Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 104 Why do you look like a bandit in your military uniform?
Within a few days, the proceeds arrived, totaling US$2.68 million.

The money is still temporarily kept in an overseas account, and Li Qiutang prefers to bring the money back to China in the form of investment.

But before transferring the money back to China, he took out some of it for investment.

He is not a professional investor, but he knows that Tencent, Apple, Amazon, Moutai and Netflix are high-quality stocks, and he can buy Nvidia, AMD and Tesla in a few years.

Li Qiutang is not good at sophisticated operations, but he is able to buy stocks in the secondary market as a retail investor.

After buying these stocks, Li Qiutang no longer cared about them.

He is definitely investing for the long term. An important principle of long-term holding is to buy the stock and then forget about it!

Li Qiutang’s main battlefield is still film and television.

"Come, we're ready to shoot." After transferring to Bincheng, all the leading actors joined the crew.

Zhou Xun will be filming more scenes in Bincheng, because her films "Li Mi's Conjecture" and "Painted Skin" will be released this month, and she has to take time to promote them.

Among the actors, Ying Da and Huang Xiaoming have worked with Li Qiutang before, while the rest are working with Li Qiutang for the first time, and some of them are not aware of Li Qiutang's crew habits.

For example, Zhou Xun.

Li Qiutang's crew banned alcohol, which many people knew. The producer also stressed this to the actors before they joined the crew, and deliberately said something unpleasant: "The director hates drinking on the set. If you are caught drinking, no matter how famous you are, you will be scolded."

But Zhou Xun is so bold that she doesn't care. The character Gu Xiaomeng she plays has several drunken scenes, and she says she has to really drink to act it out.

Even though she said she was just trying to get a feel for it and wouldn't really get drunk, Li Qiutang still didn't allow her to drink on the set.

"You can't act if you don't drink? If you can't act, it means you don't have the ability."

Zhou Xun has a very strong personality and she can't stand anyone saying that she is incompetent, but as an actress who has been in the industry for so long, she has her own theories about acting and won't be easily convinced.

She argued with Li Qiutang, saying that she was experiencing life and that only by drinking real wine could she get that feeling.

But Li Qiutang's rule of prohibiting alcohol on the set would not be broken for her.

"According to what you said, I will also perform your torture scene for real?" This was a bit of a vulgar statement.

How could Zhou Xun be fooled by such a simple substitution of concepts: "Come on, are we talking about the same thing?"

"How can it be the same thing? You said it, really listen, really watch, really feel it."

Although Zhou Xun is not a professional, she definitely knows this theory.

"How can real drinking be the same as real torture? Drinking a little won't hinder anything!"

Li Qiutang would not back down on this issue: "No matter what you say, in my crew, you can't drink.

"If you think you can't act well without drinking, I'll hire a teacher to teach you how to act drunk."

Zhou Xun couldn't stand this.

Li Qiutang added fuel to the fire and said, "Hey, bring the acting teacher into the group, and then we'll see who will be embarrassed."

What's wrong with the big names? What's wrong with the leading actress? Li Qiutang's crew must follow Li Qiutang's rules.

Zhou Xun couldn't win the argument with Li Qiutang and left angrily.

However, the assistant director gave Zhou Xun a suggestion.

"The crew is definitely not allowed to drink. The director has been like this for the past three dramas. It won't work no matter who comes. But aren't you going to leave the crew to promote "Li Mi" and "Painted Skin"? You can drink during this time to get a feel for it and study hard."

This is the only way Zhou Xun can drink and act.

"The director had no room for negotiation on this issue. Both Huang Jianxin and Chen Guofu were not allowed to drink alcohol on the set."

Zhou Xun retained this suggestion, as she thought that drinking and performing on the set would be most effective.

Zhou Xun was scolded by the director, and other actors who had similar ideas did not dare to speak out.

After filming in Bincheng for 10 days, Zhou Xun left the crew. During this period, Zhou Xun had been fighting for the right to drink while filming, but was sternly rejected by Li Qiutang every time.

After Zhou Xun left, Jiang Wen, who played the guest role of Commander Zhang, joined the crew ahead of schedule in order not to delay the progress. Jiang Wen is really powerful!
To put it bluntly, Jiang Wencai is the biggest star in the entire crew.

The other people in the crew didn't know he was coming today, and when he showed up on the set, many people were startled.

Su Youpeng and others stood up to greet Jiang Wen.

"They didn't know you were coming today." Li Qiutang shook hands with Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen smiled and said, "I'm not a big leader, so why should you look at me like this?"

Li Qiutang first took him around the set.

"Your conditions are quite difficult." Qiuzhuang was built on a cliff by the sea, and the conditions for the crew were indeed not good, and could even be a bit dangerous.

"It's okay, the basics are guaranteed." Li Qiutang said.

Jiang Wen patted the suspension bridge that the show had built: "It's really something. It cost a lot of money."

Li Qiutang gestured with her hands: "Just for this stand, guess how much it cost."

Jiang Wen held up three fingers. Li Qiutang shook his head and opened his palm: "This number."

Jiang Wen smiled and said, "It's not expensive. Both of you investors have money."

"I also invested in one myself, so it was my own money."

Jiang Wen didn't know in advance that Li Qiutang had also invested in The Voice of China, so he said, "How could he use his own money?"

But Jiang Wen guessed the reason why Li Qiutang invested in and directed the show: "Even if you don't invest money, the director is still the boss of the crew."

Then he thought again, Li Qiutang is young after all, and sometimes his words may not be so effective, so it makes sense to invest some money to increase his voice.

Jiang Wen did not join the crew to film today, but just to familiarize himself with the crew and Li Qiutang's working methods.

He and Li Qiutang sat in front of the monitor.

Li Qiutang laughed and said, "I'm not nervous when Third Master sits next to me and watches me filming, but I get scared when you sit next to me."

Jiang Wen said, "Just shoot your own film. Why do you care about me?" Then he lowered his head to look at the script and storyboard of Li Qiutang's scene.

"Come on, Director Jiang Wen is watching." Li Qiutang said on the intercom, "Come on, get ready, start."

Jiang Wen got to know the crew and Li Qiutang fully on the first day, and put on makeup and went on stage on the second day.

"It's weird." This was also the first time Li Qiutang saw Jiang Wen's look, "Why do you look like a bandit in a military uniform?"

This made everyone around laugh.

Jiang Wen didn't care about this kind of joke: "He looks old and rough, there's nothing I can do about it."

Jiang Wen looked like this when he filmed "Furong Town". 20 years have passed, and he still looks like this.

"Come, take a photo of me and Teacher Jiang Wen." Li Qiutang asked for a group photo first.

After taking a group photo, Jiang Wen and Li Qiutang walked towards the set together.

"On my first day here, your producer told me that your crew has banned alcohol from the entire production, and it has been like this since your first film."

"Yeah. When we were filming Comet, an actor drank real alcohol on the set and almost messed up. Since then, I don't allow people to drink on the set, even after the scene."

"I heard that you and Zhou Xun had a fight about this a few days ago."

Li Qiutang smiled bitterly and said, "If you can't drink, you can't drink. If the crew doesn't have some rules, they can't control these people."

After entering the set, Li Qiutang explained the play to Jiang Wen, telling him how to shoot his scene and what kind of effect he wanted.

"Okay, I understand. Let's get started." Jiang Wen doesn't have many scenes in Bincheng. His main cameo scenes will be filmed in Zhuolu, so he will have to come over then.

(End of this chapter)