Coquettish Rebirth

Li An looked at Jia Hongjian in amazement at this time, "Mr. Jia, this story...you really came up with it yourself?" But in the end, I don’t really know how to write my name in the film, at most it’s just a producer’s name, so there’s no impostor, right?” Who knew that Jia Hongjian said so sincerely .

Hearing what Jia Hongjian said, Li Anna looked at Jia Hongjian at that time, it was like looking at an alien!Ang Lee graduated from New York University with a master's degree in film at the age of 30. He squatted at home for 6 years and came out to find opportunities to make movies when he was 36 years old. Then he was still living on soft food and relying on his wife for the previous 6 years.After reaching the age of 36, even though he has come out to work, he cannot be said to be earning a lot of money. He himself shoots low-budget literary films, and some of them require an investment of US$200 million or even less. Just get a little money.

He is still a film major!As for Mr. Jia, not to mention his young age in his early 20s, the old Duan said that Huaxia High-Tech's net worth of tens of billions of dollars is basically earned by this little Mr. Jia in front of him—that's right!Unlike ordinary people who understand that Jia Hongjian is the rich second generation, Duan Zhongyi knows that Jia Hongjian is the main supporter of this company!

So in Ang Li's view, this Jia Hongjian is a genius in business, and at a young age, he has made money that he could never make in his life, and now he can come up with a super movie idea casually!This kind of creativity is rooted in traditional Chinese culture, and can also be in line with the characteristics of Hollywood!It can be said that Ang Lee can already feel it.If this movie is really made, it might be really popular and popular!Your sister, what is the origin of this Jia Hongjian?Not to mention making money, and having never studied film, you can come up with such a good movie idea just by thinking about it casually?Compared with him, isn't Li An himself a waste?Old and big-headed and inflexible, I have been working and making movies for almost ten years, and I am only a little famous... It's like living a dog's age!

Of course Jia Hung-chien sensed Li An's thoughts, but he didn't come here to pretend to be aggressive or to beat Li An. He really wanted to talk about something.so what.He directly interrupted Li An's thoughts. "Old Li, how are you? If you were to make this movie, how would you make it?" "Me?" Li An was indeed attracted by Jia Hongjian's words!Jia Hongjian asked him what this sentence meant?Li An couldn't help thinking.Is this to give him a chance to shoot?This counts as an interview?Or is it just a simple question?Anyway.He is going to answer well now!So after thinking about it.He replied very seriously: "If I were to shoot... such a story would have a... so-called small... small freshness on the surface? A small fresh story, and then there must be a cruel truth underneath the story. Then when filming, we must try our best to cover up the cruel truth...but we must leave some clues, so that the audience must go back to the second story. When they suddenly wake up, and then compare it with the previous plot, then Found that we have left a lot of evidence!"

As Li An talked, he began to use his master's degree in literary and youth film!And the more I talked, the more I devoted myself, and the more I talked, the deeper I thought! "First of all, since the previous first story, Mr. Jia's statement is Xiaoqing, then we will shoot Xiaoqing, then try not to let the protagonist, Master Sanzang, show cruelty...even angry scenes, We should try our best to let him appear as a good person, a thoroughly good person. Bad things are naturally done by Monkey King, and lust is Zhu Bajie... Then we have to paint the overall environment and the color of the camera beautifully, even the beauty is a little distorted , It's a bit like a dream! Only in this way can we use such a dream-like environment to hint to the audience that the story depicted is actually a beautiful dream..."

Whoops I'm going!At this time, Jia Hongjian was really convinced!According to Li An, they all came from majors!Although I have just become famous after stumbling in the past ten years, I have watched so many movies over the years, and I have had so many professional educations, so I can immediately grasp the key points of a movie!If this story is replaced by Youth Pi, then Ang Lee has set the tone of the whole film in an instant!

Like what Ang Lee said, the whole environment should be beautiful, like a dream, which obviously requires the operation of the camera and even various special effects!It can be said that at least at the level of the core concept, Ang Lee has realized what a film like Youth Pi needs to do.Of course, knowing what needs to be done and being able to do it are two different things - just like people, knowing what to do is not the same as being able to do it.Even playing games is the same sometimes, sometimes not enough proficiency, the brain clearly knows what to do, but I just can't do it with my handicap!This has to be practiced many times and then the familiarity is the same as instinct, so that it can be done directly!

From this point of view, the current Ang Lee is a producer or something, helping Jia Hongjian to keep an eye on the core points of this film, that is qualified.But if Ang Lee were to be a director and shoot this film himself, no one would know whether he would grasp the boundary between art and commerce, and he would only understand it when he got started!

While Jia Hongjian was thinking, Li An continued to say: "Hiss... If we continue to follow this setting, then in the film, Tang Seng must treat Sun Monkey and Zhu Bajie have a strong sense of disgust... No, no! Disgust is not enough... Tang Seng can drive Sun Monkey and the others away with only disgust! But if you add Sun Monkey to drive away Sun in such a scene It seems a bit procrastinating for Zhu Bajie to go to Huaguo Mountain to find someone for the monkey and other plots... Then, can it be adapted so that Sun Hou and Zhu Bajie become a kind of tyrannical existence, Tang Seng wants to drive away They, but they really can’t run away! In other words, Sun Hou and Zhu Bajie are like ghosts, they only appear sometimes? For example, when Tang Seng is in trouble, Sun Hou’er will come out? But usually Sun Hou Not here..."

As soon as he heard this at the time, Jia Hongjian immediately noticed that Li An was a little immature - like what he said just now, it was a bit deep for the sake of being deep.For example, in the movie "Youth Pi", did Ang Lee later design the tiger for a while and then disappear?If you are absent for a while, although on the surface, it will make movie critics realize that this thing is a "stream of consciousness", realize that the tiger is fictional, and then understand that the tiger is actually just a virtual thing, just an attack The representative of sexual "beast nature".But film critics understood it all at once, but ordinary audiences who went to the movies without their heads might not understand it!Maybe when film critics have already seen through it, ordinary viewers still think this is your sister's mess. Why do you have tigers and no tigers for a while?This movie is so fake!Then in this way, on the one hand, it will not cover the second story below the first story, and on the other hand, it will not be able to fool the uninformed audience with a superficially perfect first story!This is a bit too much thinking about literature and art and showing off skills, and the result is a bit self-defeating and a bit ingenious!

But soon, Li An seemed to have discovered this himself, "No, this is still not a perfect way to express the first layer of the story, and there is no way to cause a big reversal at the end...We should try our best to let the other few The characters exist for a long time, so that the second layer of story can be covered...then it is necessary to design a scene, a scene where he has to go to the west with these monster-like apprentices, and the first layer of the story must be described a little It's a bit logical, after all, according to the story, the first story is meant to be spread and widely circulated... Is it really necessary to let the Bodhisattva appear? Let the Bodhisattva forcefully arrange a few apprentices for Tang Seng?"

As he spoke, Li An fell into a state of talking to himself. At this time, he seemed to have no time to care about the outside world at all, and his whole energy was concentrated and he began to think about the plot.Looking at Li An like this, to be honest, Jia Hongjian gained some confidence. At least seeing Li An's dedication and self-examination spirit, he can at least find out where he made a mistake... Hey, otherwise this story will be handed over. Shoot him?And then have Spielberg come in and help out with the occasional guide?No... There are still potential problems with the schedule, so I still have to go back north to see how Jiang Wen is doing!If Jiang Wen's overall performance is passable, it's really better to let Jiang Wen take the filming.Anyway, Ang Lee and Jiang Wen are both Chinese, so whoever is famous at the Oscars in the future is not the same?

Thinking about it, Jia Hongjian also fell into deep thought.On the third day after signing the contract here, Jia Hongjian took a private plane and left Dawan. Before he left, Li An asked for his fax machine number and email address.Li An said that later he came up with a more detailed story structure, and he would write it out and send it to Jia Hongjian.Ang Lee himself has screenwriting skills, so it's no problem to come up with a general framework.From this point of view, we can also see Li An's intentions, and we can also see that Li An also wants to make such a movie... So, should we give him this opportunity?All of this will have to wait until Jia Hongjian returns to Shanghai to interview Jiang Wen and see how Jiang Wen responds... (to be continued...)