Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 106: Only the rich can live forever

The crew of "The Sound of Wind" will not only shoot the exterior scenes of Qiuzhuang on the cliff in Bincheng, but will also shoot a major scene in the newly built Chuang Guandong Film and Television City - Wu Zhiguo comes to Li Ningyu to ask for the cheongsam that Gu Xiaomeng sewed for her, and confesses everything to Li Ningyu.

This is also the reason why the crew did not delay their work even though Zhou Xun was not there.

"Crossing the Guandong, Part Two" also started filming this month, and the two crews are very close.

The two crews often visited each other.

Li Qiutang drove the crew's car back to the set to have dinner.

"What's for dinner today?" I asked casually, and then I saw Dong Xuan and Zhang Hanyu sitting at a table eating.

Li Qiutang said with a smile: "Is your group's food not tasty? Why do you come to eat here?"

Dong Xuan smiled and said, "I'll save some money for our group."

"I have to ask your director to reimburse me tomorrow." As Li Qiutang was speaking, his assistant brought him his meal.

Li Qiutang knew about "Crossing the Guandong", but she didn't know much about "Crossing the Guandong (Part 2)" which was being filmed by Dong Xuan.

"Are you talking about the prequel to "Crossing the Guandong" or the sequel?"

Dong Xuan said with a smile: "'Crossing Guandong' tells the story of Zhu Kaishan's family. The four siblings of our Song family went to Guandong and performed until liberation."

That has basically nothing to do with "Crossing the Guandong", but I can't say this in front of Dong Xuan.

Dong Xuan had a meal with the crew of "The Sound of Wind" and then went back. Li Qiutang went to work as usual.

Li Bingbing had to cry in this scene. Crying scenes are easy to act, and it is even easier for an actor like Li Bingbing.

Her grasp of Li Ningyu's current situation was accurate, and she didn't need Li Qiutang to tell her the story.

But crying scenes are really tiring!

Li Bingbing only cried three times and passed the scene. Then he was asked to shoot again from a different angle.

"Keep it up, we'll take another take, cry harder, don't worry about your image."

"Okay." Li Bingbing's professional attitude is trustworthy.

"Do you need eye drops?" Li Qiutang asked casually.

Li Bingbing laughed and said, "I can't afford to lose face like this."

This is not something that can be said, fortunately Zhou Xun is not here.

"Okay, get ready, touch up your makeup, and we'll cry again."

The crew spent a lot of time in Bincheng, but they always moved to Zhuolu Film and Television City on the second day of the National Day holiday.

All the remaining scenes of "The Sound of Wind" will be completed and wrapped up here.

And all the actors also came to Zhuolu Film and Television City.

Jiang Wen also came back, and at his request, his hotel room was next to Li Qiutang.

Jiang Wen found that Li Qiutang was a good free laborer.

What kind of work? Let him work on The Story of Stealing an Official.

So when Jiang Wen returned to the crew of "The Sound of Wind", he brought the novel and script of "The Story of Stealing Officials". But Li Qiutang was not a person who didn't know what was good for him. Jiang Wen said that he was just asking him to give some suggestions, and he couldn't really put forward all the conditions.

After all, this is not his project, and Jiang Wen's style of doing things may not necessarily make him listen to him.

Therefore, Li Qiutang only discussed some minor details with Jiang Wen.

"The Story of Stealing an Official" has a screenwriter team of more than 20 people, but they are no match for Li Qiutang?

Li Qiutang said before that she did not see the role of the people in the script, but Jiang Wen did not listen to her. In the script he brought now, the people are still not written about.

Jiang Wen’s explanation is that if he wanted to write about the people, the entire story would have to be overturned and rewritten.

"After all, this is still a story about bandits fighting bullies."

If you don’t want to change it, then don’t change it.

But Jiang Wen still asked him, if you were to write it, how would you write it?
Li Qiutang thought for a moment and said, "If I were to write about the masses, I would not set the story in the Republic of China. I cannot express my ideas in the Republic of China."

Heroes and stories only appear in troubled times. Why can’t the Republic of China show its talents?

Since the last time I had noodles with Jiang Wen, the idea of filming the People's War came up. Li Qiutang has been thinking about ideas for the past few months, and has come up with some ideas: "I will put it in a fictional era background, because whether it is the late Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China or the war period, it is too real. It is easy for the audience to empathize, but it also hinders my most direct expression."

"It's like this," Li Qiutang leaned forward to get closer to Jiang Wen, "Just imagine, in the future world or in a fictional world, there is no currency, people use their lifespans to buy things, and work also earns lifespans."

"Hey, what you said is interesting. Keep going." Jiang Wen said.

"For example, a cup of coffee costs you 10 minutes of life, a bowl of noodles costs you half an hour. You go to work and I calculate your salary every day. It takes 11 hours a day to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and I pay you for 12 or 13 hours of work. Anyway, I can keep you from starving to death, but you can't get rich either. If you're lucky, you might be able to save some.

“In theory, people can live forever. As long as you keep working and keep earning life, and as long as nothing unexpected happens, you can live forever.

"But it is impossible for everyone in the world to live forever, because the population must always multiply, and resources are limited, so people must die. There is an invisible hand behind the scenes that manipulates the rules of this world. There are time robbers in this world who will rob your time, there are time loan sharks who charge you high interest, and there are time banks that regulate the prices of the entire world behind the scenes. By manipulating prices and economic levels, they achieve the goal of controlling the population, controlling resources, and even controlling the world."

"And those who can play with the rules of the world are the real 'rich' and the real 'immortals'. Ordinary people work hard and live carefully to 100 or 200 years old, which is already lucky, but those rich people can easily live to 300 years old, or even or years old. As long as they don't commit suicide, they can't die."

There was no way Jiang Wen couldn't understand the story Li Qiutang was telling.

"You're quite smart!" Jiang Wen once again refreshed his impression of Li Qiutang in his mind, "Do you have a name for this story?"

"Yes, it's called "In Time". And what my protagonist has to do is to overthrow this world."

The setting of "In Time" is very cool, exposing the rules nakedly.

“This kind of story is not easy to tell.”

“It’s not easy to do. I only have a rough idea, but I have no idea how to mobilize the masses and how to fight.” Li Qiutang would not write the protagonist as a lone hero like Zhang Mazi, nor would he follow the original and turn the protagonist into a chivalrous thief.

The ending of the original film was a complete failure!
With such a grand world view, the photos were taken so pettily!
"Tell me when you're done. Your story will surely turn out great when filmed." Jiang Wen was very moved by this story. If he had personal disinterest in science fiction, he would have wanted to buy Li Qiutang's idea.

"Let's talk about it later. If I can't think of a good way to deal with the conflict, maybe I won't do it." Li Qiutang said.

Back to "The Story of Stealing an Official", Li Qiutang suggested to Jiang Wen: "For this County Magistrate Ma, if it were me, I would definitely ask Teacher Ge You, he is so good at playing this kind of character."

"Let's talk about the actors later." Jiang Wen didn't consider the actors for the time being. The script hadn't been finalized yet, and he wanted to pull Li Qiutang aside to talk about it further.

But Li Qiutang had been filming all day and talking for half a day, so she was very tired and said she wanted to go back and rest: "You'll be on the crew for half a month, there's no rush."

(End of this chapter)