Chapter 661 The Chinese version of 'The Queen Wearing Prada'
"Is there any news from the East Film Festival?"
Jiang Wei made him a cup of tea and handed it over.
He Xin hurriedly stood up and took it, saying: "Not yet, but I think it won't be a big problem to be shortlisted."
"You are very confident!"
"Of course I have confidence. Director Xiaoshuai is not given free money. Besides, the quality of the film is there, unless those judges are blind."
"Hey, didn't you scold Director Huo too?"
At this year's Tokyo Film Festival, Chinese director Huo Jianqi, who directed the film "Warm" and won the Golden Kirin Award, is one of the judges, and the chairman of the jury is the veteran Hollywood actor Jon Voight, who often plays roles in American blockbusters.
A big villain like the head of the CIA. But he has a more famous daughter-Angelina Jolie.
Jiang Wei chuckled, then couldn't help but nodded, and said with emotion: "That's right, your film is not a finalist or not, but whether it can win the Golden Qilin Award. To be honest, at that time I
After watching this movie, I couldn't calm down for several days. The story was good and Xiaoshuai's filming was good, but what surprised me even more was Xiaocheng's performance. It was a performance that really shocked my soul.
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After the completion of "Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart", Wang Xiaoshuai once organized a small movie viewing party, and Jiang Wei, Diao Yinan and others were invited. At that time, He Xin was still busy filming "The Righteous Way in the World Is Vicissitudes of Life", and
I didn't participate, but according to my girlfriend's description afterwards, the response was extremely good, especially her performance in the film was highly praised.
Jiang Wei then said with some confusion: "With the quality of this film, it can definitely be exhibited at the three major festivals, and I also heard that Mr. Mueller specially invited him when he came last time. I didn't expect you to actually
Signed up to participate in the East Film Festival.”
"Well, mainly because of the cultural differences, it is more certain to win an award at the Tokyo Film Festival."
When Marco Muller came to participate in the Shanghai International Film Festival this year, he indeed invited Wang Xiaoshuai and He Xin, hoping to bring the film "A Thousand Arrows Pierce the Heart" to Venice.
As an old friend of the Chinese people, Lao Ma is quite popular in the domestic film circle. During his tenure as the Rotterdam Film Festival in the Netherlands, the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, and the Asia-Pacific Film Selector of the Venice Film Festival and the Chairman of the Venice Film Festival,
It has indeed helped many Chinese films and Chinese filmmakers.
As far as his personal experience is concerned, he loves China very much and is happy to visit China. As for China, he can invite big names like the chairman of the Venice Film Festival to participate in events such as the Golden Rooster Awards or the Shanghai International Film Festival.
It is undoubtedly a very honorable thing.
In fact, the so-called cultural differences are just an excuse. He Xin's biggest purpose is to let his girlfriend win a best actress award through this movie, and then get married smoothly.
After all, both of them are quite old, and Cheng Hao looks like he is almost thirty.
Jiang Wei nodded slightly, then smiled and said: "I heard that you also took over Zhang Meng's "The Piano of Steel"?"
"It's not that I accepted this film, but this film is now a project of our Xinhao Media for next year. Not only me? My girlfriend is also involved in this film."
"Well, I have read the script of this film. It has a unique perspective, witty lines, and a strong humanistic care for that period of history. With you two joining the cast, I believe this film will be successful in the future... Oh, yes.
Yes? I remember your hometown is also an old industrial base? It’s similar to the Anshan described in Zhang Meng’s script?”
"Yes, maybe it's because of this that I was so touched when I read the script? I didn't even discuss it with Hao Zi and decided to invest in this drama."
He Xin said, with some bitterness subconsciously showing on his face.
Maybe you can talk about humanistic care and the like in literary works or scripts, but only by witnessing and experiencing the wave of layoffs that year can you truly understand the hardship, helplessness and sadness of Chen Guilin's people depicted in the script.
Jiang Wei also sighed. He understood He Xin's life experience and did not expand on this topic.
But he frowned and said: "Xiao He, why did you think of shooting such a subject this time?"
Because they had communicated on the phone before? At first, Jiang Wei had no idea that there was such a best-selling novel as "Du Lala's Promotion" on the market. And as an old-school intellectual, Jiang Wei always believed that movies are an art, and
It's not that he rejects so-called commercial films. But He Xin is different. To use the words of later generations, he is the so-called literary god. It seems a bit out of place to make such a popcorn movie.
He Xin smiled and said: "I didn't say I wanted to act, but Xinhao Media, as a film and television company, must diversify its development."
"..."
His meaning is very obvious. Xinhao Media invested in acquiring the film rights of the best-selling novel "Du Lala's Promotion" because of money.
It's hard for Jiang Wei to refute. He is not a pedantic person either. He knows that literary and artistic films are not easy to mix in the market these days. If film and television companies want to survive, they cannot avoid commercial films. Unless you want to be like Lou Ye or Chief Jia.
Yes, it has a good reputation and is supported by overseas funds.
While the two were chatting, they saw a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her thirties, with a slender figure, delicate eyebrows, and energetic appearance, and another teacher from the literature department, Mei Feng, walking in, talking and laughing.
"Xiao He, why are you free to come to our place today?"
Mei Feng was surprised to see He Xin here.
He is a good friend of Lou Ye. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University. Because of his love for movies, he studied for a master's degree in the Department of Literature of Nortel, and then stayed at the school to teach. He was once the literary planner of "Purple Butterfly", including "Purple Butterfly" later directed by Lou Ye.
The screenwriter of "The Summer Palace" and the new film "The Night with the Spring Breeze" that just finished filming.
He and He Xin are also old acquaintances because they worked together while filming "Purple Butterfly".
In fact, Lou Ye invited He Xin when he was filming "The Night with the Spring Breeze", but since "Lan Yu", he has an instinctive rejection of such gay films, for fear of being labeled.
"Teacher Mei!" He Xin quickly stood up and greeted.
"Oh, are you here to see Lao Jiang?"
Before He Xin could answer, he saw the charming middle-aged woman next to him smiling and saying, "He's here to see me."
After saying that, he took the initiative to reach out to He Xin and said: "Hello, He Xin, I am Xue Xiaolu."
"Hello, Teacher Xue!"
He Xin hurriedly shook hands with her. Even though it was their first meeting, He Xin had roughly guessed it when she walked in, because Teacher Jiang Wei's expression suddenly became very soft.
Xue Xiaolu said enthusiastically: "I didn't expect you to get the movie copyright of the book "Du Lala". I also like this book very much..."
She paused for a moment when she said this, and actually gave Jiang Wei a coquettish look, and then said: "I feel very honored that you can ask me to adapt it."
He Xin originally thought that asking Xue Xiaolu to adapt this novel might take a lot of effort, but he didn't expect it to go so smoothly. He didn't bother to look at Lao Jiang's wry smile, and said hurriedly: "Thank you, Teacher Xue, I'll trouble you."
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Xue Xiaolu waved her hand casually: "It's okay, let's talk first... Oh, by the way, who do you want to play Du Lala?"
"Well, it might be my girlfriend Cheng Hao. But this candidate has not been finalized yet." He Xin scratched his scalp and said.
Wrestling the copyright of "Du Lala" from Xu Cairen was originally a move of her girlfriend's will. Although she kept saying that she wanted to play the role of Du Lala, He Xin could see that she was interested in this role.
My desire is far less intense than when I originally wanted the role of Li Baoli.
"Oh, it's Cheng Hao..."
Xue Xiaolu pondered thoughtfully for a moment, seeming to have reservations, but she immediately smiled and said: "That's good too."
Regarding the style of the script, He Xin's requirements were very simple. Perhaps influenced by the original movie, he still insisted on using the workplace as a concept and tried to amplify the element of love as much as possible.
"I originally wanted to make it a Chinese version of "The Devil Wears Prada" because of you, but it turns out you still wanted to be different."
Huh!
He Xin's heart suddenly moved when he heard Xue Xiaolu's words. He had never thought before, but now after Xue Xiaolu reminded him, he found that "Du Lala's Promotion" could really be made into a Chinese version of "The Devil Wears Prada".
This film was released in China after the Spring Festival last year. He Xin didn't have time to watch it at the time, but the remaining memories from his previous life told him that it might be possible.
He suddenly found that it was necessary for him to search for resources about this movie on the Internet and review the movie in detail.