Chapter 46 third quarter

On the night of the award, the chairman of the film festival held a reception in the famous "Villa Mina" to entertain filmmakers from all over the world.It is magnificent there, and in 1943, the fate-determining "Cairo Conference" was held there.Liu Zhenyun and I walked through this palace-like luxury villa with champagne. It is conceivable that the Chairman of the General Assembly at that time, as the leader of the disaster victims, met Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt here. With such ease, the respect and courtesy received will not be better than ours. Churchill looked down on our chairman very much and refused to provide strategic material assistance to China.President Roosevelt tried his best to persuade Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek to sit together.

Roosevelt said to Churchill: China must be aided to keep them in the war.You should know that if China gets out of the war, the American public will care more about it than if Russia gets out of the war.The Chinese trapped 1.5 million Japanese troops there. Churchill wrote in his memoirs: The lengthy, complicated and trivial situation about China seriously disrupted the talks of the British and American staff officers. I think those lengthy, complicated and trivial matters must contain the chairman's statement on the disaster situation in Henan. The script was built, overthrown, built, and overthrown again, and finally put up a strong shelf.After two years of continuous revision, Liu Zhenyun completed the initial creation of the script.Anyone who has read the script will be shocked by it.During this period, I also established a huge audience for the release of such a film, and used the influence of Chinese New Year films to initially complete the audience base for the market.But we still can't be in a hurry, and we still need to wait for the best time to sail. If such a film has to compromise everywhere, even if it is made, it will lose its due meaning.So after my eyes stretched out to it, I shrank back.May God give us faith and enough wisdom to wait patiently.I sincerely pray that "1942" can be reviewed in our lifetime.

Summer is here, and my body has completely got rid of the sub-health state. I can not only smoke, but also drink, but I am at a loss for filming.At this time, I remembered an essay "Old Mrs. Wu" I read many years ago.It is Liu Qi, a writer living in the United States. Based on his own personal experience, he wrote a sincere prose. It is very short, only 5,000 words, and the writing style is simple and humorous, but it exudes a deep feeling. It is exciting to read.In order to give readers a comprehensive understanding of my creative impulse, I have included this essay in this book for everyone to read.I won't say more about its content here.

I bought the film adaptation rights of this prose, and at the same time asked the original author Liu Qi to be responsible for the adaptation work. I also invited the photographer Zhao Fei and the author to discuss the adaptation plan. After a week of discussion, everyone was very impulsive at first. Later, I felt that the adaptation was very difficult, and finally I fell into the state of making up stories. My intuition told me that if I continued to make up the film like this, the film would be very good-looking, but the original soul in the prose was lost and could not be found. The plots are like prosthetics installed on them, which have a strong rejection of the original natural growth, and the original trees can't grow new branches.This kind of situation reminds me of Zhang Yimou's "Happy Time". Before he filmed, the "Script Demonstration Center" asked us to help with the argumentation. After reading the script, I found Zhang Yimou and Wang Bin and told them my worries.

I said: This kind of character relationship is too unique. At first glance, it looks very dramatic, but when it is implemented in the script, it seems very passive everywhere, and it is desperately made up to make it come true, and it has been completely lost in the end. The natural vividness that should have been, went straight to a man-made, conceptual, "human nature" theme. It's like digging a shovel of soil. Originally, there should be broken tree roots, earthworms cut in half, and stones wrapped in soil. Grab a handful of damp soil, smell it, and there is a kind of life breath.But the current shovel soil is not dug out from the ground, it has been sieved and dried, and then some things that look like tree roots and earthworms are placed in it. It is a lifeless shovel. fake soil.

The adaptation of "Old Mrs. Wu" has fallen into such a situation. We believe too much that our intelligence can solve all problems, but in fact we will never be able to cultivate a pot of asparagus into a banyan tree.This discovery made me very disappointed, and I lost the creative impulse to start over and over again, so when the author finished adapting the script, I almost lost the courage to read it.I have to admit that I am a very emotional person. Once I feel uncomfortable, I will immediately move on. "Old Mrs. Wu" was thrown into the cold palace. From this, I also found that some texts are only suitable for readers to read quietly. Once they are translated into movies, the lip of the donkey is not the mouth of the horse.

At the end of September, my 2002 was still a blank sheet of paper.Although I also supervised two films during this period, "Kara is a Dog" and "The Swordsman in Guanzhong", I always believed that the production was just an administrative job and had nothing to do with my personal creation. At this time, Liu Zhenyun had finished writing a novel and came to my studio with the joy of the autumn harvest. Liu Zhenyun is very familiar with everyone in our studio, and we are like a family when we meet.Brothers followed me and respectfully called Liu Zhenyun "Teacher Liu".Two of them had completely different attitudes when they saw Teacher Liu, one was Zhong Lei and the other was Xiao Wen.Every time Zhonglei sees Teacher Liu, the greatest pleasure is to make Teacher Liu unhappy, and none of the words he says catches Teacher Liu's ears.

Zhong Lei is just in his early 30s. He is known as a handsome guy. He has countless beautiful actresses under his banner. He calls one after another. Each call is very ambiguous to Mr. Liu, and it seems to have endless intriguing secrets. People are excited.So the following conversation ensues. For example, Zhong Lei just finished picking up his cell phone, and he looked at the middle-aged and curious teacher Liu with a satisfied expression on his face. Teacher Liu: May I ask you a question?Of course, you can answer or not answer. Zhong Lei: Then I won’t answer. Teacher Liu was prepared for such a result, and asked again: Is it a woman?

Zhong Lei replied: I don't answer the man's phone after work. Teacher Liu: Does she look better than Shu Qi? Zhong Lei asked back: Do you think Shu Qi is pretty? Teacher Liu: I'm just making an analogy, what are you in a hurry for? Zhong Lei: I don't know ugly girls. Teacher Liu: Can you come here as soon as you call? Zhong Lei: If you can’t call Zhang San, call Li Si. Teacher Liu: I really don't believe it. Call one to let us have a look. Zhong Lei: Why do I have to let you believe that I am having fun by myself? Teacher Liu: Then I think that what you said is not true. In fact, all the people who called you were men.

Zhong Lei casually dialed the phone and handed it to Teacher Liu. A younger sister Shuiling's voice came from the phone: Brother Zhonglei!Where are you? Zhong Lei hung up the phone and asked: Teacher Liu, has your curiosity been satisfied? Teacher Liu replied angrily: "It's all fucking broken shoes."