Chapter 286 Special Program

This short plot at the beginning has already told the audience in advance that this movie has a great relationship with music.

After the concert, "Teacher Lin" returned to his hometown and attended his mother's funeral.

There are not many pictures of the funeral in the movie, and the story really begins when a man who wants Mo Yuan comes to find Lin Ai.

Mo Yuan is an old classmate of Lin Ai. He found Lin Ai with Teacher Zhou Xuewen's diary, and then the picture follows the content of the diary back to fifty years ago.

In the picture, Zhou Xuewen, played by Li Xuejian, walked to the gate of Chidi Middle School with a suitcase.

Zhou Xuewen is the new school supervisor of Chidi Middle School. He is a middle-aged man who looks slightly fat and honest.

The color tone of the movie is very dark. Although it is not a rainy day, the whole school looks very gloomy and gives people a very depressing feeling. If the audience does not know that this is a school, they may think it is a prison.

The first person Zhou Xuewen saw after arriving at school was a short boy who was clinging to the school's iron gate, waiting for his father to pick him up. The boy's father would not pick him up until Sunday, but today was not Sunday.

The two chatted for a while, and an old man came out.

"Mo Yuan!"

Hearing the old man's shout, the audience also realized that this cute little boy was the old man who had just gone to find Teacher Lin.

Seeing the old man come out, Zhou Xuewen took the initiative to introduce himself as the school's new supervisor, and then followed the old man and Mo Yuan into the school.

Through Zhou Xuewen's chat with the old man on the road, the audience knew that Zhou Xuewen used to be a music teacher in a middle school, and also knew that the principal of this school had played the trumpet before.

The principal loves music, which is undoubtedly good news for Zhou Xuewen, and the audience thinks so too.

But later events proved that this was not the case. In this school that suppresses human nature, the principal is the source of darkness.

The school's rules are very strict, not much different from prisons, and most of the children here are also very naughty, not like students in ordinary schools at all.

Because the principal implemented a very cold management method on the students, the children's hearts were severely imprisoned.

Zhou Xuewen was teased by the students as soon as he arrived.

Faced with the teasing of the students, Zhou Xuewen was of course very angry, but he still held back his temper and tried to be tolerant and kind to these children.

Later, Zhou Xuewen found that the children were sensitive and interested in music, so he tried to persuade the principal to organize the children to form a choir.

Although he encountered difficulties, Zhou Xuewen overcame them one by one and finally established this orchestra.

Zhou Xuewen started training the choir from the most basic music skills and composed the lyrics himself to create music for the children.

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The movie does not have thrilling scenes, but the rhythm is not slow. The seemingly plain scenes can also attract the audience to continue watching.

Some viewers watched the orchestra grow step by step, and even felt a little excited.

The most important thing is that in this movie, the fit between music and plot can be said to be perfect, and the level of music created by Zhou Xuewen is quite high.

For example, Lin Ai's voice is ethereal and like the sound of nature. Zhou Xuewen wrote a song called "The Breeze on the Sea" for him. This is a song that combines solo singing and accompaniment. At first, it is quiet and peaceful. Later, Yuan Hao and the clarinet play the melody theme softly, and Lin Ai's lead singing makes people feel like spring breeze.

Like "The Artist's Life", in the beat of the song, the children's carefree singing slowly removes the haze of the school.

At this point, the audience also noticed that the color tone of the movie began to become brighter.

Many people know that movie music is the direct link to convey emotions in movies, but before watching "The Chorus", they did not have such a deep feeling.

Compared with many musicals, this kind of movie that "silently" integrates music into the plot can make people feel the charm of music while also feeling the profound narrative space of the movie because of the music.

Zhang Yimou stared at the big screen the whole time, without moving his eyes away for a moment.

He was deeply moved. Apart from other things, he was afraid that he would not find an opponent who could compete with Zhou Yan in the field of combining film and television music with film and television images.

Moreover, music is no longer Zhou Yan's only powerful weapon now.

Zhou Yan's films are more mature and exciting than the last.

Looking back five years ago, when he was in Qiaojiabao, Zhou Yan was still learning how to draw storyboards with them, but now he can complete such a film.

Speaking of which, Zhou Yan has advantages that most directors do not have.

Zhou Yan is a musician and a writer. He has the ability to write stories and the ability to compose music for movies, so his movies are very integrated.

He doesn't worry about the script at all. Since his debut, all his movies have been written by him personally.

Zhang Yimou is very envious of this. Zhang Yimou himself can't write a good story, so he can only adapt the excellent works of those writers.

When the movie was about to end, Zhang Yimou suddenly heard a cry from behind, which was small at first and then got louder and louder.

Later, the noise was so loud that Zhang Yimou could not help but turn his head to look, and saw a group of people in the back row, all wiping their tears and sobbing.

This made Zhang Yimou feel strange. The movie was indeed touching, but it was not so exaggerated, and the people who cried were all in this movie.

What's so special about these people?

Hearing these people sobbing made him feel uncomfortable.

When the movie was over, applause broke out.

The guests sitting in the front row were relatively restrained, while the students in the back row were working harder than each other.

Zhou Yan is an idol of young people, especially among these college students, he has a high reputation.

Amid the applause of the crowd, Zhou Yan stood up, turned around and bowed to the audience to express his gratitude.

The lights on the scene were turned on, and the host walked onto the stage, summarizing the progress of the ceremony, praising the movie, and then announcing the end of the ceremony.

At this time, the guests stood up one after another to express their congratulations to Zhou Yan.

Wang Junzheng came up and gave Zhou Yan a thumbs up, "Brother, it's a good movie. The plot is good, the technique is good, the music is good, the actors' performances are good, and the production level is also high."

She said several good things, all from the heart.

In fact, when she praised Zhou Yan, she was also a little envious. Apart from everything else, the production level of "The Chorus" is much higher than "Letter from Heaven".

This production level is reflected in the hardware of various aspects such as photographic equipment and recording equipment, and these things are all exchanged for money.

Each step of the production is a little worse, and when combined together, the overall texture will be much worse.

Since the filming of "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly", Zhou Yan has never lacked investment. Now most domestic directors have a hard time to make tens of millions of dollars, and Zhou Yan's cost of making a movie is hundreds of millions of dollars.

Because he has money, Zhou Yan can always find better equipment, better materials, and props.

But then again, Zhou Yan is indeed worthy of Tang Chen's investment, because this money can definitely be earned back.

Take the movie "The Chorus" for example. It is by no means a commercial film, but the box office will not be low. The rhythm of the movie is very good, the story is complete, and the audio-visual effects are excellent. In addition to Zhou Yan's own fame, there must be many fans willing to spend money on this movie.

Even if Tomson doesn't invest in Zhou Yan now, there are still a lot of people who come to Zhou Yan with money, because everyone knows that as long as it is Zhou Yan's movie, it will not lose money, the difference is just how much money they make.

Now Tomson Pictures can have such a development, which is inseparable from Zhou Yan. "The Sixth Sense" and "The Piano Boy Who Wants to Fly" are

Chen Kaige next to him smiled and said, "Director Wang has praised everything that should be praised. I can only wish the movie a big hit. This movie will definitely have a global box office of 50 million. We are waiting for you to treat us to dinner."

Zhou Yan looked at his watch and said, "It's getting late. Let's go to dinner quickly."

After saying that, he deliberately looked at the audience in the third and fourth rows and asked the staff to arrange these people.

After Zhou Yan's explanation, Zhang Yimou and others realized that the audience in this area were all the families of the young actors.

No wonder these audiences cried, it turned out to be because of their own children's performances.

In fact, the reason why these audiences cried was not only because the children acted in the movie, but more importantly, the plot of the movie reminded them of the changes in the children in reality.

These children all have some problems, but just like in the movie, through this filming, the children have been changed.

When the movie was filmed, a lot of things were recorded. If there is a chance later, it may be edited into a documentary and released.

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When Zhou Yan and his friends went to eat, Shuichi Ishiguro, who was thousands of miles away, was watching a special program on TV Asahi.

TV Asahi is the TV station that pays the most attention to Zhou Yan in Japan and has the closest relationship with Zhou Yan.

Other TV stations will also report on Zhou Yan's new album this time, but TV Asahi directly broadcast a special program on the same day, which is very efficient.

The content of the program is that the two hosts went to the audio-visual store in the morning to buy the album "Yu Lin Ling".

It turns out that the new album is very popular when it is released, and the host also deliberately chose an audio-visual store with many people, so the feeling of a sea of ​​people was filmed.

They will randomly interview some fans who bought "Yu Lin Ling" on the spot, and will also play some simple games, such as the interviewee can get a new album as long as he says the names of three songs by Zhou Yan.

What Ishiguro Shuichi didn't expect the most was that the TV station actually took out a signed album of Zhou Yan, and as long as the interviewee answered a question related to Zhou Yan, they could take it away.

It has to be said that TV Asahi has a really good relationship with Zhou Yan. The album was only released today, and they have already got the signed album.

This shows that TV Asahi has contacted Zhou Yan a long time ago and prepared to do this program.

After the outdoor scene was completed, the host returned to the studio and began to listen to the album "Yu Lin Ling", commenting while listening.

This link seems simple, but it is not easy, because music is copyrighted, and the TV station cannot play it whenever it wants. They dare to play it directly, and they must have discussed the copyright issue in advance.

So from this point, it can be seen that TV Asahi has been prepared for a long time.

Ishiguro Shuichi is not a loyal fan of Zhou Yan, but he also likes Zhou Yan's music and bought an album of "Mysterious Country".

In fact, this is also the state of most Japanese people. Ordinary people are not very fanatical about Zhou Yan, but they like Zhou Yan's songs.

I often listen to Zhou Yan's music, but I don't pay special attention to Zhou Yan's news.

Recently, there has been a lot of publicity about Zhou Yan's new album in Japan, and Ishiguro Shuichi has also passively paid attention to it.

However, Ishiguro Shuichi was very busy these two days, and he knew that the video store would be crowded these two days, and he didn't want to go to the video store to squeeze in with others, so he didn't go to the video store to buy an album.

Now TV Asahi has produced a special program and also plays tracks from Zhou Yan's new album, which is just right for him.

If the music on the new album doesn't attract him, then he can save some money by not buying it.

But after the host played a few songs, Shuichi Ishiguro knew that he would not be able to save money on buying the album this time.

"Drinking the Water of the Yangtze River Together", "Previous Life", and "Someone Like You", these three songs directly conquered Shuichi Ishiguro.

This is not over yet, there are songs like "You and Beautiful" coming later.

He had heard this song before, more than once, because it was sung by Mariah Carey.

Mariah Carey is the most famous non-native female singer in Neon. Her performance in Neon is even better than Madonna.

After the release of her new album this time, it also topped the charts consecutively.

"The song "Young and Beautiful", like "Someone Like You" and "Past Life", is the soundtrack of the movie "Sense and Sensibility". Many viewers may feel that this song is very familiar, because it was recently played on Neon The song "Young and Beautiful" released by Hong and became a hit was written and adapted from this song of the same name."

On TV, the host introduced the song very thoughtfully.

Kuroishi Shuichi didn't pay attention before. He didn't expect that this song was actually written by Zhou Yan.

Not all the songs were played in the program, because the entire album was very long, and the entire program was only just over an hour, which was not enough to play all the programs.

At the end of the program, the host said with a smile, "If you think this album sounds good, then go to the video store to buy it quickly. I can tell you responsibly that the remaining songs are also very good."

"In addition, there is good news. Just now, our reporter from Yanjing called us. He has attended the premiere of Zhou Yan's new movie "The Spring of the Cowherd Class". He told us that the movie is very beautiful. . Also, Zhou Yan said personally at the scene that he will most likely come to Neon to hold a concert next year, so you can look forward to it." (End of this chapter)