Cross the road of the director

In September 2024, this year's phenomenon-level hit drama "Autumn Evening Snow" finally ushered in the end.Its sad ending made a large number of fans who followed the show cry, feeling sad for the lost hero.

On this day, everyone vented their emotions on social software, Penguin, Twitter, Zhihu...their footprints can be found everywhere, and the hot searches related to "Autumn Snow" in Twitter have been listed in the top ten, and they have not dropped down too. The Twitter account of the screenwriter of "Autumn Evening Snow" was even attacked by fans, batch after batch of questioning and cursing...

During the same period, Zhuang Sixian pulled Dongyuan Entertainment's fresh meat to hype, one news a day to amuse the entertainment reporters and the people who eat melons.

After arousing everyone's curiosity, it was announced that Ding Weiliang would be the leading actor in this movie.

Ding Weiliang?

Isn't he the hero of "Autumn Evening Snow"?Although this drama is popular, the acting skills of the actors are not outstanding.Zhuang Sixian, you are making a movie, not a TV series. There are so many candidates, why did you choose him after thousands of choices?

Before the doubts from the outside world had time to ferment, they were sprayed back by Ding Weiliang's 2000 million fans.

Seeing this situation, Xu Haodong, who was also from "Autumn Evening Snow", was extremely envious, and even specially asked Gao Zhixin, the person in charge, to ask Zhuang Sixian.

"Huh? Xu Haodong also wants to come? That's fine, but the main roles have been settled, so there won't be many roles for him."

Zhuang Sixian didn't reject him at all, and readily accepted that Xu Haodong would come to the film crew.Then as soon as Xu Haodong signed the contract, they sent people to start hyping the cooperation between Xu Haodong and Ding Weiliang again.

This wave of hype made CP fans very excited, but it also made Ding Weiliang and Xu Haodong's Wei fans unhappy.

Considering that it is rare for my brother to participate in filming, the main players on both sides did not participate in the battle. Instead, they comforted everyone in the fan group and diverted everyone's attention by distributing internal news.

So there was, on the surface, everyone's lively congratulations, a warm and happy scene.

This kind of calm situation is not what Zhuang Sixian wants.

In fact, after Dong Yuan had Mo Feiyang, Zhuang Sixian's situation became worse and worse, and the budget for the new work dropped again and again, until it dropped to 800 million.

The people headed by Kang Hao regarded him as cannon fodder, expecting him to create another miracle of 'small investment, big return'.

Small investment?Big payoff?

In a fit of rage, Zhuang Sixian simply chose the most popular streamer as the male lead, and put on an attitude of asking for money, completely disregarding the outside world's evaluation of the new work.

The script given by Dong Yuan?

can.

Dongyuan arranges roles?

can.

Zhuang Sixian never refuses anyone who comes, and everything can be discussed.

Seeing that he was so knowledgeable, Dong Yuan simply passed the budget and asked him to start shooting as soon as possible.Therefore, under Zhuang Sixian's operation, the filming started soon, and the topics related to the film were hyped up even if there was nothing to do.

He even lurked in the fan group of Xiaoxianrou, made some ambiguous remarks externally, provoked troubles internally, actively provoked conflicts among actors, and let fans of various families jump up and down to help him gain popularity, which can be said to be useless The lower limit is reached.

Dong Yuan is very satisfied with Zhuang Sixian's hype skills.However, halfway through the filming, the director, who satisfied them, shamelessly ran to the company, crying and complaining that he had no money for filming, and asked them for money without hesitation.

Dong Yuan faintly felt that something was wrong, but considering the outside world's attention to this movie, he could only grit his teeth and give it a go.

Back to September.

Qing Kong doesn't know about Zhuang Sixian and Dong Yuan's excitement.

At this time, Lu Jue's "The Ninth Letter" has been released for three months.He was not in a hurry to make a new work, but instead, he was carefully crafting the script while buying a special effects company on the verge of bankruptcy with Chen Yipeng.

Meng Wencheng, 38 years old, former boss of Lieyang Special Effects.

Meng Wencheng was fascinated by the simple special effects in movies when he was a child. When he grew up, he naturally went abroad to study and chose to join the special effects industry, hoping to leave his name in the film industry by relying on special effects.

It's a pity that when he really entered this industry, he realized how difficult it is to win awards with special effects.

Ten years ago, Meng Wencheng chose to return to China to start a business, but he did not expect that the ten years of starting a business were the hardest and most difficult days he had ever lived.

As we all know, domestic production companies are generally unwilling to spend money on movies.

Meng Wencheng originally thought that the proportion of special effects film and television dramas would become more and more important. After domestic directors and producers felt the general trend, they would be willing to spend more money on special effects.

result……

The principal of ten yuan, Party A wants the effect of 100 yuan.

Similar incidents emerge in endlessly.

However, how can special effects be faked without spending money?

Meng Wencheng adapted to the domestic market little by little, and was forced to become a producer of Wumao special effects.In addition, he will also accept some foreign outsourcing to increase business and let employees practice their skills.

After so many years of hard work, Meng Wencheng's Lieyang Special Effects Company has become more or less famous and has received more projects, but he never expected that the company's bankruptcy was due to too many projects.

After careful calculation, there are not many employees of Lieyang Special Effects, only forty or fifty people, so they can't take on too many projects at the same time.With this in mind, the projects that Meng Wencheng, who focuses on stability, are all carefully selected.

Under normal circumstances, when a film and television drama confirms the need for special effects, it will make an appointment with the special effects company in advance, and the special effects company will also arrange employees to follow the case. The work of the employees is closely connected with the film production company.

This seems to be a matter of course, so they have to wait indefinitely because the filming of the film and television drama is postponed, and because the film and television drama cannot be released, they cannot receive the final payment...

time is money.

Meng Wen became a postponed movie and missed the big contract, and had to not receive the original final payment for a long time because of the work that could not be released.

If things go on like this, Lieyang Special Effects Company has finally come to the point of bankruptcy.

The appearance of Lu Jue brought hope to Meng Wencheng.

He didn't know the purpose of this second-generation star in buying the special effects company, he only knew that his company would survive and the employees who fought with him would not lose their jobs.

Meng Wencheng was full of gratitude to Lu Jue, he was not good at words, but he didn't know what to say when he saw him.

"Brother Meng, why are you in a daze?"

Wei Yuan greeted Meng Wencheng enthusiastically, pointed to the seat next to him, and said with a smile, "Brother Meng, sit down, come and taste my freshly brewed Longjing, it's delicious."

Lu Jue sat in the distance, keeping his eyes on the laptop, and said while typing, "Brother Meng, this man doesn't know how to make tea at all, and he ruined all my Longjing wells. You'd better not expect too much."

"Hey, hey, it's nothing, it's delicious...it's delicious."

Meng Wencheng praised stiffly, with a delicate expression.

When Wei Yuan heard this, he immediately refuted Lu Jue proudly, his face was filled with the expression that you don't appreciate it.Lu Jue didn't care about him, and suddenly he was the only voice left in the office.

It was not the first time Meng Wencheng and the two met, but it was the first time they met as subordinates.

Facing these two overly young leaders, he was grateful in his heart, but it didn't prevent him from worrying that Lu Jue would just pretend to understand and command blindly, and worry that he was just buying a company for fun.

"Brother Meng."

Just as he was fidgeting, Lu Jue suddenly spoke.

The young man looked up at him and said seriously: "You don't have to wait for Lieyang's previous projects. As for the three projects that are in arrears, I will help you recover them. After the money arrives, the company maintains It basically works fine, right?"

Meng Wencheng was taken aback, then nodded frantically: "It can be done! Thank you, Mr. Lu!"

"Qingkong has its own project, so it won't help Lieyang's special effects too much, and more depends on you. Brother Meng, is there any project on Lieyang's side that has not been completed?"

Lu Jue's focused gaze made Meng Wencheng feel awkward.

He took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and said: "When the company had problems before, I explained the situation to the company I was connected with, and they all terminated the contract peacefully. That's..."

Lu Jue raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is it?"

With a bitter face, Meng Wencheng hesitated and said: "There is a production company in a very bad situation, and the post-production fee that can be given is very small, that is, our family has accepted this project." After a pause, "Director Wei asked us to do whatever we want. Once you do it, it doesn't matter if you have five cents special effects..."

Lu Jue thought thoughtfully: "That is to say, they know that the amount they gave is too small, and other companies won't accept it, so they haven't formally terminated the contract with you until now?"

"This……"

Meng Wencheng sighed softly, and said: "Yes, their project has not been terminated until now. If they were not desperate, why did they crash into our tree?" After a pause, "Mr. Lu, why don't we put Is this project done?"

Lu Jue was noncommittal, and after asking about the name of the work, he buried his head in the computer to search for information.

Meng Wencheng could only hear the sound of typing on the keyboard, and had no idea what he was doing. His mood went up and down, and he was in a panic.

Seeing this, Wei Yuan comforted him: "Brother Meng, A Jue knows what's in his heart, so don't worry about it. By the way, why are you here alone this time? Sister Luo and the others?"

Meng Wencheng said absent-mindedly: "They are cleaning up at the company..."

Wei Yuan chatted without saying a word, soothing Meng Wencheng's emotions.

Unknowingly, Meng Wencheng's early love stories, interesting anecdotes about reading, and hardships in starting a business were all set out by Wei Yuan, and the two became good brothers who talked about everything.

"This project can be done."

Suddenly, Lu Jue interrupted the pleasant conversation between the two, and said with a smile: "Brother Meng, I have a new special effects software for you. This time Director Wei does not have high requirements for special effects, and you and the people in the company will It’s just right to practice with it.”

Meng Wencheng was dumbfounded: "What, what? New special effects software?"

He just learned from Wei Yuan that Lu Jue was reliable, why did the young man give him a new special effects software in the blink of an eye?

Yes, some special effects companies have their own set of special effects software, which are not released for private use.

But what kind of companies are those?Those are all top-ranked companies in the world, and each top company is more powerful than the other.You are a small company with less than [-] employees, how can you use new special effects software?

What's more, the special effects software on the market has been finalized, and there is no way to break away from this framework and develop special effects software with new capabilities.

In this case, you still want us to change to new special effects software?

seriously?

The doubts and panic in Meng Wencheng's eyes are as real as they are.

Lu Jue couldn't help laughing and said: "This software has added some new things, you will know after you try it out." Make a proper discount."

Meng Wencheng: "..."

Discount?

The quotation given by Director Wei can no longer be lowered, and now you still want to give him a discount?

Looking at the smiling new leader, Meng Wencheng only felt that the future of Lieyang Special Effects was gloomy, as if he would face bankruptcy again in the next moment.

The author has something to say: The new work will be ready soon~ Qiang Qiang!

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感谢在2020-08-1223:09:27~2020-08-1823:36:03期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 hundred lanterns;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: murmur 3 bottles;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!