Chapter 12 Opportunity "Brokeback Mountain"
Jin Jingcheng looked at Wilson beside him.
Wilson was tactful and knew that Jin Jingcheng was Nikola's doctoral student, and Nikola was also the director of the film department. Jin Jingcheng was not easy to refuse Nikola's call, so he said, "You go with your supervisor first. You know where my recording studio is. When the talk is over, I will come over first. I will go over and prepare."
Jin Jingcheng showed a look of gratitude and understanding.
Nicholas was a little surprised. He thought that Jin Jingcheng and Wilson were just meeting by chance on the road, but he didn't expect that they had something to do, so he went to Wilson's recording studio.
What did Jin Jingcheng do in the recording studio? Nikola was a little curious, but he couldn't ask. Whether it was his steady personality or his majesty as a mentor, he would not ask about students casually.
Nicholas said to Wilson: "If you have something to do, just be busy first, it's okay for me."
Wilson hurriedly said, "It's still your business."
Although Wilson has a great status, he is still not as good as Nikola in the Dishi Academy of Art. After all, Nikola is a department head, and he is younger than Nikola, so he feels a little respectful when he speaks.
After saying that, Wilson went to the recording studio alone.
Jin Jingcheng followed Nikola and Li An and walked towards Nikola's office.
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Nicholas's office.
Nikola, Li An and Jin Jingcheng were all sitting on the sofa. Nikola and Li An were sitting in the same row, while Jin Jingcheng sat alone opposite them.
Nikola said straight to Jin Jingcheng: "Director Li An is preparing a movie. Today I came to me, an old classmate, to discuss the script. I came to you just to participate in it."
"Sure enough."
Jin Jingcheng thought to himself that when he saw the file bag in Li An's hand, he vaguely guessed this. In his opinion, the file bag was mostly scripted.
As far as Jin Jingcheng knows, Nikola is a very competent doctoral supervisor. Once he has the opportunity, he will let several doctoral students he led participate in relevant practical activities in films.
Take the script as an example. If a heavyweight filmmaker asks Nikola to discuss the script, Nikola will often let the following doctoral students participate in the discussion without arousing the other party's disgust. This is considered to be a study and practice, and may also provide good advice. After all, young people have their own advantages, and some things are something that experienced "predecessors" cannot think of.
As Li An’s old classmate, Nikola and Li An are close friends. When he singled out this relationship, he asked his students to participate in the discussion, and Li An would not say anything, not to mention that he knew that Li An was a very easy-going person, and would not underestimate or even disgust just because his students were young people.
Li An smiled kindly at Jin Jingcheng and opened the thick file bag in his hand.
Jin Jingcheng had already guessed that most of the scripts were in the file bag, and at this moment he was calculating the time in his mind.
It is 2003 now, and the summer vacation has passed more than half. According to Jin Jingcheng's previous life's understanding of Li An's experience, at this time, the movie "Hulk Hulk" directed by Li An should have just been offline from American theaters. However, the film's performance is not good, it is not very popular in business, and its reputation is not very ideal.
This made Li An realize that he was still good at pure art films. Even if he had to go through commercial paths, he could not be restrained too much. At the same time, he inspired Li An's fighting spirit. He felt that he had to prove himself no matter what, making a good film and a good film that could win the Oscars. As a director who came from the academic school, Li An had a special liking for Oscars.
Therefore, as soon as "The Hulk" was released, Li An was busy preparing for a new film.
Kim Jong-sung judged that this new film should be nothing else, it was the one that helped Lee An fulfill his dream because of the same-sex issue and won the Best Director of the Oscars "Brokeback Mountain"!
But in Jin Jingcheng's memory, "Brokeback Mountain" should not start filming until this time next year. In order to hit the 2006 Academy Awards, I deliberately waited until the end of 2005 to release. Why did I start preparing now?
Instead, it was not difficult to understand that Jin Jingcheng was too important to Li An. This movie not only determined Li An’s future career direction, but also had high hopes for Li An. Perhaps because of this, Li An came to ask his old classmate and friend Nikola to help discuss Nikola's ability in film directing, even Li An, even Li An respects it.
At this time, Li An had already taken out the contents in 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 then determined his judgment. It was indeed "Brokeback-Mountain".
But his judgment was still a little wrong, because what Li An came up with was not the real script, but only some script outlines and paragraph drafts. For directors of Li An’s level, the script must be carefully polished before shooting a movie, and there will inevitably be many outlines and paragraph drafts.
In other words, Li An’s script of “Brokeback Mountain” has not been completed yet and is still in the early planning stage.
In addition to the outline and paragraph draft, Li An also took out a specially printed short story from the file bag. The novel is indeed very short, but only more than ten pieces of paper were used to print it out.
This short story was created by the American female writer and old writer Anne Prox.
In his previous life, Jin Jingcheng knew that "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted from the short story of the same name by Anne Prox, but he didn't know the old writer Anne Prox, but now he is different.
Now Jin Jingcheng has received all the memories of "That Jin Jingcheng", and literature is also one of the hobbies and specialties of "That Jin Jingcheng". He has read almost all literary works by Anne Prox, including the Postal Card that won the Faulkner Pen Award and the International Novel Award of the Irish Times, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize of Shipping News.
Of course, Anne Prox's most famous work is undoubtedly the short story "Brokeback Mountain".
Brokeback Mountain is located in Wyoming, USA. It tells the story of two cowboys with same-sex relationships in the United States who are forced to social pressure to get married and have children. Although it is just a short story, the protagonists' relationship has been involved for more than 20 years. Some media even call the novel "Western homosexual epic".
Jin Jingcheng is now very familiar with Anne Prox, a female writer who wrote the ultimate homosexual relationship between men.
But at the moment, Jin Jingcheng didn't care about narcissism about this, and his brain was spinning at high speed. Originally, when he followed Nikola and Lee An to this office, he realized that this might be his opportunity. Now when he found that the script of "Brokeback Mountain" had not been written, he even confirmed this idea.
If you dare to think, you must dare to do it. Since you have seen the opportunity, then move forward bravely. This is Jin Jingcheng's character.
So, the next discussion of the script in the office was completely beyond Nikola and Li An's expectations.
Originally, Nikola asked Jin Cheng to participate, just to let him take the opportunity to learn and practice. In fact, it was equivalent to treating him as an intern, focusing on listening and occasionally speaking.
Originally, although Li An was kind-hearted and would not dislike young people like Jin Jingcheng participating in the discussion, he did not take Jin Jingcheng seriously, mainly because he came for Nicholas.
However, during the discussion, Jin Jingcheng became the protagonist who spoke the most. If this were the case, it might arouse the disgust of Nikola and Lee An. The key is that the content of Jin Jingcheng's speech was like a shining gold. Not only did he have a high level of insight, but he also put forward some of the opinions and ideas that were completely in line with Lee An's taste.
So much so that after an hour of discussion, Jin Jingcheng, who performed extraordinaryly, won the high praise of Li An.
While amazement, Nicholas quietly observed Li An. He knew that although Li An appeared gentle and traditional on the surface, he was a fighter who dared to challenge the traditional sword and took the wrong steps.
Seeing that the time was almost right, Nikola said boldly: "Li An, since you appreciate my student so much, he resonates with his understanding and ideas about the script, why not just ask him to write this script for you?"
Nicholas is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire, hoping to get a good opportunity for his favorite students.
Being able to say such words is enough to show that Nicholas dares to take the wrong steps at heart. After all, Li An is now a famous director, and "Brokeback Mountain" is particularly important to him. Under such circumstances, Nicholas dared to ask Jin Jingcheng, a young man who was only 20 years old, to help him write the script. According to normal circumstances, it is really a bit abrupt.
Fortunately, neither Li Yan nor Nikola are old-fashioned people.
After hearing this, Jin Jingcheng suddenly became excited. This was exactly what he wanted, but he still maintained calmness on the surface and looked at Li An with calm eyes.
Although Nicholas said this, he did not expect Li An to agree immediately. As a result, Li An's courage was even beyond his imagination.
After hesitating for a moment, Li An clapped his hands and said, "Okay, those who do our job often have to go the ordinary path."
According to Li An's original plan, he first made a preliminary conclusion on the script, and then found two experienced screenwriters who he trusted more. Under his guidance, he asked the two screenwriters to collaborate on the script. Unexpectedly, "Cheng Yaojin came out halfway", and the young Jin Cheng was deeply loved by him.
It is also because Li An had already looked for Larry McMurterry and Diana Oshana before, and discussed the script of "Brokeback Mountain" together, but the discussions were not ideal for several times. The two screenwriters failed to satisfy Li An in some aspects, which is also one of the reasons why Li An came to Nicholas specifically today.
However, Li An will not lose the stability she should have because of this.
So Lee An added to Jin Jingcheng: "But one thing is that I will not enable it unless you write a script that will satisfy me."
Jin Jingcheng smiled and said, "Of course."
Li An also said: "Writing scripts is not an easy task, it is a chore, especially scripts like "Brokeback Mountain", especially scripts for directors like me. Well, you can rest assured that even if the script you wrote doesn't satisfy me and will not be activated, I will give you a hard work."
Chapter completed!