The bard joins the entertainment industry

After getting on the plane, Chen Shuo and Liu Yifei took out a new script and prepared to read it while they were in the sky.

Before boarding the plane, screenwriter Wang Bin handed a new script to the two of them.

This was printed out just before he got on the plane.

When Chen Shuo received it, there was still a hint of warmth and the smell of ink.

Now in this script, the government annihilates the Feidao Sect, then discovers traces of the Feidao Sect, and goes to Peony Square to capture the blind girl named Xiaomei for interrogation.

Then Chen Captou rescued him under the pseudonym Suifeng. After going through life and death hardships, the two fell in love with each other and became happy.

Then the conspiracy was revealed, and the two separated due to the younger sister's concerns, but they couldn't help but go in both directions.

Liu Captou appeared, and there was a battle in the sea of ​​​​flowers. The younger sister died, and Chen Captou was heartbroken.

At this point, the plot has lasted for more than a hundred minutes, which is completely enough for a movie.

Next, Capt. Liu gathered his mood and participated in the battle between the Zhulin government and Feidaomen.

Introduce the identity of the eldest sister, explain her ideals, and depict the conspiracy of Capt. Liu and the second sister.

In a big battle, first the eldest sister tried her best to kill Mr. Yu, and then the second sister took the opportunity to sneak attack on the eldest sister.

Then Liu Captou and the second sister joined forces to fight against the eldest sister.

Interspersed with some emotional entanglements between the three of them, the relationship between the younger sister and the elder sister, Liu Captou, etc.

When they killed the seriously injured eldest sister, Sui Feng appeared holding the younger sister's body, and finally killed Liu Captou and the second sister who were also seriously injured.

In the end, he buried everyone in the sea of ​​flowers. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, he inserted his weapon in front of his little sister's grave and disappeared into the sunset.

The whole drama lasts for more than 230 minutes. There are many places that I want to shoot and many places that I want to explain.

Zhang Yimou never wanted to give up.

This is completely different from the original prototype of this script.

The first version of the script at that time had only 48 scenes. In his vision, each scene was a long shot with a silent and solemn atmosphere.

As of now, the final version still has many large scenes, but there are as many as 150 scenes.

Now that Chen Shuo has learned to adapt, he doesn't care how Zhang Yimou shoots or edits in post-production.

As long as there were no big problems with the logic of the story, he would just write down his part and then act it out seriously.

This time, he regarded it as accumulating experience in filming movies and doing his job as an actor.

Apart from the performance part, I don’t ask much about anything else.

After reading the script, I discussed with Liu Yifei how to express the revised parts, and the two of them looked out the window together.

"This is my first time going abroad, and it feels a bit strange." Chen Shuo looked at the ground below and said in an inexplicable tone.

He recalled the experience when he and Wu Qi went to Xiangjiang for the first time. At that time, Wu Qi also lamented his first visit to Xiangjiang.

At that time, I also asked him to think about where the passport he applied for would be used.

Unexpectedly, in just a year and a half, the two of them took a plane to Ukraine.

"I have flown on the sea before, but this is the first time I have flown on land for such a long time." Liu Yifei lay on Chen Shuo's body and looked close to the window at the undulating mountains below, feeling curious.

The mountains are green and surging, rolling like towering mountains.

Under the cover of white clouds, looking at the mountains and rivers like galloping horses below, it is indeed unique.

"Does that look like a dragon to you?"

"where?"

"Look at that mountain range. The one near the river is the dragon's head, the two steep peaks behind it are the dragon's horns, and the winding ridge behind it is the dragon's back."

"When you say that, it really sounds like..."

At first, the two of them looked at the scenery below enthusiastically, especially Chen Shuo, who was very curious about it and watched the plane cross the entire mountain and river from east to west.

However, as time went by, the two of them gradually lost their energy and sat for too long.

Others are experienced and have long been lying on their seats to rest.

Seeing this, the two of them followed suit, lying on the chairs and taking off their blindfolds to rest.

Two days later, on the night of September 5, after going through a lot of twists and turns, everyone finally arrived at their destination.

Lviv city in Ukraine.

The crew rented a resort-like place as the crew's residence.

After arriving at the place, Chen Shuo and others began to allocate housing according to the arrangements of the site.

The next day, Zhang Yimou asked people to go see his sea of ​​flowers without asking anything.

In October last year, he came to Ukraine and spent 8,000 US dollars to invite locals to plant a sea of ​​flowers according to his requirements.

Originally, he wanted to take a look in April this year.

To prevent the story from the original filming of red sorghum.

In 1987, in order to photograph red sorghum, he spent 40,000 yuan to find someone to plant 100 acres of sorghum in Gaomi, Shandong Province.

The crew personally selected seeds for planting, but in the end, the seeds of the sorghum on the 50 acres of land were changed and the seeds were not up to standard.

While frantically watering and fertilizing to remediate the situation, some people even pulled fertilizer into the sorghum field, and then walked around two miles to bring the fertilizer home.

All kinds of things make people laugh and cry.

This time, he has been worried that the sea of ​​flowers will not meet his requirements, and has always wanted to come and see it.

However, things didn't go as planned. Things were tense at the beginning of the year and it was difficult to go anywhere, let alone go abroad.

It was originally planned to start filming in June or July, but it has been postponed until now. They didn't get the visa until they set off.

Zhang Yimou drove to the flower field he decided on last year with great anxiety. He had a bad feeling in his heart before he even arrived.

When he got out of the car and saw the flower field that he had longed for, he no longer felt uneasy and felt completely cold.

“You can’t say it’s not a flower field, it has flowers.

But there are only flowers growing on the grass, it is not a sea of ​​flowers.

Not even half or even one-fifth of what we originally envisioned has been achieved. "

"One hundred thousand flower seedlings were planted at that time, but none of them have grown yet..."

"..."

Zhang Yimou listened to the conversation between production director Zhang Zhenyan and the translator, but what he was thinking about was how to remedy the situation.

He is not one to give up easily, and now the crew has arrived and is preparing to start filming.

But the sea of ​​flowers, which plays an important part in the play, is gone.

He had to find it.

Now that we can no longer count on this piece of land, we have to find another one.

He walked around in the "Sea of ​​Flowers" and looked at the withered flowers. The colors looked very beautiful and matched the picture in his mind.

But right now, the grass that only reaches the knees is unusable.

After looking around, he asked everyone to leave.

“If you listen to what he says, ‘Put some fertilizer on it, it will grow back in half a month.’ You simply can’t believe this.

In this situation, how can you dare me to believe it?

The only way now is to look for a sea of ​​flowers that can replace it.

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