Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

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"Li Wan's treat has his own purpose." Mingliang said.

Li Wan is an independent producer who is not bound by film and television companies and producers and is relatively free. However, he must raise his own funds or investments, operate independently, distribute independently, and be responsible for his own profits and losses. It also requires resources and connections.

It is of course a good thing to get to know more directors in the industry, especially independent directors.

"In this regard, my senior brother has done quite well. Not only does he have a good relationship with directors, but he also has a good relationship with some investors. After all, there are not many directors like you, brother-in-law, who write, direct and invest in your own films."

Praising me in disguise?

"Then are you going?" Yu Dongqing asked.

"If you go, I will go. If you don't go, I won't go."

"Then go, there's nothing much going on lately anyway."

Li Wan's party was held on the afternoon of the weekend. Yu Dongqing drove to Houhai to pick up Mingliang, and found that she had been carefully dressed up and put on makeup.

"What are you doing?"

Meimei always wears no makeup. She usually only puts on some makeup cream, BB cream or sunscreen, and a little lipstick on her lips. Today she used lipstick.

"I heard from Li Wan that there are not only men but also women today. Can't you be too casual?" Meiliang said, and after speaking, she took Yu Dongqing's arm and walked out.

"Mom, let's go."

"come back earlier!"

The place where Li Wan held the party was in Beiluogu Lane, a place called Yixi place for afternoon tea. It was not far from Houhai, so the two drove there.

"Meiliang, will your other senior brother, Wang Dongsheng, come? He has a good relationship with Li Wan." Yu Dongqing suddenly thought of someone and asked.

"I don't know about him. I heard that he and Li Wan had a falling out."

"Why?"

"I always make literary films, but they always lose money at the box office. How dare Li Wan cooperate with him?" Meiliang said.

oh.

Yu Dongqing met Li Wan and Wang Dongsheng through Meimei. A few years ago, they filmed a movie "Hello, Teacher". One of them was a producer and the other was a director. In the end, the crew was so poor that they even hired someone to write the theme song. No money.

Please contact Yu Dongqing through Meimei.

Yu Dongqing thought the film was good, so he wrote the original time-space classic campus ballad "The Story of Time" for them, and invested nearly 2 million. In the end, it sold well at the box office and made a lot of money.

This is his first time investing in a movie in this time and space.

But this guy ended up making art films, and the more he played, the more evil he became, and the films he made often couldn't be released to the public, much like Zhang Yuan in the original time and space.

It was expected that Li Wan would break up with him. After all, as a qualified producer, the director can ignore the box office and profit and loss, but the producer cannot.

Those investors will hunt you down with a forty-meter-long machete.

But Wang Dongsheng is quite talented.

Don't know if we can meet him?

Yu Dongqing came to No. 19 Beiluogu Lane. This is an antique courtyard house divided into a front yard and a backyard. The front yard is for afternoon tea and health hot pot, and the back is accommodation.

The two entered the courtyard and entered the west wing according to what Li Wan said on WeChat. There were already more than a dozen people inside.

All relatively young.

Yu Dongqing saw Wang Dongsheng sitting next to him with a coffee cup in his hand.

It's been two or three years since I last saw him, and he looks even more unkempt than before.

When he saw Yu Dongqing and Mingliang coming in, he smiled and raised the coffee cup in his hand as a greeting.

Li Wan came up to greet and introduce each other.

In fact, who doesn’t know Yu Dongqing?

How could you not recognize the person who is about to create a box office legend for martial arts films—no, he may be a box office legend for Chinese-language films?

The main reason is that Yu Dongqing doesn't know them.

Li Wan introduced them next to each other.

"This is Liu Xiaoshuai, whose film "Red and Green" won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival."

"Lu Ye, he filmed "Wu Song River" and won the Golden Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, but it was not released in China."

They're all into art films.

Yu Dongqing smiled and shook hands, and the other party responded with a smile, but there was a hint of hostility.

But these people are very enthusiastic about Meili.

"A top student who graduated from Chinese Opera"

"Little Junior Sister"

"Beauty Director"

Various titles.

"This beautiful director is Li Fen. She has made the campus youth film "Don't Cry When I'm Sixteen". She is also a writer and screenwriter. I am in the same league with you, Dongqing, a graduate of the Chinese Drama Theater, a beautiful senior sister." Li Wan pointed to the room. The only woman inside introduced with a smile.

"Senior sister, I didn't expect you to come too." Mingliang called sweetly. It seemed that the two of them had known each other before.

"Do I dare to come to Li Wan's team?" Li Fen said with a smile: "Congratulations to you, Mingliang. All your wishes have come true and you have found a suitable husband."

"Thank you, senior sister."

Yu Dongqing also chatted politely with Li Fenfen.

Sitting next to Li Fen was Wang Dongsheng.

"You and I don't need to introduce each other, right?"

"We are all friends, what should we introduce?" Yu Dongqing smiled and took the coffee handed over by the waiter.

"Hey, Brother Yu, aren't you drinking tea?" Wang Dongsheng asked strangely.

"As the guest does, the host does as he pleases." Yu Dongqing picked up the coffee and took a sip.

The taste is very average.

This so-called party level basically talks about things related to movies.

Can your movie pass censorship?

Can I win an award if I get it abroad?

As for the box office, no one seems to care.

Yu Dongqing wasn't too interested either.

However, Meili had a lot of fun chatting with them, especially with Li Fenfen, about her experience studying in the UK, French New Wave movies, Italian neorealism, the classic Hollywood film noir period, etc.

On the contrary, Yu Dongqing seemed a bit unsociable, sitting on the edge and drinking coffee silently.

Wang Dongsheng looked at Yu Dongqing, hesitated for a moment, then walked over and whispered:

"Brother Yu, I want to tell you something."

"Oh, you said?"

"I'm currently preparing to make a film. Do you want to invest in it?"

"What movie?"

"I'll send you the script. You can read it first."

"good."

Yu Dongqing quickly received a document from Wang Dongsheng, drinking and looking at it leisurely with his mobile phone.

It actually writes about workers who were laid off in the 1990s!

It tells the story of a laid-off worker who unexpectedly became the father of an abandoned baby in a small northern city.

The more Yu Dongqing watched, the more surprised he became. Why is this storyline a bit like the movie "Anyang Baby" made by the original time and space director Wang Chao?

This film has won many awards abroad, but it has not been screened in China so it cannot be staged!

Is this guy doing this again?

Yu Dongqing remembered another film "My Days of Mining Coal" made by Wang Dongsheng a few years ago, which failed to pass the review and was later staged in Xiangjiang with the help of Jin Yunfeng.

In order to help him successfully complete the filming, Yu Dongqing invested 1 million, but the cost was recovered in the end.

And this script is even better than what he filmed.

"Dongsheng, I dare say that there is no way your movie will pass censorship." Yu Dongqing said directly.

"I know."

"Then you still take pictures? Besides, what you take pictures of happened more than 20 years ago. People have long forgotten it and no one will be interested." Yu Dongqing advised.

After listening to Yu Dongqing's words, Wang Dongsheng suddenly raised his voice:

"Then why did you still write that song "Killing the Man from Shijiazhuang"?! Didn't it also write about the same thing more than 20 years ago? There are still many fans who like it?! Because this is history!"

The two people's voices startled the rest of the people chatting, and everyone looked at them.

Yu Dongqing was silent.

After a while, he looked at Wang Dongsheng and said slowly: "If you really want to make a film about laid-off workers, I will write a script for you, and maybe it can pass the review."

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