The six of them left the hotel and found a French restaurant. It's almost 5 p.m., and although it's a little early, it's a good idea to chat while eating and drinking.

Chen Wen said: "I invite you to this meal today, you are not allowed to rob me, France is my territory, and I am the host." ”

Chen Xiaoyi smiled: "Okay! Eat you as the host!"

Finish your order.

Fu Yiwei asked Chen Peisi: "I didn't see Director Ning for a day today." ”

Chen Peisi said: "I saw him and the people from the film studio early in the morning, and I went out with a few old people, and I didn't know where to go. ”

Fu Yiwei asked, "He didn't call you?"

Chen Peisi smiled: "People's films are award-winning favorites, let's join in the fun." I've been here for two days, and I haven't seen any foreigners come to see us. ”

Fu Yiwei sighed: "If I knew this, it would be better not to come!"

Chen Peisi sighed: "Don't think like this, if our film can be sent here, there will always be some international friends who will see it." Besides, the Three Continents Film Festival will be held for a total of 10 days, and tomorrow will be the first day, maybe someone will come to talk about our film in the next few days. ”

Chen Wen sounded familiar and asked, "Who are you talking about Director Ning?"

Chen Wen felt that it was definitely not Ning Hao, Ning Hao was born in 1977, 3 years younger than Chen Wen, and one year younger than Su Kangkang, so he would still be in junior high school.

Fu Yiwei replied: "Ning Ying, Director Ning, he directed the movie "Looking for Fun", and also sent this film festival, from yesterday to today, this film festival has not yet opened, and people from several countries have come to talk to him. ”

Chen Wen sighed softly, he knows this movie, the cast is super old, the actor Huang Zongluo was born in 1926, and he is about the same age as Chen Wen's deceased grandfather.

"Looking for Fun" is a typical movie that is not popular, telling the story of a group of retired old men from various units in the imperial capital who use their spare heat to rehearse programs in community drama clubs and engage in folk performances, which does not attract young people at all.

The scene of this movie is the area of the old courtyard houses in the imperial capital, the small streets and alleys, and the lives of small people. If you think of it as a promotional film that reflects the environment of the imperial capital courtyard, it is quite interesting. Chen Wen feels that this may be the main reason why many foreign media are willing to introduce "Looking for Fun".

According to this logic, Chen Peisi's "The Two Men Open a Song Hall" is difficult to attract foreigners. The scene in the movie is a small song and dance hall in the 80s in China, which is very outdated in the eyes of foreigners in the 90s, and there is no nostalgia at all. As for the comedy elements contained in "The Two Men Open a Song Hall", foreigners can't understand the dialogue at all.

Chen Wen also knew that Ning Ying's "Looking for Fun" would win the Golden Globe Award at the 1992 Three Continents Film Festival, which was also the only award-winning work among several Chinese films participating in the exhibition.

Therefore, Chen Peisi and Fu Yiwei will definitely not win the award, and this trip to France is destined to accompany the prince to study.

Chen Wen knew the historical answer in his heart, and he also understood the reason why Chen Peisi's excellent film could not win the award, but he really couldn't bear to say it. This has nothing to do with whether it is a spoiler or not, I really can't bear to break the heart of this excellent comedy and filmmaker.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little silent.

Chen Xiaoyi interrupted: "You two are exhibiting movies at the exhibition, I have nothing to do, I just came to play along." Hey, Chen Wen, I'll follow you to Paris for two days, right?"

Chen Wen immediately agreed: "No problem, tomorrow I will take two classmates to the beach to play for half a day, Sister Yi, you can take my car back to Paris." ”

Chen Peisi said to Fu Yiwei: "It's better for you to follow Xiaoyi to Paris, there is no entertainment here, I just keep an eye on it alone." ”

Fu Yiwei said: "I won't go to Paris anymore, let's accompany you to sell films here, maybe when will I come to the buyer, I am a woman, and I can also help our film earn impression points in front of others." ”

Seeing Chen Peisi and Fu Yiwei discussing, Chen Wen felt a burst of emotion in his heart.

From the bottom of his heart, Chen Wen is looking forward to Chen Peisi's film winning awards. But the film festival is not for Chen Wen to have the final say, he has a heart to help, and he can't find a place to speak.

A few people chatted, and somehow, they talked about the copyright of the movie.

All over China, now video halls are starting to become popular, especially in second- and third-tier cities, and this thing is everywhere.

The operator of the video hall takes the videotape and randomly finds a private house, or simply builds a shed, collects tickets, and puts the tape.

This kind of folk video hall is divided into meat field and vegetarian field. The films shown in the vegetarian field are very clean, and as for the meat field, it is a custom film from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Chen Peisi laughed at himself: "This year's Spring Festival Gala I performed the sketch "Brother-in-law and Brother-in-law" with Lao Mao, and the plot is in line with the trend. My own participating film has already been covered by the video hall to the whole country, and I don't know how much the box office has been destroyed in this way. ”

Chen Wen remembered that the plot of the sketch "Brother-in-law and Brother-in-law" is very relevant to today's topic, the brother-in-law played by Chen Peisi is the organizer of a meat video hall, and the brother-in-law played by Zhu Shimao is a policeman who sweeps pornography. In the sketch, the brother-in-law swept pornography and arrested his brother-in-law, and Chen and Zhu created a classic comedy plot.

Fu Yiwei interjected: "In the second sub series, Director Chen actually wants to shoot one or two more episodes, but now he has no money and can't shoot it." ”

Chen Wen knows the history of his previous life, and the second son series is the "I Am Born to Be Useful" series of Chen Peisi's movie, with a total of 5 episodes, and "The Two Open a Song Hall" is the fifth episode.

The topic of lack of money aroused Chen Peisi's heartache, and he said a complaint.

Since the 80s, Yang Ma has made a batch of works with the best reputation of the Spring Festival Gala into video tapes and audio tapes every year, and pushed them to the market through Yang Ma's own distribution channels.

However, the money from the sale of these Spring Festival Gala-themed audio-visual products, Yang Ma has never paid the actors of the relevant selected programs.

For this matter, the vast majority of actors chose to swallow their anger. They didn't dare to give their opinions to Yang Ma, for fear that if they offended the big platform, they would never have the opportunity to go to the Spring Festival Gala in the future, and they wouldn't even be able to appear on the usual shows.

After Chen Peisi complained about this, Chen Wen chuckled in his heart.

Chen Wen knows the future history.

In their previous life, in 1998, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao performed the sketch "The Prince and the Postman" for the last time at the Spring Festival Gala, and then bid farewell to the Spring Festival Gala stage.

The reason for saying goodbye was not retirement, but Chen Peisi's lawsuit with Yang Ma to ask for the copyright fees of those audio-visual products for more than ten years. The lawsuit, Chen Peisi won, but the price was very large, he was blocked by Yang Ma.

Since then, Chen Peisi bid farewell to the TV industry, devoted himself to drama, and starred in his first drama in 2001.

It wasn't until 2016 that Chen Peisi's self-directed and self-starred TV comedy "What a Big Home" landed on the CCTV set to tell about the city's demolition, which was the first time in 18 years that Chen Peisi returned to CCTV.

Looking at Chen Peisi, Chen Wen understood that the comedy master in front of him was worried about money, and because of lack of money, many of Chen Peisi's movie ideals could not be implemented.

It was precisely because of the lack of money that Chen Peisi took up the weapon of the law to go to Yang Ma to ask for copyright fees, which caused him to offend the largest media platform in China.

Losing the platform of Yang Ma, Chen Peisi has focused on the field of drama with a small market share for 20 years after 1999, and has never made a greater breakthrough in film and television artistic achievements.

Suddenly, Chen Wen had a bold idea, if Chen Peisi does not fight a lawsuit with Yang Ma, does not offend the country's largest media platform, constantly drops the path of movies, TV and sketches, and continues to maintain his huge market reputation since the 80s, what will happen to Chen Peisi in the future?

Chen Wen felt that if he could try this, it would seem to be quite exciting!

Thinking of this, Chen Wen decided to send money for sponsorship.

Chen Wen asked: "Mr. Chen, I would like to ask, if you want to continue to shoot the sixth episode of the "Born to Be Useful" series, how much money do you need?"

Chen Peisi immediately replied: "300,000, Huaxia coins." ”

Chen Wen asked: "It's so cheap to make a movie?"

Chen Peisi explained with a smile: "I can shoot 100,000, and I can't shoot 1 million." Some directors, if you give him 1 million, he still shoots 100,000 yuan. As for me, if I shoot the sixth episode of "I Am Born to Be Useful", I will definitely reduce some costs, and I will not burn as much money as "Father and Son Classic Car", and I will not rent a helicopter anymore. ”

Chen Wen's eyes stared at Chen Peisi, and his fingers tapped lightly on the table.

The others stopped talking and waited for Chen Wen.

After a delay for a while, it was almost brewing, Chen Wen said lightly: "300,000, I am willing to vote for you." ”