Chapter 5 The beginning of everything is difficult (2)
Lin Chengxun took the sketch and simply took out the remaining sketches of the main characters in the script and spread them out on the table one by one. There were eleven sketches in total. Each sketch had the character's image design completed, but except for Lin Chengxun who was preparing himself
Except for the character he plays, the faces of the other characters are all blank.
In addition, there are some comments and thoughts written by Lin Chengxun about his characters.
"It's a good idea, but when I asked you before when I was filming "Memories of Murder", you weren't willing to make a cameo. Why are you willing now?" Bong Joon-ho said with a smile. Seeing Lin Chengxun handing him a pen, he stared helplessly.
I glanced at him and wrote two names under the cover of the script: Kong Ji Young and Lim Sung Hoon.
This means that this script was co-written by these two people.
"Isn't this one less actor and one less salary? My role doesn't have much weight anyway."
"Although I didn't write much in the movie, it was able to catch the audience's attention after it came out." Bong Joon-ho simply took a pen to help Lin Chengxun polish the character.
Lin Chengxun raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and thought to himself, if I can't catch the audience's attention, how can I use this character to get into the audience's attention and advertise my restaurant that is about to go bankrupt.
After writing hundreds of words of analysis on the sketch for the character, Bong Joon-ho threw away the pen, yawned, let Lin Chengxun pack up the script, and left with the takeout prepared by the cafe: "Gong Jiyoung
I think you are familiar with this name. He is considered a senior in the same school as yours, so you won’t suffer any loss if he is co-signed as a screenwriter."
Lin Chengxun nodded to show that he understood, but he was slightly surprised in his heart. He didn't expect that the movie was so many years in advance, and Gong Jiyong, the original author and screenwriter of "The Crucible", could not escape. He looked at Bong Joon-ho walking slowly to check out.
, he speeded up his hands and left the cafe before Bong Joon-ho.
Peninsula’s rule that seniors pay the bills is really good.
Lin Chengxun rushed in his heart and quickened his pace. He had ordered a lot of pastries in order to avoid the embarrassment of refilling the coffee.
...
It was almost dinner time when we returned to Ping An Restaurant, and the restaurant was as deserted as ever.
Making money is really difficult!
Lin Chengxun was indignant, and before going upstairs to the bedroom, he shouted: "Auntie, take a piece of cucumber, less salt and less spicy." Then he climbed up to the second floor in three strides before the boss Jin Huicheng broke out.
He went upstairs to save the script and waited for Lin Chengxun to clean up before coming down. He happened to see Jin Huicheng holding a plate of appetizing cold cucumbers in his hand.
"How was the result of today's meeting?" Jin Huicheng said as he casually took off his apron and threw it to Xu Shuaili who had finished laying out the dishes.
"Except for not being able to get the initial funding for the movie, everything went smoothly."
Jin Huicheng frowned, the calm gaze in his eyes dimmed slightly, and his tone was full of melancholy: "So you can't even take the first step of making a movie? So today you just showed our senior that you have written
I have greatly improved my screenwriting skills, but then after drinking coffee all day, I get nothing?”
"Ahem, does strengthening the emotional connection count as a gain?" Lin Chengxun smiled and cleared his throat. After drinking coffee all afternoon, his throat was very greasy.
"Didn't you waste an entire afternoon? It looks like you're on my lap, but you can't even get a bite to eat. You're here to deliver food to me after graduation?"
"It's not like I have nothing to eat. Mr. Bong Joon-ho helped me sign a TV series contract with the three major TV stations for several years, but I want to finish filming the script in my hand first." Lin Chengxun smiled and briefly talked about the afternoon conversation.
"Isn't there no one investing?"
"You have to persevere. I want to try to find investment on my own again. I will go to the city for more walks tomorrow."
"I don't mean to say that there is no chance. Just a bad incident two years ago. People in your country are really..."
"Then we will collect the start-up funds for the movie ourselves. Didn't the second one say that it is a low-budget movie? It just so happens that we fully invest in the movie ourselves, and all the earnings will be our own. When the time comes, we will buy the boss a doll of the same proportion as Lee Jung-hyun, tsk tsk.
.." Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Xu Shuaili kept making jokes, "We are in dormitory 502... Ouch, ouch... No, no, no, brother, I was wrong, I was wrong..."
Jin Huicheng snorted coldly, and seeing Xu Shuai begging for mercy quickly, he released his fingers.
"Invest yourself? Where will the money come from? One million is not enough. How much money can you raise?"
"Um..." Xu Shuaili, who was still very arrogant at the beginning, his eyes started to twinkle at this time. After he and Jin Huicheng graduated, he did not find a job in order to take care of Lin Chengxun's family restaurant. He was barely a voluntary worker with room and board, even if Jin Huicheng paid him
The wages are paid, but not spent.
Unable to withstand Jin Huicheng's sharp gaze, Xu Shuaili squirmed and turned out the two pockets on his body. Except for the keys of Jin Huicheng's second-hand car, there was nothing else.
"I paid you a salary!" Jin Huicheng gave Xu Shuali a hard look, turned to Lin Chengxun who was watching the show and said with difficulty: "There is no other way, I..."
"Let's not talk about this for now. Let's eat first. As I said, there are always more solutions than difficulties, right?" Lin Chengxun waved his hand. Jin Huicheng's character can be seen from his behavior of taking care of restaurants after graduation.
As the trustee of Ping An Hotel, he could pay Xu Shuaili a salary, but he would never pay himself a salary. Moreover, the restaurant was operating in such a bleak situation, so Xu Shuaili had spent all his money, and Jinhuicheng had no money at all.
"Yes, yes, eat first, eat first."
"I know the game hall and billiard hall every day!" Jin Huicheng tried to give Xu Shuaili a scalp, but he sidestepped him and kept mumbling to himself.
"I'm not going alone. Don't you know about my sister..."
"Okay, let's eat, the army pot is boiling."
Lin Chengxun smiled and ordered the Korean army hot pot on the table. He glanced at the three plates and heard what Bong Joon-ho said about the third child in the afternoon. He raised his eyes and asked: "By the way, the fifth child is busy every day."
Regarding the matter of prosecutor Ji Kao, I can understand that I can't see him. What about the third child? Except for the first time I saw him on the day I came back, I couldn't even see a shadow behind him?"
Jin Huicheng and Xu Shuali became silent.
Lin Chengxun chuckled lightly and put down the chopsticks in his hands: "Why, is there anything else we five brothers can't talk about?"
"That's it..." Jin Huicheng didn't speak, so Xu Shuaili could only explain.
"Back then, you were framed and had to be forced to serve. The director position of the TV series was also changed. The third brother was so angry that he took a group of his friends to the set and beat the man severely.
, I originally wanted to go, but it’s a pity that the boss stopped me, otherwise..."
"Okay, let me tell you." Jin Huicheng glared at Xu Shuali, "The third brother was angry that you were being tricked, so he found a group of people from his hometown to beat up the male star. There was a big fuss at that time.
The third child was detained for half a year, and the school expelled him after he came out..."
"Then it shouldn't be that he doesn't see me, but it should be that I owe him and don't dare to see him."
"After he dropped out of school, he didn't dare to go back to Busan, so he could only follow a group of Busan guys to open a company in North District, and he also managed a nightclub... He was afraid that his status as a geek would affect you. After all, he is a director.
..."
"..."
"Don't you know how to find an opportunity at night to cover him with a sack and beat him up and run away immediately?" Lin Chengxun was silent for a while and made a joke, but his expression immediately turned serious, "Call him and ask him to come over for dinner."
Within half an hour, the third child arrived.
The third oldest, Lee Sung Jae, is a short Busan guy, with a wide mouth and a straight nose, a wide forehead, but his eyebrows are slanted to add to his fierceness, and his limbs are very thick, giving him a fierce aura.
"Eat." Lin Chengxun greeted him directly and took the initiative to get the dinner plate for the third child, Li Chengcai. However, he watched helplessly as the fierce-looking Busan man called him "second brother" and took the plate with some side dishes.
I squatted in a corner and ate.
Seeing this, Lin Chengxun smacked his teeth, frowned, and repeated helplessly: "Eat!"
The atmosphere at this dinner was very depressing. Even Xu Shuali, who was usually the most out-of-the-box, became cautious and wanted to make a joke to liven up the atmosphere, but was stopped by the boss Jin Huicheng.
The third child, Li Chengcai, ate very quickly. He squatted in the corner, buried his head, and moved his chopsticks very quickly. The plate was empty in a short time.
"How much?"
The chopsticks of the three people sitting at the dining table were suspended in the air at the same time. Three pairs of eyes looked at Li Chengcai in disbelief. The brothers called for a meal and asked how much it would cost!
"Hey! Interesting!" Lin Chengxun immediately smiled, his whole neck turned red. He looked up and down at Li Chengcai, his chin nodding up and down from time to time, "How much does it cost? You have to pay, right? Okay, come on, one billion, one billion
I don't want billions to be too little, and I don't want hundreds of billions to be too much. I just can't find investment for the movie, how about you invest in it?"
"You brat, you have to pay! What's wrong with Hunji Dao, they are so eager to start a relationship with us!" The boss Jin Huicheng scalped him, and the fourth boss Xu Shuaili on the side was also ready to move his palm, but he compared himself with the third brother.
The difference in arm circumference silently put an end to this unwanted thought.
The third child, Li Chengcai, is not good at words. He was very touched when he saw his eldest brother and second brother like this. He wanted to say something disgusting but he said stupidly: "Second brother, didn't you invest in the movie? Our company can..."
"What company is yours?"
"usury."
"Are you going to let the second child dominate the house?" The boss Jin Huicheng spoke very quickly, his eyelids drooping with a faint cold light. In terms of the importance he attached to the restaurant, not even Lin Chengxun could compare with him. He always regarded Lin Chengxun as dead.
His parents treat him as his godfather and godmother.
"No!" Li Chengcai, the third child, spoke louder and scratched the back of his head, looking a little nervous, "Brother, look at us like this, if the second brother's movie loses money, even if my company invests, the loss will be made by my company; if it makes money,
Well, even if I loaned it to you, just pay it back to me at the lowest interest rate, and the money earned will go to the second brother; anyway, the company has just finished checking the accounts, and the company’s finances belong to me, so I can still use this funds
Take it out."
I have to say that this operation is very cool, but...