Both of these directors are well-known directors in China, and Zhang Cong is a frequent guest of blockbuster directors. The films he makes are mainly comedy films, and occasionally romance films. Generally speaking, he is a commercial film director.
Yuan Baogang has been a director of youth idol dramas before. He has also produced many popular TV dramas with high ratings and made many young idol artists popular.
A few years ago, he started to work in the film industry and made several romantic comedies, two of which grossed over 100 million yuan at the box office. The other films made no profit or loss, and the results can only be said to be unsatisfactory. They are only inferior to his achievements in the TV series.
Too many.
"Do you have a script?" Chen Feng asked.
Jia Yong said: "Yes. They are relatively sincere and give male supporting actors who have relatively heavy roles. It's just that there is a conflict in the schedule of the two movies, so I can only choose one from them. Otherwise, both are fine.
shoot."
"Then you send the script over first and I will check it myself."
"Okay. I'll send it to your email later."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Feng felt a little better. It was obvious that Li Dazhi was really popular. And his performance in the micro-movie "Old Boy" also received initial recognition from other directors. Otherwise, Zhang
Cong and Yuan Baogang would not both send him film offers. One of course is because of his current traffic and popularity, and the other is of course because of his outstanding acting skills.
It's not in vain that he worked so hard to praise him during this period, and now he finally has some initial results.
Not long after, Chen Feng received two scripts from Jia Yong. These two scripts were not complete versions. They only excerpted the part played by Li Dazhi, and of course also included the general content of the entire drama.
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It took Chen Feng nearly two hours to carefully read the two scripts. Finally, after weighing it up, he chose Yuan Baogang's "Reminiscences of Her Youth". The reason is simple. This movie gave him a feeling of déjà vu.
, some of the plots in it are somewhat similar to the original film "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years".
What's more, Zhang Cong's movie is purely a popcorn movie, and it can no longer be commercial. Judging from the content of the script, it is just for the sake of being funny. In addition, the role played by Li Dazhi is also somewhat unpleasant and even ugly.
Chen Feng weighed it up, and of course he would not choose this one.
Chen Feng quickly called Li Dazhi on the phone, threw a printed script of "Remembering Her When She Was Young" to him, and said: "This is a movie script directed by Yuan Baogang. Take it back, read it carefully, and think about it."
Think about it, memorize the lines and wait for the other party to notify you."
Li Dazhi took over the script and said with some confusion: "Is this going to make a movie?"
"What do you think?" Chen Feng glared at him angrily, "It's not like you've never made a movie before?"
Li Dazhi scratched his head and said with some lack of confidence: "I was just a guest star before."
"I'm talking about Oldboy."
"Isn't "Oldboy" a short film?" Li Dazhi dared not watch "Oldboy" as a movie.
Chen Feng resisted the urge to beat him up, gritted his teeth and said: "'Oldboy' is a micro-movie, a smaller version of the movie, do you understand? Don't you even know this bit of common sense?"
Seeing that Chen Feng was angry, Li Dazhi quickly apologized: "I was wrong, Master. You also know that I am not well-educated and I really don't know much about movies. I will definitely study hard in the future."
Chen Feng also knew that this boy was a bit "uneducated and unskilled", so it was understandable that he did not treat the micro-movie "Oldboy" as a movie. He just thought that he had to work hard to praise him, but he just didn't
His qualifications were average, which made Chen Feng really depressed.
For the time being, I can only stay out of sight and out of mind, waving my hands and saying: "Okay. You go back and think about the script carefully. If you don't understand anything, just ask me. After the contract is signed, you can ask Yuan Baogang."
"Okay, Master. After I get back, I will read this script and try to play this role well so as not to embarrass you."
"Okay, get out." Chen Feng really didn't want to see him, lest his mood would get worse every time he looked at him.
Li Dazhi was also very thick-skinned. When he saw Chen Feng being so rude, he just said "Hey" with a smile and happily left with the script.
Chen Feng looked at the time and saw that it was almost 12 noon. So he packed up and went home. Two days later, Li Dazhi officially signed a contract with the crew of "Remembering Her as a Young Girl" as the third male lead. So, from now on,
From the beginning of the day, under the supervision of Chen Feng, he worked hard to memorize his lines and play the role of the third male lead in the play.
After signing the contract, at Chen Feng's request, Li Dazhi got the complete script of the film. Chen Feng began to act with him.
The reason why Chen Feng is so concerned is of course because of the damn system mission, which wants to make him famous as soon as possible and make him a first-line artist in the country, and it must be within a year.
Therefore, this drama is also very important to Li Dazhi. More importantly, after Chen Feng read the complete script of this movie, he was even more sure that this "Reminiscence of Her Youth" is the same as "Those Years" of the original time and space.
"The Girl We Chased Together" is at least 70% similar, so it has the potential to become a hit.
Of course, when the movie really became a hit, the first male and female lead were the ones who benefited the most. The third male lead, Li Dazhi, benefited only to a limited extent. But in any case, this is a rare qualification and experience.
Chen Feng thought about it carefully. If Li Dazhi wants to become a first-line artist within a year, making movies is the top priority, and releasing records is the second. Because the probability of you becoming a first-line singer after releasing an album is really low.
But movies are different. As long as the box office explodes, such as Chen Feng's "Charlotte", Chen Feng will immediately be praised as a first-line actor.
Therefore, Chen Feng is now taking a multi-pronged approach. Here he personally leads Li Dazhi to sing chorus songs and micro-movies, and then to create his first album and first movie. Now he is also trying to get him to play Yuan Baogang well.
The third male lead in this movie personally came on stage to act for him.
These are not the most important things. The most important thing is that in order to make him famous as soon as possible, he also postponed his opportunity to go to Hollywood to focus on development, including refusing to reunite with Miranda and his biological daughter.
This sacrifice is really great.
It can be said that Chen Feng was worried about Li Dazhi, his cheap apprentice, but Li Dazhi always felt like he couldn't support him. This felt very bad.
Chen Feng explained the script to Li Dazhi for several days, deconstructed the psychology of the characters in the play, and acted with him, which can be said to be a full range of nanny-level services. Until Li Dazhi left to participate in Z Province to participate in "The Favorite Challenge"
program recording. Chen Feng can finally take a break.
At the same time, his script for "囧囧" is almost completed and should be ready in two or three days. To this end, Chen Feng has already given advice to several senior executives in the company, including Su Qian, Jia Yong, and Li Kai and Liu Qian.
He planned to personally supervise the production of "Thailand", but since he would be mostly abroad during the filming, he asked Su Qian to be the production director, Li Kai was naturally the director, and Liu Qian was the cinematographer and assistant director. This appointment shows that Chen Feng intends to cultivate Liu Qian. Liu Qian himself also intends to transform into a director.
This is a formal career change for many photographers. Many well-known directors were photographers at the beginning. After gaining qualifications and experience, many photographers transitioned to become directors.
It can only be said that a photographer who does not want to be a director is not a qualified photographer.
In addition, of the three male protagonists in "囧囧", one is of course Li Dazhi, and the other is undoubtedly Chu Jianlin.
Since Chu Jianlin became popular due to "Crazy Stone", he has taken on two or three movies from other companies, but basically there has been no success. This makes Chu Jianlin a little worried that the value and popularity of the quasi-A-list artist he just acquired will decline. .In fact, his popularity has indeed begun to decline.
To stop this downward trend, or even start to rise again, a popular work is needed. "囧囧" is undoubtedly very suitable.
As the third protagonist, who could also replace the role of Xu Guangtou in the original time and space, Chen Feng finally chose Zhou Xingxing.
This senior sidekick who was valued by Chen Feng in Hengcheng was once popular on the Internet for a while and was envied, jealous, and hated by countless people. He felt that he was about to soar into the sky. But unfortunately, a few months have passed. , Zhou Xingxing has always been a bit player. He is still working as an extra in Hengcheng, working hard to learn acting skills. Summit Entertainment has no intention of bringing him back to the capital.
It seems that both Summit Entertainment and Chen Feng have forgotten about him. For this reason, many people in Hengcheng who originally envied, envied and hated Zhou Xingxing, all gloated, ridiculed and ridiculed him.
Especially those ordinary people who used to know Zhou Xingxing. At first, Zhou Xingxing was valued by Chen Feng and when he signed a contract with Summit Entertainment, these people rushed over to him like ants finding a candy bar, trying to please him and trying to get him without friendship. Friendship, and those who have friendship even consider themselves brothers, and even cause a farce where several people fight over being his manager.
In fact, these people basically did not have a deep friendship during the years when Zhou Xingxing was in decline, and some of them just knew each other.
It's just a pity that after a few months, Zhou Xingxing still lives in a low-rent house worth hundreds of yuan a month, playing minor roles with few lines. Especially after the crew of "The Condor" was disbanded, Zhou Xingxing still stayed in After leaving Hengcheng, he did not return to the capital like other actors signed by Summit Entertainment. There were no film appointments. Immediately, all the people who had been surrounding Zhou Xingxing to please and be friends with him dispersed.
Many people think that Chen Feng, a big shot in the entertainment industry, must have regretted his actions, or that after several months of observation, he has discovered that Zhou Xingxing’s qualifications are mediocre and cannot be improved, so he no longer wants to sign Zhou Xingxing, so he treats him so coldly, no matter what. Don't ask.
Therefore, many of the people who used to flatter him used to flatter him and make fun of him.
But Zhou Xingxing's mentality is still very stable. He has been working hard in Hengcheng since he was sixteen years old. In order to become a big star, he has worked hard for so long and suffered so much. He has long been used to it. His psychological quality is even better
It can be said that it is relatively stable.
He was very disdainful of these people who followed the trend and followed the trend, and he didn't bother to explain to them. On the contrary, now that these people were mocking and ridiculing him, he felt that it was good. At least he didn't have to make excuses with these people.
Some words that go against your will.
In addition, he firmly believed that he had not been given up by the big boss Chen Feng. Because he very clearly remembered the look of talent that Chen Feng had when he first met him, and he wanted to sign him. That could not be faked. What's more, he was a
As a big boss in the entertainment industry, would you like to play with yourself, a free-for-all?
What's more important is that Summit Entertainment sends him a basic salary of 2,000 yuan to his bank account on time every month. If Summit Entertainment and Chen Feng really forget about him, will they still send him money every month? So, Zhou
Xingxing firmly believed that he had not been forgotten by the big boss Chen Feng. He did not recruit him to the capital. He must have had his own considerations. He might have wanted him to continue training in Hengcheng for a while.
In fact, Chen Feng really forgot about him some time ago. The reason for this is not that he doesn't value Zhou Xingxing, but because he planned from the beginning to let Zhou Xingxing continue to hone his acting skills and skills in Hengcheng.
style. Therefore, he was not recruited to the capital.
Chen Feng told Jia Yong the same thing at the beginning, so Jia Yong did not take the initiative to recruit Zhou Xingxing to come to Beijing. It made it seem as if Zhou Xingxing had been abandoned by Summit Entertainment.
It's just that the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. Now Chen Feng wants to support Li Dazhi and quickly promote him as a first-line star. For this reason, he specially wrote the movie "Thailand".
To use this movie to make Li Dazhi famous, he must have a lot of supporting people around him. One is Chu Jianlin, and the other Chen Feng could only choose Zhou Xingxing.
Chen Feng also believes that Zhou Xingxing can play the role of Xu Lang, the male protagonist of this movie.
That evening, Zhou Xingxing had just finished playing a supporting role, and he was covered in sweat and smelly. As soon as he changed out of his costume, a group of people who were also playing minor roles gathered around and made fun of him.
"Isn't this our future big star in Hengcheng? Why are you still here playing a small role?"
"That's right. Didn't I say that the big boss Chen Feng took a fancy to you? Why are you still here playing a small role? Have you been kicked out by Director Chen?"
"Let me see. Chen Feng must have misjudged him at first. Later, after observing what kind of person he was, he regretted it. He left him here to fend for himself."
"Don't say that. What if someone falls out of favor again? Maybe he will become a big star like Chen Feng in the future. Hahaha." This person said seriously at first. Everyone thought he was really defending Zhou Xingxing.
.In the end, he couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing. Everyone immediately understood that he was speaking sarcastically, and they couldn't help but laugh along with him.
The atmosphere at the scene was very joyful and full of joy.
Only Zhou Xingxing looked at the group of people who were laughing at him expressionlessly. His cold attitude immediately made the people surrounding him feel very disappointed.
One of them said dissatisfiedly: "Zhou Gui'an, what are you doing? Do you think you are the proud man of heaven? I tell you, you are mud, mud on the ground, you will never get stuck on the wall. If you want to be a big star,