Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 190 Lessons from the past
For these comments from the outside world, Li Tang, who has seen the big world, doesn't care at all. The ratings of "Swordsman" are still steadily increasing amidst criticism, but he responded with a sentence: "Black and red are also red!"

After watching a few episodes, Li Tang quickly lost the desire to continue watching, because he can always find out the shortcomings in his performance, and it is better to be out of sight than to make himself depressed.

Criticism cannot always be the same, and the media even dug up the interview that Li Tang accepted by Han Binjiang and published it on the "Daily News" before the broadcast began. Naturally, a criticism of his remarks was inevitable, and after the broadcast, one after another asked for interviews. .This time Li Tang was not used to this group of media, and refused all of them, not one of them.

On February 30th, as the [-]th Rotterdam International Film Festival came to an end, Cheng Er, who was far away in Rotterdam, finally received good news. The script of "The Third Man" was successfully shortlisted for the funding list of [-] HBF funds this year. Received a $[-] grant from the Foundation.

The HBF Fund generally grants [-] to [-] U.S. dollars to the shortlisted scripts, and [-] U.S. dollars belongs to the middle class.Of course, people are not being taken advantage of, and they will not just give you a check, but will establish a project for each project, and then allocate funds according to the progress.

Cheng Er was very excited, 20 US dollars was equivalent to more than 20 RMB, plus his own savings of more than [-] yuan, according to his budget, almost half of the funds were settled.

Hearing Cheng Er's excited voice on the phone, to be honest, it was the first time for Li Tang to hear Cheng Er say so many things in one breath, and expressing only a few meanings over and over again.

The first is nothing more than gratitude, thanks to Li Tang for his help, otherwise his work must be indefinitely far away, and it is almost impossible to say that Li Tang is Bole, who discovered Cheng Er, a great horse.

The second is that he went to Rotterdam this time to see the world and watched a lot of excellent movies. The only fly in the ointment is that his English ability is poor and he can't understand the dialogue. Fortunately, the language of movies is common all over the world, so he learned it. Quite a few things.

Thirdly, and most importantly, he coyly suggested that Li Tang could find a way to solve the other half of the investment.Because if the film cannot be started, then the [-] US dollars in funding will be wasted.

Li Tang thinks that Cheng Er is still too young. The more careful the money is about movies, the less money will be enough. "Suzhou Creek" is the sign of the future. Of course, I hope Cheng Er is not a special Lou Ye, otherwise let alone 100 million , 200 million can't beat it.

Originally, Li Tang planned to go to Hangzhou to visit Naian after the Lantern Festival, to pray for his old age, and to make up for her daughter's full moon gift.This time, they were all done together, because when Cheng Er applied for the HBF fund, the production and production company used Naian's Dreamwork Culture and Art Company.

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"You said that you have come here, why are you so polite."

The full moon gift from Li Tang was very affordable. It was a long-lived lock made of 100 pure gold with a weight of 999 grams.As long as you are Chinese, no matter how foreign it is, gift giving should be festive and auspicious.

Naian, who just gave birth to a child, is a lot richer, and her whole person looks a little softer and more maternal, and she is no longer as hot and aggressive as before.

Naian also knew about Cheng Er's funding from HBF as early as the first time. Her friends at the fund probably knew the news earlier than Cheng Er in Rotterdam.

Li Tang didn't go around in circles, and told Nai'an about it straight to the point.The problem now is that since you have applied for the fund, you have to start the machine within the year. If you can’t start the machine or get the previous funds and end up unfinished, then there will be no chance in the future.

"What do you think?" Naian asked after listening.

It is obvious that Li Tang is so enthusiastic about this matter because he is optimistic about the script of "The Third Man".

Li Tang said without hesitation: "If the company has difficulties, then I want to vote by myself."

He had already considered this matter before it came, since he wanted to act, he just had to give it a try.

Naian didn't seem surprised, she took out a script and handed it over, "You should read this book first, Lou Ye's new work."

"Really?"

Li Tang's first reaction was quite pleasant. Since "Suzhou River" was banned, Lou Ye has been concentrating on conceiving a new script in retreat. It has been almost a year now, and the script is finally released.

He quickly took the notebook and flipped through it, the name was "Summer Palace".Li Tang subconsciously thought that this was a love story that happened in the capital.Because love is always the main theme in Lou Ye's movies, and then referring to "Suzhou River", conclusions can be drawn naturally.

The reason why he is particularly interested is because when filming "Suzhou River", he was not given to read the script, and the experience of flying paper on the scene every day made him enough.He couldn't wait to see what kind of sadomasochism described in "Summer Palace".

That's right, Lou Ye's love stories are always sadomasochistic.

The script is not long, only [-] to [-] words. The main reason is that many dialogues are only written with a general meaning and have not been unfolded.However, the description of some scenes is quite detailed, such as the love scene between the male protagonist Zhou Wei and the female protagonist Yu Hong.

It's just that after he finished reading it, the initial excitement was completely gone, replaced by deep worry.

He hesitated for a moment, but said frankly, "Sister An, I'm sure you won't be able to pass this book."

"I know, but Lou Ye wants to shoot."

Naian's words suddenly caused Li Tang to feel a strong jealousy towards Lou Ye. Naian was able to vote for such a book that contained particularly sensitive content in the late 80s and was obviously impossible to pass.

Is this the legendary true love?
Of course, the so-called true love is just a joke. Apart from Lou Ye’s talent, it’s more likely that it won’t matter if it’s banned. Literary films are not popular in China, and the biggest market is still overseas, especially for such sensitive subjects. of favor.

"How about the role of Zhou Wei?"

"It's well written." Li Tang nodded.

In terms of roles, Zhou Weizheng's role is definitely better than He Wei in "The Third Man".Because this character spans a long period of time, he has two completely different mental journeys in the foreign and domestic environments.To put it simply, it is more malleable and full of inner drama.

To be honest, this kind of role is very tempting for an aspiring actor.

But Li Tang doesn't like this character very much, more precisely, he doesn't like this script, because it's too hypocritical, and the whole story is full of intellectual self-movement.

In the 80s, Li Tang's original body was already sensible. He witnessed the difficult life of Lao Li and most of the people around him.As for the international students who were able to study abroad at that time, they were undoubtedly the luckiest group of people in that era.It is not an exaggeration to use the ancient Chinese Jinshi as a metaphor of reaching the sky in one step.Compared with ordinary people, I really don't understand why they are still suffering and why they express all kinds of dissatisfaction.

Moreover, Li Tang's parents in his previous life were people like Zhou Wei and Yu Hong.Water flows to low places, and people go to high places. There is nothing wrong with pursuing a better life.But when many compatriots have not yet met the food and clothing problems and are still struggling on the poverty line, you can go abroad and have the qualifications to seek a better life. Please stop moaning about illnesses.

Li Tang roughly understood what Naian meant, and it was nothing more than telling him that the company had a project at the moment, and at the same time, in order to appease him, he gave him the role of Zhou Wei as compensation.

Maybe Naian Bar is not as realistic as he imagined, but what he expressed must have this meaning.

So he nodded and said, "Sister An, I understand. But I still hope that the company can give us some help."

Making a movie is a systematic project. It does not mean that you can make a movie with a director and actors. First of all, you must have an experienced and capable behind-the-scenes creative team, including photography, props, art, makeup, recording, and even dry work. Miscellaneous drama and outreach, as well as life production and so on.

Secondly, after the shooting of the film, there are post-production, review, publicity, distribution, etc. This involves all aspects of the relationship, and Li Tang and Cheng Er will definitely not be able to complete it.

Finally, the most important thing is how to participate in film festivals to promote overseas markets.This is the key to determining whether the movie will be profitable in the end.

All of these are inseparable from Naian's help.

Naian smiled and said: "This is definitely not a problem, then I will be a nominal producer, if you have anything to do, you can directly tell Zeng Jia. I am not in the company during this time, so let her be in charge of the connection between the crew and the company .”

As she said that, she joked: "Anyway, that girl Zeng Jia listens to you."

It sounds like Naian has misunderstood a bit, but Li Tang didn't explain too much.After pondering for a while, he said: "If conditions permit, I want to wait for Cheng Er to come back and start the preparation work as soon as possible. It's late, and I'm afraid that there will be conflicts with Teacher Zhang's arrangement on the schedule."

Although the adaptation of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was temporarily suspended, when Li Tang went to pay New Year's greetings to Zhang Dazi before the Spring Festival, Lao Zhang swept away the previous decline and became full of ambition again.It is estimated that he got some hint or promise from the leadership of CCTV that the adaptation and preparation of "Shooting the Condors" will not be affected by "Swordsman".

Although "Swordsman" has been widely criticized, in the final analysis, the ratings determine everything.The higher the ratings, the higher the advertising fee. The economic base determines the superstructure!
During the New Year's greetings, Lao Zhang specially greeted him, hoping that he could play the role of Yang Kang in "Shooting the Condors".

Li Tang didn't have much interest in the role of Yang Kang at first, but since Lao Zhang asked for it himself, he had no choice but to accept it.In any case, Lao Zhang is now considered his bole, and he will definitely not be able to do such things as crossing the river to demolish and be ungrateful.What's more, there is Shao Bin's lesson from the past.

　Second more!

　　
　
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