After leaving the set, Zhang Ran and Han Shanping found a restaurant nearby, asked for a private room, and sat inside and started chatting.

After chatting around for a while, Han Shanping began to talk about his purpose: "Next year is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. We at China Film will make a tribute film "The Founding of the People's Republic of China". This is a key film finalized by the Literary and Art Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the General Administration. We are preparing to make a large-scale epic film and invite various stars to join. Whether it is the protagonist or supporting role, or even the supporting actor, they will invite first-line stars to perform, creating a luxurious audio-visual feast!"

Zhang Ran remembers the movie "The Founding of a Country". It is indeed as Han Shanping described. The movie is really full of celebrities. There are 187 big stars making guest appearances. On average, there is a big star playing supporting role every 43 seconds. It is the most powerful main theme movie in the history of Chinese films!

The movie was released during the National Day in 2009 and finally achieved a box office of more than 400 million yuan, which can be said to be an unprecedented success!

But from the perspective of the movie itself, "The Founding of a Country" lacks the character creation and sufficient contradictions and conflicts. It is a complete record of mediocrity. It is good to say that it is mediocre and has very low level. Zhang Ran is really not interested in such a movie.

But Han Shanping came to the door, and it was inevitable that he would make a guest appearance.

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "I definitely support giving a gift to the 60th anniversary of National Day, let me make a guest appearance, right? No problem! Arrange a role for me, and when will you shoot me and say it to me, I will definitely be there on call!"

Han Shanping looked at Zhang Ran and said with a strange look: "I'm looking for other people to play guest roles, but I'm not just a guest role. I hope you will be co-directed with me!"

Zhang Ran was stunned and waved his hand and said, "No, Mr. Han, I have my own schedule. The script was written by me during the Olympics. Now that the Olympics are over, I am already working on this matter. Where can I have the time to direct "The Founding of a Country"!"

Han Shanping looked at Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "You don't have to keep an eye on the whole audience. You only need to direct a few scenes, mainly because you are famous. The leaders of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee said that our domestic directors are Zhang Ran who is famous overseas, so it is easier to promote your name overseas!"

Zhang Ran felt a little annoyed. Mr. Han, you are smashing my signature. When someone saw it, I'm damn, why did Zhang Ran shoot a record of a record, it would definitely be a bad review! But the leaders above all spoke, but the leaders in charge of the publicity. Zhang Ran really couldn't refuse, so he could only say, "That's fine. You pick a few scenes from the script and give them to me. During the interval when I was filming my own movie, I filmed these scenes. What do you think?"

"The Founding of a Country" films a series of stories from the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan to the eve of the founding of New China in 1949. In these four years, the entire land of China has been ups and downs, with too many things happening. Many characters in the movie can be made into a movie. So many characters are piled up in it, so the movie naturally lacks the portrayal of details, and the narrative is very rushing, and major events are rushed one after another, and the filming naturally feels like a dime.

This is a problem caused by the creativity of the movie. Unless the script is subversive, Kurosawa Akira can only be revived, so Zhang Ran was too lazy to make any suggestions.

Han Shanping was very satisfied with this. With Zhang Ran's help, the movie was even more confident of success: "Of course, I haven't filmed a movie for 18 years. This time Director Zhao personally ordered my player, and I was also on the shelves. You also know that my directorial level is limited, and I can only hand over the scenes to you, as well as Huang Jianxin and others!"

Zhang Ran joked with Han Shanping: "This is OK, but Mr. Han, is the issue of the cost?"

Han Shanping laughed and scolded: "No cent. You are so rich, you still care about how much you have! Besides, this is a birthday celebration for the motherland. Do you still charge your mother for your birthday?"

Things have been decided so. Zhang Ran was filmed by the most important scenes in "The Founding of a Country". However, the movie is still in the preparation stage and there is still a lot of work to be done. The movie will be launched until the beginning of next year. Zhang Ran doesn't have to worry about the movie for the time being.

For more than half a month after that, Zhang Ran had been instructing Yang Qing on the crew of "Dragon Group". On September 24, the first two episodes of "Dragon Group", which was the first story, was finally finished.

At this time, the National Day holiday is approaching and the National Day holiday is coming. This summer, many movies are hiding from the Olympics, and they aim to target the golden period of National Day. Among them are Chinese blockbusters such as "Painted Skin" and "Keep Call", as well as foreign blockbusters such as "Mummy 3" and "Water Screaming Mist", and the movie "] co-directed by Yu Feihong and Zhang Jingchu

In fact, the romance film "Love has a Next Life" is the most suitable for Valentine's Day or the Chinese Valentine's Day. However, this year's Chinese Valentine's Day was released at the time of the opening ceremony of the Olympics, and there was almost no attention. Valentine's Day has to wait until next year, so the film's release party Xingmei finally decided to release it during the National Day.

On the evening of September 25, "Love Has a Next Life" held a grand premiere at the Beijing Star International Cinema. The premiere was star-studded. In addition to the high-profile appearances of Duan Yihong, Yu Feihong and Zhang Jingchu, several main creators, it also attracted famous directors and actors such as He Ping, Zhang Yibai, and Wu Jing to help.

Zhang Ran is undoubtedly the biggest guest among the audience. When he and Zhang Jingchu appeared, they were enthusiastically sought after by media reporters. The reporters rushed forward like bees, wanting to occupy the best shooting position, they couldn't hold their fingers and pressed the shutter, and the whole scene kept clicking, just like locusts eating crops.

Zhang Ran was very easy-going and greeted everyone with a smile, but today he was a supporting role, not here to steal the limelight, and soon drifted over like a gust of wind.

After walking the red carpet, Zhang Jingchu pointed to the model of the ginkgo tree at the entrance and said, "You have read the movie script and know the movie story. This is the model of the ginkgo tree in the movie, with a card of love pronunciation. The guests should write their understanding of love on it, and you can write it too!"

Zhang Ran felt that this activity seemed a bit formalistic, but the guest was as he pleased, so he casually wrote: "Zhang Ran + Zhang Jingchu = love!"

The most touching thing about the entire premiere was undoubtedly the appearance of Yu Feihong's head teacher Professor Li Ranran and her husband Ma Jingwu. The two old men have been married for nearly 50 years. Their finale appeared on the red carpet, which undoubtedly has a special significance for this movie with the theme of "true love eternal".

Before the movie was officially screened, Yu Feihong chatted with Zhang Ran: "Director Zhang, it's not easy for Jingchu and I to shoot this movie. You must support us!"

Zhang Ran said seriously: "Support, definitely support. I have sent text messages to the students in our class. Everyone must go to the cinema to watch "Love has a Next Life" twice, otherwise they will fail the final exam."

Seeing Zhang Ran pretending to be stupid, Yu Feihong looked at him and said directly: "I hope you support us more in the screening."

Zhang Ran touched his nose and said, "I think only vulgar people like me are concerned about things like the box office!"

Yu Feihong said with confidence: "Of course I hope the box office is good. Others invest so much money, I definitely hope that they can recover the cost. Besides, the higher the box office, the more viewers you watch. I think this is a frank and sincere movie, and I hope more people can see it!"

There are rules and systems for film scheduling, so Zhang Ran can't do it randomly: "I believe this is a sincere movie, and I also believe that the movie is good. I will definitely support what I should support!"

Yu Feihong smiled sweetly. There were many blockbusters during the National Day holiday and his competitors were very strong. With Zhang Ran's words, she was completely relieved.

Soon, the movie officially began to play.

"Love has a Next Life" tells a story that can be summarized in one sentence. A ghost under a thousand-year-old ginkgo tree tells the memories of the previous life to Wanwan, the woman he loved deeply in his previous life.

The film was beautiful and sentimental, which easily touched the hearts of the female audience in the venue. After watching the movie, many female audiences were wiping their tears, and the male audience was also sighing.

Zhang Jingchu asked expectantly: "What do you think?"

Zhang Ran was not afraid of hitting Zhang Jingchu, so he said directly: "It's okay, it's not good, but it's definitely not bad. He told a very simple story with a very ordinary method. The whole movie was made fresh and simple, and there are quite few movies of this style in China."

Zhang Jingchu asked, "Then what do you think of the box office?"

Zhang Ran shook his head: "Not really, try to get more than 10 million!"

Zhang Jingchu and Yu Feihong expected the box office of this movie to be 50 million. When Zhang Ran said this, he couldn't believe his ears: "No, the quality of the movie is obviously very good, and the audience's reactions are very good. How could it be so few? Many bad movies have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in box office!"

Zhang Ran did not explain in detail and simply said: "The quality of the movie cannot be equated with the box office. There are too many factors involved here. If you can understand this issue, you will be a box office expert!"

After the premiere, Zhang Jingchu was going to attend the press conference with Yu Feihong and the actors, so Zhang Ran drove home directly.

Zhang Ran knew that "Love Has a Next Life" would have a crushing defeat at the box office, but he still hoped to help the movie, and did not want the movie to die too badly. He clicked on his Weibo and wrote: "I attended the premiere of "Love Has a Next Life" today. I thought it was good after watching the movie. This is a well-made and one of the few pure love movies in the mainland. I recommend you to watch it.

The film photography is exquisite and the editing is capable. The two main actors perform quite well. Many people know that there are no ghosts in mainland movies, and "Love has a Next Life" is one of the few movies in recent years that can allow ghosts to go directly to the screen. For Chinese movies, this is a breakthrough.

But what touched me the most was the sincerity of the main creator of the movie. Yu Feihong spent a lot of effort on this movie and worked hard for this movie for ten years. We often hear how much effort and how many years it has been for a certain work, but these are often a propaganda strategy and an exaggeration. But ten years of hard work are appropriate for this movie. The preparation of the movie went through ten years of ups and downs, and it finally condensed into this work. Whether the audience likes it or not, they cannot admit the sincerity of the movie.

In recent years, the Chinese film market has developed rapidly, and filmmakers have become more and more impetuous. Many people are thinking about making dollars, and fewer and fewer people are willing to calm down and make movies. From this perspective, "Love has a Next Life" is a respectable work."

The Olympics have just ended, and now Zhang Ran’s reputation is at its peak. His Weibo is a hot topic on the Internet. Every time he publishes a new meager, he can get a lot of comments and reposts, killing many superstars and Weibo celebrities in seconds.

After Zhang Ran posted this long Weibo post, he received more than 10,000 comments and reposts in less than two hours. Among them, there were many celebrities who forwarded it, and it can be said that most of the entertainment industry has reposted it.

When Zhang Jingchu returned home, she saw half of the entertainment industry reposting the Weibo of "Love has a Next Life" and seemed very happy. With so many celebrities helping to promote it, the box office of the movie will definitely not be as miserable as Zhang Ran said!

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