I didn't want to be an actor

Northeastern Restaurant…

Shen Liang pushed open the door, greeted Wu Jing, Li Chen, Jiang Qiming, and Han Dongdong, and then sat down.

Wu Jing said directly: "Why are you so slow?"

"Traffic jam..."

"Find a better reason, this is Changchun, not BJ!"

Shen Liang picked up the wine glass: "I'm wrong, drink one first..."

Drank it all in one gulp, and then explained: "There's something I need to deal with."

"What's it?"

"Anyway, I have a legitimate reason!"

"A legitimate reason?"

Jiang Qiming suddenly said: "What's wrong with your neck?"

"Neck?"

Shen Liang raised his chin in confusion: "Are you okay?"

Li Chen glanced at Wu Jing and smiled: "...I know where you went!"

Shen Liang said stubbornly: "Well, I made an appointment with the judges to discuss the lottery results. "

"Stop talking!" Han Dongjun was speechless: "You've been planted with strawberries... and there are teeth marks..."

"Damn!"

It's hard to guard against...

When Naza's mind is setting off fireworks, he will habitually bite things...

It should be the mark left at that time...

Wu Jing was curious: "Are you in a relationship? Who?"

"I don't have time to fall in love... We just talk occasionally..."

"Is she single? Do you have a boyfriend?"

"Don't worry about that, I'm not the kind of shameless person..." Shen Liang waved his hand: "What did you talk about?"

Brother Liang does have a bottom line. Even if it's an idol, he didn't make a move before the official divorce announcement!

"We are talking about Watergate..."

"Didn't they say that they will reshoot in Hengdian?"

Li Chen: "...You heard about it too?"

Han Dongjun was speechless: "He is the male lead, what do you think?"

"I guess there won't be many reshoots?"

"I heard from them that it will take about ten days...After all, it will be released during the Spring Festival next year."

"Then do you think Watergate can surpass The Battle at Lake Changjin?"

Shen Liang glanced at Wu Jing, who was also staring at him, so Shen Liang pondered for a while: "It's hard to say, it's unlikely to..."

"Why? That's the Spring Festival!"

"I have been live streaming every day recently, and everyone's evaluation of The Battle at Lake Changjin...is not very high. I guess a large number of people who have watched The Battle at Lake Changjin don't want to watch Watergate again!"

Not only the quality, but also the changes in public opinion and environment are also an important reason - I found that these filmmakers treat the audience as leeks...

They have no respect for the audience.

Not only filmmakers, but also many media...

The incident of The Lion Boy is a typical example - many of our artists are "too daddy-like".

To be honest, all these people should be sent to the Americans next door for further study for ten or eight years to see how they play.

They are all artistic and commercial. Although they are not clearly divided, practitioners basically have their own lines. Usually, you can't want to be the audience's father and expect the audience to give you money obediently...

If you want a high box office, you have to "kneel" to face the audience.

Our "artists" are different. On the contrary, they want the audience to kneel down for them.

From time to time, they will give you some "art", "depth", "culture" and "aesthetics".

And they have a condescending attitude: you audiences don't know anything, I will teach you.

As for the portraits of the characters in "The Lion Boy", they have squinting eyes, wide eye spacing, and drooping eyes. They are obviously ugly, but they insist that art should be inclusive and aesthetics should be diverse. They also argue that you should open your phone to remove the beauty filter, implying that ordinary people look like this.

Finally, ugly people are not worthy of being the protagonist?

Bullying the audience's aesthetics...

Why do they do this?

Maybe the film environment in the past two years has made them mistakenly think that they have returned to the 1970s and 1980s. What can we shoot, you can watch!

Why are you talking so much nonsense?

Dissatisfied? What can you do if you are dissatisfied?

Take a look at the producers of "Young Lion".

In the past, when the movie was criticized by the audience, the main creative team had to apologize, but now... the audience knows nothing!

It must be the Internet trolls who are leading the rhythm and smearing!

"Young Lion" is really ugly. What I can't understand is that these characters have to look like this in the animation?

It doesn't promote the plot or setting...

The design is good-looking, the audience likes it, why is it not okay?

The director has repeatedly expressed that he does not regret it and is proud of it.

It gives people a feeling that I can draw it beautifully, but I don't draw it, I have to draw squinting eyes, hey, just for fun!

However, "Young Lion" saved "Deep Sea" - "Young Lion" triggered online outrage, and the original character modeling of "Deep Sea" was almost the same as "Young Lion", so it was hurriedly sent back for revision...

Back to the dinner...

"Xiao Shen's projects are full, right?"

"Yeah..." Shen Liang nodded: "There are still four movies and two TV series to be filmed!"

Wu Jing interrupted: "Why are you still filming TV series?"

Wu Jing is a typical person who looks down on TV series...

In his era, TV series were really bad, most of them were soap operas!

Shen Liang strongly disagreed with this view: "Brother Jing, how many years have you not filmed TV series? The equipment, technology and investment of TV series are no worse than those of movies now. With a good script, the influence of TV series is no worse than that of movies!"

"Okay, I can't argue with you..." Wu Jing changed the subject: "I may have to join the crew of "The Wandering Earth 2" and shoot for a few months!"

"Guo Fan is ready to shoot together?"

"Yes!"

“It really saves time to shoot like this!”

Hearing this, Li Chen looked at Shen Liang in surprise: ""The Wandering Earth 2" doesn't have you?"

Shen Liang explained: "Prequel... Liu Qi hasn't been born yet."

"So do you have any plans for a science fiction project?"

Shen Liang shook his head: "I wanted to do "Glory and Dream" before, but the superiors refused to let me film it... I wanted to do "Full Band Jamming"... I couldn't find a suitable director..."

"So? No more?"

"Pause first..."

"Glory and Dream"... so direct!

It directly writes about the American hegemonic invasion.

The gentlemen are worried that they will be protested and this will affect their normal relationship.

No, it’s already this time, are you still worried about this?

After being beeped once, Shen Liang ran out of ideas...

The purpose of making a movie is to sell tickets and make money, but if you always emphasize publicity, there will be certain problems whether it is the initial creation or the final film. The result is that it will either fail to pass the review, or those that pass the review will not be able to sell tickets.

The publicity department in charge of the movie doesn't care about this kind of thing!

Just like the 2022 National Day release of The Original Time, the box office was sparse, but mainstream media reports all used the phrase "main theme movies contributed more than 80%!" ’ words.

It’s useless. Movies are cultural commodities. Since they have commodity attributes, don’t think about using coercion to get everyone to accept them!

After all, even if you pay me to watch a movie, I have to calculate the time cost...

Li Chen nodded to express his understanding, and then asked: "You don't accept "The Translator"? It's Rao Xiaozhi's movie!"

Oh, "The Translator" is "Ten Thousand Miles Home"...

Shen Liang shook his head; "I'm not old enough..."

This is because the hard conditions are not up to standard. Another point is that Shen Liang feels that the script of "Ten Thousand Miles Homeward Bound" is quite cliche - the diplomats evacuate their overseas Chinese...

I have seen several works of similar types and themes in the past few years.

Let's let Zhang Yi play the role. Anyway, he has withdrawn once in "Operation Red Sea", so he is familiar with the job...