The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 320 Lao Liu (two in one)

"What reason did you give this time?"

"To say that there are no heroes in the movie but only villains goes against the reality of life and art." Xu Zheng stroked his shiny bald head.

This guy was quite thin when he was filming "No Man's Land", but now he's gained a lot of weight.

Ning Hao was also quite decadent, and his hair was as messy as a wheat field ravaged by a storm.

He took a long drag on the cigarette, slowly exhaled it, and said depressedly: "They also said that the overall tone was dark, and that the police were stupid and incompetent in "No Man's Land." He also said that there is no no man's land, and there is no place where the police force cannot extend. I think In pursuit of the ultimate in art, I damaged public relations through entertainment, and lost the social responsibility of an artist."

Ning Hao became a blockbuster with "Crazy Stone", and "Crazy Racing" sent him into the billion-dollar club, becoming a benchmark for young directors.

I originally wanted to have a high-level work and explore human nature a little bit, but I didn't expect bad luck and the film was canceled outright.

"So we have to change it next?" Lu Yuan grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the table.

Ning Hao held a cigarette between his fingers, pulled off the big gold chain around his neck, gritted his teeth and said, "Change it until they are satisfied."

Lu Yuan could understand. The investment in "No Man's Land" was quite large, a total of 20 million. Who would dare to film with him again after he failed.

Not everyone can be like Jiang Wen.

It is said that there are three directors in the industry who deceive investors the most, namely Jiang Wen, Director Chen, and Wang Jiawei.

Rumor has it that when Jiang Wen was filming "The Sun Also Rises", investors came to inspect the set for the first time. The set was luxurious, with loud gongs and drums, firecrackers blasting, and a fleet of Mercedes Benz and security guards surrounding the set.

The last time I came to the set, I secretly took a taxi. The entire film invested 50 million, but the final box office was less than 20 million, and the loss went to my grandma's house.

In addition to "The Devil Is Coming", Jiang Wen's several consecutive movies caused investors to lose hundreds of millions of yuan, and it was rumored that "Jiang Wen has exhausted his talents."

Even for Jiang Wen, it was extremely difficult to raise enough funds for the filming of "Let the Bullets Fly" because he had to pay for one film.

The producer of "Let the Bullets Fly" is Ma Ke, who is also the producer of "Dwelling".

When I called him two days ago to discuss the promotion of "Snail House", I complained to him.

He said that Jiang Wentai's mother could spend money, but the guy kept saying that he could make money while standing, which was nonsense. It was not his money that he was losing.

Ma Ke didn't sleep well for several nights because of this matter. Even if he really had a mine at home, he couldn't build it like this.

It happened that several century-old liquor brands came to us and wanted to advertise in the film.

He thought this was a good thing. It would not only solve the problem of capital but also make some money. Unexpectedly, Jiang Wen disagreed.

The reason is that if a bottle of wine is served, no matter whether it is Erguotou or Maotai, the audience's attention will be distracted, and what will happen if the show goes wrong.

Based on Jiang Wen's virtue, Lu Yuan estimated that "Let the Bullets Fly" would be a good film, but 80% of it would still be a loss.

Several people chatted about the recent gossip in the industry, and Ning Hao asked: "How are you doing? There was news reported some time ago, and you are planning to come to the big screen to play?"

"If you don't have a good script, just wait for now. If you really can't wait until you win a Grand Slam," Lu Yuan has already thought about it. The script is the key, and it is not advisable to blindly test the big screen.

Ning Hao stared at him, frowned and said, ""No Man's Land" is a lot of nonsense. I don't have the energy to create a new book, but I don't have a role for you."

As if something suddenly occurred to him, after speaking, he turned to look at Xu Zheng and said, "Hey, didn't you tell me on the phone yesterday that there was a good script, but the director was a headache?"

Xu Zheng saw everyone looking at him and shook his head: "That drama is a small-budget comedy with two male leads. I plan to act as the small boss myself, and the migrant workers have not yet been decided."

He held up the black frame, looked at Lu Yuan, and shook his head again: "Your temperament is not consistent with that of a migrant worker, unless you make a guest appearance."

"Let's talk about the guest appearance when the time comes. I'll go when I have time." Lu Yuan replied with a smile. He came here today not intending to take on the role, and the movie script handed to him was not bad for a small production.

And he doesn't think Ning Hao's directorial style will suit his role.

It's quite interesting to say that since his debut, he has made several movies, but except for "Painted Skin", all the other movies were guest appearances.

Huang Bo came back from using the toilet. When he heard this, he was very curious and asked: "Old Xu, what is the subject, migrant workers, do you think I am suitable?"

His eyes were closed, the corners of his mouth were turned up, his gums were exposed, and he looked stupid.

Lu Yuan smiled. This guy is quite self-aware. He is a recognized model worker in the industry. He became famous late and does not want to miss any opportunities to take on roles.

"You have no business with your looks. You can play a fool, but you're not stupid enough." Xu Zheng was too lazy to talk nonsense with him.

"Hey, who is this? Now that you mention it, I want to know more. Please tell me."

Seeing that he couldn't shirk it, Xu Zheng said: "This is a road movie set during the Spring Festival Transport. It's a bit of a comedy. It tells the story of a snobbish company boss who met a simple and optimistic migrant worker during the Spring Festival Transport. The two took a plane to , trains, cars and other ways to get home with difficulty."

Lu Yuan listened to him explaining the outline of the story. The more he listened, the more familiar he became. He said, "Isn't this a scene from "Planes, Trains and Automobiles"?"

"What?" Huang Bo stretched his neck.

"An American movie from the 1980s is called "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles." It is also called "Bon Voyage" in Chinese translation. It is very similar to the play Xu Zheng mentioned in terms of plot and play structure. It is also the same. The two male protagonists, one is a middle-class man who is rushing home to reunite with his family before Thanksgiving, and the other is a crow's mouth who comes from a lower-class background."

When Lu Yuan was explaining, Xu Zheng and Ning Hao looked at him in surprise. They didn't expect this guy to know so much about movies now.

Huang Bo was also surprised, but the two of them knew each other best, so he asked directly: "How come you know so well?"

"I watched some movies when I had nothing to do." Lu Yuan laughed.

"This is not an ordinary movie, I have never heard of it." Ning Hao pointed out.

"Haha, coincidence, coincidence."

No one continued to discuss the "similar structure" in detail, nor did they say why they didn't buy the rights to remake it.

After all, in the eyes of many practitioners, the localization of film and television dramas is not called plagiarism, but reference.

"Crazy Stone" almost copies the frame, plot, character settings, and even the shots, editing and even sound effects. Only some of the jokes are original or adapted.

This thing knows no borders. In 2005, Hollywood director Martin Scorsese remake "Infernal Affairs", which can be said to be the most successful remake case in Hollywood.

"The Departed" won four Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Picture.

Remakes, adaptations, references, the eldest brother does not talk about the second brother, they are all the same, and everyone in the circle is the same.

Lu Yuan changed the topic and asked, "Director Ning just said that the director of this play gave you a headache. What exactly is going on?"

"The crew hired by the investment company was from the Hong Kong team. The director, Ye Weiming, was not very familiar with life in the mainland, such as Spring Festival travel, family crises and other social issues. The design of many scenes was wrong. After receiving the script, I made a lot of suggestions for revision. But none of them were adopted." Xu Zheng sighed, looking a little helpless.

Huang Bo patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Old Xu, why don't you just tell the investors to let those people go and direct it yourself?"

"Look at what you said. I'm not Director Ning. I have a box office of over 100 million. Who cares about me?"

Xu Zheng's eyes paused for a moment, he laughed dryly, and immediately waved his hands. He was actually quite optimistic about "No Man's Land" and thought he could advance to the front line with this drama. Unexpectedly, his fate was ill-fated.

Lu Yuan looked at the change in his expression at that moment and knew that he had probably thought so. Sure enough, as Huang Bo said, this man's mind is quite wild.

Seeing that everyone was trying to make fun of him, Ning Hao asked, "Mr. Han is preparing a new movie recently. Do you know?"

Lu Yuan looked at him doubtfully, vaguely guessing that it should be the follow-up to "The Founding of the People's Republic of China". “Not sure, I haven’t received any news yet,” Xu Zheng said.

Ning Hao said: "I only found out after chatting with him because I failed the review yesterday. The script has just come out. The new play is called "The Great Cause of Party Building". I will ask you again tomorrow."

"Thank you, Director Ning."

Lu Yuan thanked him. In fact, with his current status as a star on the small screen and his decent looks, there is a high probability that he will have a role in this drama. It just depends on the size of the role. Ning Hao said it or not. There is not much difference.

"Hiroko, you don't need to thank me. You probably won't be able to do anything like this."

Huang Bo: "."

"Crown Prince, it's not like I haven't killed anyone before!"

"My surname is Ning, my given name is Yi, and my name is Xingliu."

"My dream is the same as yours, to strive for dominance."

"I want the world to read and hear, and people to learn from it. I want the world to stop confusing right and wrong, and I want the world to no longer have innocent people who suffer injustice. This is my plan!"

"Zhiwei!"

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In the early morning, thin sunlight filtered in from outside the curtains and shone on the bulging quilt.

Lu Yuan lazily stretched his waist and rubbed his eyes. He found a big lump of eye droppings. He picked it out and smeared it on the face of the little guy who was sleeping soundly in his arms.

Well, I fell asleep again last night.

He turned over and picked up a book from the floor, the title of which was "Startling Every Step".

Xu is thinking about this novel recently. The background of this dream is ancient times, a dynasty that does not exist in history.

In the dream, his name was Ning Yi, he was named King of Chu, and he was the current prince.

In the last years of the Dacheng Dynasty, the emperor was ignorant and ignorant, the people were in dire straits, and mourning was everywhere.

In order to save the people from fire and water, Ning Yi's father finally overthrew the Dacheng rule and established the Tiansheng Dynasty after several years.

Soon, Emperor Tiansheng sent his eldest son Ning Chuan and his sixth son Ning Yi to hunt down the remnants of the Dacheng secret guard Blood Pagoda and the nine sons of Emperor Ai.

At that time, the young Ning Yi was only eight years old. He was holding a jade pendant given by his father and wanted to persuade the rebel leader to surrender on the pretext of saving the life of the infant child.

But the eldest brother Ning Chuan suddenly sent troops, forcing the leader to throw the child in his hands off the cliff, and Ning Yi was also injured.

Ning Chuan seized the throne and became the crown prince based on his great achievements. However, the situation in the palace changed. Because of his biological mother, Ning Yi was imprisoned in Zongzheng Temple for eight years with a blood feud.

Eight years later, the plague spread everywhere.

There was only one area where the epidemic control was extremely good. Emperor Tiansheng learned that King Ningyi of Chu had funded the construction of Beitian Hospital to isolate sick refugees in a timely manner.

Later, he asked Ning Yi about the origin of his money. It turned out that Ning Yi had been studying Shu brocade weaving while he was in Zongzheng Temple. This batch of Shu brocade was the source of his money.

Emperor Tiansheng heard this and pardoned Ning Yi and let him out of Zongzheng Temple.

After being imprisoned for eight years, Ning Yi stepped out of the cage and returned to the court. He seemed to be half timid and half stupid, but in fact he was pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger.

His innocence was forever fixed at the age of eight.

As a lonely prince, with hatred in his heart, imperial power struggles, court battles, and battles for heirs, his father and several brothers were all the targets of his games.

After years of dormancy, he has mastered the personalities, preferences and taboos of these people, so he can spot them and strategize them when facing them.

Although the eldest prince is the crown prince, he is always in panic, fearing that he will accidentally lose his position as crown prince.

The second prince seems to be calmer and calmer when in trouble, but his brain is used to plot others.

The fifth prince is a daredevil. He doesn't have the wisdom and courage, and he has to imitate others to compete for the throne.

After eight years in prison, Ning Yi came well prepared. His arrival seemed calm, but once the real battle began, his strength was revealed bit by bit.

Except for his father who could compete with him, those princes with evil intentions and short-sightedness were no match for him at all.

As soon as he appeared on the scene, he was destined to be the dazzling young dragon in this battle to seize the inheritance.

It was originally a story about the revenge of a down-and-out prince, but unexpectedly, Feng Zhiwei, an orphan from the former dynasty, appeared in the middle of the story. The two met, knew each other, and fell in love with each other.

In the end, Feng Zhiwei died.

And Ning Yi ascended to the cold throne of imperial power, but ended up alone.

Lu Yuan retracted his thoughts and looked at "Bu Bu Jing Xin" again.

Now he can also see clearly that although the light curtain he accidentally obtained and the dreams he enters every time have flaws, they are generally very good quality scripts.

Such as "Heart of the Burning Sun", "Cliff", "History of the Fish Seller", "Cohabitation in Time and Space", "Zombie Train", etc.

There is also "My Love from the Star", which he thought was quite vulgar at the time. In his fourth year in the industry, it is still not good when he watches it again.

At best, it is a relatively new idol theme, and the characters are relatively interesting. One is a big star and the other is a super-powered alien. Relatively speaking, it is relatively easy to win the love of young audiences.

But he has already passed the stage where he needs to rely on idol dramas to become famous.

Last night's dream was tentatively titled "Imperial Power".

He opened "Bu Bu Jing Xin". The background of the story was the Qing Dynasty, but the pigtail was really ugly.

In the past, I had no choice. When I was a child, I could only endure and watch costume dramas such as Brother and Princess. Now that Tang Dynasty wants to remake it, and he holds the copyright, he may be able to discuss changing the background when adapting it.

As for what to change, he thought of last night's dream, which seemed to be connected and existed in the form of the previous dynasty.

These are just his ideas. As for whether they can be successful and whether they are suitable, he still has to negotiate with the screenwriter and the original author of "Bu Bu Jing Xin".

Xu Zheng's mind was wandering, and so was he.

In the past two years, many actors have been trying to transform into producers. Zhang Ziyi invested in "Perfect" and Hu Jun invested in "My Brothers from the Tang Dynasty".

Huang Xiaoming became a producer for the first time last year, and along with Yang Mi and others, he also invested in and starred in "Secret Scent". Although the reputation was not very good, the ratings were not bad.

Lu Yuan will naturally not give up his career as an actor. After all, the honor of Light Curtain requires him to continue to appear in film and television dramas.

And if there is a suitable investment opportunity, he will not let it go.

　The play in my dream is called "Tian Sheng Long Song". It has a slow pace and is not bad. If you want to watch it, you can search for the DVD version. The Mango edited version has a crappy plot.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)