Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 173 The Story of the Escort

In fact, the news that Li Tang brought back was full of uncertainties, but Cheng Er was very happy, because at least he saw hope, instead of being almost desperate like before.

"Brother Li, then I will quickly find someone to translate the script."

"Why bother, I'll do it."

Translations are expensive these days, especially script translations, which are publication-grade Chinese-to-English translations, which are the highest among translation quotes. A script of 10,000+ words is also a lot of money.

"Uh...then I'll trouble you."

Only then did Cheng Er recall the legend of Li Tang when he was filming "Shanghai Chronicle". It is said that there was no obstacle in communicating with foreign actors, even more like Americans than foreign actors.

Translating scripts is really a piece of cake for Li Tang. After time travel, he has mastered two native languages, especially the translation of lines is more accurate and closer to the expression habits of the Ansa people, rather than the dry A mediocre translation.This can increase the fineness of the script.

The translation of 10,000+ words is not a small project. Even if Li Tang stayed behind closed doors, it took a full ten days to complete.

After reading it carefully to make sure there was nothing wrong, I sent both the Chinese and English versions to Naian, and left the rest of the registration and application matters to her.

One day, he suddenly received a call from Director Xiao Teng.

"Young Hero Linghu, what are you busy with?"

"Not busy, stay at home."

"Hey, that's just right, play a role for me."

"What play?"

"Just a movie, the movie channel cooperated with our Beijing Film Studio, and asked my old man to be the art director. You also know that my old man has no time at all during this period, so let me follow, as an assistant director, isn't it right now? I'm missing a role, come and help me."

Director Xiao Teng said that Li Tang would not agree to this. Anyway, if he is idle, he is idle, but he still needs to ask clearly about the situation, so he said, "What kind of subject is this for you? It will take a few days?"

"It's a story about two policemen escorting a fraudster. You play one of the young policemen, and it will take about ten or 20 days."

As soon as Li Tang heard it, he felt wrong. Two policemen escorted a criminal, and he wanted to play one of the policemen.

"How can you be a cameo? Brother Tao, let's put one size at a time. You have to talk to my manager about this matter first."

Li Tang was most afraid of this kind of human lawsuit, so he simply made a brand, and it was no problem to help out as a cameo, but it was just a cameo.If you want to play a serious role in the name of a cameo, then I'm sorry, talk to an agent.

Director Xiao Teng hurriedly said: "Don't tell me, can my brother still lose you? To tell you the truth, the director and screenwriter of this play are people from the General Administration, and they have been in charge of film production, distribution, screening, and economic operations before. One piece. He also graduated from the Beidian Department of Literature, and he is my big brother. This time I got a book and planned to be a director myself. The book is well written, really, otherwise my old man would not have taken over art. Directing this errand. As for the shooting, don't worry, I'll be watching..."

This is unreliable at first glance. What does it mean that the director and screenwriter are both from the General Administration?Li Tang reckoned that it might be a small bureaucrat in the General Administration, who was very quiet and wanted to play tickets, so he made a script and got the movie channel to pay for it, thinking about becoming a director's addiction.

He felt uncomfortable thinking about this kind of thing. Cheng Erzheng is a director. It is so difficult to make a movie, but look at him, he just wanted to relax his addiction to being a director.

Li Tang just wanted to open his mouth to refuse, but on second thought, he couldn't do it. Right now, he is still working on "The Third Man" with Cheng Er. Whoever cares about this, can't afford to be offended.

Moreover, Li Tang's brain is moving very fast. Since he can't offend him, he must make friends with him. This is the life experience that Lao Li taught him.In addition, director Xiao Teng said just now that this film is a cooperation between the movie channel and Beijing Film Studio. The movie channel is a rich unit. Casting movies, not only TV movies, but also movies that can be released seriously.

It is said that many scripts apply to movie channels for filming funds every year. Of course, this is very difficult.But the director of the General Administration can get the investment from the movie channel, so he obviously has a good relationship.Li Tang wondered if he could get online with the movie channel through this relationship, and then try his luck.

As for handing over the script, the myth that the person in charge is shocked after reading the script, and then cries and wants to invest in you only exists in YY novels.It doesn't matter if you don't have a reputation, relying on formal channels, no matter how good your script is, it's useless.

When he was in Hollywood in his previous life, he heard that the six major production companies in Hollywood had countless unknown screenwriters delivering scripts to them every day, and there were at least hundreds of thousands of scripts piled up in the warehouses of each company. , It is almost rare to be able to soar into the sky by delivering scripts.

So he directed to Xiao Teng on the other end of the phone: "Alright, but you have to let me read the script first."

As a result, Director Xiao Teng paused for two seconds. Just when Li Tang wondered if the mobile phone signal was bad and the other party didn't hear clearly, he heard Director Xiao Teng say in surprise, "Okay, I'll send it to your email in a while. I'll tell you You said this book is really good, just believe me!"

In fact, Director Xiao Teng called today because he was trying his luck.When my father entrusted him with this task, he intended to be friendly with the person from the General Administration.If you want to stand out in the circle, apart from your own ability, you have to go up to the leaders of the competent department, down to the actors and behind-the-scenes practitioners, and all aspects have to be in place.

Li Tang has just finished filming "Swordsman", and it is predictable that it will become a big hit after it airs, and Li Tang's acting skills have been proven by awards, if he can bring Li Tang to this drama, on the one hand, he will have face , On the other hand, isn't it the best way to make friends with the General Administration.

Of course, he knew very well that despite Li Tang's usually harmless appearance, he was actually a very principled person in his bones.A capable person always has character, so he didn't have much confidence at the beginning.

Hearing director Xiao Teng's words, Li Tang was also a little surprised. Although this guy usually looks quite out of tune, he is a proud person. He said that the script is good, so at least it should not be bad.

Although Li Tang said that he wanted to make friends with the General Administration, the premise was that the script was passable.If the script is poor, then he has a reason to shirk.And it is impossible for him to make a bad movie just for flattery, for Cheng Er's "The Third Man".Isn't this putting the cart before the horse!

"Well, I'll reply after I read it."

"Okay, okay, but you'd better hurry up, I've already started building a group here, time waits for no one!"

"understood."

Director Xiao Teng was very fast and sent the script in less than 5 minutes.

There was nothing left and right, Li Tang clicked on the email and read it right away.

The name of the script is "The Story of Escort", which is very straightforward.

Then signed in the afternoon: Wang Liang, Qi Xin.

Qi Xin is the little bureaucrat of the General Administration that Xiao Teng talked about, and he is also the director of this play.

When Li Tang looked at the signature, he felt somewhat disdainful.Just now Director Xiao Teng also said that Director Qi is a graduate of the Department of Literature of Beidian, and wrote and directed by himself.Dare to get a notebook from someone else, and then sign his name on it.

Li Tangte despises this kind of behavior of Awu's egg pretending to be a diamond. For example, he gave a lot of ideas to the script of "The Third Man" before. Cheng Er wanted him to sign it, but he firmly disagreed at that time.After all, the originality of the story and the overall creation belong to others. If he just put forward some opinions from the perspective of actors and audiences and wants to sign, he is not that thick-skinned.

The outline of the story is a simple sentence: Li Gongan, an old policeman at the police station, and Zhang Lei, a young policeman who just graduated from the police academy and went to practice in the countryside, were ordered to arrest the fraud suspect Yu Tai from a remote mountainous area and escort them back to Shaanxi.

Director Xiao Teng invited himself to play the role of the little policeman Zhang Lei.As for the name Li Gongan, it looks very friendly, and people can immediately think of the image of Li Gongan in "Qiu Ju's Lawsuit", a middle-aged policeman who speaks Shaanxi dialect and takes care of ordinary parents.

Precisely because of contempt in his heart, Li Tang looked down with contempt, but looked at him and suddenly let out a "tsk".

Surprisingly, this is actually a road movie script that is rarely seen in China nowadays. Two policemen bring an economic criminal with them. There must be a story for a threesome.Economic criminals are not the heinous ones; and two policemen, a very humane and experienced old policeman and a fledgling rookie policeman with a strong sense of justice.

A series of stories happened during the escort. Although it is not thrilling, it is also tense.In particular, the simple and extensive writing style does not lose its delicacy, and the cold black humor makes people smile knowingly from time to time.

The key point is that Li Tang saw the shadow of the classic crime comedy "Midnight Run" directed by Martin Brest and starring Robert De Niro from this script.

If you are not familiar with the director Martin Brest, you must be familiar with his famous work "Three Old Gunners".Of course, there is also the classic film "Scent of a Woman" that made him nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.

When Li Tang even forgot to eat dinner and read the script in one go, his first feeling was that, as director Xiao Teng told him on the phone, this book is really good.

Although most of the scenes focus on the old policemen and scammers, the young trainee policemen are stubborn and tricky, and they are teased by scammers from time to time, which also contributes a lot of laughter.The key lies in the trainee policeman's incomprehension of the old policeman from the beginning to his understanding and then to his transformation. There is also a story about growth here.

Li Tang couldn't help but smacking his mouth, he was a little surprised, he wanted to be flattering, but he didn't expect it was really a good book.

He immediately picked up his cell phone and called Director Xiao Teng: "Brother Tao, I'll take this play."

"Listen to me, you're right! Oh, yes, I have something to say hello to you. We don't have much money for this show, and the salary is estimated to be enough. Your side is at most [-]!"

"..."

Twenty thousand is too low to be honest.With Li Tang's current status and popularity, the film's salary is at least 20 yuan.Now that the next zero was erased all of a sudden, he didn't know what to say.

Director Xiao Teng reckoned that the salary he offered was indeed a bit low, and it was a bit of a slap in the face to say it was ugly.

He hurriedly explained again: "Li Tang, there is really nothing you can do if you worry too much. The total investment is only more than 100 million yuan. But don't worry, it won't take long. According to the shooting plan, it can be finished in a month at most. Don't say anything. , how about you give me face this time?"

Since Xiao Teng's director said this, Li Tang had no choice but to use a very reluctant tone: "Uh, it's fine... But Brother Tao, this time I'm just looking at your face!"

"Understood, I'll treat you to dinner and singing later on, you can choose anywhere!"

　The first!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)