director of the millennium

Chapter 6 Boot Party

In 2000, Gao Yuanyuan was not very famous. After all, "Yi Tian Tu Long Ji", which affected her acting career, hadn't even been filmed yet.

But the weekly news these days is already well-known.

Although Zhou Xun did not come from a major, among the three major professional colleges in China, Zhou Xun can be said to be the most famous movie actor at the moment, not one of them.

Because the mainland movie that everyone discussed the most in the school this year is "Suzhou River"!
Although this movie has not been officially released, and there is a high probability that it will not be released in the mainland, but the students of Beijing Film, Chinese Opera, and Shanghai Opera have already watched this movie through various means.

This is the best film at the Paris International Film Festival!
Zhou Xun won the Best Actress!

Although not the top three, in this era, every film that can win the European Film Festival award will cause a sensation!
Well, this is due to the effect of the fifth-generation mainland directors killing all directions at European film festivals.

Of course, not only in the professional circle, but also for the general public, Zhou Xun is also a corner.

In the historical series "Daming Palace Ci" aired in March, Zhou Xun played the role of "Princess Taiping", successfully making her a household name.

Although the achievement of this drama is Chen Hong who played the adult Princess Taiping, yes, it is the good wife of the great director Chen Kaige.

However, Zhou Xun will have another movie "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" to be aired next year, and by then she will really soar into the sky.

On the way here, Wu Yuan heard from Wang Xiaoshuai that the most famous actor in the whole crew just came to play a supporting actress with few roles, so he got the second highest salary of the whole crew, 8000 yuan!

Well, Wang Xiaoshuai found it too expensive. She was not Wu Yuan, the leading actor and a crew member. Her scenes could be filmed in three to five days at most, and she was paid so much. She was the most expensive actor he had ever hired.

Wu Yuan, who heard Wang Xiaoshuai's complaint, felt nothing in his heart, and even wanted to laugh.

The year 2000 was a very delicate year, between the turn of the new century and before the transformation of the film and television industry.

In recent years, when making a movie, the actors' salary is generally only 5000 yuan, and it is already a high salary.

In the nine years from 1994 to 2002, the box office of domestic films was extremely cold, and the film industry was in a severe winter. From directors to actors, most of them could not make much money, and even the general environment was losing money.

However, just this year, a small event happened in the film industry-China Film, Shanghai Film, and Changying were conglomerated at the same time this year, and were given the mission of fully controlling the three major links of production, distribution, and screening.

And next year, another incident that seemed insignificant at the time will happen. In order to speed up the construction of theater chains and the progress of theater renovation, it will allow the absorption of private enterprise capital into shares.

In 2003, a very important new rule that would even change the fate of Chinese films was finally implemented-allowing non-film industry private capital to invest in the film industry!

Also starting from this year, actors' net worth will skyrocket. Every year, actors' salaries are increasing several times!
Two or three years after the new regulations were released, Zhou Xun's salary for starring in a TV series would be 10 yuan per episode, ranking second among mainland actresses. Acting in a movie would cost 80 to [-] yuan!
At this time, Wang Xiaoshuai can use 8000 yuan to invite Zhou Xun to act in a movie, which is really a cabbage price.

At least 8000 yuan now will not be worth 80 yuan in four or five years. Even if it is used to buy a house, it will not appreciate so fast!

Wang Xiaoshuai didn't know, and even thought it was too expensive, but Wu Yuan was really greedy for such a cheap weekly newsletter!

Actors these days don’t have much of an accent to speak of. They can be called with just a phone call, and they are willing to act when there is a play. They are especially easy to talk to!

If it wasn't for the lack of money, Wu Yuan could not wait to hold Zhou Xun's hand and sign ten movie contracts with her!

It's a pity that a clever woman can't cook without rice!
"Come, come, let me introduce you. This is the leading actor in our movie, Wu Yuan who plays Xiaojian."

Just when Wu Yuan was lost in thought, Wang Xiaoshuai grabbed his arm, pulled him from behind to in front of him, and introduced him in a brisk tone: "This is my junior at the film school. He is a junior at the film school after the summer vacation." ”

"Don't look at how handsome he is, he is a direct junior of my directing department, not an acting department!"

Zhou Xun, who was also looking at Wu Yuan seriously, suddenly slapped his thigh: "Oh! I know you, the director is the one who sells pirated discs everywhere, right?"

"I heard Kuner talk about you, you are a big celebrity in your school!"

Wu Yuan laughed awkwardly. Sure enough, Brother Xun was still Brother Xun. Although it was the first time they met, he wouldn't be too careless to touch each other, but his outspoken character was still very straightforward.

"Yes, it's me, the one selling pirated discs in Dongcheng." Wu Yuan replied dryly, and for the first time in his heart regretted selling pirated discs.

If five or ten years later, this man gets involved and becomes a big director in China, this will not be mentioned as a dark history by Zhou Xun everywhere!

Although Zhou Xun is not a big talker, but with her straight-talking and fast-talking character, she knows that she is selling pirated discs. Sooner or later, everyone in her circle of friends will know about it, and they will even become friends every time. The joke was told at the party!

Zhou Xun smiled and looked up and down at Wu Yuan curiously. She had really heard about Wu Yuan from Chen Kun.

The circle of the film academy is really small. When Wu Yuan entered school, Chen Kun happened to be in his third year.

In good conscience, knowing Chen Kun's future development in a dream, how could Wu Yuan not be friends with this senior brother from the acting department?

Under Wu Yuan's deliberate friendship, two years was enough for Wu Yuan and Chen Kun to become fairly good friends.

And Zhou Xun has just finished filming "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind". In the play, she and Chen Kun have the most rivalry scenes. The two have become good friends because of this play, and the friendship will last forever.

"Brother Kun really talks about everything, and I will mention this embarrassing thing to you." Wu Yuan spread his hands and laughed at himself helplessly.

In this room, Wu Yuan and Zhou Xun struck up a conversation, but the other two actors next to them couldn't get in the conversation at all. They stood there hesitantly, not knowing what to say.

They are not like Wu Yuan and Zhou Xun, one has 20 years more experience than the others, and the other has a cheerful and generous personality.

But Wu Yuan would not be snubbed. After a brief chat with Zhou Xun in the name of his mutual friend Chen Kun, he turned around and shook hands with the other two actors.

"Hello, my name is Wu Yuan. I play the role of "Xiao Jian" in this drama. This year, you can call me Xiao Wu or A Yuan."

Facing Wu Yuan's extended hand, Gao Yuanyuan and Cui Lin shook hands with him one after another, and also introduced themselves:
"Hello, my name is Gao Yuanyuan. I play the role of Xiaojian's girlfriend Xiaoxiao in the play."

"Hi, I'm Cui Lin, I play Xiaogui in the movie."

Neither of them are extroverts.

Gao Yuanyuan was relatively shy and quiet when we first met her. She did not come from a major, but studied economics. She was discovered by an advertising company while shopping and made her debut in commercials. She has acted in one movie and three TV series, but they were all supporting roles.

Cui Lin, on the other hand, was very nervous. He was a true newcomer and had never even been exposed to the job of an actor. He was attracted by Wang Xiaoshuai's assistant director at the Beijing Sports Institute and was roped in to act.

When Wang Xiaoshuai saw that he was very dark-skinned and that he came to the capital from a small city in Northeast China, he was a serious country boy and looked like a noble person in the script, so he made the decision.

It's also interesting to say that there are four main actors in this "17-year-old Bicycle", but none of them have a serious background in acting. Wu Yuan, who studied directing, is actually the closest professionally.

But in terms of acting skills, it must be Zhou Xun.

After all, this is a God-forcing-to-eat-the-food type of contestant, full of talent and acting talent!
The four protagonists get together to introduce themselves to each other and talk about their specific situations, which is regarded as getting to know each other.

It's okay, the actors of this era are all simple and simple, there is no such thing as talk, plus they are all young people, it is easy to chat with each other when they get together.

Wang Xiaoshuai saw that the atmosphere of his "four young generals" meeting for the first time was very harmonious, so he nodded in satisfaction, picked up a glass of wine and saluted everyone in the box:

"Okay, we gathered here today, after eating this meal, the crew of the movie "17-year-old Bicycle" is officially established!"

"Tomorrow we will officially start work!"

(End of this chapter)