Jin Jingcheng glanced at Wilson beside him.

Wilson was also interested, knowing that Jin Jingcheng was Nikolai's doctoral student, and Nikolai was the head of the film department, and Nikolai's call, Jin Jingcheng could not refuse, so he said: "You go with your mentor first, you know where my recording studio is, and come back when the discussion is over, I just go over and prepare." ”

Jin Jingcheng showed a grateful and understanding look.

Nikolai was a little surprised, he thought that Jin Jingcheng and Wilson just met by chance on the road, but he didn't expect the two of them to have something to do, and they still went to Wilson's recording studio.

What is Jin Jingcheng going to the recording studio for? Nikolai was a little curious, but he wouldn't ask, whether it was his steady personality or his majesty as a tutor, he wouldn't casually ask about his students.

Nikolai said to Wilson, "If you have something important, get busy first, I'm okay here." ”

Wilson hurriedly said, "It's still your business that matters." ”

Although Wilson has a very good status, he is still inferior to Nicholas in the Disch Academy of Arts, after all, Nicholas is a department head, not to mention that he is also younger than Nicholas, so he speaks with some respect.

After that, Wilson went to the recording studio alone.

Jin Jingcheng followed Nikolai and Li Yu to Nikolai's office.

……

Nikolai's office.

Nikolai, Li Huan, and Jin Jingcheng all sat on the sofa, Nikolai and Li Jian sat in a row, and Jin Jingcheng sat alone opposite them.

Nikolai went straight to the point and said to Jin Jingcheng: "Director Li Yu is preparing a movie, and today he came to discuss the script with me, an old classmate, and asked you to come over, just to let you participate in it." ”

And so it was. ”

Jin Jingcheng thought in his heart, when he saw the document bag in Li Yan's hand before, he vaguely guessed this, and in his mind, most of the document bags contained scripts.

As far as Jin Jingcheng knows, Nikolai is a very competent doctoral supervisor, and once he has the opportunity, he will let several doctoral students he takes participate in film-related practical activities.

Taking the script as an example, if a relatively heavyweight filmmaker asks Nikolai to discuss the script, Nikolai will often let the following doctoral students participate in the discussion without arousing the other party's disgust, which can be regarded as learning and practice, and may be able to provide good advice, after all, young people have their own advantages, and some things cannot be thought of by experienced "seniors".

As Li Huan's old classmates, Nikolai and Li Huan are close friends, and in this relationship, he let his students participate in the discussion, and Li Huan will not say anything, not to mention that he knows that Li Huan is a very easy-going person, and he will not despise or even disgust him because his students are young people.

Li Yu smiled kindly at Jin Jingcheng, and then opened the thick document bag in his hand.

Jin Jingcheng had already guessed that most of the documents in the bag were scripts, and at this moment he was calculating the time in his heart.

It's 2003, and more than half of the summer vacation has passed, according to Jin Jingcheng's understanding of Li Huan's experience in his previous life, at this time, the movie "Hulk Hulk" directed by Li Huan should have just come off the production line in American theaters, but the results of this movie are not good, the business is not very popular, and the reputation is not too ideal.

This made Li Jian realize that he was still good at relatively pure art films, even if he wanted to take a commercial path, he couldn't be too restrained by this, and at the same time inspired Li Yan's fighting spirit, and felt that he had to prove himself no matter what, make a good film, a good film that could impact the Oscars, as an academic director, Li Yan has a soft spot for the Oscars.

Therefore, "Hulk" has just come off the production line, and Li Yu is busy preparing for a new film.

Jin Jingcheng judged that this new film should be nothing else, it is the "Brokeback Mountain" that was controversial because of same-sex issues but finally helped Li Yu fulfill his dream and won the Oscar for Best Director!

It's just that in Jin Jingcheng's memory, "Brokeback Mountain" should not start filming until this time next year, and in order to impact the 2006 Academy Awards, it was deliberately released at the end of 2005, why did he start preparations now?

Thinking about it again, it is not difficult to understand that this movie is too important to Li Huan, not only determines the future career direction of Li Huan, but also has high hopes for Li Huan, perhaps because of this, Li Huan will come to his old classmates and friend Nikolai to help discuss, Nikolai's ability in film writing and directing, even Li Huan, is more respectful.

At this time, Li Yu had already taken out the contents of the document bag, which was a thick stack of manuscript paper.

Jin Jingcheng glanced at the two big words "Brokeback-mountain" on the cover, and confirmed his judgment, and sure enough, it was "Brokeback-mountain".

But his judgment is still a little wrong, because what Li Huan came up with is not a real script, just the outline and paragraph drafts of some scripts, for a director of Li Huan's level, before shooting a movie, the script must be carefully polished, and it is inevitable that there will be a lot of outlines and paragraph drafts.

In other words, the script of Li Yan's "Brokeback Mountain" has not yet been completed, and it is still in the early planning stage.

In addition to the outline and paragraph drafts, Li Yu also took out a specially printed short story from the file bag, the novel is indeed very short, and it only took more than ten sheets of paper to print out.

This short story was written by Anne Prux, an American female writer and veteran writer.

In his previous life, Rikkin actually knew that "Brokeback Mountain" was based on the short story of the same name by Anne Plaux, but he didn't know the old writer Anne Plaux, but now he is different.

Now Jin Jingcheng has all the memories of "that Jin Jingcheng", and literature is also one of "that Jin Jingcheng"'s hobbies and specialties, and he has read almost all of Anne Proxys's literary works, including "The Postal Card", which won her the Faulkner PEN Award, and "Shipping News", which won the Irish "Times" International Fiction Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Of course, Anne Proxys's most famous work is undoubtedly the short story "Brokeback Mountain".

"Brokeback Mountain" is set in Wyoming, USA, and tells the story of two American same-sex cowboys who are forced by social pressure to marry and have children.

Kim is now familiar with Anne Prucks, a female writer who writes about the ultimate in men's same-sex relationships.

But right now, Jin Jingcheng can't care about narcissism, his brain is spinning at high speed, originally, when he followed Nikolai and Li Yu to this office, he realized that this could be an opportunity for himself, and now when he found out that the script of "Brokeback Mountain" has not really been written, he is even more sure of this idea.

If you dare to think, you must dare to do it, since you see the opportunity, then move forward resolutely, this is Jin Jingcheng's character.

So, the next discussion of the script in the office was completely unexpected by Nikolai and Li Yu.

Originally, Nikolai asked Jin Jingcheng to participate, but he just wanted him to take the opportunity to learn and practice, which was actually equivalent to treating him as an intern, mainly an observer, and occasionally speaking.

Originally, although Li Yu had a kind personality and would not be disgusted with young people like Jin Jingcheng participating in the discussion, he didn't take Jin Jingcheng too seriously, mainly for Nikolai.

However, in the process of discussion, Jin Jingcheng became the protagonist who spoke the most, if it was just like this, it might cause the disgust of Nikolai and Li Huan, the key is that the content of Jin Jingcheng's speech, every sentence is like shining gold, not only has a high degree of insight, but also put forward some opinions and ideas, completely in line with Li Huan's taste.

So much so that after an hour of discussion, Jin Jingcheng, who performed extraordinarily, won Li Yu's high praise.

Nikolai was amazed, and quietly observed Li Eucalyptus, he knew that although Li Eucalyptus appeared gentle and traditional on the surface, he was a fighter who dared to challenge the traditional sword in his bones.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Nikolai boldly said: "Li Yan, since you appreciate this student of mine so much, and resonate with his various understandings and ideas about the script, why don't you just ask him to help you write this script?"

Nikolai is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire, hoping to win a good opportunity for his favorite students.

can say such things, it is enough to see that Nikolai also dares to go off the rails in his bones, after all, Li Yu is now a famous director, and "Brokeback Mountain" is particularly important to him, in this case, Nikolai dared to propose to let Jin Jingcheng, a young man who is only twenty years old, help him write the script, according to normal circumstances, it is really a bit abrupt.

Fortunately, neither Li Yu nor Nikolai are old-fashioned people.

After hearing this, Jin Jingcheng's heart suddenly became excited, this is exactly what he longed for, but he still remained calm on the surface, and looked at Li Yu with calm eyes.

Although Nikolai said this, he didn't expect Li Yu to agree immediately, and as a result, Li Yu's courage was even more than he imagined.

After a little hesitation, Li Yu clapped his hands and said, "Okay, those who do our job often have to take the unusual road." ”

According to Li Yan's original plan, he first preliminarily determined the outline of the script, and then asked two experienced screenwriters he trusted, Larry McMoultery and Diana Oshana, under his guidance, to let these two screenwriters work together to write the script.

is also because, Li Yu has already asked Larry McMoultery and Diana Oshana to discuss the script of "Brokeback Mountain" together, but several discussions are not ideal, and the two screenwriters have failed to satisfy Li Yu in some aspects, which is one of the reasons why Li Yu came to Nikolai today.

However, Li Yu is resolute and resolute, but he will not lose his due stability.

So Li added to Jin Jingcheng: "But there is one thing, unless you write a script that will satisfy me, I will not use it." ”

Jin Jingcheng smiled and said, "Of course. ”

Li Yu also said: "Writing a script is not an easy task, it is a chore, especially a script like "Brokeback Mountain", especially writing a script for a director like me, well, you can rest assured that even if the script you write does not satisfy me and will not be used, I will give you a hard fee." ”

This is naturally better, Jin Jingcheng smiled and nodded, but he was thinking in his heart, if the script I wrote was enabled by you, then how much would you pay me? Jin Jingcheng believes that with Li Yan's character, this remuneration will definitely not be less!