This piece is much shorter than "Kite", and Chen Kaige feels that it is less than two minutes, and he only listened to it for a while.

After the song ended, Wang Junzheng rewinded the tape and listened to it again.

Although Zhou Yan said before that there was still a tune that had not been recorded, in fact, in Wang Junzheng's opinion, the soundtrack of "Heaven's Reply" has almost been completed.

In addition to "Kite", Zhou Yan also wrote more than a dozen tunes to "Heaven's Reply", these tunes are not long, the short ones are only a few seconds, and the long ones are only twenty or thirty seconds.

Such a large number of tunes should be enough for a movie of more than an hour.

As for the last piece that Zhou Yan said, he didn't elaborate, so Wang Junzheng thought it was very short like the previous small paragraphs, but he didn't expect it to be such a big surprise.

Chen Kaige heard summer in the song, while Wang Junzheng heard more about childhood, her own childhood.

When he was a child, Wang Junzheng was a tomboy, still a child, and took other children in the yard to "wander" in the streets and alleys every day.

In a trance, it seemed that the old street scene of Yanshi decades ago had traveled through time and space to come to her, Xiao Nier, Ermao, and Xiaozi...... The names of childhood friends gradually became clear in my mind, beating with the notes.

After the second song was over, Wang Junzheng let out a long sigh of relief, and then smiled, "Zhou Yan, you kid gave me another surprise!" I can't wait to see the tune in the movie right now, what's this tune called? ”

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "Wind." ”

"What feng?"

"The wind of a kite."

Because the movie was shot in the spring and there was no summer picture, Zhou Yan did not use the original name "Summer" and changed it to "Wind".

This song will be used in the movie where two children are chasing and frolicking in the alley, and the grandfather is chasing behind, Zhou Yan originally wanted to name it "chasing the wind", but then after thinking about it, he removed the word chasing and left only one wind.

"Wind, pretty good." Wang Junzheng nodded with a smile, and asked Zhou Yan again, "Do you have time tomorrow morning to record the final version of the song?" ”

The sound quality of the music recorded by Zhou Yan with his Walkman does not meet the requirements, and it must not be cut directly into the movie, and the final version needs to be recorded with professional equipment.

"No problem." Zhou Yan nodded: "Then I'll go over tomorrow morning and record the tune." ”

In fact, in addition to the piano in this piece, Zhou Yan also needs to add a little violin, but it doesn't matter, the soundtrack was originally recorded in separate tracks, and he can do it alone, and he doesn't need to find another person.

However, after the final version of "Memories of the Forbidden City" was recorded, Zhou Yan couldn't handle it alone, and he couldn't play the drum kit.

"Okay, you sit here for a while, and I'll go to the editing workshop to have a look."

Wang Jun was withdrawing the tape from the tape recorder and leaving the office with the tape, she was going to the editing workshop to listen to the song "Wind" in front of the film.

After she left, Chen Kaige said with a smile, "It can be seen that Director Wang really likes this song very much." ”

"Director Wang likes it, and the soundtrack is mainly for the movie."

Chen Kaige took out a cigarette from his pocket and made a gesture to give one to Zhou Yan, and before Zhou Yan refused, he lit the cigarette himself.

When Wang Jun was in the office, he had some scruples and didn't dare to light a cigarette, Sister Wang had a violent temper, and she couldn't get used to it and just opened up, and she wouldn't save face at all.

Lighting a cigarette and taking a comfortable puff, Chen Kaige smiled, "Zhou Yan, if there is a chance in the future, we will also cooperate." ”

The cooperation he said was naturally to ask Zhou Yan to be the soundtrack director, not like this "Farewell My Concubine", Zhou Yan was just the second-in-command of the soundtrack group.

The previous song "Kite" and today's "Wind" made Chen Kaige salivate, such a good tune, used in the movie, will definitely add a lot of points to the movie.

Chen Kaige has already thought about it, if he makes some more tender movies in the future, he can find Zhou Yan to cooperate, and his talent in this area is obviously outstanding.

Zhou Yan smiled, "There should be a chance." ”

He also went through Chen Kaige's later movies in his mind, if you think about it from the perspective of soundtrack, I am afraid that "The Legend of the Demon Cat" and "Changjin Lake" can make him a little interested.

In his opinion, the possibility of cooperating with Chen Kaige is probably not too great, so his smile just now was somewhat perfunctory.

……

"Knock knock."

In the office building of "BJ Literature", the editor-in-chief Liang Jinguang was reading the manuscripts sent by each group in his office, when he suddenly heard a knock at the door, and raised his head.

There was a young man standing at the door, not tall, thirty-five or sixteen years old, Liang Jinguang had never seen it before.

"Hello, is it Editor-in-Chief Liang?" The man asked with a smile.

Liang Jinguang raised his eyebrows, "You are Huang Jianxin from Chang'an, right?" ”

The man smiled and nodded, "That's right, it's me, I called you before." ”

"Come in and sit." Liang Jinguang stood up with a smile and poured a glass of water for Huang Jianxin, "I was thinking about when you will come over this morning." ”

Huang Jianxin took the teacup and said a little embarrassedly, "Originally, I was able to get to Yanjing last night, but there was something wrong on the way, and I didn't arrive until noon, I'm really sorry." ”

"It's normal for something to be delayed." Liang Jinguang smiled and waved his hand, and then got down to business, "You said on the phone that you are interested in "Knife in Clear Water", do you want to make it into a movie or a TV series?" ”

"Movie."

Hearing that he was going to make a movie, Liang Jinguang also raised his eyebrows, "I am naturally happy and supportive of the work published in our magazine being adapted into a movie, but you also know that film and television licensing is the author's business, so you need to talk to the author about this matter." ”

Huang Jianxin nodded, "I know this, so I also want to get the contact information of Teacher Zhou Chan from you." ”

Liang Jinguang thought for a while and said, "It's not good for you to find him directly, some authors don't like others to rush over and bother, so let's let someone explain the situation to him first, ask his opinion, if he is willing, you can meet and talk, if you don't want to, then forget it." ”

"Is Teacher Zhou Chan in Yanjing now?" Huang Jianxin asked.

"Yes, if you are not in a hurry to do something else, just wait in our club for a while, and if you have other things to do, you will come back tomorrow."

"Then I'll wait a minute."

Huang Jianxin came to Yanjing this time for "The Knife in Clear Water", and naturally hoped to settle the matter as soon as possible.

Before coming, he thought that it would be best for the magazine to give him Zhou San's contact information, and then he went directly to Zhou Chan to talk about the authorization of his works.

But he didn't expect Liang Jinguang to protect the writer's privacy and was unwilling to give him Zhou's contact information directly, since this was the case, he could only wait.

Then Liang Jinguang went to explain to the novel team and asked them to find someone.

……

Zhou Yan talked to Chen Kaige for a while, and without waiting for Wang Junzheng to come back, he said goodbye to Chen Kaige and went back to school.

As soon as he returned to the dormitory, Zhou Yan saw Hua Yang sitting on the stool next to his bed, staring down at the ground in a daze.

"Editor Hua, why are you here?" Zhou Yan was surprised.

Hua Yang heard Zhou Yan's voice, raised his head, and the smile on his face suddenly bloomed, "Zhou Yan, I can be regarded as waiting for you to come back." ”

Seeing him like this, Zhou Yan was also curious, "What are you waiting for me to do?" ”

"Good thing." Hua Yang got up directly and walked to Zhou Yan's side, grabbed Zhou Yan's sleeve, "Hurry up and follow me to the club." ”

Zhou Yan was baffled by his actions, but he still followed him out of the door, and after walking a few steps, Hua Yang explained, "A director came to the club today, and he seemed to be very interested in "Knife in Clear Water", and the president asked me to come to you. ”

"Knives in the clear water?" Zhou Yan looked puzzled, "Isn't this just published?" ”

"So, it's hot."

Zhou Yan asked again, "Which director is it?" ”

Hua Yang shook his head, "I don't know what it's called, I only know that my surname is Huang, and I'm not tall." ”

With this bit of information, Zhou Yan couldn't guess which director it was.

In fact, he didn't really want to go on this trip, it stands to reason that since the other party wants to ask him for the authorization of the work, he should visit the door, how can there be a reason to let himself run over, this is not forced at all.

However, due to Hua Yang's affection, Zhou Yan didn't say anything, and still rode a bicycle to follow Hua Yang to their magazine.

When he arrived at the club, Hua Yang took Zhou Yan to the reception room.

Because of the long waiting time, Huang Jianxin could not stay in Liang Jinguang's office all the time, so he chatted with Liang Jinguang for a while before being taken to the conference room by Zhong Xinghua, the leader of the novel group.

Zhou Yan followed Hua Yang into the reception room, and when he saw Huang Jianxin, he was surprised, "Brother Jianxin? ”

On the road just now, he was thinking about who this Director Huang was, but he didn't have a clue after thinking about it all the way, but he didn't expect it to be Huang Jianxin.

Huang Jianxin is a director of Chang'an Studio, and he lives in a dormitory with Liu Qing.

During that time, Zhou Yan, Huang Jianxin and Liu Qing had to play cards every night, and they were very familiar.

The main reason is that Huang Jianxin has a very good relationship with Liu Qing, and the two of them entered Chang'an Studios in the same batch, one is in the props team, and the other is a scene reporter, both of which are very inconspicuous positions.

However, Huang Jianxin performed very well and rose all the way, and in 85 years he independently directed the feature film "The Black Robe Incident", and won the Best Debut Award at the New Era Ten Year Film Awards for this film.

Since then, he has officially embarked on the road of directing, and later made the movie "Reincarnation", which was sent abroad to compete, although he did not win any awards, but it also saved him a lot of fame.

Liu Qing has always been a prop master, and the life trajectory of the two has completely gone out of two lines, but the relationship is still very good, when there is nothing to do, Huang Jianxin will make some liquor to find Liu Qing to drink.

When Zhou Yan lived in Chang'an Studio, he also drank with them twice.

Huang Jianxin was originally chatting with Zhong Xinghua, and when he heard Zhou Yan's voice, he turned his head, and the expression on his face was even more surprised than Zhou Yan, "Zhou Yan?!" ”

Then he thought of something, and the whole person stood up as if he had been conched on his ass, with an unbelievable expression.

"You're Zhousan, Zhousan's you?"

Zhou Yan smiled, "Brother Jianxin, are you talking to me about it?" Zhou Chan is my pen name, right, you are Director Huang? ”

The other two people present were also confused, and Zhong Xinghua opened his mouth and asked, "Director Huang, do you know Zhou San?" ”

"Acquaintance, of course acquaintance, we are roommates."

As soon as these words came out, Zhong Xinghua and Hua Yang were even more confused.

These two turned out to be roommates? What roommates?

Seeing the confusion on their faces, Huang Jianxin explained with a smile, "Zhou Yan spent some time in our studio before, and he lived in our dormitory. ”

Although Huang Jianxin thought that his explanation was quite clear, Zhong Xinghua and the others were still full of doubts.

Why did Zhou Yan go to Chang'an Studio? still lives in a dormitory with Huang Jianxin, isn't he a student of the composition department of CCTV?

Although he still didn't understand, Zhong Xinghua didn't ask any further, he just smiled and said, "Since you know each other, it's easy to do, the two of you can talk directly about film and television licensing." We have a reception room for you to use. ”

"No, no, since it's Zhou Yan, let's go talk elsewhere." Huang Jianxin smiled, then turned to Zhou Yan and said, "Lao Liu, they are still waiting downstairs." ”

After that, Huang Jianxin went to say hello to the editor-in-chief Liang Jinguang, and went downstairs with Zhou Yan.

……

The Delica van at Chang'an Studios was parked at the back of the office building of Yenching Literature, and when Zhou Yan and Huang Jianxin walked to the side of the car, Liu Qing was already asleep on a pile of fabric in the back row.

Zhou Yan patted the window and shouted in his voice, "It's on fire." ”

Liu Qing woke up suddenly, first looked inside the car, and then stretched out his head to look outside, but he didn't see a place with a fire point, so he muttered, "Where is the fire, just talk nonsense with me." ”

After speaking, Liu Qing turned his head back and went to sleep again.

But as soon as he lay down, he bounced up again and stared at Zhou Yan in a daze.

"Zhou Yan?"

His voice was full of doubt, "Did I dream?" ”

Huang Jianxin had already sat in the co-pilot at this time, turned his head to Liu Qing and said, "Old Liu, you didn't dream, this is Zhou Yan." You hurry up and drive, find a place to fill your stomach, and the two buns you ate at noon are now clean. ”

Liu Qing rolled over and got up and asked, "Are your things done?" ”

"It's done, it's not done."

"What about playing a pantomi with me? Is it done? ”

Huang Jianxin smiled, "You drive first, let's talk on the road." ”

……

"So, you really wrote that "Knife in Clear Water"?"

Twenty minutes later, in a shabu-shabu restaurant on the side of the road, Liu Qing's eyes widened and he looked at Zhou Yan, they couldn't have imagined that the writer Huang Jianxin was looking for was Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan smiled, "Didn't you help me receive letters before?" I thought you knew I was contributing to a magazine. ”

Liu Qing pulled the corners of his mouth, "I know a fart!" Every time there are so many letters, can I still see where they came from one by one? And even if I saw that you received a letter from the magazine, I would never have thought that you wrote this novel. ”

Huang Jianxin poured meat into the copper pot with a smile, "Lao Liu, I'm going to criticize you, you have already seen Zhou Yan receive a letter from "Yanjing Literature", and you know that the author of "The Knife in Clear Water" is called Zhou Chan, why can't you think that Zhou Chan is Zhou Yan?" ”

"Who knew that he received a letter from "Yenching Literature"?" Liu Qing muttered, and then said, "I'll ask you, when you heard Zhou Chan, did you think of Zhou Yan for a while?" ”

Huang Jianxin defended himself, "It's not that there is no ...... at all."

"Hush." Liu Qing didn't believe it at all, he looked at Zhou Yan again, "Zhou Yan, your ghost pen name is really ugly, what is it called Zhou San, it's better than dystocia to hear there......"

Huang Jianxin pulled Liu Qing and said with a serious expression, "Lao Liu, pay attention to your tone, the person sitting in front of you now is not the little brother Zhou Yan who used to be with us every day, but the well-known writer Zhou Chan, if I can't get the license for this movie, it's all up to you." ”

Zhou Yan laughed, "Brother Jianxin, don't be ashamed of me, I haven't published a few novels in total, what kind of great writer to talk about." ”

Huang Jianxin joked, "If you are not satisfied, how many people can publish a novel in "Yenching Literature" at the age of twenty? ”

Liu Qing nodded seriously, "That's right, this is really powerful." ”

Zhou Yan was startled when he saw Liu Qing's serious expression, and said in his heart that he had found new materials for this fan.

Huang Jianxin fished out a large amount of chopsticks and mutton from the copper pot, sent it to Zhou Yan's bowl, and said with a smile, "Then this authorized thing ......?"

"No problem." Zhou Yan responded very simply, and he also smiled at the mutton that Huang Jian had newly clipped.

Hearing Zhou Yan's promise, the smile on Huang Jianxin's face became even brighter, "I knew that your brother was reliable." ”

Liu Qing was beside him to learn Huang Jianxin's tone just now, and exclaimed, "What are you kid, his kid's is called Teacher Zhou." ”

Huang Jianxin didn't raise the bar with him, and nodded very cooperatively, "Hey, Teacher Zhou." ”

Zhou Yan rolled his eyes, "Why do you scold?" ”

After saying this, all three of them laughed.

"Here, drink one."

Huang Jianxin picked up the wine glass again, and the three of them touched the glass.

Today they were not in a hurry to go back, and Liu Qing didn't have to drive, so they also drank.

After a glass of wine, Huang Jianxin talked about the licensing fee, "It seems that the licensing fee is rising this year, but our funds are really not enough, and what I can give you is only 3,000 yuan." ”

Zhou Yan smiled, "Three thousand is already enough." ”

The price of 3,000 was put a year and a half ago, and it was definitely a high price.

At that time, Su Tong's "Wives and Concubines" licensing fee was 4,000, which was already the highest price in China.

But for more than a year, the market has been rising, and three thousand is no longer high.

Of course, it must not be said that it is low, and the film and television licensing fee for a novel is basically this price.

Actually, this thing is not accurate, it depends on who makes the movie.

Huang Jianxin wants to shoot "The Knife in Clear Water", and there is no corporate investment, that is, the studio pays for it itself, so the budget must be average.

But like Zhang Yimou signing a contract with the Times Company, and Chen Kaige's cooperation with Tomson Films, the funds are all paid by these companies, the budget must be much higher, and it is not impossible for the licensing fee of the work to reach a sky-high price of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.

In fact, even if the price is a little lower, Zhou Yan doesn't care, Huang Jianxin is a potential stock, and later he directed two historical blockbusters, "The Great Cause of the Founding of the Party" and "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic of China".

Taking a step back, even if Huang Jianxin is not a potential stock, just looking at Liu Qing's face, Zhou Yan is willing to give a friendly price.

Hearing that Zhou Yan had no opinion on the price, Huang Jianxin picked up his wine glass and drank one alone with Zhou Yan, "Zhou Yan, to be honest, I feel like a dream today, and when I came, I kept thinking about what kind of person Mr. Zhou is this time, and whether it is easy to communicate." ”

"He's not lying." Liu Qing testified to Huang Jianxin on the side, "Along the way, he was always muttering about this. ”

Zhou Yan smiled, "When is this plan going to start?" ”

"Let's think about the script first, the factory has been very busy recently, and the shooting will be arranged later." Huang Jianxin sighed slightly.

"It's all busy." Liu Qing seemed to be drunk, and slapped the table when he spoke, "Haven't we all wasted our time this year?" If it weren't for him, would he be so busy? ”

Zhou Yan heard him mention Zhang Yimou, and said curiously, "By the way, when I went to Chang'an at the beginning of the year, you said that "One Place of Chicken Feathers" was going to start filming, what is the situation now?" Haven't you been to Yudu yet? ”

"Go!" Liu Qing let out a long sigh, "It's back again, he said a word, dozens of us went to Chongqing to stay for so long, and we didn't shoot a scene, and we said we wouldn't shoot anymore." ”

"What do you mean?" Zhou Yan wondered.

"What do you mean, relying on yourself to be a big director, fooling around!"

Huang Jianxin saw that Liu Qing was a little dizzy from drinking, so he took the initiative to take over the conversation and said, "I heard that Director Zhang didn't find the feeling of filming in Chongqing, and then he saw another novel, which was very feeling, so he shifted his position, and now he is ready to shoot this novel." ”

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes and asked, "What novel?" ”

"Ten Thousand Lawsuits." Huang Jianxin said a name.

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows, sure enough, Zhang Yimou was still going to shoot "Qiu Ju Lawsuit" in the end, before he was still thinking that his arrival so soon had changed Zhang Yimou's directorial career, and now it seems that he is thinking too much.

In fact, Zhou Yan really wants to see change.

He has already seen Zhang Yimou's "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit", but he has not seen Zhang Yimou's "Chicken Feathers", if he can see it, it will be a new experience.

He also understood why Liu Qing had so many complaints.

From Zhang Yimou's point of view, he follows his inner feelings, only shoots when he feels it, and poses when he doesn't feel it, which is to respect art.

But from the perspective of these staff, they have spent so much time on this project, and now they are talking about change, which is really uncomfortable.

Some people have a wider heart, anyway, they just get a dead salary, what is the shooting is not a shooting, no matter how you change, it will not affect my salary, but Liu Qing's character obviously can't do it.

Zhou Yan sighed slightly, the reality is like this, a director is famous, naturally there are countless behind-the-scenes personnel to make sacrifices.

"Come, keep drinking, no matter what the birds do."

Liu Qing patted the table and began to clink glasses with Zhou Yan and them again.

When the second half of this meal was drunk, it evolved into Zhou Yan and Huang Jianxin pulling Liu Qing and asking him not to drink too much, but no matter how the two of them pulled, Liu Qing finally drank himself down.

Liu Qing didn't worry about lying down, and fell asleep directly on the table.

Looking at Liu Qing, who had already fallen asleep, Huang Jianxin said with a smile, "This guy is just talking about working in Director Zhang's crew, and he is more serious than anyone else." ”

Zhou Yan nodded, he agreed with this, Liu Qing is the kind of superficial evil person.

"Brother Liu is a man of temperament, and I especially like to deal with people like him."

"Otherwise, how do you think we got along after so many years?" Huang Jianxin smiled, burped again, and then asked Zhou Yan, "Has your "Antlacewing" been sent for awards, and is there a result now?" ”

Zhou Yan scratched his head, he also knew that the company was going to take "Antfly" to participate in the film festival, but he didn't know what film festival or project he participated in.

It is impossible for the company to contact him specifically for this matter, unless there is a good result in the end. This kind of small project goes to a film festival or any competition, and it will not spend money to invite Zhou Yan, the director.

Zhou Yan went back and forth to foreign countries, and the cost may be more than the money spent on the movie itself.

"Actually, I don't even know what competitions I've played." Zhou Yan said truthfully.

Huang Jianxin also understood the situation, nodded and said, "I heard that I have participated in more than one film festival, including the more famous Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, and the other is a short film festival in Brazil, but I don't remember the name, I heard Director Zhang mention it before." ”

"Well, he has more contact with the era and knows more than me."

Zhou Yan has never heard of the more famous Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in France, let alone any Brazilian short film film festival, even Huang Jianxin can't name it, it must be a small award.

Huang Jianxin said with a smile, "I heard that the Brazilian film festival started around July, so I asked you if you had any results." ”

Zhou Yan shrugged, "I haven't gotten any news, if it has been held, it should not have won any awards." Are you talking about the Clermont International Short Film Festival in France, very famous? ”

Huang Jianxin said with a smile, "Of course, it has been famous for more than ten years, it can be said to be the world's largest international short film festival, and it is also the second largest film festival in France after Cannes. ”

Zhou Yan became interested and asked, "When will this film festival be held, and what are the requirements for participation?" ”

Huang Jianxin thought for a while and said, "The time should be winter, I really haven't studied the specific requirements for participation, you have to ask the Times Company about this, they have special people to study this." ”

Zhou Yan nodded thoughtfully, this Clermont International Short Film Festival, he can pay attention. It's been a long time since I have been in contact with Hou Xiaoxian, so he can find time to call Hou Xiaoxian and ask.

Huang Jianxin saw that Zhou Yan was interested in the Clermont International Short Film Festival, and said with a smile, "There is still some hope for "Antfly". ”

Zhou Yan also smiled, he knew that Huang Jianxin was comforting him.

"Antfly" is good, but it may be almost meaningless to say that it won the award, the whole short film is not rich enough, the key is to rely on the brain hole at the end, this kind of film is more disadvantaged to participate in the film festival.

If he really wants to perform at the Clermont International Short Film Festival, he will have to try another work.