Chapter 099: I'm sorry, I have an objection
After the end of the trip to Taiwan Island and the perfect end of the week-long publicity activities in Southeast Asia, Cheng Weiliang and his party returned to Xiangjiang on the 29th. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 As soon as Info came back, he received an invitation from TVB to come over and discuss the filming of "Meteor Garden".
TVB's invitation should be to discuss the details of the formal signing of the cooperation agreement between the two parties, Cheng Weiliang shouted excitedly after receiving the phone call at night, "I am finally going to start my directorial debut in this life!" ”
Early the next morning, he dressed himself up and walked briskly into the TVB TV building on the radio road.
"Cheng Weiliang, we all heard that Miss Fang is going to see you, come on!" Wu Junru, Zeng Huaqian, and Liu Jialing, the three of them, after receiving the wind yesterday, waited at the door early today to intercept Cheng Weiliang and cheer him on. A few of them were also very excited when they heard the news, if Cheng Weiliang was a director, they would have the opportunity to participate in important roles before they graduated!
“ok!” Cheng Weiliang smiled and made an OK gesture with them, and then went upstairs.
Outside the TVB reception room, the secretary told Fang Yihua that he was still dealing with one thing and asked him to wait.
"Mr. Cheng, Miss Fang is invited, please come with me." didn't wait too long, the female secretary walked in with a twist on her waist.
Cheng Weiliang followed the female secretary into the office.
"Sit!" Fang Yihua waved his hand casually and motioned for Cheng Weiliang to sit on the sofa opposite. Then he instructed the female secretary: "Go and make a pot of tea!" ”
Fang Yihua sat on the short sofa chair opposite Cheng Weiliang and looked at him carefully. Well, this kid is wearing today, and he looks good. With neat short hair, a straight black suit, and a tall figure, I feel a little different from the handsome little students who have always been praised in the company.
Fang Yihua tried her best to forget her previous bad impression of this kid, and remembered Shao Yifu's opinion, she showed a kind smile, put down the shelf, and affectionately started a family affair with Cheng Weiliang.
Cheng Weiliang doesn't know if this TVB's iron lady has taken the wrong medicine, and his attitude towards him has changed greatly today? If you don't know what's going on, you have to improvise and answer the questions you can.
After they chatted for a few minutes, several more people came in.
"Come, come and sit. Wei Liang, let me introduce you to Zhao Zhenqiang, our gold medal producer, and "Shanghai Tang" is supervised by him. Fang Yihua pointed to those people and introduced them to him one by one. This is the choreographer Zou Changgen, and this is the co-ordinator Yang Mubing, this one is a peer who is about the same age as you, get to know it, screenwriter Wei Jiahui. ”
Cheng Weiliang was secretly surprised, these people were very famous in later generations.
Needless to say, Zhao Zhengqiang is a "Shanghai Tang" that swept the entire Chinese world, when it was broadcast in the mainland, thousands of people were empty, and the theme song of the same name "Shanghai Tang" has been circulated to this day, and the actors and heroines Zhou Yunfa and Zhao Yazi have been acting out of control since then.
Zou Changgen is a well-known "golden editor" in the Hong Kong film industry.
Wei Jiahui, a famous screenwriter, director and producer in the film and television industry in later generations. He is good at producing long-form dramas that are entangled in grievances and hatreds. He is the screenwriter of the influential and high-rated TV series "Brother Xinzha", "Rogue Tycoon" and "Intolerable" in Hong Kong in the eighties and nineties, and the producer of "The Great Era".
Fang Yihua is looking for these cattle people for him?
"Hello! I have admired the daimyo for a long time! Cheng Weiliang shook hands with them one by one.
After the pleasantries, everyone sat down again.
"Wei Liang, some time ago, TVB started filming several dramas at the same time, and the manpower couldn't be freed up for a while, I hope you don't mind." Fang Yihua said to Cheng Weiliang with a smile.
"No, the longer it takes, the better the preparation." Cheng Weiliang smiled and signaled that it didn't matter.
Fang Yihua flipped the script of "Meteor Garden" and handed it to others.
"What do you think?" Fang Yihua asked a few others.
"The love story of a wealthy man and Cinderella in an aristocratic college. It's pretty fresh. Zhao Zhenqiang said.
"The scenes designed inside are gorgeous, luxury cars, jewelry and watches, castle-style mansions, cruise ships, balls, it takes a lot of effort to shoot well." Zou Changgen imagined the scene in the script and how to shoot it.
"The story is very interesting, four tall, handsome and rich boys, and they also formed a school band called F4, such a school life should be quite pleasant. It's just that the scene is too gorgeous, and if you do it, hundreds of thousands of people can't shoot it. Coordinator Yang Mubing wanted to laugh after reading the story, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of Fang Yihua.
"I'm asking you what are the ratings? Jiahui, you are also a screenwriter, do you think there is room for change in these campus plots? I think the four male protagonists are too arrogant in school, and the school is completely inactive. There is also a story on a love line, the hero and heroine repeatedly, divided and combined, and finally the male number one left to study abroad, and the love between the two has no result, do you think the audience will be satisfied? Fang Yihua was very dissatisfied with the vagueness of these subordinates, and they did not give professional opinions on the reasonableness of the entire storyline and the ratings prospects.
Wei Jiahui was named, so he had to leave half of his thoughts and half of them like others, so he had to pour out all his thoughts and said: "This is a very creative youth story, although the campus life shown in it is very exaggerated, but I think students should like it." As for the problem of overly arrogant behavior, it is indeed possible to cause complaints from students' parents and teachers, and this can be changed slightly. If the love line is monotonous, you can add a little bit of family grievance entanglement. ”
Wei Jiahui said, while glancing at Cheng Weiliang's reaction, seeing that he was expressionless, he continued: "For example, didn't the heroine's father die at an early age, leaving only her mother and uncle to raise her?" Then we can change it to mom and dad working as a maid in the house of the male number one when they were young, and then the dad was killed for some reason and the mom was kicked out. When the mother found out that her daughter was in love with the enemy's son, she tried her best to break them up, and at the same time, the money-hungry uncle was also bribed by the male protagonist's mother to help ventilate the news. “
"The male and female protagonists have been separated again and again because of family grudges. After the two broke up, the male No. 2 Hanazawa found himself in love with the heroine Shancai and pursued her again. Brothers thus break up! “
And Hua Ze's father is an old friend of the male protagonist's father on the surface, but he has always wanted to take revenge on the male protagonist's mother for abandoning him back then, and he wants the Hua family to replace the other party's status in Hong Kong. Hua Ze's father found someone to kidnap the male owner.,Make the male owner's mother have no intention of taking care of the company.,The company's stock was blocked by the flower family and plummeted.,The female owner and other members of F4 rescued the male owner.,Foiled the conspiracy of the father of the flower name.,Save the male owner's family company.。 ”
In the end, I accidentally discovered that the heroine's father actually died accidentally at the hands of a gambling uncle, and the male protagonist's mother was moved by the heroine's sincerity to her son, and finally, the heroine's love affair finally passed the rain! Happy ending. ”
"Excellent! In this way, it will not be like the original, which makes people feel that the division and combination of the hero and heroine are like a child's gamer's home! "Fang Yihua is simply appreciative, the plot has been changed so well! Wei Jiahui is worthy of being the most talented screenwriter of the company's younger generation.
Others were thoughtful and in favor of the change.
After Cheng Weiliang listened to the plot of the kidnapping, the sip of tea he had just drunk almost didn't squirt!
This Wei Jiahui is worthy of being a famous screenwriter in the film and television industry in Xiangjiang, and he is grateful to make up these plots in such a short time.
But if he changed it like this, wouldn't it become one of those typical fashion family grievance dramas that he made up in later generations? In that kind of Hong Kong drama, the relationship between the characters is often very complicated, and the fate of the characters in the play is changeable. Brothers and friends who were previously good friends can betray and turn against each other; Relatives can be used and sold; Parents always have a grudge against each other's families!
Another point, perhaps because Xiangjiang is a developed commercial society, the love in Hong Kong dramas is generally very realistic, and there is rarely fanciful pure love. There are very few plots where the hero and heroine consistently like each other. Usually the male protagonist and his ex-girlfriend are separated, and the female protagonist and her ex-boyfriend are separated, and then the two meet and know each other, and after a series of changes, they finally get together. In addition, there are often plots of four-cornered relationships, either I like your ex-girlfriend, or you like my ex-girlfriend (or sister and sister) as a good brother and good friend.
Wei Jiahui changed it like this, and it became a typical Hong Kong drama, not the youth idol drama that he Cheng Weiliang wanted to film. Hong Kong dramas are filmed by Hong Kong people, and what Cheng Weiliang has to do is to add the genre of idol dramas to Chinese films and enrich the genre of dramas. Firmly occupy the youth market, not let Japanese and Korean dramas occupy this blank market as in later generations.
Fang Yihua thought it was very good, a student story that she originally thought had a monotonous plot, and if it was changed like this, adult audiences would also like to watch it, so she made a resolute decision, "It seems that everyone agrees, so be it." Kahui, I'll leave it to you to change the script. ”
Without waiting for Cheng Weiliang to react, she looked at Cheng Weiliang and said, "Weiliang, the problem of the script is solved." Now, it is Zhao Zhengqiang who is your senior consultant, and he will help you build the best crew. Cast list, if you don't have the right candidate, we can help you choose. Three days later, you and PolyGram's representatives come over and we discuss the signing of the contract. Also, you have a look at this document. Fang Yihua was stunned, and he didn't give Cheng Weiliang a chance to interject.
Zhao Zhengqiang, a prestigious gold medal producer, is his senior consultant, and he is a consultant at best, but he is actually the emperor of the crew. Zhao Zhengqiang is responsible for forming the crew, will the crew members listen to him or Zhao Zhengqiang, do they still need to ask?
Fang Yihua obviously still didn't believe him, so he came up with the name of the producer and director of Cheng Weiliang's drama on the surface, but secretly found the company's senior producer as a senior consultant, and set aside Cheng Weiliang's directing rights, and the consultant actually controlled the important affairs of the crew. Fang Yihua probably still thinks that his approach is a win-win situation, right? not only gave Cheng Weiliang the name he wanted, but also avoided the risk brought by his own shooting.
It's a pity, the script I wrote, the money I invested, fulfilled your TVB, am I only a false name?