Seeing the man in the wheelchair, Zhou Yan's eyes lit up.

Ditan Park is in such a tattered state now, under normal circumstances, Zhou Yan has no interest in running inside.

The reason why I came in was because I was looking forward to seeing Shi Tiesheng in the Temple of Earth.

Unexpectedly, he really let him see it.

Although Shi Tiesheng is in a wheelchair, he gives people a very burly feeling, and now it is still very cold, but he is only wearing a single coat. He had a book on his lap, but instead of reading it, he stared at the tree in front of him in a daze.

Zhou Yan didn't bother him, but ran to the stone steps next to him and sat down, also quietly looking at the tree.

Zhou Yan has watched "Me and the Temple of Earth" many times, and has imagined the picture of Shi Tiesheng in the Temple of Earth countless times, so the scene in front of him at the moment makes Zhou Yan feel a little dreamy.

After a long time, Shi Tiesheng stopped to look at the tree and turned his head to look at Zhou Yan.

Although he had been looking at the tree, he had noticed someone watching him.

Shi Tiesheng didn't speak, but there were questions in his eyes.

Zhou Yan stood up with a smile, "You are Shi Tiesheng." ”

"Hmm." Shi Tiesheng nodded.

Hearing Zhou Yan call out his name, Shi Tiesheng was not so confused.

Ever since his works became a little famous, he has often been visited, at first only at his home, and later there were often people who came to the Temple of Earth to meet him.

It's not every day, but it's always a few times a month.

Therefore, Shi Tiesheng classified Zhou Yan into this category.

Zhou Yan walked up to him and gave Shi Tiesheng a cigarette, but Shi Tiesheng picked up half a cigarette from the side and said, "I haven't finished smoking yet." ”

Shi Tiesheng smokes, likes to extinguish it halfway through the smoke, and light it after a while.

After speaking, Shi Tiesheng took out a match and lit the half of the cigarette, and then he took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and handed it to Zhou Yan, "Friend, come." ”

"I don't smoke."

Shi Tiesheng nodded, stuffed the cigarette back into the cigarette case, and didn't say anything.

Zhou Yan took the initiative to introduce himself, "My name is Zhou Yan, a student of CCTV, and I like your works very much. ”

Hearing that Zhou Yan was a student, Shi Tiesheng smiled, "Your school is not close to here, did you come here to visit the park?" ”

"I went to the Coal Mine Art Troupe to have some business, and I just came in to have a look." Zhou Yan explained.

There wasn't much left of the half of the cigarette in Shi Tiesheng's hand, and he finished smoking it in a few puffs, Zhou Yan gave him another one, this time Shi Tiesheng took it with a smile, pulled a match and lit it, and then asked with a smile, "What instrument did you learn?" ”

"I'm from the composition department, and my major instrument is the bamboo flute."

Shi Tiesheng nodded, "In the Temple of Earth, you can often hear the sound of various musical instruments, flutes, flutes, suona, and sometimes pianos...... Maybe I misheard, for people like us who don't know much about music, what we hear and think is what we are. ”

Zhou Yan blinked, Shi Tiesheng's talkative was beyond his expectations.

Originally, he was worried that he would be cold and thought about how to find a topic, but now he found that he didn't need to say anything at all, as long as he followed Shi Tiesheng, Shi Tiesheng could keep talking.

In Shi Tiesheng's essays, he writes about life, but when he chats, he doesn't like to talk about daily life.

The two chatted for about half an hour, and Shi Tiesheng suddenly said, "I have to go home for dinner." ”

After that, he politely invited Zhou Yan, "Why don't you go to my house for a bite." ”

Zhou Yan smiled and shook his head, "No, I have to go back too, and I have a chance to see you again." ”

Shi Tiesheng nodded and smiled, "I hope to hear your work when I have the opportunity." ”

……

After seeing Shi Tiesheng leave, Zhou Yan also walked out of Ditan Park and rode to Yanjing Studio.

After going around the set and having lunch in the factory, Zhou Yan rode home.

During this time, in addition to his graduation work "The Nightingale", he was also preparing the soundtrack for "Sanmao's Tale in the Army".

The style of the movie "Sanmao in the Army" is black humor, so the soundtrack naturally follows this style and takes a witty and interesting route.

When he left Shanghai before, he asked Zhang Jianya for a movie script, and during this time, he also read the script several times and took a lot of notes.

After a while, he will go to the set of "Sanmao in the Army" to discuss with Zhang Jianya about the things written in the notes, and maybe he can also write two tunes for Zhang Jianya.

Zhou Yan worked in the study until more than four o'clock in the afternoon, when the pager received Hou Xiaoxian's message, he ran to the living room to pick up the phone and dialed it.

After Hou Xiaoxian received the call, he was quite surprised, "Why is you so fast?" Aren't you in school? ”

Zhou Yan smiled, "I'm not at school, I moved to a new place and just installed a phone." ”

"That's more convenient, you report the phone number to me, and I won't call your pager later."

Zhou Yan reported the phone number, and then asked, "Director Hou, what are you looking for me, is there a change in the publicity work of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly"?" ”

"No, I called you to tell you about my new movie." Hou Xiaoxian said with a smile.

Hearing Hou Xiaoxian say his new movie, Zhou Yan scratched his head, he still has to come.

"I heard Sister Feng say about your new movie, is it related to puppet shows?"

"Well, it's a biographical movie, which mainly tells the story of the first half of the life of puppet theater master Li Tianlu."

Zhou Yan knew Li Tianlu, in the movie "City of Sadness" made by Hou Xiaoxian before, it was Li Tianlu who played the head of the Lin family.

Zhou Yan also knows "Dream Life", but he is not impressed.

Xu Feng said that Hou Xiaoxian is the emperor of stuffy films, which is not false at all, like his "City of Sadness" Zhou Yan can still see it, but "Dream Life" can only watch half of it.

A movie that he can only watch half of it, Zhou Yan really doesn't want to take it, he was about to tell Hou Xiaoxian that he didn't know anything about puppet play, but he heard Hou Xiaoxian say again, "In terms of soundtrack, you don't need to know about puppet play, some performance scenes use traditional tunes, and there is no room to play in this regard, so you treat it as an ordinary movie." Let me tell you about the story of this movie......"

Next, regardless of whether Zhou Yantong agreed or not, Hou Xiaoxian told Zhou Yan the story of the movie in a nutshell.

This is a biographical movie, which tells the story of Li Tianlu from childhood to adulthood.

Li Tianlu was born in 1910 and followed his father to run wild stage operas in the puppet troupe Yanghuatai since he was a child.

There is a big line and a small line in the movie, the big line is the background of the times, at that time, Taiwan Island was colonized by neon, and after Li Tianlu grew up, the war broke out again, and the small line is Li Tianlu's personal growth history, his mother died when he was a child, his stepmother was very cruel to him, his maternal grandfather died, he fell out with his father and stepmother and the Li family, and joined the family as a marry......

Listening to Hou Xiaoxian talking about the story of "Dream Life" on the phone, Zhou Yan couldn't help but sigh that Hou Xiaoxian's oral story was a little more exciting than the movie, at least he could listen to it.

On the contrary, after making a movie, it makes people feel bored.

After Hou Xiaoxian finished the story, he finally asked Zhou Yan with a smile, "Do you want to take this movie?" ”

Zhou Yan groaned, to be honest, the soundtrack of this movie is not complicated, because the performance scenes in it are all traditional drama repertoire that existed before sampling, and he doesn't need to put too much thought into it at all, he just needs to write one or two new tunes.

"How?" Hou Xiaoxian asked again.

Hearing Hou Xiaoxian speak again, Zhou Yan didn't hesitate any longer, and directly agreed, "No problem." ”

To be honest, since "The Red Lantern Hangs High", Hou Xiaoxian has helped Zhou Yan a lot, and this is also the first time Hou Xiaoxian has opened his mouth to ask him for help, and Zhou Yanzhen can't say anything if he refuses.

And it's really not that hard.

Hearing Zhou Yan's promise, Hou Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Anyway, you are going to Taiwan Island in a while, and we will meet and have a good chat when the time comes." ”

"Okay, no problem."

……

The next morning, Zhou Yan rode his bicycle to find Xu Qing.

After meeting, Zhou Yan handed her a bag, "Your breakfast." ”

"What did you bring me?"

Xu Qing took the plastic bag with a smile, opened it and looked at it, and then the smile on his face disappeared, "This is fried cake and sugar oil cake?" ”

Zhou Yan nodded, "Isn't it that you want to eat fried and sweet?" These two best meet your requirements. ”

Xu Qing's eyes rolled to the sky, "Oh, I said I don't eat fried, sweet, you just hear the back." ”

"Why don't I take you out and buy two buns?"

Xu Qing shook his head, "Forget it, I'll eat this fried cake, you can eat the sugar pancake." ”

Zhou Yan also shook his head, "No, I've been gaining muscle recently, and I can't even touch this thing like sugar pancakes." ”

Xu Qing: "......"

In the end, Xu Qing ate the fried cake, and in line with the principle of not wasting it, Zhou Yan brought back the remaining sugar pancakes to Huang Jianxin.

Comrade Lao Huang was quite moved when he saw Zhou Yan bringing him breakfast, and asked with a smile, "How do you know that I didn't eat breakfast?" ”

Zhou Yan was embarrassed to break Comrade Huang's beautiful illusion, but said with a smile, "Just think that you didn't eat." ”

Later, Zhou Yan introduced Xu Qing to Huang Jianxin, Huang Jianxin looked at Xu Qing while nibbling on sugar and oil cakes, "Xu Qing's image is indeed quite in line with Ma Yunying, when will Kong Ling arrive?" ”

Zhou Yan looked at the time, "It should be almost there." ”

About ten minutes later, Kong Ling also arrived.

Then Huang Jianxin found a few scripts and asked Kong Ling and Xu Qing to try one scene each, and let the two try two together.

Before and after, about an hour of audition time ended, Huang Jianxin took out all the scripts with a smile, "I am very satisfied with the performance of the two of them, the two of you read the script first, and then I will tell you about the filming time and filming location, and then you decide whether to take this play." ”

Xu Qing and Kong Ling had no opinion on the script, shooting time and filming location, and finally agreed to participate in "The Knife in Clear Water", which is considered a decided.

Two actors were set at once, Huang Jianxin was of course very happy, he smiled and said to Xu Qing and Kong Ling, "Before you go to Chang'an in June, I shouldn't come to Yanjing again, if you have any questions during this time, you can call me, or find Zhou Yan." ”

Xu Qing blinked and asked, "Is Zhou Yan the assistant director or the soundtrack director this time?" ”

"Where can I use such a high-standard assistant director, Zhou Yan is now an international director." Huang Jianxin smiled and waved his hand, "As for the soundtrack guidance, I also invited Mr. Zhao Jiping." ”

Xu Qing and Kong Ling are very puzzled, Zhou Yan is neither an assistant director nor a soundtrack director, what else can he be?

"Is that the screenwriter?" Kong Ling asked.

Huang Jianxin smiled, "Forget it, he wrote this original book." ”

The two girls looked at Zhou Yan, their eyes were full of doubts, but there was more surprise in Xu Qing's eyes, as if they had discovered a new world.

Then Xu Qing pulled Zhou Yan and asked a lot of questions, what is the name of the original work and where was it published......

After Huang Jianxin auditioned Xu Qing and them, he set off back to Chang'an, and Zhou Yan rode Xu Qing back to their school.

In this world, the fastest thing to spread is gossip, just because Zhou Yan has ridden a few times, there are already rumors in the film academy that the two of them are in love.

As soon as Xu Qing returned to the dormitory, her roommate Li Ting asked her, "Aren't you dating Zhou Yan?" ”

"What kind of object, it's so ugly." Xu Qing pouted.

"It's all about it in the department."

"How?" Xu Qing was also quite curious.

"It's said that you performed a flower in the 88 show and was picked by someone else, seriously, is that the case?"

"Zhou Yan, they have a movie to make, ask me to participate, how can it be like you think."

"Are you sure you're going to star?"

"Hmm."

"Tut, I agreed so quickly, I really don't believe you if you want to say that you have nothing to do with Zhou Yan, Director Chen Kaige asked you to film before, but you were blocked for a week or two before you agreed."

"Because I'm graduating soon, sometimes I'm indirect." Xu Qing explained casually, and asked Li Ting, "Do you know where to buy "Yanjing Literature" here in our school?" It's best to be able to buy the previous issue. ”

Li Ting shook her head, "How do I know this, if you don't want to go to Xinhua Bookstore or the post office, ask." But why are you asking this, I don't usually see you paying attention to these literary magazines? ”

Xu Qing said with a smile, "Because the original work we filmed this time is an article, which was released on "Yanjing Literature" before. ”

"Oh, that's a must-see, but the crew is also quite picky, didn't say to send you a copy?"

"Sent a script."

……

When Zhou Yan returned from Yenching Film Academy, he began to write the soundtrack for "Dream Life".

After listening to Hou Xiaoxian's description, Zhou Yan felt that the melody of Gaoli's "If Love Has Heaven's Will" was very suitable for using as a soundtrack for "Opera Dream Life".

Zhou Yan decided to write an ensemble version of this piece for violin and piano, and then try it with Taidao Yueqin, if the effect is not bad, you can put both versions in the movie.

The whole piece is very long, and when the time comes, you can also split the piece and use it in various places in the movie, so that this piece can run through the whole movie.

As soon as Zhou Yan wrote a little, the pager on the table rang.

To Zhou Yan's surprise, it was Li Bihua who sent the message.

The content of the message is very simple, Li Bihua wants to talk to Zhou Yan, and she also left a string of phone numbers.

Zhou Yan wrote down the phone number first, and then went to pick up the phone and dial it out.

As soon as the phone was dialed, it was answered, and Li Bihua should be next to the phone.

"Hello, is this Director Zhou?" Li Bihua's voice came.

Zhou Yan replied with a smile, "Well, hello, Mr. Li." ”

"Director Zhou, where are you now, can you meet each other?"

"Where's my home...... Mr. Li, what are you looking for me? ”

"It's related to "Green Snake", and it was said on the phone that it was inconvenient."

Hearing that it was related to "Green Snake", Zhou Yan said, "I'll give you an address, you come to me." ”

Zhou Yan ran to the North Third Ring Road twice today, and he really didn't want to run there.

"Okay." Li Bihua said.

Then Zhou Yan reported his family's land to Li Bihua, and told her about how to go.

After more than half an hour, Zhou Yan heard someone knocking on the door outside, so he got up to open the door, and sure enough, it was Li Bihua at the door.

"Teacher Li, please come in."

Inviting Li Bihua to the lounge, Zhou Yan asked while pouring her tea, "What's the matter, do you want Mr. Li to run this trip yourself?" It should take a while for "Green Snake" to start filming, right? ”

"Well, for the time being, several important roles have not been decided." Li Bihua pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, her glasses were very large, and her face was very small, which made people feel that she was wearing glasses and a very heavy burden.

"Isn't the White Snake still undecided?"

The green snake has been decided, it is Zhang Manyu, Zhou Yan knows about this, he thought that the white snake should be settled during this time, but he didn't expect the white snake to be decided.

The version he saw was the White Snake played by Wang Zuxian, and I don't know if there will be any changes this time.

"Well, I originally wanted Gong Li to play the White Snake, but Gong Li didn't have a schedule, and then asked Anita Mui, who was originally scheduled to play the Green Snake, to play the White Snake, but Anita Mui told Gong Li that she would act together, and she wouldn't act if she didn't act."

"Come, drink water."

Li Bihua took the water cup and pushed her glasses again, "I came to you this time to show you the script." ”

"Script?" Zhou Yan looked puzzled, "Director Tsui Hark has already shown me the script." ”

Li Bihua took out a script from her satchel and handed it to Zhou Yan, "This is a newly revised script, you can take a look at it again." ”

The doubts on Zhou Yan's face were even stronger, he took the script, didn't ask again, and began to read it seriously.

The beginning of this script is no different from the beginning of the script that Tsui Hark gave him last time, it can be said that it is exactly the same, but after Xu Xian appeared, the script has changed somewhat.

Later, Zhou Yan found that the changes in the script were basically focused on the role of Xu Xian, while the other characters basically did not change, and even if there were changes, they were changed because of Xu Xian's changes.

In the version of the script that Zhou Yan read before, Xu Xian was very scummy, and his human nature was ugly, which was even worse than the movies he had seen.

And now in this version of the script that Li Bihua gave him, Xu Xian has become very different.

Xu Xian in this script actually has problems, not only loves the white snake, but also has thoughts about the green snake, but in this script, he shows more resistance and struggle.

And at the end, Xu Xian also showed a compassionate side, and the whole character was more plump than before.

After reading the script, Zhou Yan asked suspiciously, "Mr. Li, did you change this script?" ”

Li Bihua nodded, "This is the version I changed after discussing with Director Tsui Hark, how do you feel?" ”

Zhou Yan pursed his lips, "If I guessed correctly, did you come to me with this script to persuade me to play Xu Xian?" ”

"That's right." Li Bihua nodded, "I still think you are more suitable for the role of Xu Xian, you have a special temperament...... It gives the feeling of a private school teacher. I know you don't think the character design is very good, but I think it should be a lot better now that I changed it. ”

"Well, it's better."

In fact, there are not many changes, but there are some details that can have a great impact on the change of the character just by simply changing them.

For example, in the movie, Xu Xian looked at the grapes of two colors, and finally chose the purple grapes representing Xiaoqing, and this detail nailed the role of Xu Xian to the scumbag pillar.

In the new script, Li Bihua changed this paragraph, and Xu Xian finally chose the grape that represented his wife and put down the other purple grape.

Including the scene where I saw the green snake taking a bath with the white snake, I also saw the white snake first, and then blocked my eyes with my sleeve after seeing the green snake.

These two paragraphs alone have reversed Xu Xian's image a lot.

This shows that although the righteousness in Xu Xian's heart was somewhat shaken by the seduction of the green snake, it was still there.

But even so, Zhou Yan still looks down on Xu Xian a little, in the new script, he is just not so scumbag, but he is still cowardly and incompetent.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Yan said, "I'm still more inclined to play Fahai." ”

"Director Zhou, if you are still dissatisfied with the design of Xu Xian's character, you can also tell me."

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "If you change it further, Director Tsui Hark should disagree." ”

If it is changed according to Zhou Yan's idea, then Xu Xian will not be tempted by the green snake firstly, and secondly, after discovering that his wife is a demon, he will not care at all, desperately trying to protect his wife, and finally die in the hands of Fahai, so that the image of an infatuated man with affection and righteousness will come out.

But if it is changed like this, it will not be much different from the TV series, and Tsui Hark will definitely not do it.

Of course, Li Bihua also knows that although she is the author and screenwriter of the original book, the script is not something she can change as she wants, and it is not easy to change it to the way it is now.

"If you play Xu Xian, is there no hope?" Li Bihua said a little dejectedly.

Zhou Yan smiled and nodded, "I don't have the idea of playing Xu Xian for the time being." ”

"Oh, okay."

Zhou Yan smiled again, "The soundtrack, and the character of Fahai, I will let Tomson contact Tsui Hark." ”

"I don't care about the soundtrack." Li Bihua shook her head, and then said, "You can also play Fahai, but I still think you are more suitable for Xu Xian." ”

It can be seen that Li Bihua really wants Zhou Yan to play this Xu Xian, and she is still fighting for it at this time, but Zhou Yan has different ideas from her.

……

About two hours after Li Bihua left, Zhou Yan received a call from Xu Feng.

As soon as the phone was connected, Zhou Yan heard Xu Feng say with a smile, "I have to tell you good news." ”

As soon as he heard the good news, Zhou Yan was also energetic, "What good news?" ”

"Tsui Hark just called us, I hope you can play the role of Xu Xian."

As soon as he heard this, Zhou Yan pursed his lips, "Sister Feng, is this good news?" ”

Xu Feng laughed, "You listen to me first, they will offer you 550,000 Xiangjiang coins." ”

(End of chapter)