Chapter 276
Lu Qingzhen picked up the coffee cup, took a sip, raised the corners of her lips, and said with a smile: "This kid Lu Yanhe completely trusts you now."
Chen Ziyan sighed, " Although she had expected this to happen, she was still a little helpless. "Ah? Helpless? Are you crazy?" Lu Qingzhen showed a strange expression. Sometimes, she really didn't understand what Chen Ziyan was thinking. of.
Chen Ziyan said: "It's not like you don't know that I have always been reluctant to tie the interests of the artists I lead too deeply, lest it be difficult to untie them later."
"Maybe everyone doesn't understand why you always part ways with the artists you brought up yourself." Lu Qingzhen said.
Chen Ziyan: "They have grown to the point where they no longer need me, so why should I be tied to them? In fact, at their level, my role as an agent is no longer very big. Yes. You know, our country In the current situation in the entertainment industry, the top celebrities do not need agents."
Lu Qingzhen: "You are too absolute and too pessimistic about the role of agents."
"I'm just. It's a fact." Chen Ziyan said.
Lu Qingzhen sighed, "You clearly know that if you are willing, they will be willing to let you become a partner."
Chen Ziyan looked at Lu Qingzhen, "You clearly know that what I lack most is money."
Lu Qingzhen: "...Oh, yes, I always forget this easily."
She paused, looked at Chen Ziyan again, and asked: "Then what are you going to do? You have already agreed to open a film production company with Lu Yanhe "It's nothing. I just need such an organization as a producer to facilitate the contract signing. Apart from me and Lu Yanhe, there will be no one in this company in the short term," Chen Ziyan said bluntly. Frankly speaking, "We don't really intend to be a film production company."
Lu Qingzhen nodded.
"Zi Yan, according to you, since Lu Yanhe is so talented, can you all rely on yourselves from now on? Write, direct and act." Lu Qingzhen said with a smile.
"It's not bad, but Lu Yanhe has a big shortcoming." Chen Ziyan sighed, "His character is too black and white, friends are friends, enemies are enemies, likes are likes, Disgust is disgust, compared to Look, his little girlfriend Chen Siqi is more mature. If he still has this kind of character after graduation, he will inevitably encounter deception, betrayal or even frame-up." "I don't think so with you watching by his side. this will be a Question." Lu Qingzhen smiled, "Do you know that you sometimes give me the impression that you are your artist's mother-in-law? On."
Chen Ziyan: "I am born with this character."
Lu Qingzhen said: "Then if you decide to bring Jia Long together to make this movie, who will the director be looking for? Is there a target candidate? ”
Chen Ziyan said: "Jia Long said that he would choose someone and come back to discuss with us if he is interested in someone."
"Nowadays, many actors direct and act on their own, especially comedians. Why doesn't Jia Long try it himself? ?" Lu Qingzhen said, "Don't he have his own comedy production company?"
When Chen Ziyan heard what Lu Qingzhen said, she looked at her in surprise, and then thought that this idea seemed not bad.
But if Jia Long is the director, the battle line of this movie seems to be stretched longer. It is not as fast as finding a director to make this movie. Experience can determine too many things, right? For new directors with experience, many things require exponentially more time to pay for.
Lu Qingzhen: "But no matter what, I think this kid Lu Yanhe will enter the top ranking of mainland niche students in a few years."
"It depends on his circumstances. To enter the TOP sequence, he must have at least one or two blockbuster male-led dramas to be truly TOP." When Chen Ziyan said this, she didn't know what she thought of. She curled her lips and said, "Don't Like some TOPs, Xu Hong, dare to claim that they are the new generation king."
Lu Qingzhen understood who Chen Ziyan was talking about almost instantly.
“Are you talking about Li Yuefeng?”
Li Yuefeng is a newcomer who emerged three years ago. He became popular last year with his role as the second male lead. At the end of the year, he starred in an ancient puppet drama and became a celebrity. The most popular drama at that time was the most popular drama in the world. In February this year, a drama with a modern campus theme was aired. Xiaohong's drama has won the cooperation of many big names. Then, a week ago, the argument that "Although Lu Yanhe is popular, Li Yuefeng is the real newcomer with real performance" appeared on the Internet, saying that Lu Yanhe is still popular, but his popularity is too mixed. , sometimes relying on magazines to become popular, sometimes relying on film and television dramas, and sometimes relying on academics and personas, unlike Li Yuefeng, who works diligently to do a good job in acting.
Chen Ziyan rolled her eyes.
But Li Yuefeng was like that, and Chen Ziyan didn't want to do anything about this argument, so as not to make the argument bigger and get Li Yuefeng and Lu Yanhe really involved.
"It's quite shameless. You are already twenty-six or seventeen years old, and you are still comparing yourself to a nineteen-year-old young man." Lu Qingzhen said to the point.
Twenty-six or seven years old is not too old, but compared to nineteen years old, it is much older.
"I heard that Li Yuefeng is negotiating to star in the second male lead in "True Divergence". Do you know?" Lu Qingzhen asked Chen Ziyan.
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"Actually, Xiao Lu is quite suitable for the second male lead in "True Divergence." He Heng told Jiang Yuqian, "But he probably won't be able to make it in the schedule. I heard that he has a male lead drama and two movies coming up, and he has both signed contracts. "
Jiang Yuqian nodded and asked: "What's the matter with the two movies? Isn't there only one movie?"
He Heng said: "The other one is writing a drama. The script hasn't been released yet, but the contract has been signed."
"What kind of movie?"
"They are all literary films," He Heng said. You can take it now. When he becomes more popular and starts to take on roles, Chen Ziyan will not let him take it. A poor box office will have a great impact on an actor."
Jiang Yuqian nodded, thinking of something, and then said: "Can Li Yuefeng get the second male lead?"
"After all, he has been in several dramas in a row. If he is willing to play the second male lead, the producer should I'd love to invite him to act."
"You have to be careful, he's the kind of person who always tries to push others down," Jiang Yuqian said.
He Heng nodded, "Understood."
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In mid-April, Lu Yanhe received another notice from the crew of "Phoenix Stage" and went back to reshoot two scenes.
On the way back from the filming, Wang Xiao from the Youth Association called him.
"Teacher Shi Xia is coming to our place to give a lecture. Yan He, do you want to come with me to pick him up?"
Lu Yanhe's eyes lit up instantly.
Chen Siqi has been trying various ways to get Teacher Shi Xia's new work published in "Jump Up". It’s just that Teacher Shi Xia, as the top writer in the domestic pure literature circle, has extremely reduced the number of his creations in recent years. He has not published any new novels in five years, and only three or four short stories and essays a year. Articles have been divided up by the country's top pure literary magazines. Commercial literary magazines like "Jump Up" are simply difficult to obtain.
Despite this, Chen Siqi never gave up.
“Since we want to be the top commercial literary magazine, we must invite all the best writers covered in it.” This is what Chen Siqi said at the time, “If we can bring Teacher Shi Xia When your new work is premiered with us, it is equivalent to opening up In order to gain access to other writers and teachers, Teacher Shi Xia has such a high status."
At that time, Lu Yanhe also joked: "We can only publish twelve issues of "Jump Up" a year, which can accommodate it. So many writers and works? ”
< br>Chen Siqi said: "We can only publish one issue a month now because the content that meets our standards is not enough and rich enough. If we have more and more manuscripts in the future and cannot even fit in twelve issues, of course we can Make a supplement, or even a bimonthly, if you still No, we can even launch a second or third magazine, as long as it has good enough content that everyone is willing to buy and read."
Lu Yanhe knew that Chen Siqi had high hopes for "Jump Up". , but I didn’t expect her high expectations to be so high. He was surprised.
In such an era, can "Jump Up" still develop further while ensuring its own survival?
This question only flashed through Lu Yanhe's mind for a second, and then he gave himself a definite answer.
Don’t think about whether you can do it, just do it first.
So, now that there was an opportunity to meet with Teacher Shi Xia, Lu Yanhe immediately agreed.
"Thank you, senior, I'll go, when?" he asked Wang Xiao.
“This Saturday.” Wang Xiao said, “The lecture will be on Saturday night.”
“Okay.” Lu Yanhe agreed.
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As soon as Chen Siqi heard that Shi Xia was going to give a lecture in Zhenhua on Saturday, he immediately bought a ticket to fly to Yuming on Saturday morning.
"I want to come over. Please help me make an appointment to enter your school." Chen Siqi said.
Lu Yanhe had already guessed Chen Siqi's reaction and agreed with a smile.
"Teacher Shi is actually a very kind and interesting person."
Lu Yanhe said to Wang Xiao when he and Wang Xiao went to pick up Teacher Shi Xia on Saturday.
Wang Xiao was surprised and asked: "Have you seen Teacher Shi?"
"Before, "Jump Up" did a review of Teacher Shi Xia's past works, and specially asked Teacher Shi Xia to write a paragraph of reflections." Lu Yanhe said.
“Fortunately, I invited you to come.” Wang Xiao said, “This time I didn’t expect that Teacher Shi Xia would agree to come to our school to give a lecture. Although he has come a few times, this is still an important request. The publishing house that reprinted his previous works was contacted. In the past, he There are many activities like lectures, but they rarely come out now. "
"We also asked him this question at the time. After all, he is one of the few great writers whose novels have sold more than 10 million copies," Lu Yanhe said. , "Many people like him very much, especially In particular, some of his quotations are rare and very popular on the Internet. At that time, Teacher Shi said that in recent years, many places have looked for him, all because of his popularity and fame. They are not real literary lectures, and he is too lazy to give them. These."
Wang Xiao nodded. , "No wonder, when we contacted his publisher about the lecture, they made it very clear that the questions asked on the spot must be related to the work, and we cannot ask questions that have nothing to do with the work."
Two people arrived. Downstairs of Teacher Shi Xia's house.
Today's car is an official car for the school through the Youth Association. It has seven seats. Teacher Shi Xia was accompanied by a publishing editor and one of his assistants on the bus together.
"Hello, Teacher Shi, do you still remember me?" Lu Yanhe was the first to greet me warmly.
“Remember, it’s not like we haven’t seen each other for several years, didn’t we just meet?” Shi Xia smiled.
His hair has turned a lot whiter.
However, he does not look old, he is still middle-aged.
Lu Yanhe only exchanged a few pleasantries and then shut up. He didn't want to be a noisy person who talked a lot.
Wang Xiao also calmed down after saying hello to Shi Xia.
When Lu Yanhe was with Wang Xiao, he rarely saw him being quiet and silent. His silence made Lu Yanhe a little uncomfortable and uncomfortable.
On the contrary, at this moment, Shi Xia suddenly smiled and teased: "Are you two young people more reserved when you see me, so you don't speak a word?"
Wang Xiao immediately Yile said: "How about I tell you a stand-up comedy?"
"That's not necessary." Shi Xia smiled and shook his head, "Just don't be restrained. I'm most afraid of others feeling restrained because of me."
"That's not the case. I'm a thick-skinned person. " Wang Xiao immediately said, "Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to do the job of the Youth Association. "
Lu Yanhe smiled brightly, "I am thinking about how to convince you to give your new work to the magazine "Jump Up""
"I am still thinking about this idea. What?" Shi Xia did not avoid this question, and even joked with a smile.
Lu Yanhe said: "Then all the magazines that publish novels in the country must be thinking about this idea. After all, you are Teacher Shi Xia."
Shi Xia laughed twice, but didn't answer any more.
"Xiao Lu, you should be studying at Zhenhua College of Literature now, right?" Shi Xia asked.
"Yes." Lu Yanhe nodded.
Shi Xia nodded approvingly and said: "A serious subject."
Lu Yanhe said: "I don't dare to boast so much outside. I am too good at basic skills. No, I have to go to the library to look up information after almost every class, otherwise I don’t know what the teachers are talking about in many places. Compared with the incompetent classmates around me, I am embarrassed.”
"Then you are too humble. You dare to start a new magazine at this time and do it so well. You are awesome. We writers are all very concerned about your magazine." Shi Xia said, " I have read almost every issue."
Lu Yanhe immediately said: "It would be more interesting if I could have the opportunity to publish Teacher Shi's new work."
"Haha. Xia laughed again, and then stopped answering.
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Looking at her face, many people actually think that Shi Xia has a particularly simple and honest character.
But everyone who knows and is familiar with Shi Xia knows that his true personality is actually a bit childish, even a bit "old naughty" style. He does not have that kind of "respectable" demeanor, let alone putting on airs. The kind of "seriousness" often seen in many "old-timers" can rarely be seen in him.
However, Shi Xia is not the kind of "old naughty boy" who often plays with young people. He does not pursue the so-called "youthful feeling", but rather self-consistently rejects the concept of maturity in the social sense.
As a writer who has reached the top position in a practical sense, he does not regard himself in terms of "success and fame". He still writes and keeps writing. In the eyes of the outside world, the speed of his output is It has become slower. In fact, it is not that he writes less, but that he pursues higher. He does not write satisfactory works and easily refuses to publish them.
Shi Xia's manuscripts are hard to find in the magazine and publishing circles.
Shi Xia has also passed the stage of being impressed by royalties. No matter how high the royalties are, they are just a drop in the ocean compared to the royalties from his tens of millions of sales.
In his eyes, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi were just juniors. The emergence of "Jump Up" certainly surprised the magazine circle, but this was not enough reason for him to hand over his new work to two young people.
(End of this chapter)