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Danjiang Middle School.

Jay Chou’s alma mater.

Jay Chou seems to have a deep affection for his student days. Not only did he sing "Class 3, Class 2" in special works that miss his student days, he also specially chose this place as the filming location for his debut film. His alma mater seems to be the place where he filmed his first self-directed and self-acted movie, which has extraordinary significance.

Luo Xun is just a friendly guest appearance.

His little scene could have been filmed in just one day if he was willing to rush the work, but Jay Chou forced Luo Xun to shoot for several more days. His main purpose was to ask Luo Xun to help him with his personal acting problems. Don't look at Jay Chou's The male lead in "Initial D" won the award. In fact, his expressionless performance in the movie actually received some criticism, but because he was a new actor after all, this criticism was not amplified.

Luo Xun agreed.

As a result, he acted as a guest star for half of the director's work, providing full performance guidance to other actors including Jay Chou. Of course, during this process, Luo Xun showed interest in the director's work, which attracted Jay Chou's attention:

"Do you want to make a movie too?"

Hearing Jay Chou's question, Luo Xun smiled and said, "I have this idea, but I'm not ready enough at the moment, so I won't be filming it myself in the short term."

"I think..."

Jay Chou said seriously: "You can be a good director. Judging from the things you have done in my crew these days, you have shown quite a lot of experience."

"Please."

Luo Xun found that he had been with Jay Chou for a long time, and he couldn't help but speak in a Taiwanese accent: "If you hadn't been bossing me around, these should obviously be the tasks you are responsible for."

"Ha ha."

Jay Chou smiled proudly: "Otherwise, you think I gave you songs like "Blue and White Porcelain" for free. I won't leave until I squeeze you dry. Of course, I can let your name be listed as assistant director later."

"That's not necessary."

Luo Xun didn't feel that he had done anything great. Jay Chou's request was just to give Luo Xun a chance to summarize his experience in shooting music videos some time ago. He is constantly absorbing experience and knowledge in this area. This is a In the process of continuous enrichment, his efforts have paid off well. Moreover, the power of "Blue and White Porcelain" is indeed extraordinary. The heat radiated directly into his first album "The Wind Rises", even though Luo Xun has not yet released this song. Officially included in the album——

Jay Chou is very generous.

He said that anyway, the popularity of "Blue and White Porcelain" exploded at the same time as the popularity of Luo Xun's first album, so he might as well include it directly, provided that Luo Xun would help him take care of the crew more. Luo Xun did not refuse this time, laughing. I agreed.

Immediately afterwards.

Jay Chou expressed his recognition of Luo Xun's musical talent with emotion: "The Internet has destroyed the monopoly of traditional major record companies. Many former kings and queens can only hold tour concerts in different cities under the background of big data, including Huahua Several companies that have monopolized our music scene, including Ningbo, have done nothing. Under such a background, there are still people who advocate free songs and free concerts. It is helpless that copyright issues are not pursued. Your appearance is quite timely. Helped many people rebuild their confidence.”

"Faith alone is useless."

Luo Xun doesn't think he has changed the situation. At the same time, the American physical record industry has also been impacted by the Internet. So why can other people's songs be so diverse and rich? Because the United States has complete intellectual property protection measures, Napster was sued and bankrupted, which served as a warning to others. ITUNES is an online music sales platform. Apple took the lead and protected the U.S. physical record industry to a certain extent.

"Yes."

Jay Chou resonates with this: "There is a phenomenon that worries me in the past few years. There are many singers who cover popular songs from Japan and South Korea, such as "Fruits of Midsummer", "Later", "I Believe", "Red Sun", " "Endless Love for You", "First Dream", etc. have shown that it is increasingly difficult for domestic music soil to produce good songs. In contrast, European and American music is still a hundred schools of thought contending and a hundred flowers blooming. No matter what type of singer, as long as it is. If the songs are of sufficient quality, they will have their place.”

Luo Xun shrugged.

If you write a good lyric and match it with a good melody, you will get a lot of attention from the market. This is because the public's aesthetics has not kept up, and the fundamental reason why the public's aesthetics has not kept up is that there is not much music in China that can improve the public's aesthetics. , the so-called music is actually not just the human voice called accompaniment, but should be guitar plus bass plus drums plus piano plus orchestral instruments plus electronic synthesizers plus ambient sounds, etc.

Let’s talk later.

Jay Chou suddenly said with a serious face that he wanted to make online albums in the future, the kind of songs that require online payment to listen to. Seeing Luo Xun's expression was very calm, he couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you surprised? Well, now everyone listens to music for free, Jay Chou is such an idiot, he actually said that his songs will be charged in the future..."

Luo Xun smiled.

Of course he was not surprised, because the future Jay Chou did indeed do this, and he did it quite successfully, setting a personal record for the electronic sales of Discourse Music: "I very much support your decision, and I also want to make a paid album with you. ”

"real?"

Jay Chou was happy, and for a moment he felt that he and Luo Xun had a kindred spirit. This level of affinity made him feel fortunate that he had made a friend named Luo Xun: "I have always believed that most people who play the piano are playing the piano, and only a few people are playing music when they play the piano. I think you are the one who uses the piano to play music instead of just playing the piano."

It's quite difficult to understand.

In addition to talking about music, the focus of their discussion was of course on movies. Luo Xun provided a lot of opinions on "Secret" that he thought were good, and in the process, he also met a new actress with very good acting skills-

Gui Lunmei.

Strictly speaking, Gui Lunmei is no longer a newcomer. She had filmed a few years ago, but the movie that really made her famous was "Secret" which attracted much attention under Jay Chou's aura. After Luo Xun met her, he also asked his assistant to ask for her contact information.

Don't think wrongly.

He thought that they might have a chance to cooperate in the future, because he had recently tried to contact the work of a director, which made Luo Xun feel that he would try to direct and act in one or more works in the future, and it would be very beneficial for him to know more excellent actors.

This is a kind of recognition.

Gui Lunmei, who is still unknown in the entertainment industry, was flattered. She didn't expect that she would catch Luo Xun's eye. In her superficial understanding of the entertainment industry, Luo Xun is a big shot who is not inferior to Jay Chou. She even thought that this was a hint from Luo Xun...

And then there was nothing else.

Although Luo Xun asked for the contact information, he had no intention of contacting the other party. Luo Xun even forgot about it. He started to discuss with Jay Chou how to shoot this movie.