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March passed by in a flash. Although Li Xingruo's new song was not released until the middle of the month, the song "Because of Love" still won the first place in the new song chart of the month, and also successfully squeezed into the top five on the hot song list , gaining momentum.

Apart from the quality of the song itself and the gimmick of Li Xingruo and Zhang Songnian, the pair of Condor Heroes in the entertainment industry, the reason why the song is so popular is because Qu Xueyan approached them and expressed his hope that this song could be used as the theme of his new movie song.

Zhang Songnian agreed without any hesitation. This is a win-win situation.

Qu Xueyan is one of the few directors in the entertainment circle who can be compared with his father-in-law Li Zhengrong. His films are almost guaranteed box office, and he also has a group of loyal fans.

In addition, Li Xingruo's success at the beginning could not have been achieved without the help of Qu Xueyan. It was he who chose Li Xingruo's "Fulfillment of Wishes" as the theme song of his original main theme movie, and Li Xingruo was able to catch this express train. Great river north and south.

Due to emotion and reason, Zhang Songnian couldn't refuse this request.

After all, Qu Xueyan is one of the few directors who can guarantee the box office. Although the genre this time is still a romance film that does not seem to have a high box office limit, Qu Xueyan's movie finally performed stably after a week of release, with a box office revenue of nearly [-] million Won the box office champion of the same period.

Then in the second week, the total box office revenue reached an astonishing [-] million yuan, breaking the upper limit of domestic love-themed movies in one fell swoop.

And this result is far from the box office closing result, which means that this movie is refreshing the upper limit of domestic love-themed movies every moment.

The box office performance of this movie has greatly exceeded Qu Xueyan's expectations. After all, when he first got the script of this movie, he just thought the script was not bad. Such a movie was made with an investment of tens of thousands.

Qu Xueyan's expectation at the beginning was that the movie could pay back its capital, and then rely on his word of mouth to make a little money, the movie will be considered a success.

I wanted to use the song "Because of Love" as the theme song because I saw that the actresses in the crew liked to listen to this song when I was filming the film, and then I knew there was such a song. After Qu Xueyan listened to it, Immediately decided to go to Zhang Songnian to discuss about using this song as the theme song of his new movie.

In the end, this ratio of box office revenue was obviously not expected by Qu Xueyan. This ratio of return on investment is basically a successful example of low-cost movies.

But Qu Xueyan is obviously not satisfied with this. Although this movie has brought him a lot of income, as I said before, the upper limit of love movies is too low.

This movie is full of calculations, and by the time it is released, it will only have a box office of more than one billion yuan.

Whenever he thinks of the movie "Infernal Affairs", Qu Xueyan tightens his heart with envy.

This movie is definitely the most competitive film for the Academy Awards, and even Qu Xueyan is almost certain that "Infernal Affairs" will win this year's Academy Awards as long as there is no accident.

This is the Academy Award every four years. A director's career is only ten or twenty years, how many four years are there?

Moreover, the evaluation requirements of the Academy Awards are extremely strict. Although the box office factor will be taken into consideration, it is not the main criterion for judging.

The selection of the Academy Awards is absolutely serious. In addition to the recognition of the public, the quality of the film, as well as the humanistic factors and ideological level in the film are more important criteria.

In fact, the quality of movies has little to do with public recognition, or the Academy Awards prefer works with more artistic content.

In the past, there were several times when the Academy Awards even preferred to have a bye and did not choose the Academy Awards. The main reason was that the judges of that year thought that there were no suitable works this year, so they were unwilling to award the Gold Award.

And it is this serious and serious spirit that has made generations of directors rush to the Academy Awards.

The Golden Image Awards have only been established for more than 40 years. Among the ten Golden Image Awards held, only five or six films and directors have won this honor.

This award is definitely an honor that all directors aspire to.

Li Zhengrong, as the most popular director in the movie box office market, has always been criticized and not applauded, but after "Infernal Affairs" was released, there was no such voice anymore.

Many people even call this movie the pinnacle of Chinese-language movies. Whether it is the plot, the acting skills of the actors, or the level of the director, the lens language used are all top-level and impeccable.

At least in Qu Xueyan's cognition, "Infernal Affairs" is such a perfect movie.

He doesn't envy Li Zhengrong's "Returning Soul Night" which earned billions of dollars at the box office, nor does he envy Li Zhengrong's status as the box office champion director in the history of Chinese films. He only envies Li Zhengrong for having such a son-in-law, I envy Li Zhengrong who can direct a top-level script like "Infernal Affairs".

Especially after the filming of this movie was finished, and after getting in touch with Zhang Songnian, Qu Xueyan couldn't stop the thoughts that had been suppressed in his heart before.

Although I know that Zhang Songnian is very good at writing scripts, as long as he comes to Zhang Songnian, he will probably not refuse, but Qu Xueyan has always thought that he is a top director in China, and at the same time, as Zhang Songnian's senior, he can't do it anyway. pulled down.

But after seeing "Infernal Affairs", which had a double harvest at the word-of-mouth box office and was a huge success, Qu Xueyan's heart began to stir.

And after contacting Zhang Songnian again this time, Qu Xueyan couldn't stop thinking of cooperating with Zhang Songnian no matter what.

When Zhang Songnian was in Jinyu Entertainment before, he might have to think about not offending Jinyu Entertainment, but now that Zhang Songnian has left Jinyu Entertainment and set up his own studio, Qu Xueyan doesn't have so many worries .

Thinking of this, Qu Xueyan seemed to have found an excellent excuse and reason for himself, so he immediately contacted Zhang Songnian again.

With the pretext of thanking Zhang Songnian, Qu Xueyan went directly to the door to express his thanks.

"Speaking of which, if I didn't have this song written by you this time, and Xingruo's super popularity, there is a high probability that I will lose money for this movie, and you guys gave me this song for free. I'm sorry, but you guys are definitely responsible for the high box office. I came to the door today and felt that I should pay as much as the copyright fee." The moment he spoke, Qu Xueyan directly picked up the phone and planned to ask Zhang Songnian Bank card number, but Zhang Songnian stood up and quickly stopped Qu Xueyan.

Zhang Songnian quickly smiled and shook his head and said, "Director Qu, don't be like this, otherwise I won't dare to write songs for your movies in the future. Speaking of which, if Director Qu hadn't supported Xing Ruo in the first place, how would you be as popular as you are today?" , the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring, and a song is not a big deal, talking about money can hurt feelings."

What Zhang Songnian said is all the truth. It is still unknown whether "Fulfillment of Wishes" will become popular after the movie without Qu Xueyan.

It's not indecent to come and go, and this song was directly used as the theme song for Qu Xueyan. In fact, there is no loss to Zhang Songnian and Li Xingruo.

Besides, they didn't lack this kind of money, so Zhang Songnian thought it was a good deal to repay a favor with one song.

Looking at Zhang Songnian's determined face, Qu Xueyan could tell that Zhang Songnian didn't intend to take the money anymore, so he smiled and said, "Don't make me so noble, if you didn't have your father-in-law's recommendation, then If Shang Xing was his daughter, I would have to sell him to save face, I don't know if I would have listened to this song or not."

"No matter what, in the end it was you who successfully helped Xingruo take the first step to become popular. This is a kindness to us." Zhang Songnian explained seriously.

"I appreciate your character and attitude." Qu Xueyan looked at Zhang Songnian and said with a smile.

Did Zhang Songnian just smile slightly at this, and said: "I haven't congratulated Director Qu for breaking the box office record of love movies. Congratulations."

Qu Xueyan shook his head with a smile, and said, "Compared with your father-in-law's box office, I am far behind by more than 01:30, so don't congratulate me."

After finishing speaking, Qu Xueyan paused for a moment, and then continued: "In addition to expressly thanking you for my visit this time, I actually came here with very personal thoughts."

To be honest, Zhang Songnian was also a little surprised why Qu Xueyan would come to the door to say thank you. After all, it is not necessary to say this kind of thing in person. A WeChat or a phone call is much more convenient than this.

However, if Qu Xueyan came to him with ideas, it was nothing more than a few reasons, and Zhang Songnian could make a guess.

As a director, Qu Xueyan is also the leader of the youngest generation, and his influence in the entertainment industry is no less than that of his old man. After thinking about it, Zhang Songnian felt that no matter whether Qu Xueyan planned to let him write songs or do something, it would be for him. Shouldn't be a big problem.

"Director Qu said it's okay, if I can help." Zhang Songnian said with a slight smile.

After hearing Zhang Songnian's answer, Qu Xueyan laughed one after another, and said heartily: "Hahaha, you can help, you can definitely help."

After laughing, Qu Xueyan straightened his expression, then looked at Zhang Songnian and said seriously: "I have no pursuit in this life, I just want to make a movie."

Qu Xueyan's words made Zhang Songnian stunned for a moment, and then he asked a little puzzled: "Director Qu, haven't you been filming all the time, and there are not many people in your circle of achievements comparable to you."

Qu Xueyan shook his head, and then said: "I'm talking about movies that can satisfy me."

After pausing for a while, Qu Xueyan said with a little emotion: "The Chinese film market is already trying its best to cater to the audience, and people in the circle must adapt to this rule if they want to survive. You can see that the box office in recent years has really It is much higher than before, but if you think about it, can the current level of movie scripts be compared with before?"

Qu Xueyan's words made Zhang Songnian ponder for a while, the more Zhang Songnian thought about it, the more he felt that Qu Xueyan's words were very reasonable.

As he said, the box office performance has indeed been getting higher and higher in recent years, but it seems that there are not many movies that can be named.

Looking at the pensive Zhang Songnian, Qu Xueyan continued: "The most perfect movie I have seen in recent years is called "Infernal Affairs."

Zhang Songnian was still silent, and Qu Xueyan continued while the iron was hot: "Although this request is a bit presumptuous, but Songnian, if you can still write such a script, I am willing to spend money to buy this script."

Qu Xueyan's words were within Zhang Songnian's expectation. Since he just said that he wanted something, as a director, he must be asking for a song or a script.

After Zhang Songnian heard the words, he shook his head first.

After seeing Zhang Songnian's reaction, Qu Xueyan nodded in disappointment, and smiled reluctantly: "It seems that a script like "Infernal Affairs" is indeed rare, but Songnian, you don't have to worry, it doesn't matter if you don't have any now. , if there is such a script in the future, I hope you can find me first, as long as I think it is suitable, the price is not a problem."

Although Qu Xueyan feels that he is still young, he can still make movies for many years.But Qu Xueyan knows that good scripts are hard to come by, and it doesn't mean that his director career is long enough to be able to leave good works or have the opportunity to compete for the China Film Festival's Golden Award.

After hearing Qu Xueyan's words, Zhang Songnian continued to shake his head, then looked at Qu Xueyan and said with a smile: "Director Qu, you misunderstood me, what I mean is that we may change the way of cooperation, the way of buying out the script Not for our win-win."

Qu Xueyan was a little taken aback by Zhang Songnian's answer. He raised his head to look at Zhang Songnian, and asked curiously and pleasantly, "You mean, you still have a script similar to "Infernal Affairs" in your hand?"

Zhang Songnian's words made Qu Xueyan's words see hope.

Zhang Songnian nodded with a smile, and then said: "To be precise, I want to make another sequel to the movie "Infernal Affairs", but my father-in-law said before that "Infernal Affairs" is his last as a director. It’s a movie, so in fact, I’ve been worrying about who should be more suitable for this series of movies, it’s not a coincidence, you just happened to find it.”

In fact, after leaving Jin Yu, Zhang Songnian has been considering whether to continue to make the second and third parts of "Infernal Affairs". After all, the integrity of this series of films is quite high, and the level of the latter two is not inferior to the second one. How much, it would be a pity not to shoot.

However, Zhang Songnian had been struggling to find a suitable director for filming. His old father-in-law was really not suitable to be a first-line director at this age. It was not until Qu Xueyan came to ask for a script that Zhang Songnian thought of it.

"Sequel?" Qu Xueyan replied in surprise at first, then he reacted and clapped his hands excitedly: "Okay, okay, that's really a coincidence, what a coincidence!"

Zhang Songnian smiled slightly and said: "I estimate that there are three films in this series. If Director Qu is willing to cooperate, we might as well discuss the way of cooperation and the follow-up plan."

After hearing that there are three parts in the "Infernal Affairs" series, Qu Xueyan's eyes lit up immediately. Although he hasn't read the script yet, judging from the quality of the first part, the quality of the latter two will certainly not be bad.

"What is there to discuss? Even if I work for you, I am willing to make this series of movies!" (End of this chapter)