Choose a day to become famous

"Things didn't develop as you thought. You can't blame me. I've done what I should do."

After sending Chen Siqi away, An Jian sat alone in the room for a long time.

It was his wife who knocked on the door and asked him if he wanted to have dinner, so he came out to have dinner with his family.

After dinner, his youngest daughter pestered him to tell stories.

His wife saw that he was worried, and she also knew that he had encountered something recently.

After returning from the "Silent Stairs" crew "due to illness", An Jian basically locked himself in his room, rarely leaving the room, and never leaving the house.

It wasn't until nine o'clock in the evening that he received the call.

"Lu Yanhe did not take over the director's position as you thought, and this is beyond my control."

"Of course, but you can still stand up and accuse Lu Yanhe. The reason why you left the crew of "Silent Stairs" was because he had a disagreement with you, so he kicked you out of the crew."

"That's not what we said before, and besides, I can't do such a thing!"

"We never thought that Lu Yanhe would not take over." The other party smiled, "An Jian, you know what you did back then. You have done even more disgusting things than this. Why are you pretending to be me?" Ben Chunliang’?”

An Jian was furious and said, "I just used Xin Siyang's script idea. Were there few such things in the industry at that time?"

"There are many such things in the industry, but Xin Siyang committed suicide."

"His suicide had nothing to do with me. He had suffered from depression for a long time."

"How do you know it has nothing to do with you?" The other party's tone was full of threats, "Maybe it's because you stole his screenwriting ideas and became the last straw for him?"

An Jian glared angrily.

"We already agreed at the beginning that I would resign as the director of "The Silent Staircase", and you will no longer threaten me with this matter!"

"Director An, why are you so naive?"

An Jian smiled.

"Over the years, if we hadn't been providing you with some jobs, what would you have done to support your family?" the person on the other end of the phone said, "with your two TV series that no one has watched and that copied other people's scripts?"

An Jian's face turned completely dark.

"Indeed, one thing you said is right."

"Um?"

"Why do you think I'm so naive?" An Jian put away the anger on his face, "Chairman Huang, if you want to continue to threaten me with what happened in the past, then let's see who has more information. ruthless."

There was sudden silence on the other end of the phone.

An Jian stood in front of the window, looking at the dark night outside the window.

A cold light reflected from the window fell on his face.

Indifference, perseverance.

"I have fulfilled my promise. If you want others to see how you treat your promise, let's try it."

After An Jian said these words, he simply hung up the phone.

He stood there for several more seconds before coming back to his senses and letting out a long breath.

A cold sweat broke down my back.

"Dong dong", his wife knocked on the door again.

An Jian walked over and opened the door.

"Are you okay?" His wife looked at him worriedly and asked, "I made soy milk."

An Jian took the cup and smiled at his wife.

"The matter is over, let's watch TV together for a while."

His wife's eyes, which were still a little worried, immediately lit up.

"Okay, what are you looking at?"

"Isn't today Sunday? It should be playing at Jump Up Theater, right? Do you want to watch it?"

"OK."

There was a little more excitement in the voice.

-

On the day Lu Yanhe set out for Malaysia, it rained heavily.

Initially, he thought the flight would be delayed. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the airport, the heavy rain stopped and the plane could take off on time.

He had just finished shooting a drama that only took a week to shoot, and now he was going to shoot a movie that he only had a week to shoot.

Lu Yanhe always knew that the filming time for the film and television projects he participated in was relatively short, but he did not expect that it would become shorter and shorter.

Wang Biao joked, "This time I join the group, and it feels like it only takes as long as attending an event."

Usually when Lu Yanhe joins the team, he has four or five suitcases filled with all kinds of things needed for food, clothing, housing and transportation.

But this time, Lu Yanhe brought a large suitcase, daily changes of clothes and toiletries.

However, Huang Tianlin originally hoped that Lu Yanhe could provide more shooting time.

But Wang Biao disagreed when communicating with them.

Because Lu Yanhe only has a few scenes in the script, there is not such a large amount of filming.

If the filming is really not finished, then it can be postponed.

If more shooting time was given directly, then maybe Huang Tianlin would shoot other scenes in between, leaving Lu Yanhe waiting all the time.

Wang Biao did this to ensure that Lu Yanhe’s work would not be neglected——

Although it seems difficult to imagine that there are still people who would neglect Lu Yanhe in the field of film and television drama work.

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In fact, Huang Tianlin also had complicated feelings towards Lu Yanhe.

If he said he didn't want to cooperate with Lu Yanhe, it would be absolutely false.

There is no director in the world who wouldn't want to work with an actor like Lu Yanhe.

However, since it was confirmed that Lu Yanhe would participate in the film, his producers and investors have all shown a fanatical attitude of "promise to Lu Yanhe whatever he wants."

This made Huang Tianlin feel very uncomfortable.

Not only did he feel that his authority as a director had been undermined, but more importantly, he felt a sense of unease.

It's like, because of Lu Yanhe's participation in this work, its focus suddenly fell on Lu Yanhe.

Neither the director nor the movie itself matters.

-

Filming on Tropicana has been underway for some time.

The filming of this movie was quite difficult.

Huang Tianlin is a person who has very high visual requirements for movies.

For one shot, he could make the whole crew wait for four or five hours for daylight, just to wait until the light in the shot achieves the "moist feeling" he wants.

Because the last film was shortlisted for the Toronto International Film Festival, and this film also stars Lu Yanhe, he has sufficient funds for the production of this film.

If he wanted to, he could even take his time filming for four or five months.

Huang Tianlin himself is not a director willing to shoot in a very industrial style. Why must we finish filming this or that scene today——

His planning is not that strong. Many times, the shooting plan just helps him figure out what scenes he needs to shoot.

Many times, he would even change the content of the original script when he got to the scene.

Therefore, he originally hoped that Lu Yanhe could give him more time.

Although the character played by Lu Yanhe doesn't appear much, every scene is exciting and drives the climax of the movie's story.

The more emotional and tense the drama, the more he hopes to get every detail right.

However, Lu Yanhe's team was only willing to sign a one-week performance contract no matter what.

Huang Tianlin was very angry.

Even if his producer said: "No famous actor can give you a long time to make your arrangements. For an actor like Lu Yanhe, if there are only a few scenes in your script, he can give you a week." That’s all good. Don’t forget, we don’t have much money to pay him.”

Huang Tianlin lost his temper again and said, "Then he shouldn't come to act!"

Producer: "If he doesn't come to act, where are you going to send your movie? You don't want your movie to go to the top four international destinations? Are you going to go to Toronto next? Or where else? To Tokyo or Busan?"

Huang Tianlin was silent.

"Tianlin, don't lose an extremely precious opportunity because of your arrogance."

"Your attitude towards him makes me feel that this movie no longer belongs to me, I am just his servant."

"No, it's not that you are his servant, but that he is your nobleman. I'm not saying that you should be grateful, but don't resist, don't reject him because of your pride, okay?" the producer said, " You are a director with unparalleled talent, and you deserve to be on a bigger stage, but you need a chance to be seen, and Lu Yanhe is your chance."

Huang Tianlin had a stern look on his face.

The producer patted him on the shoulder.

"Lu Yanhe will be on the set soon, please think about it carefully."

"Brother Hai, why did you help me make my first movie?" Huang Tianlin suddenly asked.

Yuan Hai smiled and said, "I told you that you have the talent to make movies, so I am willing to help you make movies."

-

Yuan Hai still remembers the day he discovered Huang Tianlin. Looking back, it was a bit like a comic book or a movie or TV drama.

It was at a venture capital meeting.

It is the job of all producers to go to venture capital, especially independent producers like Yuan Hai.

He does not work for a large film company, but relies on the contacts and resources he has accumulated in this industry to work on projects one by one.

After finding a good project, I started to contact various film companies to obtain filming funds, find a director, and prepare a filming team.

There are actually many producers like Yuan Hai around the world.

The first thing Yuan Hai heard from Huang Tianlin was that he said angrily to another person: "You didn't understand what my script was about at all!"

Because Huang Tianlin spoke in Chinese, Yuan Hai took another look.

He saw a young, green face full of anger and dissatisfaction.

Faces like this are not uncommon at venture capital meetings.

Yuan Hai was ready to leave.

Suddenly, he heard the man standing opposite Huang Tianlin say in a condescending and sarcastic tone with utmost contempt: "Who do you think you are? Your script is rubbish. I can't even understand it. Why do you think others can understand? I don't know how many young people like you who think you are talented every year. You are arrogant and narcissistic. You don't know that what you have is not talent at all, but cynicism. "

Huang Tianlin's face turned red, and many people around him looked at them.

At that moment, Yuan Hai looked at Huang Tianlin and sighed softly in his heart.

Because he also came from the stage of a young man, he also experienced being ridiculed, ridiculed and laughed at in person. At that moment, Yuan Hai walked over.

"You have a script, right? Why don't you show it to me?"

Originally, Yuan Hai just wanted to help Huang Tianlin out of trouble.

When Huang Tianlin heard his words, he turned his head in disbelief.

His eyes were so bright, as if a flame suddenly burned.

Yuan Hai was thinking at that time that this young man was a little different from the people he usually saw who had little talent.

With some people, you only need one glance, a chance encounter, and you will know that he may not be very eye-catching, but he is an artist who is incompatible with his surroundings.

If you weren't someone who was out of tune with this world, you wouldn't have those blazing eyes like a lion.

Looking at the scripts he wrote, they are crude and contain a lot of expressions such as "walking flames" and "silent boulders" that cannot be transformed into images.

However, Yuan Hai felt something vigorous, fresh, and ready to come out from his script.

Therefore, he began his first cooperation with Huang Tianlin.

-

"Hello Yan He, we finally met. The last time you came to Malaysia, I was not there and you happened to go to Paris."

Yuan Hai personally picked up Lu Yanhe at the airport.

He was enthusiastic and very polite to Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe smiled, shook hands with Yuan Hai, and said, "Hello, Mr. Yuan."

Yuan Hai was wearing a T-shirt and jeans, unlike producers from big studios who wore suits and ties.

"Director Huang is filming on site, so he can't come with me to pick you up." Yuan Hai said with a smile, "We have been waiting for you to come over."

Lu Yanhe smiled.

Judging from the last time he dealt with Huang Tianlin, he might not be so eagerly waiting for him to come over.

"I have wanted to come over for a long time. I originally wanted to come over a few days in advance to familiarize myself with the crew, but I took over a drama not long ago. I just left the crew, plus some other unfinished work. Until It was just finished yesterday." Lu Yanhe asked, "Mr. Yuan, how long do you plan to shoot "Tropical Rainy Season" this time?

Yuan Hai said: "It is expected to take about 120 days to shoot. According to the current progress, it may take a few more days."

Lu Yanhe was quite surprised when he heard this.

Mainly because except for "Fire", Lu Yanhe has basically never made a movie that took more than two months to shoot.

"Tropical Rain" doesn't seem to be the kind of movie with multiple scenes and complex scheduling. Why does it take so long?

Before, Lu Yanhe only looked at how long he had to shoot, and didn't care too much about the shooting time of the entire movie.

Yuan Hai: "Because Director Huang has very high requirements for polishing every shot. He often shoots for five or six hours for one shot."

Lu Yanhe was even more surprised when he heard this.

Yuan Hai got into the car with Lu Yanhe and sat in the back with him.

He took out a tablet and handed it to Lu Yanhe.

"This is some footage we have already shot, you can take a look."

Lu Yanhe took the tablet and put on the headphones.

After seeing this, he realized why it took Huang Tianlin so long to make such a movie.

What is the texture of a movie's photography and visuals? Every frame is annotated.

In the materials that have been shot for "Tropical Rainy Season", every shot and every person has a very high-end and delicate texture.

The texture of this picture reminded Lu Yanhe of the King of Sunglasses. He is also a director whose personal style can be clearly identified just by looking at the camera. Of course, the picture of "Tropical Rain" is not the same as his style. In fact, it is more like the softness of Japanese movies combined with the literature and freshness of Wes Anderson, presenting a delicate feeling like a still life oil painting. .

The children in the material have a large number of shots taken from various angles, from top to bottom shots from the stair railings, side shots from other people's perspectives, close-ups from the reflection of the glass... Different shots make up a story with different characteristics. Side, a child with a sense of secrets and stories.

And it can make a child feel like this——

Lu Yanhe felt it was amazing.

After all, children are often the cleanest and most easily seen people on screen.

After Lu Yanhe finished watching, he took off his headphones, smiled at Yuan Hai, and said, "No wonder it takes so long to shoot. These lights... all look like natural light?"

The light and shadow effects reflected by natural light and artificial light are very different.

Lu Yanhe will always remember watching "The Revenant" starring Leonardo DiCaprio. How good that movie was and how amazing DiCaprio was in acting. He actually doesn't have much of an impression, but he remembers the true feelings that movie brought to him. The scenery is like a high-magnification documentary, and the breath you exhale seems to be so real that it hits your face, the tranquility, blue, leaden gray and tongues of fire in the true natural state.

"Director Huang's last movie didn't seem to adopt such a demanding lens language." Lu Yanhe said.

Yuan Hai: "For the last movie, we only raised 200,000 US dollars to shoot that movie. For this movie, we got more production funds."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

Just like a chef's cooking skills also depend on the quality of the ingredients, a director's talent and skills also depend on whether he has the money to realize them.

Yuan Hai asked: "Yan He, after you finish filming this movie, do you have any other work arrangements?"

Lu Yanhe said: "There are some projects that are being connected. I have to ask them for details."

He motioned to Wang Biao, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

"My job is to connect with them, and I don't even know it very well."

Yuan Hai: "Okay, if you have time after the filming, please give me a chance to take you around Malaysia."

Lu Yanhe said with a smile: "Mr. Yuan, you don't have to be so polite. After I finish filming, the crew should still have many more scenes to shoot, right?"

"Yes." Yuan Hai nodded, "But it's still okay to spare two or three days."

"I don't dare. If you have time then, Mr. Yuan, just tell me which places are worth visiting. The crew is busy filming."

They were both polite to each other.

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At first, the script of "Tropical Rainforest" was sent to Lu Yanhe, and it was chosen by Chen Ziyan, and it was written by Yuan Hai.

Chen Ziyan wanted a script for an art film. When Yuan Hai heard the news, he actively used people he knew to make a connection.

So, this cooperation came about.

Yuan Hai was very positive about cooperating with Lu Yanhe.

Although Huang Tianlin had always been a little self-esteem-driven and had a lukewarm attitude towards Lu Yanhe, Yuan Hai showed great enthusiasm and welcome to Lu Yanhe from beginning to end.

All the way to the vicinity of the filming location.

Yuan Hai first took them to the place where they stayed.

The filming location was a remote village.

"There are no good hotels nearby." Yuan Hai took Lu Yanhe and the others out of the car, and in front of them was a very beautiful building with a courtyard, "This is my friend's house, and someone has been hired to clean it. You can live here during this period."

Lu Yanhe walked in with some surprise.

He didn't expect that in such a remote filming location far away from the city, there was actually a log-style building that looked newly built.

"Thank you." He said to Yuan Hai, "Can we use any room here?"

"Yes." Yuan Hai nodded, "But it's only on the first floor. The rooms on the second and third floors are locked."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"The environment here is really nice, thank you."

Yuan Hai: "I hope you will enjoy your filming here."

Yuan Hai took Lu Yanhe around the house.

"Your friend must be very rich. He built such a building, but he doesn't seem to have lived here much."

There are few signs of life in the house. It has all kinds of equipment and is very complete, but there are not many signs of use.

Yuan Hai chuckled, "He flies all over the world and rarely has time to stay in one place. This house was a sudden idea of ​​his one year. He thought he could live here after retirement, so he started to build it."

"Then does he mind if I move in?"

"He doesn't mind. On the contrary, he welcomes it very much." Yuan Hai said, "He has seen your movie, so he agreed to my request immediately. If you live here, it will only take us about 30 minutes to go to the shooting location every day. If you live in the city, it will take an hour and a half one way."

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"It's much more convenient to live here."

"I don't know what you need. Anyway, if you need anything in life, you can contact me at any time, or let your agent contact me. It's all fine." Yuan Hai emphasized again, "I hope your filming in the crew of "Tropical Rainforest" will be a very pleasant and comfortable experience."

-

Lu Yanhe took a few photos of this house and sent them to Chen Siqi.

Chen Siqi replied: Do you want to buy it? Where is this house?

Lu Yanhe: ...This is the place arranged for me to live in Malaysia.

Chen Siqi: Oh, I thought you had found a house somewhere and wanted to buy it.

Lu Yanhe: Aren’t you coming to Malaysia soon? I’ll send it to you. If you come, you can live here.

Chen Siqi: I’ll come the day after tomorrow. You can send me the address and I’ll go there after I finish my work here.

Lu Yanhe: OK.

Lu Yanhe said again: However, I think we can indeed plan what kind of house we will live in in the future.

Chen Siqi: What are you doing? You don’t want to find someone to design and build a house yourself, do you?

Lu Yanhe: Only in this way can the house satisfy your ideas 100%.

Chen Siqi: I don’t have so many ideas. I’m a pragmatic person.

Lu Yanhe: Don’t you have any imagination about our future home? Do you not love me?

Chen Siqi: ... That’s enough.

Lu Yanhe laughed, with the corners of his mouth raised high.

Wang Biao put his things away, saw Lu Yanhe’s raised mouth on the sofa, and winked at Zou Dong, asking him to go and see.

Zou Dong took a look and a smile appeared in his eyes.

-

How thorough and meticulous was Yuan Hai's work?

He also specially arranged a person for Lu Yanhe during this period to cook and clean for Lu Yanhe and his team.

Wang Biao said: "Although this is a small crew, the producer has considered everything very carefully. All the quilts and mattresses here have been replaced with new ones, and local phone cards have been prepared for us."

This is because this place is remote and the network may not be good in every place.

"Just, Brother Lu, can I ask you a question?" Wang Biao suddenly asked.

Lu Yanhe nodded: "If you want to ask, just ask. Why are you being so secretive and hesitant with me?"

Wang Biao laughed and said: "In fact, it's not just others who don't understand why you acted in "Tropical Rainy Season". I don't understand it either. But the reason I don't understand is different. I think that a small crew and a small budget are nothing. Many good movies are not made with a high budget. However, Huang Tianlin is obviously not very warm to you. Why do you have to endure a director who is not so enthusiastic about you to make such a movie?"

Lu Yanhe laughed.

"You think that he is not warm and enthusiastic to me, as if I am particularly...not caring about my reputation and lowering my posture, right?"

Wang Biao said: "Yes, of course, I know that you, Brother Lu, always say that you don't have to be so arrogant."

"Well, but you can't be too humble." Lu Yanhe said, "It's just that I don't think I've been humbled."

Wang Biao was stunned.

"He doesn't really look down on me, nor does he really not want me to appear in his movie. All his rejection and resistance to me come from the fact that he is a new director who has just started, and I am already a big-name actor with a great reputation. He feels inferior and even anxious."

Lu Yanhe looked at Wang Biao seriously.

"If he belittled my acting ability and resisted me, I would give up the movie without hesitation, but for a sensitive director who just has a flawed personality, I don't actually feel that... I am not respected."

Wang Biao was thoughtful.

-

"Is Lu Yanhe here?"

After Yuan Hai returned to the set, Huang Tianlin saw him and the first thing he asked was Lu Yanhe.

"Yes, he is here and just settled down." Yuan Hai said to Huang Tianlin, "Remember to say hello to him after you finish filming."

Huang Tianlin sighed sullenly.

"Okay."

Yuan Hai looked at him, "He spoke highly of the material you shot before and liked it very much."

Huang Tianlin was stunned and looked at Yuan Hai in surprise.

"Didn't you expect it?"

Huang Tianlin curled his lips, "He was just being polite to you."

"Whether he was being polite or not, you will know later."

"Even if he liked it, he only gave us a week to shoot." Huang Tianlin said to Yuan Hai.

Yuan Hai seemed to know why Huang Tianlin always had such an attitude.

He didn't take it to heart.

He just said: "Tianlin, film well, "Tropical Rainy Season" is a good movie. Even if he only gives you a week to shoot, if you shoot it well, he can take you to the four major international films."

"Then what?"

"Then you will have the opportunity to become famous in the world film industry." Yuan Hai said firmly, "When that time comes, tell me what you think of Lu Yanhe."

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"The Demon Hunting Sword" is about to be signed, and those who want to make money can go and invest. (End of this chapter)