Huayu: When the director changed his major

Chapter 147: Film is the director's business
Zhonglidaoranqianbaidu, Sanlitun, Uniqlo.

"Da Ran, what do you say if someone sees this video?"

"Let him see it, just in public, so they all know that I like Da Cheng."

Cheng Xi couldn't believe that Da Ran would say that. Was he sincere or just saying it out of impulse?

"Then say one more thing to the camera."

So Da Ran really turned around and said obediently:
"I, Da Ran, will always love my master."

My goodness, anyone would be shocked to hear a woman a generation older than him lower herself to become a slave like this.

She even said this in a little girl's tone, which was unbearable.

What's more, he is a big star.

It looks like I'll have to change clothes for another half an hour.

Cheng Xi thought.

After Cheng Xi came out of the locker room, he bought two identical T-shirts.

I signed one and Da Ran signed the other, so they were gifts to each other.

Cheng Xi didn't expect that Da Ran, who is 35 years old, still likes to play couple outfits.

Then I went shopping with Da Ran and enjoyed the feeling of love between a man and a woman.

It can be seen that Da Ran is very happy today.

After dinner in the evening, the two separated.

This trip can be said to have been a fruitful one for Cheng Xi. He spent nearly 30 yuan to buy a wave of luxury goods for his women.

Perfumes, jewelry, bags, etc., anyway, they are all things that girls like.

Da Ran's help in choosing really saved Cheng Xi a lot of trouble.

Otherwise, as a grown man, he would rack his brains to choose these things.

Cheng Xi really hates giving gifts, but when she thinks about her beauties, she has given them wallets, belts, ties, etc.

I've made some money this time, so I should at least show some appreciation.

Otherwise, he wouldn't bother with all this and would rather just quietly think about how to make money.

In the next few days, Cheng Xi started shopping again.

After looking at houses in the surrounding area, Cheng Xi originally wanted to buy a villa, which would have more functions.

However, the villas around Haidian are either too far away from me or there are no good ones available.

Finally, considering that I am still in school, I basically run between the college and the studio, and only stay away from the dormitory when I am filming.

So I simply bought a downstairs house in the Film Academy's staff building.

It is a one-story house with a basement. The layout inside is a bit like a small villa and can be used as is.

The most convenient thing is that it is close. It is only a few dozen meters away from the north gate of the college.

It is convenient to do anything.

The first batch of buildings built for the Film Academy’s family members are already quite old and were used to house employees of the Film Academy and the film studio.

The one Cheng Xi bought was from the batch built around 05, which is considered relatively new.

The first floor is about 180 square meters, with four bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms and a garage.

The basement floor is about 130 square meters. The original owner converted it into a media room, a bedroom, a small nanny room, and a small utility room.

There is also a 30-square-meter sunny glass garden room, which Cheng Xi likes very much.

It is very pleasant to drink tea and smell the flowers and plants outside occasionally.

You can even keep fit at home by putting a treadmill in your home.

The general price in this community is around 3 yuan per square meter. Since this is a lower-level apartment, the unit price will be lower.

Including taxes and fees, Cheng Xi spent a total of over 600 million yuan.

After buying it, Cheng Xi planned to make some simple modifications.

I use a room on the first floor as a study, which I use as my personal studio, where I write scripts and read books.

The audio-visual room on the basement floor will be expanded a bit, and some electronic equipment will be added to make it a combination of an audio-visual room and an e-sports room.

You can watch movies and listen to music when you have nothing to do, and you can play games right away if you want.

When he got the house title, Cheng Xi happily took a few photos to show his mom and dad.

Now I have my own place to stay in Yanjing.

Think about how I worked 996 for so many years in my previous life, but my salary could not keep up with the rising housing prices.

The money that could buy a living room can only afford a toilet.

Cheng Xi couldn't help but sigh.

Who could have imagined that China's housing prices would run rampant like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins?

Especially since this place is Yanjing.

To have thousands of mansions was the most simple dream of the Chinese people thousands of years ago, but it has not been realized until now.

Next, let the masters complete the simple decoration of the house, and then we can move in when the time comes.

Of course, Cheng Xi must be in the dormitory most of the time.

I don’t know if it’s because I was a corporate slave in my previous life, but I always miss my college life.

So now that he is back on campus, he still enjoys the feeling of living in the dormitory, as if he has never really aged.

Always young.

Whenever I want to be alone, I go home.

Just do whatever makes you feel good.

After finishing the house deal, Cheng Xi also used the account of Zuibai Studio to buy 1000 million Moutai shares.

Anyway, the general trend is upward, and I have some spare money now, so I'll put some of it in.

When you need it, just clear the inventory with one click.

You can make some money, so why not?

Anyway, Moutai's daily trading volume is very large, and there is really no reaction when tens of thousands of shares are sold.

Finally, Cheng Xi also bought a lot of practical office supplies, flowers and plants for the studio.

We also rented the third house next door and equipped it with a tea room and lounge.

Now that summer has arrived in Yanjing, Cheng Xi has set up two refrigerators inside, filled with drinks and ice cream.

Let the people in the studio eat for free and take a break after work.

You can also entertain friends who come.

After all, Cheng Xi knew that improving employee benefits would make everyone more motivated to work.

The entire team is also more cohesive.

As several artists in the studio become more and more famous, the studio uses cars more and more frequently.

So the studio bought a nanny car and a Mercedes-Benz SUV, and hired a few young assistants.

This time, Cheng Xi specifically instructed Li Wentao to recruit a few male employees to see which one has good performance and more potential.

I'll choose her to be my assistant when the time comes.

Cheng Xi has more and more things to do, and someone needs to share the burden.

It doesn't matter if it's a girl, but Cheng Xi was afraid that something might happen with his female assistant, which would go against his original intention.

It won’t be convenient for me to talk about things at that time.

Cheng Xi is very clear about this point and the importance of the role of assistant.

It means that he is the person closest to you in your career.

Cheng Xi cannot afford to be careless.

The studio actually spent the least money here, less than 200 million.

No wonder everyone likes money.

With money, you can buy whatever you want and solve most of your worries.

Anyway, Cheng Xi felt very comfortable after a lot of shopping.

During this period, "The Rise of Phoenixes" is still very popular.

Online platforms such as Weibo are flooded with discussions about The Crown Princess' classic lines and famous scenes.

The discussion reached its peak when some netizens actually collected "100 bloopers" and @醉白.

Everyone envied this netizen and was waiting for Zuibai to redeem his reward.

Of course, Cheng Xi congratulated her immediately and arranged for Jin Xiaoluo to make the connection and immediately redeem the reward.

In addition, signed stills of Reba and Zhang Tianai were also given.

It’s a little Easter egg benefit.

When this netizen shared the reward, everyone was envious. Not only did he get money, but he also got a signed book by Zui Bai and signed photos of two popular actresses.

If you had told me earlier, I would have found it too!
Although "Go Princess Go" is very popular on the Internet and has a high number of views.

But the industry can be said to be mostly critical.

Originally, Cheng Xi didn't care. After all, as long as he made money, that was all that mattered.

And this drama does have a lot of flaws, and people are not making random comments.

But today, after an interview news came out, it immediately became a hot search:
Lu Chuan's comment on Cheng Xi: He's not a genius director, but making movies is the most important thing for a director.

Soon someone forwarded this interview to Cheng Xi.

Cheng Xi clicked on the video and saw that Lu Chuan was attending an award ceremony, and reporters were surrounding him for interviews.

At the beginning, the reporters were asking normal questions about Lu Chuan's new movie "The Banquet".

Later, when we were talking about Lu Chuan's collaboration with a young director, a reporter suddenly cut in line with a microphone and asked Lu Chuan a question.

【reporter:
Director Lu, you were selected as one of the top ten young directors in the world by the American magazine Variety in 2004.

I'm not sure what you think of the recently popular director Zui Bai. His film "The Beginning" has been praised by many domestic media as a work by a young and talented director.

Cheng Xi frowned when he saw this. This reporter's question must have been planned and prepared for a long time.

No matter what, I dare not touch Lu Chuan now.

Lu Chuan:
"The Beginning" is a TV series.

I have never filmed a TV series, so it is difficult for me to comment.

But I hope that truly talented professional directors will make more movies, because movies are the major life event that directors should pursue.

reporter:
As a talented director, what do you think of Zuibai’s currently popular drama "Go Princess Go"?

Lu Chuan:

Sorry, I haven't watched this drama. Maybe I can give a more objective evaluation after watching it.

I still hope that reporters will talk more about the movie "The Banquet".

Our filming is currently progressing smoothly and is expected to be released ahead of schedule. We hope the audience will look forward to it.

reporter:
Director Lu, I heard that the cost of producing "The Banquet" was as high as 7000 million. Is there any inflated estimate?

】

The rest of the interview was about the promotion of "The Banquet".

After watching the video, Cheng Xi didn't think Lu Chuan was as bad as the trending headlines said.

Compared to movies, TV series may really be a small fry.

After all, he is a well-known director and comes from a film family, so he is certainly not familiar with a junior like me.

But this time he still felt the barriers between the TV drama circle and the film circle.

Maybe in the public opinion environment in 2011, no matter how good a TV series you make is.

They are not very popular among film directors.

After all, one is a TV that you watch for free, and the other is a big screen that you have to buy a ticket to watch.

Unlike later generations, even the King of Sunglasses would spend several years filming "Fanghua".

Of course, King of Sunglasses is also an exception.

I haven't seen it. Everyone says he is here to attack from a lower dimension. This shows the difference between TV series and movies.

And my school is called Yenching Film Academy.

Lu Chuan is a well-known alumnus of the Directing Department.

However, this reporter was obviously looking for trouble, and he used a very Spring and Autumn style of writing, making it seem like Lu Chuan was deliberately looking down on him.

But gradually, the development of things was beyond Cheng Xi's expectations.

Because the content of Lu Chuan's interview has become a hot topic, curious netizens have started to @ Director Lu Chuan.

Ask him to watch "Go Princess Go" and give his comments.

As long as they get some reviews, whether good or bad, they will buy as many tickets as they want for the movie "The Banquet".

Isn't this adding fuel to the fire?

Unexpectedly, Lu Chuan actually responded.

Lu Chuan:

A friend asked me to watch a few episodes of "Go Princess Go".

I think it's a bit of a cultural tragedy that such low-quality, highly alkaline comedies dominate the Internet.

My suggestion is that everyone should watch "The King's Feast" to find out what a true princess is.

At this point, netizens were almost excited.

Unexpectedly, Lu Chuan actually replied to them, and it was so explosive.

Even such a heavy word as cultural sadness was used.

So Lu Chuan’s Weibo post was published.

#Prince Concubine low quality alkaline comedy film
#The King's Feast is the real princess
#Lu Chuan's criticism of Zui Bai is a cultural tragedy
The terms such as "the word 'the word ' and '" all became hot searches.

This time, netizens' emotions were completely ignited.

Low-quality strong alkali and cultural sadness suddenly became hot words on the Internet.

"Boss, we really don't need any public relations or clarification?"

Li Wentao asked a little worriedly.

Zhang Tianai and Jin Xiaoluo also came in with him.

Because of Lu Chuan's criticism of "The Rise of a Phoenix", Zui Bai was the one who was scolded the most.

The second most miserable person is of course the heroine Zhang Tianai who benefits the most.

Originally, most of the fans were praising her at the beginning, but Lu Chuan took the lead unexpectedly.

The whole trend has changed.

This fan is really split.

I don’t support the truth, I only support excitement. Whichever is more exciting will do it.

Cheng Xi was also a little helpless. He was just making a drama to make some money and promote the studio's artists.

Your criticism is so rude, it's okay that Zhang Tianai suffers.

What should I do with my "Zuibai" signboard?

This is my food guy.

Originally, Cheng Xi didn't want to pay attention to Lu Chuan, but now he had to respond.

Otherwise, the entire Zuibai faction will be affected.

I don't care whether you are genuinely criticizing or just trying to get attention, this has seriously hindered Cheng Xi's interests.

But he still managed to calm down, arrange his work in advance, and follow the strategy.

So he said:

"Don't respond yet, wait a few days."

"Wentao, compile some data on the most popular movies of the past year, especially their costs and box office figures."

When Li Wentao and the other two heard what their boss said, their eyes lit up.

I know the boss is serious about this and is going to hit the big screen.

Yes, or what could be more exciting than a counterattack like Zui Bai making a movie?

"Xiao Luo, please pay attention to the recent negative reviews and ask your familiar partners if anyone is interfering."

"I always feel that this incident did not happen suddenly, but someone was behind it."

Jin Xiaoluo heard it, nodded, and wrote it down in the notebook.

"Finally, Tianai, please stop checking Weibo for comments these few days."

"Actually, being black and red is still red. Even though you get a lot of criticism, you still have a lot of fans. If you really want to be a top star, you have to have a big heart."

When Tianai heard what the boss said, she didn't quite understand and didn't dare to ask any more questions.

"Okay, all of you go out. I want to think about something by myself."

Zhang Tianai originally wanted to stay, accompany Cheng Xi, and pour tea for the boss.

But seeing Cheng Xi's serious expression, he quietly followed them out.

After Cheng Xi waited for everyone to leave, he took out a pen and started writing and drawing on the paper.

Is film the only thing that matters to directors?

Cheng Xi thought:

Who said no?
(End of this chapter)