The short plot at the beginning has already told the audience in advance that this movie has a great relationship with music.

After the concert, Mr. Lin returned to his hometown and attended his mother's funeral.

This part of the funeral, the movie does not give too many pictures to explain, and the story really began when a person who wanted to be far away came to find Lin Ai.

Mo Yuan is Lin Ai's old classmate, he took Teacher Zhou Xuewen's diary to find Lin Ai, and then the picture followed the content of the diary back to fifty years ago.

In the picture, Zhou Xuewen, played by Li Xuejian, walked to the door of Chidi Middle School with a suitcase.

Zhou Xuewen is the new superintendent of Chidi Middle School, and he is a middle-aged man who looks slightly blessed and honest.

The tone of the movie is very dark, although it is not a rainy day, but the whole school looks very eerie and gives people a very oppressive feeling, and if it were not for the fact that this is a school, the audience may think that it is a prison.

The first person Zhou Xuewen saw when he arrived at the school was a small boy, the boy was holding the iron door of the school, waiting for his father to pick him up, the boy's father would not pick him up until Sunday, and today was not Sunday.

The two chatted for a while, and an old man came out of it.

"Mo Yuan!"

Hearing the old man's shout, the audience also realized that this cute little boy turned out to be the old man who went to find Teacher Lin just now.

Seeing the old man come out, Zhou Xuewen took the initiative to introduce himself as the school's newly appointed superintendent, and then followed the old man and Mo Yuan into the school.

Through Zhou Xuewen's chat with the old man on the road, the audience knew that Zhou Xuewen used to be a music teacher in a middle school, and they also knew that the principal of this school had played the trumpet before.

The principal loves music, which is undoubtedly good news for Zhou Xuewen, and the audience thinks the same way.

But later events proved that this was not the case, and in this school that oppressed humanity, the principal was the source of darkness.

The rules of the school are very strict, not much different from those in prison, and most of the children here are very stubborn, not at all like ordinary school students.

Because the principal has a very cold management method for the students, the children's minds are severely imprisoned.

As soon as Zhou Xuewen came, he was teased by the students.

In the face of the students' teasing, Zhou Xuewen was of course very angry, but he still endured his temper and tried his best to be tolerant and kind to these children.

Later, Zhou Xuewen found that the children were sensitive and interested in music, so he tried to persuade the principal to organize the children to form a choir.

Although he encountered difficulties, Zhou Xuewen overcame them one by one and finally established this orchestra.

Zhou Xuewen started to train the choir from the most basic musical skills, and composed his own music and lyrics to compose music for the children.

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The movie does not have thrilling scenes, but the pace is not slow, and the seemingly bland scenes can also attract the audience to continue watching.

Some audience members watched the orchestra grow step by step, and even felt a little enthusiastic.

The most important thing is that in this movie, the fit between the music and the plot can be said to be perfect, and the level of music created by Zhou Xuewen is quite high.

For example, Lin Ai's voice is extremely ethereal, like a heavenly sound, Zhou Xuewen wrote a song "The Breeze on the Sea" for him, which is a song combining solo singing and backing vocals, at first quiet and tranquil, and then Yuan Hao and the clarinet played the melodic theme softly, and Lin Ai's lead singer made people feel like a spring breeze.

Like "The Artist's Life", in the beat, the carefree singing of the children slowly removed the haze of the original school.

By the time we got here, the audience also noticed that the tone of the film began to brighten.

Many people know that film music is the direct link to convey emotions in movies, but before watching "Spring in the Cattle Herding Class", they didn't feel it so deeply.

Compared with many song and dance films, on the contrary, this kind of film that "moistens things silently" and immerses music into the plot, which can make people feel the charm of music at the same time, but also feel the far-reaching narrative space of the movie because of music.

Zhang Yimou stared at the big screen the whole time, and did not take his eyes off for a moment.

He sighed with emotion in his heart, not to mention anything else, on the track of combining film and television music with film and television pictures, I am afraid that he will not find an opponent who can match Zhou Yan.

And now Zhou Yan, music is no longer his only powerful weapon.

Zhou Yan's movies are more mature than the other, and one is more exciting than the other.

Recalling that five years ago, when he was in Qiaojiabao, Zhou Yan was still learning how to draw storyboards with them, but now he has been able to complete such a movie.

Speaking of which, Zhou Yan has advantages that they don't have in ordinary directors.

Zhou Yan is a musician and a writer, he has the ability to write stories and score movies, so his movies are very integral.

He doesn't worry about the script at all, from his debut to the present, all his movies have been written by him himself.

Zhang Yimou is very envious of this, Zhang Yimou has no way to write a good story himself, so he can only adapt the excellent works of those writers.

Towards the end of the movie, Zhang Yimou suddenly heard a cry from behind, which was small at first, and then became louder and louder.

Later, the voice was so loud that Zhang Yimou couldn't help but turn his head to look, only to see a group of people in the back row, all wiping tears and sobbing.

This makes Zhang Yimou feel strange, the movie is indeed touching, but it is not so exaggerated, and it is this film that cries.

What's so special about these people?

Hearing these people sobbing made him feel very uncomfortable.

When the movie was completely over, there was applause from the audience.

The guests sitting in the front row are more restrained, while the students in the back row are working harder than the other.

Zhou Yan is an idol for young people, especially among these college students, and his reputation is very high.

In the applause of everyone, Zhou Yan stood up, turned around and bowed to the audience to express his gratitude.

The lights came on, and the host walked onto the stage, summed up the progress of the ceremony, praised the movie, and then announced the end of the ceremony.

At this time, the guests stood up one after another to congratulate Zhou Yan.

Wang Junzheng came up and gave Zhou Yan a thumbs up, "Brother, what a movie." The plot is good, the technique is good, the music is good, the actors perform well, and the production level is also high. ”

She even said a few good things, all from the heart.

In fact, when she praised Zhou Yan, she was also a little envious, except for everything else, the production level of "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" was much higher than that of "Heaven's Reply".

This level of production is reflected in the hardware of photographic equipment, recording equipment and so on, and these things are exchanged for money.

Each step of the production is a little worse, and when combined, the overall texture is much worse.

Since the filming of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly", Zhou Yan has not lacked investment, and now most domestic directors are even more difficult to make tens of millions of dollars, and Zhou Yan makes a movie, and the cost is hundreds of millions of investments.

Because of the money, Zhou Yan can always find better equipment, better materials, props and so on, and don't have to worry.

But then again, Zhou Yan is indeed worthy of Tomson to invest money in him, because the money will definitely be able to be earned.

Let's just say that the movie "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class" is by no means a commercial film, but the box office will not be low, the rhythm of the movie is very good, the story is complete, the audio-visual effects are excellent, and Zhou Yan's own fame, there must still be many fans who are willing to spend money for this movie.

Now even if Tomson doesn't invest in Zhou Yan, there are a lot of people who come to Zhou Yan with money, because everyone knows that as long as it is Zhou Yan's movie, it is impossible to lose money, the difference is just to make more money and earn less.

Now Tomson Pictures can have such a development, which is inseparable from Zhou Yan, "The Sixth Sense" and "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" are

Chen Kaige next to him said with a smile, "It's time to praise, Director Wang has already finished praising it, I can only wish the movie a big hit, this movie will definitely have a global box office of 50 million, we will wait for you to invite you to dinner." ”

Zhou Yan looked at his watch, "It's not early, let's go to dinner quickly." ”

After speaking, he deliberately looked at the audience in the third or fourth row, and asked the staff to arrange these people.

After Zhou Yan's explanation, Zhang Yimou and the others knew that the audience of this film was the family of the young actors.

No wonder these audience members are crying, it turns out that it is because of their children's performances.

In fact, the reason why these viewers cry is not only because the children acted in the movie, but more importantly, because the plot of the movie reminds them of the changes of children in reality.

These children have some problems to some extent, but just like in the movie, through this movie, the children have been changed.

When the film was filmed, a lot of things were recorded, and if there was an opportunity in the later stage, it might be cut into a documentary and released.

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When Zhou Yan and the others went to eat, Shuichi Ishiguro, thousands of miles away, was watching a special program on TV Asahi.

Asahi TV is the TV station that Quan Nion pays the most attention to Zhou Yan and has the closest relationship with Zhou Yan.

Zhou Yan's new album this time will also be reported by other TV stations, but TV Asahi directly broadcast a special program on the same day, which is not inefficient.

The content of the program is that the two hosts went to the video store in the morning to buy the album "Yulin Bell".

It turned out that the new album was on the market, and the popularity was relatively high, and the host deliberately chose a video store with many people, so it felt like a crowd.

On the spot, they will randomly interview some music fans who have purchased "Yulin Bell", and will also do some simple games, such as the interviewee only needs to name three songs of Zhou Yan, and he can get a new album.

What Shuichi Ishiguro didn't expect the most was that the TV station actually took out a signed album of Zhou Yan, and as long as the interviewee answered a question related to Zhou Yan, he could take it away.

I have to say that the relationship between TV Asahi and Zhou Yan is really good, the album was only released today, and they have already got the signed album.

This shows that TV Asahi has contacted Zhou Yan a long time ago and is ready to do this episode.

After the exterior was finished, the host returned to the studio and began to listen to the album "Yulin Bell", commenting while listening.

This link seems simple, but it is not easy, because the music is copyrighted, and the TV station can not play it if they want to, they dare to broadcast it directly, and they must have negotiated the copyright issue in advance.

So from this point, it can be seen that TV Asahi has been prepared for a long time.

Shuichi Ishiguro is not a loyal fan of Zhou Yan, but he also likes Zhou Yan's music and bought a "Mystery Country" album.

In fact, this is also the state of most neon people, ordinary people are not very fanatical about Zhou Yan, but they like Zhou Yan's songs.

I usually listen to Zhou Yan's music, but I don't pay special attention to Zhou Yan's news.

Recently, there has been a lot of publicity about Zhou Yan's new album in Neon China, and Shuichi Ishiguro has also passively paid attention to it.

However, Shuichi Ishiguro has been very busy in the past two days, and he knows that there are many people in the video store these two days, and he doesn't want to go to the video store to squeeze with others, so he didn't go to the video store to buy the album.

Now TV Asahi has produced a special program and also broadcasts the tracks of Zhou Yan's new album, which is just right for him.

If the tunes of the new album don't appeal to him, then don't buy it, and you can save some money.

But when the host played a few tunes, Shuichi Ishiguro knew that he couldn't save money to buy an album this time.

"Drinking the Yangtze River Water Together", "Past Life", and "People Like You", these three songs directly conquered Shuichi Ishiguro.

That's not all, there's still a song like "You and Beautiful" to follow.

He'd heard it before, and more than once, because it was sung by Mariah Carey.

Mariah Carey is Neon's most famous non-native female singer, and her results in Neon are even better than Madonna's.

After the release of her new album this time, she also dominated the charts one after another.

"The song "Young and Beautiful", like "People Like You" and "Past Life", is the soundtrack of the movie "Sense and Sensibility". Many viewers may feel that this song is very familiar, because the song "Young and Beautiful", which has just been released on Neon and became popular, is adapted from the lyrics of this song of the same name. ”

On TV, the host introduced the song very intimately.

Shuichi Kuroishi hadn't paid attention to it before, he didn't expect this song to be written by Zhou Yan.

In the program, not all the songs were played, because the whole album was very long, and the whole program was only a little more than an hour, which was not enough to play all the programs.

At the end of the program, the host said with a smile, "If you think this album is good, then hurry up and buy it at the video store, I can tell you very responsibly, and the rest of the songs are also very good." ”

"Also, there's good news. Just now, a reporter from our station called from Yanjing, and he had already attended the premiere of Zhou Yanxin's movie "Spring of the Cattle Herding Class". He told us that the movie was very good. Also, Zhou Yan said in person at the scene that it is very likely that he will come to Neon to hold a concert next year. Next year, you can see the movie and Zhou Yan's concert, you can look forward to it. (End of chapter)