Save the Bachelor of Heaven

In September 1994, after half a year of recuperation, Zhang Yimou came up with a new filming plan.

He took a fancy to Li Xiao's novel "The Rules of the Door" and planned to adapt it into a movie.

After reading the novel, Xiang Nan recognized it as "Shake Ah Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" directed by Zhang Yimou.

It was not a very successful work. Because the storyline is too weak, multiple storylines failed to fully unfold, and ended hastily, feeling top-heavy.

Moreover, the imitation of "The Godfather" is too heavy, the same betrayal, the same pursuit, the same refuge...

Zhang Yimou wanted to make an epic gangster film, but what was shown in the end was just the jealousy of several men surrounding a woman. To be honest, the layout is too small.

However, Xiang Nan did not directly reject Zhang Yimou's plan, but first agreed to him, and then proposed to help him write the script himself.

In fact, Li Xiao's novels still have a solid foundation, after all, he is the son of the well-known writer Ba Jin. It's just that he lacks experience, and everything is a bit taken for granted. After careful conditioning, it is still available.

Xiang Nan offered to write the screenplay himself, and Zhang Yimou naturally did not refuse.

After all, even Hollywood rushed to use his script.

Xiang Nan then rewrote a script based on the novel "The Rules of the Door". He borrowed the narrative technique from Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon".

The same event is told from the perspectives of different characters, confirming each other, and finally reveals the answer and the truth. He thinks that shooting like this is much better than the original straightforward narrative.

After Zhang Yimou read the script, he was really satisfied, so he made a decision.

In December, the film was officially filmed in Zhouzhuang.

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When Feng Xiaogang saw that Zhang Yimou had made another movie, he couldn't help but feel itchy, so he applied to Xiang Nan to make a movie himself.

Xiang Nan didn't refuse, and directly gave him a script.

Feng Xiao just took a look, and saw four large characters on the cover of the script - "Party A and Party B".

He read the script carefully again, and found that the story of this script is a bit like "The Stubborn Lord" written by Wang Yi.

"Party A and Party B" tells the story of a few unemployed young people who get together and start a company for one-day trips, which is responsible for helping people fulfill their wishes. In the end, it was forced to close down because it didn't make any money.

And "Stubborn Lord" tells the story of three unemployed young people who get together and start a 3T company, which is also dedicated to helping people solve problems. In the end, it was forced to close down because of losing money.

It can be seen that there are a lot of overlapping elements in the two scripts. But having said that, in the field of creation, it is very common to put old wine in new bottles.

For example, the domineering CEO falling in love with me is actually a variant of Cinderella. In Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", the scene where a woman disguises herself as a man and falls in love with a woman is also used in the Korean drama "So Beautiful"... So hitting a bridge is not a problem, it is a thing in the entertainment industry very common.

Feng Xiaogang didn't struggle too much. After reading the script, he immediately made a decision to make this movie.

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The four protagonists of "Party A and Party B", Yao Yuan, Zhou Beiyan, Qian Kang, Liang Zi, and Feng Xiaogang decided to use all big stars.

Yao Yuan fixed Ge You, and Zhou Beiyan fixed Xu Fan. Feng Xiaogang made "Never Lost My Love", although he lost all his money, but he fell in love with the heroine Xu Fan.

In fact, Xu Fan was originally the girlfriend of the actor Wang Zhiwen, but Wang Zhiwen was too masculine and even drove Xu Fan out of the house at one point. After the two had a falling out, Feng Xiaogang took advantage of the situation and took advantage of it.

Qian Kang is going to let Xiang Nan act. With Xiang Nan's popularity, if he is willing to play this role, the box office will definitely not go away. As for Liang Zi, he planned to find Liang Tian to act. "I Love My Family" is currently on the air, and Jia Zhixin played by Liang Tian is a highlight.

In addition, for the actors of each unit, he is also going to risk his own face and invite big names to come as guest stars to create an all-star lineup. If he doesn't believe it, the box office won't rise.

However, after Xiang Nan saw his cast, he directly rejected both of them. One is that the heroine cannot be Xu Fan, he plans to use Yu Feihong instead.

When filming "Jade Guanyin", Yu Feihong had a very close relationship with him. But after learning that he already had a wife and children, she began to keep a distance from him, so that he didn't have time to get started.

Xiang Nan doesn't like this kind of giving up halfway, so he wants to use Yu Feihong as the heroine. Chase her again, if it really doesn't work, he will give up again.

In addition, he didn't want to use Liang Tian for the role of Liang Zi. Liang Tian is of course a good actor, but Ge You and Liang Tian are really too similar to "The Stubborn Lord". After all, "The Stubborn Lord" is starring the two of them and Zhang Guoli.

At that time, the media will use this matter to hype up, saying that he copied Wang Yi, regardless of whether it is true or not, it will be a kind of harm to Xiang Nan. So he insisted not to have Liang Tian.

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No matter how unhappy Feng Xiaogang was when the boss spoke, he could only endure it.

After all, his personal happiness is not as important as the boss's happiness.

Fortunately, Xu Fan can't be the heroine, but he can also guest star as that big star.

As for the candidate to replace Liang Tian, ​​Feng Xiaogang really had no idea for a while, "Master Cheng, you don't want Liang Tian, ​​so who do you want? There are not many useful comedians in the mainland."

The so-called thousand lives are easy to get, but one ugliness is hard to find. In the entertainment industry, there are plenty of handsome young men, but not many actors who are good at being funny.

The reason why there are so many familiar faces in the language category of the Spring Festival Gala is because newcomers can't handle it at all, so they can only rely on these veterans to support the ratings. The audience didn't realize this, and they scolded the veterans repeatedly, and it turned out that the show was even more ugly when the newcomers were replaced.

"I have someone to choose." Xiang Nan smiled and pushed He Bing out.

He Bing is definitely one of the top performers in mainland China. He has starred in TV series "Title of the Song Dynasty", "White Deer Plain", "Twelve Citizens", "Love in a Courtyard" and so on, all of which are well-known works.

Feng Xiaogang didn't know He Bing yet, so he was dumbfounded.

In the real world, he met He Bing because He Bing participated in the TV series "Love and Death" directed by him. Although He Bing played only a small role, his performance still made Feng Xiaogang's eyes shine, so there were more cooperations later.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan reminded him, "It's Jia Zhixin's buddy Hu San'er in "I Love My Family". The one who opened a villa and started a business with him."

When Feng Xiaogang heard it, he suddenly realized.

Like Liang Zi, that character is also an unemployed young man who can only play tricks. And He Bing acted so brilliantly that he was originally only arranged to act in two episodes, but then he abruptly made a cameo appearance in one more episode.

"It's him, then it's fine." Feng Xiaogang smiled immediately.

Xiang Nan nodded, "Also, if you want to invite some big names, just tell me, I'll come forward and invite you."

"That would be great." Feng Xiaogang said happily upon hearing this.

His network is far worse than that of Xiang Nan. If Xiang Nan spoke up, no matter how big the star was, he would have to obediently come over.