Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 131 Ordinary Friends Good Friends

There is not so much romance!
Because she couldn't gauge Liu Yifei's situation correctly, Li Qiutang didn't dare to say many dirty words.

But the Northeastern people's natural sense of humor still made Liu Yifei laugh.

"When I was young..."

"Huh?" Liu Yifei widened her eyes with curiosity.

Li Qiutang said: "I mean when I was younger, about 15 or 16 years old. At that time, my father had to tutor students and my mother had to look after the store. Sometimes they were too busy to cook for me, so I learned by myself, thinking that I could also show my filial piety to my parents. I remember one time, I fried some shredded potatoes and happily put them in a lunch box and sent them to my mother in the store.

"My mom opened the lid and looked. What's this? Shredded potatoes. Eat it quickly. My mom said, if you hadn't said it was shredded potatoes, I would have thought you had fried our load-bearing wall!"

"Hahahaha!" Liu Yifei covered her mouth and laughed, "Your mom is so funny. She's talking about a load-bearing wall, hahaha!"

Li Qiutang found that Liu Yifei looked really good when she smiled, and continued, "My dad is funny too. Last year, my dad drove my mom to Yanjing. When they got out of the car, my mom didn't unfasten her seat belt. She tried to stand up but couldn't. My dad asked, 'What's wrong? Are you going to carry my car away?'"

Liu Yifei laughed so hard that her stomach hurt and tears were about to come out.

She believed this was true because it was impossible to make up such a thing without experiencing it personally.

“Your family is so interesting.”

Liu Yifei also shared a similar experience with Li Qiutang: "I found that you Northeasterners are all so humorous."

"Is it humorous? I am considered an introvert in my family. When I was a child, my grandma and aunt said that I was too introverted and not cheerful."

"My mother is also half Northeastern," Liu Yifei began to talk about her family. "She has only been in Erbin for a few years, but she is as interesting as you when she talks. I'm sitting here," Liu Yifei gestured, "There is an empty stool next to me. My mother came over and saw a fly on the stool. She glared at it and said, 'Get out of the way, let me sit.'

“I laughed all day.”

After the two of them finished their meal, Liu Yifei suggested going to see Li Qiutang's new company: "You should be the first one in our class to start a business."

"I don't know. If not the first one, it should be one of the earliest ones."

"Okay, you can be your own boss now." Liu Yifei said with a smile.

"What kind of boss is this? He has only spent money since opening the business and hasn't made a dime."

Liu Yifei skillfully opened the passenger door of Li Qiutang's car and got in.

"Your car is still the best, with a wide field of vision."

"If you like it, buy one for you too." Li Qiutang remembered that Liu Yifei was quite fond of playing with cars.

"My mother won't let me buy it, saying it would be too ostentatious for me to drive such a big car." It seems that although Liu Xiaoli doesn't work with her daughter much now, she still controls her daughter's spending.

Li Qiutang opened the car door: "You open it."

"Really?" Liu Yifei's first reaction was disbelief.

"That can't be false. You must have passed the driving test."

"I passed the test." Liu Yifei sat in the driver's seat and adjusted the seat and rearview mirror.

Li Qiutang sat in the passenger seat and gave her directions.

"So what car did you buy?"

"Cayenne."

This……

"Is that how you people in Jiangcheng talk? Driving a Land Rover is too ostentatious, but driving a Cayenne is not ostentatious?"

Liu Yifei is a very good driver, except for one thing: she likes to drive fast, and Li Qiutang's 4.2L V8 just meets her needs.

Liu Yifei seemed to be unable to bear the sight of cars in front of her, and kept overtaking one after another.

"Slow down, this is a car, not a plane." Li Qiutang now deeply regretted letting Liu Yifei drive the car.

Liu Yifei is very confident in her driving skills: "If you don't drive like this, your V8 will be wasted." It seems that Liu Yifei also considered Range Rover before buying a car herself.

"Turn left, turn left." Li Qiutang gave her directions, hoping that she would drive slower. After 20 minutes of driving around, they arrived at a commercial villa area, where Autumn Pictures was located.

"Is this building all yours?"

"Rented." It was a bit early to buy a building now. Li Qiutang took Liu Yifei in for a tour. "You should be the first person to visit our company since it opened."

It's late now and there's no one in the company.

Li Qiutang turned on the light and let Liu Yifei take a good look.

Although Autumn Pictures is small, it is well decorated and has a lot of movie peripherals. It is obvious that it is a film and television company.

“Isn’t this the trophy you won at the Montreal Fantastic Film Festival?”

"Yes, there are photos over there. I don't have any of them. They were taken from foreign media reports."

"What about this?"

"This is an award I won when I was in school. It's a small company with not much achievements, so I put this up here too, haha."

Liu Yifei couldn't figure it out either. After looking around, she thought it looked pretty good and praised, "It's really good. In your Northeast dialect, isn't this what you call having a business at home?"

"You've even learned this." Li Qiutang smiled, "My family has always had a business. My mom used to run a video store, and now she runs a convenience store. They're all business."

"Let's go, there's nothing to see here."

Li Qiutang sent Liu Yifei home and went back herself.

At night, Liu Yifei lay on the bed, touching the bracelet on her wrist. It was made of crystal and looked pretty.

Li Qiutang felt that her relationship with Liu Yifei had been progressing well recently. At least she accepted the gifts she had given him individually and even offered to visit the company.

The progress bar of favorability has probably gone from ordinary friends to good friends.

After Liu Yifei, Autumn Pictures welcomed visits from senior executives of various companies.

The strongest young director has now opened his own company. The news has spread throughout the industry. Major industry leaders such as Shanghai Film, Bona, Guangxian, and Xiaoma have sent people to congratulate and visit the company.

President Han even came to the scene in person and chatted with Li Qiutang, Cao Ping and others for more than an hour at Autumn Pictures.

Perhaps it was because they felt Li Qiutang's determination and sincerity to get involved in the game personally, so after visiting Autumn Pictures, these big companies were willing to talk about the investment in "In Time".

"Your own company invested 5000 million, which also includes the screenwriter and director's fees. Since you are so determined, our company is not afraid to invest either." Li Xiaoping's original words.

Director Xiao Li is now out on his own, and of course Guangxian wants to engage in in-depth cooperation with Li Qiutang.

But the risks of science fiction blockbusters are indeed much higher than those of general feature films, and being willing to talk about it is a good start.

Li Qiutang must seize these opportunities. Today, he went to Chengtian Entertainment with producer Huang Jianxin and photography director Cao Dun to give a project presentation on "In Time" to Wu Kebo and others.

"These are some of the storyboard manuscripts and art design drafts we have completed so far." There were two apple boxes on the table, with a thick stack of manuscripts inside. "Everyone can take a look."

While Wu Kebo and others were watching, Li Qiutang continued, "We plan to use the latest ALEXA digital camera to shoot In Time. We have rented four cameras, which have arrived and are currently being debugged by Lao Cao. In Time will be the first film in Asia to be produced with this high-specification camera."

Then, Li Qiutang very professionally explained to Orange Sky’s executives the parameters of this camera, as well as the differences between it and the film cameras and ordinary digital cameras they had used before.

"...The production team has broken down the script, the location scouting team has already set off, and all the work of the crew is currently progressing steadily." He also said that he had hired three Korean special effects companies to handle the special effects, and the motion capture was handled by the famous Weta Digital.

Huang Jianxin talked about the investment return prospects, but he took a different approach and talked to Wu Kebo about his feelings: "Why can't we have our own science fiction blockbusters? Star Wars and Transformers are good, why can't we make them? Science fiction films still need young directors to make them. You can't expect Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and others to make science fiction films."

Everyone in the audience laughed. The science fiction films made by their generation of directors seemed to have somewhat inconsistent images.

"Speaking of risks, we have been making movies for decades and have talked about risks for decades. What's the point? Who makes a movie without taking risks? If you are afraid of risks, don't make it. It would be better to just keep the money in the bank, right?"

Of course, it is a bit unrealistic to expect people to use force to pay money just by giving a speech.

But Li Qiutang still did not give up, and still went to every company that had investment intentions and tried her best to explain "In Time" to them.

This is how running a business is. The future is uncertain, but you always have to cheer up and move forward.

(End of this chapter)