Rebirth of the Wild Age

During the first lunar month, Song Weiyang followed his parents and family members to visit the grave of his grandmother who died of illness for decades.

The cemetery is on a small slope in the outskirts of Shenghai. The tombstones are somewhat damaged, but they should be taken care of every year. The weeds on the graves are not very deep.

Song Shumin also paid a high price to invite a Taoist priest to calculate the auspicious date, and then purchased a cemetery with good Fengshui in advance, planning to move the grave around Qingming Festival.

Next, Song Xinghua took Song Weihong to Rongping to pay New Year's greetings to Song Weiyang's grandparents, and also to thank his in-laws for taking care of their son over the years.

I will not mention these trivial things, Song Weiyang left for the capital before the Lantern Festival.

The courtyard house has not been repaired since it was bought. This time, Ma Weidu was invited to find an expert in restoration of ancient buildings, and a decoration company was invited to work together. Now that we have bought a courtyard house, we must try our best to maintain the ancient style and appearance, but people cannot live without modern equipment. How to perfectly combine the ancient and the modern is a headache.

The decoration company and ancient building restoration experts came up with several sets of plans last year, and Song Weiyang chose to make a decision this time.

Air conditioners and refrigerators must be available, but they cannot destroy the overall style. Especially the outdoor unit of the air conditioner must not be exposed directly, and the lampshade needs to be specially designed.

Anyway, the amount of work is huge, and most of the wood in the courtyard is old and rotten, which is almost the same as knocking down and rebuilding.

After finalizing the renovation plan of the courtyard house, Song Weiyang, under the recommendation of Ma Weidu, visited Jiang Wen in person. There was no way, China Technology contacted several times, but Jiang Wen refused to accept the advertisement.

It's not that Jiang Wen is lofty and treats money like dirt, but that he has been very annoying recently and has no mood to do anything.

"The Devil Is Coming" has already been filmed, and it has been tried several times but failed. Jiang Wen is busy editing the film all day now, deleting the so-called "sensitive content". But what exactly is "sensitive content" can only be guessed by individuals, anyway, the person in charge of review can't say why.

Friends who do design must have had similar experiences. They finally got the plan done, but were told by superiors or customers that this is not good and that it needs to be modified.

Making movies in China is even more miserable, because dozens of censors, even the Women's Federation and Disabled Persons' Federation have come in to intervene to see if you have smeared women and disabled people in your movies. In the same way, there are also aspects of religion and ethnicity, these things must not be touched. After you delete all the sensitive content, the censor said: "It's still not good, you can't shoot like this."

Why exactly? People don't say it, you figure it out yourself.

cutting room.

There were film rolls everywhere, but Jiang Wen was smoking a cigarette with bloodshot eyes, not afraid that a spark would set the house on fire.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Who is it?" Jiang Wen roared, obviously upset at being disturbed.

"I, Ma." Ma Weidu replied.

Jiang Wen just put out the cigarette butt, patted his buttocks to open the door, rubbed his eyes and said, "What's the matter?"

"A gentleman wants to see you," Ma Wei stepped aside and introduced, "Boss Song Weiyang from Xifeng."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Director Jiang, I didn't bother you, did I?"

"Come in." Jiang Wen said.

Jiang Wen went back and picked up the film all over the floor, put it away casually, and rubbed his face vigorously on the chair to relieve fatigue.

Ma Wei asked, "Did you spend the whole night last night?"

"All night." Jiang Wen said.

"Cut it out?" Ma Wei asked.

"Don't cut it, whoever you love," Jiang Wen smashed the can, "This film will definitely not be shown in China, and no matter how you cut it, it will not pass the review."

Ma Wei was shocked and said, "You don't mean to take it directly to foreign exhibitions, do you?"

Jiang Wen sucked his teeth and said, "Otherwise? The investment budget for this film is 20 million, and I overspend by 30%. I must find a way to get some back, otherwise the investor will hack me to death."

"Hacking you won't kill you, it won't be easy to raise investment next time," Ma Wei pointed at Song Weiyang with a smile, "There is a big boss here, let him invest in you."

Jiang Wen smiled and said, "Boss Song is also interested in investing in movies?"

Song Weiyang said: "I invested in a Hong Kong film. It was just released during the Spring Festival this year. I heard that the box office is not bad. It should be able to recover the cost. If Director Jiang is short of money to make a film, just ask. I like your "The Sun is Bright" very much." Days."

"It's easy to say," Jiang Wen said with a smile, "You are old Ma's friend, so naturally you are also my friend."

Well, with this sentence, it's all right to ask Jiang Wen to shoot an advertisement. They are all old buddies in the Beijing circle, so they must give this face.

Ma Wei asked curiously, "What exactly did you shoot? You haven't passed the trial several times."

Jiang Wen got up and hung the tape on the projector: "You can see for yourself."

This is the original edited raw film, without soundtrack and subtitles, but the content is no different from the finished film.

The three of them didn't talk about anything else, just sat quietly and watched the movie.

Ma Wei said with emotion: "Old Jiang, your film is so good, you will be damned if you can pass the trial."

Jiang Wen looked a little excited: "I don't understand, why can't I go through the review, and say that I have discredited the Chinese people! Boss Song, do you think those reviewers are out of their minds?"

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "I don't know if your film vilifies the Chinese people, but it must be suspected of beautifying the Japanese army."

"I beautify the little devil?" Jiang Wen was amused.

Song Weiyang said: "You can look up the county chronicles of various places. The actions of the Japanese army in the rural areas of China are not as disciplined as in this film. Especially the time period in the film, it should have just finished the battle of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi. The Japanese army In order to fight this battle, all the food and ammunition that could be dispatched from the rear were taken away. The non-frontline troops of the Japanese army were not even as good as the eight roads. , During this period of time, Chinese villages must have been robbed of food. As long as food is robbed, it is not just looting, but also burning, killing, and looting. What was the situation in the rural areas in the occupied areas at that time? First, the Japanese army was dominant and committed all kinds of evil ;Secondly, our army has the upper hand behind enemy lines, and the Japanese army came out to beg for food. It is impossible to have the third situation in your film.”

Jiang Wen was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Song Weiyang to say such a point of view.

Song Weiyang said: "So, when I learned about the actual situation in China at that time, and then watched your movie, I felt very awkward. It can only be regarded as a pure fable."

"Boss Song knows the history of the War of Resistance?" Jiang Wen asked.

"I like to read miscellaneous books," Song Weiyang said. "My girlfriend studied Anti-Japanese War literature for a while, and I read a lot of materials at that time. Of course, I am too picky, and there is no need for movies to be so realistic. But I I like to be more realistic. For example, "Firefly" by Niben, many domestic film critics said it was an anti-war movie, and regarded it as a masterpiece of Sino-Japanese friendship. Many people even said that they cried. From the historical background, we know that the director of "Firefly" has sinister intentions, and that is an anti-war movie. Anti-war defeat is not anti-war!"

"It's interesting, you are different from other businessmen I have met." Jiang Wen laughed.