Chapter 283 Form a Band?

Some things must be said from the beginning.

When Yu Bojun received the script of "To Live", it was just the beginning of spring this year.

At that time, he was just lazy enough to save a new book with a few screenwriters, and he went through it with Lao Cao. He felt that there was no major problem. Some thoughts about life that Lao Cao considers to be "nonsense" and "far-fetched", anyway, outsiders see it as a pot of mud, but he himself thinks it is very refreshing. So, it's time to properly organize the team and build a team, ready to start rolling.

When the script had just arrived, Yu Bojun was busy and enjoying himself. When he received it, he looked at the cover and threw it in his work backpack. Although he didn't expect much from Li Qian's script, Li Qian's actions and words all along made his words carry certain weight, so Yu Bojun didn't dare to think that he was just joking.

Then, the crew of his new play was quickly pulled up, the actors were also in place one after another, and the filming started smoothly.

After worshiping the gods, the filming officially started. Of course, you have to eat and drink to strengthen your morale first. As the director, Yu Bojun is of course the talker. He didn’t drink that day, so that night, he finished with his girlfriend at the time, Hapi. Afterwards, when I had nothing to do and couldn't fall asleep, I remembered the script and read it.

From this point of view, he just didn't sleep all night.

So, as soon as the new drama was launched, he stared at the dark circles under his eyes and yawned profusely. He was forced to let the assistant director take over the directing for a whole day, while he sat on the sidelines and thought blindly.

The story of "Alive" is not complicated.

It is about the last years of the Shun Dynasty. There was a rich second generation named Fugui in the Shandong countryside. , escaped a catastrophe, but then, he was arrested by the Shun Dynasty government at that time, and followed to encircle and suppress the rebel army. During this period, his mother died, and his daughter became dumb due to an illness. As for him, he was an official soldier at first, and later he was captured and became a rebel army. After running around for many years, the rebel army won and the Republic of China government was established. He barely returned to his hometown.

But from this time, the tragedy began.

His wife, Jiazhen, was unable to do heavy work because of schizophrenia, and the burden of the whole family was on him. Both sons and daughters died one after another due to various helpless tragedies. Later, even a lame son-in-law died. Only one little grandson named Kugen was left behind, and he followed Fugui back to the countryside. But life was very difficult at that time, and even beans were hard to eat. Fugui felt sorry for his grandson, so he cooked beans for Kugen, but Kugen died from eating beans...

In short, every touch of warmth in life is directly torn apart by death after death.

Almost all kinds of bitterness in life are fermented in such a life story, whoever sees it is too bitter to speak.

To put it simply, such a story, for any director who is a bit pursuing, feels like a glutton seeing a delicious meal, and there is no power to resist at all.

Movies are of course a comprehensive art of sound, electricity, light and shadow, but a good story is the starting point and the end point of everything. And a story like "To Live" is one in a million.

After reading it for the first time, Yu Bojun was convinced: some of the things he pursued in his life are all here.

He even thought that after doing this, he could retire!

So, he fell into it all at once, and stared in a daze for three days before he regained his senses.

The moment he regained his composure, he almost decided to close the stall directly, terminate and scrap all the filming of the drama in hand, and then began to polish the book in his hand called "To Live".

However, after much deliberation, in the end, he put away this obviously scolded idea first, and while pondering the story back and forth, he absent-mindedly started to lead this film, which in his eyes has become "nonsense" and "far-fetched". Urban romance.

But at the same time, he did two things.

The first thing he asked his assistant for was a one-dollar coin, and he put it in his trouser pocket solemnly, and took it out every day to play with it for a while;

The second thing is that he actually broke his habit of having a woman every night, drove his girlfriend away at the time, and spent three nights fighting by himself, using a pen to write word by word. After copying the script, he sent someone to deliver his own copy to Cao Zhan.

Three days later, Cao Zhan called, "Pull Shang Qian, the three of us will do this!"

Thus, Yu Bojun had a bottom line in his heart.

Next, when the restlessness in his heart gradually subsided, on the surface, he seemed to have suddenly returned to his soul, and began to pack up the work in front of him seriously, but deep down, a fire began to burn more and more.

This fire was held in one breath for half a year, and finally, after the filming was over, Yu Bojun immediately came to kill him.

... ... ...

In the villa, Chu Bingbing added another set of cups for Yu Bojun, and then disappeared. In Cao Zhan's study, there were only four of them left. But in fact, Wang Huaiyu didn't understand movies, so he just sat there with a smile on his face and didn't interrupt, just listening to the three of them playing two-on-one.

"Good brother, come on, give me a hand, if I take a picture of it quickly, I don't even have the heart to pick up girls, you know?"

Li Qian shook his head.

"Bojun is talking nonsense, but it is true that I like this story. I like this story too, so I will join! Of course, I don't know how to direct, and I have never been an actor, so I can just remind Bojun from the sidelines." What. Qian, come on, the three of us will make a big one together! Let me tell you, I have watched countless movies over the years, and I have written ten or twenty scripts, but I have read this book of yours The top three of all of this stuff, DIAO, that's real DIAO!"

Li Qian smiled, but still shook his head.

Cao Zhan stopped persuading and picked up his pipe.

Yu Bojun asked: "Why? Don't you want to film the story you wrote?"

Li Qian replied calmly: "I want to. Of course I want to! But the time is not enough!"

Cao Zhan's eyes widened, and Yu Bojun frowned.

Li Qian said slowly: "I'm only a sophomore, and I haven't taken the camera seriously yet. Of course, Brother Cao is an expert screenwriter, and I wrote the story, so it's no problem for us to help you. It's your duty. But, you're not ready!"

Yu Bojun was stunned when he heard this.

But after a while, Cao Zhan took a few puffs of his pipe, but actually nodded.

"That's right, what Qian said makes sense, you... are indeed not ready! This film should not be so easy to shoot!"

Cao Zhan thought while talking, and his speech speed was extremely slow, "This movie, if no one else talks about it, there is only one actor. There are only a handful of actors who can be eaten in China. Such a star, just based on now You, you can’t do it at all! You can’t do it, it’s not that they’re disobedient, or anything else, it’s mainly because your understanding and handling of this film may not be able to keep up with them, then by then, you alone The director, but he can't hold back the scene, so it's very likely that the filming will be over!"

Yu Bojun finally calmed down, picked up his teacup and drank it down, tapped his fingers on the teacup, and asked, "Then what should I do?"

Cao Zhan thought for a while, sighed, and said, "First, drop your money-swindling urban romance films and work on something seriously. First, make at least one or two literary films to practice your skills. , I don’t shoot other genres, just pick books with a strong humanistic color, and books that don’t make money. When you are familiar with it and have enough confidence, I guess Qian will also graduate by then, so let’s do this again book!"

Yu Bojun knocked on the teacup again, thought for a moment, then turned to look at Li Qian.

What Cao Zhan said is of course correct.

Although Yu Bojun has rich experience, he only shoots monotonous pure commercial films, and he has rich experience in urban love commercial films, but literary films, and they are still at the level of "To Live", which are enough to show the great joy and sorrow of human beings, but they are not. He can play around with this little experience now!

You know, the original version of "To Live" is Zhang Guoshi's best work!

In 1994, this film won the jury award in Cannes, and Uncle Ge also won the best actor!

In the entire history of Chinese film, this film dare not say that it is the first, at least the top three are firmly established!

Therefore, Cao Zhan's suggestion was actually exactly what Li Qian wanted to say.

Facing Yu Bojun's questioning gaze, he nodded slowly.

... ... ...

In the evening the brothers have dinner together.

Chat and chat.

When the wine was half drunk, Li Qian mentioned that he was considering whether to officially debut and release an album recently. Cao Zhan, on a whim, ran over and brought a guitar for Li Qian to sing.

Although he drank a few drinks, Li Qian's voice was still within controllable range, a bit abnormal, but still pleasant to hear.

After listening, several people agreed, let's make a debut!

In Yu Bojun's words: Anyway, your family is making records, and you two women are not easy, even if you hide, you won't be able to hide for a few days. Now that the media is getting more and more developed, sooner or later one day, you will have nothing to hide from. You might as well just stand up and the media won’t hold you back.

Li Qian was still hesitating, but Wang Huaiyu suddenly said: "Speaking of which, coming to Shuntian Mansion, I can't hold back enough, Qian, if you really want to make your debut, if you don't need a suona or a sheng, remember to say hello. I just volunteer to help."

After he finished speaking, before Li Qian nodded, Cao Zhan suddenly said, "I suddenly felt that the four of us are so close, how about we form a band and play together?"

With a swipe, a white light seemed to split from Li Qian's mind.

Wang Huaiyu was stunned for a moment, although he was rushing to talk, but he seemed to be awakened suddenly, slapped his thigh hard with surprise on his face, and said, "Okay!"

Then they both turned their heads to look at Li Qian.

Li Qian's eyes were shining brightly, excited, tentative, but he asked uncertainly: "Form a band? Play... rock?"

Cao Zhan also slapped his thigh abruptly, "Of course I play rock and roll! What are you doing if you don't play rock and roll?"

While speaking, he looked up at Yu Bojun.

Yu Bojun was in a state of dementia, so he quickly raised his hands, "Don't count me in, I'm not a music player. Besides, I have a few plays to work on next, it's not like you don't know!"

While talking, he pointed at Li Qian and Cao Zhan, "You two, we made an agreement just now, I don't care what you want to play, in short, one of you can help me get a notebook!"

When he said this, Cao Zhan suddenly laughed out loud.

Next, Wang Huaiyu, a good old man, actually laughed too, and the two of them laughed so hard that they couldn't help but laugh.

Yu Bojun was stunned for a moment, and then his face was full of helplessness, while Li Qian was a little confused.

"What... are you laughing at?" he asked.

The two continued to laugh.

After a while, Wang Huaiyu suppressed his laughter and said with difficulty: "As soon as I mentioned Bo Jun playing music, I remembered... I remembered... Hahaha! Bo Jun..." His face flushed with laughter, and he looked at Yu Bojun, "Who says you don't play music? You tell Qian yourself, what musical instrument did you learn?"

Cao Zhan's laughter had almost stopped, but upon hearing this, he burst out laughing again, almost unable to stop.

Yu Bojun's face was full of embarrassment, and Li Qian was even more puzzled.

So, he turned his head to look at Yu Bojun, "Brother Yu, what musical instrument have you learned? Why are they laughing like this?"

Yu Bojun reached out his hand to point at Cao Zhan and Wang Huaiyu helplessly, with a look of hatred, "You really... ouch, I'm really convinced of you two! Our buddies are at the end!"

Li Qian became more and more curious, and pushed his arm, "What's the matter, tell me, the two of you already know it, if you don't tell me, why don't I ask them the same? Tell me!"

Yu Bojun was a little embarrassed, as if he didn't want to talk about life or death.

Cao Zhan and Wang Huaiyu finally stopped laughing slowly, and Wang Huaiyu bowed to Yu Bojun in embarrassment, "brother, brother... I'm sorry, I'm sorry! It's my brother's fault. Three glasses of fine!"

Li Qian hugged his shoulders and stopped talking.

Yu Bojun turned his head and glanced at him, frowned helplessly, and reluctantly said: "That's the thing, there is a rule in our family, regardless of boys and girls, from the age of six, you must choose a musical instrument. It is said that the reason why my great-grandfather set this Rules, because I think music can cultivate people's sentiments, at least not to make my children and grandchildren completely useless, even if they spend a lot of time, at least they can have a bit of taste, so, of course, I have to choose a musical instrument from an early age to learn .”

Having said that, he paused, and seeing Cao Zhan and Wang Huaiyu looking at him with smirks, he couldn't help but say, "You two, drink fine, hurry up!" Then he turned to look at Li Qian who was curious. Continued: "At that time, I didn't understand anything, and my dad didn't care about my business. He just drank and talked about business all day long, and then...then...my third uncle recommended a musical instrument to me, saying No one in our family has learned that so far, you learn that and designate something different."

"Then, I learned it for a few years. It wasn't until I was fourteen years old that I finally realized what my third uncle meant by asking me to learn that musical instrument..."

After listening to him rambling on for a long time, but it just didn't cut to the point, Li Qian couldn't help asking: "Then what kind of musical instrument did you learn? As for making Brother Cao and Brother Wang laugh like that?"

Yu Bojun shrugged helplessly, lowered his head, and said, "Xiao."

"Xiao?"

Li Qian was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly burst into laughter.

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