Exploring the Entertainment Circle [Ancient and Modern]

Tao Qingfeng was shocked: "Why me?"

Xia Xinghen said: "The drama team of "The Heroes" can become what it was later, and you have taken on important tasks in it. You don't have to be humble, it's obvious to all that you have done well."

Tao Qingfeng immediately shook his head and said, "It's not that I'm pretending to be modest to decline your invitation. I just finished the exam. The school will start in early September. I can't just skip class and film a movie just after I got into Huaying."

Although the results will not come out until July, but Tao Qingfeng knows how to perform well, of course he can pass the line.It's just that I didn't expect that I passed the exam so high, and it caused social news, that's another story.

Xia Xinghen also graduated from Huaying, he said: "You want to go to school? All right. There is no need to skip classes. You see, it is the beginning of June, and Huaying's freshmen will have a month of military training in September. You can always ask for leave. That's it. We have June, July, August, September, a total of four months of preparation time. We set aside one month to prepare for inviting actors and reorganizing the team. Shooting will start in July, and the shooting will take three months. It will not delay you Go to Huaying to take classes. Wait until your winter vacation, and then shoot the remaining two months of the play. We have acted this play before, and five months of filming is enough."

Tao Qingfeng asked suspiciously: "But other actors' schedules—"

"When signing the contract, make it clear and keep the schedule." Xia Xinghen took it easy, "Whoever invests has the final say, if you don't agree, don't sign them."

Although Xia Xinghen's school was confident, Tao Qingfeng still hesitated and said, "Even so. I don't know much about investing, it's not that I don't trust you..."

"I'm not a professional," Xia Xinghen said, "but President Yan lent me a few investment consultants. You should rest assured of him." After all, it was Yan Dan who blocked Tao Qingfeng when Xia Xinghen went crazy that time. harm.After that, Tao Qingfeng took care of Yan Dan in the hospital without sleep.In Xia Xinghen's eyes, Tao Qingfeng should have a good relationship with the Yan family.

Tao Qingfeng sharply said: "Mr. Yan? The second brother of the Yan family, does he also want to participate in investing in this film?"

"A little bit." Xia Xinghen nodded and said, "He said, play casually. I'm the one who invests the most. It would be better if you join too."

Tao Qingfeng said again: "In addition to investing, you asked me to be the director... why are you so relieved? When I go back to school later, what time will I spend editing the film?"

Xia Xinghen said as a matter of course: "After school time. Huaying has a very light coursework burden. You can choose your courses and arrange them. You can also skip some classes. It is very rare for you to have an attendance rate of 80.00% in a semester. Why are you so obedient? ? When the time comes, I will tell you which teachers' classes you can skip."

Tao Qingfeng thought silently: Xia Xinghen's familiar tone of skipping class, maybe after he went to class, he would receive a bunch of complaints from the teachers about the professional actor's skipping class.

"I won't skip classes, I can use my spare time. But I..." Tao Qingfeng just watched the work of the editing team, and then picked out suitable ones for them to splice.Thinking of the hundreds of hours of original shots of "The Witch" at that time (too many, due to the fact that each shot was shot in many groups from different angles, different camera positions, and different processing actions, this is also one of the disadvantages of not having a regular director ), and it took dozens of hours to edit. The editing team called in five people at that time, and it took about three months to produce the sample.

If Tao Qingfeng wants to be a serious director, he will be under a lot of personal pressure.

Xia Xinghen said: "If you are really in trouble, I can't ask others. But the temperament of "Returning East to West" in other people's hands, your thoughts and regrets... Believe me, you will not be reconciled. "

"I'll give you an answer within a few days." Tao Qingfeng said with a complicated expression.

Tao Qingfeng stayed up all night, flipping through the revised script of "Returning from the East to the West", meditating, from the darkness of the night to the sudden break of the sky.In the end, Xia Xinghen agreed to be the executive director, and invested 400 million, accounting for 15.00% of the investment ratio.

Three days later, the restarted "East Return to West Crossing" began intensive preparatory work.Xia Xinghen invested 8000 million, accounting for 50.00%.The second brother of the Yan family is responsible for the remaining 30.00% five (600 million) investment.All investments total [-] million.

The two leading actors, Xia Xinghen and Tao Qingfeng, are both investors, so they don't get paid.There was no need to pay for the screenwriter, because Xia Xinghen changed the script by himself.The total budget for the remuneration of all other actors is 6000 million.The remaining 1 million yuan will be used for the salary of the crew, sets, props, post-production, publicity and so on.

For the rest of June, Tao Qingfeng seized the time to catch up on director knowledge.Xia Xinghen was in charge of contacting and inviting actors. Except for Zhu Huaguo (the role of Fang Ming was deleted), the rest of the original cast members were basically invited.But not everyone agreed to come back, because some people couldn't accept Tao Qingfeng being a rookie director.Xia Xinghen didn't budge, so he turned to find someone else to replace him. I have to say that Xia Xinghen's appeal is still very strong. Last time when he hit someone and was blackmailed by the whole network, most of the actors didn't speak up, and they were even blackmailed. I have scolded the Huaguo film industry for protecting each other, and the eternal night.Because most of them knew what Xia Xinghen was like.

In less than a month, the actors were basically found.They all agreed with Director Tao Qingfeng.Shoot for three months first, and then shoot people for another two months during the winter vacation.

"It seems that my popularity is better than expected." Xia Xinghen said to Tao Qingfeng on the eve of the opening ceremony.

Tao Qingfeng was also quite surprised. He thought that the actors who would agree to direct him might be some [-]th-tier actors. He didn't expect that there were some older actors who didn't have any prejudice against him, a novice director who became a monk halfway through.Tao Qingfeng worked harder to learn more about directing.

Of course, Tao Qingfeng reported the situation to Xinghui Entertainment Company. Lisa was very happy. Artists can accept "foreign dramas" by themselves, which is equivalent to saving resources and earning extra money for the company (according to the contract, part of the remuneration will be handed over to the company). Qingfeng is too upbeat.She readily agreed and arranged a series of promotional work.

At the beginning of July, the opening ceremony was still held in Taohuawu Film and Television City.The media swarmed here, digging out consultations on re-prepared film and television dramas, interviewing Xia Xinghen's experience of retiring in the past two years, and there is another very important focus——

The day before the opening ceremony, Tao Qingfeng's college entrance examination results were announced.With a good score of 692 in the test, he is the champion of the city in province A.

An art examinee can get so many marks in culture class.Even if Tao Qingfeng is a few years older than the fresh graduates, it is very strange. With so many repeat students, not many of them will be able to take the city's first prize.

Moreover, Tao Qingfeng's Chinese composition got full marks.The birth of each full-score composition requires at least two teachers to type the full score blindly, and the papers will be automatically sorted out.Only with the consent of the language team leader can the full score be entered.

These full-score compositions will also be left for discussion in the group.At that time, the results had already been announced, so the authors of the full-score essays were also announced.

Tao Qingfeng wrote an essay in classical Chinese.

The college entrance examination question in this province is: ""The Analects of Confucius" says: 'The poor are happy, the rich are good manners'. Some people ask based on this, is there any advantage to being poor? Please make up your own title, choose your own subject matter (except poetry), write An article of no less than 800 words."

In fact, this sentence in "The Analects of Confucius" has an ancient version and a modern version, and the other version is "poor but happy with Tao".Whether it is "poor and happy" or "poor and happy Tao", both versions can be explained.In the oral compilation of "The Analects of Confucius", it is normal for different versions to add or subtract characters.The important thing is not to stick to words.

Tao Qingfeng wrote in the composition:

"In the past, Lubi's collection of books was based on Huang Kan's "Gu Ben Lun Yi Shu", which was called "poor but happy with the Tao". In terms of human feelings, it was bustling with people, and everyone was happy with the rich and the poor. However, the ancient sages traced back to Boyi, Shu Qi, down to Qu and Jia Er, abide by the 'Poverty and Happy Way'..."

He used the language of classical Chinese, but the structure of the article is still an argumentative article.This is not difficult for Tao Qingfeng, he only needs to apply his theoretical knowledge to the number of words in the college entrance examination composition.This composition can naturally stand out and be favored by the marking teacher.

Every year, the results of the college entrance examination are one of the hot spots of social concern, and media reporters in the province will compete to interview high-scoring students.Therefore, at the restart scene of "Return from East to West", in addition to entertainment reporters, many social news reporters also came, all for Tao Qingfeng.

One of their most curious questions was:

"Qingfeng, how did you get your score?"

"Qingfeng, how did you write that perfect essay?"

Tao Qingfeng replied calmly: "I studied hard for three months before the exam."

After the interview was broadcast, this answer gave countless Qianqian students a critical blow.

"Study for three months and take the 692 exam. Is this human music star going down to earth?"

"It's terrible. My three years are not as good as others' three months."

"Three months, are you a devil?"

In fact, many non-entertainment passers-by saw Tao Qingfeng's scores and said, "Why do you need an art test with such a score?" It was more than 100 points higher than the first line of liberal arts, and I was scared to pee.”

Other art candidates in the same year were trembling, especially those young child stars who, although their professional courses were very high, had only three or four hundred marks in their culture courses.However, "It's great to be admitted to the subject" that could have been a wave of hype, was overshadowed by Tao Qingfeng's shocking cultural scores.

In previous years, it was normal for child stars to praise "someone got a high score of more than 400" in the draft.For a child star, it is not easy to squeeze out time to study the questions in the busy acting career and get a score of more than [-] points in the high art line.But this year, no one dared to publish a draft to boast a "high score", and all of them were as silent as a cicada and as quiet as a chicken.

Not to mention how the ceramics were crying with joy. After the collective was stunned by the news, they frantically brushed "I am a fan of Xueba Qingfeng for a lifetime", "Why are you so good", "Immortal Exam. , I thought that Qingfeng only had such achievements after studying a certain field for a long time. I made a mistake, he is a top student."

After listing Tao Qingfeng's actual achievements so far, the ceramics found that starting from "Queen of Guining" seemed to be the beginning of Tao Qingfeng's transshipment.Countless ceramics thought it was this historical drama, which inspired Tao Qingfeng to study hard.So they organized a group to burn incense and worship Buddha under Director Xiong Zi'an's Weibo.Seeing the rows of incense symbols, Xiong Zian was at a loss, but could only wish Tao Qingfeng in a daze but sincerely.

As for Tao Qingfeng's sunspots, their faces turned pale and their brains froze in fright this time.Many of them used to cast aside Tao Qing's so-called "primary school graduates" and "illiteracy", but this time they only had a weak voice, "How did he get a high school diploma if he didn't graduate primary school?"But this is not a matter of principle. There are many junior classes in double-class universities across the country, not to mention that compulsory education can skip grades at will.

Throughout Huaguo, there is still an ethos of "the baton determinism of the college entrance examination".So Tao Qingfeng's test score was like a slap in the face of all of them.The results of the college entrance examination are black and white, and they don't even know how to be black.Among them, the most famous sunspots, with suffixes like "Has Tao Gou retired from the circle today?", changed their suffixes in desperation, and remained silent in a complicated mood.Usually, no matter Tao Qingfeng has good news or bad news, they can always find the ridicule at the first time.This time, a sunspot held back for a long time, and had no choice but to let out a long sigh on Weibo: "Alas..."

A line of ellipsis reflects his extremely fucking mood and speechless grievance.

More black people silently turned passers-by, and even fans.Because they found that being Tao Qingfeng's black was too painful, and they couldn't feel the exhilaration of being a black person who exposed greasy, obscene or disgusting things, and would only be choked by Tao Qingfeng's excellence time and time again.

Being Tao Qingfeng's fan is much happier than being his black fan.

After the news came out, many admissions teachers from the Education Department of Province A couldn't sit still anymore.

The more top schools, the more competition for high-scoring candidates.Especially in recent years, many high-scoring candidates choose to study in Hong Kong or abroad.College admissions offices are under increasing pressure.In addition to Huada, several double-first-class universities with the same grade as Huada all offered olive branches to Tao Qingfeng at the same time.

Not only did Tao Qingfeng not reflect the cultural disadvantages of arts candidates, but he had an advantage over ordinary college candidates by relying on his hard scores.

"Student Tao, although you have passed the art test of Huaying, you can also participate in the filing of the unified examination with your score. Your essay collection was published by Huada Publishing House. Come to Huada, the most prestigious school in the country. It must be an excellent institution of higher learning. Teacher Yan wrote a preface to your thesis collection, and the Great Chu Dynasty Dating Project really needs talents like you." The teacher of the admissions office wanted Yan Dan to be a lobbyist, but he couldn't get through to him on the phone.The teacher of the Admissions Office had no choice but to continue tirelessly on the phone to persuade Tao Qingfeng to apply for Huada. "In this way, it will be more convenient for you to communicate with Teacher Yan."

Tao Qingfeng smiled and said into the microphone: "Thank you for your kindness, but I... usually communicate with Teacher Yan a lot." He glanced sideways, and Yan Tan was sleeping next to him.

The teacher from the Admissions Office of Huada University did not give up, and said: "Our university's ancient Chinese major is also very good. We have opened a Chinese Academy abroad...traveling around the world, and the salary is good. Since your composition is full of classical Chinese..."

Tao Qingfeng's heart moved, and he reluctantly declined: "Hua Da... is naturally the best, but at this stage I have other goals. Thank you very much."

The university in Hong Kong also called: "Student Tao, our school can provide you with a generous scholarship. In mainland China, you can't get a scholarship of 60 Hong Kong dollars a year."

Tao Qingfeng also smiled and said on the phone: "Thank you, I don't really need the scholarship..." If you add two zeros to this amount, he might think about it.

Even the beautiful college in London where Tao Qingfeng went to England to film before, the professor who worked as a group performer paid attention to Tao Qingfeng's situation, and called Tao Qingfeng and said that as long as he submits language scores, personal statements, and professors before the end of July, With a letter of recommendation, he can study in this beautiful college, where international students are welcome, and there is a high probability that he can apply for a lucrative scholarship.After all, Tao Qingfeng has a lot of acting experience, and their academy hopes to absorb outstanding talents from all over the world.

Tao Qingfeng also politely declined his offer in broken English, saying, "It's better for me to stay in China when I'm in college."

As for Huaguo Film and Television University, they called Tao Qingfeng immediately, worrying that he would change course and be kidnapped by other schools, and repeatedly confirmed: "Qingfeng, the purpose of your exam is to study our Huaying, right? "

Tao Qingfeng smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't give up halfway when I do things."

The admissions teacher hesitated again: "You want to apply... to the Department of Acting, right?"

In fact, the publication of the dissertation and the perfect score in the composition once made the admissions teacher think that Tao Qingfeng had great potential in applying to the screenwriting department.As for the recent news of the remake of "Returning East to West Crossing"...it made him feel that if Tao Qingfeng wanted to apply for the directing department, he would be qualified.

This Tao Qingfeng, why is he so versatile.

Tao Qingfeng knew exactly what he wanted, and he didn't change it when he filled out his volunteer application.In fact, these things did not take him much time, because he has already joined the group of "Return to the West" and started to direct the play officially.He has to hurry up and complete most of the shooting tasks of this TV series according to the schedule before October.