Christian is a middle-aged director in his forties. He wears a suit and has a beard. He sits on a chair with his back slightly hunched over, smoking a cigar and looking at Zhou Yang.
After the movie "April in the World" won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, France, he neither attended the celebration banquet nor accepted any interviews with reporters. Instead, after handing the Palme d'Or trophy to his assistant, he took the script and came to Huang Jiacheng's house.
Waiting for Zhou Yang in the room.
Ever since Mine Bottom premiered, Charlotte Celie, president of the 56th Berlin International Film Festival, has been recommending Mine Bottom everywhere to help promote and sell the film, and Christian is naturally among those recommended.
Christian watched Mine Bottom, and from his critical point of view, Mine Bottom was shot very immaturely, with many flaws in the techniques. There was a lack of tension on the actors' level, and there was a trace of acting in it. At the same time, many people's acting skills were poor.
It's all quite awkward, but overall, Mine Bottom is indeed a very ironic and realistic documentary film.
Christian didn't care at the time, but later, when The Crow premiered, he watched The Crow again.
He actually didn't like the movie. It was gloomy and depressing, and the overall plot lacked a sense of sublimation. The whole story reflected the darkness of an era, making the movie overall look a bit ugly and lacking a sense of completeness.
But it's not without surprises.
When Huang Degui, played by Zhou Yang, appeared, Christian discovered that the young supporting role in the mine could actually act like a middle-aged man across age groups. Although it was still raw, the performance was very intense and very enjoyable, even
Even a picky person like him thinks this young man has a bright future.
On the red carpet in Cannes, he finally met this young man.
Let his eyes light up.
Huang Degui in the movie and Zhou Yang in reality, both in appearance and temperament, have a shocking and earth-shaking difference, almost a schizophrenic difference!
This allowed him to see a possibility in Zhou Yang
Before the Cannes Awards party, he had been thinking about whether he could let this young man try out the role of the elegant and personable cannibal doctor in "Lambs."
Once this idea appeared, he could hardly suppress it. He eagerly wanted to talk to this young man.
April in the world won the Palme d'Or.
After winning the award
Christian was neither excited nor happy, but calmly finished his acceptance speech.
He is a frequent visitor to Cannes. Although this is his first time winning the Palme d'Or, he actually has no interest in the movie April.
From the moment he saw the script to the completion of filming, Christian was in an irritable and depressed mood during filming, and several times he even didn't want to film.
The movie reflects a Romanian abortion story. In essence, Christian feels that April in the World is the same as Crows in that it exaggerates the darkness of society and is a bit ugly. Although the actors are all professional, he feels that it is very unsatisfying.
So I made this movie after my friend, the screenwriter, begged me to do it. It was considered as a way to repay a favor.
He likes crime-themed movies, and he also likes the sense of reality in the bloody excitement, especially the exploration of a person's inner twisted spiritual world, and then in the twisted story, he becomes a demon in human skin.
He doesn't deny that he is mentally abnormal, but it doesn't matter, he just likes it!
He has been preparing the movie Lamb for five years!
For five years, he has been perfecting and preparing this movie, and each movie scene has formed a specific picture in his mind.
He breaks down every character, every shooting scene, and even what is to be shot in every second!
Then
All the actors have been almost found, only one villain is missing!
He doesn’t have high requirements for the protagonist, and he doesn’t have high requirements for the heroine. The real high requirements are for the villain.
first!
This villain must be morbid deep inside. The morbidity is not abnormality or mental illness, but a sense of division originating from the depths of the soul. But on the surface, he needs to be very elegant, look personable, like to read books, like
Symphony, likes to walk, like an elegant gentleman aristocrat
At first he identified this candidate as British.
In the past five years, he has come into contact with countless outstanding British actors. However, they are either too gentlemanly in their performances, or they are too morbid and deliberate. They act completely according to the script and lack the soul that a character should have.
After searching for a long time, he finally regretfully changed his identity from British to French.
French people advocate romance, have literary literacy, humorous style and graceful temperament. Logically speaking, it should be possible. However, after really getting in touch with them, he found that French people are naturally free and loose in nature. At the same time, they cannot conceal their unrestrained and unrestrained nature.
a sense of mystery
After all his ideas were shattered, Christian finally stopped clinging to white Europeans and even thought of trying black people.
But it's a pity that every time he waited with hope, he was met with disappointment again and again. Five years passed like this.
Zhou Yang couldn't understand Lamb's script.
The script is purely in English and is very unfriendly to him.
It was only after Huang Jiacheng called a translator that he barely understood the outline of Lamb's script.
After reading it, Zhou Yang fell silent.
When he was in college, he once watched a movie called Red Dragon. After watching Red Dragon, Zhou Yang went to see The Silence of the Lambs and then the prequel.
Zhou Yang's memory is not very good. Zhou Yang has almost forgotten the plots of the two movies in the original world. The only thing that impressed Zhou Yang the most was the personable and polite old man.
He remembered that the actor named Anthony Hopkins was a very powerful actor in the original world.
Christian's Lamb is similar to the character in Red Dragon, both are cannibalistic doctors.
The only difference is that Hannibal in Red Dragon is a psychiatrist, while the doctor in Christian's Lamb is a respected anatomy doctor.
"How is it?" Huang Jiacheng asked subconsciously when he saw that Zhou Yang no longer read the script.
"Is the role that Director Christian wants me to try out to be a cannibal doctor named Franks?" Zhou Yang looked at Huang Jiacheng and then at Christian.
"Yes." Huang Jiacheng nodded.
"It's very difficult. I probably can't do it, so I'd better find someone else." The image of Hannibal played by Anthony Hopkins flashed in Zhou Yang's mind, and Zhou Yang finally shook his head.
It's all good, he is a newcomer who has only been in the industry for less than a year. He can play Huang Degui well because he has many such characters around him. He can immerse himself in it very quickly and imitate it very quickly. However, let him play a character like Hannibal.
, Zhou Yang is completely incompetent.
That requires an innate aura of nobility, a noble temperament from the inside out.
Zhou Yang had seen very few elegant people in his previous life and in this life, and he was even unfamiliar with terms like "noble". How could he act like that?
Fiction?
No, the only thing I can imagine is the noble Shamat!
When he thought of killing Matt, Zhou Yang suddenly felt chills all over his body.
"Don't you want to try a challenge? You've played this role well. With Christian's energy, it's no problem for you to win a personal award." Huang Jiacheng chuckled.
"No, no, that's ridiculous." Zhou Yang continued to shake his head. He naturally knew how much he weighed.
"Fine!"
in the room.
Huang Jiacheng asked the translator to translate Zhou Yang's meaning to Christian.
After listening to this, Christian knew that the result would probably be the same, but he still felt a little indescribable disappointment in his heart.
However, after looking at Zhou Yang's image, Christian was quite unwilling.
He felt that Zhou Yang's temperament was somewhat suitable, at least more suitable than the black guy he had seen before.
Moreover, the fact that Louis Vuitton brand invited Zhou Yang seems to prove from the side that Zhou Yang is indeed excellent in all aspects!
"Mr. Zhou, what do you think of the role of Franks? If you are not allowed to read the script, what if you are just asked to explain the role?" Christian was not willing to miss any suitable candidates. Although he was regretful, he still asked. this problem.
When the translator posed this question to Zhou Yang, Zhou Yang touched his hands and asked, "What specific aspect is it?"
"Do you think Franks is a pervert?"
"If you look at it from the perspective of a bystander, Franks is a pervert, but from his own perspective, Franks should be a normal person. The real pathology should be this world." Zhou Yang sat on the chair and pondered. After a long time, Zhou Yang recalled the image of Hannibal in his mind, recalled the fragmented plots of the Red Dragon prequel, and combined it with a netizen's post commenting on the character Hannibal deep in his memory, Zhou Yang replied.
"Oh? Go on, what kind of person do you think Franks is?" Christian rarely heard such an answer from someone, and he was immediately interested.
"Can I just say whatever I want?" Zhou Yang hesitated.
"Okay!" Christian nodded.
"I think he is missing something deep in his heart. Well, how should I put it? I thought of a vague plot, that is, an originally normal teenager was displaced in the war with his sister, and finally witnessed a group of soldiers starving. , devoured his sister and saw the crime at a young age. Countless emotions washed over his soul, causing a subtle change in his young mind." Zhou Yang closed his eyes.
He tried hard to recall the plot he had remembered, and then in his memory, he told the story in his heart bit by bit.
not far away.
Christian's originally smiling face suddenly turned serious, and he silently put down his cigar.