Speaking of "Seafood", it has been almost a month since Wang Dalun and Zhu Wen last talked with him, and there has been no news. Just think about it, if Zhu Wen really got money, he wouldn't be forced to use a DVD to shoot it.

Wang Dalun was originally planning to find Lao Jia, but when Lao Jia returned to the capital, he hurried in his wet basement and was busy cutting the film. Later, he went to the Bashang Grassland to take some remaining shots, and he couldn't make any free time. Then he thought about it again that he had just lent Lao Jia 300,000, and in a blink of an eye he went to ask for his help, and he also had to dig out the resources in his hands. He always felt like he was entrusting to repay his favor, so he gave up after thinking about it.

Fan Ziyi is very enthusiastic and wants to act in movies, but the domestic film production is really not much these days, and every photography factory has indicators. Generally, film companies can only buy factory bids from film photographers within the system if they want to make movies. There are only dozens of movies a year, and many of them are bad movies, so they cannot be put on the table at all.

The rest are underground movies. The so-called sixth generation directors who have just been mentioned in the past two years are all such underground movies. Zhang Yuan is known as the leader, as well as Lou Ye, Wang Xiaoshuai, Lao Jia, etc., who are not old, all in their thirties to forties, and most of them are from the Beijing Film Academy.

Wang Dalun knew that his girlfriend had always wanted to shoot a movie with him. Last time he got the script of "Seafood". She was very moved at first. Later, she heard that Zhu Wen's girlfriend was going to play the heroine and had no money, so she gave up. But later she saw that he highly praised the script, and she watched it again while idle, and suddenly became interested again. In her opinion, Zhu Wen's girlfriend is not a professional actor and has no reputation, so she can't compare with her. She will definitely be able to act better. She has hinted to him several times because of this.

What can Wang Dalun say? It seems that there is little hope for this drama to be filmed at the moment. And the most important thing is that he doesn't think his girlfriend can play the role of Xiaojuan well. Xiaojuan is a miserable woman struggling at the bottom of society. Their living conditions are 100,800 miles away from the girl's life. The girl has no experience in this aspect at all. In addition, the girl is too beautiful and to put it bluntly. How can a person like her fall to the bottom? She must be of the same level as the heaven and earth.

On the contrary, he had seen Zhu Wen's girlfriend. She was not very beautiful and had a sense of melancholy eyes. She and Zhu Wen had been drifting in Beijing for several years and had experienced the hardships of life. At least from image to temperament, they were very similar to Xiaojuan in the script.

I can't explain it clearly in a few sentences on the set. These days are just a little day for my girlfriend. When I returned to the hotel at night, I had nothing to do except sleep. After taking a shower, they lay on the bed watching the boring TV series. My girlfriend asked about this again.

"I see, Zhu Wen can't raise money at all. He only relies on his savings and borrowed money to add up to more than 100,000 yuan. If he really uses a DV to shoot, it would be better not to shoot it." Wang Dalun shook his head and said.

"Then he can't fight for overseas investment like Zhang Yuan and Lao Jia?" Fan Ziyi nodded and asked unwillingly.

"Well... this, he has never proved himself, and there is little hope."

Zhang Yuan's first work, "Mom", was completely self-funded, and later "The Badge of Beijing" was also helped by Cui Ye and a group of musicians. The reason why he was able to receive sponsorship and investment from overseas funds was that the script itself won awards, and the other hand, his works won awards at overseas film festivals one after another, which proved himself.

Similarly, Lao Jia received 200,000 yuan from a Hong Kong production company because his "Going Home to the Hill" won the award in Hong Kong, which led to "Xiao Wu". Then "Xiao Wu" won two awards at the Berlin Festival, which truly established Lao Jia's popularity overseas. This led to his desire to film "Stand Up", not only received funding from the Film Center of the French Foreign Ministry, but also invested by a large number of overseas film companies.

Zhu Wen has nothing, but nothing. Although he has participated in the screenwriter of several movies, he has never proved himself in the field of directors, so it is naturally impossible to raise funds overseas. Moreover, underground movies like him that have no licenses are almost impossible to obtain investment in China.

Listening to Wang Dalun's nagging analysis, Fan Ziyi stopped talking. Wang Dalun looked at her pouting and looked disappointed, smiled, yawned and said, "Okay, don't think about it, go to bed early, you have to get up early tomorrow."

In fact, sometimes he really thinks his girlfriend is quite magical. When he is at home, he is like his life. He doesn't miss it a day. He often eats breakfast and lunch at one meal. But once he arrives on the set, he doesn't have to shout in the morning and gets up early, and he gets up earlier than him, because he has to use makeup and hair one or two hours in advance.

Fan Ziyi was silent for a while and suddenly said, "If you really can't find money, why don't we invest in this movie?"

Wang Dalun was about to lie down, but when he heard this, he was shocked and quickly sat up and said, "You are crazy, where did we get the money?"

He lent all his money to Lao Jia, and his girlfriend invested in restaurants and bought a house. Now she only has more than 200,000 yuan. Even if they count the pay for "Three Scenes", they will only be about 500,000 yuan at most. This is their entire family, not to mention that they still have nearly 7,000 yuan in loans to pay back every month.

"How much does this movie require about how much investment it will cost?" Fan Ziyi didn't seem to be a joke at all, but asked how much he needed.

"Don't think about it, it's not enough to buy film at all."

"What do you think, how much is it?"

"It will cost at least about one million."

Wang Dalun had to roughly estimate the number. Lao Jia spent 10 million on "Standup" and Zhang Yuan's "Going Home for the New Year" was 2.5 million. The average domestic film investment is at least 20 million. The actors in "Seafood" don't need too many actors, mainly two male and female protagonists. The shooting location must be in Beidaihe. Fortunately, it is the off-season in winter, and food and accommodation are much cheaper than the peak season. But even so, film and artificiality are real, and one million can only be said to be the number of starting boards.

"Oh, one million is not a lot!" Fan Ziyi nodded and said.

"Tsk, you're not a small tone, that's one million! Can you take it out?" Wang Dalun snorted coldly.

"What should I do if I can take it out? Then you tell Zhu Wen, let me play with you." Fan Ziyi smiled confidently.

"Hey, you can take it out? Why don't I know?"

"Hmph, don't forget that I have a house in my hometown provincial capital. This house is worth at least tens of millions, and it's a piece of cake to borrow two or three million from the bank."

When Wang Dalun heard this, his head shook like a rattle, "No, this is absolutely not possible! This is the dowry left to you by your mother, how can you mortgage it? You are not afraid of losing money, and even the house will be collected by the bank."

"Don't you look at the script very well? Let's shoot it and send it abroad to participate in the exhibition like Zhang Yuan, Lao Jia and others. If you can win a prize or something, you won't be able to make a profit at that time."

It turned out that this girl was dreaming. Wang Dalun was amused and smiled bitterly. She probably was like those who often called Lao Jia to inquire about how to participate in foreign film festivals, how to win awards, and try to become famous overnight.

That’s right, Zhang Yuan, Lao Jia, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Lou Ye do make underground movies and then participate in foreign film festivals to win awards and become famous. But there are only a few of them in China, but are there only a few underground movies? I’m afraid it may not be possible that many people are struggling for their dreams of film or losing their money.

I also have to send it abroad to participate in the exhibition. How many such movies are there abroad? I am afraid there are countless films. Every year, the selected filmmakers at major film festivals have to select dozens of movies from a large number of movies, which is rare.

Wang Dalun always thought that Lao Jia was lucky. In his opinion, "Xiao Wu" was extremely rough, but he won two awards at the Berlin Film Festival. Some people would say that "Xiao Wu" won the content, which reflects the fate of the most non-mainstream small figures in contemporary China. Lao Jia took a different path than director Zhang Da and director Chen, and also different from Zhang Yuan's urban plot. But in Wang Dalun's opinion, Lao Jia was still lucky. If the film picker had not accidentally seen the video tape sent by the Hong Kong production company, it would have been exactly the same as the film picker and recommended it to him, maybe Lao Jia is now drifting in the capital like Zhu Wen, or staying in a cultural unit in Fenyang, drawing promotional posters, where would there be the title of the sixth generation of new director in China.

"I advise you not to think about your thoughts. No one can guarantee that the movie will be shortlisted for foreign film festivals if it is made. Even if it is a very small film festival, there are countless movies registered every year, but only a few of them can be shortlisted for. That's right, Zhang Yuan and Lao Jia did make money by making movies, so what? I'm afraid no one is in the heart when they were filming. They were simply for their ideals. But there were many people who lost money..."

Fan Ziyi looked at her boyfriend with big eyes. She admitted that she really wanted to be simple, but she was still a little unwilling to give up and said cowardly: "I just want to act. Didn't you say this book is good? I think it's pretty good, maybe it will succeed?"

"If you have it, don't say that, maybe we are not rich people! If we really have 18 million and take out 1 or 2 million to play, it would be fine even if we lose. Now you want to use the mortgage loan left to you by your mother to make a movie. This is definitely not possible, the probability is too low."

Wang Dalun had a big talk and finally gave up his girlfriend's wonderful idea. He drank his mouth so hard that he got up and drank a glass of water. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, lay on the bed again, rubbed his girlfriend's head, and said, "Stop thinking about it, go to bed."

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Fan Ziyi has been struggling for a few days, but as the days pass, she also let it go. After all, it is serious to shoot the scene in front of her. It is said that the producer of "Young Bao Qingtian", which had just been filmed before, will release the second part, and intend to continue to invite her to play the leading female role. Sister Hua is currently talking to the producer.

Overall, the filming of "Three Images" was relatively smooth. In July, the two Taiwanese actors and Zhou Xun's scenes have been completed by 80%, and the rest are scenes in the outdoor locations. Among them, Chen Zikun and Du Xinyu were sent to the countryside. They lived in thatched houses in the bamboo forest, selling kites, and lived a carefree life. Of course, this kind of life is short. In order to make this scene well, the crew specially set up several thatched houses in an Anji bamboo forest. Zhao Baogang personally took Chen Kun, Zhou Xun and some staff of the crew to Anji to shoot outdoor scenes, while Wang Jun continued to stay in the film and television city to shoot interior scenes. Wang Dalun and Fan Ziyi took this opportunity to ask the director for five days off, and the son-in-law was finally coming to the door.

At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the plane landed at Changle Airport in Fuzhou, which is almost fifty or sixty kilometers away from the city. Even if you arrive at the train station, you may not be able to get back to Fan Ziyi's hometown in northern Fujian. The two decided to stay in the city for one night, and then stroll around and buy some gifts for Grandpa Fan.

Wang Dalun originally wanted to talk to his girlfriend again. Since he had arrived in the provincial capital, he should visit Fan Dad and Aunt Bai. But as soon as he made an excuse, Fan Ziyi glared back fiercely.

As long as you don’t mention Lao Fan, everything is easy to say. On the way to the airport bus and heading to the city, Fan Ziyi was still very excited and kept introducing the scenery along the way to him. As soon as the bus came, he took him straight to the West Lake in the city center. That’s right, there is also a West Lake in Fuzhou City, but it is not as famous as Hangzhou West Lake, nor is it as large as Hangzhou West Lake.

The West Lake here is similar to the West Lake in Hangzhou. There are many houses of old age. The old villa left by Fan Ma to the girl is located by the lake, with water in front of the house and a street behind the house. It is said that it used to be lent to a public institution as an office space, but not long after moving away. Fan Ziyi had no keys around, so she could only take her boyfriend to visit her most valuable property on the outside.

"You are really a rich woman!" Wang Dalun looked around. Although it is located in the center of the downtown area, it is quiet and a bit like the Du Mansion in the Magic City. Of course, it is not that big, but it is definitely a good location and a good house. The house prices have not yet risen. When Lao Fan helped transfer the property last year, the appraised price at that time was already tens of millions. Wang Dalun estimated that in more than ten years, the house would not be hundreds of millions.

In addition, he found that there were many similar houses around him, a bit like this house before. As an office building, the signs hung outside were all government agencies and institutions, and more were high-end restaurants or bars.

"You just let the house be so empty?" Wang Dalun looked at it a little regretfully.

"I just moved out of my previous unit, and I haven't figured out what to do yet. However, I will definitely not rent a hotel or bar. I still want to wait until I get old and move back."

Wang Dalun smiled and said, "You are really far from thinking, but then you have to live with me in my hometown, or we live on both sides. What do you think?"

"Bah! You have to listen to me then, I say you can live wherever I want!"

"Okay, okay, listen to you, who said I have bronchitis? But you can't leave this house empty, I think it's a lot of rent for a year in this area!"

"I don't care about this. Let Lao Fan worry about it. As long as you don't open a hotel, you can just bar. Oh, where will we stay tonight?"

When he got off the bus, Wang Dalun was anxious to visit his girlfriend's villa. He didn't even book a hotel and was dragging a suitcase in his hand. He stood by the lake and looked around, pointing to a tall building not far away, and said, "Let's live there, right next to the lake, you can see the lake view as soon as you open the window and see your house."

When he came here just now, he saw the tallest building next to West Lake in a taxi. The four big characters "West Lake Hotel" at the door are inlaid with five stars.
Chapter completed!