Chapter 46: love past

Chapter 46: love past

At the preview meeting, Director Lou's new movie was being shown, and the soundtrack and the dialogues of the characters continued to sound at the scene.

Yan Chengan, who is sitting in the front row, as the male lead, is also the first time to see the current version of the finished film, and the effect he saw last time when he went to dub work has changed a lot.

The front and back plots are connected more smoothly and closely. There are many close-up shots and blank spaces of Director Lou's personal style in the picture. The calm camera's silent narration and the appropriate soundtrack create a unique atmosphere, which closely drives the audience's excitement. Emotions also leave audiences and film critics endless thinking and aftertastes.

I still remember that during the filming and dubbing work, Director Lou Qiao complained to Yan Chengan several times that the people sent by the investors stared at him every day, saying that this is not good, that is not good, and rejected all kinds of his great ideas. How did he fight with them.

It is also clear to those who are familiar with Director Lou that Director Lou doesn't talk much at work and looks very serious and scary.

But as soon as he leaves the monitor and camera and looks at the person he admires, Director Lou Qiao can easily become a talker.

Before the screening, Director Lou regretted several times about the defects of the current version of the film, and he never forgot the shots he sacrificed.

But when the movie was shown here, looking at the finished film, the look on Lou Qiao's face actually revealed his satisfaction with the work.

Although there are some regrets, which movie has no regrets, he has indeed tried his best.

In the end, when the movie was sent for review, Lou Qiao also knew how much effort the investors had spent, racking their brains to fight with the reviewers of the relevant departments, so as to preserve the integrity and flavor of the current story as much as possible.

And the uncensored version sent to foreign competitions is basically a state that Director Lou is most satisfied with, and it is difficult to change it.

This is also the final result of several arguments and negotiations between him and the investor, and everyone took a step back.

Lou Qiao has watched the content of the film broadcast today many times before, and knows every frame and every painting.

At this moment, what he wants to know more is of course the reactions of other people. So, about 20 minutes into the film's opening, Director Lou began to pretend casually and secretly look at the film critics and media people present.

Seeing that everyone was looking at the screen with extreme concentration, and there was no sign of being bored or uninteresting, only a few people showed dissatisfaction on their faces, and Dao Lou felt a little more at ease.

Most of the people here are old acquaintances of Director Lou Qiao. Whose evaluation is useful and whose evaluation is useless, they stand on what standpoint and angle.

The expressions on the faces and the movements of the hands of professional film critics who are very important in the film critic circle, and which Lou Qiao himself attaches great importance to. Director Lou Qiao, who has made many movies, has basically already made up his mind. Counted.

He clenched his fist in the dark, and the response would not be too bad!

When the preview is over, it will be the turn of the "audience" to express their comments and suggestions, and to exchange their evaluations and estimated scores for the film.

"The shooting style still has the taste of Director Lou, but the story itself is not new. There are too many things to express, and it is a little cloudy."

This is a film critic who doesn't appreciate director Lou Qiao very much at first, and still doesn't like his new movie very much.

For Director Lou's films, there is basically no need to expect much at the box office, and everyone's number of films can't be too high. As for whether it can get a good reputation, become a classic, and win back several awards, the other party feels that it is difficult to say, and there are many problems.

But more people in the media and film critics have rated the film very well.

"Unexpectedly, it can be seen that Director Lou came prepared this time, and he has made a lot of progress in choosing and choosing. The actors he chose are very suitable, and sparks have hit each other."

A senior film critic commented that he was not very optimistic about director Lou Qiao's new film this time.

Because the story itself is not Director Lou's best subject, and the protagonist is not the old actors he often uses, and it is common for these literary-style directors to break up the film, the film critic came to watch it with a bad mood. 's premiere.

The result was much better than he had imagined.

Director Lou not only maintained his own style, but also made new attempts. The whole wind direction did not go very far, and it was a good story to tell a story, and it left the audience a lot of thinking space.

The selection of the male actors is particularly good. Playing such an absolute protagonist with a very heavy role, he can withstand so many close-ups of Director Lou and so many dark lines behind the shots. Every frame on the big screen is full of stories. .

Especially the ubiquitous sense of contradiction of the actors, the forbearance in the early stage and the outbreak in the later stage, completely supported the story and environment.

It's a movie star performance!

It has not been more than a year since the last time the film critic saw Yan Chengan's performance in a movie, the young actor once again gave him a great surprise.

The spark between the director and the actors, and the spark between the actors and the actors, gives the movie a huge bonus and masks many of the problems of the movie itself.

In the opinion of this senior film critic, the time to polish the script is not enough, and there are many logical loopholes. Director Lou Qiao's control of the story is still somewhat contradictory, making the story a little messy.

But the flaws do not hide the truth. There is absolutely no problem with the film itself and the actor winning several awards. The film critic made his prediction in his heart with certainty.

"Director Lou has always been my favorite director! I love to watch everything he shoots, his shots and his taste can't be replaced by anyone else, and I like this work even more! It's deep, rhythmic, and thoughtful. , I said directly, this is the best movie made in China this year!"

This media person is obviously a fan of director Lou Qiao, and is very excited to express his love for this movie.

"By the way, the male protagonist this time is also well chosen. There are many things in you that are completely beyond your age group. They completely brought me into the play, and I look forward to your future!"

After praising the director and the movie itself, the media person was very excited to praise the male protagonist again, blowing a bunch of rainbow farts to them one by one, and it seemed that he really liked this work.

At the end of the screening, the director, screenwriter, producer, and several leading actors were surrounded by many people, and everyone chatted with each other about the movie.

There were also many people who finally caught Yan Chengan, and they either matched him or recommended themselves.

"I heard that Xiaoyan, you don't have an agent recently. Are you interested in joining our company? I'll ask Fengshang to take you."

The person who spoke is the leader of the film and television giant company in the circle, which is one of the film's investors. Fengshang is the golden agent who has brought out many first-line movie stars and actresses from their company.

They had been very optimistic about Yan Chengan, and when they heard that he had recently terminated the contract with his agent, they happily threw an olive branch, willing to give him the most sincere treatment and bring him under his command.

They are also confident to bring this young actor who is extremely prominent in all aspects and does not have too many shortcomings to a high position.

"Cheng'an, accept this business card. Sister Luan said that she doesn't have anyone with her now. If you want to contact her, she will bring actors like you best."

A film critic also handed Yan Chengan a business card in private. He is a good friend with an independent agent. Although the other party works alone, he has a wide network of contacts in the film circle, and he has a strong ability to select actors and films.

I heard that the film critics came to this preview, the independent agent specially contacted him and asked him to say hello to Yan Chengan. If you are interested, you can contact both sides.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that a young actor like Yan Chengan who has good conditions and great acting skills and pursuits is really poor now. Being his agent is a common idea of ​​many people in the industry.

Now there is no shortage of young boys who are beautiful, can attract little girls, and have ambitions. What is lacking are actors who can go a long way and set benchmarks and names in the circle, a young generation of acting leaders who can make a name for themselves figure.

Although it is not clear why he terminated the contract with Yu Xing, many people are eager to contact him.

Yan Chengan accepted the business cards they gave them one by one. He didn't talk much about his own affairs at the preview meeting, but returned to the movie itself. Everyone tacitly waited for his reply.

Yan Chengan already had some ideas for the next agent, but this time he had to be more careful and choose a partner who was truly on the same path as him.

After the preview was over, the creators went to eat together. While eating, everyone's chatting topics were all movie-related, and some people talked about Lou Qiao's students.

"In the past two years, there have been quite a few new directors emerging. Some are really good, and many are completely gimmicks and just messing around."

At the dinner table, the people in the team talked about the winners list of the college student film festival and the more famous new directors in the circle in the past two years. Some of them are quite familiar with the show. They are the students or former assistants of the current group of directors in China. There are academics, returnees, and many newcomers who are completely cross-border. They have never heard of it before.

"Speaking of which, Director Lou, you also have quite a few students making their own films, right?"

Hearing everyone talking about the new director, someone who has always been Director Lou Qiao's regular team thought of a person and answered.

"Lin Miao won the award you mentioned before. Her film has recently started filming. If you are lucky, we can go to see how her test film is going in a short time."

The person who spoke had worked with Lin Miao in Director Lou's crew before, and he had a pretty good relationship with Lin Miao.

Some time ago, Lin Miao also came to him to help her with her new movie. This person just took over a few jobs and couldn't make it, so he recommended another person to Lin Miao and learned a little about her situation.

Lou Qiao raised his head when he heard Lin Miao's name. Lin Miao contacted him many times in private and asked him some questions about the director.

Lou Qiao gave her answers one by one, and borrowed a lot of people to go there. She was also relatively clear about the progress on her side.

Many of the people here are familiar with Lin Miao, and everyone's topic naturally turned to Lin Miao's new film. Discussing what type of stories she wants to make, how much investment she has pulled, who the actors are looking for...

"She has strength and ideas. I hope she will be lucky, and the filming will go smoothly."

Lou Director's simple sentence does not have too many praises, but it is already a rare evaluation of his own students.

Although he admires his student, Director Lou does not dare to say whether her film will be successful this time.

Making a movie is not as simple as it seems. Movies are never the job of one person. There are too many interfering factors in the selection of scripts, financing, and team building to the final shooting, production, and distribution.

Even the older generation directors who have been filming for decades and already have a stable position in the circle are inevitably "overturned", let alone new directors who do not have much experience.

Although Lin Miao has also directed independent films before, he has not really been tested and accepted by the market. This road is not easy.

Thinking of this, Director Lou Qiao couldn't help but glance at Yan Chengan next to him, but almost no one knew that his girlfriend was the biggest investor in Lin Miao's new film.

Otherwise, it is estimated that there are more films looking for him.

The acting skills and work attitude are basically the best among the younger generation, the image is good, and there is a girlfriend who can be an investor himself?

Is there a better option than this.

Of course, for directors like them, they would rather not invest in the actors, and it is easy to be tied. They still pay more attention to the actor's own ability and performance.

Just thinking of the investors, Lou Dao inevitably thought of the wrangling between himself and the investors during this period. A director with qualifications and achievements like him is unavoidable. New directors are picked by investors. It is common for directors to shoot and cut according to their intentions.

Thinking of the previous contacts with Su Man, Director Lou felt that although the other party did not seem to be a particularly strong person who only needed to be a marionette director, he was still a little worried.

Director Lou Qiao was worried here when he heard his subordinates laugh at him.

"As far as I'm concerned, Lin Miao can do it. Fortunately, she only learned techniques and nothing else from you. She made comedies, what did you make when you were young?"

"She showed me the story before, and I think it's pretty good. As long as it's not too bad, the theater and audience will buy it."

The speaker and Director Lou Qiao are college classmates. They have been in love together for decades. Back then, I watched with my own eyes how Director Lou Qiao was saving money and pulling people everywhere to make movies. In the end, when we filmed one pornographic film, no one bought it. .

Lin Miao is a true student of Lou Qiao, but her personality is very different from her teacher, and her pursuit of art is also obviously a different path.

He also looked at Lin Miao, a little girl, and naturally hoped that she would go smoothly.

Hearing the old man make fun of him about the past, Director Lou Qiao snorted and said nothing more.

Before the movie came out, it was useless to say anything.

If he could help, he would definitely pull his students. Even Lou Qiao himself didn't pay much for this theater chain, let alone his students. He really might not be able to help Lin Miao much.

Comedy is not for director Lou Qiao at all. At most, he can give some guidance in some technical aspects. Others really can't help, they can only rely on themselves.

After dinner, some people leave early for business, and some people keep talking about the mountains.

Director Lou Qiao, a proud person, usually doesn't pay much attention to the investors of his films. Now, thinking about his students, he asked Yan Chengan, who is now his own.

"Speaking of which, did the person in your family meet you because of the movie?"

Director Lou Qiao didn't plan to let Su Man look at his face and make concessions to Lin Miao, his face is not so big.

Maybe in the future, when he and Yan Chengan cooperate a few more times, the relationship is really close enough, and he might even help to say a few words and sell thin noodles, and forget it now.

He was mainly concerned about this matter, and he couldn't help but want to talk to Yan Chengan to find out some news, and when he went back, he would teach Lin Miao how to deal with the conflict between what he wanted to shoot and what the investors wanted to see.

Yan Chengan didn't expect that Director Lou suddenly cared about his feelings, but he probably understood some of the other party's thoughts and answered generously.

"It doesn't count. Her classmate was the screenwriter of my drama at that time. We met because of this. Later, we accidentally met again when we were choosing movie discs in the audio and video store."

"Overall, it still has some fate with the movie."

Yan Chengan talked about the story of the first acquaintance between him and Su Man, the expression on his face was a little gentle without noticing, and a smile appeared in his eyes.

At that time, when he was on stage, there was a section that required him to read a large inner monologue to the audience at the scene.

Looking at the audience below, Yan Chengan was talking about the protagonist's heart emotionally. He accidentally caught a pair of beautiful eyes and saw the girl in the front row. For the first time, he almost lost his mind on the stage.

Although he quickly gathered his mind and changed the pause just now to match the movement of his body, it was not seen by everyone at all, and they thought it was a rhythm he deliberately arranged.

When the performance was over, Yan Chengan watched the audience leave the venue, thinking of the shaking God just now and sighing that the live performance really tested the on-the-spot reaction of the actors, and he must not be easily lost. On the other hand, I couldn't help but look at the side where the audience left the stage, and I felt lost for a moment.

At that time, Yan Chengan hadn't figured out what he was thinking, but he just felt a little rare and inexplicably concerned.

Unexpectedly, at the end of the performance, all the actors and the staff behind the scenes took pictures together, organized the scene, and exchanged the performance. When Yan Chengan saw the girl again, she did not leave.

This time, he saw each other more clearly. The girl has a cold and glamorous face with soft facial features, but her eyes have no emotion. She speaks to the screenwriter coldly, which attracts the attention of many people.

The screenwriter said a few words to her, and seemed to have introduced the hero of the work to her, and pointed to Yan Chengan's side. The girl followed the screenwriter's hand and looked over, and their eyes crossed.

Yan Chengan nodded and smiled at her, watching the girl look at him seriously, without the shyness and dodge that most girls usually have, just nodded politely to him.

The slightly bowed eye raised his mind once again.

"That was my classmate just now. I invited her to see my first work as a screenwriter. Back then, we were both studying economics abroad, but I changed the major without telling my parents. She was a minor at the same time. course."

Back among the actors, the screenwriter briefly introduced two beautiful women to Yan Chengan and others that many people had noticed just now, and said with a smile that she was a real iceberg goddess, and how many people from abroad did not catch up with her. It directly dispelled the idea of ​​some young actors on the field.

Hearing Yan Chengan inadvertently mentioning that the other party is also working in the field of literature like a screenwriter, he saw the screenwriter wave his hand: "No, it's purely a hobby, and it's not the same thing as a career change like me."

Yan Chengan didn't ask any more questions.

The other party did not come back in the later performances of that drama. Yan Chengan thought that the other party was not in this industry, and he did not know when he would appear in that screenwriter's work next time. Maybe he only had the chance to see him this time.

But maybe it was fate. The next weekend, Yan Chengan went to the largest audio-visual product store in the capital to see if there were any new movie discs.

The two stood on the opposite side of the same row of shelves, and through the gap in the middle, once again, they met each other's eyes by coincidence and timing.

This time, Yan Chengan walked over, greeted her on the topic of the movie and the last play, and asked her name.

After a few words, Yan Chengan recommended his favorite movies and singers to the other party. The two sat together in the audition area of ​​the audio-visual city, listening to the same disc with headphones, and chatting softly and politely about movies, view of music.

At this meeting, Yan Chengan not only learned the name of the other party, but also shook hands with her when they finally parted.

At the same time the next weekend, I don't know if it was fate or a secret common desire to see each other. They met again on the same floor and in the same place in the Audiovisual City.

This time, Yan Chengan no longer just kept a distance from her politely and politely, sharing each other's interests with restraint, but directly showed his undisguised joy, and set his eyes on Su Man more frequently.

Su Man didn't seem to notice, as if he didn't care too much, he still had a cold and cold look, and only talked about movies.

When it was time to leave, Yan Chengan asked Su Man if she could leave her contact information and wanted to invite her to watch the movie that will be released next week.

Looking at the question from this young man with clean, soft eyes and a little bit of greenness standing in front of him, Su Man reported a number and added: "That's right, next time you watch a movie, don't watch it all the time. me?"

It was the first time that Yan Chengan received such words, panic flashed in his eyes for a moment, and he immediately reflected on his abruptness.

But just as he was about to apologize, when he saw Su Man's apologetic smile that didn't look angry, the words in his mouth became calm again: "Okay, I'll try my best next time."

Waking up from his own memories, Yan Chengan replied to Director Lou in two simple sentences the reason for their acquaintance, without revealing the details and stories of their past.

Under his gentle and humble expression, a voice inside spoke. He didn't want to mention these memories with anyone, it was just a good memory that belonged to them.

Even many memories that Su Man did not know.

Fortunately, Director Lou didn't intend to listen to their love story, but just wanted to reconfirm that the other party should be someone who likes movies a lot, and that he should be able to talk a little better to the new director, instead of doing so many things that laypeople guide laypeople. .

"You should all be very busy with work. It's not easy to get together at a young age."

Director Lou sighed casually again, and heard an assistant director at the door saying that he couldn't drink any more, and he would be scolded by his wife again if he drank it again. When he saw Yan Chengan back, he suddenly joked.

"Speaking of which, who do you two usually listen to?"

Yan Chengan also heard what the other table said. Hearing the assistant director say that he promised his wife that he would never go home drunk today, he couldn't help but laugh and said seriously and firmly.

"Listen to her, she calls the shots in our family."

Looking at the young male protagonist, Director Lou Qiao snorted again, as if to laugh at him, but he looked at the table with some clarity and pride.

His family is actually the same.

Listen to your wife.