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Chapter 772: Raise the Red Lantern

"Dong dong!"

Ivan Patterson came to see him.

"Lu, I want to talk to you about the scene we're going to shoot later."

"Okay." Lu Yanhe nodded.

Ivan Patterson is just a seventeen-year-old boy, still in high school.

However, he is no stranger to acting.

He started acting at a very young age.

Ivan Patterson has been coming to him these days to talk to him about working together on a film.

In the first part of "Godless", Lu Yanhe's role is basically responsible for the "mentor" function of Ivan Patterson.

This also means that Lu Yanhe and Ivan Patterson have a lot of rival scenes.

Ivan Patterson acts naturally.

This surprised Lu Yanhe a little.

Because young actors in Europe and the United States generally have a stronger sense of stage, which is related to the fact that they often have a lot of stage performances during their growing up experience.

This is also a very significant difference between European and American actors and Asian actors.

Asian actors are often very good at mastering subtle details, while European and American actors are better at accurately switching and expressing emotions.

Lu Yanhe was very curious about how Ivan Patterson developed his acting style.

According to what he knew, although Ivan Patterson had acted in movies in the past, they were all of typical European and American style. His performance in those movies showed that he had a very high acting talent, but it was not the natural and smooth style he has now.

Lu Yanhe looked at Ivan Patterson, who reminded him of a famous American actor—an American actor from the world before he traveled through time.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the male protagonist of "500 Days of Summer".

They all have a non-traditional look with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a handsome appearance. They are very "boyish", youthful, lively and enthusiastic.

"Do you think it would be better if I added a push at this point when I get angry with you later?" Ivan Patterson asked.

Lu Yanhe nodded, "Okay, but I will hide from you."

Ivan Patterson was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately.

"I tried to push but I missed, and I stumbled, getting even angrier."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Ivan Patterson's reaction and comprehension are truly first-rate.

He looked at him with admiration.

Ivan Patterson felt a little embarrassed by Lu Yanhe's gaze and said, "Why do you always look at me like this? I even suspect that you like me. I must make it clear that I like girls."

Lu Yanhe was so angry that he blurted out in Chinese: "...I don't know what's good for me."

Ivan Patterson looked confused and asked, "What did you say?"

Lu Yanhe: "I told you to get out of here right now."

Ivan Patterson chuckled and said very proudly: "I know you admire me, and I admire you too, my friend."

Lu Yanhe: "Get out of here right now."
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Ivan Patterson has the fearlessness of a young man his age.

He is cheerful and enthusiastic, and always says "Hey, buddy" to everyone.

Lu Yanhe realized it later. He regretted that he was not as cheerful and happy as him when he was his age.

Whether it is before or after the time travel, it is the same.

Of course, people need to work hard, struggle, live up to their own lives, and try to save enough capital to live a long life. However, if we look back and think about it, how many regrets would we have if we had not had the carefree time, the reckless youth, the sunshine without worries, and the spring without pressure? -
"We were planning to release Raise the Red Lantern on Friday, October 10, but the schedule was a bit tight and there wasn't enough time to warm up the movie."

Soon, Wang Zhong called and told Lu Yanhe about the arrangements for "Raise the Red Lantern".

Obviously, Wang Zhong still attaches great importance to the performance of the movie "Raise the Red Lantern" in the North American awards season. And the result of his communication with the Film Bureau should be quite clear.

As expected, the film nominated by China for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar this year is "Raise the Red Lantern".

Lu Yanhe said, "Okay, Director, I don't have to shoot in October, I can participate in the film promotion."

"That's great." Wang Zhong laughed.

There is good news about "Raise the Red Lantern" and Lu Yanhe is also very happy.

Because of this movie - how should I put it, although it is not a movie that Lu Yanhe would watch over and over again in private and it is not a movie that suits his aesthetic preferences, but he will always remember the afternoon when he first watched this movie, the large mansion that had no ghosts but made people feel that it was full of ghosts, the red lanterns, and the people with blurry faces.

In the summer, in the afternoon with the curtains closed, the air conditioner is blowing cold air.

I don’t know if it was because the air conditioner was turned on too high or for some other reason, but I felt a chill while watching the movie.

This movie is so neat that even people who don't like this kind of movie won't say it's badly made. It has a classic Chinese narrative structure and conception.

Lu Yanhe remembered that this movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in its original time and space.

The competition for the Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film is as fierce as that for Best Picture.

The year before, Zhang Yimou was nominated for the same award for "Ju Dou". Normally, he would not be nominated again in the second year so soon, same country, same director... but "Raise the Red Lantern" did it.

It is so critical, but it doesn't make people feel obscure or uncomfortable.
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On September 9, Lu Yanhe completed the first phase of filming for "Godless".

Everything went very smoothly.

Next, Lu Yanhe can rest for more than a month and start the second phase of filming in November.

Lu Yanhe was in no hurry to leave the United States.

Because the second recording of "Young Days" happened to be held in New York.

Lu Yanhe missed the first recording session due to the filming of "Godless". He will go directly to New York to participate in the second recording session of "Young Days".

For this New York recording, only Li Zhibai was absent because he was filming "Flying on the Grass", everyone else came.

For this recording in New York, Li Zhenzhen also specially designed the theme based on the city of New York.

All of them will conduct real-life recording in the city of New York, and the content of the recording will be based on a classic "treasure hunt game".

Everyone fights on their own, and of course they can cooperate in pairs or in groups at each level, but in the end the ranking is determined by the points scored.

In the end, if the total points of each of them exceed a certain number, the program team will add another million to the scholarships donated by Chinese Americans to children in mountainous areas of China.

If their points do not exceed the limit, they will have to share the one million.

This is not a show, it's real.

However, when Li Zhenzhen communicated with each team, each team gave feedback very quickly and all of them agreed.

"This is a good thing." Lu Yanhe also expressed his opinion immediately, "Isn't this an advertisement for some charity organization or foundation?"

Li Zhenzhen said no.

"When we were contacting New York, a sister who was helping here took the initiative to bring it up. The original theme of our episode was that our program team would provide a one-million-dollar scholarship as the ultimate goal of everyone's 'treasure hunt game'. When she heard about it, she thought it was meaningful, so she talked to her friends around her and together they took out 270 million without asking for anything else."

Lu Yanhe: "That's great."
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In fact, recording a program like this is more or less a show.

However, Lu Yanhe has always supported such things as using real money to put on a show.

As long as the real money is given to those in need, it doesn't matter if it's just a show.

After learning the whole story, Lu Yanhe also raised an idea in the "Young Days" resident MC group, which instantly received everyone's response.

The treasure hunt game recorded this time is really not an ordinary "playing house".

This treasure hunt game will last for a total of three days and involve eight levels, each of which tests different abilities of the players.

It is necessary to compete for individual rankings, but also to work together to earn points.

It can be said that this is the most competitive one among all the seasons and episodes of "Young Days".

Lu Yanhe was also very happy recording.

He found that he quite liked playing this "treasure hunt game".

I thought this recording session would be very tiring, but it turned out to be a lot of fun.

He had never played this kind of game before.

Lu Yanhe said: "I hope there will be more games like this in the future of "Young Days". Such advanced game settings are usually hard to find anywhere to play."

Yan Liang agreed very much and said, "I think so too."

Lu Yanhe said, "Director Zhenzhen, I think you should consider building an amusement park in the future. You can make a theme park out of the various games and interesting tasks that appear in "Young Days" so that everyone can have a place to play whatever they want."

Li Zhenzhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "I would like to do it, but the problem is that I don't have money. How about you sponsor me?"

"If you are really willing to do it, I am willing to sponsor you." Lu Yanhe said immediately.

"Forget it, forget it. I'm a variety show director. I'm not going to run an amusement park with you." Li Zhenzhen said, "This is not the way to cross over."

After three days, everyone completed their own treasure hunt game, no one gave up any level, and everyone often came to help others after completing their own level. In the end, they successfully completed the points challenge and received an additional 1 million scholarship provided by the program team.

Everyone looked exhausted, but they cheered and hugged each other, showing their team spirit at this moment.

Then, Peng Zhixing raised his hand and shouted, "Director, we have one more thing to say."

"Huh?" Li Zhenzhen was stunned when Peng Zhixing suddenly said this just when she was about to turn off the phone.

Peng Zhixing said: "We all discussed it and decided that although we have received so many points, we don't have to pay for the scholarship in the end, but this is a very good thing. We have all grown up following "Young Days". This program has brought us so many things. If we want to contribute such a meaningful force to this program, we hope that we can also contribute to this force. So, this is a bank card--"

Peng Zhixing took out a bank card from his pocket and handed it to Li Zhenzhen amid the shocked expressions of the program crew.

"Including Zhibai, each of us transferred a sum of money to this card as a token of our appreciation."

Li Zhenzhen was stunned.

For a moment she didn't know whether to accept the bank card.

"this--"

"How much money is in here?" Li Zhenzhen asked.

Peng Zhixing shook his head and said, "I don't know either. We don't know how much money others have transferred, we only know our own. Anyway, we all do our best according to our ability. No matter how much, this is a gift from the nine of us."
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This time the recording in New York was divided into three episodes.

When the last episode was broadcast, it was already the end of the third recording of "Young Days".

It is almost mid-October.

Lu Yanhe completed the recording with everyone at Manganese Sand. In the evening, they had dinner together without rushing and watched the latest programs.

It was not until this time that Lu Yanhe saw how much money was in this bank card.

Li Zhenzhen specially recorded a video of them checking the account balance while the camera was recording it.

Cary has a total of 2230 million.

In the camera, the shocked expressions of Li Zhenzhen and others did not need to be acted at all.

Even Lu Yanhe and others who were watching the show were shocked.

Peng Zhixing's first reaction was to look at Lu Yanhe.

His eyes asked: Did you move a lot?

Lu Yanhe shook his head.

He had to admit that although he had made a lot of moves, he definitely didn't make up the bulk of the business.

He transferred 200 million into that card.

He thought that the program team had set a quota of 100 million for all guests, and his transfer of 200 million was a small gesture.

Does everyone turn so much?
Of course, the show didn’t show exactly how much each person turned.

According to their request, the money was taken out in the name of the nine of them.

Privately, their group of nine people was in an uproar.

Liu Zhiyin was the first to say: I am so ashamed, I only transferred 50 yuan, which big guy is so rich?

In fact, Liu Zhiyin had a lot of ideas for transferring 50 yuan. At the beginning, she said that the total amount of money for the nine people was 9 million yuan, but she transferred more. Who knew that the total amount actually reached more than 100 million yuan.

Lu Yanhe: It’s not me, I’m also...ashamed.

Su Xiao: Shouldn’t I be even more ashamed… I only transferred 20 [shameful].

Yan Liang: @Li Zhibai, is that you? Rich young man.

Li Zhibai: Why are you asking so many questions? Anyway, my rotation is definitely not as high as you think. There must be other people who rotate as much as me.

Xiao Yun: It’s not me…

Peng Zhixing: Okay, okay, stop guessing. The reason why we didn’t unify the number for everyone was to allow everyone to do what they can. No matter how much anyone transfers, it’s just a one-time donation. I know that everyone has been insisting on doing some public welfare projects, but they have not made it public.

After Peng Zhixing said this, no one anymore guessed who transferred the large sum of money.

However, as the show aired, this number exploded on the Internet.

After all, even at some important moments, it is rare for less than ten artists to donate such a large amount.

This was originally a very good thing. At first, everyone was shocked by this number and gave thumbs up. However, after about a day or two, a voice suddenly emerged on the Internet, saying that these artists could easily donate more than 20 million yuan, and it was really unknown how rich they were.

High income is always one of the most sensitive topics among artists.

Fortunately, the group of people in "Young Days" are no longer at the stage where they worry about their public image being affected by the discussion of a few topics.

The discussions on the Internet were fine, but what Lu Yanhe didn't expect was that one day, Wang Biao actually heard some artists discussing that after the "Young Days" incident, those of them who usually only donated 20 or 50 yuan found it difficult to live.

Lu Yanhe subconsciously wanted to say, how can this make you feel difficult? But, thinking about it again, it is indeed too much to say that it has not caused such a burden to others. Just like Su Xiao, she said that she only transferred 20.

Not every artist can make money like Lu Yanhe and Li Zhibai.

Just like Liu Zhiyin, she is already a popular domestic star, but after deducting the company's share, the agent's commission, the team's salary, and the usual publicity and marketing expenses, in fact, Liu Zhiyin's income is far less than what many marketing accounts have calculated.

Even Lu Yanhe had never expected this.

Not to mention those artists who are not famous or only slightly famous.

but--

Chen Ziyan also said: "To be honest, Liu Zhiyin has made little money in the past two years, and there are special reasons for her. She has been performing on stage and making albums, which are demanding and she can't make ends meet. In addition, she has no other source of income. She usually plays guest roles in movies and basically has no pay. Her income basically comes from business and variety show pay. But she cherishes her feathers and doesn't take the real money-making business. She is all about maintaining her own value, which leads to her income being far lower than that of artists of the same level. After deducting those costs, she has indeed made less money in the past two years. But after these two years, her concert can really be opened in the form of a tour, and the resources on the business side will be opened. She doesn't even have to wait for two years to pass. She can start making money at any time if she wants to. Putting aside special cases like her, most unknown artists will not face the situation of being rolled up. Would you pay attention to whether an actor who can only play supporting roles in various crews donates money at some critical times?"

Lu Yanhe shook his head.

"That's exactly what happened." Chen Ziyan said, "Of course they will be attracted, but you didn't do this just to compete with each other. How should we talk about these things? If they feel they are being attracted, they can either get involved or ignore it. You are attracting them with the award for Best Actor. Do you want to give up your excellence just to make them feel comfortable?"

Lu Yanhe nodded: "You are right."

Chen Ziyan: "I am really shocked that you guys donated so much money this time."

"In fact, I didn't expect that in addition to Zhibai, Qin Zhibai should have donated a lot." Lu Yanhe said, "I didn't expect that the two of them would be the least scrupulous and donate the most."

"They are the two people among you who care the least about public opinion. Haven't you noticed?" Chen Ziyan sighed, "The growing environment really shapes everyone very differently. Sometimes, we have to admit that everyone starts from a completely different starting point."

Lu Yanhe: "But fortunately, God is fair. Although everyone starts from a different starting line, we can always choose to be whoever we want to be."

Chen Ziyan: "You guys from "Young Days" really impressed me this time."

"Don't talk about you, I'm shocked."
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No matter how loud the discussion was, no one came out to respond to the matter or mention it.

Slowly, the heat wore off.

After returning to China, Lu Yanhe caught up on the recently released movies. His daily activities basically consisted of meeting different friends to watch movies in the cinema or at home.

Not only can I meet up with friends I haven’t seen for a long time, but I can also catch up on the movies I need to watch.

With the end of the National Day holiday, the domestic film market has fallen into a cold period.

Basically, after watching a movie, if Lu Yanhe thinks it is good, he will share his movie-watching experience on his social media, and at the same time advertise the movie.

Of course, this means that every time he shares his work, he faces a lot of questions like “How dare you recommend such a bad movie?”

Lu Yanhe was too lazy to respond to such remarks.

Preferences and aesthetics are very personal things.

He just does things according to his own heart.

But in this world, there are always many people who question everyone they like just because they don’t like them, and even directly think “Are you blind?”

There is nothing to argue about with such people. Just let "summer insects cannot talk about ice". You go your way and I go mine. There is no need for anyone to convince anyone.

At this time, "Raise the Red Lantern" entered a period of intensive publicity.

Because it's coming out soon.

This movie, which won an award at the West Holland Film Festival last year, did not hold a large-scale premiere. It also did not hold some "celebrity screenings" or "famous people screenings" like many other movies, or get some "favorable recommendations" on social media.

Wang Zhong said in an interview: "This is a movie that doesn't need to be too lively. I am the director, Lu Yanhe is the screenwriter, and Chen Bige is the lead actor. If the three of us together can't directly attract the audience to go to the cinema to watch this movie, then our efforts would be in vain."

"Raise the Red Lantern" is indeed as Wang Zhong said, the promotion of the movie is basically focused on its expression of the theme, the quality of the film and the three main creators.

The distributor also said that the box office ceiling of this movie is already there, and there is no need to invest tens of millions more in publicity funds - even if the investment is made, it will not attract non-target audiences to buy tickets to watch the movie. It is a waste of money and obviously an unprofitable business.

However, the issuer has not been idle either.

It sent movie tickets to all the "movie-loving" celebrities and big Vs on the Internet, and sent an invitation letter, inviting them to watch the movie.

Someone said in a "joking" tone: "This is the first time I have received only a movie ticket and an invitation letter from the film company, no red envelopes, and no other souvenirs. However, such a simple and pure invitation actually made me feel relieved. I can watch this movie with peace of mind. After watching it, I will share my true feelings with you."

This is a masterpiece that is "humble" in form but attracts everyone's attention.

On an ordinary Friday, the first day of its release, the movie grossed 2420 million.

Immediately, an article titled "Lu Yanhe finally failed" was published.

(End of this chapter)