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Chen Ziyan: "What are you thinking about?"

Lu Yanhe: "I'm afraid that if you hand over all the work to others, you can easily get rid of my job as your agent."

Chen Ziyan: "I can't say that I don't have this idea, but that's just for a rainy day. In the short term, I don't plan to change my career plan. In my cooperation with you, I am basically happy and have gained a lot."

Hearing Chen Ziyan say this, Lu Yanhe let out a long sigh.

"There are always accidents in life. You can't expect me to work for you like a hardworking ox without getting sick or having accidents." Chen Ziyan said, "Although I haven't married and have children yet, what if I do? I won't have the time and energy to take care of you if I'm pregnant and taking care of the children."

Lu Yanhe looked at Chen Ziyan in shock and asked, "Are you in love, Sister Ziyan?"

Chen Ziyan: "Go away, what are you thinking about? Nothing. I told you to prepare for a rainy day!"

Lu Yanhe laughed loudly.

"Sister Zi Yan, if you are in love, feel free to go ahead and date, get married, and have children," said Lu Yanhe.

Chen Ziyan: "Thank you for being so considerate of me, but please don't worry about my private life."

Lu Yanhe actually didn't know much about Chen Ziyan's world outside of work. Almost every time Lu Yanhe came into contact with Chen Ziyan, they talked about work or his life. They had known each other for so long, but Lu Yanhe didn't know Chen Ziyan's family life, nor did he know what kind of social circle and friends she had outside of work.

However, it seems that Chen Ziyan is unwilling to share her private life with others.

It was precisely because Lu Yanhe noticed this that he was usually more careful and did not take the initiative to ask Chen Ziyan about these things.
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The Netherlands-Hilton Film Festival is about to be held, and Lu Yanhe has received many invitations to the premieres of the participating films.

Finally, in addition to accepting the invitation to the premiere of the movie "Can't Even Fake Death", Lu Yanhe also accepted invitations to the premieres of a Japanese movie and a Spanish movie.

Both films were brokered by Darren Wilson of Williams' agency.

The producers of these two films know Darren Wilson and they have a very good relationship with him.

Lu Yanhe will basically participate in the entire Jose-La-Jacques Film Festival this time.

Without any filming tasks, he has a lot more free time.

The screening schedules for the films shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Netherlands-Hilton Film Festival have also been announced.

The premiere of Love Letter was on the fifth day of the film festival, and it was in a good position. Generally speaking, the film screening schedule places great emphasis on the star power of the film's main creative team. Films with big stars and media attention are often shown in the first week, while films with average main creative teams can only be shown later. This is also because of limited funding, and many media outlets actually cannot stay for a full film festival, and many even leave after filming the opening ceremony.

"Love Letter" was on the fifth day, and "I Can't Even Faking My Death" was on the sixth day.

The premiere times are all pretty good.

However, Lu Yanhe did not expect that he would suddenly receive an invitation from Zeng Qiao before he was about to leave for the Netherlands-Spain Film Festival.

An action movie starring him is scheduled to be released on May Day.

If you don't count "Someone Under the Bed", the recent market is actually very cold, and the box office of other films is really average. There are now seven films scheduled for the May Day holiday, all of which are starring first-line stars. This also means that there will definitely be several movies that will not get box office and will inevitably fail.

Because of this situation, competition for the May Day movie season is particularly fierce.

The battle started from the promotion.

It was also because of this that Zeng Qiao contacted Lu Yanhe temporarily and asked Lu Yanhe to support his film.

Lu Yanhe attended the special screening of "Thunder" for friends - this was a screening held by the publicity and distribution department of this film exclusively for the friends group of the film's main creators.

At this screening, after watching the movie, Lu Yanhe, as a good friend of Zeng Qiao, will express his feelings about the movie.

To put it bluntly, the goal is to attract as many people as possible to the cinema through the opinions of these stars on the film.

Lu Yanhe met Zeng Qiao on "Phoenix Terrace" and started working with him. Later, they collaborated on "River of Silence" and they had a very good relationship.

Many main creators of "Phoenix Terrace" and "River of Silence" also came to this friendly show, which is enough to show that Zeng Qiao has a good relationship with people.

After watching Thunder, Lu Yanhe encountered an embarrassing problem. He felt that the film was mediocre and not a very good film. Of course, it had its merits. The action scenes were quite exciting, but the story was too old-fashioned and the characters were also old-fashioned.

Of course, Lu Yanhe couldn't tell the truth yet, this place was just for him to say nice things.

Lu Yanhe couldn't praise the film against his will, so he praised the action scenes a lot and also seriously praised Zeng Qiao's performance in the film.

Zeng Qiao’s performance in the movie is quite hard, and it can be seen that he put a lot of effort into acting in this movie.

He performed many action scenes himself without using a lot of stunt doubles, which shows his sincerity.

As a result, something terrible happened.

When a well-known film critic, Lu Shan, was invited to stand up and comment, he actually looked at Lu Yanhe and asked, "After watching this movie, you actually think it's a good movie. How can it receive so many compliments?"

Lu Yanhe knew this film critic.

He is a film critic known for his sharp views.

However, Lu Yanhe had never dealt with him before, and he didn't know why he suddenly opened fire on him in such an occasion.

However, for a moment, Lu Yanhe felt guilty.

Because he really didn't think the movie was that well made, it was indeed mediocre.

There was an uproar at the scene.

Lu Shan went on to say: "I really didn't expect that in this day and age, I could still see such an old and clichéd action movie. It has almost no innovation compared to previous action movies. It's just a clichéd work with big scenes and big stars."

Lu Yanhe: "..."

At the scene, the main creators on the stage all looked a little embarrassed and gloomy.

The host had to step out to smooth things over.

"Teacher Lu is indeed a very strict teacher." said the host with a smile.

Lu Shan turned to the host and said, "Don't interrupt me, I haven't finished speaking yet."

The host represents the attitude of the film.

He was also aware of this, so after being pointed out by Lu Shan, he did not continue to forcibly interrupt the topic and made a gesture for him to speak.

Lu Shan: "Actually, I shouldn't have said this today, but to be honest, I really can't stand the fact that the current film companies always make movies that fool the audience. Can they make more innovative and adventurous movies?"

Lu Shan's words were very sharp, even harsh.

If Lu Shan's first words made Lu Yanhe feel a little guilty, then Lu Shan's subsequent remarks made Lu Yanhe feel incredible. Lu Yanhe also felt that Lu Shan was deliberately looking for trouble.

Lu Yanhe glanced at Zeng Qiao sternly.

The movie "Thunder" is a subject that Lu Yanhe has never dared to touch despite participating in so many film projects.

why?
Because the subject matter of "Thunder" focuses on action design, editing style, visual effects, and director ability, these are not what young people like Lu Yanhe, who have far more film theory than practical experience, are good at.

He has been accumulating industry resources and increasing his understanding and experience in post-production and cost control.

The more familiar you are with this industry, the clearer it is that if you don’t understand it, you will be fooled.

For the same play, you know, if you know how to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, you can even cut the cost in half and still achieve the same quality.

In film production, labor costs are one aspect, while on-site production loss rate and waste rate are also a key factor in cost control, not to mention the connection between on-site shooting plans and post-production.

But because of this, although Lu Yanhe felt that "Thunder" was mediocre and not surprising enough, it was enough for the audience to see its sincerity.

His praise was not groundless. Whether it was the design of the action scenes or Zeng Qiao's dedication to the film as an actor, they all allowed the audience to see the attitude of the film itself.

Lu Shan gave a long speech about his views on what makes a good action movie before sitting down.

The scene was inexplicably awkward and silent.

The host smiled and still tried professionally to make the scene lively again.

He said: "Teacher Lu Shan really knows a lot about film history and film theory. We sincerely accept both praise and criticism. Um, Yan He raised his hand——"

As soon as he said that, everyone else looked in the direction of Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe was seen sitting in the audience, raising his hand high, indicating that he wanted to speak.

Someone immediately handed over a microphone.

Lu Yanhe stood up, took the microphone, said thank you, and then smiled and said, "It's rare to hear criticism at an advance screening of a movie. It's very fresh."

He took a deep breath.

"Originally, I have already expressed my thoughts on the film, so I shouldn't speak again, but Mr. Lu just asked me how I could praise this film, and expressed his aesthetic views on films, so I think I may need to respond."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "First of all, what do I need to respond to? When I praised this movie just now, did I really mean it, or was I just being polite? I want to say that it was true. I came to watch this movie today because I was invited by Zeng Qiao, but we are all holding the microphone and speaking by ourselves. We are responsible for what we say."

"Secondly, how should we evaluate the movie Thunder?" Lu Yanhe said, "If you let me evaluate this movie from a very high standard, it is indeed not good enough, but such an evaluation is not fair. Let me give you a simple example. If we use a 90-point standard to evaluate all students, then more than half of the students are poor students. Because the best are always the smallest group. For movies, my evaluation standards are the same. This is not an art film, it is an action film. Are action films simple, rough and exciting? If it were that simple, I wouldn't have been an actor for so long and still not have officially filmed an action film."

"Why did I praise the action scenes of Thunderbolt for surprising me? It's because it's very simple. It's well done. Action movie fans can see a lot of surprises in this movie. I must admit that I'm not an action movie fan. Of course, I don't think Mr. Lu is either. Mr. Lu just explained why he thought Thunderbolt was vulgar from the perspectives of character, story, and director's technique, but he didn't evaluate the core of the movie, action, from the perspective of action design and action scenes. So, I made such a rash guess. If I guessed wrong, Mr. Lu, please forgive me."

"For me, I am just an audience member as a professional. I am not a participant in this film and don't know the story behind the production. I was invited to watch this film, and on the basis of telling the truth, I actually have a mission, which is to tell the audience who haven't walked into the cinema to watch this film what they can see from this film from my perspective."

"So should I tell the audience that this movie explores the complexity of human nature? And lacks spiritual richness? Or, um, this movie is vulgar because it is very stereotyped. Let me be blunt. Please, which action movie is not stereotyped? How many stereotyped action special effects blockbusters does Hollywood make every year? Does this affect their global box office sales? Will it affect the audiences who like this type of subject matter and style? Will they continue to like it?"

Lu Yanhe shrugged and smiled. "I respect what Mr. Lu said, but although movies belong to all audiences, we must realize that different themes have different audiences, and different audiences have different needs. Except for a very small number of classic movies that can break boundaries and be liked by the vast majority of audiences, it is not easy for us to make our audience like our movies."

After Lu Yanhe finished speaking, the whole audience suddenly burst into applause.

The main creative staff on the stage also relaxed their expressions.

This little episode subsequently sparked heated discussions on the Internet.

In fact, many people still think that Lu Yanhe is wrong. Everyone thinks that Lu Yanhe is quibbling, and it is clearly a discussion about whether a movie is a good movie. Although Lu Shan said something a bit too much, he did not lie, he was telling the truth.

Lu Yanhe was silent and hesitant.

He really couldn't say it, he really thought "Thunder" was very good and worth watching. Moreover, if it weren't for what Lu Shan said on the spot, which made him feel that Lu Shan was very targeted and even gave him a feeling of deliberately sensationalizing, he wouldn't have made such a long speech.

In this context, Thunder was released on April 30th.

The box office on the first day exceeded 3700 million, ranking first on the box office list of the day.

Also because of this box office performance, it still retained 17% of the screenings on May st when four movies were released.

However, the film did receive mediocre reviews among the audience.

It’s not that many people called it a terrible movie and regretted watching it.

However, many people took out Lu Yanhe's speech in support of the film and made screenshots to express their disappointment with Lu Yanhe.

Many people said that they went to see this movie because of Lu Yanhe’s recommendation, and they never thought that Lu Yanhe would actually recommend such a movie.

This was a "Waterloo" that even Lu Yanhe himself did not expect.

His team can only help him reduce the negative impact of public opinion as much as possible.
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Chen Ziyan said: "You should go to fewer movie screenings to support your friends in the future. It's too sensitive. What others say is fine, but it seems that what you say will be magnified infinitely. Moreover, in such occasions, even if you are watching a mediocre movie, you have to praise it a few times, and the film company will spread it, which will make some viewers who don't like the movie think it's your fault."

Lu Yanhe felt quite uncomfortable.

On the one hand, emotionally, he thought it was natural for his friend to help him get a spot in a play and to promote his work. However, on the other hand, he knew in his heart that the controversy caused by Thunderbolt could not be blamed entirely on Lu Shan. He could not put aside his feelings and tell the truth, and he would have to bear the consequences.

In other words, it’s fine to forward and promote it, and you can do things to “increase exposure”, but try not to avoid the main point and say something that you feel guilty about.

"But, Sister Zi Yan, I haven't thought it through yet. If I say that, I also think that if a movie is not good enough, I shouldn't recommend it publicly. In fact, there are not many movies that I really want to recommend from the bottom of my heart." Lu Yanhe expressed his confusion, "But, rationally, I really think what I said is right, so I said that - is a movie that only scores six or seven points not worth recommending? If it has some highlights, or it is indeed a movie worth watching for a certain group of audiences, can't I recommend it?"

If Lu Yanhe himself wasn't so conflicted, he would have simply learned from his mistakes and never done such a thing again.

Chen Ziyan said, "Yan He, regarding this situation, I only have eight words for you: You are in a position where you cannot help yourself. Since you have become one of the representative figures of Chinese-language films and the most influential filmmaker, you should be more careful about your reputation, especially the words that come out of your mouth. You will never know who will take your words as gold and jade, because they trust you 100%. You have a good relationship with Zeng Qiao, so you can help him promote it, OK, but don't endorse it easily, especially when you yourself realize that this film is not that good, it has advantages, OK, I admit, will the film company use your words in a realistic way? No, the film company will use you as promotional material and promote it on a large scale: Lu Yan He supports "Thunderbolt"."

Lu Yanhe let out a long sigh, and the balance in his heart slowly tilted. He knew what he should do in the future regarding these matters.

That night, "Thunder", whose box office had exceeded 2 million, released a celebratory poster.

At the same time, entries related to "Thunder" being ugly also became hot searches.
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Lu Yanhe's team was very supportive. They tried their best to lower the popularity of Lu Yanhe in this matter and publicize the fact that he was about to go to Jose.

Trying to use the Jose-La-Hilton Film Festival and the movie "Love Letter" to divert the focus away from Lu Yanhe's role in this matter.

However, it seems that Lu Shan does not intend to let go of this opportunity to create a golden body so easily.

He took screenshots of many messages online criticizing the movie Thunder and Lu Yanhe, and posted a nine-grid Weibo, saying: The audience's eyes are still sharp.

Some fans of Lu Yanhe were so angry that they left a message: It seems as if the movie "Thunder" is Lu Yanhe's problem.

Lu Shan replied confidently: If it weren't for his recommendation, so many people wouldn't go to see this movie. He is killing the motivation of those audiences who are still willing to go to the cinema next time!
Lu Yanhe always thought he was good at arguing with people, especially at retorting. However, at this moment, he found himself tongue-tied and could not refute a single word.

Chen Ziyan also said that there was no need to pay attention to Lu Shan and just let him jump first.

However, Lu Yanhe ignored him, but Zeng Qiao couldn't stand it anymore.

He posted on Weibo late at night: I'm very sorry. It was me who invited Lu Yanhe to attend the screening of "Thunder", and he was unnecessarily involved in this dispute. Things have fermented to this point. I now feel very indebted to him. For those viewers who watched "Thunder" because of Yanhe's recommendation and felt disappointed, please send your ticket purchase screenshots and order numbers to my studio's email address, and I will arrange a full refund.

Five minutes later, he posted another Weibo: Yan He picked out the advantages of the movie and praised it in order to help me. "Human All's Well, Human Joy" which was invested by Mr. Lu Shan is now the box office champion of the May Day holiday. Our "Thunder" can no longer pose a threat to "Human All's Well, Human Joy". Therefore, Mr. Lu Shan does not need to belittle "Thunder" to ensure that its box office will surpass "Human All's Well, Human Joy". Anyway, it is just a mediocre routine movie and it is not worth Mr. Lu Shan wasting his precious time to pay repeated attention to it.
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Zeng Qiao is feeling really bad right now.

He used to act in TV dramas mostly, and it was a rare opportunity for him to play the leading role in a big production like "Thunder", and the box office performance was pretty good. Although the audience's reputation was not as good as expected, it was not to the point of being a bad movie that everyone criticized. In fact, because the action scenes were really good, it set off a wave of movie-watching among the market audience who love action movies, so that its box office performance was not too affected by public reputation.

Originally, "Thunder" could have been a work that helped him gain a foothold in the film industry.

Who would have known that, because of this movie, Lu Yanhe would become the person who was scolded the most.

How could Zeng Qiao bear this?

He would rather the audience scolded him than Lu Yanhe.

At this moment, his disgust and hatred for Lu Shan reached its peak, but because he was still rational, he did not curse him directly on the Internet.

If he wasn't a celebrity, he would really curse at people directly.

This guy is such a bastard and a real villain.

Logically speaking, Lu Yanhe did not exaggerate the facts to praise "Thunder", and he was just here to help out, but he was made a sinner of this industry by Lu Shan's mess.

Zeng Qiao was so angry that he started to act vehemently.

The fact that Lu Shan invested in "Human Happiness" was discovered by the producer of "Thunder" later.

When they learned about this, they scolded the publicity and promotion personnel who contacted Lu Shan to watch the movie.

To be honest, the audience reputation of "All's Well That Ends Well" is not that good, but because it is the only comedy film in the May Day period, it has the advantage of being a family-friendly film.

Zeng Qiao had no other thoughts at this moment, his heart was filled with guilt towards Lu Yanhe.

It is precisely because of this that he thought of refunding the tickets for the audiences who did not like "Thunder".

Even though it was the most troublesome and costly, he still withdrew!
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Lu Yanhe never thought that Zeng Qiao would do this.

Chen Ziyan was also shocked.

Over the years, I have never seen any actor refund money on such a large scale.

Zeng Qiao's posting of two articles late at night became the most watched topic the next day.

What was even more unexpected was that Zengqiao Studio counted the refund applications it had received the next night and issued a statement: a total of 927 refund applications were received from viewers, and a total of 38934 yuan was refunded.

Zeng Qiao forwarded this statement from his studio and directly @Lushan:

I refunded the audience who regretted watching "Thunder". As an investor of "Human All's Well", have you refunded the audience who regretted watching "Human All's Well"?
Attached drawing:

First picture: "Happy Events in the World" Yemai.com rating: 6.3.

Second picture: "Thunder" Yemai.com rating: 6.1.

The third picture: 0.2 points higher, the audience’s eyes are really sharp!

Lu Shan suddenly lost his voice and never appeared again after that.
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After Lu Yanhe reflected on his mistakes for a few days, he felt that it was time for him to speak out.

The situation has changed. If he remains silent, Lu Yanhe feels that he will lose even more trust from the audience.

After discussing with Chen Ziyan and his team, he posted:
I want to say sorry to my friends who trust me. Although I never intended to trick you into going to the cinema to watch a movie, my speech that only talked about the advantages and not the disadvantages did make many viewers go to see a movie they might not like based on the premise of trusting me. I hope Brother Qiao will not feel guilty or uncomfortable. I am responsible for what I said. I did not say those compliments based on my relationship with Brother Qiao. I just did not say what I didn’t like about Thunder because of my relationship with Brother Qiao. Of course, this objectively resulted in the result of "avoiding the important and focusing on the trivial", which is my own problem. I will be more cautious in my words and actions in the future.
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One is Zeng Qiao, and the other is Lu Yanhe. Their attitudes towards this matter and the postures they displayed relieved the dissatisfaction of the audience who were emotionally aroused by Lu Shan and who had launched a fierce attack on Lu Yanhe.

The main reason is that many people didn’t expect that they would actually receive a refund immediately.

Lu Yanhe's apology also made many people calm down and start thinking about one thing -

Put yourself in their shoes and think about it. Who in this world hasn't said something to support someone just for the sake of personal connections and face?
Emotions come and go quickly.

If Zeng Qiao and Lu Yanhe refused to admit their mistakes or were stubborn, people would probably be even more angry.

However, these two people did not do so.

On second thought, Lu Yanhe didn't even make a disappointing movie himself, but it's been like a carnival these past few days. He was attacked for lying because he commented that the action scenes in "Thunder" were good. It was obvious that "Thunder" was just as Lu Shan said, extremely mediocre, with no innovation compared to other action movies, and it was still the same old routine.

Watching it again now, no one said how good this movie was, they just said the action scenes were good.

The action scenes in "Thunder" are really good.

Chen Ziyan quickly captured the change in sentiment towards Lu Yanhe on the Internet.

She immediately arranged for public relations personnel and took a public relations action: analyzing each of Lu Shan's speeches point by point, how he cleverly misinterpreted the meaning of Lu Yanhe's original words and put a high hat on him.

When the May Day holiday was over, public opinion had already pointed its finger at Lushan.

When Lu Yanhe saw that Lu Shan was being accused and criticized by many people under the attack of public opinion, at this time, unlike his feelings towards the audience, he did not feel any guilt at all.

What Lu Shan said and what he did made him feel only one way at this moment: He deserved it.

Lu Shan was like a coward, he suddenly stopped talking and pretended to be dead.

At this time, someone from the film company of "Happy Events in the World" suddenly came to Chen Ziyan and asked them to show mercy and let Lu Shan go.

Chen Ziyan rolled her eyes back.

When Lu Shan stood on the moral high ground and stirred up everyone's emotions to attack Lu Yanhe, why didn't they stop Lu Shan?

Chen Ziyan was too lazy to pay attention.
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Recommended old book "I Became the Scandal Heroine Overnight" (End of this chapter)