Chapter four hundred and ninety-eight, joy or sorrow
This year's Cannes Film Festival may be the one with the most Chinese elements. The chairman of the jury is Hong Kong director Sunglasses King, and mainland movie star Zhang Ziyi is one of the judges. The official poster of the film festival is Sunglasses King's masterpiece - "In the Mood for Love".
In addition, Guoshi's "A City of Golden Armor", Pants's "The Banquet", and the Hong Kong film "Dragon and Tiger Gate" all gathered in Cannes for promotion and screening.
Wang Chao's "River City" was shortlisted for the Un Certain Regard section, and Hou Yong's "Jasmine Blooms" was shortlisted for the Screening section.
The filming period lasted nearly two years, and post-production lasted for more than a year. It took more than three years, and Lou Ye's "Yiheyuan", which had repeatedly encountered obstacles in censorship, was finally released this year as the only Chinese-language film and Asian film shortlisted for the main competition.
Appeared at the film festival.
Lou Ye used to be an "underground director". After finally making "Purple Butterfly", he became an officially recognized director within the system. However, this time he resumed his status as an "underground director" and brought copies to the exhibition in his private name.
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As for Lou Ye, although he is taciturn, but based on the experience of working with He Xin, he should be liked by actors and the director they most hope to work with.
For example, if an actor has his or her own ideas, he is very willing to accept them. At the same time, he always allows the actors to bring out their best, and never skimps on film and time.
Of course, the actors mentioned here are the kind of real actors who like to perform.
Lou Ye is different from Jiang Wen in that he requires actors to constantly adapt to his various wild ideas; he is also different from Director Chen in that he requires actors to follow the established route and not have any out-of-the-ordinary ideas.
However, coming back to Lou Ye himself, maybe it is due to his personality that he is very stubborn. As long as it is an idea in his heart, he will always do everything possible to realize it. At the same time, it may also be that he is too involved and often forgets to review this when filming.
So many things happened that I was in a hurry in the end.
His "Weekend Lover" took a full two years to be released between censorship and revision; "Suzhou River" completely became an underground film; although "Purple Butterfly" was successful, it also went through many revisions and became fragmented.
And the current "Yiheyuan" is so out of the circle that the relevant departments refuse to review it and cannot review it. Except for a simple "technical issue", they will not give any comments.
Even though Lou Ye publicly stated that if the relevant departments could review his film again, he could delete any content they asked him to delete, but that was not possible.
This is not a problem of large scale, but of overstepping the mark.
According to my country's "Film Management Regulations", films that have not passed the review cannot go abroad to participate in any film festivals.
"Yiheyuan" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Cannes Film Festival. Once the nominations were announced, Wang Xiaoshuai appealed to the media for help with Lou Ye's experience: "I feel very sorry that it failed because of technical problems. It is rare for this film to meet
Such a great opportunity.”
At the same time, he also said that this is a time to test the wisdom of Chinese filmmakers and film authorities. It involves not only what film creators should do within the system, but also how the current system should deal with this kind of thing.
In the final analysis, we hope that the relevant departments can be more lenient.
But his background is not clean either, and he is completely useless.
There are also those who are jealous and make sarcastic remarks. For example, Lu Chuan said in an interview: As a director, you must follow the rules of the game, because the ultimate goal of any director is not to compete, but to meet the audience.
At the same time, there are also rumors that Zhang Ziyi, who is working as a judge in Cannes at this time, is the best candidate for "Wang Jiazhi" in Li Yu's mind. The reason given is that Zhang Ziyi is young and beautiful, has a great figure, and is also very beautiful in a cheongsam.
This can be seen in Wang's "2046". The most important thing is that her acting skills are excellent and she is definitely second to none among the new generation of domestic actresses. Furthermore, Zhang Ziyi has worked with Li Eucalyptus before, so she has a natural advantage.
This kind of report seems to make sense, but in fact, if it is as analyzed by these reporters, I am afraid that everyone is Li Yu.
The reason why He Xin always believed that if there was a person named "Wang Jiazhi", it would definitely be like Tang Wei. The reason is that stupid women like Wang Jiazhi who died for love are stupid big girls like Tang Wei.
.And she will never grow up to be a smart and rational woman like Xiang Zhang Ziyi, with a face full of ambition and shrewdness. The same is true for the amazing Big S who was previously rumored by the island's media.
He believed that a great director like Li Yu would not make mistakes. So he enthusiastically went to auditions for his girlfriends. Despite the strong words he said at the time, in fact, he was not too worried in his heart. They were both
The same kind of women.
While thinking divergently, he browsed various tidbits about the Cannes Film Festival in the entertainment section, looking at a long list of eye-catching news headlines.
For example, "There is an actress at the Cannes Film Festival, wearing a transparent fishnet outfit that arouses imagination."
"Zhang Ziyi's beauty dominates the crowd, while Wang Jiawei pretends to be super cool."
"Feng Xiaogang hosted a wealthy family's 'night banquet' in Cannes, and "Dragon and Tiger Gate" had a good start in sales."
Click on the title and see a photo. Zhang Ziyi is in a beautiful red dress and looks like a dog in her trousers. However, the unknown Yangma wearing a transparent fishnet outfit looks very eye-catching. It is looming and really makes people daydream.
At this time, Xiao Douding knocked on the door and came in. He quickly closed the popular page on the screen and sat upright, looking like a boss.
"Boss, this is the group formation plan and process faxed by Director Cheng." Xiao Douding handed over a stack of printing paper.
Cheng Qiang, who was in charge of the guidance tube for the first time, was nothing like Diao Yinan. There has been no news about Diao Yinan since he finalized the contract and got the start-up capital. However, Cheng Qiang may have been motivated by the teacher's rigor, and all the preparations were done very well.
plan, but also don’t forget to communicate with the company at all times.
He Xin looked through the process and asked casually: "Have the actors been finalized?"
"Well, it was finalized by Teacher Li Minqi and Teacher Wang Huaying of Shanghai Drama Center. It was Teacher Pan Hong. After reading the script, she felt that it was suspected of insulting Shanghainese, so she has been hesitant. But the director said,
He will definitely find a way to convince Teacher Pan Hong, and if necessary, he will fly to Shanghai to explain to Pan Hong personally."
He Xin nodded and warned, "Don't worry too much about the remuneration."
Film remuneration has increased rapidly in the past two years. In the past, actors' remuneration may only account for 20%-30% of the total cost, but now it accounts for almost half.
For example, the current popular hot-shot teacher Li Youbin, when he took over the filming of "Bright Sword", his salary was only a little over 10,000 per episode, but now it is said that the external quotation has reached 100,000 per episode.
Although actors these days are relatively disciplined, and I have never heard of any number ladies, and veteran actors like Teacher Pan Hong are very dedicated, but many times they still need money to speak for themselves.
To paraphrase the words of Father Ma in later generations: "I feel aggrieved because I didn't get enough money."
In addition to objective factors such as schedule, when actors take roles, subjective factors are more related to "lack of money".
Otherwise, people like King Yan of the future generation who love to show off and pretend to be artists would not go out and star in "Warring States".
King Yan is okay, at least he still recognizes it. The most annoying kind is that he clearly took the money and then made fun of others afterwards, forcibly laundering his name.
He Xin knew well that "Double-sided Tape" might not be as profitable as "Wulin Gaiden", but it would definitely make money, so he didn't care about the three melons and two dates in front of him.
"I understand, you are the boss and you have the final say." Xiao Douding curled her lips and responded.
"Oh, by the way, how much is Tang Wei's salary?" he asked again casually.
"Fifteen thousand! Her original market price was just over 10,000, but this time she is the female lead, so we took the initiative to increase the price to 15,000..."
As he said that, Xiao Douding couldn't help but frowned and said, "But the other party seems to be a little dissatisfied with the price."
"How can it be?"
He Xin waved his hand and said thoughtfully: "Tangtang is not the kind of person who wants money. Could it be that Anna did something wrong?"
Ever since he first inquired about Anna's personality from Li Xue, he had not had a good impression of Tang Wei's current executive agent.
Xiao Douding shook his head and said: "I don't know. Anyway, it's been half a month since I got the contract, but there's been no response. People from the company have contacted Anna, and they said today will be postponed to tomorrow, and this week to next week. It's vague."
"Maybe he is busy at the moment!"
He Xin thought about it, but still didn't take it to heart. Firstly, he trusted Tang Wei; secondly, he was Hairun Qianyi's first brother after all, and he didn't care what a small manager did.
Xiao Douding raised his eyebrows and said: "Then boss, please follow up on this matter. Anyway, your brother and sister are easy to talk to."
"Fine."
After Xiao Douding went out, He Xin thought for a while, picked up the phone and dialed Tang Wei directly.
As a result, the phone rang for a long time and no one answered.
"What's this guy doing?"
He muttered, then found the business card Anna gave him last time among the dozen business cards on the table, and called another one based on the mobile phone number on it.
This time it was connected immediately.
"Hello, Director He!"
"Oh, what about that, Xiao An, are you okay with the Tangtang contract?" He said straight to the point.
"No problem! No problem!" Anna on the other end of the phone said hurriedly.
"Well, that's fine."
Since there was no problem, he was embarrassed to press for the contract again, so he asked casually: "Oh, by the way, what is Tangtang busy with recently? I didn't answer her call just now."
"I'm not busy with anything. Director He, do you have anything to do with Xiao Wei? If it's convenient, I'll convey it to you later. Otherwise, I'll find her and ask her to call you back." Anna said politely on the phone.
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"Oh, no need, I have nothing to do. Then... let's just leave it at that. Goodbye!"
"Director He, goodbye!"
On the other end of the phone, Anna had just hung up the phone when she saw Tang Wei sitting opposite with a nervous look on his face: "Brother Xin, what did you say?"
Anna said calmly: "It's okay, I'm just asking about the contract. I guess someone from their company reported it to him, so I just called him to ask."
"It scared me to death. I don't dare to answer his phone now." Tang Wei said with lingering fear and guilt.
"It's okay, I just told him on the phone that there is no problem with the contract, and he didn't push me." Anna comforted.
Tang Wei had already secretly interviewed her once. Perhaps because of the introduction from director Lai Shengchuan, Li Yu had a very good attitude towards her. They chatted with her and gave her half a page of lines. She tried out the scene on the spot. After that, she offered to
contact information.
She was very nervous at the time. When she came out to tell Anna, Anna was very excited and felt that there was something wrong. Now they are nervously waiting for the response. For both of them, what they are waiting for now may be the turning point in their lives.