Section XXXIV: Bills and Refills

The private house rented by Shu Yu has only one bedroom and only one bed, so Du An's can only sleep on the sofa in the living room.

This fabric sofa is only 1.6 meters, Duane is 1.78 meters tall, and he is still wrapped in a quilt, how uncomfortable he sleeps, and his body can't stretch at all. In particular, the feet poked out from under the quilt as soon as they stretched slightly, and then they froze so hard -- it was already very cold in Nanyang in December, especially in the Jiangnan area, although there were still five or six degrees in winter, it was wet and cold, cold to the bones, and there was no heating in the house, and it was more than ten degrees below zero in the north.

Duane curled up his body, wrapped himself in a quilt like a silkworm chrysalis and forced his eyes to sleep for more than ten minutes, but he couldn't sleep, so he had to lift the quilt, put on his pants, and then wrapped the quilt around his body and got off the sofa and walked around the house.

Next to the window is a street lamp, and the light shines through the window, illuminating the house half-brightly and half-dark, even if the lights are not turned on, it will not be visible.

After a few turns, I still didn't feel sleepy, but I accidentally kicked something under my feet.

It was a stack of waste paper, piled up by the door, kicked and scattered, through the street lamp light stabbed in through the window, you could see magazines such as "Master Wang's Private Dishes" and "Home Cooking", all curled and yellowed, as well as the 16-carat square yellow homework book used by elementary school students.

Probably left by the former tenant, looking at the appearance of the bunched jade pile here, it should be intended to be sold to the scrap collector.

Anyway, he couldn't sleep, so Duane simply grabbed the feet on both sides of the quilt and grabbed it tightly, squatted down, stretched out a hand and rummaged through it, and took out a notebook that looked okay. He had just picked up his notebook when something fell out of it.

The street lamp that pierced through the window was still a little dim after all, Duane looked back at the door of Shuyu's bedroom, and estimated that she should be asleep, so he got up and turned on the light in the living room, and returned here to squat down, only to find that what had fallen out of the book just now was a ballpoint pen refill.

That's good, you don't have to look for a pen.

Duane put the notebook and refill on the table, came back and put the messed books back in order, sat down on the couch, wrapped himself in the quilt, and opened the notebook.

Anyway, I can't sleep, so I just write a script for a while.

The first few sheets of the notebook are full of words, densely packed, all the prices and quantities of pork, beef, cabbage, greens, etc., and then linked to the recipes I saw before, it seems that the former tenant opened a restaurant.

The bill is written on five pages, and the more you go to the back, the smaller the number of ingredients, it seems that the business is not good and you can't go on.

Duane tore up the five pages of the bill and began to write.

Scene 1: Courtyard, bright

People: a number of business tycoons, a number of celebrities, a number of business stars, Yang Xue

The young man does magic tricks on two celebrities.

Young people: No matter what they say, the topic is inseparable from money. So, let's imagine that you work in a bank......

The film he plans to make focuses on the intricate romance between a prostitute named Qi Wei and a corporate magnate Chamberlain.

Chamberlain is an entrepreneur with a net worth of billions, he is chic and charming, and his business talents are amazing, but he is always unable to handle the relationship with women. Because of the company's business, he went on a business trip to Hengdian, and at night he drove a high-end sports car into the red light district by mistake, and because he was lost, he asked a young and beautiful prostitute Qi Wei for directions. Qi Wei's lively beauty attracted him, and he took Qi Wei to the hotel and spent a wonderful night.

Because Chamberlain was talking about a corporate acquisition, his lawyer Yang Xue wanted him to have a female companion to accompany him to the next event, so Chamberlain decided to spend 20,000 yuan to hire Qi Wei for a week, and as a female companion attending the event, Qi Wei accepted the deal.

In the week that the two got along, Qi Wei underwent a major change from appearance to heart. With the help of the hotel manager, she put on an evening dress and learned the basic etiquette of dining; she accompanied Chamberlain to attend banquets of all sizes and met many decent people; her true temperament and unique personal charm, which were very different from the upper class, also gradually changed Chamberlain's lifestyle, and even affected the direction of Chamberlain's business decisions. The two gradually fell in love with each other and could no longer leave each other.

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye, and Fang Bolun couldn't leave Qi Wei anymore, so he decided to keep Qi Wei. He bought Qi Wei a mansion and a luxury car, but he couldn't marry Qi Wei. Faced with Fang Bolun's decision, Qi Wei chose to leave.

After a week of life, Qi Wei finally regained her personality, she decided to go to school and start a new life, but just as she was about to leave, Fang Bolun's car stopped outside the door. He gritted his diamond ring and held flowers, overcame his fear of heights, bravely climbed the tall building, and saved Qi Wei like a knight.

Unlike "Saw Horror", which is full of creativity, this story basically has no eye-catching creativity - a love that is a little similar to the Lady of the Camellias, the role partner of Prince Cinderella, and a smooth story, how to shoot such a story well, which tests the director's ability, and Duane will choose such a story because the story he once dreamed of seems to be the story of him and Shu Yu: he single-handedly directed the miracle of "Saw Horror", demoted Shu Yu from may even be saved from being squeezed out of the quagmire of Rising, just as Fang Bolun in the story saved Qi Wei from the life of a street girl, and when he fell to the bottom, it was Shu Yu who rescued him from the psychological barrier, and just as Qi Wei used her unique personality charm of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-love to save Fang Bolun from the psychological barrier of love difficulties. Yes, at the end of the story, it seems that Chamberlain saves Qi Wei like a knight, but in fact, it is Qi Wei who saves Chamberlain, gives Chamberlain the courage to love, and saves him from his originally bad love life.

So he was going to make such a story, but first, he needed a heroine.

Duane stopped his pen and thought.

Because he only needs to convert the pictures in his dreams into words, he has always been very fast in writing scripts. Last time Saw was written for three hours, this time ...... Duane looked up at the clock on the wall, half past two in the morning.

This time it was four and a half hours - no way, the ballpoint pen refill did not have a pen case, so I could only write by hand, which was very uncomfortable, and naturally I couldn't write quickly.

Heroine, heroine......

In this film, the heroine Qi Wei has the most scenes, and she will be the first protagonist, and her choice is directly related to the success or failure of the whole film. So other characters may be a little more casual, but the heroine is not at all.

Duane paused on the table with a ballpoint pen refill in his hand, and then paused, and his mind flashed to the image of a woman gracefully walking on the red carpet.

Gong Li.

Whether it is appearance, temperament or acting skills, Gong Li is very in line with the image of Qi Wei in Du Anxin - except for age.

Gong Li seems to be in his thirties and almost forty this year, and let a female star of this age play a "young" and beautiful girl......

Maybe you can make up for it with makeup? Du An thought so, but then thought of something, and laughed self-deprecatingly: He seemed to be thinking too much -- Gong Li can be said to be the biggest actress in China at this stage, even if she can make up for her age shortcomings, will people be willing to deign to come to his crew? Even if Gong Li really has a brain cramp and is willing to come, her salary Du An can't afford it.

Shu Yu said that he could only give him a total of seven million, and Gong Li's salary alone was more than that.

Otherwise, Weekly News?

Du An immediately shook his head again: This actress's age is not a problem, and her acting skills are not bad, but she can't become Qi Wei - Zhou Xun is like an elf, and Qi Wei ...... Du Yin himself couldn't say it, he only knew that Zhou Xun couldn't play Qi Wei, and even if the performance came, it would be Zhou Xun's Qi Wei, not the Qi Wei he wanted.

What's more, Zhou Xun is now a first-line female star, although the salary is not at the level of Gong Li, it is also at the eight-figure level, and he can't move at all.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that I can only go to the actors' union tomorrow to pan for gold and see if there is a low level of remuneration and a good image that meets the requirements.

Duane thought so.

After writing for a long time, he finally got a little sleepy, so he put down the ballpoint pen refill, walked over and turned off the light, then took off his pants and shrunk his legs into the quilt, wrapped himself like a silkworm chrysalis and curled up on the sofa again, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Duane was awakened by the strong sunlight shining in from the window.

Stretching out his hand to block the sun, he barely opened his misty eyes, and he saw that Shu Yu had already gotten up, dressed in a small suit and pencil pants, and looked like he was preparing to go to work.

At this moment, Shu Yu was standing at the table, holding a notebook in her hand, Du ane rubbed her eyes and looked over, and found that what she had in her hand was the notebook she used to write the script yesterday.

"This is what you're going to shoot?"

Finding that Du An was awake, Shu Yu looked over with a strange look in his eyes.

She held up her notebook and pointed to the five words on the cover, "Erotic?"

I saw five words written on the cover of the notebook:

Pretty Woman.