Become a dramatist from today

A private room in a certain restaurant is decorated with splendor and splendor, but the table fee is quite expensive.

Huang Baiyou and Wei Ming ordered a table of stir-fried dishes, especially the salt and pepper shrimp from this restaurant. The outer shell was fried to a golden color and the shrimp meat was very tender. When you took a bite, the first thing you tasted was the saltiness of the salt and pepper, followed by the saltiness of the shrimp. fresh.

"I haven't seen Director Wei for more than a year. Director Wei, please eat more."

"There are too many dishes and we can't finish them."

It doesn’t matter if you can’t finish it, Huang Baiyou will take action and he will pack it up.

We chatted while eating, from 11:40 to 12:30.

We chatted about entertainment industry gossip, embarrassing stories about some actors who were filming Guardians, and Huang Baiyou’s new movie.

"I really miss the time I spent filming on the set of Guardians. I could chat with Director Wei for dozens of minutes. The more we chatted, the more obvious the scenes became."

Hearing this, Wei Ming visibly shuddered, remembering the fear of being dominated by an actor.

"First of all, congratulations to "Detective" for being nominated for the Golden Horse Award and the Academy Award for Best Actor." Wei Ming changed the topic, "Bai You, you may become the first domestic Grand Slam Best Actor."

The Golden Horse Awards is held in Guiyue, while the Hong Kong Film Awards is held in late autumn, but the nominations for both awards are announced in early July.

"Detective" has seven nominations for the Academy Awards and nine nominations for the Golden Horse Awards, making it the strongest Hong Kong film this year.

The nomination list for the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival has not yet been announced, but almost everyone thinks that the Thirteenth Son of the South China Sea plus the Detective, the Golden Rooster, Golden Horse, and Golden Statue will be worthy of the three gold medals.

"We'd better not be too confident." Huang Bai said, "Sometimes things don't develop as we expected. The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers haven't announced the list yet. What if a dark horse suddenly emerges? There are really no capable actors in our country. few."

“Over the years, there has been no shortage of seniors who have accumulated a lot of experience.”

Huang Baiyou is already a mature actor, and he can already reverse poisonous milk.

Some didn't say that much. Wei Ming just didn't talk about the purpose of his trip.

Seeing that the director was embarrassed to speak, Huang Baiyou asked, "Director Wei is not looking for me just to catch up on old times, right?"

"It must be to catch up on old times," Wei Ming hesitated for a moment, "Actually, I really have two things to trouble you about, Bai You. To be precise, please."

"What's going on?" Huang Baiyou asked.

""The Invisible Guardian" is run by Daydream Studio and will be broadcast in South Korea soon. Regarding the promotion in South Korea, I don't want to go." Wei Ming said.

Isn't this a great thing to increase the director's reputation?

"No problem. There won't be too many specific announcements, because the international relations between Japan and South Korea have been very good recently." Huang Baiyou was very confused, but still agreed.

"The second thing..." Wei Ming was a little embarrassed, the expression on his face was like begging for something from someone else.

"I want to get investment for my new film," Wei Ming said, "I want to ask Daydream Studio to invest."

The current executive management of Daydream Studio is controlled by director Chu Yuan. Currently, it has invested in "White Night Chase" and "Life Delete Office", and its strength is not bad.

It's normal for someone to pull investment, but it's not normal for Wei Ming to pull investment. The drama "Howling in the North Wind" after Guardians was adapted from the story of Comrade Hu Di, one of the Three Heroes of Longtan.

It has not become popular again, but its reputation and performance are still good. To put it more simply, Director Wei should not be short of investment.

"I want to shoot something else." Wei Ming took out the script, "Bai You, take a look and see if it meets your studio's investment standards."

Script name: A string of lives

The name is not a drama that Huang Baiyou would watch. Huang Baiyou glanced at the content introduction, "A workplace drama with an urban setting? Is opening a small restaurant considered a career?"

"It shouldn't count." Wei Ming said, "My positioning of this drama is the life of the bottom class of society."

"Give up the field of espionage that you are good at, and have the courage to challenge new things." Huang Baiyou said the truth, which is really commendable for his courage.

However, the director himself knows that it is not courage, but that "The Invisible Guardian" is too difficult to surpass. Creating a spy drama again is like tying a heavy mountain to one's limbs.

"Director Wei, let me read it first." Huang Baiyou put down his chopsticks and started reading the script.

Why is the title of the play "A String of Life" such an abstract name? Because the male protagonist's job is to sell kebabs on the street.

It is not a common domestic drama, the ratio of plot to love, or the love scene of the male protagonist is relatively small.

It's a bit like a unit drama, mainly telling the stories of diners, with some comedy and some tragedy, a bit like a Japanese drama called Late Night Diner.

Without time to look carefully, Huang Baiyou flipped through it and discovered a major problem.

"We are very familiar with the relationship between Director Wei and I won't beat around the bush." ​​Huang Bai said, "This is not a story about the bottom of society."

After listening to the first half of the sentence, I thought it was because the script did not meet the investment requirements, but the second half of it made Wei Ming stunned and confused.

"Why not? Brick pullers at construction sites, long-distance bus drivers, hotel waiters, and even the male protagonist are all relatively low-level professions." Wei Ming said.

"When a bricklayer has a family, it's impossible for him to eat seventy or eighty skewers every day." Huang Bai said.

"Of course you can. Bai You, don't think that the wages at the construction site are very low. Moving bricks on the construction site costs four to five hundred a day." Wei Ming said, "Why can't I spend less than one-fifth of my income on eating skewers every day?"

"Prices at construction sites vary across the country. I watched Director Wei's drama set in Chengdu, a city with rich nightlife. If you move bricks on a construction site in Chengdu, the price will basically not exceed 300 per day."

"There are many types of work on the construction site, including steel bar workers, exterior frame workers, interior and exterior wall putty workers, and wall masonry workers. There are four to five hundred days a day, and they are basically high-altitude jobs."

As Huang Baiyou narrated, Wei Ming fell into thinking, and it seemed that he might be thinking about how to change the script.

Huang Baiyou said: "Even if, Director Wei, you change the type of work of this character, there is still a big gap between the 500 days on the construction site and the monthly income of 15,000."

"This story is about children who don't understand the hard work of their parents. It's a good story, but the people at the construction site who spend seventy or eighty yuan a day eating skewers are particularly confused." Huang Baiyou hasn't told the story about the delivery boy who changes to a new Apple phone every year.

"According to Bai You, what is the life of ordinary people like?" Wei Ming asked.

"Actually, I don't know very well, because my income is actually difficult to sympathize with the public's consumption level." Huang Bai said, "It's like it's hard for you, Director Wei, to understand that in order to save more than 20 yuan a day in taxi fares, then Catch the subway, right?”

"..." Wei Ming was silent for a while, "I drive myself when traveling."

"I support Director Wei's idea of ​​filming the life of the working people at the bottom, because there are very few such scripts nowadays. As long as they are done well, our studio's investment will definitely make money." Huang Bai said.

"But since we are photographing the working people at the bottom, do we really need to photograph the images of the working people at the bottom? Otherwise, there is a kind of..."

Huang Baiyou stopped, but Wei Ming completed the rest, "Otherwise, it just feels like a gimmick in the name of ordinary people."

"Bai You, you always hit the nail on the head when it comes to problems." Wei Ming took out two tissues nearby and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

The table fee is so expensive, but the paper towels are also charged.

Wei Ming writes his own spy scripts and consults a lot of information. Many of his experiences are adapted from real events to ensure the excitement of the story.

Even if "A String of Life" is just a work he uses to "relax", as a good director, he must be responsible for his own work, and it is too suspended.