Artists under the Rebirth of the Coal Boss

Chapter 12: Parting on bad terms! An actor’s first experience!

In the evening, Zhu Yillong returned to Liuli Bridge in a daze with blood on his forehead.

What Lin Xingzhuo said was actually true.

Bai Caiyun offered him a "death date contract".

One is a labor contract, a five-year contract, mainly with a fixed salary model, which will automatically terminate upon expiration.

The second one was actually an economic contract involving the sharing of performance income. The signing rights of all performance activities belonged to the company, and the company had absolute control over Zhu Yillong's business activities.

The term is forty-five years, until 2059, when Zhu Yillong is 71 years old and can completely withdraw from the contract.

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Zhu Yilong was indeed a little dull, and his whole body was filled with insensitivity.

But I'm definitely not a fool...

If he had not met a coal boss like Shen Mojun, and if he had not revealed Lin Xingzhuo's dark secrets, he might have signed this contract in a daze.

However, after experiencing the life of living with my sister-in-law, eating nine meals a day, sharing the meat when there was meat, and having my brother take care of everything, looking at this extremely ugly death-date contract in my hand...

Even in the ruthless entertainment industry, super-long artist contracts generally do not exceed ten years. This forty-five-year period is extremely rare in the industry and should be unprecedented.

Zhu Yilong picked up the ballpoint pen.

I really can't sign anymore...

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In the end, it ended in a bad mood.

The couple from Oriental Caiyun International Film and Television Company completely revealed their hideous true forms!

President Bai Caiyun lost control of her emotions and cursed Zhu Yilong as an ungrateful person.

The art director, who had a background in civil engineering, threw the official seal at him and yelled at him to get out.

When Zhu Yillong fled in panic, he heard Bai Caiyun's screams as if she was trying to kill him.

This is a nightmare.

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The next day, Zhu Yillong, with gauze on his head, knocked on and opened the door of Lin Xingzhuo's room.

Lin Xingzhuo was finishing up Pokémon SoulSilver on a newly purchased 4.2-inch chocolate brown NDS.

Zhu Yillong told Lin Xingzhuo what happened yesterday with a haggard look on his face.

Lin Xingzhuo listened to Zhu Yilong's story and captured the cover beast of "Soul Silver", Lugia, which lives deep in the Whirlpool Island.

"What are you going to do about it?"

Lin Xingzhuo saved the atlas, put down the NDS in his hand, pointed at Zhu Yillong's forehead and asked.

"It's just a minor wound, nothing serious. I'm just worried about being banned..."

Zhu Yilong whispered his concerns.

"You're overthinking it. If they had the ability, they wouldn't be staring at a fat sheep like you and trying to plunder it to death."

Lin Xingzhuo lit a Zhongnanhai cigarette and didn't take this workshop-style husband-and-wife shop seriously at all.

"Brother Ye is busy dealing with matters at the mine. We need to shoot the movie, so we can only find some group leaders ourselves. The group leaders at the old film studio are very familiar with her husband."

Zhu Yilong was talking about the traditional job-taking location at the former site of the Beijing Film Studio at No. 77 North Third Ring Road.

This is the gathering place for extras from Beijing. Every day, the assistant director of the crew comes here to find the group leader and recruit people...

Lin Xingzhuo took two bottles of iced black tea from the refrigerator and said, "Then we'll wait for a while before going to play supporting roles. Anyway, the money given by the sister-in-law is enough to live a carefree life for a while."

Zhu Yilong refused: "Practice is the best way to improve acting skills. I still want to practice more, and I also have to do my life observation homework..."

Lin Xingzhuo asked curiously, "Aren't you about to graduate? Are you still assigning homework for those classes?"

Zhu Yilong said seriously: "This is the homework I assigned myself. Marlon Brando has been writing observation notes all his life."

"When he was filming The Godfather, he constructed a topological map of the relationships of the entire Italian Mafia in New York, even marking the childhood traumas and body language habits of each family member."

Lin Xingzhuo handed Zhu Yillong a bottle of iced black tea.

He suddenly discovered a problem.

Although I decided to be an actor in this life, I don’t seem to be able to act at all... The original host did not inherit any useful memories.

How to act as a human backdrop with minimal effort, how to avoid fines for coughing, how to snag the three-meat and two-vegetarian lunch boxes provided exclusively to the leading extras, how to earn temperature compensation...

These are just survival tips...

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Therefore, Lin Xingzhuo and Zhu Yillong gave up the traditional extras location at the old site of the film studio and instead went to the crew's hotel offline.

Since 2008, some film crews have set up permanent residence in hotels, which have become physical hubs for receiving performances.

Zhu Yillong took Lin Xingzhuo to Yunhong Hotel and Hutu Hotel, which are mainly used for the preparation of costume dramas and period dramas, in the morning, and ate the pancakes they bought downstairs.

While looking at the role requirement notice posted by the crew in the corridor, I made notes on my resume and sent it to the crew and handed it to the hotel front desk. The handling fee was 1.5 yuan per copy.

Then he shuttled between the Sun Palace Hotel and Piao Home Hotel, which were frequented by a large number of urban drama and idol drama crews, and delivered paper materials floor by floor.

As for the Huafu Guesthouse of the Bayi Film Studio, where military-themed drama crews are concentrated, security registration is required to enter and submit information. The requirements are strict and the procedures are cumbersome, so you only need to go there once a week.

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Lin Xingzhuo followed Zhu Yillong for two months and played supporting roles in six dramas, including "Sophie's Confession", "There's a Beauty in the North", "The Post-War War", and "Flowers in Full Bloom".

Zhu Yillong got a small special role and had two lines.

While Lin Xingzhuo was still on the crew, he exchanged contact information with several equally miserable extras, which helped the company to reserve talent.

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After running for two months, Lin Xingzhuo enjoyed it and finally had a preliminary understanding of the concept of an actor.

Zhu Yillong also had a clear understanding of Lin Xingzhuo's acting skills.

The acting is so bad that it makes people collapse and maddening...

Unless technology develops to the point where people can film just by reciting numbers or staring.

Otherwise, Lin Xingzhuo would have no future as an actor...

Zhu Yillong has been struggling over whether to tell the truth or not. He suggests that Brother Zhuo should make use of his vocal advantage and switch careers to become a singer.

However, seeing that Lin Xingzhuo was enjoying himself on the set, he didn't mention it...

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Of course, the worst thing is that, thanks to Lin Xingzhuo, the crews of Taiyanggong Hotel and Yunhong Hotel have blacklisted Lin Xingzhuo.

Zhu Yillong had no choice but to try his luck and added an executive director to an active actor notification group.

The other party asked for a special deposit in advance.

I was cheated out of another three hundred yuan...

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When the two of them were at their wit's end...

Lin Xingzhuo received a call.

Ding Ye's voice on the phone was particularly excited, and the background noise was also very noisy. A female voice could be heard singing Murong Xiaoxiao's "Love Business".

"You're such a fucking genius!!"

"Following the release of Document No. 79 (2009) 'Further Promoting Health Inspection Work in Jinyang Province,' Document No. 10 was suddenly released."

"The content inside is exactly the same as what you said... Damn it! Those white-faced scholars sitting in the office are so cruel..."

Ding Ye's voice suddenly rose to a breaking point, and he said, "Three words!"

"From now on!!!"

"Just the last three words of that damn document! It's a mess, a complete mess! The entire northwest of Shanxi is in turmoil!"

"Twenty-six hundred mines were closed overnight, 400,000 coal miners were laid off, and the bosses lost 140 billion yuan."

Lin Xingzhuo asked, "What about your mining area? How is the situation?"

Hearing Lin Xingzhuo's question, Ding Ye on the other end of the phone suddenly sounded unhappy...

(End of this chapter)