It is a very enjoyable thing to see the performances of excellent actors on the spot.

Watching Jiang Wenli's performance, Zhou Yan even found the feeling of watching Gong Li's performance on the spot before. It's just that the later development of these two people is very different, one has become "Gonghuang", and the other has become "Wenli girl".

When this scene was over, Jiang Wenli ran to the edge of the basin to wash his hands, and it happened that the basin was not far from Zhou Yan, so he took a step in front of Jiang Wenli, "Wenli, the performance just now was very good." ”

Jiang Wenli was also very hearty, she said with a smile, "If there is any drama after the guidance that week, you will also think of me." ”

"No problem, if there is a suitable one, I will definitely look for you." Zhou Yan smiled and nodded.

At this time, Gu Changwei, the chief photographer, walked over with a towel, "Wen Li, wipe your hands." ”

Jiang Wenli took the towel and wiped her hands, and Gu Changwei asked again, "Have you finished eating the pastries you brought yesterday, if you finish eating, get some more." ”

"I haven't finished eating yet." Jiang Wenli smiled and stuffed the towel back into Gu Changwei's hand.

After that, Jiang Wenli nodded at Zhou Yan, "Director Zhou, I'm going to change my clothes." ”

After Jiang Wenli left, Gu Changwei looked at Zhou Yan, with some vigilance in his eyes, "Zhou Yan, do you have something to do with Wenli?" ”

Zhou Yan smiled and waved his hand, "No, I was next to the basin and chatted with her." ”

Gu Changwei is pursuing Jiang Wenli, and everyone in the crew knows about this.

Jiang Wenli has a boyfriend at this time, and everyone in the crew knows about it.

And Wang Quanan's ex-girlfriend is still Kong Lin.

Originally, their affairs had nothing to do with Zhou Yan, so Zhou Yan didn't want to get involved.

Hearing Zhou Yan's explanation, Gu Changwei smiled and asked, "Why are you alone today, why didn't Xu Qing come?" ”

Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment, what is this called?

Did the gossip in the crew spread so fast?

and Gu Changwei, who looks very honest, why is he so gossipy?

Zhou Yan didn't answer Gu Changwei's question, but said with a smile, "Gu Shi, what pastry did you buy for Wen Li?" It's not delicious, I also like pastries, if she doesn't like to eat it, you can give me some. ”

Sure enough, speaking of this, Gu Changwei snorted, took the towel and bowed his head and left.

After the play in the afternoon, Zhou Yan was about to go to the cafeteria for another dinner, and when he saw Dong Wenmiao and Li Bihua in the courtyard, he walked over with a smile, "Teacher Dong is here." ”

"Hmm." Dong Wenmiao nodded lightly, and then said to Li Bihua, "The effect you want can be transformed according to the traditional drama costumes, and in the end, it must be matched with skirts and gauze clothes, and the makeup must also match the costumes......

Zhou Yan understood after listening to a few words, Dong Wenmiao and Li Bihua were talking about the costume design of "Green Snake".

Li Bihua couldn't help but nod her head, she felt that what Dong Wenmiao described was very much in line with her imagination.

But they are just talking, and Li Bihua has made suggestions to Tsui Hark at most about clothing design, and she is not very involved.

Dong Wenmiao naturally just chatted casually with Li Bihua, and she never thought of being the costume designer of "Green Snake".

But even if she chatted casually, Li Bihua still had a lot of questions, and kept throwing them at Dong Wenmiao.

"What kind of drama costumes are better?"

"What kind of main color do you use?"

Zhou Yan originally wanted to wait for them to go to the cafeteria to eat together, but after hearing that they couldn't finish chatting for a while, he told them that he would go to eat first.

When they came out after eating, seeing that Dong Wenmiao and Li Bihua were still chatting, Zhou Yan reminded them with a smile, "Two beauties, if you don't go to eat again, there will be no food in the canteen." ”

Li Bihua patted her forehead, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mr. Dong, let's go eat." ”

……

The next morning, Li Bihua and a woman wearing sunglasses came to the door of Zhou Yan's house.

The woman looked at the gate of the courtyard, scratched her head, and wondered, "Are we here to listen to music?" ”

Li Bihua nodded, "Well, this is it, hey, you listen-"

The woman listened attentively, and it seemed that she did hear the sound of a violin, and then more violin sounded, and soon, more and more musical instruments came from the courtyard, pianos, flutes, and ......

But these sounds are not a tune, they are messy.

Li Bihua walked to the door, raised her hand and knocked on the door.

She knocked a little lightly, but no one responded, and the woman in sunglasses in the back saw that she knocked on the door so gently, so she walked up and raised her hand and knocked on the door a few times.

is different from Li Bihua's gentleness, this woman's way of knocking on the door is like a debt collector.

Li Bihua was taken aback by the woman, "Amei, why are you knocking so hard!" ”

Amei smiled, "The voice inside is so loud, how can people hear it if you don't knock on the point?" If you knock on the door like this, we will never be able to enter, you see, even if I knock like this, no one will respond. ”

With that, Amei raised her hand to knock on the door again.

This time, her movements were more amplitude and seemed to be stronger, and if she were to knock on the door, it would have been a few loud bangs.

Just as her hand was raised in mid-air, there was a sudden creak, and the door was pulled open from the inside.

Amei's hand, dangling in mid-air, looked like the one who was about to open the door.

Zhou Yan pulled the door with both hands, looked up and saw the hand hanging in the air, and smiled, "I've been waiting for a long time." ”

Amei took her hand back, she didn't feel embarrassed, but Li Bihua next to her was embarrassed, and quickly explained, "We heard the sound inside, I'm afraid you won't hear the knock on the door." ”

Li Bihua is like this, she cares very much about other people's things that don't take it seriously.

"Hey, this door is really not easy to knock on, I'll find someone to install a doorbell when I go back."

Zhou Yan smiled, and looked at the woman next to Li Bihua, this woman was wearing a black leather coat and a pair of sunglasses, which was very cool.

Her sunglasses were very large, covering half of her face, but seeing the half of her face that was not covered, Zhou Yan still felt familiar.

"This is ...... Anita? Zhou Yan asked tentatively.

Hearing that she was recognized, Anita Mui simply took off her sunglasses and stretched out her hand to Zhou Yan, "Hello, I'm Anita Mui." ”

Although it felt like it, Zhou Yan was still very surprised to see that it was really Anita Mui, and he shook hands with Anita Mui, "Hello, I'm Zhou Yan." ”

Anita Mui smiled and nodded, "I know you." ”

Since Li Bihua brought Anita Mui over to listen to music, she must have introduced Zhou Yan to Anita Mui.

Zhou Yan smiled and invited the two to the courtyard.

He took Anita Mui and Li Bihua into the piano room, and everyone who was originally doing free practice stopped one after another.

Seeing Anita Mui, everyone was surprised.

Anita Mui's popularity in China is still quite high, although everyone here usually pays less attention to pop music, but they have basically heard Anita Mui's songs, and the few movies Anita Mui participated in are also very popular.

Especially "Rouge Buckle", which was released two years ago, is known as the ghost of the East, and many people's impression of Anita Mui is also her appearance in the play.

Of course, everyone is from the conservatory after all, and the reaction to seeing Anita Mui is better than that of ordinary fans and fans.

"This is Ms. Li Bihua, the author of "Farewell My Concubine", and this is Ms. Anita Mui, who came to listen to our performance today, everyone is welcome."

After Zhou Yan finished speaking, everyone applauded.

Anita Mui has the momentum of an eldest sister, she waved her hand, "Don't be so polite, we're here to listen to music today, and you don't have to worry too much about us." ”

Zhou Yan went to pick up his bamboo flute, and said to them with a smile, "You sit for a while, let's prepare again, and we will start practicing together later." ”

Li Bihua smiled, "Amei is right, you don't have to worry about us, just treat us as air." ”

Zhou Yan nodded, didn't say anything more, and went to take the others to make preparations.

After about ten minutes, Yu Feng, who was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, stood up, raised his right hand in the air, and shook it.

All the musicians, including Zhou Yan, looked at Yu Feng.

Seeing their posture, Anita Mui raised her eyebrows, leaned sideways and whispered to Li Bihua, "Is there still a command?" ”

Anita Mui is a singer and knows a little bit about music, so she knows the gold content of conducting.

Of course, it may also be non-professional cameos, and some non-conducting professionals will also conduct some conductors, which is quite normal. But looking at the appearance of this person in a suit and leather shoes, how to look professional.

With a conductor, it is different, when Yu Feng stands in front, all the musicians form a uniform army, and everything obeys the command's dispatch.

It can be seen that these musicians have a very tacit understanding with the conductor, and the musicians can understand the meaning of any look or action without the conductor's gestures.

After coming out of the command, Anita Mui has been staring at the actions of the conductor.

When Yu Feng completed a starting gesture, a sad and distant flute sounded, Anita Mui followed the flute and looked, only to see that it was Zhou Yan who played the flute.

Then the rhythm of the flute became faster and faster, faster and faster, and the last two sounds were like bird calls.

These two "bird calls" seem to be calling out to the people in the house, and the people in the house are attracted by this shout, push the door out, and then the sound of the piano and violin sound at the same time, and the melody of this section suddenly becomes high-spirited like a flood, like the response of the people in the house to the birds.

At this time, the flute also joined in, repeating the melody of the second section again, but this time the mood was a little fuller and more enthusiastic than before.

This is the first time Anita Mui has watched an orchestra play so closely.

How close?

The person in charge of the command was only a meter away from her, and she could feel the wind generated by the swing of her clothes even after the command moved.

Of course, this is also the first time she has heard such a standard of music in such a humble "concert hall".

But even in such a humble environment, the power of music immersed Anita Mui.

Last night, after Li Bihua returned to the hotel, she told her that she would take her to listen to a soundtrack in "Green Snake" today, and she had nothing to do anyway, so she came with Li Bihua.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for Gong Li's schedule, she would have taken over the play "Green Snake", so she was quite curious about the soundtrack of "Green Snake".

Because she knew it was a soundtrack, Anita Mui thought it was a very short piece, but she didn't expect it to be such a complete and long piece.

Four or five minutes passed after the whole piece was played.

At this time, Li Bihua applauded gently, and Anita Mui next to her applauded very much.

After applauding, she also gave two thumbs up, "It's good, it's very good." ”

Although there were only two audiences, Anita Mui and Li Bihua, Yu Feng still bent down to salute them and did all the official performances that should be done.

In fact, in Zhou Yan's opinion, you don't need to practice like this in ordinary times, just play the piece well, but Yu Feng is more insistent, he thinks that this is also a part of the whole piece of performance, and it is indispensable.

Zhou Yan and the others are used to it anyway, and every time the joint training is over, Yu Feng will come to such a play.

Anita Mui and the others think it's quite interesting, after all, there are only two of them.

After that, they didn't rest for long, and started the second, third, and fourth joint exercises......

Four times, every time it was over, Yu Feng would bend down to thank Anita Mui, and Anita Mui and the others were used to it.

Although they listened to it four times, Anita Mui and they didn't get bored of listening to it, on the one hand, the music is really good, and it won't be boring to listen to it four times, on the other hand, watching the performance live is different from listening to the tape.

In fact, the emotions expressed by the performers are different every time they play, and although the gap is not obvious, if you listen carefully, you can still hear it.

For example, in the last time, when entering the second section, Yu Feng was obviously a little more excited than the first three times, for unknown reasons, but because of his excitement, the musicians also followed his rhythm, so the melody of the second section of the fourth pass was also a little more excited.

There are many small details like this, these things can only be felt on the spot, and they must be experienced with the heart to feel, so although I listened to it four times in a row, Anita Mui felt that the more I listened, the better it sounded.

Also, the melody of the second section is very good, and when she heard it for the first time, she already had a rough memory, and now she can hum the melody of the second section.

After the four repetitions, everyone began to rest.

Taking advantage of the break, Zhou Yan ran to Anita Mui and them, and said with a smile, "Aren't you two boring?" ”

Anita Mui shook her head, "It's not boring, it's very interesting, it's the first time I've listened to music in this form." Although the environment is not as good as the concert hall, listening to music here is very special, it gives people the feeling of being able to be part of it, and the whole orchestra of you are playing for me and Ah Hua, which is very refreshing. ”

"That's good." Zhou Yan smiled and nodded.

Anita Mui's personality is completely different from Li Bihua's, she is very arrogant, and she talks like a boy, which is very different from "Rouge Buckle".

If you have to say which character is like her, Zhou Yan's first thought turned out to be the King Qi Xuan she played in "Zhong Wuyan", not that the personality is similar, after all, King Qi Xuan is a lustful and timid monarch in the movie...... It's just that Anita Mui's demeanor and feeling are a bit similar to her playing King Qi Xuan.

Li Bihua asked, "Zhou Yan, does this piece have a name?" ”

"Hmm." Zhou Yan nodded, "Its name is "Nightingale". ”

"Nightingale ......" Li Bihua thought of the flute sound at the end of the first paragraph, which was very similar to the bird's call, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "There is indeed a feeling of a nightingale crying, if this song is put into the movie, will it be separated?" ”

"Well, the first paragraph will be placed in the lantern section, and the second paragraph will be used in the umbrella delivery section."

Li Bihua recalled the plot of these two places, and then nodded in agreement, "These two places just form an echo, and it is really very good to separate this piece in these two places." In fact, I think that the part that keeps repeating at the end of the song can be placed after Xu Xian and the White Snake are together, just like their lives, every day Xu Xian is like living in a dream, and there is no difference between day and day......"

"Haha, Ah Hua, work matters, let's talk about it later, let's listen to music today." Anita Mui asked Zhou Yan again, "Have you written any other tunes?" ”

Before Zhou Yan could answer, Li Bihua said, "Zhou Yan has written a lot of tunes, and there is a movie "Heaven's Reply" here in the mainland, and I like several soundtracks in it very much, but unfortunately neither the video tape of the movie nor the audio tape of the music has come out now." ”

"Really?" Anita Mui was a little interested, "How good those songs are......"

Before Anita Mui finished speaking, Zhang Xinning, who was sitting on the piano bench, raised her hand and played on the piano.

A piece of light music sounded, it was the song "Wind".

As soon as Zhang Xinning finished talking, Yu Ran's violin sounded again, and then Fang Xiu's cello entered, and they played the last section of the movie, "Kite".

After a while, the piano was picked up again, this time with "Forever Together".

After that, the violin performance "Reunion" followed by the piano solo "Stealing Joy".

The whole process lasted only three minutes, and several people played five pieces and made a simple skewer.

They used to play like this in practice breaks, but I didn't expect it to come in handy today.

Anita Mui was stunned, in just three minutes, five very stylized melodies rushed into her ears one after another, she didn't even have time to react, she just felt good, good, good, all the tunes were good.

Li Bihua asked, "Are the last two songs new?" ”

Because "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" has not yet been released, and the tunes in it have not been made into an album and circulated, Li Bihua has naturally never heard it, so she has this question.

Zhou Yan explained with a smile, "This is the soundtrack in the movie I made before, which are called "Reunion" and "Stealing Joy" respectively. ”

"Do you want to fly?" Li Bihua heard the news of this movie winning the award, and everyone in the crew of "Farewell My Concubine" knew about it.

"Well, that's it." Zhou Yan nodded.

Li Bihua said to Anita Mui again, "Zhou Yan's film also won an international film festival award. ”

Anita Mui didn't pay attention to this before, and Li Bihua's statement misled her, making her think that Zhou Yan won the feature film award.

She just thought about the previous important international film festival awards in her mind, as if there was no "Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly", and she thought that Zhou Yan might win an unknown international film festival award.

Of course, even so, Anita Mui felt very powerful, after all, Zhou Yan was very young.

"Will this movie be released?" Li Bihua asked.

"Well, it will be released in early July, and there should be news in a few days."

"Then we'll definitely go and see it then."

Anita Mui said, "Will it be released over there in Xiangjiang?" I must have been in Xiangjiang at that time. ”

"The mainland, Xiangjiang, and Taiwan Island have all been screened."

"That's good." Anita Mui smiled, "Then you can hear the full version of these songs." ”

Zhou Yan smiled, "If you want to listen to it, I'll give you a tape in a while, but I recorded it myself, and the sound quality will definitely not be too good." ”

"It's okay, as long as you can hear the tune." Anita Mui said with a smile.

At this time, Yu Feng looked at the time, got up, and raised his hand into the air...... Zhou Yan knew that the rehearsal was about to start again, so he said to Anita Mui and the others, and then quickly took his place.

A new round of rehearsals began.

……

At noon, Anita Mui and the others stayed at Zhou Yan's house, had a meal with them, and then the two went out in the afternoon.

Before leaving, Anita Mui also asked them if there would be a rehearsal tomorrow, and after receiving a positive answer, she said that she would come again if she had time tomorrow.

Zhou Yan didn't take Anita Mui's words to heart, but the next morning, when they were rehearsing, Anita Mui really came, and this time she came alone.

"Ah Hua is very busy today, so I'll come alone to enjoy it alone."

Just the second time they met, Anita Mui was very familiar with Zhou Yan's house, and as soon as she entered the piano room, she set up a private seat for herself next to it, and then sat down generously to listen to their rehearsals.

After today's two rounds of seven exercises, Fang Xiu rubbed his neck and said, "Let's change the tune and pull it, if I always play this one, I'm almost numb." ”

Zhang Xinning smiled, "What are you going to pull?" ”

"How about playing "Kite"...... Or "The Wind" will do. ”

"I think 'Kite' is good."

"It's still "Wind", brisk and adjust your mood."

Zhou Yan saw that they wanted to play other tunes, so he smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll find you a new job." ”

Then, in the puzzled expressions of everyone, Zhou Yan took out the score of the recently written "If Love Has Providence".

"Look at this."

"What is this?" Fang Xiu took the score and asked with some doubts.

"Was it the soundtrack I wrote for another movie? The name is If Love Has Providence. ”

The reason why Zhou Yan took out "If Love Has Providence" at this time was that he wanted to record a rough sample of this piece before going to Taiwan, and go back to Taiwan Island so that he could show it to Hou Xiaoxian.

There was a new song, and everyone was very happy and gathered around.

Because it was a temporary idea, Zhou Yan did not copy the score, and everyone could only stare at one score.

Anita Mui also leaned over curiously, and at the same time felt that she was lucky to meet them to rehearse a new song.

In addition, she also sighed that Zhou Yan has a lot of work, and "Green Snake" has not started yet, and there will be another movie.

"Kite" - "The Rain" see easter egg after chapter 56

"Wind" - "Summer" see easter egg after chapter 68

"Whispering" - "Mimak at the Station" sees easter eggs after chapter 76

"Reunion" - "When It Rains" Easter egg after chapter 85

(End of chapter)