Chapter 510 The Photos Inside Are Not Simple

Actually, Hu Jing and the others have small faces compared to ordinary people, but compared to Zhang Ziyi, they are much bigger. It is not an exaggeration to say that Zhang Ziyi's face is only the size of a palm.

However, Zhang Ziyi is not actually tall. At least among the four girls who came on stage today, she is not tall, and she is even the shortest. The other girls are all quite tall.

It's just that Zhang Ziyi is thinner, which makes her look quite tall.

"Oh, that should be Zhang Ziyi. Why are you asking her?" Zhou Yan asked curiously.

"Zhang Ziyi." Chen Kaige repeated Zhang Ziyi's name in a low voice, and then said with a smile, "I just think she is quite attractive."

Attractive?

Zhou Yan looked at Chen Kaige strangely. When did this guy change his taste?

Judging from Chen Kaige's past relationship experience and the heroines he chose in the movies before, his aesthetics should not be like Zhang Ziyi.

And what does this attractiveness mean specifically? Is it from the director's perspective or from a man's perspective?

If it is from the director's perspective, it's okay.

But from a man's perspective, something is wrong. Is he still dating Ni Ping?

Maybe because of his appearance, Chen Hong was cut off. Chen Kaige and Ni Ping's relationship has lasted for a long time. At least Zhou Yan has not heard of any problems between them.

Perhaps seeing Zhou Yan's expression change, Chen Kaige smiled and explained, "I think she is quite suitable for filming. Recently, I have also been considering the casting of the new movie."

"Has the casting of your new movie not been determined yet?"

Zhou Yan thought that the preparatory work for "The Emperor and the Assassin" was almost done, and he was just waiting for the completion of the Qin Palace. Unexpectedly, Chen Kaige had not even settled the casting.

"No, in fact, my script has just been finalized. The previous versions were not very good."

Chen Kaige did say before that he was not satisfied with the several versions of the script written by Wang Peigong. It seems that he has to do it himself.

Zhou Yan sighed silently in his heart. Whether it is Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou, they must have their own level. They all have their own strengths.

But a director is most afraid of being too stubborn.

Many people think that artists must be stubborn, so that they can achieve artistic accomplishments.

Many people even equate artistic talent with the degree of paranoia, believing that the more paranoid a person is, the more artistic talent he has.

If a literary and artistic practitioner is very paranoid, the public will also excuse them - this is the case with artists.

But in fact, a stubborn director may be able to produce one or two excellent works, but it is difficult to continue to output.

Having your own persistence is obviously different from being stubborn.

The former can basically recognize their own shortcomings, while the latter always thinks that they are right about everything.

Directors are also human beings, and as long as they are human beings, they must have shortcomings.

And a stubborn director will always expose his shortcomings.

Chen Kaige is a typical example. He really shouldn't interfere too much with Wang Peigong's creation, because the creation of the script is his shortcoming.

At least compared with Wang Peigong, his level of script creation is not good enough.

Wang Peigong spent a lot of time writing several versions of the script, but was rejected by Chen Kaige all of a sudden, and Chen Kaige only spent a short period of time to change the script to what he wanted, which is obviously unreasonable.

If Chen Kaige really has such scriptwriting ability, the number of his works would not be what it is now.

Of course, Zhou Yan was not surprised that Chen Kaige did this, after all, Chen Kaige has a writer's heart, and screenwriters are an extension of writers.

In fact, Chen Kaige has also written novels, and he had intersections with Bei Dao and Mang Ke earlier, which can be regarded as one foot in the literary circle. Otherwise, he would not have had such a reaction when he saw "Tree Hole" before.

He was full of envy for Zhou Yan.

Although Zhang Yimou debuted early and was famous, Chen Kaige just didn't accept Zhang Yimou, especially after "Farewell My Concubine" came out, he thought Zhang Yimou was not as good as him.

Who is Zhang Yimou? He is just a rough guy from the countryside who has only studied photography for a few years. What can he know about movies?

But Zhou Yan is different. Zhou Yan is a writer and has written works like "Tree Hole". For this reason, he thinks highly of Zhou Yan.

Although he is reluctant to admit it, Chen Kaige feels that his artistic talent is not as good as Zhou Yan's.

If Chen Kaige had not interfered with Wang Peigong's creation this time, "The Emperor and the Assassin" would probably have a different ending, at least the box office performance would not be so bad.

Zhou Yan is not the kind of person who likes to say harsh words, especially to Chen Kaige, who is a donkey that goes with the flow. He basically praises him.

Even if he can't praise, he won't say anything to spoil the fun.

Anyway, he knows that Chen Kaige won't listen even if he says it.

Since it's useless to say it, why be a villain?

"Since the script has been decided, we have to consider the casting carefully later. But I'm afraid that Zhang Ziyi can't do it."

"Why?" Chen Kaige asked.

"Have you forgotten? Students in the Central Academy of Drama are not allowed to go out to film in their first and second years. Even if your new play is filmed later, she is still in her second year. Unless you can finish filming in July or August, she can take over your role during the summer vacation."

"Oh, yes, their school is different." Chen Kaige patted his forehead.

Chen Kaige is from the Yenching Film Academy, and the Yanjing Film Academy has always been more relaxed about students going out to film, which is different from the Central Academy of Drama.

As for the rules of the drama, he must also know it, after all, Yanjing is only so big.

"But, can't this matter be accommodated? Now that you have cooperation with their school, can you help intercede?"

Zhou Yan immediately waved his hand, "Master Kai, I can't help you with this matter. I have a new movie in my own studio, so there's no need to ask China Theater for this."

Hearing what Zhou Yan said, Chen Kaige was a little disappointed. He was indeed very interested in Zhang Ziyi.

After lowering his head and thinking for a while, Chen Kaige sighed, "What a pity."

Zhou Yan patted him on the shoulder: "Master Kai, there is no need to be regretful. There will definitely be opportunities for cooperation in the future."

After saying this, Zhou Yan looked at Akina Nakamori, who was not far away. She had been waiting for him.

"Master Kai, it's already late tonight, so I won't keep you here. Let's get together again later if we have a chance."

Chen Kaige nodded, "Okay."

…

It didn't take long for the visitors to disperse.

Many people in the studio were not in a hurry to leave because they had not eaten, so they stayed in the cafeteria and had an early supper.

Xu Feng and Dong Wenmiao didn't leave either. They ate with the studio team and sat at the same table with Zhou Yan and Akina Nakamori.

Although Xu Feng is Nakamori Akina's nominal boss, they are not familiar with each other. Nakamori Akina has nothing to say to unfamiliar people. She spends most of the time with her head down cooking, and she is indeed hungry.

After knowing that Akina Nakamori loves spicy food, the kitchen often cooks some dishes from Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan and Jiangxi, and she enjoys them very much.

She also ate well this time when she went to Yudu. She even felt that she should have been a Yudu person in her previous life. Otherwise, why would the food in Yudu taste so good?

Dong Wenmiao had no intention of talking, leaving Zhou Yan and Xu Feng chatting.

If they didn't chat, the atmosphere would be too awkward.

After chatting with Zhou Yan for a while, Xu Feng looked at Akina Nakamori, who was immersed in cooking, and said with a smile, "Akina, I heard that you have been participating in activities here recently. Thank you for your hard work."

Akina Nakamori looked up and smiled, "It's not hard at all. My job now is much easier than before."

This is true. When Akina Nakamori was at the height of her popularity, the announcements were basically seamless and there was no time to rest at all.

Although she is very busy now, her work intensity has been greatly reduced, and she can take a day or two to rest every now and then.

She was very satisfied with this intensity.

Xu Feng nodded, "It's better to live your own life. I often tell Zhou Yan not to be too busy, not too busy, but he never listens. In the past few years, I haven't seen him take a complete rest."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Sister Feng, what you said is a bit exaggerated. In fact, I think the overall situation is still very relaxed. I often have time to rest. For example, some time ago, I was quite relaxed."

Xu Feng rolled his eyes, "Our definitions of rest are completely different."

In Xu Feng's view, since it is rest, he cannot work and relax wholeheartedly.

But when Zhou Yan takes a break, he still does something, either writes something or reads a book.

Even when he is not working, Zhou Yan will arrange his life well.

After giving Zhou Yan a roll of his eyes, Xu Feng looked at Dong Wenmiao again, "Miao Miao is about the same, she doesn't usually take a break."

Dong Wenmiao finally looked up, "Don't I usually take a rest? For example, tonight."

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In Dong Wenmiao's view, being able to watch a performance here is not considered a break?

If she was really busy, how could she have time to do other things at night?

Especially for a designer like her, it's common to work overtime at night, so it's good if her schedule doesn't change day and night.

"So, you two..."

Halfway through the words, Xu Feng felt that the next words might not be appropriate, so he didn't say any more. He just changed the topic and said, "Zhou Yan's new book will be serialized, Miaomiao, do you know?"

As soon as she said these words, Dong Wenmiao and Nakamori Akina's eyes revealed a glimmer of light.

And they all looked at Xu Feng first, and then quickly turned their attention to Zhou Yan, their movements were very neat.

Seeing the confused expressions of the two people, Zhou Yan nodded, "That's what happened."

"Since it is serialized, it must be in a magazine or newspaper?" Dong Wenmiao asked.

"'October'." Zhou Yan replied.

"Next issue?"

"Well, next issue."

Dong Wenmiao nodded and didn't ask again. She made a plan in her mind and planned to buy a copy when the next issue came out. Usually she would also buy some literary magazines to read, such as "October", "Contemporary", " Harvest" are all frequent visitors to her home.

She hadn't read Zhou Yan's novels for a long time, and Zhou Yan's previous novels had left a deep impression on her.

Nakamori Akina didn't know what "October" was, but she kept the name in her mind and prepared to go back and ask Ida Nariko what it was.

Akina Nakamori didn’t know much about Zhou Yan’s novels.

She has read the neon language version of "Zhou Yan, Yu Hua, Shi Tiesheng", but she has not read Zhou Yan's other novels.

With her current Chinese reading level, she can probably only read some very simple stories. She can't understand slightly more complex sentence structures and vocabulary. Therefore, when Zhou Yan's new novel comes out, she will most likely not be able to understand it.

But even if she couldn't understand it, she would still buy the novel and read it.

Recently, she has also been working hard to learn Chinese characters. Reading novels should also be a way of learning, right?

…

After dinner, Xu Feng and Dong Wenmiao said goodbye and left, while Zhou Yan took Nakamori Akina back to the office.

As soon as the two arrived at the office, Liu Hang came.

“Boss, let me report to you about the situation of that reporter.” Liu Hang glanced at Nakamori Akina.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, “It’s okay, go ahead.”

This is not a secret, and it doesn’t matter if Nakamori Akina hears it.

Liu Hang nodded and began to report the situation, “I asked clearly, the man’s name is Zhu Songming, he doesn’t belong to any newspaper or TV station, he is an individual business owner, and he usually shoots some news and sells it to newspapers and TV stations to make money.”

“Oh, he’s a professional paparazzi.”

It seems that domestic paparazzi have gradually formed an industrial chain, and the emergence of this type of individual business owner is proof of this.

This type of individual business owner can support himself, and he must rely on the industrial chain behind entertainment news. To put it bluntly, the news he shoots must be able to sell.

In the past two years, news has become more and more entertainment-oriented. All news tends to be entertainment news, mainly because the audience is large and people like to watch this.

"This Zhu Songming asked if we could return the camera to him." Liu Hang said.

Zhou Yan raised his eyebrows, "What did you say?"

"I said we didn't take his camera, and he said he was willing to pay 5,000 yuan to buy the camera."

"Five thousand?"

Zhou Yan narrowed his eyes and looked at the camera on the table.

This is a Ricoh XR-X2000 camera. It is very convenient to take pictures, but the lens is very ordinary. The main target customers are family users.

The price is not expensive, the kit is more than 2,000 yuan.

And judging from the condition of this camera, it should have been bought for a few years.

If such an old camera is sold in the second-hand market, it may not be bought at half the original price, but this Zhu Songming is willing to redeem it with 5,000 yuan, which is a bit wrong.

"He said there are some of his own private photos in it and he doesn't want others to see it."

Private photos?

Zhou Yan curled his lips. It was estimated that these so-called private photos were not simple. They were either Zhu Songming's own indecent photos or valuable photos of other people.

The latter was more likely.

Because even if there were indecent photos of Zhu Songming, Zhu Songming probably didn't care much.

For someone like him, even if he gave his indecent photos to Zhou Yan, Zhou Yan would not spread them, and even if he spread them, it would not have any impact on him.

As for the photos of other people, they were probably of a celebrity.

After a moment of silence, Zhou Yan said, "That's the end of the matter."

"I understand." Liu Hang nodded.

At the same time, Liu Hang laughed in his heart. Zhu Songming was really confused. He still wanted to tempt their boss with 5,000 yuan. Didn't he know that 5,000 yuan was a drop in the bucket for their boss?

On the contrary, if Zhu Songming did this, Zhou Yan would definitely check the photos in the camera.

But thinking back, what else could Zhu Songming do?

Since everyone else had been arrested and taken to the police station, it was impossible to force Zhou Yan to hand over the camera, so he could only resort to bribery.

Zhu Songming probably knew it was useless, but he was still unwilling to give it a try.