Chapter 7 Fighting Star Wu Yue and Director Fang Da
Lincheng High-speed Railway Station
Fatty Chen, wearing a pair of naughty toad glasses, walked arrogantly in the square at the entrance of the high-speed rail station. Behind him was Zuo Le, who was holding half a hamburger and looking indignant.
"It's too dark. An ordinary chicken burger actually costs 25 yuan. If I add two more yuan, I can buy half a chicken at the vegetable market."
Fatty Chen sneered: "Look at your little potential, you still have to worry about this little money."
Zuo Le looked at him expressionlessly: "Before you say this, can you first transfer to me the money for the two hamburgers and a cup of Coke you just ate. Thank you, a total of 69."
"Ahem..."
Fatty Chen coughed twice in embarrassment, his eyes wandering, and then he took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, found a screenshot of the chat history, showed it to Zuo Le, and changed the topic very abruptly.
"Wu Yue's home is in County Z. It's said to be quite close to your home. Why don't you go and see it?"
Zuo Le glanced at this hard-working married man whose monthly pocket money did not exceed 500. He saw a lot of flattery from you.
"I went home before when I was on vacation, so now I'm busy with more important things."
Fatty Chen nodded. Seeing that the topic had changed and the idea was starting to grow again, he shook his cell phone with some embarrassment and said, "Look at my connections. Wu Yue is such a big shot. If you ask me to contact you, I will contact you."
Zuo Le looked down on Fatty Chen's arrogance and directly spoke up: "How did I hear that Wu Yue was contacted by Lao Fang? When Wu Yue first debuted, Lao Fang helped him several times. This time the other party took over.
Only because of Fang's love did he agree to star in "Underground Traffic Station".
Why is it now your fault that you are so confused? Brother Chen, you are not afraid that I will find out how to deal with you."
Fatty Chen was not angry after being exposed by Zuo Le. He smiled and said: "Looking at what you said, Lao Fang just pulled the strings. Isn't it specifically me who contacted the other party's agent?"
Zuo Le was too lazy to argue with him, so he took Fatty Chen to the taxi gathering place outside the high-speed rail station, called a taxi, showed the driver the address, and the two of them rushed to Wu Yue's community.
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About forty or fifty minutes later, Zuo Le and Zuo Le found their destination community. Fatty Chen called Wu Yue's agent. Not long after, a young man in his early twenties found them and called the security guard at the door.
He said hello and took the two of them into the community.
On the way, the young man introduced himself as Wu Yue's assistant. Wu Yue's agent was currently in Shanghai dealing with an endorsement deal, so today it was mainly Wu Yue himself who negotiated with him and Zuo Le.
After a while, the three of them took the elevator and arrived at Wu Yue's residence. Zuo Le finally met the real owner, his future actor Wu Cai Shuigen Yue.
Wu Yue, who is 29 years old this year, looks very young, has a handsome face, and is a real talent in the entertainment industry.
However, Zuo Le, who knew about Wu Yue, knew that the quiet star in front of him had won three national martial arts championships when he was young, was a national master-level martial arts athlete, and was one of the most promising action actors of the younger generation.
However, these things have become a thing of the past not long ago.
Last winter, Wu Yue was seriously injured in an accident while filming. Although he recovered well from the injury, the injuries to his legs and waist still have serious sequelae. If there is no accident, it may be difficult for this famous star to film again in the future.
It's an action movie.
This was a devastating blow to Wu Yue, whose career was on the rise.
Wu Yue is an action actor, and 90% of the movies he shoots are action movies, and the rest are in costumes and martial arts roles.
Now that he is physically unable to do martial arts, is it possible to let him only do literary dramas?
But who wants to watch a literary drama starring a star?
Who else would ask him to take pictures?
It can be said that after the injury, Wu Yue encountered the most difficult moment since he entered the entertainment industry. His career turned from prosperity to decline and began to decline rapidly.
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People in the entertainment industry are rarely humane, especially those large companies controlled by capital.
After learning that Wu Yue was physically unable to make action films anymore, he unilaterally terminated several film and television contracts he had signed with Wu Yue.
What is even more infuriating is that these producers put all the blame on Wu Yue because Wu Yue was injured and could not complete the filming. As a result, although the film producers took the initiative to terminate the contract, Wu Yue did not receive any compensation.
Although from the perspective of legality and interests, the film studio is right to do this, but from a rational point of view, the film company's behavior is really too cold and chilling.
The Wuyue team was also very angry about this, and even prepared to file a lawsuit with these film producers, but were stopped by the boss of their agency.
After all, Wu Yue will still have to hang out in the industry, and he can't break up with these film producers with big backgrounds. Otherwise, not to mention Wu Yue, even the agency will be subject to certain resistance and suppression.
The agency that Wu Yue signed was barely second-rate in the entertainment industry, and he really didn't have the courage to challenge the film producers and the investment companies behind them.
Therefore, Wu Yue had no choice but to sacrifice his life and half-forced to eat this bitter pill.
But Wu Yue, who has been practicing martial arts since childhood, obviously does not have the temperament to hold back his anger. Shortly after the incident, he terminated the contract with his agency and went out on his own.
In his words, I just quit this business, and I won't work with bastards like you who stab your own people in the back.
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However, although Wu Yue's move relieved his anger, it also made him suffer a lot.
Although his old boss did not dare to challenge those producers with complex backgrounds, they had the confidence to deal with Wu Yue who was working alone. Under their interference, Wu Yue's comeback road was full of difficulties and obstacles.
Since his accident, except for the period of recuperation, Wu Yue has not received a film contract for almost half a year.
There are many reasons. In addition to the secret obstruction of his old club, the most common reason is that the industry is not sure whether Wu Yue can adapt to literary drama.
After all, what makes Wu Yue famous is his kung fu. Without his kung fu, Wu Yue's own actor value will drop significantly. If there are good projects, there will naturally be no shortage of good actors to participate, so there is no need to bet on Wu Yue.
There were invitations to those crappy dramas and movies that were pure money laundering, but Wu Yue didn't like them.
In addition, the Wuyue team has been busy recently with the film contracts and endorsements signed by Wuyue before, and cannot spare the energy to publicize those high-quality crews.
In short, it was due to various coincidences.
To this day, "Underground Traffic Station" has become Wu Yue's first official film contract after his injury.
Because of this, Wu Yue attached great importance to the comeback work "Underground Traffic Station" and treated Zuo Le, the director and screenwriter, with great respect, which made Zuo Le, who was used to being a transparent person, feel a little flattered.
You know, before Wu Yue's accident, he was considered to be the top group of second-tier stars, and he is very likely to be among the first-tier stars in the future. Although he is a little depressed now, he has not fallen out of the second-tier stars.
The entertainment industry is very hierarchical. Compared with Wu Yue, Zuo Le, a rookie directing for the first time, really has no qualifications to show off the director's score in front of him.
However, Zuo Le did not belittle himself. Although he was just starting out and his reputation was not obvious, after the broadcast of "Underground Traffic Station", he had a formal work and his status would naturally rise in a step-by-step manner.
Thinking of this, Zuo Le stopped worrying about gains and losses and picked up his energy to discuss the script with Wu Yue.
The character Cai Shuigen in "Underground Traffic Station" is bold, witty, calm, cautious and a little cunning. Even though most of the laughs are on the villain side, Cai Shuigen, as a decent protagonist, also has his own unique shining points.
There is a certain space for acting, the character is lovable, and the scenes are among the best in the play. Wu Yue was very satisfied with the role he played, and even took notes when discussing the script with Zuo Le.
It was not until about four o'clock in the afternoon that Zuo Le and Wu Yue completed their preliminary exchanges. Wu Yue also expressed his approval of Zuo Le as a director. Fatty Chen took out the contract while the iron was hot and planned to sign a contract with Wu Yue.
Born as a martial artist in Wuyue, he had a cheerful temperament and was unambiguous when he saw this. He made a phone call to summon a lawyer. After checking the contract and making sure it was OK, he took the pen and signed his name.
Cai Shuigan:√
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After politely declining Wu Yue's dinner invitation, Zuo Le took Fatty Chen and took the high-speed train directly to leave Lincheng and return to Quancheng to continue preparing for the film crew.
On the way, Fatty Chen looked through Wu Yue's contract, pointing to the salary item and muttering distressedly to Zuo Le.
"1.5 million, which directly wipes out less than half of our budget. This is because Renwu Yue has lowered the salary a lot. Gee, celebrities are really not something that our small family can afford."
Zuo Le was also very distressed about this huge salary, but he still comforted Fatty Chen and said: "There is no way, there are no celebrities to compete with us these days, let alone the ratings, I'm afraid the station doesn't even pay attention to it.
So even if we want to succeed in becoming a star, we have to spend this money. In fact, if we think about it from another perspective, 1.5 million can attract a second-tier star to be the protagonist, and we will make a lot of money. If Wu Yue's situation is not special, the salary will probably be doubled.
Fan.”
Fatty Chen also understands this truth, but he who is responsible for managing money is still worried about it: "No, I have to find Lao Fang when I go back and ask him to give us more budget. If it doesn't work, he will give us Wu Yue's salary."
Otherwise, I won’t be able to take pictures down there.”
The filming funds were insufficient, and director Zuo Le was also very anxious. Hearing this, he immediately nodded in agreement.
"I'll go find him with you. I have another idea. Didn't Lao Fang work as an actor before? I'm going to arrange a role for him in the play and bring him into our crew.
By then, he has put a lot of effort into "Underground Traffic Station", and he will rush to help without us asking."
"Yohe."
Fatty Chen looked at Zuo Le with a little surprise: "I noticed that you are getting more and more sinister. Can you think of such a move?"
Zuo Le was noncommittal: "What do you think of this idea?"
Fatty Chen sighed: "If you want to play a role with a lot of scenes, it's best to be a character like Wei Guangzheng, Lao Fang is the best person."
Zuo Le thought for a while and said decisively: "No problem, I will give him the role of Shi Qingshan."
Fatty Chen smiled slyly, with a look of watching a good show on his face: "I'll talk to Lao Fang when I get back."
The next night, under the persuasion of Fatty Chen, Director Fang Da successfully fell into the trap.
