Chapter 194: Calm (continued)
Fan Ziyi only took three days to come back, and she said she wanted to rest at home for two days, but she was so busy that she was like a charge. She went home in the middle of the night and had to go out early in the morning. She felt very distressed when she saw it, but all this was due to the money.
By the way, her endorsement value has soared with the hit two movies of the first movies of "Returning the Beads and Baby Box". This time, she shot a drink advertisement and said that her photos would be printed on the packaging. The endorsement fee of 350,000 yuan a year was almost rising with all the money. One advertisement could pay off the entire house loan.
"The Flowers Bloom" filmed last year was initially said to be released in February, but it was not reviewed by relevant departments and needed to be revised and postponed to April. Later, it was said to be August, but there is no following to date.
Gao Xiaosong's mind is not on the movies now. The romantic flash marriage that lasted only a few months later was broken. In the words of this guy, it was a "big collapse" - a marriage collapse and an economic collapse. During this period, he was in trouble. His ex-girlfriend's suicide was somehow involved. The media hyped, and his ex-girlfriend's family was unwilling to let go, which made him feel embarrassed and hid in the United States. Uh, this guy is indeed an American now.
Lao Jia was very proud of the success of "Standup". If "Xiao Wu" gave him a place among the so-called sixth generation directors, then the success of "Standup" has already squeezed him into the ranks of famous directors.
In order to promote the film overseas, he refused to return to Beijing for a few days, but he went back to his hometown as soon as he came back. The long shooting cycle of "Station" made him find many former playmates, and relatives who were originally neglected became warm again. This guy is also particularly keen on the wedding and white events in his hometown. Recently, it is said that he has been trying to open a noodle restaurant in his hometown. Sometimes he would talk to Wang Dalun on the phone about his preparations for a noodle restaurant, from finding a store to the variety of noodles, dishes and even ingredients, on the ingredients. Wang Dalun sometimes had an illusion, it was true that this guy would really not make a movie to open a noodle restaurant?
This was obviously impossible. Not long after, he received a call from Lao Jia, and the guy returned to Beijing.
The teahouse next to the Film Academy, this teahouse that has been open for three years, has gradually evolved into a trend of filmmaker salons due to its unique market entrance. It is said that there are several film and television dramas here to film.
Wang Dalun is also a regular customer here. The boss greeted him warmly and took him to the second floor in person. Lao Jia arrived early, and his hair was still messy, his brows drooping, and he was leaning on the back of the chair to take a nap. It was not until Wang Dalun entered the door that he opened his eyes and said sleepyly: "Come!"
"You didn't sleep last night, why are you doing?" Wang Dalun threw his handbag on the table and sat down opposite him.
"Oh, the boss is very strong!" Old Jia was in a good mood and smiled and picked up his handbag and looked at it.
Wang Dalun never brought such a bag before. If he went out, he would have a pair of backpacks except for his suitcase. This was given to him by his girlfriend last time. It is said that he bought a piece of goods from Huating Road, the Magic City. But it is quite useful. He stuffed the key bag, cigarette and mobile phone into the bag, and the pockets were always full of bulges.
"When will your noodle restaurant be opened?" He poured himself a cup of tea, blew the foam on it, and asked with his head up.
Lao Jia leaned against the back of the chair and said leisurely: "I just think about it now. It's not decided when it will be implemented."
Oh, what you said on the phone was the same as it was, but then he had a thought. Wang Dalun couldn't help but give him a blank look and said, "What are you doing during this period? Prepare for a new movie?"
Lao Jia shook his head, fiddled with the melon seeds on the plate, and said, "I went back to my hometown to find a feeling, but I don't have any idea yet. In the first half of the year, I took out a three-person three-color plan for the Korean Jeonju Film Festival. I have been busy with the release of the movie some time ago, and I didn't make any time. I want to take advantage of this time, think carefully and shoot it out."
Wang Dalun, the Quanzhou Film Festival, had heard Lao Jia mention it before. It has just held two sessions. It is currently the only digital film festival in the world. It mainly promotes the development of digital films. They have a three-person and three-color plan, which is to select three directors from the world every year, each director shoots a thirty-minute work, and then form a film. The first session has no theme, and the theme given by this session is space. In addition to Lao Jia, the three directors also have Taiwanese director Cai Mingliang and a British director.
"Did you figure it out?" Wang Dalun took out a cigarette from his bag, handed it to Lao Jia, and asked casually.
"I plan to shoot a documentary in public places, such as waiting rooms, buses, entertainment halls, billiards rooms, etc. I have been walking around here during this period and it feels quite unique. But I want to put this movie in winter. It is cold in winter, and people are willing to stay indoors, so they are more popular." Lao Jia said seriously.
It's cold in winter and it's so popular. Are there not many people like waiting rooms, buses, entertainment halls, etc.? Anyway, he's used to Lao Jia's silly words, so he sips of cigarettes and said, "Then what are you looking for me today? Help you shoot this documentary?"
Lao Jia smiled and said, "The filming of ordinary people in public places is an ordinary person. I don't plan to find an actor. I'm asking you to pay back the money." As he said that, he took out a bank card from his pocket and handed it to him.
"Oh, then you didn't say it earlier. I didn't bring any IOU."
"You'll just tear the IOU by yourself."
"OK!"
After so many years of cooperation, the trust between the two has been established long ago. Lao Jia doesn't care and he doesn't feel pretentious.
"There are a total of 350,000 yuan in it..." Old Jia said halfway, and saw that he was about to open his mouth, he waved his hand and continued to explain: "Fifty thousand yuan is not interest, it is a bonus. I fought for them, not only you have it, but everyone else has it too..."
Speaking of the overseas sales situation of "Station" is very good. Shinzo Shinzo and Jacob are now wandering around the world. The first payment has been returned, which is enough to allow Lao Jia to recover his investment and pay off his foreign debts, and there is still a lot of surplus. After hearing what he said, Wang Dalun accepted it with peace of mind.
"At the end of November, will you go to the International Film Festival of Nantes, France?"
From the beginning, "Standard Fund" was funded by 700,000 francs by the "Southern Fund" established by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Film Center. Whether it is selling movies or giving favors, Lao Jia attaches great importance to the International Film Festival of Nantes. What's more, the International Film Festival of Nantes, as the name suggests, is to introduce movies from the third world countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and at the same time emphasizes the artistic and experimental nature of the film.
Wang Dalun was idle all this time, so he really wanted to go, but then he thought that at the end of November, it was the end of November that his girlfriend "Shaobao Er" would be completed. She could come back and rest for a few days. Now the two have a rare opportunity to get together. Thinking about it, they shook their heads and said, "I won't go."
"Okay, whatever you want."
Lao Jia was originally a kind-hearted person and was not very good at persuading others. When he heard Wang Dalun say he couldn't go, he nodded, looking indifferent. He kowtowed a few melon seeds and then said, "I haven't arranged it tonight, right? Let's have a meal together, and the director of Zhuangzhuang will come too."
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In 1948, Fei Mu and his "Spring of the Small Town" appeared silently in the history of Chinese films. It was an era of drastic change. The resentment of Zhou Yuwen, a young woman who guarded her sick husband without love, was venting her resentment on the screen, which seemed so out of place. Mr. Fei Mu did not expect that what he left for future generations would be a pinnacle work, just as "Dream of Red Mansions" is the culmination of Chinese novels that cannot be surpassed. "Spring of the Small Town" has become a Chinese film with the longer the age, the more dazzling it shines.
When Wang Dalun was studying at the Film Academy, his first teaching film in the school's small theater was "Spring of the Small Town". Moreover, this film also influenced countless Chinese directors. For example, after watching Zhang Ming's "Wushan", you can fully feel what "Spring of the Small Town" is; for example, Li Le's "Mr. Zhao" interspersed with several clips of "Spring of the Small Town" to express his respect for this movie; and Lao Jia wrote a meaningful sentence in the brochure of "Station": "The lifeless small town, the people with spring hearts." In the unforgettable 1980s, people with spring hearts walked out of the "small town" that imprisoned Zhou Yuwen, including Dai Liyan.
What's more thorough is director Tianzhuangzhuang. It is said that he has to watch this movie every year, and when he is about to come back, he plans to remake this classic movie to pay tribute.
At the dinner that day, the director of Zhuangzhuang praised Wang Dalun's performance in "The Stand", and even expressed his intention of working together in the future or having the opportunity to cooperate. At the table, Wang Dalun was of course flattered and came to pay a glass of wine to the director of Zhuangzhuang, but he didn't take it seriously afterwards. How could he take the words at the table seriously?
From mid-September to November, for about two months, in addition to helping the endorsement clothing brand, Wang Dalun has been at home all the time, and his previous busyness made him feel a little uncomfortable. Sister Ding helped him find a script, which is a main theme TV series, adapted from a novel of the same name by a writer.
In a coastal city in my country, the female customs chief Du Xinping discovered that the customs inspector Zhou was suspected of voluntary acts. She was determined to take this opportunity to completely expose the smuggling crime led by the general leader of Dongrun International Group. Just when the great contribution was about to be completed, Gao Jinlin took the lead in throwing the scapegoat and escaped the blame. Zhou Haibin also fled abroad since then. Du Xinping was not discouraged and strengthened his determination to fight the smugglers to the end. Gao Jinlin knew very well that to ensure that his smuggling activities were smooth, he had to overthrow Du Xinping, and for this he formulated a series of plans...
His character is the second male lead in the play, the villain Gao Jinlin.
This TV series is a bit similar to the cooperation model of "Three Pictures" that was filmed before. The company also has investments and will be jointly produced with seven or eight TV stations. This is a stable profit for Xinbaoyuan Company. Zhao Baogang is the producer, and the director is Wang Jun, who is the one who has helped Zhao Baogang in "Three Pictures".
After getting the script, Wang Dalun flipped it out. To be honest, he was a little resistant. Although he played the second male lead in the play, he was almost the same type of character as Jianjun he played before, and he felt that there was no challenge. Moreover, his image on the small screen now seems to be somewhat solidified.
In fact, he always believed that filming TV series is to make money. If it is really satisfying to act, it would give him a sense of accomplishment. Especially during this period, he and Lao Jia, Zhang Yuan and others were all fine. After hearing too much, they spoke about movies, which made him feel a sense of rejection of TV series inadvertently. Fortunately, the preparation period for this drama is quite long, and it was almost half a year before he did not reply to Sister Ding immediately, saying that he would consider it first.
In the past two months, in addition to visiting Wuxi once, two things happened. One was that Sun Li was discharged from the army art troupe in October. Wang Dalun passed by the Magic City to visit her from Wuxi and went to see her. The little girl was waiting for the assignment at home and enthusiastically invited him to have a meal outside.
It is logical that she dances like her very well. She is also a small star in the army art troupe. She also won the third-class merit and the second-class merit. She was rated as an excellent soldier many times. How could she be assigned an ideal unit? When she invited Wang Dalun to dinner that day, she was still looking forward to being assigned to a literary and artistic unit and continuing her dream of dancing. As a result, after a few days after he returned to the capital, he received a crying call from the little girl. Sun Li was crying so sadly on the phone. When she asked, she found out that she was actually assigned to a state-owned hotel in the Magic City as a waiter.
A dancer who won many awards as a waiter? Even Wang Dalun was stunned when he heard it. To be honest, although he knew that Sun Li would succeed in the future, he knew nothing about how she succeeded. However, the little girl was quite arrogant and refused to register for the assigned unit. Instead, she applied to a private art school in a magic city with her retirement fee and extra money earned in the art troupe to continue her literary and artistic dream.
Another thing that made him incredible. When he saw Zhang Lu in a professional outfit and talkative manner, he was really surprised and happy. He hadn't seen him for more than a year. He didn't expect that Zhang Lu had changed so much. This was not the timid and inferior teacher Zhang Lu in his impression. He was clearly a strong woman in the workplace.
Zhang Lu came to Beijing this time to discuss cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. It is said that their company has launched a "Chinese Supplier" project, mainly for b2b e-commerce services carried out by buyers around the world.
It sounds absolutely high-end and has a very high-end personality! Speaking of which, he only knows that Zhang Lu works in an Internet company in Hangzhou. She was very hard at the beginning and the boss was a man named Teacher Ma.
If you ask more carefully, darn! This company is actually called Alibaba. Then Teacher Ma is not Ma Na!
Oh! Wang Dalun was so sad at the time. Why didn’t he ask any more questions at the beginning? He had known that the Internet company where Zhang Lu worked was a giant in the future, so he had already found a way to earn some stocks, even if it was tens of thousands of yuan. You know, they couldn’t even pay their wages at that time. Now they are rich. They just received a $20 million investment from SoftBank at the beginning of the year, and Teacher Ma was preparing to do a big deal.
However, Wang Dalun was still happy for Zhang Lu from the bottom of his heart. This girl not only found confidence now, but also would definitely be a rich woman in the future. She was so happy that she could end her hardships.
As for regret, he thought afterwards that God was good enough to him. As for the kind of storytelling to make a big fortune by making a small fortune and getting rich overnight, it is all the plot in yy's novels. If he is not satisfied now, he will probably be struck by God.
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Chapter completed!