In the early 90s, the wages of ordinary workers were only more than 100 yuan, but by the end of the 90s, the wages had risen to nearly 1,000 yuan.

A salary of 300 yuan is already a very high salary for Huang Zilu, and his father's monthly salary is only 100 yuan!

Now Wu Jianye not only gave him a high-paying job, but also arranged a place for their father and son to live, how could this not make Huang Zilu excited.

After visiting the cultural equipment in the court, Wu Jianye took Huang Zilu to eat, but in fact, Huang Zilu didn't want to go, he told Wu Jianye.

"Mr. Wu, in fact, I can buy two steamed buns to eat in the company, I want to familiarize myself with the equipment here as soon as possible. ”

Wu Jianye laughed and said: "The emperor is not a hungry soldier, you will have time to familiarize yourself with the equipment here in the future, don't worry about this!"

In the end, Huang Zilu came to the hotel with Wu Jianye, and now there are more hotels in Yanjing City, and it is no longer the time when Wu Jianye was just reborn, and it is extremely difficult to find a hotel.

As the capital of China, Yanjing has always been famous for its food culture, coupled with the special geographical situation of Yanjing, it can be said that it brings together various cuisines from all over the country.

Wu Jianye took Huang Zilu to a Sichuan restaurant, the shop is not big and only has one floor, but there are already a lot of people.

Several people found a private room and sat down, and Dai Zhen had already gone to order.

And Huang Zilu's nervousness rose again at this time, Wu Jianye saw that there was nothing in the hotel here, but for Huang Zilu, it was already very luxurious.

After a while, Dai Zhen walked in and whispered to Wu Jianye: "Brother, Director Chen called just now, it seems that he wants to find you for something!"

Wu Jianye nodded, took the phone in Dai Zhen's hand, and called Chen Kaige.

After Chen Kaige received Wu Jianye's call, he was a little excited, and asked directly, "Where are you?"

"What's wrong with eating at the restaurant?" Wu Jianye asked.

Chen Kaige: "There is something I want to ask you for help with, is it convenient for you now? If it is convenient, I will go to you!"

This is Chen Kaige, even if he is in a hurry about his own affairs, he will first ask Wu Jianye about the current situation, if Wang Shuo or Zhao Fei and others are replaced, they must have come over directly, where will they ask Wu Jianye about inconvenient things.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "It's okay, come on!"

After speaking, Wu Jianye told Chen Kaige his address and hung up the phone.

Huang Zilu saw that Wu Jianye's friend was coming, and hurriedly said, "Teacher Wu, why don't I go back first!"

Wu Jianye waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's Chen Kaige who came, speaking of which, it can be regarded as your senior brother." ”

Huang Zilu heard that it was Chen Kaige, and his mood became excited again, Wu Jianye, Zhang Yimou, and Chen Kaige are the three mountains that the film academy went out.

Wu Jianye belongs to the earliest among the three to become famous, and he is also the highest achievement now, and Chen Kaige's fame is earlier than Zhang Yimou, but with Zhang Yimou's strong rise now, his popularity has long surpassed Chen Kaige, and now Chen Kaige can only rank third among the three!

But even so, Chen Kaige is still extremely powerful in the hearts of students like Huang Zilu.

After a while, the waiter brought up the dish ordered by Dai Zhen. Mapo tofu, spicy chicken, spicy shrimp, boiled pork slices, sweet duck .......

Huang Zilu's throat was gently swallowing.

Wu Jianye smiled, "Let's eat first, don't wait for him!"

Although Huang Zilu verbally agreed, he only picked up the chopsticks and did not move.

Wu Jianye smiled and didn't speak, and after a while, Chen Kaige came in a hurry, and at the same time, he was followed by a middle-aged man about forty years old with glasses.

Chen Kaige was also slightly stunned when he saw Huang Zilu when he came to the private room, I don't know which young man is a little shy and has some difficulties in looking at his appearance?

Huang Zilu was the first to stand up, and said a little nervously: "Chen ...... Director Chen, hello, I'm Huang Zilu, a fourth-year student in the Department of Photography at the Film Academy!"

Chen Kaige didn't say anything when he heard that he was a student of the film academy, smiled and said hello to Huang Zilu, and then introduced the middle-aged man next to him to Wu Jianye.

"Lao Wu, this is Lu Wei, the screenwriter of "The Last Madness" and "The Price of Madness", and this time my new film is also written by him!"

Lu Wei's eyes also carried a trace of excitement in his eyes, and Wu Jianye said seriously: "Director Wu, I'm very happy to meet you, my favorite movie is "The Last Emperor", I didn't expect to see you here!"

Wu Jianye is also very interested in Lu Wei, and someone once said that Lu Wei was the best screenwriter in the early nineties in China.

is all because in the early 90s, the two masterpieces of Huaxia "Farewell My Concubine" and "Alive" were written by him!

However, in Wu Jianye's view, Lu Wei's success actually has a lot to do with his script style, Lu Wei's understanding of Western films is beyond the reach of domestic film screenwriters, which is why the scripts he wrote will achieve such high achievements overseas.

"Haha, I've also heard of your name, when I was in North America before, Director Wu Tianming was in front of me, mentioning that there is a very good film screenwriter named Lu Wei in Western Film Studio. Wu Jianye said with a smile.

Lu Wei's compilation is now also in the West Film Studio.

When Wu Tianming found Lu Wei, Lu Wei was still in the art department of the West Film Studio, and Lu Wei wrote two scripts for the West Film Studio at that time and made money, so Wu Tianming found Lu Wei and said: You are a good boy, what do you want to be, do you want to be a director or a screenwriter? You want to be a director, I transferred you to the director's office, I want to be a screenwriter, and I transferred you to the literature department.

Lu Wei's answer was: Well, I still want to paint, or stay in the art department, boss, if there are any good things, I will write, it doesn't matter where I stay.

.......

After the two sides met, Wu Jianye asked the two if they had eaten, and the two shook their heads together, so they sat down and ate together.

To be honest, Lu Wei still has some doubts in his heart, he admires the movies shot by Wu Jianye very much, and he is also a senior screenwriter, but he still has some doubts about Chen Kaige coming to Wu Jianye for help, after all, this matter is not too easy.

After Chen Kaige sat down, he was not polite, and said directly: "Lao Wu, now I have a script in my hand, but there are some problems in terms of actors and investment, to be honest, it is easier to do in terms of investment, but I need your help in terms of actors!"

In fact, when Chen Kaige and Lu Wei came here, Wu Jianye already knew that the two must have come here for the movie "Farewell My Concubine".

In another time and space, Chen Kaige did not have a good time during this time, after he came back from North America, the confident "Singing While Walking" did not achieve much success, which was actually a big blow to Chen Kaige, and also made his reputation as an investor not as loud as before.

As for filming the movie "Farewell My Concubine", it is actually a last resort choice, when Chen Kaige was in North America, he met Xu Feng of Tomson Movie, and the other party recommended "Farewell My Concubine" to him, and when Chen Kaige saw this book, he directly said that this is a third-rate film, and he didn't want to adapt this movie, but wholeheartedly wanted to make his own "Singing While Walking".

But the result, everyone knows.

With the failure of "Singing While Walking", Chen Kaige faced a situation where there was no drama to shoot at this time, and finally had to follow Xu Feng's advice and shoot "Farewell My Concubine".

But in this time and space, Chen Kaige's situation has changed a little, such as "Farewell My Concubine", which was recommended to Chen Kaige by Wu Jianye, of course, at that time, Chen Kaige's answer did not change, and he still wanted to shoot his own "Singing While Walking".

Wu Jianye has no opinion on this, but the movie "Singing While Walking" did not have any different results because of Wu Jianye's rebirth, and it was still a failure.

After the failure of "Singing While Walking", Chen Kaige fell into confusion, but soon he thought of "Farewell My Concubine" that Wu Jianye once recommended to him, so he had the current situation.

"You're talking about "Farewell My Concubine", right?" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

"Yes, it's this movie, by the way, this is a script written by Lu Wei, you can take a look at it first!" Chen Kaige took out the script of "Farewell My Concubine" in his bag after speaking, and handed it to Wu Jianye, regardless of whether Wu Jianye was eating now.

Wu Jianye smiled helplessly, and after taking the script of "Farewell My Concubine", he only glanced at it casually, but such an attitude made Lu Wei a little unhappy.

He thought that Wu Jianye was disrespectful to himself, and he didn't say anything despite the fact that he was still smart.

After Wu Jianye read the script, he smiled and said: "The script is good, with the characters as the point of conflict and conflict, throughout the entire movie plot, it's good, what do you have in mind over there?"

Chen Kaige was not polite, and said directly: "There are still actors in investment!"

Wu Jianye nodded: "Investment is easy to do, this movie is not suitable for domestic cultural companies to invest, so let's let Fengge Pictures invest in this movie, what about the actors?"

Lu Wei was slightly stunned on the side, he had discussed with Chen Kaige before, the investment in this movie was at least tens of millions of yuan, and now Wu Jianye has no problem at all?

As for Wu Jianye, he was actually a little curious in his heart, and said that the role of Cheng Dieyi in this movie, Chen Kaige was interested in Zunlong at first, not Zhang Guolu, and Wu Jianye is also very curious about this matter now.

Chen Kaige said with a smile: "The other roles in terms of actors are okay, but for the soul role of Cheng Dieyi in the movie, I hope to invite the actor Zhang Guolu from Xiangjiang, and Lu Wei hopes to let Zunlong play!"

Wu Jianye was slightly stunned, he didn't expect Chen Kaige to fall in love with Zhang Guolu from the beginning, and the one who respected the dragon in the picture would be Lu Wei, but if you think about it, you can understand, Lu Wei said before that his favorite movie is actually the movie "The Last Emperor", that is to say, he is very satisfied with Zunlong's performance, and it is reasonable to propose Zunlong now.

Wu Jianye thought for a while and said: "Forget it, I talked to Zunlong before returning to China, he doesn't have much interest in movies with the theme of the Republic of China, and at the same time, he is now an actor in the film company in the United States, what rules do the actors over there, you yourself know, it's not suitable!"

Chen Kaige stayed in North America for two years, especially in the later stage, he was arranged by Wu Jianye to Phantom Pictures, so he naturally understood how the actors over there filmed, and now he heard that Wu Jianye did not approve of Zunlong, so he said.

"But Zhang Guoxuan's side?"

It is not easy to invite Zunlong, and it is not easy to invite Zhang Guoxuan, Zhang Guoxuan's current fame in China is not beyond the reach of ordinary people, as the existence of the Xiangjiang Emperor superstar, it can be said that it is very difficult to invite Zhang Guoxuan.

Wu Jianye smiled and said, "I'll arrange this matter!"

After speaking, he picked up the phone and dialed Zhang Guolu's phone.

Soon Zhang Guolu's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hey, hello, that one!"

Wu Jianye hated this big brother who didn't have caller ID, but now the latest mobile phone developed by Tunan Technology will be launched next year, and he has begun to work on this problem!

"Rong Zai, I'm Wu Jianye!" Wu Jianye smiled.

When Zhang Guolu heard that it was Wu Jianye, his tone immediately revealed an excited expression: "Director Wu, have you come to Xiangjiang?"

Wu Jianye said: "No, in fact, there is one thing, I want to ask for your opinion." ”

Zhang Guolu asked, "What's the matter?"

"I have a script in my hand now, and I personally think that one of the main characters is very suitable for you, so I want to see if you have a schedule next year?" Wu Jianye asked.

Zhang Guolu immediately asked, "Is it your new movie?"

In fact, at this time, not only domestic filmmakers are paying attention to Wu Jianye's new movie, but even Xiangjiang, Europe and the United States are paying attention to Wu Jianye's new movie.

The two movies "Ghost Love" and "Jurassic Park" directly made Wu Jianye a god in the world film circle, and they are naturally looking forward to Wu Jianye's new movie.

Wu Jianye said: "It's not my new movie, it's a domestic director called Chen Kaige, his movie." ”

Zhang Guowei on the other end of the phone was a little disappointed, he thought it was Wu Jianye's movie, but he didn't expect it to be another director's movie.

However, Zhang Guoxuan did not refuse directly, but said: "Can I read the script first, and then decide!"

Wu Jianye smiled: "Of course, this way, in the past two days, I asked this director to go to Xiangjiang, how about you meet and talk about this matter?"

Zhang Guoxuan happily agreed: "No problem, I'm waiting for you in Xiangjiang!"

After the two finished chatting, Wu Jianye hung up the phone and said to Chen Kaige: "The people have made an appointment for you, this time you go to Xiangjiang and go to Fengge Pictures to sign the investment contract!"

Chen Kaige immediately smiled and said, "There is no problem, what about the investment in this movie?"

Wu Jianye smiled: "You make a budget yourself, when the time comes, there will be no problem on Fengge Pictures' side!"

"Haha, that's great!" Chen Kaige immediately said excitedly.

This series of operations, falling in Lu Wei's eyes, always had a feeling of unreality, he didn't expect that the two most difficult problems would be solved by Wu Jianye so lightly.

No, there's another problem.......

"Director Wu, if the actor uses Zhang Guoxuan, then what are the procedures for Zhang Guoxuan to come to Xiangjiang to make a movie?"