Chapter 167: The Golden King
I don't know what bath salts are put in the bathtub, and the water is milky and slippery.
Harumi Harumi and Su Changqing were still a little shy to take a bath face to face, only showing the top of their shoulder blades.
I thought that Japan's bathing culture was so awesome that it couldn't stand up to scrutiny at all.
Su Changqing told the story of what kind of dead the violinist met and what kind of story happened.
Harumi was very touched to hear this: "Your story is very creative, and you treat the dead as sincerely as you treat the living, I like it very much. ”
"In fact, there are also people in Europe and the United States who have made movies that show the theme of death and funeral, most of them are dark and sad, or absurd and funny, and the content and style are completely different. ”
The cellist turned to a mortician, and the tone was set very high, and only the Japanese who pretended to have the most sense of ritual did not violate the harmony.
"Yamato is a nation that is very obsessed with death and eternity, and you plan to write this story and ask Kitano-senpai to direct it and Takakura senpai to star?"
Harumi Harumi Hachiman at the wine table just now suggested that the three of them cooperate, since Su Changqing wrote the screenplay, then Takeshi Kitano is naturally the director.
But is such a good subject really for someone else to direct?
Su Changqing hesitated a little.
His early masterpieces were the science and education film "Scientific Production and Breastfeeding" and the propaganda film "Eternal Fire", which abolished burial, and was known as a two-part song of milk and fire.
The former made him an expert in milking, while the latter saw how the body was destroyed and shocked the soul like no other, and since then he has also been fascinated by the theme of death.
When filming "Model Team", Su Changqing spent a lot of space showing the funeral in the countryside, and finally set fire to the mourning hall, implementing the policy of cremation of the dead.
"Taiping" is easy to think of the morgue when you look at the name, but the dead are not peaceful and come to life in another form.
As for "Moving Labyrinth", everyone is running away from death on the line between life and death.
Su Changqing likes this theme, and he is a little unwilling to shoot others.
He is already a billionaire director, and his career has reached a new level, so he has to face a new choice: should he continue to make commercial films to make money, or will he go to the next level in his artistic reputation?
The box office of the previous movies is still passable, and several companies in Siwei are also making good profits, and it is obviously not an urgent task to seek profit, but to seek fame.
"Moving Labyrinth" can't enter the North American market this time, although the subject matter is more sensitive, but Lao Mei has been used to it for decades, if Su Changqing is a big enough brand, Hollywood will have the ability to do funerals at the box office, but this time they obviously think they can't do it.
The next step is to make a film that can sweep the top awards, and it must be further raised so that no one is willing to ignore it.
So unexpected themes and trustworthy actors are undoubtedly very important, and now there is Ken Takakura to work with, which is a rare opportunity.
It's not unreasonable for everyone to be used to calling Director Zhang Lao Mouzi, his early films basically didn't think much about making money, and first raised his international reputation, but nothing is unfavorable to filming, Su Changqing took a shortcut, but after all, he had to take the right path.
Even Jia Zhangke is taking this route, earning fame first and then making money, people in China don't know what this person has filmed, but they think he is a great director.
Su Changqing has also won a lot of international awards, and he can use it in the early stage, but it is not enough at this stage, and then he has to go to the Cannes Palme d'Or, the Venice Golden Lion, the Berlin Golden Bear, the Golden Globe and the Oscar, which is bound to win.
"The Undertaker" has the potential to win awards, the original work is the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Su Changqing will remove the sensational routines that are too false in the original play, and the male protagonist will be replaced by the irreplaceable Ken Takakura, which can be filmed more excitingly.
Takeshi Kitano's level of director is indeed very high, and the cremation roast stalk that later circulated on the Internet was invented by him at his mother's funeral, which shows this person's attitude towards death, so this film may not be suitable for him.
In the past two days, Su Changqing is still in Japan, and Su Changqing plans to write a story outline first and negotiate cooperation with Takakura.
In fact, he also considered localizing "The Undertaker" earlier, and Pu Cunxi, Chen Baoguo, and Xu Yajun can all play this role well.
However, this theme is obviously culturally unsuitable, and the attitudes of Chinese and Japanese people towards death are very different, and if the script is changed beyond recognition for the sake of localization, it will lose its value.
As for the cooperation between Chinese directors and Japanese national treasure actors to make a Japanese story, I am afraid it is not a problem whether it can be accepted, many TV dramas and variety shows in the mainland are produced by foreign teams, as long as the work is good, the general audience does not care about this.
A few years later, Hollywood's Spielberg produced "Memoirs of a Geisha", because Japan could no longer find young actresses with international influence, so the three geisha were played by Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li and Michelle Yeoh.
Harumi Harumi Harumi Harumi sighed: "It's a pity that I can't continue acting, otherwise I beg you to arrange a role for me, it will be an honor to work with Takakura seniors." ”
"Have you decided to give up acting now?"
I couldn't see how sad Harumi Harumi Harumi was, so she just nodded helplessly: "I promised my family that I would no longer engage in acting." ”
It seems that she has reached some kind of agreement with her family, which is not easy to ask.
Su Changqing also pretended to be a gesture: "It's a pity, otherwise I can arrange for you to play a beautiful female corpse and let Senior Takakura give you makeup." ”
Harumi raised her leg and made a splash: "Nonsense!"
"The Undertaker" was filmed by himself, which does not mean that he will not cooperate with Takeshi Kitano, Su Changqing has been developing on a dual track before, until Tianyan was merged by him.
He can provide a script for Takeshi Kitano and continue to achieve fame and fortune on a dual-track basis.
"Thief Family" is good, this theme is suitable for Takeshi Kitano's consistent path, and the original film won the Cannes Award.
"Thief Family" is a difficult movie to describe, the storyline is relatively loose, and it tells a story about the bottom society.
Dad took his brother, who was about 10 years old, to steal food from a convenience store, and he was skilled in stealing food.
Back in their humble home, their grandmother, mother, and young aunt awaited them.
They giggle and share food and anecdotes, caring for and laughing at each other.
Then the audience was told that these seemingly warm and happy families were actually not related by blood, and they were only brought together because of what the police said was "an unknown purpose".
Grandma is a lonely old man who was abandoned by her husband and lived on a meager pension.
Her mother accidentally killed her husband, who was abused and forced her to sell her body, and was a murderer on the run.
Dad is a habitual thief, and he has a relationship with his mother in a custom shop, and then runs away together.
My aunt is a student who ran away from an indifferent family and also started working in a custom shop.
And the so-called son is an outcast abandoned by his parents, who was picked up by his father in the game hall.
Later, they took in a little girl who was abused by her mother and hid on the balcony shivering, and called her sister.
These marginalized people in society, with their own pains, formed a family of thieves, passing on the little love and warmth they had to each other, achieving a humble and sad but warm story.
The warmth is always blown away by the rain and wind, and the thief family is finally exterminated by the police station, but no one is redeemed, except for the dead grandmother, everyone else will face a more unbearable life.
"In short, this story uses a warm perspective to dissect modern society," Su Changqing leaned against the bathtub again, looking at the lamp on the ceiling: "Everything is calm and clear, but it is also like a glass of cold boiled water, without temperature." ”
There is no possibility that this story will be reviewed in China, and it cannot be localized, so it is better to ask Takeshi Kitano to shoot.
And like "The Undertaker", he is rushing to win the award, Su Changqing hopes to rely on the screenwriter to further enhance his international popularity.
If you can win two top international awards in a year: "Then Lao Tzu has embarked on the golden road of kings." ”