Chapter 11 I Want to Eat Twist Now
It had snowed just now, and the ground was covered in black mud.
After coming out of Beijing Railway Station and waiting for the bus, Shen Fang noticed a magazine cover.
Hisaishi Joe's musical feast.
In fact, Mr. Hisaishi Joe used to have thick hair, but now, he has become a strong man.
I watched it for a long time, just to relieve the anxiety of waiting for the bus.
It wasn't until the bus pulled into the station that Shen Fang looked back and started looking for a small hotel where he could stay.
In fact, there are some youth hostels in Beijing that are relatively cost-effective, such as those in good locations such as Gulou Street and Yandai Xiejie.
The so-called youth hostel is what it is called now. In ancient times, it was called a big car shop.
I have to say that with the development of the times, at least the name has become more artistic.
However, just selling a bed, the price of this bed has a lot to do with the location of the youth hostel and the number of people in the room.
A four-person room in Yandai Xiejie costs about 30-50 yuan per day.
Of course, there are cheaper ones, such as those outside the Fourth Ring Road, which can be calculated on a monthly basis. You can also find them for two to three hundred yuan a month.
As for the basements within the Third Ring Road, they are hot commodities.
It costs about 400 yuan a month. After all, it is an independent room. The disadvantage is that it is damp and has no lighting.
When it comes to seriously renting a house, Shen Fang did some research on the Internet before.
The current average rent in Beijing is around 1,800 yuan, which is for two bedrooms and one living room.
Compared to the future, it is really very cheap.
Shen Fang remembered that rents in Beijing seemed to have risen sharply at a certain time, and even house prices took off significantly after the Olympics.
The current price/performance ratio is quite high.
Shen Fang finally found a hotel to stay at called Alai Inn, located on Yandai Xiejie.
Fortunately, because the Spring Festival is coming soon, it was originally a four-person room, but now there is no one else at all.
During the Spring Festival, they all ran from the capital to their hometown. Shen Fang was a bit weird and went against the grain.
The Spring Festival travel season also had no impact on him.
A night of silence.
The next day.
Shen Fang found a fly restaurant, had a simple bite, then got on the bus and headed towards Liangmaqiao.
There is a theater somewhere called Century Theater.
And Century Theater now has a group of people who are the main force, and this group of people is Happy Twist.
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"Dear fans and friends! Hello!"
"Welcome everyone to attend Dongdong's concert! Here, please allow me to represent Dongdong... thank you!"
"I heard it, and I believe these words must be your most heartfelt words, so okay...
I love you all too!"
On the stage, there was a handsome guy with red hair and a sequined outfit. He killed as many Matts as he wanted, and as many sissies as he wanted.
Moreover, I also learned a Taiwanese accent.
This sentence, 'I love you too!'
The smell is too strong!
He also pointed his orchid finger at the audience, making everyone laugh.
Shen Fang was also in the audience, and he was the one who laughed the loudest and the saddest.
For no other reason than this person on the stage, Shen Fang couldn't help it as soon as he appeared.
He is Shen Teng!
It’s really you Brother Teng, and I must not emphasize that Brother Teng is really handsome now.
This young man is not the handsome young man that he will become later. He is indeed the young man from the military arts school.
However, this school idol did not follow the route of good looks, but relied on his strength to do his best to be funny on stage.
This play is currently the main stage play of Happy Twist, "If you want to eat Twist, I'll twist it for you."
The male protagonist is actually Teacher He, who is the Dongdong mentioned by Brother Teng, and the female protagonist is supermodel Yu Na.
Shen Fang didn't originally plan to watch this show, but when he came over he found that tickets were on sale, so he decided to just watch it.
He had made some money on the film crew before, and now he indeed has lavish capital.
Nowadays, the ticket prices for stage plays are not cheap. Century Theater is quite cost-effective. For the People's Art Theater, the lowest price is 80 yuan.
In this day and age, watching stage plays, whether they are plays, dances, musicals, is considered a petty bourgeois act.
Shen Fang can be regarded as temporarily crossing the class. However, he came here not just to watch the show.
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Backstage.
It’s really hard to do stage plays nowadays.
Zhang Chen borrowed more than 300,000 yuan to start this happy twist simply because he liked it.
Moreover, his attitude was also very upright, and he also moved the famous drama teacher Tian Youliang.
Teacher Tian was originally a teacher of Chinese Opera, and his classmates were all very famous, such as Gong Li.
His students are actually quite famous, such as Deng Chao.
A few years ago, Teacher Tian led a group of his students to create a popular drama at the time, "Sauerkraut on Green Flowers."
This play became popular, but it also caused a plagiarism controversy because it was a parody of an online article.
This online article later became a TV series called "Diary of an Internet Bug".
Shaoxiong (Internet Bug), Ning Caishen, and Yu Baimei, the three of them are the author and screenwriter.
The director and investor is Ying Da, and the leading actor is Xiao Ming.
Interestingly, "Sauerkraut on Green Flowers" is more popular than the TV series.
The reason is probably Deng Chao's performance in this stage play. He is dressed in black stockings, high heels, and heavy makeup, and he shows off his long legs whenever he has nothing to do.
The whole layout is opened.
At that time, Yingda was very aggressive and sued, but things turned around later.
Everyone also became friends, and Deng Chao also had a good relationship with Yu Baimei.
To put it bluntly, the court does not support the claim of plagiarism.
After that, Teacher Tian came up with the movie "If you want to eat mahua, I'll twist it for you now".
In fact, this drama is also copied from other people's movies, but it's just an American movie.
"Ghosts' Wish".
This film stars Brendan Feather. He meets the devil one day and the two parties sign a contract. According to the contract, the devil must fulfill his wish in order to harvest his soul.
The male protagonist's wish is to be happy. He has a girl he likes, and the devil arranges for him to become a football star, a famous writer, etc., but he still cannot achieve happiness or the girl's heart.
The plot of "I Want to Eat Twist Twists Now" is similar in plot. Shen Teng's Taiwanese accent means that the male protagonist becomes a singer.
This play is very funny and very popular.
But now Zhang Chen is very worried.
Mahua Theater Company produced a new drama at the end of last year, "Mahua 2, Love Flu".
For this drama, Zhang Chen spent a lot of money to invite Lin Yilun and Liu Zi, both of whom are very popular figures at the moment.
As a result, the market response to this second part was not very good.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have put out the previous one now.
At this time, Shen Teng saw Zhang Chen's sad face.
"Master, what's wrong with you? Are you being cooked?"
"I'm telling you, Fujiko, you have such a bad mouth! If you don't change your ways, how can you get along in the future?"
"Haha... As long as I have you, Team Leader Zhang, to protect me, I'll be fine."
"Well, I like to hear that."
Shen Teng seems to be born with the funny gene. Although he has known that he is good-looking since he was a child, if he is not funny, he will feel uncomfortable all over.
Zhang Chen is indeed the boss, but he is not much older than Shen Teng, and the two have a good relationship.
On weekdays, Shen Teng likes to call him class leader, and he happily accepts it.
While Team Leader Zhang was chatting with Shen Teng, someone came in.
"Brother Teng, boss, there is someone outside who wants to see you two by name."
"ah?"
The person who came was a short-faced man. He originally wore glasses to give him a gentle look, but if you look closely, you can see that he also has two buck teeth, which looks like SpongeBob SquarePants.
"Wei Xiang, who dares to be so arrogant on our territory?"
Shen Teng even pretended to take a handful.
Zhang Chen laughed after hearing this, "Is it business cooperation or something?"
After all, he is the class leader, and he knows the current situation of Mahua best. As long as there is an opportunity to make money, he does not want to let it go.
The person called Wei Xiang is also very familiar with Shen Teng and Zhang Chen, but he met someone before and insisted on his help in introducing him.
And that person... doesn't seem to be that businesslike.
"You will know when you see him, he is outside."
All I could say was this...Wei Xiang was charged twenty yuan.
Zhang Chen and Shen Teng were naturally very curious, so they asked Wei Xiang to invite people over.
As soon as this person came in, Zhang Chen felt a chill in his heart.
As a young man, can he bring any business?
But I didn't expect that this young man was straightforward enough.
"This is Mr. Zhang Chen, the boss of Happy Twist, right? This is Mr. Shen Teng. Hello, hello. I just watched your performance and was very impressed. Let me introduce myself. My surname is Shen, single name. One word."
The person brought by Wei Xiang was naturally Shen Fang, and he introduced himself like this. Zhang Chen was naturally still heartbroken about losing business opportunities, but Shen Teng was different.
"Your surname is Shen too?"
"yes."
"Oh! Look how he looks!" Shen Teng stood up and shook hands with Shen Fang, and showed off to Zhang Chen and Wei Xiang very cordially, "I just said that our old Shen family has handsome boys, right! Haha …”
Shen Teng's character is like this, he is naturally familiar with himself, and since everyone has the surname Shen, they might have been in the same family five hundred years ago.
Besides, he also heard something.
"Shen Fang, I hear your accent..."
"Northeast."
"Oh! We're still from my hometown! Haha..."
"Not good!"
Shen Fang usually doesn't have a strong accent, but when he came here, he did it on purpose.
Sure enough, he easily gained a wave of favor from Shen Teng.
How can I put it this way? Isn’t this the future tens-billion-box-office-maker?
Of course, Shen Fang and Shen Teng are still strangers, but they feel pretty good at first sight.
When Zhang Chen saw the two of them, they seemed to be calling each other brothers, so he quickly said a few words.
"Well, Mr. Shen Fang, what are you doing here this time?"
Shen Fang didn't waste any time and took out a thick notebook directly from his bag.
"To tell you the truth, I am a theater lover. I have watched your Mahua dramas a lot. Although I have not yet been admitted to a professional school, I have tried to write a book and I would like to ask Boss Zhang to read it."
This can be regarded as making my purpose of coming clearly.
Zhang Chen naturally understood. Although he was having trouble with Mahua's revenue operation, he was really obsessed with stage plays.
If you have a book, you must take a look at it. I started reading it right away.
The name of this book immediately attracted Zhang Chen.
"Charlotte Troubles"?
Charlotte's troubles?
This concept is quite normal. After all, Charlotte is an English name.
But wait until Zhang Chen opens it and takes a look...
It turns out that the protagonist’s name is Charlotte!
Boy, that name is a baggage.
Chapter completed!