golden moonlight

Cha Simin mentioned to Lin Qi before that the director Fan Chuzheng has a "weird personality", which Lin Qi and Qu Haiyao had already realized before meeting him.

Because the first message from Cha Simin, who promised to match them up, was that Fan Chuzheng was unwilling to cooperate with them, no see.

Qu Haiyao was dumbfounded by this.It's not that he thinks that his status in the world is so high that others will definitely meet him, but he heard that this movie has been in deep trouble and has no way out. If Qu Haiyao is the director of this movie, then he must be in a hurry I will never let go of any opportunity that may become a turning point.Even if he doesn't like this actor, it may become a turning point after all. If it is Qu Haiyao, he will not let it go.

But Lin Qi thought of something else.Le Fan Films' hands have already stretched so long, right?Don't even let go of a prototype of a movie that doesn't have a single horoscope, trying to slap Qu Haiyao to death on the beach?

Fortunately, Cha Simin had agreed to help them find a solution, and the good news came within a few days that Fan Chuzheng was loose, and asked Qu Haiyao's team to meet with Fan Chuzheng's studio.

Lin Qi was still wondering what gift he should bring to the meeting, but Qu Haiyao directly rejected it.They have used these few days to do their homework on Fan Chuzheng and his previous works. After learning about Lou Yongrui, Qu Haiyao also has some ideas about this kind of weird but real director.

"He didn't want to see me in the first place. It's impossible for him to let go of his mouth now. It's a 180-degree reversal of his attitude towards me. It's just that he couldn't save his face and reluctantly saw me. If I want to make people change, I'm willing. Using me can only make people think that I am good for his movie, everything else is nonsense."

Lin Qi thought so too.Qu Haiyao sees it clearly, it's hard for him to not jump over the wall in such a situation, and treat everything he catches as a life-saving straw. Lin Qi can't help but start to question whether it was him who jumped over the wall in such a hurry.

"Then what do you think? Have you thought about how to take down Fan Chuzheng?"

Qu Haiyao stretched his waist, and said with a relaxed expression, "Let's adapt. This kind of thing is also a two-way choice. I want a chance now, but I have to see if this opportunity is suitable for me."

Lin Qi fell into a deep self-examination - why is the child in his hand older than himself?Is this why the emperor is not in a hurry and the eunuchs are in a hurry?Lin Qi would never admit that he was a eunuch.

When the two of them followed the address to Fan Chuzheng's studio, they realized that his "studio" was actually his home, and it was a very remote place, not dilapidated but also very "personal style" - Qu Haiyao seriously suspected that this place used to be a factory building of some kind.

The door was a huge iron door. When Qu Haiyao knocked on it, he thought he was knocking a gong. The sound was shocking. He didn't dare to knock again after knocking twice, for fear of being disturbed by complaints from neighbors or something.

But no one came to answer the door.Lin Qi frowned and called Fan Chuzheng's contact information. Qu Haiyao bit the bullet and knocked on the gong a few more times. The big iron gate made a sound of being in disrepair and was opened from the inside.

A man wearing industrial goggles and a chainsaw in his hand answered the door.The electric chain saw hadn't completely stopped, and it made a "Zi-" sound in the man's hand. Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi, who saw this situation at first, took a step back in fright.

"Tch," the man let out a disdainful scoff from his nose, "nothing."

Then turn around and lead them through the door.

Qu Haiyao argued for himself while going in: "Brother, you can laugh at me, but we still have to talk about the Basic Law."

Lin Qi hadn't recovered from the unexpected opening, but was frightened by Qu Haiyao's "Basic Law".He looked shocked at Qu Haiyao walking beside the electric chain saw, pointing at the electric chain saw to break off with the "big brother" he just named.

"You said that when we first arrived, we saw a man with an invisible face holding a chainsaw at us, and no one around us could see it. Even if we broke our throats, no one would care about us—— It's normal to panic in this situation, right? Should I also take out a chainsaw and chop at you?"

Hearing this, the "big brother" immediately retorted: "This is an electric chainsaw! Can't you tell the difference between an electric chainsaw and an electric chainsaw! Also, what does it mean that you can't see your face? Isn't my face here! You can't see it? You don't have eyes!"

Qu Haiyao was not at all comfortable, and broke up with him in a serious manner: "Look," he pointed to the door, "It's cloudy outside today, and it's going to rain soon, and we brought an umbrella here, your door It’s so dark inside, so it’s normal for us to have poor vision for a while, right?”

"Also," he pointed to the protective goggles on the man's face: "This goggle is so big, and your face is not big, so it covers half of your face at once, right? And the other half of your face," Qu Haiyao He actually grabbed the man's beard with his hand, "I guess your face hasn't been shaved for more than ten days, right? Half of your face is a blindfold and half of your face is a beard. Brother, do you think I'm right?"

"Big brother" paused, touched his beard with the hand that didn't hold the electric chain saw, then shrugged, and said only one sentence: "What big brother, big brother, I don't have a name? Fan Chuzheng Can you read three words?"

... This is actually Fan Chuzheng himself.Lin Qi silently sighed in his heart that it was really weird, and greeted them politely, and then Fan Chuzheng took them inside.

Because there is really no way to stay outside.

For the part of the road that Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi walked in just now, there was almost no place to set foot.It seems that it is a large workshop with an area of ​​about a hundred square meters. There are all kinds of wood, raw materials such as iron bars and copper blocks, finished products, semi-finished products, electric tools, and even lathes. Sawdust and iron were flying all over the sky, the air quality was terrible, and the lighting was terrible because there was so much stuff piled up.Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi staggered as they walked through the workshop, and when they finally reached the inside, Qu Haiyao's eyes went dark again.

Qu Haiyao always thought that Lin Qi's kennel was in a state of disarray, but he didn't expect that he saw a residence that could almost be regarded as a performance art in Fan Chuzheng's place. For example, he couldn't understand why the sectional sofa One set was turned upside down on the ground, and was used as a tool for drying some dyed fabrics; he still couldn't understand why there were many, many pots where the tea table should have been placed, and some of the pots contained cinnabar yellow talismans. Some have a bunch of keycaps from mechanical keyboards, some have apparently homemade bullets, some have another pot inside, another pot inside, another pot inside………

It's really surreal... Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi glanced at each other, wondering if this is the level of an artist?

"Sit whatever you want," Fan Chuzheng said.But Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi's question was that they didn't know where they could sit casually.Qu Haiyao looked left and right, picked something that looked like a storage stool and sat down on it, but it turned out that it was hollow at all—he fell directly on his buttocks, and vaguely felt that he was sitting on it. something.

"You deflated the container I used to grow garlic." Fan Chuzheng said expressionlessly.Qu Haiyao also pointed to the deflated thing he had just sat on with a blank face and asked, "Why do you put eggs in the garlic growing container?"

"Because eggs can provide nutrients for plants," Fan Chuzheng said, and then added, "I thought even fools knew this."

"Every fool knows that the leftover eggshells can be used to provide nutrients for plants." Qu Haiyao was not polite, "I have seen people plant flowers at home, put beaten eggshells and leftovers in flower pots bones, but I've never seen a whole raw egg put in a pot."

Then Qu Haiyao also added a sentence: "I thought even a fool would know this."

Fan Chuzheng was silent for a while before saying, "None of your business."

Then he walked over and threw out his "container for growing garlic".

Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi: "........."

Fan Chuzheng came back with two cans of Coke in his hand, Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi decided to ignore the question of whether Fan Chuzheng washed his hands by the way.In this environment, the two of them didn't intend to be particular about it anymore, and each of them opened a can of Coke and sat down directly on the ground.Fan Chuzheng casually threw a tattered cowhide notebook that looked like it had been licked by a dog and then thrown into the washing machine and wrung through to them. Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi turned over two pages before responding. Come on, this is the script of Fan's expedition to this movie.

If you ignore Fan Chuzheng's ghostly handwriting, the quality of the script is quite good.Cha Simin told Lin Qi that it was a suspenseful action film, but in fact it was closer to a police and gangster or even a war film. Lin Qi knew why this project was so difficult to execute after reading the script.

Fan Chuzheng's insistence on filming in Xinjiang is not unreasonable, because this is a drama with Xinjiang as the background of the incident.The male protagonist was born in a Kazakh herdsman family. Because he was born lame, he helped his parents herd at home. His elder brother went out to work in southern Xinjiang. The family was supported almost by his elder brother alone.One day, the news that his brother was killed outside suddenly came home, and the family suddenly collapsed. His mother passed away in grief, and his father was bedridden with illness. Father, he limped out of his hometown to find the truth about his brother's murder.

The version of the script that Fan Chuzheng showed them was obviously a semi-finished product, and there were many traces of scribbling, altering, and even the whole page being torn and torn.Qu Haiyao didn't speak for a long time after reading the book, and after recovering, he and Lin Qi looked at each other, and both of them could see the other's thoughts.

It's a good book, but very difficult to execute.To make such a movie is a challenge to the entire crew. With Qu Haiyao's current ability, it is very difficult to play any of the characters in this book well.

Fan Chuzheng noticed their exchange of expressions, and couldn't help letting out a cold snort from his nose. "You don't have to back down. Originally, you wouldn't have anything to do with this play. Who can you play here? People came to tell me to ask Qu Haiyao to play Sabul. My first reaction was what impression I gave them. Make people think Sabul is a badass?"

Qu Haiyao was not angry.He squinted his eyes and looked at Fan Chuzheng for a while, then picked up the notebook and flipped through it again, and asked, "So what team has you settled on for this play now?"

Fan Chuzheng also looked at Qu Haiyao for a while, as if trying to tell whether Qu Haiyao was angry or not.As if he didn't see why, he replied in an impatient tone: "Producer, photography, soundtrack."

"Who is it settled?"

Fan Chuzheng didn't answer for the first time, and after a pause, he pouted his lips and replied with an expression as if he smelled something strange: "The photography is my classmate, you will not know each other. Both the producer and the soundtrack it's me."

Qu Haiyao almost sneered for a moment, but he swallowed it back anyway.Lin Qi's reaction was not much better, the twitching of the corner of his mouth was obviously holding back a smile.But the strings in Lin Qi's mind were only loosened for a moment, and he immediately tightened up in the next moment.

Then isn't this a crew with leaks everywhere? !He didn't believe they couldn't take advantage of it!

Lin Qi didn't need to discuss with Qu Haiyao at all, he was sure that Qu Haiyao would definitely want to act in this play, and he also wanted to put Qu Haiyao in this group.He rolled his eyes, remembered what Cha Simin had said to him, and then directly said which pot was not opened and which pot was lifted.

"Are you planning to cooperate with the SWAT team over there? How is the negotiation going?"

It's okay not to mention this, but when Lin Qi mentioned it, Fan Chuzheng's face became even more stinky, and he held it in for a long time before he could say: "None of your business."

Both Lin Qi and Qu Haiyao were overjoyed.The two looked at each other, and Lin Qi said, "Don't worry, how long have you been delaying this show." He turned over the cowhide notebook in his hand and looked at it—it was an event album, and the date on it was nearly seven years Before, it seems that this drama has been standing still in the past seven years.

"It's been so long, you haven't even talked about an actor, how many seven years are you going to delay? Do you have any other scenes you want to make?"

"You know what a fart!" Fan Chuzheng said angrily, "Is this a scene that ordinary people can shoot? I asked the original male lead to go to a local herdsman's house to experience life for three months, and he ran away in two fucking weeks! He even ran away with the remuneration of the first issue! Who am I to reason with!"

"Why can't you justify it?" Lin Qi was puzzled, "Have you signed the contract yet? If he signed it, he would break the contract and run away. Why can't he spit out his salary?"

Fan Chuzheng was originally angry, but he was a little timid when asked by Lin Qi.

"...I beat that grandson up."

Lin Qi: "........."

"I think you need a new producer, you can't be a producer."

Without waiting for Fan Chuzheng to respond, Lin Qi bombarded him again: "Your whole crew is like no crew, except for your bare-bones commander—I guess you don't have any money. Unless you have a mine at home, it's impossible to stand up to your fooling around."

Fan Chuzheng propped his elbows on his thighs, stretched out his hands and rubbed his face.

"Originally, there were not only leading actors, but also producers. But after a few fights with me, they also ran away."

Lin Qi rolled his eyes, thinking that it is normal for a person like you to lose popularity.Behind the producer is usually the producer or distributor. Since there was a producer, the operation of the entire crew should be normal. I am afraid that it collapsed after the producer ran away.

"So who is the producer?"

"You Kan." Fan Chuzheng lifted his face from his hands.

You Kan is a film practitioner that Lin Qi has never been in contact with before. He has indeed worked as a producer or supervisor of several films, but he is famous in the circle because he is one of the organizers of the Qiushan Film Festival. The person in charge of the China-Europe Film Exchange Center, in recent years, domestic films and European films have to go through this exchange center. Since this film was originally produced by You Kan, it means that this film was originally expected to be taken. Exhibited in Europe.

Although he has never been in contact with You Kan or the China-Europe Film Exchange Center before, Lin Qi has already sorted out a complete execution context for Qu Haiyao's participation in this film.

"Let's do this. I'll help you get You Kan back, and continue to be your producer—don't quit! Can you make this movie by yourself?" Lin Qi showed a rare toughness On the other side, he waved the cowhide book in his hand and said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter how long it takes to film a movie, but now you haven't filmed it at all, and you are just dawdling outside! You are a person with ideas and abilities. Waste so much time in this kind of life, and don’t do this or that, how many seven years of your life have you wasted like this!”

In fact, Lin Qi is younger than Fan Chuzheng, even among the agents of Huixing Culture, he is not too old, but whether it is in the company or now in front of this weird director whom he met for the first time, he With a sullen face, he was full of momentum when he lectured people, and Fan Chuzheng was bluffed by him for a while.

"It's such a good idea, it's a waste of money if I can't shoot it for a long time!" Lin Qi made a heartbroken expression of resentment that a good seedling was buried, which made Fan Chuzheng feel nervous, and felt that his work was valued by others.Lin Qi persisted and said: "I'll give you a leading actor who will never run away, and then help you find the producer back. Where can you find such a good deal!"

Qu Haiyao was used to working with Lin Qi, so he immediately answered, "I will never run away. You will know my situation when you go out to inquire about it. Anyway, I don't have any business activities to attend, let alone no crew dare Ask me to make a film——I’m afraid of hitting a wall.”

"A snag? What snag?"

Fan Chuzheng had heard of Qu Haiyao, and had an impression of his previous title of "Xiao Rongyi", but he really didn't care about the recent gossip.Qu Haiyao and Lin Qi knew it was the right bet as soon as they heard it, so they told Fan Chuzheng the story of Qu Haiyao and Rongyi being hacked behind their backs.

"Fuck!" Fan Chuzheng kicked over a pot, "Rongyi is also those bastards who dare to attack?!"

After all, it is Rong Yi... As an actor, Rong Yi's professional ability is too strong. Most practitioners in the Chinese film circle admire his talent in acting.Although Fan Chuzheng didn't really admire Rong Yi much, but among domestic actors, he still had a high regard for Rong Yi after all, and immediately became furious when he heard this.

"I still want to use these low-level methods to cut off people's paths... Pooh!" Fan Chuzheng's face was full of disgust, and there was a provocative look on his unshaven face.

"Others don't dare to use it, why don't I dare to use it? I don't believe in this evil!" He turned his face and shouted at Qu Haiyao, "It's you! I just use it, what's the matter? If you dare to follow the front A male protagonist flees like a battle, see if I can break your dog legs!"

Qu Haiyao immediately jumped up from the ground and took a rest to stand at attention: "I assure Chairman Mao that I will always fight on the front line of the revolution! I will not leave until I die after filming!"

Lin Qi, who was still sitting on the ground, breathed a sigh of relief and was filled with disbelief: This can be done even with a scare? !