Actor: Thank you.

In early July, Zhang Yuan and his assistant flew to Hengdian Film and Television City.

He is very familiar with this place.

In other words, as long as they are popular artists, they are familiar.

The largest sub-scene in Hengdian Film and Television City is the nationally renowned palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

This place was completely completed at the end of last year.

And the first construction date was 1998!
The entire Forbidden City is restored here at a 1:1 scale.

Only Tiananmen Square was reduced by 20%, while the rest were all rebuilt according to the original site of the imperial capital.

Outside the Qing Palace.

There are also replicas of palaces from the Ming, Tang and Song dynasties.

Ever since the filming of "The Last Emperor" in 86, the state has introduced regulations to no longer allow any film crew to enter the Forbidden City for filming.

Later, any commercial photography was even banned in order to protect the cultural relics.

Of course, if you have strong connections, even if you can't make a movie, you can still drive a G-Class around in there for a few laps...

In short, since this regulation was issued, the Hengdian government quickly approved more than 1500 acres of land for the construction of Ming and Qing palaces!

The main palace scene of Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower" was also set here.

"Brother Yuan, I found an agent and asked." Zhao Xinxin was holding a stack of brochures.

"The high-end buildings near the film and television city are around 3,000."

"The best villa costs 6,100 yuan per square meter."

Zhang Yuan thought, he has been to Hengdian several times, why not buy some houses?

"Forget about the villa." Zhang Yuan waved his hand.

After all, Hengdian is actually a "big factory" and celebrities all come here to work.

Working all day, how can I have the time to live in a villa and enjoy life?

I will definitely choose a high-end residential community with top-notch privacy, services and properties.

"The area is 120 to 180 square meters."

"The price of one set is four or five hundred thousand..."

Zhang Yuan was thinking, should I buy a building and wait for it to appreciate in value, and by the way, I can rent it out to various actors and earn some rent.

Forget it, let’s not waste money. It’s better to buy a house in the capital or Shanghai instead of spending the money here.

When I become big, someone in Hengdian will give me a house.

Didn’t Feng Xiaogang just buy a villa in Anji?

He led his assistant into the completed "Curse of the Golden Flower" park.

Entering from the back door and as soon as he arrived at the huge square, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but let out a sigh.

"It has to be Lao Mouzi!"

Wang Shuo, the capital's number one troll, once said.

"Zhang Yimou is just a decorator!"

Seeing this magnificent and majestic Tang-style scenery, I have to say that what Wang Shuo said makes sense.

When it comes to “decoration”, Zhang Yimou is really good at it.

It is also a costume blockbuster.

Look at poet Chen. His works are neither as depressing and deep as "The Emperor and the Assassin", nor as colorful as "The Promise".

Only Zhang Yimou's "Hero" uses colors in a steady and bold way.

The cost is 3.6 million!
I can shoot three "The Banquet".

This investment sounds scary, but when you are really in this magnificent scene, you will feel that the money is well spent.

This is also why, even though the "Athens Eight Minutes" was criticized so much, the General Administration of Sports still chose Zhang Yimou as the chief director of the opening ceremony of the 08 Olympic Games.

Who else would I be!

There is no one else in China who can do this job.

But there are many big directors participating in the election.

The most famous one is Chen Kaige.

This is where his reputation as a poet came from.

"I heard that Jibei was taken back from outside the city. When I first heard it, my clothes were soaked with tears."

The people on the organizing committee were stunned on the spot.

We asked you to submit a proposal, not to recite a poem to express your excitement.

And what do you mean by reading this poem?
The background of the creation of this poem was that Du Fu was extremely happy when he suddenly heard that the Anshi Rebellion was over.

Are you comparing the previous failed bids for the Olympics to the An-Shi Rebellion?
Who are you mocking?
This was shot.

Now Zhang Yuan can't bear to listen to the song "Hearing the Government Troops Retaking Henan and Hebei".

Du Fu even wanted to open the coffin and slap poet Chen twice.

Ang Lee brought in Lin Ying, Lin Huiyin's niece, and Jacob Turner, the chief designer of the Atlanta Olympics.

But when the people from the General Administration of Sports took a look, they thought Ang Lee's plan was good.

But none of the helpers they found were Chinese, and Lin Ying was also an American.

Li Ang himself has dual citizenship of mainland China and Taiwan, and also holds a green card from the Beacon Country. A whole wall is not enough for him to ride on.

And look at his resume: The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman, Brokeback Mountain, Lust, Caution...

Director Li likes to talk about taboo topics, especially forbidden love.

This person is good at studying niche topics and amplifying and presenting them in an extremely delicate manner.

In general, he is a director dominated by emotions and is not suitable for large-scale scenes.

In the end, it was Zhang Yimou who came with two carts of drawings and an extremely detailed design plan, and explained it clearly to the members of the organizing committee.

It’s not that Zhang Yimou is so good, it’s that the remaining people are really not cut out for this job.

At least Zhang Yimou understood what he was doing and how to do it, but most of the others were confused and did not meet the expectations of their superiors at all.

And Lao Mouzi has an amazing talent, that is, like Chen Long, he possesses amazing energy and physical fitness!

This guy was doing both. He was preparing for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games and filming "Curse of the Golden Flower" at the same time!

Zhang Yuan just arrived, but the filming at Wulong Tiankeng had already been going on for several months.

When they were filming the scene where a killer descended from the sky and hunted down the imperial physician's family in the hospital, Zhang Yimou specially invited leaders from the General Administration of Sports to watch.

Just to show off my scheduling and directing abilities.

The people from the General Administration of Sports were very satisfied after watching it.

At the same time, I also came to Hengdian with Zhang Yimou to discuss the next plan.

At the same time, Zhang Yimou also told the leader that there is a larger dispatching scene in Hengdian, which can be visited for reference when the time comes.

What he was talking about was the scene of the golden armored soldiers attacking the city.

That's thousands of people being dispatched at the same time!

It can basically be viewed as a preview of the Olympic opening ceremony.

There's no need to shoot. Zhang Yuan gets a splitting headache and his brain is about to explode just thinking about controlling thousands of extras, wearing armor, shouting slogans, and charging forward in unison.

Others really don’t dare to play like this.

Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da... Zhang Yuan was leading his assistant to visit the scene when the sound of horse hooves came from behind him.

Horses are dangerous. When Zhang Yuan heard the sound, he quickly turned his head and took two steps to the side.

Only then did he see a squinty-eyed man, accompanied by an equestrian, walking slowly towards him.

"86 is going up the mountain..." Zhang Yuan muttered to himself when he saw this.

Then he greeted him with a smile.

"Hold... hold... my horse."

Jay Chou took a big step and stepped on the horse under the stirrup.

He landed carefully and swayed a few steps after stepping on the ground.

Looking at him like that, Zhang Yuan knew that this guy hadn't practiced it yet.

Pa pa pa... Jay Chou hugged him and patted his back a few times.

"long time no see!"

"I just saw it last time in the Magic City." Zhang Yuan smiled and walked forward with him to the temporary room built next to the scene.

That's where the director's crew and rest area are located.

"It's not been long, but one should look at others with new eyes after three days of absence." Jay Chou also glanced at the lyrics.

Do you want to be a poet too?

Zhang Yuan complained in his heart and then said.

"You mean, you are very powerful now."

"Let me not underestimate you?"

“Hehehe…” But Jay Chou smiled with his signature pursed lips.

"You're wrong. I mean, I should look at you with a new eye."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Yuan felt puzzled.

"I didn't expect you could play the piano."

"When we were filming Initial D, you didn't show me your skills."

Zhang Yuan touched his chin and said, "You know that I can play the piano?"

"Hahaha, not only do I know this, the whole country should know it now!"

Following him to the dedicated rest area, the man opened his laptop and played a video for Zhang Yuan.

Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump…

Zhang Yuan: …

Who the hell posted the video of me playing Pleasant Goat in a piano store online!
Please respect my personal privacy!
Zhang Yuan's face was as dark as the conscience of a capitalist, while Jay Chou, who was standing next to him, hugged his shoulders and laughed.

"I don't even know how to play the piece you're playing. It must be very difficult!"

"It's as high as three or four floors!" Zhang Yuan didn't have time to pay attention to him.

If everyone saw this, where would my Yang Guo's face be?

He quickly took the computer and started searching.

The result left him speechless.

"so cute!"

Zhang Yuan: …

He looked at the comments in the forum and was completely speechless.

“He plays it pretty well.”

"I am a Grade 10 piano player. I don't know this piece, so Zhang Yuan's level is higher than mine!"

"The piano that Zhang Yuan plays is a million-dollar Steinway flagship. I never thought that the music from Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf could be played on such an expensive piano."

"Zhang Yuan shouldn't be playing the Steinway. He should be playing the Japanese piano next to him. The brand is called Kawai, which means cute in Japanese."

Zhang Yuan didn't expect that he would actually open up a new track... What a cute contrast.

Just like Tengger's singing of "Learn to Meow" in later generations, people not only don't hate it, but also love it very much.

Jiao Enjun doesn't dislike people even though he speaks Shandong dialect.

People ridiculed his playing of nursery rhymes, but it actually reinforced his down-to-earth image.

This sense of contrast is very rare in this era.

Who could stand Yang Guo's serious and deep look, and his counterattack of "Don't look at me as just a sheep"?

What's more, someone made a sneak shot of Zhang Yuan's footage online into an emoticon picture and posted it under the video of him playing the piano.

"I'll beat your lungs out!"

When Zhang Yuan saw it, he thought to himself, this guy is truly a genius and he perfectly expressed my current mood.

Up to this point, it’s actually not that bad. It’s just some internet geeks and his own fans posting pictures and videos for fun.

It won't cause much trouble.

But soon something went wrong.

Because someone discovered...

"Hey, this theme song of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf was sung by our Little Dragon Girl!"

“Now Yang Guo is playing it himself again… Could it be that this is a confession?”

"Confessing your love with a song is so romantic!"

"I love it, I really love this way of confession."

"Someone, please bring me some insulin. It's too sweet. I can't stand it..."

There was a wave of romance rumors between them when they were in Hong Kong before, and now it has been brought up again.

In fact, there is still room for easing the situation at this point, so just handle it in a low-key manner.

But who would have thought that Liu Xixi went to see "Crazy Stone" with her mother, and was photographed at the entrance of the cinema.

This is even more serious.

One played a song sung by the other, and the other went to support the movie starring the other.

Netizens love to make associations, so this matter immediately became a minor hit.

The power of spontaneous circulation is limited. After all, there was no Weibo or Xiaohongshu in those days, and the power of online communication was far less than that of later generations.

But I’m afraid someone will help hype it up!
The previous news in Hong Kong was hyped by the bearded man.

Now he looked.

"Yo ho!"

"This is a rumor that just came to my doorstep. I would be doing myself a disservice if I didn't hype it up!"

They were already warming up for the broadcast of The Return of the Condor Heroes in Hong Kong and Taiwan, so how could he miss this unexpected topic?
I'll immediately find some online trolls to start forwarding the message.

The Long Yang CP is getting hyped!
It would be fine if the bearded man was just hyping things up, Zhang Yuan was already used to it.

But at this time, another person jumped out.

Lei Yin: It’s a deal, double happiness!
After seeing the video of Zhang Yuan playing Pleasant Goat, the director of Golden Eagle Cartoon, who had just spent a lot of money to buy the animation, immediately decided to hype it up.

It will just increase the popularity of the animation, which will definitely be beneficial for the station's investment attraction.

In this way, Zhang Yuan was put in the spotlight.

He quickly called Liu Qianqian.

I want to ask them what they think.

After all, the scandal is not just his.

result……

"My godfather plans to arrange for me to release a single CD of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. He said that this animation is very popular and has a lot of buzz, which will help my music career."

Zhang Yuan: …

Okay, okay, you all choose to grab it while it’s still hot, right?

I can be the only one to pick them all!
It also helps with music career...you didn't say that before.

I also think nursery rhymes are too childish.

Zhang Yuan lay down and let himself be fucked.

"Zhang Yuan, I'm going to graduate in a few days. Will you come to my graduation ceremony?" Xiao Longnu was not affected by the love rumors on the Internet at all.

It’s okay for others, but as for him... I enjoy it!

"Uh, I'm filming on the set." Zhang Yuan rubbed his eyebrows.

"I guess I can't run away. We'll see when the time comes."

"Oh..." The girl's disappointed voice came from the other side of the phone.

Throwing down his phone, Zhang Yuan felt a headache.

"You must be careful next time."

"With my current popularity and fame, people are taking pictures everywhere."

"You never know, I might get cyberbullied one day."

He thought, that's all.

It's just right to hide in the crew for a few months and wait for the heat to pass.

He was just planning to stay at home for the winter when Ning Hao suddenly called him.

"Zhang Yuan!"

"Brother Yuan!"

"Please take my knee off!"

"Your move of getting involved in the game yourself is the greatest publicity I have ever seen in my 10 years of working in this industry!"

"Internet users are buying tickets one after another, and our box office is going crazy!"

Zhang Yuan was stunned for a moment and didn't understand.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

Ning Hao was extremely excited.

"I really didn't expect it. Blame it on me!"

"I'm stupid!"

"You were so calm before, you must have thought of a way long ago, I didn't even see it!"

[Received thanks from Ning Hao, +1 for understanding the script! ]

"I never thought that you could use this popular cartoon to hype yourself up."

"The result immediately aroused the enthusiasm of the audience."

"Now everyone who goes to the cinema to watch Crazy Stone is there for you!"

"It's high. It's high."

"Too high!"

Zhang Yuan's face was full of black lines.

Was that my doing?

But then he thought of the hype methods used in later movies.

A billion-level movie can sell more than 3 billion at the box office through publicity.

Promotional expenses can even account for half of the total cost!
The two people who are best at this are Chen Sicheng and Jia Lin.

Anyway, as long as it can increase exposure and boost box office, these film and television people will do anything.

CP hype has become a standard practice.

Speculating on marriage and divorce.

Even plagiarism is a hype point.

I'm not afraid of being scolded, I'm just afraid that no one will pay attention to me.

He didn't expect that just by trying out the piano, he would become a "hot search".

"Zhang Yuan, now that you have made a move, our film has withstood the pressure from Superman Returns."

"This is all thanks to you."

Zhang Yuan smacked his lips a few times, not knowing how to start.

His original idea was to make as much money as possible during the more than a week before "Superman Returns" was released.

The combined box office of 2500 million for the first weekend and the first week was in line with, or even slightly exceeded, his expectations.

But he thought that compared with Hollywood blockbusters, the box office of "Crazy Stone" in its second week would probably be halved.

So his box office expectation for this film is around 4000 million.

The investment-to-box office ratio is more than 10 times, which is already amazing.

But if it's like this now...it might be more than that. (End of this chapter)