Zuo Le and his assistant Feng Ye came out of the airport and hurriedly met up with Guan Rong, the co-producer of the "Guandong" crew who was waiting outside the airport. Then they all got into a commercial vehicle and drove away from the airport.
In the car, Zuo Le looked at Guan Rong with some dissatisfaction: "I couldn't explain clearly on the phone before, but now we are face to face, please explain to me.
Didn’t you say you had already communicated with the actors? Why did you suddenly change your mind now?"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Zuo, it was my mistake."
Guan Rong had a grimace on his face and said a little ashamedly: "We had directly contacted Mr. Li Youbin's agency before, and the progress was going very smoothly.
But who would have known that this was simply an insider from the agency who took the film contract on his own initiative without notifying the actors immediately, and Mr. Li himself was negotiating with another crew, and the schedules of both parties coincided with each other.
Because of the agency's mistake, Mr. Li was very unhappy. In addition, the negotiations with the crew there went relatively smoothly, which led him to reject our invitation.
After all, the contract hasn’t been signed yet, so there’s nothing we can do if the actor doesn’t agree. I visited Mr. Li several times in person, but the result was not as expected..."
Guan Rong is not too old, just in his early 30s, but his resume is very impressive. He has participated in more than 10 film and television productions, including some high-quality and large-scale productions. Most of them served as production directors on the crew and have rich experience.
When the production department of Shanhe Pictures was expanding its recruitment, Guan Rong submitted his resume and was clearly valued. He was recruited into the company and immediately became a key training target of the production department.
This time Zuo Le's new drama "Crossing Guandong" is the most important project of Sunward Pictures in the first half of 2020.
The boss Zuo Le is the director, and the head of the production department Mingyan personally serves as the chief producer. There are two co-producers, Guan Rong is one of them.
Guan Rong was very excited to be able to participate in the boss's drama not long after joining the company, and he also held a very important position as co-producer.
I plan to work hard on the crew of "Crossing Guandong", accumulate qualifications, gain the trust of my boss Zuo Le, and then work independently as a producer in the future.
As a result, just when he was about to realize his ambition, he was rejected...
This is the division of labor in the preliminary preparation work of the crew of "Crossing Guandong".
The chief producer Mingyan and another co-producer were responsible for the actual scene construction, while Zuo Le and Guan Rong focused more on casting, and several assistant directors on the crew were evenly distributed between the two parties.
A few days ago, Zuo Le selected the famous actor Li Youbin as the male protagonist Zhu Kaishan of "Crossing Guandong". When he was about to contact him in person, there were some problems with the real-life shooting location at the Heilongjiang Forest Farm.
The matter was not a big one, but it involved some local powerful people. Zuo Le was afraid that Mingyan and others would not be able to suppress the situation, so he had no choice but to go and resolve it in person.
Zuo Le went to Heilongjiang Province, and Guan Rong was temporarily in charge of the casting work for "Enter Guandong". Signing the contract with Li Youbin was the top priority.
As a result, Guan Rong just messed up the matter, causing him to become a parent and come back from the black province to wipe his ass?
The most important thing is that after his honey manipulation, Li Youbin now has a bad impression of the crew of "Crossing Guandong", which added a lot of unnecessary difficulty to Zuo Le in persuading him to play Zhu Kaishan.
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Under Zuo Le's gloomy gaze, Guan Rong's voice became lower and lower, and there was a lot of sweat on his forehead. He didn't dare to say anything that he originally wanted to cover up his responsibility for.
When Guan Rong shut up, Zuo Lecai handed down the verdict with an expressionless face: "I am very dissatisfied with your work this time. The title of co-producer will be removed first. The rest will be discussed after I finish talking with Teacher Li Youbin.
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Guan Rong felt even more nervous.
He knew that if Zuo Le was satisfied with this matter in the end, he would still have hope of making a meritorious deed. If he could not be a producer, he would still have a chance as a production director at the next level down.
But if the cooperation between Zuo Le and Li Youbin fails and delays the company's key projects, then his future at Sunward is over. He should resign as soon as possible and find another company.
Guan Rong was confused and restless, but Zuo Le ignored him and closed his eyes and leaned on the back seat.
The commercial vehicle drove quickly and arrived at the villa area where Li Youbin was located in more than half an hour. Zuo Le got out of the car and met Li Youbin, the target of this research.
Li Youbin, a native of Chuncheng, Jilin Province, is 48 years old and is a national first-class actor. He has been nominated for the Golden Phoenix Award for Best Actor three times. In the third nomination, he won the role of the tough and upright mayor Sun Wang in "Heaven and Earth Makes the Heart"
Conferred the title of Emperor.
However, the reputation of this Golden Phoenix Emperor is actually not very good in the circle.
Mainly because Li Youbin has a bad temper and is very picky about the scripts he participates in. As long as they don't suit his liking, he won't give anyone any favors and won't act in anything.
For this reason, even some of the top directors and producers in the industry have been embarrassed by him.
In addition, when he has nothing to do, he also likes to criticize some bad phenomena in the entertainment industry. Among them, the ones who are criticized the most are the fresh meat and florets who have traffic but no acting skills.
Every year, some young people who are hinted at or named are publicly bombarded by Li Shidi.
In the past two years, Li Youbin was one of the first few people who broke the news that "some young actors like to pronounce their lines like 1, 2, 3, and 4, and then dub them in post-production" that spread all over the Internet.
It is a good thing to angrily criticize bad phenomena in the entertainment industry. It is fun for the audience and the media to watch, but it is not very comfortable for those who are bombarded and the companies behind it.
Therefore, Li Youbin has been under a lot of pressure, either explicitly or covertly, and his relatively low popularity and reputation in the industry is one of the reasons for his "big mouth" and "stubborn personality".
However, Li Youbin is not afraid of these ghostly tricks at all, and continues to stick to his tough character. He should criticize and scold you when he should, and he will not offend you if he says he won't offend you.
Jinfeng Shidi, who is still active in the industry, Li Youbin is one of the most characterful ones.
Only with his personality can he remain unmoved by invitations to new dramas from national director Zuo Le, which has become popular in the past two years.
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Frankly speaking, Zuo Le can't say he likes Li Youbin's character traits, but he has a little appreciation.
However, for him, Li Youbin's character is not the focus, the focus is his acting skills and whether he fits the role of Zhu Kaishan.
Being nominated three times and winning the Golden Phoenix Award for Best Actor, Li Youbin's acting skills needless to say are definitely among the best in the country, but what impressed Zuo Le the most was his stubbornness.
When he was young, Zhu Kaishan joined the Boxer Rebellion to kill foreign devils. When he was middle-aged, he went to the gold field alone to avenge his brothers. Later, he opened a restaurant in Harbin. When faced with the squeeze, he was neither humble nor overbearing. He dared not take a step back when he opened a mine and stood up to the Japanese.
Zuo Le believed that under Zhu Kaishan's peaceful and benevolent character, there was a spirit in his heart that kept him from falling.
This anger did not vent a little until his favorite son Chuanwu died fighting against the Japanese in his later years.
This is also the only time in the whole play that Zhu Kaishan, a character who is full of "benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom, trust" and symbolizes most of the beautiful qualities of traditional Chinese men, cried in the whole play.
Zuo Le felt that there were many similarities between the energy in Li Youbin and the "qi" in Zhu Kaishan's heart.
To a certain extent, Li is Zhu Kaishan in Zuo Le's heart, so he would not hesitate to visit him personally in order to make the character of Zhu Kaishan more perfect in "Crossing Guandong".
Li's living room
Zuo Le and others were brought in by the nanny, and Li Youbin sat on the sofa reading the newspaper.
Surprisingly, when he saw Zuo Le come in, Li Youbin stood up and shook hands with Zuo Le, smiling and speaking in a gentle voice. His attitude was not as "bad" as Zuo Le imagined.
Looking back, Zuo Le suddenly realized that although Li Youbin was known to have a bad and tough personality, there had never been any rumors that he was impolite when he was acting like a celebrity.
The so-called "smelly and tough" should be the style of behavior, not the temperament...
