Chapter 385 That Mountain, That Man, That Dog

After Zhou Yan returned home, he thought about it and called Shizuka.

From what she heard, she didn't seem to know anything. Akina Nakamori probably didn't tell her.

Since Nakamori Akina didn't say anything, Zhou Yan also chose not to say anything, and just told Shizuka that he had too much work tonight and couldn't go to the Xu Feng Hotel.

Shizuka could only complain about this and said nothing more.

In the morning of the next day, not long after Zhou Yan arrived at the studio and the tea in the cup had not yet brewed, Shizuka dragged Akina Nakamori over.

As soon as she entered the door, Shizuka smiled and said, "I'm busy, do you have time to go out with us for a walk today?"

Zhou Yan looked up and saw Shizuka's smiling face first, and then made eye contact with Akina Nakamori next to him.

Nakamori Akina was like a kitten. As soon as her eyes touched Zhou Yan, she dodged and couldn't help but lean behind Shizuka.

If Zhou Yan was still a little unsure whether the woman last night was Akina Nakamori before, then after seeing her performance today, Zhou Yan was 100% sure.

Zhou Yan couldn't figure out this woman. Last night, she could obviously reveal her identity immediately, but she didn't move, letting him hold her like that, and didn't even make a sound.

If Zhou Yan hadn't discovered something was wrong first and then made the next outrageous move, the scene might have been even more embarrassing.

She didn't tell Shizuka about it afterward, and even came to the studio with Shizuka today.

"certainly."

Zhou Yan put down the pen in his hand. Although he had a lot of work to do, he still decided to take a day to accompany Jingxiang. After all, he had said before that he would accompany Jingxiang around Chang'an, but he broke his promise in the end.

After briefly tidying up, Zhou Yan took the two girls and set off together.

Zhou Yan didn't take them to any special place. He just walked around the Forbidden City and then went to Wangfujing for lunch.

Akina Nakamori didn't say much during the whole process, but Shizuka didn't think it was strange. After all, Akina Nakamori's Chinese was not good.

Zhou Yan was originally going to take them to Beihai Park in the afternoon, but Shizuka said, "Okay, I'm very satisfied with letting you stay with us for half a day. I know you are busy with work, so go back to work."

Zhou Yan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I don't care about it for a long time."

"Okay, listen to me and go back to work." Jingxiang started pushing Zhou Yan directly.

"What about you two?"

"We won't go shopping anymore. Let's go to your studio for a while. Akina is quite interested in making movies and wants to go to the movie studio again."

After saying that, she said something to Zhongming Famous Food in neon language.

Hearing Shizuka's words, Nakamori Akina quickly waved her hand, "No need to bother, let's go back to the hotel."

She did tell Shizuka before that she wanted to go to the movie studio again, but in this situation, she had to stay there because it was too embarrassing.

In the past half day, she had been extremely embarrassed.

Now she couldn't face Zhou Yan with an ordinary attitude, or even face Shizuka with an ordinary attitude.

Obviously she was not to blame for what happened last night, but when facing Shizuka, she felt guilty, as if she and Zhou Yan were having an affair.

What she was most afraid of was Zhou Yan's eyes that glanced at her from time to time. Every time she was touched by Zhou Yan's eyes, the scene of Zhou Yan hugging her from behind last night would appear in her mind.

Although Nakamori Akina clearly refused, Shizuka thought she was just embarrassed, so she still held her hand and said, "It's okay, let's go together. I'm also interested in movies, and Zhou Yan won't think we're intrusive." ”

"Right, Teacher Zhou?" Jingxiang asked Zhou Yan again in Chinese.

Although Zhou Yan didn't understand what Shizuka said before, he still nodded unconsciously, "Yeah."

Just like Akina Nakamori responded to Shizuka last night, she just felt that she should give a positive answer at this time.

"Let's go."

…

After arriving at the studio, Zhou Yan took them to Hong Xin and asked Hong Xin to take them to play in the studio.

If you don’t have an in-depth experience and just visit briefly, there is really nothing interesting in the film studio. You can walk from top to bottom, inside and out in less than ten minutes. You will come in confused, and then you will be confused. Water's out.

Hong Xin and Jingxiang knew each other. Although they were not close to each other, they would often exchange a few words with each other after meeting.

After hearing that Zhou Yan asked him to take them to play in the studio, Hong Xin smiled and said, "Director Huo's new movie is just being produced, I will take you to see it."

"Oh, has Lao Huo's new movie already been in post-production?"

Of course Zhou Yan knew about Huo Jianqi's new movie.

After the release of "Winner" this year, the response was very good, so Huo Jianqi continued to work hard and started filming his second movie.

This movie is still directed by Huo Jianqi, written by his wife Su Xiaowei, and then invested by Tomson Film Company and produced by Yanjing Studio.

Of course, although it is said to be produced by Yanjing Studio, the filming work was actually done by Zhou Yan's studio, which means that Yanjing Studio outsourced the filming to Zhou Yan's studio.

Some people also joked that Zhou Yan's film studio was a branch of Yanjing Studio, because many people in the studio were employed by Yanjing Studio.

Like Hong Xin and others, they are still members of Yanjing Film Studio in name only.

The relationship between the two parties is no longer a secret, and most people in the industry know about it.

Some people will say some sour words, or even make trouble in the middle, accusing them of violating the rules.

If this kind of accusation appeared ten or twenty years ago, Zhou Yan and his team might really be in trouble, but what time is it now? The times have long been different. The national film is undergoing drastic reforms. What does Zhou Yan's cooperation with Yanjing Film Studio mean?

Besides, with the background of Zhou Yan and Han Sanping, they will not be affected by such a small matter.

Some people say that they are poaching from the society, but in fact, in addition to being included in the Yanjing Film Studio, all expenses of Hong Xin and his team are paid by the studio.

Many studios also want to find someone like Zhou Yan to cooperate with, after all, they can go into battle lightly without affecting the main framework, and Zhou Yan can also attract investment for the studio.

Although the money is not directly invested in the studio, the studio is the beneficiary.

For example, Huo Jianqi's new film "Singer" does not require Yanjing Film Studio to pay a penny, nor does it require Yanjing Film Studio to provide a roll of film. It only needs Yanjing Film Studio to provide some people. In the end, Yanjing Film Studio can not only make money, but also print the name of their film studio in the title of the film.

Nowadays, major film studios are responsible for their own profits and losses, and each studio is trying to make money.

However, the money of investors is not blown by the wind, and the times are different. It is no longer the time when film studios were high and mighty in the past. If the project is not good, no one is willing to invest a penny.

Other studios are also looking for similar partners, and some have found similar ones, but I am afraid that they will never find such high-quality people as Zhou Yan.

It is also because they can't find people like Zhou Yan, and they can't eat grapes, so there will be those sour words.

Since the preparation of "Singer", Zhou Yan has never asked about it. He has implemented a free-range policy for the directors of the studio.

In addition to checking the budget for them, he has rarely asked about other things, and it all depends on the directors to play their own roles.

Directors like Huo Jianqi won't fail to make a good movie without Zhou Yan's questioning. On the contrary, if he asks too much, it may affect their performance.

However, since he met them today, Zhou Yan decided to go over and take a look.

Huo Jianqi was naturally in the editing room. A good director must do more editing and cannot rely too much on the editor.

Of course, the director cannot trust himself too much. Most of the time, he still needs to absorb the editor's opinions, because when the director watches his own film, it is easy to fall into the situation of being confused by the authorities.

Even if many directors try to jump out and look, it is difficult to do this. After all, people are emotional animals, not cold machines. Even the most rational people will still have emotional eyes. It can even be said that rationality itself is part of emotion.

In the editing part of the work, the situation in China is very different from that in Hollywood. In comparison, domestic directors have more rights and freedom in editing.

But in Hollywood, only a few directors can have the final editing rights, and most directors need producers and editors.

In order to attract Zhou Yan to help them make movies, Warner Bros. had proposed that Zhou Yan could have greater editing freedom, which is indeed very attractive to ordinary directors.

In fact, there is a reason for Hollywood to have such a rule, because many directors do not have a good control over editing. Editing is not something that can be done with just a pair of scissors. After all, it is a professional job.

In addition, many directors do fall into self-satisfaction, and the final edited content can only be understood by the director himself, which greatly reduces the commercial value.

Many viewers are superstitious about the director's cut version, thinking that the director's cut version can better express the director's artistic concept.

This is also true, but in fact, many director's cut versions are neither commercial nor well expressed by the director's own ideas. It's just that the director himself thinks that he has expressed his own ideas.

Zhou Yan believes that directors still need to understand some editing, and the most basic thing is to understand what editing is for movies.

Many directors regard editors as tools, thinking that editors are just the "scissors" that help them express themselves. This idea is very undesirable.

After Zhou Yan shot his first short film, he spent a lot of time in the editing room. The editing room of Chang'an Studio was like Zhou Yan's home. He was more diligent in going to the editing room than anyone else working there.

Huo Jianqi hadn't seen Zhou Yan for a long time. Seeing Zhou Yan coming to visit the set, he greeted him with a smile, "How come Director Zhou has time to come today?"

"I heard that "Singer" is already in post-production? It's pretty fast."

"That's pretty fast. It's been filming for several months. If it continues, I'll be embarrassed."

Compared to the first time they met, Huo Jianqi looked radiant at this time, not as sad as before. The success of "Winner" gave him a lot of confidence, and now his path as a director is on the right track.

Signed in Zhou Yan's studio, he doesn't have to worry about anything else. He just needs to think about how to make a good movie every day, which naturally makes him look much more relaxed than before.

"Let me introduce you to these two singers from Japan, Kudo Shizuka and Nakamori Akina."

"Hello." Huo Jianqi smiled and greeted them.

In fact, he had met Kudo Shizuka many times, but he had never met her formally.

"They are both interested in the production of movies. "Singer" happened to be making one, so I brought them to see it."

"It just so happened that the two of them came and gave some guidance. After all, the movie is called Singer and it tells the story of a female singer. So you two have the most say."

Huo Jianqi's words were naturally polite. Now that the filming of the movie is over, even if they really have any ideas, it will be difficult to use them in the movie.

"Is it actually a movie about a singer?"

Shizuka had a look of surprise on her face, and then translated for Akina Nakamori, who also had a look of surprise.

Seeing their interest, Huo Jianqi suggested showing them some movies.

The editing work just stopped at this moment and it was not that busy.

Hong Xin took them to watch a movie, while Zhou Yan and Huo Jianqi walked aside.

After the two chatted about "Singer" for a while, Zhou Yan asked again, "Do you have any plans for your next movie?"

Hearing Zhou Yan's question, Huo Jianqi's expression was a little awkward, "I haven't finished this movie yet. It's too early to think about a new movie."

Looking at his expression, Zhou Yan knew that he must have thought about it.

"It doesn't matter. It's not illegal if you think about it."

"Speaking of which, my wife does have some ideas. She wants to change a novel. It is a short story by Peng Jianming. It also won the National Outstanding Short Story Award that year."

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes, "Are you talking about "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog"?"

Huo Jianqi looked at Zhou Yan in surprise. Although he knew that Zhou Yan was still a writer, he was still shocked that Zhou Yan was so knowledgeable and knowledgeable.

Peng Jianming himself is not a particularly famous writer. Although "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" won the National Outstanding Short Story Award, that was more than ten years ago.

"You can guess this?"

Zhou Yan said with a smile, "I happen to be very impressed by this novel. It should have been published in "Sprouting". I was still in middle school at that time. "Sprouting" was very popular among middle school students. "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" It is indeed a very good novel and suitable for being made into a movie. Now that you have an idea, let’s polish the script. ”

"I'm not in a hurry at all. I'll wait until "Singer" is released."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Just decide for yourself."

Again, Zhou Yan adopts a free-range approach to the directors of the studio and does not interfere too much.

Even though Zhou Yan couldn't wait to see "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog", he still had to let nature take its course. (End of chapter)