The year of 2015 has been a year of bumper harvests for the entire Anlong Entertainment.
Zang Yuanchao's "The Wilderness in the Northwest" won the Tianlong Award for best film without any suspense, but Zhou Ningshan was unexpectedly dropped, and the best actor was picked up by the feature film "Burning Heart" released last year.
Zhou Ningshan is calm. People in this industry understand that not all efforts will be rewarded accordingly. Popularity depends on the sky, fame depends on fate, and winning awards depends on luck.
Among all the individual awards, only the Best Supporting Actor was included in "Hunter". Zhang Xiaobing was highly praised by the judges, and Lu Shigang, who overwhelmed Li Jin, won this honor.
A real single seedling, or a unique thriving.
The desolation of individual awards could not prevent "The Murderer" from sweeping the box office throughout the Lunar New Year file, although the atmosphere of the film has nothing to do with the Lunar New Year.
Zang Yuanchao once again refreshed his myth and ended perfectly with a box office of 1.5 billion.
Li Nian felt relieved, now all he had to do was wait for the money. Of course, collecting bills is a pain in the ass, and each theater chain drags its feet, and the money will only be available in the middle of the year. But Zhang Huitong couldn't wait. The interior of the studio was basically in place. In February, Anlong held the first press conference of "Qinhuai Dream". In March, "Qinhuai Dream" was officially launched.
Zhang Huitong is ambitious, and his plan is clear, and he must complete all productions before August.
The theme of Qinhuai Dream is excellent, with oriental elements, human nature and ambiguous emotions, beautiful old-fashioned style, and a story of personal heroism.
This is a Western story in an Eastern cloak. For Chinese people, this is an old dream of the Republic of China, but for foreign audiences, this is their favorite China, without red tide, without main theme, only delicate and tactful oriental subtleties—just like Japan’s Taisho The era, the golden age of the United States, they condense people's mourning and nostalgia for the passing prosperity.
What is lost is always the best.
Zhang Huitong didn't pay attention to the Tianlong Awards at all. He aimed at Venice in September and the Golden Horse Awards at the end of October. In terms of the Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan will always have a feeling of "remembering the past" for the Republic of China. As for the Venice Film Festival, the story of human nature Always a winning theme for the Golden Lion.
In the chilly spring breeze in early spring and March, the actors turned on the lights and burned incense, hoping to have a good omen for the beginning of Yuanchun.
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is still so cruel.
The first game got off to a bad start.
This scene was filmed on-site on the platform, and with the permission of the Bureau of Cultural Affairs, the crew carried out repairs on the platform. Although it is only a restoration, the details have been done with great care. Even the light boats glimpsed in the Qinhuai River in the distant view have been rearranged according to the appearance at that time.
Tourists who came to play on the Qinhuai River on this day, although they lost the scenic spot of Deyuetai, were lucky enough to get on a flower boat with the style of the Republic of China.
Shooting started at 8pm.
The Confucius Temple was originally a densely populated place, and it began to be cleared at noon, but at most it could only keep tourists away from the shooting location, and the Qinhuai River was still noisy and boiling. Zhang Huitong just wanted such noise and excitement. When he stepped on the stage, he saw through the camera that this bustling waterway was like a galaxy of pleasure and joy, meandering past with jewels.
As for the modern high-rise buildings in the photo, they are not very conspicuous due to the dark night, and the exposed places will be repaired with CG in the later stage.
In the story, it is a quiet night with a clear wind and a moon, but the shooting scene is full of noises, such as the square dance song of Phoenix Legend floating from far away on the water.
To record sound in such an environment, it depends on the ability of the sound engineer, and to perform a show of affection in such an environment, it depends on the ability of Bai Yang and Jiang Ruiyun.
They filmed from eight o'clock to eleven o'clock, Zhang Huitong was still dissatisfied, Bai Yang was unavoidably anxious, and Jiang Ruiyun was at ease. The two of them repeat themselves over and over again, and all the staff members repeat themselves over and over mechanically. The artificial moonlight rises and falls from their faces, and the artificial autumn wind blows past them and subsides. At eleven o'clock, in the camera There is no trace of the cruise ship.
"Let the cruise ship below prepare." Zhang Huitong ordered.
When there are no tourists, you have to prepare tourists yourself, and if you don’t have a boat, you have to sail the boat yourself. The staff drove a flower boat to swim in the section of the river under the camera.
Phoenix legend is gone, the sound engineer relaxed a little.
Director Zhang refused to say what went wrong. From the beginning to the end, he only said three words, "Start." "Stop." "Come again."
Bai Yang felt that Zhang Huitong might be angry. If Zhang Huitong was angry, then he must have screwed up his acting, and Jiang Ruiyun would be fine.
During the first replay, Zhang Huitong was still very patient, and told him and Jiang Ruiyun carefully what it was like to feel about this passage, "Don't be too explicit, be reserved, try to keep the tricks in your eyes, and find the kind of love between a bosom friend and a lover." Plausible area."
While talking, Director Zhang showed them the distance between the two, where the camera would come from, and where the light would come from.
This is similar to Bai Yang's understanding. Zhang Huitong only said it once, and then repeated it infinitely. No matter what they do, the answer they get is to do it all over again.
He didn't dare to ask Zhang Huitong directly, so he could only urgently think about what he didn't do well in his heart. Is the line said in a hurry? The details are not refined? Or did he play Shen Bailu too weakly? Just now, Jiang Ruiyun's eyes did not catch up with him. There were at least six times when neither of them caught up. This kind of deviation in eyes is no problem in idol dramas, but now it's Zhang Huitong's movie.
How could Zhang Huitong tolerate the actor's ambiguity.
But what about when it is connected? Why not? There were a few times when Bai Yang really felt that the two of them cooperated very well, but Zhang Huitong still used those two words.
"Again."
In Bai Yang's understanding, this scene should mainly show Shen Bailu's wisdom—did he overexpress this cleverness and steal Jiang Ruiyun's rhythm
Before Zhang Huitong shouted, he thought over and over in his mind, every subtle expression, raising or lowering his gaze, tense or relaxed body, blinking of eyelashes, quickening or slowing of breathing, all went through his mind rapidly. Follow the revolving lantern.
Jiang Ruiyun suddenly leaned into his ear: "It's not your problem, don't think about it."
Bai Yang looked at him in astonishment.
"Are you insane? Haven't you ever filmed Zhang Huitong's film? He's like this, you can just keep your head down and shoot. He doesn't know what he's going to do."
Jiang Ruiyun's voice was not too loud, Bai Yang was so frightened that he almost covered his mouth.
Fortunately, Director Zhang's expression didn't change, so he probably didn't hear it. Jiang Ruiyun was also too courageous. He said in front of Zhang Huitong that Zhang Huitong didn't know what to do, was he tired of working? Don't drag other people's backs if you want to die!
And when Jiang Ruiyun filmed Zhang Huitong's scene, it was simply bragging. This is the first time for everyone to cooperate, isn't it embarrassing to pretend to be aggressive on the spot
Bai Yang was a little weak, and because he had kneeled dozens of times just now, his legs felt weak.
Jiang Ruiyun straightened up as if nothing had happened.
He's got his point across. Whether Bai Yang believes it or not, it is Bai Yang's business.
He was right, Zhang Huitong really didn't know what he was going to do.
Anyone who knows him well in the industry knows that, unlike Zang Yuanchao's machine-like ultra-precision shooting, Director Zhang's is a classic random sensory shooting.
The so-called random feeling shooting, in layman's terms, is random shooting, looking at the face and shooting until it feels good.
Zang Yuanchao's filming was completely confident, and if the actors couldn't do it, they had to do it all over again. Zhang Huitong is more cheating, because Zhang Huitong doesn't know where he is. Everyone plays randomly to see which one can poke his G-spot.
He wants an appropriate emotion. As for what this "appropriate" is, can you ask Director Zhang? Director Zhang was also very confused. Basically, it’s similar to a little girl falling in love. You can only say that this is not good and that is not good. What is your "good" girl? Hmm, people don't know either.
I can only do it over and over again, when did I get this feeling, and when did I live it. Blind cats wait for death, relying on the sky to harvest.
Only true geniuses would search for an accurate flash of inspiration in this way. They don't follow any theoretical basis and leave all the hope of success to their intuition.
If you can't move yourself, you can't move the audience. This is Zhang Huitong's only creed.
Shi An accompanied Shan Qici to drink tea, the two of them sat in the teahouse until midnight, Shan Qici asked him: "Let's go to the studio to see, today's first scene."
"Will it disturb Director Zhang?"
"Well, let's just keep silent." Shan Qici pulled him hard.
The downstairs staff met Shan Qici and knew that they were two screenwriters, who were also considered the main creators. They gave each of them a pair of soft shoes to prevent the sound of footsteps going upstairs and affect the radio.
Elder Shan tiptoedly dragged Shi'an up to the second floor. Seeing them coming, Zhang Huitong nodded and waved his hands.
Shi'an understood, silently looking at the center of the camera and lights.
He came by coincidence.
Jiang Ruiyun was pretending to be the same as he was back then, and Mrs. Zhang led Bai Yang out to kowtow in a pearly and emerald manner.
Jiang Ruiyun didn't speak, just looked at Bai Yang quietly.
Bai Yang didn't know why he didn't speak, and it didn't look like he had forgotten his words—he was anxious, but he didn't dare to show it, it was obviously inappropriate to look back at the past, and he turned aside Jiang Ruiyun's gaze, but it ruined the show again.
Bai Yang had no choice but to lower his eyes, and slowly used his peripheral vision to hold the gaze sent by Jiang Ruiyun.
From the perspective of the audience, the eyes of the two people were floating in the air, and they were inextricably linked, advancing and retreating, although they were silent, they were lingering endlessly.
Jin Shian felt dazed for a moment.
He didn't seem to have seen Lu Sheng like this back then.
Zhang Huitong suddenly stood up next to him, Zhang Huitong felt excited, Zhang Huitong grabbed the teapot and drank tea wildly.
The sound engineer used his eyes to signal Director Zhang to drink water and not to make a sound.
Jiang Ruiyun left Bai Yang to dry for a full minute, then suddenly reached out to caress Bai Yang's face. Bai Yang was taken aback, but he couldn't avoid it directly, so he could only kneel and stay still—how could Jiang Ruiyun add drama without authorization? Did you start to give up on yourself after acting all night
Jiang Ruiyun's hand stopped a centimeter away from his face, stared at him for a long time, and then withdrew his hand.
Jiang Ruiyun turned his face, looked at the Qinhuai River in the distance, and said softly as if talking to himself, "Do you know my name?"
Bai Yang breathed a sigh of relief, finally raised his head, and smiled at Jiang Ruiyun, "The benefactor who gave the name, the benefactor who is a bosom friend, has a predestined relationship in his previous life, so he naturally knows."
He was talking here, but Jiang Ruiyun didn't look at him, Bai Yang gradually became timid, and at the end, his voice was a little bit in his mouth.
Off the court, she seemed inexplicably cowardly.
Zhang Huitong refused to stop, and looked at them intently.
The two were silent in the wind. Zhang Huitong indicated that the lighting should be strengthened.
Jiang Ruiyun finally looked back at Bai Yang in the gradually bright artificial moonlight.
Bai Yang waited for him for a long time, his eyes drifting rootlessly in the wind, when Jiang Ruiyun suddenly looked back, he felt a little sad and tearful.
Can Jiang Ruiyun stop playing with him
Jiang Ruiyun lowered his eyes and smiled slightly at him.
One was looking forward to it, the other hesitated, and finally looked at each other without saying a word and smiled. The eyes of the two gradually melted together in the shadow of the moonlight. Once fused together, they will never be separated again.
It seems that there are all kinds of affection, and no words are needed.
Zhang Huitong dropped the teapot, clapped his hands and shouted angrily: "Crack! Very good! That's it!"
He turned his head to look at Jin Shian, and was surprised to find that Jin Shian was already in tears.
"Shi'an?"
Shi'an just came back to his senses, and wiped away his tears in shame: "The acting is so good, I have only seen it in my life."
Zhang Huitong was still excited, and his voice was a little hoarse, "It's because you acted well, the acting was amazing, and it's because you wrote this book well! It's so beautiful."
Only Shi'an himself knows that he just saw the scene of meeting Lu Sheng as if in a dream - he didn't feel it when he wrote the pen, but now he realizes that he has delayed Lu Sheng's life.
He is not as affectionate as Jiang Ruiyun's acting. Such affection, only given to Bai Yang.
There is no way to make up for regrets, not to mention the life and death gap between the two, even if Lu Sheng is here, he can't make up for him.
The Sri Lankan has passed away, and the debt of love is hard to pay. What future generations can do is to commemorate it.
That night, Shi'an dreamed of Lu Sheng.
Ordinarily, it's been a long time since we saw each other, soul and dream are connected, it should be extremely joyful, but when we saw it in the dream, I didn't feel how sad and happy, the two looked at each other, and didn't say a word for a long time.
Lu Sheng asked him, "Are you okay?"
Shi'an burst into tears: "I'm fine."
Lu Sheng smiled, and asked again: "If you let someone else play me, aren't you afraid that he will get angry if he finds out?"
Shi'an hesitated for a moment, then said in a daze, "You died for the country, future generations should commemorate you."
Lu Sheng lowered his head and smiled, "What are you talking about?"
Shi'an also lowered his head: "It's because I have no idea. I always wanted to write him a blockbuster story. I wrote it over and over again, but I had nothing to write in my previous life."
Lu Sheng stared at him for a long time, then smiled sweetly: "Master, you are in love with him, aren't you?"
Unexpectedly, Shi'an felt melancholy when he said it so clearly, but he still nodded and said: "Yes, I fell in love with him. I failed you."
Lu Sheng gently put his hand on his face, "Why do you let me down? It turned out that I hurt you. I am also very sorry."
Shi'an felt tears in his eyes.
Lu Sheng smiled faintly: "Master, do you know that after you left, I met a person who looks very much like you."
Shi'an said in a daze, "But Bai Yang doesn't look like you."
Lu Sheng laughed even more: "You love him in your heart, so naturally no one can compare to him."
Shi'an also smiled shyly when he said it badly: "He is a very good person."
Lu Sheng nodded: "He's a good boy, I'll be watching from the sky." He held Shi'an's hand as he said, "Master, it's in my dreams, let's say goodbye. Here, you don't have to come see me again."
Seeing that he was about to leave, Shi An stretched out his hand to stay, but Lu Sheng pushed his hand away: "For a while, I will sacrifice myself for the country, which is considered atonement for my past sins. I am not afraid of you laughing today, and I also know that there is a lot of people in this world. You are a better person."
Shi'an burst into tears: "Of course there are many better than me."
Lu Sheng shook his head, "But I only love him."
Lu was born in his gradually blurred tears, and went away alone, and seemed to follow someone, walking away together.
Life is like a dream, ethereal and hard to chase. They used to be so harmonious, but the world is so erratic, and finally Huang Quanbi fell, goodbye indefinitely.
Bai Yang gently pushed him beside him, "Jin Shi'an, Jin Shi'an."
When he woke up, his clothes were already wet with tears.
"Why are you crying?" Bai Yang rubbed his eyes and asked him cautiously.
He held Bai Yang in his arms, and was speechless for a long time, Bai Yang was hugged suddenly by him, without struggling, he leaned into his arms and asked, "Are you having a nightmare?"
"It's not a nightmare," Shi'an said, "I'm afraid that meeting you is also a dream."