"You mean, Guo Dalu is very dissatisfied with our adaptation of him?"

Yu Baishu's face was a little ugly, he sat in the office and slowly lit a cigarette, after he took a hard puff, two columns of smoke shot out of his nostrils, and in the smoke, he looked at Bai Weige in front of him, "What does he mean by this?"

At this time, only Yu Baishu and Bai Weige were left in the office, and some of the previous colleagues had already gone home from work.

In front of so many colleagues before, it was inconvenient for Yu Baishu to ask in detail, and after everyone went back at this time, he deliberately stopped Bai Weige and prepared to take a closer look.

"What else could it be like?"

General Bai Weige shook his head and said, "Commander, I said don't be angry. You may have done a bad job this time! Who is Guo Dalu? That's a guy who specializes in working against the Writers' Association! He has a big temper! He is completely different from those writers in the Writers' Association! If you put your attitude toward being a collaborator on Guo Dalu, this is not suitable at all!"

Yu Baishu's face changed, "Why is it not suitable? What an honor it is for an author's work to be adapted into a drama!"

Bai Weige looked at Yu Baishu quietly and stopped talking.

Yu Baishu was uncomfortable by him, twisted his body and said, "Why do you look at me like this? What is wrong with what I said?"

Bai Weige said softly: "Leader, do you really don't know or don't understand?"

Yu Baishu said: "I ...... What do I understand? What do I understand?"

Although he said this, his tone had weakened significantly.

Adapted Guo Dalu's work into a drama, and only informed people at the end, although Yu Baishu was so skilled in this matter that he was so proficient that he had subconsciously thought that this was a normal procedure, but at this time, if he really stood in the perspective of a bystander, what he did was indeed not very authentic.

The office was quiet for a few moments, except for the smoke rising from the room.

Yu Baishu finished smoking a cigarette, pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, and said to Bai Weige: "Lao Bai, you are like this, you go to Guo Dalu, talk to him about copyright issues, and tell him that we don't want this copyright in vain, give him copyright fees!"

Bai Weige asked, "Then how much money are you going to give him?"

Yu Baishu frowned, "Then settle according to the normal manuscript fee." In the past, the manuscript fees we gave to other writers were generally between one and thirty thousand, and that was still the case of a relatively large number of words, if the number of words was less, 10,000 yuan would be about the same, this time simply be generous, treat Guo Dalu differently, and give him the highest remuneration, 50,000 yuan!"

He sighed, "I searched all over China, but I shouldn't be able to find such a high remuneration!"

Bai Weige looked at Yu Baishu for a while with a stupid look, nodded and said, "Yes, I can't find such a manuscript fee all over the country!"

He smiled and said: "Guo Dalu's licensing fee for a martial arts is five million now, no matter how big or small it is, it is all five million. This is true even for those short and medium-length martial arts stories he wrote. You gave him a copyright fee of 50,000 yuan, and you really couldn't find a second one all over the country!"

"What? Five millions? Why didn't he rob the bank!"

Yu Baishu was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "How can there be so many? A ninth-rate actor, how can he write so much money?"

Bai Weige looked at Yu Baishu, and couldn't help but feel a sad sympathy in his heart, Yu Baishu just stared at his own one-third of an acre of land, and he has always been arrogant and arrogant because he is a person in the system, and he is completely ignorant of the development of society, and he can't feel the rapid changes of the times at all, it seems that in his heart, the current society is still in the era of planned economy.

This man is out of touch with the times!

In the face of changes in the world, everyone is actively adapting and working hard, but Yu Baishu or other people with a similar mentality to him have chosen to close their eyes, plug their ears, and still keep themselves in their original state of life, not wanting to change, unwilling to change, and even afraid of change!

Although they live in a new era, their ways and means of doing things are the thinking of more than ten years ago, or even decades ago.

Yu Baishu seemed to be shocked by Guo Dalu's copyright fee of 5 million, and couldn't help shaking his head and said: "How can it be so much? How much does our repertory troupe earn a year? It's only more than 300,000 a year!"

Bai Weige said: "The movie that Guo Dalu is showing now, it is two or three hundred million a day!"

Yu Baishu's body was shocked, "So many?"

He was really frightened by such a large number, and muttered: "We have worked hard for half a lifetime, and we can't even reach his income for a day?"

Bai Weige nodded and said, "Although it's sad, this is the reality!"

Yu Baishu was silent for a long time, and then suddenly raised his head and said: "Since he has so much money, does he still care about the money for our drama performances? You are quite familiar with him, can you see if you can reduce the licensing fee? We are the National Theater, and if his works can be performed in the National Theater, it is a recognition of his works! This honor is not something that ordinary theaters can give." ”

He looked at Bai Weige, "Old Bai, you know the situation in our group. In the past few years, it has been sluggish, and if it weren't for the support of the state, our troupe would have been disbanded long ago!"

Bai Weige didn't know what to say, and said in his heart: "If you weren't fooling, would you have come to this point?"

Fifteen years ago, the Kyoto Drama Theater was actually very popular, and every time it opened, audiences from all over the world came to cheer for it, and it was really hard to find a ticket at that time.

But later, with the changes of the times, the impact of multimedia, the decrease of excellent drama books, and the indiscriminate command of relevant leaders, the entire drama troupe quickly declined.

It takes almost one to three years for a drama to become a script and polish it, and it takes three years for the screenwriter to earn only one or two hundred thousand yuan.

When there is a serious deviation between the effort and the income, the industry will naturally become depressed.

The reason why today's repertory troupe can still exist is that on the one hand, it is the strong support of the state, and on the other hand, many powerful big-name actors will come to the troupe to perform dramas to "recharge", because of the appeal of these star actors and the support of some drama lovers, the repertory troupe can hold on with great difficulty.

There is almost such a consensus in the entertainment industry that acting in dramas is much more difficult than acting in movies and television, and only dramas test the actors' acting skills the most.

Because drama is a kind of stage art that performs face-to-face with the audience in real time, unlike when acting in a movie, you can say to the photographer "I'm sorry, I forgot the words" and "I said the wrong line, let's do it again!", when acting in a drama, it is facing the audience directly, and there is no chance to "do it all over again", even if you say the wrong line, you have to continue to perform, and try to make up for it on stage, it is best not to let the audience see it.

Thousands of lines have to be memorized word for word, a performance almost takes two or three hours, and the actor has to try his best to make his voice heard by the audience in a three-chamber resonance way, which is a huge test of the actor's physical strength and spirit.

Therefore, many real actors, in their spare time, their favorite thing is to go to the repertory troupe to perform dramas, so as to polish their acting skills.

Some old actors even call acting in movies and television "discharge", and acting in dramas is called "charging".

It's like singing opera, if you just sing an excerpt, no matter how well you sing the excerpt, you can't show your skills, only by singing the whole play and performing a play from beginning to end, then you can sing the opera.

Whether there is skill or not, insiders can know by eye.

It is the admiration of these famous actors for drama that makes today's drama barely support, but today's drama, lacking pillar plays, and going back and forth on those few scripts, has led to many drama lovers gradually becoming dissatisfied, and it is not a good thing for drama to go on for a long time.

Therefore, the higher-level leaders have asked the drama to be more innovative, more practical, and more good works.

Yu Baishu wants to adapt "The True Story of Ah Q", which is based on this reason.