The king refuses to accept [entertainment circle]

【Mu Qing sighed? 】

"I checked this so-called director named Baitong."

On the other end of the phone, An Shi's voice sounded annoyed, "I said Xu Jin was cheating on you, right? This Baitong has never made a movie."

Lu Li didn't answer the call, and there was no other reason. After talking on the phone with Xu Jin, Lu Li had never heard of the director's name in his entire life, so he searched the Internet to find out what An Shi wanted to say. also know.

Sure enough, An Shi said: "This kid is just making short films at best. He went to study in Europe and stayed in Germany for two years. I heard that he made some films, but he couldn't find them online. I inquired and said that he is value-oriented. It’s too negative, and the images are too bloody and violent, and they’re all banned—banned in Europe! That’s a terrible thing to shoot! Don’t get involved with this kind of person.”

Lu Li was already mentally prepared for the confrontation with An Shi: "Uncle An, have you read the script I sent you? If you have read it, then—"

"Then what are you looking at?" An Shi interrupted directly, rushing to indoctrinate Lu Li who he thought was "going astray", "Listen to what Uncle An said, the script is important, but the investment, director and The production team is the key factor for whether the project can be implemented. This one has been banned from filming before agreeing to the contract. Can I count on the films he made in China to be released? You also asked Xu Jin, and the investment in this project has not yet been knocked down. Okay, if you promise him, you have to make an empty schedule for him, but with such a director who has no mature experience at all, and an empty team, you can't tell when it will start. If you don't do it right, you will be dragged to death It's gone!"

Lu Li listened quietly to An Shi's rant, and when An Shi finished speaking, Lu Li said calmly, "Yes, Uncle An, I also have the concerns you mentioned. This director doesn't even have a complete film project in China. The investment has not yet been confirmed. These are two crucial issues. However, we can learn about the situation of these two issues. Xu Jin also said that Zhou Wei, who just won the Huamen Best Actor last year, is very interested in this script and has already I verbally agreed to take over the leading actor, and the two sides are discussing the actor's contract. If Zhou Wei takes over the role, I guess the investment for this film should be in place soon. After all, Zhou Wei is in the limelight. As for the director's level, I will If you want to meet Bai Tong once, he must have his own work in hand, and we will know if he can control this script after reading it."

"But--"

"Uncle An," Lu Li said resolutely, "I know this is a risky project, and I also know that you are also worried about the "Legend of the Young Cultivator" I just finished filming. It stands to reason that I should choose my next step carefully. In this way, even if "The Legend of Young Cultivator" really hits the street, I still have room to save it. It's not that I heard that this is a movie script. I think I have the opportunity to make a movie, so I desperately want to take it, thinking that I will be in it soon Big screen. It's just... I really love the script."

Lu Li paused and said, "I believe that someone who can write such a script will not be an idiot. No matter what, I have to meet in person before I can make a decision. Don't worry, I will never use my key to promote I hope to invest in a bottomless pit. But at least, you have to give me a chance to evaluate whether this is a bottomless pit or a potential gold mine."

An Shi was silent for three seconds, sighed, and said, "Okay, then when do you want to meet? Tell me the date in advance, so I can coordinate. I have to go with you, otherwise I really can't let go of this heart."

"Well, Uncle An," Lu Li hesitated for a moment, and then said with a guilty conscience: "I probably don't need to trouble you to take a trip with me, I will bring a professional there..."

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Hearing the doorbell, Bai Tong stood up lazily from the sofa, put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, walked two steps to the window, and opened the curtains.

The originally cluttered and dark room now had light, and at least there was only clutter left.

Only then did Baitong drag his slippers and walk towards the gate, and finished combing his hair with his fingers on the way.

Unlike ordinary people who would look at the movement outside the door through the cat's eyes, or directly ask for the identity of the person coming, Baitong opened the door directly like a patriotic young man full of trust in the socialist new China.

There were two people standing outside the door.

Bai Tong was stunned.

He had thought that Lu Li would definitely bring someone here, and Xu Jin said it should be Lu Li's manager, An Shi.Xu Jin was quite worried, saying that An Shi was a good person, and when he saw Bai Tong's sloppy face, he probably had nothing to do.

Baitong directly rejected Xu Jin's request to "help out", he thought it was troublesome.

Bai Tong recognized Lu Li.Guess Lu Li didn't know yet, Baitong went to the crew of "The Legend of the Young Cultivator" to inspect Lu Li's acting skills. Later, Baitong had to admit that at first he thought it was his brothers blowing the sky away, but it turned out that Lu Li was still there. It is really a rare plant in today's impetuous land of China.

Baitong didn't recognize An Shi, but he knew the person standing beside Lu Li now.Of course, Baitong is still the one with a narrow social circle, but the person in front of him is so famous that Baitong feels that no one in China does not know this person.

As a result, Baitong still lazily said briefly, "Welcome."

He raised his arms to signal for the two to come, and then turned around and went in without even saying a word of pleasantries.

Sure enough, there is enough personality.

Lu Li twitched his lips and thought silently, if he was the only one, it would be fine. This is the first time Lu Li has seen someone face Mu Qing so calmly, with the same expression as looking at a street lamp.

Lu Li turned his head and glanced at Mu Qing. Mu Qing didn't show any offence, so he dragged him into the room.

That's right, Mu Qing was "offended" by Lu Li for many years inexplicably in his previous life, and he didn't see anyone caring about it. It seems that the prime minister can pull a boat.

Following Mu Qing into the room, Lu Li's mouth twitched again.

This is really... messy.

The carpet was rolled up, the sofa was crooked, all kinds of DVDs and data were scattered on the floor, and the room was still filled with the smell of cigarettes.

Obviously, the owner of the room didn't do any cleaning because of Lu Li's appointment.

Lu Li, who was not addicted to cigarettes, was not used to the smell of so much smoke in the room for a while, but he couldn't bear it, so he simply stood at the entrance and waited for Baitong who had entered the kitchen to come out.

Mu Qing looked down at Lu Li, gave up the politeness of waiting for the host to entertain him (it felt like the host had no such intention) and walked directly through the entire living room, came to the windows, and opened all the windows.

The bitter wind of early winter blew in immediately, and the strong smell of tobacco soon dissipated.

Bai Tong walked out of the kitchen with two disposable cups filled with hot water, looked at the opened window, and put the cups on the coffee table without paying attention. He still said concisely: "Sit down."

After finishing speaking again, he stopped looking at the two guests, went straight to the TV cabinet and squatted down, opened the drawer and began to search.

A typical artist who lives in his own world.You can say that this kind of person is impolite, but it is estimated that people don’t know what politeness is. He may even ask, can politeness bring any practical effect? False, go straight to the topic.

Once Bai Tong was brought into this setting, Lu Li felt that being able to pour two glasses of water for them would be extremely difficult.

As expected, Bai Tong directly got into the topic: "I guess you need to prepare yourself mentally. My film, um...may make people uncomfortable. Of course, "Looking for Sins" will be filmed—"

After deliberating on his choice of words, Baitong finally said, "I will exercise a lot of restraint."

When Bai Tong said this, he was mainly looking at Lu Li. Obviously, he felt that Lu Li, as a minor, was more worthy of worry than Mu Qing next to him.

Lu Li boasted that he was an old driver in his previous life, so he immediately smiled at Bai Tong: "I'm fine."

As soon as the words fell, Lu Li realized that dare to love was the first sentence he said since he and Bai Tong met face to face.

As for Mu Qing, he hasn't said a word until now.

Mu Qing didn't care much, he was here to accompany Lu Li today, and Baitong treated him as a wallflower, and he was happy to be a wallflower.

"Looking for Crime" was the project that Xu Jin introduced to Lu Li, and it was also a project that made Lu Li dizzy and considered risking himself with just one script.

The main reason why Lu Li came to visit Baitong today was to watch the banned short videos that Baitong couldn't make it back to China.

Baitong closed the window, drew the curtains, and took away the ashtray on the tea table.

Seeing that Baitong took away the ashtray full of cigarette butts, a look of satisfaction flashed across Mu Qing's face.

The lights in the house went out.

The oversized LCD TV quickly lit up.

The short film uses German actors and German dialogue, but fortunately, the characters don't have a few lines at all, and the story is not difficult to understand.

Of course, Lu Li is not just an audience, he is also a strict director and judge during this trip.

Unconventional sports shots, the slightly shaking camera is like a subjective perspective of a snake winding on the ground; the low and gloomy light, compared with the outdoors, the indoor light where the characters are located is dimmer, making the expressions on the faces of several characters More gloomy, even a bit of repressed madness.

The style of the whole short film is indeed "depressed". Even if there are such strong elements as sex and violence, all sex is rape and all violence is massacre. On the contrary, it highlights the pessimism about human nature behind the absurdity and distortion.

The story ended quickly, and the few characters in the film died like crazy.

Baitong didn't wait for Mu Qing and Lu Li to digest it, nor did he intend to communicate with them, so he immediately changed to another disc.

This is simply a black and white silent film.

Compared with the short story of the short film just now, all the characters collided together like fate, and the ending was ugly like a car accident scene.This short film has an obvious protagonist, so the film uses a lot of follow-up and push-up shots to keep the audience's attention focused on the protagonist.The photographer used the Steadicam to follow up the shots very flexibly, making full use of the cramped shooting space and fully showing the details of the scene.

Well, the protagonist commits suicide in the end, and it's still a suicide, so don't die too tragically.

After watching the two short films, Lu Li has come to a conclusion.

Lu Li noticed that the screen of Mu Qing's phone turned on once in the middle of the trip. It seemed that there was a text message. Mu Qing didn't reply, but then checked his watch twice in succession.

Lu Li stood up and took the initiative to say, "Thank you teacher, just watch these two movies."

Bai Tong, who was changing the video disc, was stunned for a moment, and then put down the action in his hand. He turned around, and before he could speak, he heard the boy's sincere and firm voice: "As far as I am concerned, I am very happy. Looking forward to working with you.”

Baitong is indeed a lonely person, but it doesn't mean he can't socialize at all, and he really likes Lu Li very much, so Baitong showed his first smile today.

"However," Lu Li continued, "You know, it's not up to you and me to make a movie. There are many other issues that my manager, An Shi, will probably come to discuss with you. But I think Said, even if we did not cooperate successfully in this film, I also look forward to having the opportunity to cooperate with you in the future, you are very talented, and I like your work style very much, this is my sincere words."

Bai Tong also understood what Lu Li meant, and knew that he had expressed his concerns about whether "Looking for Crime" could be successfully formed.

But if he didn't really want to cooperate, Lu Li didn't even need to say these things at all. Baitong scratched his hair and finally said, "I'm not a teacher, I just make movies, and I can call me by my name from now on."

Such uprightness made Mu Qing couldn't help showing a look of helplessness.

Lu Li smiled and said, "Then we'll leave first."

After leaving Baitongjia, Lu Li and Mu Qing entered the elevator, and Lu Li revealed his excited side: "My God, there are such emerging directors in China, they are so talented, every shot is full of Full of aura, full of ah!"

Lu Li didn't pay attention to his tone of pointing Jiangshan from someone who came here. It was inappropriate for him to say it at his current age and status. He just raised his eyebrows at Mu Qing, obviously expecting Mu Qing, who had been silent all this time, to express his opinion.

Mu Qing looked at Lu Li's ghostly appearance and wanted to laugh again, but he didn't force himself to restrain himself. A little smile spread between his brows and eyes. Mu Qing echoed Lu Li's point of view: "Yes, it's different from domestic ones. It is obviously influenced by Europe, but it also gave birth to its own unique video style, with a little cult quality, which is really rare."

With Mu Qing's approval, Lu Li was visibly more excited. He stepped out of the elevator with brisk steps. Of course, his figure sagged after a few steps. I've seen the piss of our teacher, I'm sure he has no connections in China except Xu Jin, in China, in the film and television industry, especially as a director, there is no way to get things done by relying on talent."

Lu Li also began to feel sorry for himself: "Oh, it's because I'm not popular, otherwise, once I take on the role, the investment in production and distribution will definitely be in place."

Mu Qing suppressed the smile that was about to overflow, and asked: "Why, you brought me with you today, didn't you think of asking me to play a guest role?"

After Mu Qing's temptation directly irritated his hair, Lu Li said angrily, "You think I'm stupid, even Baitong is not so stupid. Why did he not try to please you at all just now? Of course, it's because of his personality. But the most important thing is that with your current position, you can only match big-production projects, if you force yourself to condescend, "Looking for Sin" will certainly benefit, but you will lose a lot."

Not to mention, Lu Li dragged Mu Qing here today because of purely personal matters, not for official pursuits.

As for personal matters...

Mu Qing said that if you are worried about the project recommended by Xu Jin, you can give him the palm of your hand. How could Lu Li let this opportunity of La Muqing come out to meet him!

Lu Li asked himself that he was a man of integrity. It was already a hot fool to pull Mu Qing to make a cameo appearance in "The Legend of the Young Cultivator". He later regretted it. Go up to Mu Qing's compulsion.

In the film and television industry, as far as commercial works are concerned, the division of classes is quite obvious. What level of actor corresponds to what level of production. If you drop your salary and force yourself for some reason today, tomorrow you want to raise it back. I found out that it might not be able to rise back, and if you rush, you have to go down. Everyone is chasing the rise and killing the fall.

As for Hollywood's general rumor that "a certain actor lowered his salary or even starred in a certain literary film with zero salary", it was in North America and Europe. Other actors rushed to win awards, winning awards to shape their gods, and after winning awards, they could increase When filming, most of the money is made by selling DVDs, and it is not said that it will definitely lose money. Literary and artistic films have their own mature living environment, although they do not see it.In China, there is basically nothing to discuss about literary films.

Even in Mu Qing's position, it is his duty to maintain his godhood, and it is also a rule he has to abide by.

"The Legend of the Youth Cultivating Immortals" has invested over [-] million yuan, and it is barely enough to match Mu Qing's status, let alone "Looking for Sin".

Lu Li is not a stupefied young man. He had estimated from the very beginning. Based on the size of the script of "Looking for Crime" and then measuring the qualifications of the director, it would cost 4000 million yuan to break the sky. Then "Looking for Crime" would be the highest investment of 4000 million yuan. Forceful, 4000 million. Mu Qing's salary was more than 4000 million two years ago. Let Mu Qing come to play a cameo, that would hurt his feathers.

Although Mu Qing was hinting at him just now, but Lu Li was short-hearted once, and if he commits the same offense again this time, then he is either short-hearted or wicked.

Lu Li has carefully recalled that in the two years before his rebirth, he was sure that he had never heard of the movie "Looking for Crime", nor had he heard of the director Baitong.

There are two reasons, "Looking for Crime" hit the street, or simply "Looking for Crime" didn't start filming at all.

Whatever the reason, it was miserable enough.

It can be seen that after seeing Baitong's skills and the script of "Looking for Sins", Lu Li was really unwilling to give up.

Lu Li felt that he was indeed a performance artist. As an artist, in the end, emotion always overwhelmed reason.

Lu Li decided to think of a way, and he had to help save the episode of "Looking for Crime".

Not wanting Mu Qing to know his troubles, Lu Li smiled and said, "Okay, today I'm here to use your eyes to evaluate the quality of the director. Now that the film is over, I don't want to delay you any longer. It's been a hard day, you Let's go first, I still want to hang out in the neighborhood, or I have to do papers when I go home, haha."

Lu Li felt that his acting skills were perfect, and he looked up at Mu Qing with a bright smile on his face, only to find that Mu Qing was staring at him intently for an unknown how long.

Lu Li felt that he had managed to inflate his own balloon to create a festive and jubilant scene, but the air leaked after Mu Qing took a look at it.

The advanced version of the Luli brand barrage machine took the opportunity and said:

do not know why……

There is even a trace of grievance...

Mu Qing looked at Lu Li who unknowingly shrugged his shoulders, and suddenly sighed slightly.

Lu Li was stunned:

What did I just see?

Did Mu Qing sigh?seem?

It's raining red in the sky, Mu · life winner · king of heaven · Qing will sigh?

Wait, why is he sighing?

Let alone other people, Mu Qing knew that he had never sighed a few times in his life.

To ease his mood, Mu Qing stopped suppressing himself and stretched out his hand to rub the top of Lu Li's head.

It feels good in the hand, the hair is soft and fluffy, and the curvature of the top of the head is also good, which fits his hand shape very well.

Mu Qing also gave such a bewildering "feeling after touching" from the bottom of his heart.

Only then did Mu Qing say to Lu Li who was even more confused after being petted with a smile, "I have an idea."

Mu Qing looked at Lu Li, smiled and said, "I'm considering becoming an investor in "Looking for Crime"."