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Chapter 18 'Hero'

The Lunar New Year festival from the end of 2002 to the beginning of 2003 was very deserted. Feng Xiaogang's "A World Without Thieves" was announced to be absent from this year's Lunar New Year festival because the script failed to pass review.

There was only one "Heroes" in the entire month of December. The next much-anticipated blockbuster was "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," but the latter was scheduled to be released on January 24, more than a month later by China Film.

So, this winter, you have no choice but to watch "Heroes".

On the 14th, "Hero" premiered at the Great Hall.

"Why would the Great Hall allow such an event to be held?" Cheng Lingfeng was surprised when she learned the news.

"The Great Hall also hosts business activities during free hours, and the State Guesthouse can also host private birthday banquets," Cheng Yu'an explained.

"Who is having a birthday party at the State Guesthouse?"

"This is not important." Cheng Yu'an laughed.

"Then we will also go to the Great Hall for the premiere in the future." Cheng Lingfeng set a flag and continued, "Can you get tickets for the premiere of "Hero"?"

"It's been prepared a long time ago." Cheng Yu'an took out two premiere tickets from his pocket, "Just two, I got them from Teacher Hou."

The two drove to the city hall.

Heart Picture requires that you must wear formal attire to attend the premiere, and all your watches, mobile phones, keys, cameras, etc. must be handed over and sealed outside before entering.

When had Cheng Lingfeng ever been so angry that she would argue with the staff on the spot?

"It's so disrespectful!"

Cheng Yu'an quickly grabbed her: "Look, you said so. Now we have to quarrel with someone again. If you don't look, we will go back now."

Cheng Lingfeng had no choice but to hand over her things and sat on her seat resentfully waiting for the premiere to begin.

The host was Lu Yu, the head actress of Phoenix Satellite TV. We sat there for nearly an hour before the premiere started.

The movie starts playing.

Zhang Yimou is undoubtedly one of Cheng Yu'an's favorite directors, and you can always have high expectations for him.

When the movie screening ended, the audience received the warmest applause.

Director Zhang brought the five leading actors Li Lianjie, Tony Leung Chaowei, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming and Zhang Ziyi to the stage.

"Hero" is an excellent movie in every aspect.

But Cheng Lingfeng was really paying attention to the five actors on the stage:

"Zhang Manyu is so beautiful."

"Don't you like Tony Leung and Chen Daoming?"

"I like Maggie Cheung better. Don't you think Tony Leung is not worthy of her?"

"may be."

After listening to the creators’ creative thoughts and interesting anecdotes on the set for a while, the aunt and nephew did not participate in the subsequent activities.

After walking out of the auditorium, Cheng Lingfeng talked about the movie itself:

"The movie itself is of high quality. This year's Lunar New Year is almost the only one of his movies that can be watched, and it should not be bad at the box office. But I always feel that the values ​​behind this movie are weird."

"What's weird?" Cheng Yu'an asked with a smile.

"I personally like this film very much and think it is better than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But I am worried that when it comes out, it will be criticized as defending Qin Shihuang's dictatorship.

"I know it is impossible for Wuming to kill Qin Shihuang, but such a statement would be very strange in a movie.

"and……"

Cheng Lingfeng wanted to continue, but Cheng Yu'an interrupted: "Okay, it's the same thing, and what, go on."

"Besides, I don't like Zhang Weiping."

"How to say?"

"Look at the way he looked at the scene just now, he acted as if he had made the movie. Also, his hype methods made people uncomfortable. Although this can increase the movie's box office, the method is a bit underhanded."

Cheng Yuan thought, this was unbearable, Zhang Weiping's more despicable methods were yet to come.

"Also, I don't like this man's appearance. He looks like a villain, and he will bully Zhang Yimou just by looking at him."

"You are going too far." Although Cheng Yu'an knew that Zhang Weiping was not a good person and did not like him, what Cheng Lingfeng said was correct to a certain extent, but Cheng Yuan still felt that it was a bit nonsense to say that Zhang Weiping was not a good person based on his appearance.

"We've finished watching the movie, let's go back to the company. How are the preparations for the crew of "The Young Emperor" going?"

"It went very well. I hired Liu Heng as the screenwriter."

"I have a good eye and I can find him." Cheng Yu'an was very sure of Cheng Lingfeng's choice. Liu Heng is an old writer and screenwriter.

"Qiu Ju's Lawsuit" was written by him.

"Originally, I wanted to find Lu Wei or Zou Jingzhi, but they were both unavailable. Oh, and also, Liu Heng wanted to be the director of this drama, so I haven't contacted him yet."

Cheng Yu'an thought about it. In his memory, the first part of "The Young Emperor" was written and directed by Liu Heng, and he did a very good job.

"You can let him direct, but you need to find a producer. I'll ask Mr. Xie Xiaojing to be the producer of this drama. Let Guo Fei and Huang Ke be the assistant directors."

"As for the actors, I found a new person to play Shunzhi."

"who?"

"Deng Chao, from the School of Drama, just graduated this year. He had acted in an unknown TV series before. I thought he had a good image and temperament, so I signed him to play the leading role. The other actors haven't figured it out yet." The two of them said it.

Arrive at the company.

In fact, Cheng Yu'an could have used Mr. Xu's metaphysical casting methods, and relying on his past life memories, it would not be a problem to bring back the original cast members.

But he didn't do that. He left these things to Cheng Lingfeng himself, so that he could train the team.

After sitting in the company for a while, Cheng Yuan went back to the editing room of the college to continue editing the film.

It was not until ten o'clock in the evening that the fine editing was finally completed. Cheng Yu'an cheered alone in the editing room:

"finished!"

Editing is generally divided into rough cutting, fine cutting and final cutting. Cheng Yu'an personally completed the rough cutting and fine cutting. Generally, at this step, the editing of a film is almost over.

The final cut needs to be modified based on the finely cut clips.

After final editing, it’s time to do post-production, including dubbing and dubbing, soundtrack, subtitles, color grading, foley, etc.

Fortunately, "Sniper Phone Booth" does not require any special effects, otherwise it would be a waste of time.

Once the cut is fixed, it cannot be moved, not even a minute, not a second, not even a frame.

Otherwise, the post-production staff would have the intention of killing the editor.

Boom, boom, boom.

Cheng Yuan was enjoying himself alone in the editing room when someone knocked on the door.

"Teacher Xie, why are you here?" When I opened the door, I saw it was Teacher Xie Xiaojing, the director of the directing department.

"What are you shouting in there alone?" Xie Xiaojing walked into the editing room and took a look.

"Isn't this the perfect cut? I'm happy." Cheng Yu'an explained, "Just right, Teacher Xie, I have something to ask you."

"What's the matter? Tell me."

"Don't I open a small company?"

"I know, it's in the Chaoyang area."

"Yes, a new costume drama was recently launched, and Mr. Liu Heng was invited to be the screenwriter and director."

"Lao Liu has started to become a director?"

"It was Teacher Liu who requested it on his own initiative. He said that he had been writing scripts for others for so many years and wanted to film his own movie this time. We recognized Teacher Liu's ability and were willing to try, so we made him the director." Cheng Yu'an explained.

"Then what do you want me to do?" Xie Xiaojing asked.

"After all, we are a newly established company. It is Mr. Liu's first time to be a director. Although we believe in him, we are not sure, so we would like to ask you to be the producer of this drama. If anything happens, you and Mr. Liu also have

Lingfeng, let's discuss it." Cheng Yu'an even laughed after saying this.

"Okay, anyway, I haven't worked on a set for a long time. I want to see what kind of film Lao Liu can make." Xie Xiaojing readily agreed.
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