Perhaps influenced by various demonizing descriptions of Director Chen Kaige in Internet articles in his previous life, He Xin was inevitably a little uneasy when he was invited to meet Director Chen.
But after actually meeting Director Chen, he suddenly realized that the great director in reality was very different from the demonized Director Chen in his impression.
He speaks an authentic Beijing dialect and has a low and mellow voice, a bit like an announcer, which is very comfortable to listen to. Moreover, when talking to you, his eyes will always be on you, his words are also very polite, and he must be polite.
"you"!
Maybe if you are more careful, you will find that he may only be polite on the surface, but he is still aloof at heart, but with his current status in the circle, even if he is polite on the surface, it will still make people feel flattered and like a spring breeze.
And compared with the directors He Xin had contacted before, Director Chen is neither as dull as Lou Ye nor as direct as Wang Xiaoshuai. He is somewhat similar to Guan Jinpeng in that he is good at telling stories and has a delicate mind.
He drew a grand blueprint for his new movie to He Xin, and then highlighted the role of each main character in the movie and the emotional exchanges.
Even though He Xin was aware of the final outcome of his movie, he was a little excited when he said it.
It's just that He Xin is more interested in some technical aspects of special effects. Director Chen doesn't seem to be very good at it. He talks more about what kind of picture I want, what style of character I want, etc.
Let’s talk more about macro things.
When they met for the first time, although He Xin had not yet had time to read the script, he heard from director Chen Kaige that the movie was actually telling a story of "love and betrayal", which was also consistent in Director Chen's previous works.
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In the communication between the two, Director Chen was basically the one doing the talking, He Xin was listening, and he said very little.
In his previous life, the various comments and controversies about "The Promise" on the Internet made him a little at a loss. He couldn't quite figure out which ones were good and which ones were bad, so he simply threw all these things behind. He regarded what Director Chen described as a
Unknown things to receive.
So he mostly raised his own questions about things he couldn't understand.
It must be said that Director Chen has a high level of literary literacy and seems to be a very good teacher, patiently answering the questions he raised.
The first meeting lasted for more than two hours. Because it was the first time, the two parties did not make a clear commitment or reply at the beginning.
When He Xin walked out of the meeting place with the script in hand, the cold wind blew, which finally made his somewhat chaotic mind gradually clear up. He found that after talking so much, Director Chen only told him a story with a simple theme.
It's just that the process is more complicated.
Now when I look back and think carefully about my feelings about this meeting, I am afraid that what impressed me most was that Director Chen had really obvious bags under his eyes, his nostrils were really big, and Mrs. Chen was always inseparable from him.
Really beautiful!
"How was your talk with Director Chen?" As soon as He Xin walked in, Cheng Hao couldn't wait to run over and asked.
He Xin couldn't help but smile bitterly. In the car just now, he had already answered this question to Sister Hong, who also called impatiently. He had to repeat his previous answer: "We just talked about movies, and Director Chen also gave me
I only have one script and nothing else."
Cheng Hao's eyes suddenly lit up and he said quickly: "Since I have given you the script, there is great hope! Did you tell me what role you will play?"
What his girlfriend said was surprisingly consistent with what his manager said on the phone. He Xin laughed and said, "It's unlikely that the three protagonists will be together. At most, they're just a good match!"
The story Director Chen told him was complicated because it was a four-corner love story. The general, the duke, and the slave all fell in love with the princess. The entanglement between the four of them formed the main line of the story.
The choice of the princess has been determined from the beginning, and it is Hong Kong star Zhang Baizhi. It has been widely rumored in the media that Korean first-line actor Jang Dong Gun and Japanese action star Hiroyuki Sanada are likely to occupy two of the three male leads. As for the other
Who is one?
Although Director Chen didn't say it, He Xin vaguely remembered that it should be King Xie Bi. And the role he could get, from Director Chen's unclear statement, He Xin heard that it was probably a killer role.
This character is nominally the fourth male lead after the three main male protagonists, but in the story Director Chen told, the killer's line is just a branch line that supplements the main line, sets off the halo of the protagonist, and enriches the storyline.
To put it bluntly, it's just a great match.
"The matching is not bad. Please come up with the script and show it to me."
As his girlfriend said this, she grabbed his backpack before he could put it down and pulled out the thick script from inside.
Seeing his girlfriend holding the script like a Bible and opening it carefully, with eyes full of envy and piety, He Xin felt a little funny, but also a little sad.
He knew that his girlfriend was very ambitious and wanted to develop on the big screen. Even though she was very popular now, she still seemed to have few opportunities.
For Chinese actresses, the age of forty is a hurdle, but more often than not, this hurdle often comes earlier. Examples of people like Gong Li and Lin Qingxia who are over forty and can still star in movies with leading female protagonists are extremely rare.
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In other words, the artistic life of Chinese actresses is very short. When they reach age, they will either play mothers and grandmothers, or they will gradually fade out of the circle or appear in various TV series.
The most obvious example is Pan Hong. From her rise to fame in the late 1970s to the entire 1980s, she could be said to be as famous as Grandma Xiaoqing in the domestic film industry. She has won four Golden Rooster Awards and one Hundred Flowers Awards.
Awards, and even won the Best Actress award at two international film festivals internationally. But after turning 40, she began to play various mothers and mothers-in-law in various TV series. Fortunately, she was very skilled in playing mothers and mothers-in-law.
The character is still very popular.
Thinking about it, my girlfriend is now twenty-four in real life and twenty-six in virtual age. She will only have a golden artistic life of fifteen or sixteen years at most. If she still wants to hang out in the industry, I am afraid she will have to play the role of mother.
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He Xin often thinks that he is really useless as a reborn person. Look at which one of the others is not the one who can make the most of the storm. As for himself, he can only rely on some memories from his previous life to judge the quality of a drama at best. But apart from that
Except for some popular film and television dramas that he has an impression of in his mind, such as "Bicycle", "Lan Yu", "The Little Tailor" and other literary films that have brought him a lot of honors, he has no impression at all.
And even if he knows that the movie or TV series is popular, he can only tell a rough plot. Most of the lines in the movie can't be remembered at all. At most, he can only provide an idea for the screenwriter to re-create. In this case
Maybe it will become another drama.
Not to mention directing, directing is a technical job. Even if you can recall every scene you have ever seen, if you are really asked to be the director to film this movie, it is absolutely impossible to restore it exactly the same.
Even if you leave aside the factors of the actors, the lighting, photography, scenery, art, sound effects, etc. of the scene are all very particular.
It is true that my girlfriend in my previous life did not have any big-screen works to show off, and since I am incompetent, I am afraid I have to wait for my partner to grow up to see if there are any good opportunities, or recommend him to Wang Xiaoshuai to film "Eternal Life" in the future.
"Forever" or something like that, maybe I can become a Berlin Best Actress by then.
However, his divergent thoughts were suddenly eliminated by a growling sound in his stomach, and he shouted to his girlfriend who was reading the script with gusto: "What should we have for dinner?"
"Whatever!" the other person said without raising his head.
He Xin washed his hands and ran to the kitchen to take a look. Two thighs and most of the chicken breasts of the chicken stewed in the casserole that morning were gone, but there was still a lot of leftover rice in the rice cooker.
"Fry some eggs and fried rice, heat up the chicken soup, and then forget about it."
"Okay, but it's best to put some green vegetables and cucumber in the chicken soup. The egg fried rice shouldn't be too oily. I feel a little fat these days."