Hearing that Zhou Yan was interested in Fahai, Tsui Hark was not surprised at all, because Fahai in this script is really outstanding.

However, Zhou Yan does not conform to the image of Fahai in Tsui Hark's heart, and the Fahai in Tsui Hark's heart should be the tougher kind, and he has looked for Liang Jiahui and Zhou Yunfa before.

In terms of height, Zhou Yan has no problem at all, he is taller than Liang Jiahui, and there is no problem with his appearance, and he is also beautiful among film and television stars.

But his body is a little worse, although Zhou Yan is stronger than when he played "The Red Lantern Hangs High" before, he still can't meet Tsui Hark's requirements.

"Zhou Yan, the role of Fahai has a scene of undressing."

Tsui Hark didn't say it directly, but the meaning was already obvious.

Of course, Zhou Yan could understand what Tsui Hark meant, and he said with a smile, "If there is a demand in the play, I can also gain weight." ”

The sentence "I can gain weight" naturally had no way to convince Tsui Hark, but Tsui Hark did not refuse directly, because he felt that in addition to being a little thinner, Zhou Yan could still try the role of Fahai.

The main thing is that Tsui Hark has other ideas.

Tsui Hark pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "Zhou Yan, do you have any thoughts on the soundtrack of "Green Snake"?" ”

Hearing Tsui Hark say this, Zhou Yan was a little surprised, he came to see Tsui Hark, mainly not to play a certain role, the focus is still on the soundtrack of the movie.

Originally, Zhou Yan was going to mention the soundtrack by himself, but he didn't expect Tsui Hark to take the initiative to say,

Since Tsui Hark took the initiative to send it to the door, Zhou Yan also followed Tsui Hark's words and said, "When I was reading the script just now, I did have a little idea. ”

"Then do you have any ideas for scoring this movie with Uncle Zhan?" Tsui Hark didn't make a detour, and sent a straight ball towards Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows, the uncle in Tsui Hark's mouth should be Huang Zhan, Xiangjiang is not the same as the mainland, many directors are looking for more than one soundtrack, especially Tsui Hark.

Most of Tsui Hark's movies are composed of two or more soundtracks, such as the "True Colors of Heroes" series, which is paired by Lu Guanting and Hu Dawei, and "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "Huang Feihong" are Dai Leming and Huang Zhan.

Why do it?

Because in many of Tsui Hark's films, the soundtrack is separate from the movie song. In fact, many awards also separate these two, such as the Golden Horse Awards and the Academy Awards, both of which have the Best Film Song Award and the Best Film Score Award.

Take the combination of Huang Zhan and Dai Leming as an example, Huang Zhan is responsible for writing movie songs, while Dai Leming is mainly responsible for writing movie soundtracks.

Now Tsui Hark is looking for Zhou Yan to cooperate with Huang Zhan, which is equivalent to letting Zhou Yan take Dai Leming's place.

Zhou Yan felt that this kind of collocation was quite reasonable, he thought about it and said, "In terms of soundtrack, I do have some interest." ”

Hearing Zhou Yan say that he was interested, Tsui Hark also laughed, "If you want, you can talk to Uncle Zhan together." ”

Tsui Hark didn't ask much, Zhou Yan's "Heaven's Reply" has proved that he has this ability, and the flute song in "The Red Lantern Hangs High" was also composed by Zhou Yan himself.

This is the advantage of having a work, if Zhou Yan did not have his own independent film as the soundtrack director, Tsui Hark would not have invited him to participate in the soundtrack of "Green Snake" so simply and decisively.

Zhou Yan himself was quite surprised, he didn't expect the soundtrack work to come so smoothly.

As for the role of Fahai, the two did not continue to chat.

Tsui Hark's idea is very simple, he is also ready to find someone else, if he finds the best one that is more suitable than Zhou Yan, if he can't find it, Zhou Yan can really gain weight, then using Zhou Yan is also a good choice.

At least Zhou Yan is more suitable than Andy Lau.

Tsui Hark had also asked Andy Lau to play Xu Xian before, but Andy Lau, like Zhou Yan, was not interested in Xu Xian, but wanted to play Fahai more.

Andy Lau's performance of Fahai is even more inconsistent with Tsui Hark's expectations, Andy Lau is a big circle smaller than Zhou Yan. And Andy Lau is not too tall, even if he gains weight, he can't meet the standard.

Of course, in the end, if Zhou Yan can't play Fahai, Tsui Hark still wants to work hard and let Zhou Yan play Xu Xian.

And there is not much time left for Zhou Yan, "Green Snake" is planned to start filming in early August, and there are only six months left before now, and it is impossible for Tsui Hark to set the actors until August, so Zhou Yan needs to have a significant weight gain effect within three or four months.

The two chatted in the conference room for about half an hour, and when it was about to end, several men in their thirties and forties walked inside, talking and laughing.

After coming in, they were a little surprised when they saw Zhou Yan and Tsui Hark, and the person in the lead said with a smile, "I'm sorry, Director Xu, I didn't know you were there." ”

"It's fine." Tsui Hark smiled and waved his hand, "Do you want to use the conference room?" ”

The man nodded, "Well, let's have a little meeting, or we can go somewhere else." ”

"No, you can wait a minute, we're done." Tsui Hark smiled and asked again, "Is Director Yu in the factory now?" ”

"I really don't know." The man in the lead shook his head, then he looked at Zhou Yan and frowned slightly, he always felt that this young man was a little familiar.

However, Tsui Hark did not introduce it, and Zhang Jianya did not ask much.

Xu Hark said to Zhou Yan with a smile at this time, "Zhou Yan, then we are here today, you have worked hard along the way, hurry up and go to the hotel to rest, I will go to Director Yu now and have something to talk to him, let's have a meal together in the evening." ”

Zhou Yan nodded, "Okay, we'll see you in the evening." ”

When they were about to leave, the leader suddenly said, "You are Zhou Yan." ”

Zhou Yan looked at the man with a puzzled expression, "Are you?" ”

The man laughed, "I'm Zhang Jianya, Kai Ge and Zhuangzhuang's classmates, and I saw you once when I went to Yanjing Studio before." ”

The doubts on Zhou Yan's face were not dissipated, he felt familiar with the name Zhang Jianya, but he had no impression of this person's appearance at all.

In fact, Zhang Jianya has not really met Zhou Yan before, when he went to Yanjing Studio last year, he only saw Zhou Yan from a distance, and he didn't even see Zhou Yan's face clearly.

And the reason why he felt familiar with Zhou Yan was because he watched the movie "The Red Lantern Hangs High".

Although Zhou Yan had no influence on Zhang Jianya, he still greeted him with a smile, "Hello, Director Zhang." ”

Zhang Jianya didn't know Zhou Yan's information, and Chen Kaige pointed out that Zhou Yan was shown to him at Yanjing Studio, also because of the soundtrack.

Chen Kaige loves to show off, when they met at Yanjing Studio, Chen Kaige showed off to Zhang Jianya that his "Farewell My Concubine" has a strong lineup, not only Zhao Jiping as the soundtrack director, but also the soundtrack director of "Heaven's Reply" as the live music director.

Zhang Jianya is also a fifth-generation director, but compared with Chen Kaige, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Zhang Yimou, who are in the same batch of Yenching Film Academy, his development is much inferior, and he has also made several movies over the years, but they are not famous, and they have not won any awards.

Zhou Yan was not familiar with Zhang Jianya, so naturally he had nothing to talk about, so after a few words of greeting, he walked out of the conference room with Xu Hark.

After Zhou Yan and the others left, another person asked Zhang Jianya, "Who is this young man?" ”

Zhang Jianya smiled, "Have you watched "Heaven's Reply" recently? ”

"Of course."

As film practitioners, they will watch movies that are slightly famous, especially the movies produced by Yanjing Studio, and all other factories are very concerned.

"He was the soundtrack director for "Heaven's Reply."

"Really?"

Several people were a little surprised, they were quite impressed by the soundtrack of "Heaven's Reply", but they didn't pay attention to the name of the soundtrack director, they didn't expect the soundtrack director to be so young.

"Then when he meets Tsui Hark, is he going to score "Green Snake"?"

Zhang Jianya nodded, "It should be like this." ”

"Our new movie will start filming soon, Director Zhang, do you have any thoughts about him?" Cui Jie, assistant to the director, asked.

"Hey, the script hasn't been decided yet." Zhang Jianya waved his hand.

In fact, Cui Jie's guess was right, Zhang Jianya did have this idea.

However, Chen Kaige told him that Zhou Yan was a single gang, and the salary was not cheap.

Although Chen Kaige didn't say how much he was paid, Zhang Jianya thought that Chen Kaige said that it was not cheap, so it would naturally cost a lot of money.

And the film he is going to make now, the budget is insufficient, and there is not much money to spend on the soundtrack.

……

Zhou Yan had a meal with Tsui Hark in the evening, and instead of leaving in a hurry the next day, he called Xu Feng.

Hearing Zhou Yan say that he was in Shanghai, Xu Feng was also surprised, and went to the hotel where Zhou Yan stayed to meet him in person.

After listening to Zhou Yan explain the purpose of his trip to Shanghai, Xu Feng nodded without being salty: "Oh, Xu Hark is also coming to Shanghai." ”

Seeing Xu Feng's reaction, Zhou Yan was a little surprised, it sounded as if Xu Feng and Xu Hark were quite familiar, but the relationship was not too close, and there was a very contradictory feeling.

In fact, Zhou Yan didn't understand the situation, Xu Feng had a good relationship with Tsui Hark before, Xu Feng wanted to invest in Hu Jinquan to make a martial arts film, and also introduced Tsui Hark as a producer and Cheng Xiaodong as a martial arts instructor.

However, later Tsui Hark himself wanted to shoot "Smiling Proud Jianghu", so he asked Hu Jinquan to tell Xu Feng to let them shoot "Smiling Proud Jianghu" first, and without Tomson's investment, it was tantamount to dumping Xu Feng.

Of course, this is nothing, and Xu Feng doesn't care, mainly because when filming "Smiling Proud Jianghu" later, Tsui Hark and Hu Jinquan had different concepts, and finally Hu Jinquan withdrew from the crew of "Smiling Proud Jianghu".

Because of this, Xu Feng and Tsui Hark have never been in contact again.

Although Zhou Yan didn't know about this, he could also feel that there should be a story between Xu Feng and Tsui Hark, so he didn't talk much about "Green Snake", he asked Hou Xiaoxian with a smile, "Has Director Hou returned to China?" ”

Speaking of Hou Xiaoxian, Xu Feng said with a smile, "You are just right in Shanghai, don't be in a hurry to leave first, wait here for two days, and he will come to Shanghai the day after tomorrow." ”

(End of chapter)