"Struggle" back then was really recommended by Sister Ge, and Lu Xiaoran was fortunate to star in it.

If there is no recommendation from Sister Ge, where will Lu Xiaoran go to line up with Zhao Baogang?

At that time, the auxiliary device was a pen, and Lu Xiaoran was not allowed to sign a contract with the company, starting from scratch...

This favor, Xiao Luzi has always remembered.

Here's the problem, Sister Ge, including her agent Chang Jihong, has a very problematic vision!

It can't be said that there is a problem with vision, their company announced that they would join Xingmei Entertainment last year, and they have resources!

"Rules Before Love" ("The Days of Living with a Flight Attendant" movie version), "Unmanned" including "Durala's Promotion", are all resources that many actresses have dreamed of for a long time!

Especially "Unmanned", directed by Zhang Yang, Liu Li, Gao Yuanyuan, Chen Jianbing, Li Xiaoran, Wang Luodan...

Actors gather under the red flag!

Xingmei is about to start filming a number of new works by a group of excellent directors such as Chen Kexin, Guan Yu, and Lu Chuan, which is undoubtedly a great time for actors.

With this kind of big premise, Sister Ge really can't watch "33 Days of Broken Love"...

After all, this thing is just a small production with an investment of less than 10 million...

Unless Lu Xiaoran is willing to be the director and star.

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Orange Images currently has projects on the agenda: "Big Man", directed by Yang Qing, "Scorching Sun", directed by Cao Baoping, "Room No. 7 Gift", directed by undecided, "33 Days of Broken Love", directed by undecided, "Searching", directed by Lu Xiaoran;

In addition, there are "Sword Rain", "Embroidered Spring Knife"...

Lu Xiaoran also reserved a bunch of projects that have not been developed, such as "Moon", "Source Code", "Edge of Tomorrow"...

These require a director.

Preferably a new director.

Lu Xiaoran doesn't believe that those famous directors, especially the sixth generation, no one can make mature genre films.

Look at what Wang Xiaoshuai said at the Shanghai Film Festival, pointing to Lu Chuan, Ning Hao, and Wei Desheng: "The box office of the three of them has exceeded 100 million, but as directors, they are too failures, if the movie still has a little bit of artistic flavor and a little bit of mission that should be carried, there is no way to sit here and talk about things directly." ”

Fortunately, Lu Xiaoran didn't go to the film festival, he was busy filming "Time and Space Traveler"...

Is a box office over 100 million a failure?

This one who stepped on a horse!

Whether or not a good movie can be made is a matter of ability, and everything else is an excuse.

Do you really think of yourself as an artist?

Directors are just service industry practitioners!

Think about who gave you the money to make a movie, so backbone, don't take other people's money first.

Usually when I talk about art, I am so powerful and unyielding, how can I lose my bones when I take the money?

Director Xiao Shuai, known as Wang Million - all movie box office is at the million-level level...

There are many people who agree with his words!

Especially in the circle...

There are always a group of people who look down on commercial films, and feel that making commercial films is vulgar, perhaps China's unique literati arrogance is at work, and the ideas of "looking down on commercial films" and "carrying forward art films" have always controlled the brains of most Chinese filmmakers.

The views of the audience and filmmakers are contradictory, and most audiences are more willing to accept commercial films with sensory stimulation than art films with a threshold for appreciation.

As long as the film is not so bad that it has a physiological reaction, everyone can accept it.

Let's put it this way, if one day movies can't make money and become a pure art like shadow puppetry, then movies are dead...

Lu Xiaoran never expected his film to win awards, he made commercial films!

Sometimes I think it's ridiculous, commercial film directors don't dare to compete for awards with literary film directors, but literary and artistic films are red-eyed and want to compete with commercial films for the box office!

What do you think?

Lu Xiaoran can chat with Yang Qing, Xu Zheng, and Ning Hao, because they are the same kind of people: eat a full meal first, and then talk about art when you are full!

Of course, within his ability, if there is a good script and a good literary film, he will also invest!

For example, Qin Hailu took a script called "The Piano of Steel" and came to the door...

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Several works have been sold in a row, and those who have been used are all newcomer directors.

More and more young people who want to make movies recommend themselves and go to the door to meet Lu Xiaoran.

There are not many talented people among them, and most of them are half a bucket of water.

You talk to him about creation, he talks to you about feelings, you talk to him about the box office, he talks to you about art, you talk to him about cost, he talks to you about human nature...

Not all the way!

Lu Xiaoran is not a fool, you take a notebook and come to the door, and then say that I want to make a shocking art masterpiece, and he will believe you?

Huaicai doesn't encounter this kind of thing, after all, it is a minority...

Lu Xiaoran is chatting with Su Lun about "33 Days of Broken Love".

Su Lun is Xu Zheng's executive director, Xu Zheng mentioned it that day, saying that this girl has a lot of ideas, and then he paid attention...

He told the general plot of "33 Days of Broken Love", and then asked her: "If this drama is handed over to you, how will you shoot it?"

“... The colors don't need to be too bright, it's better to have some cool tones, and by the end of the day, the picture will be warmer..."

"It's better to add some narration, this is a literary work..."

"Okay, then you go and talk to Jingjing, after the script is mature, you can discuss the cost with Zhixi, and then make a summary for me. ”

Su Lun looked at Lu Xiaoran in surprise: "... Is this going to be handed over to me?"

"It's hard for me to shoot this kind of work with a female psychological depiction so accurately, you try it!"

Su Lun left excitedly, not long after she left, Zeng Guangxian led Qin Hailu in...

"Sister Hailu?"

"Director Lu Da..."

"May you be seated, who are you?"

Qin Hailu's face was a little unnatural: "I came here as a creator to find you to invest in the project." ”

“... What kind of project?Sister Hailu, you want to be a director?"

Lu Xiaoran has never worked with Qin Hailu, but he has always admired an actress like her who has acting skills but is relatively low-key.

It's a pity that she's not very popular ...

"It's not me, it's a new director Zhang Meng..."

"I know him, the director of "Ears are Blessed"? He was a sketch screenwriter before, right, and many of Zhao Benshan's sketches were written by him?"

"It was written by his father, and he was just involved in the screenwriting. ”

Qin Hailu explained: "His father Zhang Huizhong is the queen screenwriter of Mr. Benshan, and since "Blind Date", he has been cooperating with Mr. Benshan, "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", "New Year's Greetings", "Selling Abduction", "Selling Cars", and "Director of Men and Women"!"

"I see!"

Lu Xiaoran smiled...

With a deep family background, it is no wonder that "Ears are Blessed" can invite Mr. Fan Wei...

However, he has no prejudice against these, and his family background is also a person's innate condition!

Some people's starting line in life is to be ahead of the masses, this thing is born and does not change by human will.

Took the script and flipped through it...

The story of "The Piano of Steel" is very simple, through the story of Chen Guilin making a pure steel piano for his daughter, it tells the sad elegy of the old industrial base in Northeast China and a generation of laid-off workers, who were once glorious working class, they were industrious, they were brave, but they lost their future under the general environment and the Great Depression, but they still fought for dignity and the next generation with their last strength.

This movie is tragic!

However, at a glance, you will know that you are losing money...

The key is the question of losing more and losing less!

Closing the script, Lu Xiaoran asked, "How much investment do you want?"

"Five million!"

Lu Xiaoran did not agree directly, but asked Zeng Guangxian: "... Can you pull in the Changchun Film Studio? The Changchun Film Festival also has venture capital projects, right?"

“... Don't count on them, they can't make ends meet right now. ”

"I'm talking about whether this movie can have a relationship with the official, and this movie can win awards clearly!"

Zeng Guangxian nodded: "Okay, I'll find a relationship!"

He understood what Lu Xiaoran was talking about.

Orange Images is now missing some official awards.

For any company to develop, in addition to the business aspect, it must also be supported by awards!

"Sister Hailu, we have invested in this project, but we have the final say on how to issue it and how it operates!"

Qin Hailu nodded and asked the question he was most concerned about: "What about the actors?"

"In terms of actors, let's discuss it together, such a movie must use actors from the Northeast..."