This director needs to apologize

Chapter 147 The Bull Run King
Chen Yiming repeatedly warned himself to keep his aura and aura stable, but the result was stable until the end, but there was still a bit of an unhappy ending.

Duan Yining didn't read the script, but Tingyin listened and felt something was wrong. He immediately got up and followed Chen Yiming out of the booth.

He went to the waiter and asked for a glass of ice water. Chen Yiming drank it in one gulp, and the depression in his chest suddenly dissipated a lot.

Lao Duan stood in the corridor with Chen Yiming for a while before asking, "Is there something wrong with that notebook?"

Chen Yiming nodded and shook his head, "Depending on where you stand, it's not a problem here at all."

Duan Yining heard the second half of what Chen Yiming didn't say and nodded clearly.

"Yiming, you are still young, there is no need to get involved in those sensitive subjects.

I took the liberty this time. Jiang was eager to talk to you about something, but I didn’t ask what the specific topic was. "

Chen Yiming sighed, turned around and looked up at the stars, "You can pass others without passing you. I can't blame you for this."

Duan Yining smiled, "Why are you sighing? Didn't you already reject it?"

Chen Yiming seemed to be talking to himself or asking, "As an actor with ambition, would he be more willing to play the role of the blind man in "Wandering" instead of the consultant in "1951"?"

Duan Yining was a little confused, "Bullshit, you think I am a three-time best actor, and the scripts are lined up for me to choose? I will play the blind actor, and I will also play the counselor. As long as the schedule does not conflict, I want them all."

Chen Yiming looked down and asked, "But Blind Liu made you get nominated for Best Actor. The consultant spent his time and worked hard and might get nothing in the end."

Duan Yining couldn't understand it anymore, "Yiming, what do you mean? Please speak clearly."

"I just have a doubt. People in this circle can't see common things." After a moment of pause, he laughed again.

"Maybe I wrongly blamed Teacher Jiang and the others. Maybe the Western sponsors and judges are more willing to see the perverted side of China, or maybe people are used to seeing perverts and just regard our perversions as the norm."

Duan Yining heard what Chen Yiming meant and said sternly, "Yiming, you don't need to get into trouble. Artistic creation is diverse. As long as you don't deliberately fake it and depict the dark side of society, it doesn't mean you have malicious intentions."

Chen Yiming waved his hand and replied, "Old Duan, you have misunderstood. I have no objection to Director Jiang and Teacher Lai. We are all just making movies to make ends meet, and I respect whoever serves the bowl. I respect the choice of every colleague.

I just think that after we have been in this business for a long time, we may be more inclined to believe that human nature is inherently evil.

Think about it, the story will become more twists and turns, and the characters will become more complicated. Over time, isn’t it true that there are no good people in Hongdong County? "

Duan Yining's first reaction after hearing this was to refute, but he shrank back when he spoke, because logically speaking, this was really the case.

Take him for example, when he first took on the role of consultant, he was still reluctant.

All actors want to play the protagonist, but a character with a single personality cannot sustain a movie.

"1951" uses a unique subjective perspective to pull the audience away from God's perspective, and by strengthening the sense of substitution, it conceals the thinness of the character's solitary light.

If the traditional third-person perspective + montage editing method is used, the content of "1951" cannot stand up to the 2-hour film length.

Thinking of this, Duan Yining changed from refuting to agreeing, "Yes, human nature is so contradictory. In my heart, I don't believe that there are saints in the world, and subjectively I hope that everyone except myself will be saints."

Chen Yiming clapped his hands to pretend to applaud, "Old Duan, your words sound like a philosopher."

The two looked at each other and smiled, then turned around and returned to the hall side by side.

After walking a few steps into the hall, they saw Da Zhuang standing next to a large column waving to them.

After the two walked over, they found that there were two middle-aged men with Da Zhuang.

Ma Yunteng immediately introduced him. The younger one was Niu Ben, the general manager of Bully Pictures, and the older one was Wang Yibai, the famous king of the two kings of the imperial capital.

Chen Yiming naturally held the junior ceremony, stretched out his hands and looked up for a long time.

Niu Ben looks like he is in his thirties, but he is dressed in the style of a young boss in movies and TV dramas. He has a slim and straight figure, but his figure is average, so the overall image is very inconsistent.

Chen Yiming met his eldest brother Niu Qian once at the Emperor Film Seminar, and that man was the real leader with great arrogance.

Wang Yibai's name was already well known. Now that they met for the first time, Chen Yiming had only one feeling: one day when "Dragon" is filmed, he would play Ding Chunqiu without any makeup at all.

Her flowing white hair was spread around her shoulders, and she was wearing a plain dark patterned robe, and on her feet were the old man's shoes with thousand-layer soles that were used to show off by the old guns of the Imperial Capital.

This outfit really should be shown off on the red carpet at the opening ceremony. Putting it on the Chinese night, it would be a bit of a secret investment.

This year's Huaguo Night, not many domestic bigwigs came. Several leaders left after making speeches. Now among the guests in the hall, in terms of status and power in the circle, Niu Ben and Wang Yibai can already take their place.

The five of them stood together. Except for Duan Yining, who happened to be the lucky one, the others would not have rashly approached without understanding. At most, they would have stood nearby to listen.Chen Yiming didn't ask Ma Yunteng what he wanted to do when he called him over. He just kept chatting along with the topic. He guessed that it was nothing more than talking about cooperation, so he could deal with it.

Unsurprisingly, the first person to lose his composure was Mr. Niu Ba. He first listed (CHUI) (XU) a very promising "Rising Star Director" program, which claimed to have recruited five emerging directors from across the Taiwan Strait and three places, with a total investment of Over [-] million.

Then he expressed his ambition to continue his cooperation with top directors after Chen Huaikai. He will produce a billion-dollar production every year, and the candidates for next year are already being contacted.

Chen Huaikai is the flagship figure of academic directors. Before the new millennium, he was as famous as Sun Wangquan as a major Chinese director with international influence.

However, in the era of Chinese-language blockbusters in recent years, Director Chen has been somewhat quiet, and in terms of model worker status, he is far behind Sun Wangquan and Wang Xiaogang.

Only then did Chen Yiming know that Director Chen had made a film for the first time in five years. The film "A Generation of Famous Actors", which he wrote, directed and served as producer, was invested by a bullish investor and was scheduled to be released during the Lunar New Year this year.

Chen Yiming didn't accept Niu Ben's offer, but he was quite interested in Director Chen's new film.

He greatly admired this bullish company and dared to spend real money on it for Chen Huaikai, a top-notch director. His psychological quality was truly extraordinary.

You must know that during the two years when coal prices were at their highest, coal bosses in northwestern Shanxi were scared away by Director Chen's generosity.

When asked about the details of the shooting, it turns out that Chen Huaikai is Chen Huaikai, and his true colors have not changed after so many years.

The theater found original old wood to restore it one-to-one. All the costumes, outfits, furnishings, and props had to be old objects. The palace attractions in the imperial capital were rented out for half a year, and five or six opera consultants were hired.

Chen Yiming said to himself, there are different sects in the troupe business, and you are just mixing things up, so you are not afraid of the consultant teacher getting into a fight on the set.

Seeing that Chen Yiming was taking the topic further and further, Niu Ben had no choice but to go straight to the point, "Director Chen, I don't know what your plans are next. Our company is very much looking forward to cooperating with Director Chen."

Chen Yiming shook his hand rapidly, "I really don't have any ideas for the moment. I'm exhausted this year and need a break.

Directors cannot work continuously. Look at Director Sun Wangquan and Director Wang Xiaogang, they basically work for half a year and take half a year off. Teacher Wang, don’t you think so? "

Wang Yibai kept nodding, but what he said was to dig a hole for Chen Yiming.

"It is true that you need to recharge to create, but don't be humble, Xiao Chen. Who doesn't know that directors eat from the pot and look at what's in the basin, and they might even have to pick something up with their chopsticks.

The projects are all being pushed forward in parallel. The disaster movie that Xiaogang is currently working on has been in preparation for a few years, and it didn't delay him from filming a New Year's film last year.

Xiao Chen, I'm sure you have more than one project on hand. If a director wants to release one film a year, he will have at least three to five projects lined up in his computer.

There is only one year between your first and second novel, which shows that now is the time when you are full of creative desire. It’s great to be young! "

Niu Ben's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he stared at Chen Yiming fiercely. He couldn't help but wanted to pry open Chen Yiming's head and take a look.

Chen Yiming cursed in his heart, no wonder he looked like Ding Chunqiu, he was really not a good person.

No matter how Chen Yiming denied it, Niu Ben just didn't believe it. Chen Yiming wished he could turn his pants pockets out and show him, but there really weren't any.

In the end, Da Zhuang couldn't see Niu Ben's blatant behavior of trying to force the corner, so he helped Chen Yiming take over the offensive.

"Mr. Niu, we at Bojue really have no new project preparations. "1951" was a temporary task assigned by the superiors. Yiming had no choice but to take it on.

For such a big project to be released on time within half a year, if you are an expert, you should know how tiring it is. Yiming has really been drained and was even hospitalized some time ago. "

Mr. Niu gave it up when he saw the opportunity, and took advantage of the situation to make a "small" request to inform him in advance of new plans. A small drift was extremely smooth.

Chen Yiming was amazed. It was not all because he had the brother of the chairman that he could be the boss.

Wang Yibai changed the topic in an understanding manner and talked about the new film Wang Xiaogang was filming, and Chen Yiming finally got rid of the situation of being criticized.

Chen Yiming approached Ma Yunteng and asked in a low voice, "Where are Xiao Liu and the old man? I don't seem to have seen them. Did you lose them?"

Da Zhuang replied, "Teacher Sang left long ago because he was annoyed. I asked Xiao Liu to go back with him. It's not appropriate for minors to stay here."

Chen Yiming asked again, "Let's withdraw too. We've already said hello to everyone. By the way, why didn't you see Sister Shen?"

Da Zhuang lowered his voice further, "I sold Nuts yesterday. Regarding overseas distribution, Warner has the intention to continue cooperation. Sister Shen went to visit several other companies to raise the price."

Chen Yiming nodded and stopped talking.

In his heart, he doesn't really have any expectations for "1951" to be released on Nuts. In his opinion, Warner probably doesn't expect much box office. It will most likely arrange to screen it at the end of the year to get enough screenings, and then get an Oscar nomination to facilitate the sale of DVDs in the future.

It would be too ridiculous for a Peninsula War movie made in China to be released on Nuts, but releasing it on DVD would not be an obstacle. The Cannes shortlisted film has a lot of appeal to young literary and artistic people.

(End of this chapter)