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"Someone is afraid of you."

Chen Ziyan said to Lu Yanhe.

"Afraid of me...what?" Lu Yanhe asked, "Red?"

"No, I am afraid of the international influence you have shown." Chen Ziyan said, "Although we all know that this does not come entirely from you, but others cannot see so many things, they will only see that you participated Each film will be shortlisted for top international film festivals.”

Lu Yanhe: "But, being shortlisted for a top international film festival, what will make others afraid of you?"

"I'm afraid your voice will become stronger." Chen Ziyan said, "The film and television industry is not just film and television companies and production staff, it also has various associations and organizations, and various stakeholders are involved behind it. You see Director Wang Zhong, a Best Director Award at the Situl International Film Festival has made his status in the country skyrocket, and he has directly entered the ranks of top directors. All the top film events in the country in the past year will definitely invite him to attend. The same goes for you. Your current resume is unparalleled among actors, and you are only missing one real award. When you win the Best Actor Award overseas, you will directly enter the top actor category. Club - although some people are saying that you have entered, but there is no grand prize, it is still not worthy of the name. "

"This is not the most critical point. In addition, you are also a director, screenwriter, and producer. Think about it, from "Rouge Button" to "People on the Road", your scripts have made Chen Bige come back again. Winning the Best Actress trophy at a top film festival and returning to the peak of his career allowed Huang Kairen to successfully enter the film industry, have a well-received screen role, and make a complete newcomer Wang Dashan famous. "

Chen Ziyan continued: "If you want to make "Love Letters", top celebrities in the industry like Luo Yuzhong will personally help you with the production, Liu Bigo, a director who won the Venice International Film Festival Jury Award, will help you with the photography direction, and Chen Bige will break the link." It is a common practice in dramas to join a new team to play the heroine in your new film less than half a year after leaving the team. Director Wang Zhong also brought Wintour Robey, the artistic director of the Jose Film Festival, to visit your crew for various things. , are repeatedly reminding people in this circle that you have formed a considerable force, and if you want to do something, you have a very powerful force to help you. "

Lu Yanhe gradually realized what Chen Ziyan was talking about.

"Does the tree attract the wind?" Lu Yanhe asked.

"No, the emergence of a new force will inevitably affect the interests of other interest groups." Chen Ziyan said, "For you, this is just a circle of friends, but for others, it means a new threat. You are alone Hong, that's just competition with other artists, but you are not. HP's Asia Pacific head Tom White has priority in purchasing your projects, and other people's projects can only be ranked behind. Northern Lights Video has signed a long-term contract with you. Cooperation framework, other people's cooperation with Northern Lights Video will inevitably be affected. Who should be given priority in funding is a very relevant issue. The first generation of "Six People" can not be co-framed in Beijing and Taiwan, but you can handle it. And, obviously. , the actors of "Six People" believe in you more and are closer to you."

Lu Yanhe was silent.

"Now, do you know why others are afraid of you?" Chen Ziyan said, "It's not only the big tree that attracts wind, but also the crime of having a jade in your possession without any guilt."

Lu Yanhe took a deep breath.

"Then what should I do? Try to produce as few good works as possible in the future?"

"Of course not." Chen Ziyan rolled her eyes at him, "I'm just reminding you that your current situation and status have undergone tremendous changes. From now on, other people's attacks on you will probably be more and more biased towards things like this one. They say you are greedy for other people's things, or accuse you of being unqualified. In short, we must pull you down from this altar. "

Lu Yanhe: "Sister Ziyan, what do you mean-"

"The reason I'm telling you all this is that I hope you won't be inflamed by what these people say, and stand up and admit that they are right, saying that you really don't have the exaggerated influence that everyone says." Chen Ziyan said, "Others will Don’t take off the golden clothes you put on yourself. Since many people have lifted you to this position, what you have to do is not to get down from this position, but to stand as firmly as possible in this position.”

Lu Yanhe suddenly realized.

Chen Ziyan was worried about the onset of his "moral mysophobia" again, so she went to explain it to make her "identity clear".

"..."

"Sister Ziyan, I think I'm not so naive now." Lu Yanhe never had such an idea from the beginning to the end.

"That's good." Chen Ziyan smiled at him.

Lu Yanhe knew when he saw her smile that she didn't believe what he said.

——You are still very naive.

Her meaning was written clearly on her face.

"..."

-

In the afternoon, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi went to the cinema to watch a newly released movie called "Behind the Golden Coat". This is a feature film about a tailor who secretly conveyed information in a war-torn background and intense situation during the Republic of China. It is similar to a biopic, except that this is a fictional character with no historical prototype. The story of the characters is shot in the style of a spy war.

The box office of this movie during the summer release was not very good, with only over 6 million on the first day, and only increased to over 8 million on the second day.

This movie is indeed not suitable for the summer season, which is full of commercial films.

However, the movie received good reviews. Lu Yanhe only found out about this movie when he saw Zeng Qiao recommending it in his circle of friends.

In the cinema, most people are watching "The Myth Returns", which has been the best performer at the box office recently. It is a period fantasy blockbuster that was released at the end of July. It has been in theaters for almost two weeks and has already earned a box office of 1.5 billion. Under the sweep of this movie, other new films including "Escape" and "Assassination of the Ming Dynasty" were swept into the second tier. It cannot be said that the box office performance was poor, but it cannot be regarded as the winner of this summer season. As for the older films that were released earlier, "The Angry Crow" has almost exhausted its market potential, and "The Lost Road" currently only has a few million in daily box office, which is basically fixed at around 640 million. Location.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi waited for the theater to go dark before entering the cinema and sitting in the third row from the bottom.

When buying tickets online, there was no one else in the row to prevent Lu Yanhe from being recognized by others.

However, there were not many viewers in the theater.

Lu Yanhe took a quick look and saw that there were only about a dozen people.

"Why is the movie "Behind the Gold" chosen to be released at this time?" Lu Yanhe asked doubtfully.

Chen Siqi said: "Probably because there are no big stars in "Behind the Golden Coat". They are all powerful actors. Even if it is placed in a small release like the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is still not the kind of cast that can attract audiences to the cinema. It would be better to put it on the summer season when the base is large enough. With proper promotion and operation, it can also get some box office. The production cost of the movie "Behind the Golden Coat" will definitely not be very high. If it can get 30 million in the theater The above-mentioned box office should actually be able to make back the money. Looking at the premiere, it should be able to get nearly 20 million in the first weekend. It has a good reputation. It may be able to stabilize the long-term and make a profit after it is released in theaters. ”

Chen Siqi now knows more about movie promotion than Lu Yanhe.

She thinks about it a lot and often writes comments on the film and television review section of the self-media "Jump Up". What she writes most is actually analyzing the operation of a film from an economic and market perspective. This is what she is interested in. Writing these articles is not so much for everyone to read, but as a way for her to write down her own thinking process and conclusions.

What Chen Siqi said made Lu Yanhe think it made sense.

The male protagonist of "Behind the Golden Jacket" is Fengshuo, a capable actor who basically everyone knows if you pay attention to the film and television industry, but when it comes to fans and popularity, it is really not enough to say how popular he is. Except for Fengshuo, none of the other actors participating in the show are big-name stars or popular stars. They are all actors who are well-known but have relatively few fans.

When such a movie is released, the early data is definitely not good. In addition, it is a pseudo-biographical subject, and it is a pseudo-biographical subject without a prototype. If the audience knows a little bit about it, they will basically not choose to go to the cinema. .

In this case, the choice of schedule is really not that important. What's important is how to "fool" as many viewers as possible.

Ten minutes after the movie started, a person suddenly came over.

She is also sitting in this row.

When Lu Yanhe saw this, he immediately lowered his head and made room for others so that they could pass by.

When the other party passed by them, he softly said sorry and sat down where there were only two seats across the Luyan River.

Lu Yanhe turned his head and took a look. With the light on the screen, Lu Yanhe could clearly see the other person's profile.

She is a woman in her forties.

Lu Yanhe raised his left hand and placed it on the side of his face, blocking it slightly.

-

In the two-hour movie, there was almost no communication between Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi——

The movie exceeded both of their expectations and was not boring or boring at all as they initially thought it might be.

The whole story is very compact and fast-paced.

The story tells that there was a tailor in Donglin City. Because of his excellent skills, he was very popular with the wives of various families in the city, and therefore often visited the mansions of various powerful people.

One day, a tailor was going to an adjutant's house to measure his wife's measurements and make new clothes. On the way, he was kidnapped by two men, one named Li Mazi and the other named Ma Chengquan, who threatened him to take them in. His apprentice was kept as a hostage by Ma Chengquan, and he took Li Mazi into the adjutant's house. Li Mazi wanted to go in and steal something. Under his cover, Li Mazi got what he wanted to steal without any risk.

Unexpectedly, that night, Li Mazi knocked on the door of the tailor shop and was seriously injured. They were exposed, and his companion Ma Chengquan had already died. He finally escaped and was seriously injured and on the verge of death. He stuffed a stolen cloth bag into the hands of the tailor and asked him to deliver it to the Ruyi Inn in the west of the city.

The tailor wanted to stay out of the matter and not fall into this muddy water, but he also didn't want this man to die in his tailor shop, so he went to see the doctor late at night. Not far away, he saw a group of people surrounding his tailor shop, and the leader was obviously someone from the Adjutant's Office. They were looking for the stolen cloth bag - which was still in his arms.

Before the tailor had time to think about it, he saw his apprentice being dragged out, unable to find out his whereabouts, and shot to death - the fourteen-year-old child was an orphan, and he picked him up with a gun. His forehead was on his head, and his legs were trembling with nervousness. Under such circumstances, he refused to reveal the whereabouts of his master.

The gun went off directly.

The tailor's eyes were bloodshot by this scene, and he wanted to rush out, but the scene of Li Mazi being carried out from inside made him regain some calm. He then understood his situation and knew that once he showed up, he would definitely be killed like his apprentice. Li Mazi was taken away by the deputy government, and the tailor could only go to Ruyi Inn secretly.

But when the tailor arrived at Ruyi Inn cautiously, he happened to run into another group of people surrounding it. Only one person escaped. When he was being chased, the tailor saved him. The tailor told him about his own affairs and gave the cloth bag to Xu San.

In order to survive, the tailor had to escape from Donglin City to avoid those people's search for him. And the person the tailor saved, Xu San, also had to escape from Donglin City as soon as possible to deliver things. As the two tried various methods, they became more and more familiar and close to each other. The tailor treated the young Xu San as his own son who died early. Xu San also learned some needlework from the tailor and said that he wanted to mend his clothes for several days.

However, the Donglin City was too heavily guarded, and there was no way out. At this time, there was suddenly news that the revolutionary army was defeated at Huyi Pass, and there was a lively cheer in the city. Xu San was anxious and said that he had to leave the city immediately, even if he died. The tailor said that he was so reckless that he was going to die. The two quarreled and parted unhappily.

The tailor was found and caught by the adjutant's men. The adjutant asked about the whereabouts of the list. The tailor guessed that the so-called list was probably what Li Mazi stole from the adjutant, in that cloth bag, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing, saying that he didn't know any list at all. The adjutant asked again if he knew Xu San, and he only said that he didn't know Xu San at all.

...

This is actually a story of a small person in the context of a turbulent situation.

Because he had seen the movie "The Sound of Wind", when Lu Yanhe saw Xu San learning needlework from the tailor, he roughly guessed what Xu San would do later - in this world, especially in spy war dramas, there is no precedent for embroidering information on clothes with needles and threads to convey intelligence.

When he saw this, Lu Yanhe basically knew how the movie would end.

Xu San must die. Only after his death can the list on his body be taken back by the adjutant, and the "list code" on his clothes can be passed out in the form of a corpse.

But how to write about the character of the tailor? What Lu Yanhe didn't expect was that Xu San was caught by the adjutant the day after the tailor was arrested. The adjutant asked Xu San where the list was. Xu San would rather die than surrender, but someone investigated his whereabouts yesterday and found him in his hiding place. After the adjutant got the list, he killed Xu San directly and was about to kill the tailor, but his wife came forward and saved the tailor's life, staying in the mansion to make clothes for her, so the tailor became the exclusive tailor of the adjutant's wife.

However, the situation of the war suddenly changed slowly. On the day when the revolutionary army entered Donglin City, the adjutant's mansion was surrounded at the first time. As the tailor of the adjutant's mansion, the tailor was imprisoned together. Until the evening, an officer suddenly took him away. When he thought he was going to be killed, he was brought to a familiar piece of clothing. It was Xu San's clothing.

The officer asked him if he knew a man named Xu San.

The tailor didn't speak. For so many years, no matter who asked him, he just pretended that he had never known Xu San.

The officer asked him if he could read.

The tailor still didn't speak.

The officer suddenly pointed to the clothes in front of him and asked him if he knew this clothes.

The officer took out a palm-sized piece of cloth from the interlayer of the clothes, with a few lines of words embroidered on it.

The officer said that what the tailor helped Li Mazi steal from the adjutant's mansion was a list of spies, which recorded the list of rats planted by the adjutant in the revolutionary army. At that time, Li Mazi and Xu San both wanted to send this list to the revolutionary army as soon as possible so that they could get rid of these rats.

In addition to the rat list, there was also Xu San's story about being hunted down and then being rescued by the tailor, and the two of them trying to leave the city together. Xu San wrote on it that if the tailor was still alive when the revolutionary army entered the city, please ask the superior to thank him on his behalf.

It was not until this time that the tailor knew why he was involved in the life-and-death crisis of the year.

At the end of the film, Li Mazi, who the tailor thought had been dead for a long time, was found in the dungeon of the adjutant's mansion. He had been imprisoned there for all these years, and the adjutant asked a doctor to treat him in order to pry more information out of him.

The tailor watched the skinny Li Mazi being sent to the car by his companions, and the car started and drove away. He turned around and looked at the clothes in front of him, and recalled in his mind that he and Xu San were in trouble together, hiding secretly in a house, and Xu San clumsily followed him to learn needlework. Because they were afraid of attracting attention by lighting a lamp, they could only do this work under the moonlight.

The tailor scolded him for being so picky and wanting to mend clothes at such an old age.

His young face actually showed a shy smile.

He said at the time: "My father is also a tailor, but I rarely have new clothes to wear. Every time my clothes are torn, he mends them for me. I asked him why he didn't make new clothes for me. He said that in such a difficult time, how could there be so many new clothes to wear. Sometimes, there is only a small hole, which I don't think is a big deal, but when he sees it, he will definitely ask me to take it off and mend it for me. I said it's too much trouble, so I might as well mend a few more holes at a time. He said that the torn places must be mended in time. If they are not mended, the holes will become bigger and bigger, and it will become more and more difficult to mend. Maybe you can't mend them when you want to."

The tailor stared at the clothes in front of him in a daze. There were many soldiers coming and going around. No one noticed this person staring at a piece of clothes in a daze, and no one knew what he was thinking behind his dazed eyes.

The film was frozen at this scene of him, and then the ending song sounded.

-

"I haven't seen this kind of movie in the cinema for a long time."

Lu Yanhe heard a girl in the front row say to her boyfriend.

"Yeah." Her boyfriend said, "I was quite moved after watching it."

Lu Yanhe let out a long sigh, and while the lights in the theater were not turned on yet, he said to Chen Siqi: "Let's go first."

Chen Siqi nodded.

As soon as the voice fell, the woman sitting on the left of Lu Yanhe suddenly stood up and wanted to go first.

Lu Yanhe had to let her go first.

But she stopped beside him.

"Are you Lu Yanhe?" she asked in a low voice.

Lu Yanhe was startled, ah, was recognized? !

He whispered: "You recognized the wrong one, I just look a bit like him."

"Don't pretend, you must be him, the voice is the same." The woman said very confidently, and then said something that shocked Lu Yanhe a little, "I am Zhou Changying, the director of "Behind the Golden Clothes", it's a coincidence that I met you here."

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi were both stunned by this incredible encounter.

Watching a movie, you can also meet the director of this movie.

However, what Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi didn't expect was that 20 minutes later, Zhou Changying would directly propose in the car that she wanted to make a sequel to "Behind the Golden Clothes" and asked Lu Yanhe if he was willing to invest.

Lu Yanhe was confused.

Of course, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi would not respond to such a thing immediately. They had a brief chat with Zhou Changying, exchanged contact information, and promised to reply after thinking it over, and Zhou Changying left.

After everyone left, Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi looked at each other.

Chen Siqi said: "I searched on the Internet, she is not a liar, she is indeed Zhou Changying."

"Well, my mind is a little confused now, I can't react, she... why did she suddenly ask me to invest?"

"Maybe it's because others think you are rich?" Chen Siqi asked.

"I'm not rich enough to invest in a movie." Lu Yanhe complained.

Movie investment is a gamble.

Chen Siqi said: "The film Behind the Golden Robe was produced by Ruyi Pictures. Why did Zhou Changying want to make a sequel? Why didn't she go to Ruyi Pictures? Don't they want to make a sequel?"

Lu Yanhe: "I think I need to ask Sister Zi Yan to help me find out."

Chen Siqi nodded: "Yes."

On the way to the hotel, Chen Siqi sat in the co-pilot seat and searched for Zhou Changying's information on her mobile phone.

"Director Zhou has a really rough life." Chen Siqi said to Lu Yanhe while looking at her mobile phone.

"What's wrong?" Lu Yanhe asked.

"Except for Ruyi Pictures, which she just cooperated with, all the film companies she worked for collapsed." Chen Siqi showed an incredible expression, "Some media directly said that she is a deadly director." (End of this chapter)