The bard joins the entertainment industry - Chapter 475 Crazy Diamond

Chen Shuo turned around and saw Ning Hao leading a group of people out of the dormitory building.

Busy and Liu Yifei went up to him and said, “Senior brother, long time no see. Why are you back at school?”

“Senior brother, long time no see.” Liu Yifei also greeted.

The three of them met when they were filming Chen Shuo’s first MV. Although they haven’t seen each other much since then, they are still no strangers.

“Long time no see. I came to school to find someone.” Ning Hao pointed to the person next to him and said, “Huang Bo, you may not be familiar with me. Although you look old-fashioned because of your age, I am in the same dubbing class as you. “

“Hello!” Huang Bo smiled and greeted the two of them.

Chen Shuo looked at him and felt he looked familiar, and immediately remembered where he had seen him before.

He smiled and said: “I remembered, we have met before, at the National Day party for the freshman year.”

Huang Bo said with some surprise: “Do you still remember?”

The two of them had only met that one time, and he didn’t expect Chen Shuo to really remember it.

Relatively speaking, the first meeting was quite impressive for him.

After all, the two of them were brilliant at a young age at that time, and he had worked hard for so long to just take a dubbing class.

The gap between the two has always been engraved in his mind.

Not to mention that the two of them prospered after that, while he was unknown in the school.

“Do you know each other?” Ning Hao looked at the two of them, pointed and asked.

“Yes.” Chen Shuo told what happened at that time. Ning Hao smiled and sighed: “That’s really fate.”

Then the way he looked at Chen Shuo was a little different. If this kind of thing had happened to him, he would have forgotten about it.

Unexpectedly, Chen Shuo still remembers him to this day, and his warm posture is engraved in his heart after just one encounter, which makes people feel good about him.

Moreover, Huang Bo’s attitude was really touching.

“Aren’t you guys filming? Why do you have time to go back to school?” As soon as Ning Hao asked, he slapped his forehead and said, “I forgot, “The Condor” has been completed.”

Chen Shuo nodded and said, “Yes, we just finished the project two days ago. Why don’t we go back to school to have a look?”

He looked at the group of people around Ning Hao and asked, “What are you going to do?”

Ning Hao replied: “We are just looking for a place to chat. Do you have time now? Find a place to chat together?”

Chen Shuo glanced at a few more people, thoughtfully, nodded and said: “We were planning to go to Teacher Wang to report, but we didn’t say hello to her in advance, so we’re not in a hurry.”

“Let’s go to the Four Seasons Hall and have a chat.” Ning Hao said, leading the way to Building A.

The Beijing Film Academy campus is not big, and it doesn’t take long to go around. A few people walked through the pyramid in the small garden to the teaching building, and found a place to sit down in the Four Seasons Hall on the first floor.

“What do you want to drink? I’ll treat you today.” Ning Hao asked the two of them.

Chen Shuo was not polite and said directly: “A cup of lemon tea.”

“Two cups.” Liu Yifei followed.

Ning Hao didn’t ask. The two people around him wrote down what everyone wanted to drink and went to the window to buy it.

He pointed to the people sitting down and introduced: “Yue Xiaojun and Zhang Cheng are from the Department of Literature of Chinese Opera; Du Jie is from the Department of Photography and my classmate; and Huang Bo is from the Dubbing Department.

Xing Aina, my girlfriend, is now a screenwriter. “

Chen Shuo listened to the introductions of several people, and his thoughts became more certain, and he greeted several people one by one.

Several people also smiled and greeted Chen Shuo and Liu Yifei.

At this time, the person who bought the drinks came back and took the lead in handing two cups of lemon tea to the two of them.

Chen Shuo handed a cup to Liu Yifei with a straw inserted, then took a sip of his own and said, “Brother, do you have a project?”

Ning Hao took a sip of coffee and said calmly: “Yes, we are now looking for directors and investment.

The Imperial Capital Film Festival is being held at this time, so I just wanted to see if I could find someone to invest in it. If someone is willing to participate, that would be great.

I just found Bozi and asked him to play a role. I met you two as soon as I went out. “

Then he hesitated for a moment and said with a smile: “I wonder if you would like to play a guest role?

If you don’t have time, you can introduce an investor, and we’ll talk about it ourselves. “

When they finished filming the MV, the two of them joked that after Ning Hao prepared the movie, they would ask him to play a role, and Chen Shuo agreed.

But that’s what I said at the time. Today is different from the past. Now that Chen Shuo has won the Hundred Flowers Award for Outstanding Actor for his role in “House of Flying Daggers”, he can’t afford to hire him for this drama.

Therefore, he felt that there was no hope, so he did not take the initiative to find Chen Shuo.

But we happened to meet each other today, and seeing that Chen Shuo remembered Huang Bo after just one meeting, he was unwilling to give it a try, so he wanted to invite Chen Shuo and the two of them to come here to chat.

No matter whether it was successful or not, he had tried his best anyway.

If that didn’t work, he planned to look for his good friend Lu Chuan and ask him if there was any way.

Chen Shuo heard this and asked, “Brother, do you have a script?”

“Yes, yes!” Ning Hao was delighted when he heard this and did not refuse on the spot, which meant that Chen Shuo was willing to give him a chance.

Whether you can succeed next depends on how you suddenly… No, how you understand how to move with emotion and reason.

Yue Xiaojun hurriedly took out a small stack of scripts from his bag, handed them to Chen Shuo with both hands and said, “This is the latest script. Take a look. If there is anything you think is inappropriate, tell me and I will change it right away.”

Even though Chen Shuo is younger than them, he is famous and rich.

For them, as long as Chen Shuo is willing to star or invest some money, they are willing to agree to anything.

However, it will be their own business how they take pictures at that time.

Chen Shuo nodded without saying much and held up the script so Liu Yifei could see it.

The show is called “Crazy Diamond”.

The story begins when a handicraft factory on the verge of bankruptcy dug up a priceless diamond.

In order to alleviate the economic crisis in the factory, Director Xie is planning to hold a diamond exhibition and collect tickets to save the efficiency of the place.

For this diamond, the factory’s security team, the real estate developer who wanted to get the factory land, the international thief he invited, three gangs who stole everywhere, and the factory director’s son launched a ridiculous plot. Battle.

The story is not new. There are many such treasure-hunting story boxes. What is new is the exposition method of the movie.

At the beginning, the montage technique of going back in time is used to connect all the people together through a can of Coke, which makes people seem to have a sense of surprise.

Every character in the play is also portrayed very well, including the righteous and persistent security chief Bao Shihong, the unlucky but clear-minded Brother Dao, the simple and reckless Hei Pi, the sinister real estate businessman Feng Dong, the cunning and narrow-minded businessman. Manager Qin, the conceited but unlucky thief Mike…

Each one has a distinct personality.

After watching it, Liu Yifei saw Chen Shuo flipping through the script again and asked, “Brother, there don’t seem to be any female characters in your play?”

Upon hearing this, Ning Hao said decisively: “Jia, tell me what kind of role you want, and I will add it right away.”

Xing Aina said with a sincere smile: “I heard someone said your nickname is Sissi, so I asked you to call you Sissi.

If you have any ideas, just tell your sister and she will help you design the character. “

“No.” Liu Yifei suddenly looked at Chen Shuo at a loss.

She really didn’t expect that the two of them could do this for her.

Fortunately for Xing Aina, except for Zhou Yi, screenwriters basically don’t have much say in the domestic crew.

Her attitude is quite understandable.

She didn’t expect that director Ning Hao would be so decisive.

The directors she met basically had good intentions, and there was basically no possibility of changing the play without justifiable reasons.

Chen Shuo could understand Ning Hao’s thoughts. He smiled, put down the script, and asked, “Brother, what do you think of this book?”

Ning Hao perked up, sat up straight and introduced: “This script was originally available in 2000, but I was not famous at all at that time and I couldn’t find anyone to invest in it, so I put it on hold.

In the past two years, I have made several movies, and gradually I have gained some fame, so I wanted to make this movie.

The pre-investment is 6 million, so I can barely sell it, but 6 million is not a small amount. Even if I sell it, I won’t be able to save that much money, so I have to find someone to invest.

I have read the script to many people, and many people said it was good, and I also feel very good about it.

But there are still not many people investing.

And, to be honest, I don’t have the slightest confidence in whether this drama can make money.

If you and Yifei are willing to star, with your fame, I can get some investment, and when it is released, we can gain some fame and attract some box office.

But the most I can guarantee is less loss. “

He also knew that Chen Shuo was now famous and rich, and words of deception and bluffing were useless. It was better to treat others with sincerity.

As he said, he was confident in the script he had been polishing for four years, but he had no confidence at all whether he could make money.

It just depends on whether sincerity can impress Chen Shuo.

Even if they can’t borrow their fame, let Chen Shuo take the initiative to invest.

As long as I can impress him, whether it’s a guest role, an introduction to an investor, or a gift, I’ll be grateful.

It’s better than running around like a headless fly.

“Six million.” Chen Shuo pondered for a while, then raised his head and said, “Well, to be honest, I am also very optimistic about this book of my senior brother.

But correspondingly, no one dares to say that movies will definitely make money, except for those led by a few big directors and big stars.

Therefore, we won’t talk about whether it can make money, only whether it is a good movie.

If this drama is produced, are you confident that you will win an award? “

Because of preparing for “Swordsman” and participating in “House of Flying Daggers”, Chen Shuo also has a certain understanding of film production and distribution.

Whether a movie makes money or not does not necessarily depend on the box office.

Of course, there is no doubt that box office is the most important criterion for measuring the commercial value of a movie.

But that doesn’t mean that movies that don’t do well at the box office, or even can’t be released, can’t make money.

If it can win awards, especially some foreign awards, then selling copyrights will be the most important income for a film.

This is just like some underground films that failed to qualify for release, but can still make money as long as they can win some awards abroad.

For works like “Hero” and “House of Flying Daggers” that win both box office and honors, the benefits gained from selling copyrights are no worse than box office revenue.

Now, the same is true for “Jian Yu Jiang Hu” that Zhou Yi is producing. With Zhang Yimou’s name in it, there is no need to worry about copyright.

Zhou Ping, Zhang Weiping and others have calculated that even if the box office is not ideal, they can still make money through copyright.

This is the main reason why everyone is willing to invest so much money.