Millennium director

Wu Yuan chatted with Mayday for a long time and made many requests for soundtrack creation.

For example, the theme song needs to be written around the theme "I have been looking for you since your previous life."

Another interlude is written around "the first love story of a young girl".

The last song can be played freely by Mayday.

As for the four pure music soundtracks, Wu Yuan did not put forward any requirements and asked them to write suitable interlude music according to the story of the script and the plot points he marked in the script.

Ashin and Monster all agreed.

When creating a soundtrack for a movie, you cannot do whatever you want. You have to create it according to the scope and theme given by the director.

Wu Yuan's request was not harsh at all.

In the next few days, they continued to stay in the capital, and met with Wu Yuan from time to time to discuss the creation of the soundtrack. It took a week before they finally reached an initial agreement with Wu Yuan.

After that, they will return to Treasure Island first, and while handling other work, they will write these scores for Wu Yuan as soon as possible and hand them over to Wu Yuan for review. If they are not satisfied, they will make modifications.

1.2 million is not easy to earn.

Wu Yuan was very considerate and went to the airport to see them off in person.

The issue of the soundtrack has been solved for the time being, and Wu Yuan from Industrial Light and Magic has also been contacted.

They don't have time to do big special effects, so they need to queue up normally, which will probably have to wait until next year.

But for a special effect like this that only lasted one minute in total, Industrial Light and Magic agreed to give Wu Yuan a role.

In particular, the special effects he needs are all ready-made or semi-finished in the material library of Industrial Light and Magic.

Hollywood science fiction and disaster films often require the special effects of meteorites and meteor showers.

Wu Yuan only needed to provide the finished film, and Industrial Light and Magic could render it in about half a month, and this was without allocating many resources and manpower.

However, the price is not much cheaper. The initial negotiation price was US$60,000 for 24 frames per second. Wu Yuan would have to spend less than US$4 million for this.

With just a shake of the hand, 30 million yuan was gone, and in exchange there was only a little over a minute of special effects footage.

too expensive!

It's so expensive that Wu Yuan is considering whether his own company should enter the field of special effects production as soon as possible.

In 10 years' time, the domestic film special effects market will also explode. Under the blue ocean of capital, everyone loves to make blockbusters and special effects blockbusters, and most of them look to Japanese, Korean or European and American special effects companies to outsource special effects production.

This money is earned by foreigners, why not earn it by our own people!

Just wanting to be a special effects company requires a lot of money. Wu Yuan had to make more money before he could invest in this bottomless pit.

When thinking of making money, Wu Yuan thought of the "Light and Shadow Era Film Production Company" he had just established, and then thought of Zhang Guorong, who had been in Beijing recently preparing to promote "Stealing Hearts".

This is the company general he has long admired!

After sending May Day off, Wu Yuan made a call to Zhang Guorong when he returned home and found nothing going on.

"Hey, Zhang Sheng!"

"Are you still in the capital? Come out and get together!"

Beijing, Houhai.

Originally, this was just a peaceful little inner lake in the backyard of the capital, but after the epidemic ended, everything was different.

Trapped in the city and longing for fresh air, people in the capital urgently need a place for leisure and entertainment.

As a result, a large number of people poured into Shichahai, an originally quiet water area.

In the next year, a large number of bars will spring up from the southern edge of Houhai to the northern edge of Qianhai, turning this area into a lively bar street.

Fortunately, it is only early May 2003. There are not as many bars in Houhai as there were in later generations, only five or six.

When Wu Yuan passed through Mei Lanfang's former residence and stepped on the silver ingot bridge made of white marble, he came to Houhai.

As soon as he raised his head, the sparkling lake surface came into view of Wu Yuan.

The willow trees by the lake sway their branches in the breeze. From time to time, the weeping willows lightly touch the lake surface, causing ripples in the water.

I have to say that this picture is still very beautiful, coupled with the spiers of the Forbidden City wall reflected in the distance of the lake, it is even more beautiful with red bricks and green willows.

Unfortunately, Wu Yuan was not moved by the beautiful scenery at all, and hurried to a bar called "Blue Lotus" by the lake without stopping.

Having grown up in the capital, he has long been accustomed to the scenery of Houhai.

Not to mention that Hou Hai now was far less "pretty" than what he had seen in his dream.

I remember in his dream that when he was 25-35 years old, he loved playing in Houhai.

Houhai was a prosperous place at that time, with all kinds of quaint little bars, teahouses and cafes dotted here and there.

Various colorful flags and signs standing along the lake are fluttering in the wind, and young ladies in cheongsam are everywhere soliciting customers and selling drinks.

In the twilight of the evening, sitting along the lake with a few friends, drinking wine and singing, it is quite comfortable, relaxed and comfortable, and has a unique flavor.

At that time, Wu Yuan was a frequent visitor to the coastal, lakeside, left bank, Bai Feng, Encounter, Mermaid, Dream Paris and other taverns and tea pavilions here.

He often comes to drink at the Starbucks on the northern edge of Houhai.

This is usually where you go for a morning cup of coffee to pick you up after a night of hangover.

Compared with that time, Houhai is much deserted now, but it is also more antique.

There are no crowds and noisy shouts.

Wu Yuan got off the Yindian Bridge, turned left and went south, walked along the lake, entered an alley, and came to the entrance of a bar.

Blue Lotus Bar.

Later, the bar was renamed Left Bank, and a coffee shop opened next to it, also called Left Bank Coffee. It seemed to have the same owner.

So much so that for a long time Wu Yuan thought that the "coffee on the left bank" sung in Jay Chou's song "Confession Balloon" was referring to the coffee in this shop.

He thought that Jay Chou often came to Houhai to visit and even knew that the coffee on the left bank was delicious.

Later he realized that this was a beautiful misunderstanding.

The Blue Lotus Bar was renovated from a courtyard house, and everything is full of the flavor of the old capital.

Large bamboo chairs, old-fashioned furniture and decorations are everywhere. Only the inner room of the bar has a large and comfortable sofa.

As soon as Wu Yuan came in, he saw Zhang Guorong sinking into the big sofa, looking very comfortable.

"Coming?"

"This bar is nice. It's perfect for relaxing your tired body."

Zhang Guorong stretched out comfortably on the sofa, then sat upright and asked Wu Yuan to sit down.

"How did you find this bar, open so early?"

Wu Yuan sat down opposite Zhang Guorong and stretched his waist comfortably: "All the bars in Houhai open at noon."

"As for this bar, it had not yet opened when I came to film "Farewell My Concubine" in 1992, so of course I don't know."

Wu Yuan looked at Zhang Guorong for a few times and confirmed that although his face was a little tired, he did not look depressed and looked quite normal.

This made him feel relieved in his heart. It seemed that he had changed Zhang Guorong's fate.

Then Wu Yuan can feel free to ask him to give Hong Kong some eye drops together.

After taking the cocktail from the bartender and taking a sip, Wu Yuan asked: "Sheng Zhang, "Stealing Hearts" will be released next month, right?"

He had watched the finished film of "Stealing Hearts" in China Film's internal viewing room.

The finished film is pretty good, I can’t say it’s amazing, but it’s very mature and doesn’t look like a newcomer’s work.

Although there is an obvious style of the King of Sunglasses, the imitation is very good and does not give people the feeling of imitating a cat or a tiger.

Wu Yuan is not sure about the box office, but he is certain that Zhang Guorong still has a future as a director, and he is not the kind of director who is destined to only make bad movies.

So Wu Yuan came to recruit Zhang Guorong again.

On the one hand, I want to add more directors to my company to work on projects, and on the other hand, I also want to provide some eye candy for the Hong Kong circle, which is about to move north on a large scale.

Why do you say that?

Because Wu Yuan next took out a script from the briefcase he brought.

This is the movie script Wu Yuan was preparing for Zhang Guorong after filming "Stealing Hearts".

The movie is called "If Love".