Huayu since 1980

Chapter 723 Farewell My Concubine

Throughout the 90s, the wages of Huaxia workers varied widely. At the beginning of the 90s, the wages of ordinary workers were just over 100 yuan, but by the end of the 90s, the wages had risen to nearly 1000 yuan.

A salary of 300 yuan is already a very high salary for Huang Zilu, and his father's monthly salary is only 100 yuan!

Now Wu Jianye not only gave him a high-paying job, but also arranged a place for their father and son to live. How could this not excite Huang Zilu.

After visiting Tangting's cultural facilities, Wu Jianye took Huang Zilu to eat, but Huang Zilu didn't want to go, he told Wu Jianye.

"Mr. Wu, actually, I can just buy two steamed buns and come to the company to eat. I want to get familiar with the equipment here earlier."

Wu Jianye laughed and said: "The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, you will have plenty of time to familiarize yourself with the equipment here in the future, don't worry about it!"

In the end, Huang Zilu followed Wu Jianye to the restaurant. Now that there are more restaurants in Yanjing City, it was not the time when Wu Jianye was just reborn and it was extremely difficult to find a restaurant.

As the capital of China, Yanjing has always been famous for its food culture. Coupled with Yanjing's special geographical situation, it can be said that various cuisines from all over the country are gathered here.

Wu Jianye brought Huang Zilu to a Sichuan restaurant. The shop was small with only one floor, but there were quite a few people there.

Several people found a private room and sat down, Dai Zhen had already gone to order.

At this time, Huang Zilu became nervous again. Wu Jianye saw that there was nothing wrong with the restaurant here, but to Huang Zilu, it was already very luxurious.

After a while, Dai Zhen came in and whispered to Wu Jianye: "Brother, Director Chen called just now, it seems that he wants to talk to you about something!"

Wu Jianye nodded, took the phone in Dai Zhen's hand, and called Chen Kaige.

After receiving Wu Jianye's call, Chen Kaige seemed a little excited, and asked directly, "Where are you?"

"The restaurant is eating, what's the matter?" Wu Jianye asked.

Chen Kaige: "I want to ask you for help with something, is it convenient for you now? If it is convenient, I will go to you!"

This is Chen Kaige, even if he is in a hurry, he will first ask Wu Jianye about the current situation. If Wang Shuo or Zhao Fei and others are replaced, they must have come directly. handy thing.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "It's okay, come on!"

After Wu Jianye told Chen Kaige his address, he hung up the phone.

Seeing that Wu Jianye's friend was coming, Huang Zilu hurriedly said, "Teacher Wu, why don't I go back first!"

Wu Jianye waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's Chen Kaige who came, and speaking of it, he can be regarded as your senior brother."

When Huang Zilu heard that it was Chen Kaige, she became excited again. Wu Jianye, Zhang Yimou, and Chen Kaige were the three big mountains who went out of the film academy.

Wu Jianye is the first to become famous among the three, and he is also the one with the highest achievement now, while Chen Kaige became famous earlier than Zhang Yimou, but with Zhang Yimou's current strong rise, his popularity has long surpassed that of Chen Kaige, and the current Chen Kaige Song can only be ranked third among the three!
But even so, Chen Kaige is still extremely powerful in the hearts of students like Huang Zilu.

After a while, the waiter brought out Dai Zhen's order.Mapo tofu, spicy chicken, spicy shrimp, boiled pork slices, sweet duck.
Huang Zilu's throat was swallowing lightly.

Wu Jianye smiled, "Eat first, don't wait for him!"

Although Huang Zilu agreed verbally, she just picked up the chopsticks and didn't move.

Wu Jianye smiled and didn't speak, Chen Kaige hurried over after a while, and at the same time he was accompanied by a middle-aged man in his 40s with glasses.

When Chen Kaige came to the private room and saw Huang Zilu, he was also slightly taken aback. Who was this young man who was a little shy and had trouble living in appearance?

It was Huang Zilu who stood up first, and said nervously, "Director Chen Chen, hello, I am Huang Zilu, a senior student in the Photography Department of the Film Academy!"

When Chen Kaige heard that he was a student of the Film Academy, he didn't say anything. He greeted Huang Zilu with a smile, and then introduced the middle-aged man next to him to Wu Jianye.

"Old Wu, this is Lu Wei, the screenwriter of "The Last Madness" and "The Price of Madness". This time my new film is also written by him!"

The eyes in Lu Wei's sockets were also full of excitement, and he said seriously to Wu Jianye: "Director Wu, I'm very happy to meet you, my favorite movie is "The Last Emperor", I didn't expect to see you here you!"

Wu Jianye is also very interested in Lu Wei. Someone once said that Lu Wei was the best screenwriter in China in the early 90s.

It's all because in the early 90s, Huaxia's two masterpieces "Farewell My Concubine" and "To Live" were written by him!
However, in Wu Jianye's view, Lu Wei's success has a lot to do with his script style. Lu Wei's understanding of Western films is beyond the reach of domestic film screenwriters. The reason why overseas can achieve such high achievements.

"Haha, I've heard of your name before. When I was in North America, director Wu Tianming often talked to me and mentioned that there was a very good screenwriter named Lu Wei in Xiying Studio." Wu Jianye laughed. .

Lu Wei's establishment is now also in Xiying Studio.

When Wu Tianming discovered Lu Wei, Lu Wei was still in the art department of the West Film Studio. Lu Wei wrote two scripts for the West Film Studio and earned money, so Wu Tianming found Lu Wei and said: You are not bad, What do you want to be, a director or a screenwriter?If you want to be a director, I will transfer you to the director's office; if you want to be a screenwriter, I will transfer you to the literature department.

Lu Wei's answer was: Well, I still want to paint and stay in the art department. Boss, if there is something good, I will write it. It doesn't matter where I stay.

After the two parties got to know each other, Wu Jianye asked if they had eaten, and they shook their heads together, then sat down and ate together.

To be honest, Lu Wei still has some doubts in his heart. He admires Wu Jianye's film very much. He is also a senior screenwriter, but he is still a little doubtful about Chen Kaige's coming to Wu Jianye for help. Things are not too easy.

After Chen Kaige sat down, he was not polite, and said directly: "Old Wu, I have a script in my hand now, but there are some problems with the actors and investment. To be honest, the investment is easier to handle, but the actors need more money. Your help!"

In fact, when Chen Kaige and Lu Wei came here, Wu Jianye already knew that they must have come here for the movie "Farewell My Concubine".

In another time and space, Chen Kaige had a hard time during this time. After he came back from North America, "Walking and Singing" full of confidence did not achieve much success. For Chen Kaige, it was actually a very difficult time. The big blow also made his reputation with investors not as loud as before.

As for the filming of "Farewell My Concubine", it was actually a choice of last resort. When Chen Kaige was in North America, he met Xu Feng from Tomson's film, and the other party recommended the novel "Farewell My Concubine" to him. And when Chen Kaige saw this novel, he directly said that it was a third-rate novel, and he didn't want to adapt this movie, but wanted to make his own "Walking and Singing" wholeheartedly.

But the result, everyone knows.

With the failure of "Walking and Singing", Chen Kaige was faced with the situation that there was no film to shoot at this time, so he had to follow Xu Feng's suggestion and filmed "Farewell My Concubine".

But in this time and space, Chen Kaige's situation has changed a bit. For example, the novel "Farewell My Concubine" was recommended to Chen Kaige by Wu Jianye. Of course, at that time, Chen Kaige's answer was nothing. Despite the changes, I still want to shoot my own "Walking and Singing".

Wu Jianye has no objection to this, but the movie "Walking and Singing" did not have any different results because of Wu Jianye's rebirth, and it was still a failure.

After the failure of "Walking and Singing", Chen Kaige fell into confusion, but soon he thought of "Farewell My Concubine" that Wu Jianye had recommended to him, so the current situation came into being.

"You mean "Farewell My Concubine", right?" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

"Yes, this is the movie. By the way, this is the script written by Lu Wei. You can read it first!" After Chen Kaige finished speaking, he took out the script of "Farewell My Concubine" from his bag and handed it to Wu Jianye doesn't care if Wu Jianye is eating now.

Wu Jianye smiled helplessly, and after receiving the script of "Farewell My Concubine", he just glanced at it casually, but this attitude made Lu Wei a little unhappy.

He thought that Wu Jianye was disrespecting himself, so he was smart enough to say nothing.

After Wu Jianye finished reading the script, he smiled and said, "The script is not bad. It uses the characters as conflict points and runs through the entire plot of the movie. It's pretty good. What are your thoughts?"

Chen Kaige was also not polite, and said directly: "Investment and actors!"

Wu Jianye nodded: "Investment is easy. This film is not suitable for domestic cultural companies to invest in. How about this? I will let Fengge Films invest in this film. What about the actors?"

Lu Wei was taken aback for a moment. He had discussed with Chen Kaige before that the investment for this movie would cost at least tens of millions of RMB. Now Wu Jianye has no problems at all?

As for Wu Jianye, he is actually a little curious. It is said that the character of Cheng Dieyi in this movie, Chen Kaige first fell in love with Zunlong, not Zhang Guoying. Wu Jianye is also very curious about this matter now.

Chen Kaige said with a smile: "Other roles in terms of actors are fine, but for the soul role of Cheng Dieyi in the movie, I hope to invite the actor Zhang Guoyi from Xiangjiang, and Lu Wei hopes to let Zunlong play the role. !"

Wu Jianye was slightly taken aback. He didn't expect that Chen Kaige fell in love with Zhang Guoyi from the very beginning, and Lu Wei would be the one who fell in love with Zunlong. But it's understandable after thinking about it. Lu Wei said before that his favorite movie is actually It is the movie "The Last Emperor", which means that I am very satisfied with Zunlong's performance, and it is reasonable to propose Zunlong now.

Wu Jianye thought for a while and said, "Forget about Zun Long. I talked to Zun Long before returning to China. He doesn't have much interest in movies about the Republic of China. At the same time, he is now an actor in a film company in the United States. You know the rules of the side actors, it's inappropriate!"

Chen Kaige stayed in North America for two years, especially in the later period, he was arranged by Wu Jianye to Phantom Films. He naturally understood how the actors there filmed. Now that Wu Jianye did not approve of Zunlong, so Said.

"But where is Zhang Guoying?"

It is not easy to invite Zunlong, nor is it easy to invite Zhang Guoying. Zhang Guoying's current domestic fame is beyond the reach of ordinary people. As a superstar like the emperor of Xiangjiang, it can be said that it is very difficult and very big to invite Zhang Guoying .

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "Let me arrange this matter!"

After speaking, he picked up the phone and dialed Zhang Guoyi's number.

Soon Zhang Guoying's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hi, hello, that one!"

Wu Jianye hated this big brother without a caller ID, but now Tunan Technology's latest development of a mobile phone that will be launched next year has already begun to work on this issue!

"Rong Zai, I'm Wu Jianye!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

When Zhang Guoyi heard that it was Wu Jianye, his tone immediately revealed an expression of excitement: "Director Wu, have you come to Xiangjiang?"

Wu Jianye said: "No, actually there is one thing I want to ask for your opinion."

Zhang Guoying asked, "What is it?"

"I have a script in my hand now. I personally think that one of the protagonists is very suitable for you, so I want to see if you have a schedule next year?" Wu Jianye asked.

Zhang Guoyi immediately asked, "Is this your new movie?"

In fact, at this time, not only domestic filmmakers are paying attention to Wu Jianye's new movie, but even Xiangjiang, Europe and the United States are paying attention to Wu Jianye's new movie.

The two films "The Love of Ghosts" and "Jurassic Park" directly made Wu Jianye a god in the world of film circles. Naturally, Wu Jianye's new movie is highly anticipated.

Wu Jianye said: "It's not my new movie, it's a domestic director named Chen Kaige, his movie."

Zhang Guoyan on the other end of the phone was a little disappointed. He thought it was Wu Jianye's movie, but he didn't expect it to be another director's movie.

However, Zhang Guoyi did not directly refuse, but said: "Can I read the script first, and then make a decision!"

Wu Jianye smiled: "Of course, how about this, these two days, I will let this director go to Xiangjiang, how about you meet and talk about this in detail?"

Zhang Guoyan happily agreed: "No problem, I'll be waiting for you in Xiangjiang!"

After the two chatted, Wu Jianye hung up the phone and said to Chen Kaige: "I made an appointment for you, this time you go to Xiangjiang and drop by Fengge Films to sign the investment contract! "

Chen Kaige immediately smiled and said, "No problem, what about the investment for this movie?"

Wu Jianye smiled: "You can make a budget yourself, when the time comes, there will be no problem with Fengge Films!"

"Haha, that's great!" Chen Kaige immediately said excitedly.

In Lu Wei's eyes, this series of operations always felt unreal. He didn't expect that the two most difficult problems would be solved by Wu Jianye so lightly.

No, there is another problem.
"Director Wu, if Zhang Guoying is the actor, what are the procedures for Zhang Guoying to come to Xiangjiang to make a movie?"

(End of this chapter)