"Starting from today, I have the final say, you know it!"
"I don't want this store anymore, I'll give it back to you!"
Pinggu Feilong Film and Television Base in the Imperial Capital.
Zhang Yuan stood behind director Shang Jing, admiring the actors' wonderful performances.
“This scene…”
Zhang Yuan looked around, and this familiar yet unfamiliar feeling gave him a strange emotion in his heart.
It’s strange because it’s my first time here.
Familiar because I have seen it countless times on TV.
Tongfu Inn.
This place, this scene can be called a simple hotel, and it is a beautiful memory shared by a generation.
It is also called one of the two pinnacles of Chinese sitcoms by many professionals.
The other one is the common memory of the previous generation of audiences, "I Love My Family".
Of course, not everyone speaks out, including those in the industry.
For example, Li Xiaoran’s boss, Zhao Baogang, commented later.
“High ratings do not mean that the work is good. It just makes people laugh, not an excellent work.”
Just like the old lady's line in "I'm Not the God of Medicine".
“How can I not know whether this medicine is fake or not?”
Can the audience not know whether this film is good or not?
Zhang Yuan automatically defined the comments of these professionals as "pink eye".
After all, Director Zhao later filmed the movie "Youth Fight" and praised the leading female lead Shuangzi's acting skills, calling her acting skills "explosive".
Anyway, what he said was quite explosive.
Compared to Shuangzi, Zhang Yuan felt that although the actors in front of him were filming a comedy that was not "serious", their acting skills were truly explosive.
Wearing a brown satin coat with copper coin patterns embroidered on it, Hong Jiantao, who has a chubby figure and does not look like the "first-generation military art school boy" at all, is pounding the table angrily.
Standing in front of him was Mrs. Qian, who was wearing red and green clothes.
Behind Mrs. Qian, there was Sha Yi, the "Second Generation Military Arts School Elf" who was dressed in coarse linen clothes and dressed as a running waiter.
The first generation has already become a ball, and the second generation is on the way to becoming a ball.
The name Military Art School Grassroots is actually a curse!
“I tell you, today you want me or this store.”
“You want this store or me, it’s up to you!”
< br>This is the only tough move made by Shopkeeper Qian in the film. After saying his lines, he flicked his sleeves and walked out the door.
"Let's wait and see!" Teacher Tian Ling, who played Mrs. Qian, put her hand on her hips and shook her handkerchief with the other hand, and said harsh words in a Tangshan accent.
Ever since he saw the face-swapping photos of Mrs. Qian and Satomi Ishihara on the Internet, Zhang Yuan could no longer look directly at the face of the number one "tank" in "Wulin Gaiden".
“First, I suffered a move of Bodhidharma Kick from the Abbot of Shaolin.”
“Then I received two moves of Tai Chi from the Master of Wudang.”
“I gave in again. Emei Shitai stabbed him three or four times.”
"Before I could fall down, I was hit five or six times by Master Kai Deng. They were all fatal points!"
"Following that, I received a whole set of seven-injury punches, and was hit five times by Kongtong Wu. The old man was beaten all over the sky and fell down half an hour later..."
That's it, Mrs. Qian is not dead.
In the plot setting, Mrs. Qian is the Thirteen Taibao who practices the Golden Bell Mask kung fu.
That’s really resistance!
And although this is a comedy, the logic is very strict.
There was a scene before where Mrs. Qian was forced to resist an overwhelming blow after being tapped on her acupuncture points.
As a result, he was kicked out of the store and his acupuncture points were automatically unlocked. Other than that, nothing happened.
You know, Bai Zhantang immediately vomited blood after being hit by such an overwhelming force.
It shows how meaty Mrs. Qian is.
"Stuck!" Shang Jing waved his hand, shouted stop, and called all the actors over.
“Come, let’s meet our investor and our colleague, Zhang Yuan!”
Bah, bang, bang… Director Shang took the lead in applauding.
“Take a break, save some energy for filming.” Zhang Yuan pressed his hands and shouted to stop.
“I’m just here to see everyone and just do whatever you need to do.”
"I'll treat everyone to dinner later."
Zhang Yuan is an actor himself and knows how hard it is for actors.
I also know that the most annoying thing when filming is being called to socialize or deal with the media when you haven't memorized the lyrics yet.
So he had no airs at all and hid aside as much as possible so as not to interfere with everyone's filming.
He walked around outside the door.
This "feng shui treasure land" is only a few hundred square meters in total, but it produced this masterpiece that will go down in the history of Chinese TV dramas.
Zhang Yuan glanced at the crew members who were busy working.
I am afraid that even they did not expect that this film would achieve such a huge success.
This group of people are still complaining bitterly. This crew has too much work and little money, and the scenes are tight.
Except for the main scene, which is the lobby with the old elm table, the entire "Wulin Gaiden" crew only has several important scenes: the backyard, the guest room, the ladies' bedroom, the men's bedroom and the roof.
The roof part looks very beautiful in the film, but in fact the scene was just a small slope built on the ground, and then tiles were put on it.
When filming the scene on the roof, the actors had to bend their waists and lean up a little bit, pretending to climb up. They all relied on camera scheduling to control the effect.
“So poor!” Zhang Yuan complained after looking around.
However, many well-known works were born from "poor" crews.
Let’s not talk about the distance, let’s just say that the poverty level of the "Crazy Stone" crew where Zhang Yuangang left not long ago is not much better than here, or even worse.
In fact, the reason why a small and poor crew can produce good works is also very simple.
Because I was poor, I could only focus on acting and scripts.
Being poor means that there is no capital involvement, and no capital involvement means that the crew will not make compromises because of the demand for capital.
The crew did not rest until sunset, and had to catch up with night scenes in the evening.
Zhang Yuanyan and the others were pressed for time, so they simply asked his assistant to order food from a nearby restaurant and have it delivered, which would save them time on the round trip.
"Thank you to the investors!"
"The investors are generous!"
Everyone sat around the old elm table of Tongfu Inn in the play to eat.
This gave Zhang Yuandun a wonderful feeling that he had become a character in the play.
“Come on, let me respect you.” Teacher Sha Yi raised the teacup: “We will be filming for a while, and we will use tea instead of wine.”
"Okay." After Zhang Yuan clinked glasses with him, the man came closer and whispered.
"I heard that you were cast for the role of Nie Yuan on the set of "A Chinese Ghost Story", right?"
"It happened a few years ago."
"Is it the second time that you criticized me in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes"?"
"It's a coincidence." Zhang Yuan said with a smile.
"Speak for me!" Sha Yi winked at him.
【Received thanks from Sha Yi, absorption ability +1, acting skill +1! 】
Oh, the reason for gaining weight has been found...
Zhang Yuan understood and winked at him.
In "Marrying the Right Man in the Wrong Sedan Chair", Nie Yuan relied on Huang Yi's relationship to take on his role, making Sha Yi the first male lead and the second male lead. He was so angry that he still feels resentful about it now. pregnant.
It's okay, not only did he stand up to your role, he also stood up to your wife... Zhang Yuan thought to himself.
Although these people were filming a comedy, they didn’t seem that happy after the show.
Yu Entai, who plays Lu Xiucai, kept shaking his head while eating, with an expression on his face that was filled with sadness and despair.
This person is depressed for two main reasons.
First, before he joined the group, Shang Jing and Ning Caishen asked him to memorize the entire Analects of Confucius and read the Four Books and Five Classics.
After joining the group, I told him that this stuff was useless.
The old man’s face immediately fell down and his eyes were dull.
But director Shang Jing clapped his hands.
"What I want is your state of being full of knowledge and useless."
It is normal for directors to do immoral things and often play tricks on actors, both at home and abroad.
Secondly, this old man loves stock trading.
But the stock market in 2005 basically belonged to Lu Bu looking for a job. If it falls, it will fall!
It fell below 1,000 points in the middle of the year.
Lu Xiucai was using the computer to read stocks while eating.
Zhang Yuan glanced and saw that the originally white and tender face was reflected in emerald green by the screen.
"Sister Yan Ni, what are you drinking?" Zhang Yuan saw shopkeeper Tong's eyes blurred and looked tipsy, and thought to himself, don't you think you don't drink?
"Chinese medicine is for recuperating the body." Yan Ni replied cheerfully.
"Oh..."
Shayi leaned close to his ear and whispered.
“After giving birth a few years ago, Ni has been experiencing postpartum depression and taking medicine every day.”
"I take Chinese medicine and Western medicine together. Sometimes I forget my words when filming. I just take medicine." Zhang Yuan understands that being a woman is really hard, and giving birth to a child also carries such risks.
Yan Ni divorced her husband last year. Her husband left the house and left his car, house and children to him.
So many media said that his husband cheated on him, so he did this.
In fact, they have a very good relationship as a couple. Yan Ni suffered from postpartum depression, and her husband took her everywhere to seek medical treatment.
Later, it turned out that she could not be cured, so Yan Ni continued to work in various roles and stay away from her family to alleviate her mental illness.
But life couldn’t be lived after all, and shopkeeper Tong took the initiative to initiate divorce.
The man left everything to her.
Sometimes it is like this between men and women. It is clear that no one has done anything wrong, but when the fate is over, they have to separate.
Since her divorce, Teacher Yan Ni has been in a state of drunkenness all year round, whether because she took too many medicines or her temper has changed.
During the meal, Sha Yi had a very lively chat with him.
In the beginning, Zhang Yuan was enthusiastic about the other party because of his relationship with Nie Yuan.
After all, they have a common "enemy".
But later, Zhang Yuan figured out the underlying meaning of this man's words.
“Oh, you want to connect with Hua Yi through me.”
After all, Huayi is a company that specializes in film production, and those who make TV series want to get into the film industry.
Not only him, director Shang Jing also took him to chat for a long time.
"Okay, if you have a good script later, we can discuss it together." Zhang Yuanxin said that your peak is basically this film, and we will talk about it later when we have the opportunity.
"Hello Zhang Yuan, you are more handsome than on the screen."
As soon as he and Shang Jing finished talking, a big face with a big mouth appeared in front of him .
"So are you, more beautiful than on the screen." Zhang Yuan replied against his will.
The person who approached him was Yao Cheng, who played Guo Furong in the film.
"I heard that you have been investing in film and television. If you have the opportunity, please consider me." She expressed her ambition very straightforwardly.
"Okay, I still have my own agency. Are you interested in coming to my place?"
One of the purposes of Zhang Yuan's coming here today is to fight with this guy. A hello.
Yao Cheng is also considered the topic queen in the Chinese film industry.
Although he is not as good as the top-tier players like Si Dan Shuang Bing, he is still at the forefront among the first-tier players.
Of course, this guy has a lot of black spots.
But which popular actress doesn’t have black spots on her body?
Zhao Wei's leek was sanctioned by heaven.
Fan Bingbing was punished by heaven for tax evasion.
Shuangzi directly let the two children know what the Tianbeng opening is.
Compared with these, what Yao Cheng did was nothing serious. It was just about each other's fun within the marriage, plus some mindless remarks.
For Zhang Yuan, actors are like stocks.
And Yao Cheng is at the low point of his acting career just like the stock market in 2005.
As soon as "Wulin Gaiden" is broadcast, this stock will rise sharply. If you don't buy it now, when will you buy it?
Even if she doesn’t use it after signing it, she can earn a huge “redemption fee” by selling her agency contract to other big companies after her net worth skyrockets, so why not do it.
"Really, really..." Yao Cheng was stunned when he heard what he said.
"Of course, if you are willing to come, there will be a reality show in Magic City that many celebrities will participate in next year. I can arrange for you to go."
Zhang Yuan smiled and returned: "Just treat it as a meeting gift."
Zhang Yuan is talking about "Dance Forest Conference".
She had long heard that Zhang Yuan was related to several film and television companies.
I just didn’t expect that he could arrange the TV station’s programs.
She originally thought that she had to sacrifice her appearance in exchange for resources.
Actually, she also thinks too much, and she has some lust.
Zhang Yuan would suffer if he played with her.
"Oh, by the way, there will be a movie next year starring Xu Zheng. If you sign a contract with me, I can arrange a supporting actress for you in it."
He said Yes, it was "Love Call Transfer" in which Xu Zheng asked him to guest star.
The film needed more than ten actresses. The producer Liu Yiwei and the lead actor Xu Zheng were both familiar with him, so it was not difficult to arrange a supporting role.
"The movie... starring Xu Zheng?" Yao Cheng was even more confused.
It's not that she has never acted in movies, but they were all small-budget productions and didn't make a splash at all.
It was only after she collaborated with Shang Jing in "Urban Man and Woman" that she gained a little bit of fame.
But the movie Xu Zheng stars in must be a commercial film.
After all, this person is considered a big shot in the TV drama industry, with countless successful works.
Yao Cheng heard that Zhang Yuan was powerful, but he didn't expect him to be so powerful.
Two baits were thrown out at once, making her heart tremble.
"Think about it and give me a reply within two weeks." Zhang Yuan said with a smile.
Why two weeks?
Because in more than two weeks, "Wulin Gaiden" will be broadcast.
When the time comes, there will definitely be a lot of agencies looking for her, and I will have no advantage.
"No waiting after the expiration date..." Zhang Yuan said firmly, and then looked at the actors aside who were reciting lyrics.
"Actually, I think Ni Hongjie is pretty good."
He said this deliberately to stimulate the other party.
Yao Cheng's role is Guo Furong, and Ni Hongjie's role is Zhu Wushuang. The two are love rivals in the play, and they have many rival scenes, so their performances are often compared.
There is already a subtle competitive relationship in the crew, and they are together every day. It is perfect to use this person to stimulate Yao Cheng.
Moreover, Ni Hongjie is no worse than Yao Cheng at this stage in terms of image and acting skills.
Unfortunately, she accepted that damn Tingmei underwear advertisement when she was in college, which changed her life.
While she was in the limelight because of this advertisement, she was also branded as a sexy actress.
Actually, this guy looks quite pure, has a very reserved personality, and is a top student at Tongji.
But once the label is attached, it is not so easy to tear it off.
And not only was it a sexy label, there were also rumors that Ni Hongjie was a transgender...and received the same treatment as Liu Qianqian.
Those who are beautiful and pure tend to be attracted to transgender people. I don’t know what people thought back then.
“But the resources in my hand are only enough for one person, so...”
Zhang Yuan shrugged, and then stepped towards the direction of Ni Hongjie.
We started chatting with this pretty actress.
When Yao Cheng saw this, his heart felt as if someone had pinched him hard.
A strong sense of crisis surged into my heart.
She suddenly felt that an opportunity to change her destiny was slipping away from her.
It was like a countdown clock, ticking in her ears.
None of the cast members knew the film would become such a huge success.
To them, this sitcom is just a low-paying job like any other TV show.
At this moment, Yao Cheng did not know that he was actually on the fast track of his career.
"Hahaha, okay."
Not far away, Ni Hong and Zhang Yuan were chatting happily about these things, and nodded repeatedly, as if they had agreed to something.
In fact, Zhang Yuan just told her that he would treat her to dinner later.
But in Yao Cheng's eyes, it was like a death knell was tolling.
"Everyone, go and do your work. No need to see me off."
Soon after, Zhang Yuan and his assistant were about to return, and all the actors and crew members came to see him off.
"Hongjie, remember to call me." After Zhang Yuan waved goodbye to everyone, he specifically made a phone call gesture toward Ni Hongjie.
Actually, we still have a dinner date, but I kept it vague on purpose.
But in Yao Cheng's eyes, this was a sign that the two were about to finalize the work contract and take away the resources that belonged to them.
"I..." She also wanted to chat with Zhang Yuan again.
Unexpectedly, Zhang Yuan didn't look at her at all, turned around and left in a hurry.
When we were filming the evening scene later, this guy was so distracted that he kept NGing.
On the other side, Zhang Yuan, who had returned home, had a panoramic view of Yao Cheng's performance just now.
"Hey, the bait is all set, just wait for the big fish to take the bait."
After that, he called his assistant.
"Dandan, help me prepare my luggage."
"Prepare yourself, too. You are going abroad in a few days."
"Oh!" Zhao Juejue replied immediately.
"By the way, help me prepare a few more things separately, there are..."
After Zhang Yuan reported a list, Zhao Xunxuan scratched his head. Although he didn't know what the boss was going to do, he still wrote it down in his notebook. Yes, I plan to buy it tomorrow.
A few days later, Zhang Yuan's flight landed steadily in Singapore... (End of chapter)