "brain-burning" characteristics of the film, Zhang Yuanjun also deliberately wore an explosive head wig to amuse the audience.

On the closing day, the crew was the first to walk on the red carpet.

"The first group of guests on the red carpet are the main creators of the crew of the closing film "Hypnotic Master" of this year's film festival." The red carpet host introduced, "Bay Island director Chen Zhengdao said that the heroes and heroines of the film are Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei, who are very loved by everyone. Please stop by the red carpet and take pictures. There are also Bay Island actor Wang Yaoqing, famous mainland actress Hu Jing, and teacher Lu Zhong from the Beijing Renyi Theater......"

Liu Yifei wore a white haute couture dress by Georges Hobeika today, and instead of holding her husband's arm, she held Li Fangsong, a child star who played her childhood in the film.

As soon as the 8 people appeared, it caused the crowd in the stands to scream loudly, and several people stopped and stopped to take pictures of the media.

Liu Yifei held the children with one hand and greeted the media with the other.

may feel that she has been shaking her hand at the camera for too long, Liu Yifei subconsciously wanted to relax her hand, and then she put it in her pocket.

I guessed it, and I didn't hit it.

Second, I didn't hit it.

Liu Yifei then remembered that she was wearing a haute couture dress today and had no pockets, so she raised her hand again and waved at the media camera, with a professional smile on her face.

After walking the red carpet, the crew entered the venue.

Until the end of the award ceremony, director Chen Zhengdao, actor Zhang Yuanjun and heroine Liu Yifei, as representatives of the crew, returned to the scene and walked on the stage to promote "Hypnosis Master" to all the guests and the audience.

"I know it's late, but if you have time, you can go to the Wanda Cinema across the street from the theater to see our films, and you won't fall asleep."

The work of "Master of Hypnosis" at the festival has just ended, and it is only waiting to be released next week.

(End of chapter)