Relying on love in the entertainment industry

Maybe it was because of staying up all night. When Fang Nan woke up the next day, he felt that his heartbeat was particularly irregular.

Then came the premiere of "I Was".

The official premiere ceremony of "I Was" was held in City C, and it was inconvenient for Fang Nan to make a special trip.Anyway, he is not an actor or director or such a heavyweight facade figure, so he simply doesn't need to spend this effort.

Fang Nan watched the premiere of "I Was" at a cinema near her home.Gallo was the only one watching with him.

Although the reason why Fang Nan brought Jia Luo back together was not because of loneliness, but he had to admit that when doing some things, it is really different if there is someone by his side.

He is a person who is particularly afraid of loneliness, but he is used to loneliness.Because I was injured in the interaction with people, I became very cautious and stopped talking with people easily.

But even so, just being accompanied by ordinary friends still makes people feel much warmer and more comfortable, and they are no longer so lonely and unaccounted for.

Gallo had watched the filming scene with Fang Nan many times before, but when facing the big screen, the atmosphere he felt was completely different.

As a Chinese who lived in a Western country since he was a child, even though Gallo can speak fluent Chinese because of his family education, he has not experienced the cultural atmosphere of CN people in essence.

So even though he speaks Chinese and reads Chinese books, Gallo's soul is essentially Western.Most of the time, he doesn't understand the subtlety and patience that belong to CN people, which has been accumulated and polished by thousands of years of introverted civilization. He can't understand why some people sometimes endure pain, why they want to suppress their desires, and why they just like someone Let's test each other step by step like a dance.

Culture is a wonderful thing, it is like a ghost attached to a piece of land.People living on this land may not be able to see it clearly, cannot touch it, but they can always feel it all the time.In the end, unconsciously, it penetrates into the blood and is engraved on the bones, so that you will benefit from it all your life, and at the same time be bound by it.

And film is such a special art, it can instill a completely different culture into your soul with pictures and sounds.It transforms culture into a painting with images, a journey that can see its traces, allowing you to see with your own eyes the colors and forms it reflects in each individual.

Gallo had read the script and seen the set.If it was purely from such a story, he wouldn't be able to feel much.Whether it was the fragmented scenes at the shooting scene or the hesitant lines in the script, he couldn't fully understand the meaning that the story wanted to convey.

But when this story was performed by Zhan Qing and Liu Wen on the big screen, and woven by Xie Zhisheng, he seemed to see a completely different scene, and quickly immersed himself in it.

It's a marvel of visuals, music and acting.

Through such images, even if he does not understand the cultural atmosphere behind it, Gallo can gradually find out the context of the characters' actions, and then discover the reasons for their actions and the rules they follow.The story gradually formed a well-founded, emotional and intentional outline in his mind, and this outline changed his impression of the movie from disorder to order, from depression and chaos to a unique oriental style. beauty.

On the screen, the personalities of the hero and heroine are beautiful.And the beauty of personality, the beauty of love, can always be appreciated even if it crosses national boundaries.

And in such a cross-cultural experience, efforts and dedication derived from love and emotion are always more understandable than those derived from rules and morals, because love is the same in this world, but rules and morals are different. It changes shape over time and geographically.

Gallo and Fang Nan watched the movie silently. The film "I Once" may be because it adheres to the style of many commercial films directed by Xie Zhi in his daily life. Although it is full of artistic elements, the pace is not slow.Among all the literary films that Fang Nan has seen, the rhythm of SN's literary films is generally faster than that of the Eastern Continent.But even compared with SN's films that emphasize both art and commerce, the pace of "I Was" is still relatively fast.

The story is told like clouds and flowing water.

Xie Zhisheng told a love story in 10 minutes, and then sublimated it in the next 10 minutes, using paranoia, contempt, luck... these dark places in human nature.

Halfway through the movie screening, there were still voices of conversation in the theater. Even on a heavy rainy day, when Liu Wen was crying at home with the medical bill and wanted to see Zhan Qing, there were several voices in the theater. dispute.

This section expresses the passage of time by the change of the sky and the change of Liu Wen's posture.Liu Wen expresses the emotions of a woman waiting for her husband to come home. Even her eyes have changed from anxiety, sadness, and hesitation at the beginning to despair, resignation, and nervousness.

So although there are no lines, if you watch carefully, the audience can find the complex psychological changes in her heart from the changes in her demeanor.

Fang Nan silently thought that although she was different from SN, Liu Wen deserved to be the top acting actress in China.

When Zhan Qing managed to escape from a group of local snakes and returned home to look for Liu Wen, ready to accept her reproach and anger, what he finally found was a storm-swept room and a letter left behind.

In the book, Liu Wen never mentioned her illness at all, but the narration has already aroused an unpleasant premonition in the audience in front of the screen.

After that, Liu Wen didn't show up again, and only her sister came forward to say goodbye to Zhan Qing on her behalf, which seemed to prove this point.

There was a commotion in the movie theater—you said that the movie was halfway through and you told me that the heroine was going to die. Isn't this playing us?Doesn't this movie claim to be a romance movie?

But even so, the story continues.

In all fairness, Zhan Qing's role in the movie is still very likable.He was originally handsome, but the makeup artist of the crew tried his best to make him look handsome and youthful.In addition, the male lead is devoted to the female lead, gentle and caring, sweet-mouthed and pampered, and treats the female lead as a goddess... So even though his image is not perfect, and is often too frivolous and reckless, it is still difficult to attract female audiences. disgust.

In this case, although it was destined to be a tragedy, everyone still couldn't help watching, wanting to know what he would become in the future.

Unexpectedly, when the plot continued, Zhan Qing never had the opportunity to know the heroine's condition and real condition.

On the contrary, he always thought that the heroine left him because of disappointment, so after looking for the heroine for a long time but failed to see her, he finally left the city where he originally lived according to the advice of the heroine's sister, and broke up with some cronies. Contacted, and started a new job and life.

He is not picky about his work and quality of life, and he only wants to stand out.Zhan Qing's character setting is a character who is courageous, adventurous, able to endure hardships, but also eager for quick success. In this case, he still maintains this temperament, but there are some differences.

Zhan Qing is the most tiring buddy, taking risks that no one else dares to take. Occasionally, he will walk around the edge of the rules and hit the edge of the ball, but he always rein in the precipice before going deep.

When he travels north and south, the only thing that can't be shaken by wind and rain is that he will always call Liu Wen's family very steadily to report the itinerary and his current situation-in his heart, he naturally thinks that these things will pass The other party's mouth, conveyed to his lover's ear.

Liu Wen will know that he still loves her and is still working hard for her.

And every time Zhan Qing hit the edge of the ball, Zhan Qing would feel a little bit guilty. Even if he reined in the precipice in the end, he would make small awkward movements when calling sister Liu Wen.

In the middle of the summer night, he curled up alone in the hot cabin of the truck, so hot that he couldn't sleep.At such times, Zhan Qing would take out the photos of the two of them together, look at Liu Wen's face with a silly smile, then kiss her on the cheek, and sink into dreams with a smile on her face.

This is Zhan Qing's little romance and sweetness - he is still full of hope for the future of the two of them.

But in front of the screen, next to Fang Nan's seat, there were already young girls crying.

The following story, if the emotional part is excluded, is actually quite inspirational.Step by step, Zhan Qing slowly began to accumulate capital, and the business grew bigger and bigger.He insisted on calling Liu Wen's parents and sister for several years to tell them about his recent situation.Zhan Qing doesn't care about their cold treatment, but only cares about whether Liu Wen can always know his hard work, and this process has slowly influenced the two old people.

On the day when the company went public, Zhan Qing tentatively asked Liu Wen's sister if he could let the two meet, but the other party was silent for a long time, and finally agreed.

Zhan Qing saw Liu Wen's grave and her last suicide note.

Years of deception made him finally turn around.The tall man cried like a child, and the movie theater was full of crying scenes, but neither Fang Nan nor Jia Luo cried.

Gallo sighed: "A beautiful and cruel love fairy tale."

Who said no?

In fact, it is difficult to tell whether "I Once" is a tragedy or a comedy, but in any case, Xie Zhisheng has told a beautiful love story.

Or, it's not just love, but a broader love story.

After the premiere was over, the crew had a lively discussion in the group, and Fang Nan also shared the reactions of the audience around him when he watched it in the cinema. Generally speaking, Director Xie judged that the situation is good, and the box office and word of mouth should not be too bad.

Although he is a well-known director, Xie Zhisheng himself still feels a little uneasy every time a new movie is released, after all, he is a fan of the authorities.

It takes several months to half a year to shoot and edit a movie, and after the movie is completed, most of the staff actually find it difficult to distinguish whether the movie is good or bad, because it brings too much subjective consciousness.

After that, the box office on the premiere day came out, and the figure was close to the 5000 million mark. (Note 1) This box office is not surprising in today's domestic new cinemas where more and more new theaters are built, but as a romantic literary film with a relatively small investment amount, the results are still very gratifying.

The next day, the major media's film reviews were released, and most of them were praises, with few criticisms. The ratings of major websites were mainly distributed in the range of [-] to [-], which was quite a high evaluation.

Although many people stopped outside the cinema because of the semi-tragedy plot, more people approached the cinema and watched this "love literary film" because of the excellent reviews heard by word of mouth.

In the next few days, the box office of "I Was" has been rising steadily. Although there was no blowout outbreak, it received rave reviews and the box office growth was also very stable.

Until the third week of the movie's release.

As of the third week, the box office of "I Was" has basically stabilized, with occasional fluctuations, but the overall situation has shown a decline.If nothing unexpected happened, this would be about as high as it gets.

However, even the crew did not expect that in the next few days, the situation would have an unexpected reversal.

On the Saturday of the third week after "I Was" was released, a major case that shocked the whole country happened in Province G.This case was caused by a usury dispute over private lending, but then it turned into a criminal case.

For a long time, all kinds of private lending have been rampant in several wealthy provinces and cities in the south.They are called investment companies in name, but they are actually high-interest lending companies.

And this kind of money lending company is very popular in the south where industry and commerce are developed, mainly because there are many private enterprises in this generation. These private enterprise owners are used to the circulation of wealth, so they are full of ideas and desires to make a fortune.They have the natural talents and dispositions of capitalists, are full of courage, and dare to take risks, which has led to the lending companies having ample room for survival in this area.

When the economy is booming, this kind of borrowing and lending comes and goes.Even if the interest is high, entrepreneurs and businessmen always have a way to use these debts to make more profits.But when the economy enters a bottleneck period, various problems begin to appear in this excessively risky lending behavior.It can be said that the collapse of the capital chain caused by profit shrinkage has happened from time to time recently, but it has never become so serious.

However, during the debt collection this time, the debtor's mother was injured and her daughter was disfigured, and finally the debtor broke into the repayment company with a murder weapon (Note 2), injuring several employees, Then he was beaten to death by company bodyguards.

This case shocked the whole society, and as the stalemate between the public and the forces behind the bankrupt company became more and more troublesome, it finally attracted the attention of the national government.Afterwards, a series of related cases that were investigated by the procuratorial organs attracted the attention of the top leaders, directly triggering a new round of crackdown on gangsters.

Of course, this matter had nothing to do with Fang Nan.

But I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence of timing and subject matter, but Xie Zhisheng later received a call from the relevant department, saying that they decided to position "I Once" as a political propaganda film this year, as a promotional material for anti-payment and anti-illegal business. .

This was obviously completely beyond Xie Zhisheng's expectations.

For Xie Zhisheng, this kind of political decision is just to be notified, and the subsequent specific developments actually have little to do with him.So in the next period of time, a large number of schools, government agencies and some related institutions were arranged to watch this movie-Xie Zhisheng was forced to win the box office.

But no matter what the reason is, the box office of "I Once" has started to rise again, which is a good thing for Xie Zhisheng or for investors.

Even for Fang Nan.

His songs have nothing to do with the government's political education, but are actually love songs.But as "I Was" continued to be released, more and more people watched the movie, and more and more people listened to his songs.

Gradually, Fang Nan inadvertently heard his own songs in the streets and alleys.

"Forgiveness" was played the most, followed by "Shackles of Love" and "Missing", but "Invisible Love Letter" ranked last can actually be heard often.

Most movie fans and music fans may not pay attention to the composer, but many people in the industry have gradually realized the existence of this foreign composer and learned about his energy and influence.

However, these things will not affect Fang Nan's ongoing work for the time being. Apart from increasing his popularity in the crowd, the whole change of the situation has not yet affected the distribution of interests between him and Yan Li.

So on this day, he honestly chose a suitable new song for Hu Menghan at the headquarters of Wanzhong.

In Hu Menghan's album, he only intends to create two or three songs specifically for this purpose, and he intends to choose all other songs from the existing inventory of Wanzhong.

This is not because Fang Nan can't get together the works for an album, but because it involves an issue of equivalent exchange and cost performance.Generally speaking, in a circle with more serious interests, a person must pay more attention to the balance between giving and reward, otherwise it is easy to give people the impression of being "unintelligent", "out of date", and "breaking the rules".

Fang Nan didn't want to be such a role.

In two days, he selected nine songs from the song library. These songs all have two major characteristics. One is that they are highly sung and easy to catch;

Seven of them are love songs or light love songs, and the remaining two are inspirational songs.

Among the nine songs, there is one that stands out the most. It is a fast-paced rock song titled "I'm Sorry, It's Related."

The melody of this song is very brainwashing, and Fang Nan felt that it would be loved by many people at first glance, so he immediately included it in the album catalogue.

Including Fang Nan's three original songs, Fang Nan has temporarily set the list of songs in this way.

It's just that when the final decision was reported, some accidents happened again.

Regarding the right to use the two songs, Fang Nan had a conflict with another manager who is currently signed under the name of Wanzhong—his plan was rejected on the grounds that someone else had also taken a fancy to two of the songs, and One of them is Fang Nan's favorite song "Sorry, It's Related".

The one who took a fancy to these two songs was Yang Ziyun, a well-known female singer under Wanzhong.This female singer is nearly ten years older than Hu Menghan, but she is still tepid so far.When she was the most popular after her debut, she was not as popular as Hu Menghan is now.

Yang Ziyun is also an actor, and then slowly began to play movies and songs.The singers signed by Wanzhong seem to be of this type. They don't have very deep singing skills. Most of them are acting and acting. When they become popular, they release an album to make some money.If the reputation is good, then continue along this road.

This has also led to Yang Ziyun's acting and singing for so many years, but her performance in acting and singing is relatively mediocre.Although she is 30 years old, she is not a powerful singer, but still just an idol who sings saliva songs.

Yang Ziyun is quite pretty, but she is not young after all, even though she looks like a [-]-year-old girl with careful maintenance, her age is a flaw that cannot be concealed.These days, many young people may lose interest in fans when they hear her age.

But she doesn't have any hard power in other aspects, which makes people recognize and love her.

This caused her idol status to become more and more precarious, and perhaps suddenly collapsed at some point.

And in this case, she is full of a sense of crisis about anyone or anything that may cause her status to collapse.And there is a strong sense of longing for anything that might preserve or prolong his idol career.

When there was a dispute over the ownership of the song, Fang Nan frowned and inquired about the details among the crowd.He is dissatisfied with this kind of unexpected accident - after all, at the beginning, he screened the works in the song library, and confirmed to the person in charge again and again that the ones he got were all the ones that hadn't been selected yet. song.

So there will be disputes in this situation, which makes Fang Nan feel a little unhappy.

After inquiring about the details of the whole matter, Fang Nan's dissatisfaction not only did not disappear, but further expanded.

Yang Ziyun just released an album at the beginning of this year, and these two songs are not included in the album.In the following year, there was no plan to release a new album in the arrangement of Wanzhong for her.

That being the case, Fang Nan was very puzzled - what is the use of these two songs if she likes them?

Because of this incident, Fang Nan deliberately communicated with Hu Menghan and asked if she and Yang Zihan had any problems.But this girl is so stupid and sweet. Hearing Fang Nan's question, her tone was very surprised, and she asked Fang Nan, "Mr. Fang, why do you think so? Sister Yang is very nice, and our relationship is also very good." Not bad, there was absolutely no altercation."

Finding nothing from her, Fang Nan had no choice but to find a way to have a direct communication with Yang Ziyun himself.

The author has something to say: Note 1: The social setting and economic and cultural environment have been adjusted according to the reality. This box office is the result of a certain cumulative increase based on the current box office according to the year setting, which is higher than the current real box office. .

Note 2: Usury companies, privately known as repayment companies.