fringe artist

Chapter 208 206. Come on!artist!

The scenery of the Qinhuai River is very beautiful, but there are no flower boats on the river, and the lights on the shore are printed on the water, turning into waves of ripples under the rippling microwaves, as if telling the story of the past here.

Walking along the Qinhuai River, Chen Li'an thought of the news he had read. During the Anti-Japanese War, the women in the flower houses on the Qinhuai River also contributed money and efforts, and contributed their own strength, but few people mentioned them.

The willow branches swaying gently as the evening wind blows across the shore seem to beckon to passers-by on the shore. There may be many poor souls buried here.

Yasuko Tomita reached out and broke off a section of willow branch that had just sprouted new buds, and took it in her hand. The delicate willow branch resembled her soft figure very much.

"Does coming here give you a sense of substitution?" Chen Li'an looked at Yasuko Tomita and asked.

Yasuko Tomita turned the willow branch in her hand, looked at the waves on the river, and said softly: "I can feel the profound history here, but I can't find that feeling."

If Yasuko Tomita wasn't a girl, Chen Li'an would like to say that the most important thing here are the innocent dead souls, but this is not appropriate. You can't just see a Japanese and force them to apologize.

It was not Chen Li'an's original intention to wander the Qinhuai River at night, but Ou Dingping specially arranged for him and Yasuko Tomita to find out and cultivate a tacit understanding.

After all, we will be filming so many large-scale passionate scenes together, and taking a shower together to scratch the soles of our feet.

The two walked by the river for a while, and Chen Li'an suddenly asked: "Why did you accept this movie? There are many passionate scenes in it, which is very different from your previous route."

Yasuko Tomita turned her head to look at Chen Li'an and asked happily, "Has Mr. Li'an seen my movie?"

Chen Li'an found it a bit strange to be called Mr., but in Japanese address etiquette, writers and artists are called like this.

Chen Li'an looked at Yasuko Tomita and nodded, "I've seen most of your works."

Ever since Chen Li'an knew that the heroine was Yasuko Tomita, he went to check it out. After all, if you want to film together, you always need to know the other party's level.

Yasuko Tomita smiled, and then said with some melancholy: "I debuted at the age of 16, and I was popular for a while, but being famous too early means that it will all go downhill in the future. Now many newcomers in the office have surpassed me, and it is time Made a change."

This may be the sorrow of stars. It is not difficult to become popular once, but it is difficult to keep popular. It is difficult to maintain the popularity. This is also the reason why later traffic stars send out news every day.

Even if I don't have any works, I can't let everyone forget me, otherwise there really won't be any more works.

Fortunately, Chen Li'an didn't have this trouble, and he didn't want to be the king of heaven, so it didn't matter if he was hot or not.

"I hope this movie can make you popular again." Chen Li'an looked at Yasuko Tomita and said a blessing, and then said carefully: "There will be a lot of intimate scenes later, if you have any scruples, you can tell me now."

Yasuko Tomita looked at Chen Li'an with a cheerful smile and said, "Why do you have any scruples? Now that I have decided to take on this film, I am ready, and I am honored to be filming with an artist like Mr. Li'an. "

Typical small-day thinking, with the awareness of being open-minded, Chen Li'an couldn't help but praise Yasuko Tomita, and wanted to ask her colleagues in Japan if they also had this awareness.

"Does Mr. Li'an have any scruples? Do you have a girlfriend?" Yasuko Tomita looked at Chen Li'an's handsome face, thinking that there must be many people pursuing such a person.

Chen Li'an shrugged slightly and said, "I don't have a girlfriend, so I don't have any scruples."

"That's great! Then I won't have any scruples." Yasuko Tomita's eyes lit up, and there was a little jumping feeling, looking very cute.

"But don't get too involved." Chen Li'an said jokingly.

Yasuko Tomita tilted his head and looked at Chen Li'an and said, "It's hard not to be involved in the face of Mr. Li'an."

Chen Li'an was amused by Yasuko Tomita's words, and said with a smile: "In that case, I will devote 100%!"

Yasuko Tomita stretched out her hand and said with a bright smile, "Then let's work together!"

"Come on together!" Chen Li'an said while holding Yasuko Tomita's hand.

Many Japanese people have a very extreme attitude, either decadent to death, or positive and optimistic, but Yasuko Tomita's cheerfulness and optimism is really infectious.

After strolling around the Qinhuai River, Chen Li'an and Yasuko Tomita became acquainted a lot, at least Yasuko Tomita would no longer call Chen Li'an by Mr.

After returning to the hotel, the two said good night to each other in the corridor, and went back to their rooms.

Back in the room, Yasuko Tomita was in a very happy mood. It is a lie that she was not nervous when she was filming a large-scale scene for the first time, but if she was filming with someone with a good personality and good looks, then why would she be nervous, and even had some expectations Woolen cloth.

Chen Li'an simply took a shower in the bathroom, then went to bed, and the seminar will continue tomorrow.

In the next few days, the main creative team collided with various opinions every day, and wandered around Nanjing in their spare time. There were no locals in the main crew, and they didn't know anything about Nanjing's Hualou culture on the Qinhuai River. If you want to make a good movie, you naturally have to understand it on the ground.

In fact, the shooting of the film will not be in Nanjing, and the filming location has already been set in Huangshan.

In the past few days in Nanjing, Chen Li'an would go out with Yasuko Tomita for a walk every night to cultivate their relationship, otherwise it would be difficult to express the feeling of the two being together.

At night, after Chen Li'an and Yasuko Tomita came back from the outside talking and laughing, they met Cheng Shufen in the corridor of the room.

"Sister Shufen, are you still up so late?"

Cheng Shufen smiled and said, "I'm waiting for you to come back. I'm leaving early tomorrow morning and I want to chat with you."

"Then let's go in and talk." Chen Li'an opened the door and invited Cheng Shufen in, poured her a glass of water and asked, "What does Sister Shufen want to talk to me about?"

Cheng Shufen took a sip of water and said, "It's the company's recent changes that may affect future plans. Let me tell you in advance."

Chen Li'an slightly raised his eyebrows and asked, "Can you tell me in detail?"

"The company intends to create a musical for Xueyou, and the planned investment is likely to exceed 5000 million Hong Kong dollars. If such a large investment is used, the company's capital chain will also be tight."

After Cheng Shufen explained in detail, she looked at Chen Li'an's frowning, and added: "But I guarantee that the project we agreed on will not be stopped, but the initial investment may have to wait for a while."

According to the plan, after the filming of this film, Chen Li'an will go to Xiangjiang to start the art space plan in the future, so as to turn the art of art into a trend.

Now that Cheng Shufen suddenly said that, he directly strangled the subsequent plan, Chen Li'an finally understood why Cheng Shufen came over suddenly, because he came here to talk to him about it.

And according to Chen Li'an's understanding, Zhang Xueyou's musical has invested a total of hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and it will last for several years. Chen Li'an can't wait that long.

Chen Li'an's fingers unconsciously tilted the armrest of the chair, looked at Cheng Shufen and said, "Sister Shufen, when we signed the contract, it was clearly stipulated, and now the company is in breach of the contract."

Cheng Shufen immediately comforted her: "Li'an, don't get excited. This matter is still under discussion. I don't know the specific result yet."

Chen Li'an shook his head slightly and said: "The company should have seen how successful Zhang Xueyou's global tour is, so they want to replicate this miracle. There is a high probability that this plan will pass, and my plan should be shelved."

Cheng Shufen nodded. She thought so too, but she still said: "Li'an, don't worry, I will definitely fight for you. My idea is to try a smaller one first, so that the company's capital chain will also be stable." Don’t be so nervous, the higher-ups will agree to continue.”

"Sister Shufen, it's not a big or small problem, but can you ensure that the company won't put my plan on hold for a while?" Chen Li'an sat up slightly and said, "Maybe the company itself just wants to wait and wait for my next plan." A little more fire, a little more grasp."

Cheng Shufen was silent, the company did have this idea.If Zhang Xueyou's musical project hadn't started so quickly, the company wouldn't have had so many worries. It's not short of money.

But now that money is short, it is natural to think about it comprehensively.

Chen Li'an looked at the silent Cheng Shufen and said: "Miss Shufen, how about this, I'll wait for your news, Zhang Xueyou's tour will end soon, the company should make a decision in the near future, if it is really put on hold at that time My plan, then I can only choose to terminate the contract."

The room was very quiet, and the dark clouds that had piled up outside for a whole night also surged at this moment, and suddenly a thunderbolt exploded, Cheng Shufen raised her head and looked at Chen Li'an and said: "Li'an, I promise to fight for you, you can film with peace of mind, and the rest Leave it to me to handle."

"Okay." Chen Li'an said with a smile.

After sending Cheng Shufen away, Chen Li'an closed the door and couldn't help rubbing his temples. If he didn't have so much, he would have thrown them away and done it himself.

It doesn't take much money to build an art space alone, but Chen Li'an can spend money to build it.But if you want to commercialize and industrialize art, you need a lot of money and professional people.

"I would have fooled Bernard Arnault if I knew it earlier." Chen Li'an sighed.

In fact, Ji Fa is also a good choice, the little rich woman is still very rich.However, Chen Li'an couldn't guarantee that he would succeed. Once he invested so much money and couldn't make any money back, Ji Fa would probably cry to death, and then locked Chen Li'an in a small dark room to paint hard.

For such a risky thing, it is better to find someone else, spend other people's money to do your own business, how can you spend your own money to realize your own dream?

After Chen Li'an took a bath irritably, he stopped thinking about these things. It was useless to think about them.

After another day of brainstorming the next day, Chen Li'an was about to bid farewell to the crew and go to Cannes.

The crew is also going to Huangshan to make preparations. When Chen Li'an returns from Cannes, they can start the film immediately.

At night, under the city wall of Nanjing City, Yasuko Tomita touched the bluestone of the city wall with his fingers, and followed behind Chen Li'an, stepping on his swaying shadow with light footsteps.

Over the past few days, Yasuko Tomita has found a feeling of being in love. She is not sure whether she is substituting the role of Jin Hua, or really experiencing the sweetness of love from Chen Li'an.

This is a very attractive man, you can't help but want to get close.

Yasuko Tomita thought that Chen Li'an was leaving, so he suddenly raised his head and patted his shoulder behind him.

The moment Chen Li'an turned his head, Yasuko Tomita jumped out from behind, hugged his arm naturally and said, "I hope you win the grand prize in Cannes!"

Chen Li'an wondered if Yasuko Tomita was connoting himself. The comments about Fengyue's movie had already spread, and almost no one thought that this movie would win an award.

That is to say, Cheng Dao's girlfriend on CCTV is relatively strong, and the domestic media did not criticize it, but only discussed it in a small circle.

The movie itself is not that bad, but the domestic media always like to follow the West, and Director Cheng has been famous for several years, there will always be people who are jealous and want to take the opportunity to step on it.

"Haven't you been paying attention to the news in Cannes recently?" Chen Li'an looked at Yasuko Tomita and asked.

Yasuko Tomita shook his head and asked, "Did something happen?"

"No, it's just that the movie I participated in had mixed reviews, so I probably won't have a chance to win an award." Chen Li'an explained casually.

Yasuko Tomita said with some surprise: "Cheng Dao is so good, will he be criticized?"

In the hearts of the Japanese, Dao Cheng is a very powerful director, and there are not too many people who admire him. This is why Dao Cheng was able to make so many films on the street and still get Japanese investment.

This is all the halo brought by Farewell My Concubine. Perhaps Cheng Dao is the god of movies in the hearts of Japan, and they are all popular gods.

Facing Yasuko Tomita's astonishment, Chen Li'an shook his head and said, "This is nothing strange, even gods will be blamed, let alone human beings."

Yasuko Tomita sighed and explained: "In the hearts of many Japanese filmmakers, Director Cheng is a very powerful director."

"Perhaps the movie Fengyue will be popular in Japan. The aesthetics of the East and the West are different." Chen Li'an said briefly, and then said to Yasuko Tomita: "It's getting late, go back and rest."

"Okay, shall I see you off tomorrow? I want to experience the feeling of Jinhua sending off Okagawa."

"Of course you can, but you have to get up earlier."

"No problem! I'll be up on time!"

After returning to the hotel, Chen Li'an lay on the bed thinking about all kinds of messy problems, and more about the meaning of the film festival.

The Western Film Festival also started in this year, and I began to experience aesthetic fatigue with the works of the fifth-generation domestic directors, and then fell in love with the works of the sixth-generation directors.

I fell in love with those movies about the sufferings of the modern domestic society, and I rejected those things of the feudal society.

The bottom line is that it is only because of the needs of public opinion. When they found that China was rising rapidly, they began to use various means to influence China's international image.

Movies are the best way to do this. If you keep giving awards to those movies, more filmmakers will make such movies, and then people in Western society will see more problems in China and have a worse impression. .

Of course, this is not to belittle the works of the sixth generation directors. Their works are very good and meaningful, and Chen Lian also likes those films very much.

Suffering should be recorded and pointed out, but who you want to show is the most important thing. If you show China's suffering to foreigners, they will only stand on a high ground and watch jokes.

So a very paradoxical thing happened. People who should have seen it didn't see it, and people who shouldn't have seen it all.

Just like Hollywood movies, they have been taking advantage of their position as the dominant film in the world to continuously export their own cultural values ​​and establish their free and beautiful image. Some dark critics of society and the government will not be exported, and they will watch them secretly at home. .

Even if it is exported, it will be overwhelmed by countless heroic movies, and people don't care about the criticism of the one or two movies.

But the situation in China is different. If you want to show it to others, you can't release it. For example, is the movie "Born Out of the Sky" bad?Isn't the garland under the mountain bad?But people don't want it.

I don't want to show it to others, such as some works of the sixth generation of directors, which deeply describe the marginalized people in society, and they are rushing to ask for it.

Don't we all love suffering, do we all love tragedy?Or just simply like to watch other people's tragedies, and finally become their own comedies.

After Chen Li'an thought wildly for a long time, he suddenly felt that compared with movies, art is relatively pure and does not have so many restrictions.

Looking at the dark ceiling, Chen Li'an turned over and covered himself with the quilt and went to sleep. Why did he think so much, what should he do after he wakes up!

If you feel bad, go back and work hard!Start with your own art space!
come on!artist!

(End of this chapter)