Chapter 60 The Beginning of a Legend?
The screenwriter of "The Vagabond" is Qian Zhong. He is a young literary and artistic youth who wears glasses and looks quite refined, but is also impoverished.
It has been two years since he graduated from university. Before graduation, he stared at China's film market in high spirits, thinking that with his own talent, he could write a script casually. Big directors from big companies such as Huajin and Tianyu rushed to ask for it, and then dragged it by himself. Qualifications, put on a show, bite the price a little, it's not a big problem to sell a random script for 50,000 to 60,000...
Then the movie was made, sold at the box office, won various screenwriting awards, and within a few years became a well-known small town overlooking the mountains in China, enjoyed thousands of glory and set foot on the pinnacle of life.
Unfortunately, the reality is very cruel.
The well-prepared script was cast to Joaquin and Tianyu without reply for a long time, and even a few times those people accepted their script with enthusiasm and sincerity, but when I left, I deliberately hid on the window sill and looked into the house and saw them Throw it in the trash can.
Throw it in like waste paper.
The reality is not a fairy tale, maybe there is one step to reach the sky, but it requires luck.
Obviously Qian Zhong had no such luck.
Being rejected again and again and failing again and again makes Qian Zhong miserable, but he is not willing to let him give up everything and continue to go to work like everyone else or be a clerk...
After all, his dream is to become a screenwriter, making awesome movies and making himself famous in one fell swoop.
Two years passed in such a hurry. The high-spirited young man was getting older. Although he was still firmly writing scripts and pitching to major companies and failed as always, he became moaning and sighing, feeling that there is no such thing in this world. What Bole...
Until one day, when he was eating barbecue and drinking wine at a roadside stall, he met a fat man.
Fatty sat across from him, and just as he was reading the script and thinking about preparing to cast it again, this time he wanted a second-rate director to read the script no matter what, Fatty looked at him and took the initiative to talk to him.
"Are you an actor?"
"No……"
"Then you are..."
"I'm reading a script..."
"Reading the script is not an actor?"
"I'm a screenwriter..."
"Oh? Have you made any movies?"
"No."
After seeing the excited expression of the fat man, Qian Zhong closed his eyes, and suddenly heaved a long sigh, and could only spit out these two words.
I don't know why, the always strong man suddenly couldn't help his nose sore after thinking of the experiences of these years. Although he reminded himself in every possible way not to cry, the circles of his eyes were still red.
"I also know a great screenwriter, but that screenwriter doesn't cry like you do."
"What can I do? No one is interested in my script, no one is willing to shoot..."
"You can't take pictures by yourself? You're so cowardly..."
"I have no money."
"Hey, you look much older than my buddy, but the gap...isn't a star!" Fatty Wei shook his head.
"Is your screenwriter buddy the same as me?"
"Of course not."
"what?"
"He wrote his own screenplay, raised his own investment, became his own director, and even wanted to be an actor himself. Moreover, the movie will be released next month. Do you think it can be the same?"
"Hold the grass..."
Hearing this, Qian Zhong's eyes widened, and he was too surprised to say these two polite words suddenly.
This person is a monster, right?
"Show me your script, boy, I'm actually a director too."
"You are...you..."
"Lucky boy, come on, show me the script, maybe your chance has come!"
"it is good……"
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Fatty Wei will never admit that he is a fool or a scam.
Instead, he advertised himself as a kind person.
Spend five thousand to buy a script, and by the way, signed a director's assistant with Lu Yuan's consent to provide this poor and unlucky guy with a job. Isn't that kind?
She is kind to the bottom of her heart, okay?
He felt that he had saved a fairly good screenwriter in Huaxia, and he was a big bole!
He even wanted to send himself a good guy card if he could.
A good script, coupled with his own talented director, coupled with an actor with a true performance...
Everything will get the same qualitative change again!
He was full of confidence in this "Wanderer", and even called Li Qing drunk on the day he bought the script.
"Lao Li, let's do it with A Yuan and me, we'll analize the entire film industry!"
Li Qing was very moved after hearing this sentence, and responded with three words very enthusiastically: "Crazy!"
Although he responded with these three words, Li Qing still agreed and asked Fatty Wei when he would turn on the phone.
Lu Yuan didn't say anything about it, he couldn't dampen Fatty Wei's enthusiasm, could he? In the end, he just stepped up to learn acting expertise and waited for the premiere of "Buried Alive" by the way.
No matter what he thinks in his heart, in short, his "remote" entertainment now has another screenwriter, Qian Zhong, who wears glasses and looks a little weak, and when Qian Zhong sees Lu Yuan, he is always "Brother Lu" "Brother Lu" kept yelling, and at the same time, he looked adoringly at the little fanboy.
There is no other reason, because Fatty Wei once said such a sentence to him in a very pretentious and literary way...
"What you are seeing is the rise of a legendary team, and this legend started from "Buried Alive"... As for our "remote" entertainment, don't think it is just a small company now, but in the future, it will be huge You can't even imagine..."
"are you ready?"
Fatty Wei's words are very deceptive and provocative, just like a pyramid scheme.
that moment……
Qian Zhong urinated with interest and collapsed...
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On August 31, it was sunny.
Strictly speaking, "Buried Alive" premiered after 11.59pm tonight.
This is a very cheating time, even more cheating than those midnight slots. It can be said that it is the only movie released in the early morning among the movies released recently.
No one in the circle pays attention to this movie, Shen Lianjie doesn't even want to mention this movie, let Fatty Wei make a lot of noise, Shen Lianjie has no birds, let alone send any messages mocking this movie on the Internet.
He couldn't fall into Fatty Wei's trap.
He is also a well-known director in the circle, if he jumped out to mock this movie, wouldn't it be an advertisement for this movie?
Only a fool would do that.
He is not stupid.
Although September 1st is not October 1st, there are quite a lot of movies released. Many medium-budget and small-budget movies deliberately avoided the moment when November 1st exploded and was crushed, and chose this relatively less competitive September 1st. the first day of the month.
Even so, on September 1st there were still strong films, such as Zhang Tong's "Subway Station", Shen Lianjie's "The Capital", Xu Xiaoming's "Battle Night", and many youth literary films.
"Buried Alive" really doesn't have much room for survival among these films. Even if Lu Yuan put up a wave of advertisements on the Internet and made headlines, it still didn't make "Buried Alive" ranked in the top ten movies released in September...
"beep beep beep"
At noon, Lu Yuan put on a suit, combed his hair into a mature look, and was about to go to the theater to watch other movies first, when the phone rang.
Lu Yuan saw that it was a call from Wang Jinxue who hadn't seen her for a long time.
"where?"
"In the company."
"Oh, here we come."
"us?"
"You didn't read Weibo?"
"Ah... I didn't see it, what's the matter?"
"I said, can you care more about your own movie?"
"I'm very concerned."
"Look at An Xiao's Weibo by yourself."
"Oh."
When the phone hung up, Lu Yuan turned on the phone and swiped Weibo.
After clicking on An Xiao's Weibo, he saw a picture and a line of text.
"In the early morning of September 1st, I will go to Tianhe Cinema to watch "Buried Alive"... Everyone, come together, the top ten movie fans, I will send my autographed photo! As for which regional theater of Tianhe, It depends on everyone's luck!"