Chapter 771: Raise the Red Lantern

"Knock knock!"

Ivan Patterson came to find him.

"Lu, I want to chat with you about the scene we are going to film later."

"Good." Lu Yan He nodded.

Ivan Patterson is just a seventeen-year-old teenager, currently still in high school.

However, he is not unfamiliar with acting at all.

He debuted and started acting when he was very young.

Ivan Patterson has been coming to find him these past few days to chat with him about filming together.

In the first part of "Godless", Lu Yan He's character is basically responsible for Ivan Patterson's "mentor" function.

This also means that Lu Yan He has a lot of rival scenes with Ivan Patterson.

Ivan Patterson acts very naturally.

This is what surprised Lu Yan He.

Because young actors in Europe and America generally have a relatively heavy stage sense, which is related to the fact that they often have a lot of stage performances in their growth experience.

This is also a very significant difference between European and American actors and Asian actors.

Asian actors are often very good at being perfect in subtle places, while European and American actors are better at precise switching and expression of emotions.

Lu Yan He was very curious about how Ivan Patterson's acting style was formed.

According to what he understood, although Ivan Patterson had filmed dramas before, the dramas he filmed belonged to that kind of typical European and American style. His performance in them showed very high acting talent, but it was not this natural and smooth style now.

Lu Yan He looked at Ivan Patterson, which reminded him of a relatively famous American male actor—the American male actor in the world before he crossed over.

The male lead of "(500) Days of Summer", Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Both are that kind of image that is not traditional thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a tough guy appearance, very "boyish", youthful, lively, and enthusiastic.

"Don't you think, would it be better if I added a push action to you in this place when I get angry at you later?" Ivan Patterson asked.

Lu Yan He nodded, "Can, however, I will dodge it."

Ivan Patterson was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted.

"I want to push but didn't push, instead it fell through, staggered a bit, and was even more angry."

Lu Yan He nodded.

Ivan Patterson's reaction and comprehension are really first-class.

He looked at him with appreciative eyes.

Ivan Patterson was a bit embarrassed by Lu Yan He's look, and said: "Why do you always look at me with this kind of look, I even suspect you like me, I must declare, I like girls."

Lu Yan He was so angry that he blurted out in Chinese: "... Don't know good or bad."

Ivan Patterson looked blank and asked: "What did you say?"

Lu Yan He: "I said you hurry up and get out."

Ivan Patterson chuckled and said with great pride, "I know you appreciate me, and I appreciate you too, my friend."

Lu Yan He: "You hurry up and get out."

Ivan Patterson has the "newborn calf not afraid of tigers" of his age.

He is always "Hey, buddy" open and enthusiastic to everyone.

Lu Yan He realized later that he regretted that he didn't have the same openness and happiness as him at this age.

Whether it was before crossing over or after crossing over, it was the same.

Of course, people must work hard, struggle, be worthy of their own life, and work hard to save enough capital to walk into a long life, but, thinking back again, if there were no carefree times, young and wild wantonness, sunshine that rejects being full of worries, and spring that doesn't carry pressure, how many regrets are there? -

"We plan to let 'Raise the Red Lantern' be released on Friday, October 14th, it's just that the time is a bit urgent, and there is not enough time to warm up."

Not long after, Wang Zhong called and told Lu Yan He about the arrangement for "Raise the Red Lantern".

Obviously, Wang Zhong also attaches great importance to the performance of "Raise the Red Lantern" in the North American awards season. And his communication result with the Film Bureau should also be quite clear—

Without accident, the movie China will recommend to participate in the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year is "Raise the Red Lantern".

Lu Yan He said: "Good, director, I don't have to film in October, I can participate in the promotion of the movie."

"That's great." Wang Zhong laughed.

"Raise the Red Lantern" has good news, and Lu Yan He is also very happy.

Because this movie—how to put it, although it is not a movie that Lu Yan He will privately flip through many times and fits his aesthetic preference, he will always remember the afternoon when he first watched this movie, the big courtyard without ghosts but making people feel ghostly, the red lanterns, and, people with blurred faces.

Summer, an afternoon with curtains closed, the air conditioner blowing cold air.

I don't know if the air conditioner was turned on too hard, or for some other reason, anyway, during the watching process, I felt chilly.

This movie is so well-crafted that even people who don't like this type of movie won't say that this movie is filmed badly. It is a classic Chinese narrative structure and intention.

Lu Yan He remembers that this movie was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in the original time and space.

The intensity of the competition for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is no less than that of Best Picture.

And the year before, Zhang Yimou was nominated for the same award with "Ju Dou". According to normal circumstances, it wouldn't be so fast to give a nomination again in the second year, the same country, the same director... but "Raise the Red Lantern" did it.

Its criticality is so strong, but it won't make people feel obscure and uncomfortable.

On September 21, Lu Yan He completed his first stage of filming in "Godless".

Everything went very smoothly.

Next, Lu Yan He can rest for more than a month, and wait until November to start the second stage of filming.

Lu Yan He didn't rush to leave the United States.

Because "Young Days" happened to place the second recording in New York.

Lu Yan He missed the first recording because of filming "Godless", he had to go directly to New York to participate in the second recording of "Young Days".

This time in New York recording, only Li Zhibai missed it because of filming "Grass Flying", and everyone else came.

And this time in New York recording, Li Zhenzhen also specifically made theme designs according to the city of New York.

All of them will conduct on-site recording in the city of New York, and the content of the recording is mainly based on a very classic "treasure hunt game".

Everyone fights on their own, and of course they can cooperate in pairs or multiple people in various levels, but in the end, the ranking is determined by the high or low score.

And finally, if the scores of each of them add up to exceed a certain number, the program group will add another one million on the basis of the scholarship donated by Americans of Chinese descent to children in mountainous areas of China—

And if their scores do not exceed, this one million will need them to bear together.

This is not a program effect, it is for real.

However, when Li Zhenzhen communicated with each team, the feedback from each team was very fast, and none disagreed.

"This is a good thing." Lu Yan He also expressed his stance for the first time, "This is not advertising for any charity organization or foundation, right?"

Li Zhenzhen said no.

"It was an older sister who helped when we were contacting New York here who took the initiative to propose it. Originally, the theme of this episode was that our program group provided one million in scholarships as the final goal of everyone's 'treasure hunt game'. She heard about it, felt it was meaningful, chatted with her friends around her, and took out 2.7 million together, without mentioning any other requirements."

Lu Yan He: "Really good."

Actually, recording such a program is more or less a bit of a show.

However, Lu Yan He has always supported such things as taking real money to show off.

As long as the real money is given to those who need it, it doesn't matter if it's a show.

And after learning the ins and outs of the matter, Lu Yan He also put forward an idea in their resident MC group of "Young Days", which was immediately responded to by everyone.

This treasure hunt game recorded this time is really not an ordinary "playing house".

This treasure hunt game will last for three days and involve eight levels, with different levels testing everyone's different abilities.

It is necessary to compete for personal ranking, and it is also necessary for everyone to get points together.

It can be said that this is the most competitive time in so many seasons and episodes of "Young Days".

Lu Yan He also recorded very happily.

He found that he quite likes playing this kind of "treasure hunt game".

Originally thought that this recording would be very tiring, but the result was playing with great interest.

He hadn't played this kind of game much before.

Lu Yan He said: "I hope 'Young Days' will have more such games in the future, such high-level game settings, I can't find a place to play even if I want to play."

Yan Liang agreed very much and said: "I think so too."

Lu Yan He said: "Director Zhenzhen, I think why don't you make an amusement park in the future, make various games that appear in 'Young Days', and some interesting tasks into a theme park, so that everyone who wants to play has a place to play."

Li Zhenzhen was between laughter and tears and said: "I would like to do it, the problem is I don't have money, why don't you sponsor me?"

"If you are really willing to do it, I am willing to sponsor." Lu Yan He said immediately.

"Forget it, forget it, I am a variety show director, going to make an amusement park with you." Li Zhenzhen said, "Cross-border is not crossed like this."

Three days later, everyone completed their treasure hunt game, no one gave up any level, and everyone often came to help others after completing their own level challenges.

Finally, they successfully completed the point challenge and got the one million scholarship provided additionally by the program group.

Everyone was exhausted, but cheered and hugged each other, showing the group soul at this moment.

Then, Peng Zhixing raised his hand and shouted: "Director, we have one more thing to say."

"Hmm?" They were all ready to shut down, suddenly Peng Zhixing said this, Li Zhenzhen was stunned.

Peng Zhixing said: "We discussed it, although we got so many points, we don't need to pay this scholarship in the end, but this is a particularly good thing. We all grew up with 'Young Days', this program brought us too many things. If we want to contribute such a meaningful force in this program, we hope that in this force, there is also a share of ours, so, this is a bank card—"

Peng Zhixing took out a bank card from his pocket and handed it to Li Zhenzhen in the shocked expression of the program group.

"Including Zhibai, each of us transferred a sum of money to this card, it is our heart."

Li Zhenzhen was stunned.

She didn't know whether to take this bank card for a while.

"This—"

"Then how much money is in here?" Li Zhenzhen asked.

Peng Zhixing shook his head and said: "I don't know either, we don't know how much money others transferred, only our own. Anyway, we all do what we can, do our best, no matter how much, this is a heart of the nine of us together."

This recording in New York was divided into three episodes.

When it was broadcast to the last episode, it was already the end of the third recording of "Young Days".

Time is about to enter the middle of October.

Lu Yan He and everyone finished the recording in Manganese Sand. In the evening, they didn't rush to eat dinner together and watched the latest broadcast program.

Until this time, Lu Yan He saw how much money was in this bank card.

Li Zhenzhen specifically recorded a content of them checking the account balance recorded by the camera.

There is a total of 22.3 million in the card.

In the camera, the expression of Li Zhenzhen and others' astonishment doesn't need to be acted at all.

Even Lu Yan He and others who were watching the program showed shock.

Peng Zhixing's first reaction was to look at Lu Yan He.

His eyes were asking: Did you transfer a lot?

Lu Yan He shook his head.

He had to admit that although he transferred quite a lot, he definitely didn't support the bulk of it.

He transferred 2 million to that card.

He thought, the quota set by the program group for all guests is 1 million, and his transfer of 2 million is a small expression.

Did everyone transfer so much?

Of course, the program didn't show exactly how much each person transferred.

According to their requirements, this money was taken out in the name of the nine of them.

Privately, the group of the nine of them exploded.

Liu Zhiyin was the first to say: I am so ashamed, I only transferred 500,000, which big guy is so rich?

Actually, Liu Zhiyin's idea of transferring 500,000 is already a lot. At first, it was said that the 9 people added up to 1 million, and she transferred more. Who knew that the total amount reached more than 20 million.

Lu Yan He: Not me, I also... ashamed.

Su Xiao: Am I not even more ashamed... I only transferred 200,000 【sweating】.

Yan Liang: @Li Zhibai is it you? Rich young master.

Li Zhibai: Why ask so much, anyway, what I transferred is definitely not as high as you imagine, there must be others who transferred no less than me.

Xiao Yun: Not me...

Peng Zhixing: Okay okay, don't guess, the reason why we didn't unify a number for everyone at the beginning was to be able to do what we can. No matter who transferred how much, this is just a donation, I know everyone has been insisting on doing some public welfare projects, just not public.

After Peng Zhixing said this, everyone stopped guessing who transferred a large sum of money.

However, with the broadcast of the program, this number exploded the Internet.

After all, it is at some important moments that it is rare to donate such a number with less than ten artists.

This was originally a very good thing. At first, everyone was shocked by this number and praised it one after another. However, after about a day or two, a voice suddenly appeared on the Internet, the general idea is that these artists can donate more than 20 million casually, I really don't know how rich they are.

High income is always one of the most sensitive topics for the artist group.

Of course, fortunately, this group of people in "Young Days", they are no longer at the stage of worrying about affecting their public image because of the discussion of a few topics.

The discussion on the Internet is fine, what Lu Yan He didn't expect was that one day, Wang Biao actually heard artists discussing, saying that "Young Days" did this, and those of them who usually only donate 200,000 or 500,000 are all suddenly very difficult to be human.

Originally, Lu Yan He subconsciously wanted to say, how does this make you difficult to be human. However, thinking about it again, to say that it didn't cause such a burden to others is indeed excessive. Like Su Xiao, she said she only transferred 200,000.

Not every artist can make money like Lu Yan He and Li Zhibai.

Like Liu Zhiyin, clearly already a domestic first-tier popular star, but, excluding the company's share, the agent's commission, the team's salary, and usual promotion and marketing expenses, etc., in fact, Liu Zhiyin's income is far lower than what many marketing accounts calculate, directly minus a zero.

This is something even Lu Yan He completely didn't expect.

Not to mention those artists who are not famous or only slightly famous.

However—

Chen Ziyan also said: "I tell the truth, Liu Zhiyin earned less in the past two years, there are also her special reasons. She has been doing stage, doing albums, and the requirements are high, making ends meet. Plus she has no other sources of income. Usually, filming is mainly guest appearances, basically no film pay. Income basically only comes from business and variety show pay, but for business that really makes money, she cherishes her feathers and didn't take much, all maintaining her own value, leading to income far lower than artists of the same level. Deducting those costs, she indeed earned less in the past two years. But after these two years pass, her concerts can truly be opened in the way of tours, the resources on the business side open up, even without waiting for two years to pass, she wants to make money, she can start making money at any time. Putting aside such special cases, most unknown artists actually won't face the situation of being rolled. Will you pay attention to whether an actor who can only play supporting roles in various crews donated money at some critical moments?"

Lu Yan He shook his head.

"That's how it is." Chen Ziyan said, "Rolling or not, of course it will roll, but you are not doing this for comparison. These things, how to say, if they feel rolled, either roll up, or ignore it. You win the Best Actor and also roll them. Do you want to give up your excellence to make them comfortable?"

Lu Yan He nodded: "You are right."

Chen Ziyan: "I was really shocked, you few people actually donated so much money."

"Actually, I didn't expect it either. Besides Zhibai, Qin Zhibai should have donated a lot." Lu Yan He said, "Didn't expect that the two who didn't care the most and donated the most were them."

"They are the two people among you who care the least about public opinion, didn't you find out?" Chen Ziyan sighed, "The shaping of growth environment for everyone is indeed too different. Sometimes, have to admit, everyone's starting line is completely different."

Lu Yan He: "But fortunately, God is also fair. Although everyone's starting line is different, we can always choose to become the person we want to be."

Chen Ziyan: "You few people in 'Young Days', this time really made me look at you with admiration."

"Don't say you, I'm shocked."

No matter how loud the discussion was, none of them came out to respond to this matter, don't mention it.

Slowly, the popularity passed.

After returning to the country, Lu Yan He made up for the movies released recently. Daily activities are basically making appointments with different friends to watch movies in the cinema or at home.

Can see friends who haven't seen for a long time, and can also make up for the movies that need to be made up.

With the end of the National Day slot, the domestic film market fell into a cold period.

Lu Yan He basically finished watching a movie, felt it was not bad, and would share his movie watching on his social media, which is also advertising for this movie by the way.

Of course, this makes him face many questions of "such a rotten movie you also recommend" every time he shares.

Lu Yan He is too lazy to respond to such remarks.

Liking and aesthetics are originally very personalized things.

He just does things according to his own heart—

But in this world, there are always many people who, because they don't like it, question everyone who likes it, and even directly think "are you blind".

For such people, there is nothing to argue about, just let "summer insects can't talk about ice", you walk your Yangguan Road, I cross my single-plank bridge, no one needs to convince anyone.

At this time, "Raise the Red Lantern" entered an intensive promotion period.

Because it is about to be released.

This movie that won an award at the Xitu'er Film Festival last year did not hold a large-scale premiere, nor did it hold some "celebrity friend sessions" or "celebrity sessions" like many movies, and brush some "good reviews and recommendations" on social media.

Wang Zhong said in an interview: "This is a movie that doesn't need to be too lively. The director is me, the screenwriter is Lu Yan He, and the lead actor is Chen Bige. If the three of us can't directly attract the audience to walk into the cinema to watch this movie, then the three of us have worked in vain in the past."

The promotion of "Raise the Red Lantern" is indeed as Wang Zhong said, basically concentrated on its expression theme, film quality, and the three main creators.

The distributor also said that the box office ceiling of this movie is placed there, there is no need to invest tens of millions more in promotion funds—even if invested, it can't attract non-target audiences to buy tickets to watch, this is a waste of money, clearly doing business that doesn't make money.

However, the distributor was not idle either.

It sent movie tickets to all celebrities and big Vs who "love movies" on the whole network, and sent an invitation letter, inviting them to watch this movie.

Someone said in a "joking" tone: "This is the first time I only received a movie ticket and an invitation letter from the movie side, no red envelope, no other gifts, but such a simple and pure invitation instead made me relax, I can watch this movie with peace of mind, and after watching, share my most real feelings with you."

This is a masterpiece that is very "shabby" in form but "eye-catching" to everyone.

On an ordinary Friday, the first day of release, the movie box office was 24.2 million.

Immediately, an article about "Lu Yan He finally missed" was sent out.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 772 =====