On the way back to Zhenbeibao, Zhao Liang kept talking about the song that Zhou Yan played on the spot.

He didn't expect that Zhou Yan could also handle rock and roll so well.

As for Chen Hong, while listening to Zhao Ling's songs, she stared at Zhou Yan who was driving, and with today's experience, she felt that the relationship between her and Zhou Yan was different.

Zhou Yan knew that Chen Hong was staring at him, but he kept avoiding it.

He admitted that he had thoughts about Chen Hong when he was next to Chen Hong at the scene, but afterwards, after the hormones subsided, he calmed down and felt that he should not be entangled with Chen Hong.

Back at Zhenbei Fort, they first arrived at Zhou Yan and Zhao Liang's residence, Chen Hong looked at Zhou Yan and said, "Director Zhou, do you want to give me a paragraph, it's a little dark." ”

Zhou Yan took a look, it was indeed a little dark inside Zhenbei Fort at this time, and there were few lights in the room, and the place where Chen Hong lived was still some distance from their dormitory, so he nodded, "Okay." ”

Zhao Liang entered the room, and the two walked towards Chen Hong's dormitory together.

Zhou Yan deliberately kept a distance from Chen Hong, but Chen Hong got closer and closer to him, and when he was halfway there, Chen Hong was about to get together with Zhou Yan.

Just as Chen Hong was about to hold Zhou Yan's arm, Zhou Yan suddenly stood still and turned to look at Chen Hong.

There was no moon or stars tonight, and the only light source was a lamp lit in a room more than a dozen meters away.

With this bit of light, Zhou Yan saw that Chen Hong's face was full of smiles.

"Do you have something to say to me?"

Chen Hong whispered softly, with a little expectation in her voice, she asked Zhou Yan to send her, also to create an opportunity to be alone.

Zhou Yan sighed slightly and said, "Chen Hong, I actually have a girlfriend." ”

Hearing this, the smile on Chen Hong's face suddenly froze, she was expecting Zhou Yan to say something to her, but she didn't expect that what she was waiting for was this.

After finishing speaking, Zhou Yan didn't wait for Chen Hong's response, so he walked forward first.

Chen Hong stood in place, not moving for a moment.

A minute ago, Chen Hong felt that she might be the happiest person in the world, and she had even imagined how beautiful her dream would be tonight.

But all her fantasies and all her hopes for happiness seemed to be shattered by Zhou Yan's words.

She froze in place, feeling more and more uncomfortable, and tears unconsciously burst out of her eyes.

Zhou Yan took two steps, and when he saw that Chen Hong didn't follow, he turned his head to look.

In the dim light, Zhou Yan saw Chen Hong's tears.

Men always lack resistance to women's tears, but Zhou Yan knew that now was not the time to be soft-hearted, so he stood in place, separated from Chen Hong by several meters, and said in a steady voice, "Because of the stimulation of the environment, I can understand your impulsiveness, but today's incident, you just treat it as if it didn't happen, it's good for you and me." ”

Chen Hong bit her lip and said, "Zhou Yan, why are you doing this to me. ”

Zhou Yan was stunned for a moment, it was obvious that he was Chen Hong's kiss, how could this woman beat him upside down.

Before Zhou Yan could respond, Chen Hong asked again, "Have you ever had even the slightest temptation for me?" ”

Zhou Yan didn't answer, and was silent.

"I know, don't worry, I'll forget about today's events. You go back and send it here. ”

After speaking, Chen Hong walked straight past Zhou Yan and walked towards her dormitory.

Zhou Yan looked at her back, and disappeared into the darkness after a while.

Sighing slightly, Zhou Yan turned his head and walked towards the road he had come.

……

In the next few days, Zhou Yan could see Chen Hong on the set every day, but Chen Hong was different from before, and now she wouldn't even greet Zhou Yan.

Such a result was expected by Zhou Yan, if Chen Hong could still get along with him as before, he would be afraid.

Originally, Zhou Yan was going to go to Shahu with Liu Zhenwei and them before leaving, but the situation has changed, and Liu Zhenwei and they have no time to go over recently, so Zhou Yan stayed in Zhenbei Fort for a week and left.

Halfway through, Zhou Yan's original plan to invite Lu Shuming and them to dinner also fell through, because the crew basically had something to do every night these days, and there were always people who didn't have time.

So when he was leaving, Zhou Yan gave Lu Shuming and them the things he had bought before, and agreed to have time to meet again later.

After Zhou Yan returned to Yanjing, he had just rested for less than half a day, and Jiang Xia sent him two work lists.

"Boss, this one is a job that has been determined, and this one is some cost-effective job invitations picked out by Mr. Zhang, let you choose and see if you are interested."

Zhou Yan took the two lists and looked at the one that had been determined first.

The content of this list is relatively small, and only two of them are more important, one is the celebration banquet of "The Sixth Sense", and the other is the finalized press conference of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

The two events are held at a similar time, both in mid-to-late September.

After several years of filming and production, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is finally scheduled to be broadcast in late October, and this scheduled press conference has little to do with Zhou Yan, but there will be a dinner party, which the main creators will attend, and Zhou Yan, as one of the soundtrack directors, naturally cannot be absent.

If you don't know, you may feel that the production team is extravagant and wasteful, and they have to eat every file, but in fact, this dinner is more like a finale banquet.

After reading the job that had been confirmed, Zhou Yan looked at the job invitation list again.

The content of this list is much more, and this is still filtered, and if it is not screened, the number will be many times greater.

Among them, there are invitations to direct seven or eight films, Golden Harvest, New City and Shaw Brothers all have.

Zhou Yan filmed "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" before, and there were many such invitations, but at that time, the number was average, and the ones given were all small productions.

But after "The Sixth Sense" came out, the number of such invitations skyrocketed, and the scale of film production invited to be directed by him was much higher, with an investment of 20 or 30 million at every turn.

It's just that most of these movies Zhou Yan has never heard of, only one "Daughter Red" Zhou Yan is more impressed, and Zhou Xun also participated in this movie.

The invitation issued by Xinyicheng and Yongsheng does not have a script, which means that as long as Zhou Yan is willing to cooperate with them, Zhou Yan chooses the script himself, Yongsheng is very atmospheric, and the production fee is directly 30 million Xiangjiang coins.

Zhou Yan was not very interested in these plans. There are scripts, he is not interested in these scripts, there is no script, he is not interested in these companies, if he wants to make a movie, he doesn't have to worry about lack of money at all, Xu Feng is now eager to spend tens of millions of dollars for him to make a movie, even if Xu Feng does not support it, Zhou's company is also his backing.

He continued to look behind, in addition to looking for him to be the director, there were also several movies that invited him to score music, but this time he saw several more famous movies, one is "Woman, Forty" directed by Xu Anhua, and the other is "Sweet Honey".

Needless to say, "Sweet Honey", Chen Kexin's god movie, and the movie has a high degree of circulation, and many ordinary viewers have seen it.

The popularity of "Woman, Forty" may be a little lower, but the status of this movie in the film industry is not low at all, this movie is indiscriminately killed at the Xiangjiang Golden Horse Awards and the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, and the heroine Xiao Fangfang also won the Berlin Film Festival with this movie.

In fact, it has taken advantage of the subject matter to some extent, in recent years, the three major film festivals have paid more and more attention to women and special groups, and female-themed films naturally have an advantage in these film festivals.

Otherwise, why could "The Piano Lesson" win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with "Farewell My Concubine".

Although "The Piano Lesson" is a good movie, it cannot be compared with "Farewell My Concubine" at all.

"Woman, Forty" and "Sweet Honey" are both very good movies, but when it comes to soundtracks, Zhou Yan's interest is not too high, because he thinks that the soundtracks of these two movies have relatively little room for operation.

However, Zhou Yan still circled these two movies with a pen, "Pay attention to these two movies." ”

Zhou Yan looked behind him again, and the next thing was the interview invitations from various TV stations, both on the two sides of the strait, and there were also neon ones.

Skipping this part, the following is an endorsement for an advertisement.

Seeing the advertising endorsement, Zhou Yan was still a little surprised, Zhang Youan had told him before that several brands wanted to find him to shoot advertisements and write tunes, at that time Zhou Yan told Zhang Youan that he had no time, but he didn't expect Zhang Youan to put this one in this time.

This time it was Panasonic Electronics that sent the invitation, and they invited Zhou Yan to be their global image spokesperson.

"What's going on with this Panasonic Electronics?" Zhou Yan asked.

Jiang Xia explained, "Panasonic's original global image ambassador was Noriko Sakai, and their last ad was very well received in China, and Noriko Sakai became famous in China. However, Sakai's endorsement contract will end next year, and Panasonic Electronics now wants to find a global image spokesperson in China. If our side refuses, they will also find other Chinese, and it is likely to be a female singer. ”

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "Let's pay attention to this one first, and go back and show me the recent advertisement of Panasonic Electronics." ”

"Okay, I'll look for it when I get back." Jiang Xia nodded, and said, "Mr. Xu still has something to tell you, I know that you are busy in Yinchuan, let me tell you to call her back when you come back." ”

"Did you say what it was?"

"That's not true."

Zhou Yan was quite puzzled, because he actually called Xu Feng in Yinchuan, but Xu Feng didn't say anything else at that time except for "The Sixth Sense".

"Okay, I see, you go get busy."

After Jiang Xia left, Zhou Yan called Xu Feng.

After receiving Zhou Yan's call, Xu Feng smiled and said, "Are you back in Yanjing?" ”

"Well, I heard Xiao Jiang say, Sister Feng, are you looking for me?" Zhou Yan replied.

"Yes, I told you last time that I wanted you to think about the new movie, do you have an idea now?"

"I haven't really thought much lately."

"Then why don't you listen to me?"

"Uh, yes, Sister Feng, you can talk about it."

"I have two scripts here, one is "Once Upon a Time in Yanzhou" and the other is "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai".

Zhou Yan didn't have much impression of the first script, but he knew about "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai", "Is this "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai" Zheng Nian's?" ”

"Well, that's right, it's that one, "Once Upon a Time in Yanzhou" is Li Bihua's, and these two scripts are what I want to shoot." Then Xu Feng said to Zhou Yan very frankly, "Actually, I originally wanted Chen Kaige to shoot "Once Upon a Time in Yanzhou", but he wanted to shoot "Fengyue", so I want to hand over these two scripts to you now." ”

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "I don't know about "Once Upon a Time in Yanzhou", but "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai" should not be easy to pass the trial." ”

In Zhou Yan's opinion, Xu Feng has no need to touch this one, and his evaluation of this one is also very average.

If "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai" can be filmed, then Zhou Yan has more and better options.

Xu Feng was quite confident, "Change it well, it should be no problem." ”

Zhou Yan groaned, "If you don't want Sister Feng, you can change it first." ”

Xu Feng is a smart person, so he naturally understands that Zhou Yan is not interested in these two scripts.

"If you're not interested, just tell me directly, don't beat around the bush."

Xu Feng said this, Zhou Yan was not hypocritical, and said directly, "I don't really want to touch these themes, it's too troublesome, and the key is that I don't have any pursuit in this area." ”

Hearing Zhou Yan's words, Xu Feng sighed, "I understand what you mean, then forget this matter first, let's talk about it later." However, you also have to serve snacks yourself, I always say, you can't be too busy, but you still need to make a movie in two or three years. ”

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "In the next movie, I still want to make more things to do with music." ”

"How can I listen to you, it seems that I have an idea."

Zhou Yan smiled: "It's a little immature idea, I want to make a film related to education and music." ”

"Be specific."

"I can't say it specifically, I haven't written the outline of the script, it's just an idea for the time being."

Xu Feng pondered for a moment and said, "Otherwise, think about it more during this time, and wait until the celebration of "The Sixth Sense", let's meet and talk in detail, this time it will be September, the script is set, and the preliminary preparation will not be filmed until the middle of next year." ”

"It's hard to say when it will be filmed, wait until I get the script out."

"No problem, I'm looking for you for the new movie, nothing else, so let's do it first."

"Okay."

After talking to Xu Feng on the phone, Zhou Yan got up and walked to the piano room, took out his violin, and played a piece of Strauss's "The Life of an Artist".

The reason why Zhou Yan played this song is because the movie he is going to make next is related to this song.

This time, he fell in love with "Spring in the Cattle Herding Class", or rather, he fell in love with the original "A Caged Nightingale".

"A Caged Nightingale" is a French film in the forties, which did not receive much attention in film history, but a remake of it decades later, "Spring in the Cattle Class", became a classic in film history, not only selling well but also selling well.

The reason why Zhou Yan fell in love with "The Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" is that as he told Xu Feng, he wants to make a movie related to music and education next, after all, he is a music teacher himself, and such a movie perfectly fits his identity.

And the movie "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" is not very regional, and it will not feel strange if the story is placed in any country, and the adaptation does not need to be too strong, just follow the original story line.

The movie has a strong relationship with music, and it can even be said that the overall story direction revolves around music, which is also completely Zhou Yan's style.

The story is actually very simple, a well-known musician, returned to the countryside to attend his mother's wedding, met a friend when he was a child, and the friend took out a diary to show him, looking at the diary, many past memories instantly came to his heart.

The owner of the diary was a talented musician, but because of his talent, he later returned to the countryside to work as an assistant teacher in a boys' boarding school.

Most of the students in this school are problematic, and the teacher wants to use his own methods to improve the situation, which is very good, but the reality is not easy, and in the process, he encounters a lot of trouble.

But the emperor paid off, and thanks to his efforts, the situation improved, and he also discovered the musical talent of one of the students, and this student was the well-known musician.

Apparently it was because of the teacher's infection that he was finally able to become a musician.

In the movie, the teacher's ending is actually not good, he is not only harassed by the students at school, but also by the principal and other colleagues, and finally fired by the principal.

The whole story has warmth, thinking, and resistance, and the soundtrack is also very good, which is also a movie that Zhou Yan likes very much.

And such a theme is almost tailor-made for him, he can completely direct and self-match, and the cost of this movie is not high, Zhou Yan himself roughly estimated, if you shoot it in China, save one province, you can shoot very well with six or seven million, and if you are extravagant, more than 10 million is enough.

But filming is still difficult, and the difficulty lies in the choice of actors, he needs to find a real choir child, eleven or twelve years old, and the appearance must meet the requirements.

The casting of other students also takes a little thought, so the preparation before the filming of this movie will definitely take longer than "The Sixth Sense".

Fortunately, for him, this matter is still a professional counterpart, not to mention, they have two children's choirs in Yangyin, and the level is very high.

Even if he can't find it in the central sound, he can contact the children's choir across the country, and under the huge number, Zhou Yan can't believe that he can't find a suitable little male lead.

As for the role of the teacher, Zhou Yan's first choice is Li Xuejian, his performance in the movie "JYL" is very in line with Zhou Yan's imagination of the teacher in "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class".

After finishing "The Artist's Career", Zhou Yan found pen and paper and began to write the script of "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class". (End of chapter)