Huayu: The director just wants to save money

Chapter 111 End of the month
"Han Yan? Never heard of him."

"Normal. He wasn't very famous before."

"Then why do you still use him?" Da Tiantian asked curiously.

“Being not famous doesn’t mean you don’t have the ability. Many directors just lack an opportunity.” Zhou Mo is very confident in his choice.

Han Yan graduated from the directing department of the Central Academy of Drama.

Since his debut in 2002, he has starred in many works, but none of them were particularly successful.

What really made him famous was a work he didn't finish until 15.

"Go Away, Tumor".

It’s also about serious illness, and the separation of life and death of men and women. Han Yan was able to make "Mr. Tumor" so tear-jerking, so filming "When a Man Falls in Love" shouldn't be a big problem.

Speaking of which, when Zhou Mo was looking for Han Yan, he inadvertently thought of a movie he had seen in his previous life.

"Send You A Little Red Flower".

The male and female protagonists of this movie are the four-character young master and Zhang EMO's only love Liu Haocun.

In his previous life, Han Yan was able to successfully shoot a movie with these two talented people, and the final effect was slightly above the passing level. I guess it should be no problem for him to bring along a sweet girl.

"It seems you have confidence in him."

"Of course, Brother Nimo's vision has never been wrong."

Zhou Mo wanted to explain some more details of the movie to Da Tiantian, but Da Tiantian was angry that Zhou Mo had just despised her acting skills, so she hummed and hawed to change the subject.

"Speaking of which, the school called a few days ago and said they were inviting a group of older directors back to hold an anniversary celebration, and they also invited us as outstanding alumni. Do you want to go?"

Zhou Mo shook his head: "I'm not interested. A bunch of old guys form cliques and small circles. There will be no point in going there except being scolded."

He has never been interested in such small circle gatherings.

Apart from being praised a few times when I returned, I didn't get anything of practical value from it.

On the contrary, not only will there be no profit, but you will also have to sacrifice a lot of interests.

People will rush to do business that will get them killed, but no one will do business that will lose money.

Zhou Mo has not yet reached the stage where he is willing to spend money everywhere just by hearing a few nice words.

He would rather make more money than listen to nice words.

Da Tiantian nodded: "That's what my homeroom teacher told me. He also complained to me before that there are more and more petty thieves and filthy things happening in the school."

"What happened? Why do you say that?" Zhou Mo was curious.

In his heart, the head teacher has always been more gentle and easy-going.

Except for those few times when he made me so angry that my blood vessels popped, he rarely said such harsh words.

"It was the same students who entered last year. The school specially lowered the admission score for them, but someone found out. When the class teacher told me about this, he was so angry."

After hearing this, Zhou Mo remained calm.

After all, he had seen a lot of such things in his previous life.

In fact, similar things have always existed.

It's just a matter of whether or not it's discovered.

In his opinion, there is absolutely no need to get angry about such things. After all, getting angry is useless. For some things, their subsequent direction has been determined from the beginning, and no matter how angry others are, they cannot change the outcome.

Of course, he also understood the class teacher's emotions.

After all, these rules have been adhered to for decades. Once they are broken, you can imagine how people feel.

"Tiantian, please help me make a phone call later and comfort the teacher."

"Why don't you fight yourself?"

"I'm afraid he'll get even angrier after hearing my voice." Zhou Mo said in a strange tone.

He is very self-aware.

Many of my actions during this period were considered arrogant and domineering in the eyes of my class teacher.

So, it’s better not to provoke the head teacher.

Seeing Zhou Mo shrinking his neck, Da Tiantian laughed out loud in a very ungraceful manner.

"Zhou Mo, I didn't expect there would be a day when you would be afraid."

"What are you afraid of? Can you be afraid of something between a teacher and a student? I just respect my teacher and I'm afraid that he will get angry and get sick..."

Zhou Mo spoke some nonsense in a "Lu dialect".

Sure enough, after hearing this, Da Tiantian laughed so hard that she fell on Zhou Mo.

Zhou Mo felt the softness on his shoulder and sighed. Gossip is indeed the best tool to repair relationships.

The ancients never lied to me.

……

The time has come to the end of the month.

"John Wick" has been removed from theaters, with the total box office at 6.3 million.

As per convention, Zhou Mo gave a big red envelope to everyone in the crew.

For a time, various media were scrambling to report on it.

Shanhe, China Film, Huanya and Eagle King became the objects of envy, jealousy and hatred of many companies.

For this reason, Eagle King's boss Yang made a special call to Zhou Mo to express his gratitude.

At the same time as "John Wick" was released, there was also a movie called "Inverse War" invested by Eagle King, which was a complete flop in terms of box office performance.

Not to mention the 10 million box office on the first day, it continued to plummet afterwards.

With an investment of 200 million, it is estimated that in the end even the original capital won’t be recovered.

Therefore, Boss Yang was especially grateful to Zhou Mo. If it weren’t for “John Wick”, he would probably not be able to sleep again during this period.

At the same time, the sound of "Those Years", which had previously attempted to be bundled with Zhou Mo for sales, was no longer heard.

With a box office of more than 33 million, it can’t even absorb the tail end of “Love Is Not Blind”.

In addition, the battle between Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou in the new scene has basically come to an end.

The failure of "The Flowers of War" in every sense completely tore the two of them apart.

Zhang Weiping took the initiative, contacted the Hong Kong media, and published a bunch of gossip about Zhang Yimou.

I have to say, Zhang Weiping is really cruel.

Once they start, they aim to destroy people.

From Gong Li, to Zhang Ziyi, to the little yellow duck, and finally to Nini.

Anyway, according to the Hong Kong media, anyone who has played the leading role in one of Zhang Yimou's movies can basically not escape his clutches.

This behavior reminded Zhou Mo of a two-dimensional creature.

Sickly arrogant.

Whatever Zhang Weiping can't get (Zhang EMO), he would rather destroy it.

The most outrageous thing is not that this news was leaked.

Rather, the Hong Kong media described these events in such vivid and colorful terms, and the quality was so high that it felt like it would at least get a lot of clicks if it were posted on the forums.

Compared with them, Zhou Mo felt that the script he had previously written in collaboration was based on the defense.

To this end, he specially got some relevant newspapers and magazines, and cut out all the contents and kept them.

For nothing else.

I just want to learn the writing skills.

However, before he finished studying these contents.

I received a message.

Ji Xiaolan's son, Master Zhang, was reported.

All of a sudden, half of the entertainment industry was in action.

Many people pleaded for Master Zhang out of Ji Xiaolan's consideration.

Zhou Mo is calling Jiang Wen.

"If you ask me, Lao Jiang, you really have a problem with your vision. Every time you take a fancy to someone, something bad happens after a while."

Zhou Mo cited the examples of Xia Yu and Mr. Zhang, one of whom was involved in a cheating scandal and the other was even arrested.

Lao Jiang was not convinced: "Nonsense, what does what they do have to do with me? I am not their father. I am in charge of the crew. Do I need to be in charge of the outside world?"

"Then tell me, why do these people always cause trouble after cooperating with you?"

Jiang Wen suddenly laughed and said, "Then I don't know. Besides, Xiao Mo, don't forget that you are also the young man I think the most. There is no other one like you."

Snapped.

Zhou Mo hung up the phone.

　Last update.

　　thank you all
　　
　
(End of this chapter)