The screenwriter of "The Wanderer" is named Qian Zhong. He is a literary young man who wears glasses and looks quite elegant, but is also very poor.
It had been two years since he graduated from college. Before graduation, he was staring at the Chinese film market with high spirits, thinking that he could just write a script based on his talent. Directors from big companies such as Joaquin and Tianyu were rushing to get it, and then he would try it by himself.
Qualifications, show off the plot, and give the price a little bit, it won’t be a big problem to sell a random script for 50,000 to 60,000 yuan...
Then he made a movie that was a hit at the box office, won various screenwriting awards, and within a few years became a famous celebrity in China, enjoying countless honors and reaching the pinnacle of life.
Unfortunately, the reality is very cruel.
The carefully prepared script was submitted to Joaquin, but there was no response from Tianyu for a long time. There were even a few times when those people accepted my script and their expressions were very enthusiastic and sincere, but when I left, I hid by the window sill and looked inside the room and saw them.
Just throw it into the trash can.
Throw it in like waste paper.
Reality is not a fairy tale. There may be a way to achieve success in one step, but it requires luck.
Obviously Qian Zhong did not have such luck.
Being rejected again and again and failing again and again made Qian Zhong miserable, but he was not willing to give up everything and continue to go to work or be a clerk like everyone else...
After all, his dream is to become a screenwriter and make awesome movies to make himself famous.
Two years have passed in such a hurry. The high-spirited young man at the beginning is getting older. Although he still writes scripts firmly and submits scripts to major companies and fails as always, his whole person becomes sad and sighs, feeling that there is nothing in this world.
What Bole...
Until one day, while eating barbecue and drinking wine at a roadside stall, he met a fat man.
The fat man sat across from him. When he was reading the script and thinking about how to cast it again, this time no matter what, he wanted a second-rate director to read the script, the fat man looked at him and took the initiative to talk to him.
"Are you an actor?"
"without……"
"Then what are you..."
"I'm reading the script..."
"You're not an actor when you read the script?"
"I'm a screenwriter..."
"Oh? Have you written any movies?"
"No."
After looking at the fat man's excited expression, Qian Zhong closed his eyes and suddenly let out a long sigh, and could only utter these two words.
I don't know why, but he, who has always been strong, suddenly couldn't help but feel a sore nose when he thought about his experiences over the years. Although he reminded himself in every possible way not to cry, the circles under his eyes still turned red.
"I also know a great screenwriter, but that screenwriter is not as prone to crying as you are."
"What can I do? No one likes my script, no one is willing to film it..."
"You can't take the photo yourself? You're such a coward..."
"I have no money."
"Hey, you look much older than my buddy, but the difference...is not even a tiny bit!" Fatty Wei shook his head.
"Is your screenwriter buddy the same as me?"
"Of course it's different."
"ah?"
"He writes his own script, raises his own investment, becomes his own director, and even wants to be an actor himself. Moreover, the movie will be released next month. Do you think it can be the same?"
"Hold the grass..."
When he heard this, Qian Zhong's eyes widened, and he was so surprised that these two polite words suddenly appeared.
Is this person a monster?
"Show me your script, kid. Actually, I'm also a director."
"You are...you..."
"Lucky boy, come on, show me the script, maybe your opportunity has come!"
"good……"
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Fatty Wei would never admit that he was cheating or cheating.
Instead, he flaunts himself as a kind person.
Spending five thousand to buy a script, and at the same time signing a director's assistant with Lu Yuan's consent to provide this poor and unlucky man with a job, isn't this considered kind?
You are so kind to the core, okay!
He feels that he has saved a fairly good screenwriter in China, and he is a big bole!
If possible, he would even like to give himself a good guy card.
A good script, a talented director, and an actor who performs in his own way...
Everything will undergo qualitative changes again!
He was so confident in this "Wanderer" that he even called Li Qing drunkenly on the day he bought the script.
"Lao Li, let's do this with A Yuan and me. Let's fuck the whole movie industry!"
Li Qing was greatly moved after hearing this sentence, and responded with three words very enthusiastically: "Crazy!"
Although he responded to these three words, Li Qing still agreed and asked Fatty Wei when he would turn on the computer.
Lu Yuan didn't say anything about this. He couldn't dampen Fatty Wei's enthusiasm, right? In the end, he just stepped up his studies of acting expertise and waited for the premiere of "Buried Alive".
No matter what he thinks, in short, his "remote" entertainment now has another screenwriter Qian Zhong who wears glasses and looks a bit weak. Moreover, when Qian Zhong sees Lu Yuan, he always says "Brother Lu"
He kept shouting "Brother Lu", while his eyes looked like those of a little fanboy.
There is no other reason, because Fatty Wei once said this to him in a very pretentious and artistic way...
"What you are seeing is the rise of a legendary team, and this legend started with "Buried Alive"... As for our "remote" entertainment, you may not think it is just a small company now, but in the future, it will be huge.
It has to be beyond your imagination..."
"Are you ready?"
Fatty Wei's words were very confusing and inciting, just like a pyramid scheme.
That moment...
Qian Zhong urinated with interest and collapsed...
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August 31, sunny.
Strictly speaking, "Buried Alive" premiered after 11.59pm tonight.
This is a very cheating time, even more cheating than those midnight movies. It can be said that it is the only movie released in the early morning among the recent movies.
No one in the industry is paying attention to this movie. Shen Lianjie doesn't even want to mention this movie. No matter how loud Fatty Wei is, Shen Lianjie has no idea, let alone posting 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 industry. If he jumps out to ridicule this movie, wouldn't it be an advertisement for this movie?
Only a fool would do this.
He is not stupid.
Although September 1st is not October 1st, there are quite a lot of movies released. Many medium- and low-budget movies deliberately avoid the explosive and crushing moment of October and choose this relatively less competitive September.
The first day of the month.
Despite this, there are still strong films on September 1st, such as Zhang Tong's "Metro Station", Shen Lianjie's "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 made a wave of advertisements on the Internet and made headlines, "Buried Alive" has not been ranked among the top ten movies released in September...
"Dudududu"
At noon, Lu Yuan put on a suit and combed his hair like a mature man. When he was about to go to the theater to watch other movies first, the phone rang.
Lu Yuan took a look and saw that it was Wang Jinxue's phone call that he hadn't heard for a long time.
"Where?"
"At the company."
"Oh, we're coming."
"us?"
"You didn't read Weibo?"
"Ah...I didn't see it, what's wrong?"
"I asked you, can you pay more attention to your own movies?"
"I'm very concerned."
"Read An Xiao's Weibo yourself."
"oh."
When the call hung up, Lu Yuan turned on his phone and checked Weibo.
After clicking on one of An Xiao's Weibo posts, I 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"... Come together, everyone. I will give away my signed photos to the top ten movie fans! As for which theater chain in Tianhe, It all depends on everyone’s luck!”