Shen Mengxi doesn't like Zhao Bafei very much...

He has no good feelings for the capitalists who cut leeks!

However, in those years, everyone was cutting leeks, and Yang Lan's Sunshine Media was also a good hand at harvesting leeks...

Of course, this is not a reason to cut leeks!

Step on the red line of laws and regulations...

There are also people who help wash and say that people make money by their skills!

You can pull it down!

According to this theory, Xiaopang also evades taxes by virtue of his ability, and Sister Glaring and Brother Facial Paralysis all win awards based on their ability...

Liangkun said: If you are wrong, you must admit it, and if you are beaten, you must stand upright!

However, Zhao Bafei cut leeks ten years later, and now she is quite popular... The most important thing is that Shen Mengxi really can't find a suitable director...

You can't invite Zhang Yimou to direct "My Girlhood", right?

......

It's a good thing, Zhao Bafei has no schedule, she has to shoot "Jinyiwei" soon, just the movie in which Wu Zun participated...

Then she refused, and Shen Mengxi had to find someone again!

There is a saying in later generations: 360 lines, the line produces the director!

This word is inaccurate, the so-called cross-border director, to put it bluntly, is to borrow a celebrity's traffic circle to make money.

What do these celebrities not do?

Open an online store, open a restaurant, sell alcohol, publish a book or even speculate in bitcoin, anyway, they are wherever they can make money.

The film market is hot, and naturally there are celebrities who come to make money...

It is also a good thing, which shows that this is a market that can rely on popularity, traffic, and make money.

If they all lose money, who will do it every day!

That's the afterlife...

What if you want to be a director now?

There are two options, the first is to continue to stay in the industry, make short films, music videos, commercials, and live well, and people will naturally come to you, and the second is to sell your house and make your debut film - this is how most of the first works of the sixth generation directors came about!

Is there a third one?

You are very famous, for example, if you become a big player in the industry, someone will ask you to direct...

Guo Fan belongs to the first type.

He studied law, not because he didn't want to take the Nortel exam, but he didn't get in, and he was admitted to Hainan University for the law major.

For drawing, Guo Fan is extremely talented, and his comic works have won many international awards.

So after graduating from Hainan University, he began to drift north, relying on the craft of painting, mixed in the film and television program crew, and also stayed in A's crew.

A few years after Beipiao, Guo Fan had a certain understanding of the film industry, so he applied for the Nortel director major again, and this time he was admitted...

After graduation, I continued to drift north, taking on some TV movies, short films, and MV shooting jobs.

At this time, a project found him, the movie version of "The Adventures of Li Xianji"...

The screenwriter is Zhang Xiaobei.

First of all, "The Adventures of Li Xianji" is a very hanging anime movie!

It's a big explosion, and it's not lost to "Fight, Hit a Big Watermelon" at all!

The setting is great: Li Xianji, who suffers from "jet lag", constantly penetrates the game's adventure through time and space in order to find his girlfriend.

It can be made into an infinite stream!

The problem is that there is only 3.5 million costs ...

Be a hairy infinite stream...

Zhang Xiaobei found Shen Mengxi and handed him the script, wanting him to comment on it...

"I know this animation, Li Yang's work!"

“... An Xiaofen took a fancy to it, bought the copyright, and asked me to write the script..."

An Xiaofen, a famous producer, is best known for "If Love" and..."Little Times"...

As soon as she died, the core of the whole script was bloody, and I think the most touching part of "The Adventures of Li Xianji" is the doomed and futile efforts made by Li Xianji after falling out of love. ”

After flipping through the script, Shen Mengxi was very dissatisfied...

"This is the request of the producer..."

"I'm not optimistic..."

"And how do you want to change it?"

“... The gimmick is time travel, so as to go back to the past and make up for the most unwilling part of my heart... If I did... Forget it, I won't participate in this play. ”

Shen Mengxi shut up, this is another project, it has nothing to do with him!

Zhang Xiaobei also nodded, took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff, and then said, "It's a pity Guo Fan!"

“... Who?"

"The director they hired, a young director with a lot of ideas, this scene has nothing to do with him at all, from project establishment to casting, I never told him at all!

Hearing the familiar name, Shen Mengxi said, "You call him." I'd like to talk to him. ”

“... Yes. ”

......

Why look for Guo Fan?

"The Wandering Earth"?

It's still early for the little wrecking ball, the copyright has already been obtained, and the specific shooting will have to wait for 10 years later...

After all, the current market can't afford to hold up the small wrecking ball...

So what are you looking for Guo Fan?

Invite him to be a tool man, of course... No, it should be said to sign him...

Guo Fan is quite young and is a very thoughtful director...

However, Shen Mengxi didn't need him to have an idea, and directly showed him "Like a Little Thing Like First Love", and then said: "My Girlhood wants this style!"

Guo Fan is still reading the script, and Shen Mengxi explained "My Girlhood":

"It can touch the hearts of girls!"

"Ordinary girls are liked by school bullies and school grass at the same time..."

"The final ending has a hint of fantasy..."

Over there, Guo Fan finally finished reading the script: "Producer Shen, are you looking for me to direct this play?"

"Yes!"

"I don't have any experience with that..."

"You can learn if you don't have experience, let me tell you, youth films and comedies are the easiest genres, the story is good, you can shoot it however!"

“... I. ”

"If you're worried, I'll find you an executive producer..."

"Who?"

"Me!"

Shen Mengxi poured him a cup of tea, and then said: ""My Girlhood", "Back to Twenty" and "33 Days of Broken Love" are three movies that our company has set up together. If there are more projects, there will not be enough directors..."

Guo Fan was entangled for a moment: "I'm not interested in this kind of subject!"

“... But the market lacks this type of theme, we make movies, we have to take a long-term view, what are we doing at this stage?

Shen Mengxi shook his head: "If it's just to make money, I won't invest in movies, what we're doing is to make up for national genre films!"

""Painted Skin" represents oriental magic, "Ip Man" traditional kung fu movies, "The Wind", spy war films..."My Girlhood" is a small and fresh youth film, if we don't do it, Hollywood will do it!"

"The market is here!"

Guo Fan swallowed his saliva: "Then I'll work hard..."

"You don't have to work hard, this drama is quite simple, just shoot according to the script..."

Guo Fan nodded, ready to leave, Shen Mengxi said again: "Do you want to sign with our company? Our company has always attached great importance to the director, I believe you have also heard Yang Qing say..."

Shen Mengxi was also ready to say a few more words to attract talents, Guo Fan couldn't wait to nod: "... Great!"

Mengxi Company respects talented filmmakers, and the whole circle is very famous, and they like to praise new directors, which is even more famous...

Generally speaking, the directors who can be taken by Mengxi have developed well - you don't see that Yang Qing has become a big director of the 100 million yuan club.