Three days ago, local time, at 5:30 pm on January 24, 2012, the 84th Oscar announced its nomination list. The very regrettable "The Flowers of Jinling" failed to get the best foreign language film nomination...

The day after the nomination list was announced, Huang Wen had already contacted Xu Hui. The two made an appointment to fight to the suburbs of West Lake in Hangzhou together, where Zhang Yimou lived!

Today is the agreed time. Xu Hui did not lie. He did come to the airport for something!

The pick-up was successful, and the two got into the car. Xu Hui held a script "International Market" in his hand

A Korean movie reflects working overseas, and also shows the changes of the times. It can be called the Korean version of "Forrest Gump"...

It has the same effect as "Living"!

Xu Hui believed that such a script should impress Lao Touzi, who lamented: "Literature is prosperous, good scripts come one after another, and good movies emerge one after another. In this era, there are too few works like "Red Sorghum". But the good scripts are not followed, which makes me have to accept the fact that they have excellent and withered."

And Zhang Yimou later said, "I have fame and profit, so I want to make two good works now!"

In the script "International Market", Xu Hui changed the story background to Qingtian County, which tells the story of the post-40s born in Qingtian working hard in a foreign land. Of course, it must involve a lot of scenes related to historical changes, such as the War of Liberation, Brother Wen, Reform and Opening-up, etc.

Qingtian is the most famous county town in our country that works overseas. There is a statistics that Qingtian County, with a total population of only 480,000, but overseas Chinese have 220,000!

This history is very interesting. Xu Hui had the company's screenwriter compiled several works based on this prototype.

He read the script, but he was not very satisfied. He always felt that he had gone astray. What Xu Hui wanted was the heaviness of history, rather than how difficult it is to start a business overseas...

He simply organized his own language, interspersed with the male protagonist's own experience based on each section of history, and deliberately created the feeling of a small person in history. Although there was a little logic problem, I believe that after the touch and filling of the professional screenwriter, there are still many things that can be displayed in the entire work.

...

When they saw Zhang Yimou, Xu Hui and Huang Wen were very respectful.

After talking a few words, Lao Zhang suddenly asked, "Xiao Xu, do you really think that "The Flowers of War" cannot win the Oscars?"

Damn, I also said that I don’t care about the award!

"Oscars are not the weather vane of Chinese films, but a platform for filmmakers from all over the world to communicate and learn from each other. They should not be deified. There are more than 400 international film festivals on the list all over the world. Whether it is the American Oscars, Cannes, France or the Chinese Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, a group of filmmakers bring all the dishes they cook to each other and try them. It's that simple."

This is his original words...

"Director Zhang, Xu Hui is talking nonsense to cooperate with the film promotion..."

Huang Wen thought Lao Zhang wanted to raise an army to question him, so he hurriedly helped to explain.

Xu Hui was also quite embarrassed. After all, he just met and found out the old accounts. This conversation felt very difficult to continue!

“…No, I just want to know what’s wrong with my movie!”

"…I think the main reason is that the values ​​are different from those in the West. If the age of those students is changed to 7 or 8 years old, it will probably be acceptable..."

Xu Hui explained with a bit of anger.

"Yes! Americans think that life is equal, no wonder they say that there is something wrong with this story itself!"

Zhang Yimou sighed, probably he knew this in his heart. After thinking about it, he continued to ask: "But if you are 7 or 8 years old, the story will be difficult to control, and the review will be difficult to pass!"

Xu Hui thought for a while: "Yes, the review level is not easy... However, Oscars tend to tell stories about redemption and children. If these two can be combined, there is a great possibility of winning the award!"

"…I tell this story completely according to our oriental habits, and the basis of the movie is wrong!"

Zhang Yimou sighed, and invited Xu Hui and Huang Wen to sit down: "By the way, I haven't thanked you two yet. If it weren't for Huang Wen's reminder, I would probably be in the dark."

“…This is what we should do.”

Taking advantage of Chen Ting's exposing the truth about Zhang Wei's calligraphy, this move was right.

"I probably know what you are here. I do have the idea of ​​leaving the new crown, but I agreed in advance that although I do not reject commercial films, I am afraid of being bullied by commercial!"

"Director Zhang, you are such a big-name director, how dare you, investors threaten you?"

Huang Wen asked in surprise.

Zhang Yimou waved his hand and explained: "He is not threatening me, but he is even more worried about being soft and hard, making your ideas and creation distorted."

"For example, a work like "Three Guns", I didn't plan to shoot this drama, but the production company wanted to make money and used Xiao Shenyang to play commercial hype, so I pieced together an immature script. I felt like I was falling into the ditch because it lacked cultural value and was a product of commercial conspiracy!"

Being swayed by business and capital is actually a very painful thing for the director.

Stephen Chow once told Wu Yifan, "Why did I look for you?" Because Ah Li asked you for a name!

He spent 400 million to make this movie, and he also acquired Stephen Chow's company. What's wrong with letting the actor he is optimistic about play the leading role?

It was like "Three Guns" was forcibly stuffed into Xiao Shenyang, and "The Golden Armor in the City" was stuffed into Zhou Jielun, which was all the product of capital.

You insist on saying that I am a big director and can refuse, haha, I've paid for it...

Even Xu Hui is not immune to the vulgarity. His movies rarely look for actors outside the company unless they are really inappropriate...

Lao Zhang has had enough of it. After being regarded as a money tree by Zhang Weipin for so many years, he finally wanted to find himself back!

"Don't worry about this. All the works produced by our company will basically not interfere with the director's ideas. You can use whoever you want to use the actors!"

Huang Wen spoke decisively.

"Director Zhang, I am also a director. I understand the many problems we creators have encountered. I am the most opposed to people who don't know how to guide them casually. To be honest, we invite you to make some thick and thoughtful movies. As for box office and income, you don't have to worry about this at all. Our company is not short of money!"

Xu Hui also quickly followed and added.

"...I may have to take two years off, and the Flowers of Warriors consumes too much!"

Zhang Yimou looked at the two people in front of him, remained silent for a while, and continued to make requirements...

"No problem, you can give yourself a vacation first, we will help collect the script..."

Huang Wen was delighted, this was the rhythm of his promise!

"Director Zhang, I have a script here. Do you want to read it?"
Chapter completed!