"Lao Cheng, why are you here?"
Lin Chaoyang was a little surprised to see the old man, and stepped forward to hold his hand enthusiastically.
Cheng Yin exchanged greetings with Lin Chaoyang with a smile on his face, and then explained his purpose of coming, "I came here because of someone's entrustment."
After listening to Cheng Yin's words, Lin Chaoyang pulled him and said, "Let's talk outside."
"good."
The two came to the triangle outside the library. The spring breeze in mid-March was still a bit chilly, but the sunshine was warm and warm.
"Tell me, what do you want from me?"
"To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, our Yan Film Studio plans to co-produce a movie about Go with Japan. We already have the script, which is about the content of Go in the script. Because the screenwriter's level is not high, we are looking for someone to do it.
Help check.
Yesterday, Lao Chen told me that Yan Ying’s students are all spreading rumors about your superb chess skills, and you happen to be good at writing scripts. How about giving us a hand?"
After Cheng Yin finished speaking, the name of a movie immediately came to Lin Chaoyang's mind, and he asked: "Are you the director?"
"It's not me, it's Duan Jishun from our factory. Have you seen "The Wedding" starring Liu Xiaoqing? He directed it."
"The Wedding" was a movie released last year, with good reputation and response, but the most famous person for this movie is the female lead Liu Xiaoqing.
Two consecutive hit movies, "Little Flower" in 1978 and "Look at This Family" in 1979, made her one of the most famous film actresses in China.
"In addition, the Japanese director is Junya Sato, who is very famous in Japan."
Listening to Cheng Yin's introduction, Lin Chaoyang was already sure that this movie should be the one he had seen. He asked: "Who makes the final decision for a Sino-Japanese co-production?"
"Both parties have equal investment shares, co-write, co-direct, and co-perform. The Chinese side is responsible for China's part, and the Japanese side is responsible for Japan's part."
After Cheng Yin finished speaking, he saw Lin Chaoyang was silent and asked, "Chaoyang, what worries do you have?"
"Co-production is a thankless thing, so why do you need to do it?"
Chengyin smiled, "Who would have thought of this kind of problem? But this is a mission!"
Cheng Yin's tone was mixed with a hint of helplessness, and he explained a few more details to Lin Chaoyang.
"The movie must be made. It's not easy to find an expert like you who understands movies, drama, and Go. Don't try to shirk it."
"I haven't agreed yet, why do I feel like I'm already on a pirate ship?"
Cheng Yin patted him on the shoulder, "No way, it's a mission!"
He added: "Take a day off tomorrow and go to the factory to have a meeting first."
"I went, but I may not necessarily say good things."
"As long as you come to help me."
Early the next morning, Lin Chaoyang showed up at Yanying Factory. Cheng Yin traveled between Yanying and Yanda yesterday and had already asked for a creative leave for him.
When he arrived, he first met with the crew's creative director Duan Jishun, screenwriters Hong Zhou and Ge Kangtong, and then he met Wang Yang, director of Yan Film Studio, Jiang Huaiyan, director of the literary planning department, and Shi Wenxin, the editor-in-chief.
Coupled with Cheng Yin who invited Lin Chaoyang yesterday, this lineup is enough to show that Yan Film Studio attaches great importance to this movie.
After the greetings, Wang Yang had something to do and left first.
Duan Jishun first gave the movie script to Lin Chaoyang, "Comrade Chaoyang, this is the first draft of the script. You should read it first. I need your help to enrich the content about Go in it."
Lin Chaoyang's eyes stayed on the cover of the script - "An Unfinished Game of Chess".
It is indeed this movie.
Lin Chaoyang remained calm as he took the script and said, "Let me take a look first."
Lin Chaoyang was considered a script consultant invited by Yan Film Studio, so naturally he had to understand the script first. Everyone else had left, leaving him alone in the guest house of Yan Film Studio, smoking a cigarette and turning over the script.
The more he read the script, the more frustrated he felt, and at the end he slapped the script on the table.
The next day, Duan Jishun convened a script discussion meeting, and he was the first to ask Lin Chaoyang.
"Comrade Chaoyang, what do you think after reading the script? Are there any problems with the handling of the Go part?"
Lin Chaoyang lit a cigarette and said nothing. His face was gloomy, and everyone was confused by him.
"Chaoyang, do you think there's something wrong with this script?"
Cheng Yin was familiar with Lin Chaoyang, and he knew from his expression that Lin Chaoyang was not in the right mood.
"The problem? It's not the problem, it's the butt."
Lin Chaoyang said in a cold voice.
Everyone looked confused and didn't understand where Lin Chaoyang started talking.
"What's wrong with the butt?" Duan Jishun asked.
"The butt is crooked!"
After Lin Chaoyang said this, the atmosphere in the conference room immediately became depressed.
"What do you mean by that?" Screenwriter Hong Zhou was a young man in his twenties. When he heard Lin Chaoyang's words, he immediately stood up and asked.
"Xiao Hong!" Jiang Huaiyan on the side stopped Hong Zhou. He looked at Lin Chaoyang and said slowly: "Chaoyang, if you have any problems, you should communicate with everyone first. Don't be emotional when you come up."
Lin Chaoyang's eyes swept around the crowd, and then looked at Chengyin, "Lao Cheng, when you invited me here yesterday, I told you that I might not have good things to say if I came."
Cheng Yin smiled bitterly when he heard this, "What's this called? The ugly words were said earlier? But you didn't even see the script yesterday!"
Cheng Yin didn't speak, and Lin Chaoyang looked at the screenwriter Hong Zhou who had just stood up, "What did you mean by asking me just now? I want to ask you, what did you mean by writing this script?"
"An Unfinished Chess" tells the story of Kuang Yishan, the chess king of Jiangnan, who attended the warlord's birthday party in Peiping in the 1920s and met the Japanese Go master Matsunami.
At the birthday banquet, Kuang Yishan was imprisoned for not giving up the chess to the warlord. When he was taken away by the police, he was playing chess with Matsunami, and the chess game was interrupted. Later, Kuang Yishan was rescued by Matsunami and the Japanese ambassador.
Songbo discovered that Kuangzi Amin was talented and intelligent, and wanted to accept him as his apprentice, but Kuang Yishan refused. A few years later, the country was in turmoil due to war and the people were in dire straits. For the sake of his son's future, Kuang Yishan decided to send his son Amin to Japan to learn chess.
In 1937, the Japanese army invaded China. Amin, who had already obtained the highest honor of Japanese Go, the Heavenly Sage, was killed by the Japanese army when he decided to flee back to China because he refused to become a Japanese citizen. Kuang Yishan, who was in China, also suffered great misfortune and misfortune because he refused to play against the Japanese colonel.
humiliation.
At the end of the story, New China was founded. Kuang Yishan and Songbo climbed onto the Great Wall, recalling the unfinished game of chess thirty years ago and lamenting the vicissitudes of the world and the pain that war has brought to the people.
The story of the script is very delicate and moving at first glance. It is set in the long years from the Beiyang warlord era to the founding of New China. It denounces Japanese fascist militarism through the joys and sorrows of two Chinese and Japanese Go players and their families.
But after taking a closer look, the more you think about it, the more something is wrong.
It’s not that there is anything wrong with the story itself. Stories are all written by people. As long as you have the right skills, you can weave them well no matter how you write them.
The problem is the stance of this script. In this era of Sino-Japanese friendly atmosphere, some people may not think there is any problem, but as a newcomer, Lin Chaoyang thinks it is a big problem.
"Let me ask you about this scene in your script. Japan was defeated. On the ship where the Japanese were sent back home, someone wrapped a child's body in linen and threw it into the sea for burial. A woman who looked like a mother
, covering his face with his hands and sobbing.
The protagonist, Kuang Yishan, turns his face sideways and looks at the twilight sea.
What did you want to express when you wrote this scene?"
Lin Chaoyang stared and questioned Hongzhou, who was sitting opposite him.
"The people of China and Japan are both victims of the war, and the Japanese people have also suffered from the war." Hongzhou answered forcefully.
"Okay. The place you wrote this scene is Shanghai's Huishan Pier. Let me ask you, have you ever seen any Japanese living in Shanghai during the Anti-Japanese War? Do you know who they are?"
"There are people from all walks of life, including businessmen, officials, and ordinary reclamation groups and their families."
"Okay, then let me ask you again, have you ever seen any Japanese beggars?"
Lin Chaoyang's question left Hongzhou at a loss as to how to answer, "The living conditions of the Japanese in China at that time were relatively good, and there should be no beggars."
"You said that the Japanese are also victims of the war, so why can't there be Japanese beggars on the streets of China?" Lin Chaoyang asked.
"this……"
Hongzhou was speechless for a moment, and another screenwriter Ge Kangtong sitting next to him said: "The scene you just mentioned was after the defeat..."
Before he could finish his words, Lin Chaoyang pointed at him and glared at him.
"Yes! What kind of suffering did you write about the Japanese people after their defeat?
It’s the defeaters’ own fault! It’s the backlash of wolfish ambition! But you told me that the Japanese are also victims of the war.
The party that started the war lost, and his situation became miserable. This turned out to be his suffering?
Haha! Is there such a thing in the world?"
Lin Chaoyang laughed in anger, but there was no smile at all in his eyes, which were full of coldness.
Everyone present looked ugly. Originally, Yan Film Studio invited Lin Chaoyang to polish the script, but no one expected that he would have such an attitude.
Duan Ji said smoothly and bluntly: "Comrade Chaoyang, Xiaohong and others wrote this script to reflect on the pain caused by the war to the people. It not only describes the suffering of the Japanese people, but also describes the suffering of the Chinese people."
"One is the blood of innocent people, and the other is the blood of invaders. Do you think there is no problem in comparing the two?"
"The people are always innocent and victims of war." Hong Zhouqiang defended himself.
"Well, the people are innocent! Who are the people? Who are the people?
Do you think only those war criminals are the initiators of this war?
Can they generate military expenditures out of thin air, build machine guns and cannons out of thin air, and grow food out of thin air?
It’s Japanese! It’s all Japanese!
A small country with few people has exhausted the efforts of several generations in the country in an attempt to swallow up all the countries in the world. You tell me, their people are innocent?
Who are the innocent people? Tell me, who are the innocent people?
Are the Chinese people innocent, or the Japanese people?"
Lin Chaoyang stood up as he slapped the case, his eyes gnashing his teeth, his head full of anger, and his momentum was frightening.
Chapter completed!