Acting school started in 1998

Chapter 285
"What can I do, just play around!" Gao Yuanyuan said in a self-deprecating tone.

This girl can be considered to have become famous at a young age. Back then, the name of "Clear Mouth Girl" resounded all over the place. Unfortunately, she has a pretty face and no talent, and she is a scumbag. What kind of university is called the Labor Movement College?

Li Tang has seen many beautiful girls who rely on their beauty to be a sugar daddy, become a mistress, and use their body as a bargaining chip in exchange for various benefits that satisfy their vanity.

Gao Yuanyuan should not belong to this category. She has been shooting commercials for so many years and can be regarded as a little rich woman, and she is still a typical Beijing girl, open and cheerful, but a bit playful.

"Oh, Brother Li, I haven't congratulated you yet. You have won so many awards this year."

"It's not that exaggerated, I just took two."

Li Tang smiled, but it was too noisy here, so he asked again: "By the way, where is Director Xiao Teng? Have you seen it?"

"He's chatting with someone in the box, let me take you there."

It seemed that Gao Yuanyuan was quite familiar with this place. She led Li Tang through the crowd on the dance floor to the door of a box, knocked twice and pushed the door open.

There were six or seven people sitting around a circle of sofas. When Director Xiao Teng saw Gao Yuanyuan bringing Li Tang in, he quickly stood up and apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! We were talking, and I forgot to come out to pick you up. Come, come, let me introduce some good friends to you."

In fact, Li Tang knew almost everyone without his introduction.

"Director Zhang, hello!"

The fat black man with thinning hair and glasses sitting by the door is Zhang Baibai, the director of the hit drama "Carry Love to the End".

"Mr. Li, hello!"

The two were acquainted, but had never dealt with each other before. Zhang Baibai quickly stood up and shook hands with him politely.

"Director Zhang, please be polite, call me Xiao Li or Li Tangducheng."

Then there was another director Zhang sitting next to Zhang Baibai.

"Director Zhang Yang, we meet again!"

Zhang Yang, the director of his "Love Mala Tang" and "Bathing", Li Tang met him at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival the year before last.

So Zhang Yang was not restrained, and shook hands with him with a smile: "Li Tang, long time no see!"

And the tall, thin man in a peaked cap who was sitting on the other side of Zhang Yang stood up before Li Tang reached out, opened his arms and hugged him.

"Brother Zhao, when did you come back?"

That is Zhao Xiaoding, the photographer of "Hero", and the two are not familiar with each other.

"I just came back two days ago. I wanted to take a good rest, but they dragged me here."

Zhao Xiaoding looked helplessly at Zhang Baibai and Zhang Yang beside him.

"Teacher Cai! Teacher Liu!"

The other two, one named Cai Shangjun who looked like a Maitreya Buddha, and the other a spiritual guy named Liu Fendou with shaved hair, both of them were screenwriters who graduated from the Department of Chinese Opera and Literature.

"Teacher Li!"

Because they were not familiar with each other, they also politely stood up and shook hands with Li Tang.

Standing up with them was a tall and handsome guy with glasses and elegant appearance. It was this Li Tang who looked strange, as if he had never seen him before.

At this time, director Xiao Teng finally had a place to play, and introduced from the side: "This is Diao Yinan. He, Lao Cai, Lao Liu, and Zhang Yang are all the screenwriters of "Love Mala Tang."

"Oh, Mr. Diao, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, it's okay, Teacher Li, hello!"

This handsome guy named Diao Yinan looks obviously restrained and less sociable than the others.

After taking his seat, Li Tang picked up his wine glass and made another round of toasts.Gao Yuanyuan, who came in together, took advantage of the situation and sat beside him, pouring wine for him like a little wife.

When Director Xiao Teng saw this scene, his face twitched.Gao Yuanyuan in their circle is just like Xu Qing in the Beijing circle more than ten years ago, they are both big and sweet.At the beginning, he was very itchy and tried to catch up, but unfortunately he couldn't catch up.In the past two years, just like him, there have been many people who have gone on and on, but it is a pity that I have never seen this little aunt with anyone.But today, as soon as Li Tang arrived, she seemed to be a different person, and a blind person could understand what was going on.

What made Director Xiao Teng even more unconvinced was that it was no news that Li Tang and Fan Binbin were together. Gao Yuanyuan would know about it, but...

Why?

In fact, Li Tang was also puzzled. It stands to reason that director Xiao Teng, a director from the Nortel Department, is unlikely to be mixed with the people who came out of this gang, because they are completely in two circles.

Even Zhao Xiaoding, director Zhang Yimou's official photographer, appeared here today. It seemed that he had a good relationship with Zhang Yibai, Zhang Yang and others.

The only possibility is that these people are getting together to make a movie or TV series.

Just when Li Tang looked at Director Xiao Teng with an inquiring gaze, he happened to see this guy circling himself and Gao Yuanyuan with that resentful gaze.

Dare to be affectionate but not dead!

When the four eyes met, Xiao Teng's face suddenly became unnatural.Don't look at the flower that this guy is playing outside, he is actually a very thin-skinned person.In order to hide the embarrassment, this guy took out a notebook and handed it over: "Li Tang, I'm looking for you today, except that it's almost Chinese New Year and we will get together, and Lao Zhang and Lao Liu have made a notebook for you to read. look."

When he entered the door just now, seeing this posture, Li Tang knew that it would not be as simple as just a Chinese New Year party.

Old Liu doesn’t need to ask, it must be Liu Fendou. As for Lao Zhang, there are two old Zhangs here——Zhang Yang and Zhang Baibai. This book was mainly written by Lao Liu, and I just helped to make some suggestions."

Among the screenwriters in front of me who graduated from the Department of Chinese Opera and Literature, Liu Fendou is undoubtedly the most accomplished screenwriter. In addition to the "Love Mala Tang" and "Bathing" that they collaborated with, Liu Fendou also collaborated with another famous writer. Screenwriter Wang Yao co-wrote the screenplay of the movie "Brave New World".

This film directed by Shi Runjiu, starring Xiao Taohong and Jiang Wu, was also shortlisted for the Youth Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival.It was this unit that Jia Kechang's famous work "Xiao Wu" was shortlisted.

After Li Tang nodded in agreement, he looked down at the script in his hand. The title was quite poetic, "Subway to Spring".The only signature is Liu Fendou.

The script is quite thick, and there must be 30 to [-] words no matter what, and he won't be able to finish reading it in a while, so he just skimmed the outline of the story first.

After seven years of struggle in the capital, a young couple who were drifting north were first faced with a career crisis, and at the same time their relationship had a seven-year itch.Although the outline of the story is just a brief summary, Li Tang guessed that it was a poor and lowly couple who mourned everything and then both cheated.

Through this young couple of Beidiao, the love of several other couples of men and women was brought out.

Just like the previous creative styles of "Love Mala Tang" and "Brave New World", they all focus on the emotional world of small people.

In any case, Liu Fendou's name and works are there, and this subject matter is quite new to Li Tang.After reading the outline of the story, he looked up at Liu Fendou and said, "Mr. Liu, is it okay for me to take the book home?"

In this kind of environment, there is no way to calm down and read the script. Li Tang's question is also a respect for the script.

Liu Fendou hurriedly said, "Of course there is no problem."

Then he turned his head and asked Xiao Teng, "How do you say?"

Since the two groups got together, he instinctively thought Director Xiao Teng was the director.

As a result, director Xiao Teng shook his head and said, "Don't ask me about this, you have to ask Lao Zhang."

As he spoke, he pouted at Zhang Baibai.

After working for a long time, it turned out that this guy was just a matchmaker.

Originally, he could talk to Director Xiao Teng about anything, but facing Zhang Baibai... Uh, it's a bit hard to say.

On the one hand, he hasn't read the script yet; on the other hand, this is a movie. He has an instinctive distrust of Zhang Baibai, a TV drama director who is not a professional.

For a moment he didn't know what to say, but fortunately Zhang Baibai spoke first: "Li...uh, I'm sorry, let me call you Li Tang."

Calling Mr. Li before was just a name on the scene. Zhang Baibai wanted to get closer, so it would definitely not be appropriate to call Mr. Li again, and he was about ten years older than Li Tang, so it would be even worse to call him Brother Li. Director Teng called Li Tang.

"It's okay, it's okay, Director Zhang, tell me."

"First of all, I think you are quite suitable for the role of Jianbin in this book. I want you to take a look and think about it..."

Since it was the first, Li Tang was still waiting for the second, but Zhang Baibai couldn't continue after halfway through the sentence, and turned his eyes to Xiao Tengdao with a embarrassed expression.

Director Xiao Teng was very helpless, so he had to say: "Well, let me say it. It's Lao Zhang who wants to make this movie, but the money is still short, and I want you to help invest in it."

Li Tang was speechless, and after a long time, he came to ask him to invest money.

It is said that good things never go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles.The domestic film industry is so big, and the overseas income of "The Third Man" has been credited to the account. Although Li Tang and Naian tried their best to keep it secret, there will always be leaks.Now everyone in the industry basically knows that "The Third Man" he invested in made a lot of money.

Moreover, the fact that he rented a house in 798 was originally quite low-key, but after all, it was a place where three, four, seven and eight-rate artists gathered together, and he rented such a large venue, and the news spread quickly.Even the entertainment news also published the news that he is going to set up his own studio in 798.

The biggest shortage in making movies these days is money, and the news about him will naturally attract people.

The key thing that made him unhappy was that he had never had any contact with Zhang Baibai and his circle. If it wasn't for the lack of money, they would definitely not ask him to play the role of the leading male Jianbin.

Obviously, Jianbin is probably Cheng Jianbin.They are both from Chinese opera. Li Yapeng and Cheng Jianbin, the leading male lead in Zhang Baibai's first TV series "Carry Love to the End", are classmates, and they are both from Northwest Xinjiang Province.

In addition, the name of the character in the script, Jianbin's wife Xiaohui, is cheating on Tiger, which is Zhang Yang's nickname; and the chef is Wang Yao, one of the screenwriters of "Brave New World".

To be honest, if I knew that today was this game, I wouldn't come if I killed him, and I even complained to Director Xiao Teng with him.You said you have nothing to do, why do you take this kind of work, it's not that you are the director yourself.

But looking at Zhang Baibai and Liu Fendou's earnest eyes, even Zhao Xiaoding glanced over intentionally or unintentionally, Li Tang's tone was naturally not good and too blunt, and the few people in front of him were all emerging figures in the field of screenwriting, saying Not sure when we will cooperate again.

So he could only ask: "Has this notebook been reported?"

There was a reason for the reconciliation between the General Administration and the so-called underground directors last year, including Lou Ye's early lifting of the ban.At the end of the year, new regulations were just issued, and they will be implemented from New Year's Day in 2002.

Those underground films made before, except that they could not be released, basically turned a blind eye to them. Unless the film had too much influence or was too publicized, punishment measures would be taken, and the director would be banned.

But now the new regulations are different. If there is no report and no factory logo, if it is really going to be made into an underground movie, not only the director will be banned, but the investor will also be held accountable, with a fine of up to 100 times.For example, if you invest 5000 million, you will be fined up to [-] million.Who can bear such a large sum of money, if it falls on Li Tang, then he can only run away and join his old lady.

"Reported." Zhang Baibai said quickly, and then said: "As for the factory logo, we plan to use Qingying Factory."

Qingying Studio is the Beijing Youth Film Studio, a subsidiary of Nortel, which is used for film assignments and production practice for middle school students during the teaching session.Every year there will be an indicator of three or four feature films as well as several short films.For example, the short film "Criminal" filmed by Cheng Er the year before used the factory logo of Qingying Studio.

"So how far is your investment at present?"

Finally, when we got to the meat of the show, Zhang Baibai's eyes lit up, he hesitated for a moment, and stretched out his finger with embarrassment on his face: "There is still a difference of 100 million."

He then explained: "We planned to invest 300 million in this film, and Tiger brought in an investor to invest 200 million, so it was not close."

Hearing that it was only 100 million, Li Tang also secretly heaved a sigh of relief. After all, today is not what it used to be, and now there are still more than 2000 million in the account, which is a drop in the bucket.Although most of the figures from the director's mouth are unreliable, the total investment is only 300 million, even if it exceeds it, it will not exceed it by much.

Li Tang pondered for a moment, and said sincerely: "Well, let me read the script first. It won't be long, at most two or three days."

Zhang Baibai and Liu Fendou are most afraid of people telling me to wait until I read the script first, and then it will be indefinitely.This kind of thing happened to them not once or twice.Fortunately, Li Tang is from Shanghai, not the kind of person who drank and boasted, so he gave them a reassurance in just two or three days.

Zhang Baibai hurriedly said: "Of course. This time I really trouble you."

As he spoke, he raised the wine glass together with Liu Fendou.

Li Tang touched them, and said with a smile: "Hey, Director Xiao Teng put on such a big show today, which shows that everyone is his own. Besides, I have long admired Director Zhang, Teacher Liu, and all the teachers for a long time. , looking forward to the opportunity to cooperate."

That being said, everything depends on the script. If the script doesn't work, there's nothing I can do.But if the script is really well written, even if Zhang Baibai is a rookie film director, after all, he has some directing experience, and the amount is not large, so it is worth taking the risk.

Of course, since it was Xiao Teng's director Zhang Luo today, he naturally had to give Zu Xiaoteng some face.It was to tell them that they were all looking at Director Xiao Teng's face today.

After discussing the business, everyone chatted while drinking. In addition to director Xiao Teng and Zhao Xiaoding, Li Tang was very familiar with Zhang Yang, and Zhang Baibai, Liu Fendou, Cai Shangjun and the taciturn Diao Yinan , he is really not familiar with it.After chatting for a while, he found that Liu Fendou and Cai Shangjun's level is quite high, especially Cai Shangjun, who often speaks amazingly.

As for Gao Yuanyuan, who has been obediently sitting next to Li Tang and helping to pour wine, even if someone offered to toast to her, she would just taste it and say a few words occasionally, and would never take the initiative to intervene.

It didn't take long, according to Li Tang's agreement with the driver Shen Lin when he entered the door, his cell phone rang an hour later.

He picked it up a few times with "hmm, ahhh", then stood up and said apologetically, "Director Xiao Teng, teachers, I'm really sorry, I have to say goodbye in advance."

Others didn't know, and they politely asked him to stay, but director Xiao Teng saw something. To be honest, he felt a little bit sorry for Li Tang today, but there was nothing he could do. Who told him to owe favors? He had no choice but to drag Li Tang out to block the gun.Fortunately, Li Tang gave him enough face today, so he stood up cooperatively and said, "Okay, go and do your work, I'll take you out."

Zhang Baibai and Liu Fendou also stood up one after another, wanting to see them off together.

Li Tang hurriedly said: "Stay, teachers, please stay."

At the same time, he deliberately told Zhang Baibai: "Director Zhang, within two or three days, no more than three days, I will definitely give you news."

"Okay, sorry for the trouble, thank you, thank you so much."

"Don't thank me in a hurry, I'd better wait until I finish the script. Hold on, goodbye!"

Li Tang smiled and shook hands with everyone to say goodbye.

A few people stood at the door to see Li Tang, Director Xiao Teng, and Gao Yuanyuan out with clothes and bags, and then watched them go down the stairs. Diao Yinan, who had been quiet all this time, suddenly said: "Is there hope this time?" ?”

Zhang Baiyi changed his enthusiastic expression just now, rubbed his sour face with a smile, sighed and said quietly: "Anyway, there will be news in three days at most."

Zhao Xiaoding, who is the most familiar with Li Tang among the few people, said at this time: "Li Tang is quite reliable. As long as he agrees and really likes this book, I think it will not be a big problem."

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, maybe they had eaten hollow gnocchi too many times before, and no one dared to hold much hope.Zhang Baibai waved his hands a little irritably: "If it doesn't work this time, don't worry about it. Anyway, there are 200 million now. I don't believe it after starting the filming first..."

It's just that he was interrupted by Zhang Yang before he finished speaking: "Don't forget, when he promised to invest 200 million, it was conditional!"

"Uh……"

Zhang Baibai stopped abruptly like a duck whose neck was strangled.

(End of this chapter)