Rebirth to dominate the film and television industry

Chapter 101

Director Liang's tone was full of melancholy, but there was a smile on his face.

Han Xun didn't dare to ask more questions, and it was not a kind behavior to stir up the old director's sadness when they first met.

Liang Qingxue set up a small bench in the kitchen and sat down to choose dishes.

Han Xun thought for a while, went straight into the kitchen and washed his hands, ready to help.

The potatoes in the plastic bag had already been peeled by the vegetable vendor. Han Xun picked up two and asked, "Mr. Liang, where is the kitchen knife?"

Liang Qingxue hadn't been called Director Liang or Teacher Liang for a long time. Unexpectedly, this young man called him all over the place as soon as he came, reminding him of the glory days of the past.

Liang Qingxue stood up, handed the pea tip to Han Xun, and changed the potato back by the way.

He said: "My knife is fast, I will cut it. You can help me choose vegetables."

Today's young people have thin skin and tender flesh, and their skin is so pale, Liang Qingxue is afraid that Han Xun will cut him.

There was a rattling sound in the kitchen, and Liang Qingxue said while cutting potatoes: "Let's eat at my place later, the chicken is stewed in the morning, and I will fry two vegetarian dishes to deal with it later.... Hey, what's your name?" "

"Han Xun."

"Oh, Han Xun." Liang Qingxue wiped the shredded potatoes, "You said you have a campus script, tell me what it is written in. I will help you as a staff."

Han Xun lowered his head and pinched the tips of peas, and said as if chatting with his elders: "It is mainly a story about a group of high school students sweating in the Mathematical Olympiad competition."

"Mathematics Olympiad?" Liang Qingxue said confusedly, "I remember that Mathematics Olympiad was very popular in the past. They were sent to training classes for Mathematics Olympiad when they were seven or eight years old. It was said that it was to develop intelligence and enhance children's interest in mathematics. Your idea is a good idea, but what? ...The campus theme is no longer popular, and everyone, old and young, like to watch actors fall in love."

He laughed and said jokingly: "In the past, what kind of love did children have when they read books? If they dared to teach students not to do their jobs properly in TV dramas, newspapers would write articles to criticize them. Now times have changed. In TV dramas, students fall in love and teachers fall in love. , Parents also fall in love, which has become the mainstream. Are the students you wrote about falling in love?"

Han Xun was a little ashamed.

In the mainstream plot of love, it seems that he is an old antique from the same era as Liang Qingxue. He can't be seen in TV dramas and movies forcibly turning into the route of love, and life and death are inexplicably parted.

If Xu Simiao hadn't asked for "I Don't Want to Go to Work" by name, in Han Xun's script, it is estimated that he has been insulated from love so far.

He replied: "Don't talk about it. Because I think the main life of high school students is to write homework, and falling in love can only be regarded as an experience in the ignorant period of youth. I don't write. People love to write. So I want to write about lonely Yes, the main task of the protagonists is to represent the school in provincial competitions, and finally represent China to go abroad to participate in world competitions to win glory for the country."

"To win glory for the country..." Liang Qingxue was silent for a long time, then sighed, "The idea is good, it is suitable for broadcasting to students, but unfortunately, this kind of script is not easy to sell. Most of the scripts bought in the circle want to praise newcomers. [-]-year-old stars are waiting to show their faces on TV, and the bosses call for a script that wants to fall in love. This is a best-selling script. If you change the environment more than ten years ago, if you write a high school student who wins glory for the country, Huaying will definitely cast it. My "Campus Life" "Comedy" is in response to the call, students want to have a TV series that students can watch, so it was filmed. Han Xun, if your script wants to sell, you have to cater to the market, and if you don't sell it, you will suffer."

Han Xun pinched off the pea-pointed old sticks one by one, and said, "Mr. Liang, don't worry, I have found an investor for my script, and I don't need to cater to the market, and I don't need to suffer."

"what?"

Liang Qingxue thought that Han Xun was a desperate young man, and asked him to help him set up a bridge.

Although he has been away from the circle for so many years, there are still a few old acquaintances who are willing to buy his face.

Liang Qingxue gave a little help and helped many screenwriters and tricks who couldn't find their way.

He saw that Han Xun was so young, he didn't look like he was flourishing in the film and television industry.

Dressed in a plain T-shirt and jeans, and sitting on his small broken bench to help choose dishes, he looked like a new screenwriter who was underappreciated and asked for help.

Besides, someone who is capable will come to him?

As a result, Han Xun's script was sold and the investment was secured.

Holding the knife, Liang Qingxue felt a little unbelievable. He stared blankly at Han Xun and asked, "The script is sold, so why do you want me?"

"We are short of a director." Han Xun sat on a small bench and looked up at him, "Aren't I just visiting thatched cottage?"

Han Xun, who visited the thatched cottage three times, didn't get rejected outside the door, but ate old chicken soup secretly made by Liang Qingxue himself.

The cooking skills of middle-aged people who live alone are almost [-] times better than Xu Simiao's. The old chicken soup, potato shreds and fried cabbage, the three dishes with meat and vegetables are a bit too rich for the two of them.

Liang Qingxue has nothing to do, so he likes to study at home how to prepare and make the dishes delicious, and he also pays attention to balanced nutrition.

Even for a dish of cabbage, he can make sweet and sour, green pepper, and dried watercress in several styles, and he boasted proudly: "He didn't even bother to go to the small restaurant at the door to invite him to be a chef."

While eating, Han Xun listened to Liang Qingxue talk about his experience of cooking at home after resigning in the past few years.

The director, who has mastered his cooking skills, doesn't seem to miss the set at all, and has no plans to come out again.

After chatting about cooking skills, he finally talked about his old profession, "I am no longer a director, and the equipment is updated too fast. If you ask me to film, I don't even know what the buttons on the equipment are for. Xiao Han, since your script has been sold, you should communicate with the crew well. Isn’t it hard to find a director if you have money? You send a copy of the revelation, and the directors who have no work will line up to come to your door. Don’t look at some When the directors were young, they doubted their ability, there are talents from generation to generation, and the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead, they must be much better than me."

Liang Qingxue recited that poem leisurely, with a self-deprecating tone, with a sense of freedom and ease of seeing through the world.

However, Han Xun said: "However, for more than ten years, there is only one "Campus Life Comedy"."

He may be a little expert at ending topics.

With the title of "Campus Life Comedy", Liang Qingxue couldn't even continue to laugh at himself freely.

He stared blankly at Han Xun with muddy and vicissitudes of life eyes, and finally picked up the bowl silently and ate quietly.

Seeing this, Han Xun could only eat quietly.

Liang Qingxue kept his mouth shut, as if he had been stimulated.

"Campus Life Comedy" was so successful, he didn't think Liang Qingxue quit the directing circle voluntarily.

The hermits who have always looked at the world of mortals have frustrations. They express their melancholy through poetry and prose. Liang Qingxue probably inherited the glorious tradition of the Chinese nation and gave this melancholy to the food.

Han Xun didn't dare to continue asking, lest Liang Qingxue get angry and drive him out.

Don't look at Liang Qingxue who always speaks with a smile, but Han Xun has seen the interviews back then-Director Liang has a bad temper, actors are most afraid of him, the kind who can stop children from crying.

Most of the director's works can reflect the director's personality, such as Wang Caiji's good temper, which is undoubtedly revealed in the campus romance drama, and Liang Qingxue's strict requirements, which are perfectly reproduced in the head teacher of "Campus Life Comedy".

Han Xun remembers that during the interview in the newspaper, the author asked the director if there was a prototype for the head teacher who was always yelling at the students angrily.

Liang Qingxue said that the prototype is himself, yelling at the students on the set every day that this is wrong and that is wrong, scaring the children enough, and then cruelly asked the screenwriter to write a script for the clips that scared them stupid, and filmed it for everyone to appreciate.

Teachers who are angry at every turn like the head teacher have disappeared now, but "Campus Life Comedy" is still the youthful memory of Han Xun's generation.

After the meal, Han Xun helped clean up the dishes, and asked casually, "Mr. Liang, did you go to direct the documentary later?"

"Well, for the documentary, we took the Silk Road again and took pictures of the cultural scenery along the way. The shooting of that film was quite smooth, but it was too hard. The crew of the crew took the guys with them like a self-driving tour. Sometimes I can’t see anyone for a day or two.” Liang Qingxue was very happy when he said this, “Fortunately, there is enough mineral water for instant noodles in the car, and instant noodles can be cooked on a fire in the wilderness. This kind of thing can be eaten at home. I also eat outside, but now I feel sick to my stomach. From then on, I thought, when I retire, I will study and cook at home every day, and I will never eat instant noodles again.”

Han Xun has never watched the documentaries made by Liang Qingxue. There are many documentaries about re-traveling the Silk Road, but none of them are well-known.

Documentaries have a narrow audience, which is completely different from the directors of TV dramas and movies.

Han Xun thought for a long time, and still asked: "Why...don't you continue to make TV dramas, but make documentaries instead?"

"This is a task, little comrade." Liang Qingxue filled the pot with hot water and said while washing the dishes, "Working in the unit, of course, is to shoot whatever is approved, and the higher-ups assigned me to shoot documentaries. This is the job task. It must be completed. Later, when I came back from filming the documentary, I submitted a few more applications, but none of them passed. Either the script was not good, or the cost was too high. Several scripts were approved in the first review, and then asked to change the content, but they kept changing and never approved. That's how time goes. Do the math, I haven't seen a new camera in almost eight years."

When Liang Qingxue talked about the past, Han Xun only felt sad.

Life is short, and how many eight years does one person have? He couldn't imagine that a director like Liang Qingxue, who made classic campus TV dramas, would not see a new camera for a full eight years.

Perhaps it was this that led Liang Qingxue to choose to resign and hide in a dilapidated building as a health chef, giving advice and help to those who came to him, and he was not stingy with his kindness.

Even if they are just strangers who have nothing to do with film and television.

Han Xun didn't mention the director again.

But before leaving, Han Xun asked, "Mr. Liang, do you want to go to the studio?"

Liang Qingxue said with a surprised face: "I'm an outsider, what do I go to the set for?"

"Go and see...the new camera?"

Han Xun felt that the new camera might be of great significance to Liang Qingxue.

Otherwise, Mr. Liang, who kept silent about his career as a director and was not interested in the set, would have agreed to the new camera after a little thought.

As a screenwriter, Han Xun is not interested in the facilities and equipment on the set. Apart from cameras, radio microphones, and lighting board basic equipment, he doesn't know many things at all, and there is no need to know them.

Since Liang Qingxue was interested in the camera, Han Xun naturally considered contacting the crew near Xiangcheng.

Whether it's visiting the class or standing outside to have a look, he must help Liang Qingxue realize such a simple and simple wish.

With Ross investing in a strong capital force as a backer, it is too easy for him to find a crew with a new camera and willing to accept outsiders to visit the set.

The next day, Liu Ye sent the news.

A Republic of China drama is being filmed near Xiangcheng, using a new camera, and warmly welcomes Han Xun's arrival.

The old town of Xiangcheng inherits the typical style of the Republic of China period, gray brick and wood low buildings, and the whole old street is only two stories high. The government also built a film and television base with the style of the Republic of China outside the city, attracting many crews with the background of the Republic of China Into the filming.

When Han Xun and Liang Qingxue arrived at the film and television base, they made a phone call and found someone to guide them.

Unexpectedly, the production team was very enthusiastic about receiving people, and they came up without asking, and directly held Han Xun's hand, and said excitedly: "Mr. Han, welcome, welcome, Mr. Liu said yesterday that you are coming to guide the work, but unfortunately the time is too short , we haven't prepared the banner yet."

Han Xun: ...

Liang Qingxue was overjoyed when he heard it, "Han Xun, so you are so good, there are banners to welcome you when you come to other people's production crews."

The receptionist hurriedly answered, "Of course, with such an excellent screenwriter, Mr. Han, we are really flourishing. The director told us yesterday..."

Han Xun immediately interrupted and said, "Let's go to the crew first."

If he had a time machine, he would definitely go back to the day of Dongying Cinema and strictly demand the manager to delete the led banner!

Even if there is no banner, the presence of the famous screenwriter Han Xun also received cordial greetings from all members of the crew.

As soon as they entered the set, the director called out Ka, smiled enthusiastically and came over to shake hands with Han Xun, expressing his excitement.

"Mr. Han, I didn't expect you to come here. I have always liked your scripts, and I always wondered when I would have the opportunity to cooperate with you. This time you came here. If you don't want to help our crew, see if there is anything to change changed?"

This scene... Han Xun was really hard to accept, and wanted to turn around and leave.

He is neither a traffic star nor a government leader, what's going on with this group of people!When you come up, you shake hands enthusiastically and don't want to let go!Can you still have a good time filming!

The director was crazily praising Han Xun, while Liang Qingxue stood aside, very happy to hear it.

Han Xun turned out to be such an excellent young man, and he felt a burst of relief in his heart.

If the director and screenwriter have little say, the content of the TV series will easily be biased.

He has suffered the disadvantage of acting according to his heart under high pressure. Although the TV series is successful, the people he offended have made things harder for him.

Han Xun is powerful and powerful.

In this way, the Mathematics Olympiad script that allows students to win glory for the country should not be hindered too much.

Liang Qingxue was cheerful, and made way for the crowd who flocked up to listen to Han Xun's speech.

The studio is the same as before, brightly lit, empty and quiet, he has poor eyesight, myopia and presbyopia, the dazzling light around him makes him squint his eyes, and he walks slowly, slowly reminiscing about the new and old studios the difference.

In the drama of the Republic of China style, the sets are full of the atmosphere of that era. Except for a small area in front of the camera, the surrounding area is covered with cables and props, which is not at all like the exquisite and glamorous picture in front of the camera.

Liang Qingxue easily found the director's seat, and an assistant stood by.

Seeing Liang Qingxue approaching, he naturally greeted him warmly.

People who can come here with Han Xun must have different identities, but they don't know what this person is doing.

Liang Qingxue squinted his eyes and couldn't see the camera clearly, so he had to say to his assistant: "Can I take a closer look at this machine? I promise not to touch it."

"Yes." The assistant nodded, made room for him, and introduced, "This is the new German ALEXA digital movie camera, and the effect of shooting is similar to that of "The Revenant."

"So good?" Liang Qingxue knew this famous movie, "Then tell me, what functions does this camera have?"

Of course the assistant didn't dare to demonstrate it to Liang Qingxue, but he pointed to the various parts of the camera seriously and explained their functions.

Liang Qingxue didn't know much about the technical terminology of the emerging era. Faced with the assistant's enthusiasm, he just stared at the camera and nodded in style.

But I was thinking in my heart, time is really changing fast, everything is different, this small button can have so many unintelligible functions!

When Han Xun came out from the crowd and walked towards the director's seat, Liang Qingxue was squinting his eyes and studying knowledge.

He went up and asked with a smile, "Mr. Liang, are you satisfied with this camera?"

"Satisfied, satisfied." Liang Qingxue nodded, "The equipment is much more advanced now, and this little classmate taught me a lot of new skills."

The people brought by Han Xun said they were satisfied, and the director was also very satisfied with his clever assistant.

He said, "Mr. Han, who is this teacher?"

"Liang Qingxue, Director Liang." Han Xun introduced solemnly, without any intention of hiding it, "Mr. Liang has always wanted to see the new digital movie camera, so we came here to bother you."

With Han Xun's personal introduction, Liang Qingxue's status was naturally elevated.

A group of people who had never heard of Liang Qingxue followed suit and said, "I have admired him for a long time", "So this is Director Liang", "We are really honored that Director Liang came here".

Liang Qing learned to understand superficial skills, smiled and nodded, but did not answer.

Very well-known great director style.

When they had seen enough of the camera and came out, Liang Qingxue said with a smile: "Han Xun, you have a heart, but I know my strength best. I am old and my eyes are not good. If you are really afraid that the director you invited will not be able to shoot If I want to produce the desired effect, I can help guide and give some advice. I can't do the job of directing, and it's okay to do odd jobs on the set."

In Han Xun's heart, he really didn't want to force Liang Qingxue.

The other party relaxed and was willing to enter the set, and Han Xun couldn't force it.

He had no choice but to say: "Then ask Mr. Liang to be an honorary director and help our director check it out."

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