Tan Dun was stunned when he heard this, and silently recited in his heart: "The most thrilling plot, but the flamenco dance music is expressed in dance, reflecting the opposite of emotions... it will produce an unexpected sense of cold humor." He chewed, then took a deep breath and looked at Li Xiaole and said:

"Director Lee is really unique. He actually has such wonderful ideas, which is really interesting."

"It's useless to think, but it still doesn't feel perfect." Li Xiaole bulged his eyes and thought that these mainland directors who live a life in the country are not professional. Korean TV series have already dubbed for individual characters. They should watch "Queen Shande". Korean voice actors not only match the main characters with separate music, but also arrange some scenes separately. This level of excellent production is something that mainland film and television should have studied well long ago.

You should know that the pinnacle of the soundtrack of Chinese TV series is "Journey to the West", and every song there is a creation work, but for some reason, this part is completely ignored now.

"I have an opinion." Tan Dun smiled gently.

"Tell me." Li Xiaole said casually.

"Your music is too complete, and you often have to be 'quiet' with a beat," Tan Dun said in a deep voice.

"A moment of 'quiet'?" Li Xiaole suddenly raised his head and felt the extraordinary artistic conception of the words. He looked at Tan Dun carefully. He had an ordinary face, simple and unpretentious, his thick eyebrows were curved like a crescent moon, and a melancholy wrinkle appeared at the corner of his mouth and the eyes, making him look tired and sad.

But his eyes were bright and wise, and he had an artistic atmosphere of seeing through the ups and downs of the world. If he saw it deeper, he could find that enthusiastic enthusiasm.

Although Li Xiaole didn't know him, his intuition told him that the person in front of him must be an ordinary person. He immediately stood up seriously and bowed to Tan Dun: "Please give me advice."

"What do you think of the significance of music to movies?" Tan Dun asked curiously.

"Expressing an important part of the storyline." Li Xiaole blurted out.

"Yeah." Tan Dun slowly looked at Li Xiaole with his eyes, nodded in appreciation and said, "The most direct function of music is to use sounds and express emotions with music. The key is not only to express clearly, but also to achieve a state of silence and silence."

Li Xiaole was stunned for a moment and said in surprise: "The silent state of moistening things, making music silent? Isn't this a contradiction?"

Tan Dun smiled, looked at Li Xiaole's confused expression but asked with interest: "I only thought about this problem after thirty years of making music. You have to think about it carefully."

Li Xiaole smiled bitterly and said, "Don't make things difficult for me. I don't know much about music, just tell me."

Tan Dun said happily: "I just hope to impress you more. If you don't want to think about it, then I can tell you directly."

After pondering for a few seconds, Tan Dun slowly said: "In fact, the soundtrack is ultimately a service and the movie itself to touch people's emotions. Just like your soundtrack, it is very innovative, with unique techniques that make people unforgettable when you hear it. The fast-paced soundtrack changes a lot, but have you ever thought about it? This is exactly the disadvantage of this soundtrack."

Then he asked, "Do you understand music theory?"

Li Xiaole's face turned slightly red and shook her head to indicate that she was an amateur.

Tan Dun smiled with relief and said, "It's good if you don't understand, just listen based on your feelings." As he said that, he handed Li Xiaole a pair of earplugs, put his headphones on his hand, and put his hand on the volume control.

When Li Xiaole listened to his own set of music, it felt completely different. The original soundtrack gave him a little over the chaos. Ning Hao just finished it and listened to it the same, but now it is much smoother and natural. So many complex soundtracks together make each look good and not abrupt.

All this was of course due to the control of the volume of the man's hands in front of him. Li Xiaole couldn't help but open his mouth wide. He was surprised to find that this man was completely based on his musical sense. In each piece of music, he felt much better.

"I understand~ I just stuffed the whole piece of music too much..." Li Xiaole took off the headphones and suddenly realized.

"You understand so soon?" Tan Dun said in surprise.

Li Xiaole said puzzledly: "What's so difficult to understand? Just like Chinese paintings often have to fall down a place on the drawing paper as a "white space" to make the amplification painting more harmonious, the music also needs to have some pauses, leaving it for the listeners to temporarily forget the music in the movie, so that they can focus better on the story itself, so as to listen appropriately, but forget it after hearing it. This is what the so-called "silent and silent" means?"

Tan Dun looked at Li Xiaole for a while before sighing: "Director Li, your musical talent is so great that it is too much better than me. You are right, but it is not completely correct. It is just like fifty chairs sitting on fifty people. If it is not allowed to change positions or walk away, there will naturally be no change. But if one person is missing and one chair is empty, there will be a lot more changes.

"In other words, the vacant syllables are not only for them to forget, but also for them to imagine themselves and fill this gap with imagination?" Li Xiaole's eyes lit up. He suddenly thought that he often felt "too full" in his works, which means that this "blank syllable" was missing.

"Oh, you're such a pity... it's a pity if you don't learn music." Tan Dun looked at him and felt sorry for him. The director's understanding of music in front of him was far better than that of many musicians he had seen.

"I'll ask you, are your surname Zhao or Tan?" Li Xiaole looked at Tan Dun respectfully.

"Why do you ask that?" Tan Dun suddenly laughed.

"Because I can teach these things and appear here, I think only the two teachers Zhao Jiping and Tan Dun." Li Xiaole said seriously. Just like the words just now, he felt that he was not only about the soundtrack, but also about movies and TV.

In the past, he simply divided the movie into a bunch of data. Although he stacked the data together with his passion, he still had some metaphysical things. This was an insurmountable gap between him and directors with profound backgrounds such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. But at that moment, he seemed to feel that he had the possibility of jumping over it.

At this time, Tan Dun's phone rang, and the person inside told him that he had contacted Mai Tian Music's recording studio, and the equipment there was better. The music master also stood up and extended his hands to Li Xiaole with a smile:

"Director Lee, no matter what my surname is, I hope that one day we will have a chance to cooperate in the movie."

"Yeah, sure." Li Xiaole stretched out his hand and held it tightly. He knew the meaning of Tan Dun's word "future". Even if he knows who he is at this level, what does it mean? When he can truly reach a height comparable to him, that is the time to truly get to know him.

Looking at Tan Dun's back, Li Xiaole also felt that it was a pity and excitement in her heart. She felt the burning feeling in her chest was boiling. What a wonderful thing it would be if she could work with such a true top figure in the film and television industry to create those great movies in the future.

Wait... One day he will gather the best filmmakers in the mainland to create a work that shocks the world.

***

After the later sorting was completed, Li Xiaole watched the main film in the screening room of China Film according to Han Sanpin's requirements. As a result, Han Sanpin and Han Xiaoli, two generals, were serious and serious, but after seeing that the 105-minute mark, they were already laughing so hard that their faces hurt.

Of course, after laughing, Han Xiaoli, who was from the academy, still criticized Li Xiaole's shortcomings: "Your movie has a good plot, but it's too messy, and there are too many imitations of Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino's traces, and the soundtrack is too messy..."

"I think it's very good." Han Sanpin smiled and expressed different opinions: "The techniques are quite innovative, and it's normal for us old antiques to be unaccustomed to them. Now the market needs some new things, and it's enough for the people to like them."

The standard of Han Sanpian is obviously very simple. Is this 105 minutes funny? As long as it is funny, the purpose is achieved, the current Chinese movies are like dying old people. Don’t say anything to make him calm and well recuperate. It would be nice to give him a cigarette to cheer him up.

Han Sanpin nodded, causing the stone in Li Xiaole's heart to fall to the ground. In the most feared gates of hell in filming in China, the Film Bureau and the Radio and Television Bureau reviewed the two reviews. If he did not have Han Sanpin as the producer, this novel comedy would probably have to be edited for many plots before it can be released.

Next, Li Xiaole will start to concentrate on the issue of release. Why did he wait until 2002 to return to China to make movies? The most critical point is that in June of that year, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Culture issued Document No. 1519 "Details on the Implementation of Reforming the Film Distribution and Screening Mechanism", and established the first batch of 31 theaters in 23 provinces and cities across the country. A total of 1,019 theaters and 1,834 screens.

Among them, the most important thing for filmmakers is called "cinema ticketing system computer networking". Without this, mainland movie box office benefits at most only 50%.

What's the trick in this?

Because in the past, all the movie theaters were accounted for by themselves, and the box office and the benefits were decided by themselves like ordinary hotels and restaurants. A movie sold 100,000 yuan, but it only had 50,000 yuan in box office, while the remaining 50,000 yuan box office turned into a gray cinema income.

Most cinemas are state-owned institutions, and no one will check them.

After the implementation of the theater system, the theater became an Internet-connected computer system to sell tickets. Each movie ticket issued by the computer system itself became an invoice, and most of the movie box office could be paid in real terms.

Then some people may ask, why did Jiang Wen's "The Days with a Bright Sight" or Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" win more than 40 million yuan in box office?

The reason was very simple. At that time, the system was called self-made, self-broadcasting, and cinemas were contracted. The upper-level enterprises assigned tasks themselves. The audience was organized by the upper-level institutions. They rarely bought tickets to the cinema to watch movies. It was an "administrative box office".

For example, a certain steel factory issued an approval document by the Cultural Bureau to require employees to organize their viewing of "Red Sorghum". The steel factory directly paid the payment to the film factory according to the number of employees who watched it. This box office will naturally not be low. To put it bluntly, it is state support.

This system was gradually abolished in the late 1990s, and in all the years, film investors suddenly realized that they could not even recover the costs.

Many movie lovers must have fantasized about what movies to shoot in the 1990s have achieved a box office of over 100 million yuan in China, which is actually extremely naive, because the difficulty is far greater than the box office of 1 billion yuan after 10.
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