Tao Yushu said to Lin Chaoyang, "When you go back this time, you can go back to Yanjing first, so as to avoid finding information and searching for files."

New Year's Day is about to be more than half a month away. Lin Chaoyang really felt various inconveniences after being away for so long.

"Okay."

Two days later, the couple landed in Xiangjiang, Tao Yushu planned to stay in Xiangjiang until the New Year, while Lin Chaoyang planned to return to Yanjing first.

As a result, before Lin Chaoyang set off, a piece of news disrupted his itinerary.

Li Hanxiang passed away.

The incident happened very suddenly. Li Hanxiang had not made any films for many years. In recent years, he has been working as an art consultant and supervisor for Lin's Pictures.

I earn HK$1 or 2 million a year, and my life is easy and comfortable.

Somehow, this year, I suddenly felt itchy and planned to return to my old career and planned to create a costume TV series "The Burning of Afang Palace".

As a result, the investment was in place and the crew had just started, but Li Hanxiang died of a heart attack on the crew.

Li Hanxiang, born in 1926, is 70 years old this year. Almost twenty years ago, he had surgery for heart problems.

After recovering, he never paid much attention to his health and had no major problems over the years, which led to his relaxing vigilance.

The TV series "Burning Afang Palace" was a investor who was recruited by Li Hanxiang himself. It was purely for the purpose of playing back the tickets, but unexpectedly it became his masterpiece.

After his death, the crew fell into a panic, and the investment of tens of millions of yuan was very likely to be wasted. The investors were in a mess and surrounded Zhang Cuiying and two daughters who went to the mainland to prepare for the funeral for Li Hanxiang.

In panic, Zhang Cuiying had to call Tao Yushu for help.

The crew was filmed in Lijiafen in Chaoyang District, Yanjing. Lin Chaoyang and his wife had to fly back to Yanjing.

"Li Family Fen, Li Family Fen, who would have thought that this place would really become the tomb of the 'Li Family'."

Zhang Cuiying was very excited when she saw Lin Chaoyang and his wife. Her husband had just passed away and came to the mainland to restrain his body. Unexpectedly, she was blocked in the crew. She was panicked for two days and finally waited for Lin Chaoyang and his wife to cry.

The TV series "Burning Afang Palace" has 40 episodes planned, with an investment of 12 million yuan. It is definitely a big production these days.

From this investment, we can also see investors' optimism about Li Hanxiang. After all, they are one of the few major directors in the Chinese film industry. They have the first time filming a TV series, and everyone has high hopes for him.

But the situation of "The Fire of Afang Palace" was not going well. Li Hanxiang's first filming of a TV series was completely regarded as a movie. The crew started working in August and now for four months. The content of 40 episodes has only been filmed for 4 episodes, but more than half of the 12 million investment has been consumed.

In addition to serious overspending, some staff members took advantage of the chaos to ask the crew to raise their salary.

In addition, Li Hanxiang filmed TV series, and mainland TV stations were very proud of their appearance. I haven’t seen the TV series yet, and the broadcast time of several TV stations has been determined, and the time is tight.

After understanding the situation, Tao Yushu couldn't help but feel a headache for such a situation.

Fortunately, she has a great face, and investors dare not make a mistake when they see that she is in charge of the situation.

Tao Yushu proposed to ask the deputy director Xia Zuhui to take over the director's task, clear out all the people who caused trouble, and added 3 million yuan to the crew, and solved the chaos in the crew with a quick knife, and Li Hanxiang's funeral was successfully held.

Because the journey back to Hong Kong was long, Li Hanxiang's funeral could only be held in Yanjing. The funeral was not very lively. Zhang Cuiying and his daughters, Lin Chaoyang and his wife, Tony Leung, Yue Hua and other relatives attended the funeral.

According to Li Hanxiang's last wish during his lifetime, his ashes remained in the mainland.

The ashes fell into the soil and were frozen cold every day, and flocks of crows flew into the sky, making people feel depressed.

Lin Chaoyang remembered that when he first met Li Hanxiang, so many years have passed in a flash.

After the funeral, Tao Yushu and Zhang Cuiying and his daughter returned to Xiangjiang, while Lin Chaoyang stayed in Yanjing. This was something the couple had agreed on.

He remembered Xie Jin, who was also filming. Xie Jin was a few years older than Li Hanxiang, so he went to Hengdian specifically.

When Lin Chaoyang saw Xie Jin, he breathed a sigh of relief. The old comrade's face was rosy, full of energy, and looked full of energy.

After the spring of "Opium War", it was filmed in Guangzhou for more than two months and then moved to Zhoushan to shoot the scenes of the naval battle. It was more than two months before it came to Hengdian Film and Television City to shoot.

Originally, when the filming was started, Xie Jin was confident that he would finish filming before November.

But the reality poured him a basin of cold water. According to the current progress, it would be considered as fast as possible to finish the filming in early January.

As soon as he saw Lin Chaoyang, Xie Jin kept complaining.

First, it is because of the difficulty of shooting the movie, and second, it is the coordination with Zhang Yimou.

"Opium War" sent several highlights of Humen's cigarette removal in Guangzhou.

In the scene of "Humen's cigarette removal", Zhang Yimou struggled for almost a month in order to achieve the best visual effect.

After hearing Xie Jin's complaint, Lin Chaoyang watched the scene of "Humen's cigarette removal".

In the picture, the colorful flags "swept with the order" are flying in the wind, the environment is full of people and the sound is loud and the sound is spreading to the sky.

The three large smoke pools were filled with lime. Under the east gate and west gate with various flags flying, the Qing soldiers with long debates were hanging down the curtains of the hats, holding spears and knives on their waists, with a majestic expression, and standing upright in the scorching sun.

The Qing soldiers isolated the people watching the fun, and the shed not far from the Yanchi Pool was filled with Qing Dynasty officials and foreign merchants.

Lin Zexu, played by Bao Guoan, was wearing a yellow first-class official robe, and solemnly climbed to the high altar, burning incense in the face of the sea, worshiping three times: worshiping the sky, worshiping the earth, worshiping the gods.

In the distance, the high tide sea water curled and rolled higher and higher, surging, as if it was promoting Lin Zexu's momentum.

The sea breeze blew Lin Zexu's hair and beard, and he stood up and said slowly with a solemn expression:

"I am vast in China, with a long history and a long cultural heritage. Since ancient times, all countries have pilgrims and barbarians have obeyed them.

Nowadays, foreigners despise our country's national system and send opium to poison the people. Lin Zexu inherited the imperial edict of Emperor Wu and dispelled cigarettes according to the orders, and the gods learned it together."

In the picture, Lin Zexu's face swept away the aura of a civil servant and scholar, and his demeanor of a general who was planning and planning was like a rainbow.

After the sacrifice, the sound of cannons rumbling. Lin Zexu went up to the table and waved the flag. In an instant, silver knife sockets split the wooden box, and opium balls rolled over the cigarette pool.

I saw a group of soldiers with barefoot breasts and complexion poured the opium cut into pieces into the pool in a basket, which was as hot as soup and thick smoke rose.

The crowds of people from far and near mountains shouted thunder, like mountains roaring and thundering, and the earth was shaking. Opium had turned into slag foam and rolling down, and as the sea water was flowing to the sea...

In the original "Opium War", the scene of selling cigarettes is only two minutes, and the shooting technique is realistic, and it cannot be said to be bad, but in such a sad and dark film, selling cigarettes is a rare scene with exciting emotions.

Therefore, when Lin Chaoyang recreated the script, he focused on improving the scene.

The effect Zhang Yimou has produced now is much more impressive than the original one. This aspect is what he is good at, and it looks a bit like "Hero".

"The later part of this episode must be accompanied by a bit of passionate and heroic music, and the atmosphere will not be instantly highlighted!" Lin Chaoyang said with satisfaction after watching the scene.

Xie Jin said a little disgusted: "I would have known that I would have asked him to take pictures by myself!"

"Yeah!" Lin Chaoyang waved his hand, "Old comrade, don't be sarcastic. They are all offering gifts for the return. What are you and me?"

Lin Chaoyang knew very well that neither Xie Jin nor Zhang Yimou had any objections to each other.

However, both of them are directors who have achieved some art. The first time they collaborated and the only time they collaborated, and they must have conflicts in their creative ideas and ideas.

"I'll treat you to a good meal tonight, and I'll do you a lot!"

Seeing Lin Chaoyang doing this, Xie Jin was satisfied.

When he was having dinner, he planned to drink again, looking at the attitude that he wanted to use this meal to pour Zhang Yimou into relieving his depression.

With Li Hanxiang’s past lessons, how could Lin Chaoyang dare to let him drink?

After persuading them, he pulled the two of them to talk about the ups and downs during the filming process, and Xie Jin forgot about drinking.

"Guangdong is not very interesting. Halfway through the meal, Xie Jin said something and looked angry.

It turned out that after the crew of "Opium War" moved to Zhoushan, Guangdong also planned to film a TV series that reflected the theme of the Opium War, even the name was "Opium War".

It was jointly prepared by the provincial publicity department, Zhuzhou Film Studio and Guangdong TV Station.

The theme of the same name is not uncommon in the domestic film and television industry. Xie Jin's old friend Xie Tieli shot the film version of "Dream of Red Mansions" and was seized by CCTV's drama version of "Dream of Red Mansions". As a result, Yan Film Studio lost 8 million yuan.

In addition, Guangdong TV's "Business World" and Zhuzhou Film Studio's "Business World" also fought each other, and the TV series was broadcast first, and the film version was defeated.

With these lessons from the past, Xie Jin is naturally disgusted with the subject of the same name.

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "It is normal for people to catch up with the return of Xiangjiang River.

As long as the movie is well made, are you still afraid of such things? Are you afraid of such things?"

Lin Chaoyang's aggressive move worked very well, Xie Jin said, "I'm afraid of nothing!"

He said again, "Aren't you afraid that these 100 million yuan will be wasted?"

Lin Chaoyang said relaxedly: "With you and Yimou here, if this movie fails, I have nothing to say."

Xie Jin and Zhang Yimou were moved when they heard this. Xie Jin said, "I have to do something about Chaoyang!"

After saying that, he raised his glass and remembered that there was water in the glass, but it still dried.

I just put down the cup and shook my head, with a very regretful expression.
Chapter completed!