This time, Lin Youlun brought together all Hong Kong screenwriters to discuss the establishment of the meeting, not only the people who are now screenwriters came to participate, but some people who had been screenwriters in the past and have now become directors and producers also came to join in the fun.

There are too many people coming, Lin Youlun can't receive them one by one, the screenwriters with TVB background will be contacted by Wang Jing, the screenwriters with ATV background will be handed over to Mai Danxiong, and as for the screenwriters from Xinyicheng, Xu Ke will take care of them.

When I heard that "Er Huang" died and fell ill, everyone in the congregation had relatives in their hearts, and when they got together to sigh about the wine, they couldn't help but talk about the hardships and bleakness of being a screenwriter in Hong Kong...... Lin Youlun walked around the reception hall and heard the most about it.

"This is also something that can't be helped, now many directors can actually write their own scripts, but it's too troublesome to do that, so directors generally only mention one story, and the specific plot is handed over to the screenwriter to do, so the screenwriter is actually only responsible for 'Duqiao', and of course the salary can't be high." Wang Jing explained to Lin Youlun as he walked.

"Is there any way to increase everyone's salary?" Lin Youlun stopped, turned his head to look at Wang Jing and said: "For example, in the name of the Screenwriters Association, I will negotiate with all film companies and ask for an overall increase in the remuneration of screenwriters?" ”

"This is a good idea, but have you ever thought that you can't force all screenwriters to join the association, and the screenwriters who join the association ask for a high price, and the film company will go to those screenwriters who have not joined the association to write scripts, and in the end it may happen that the screenwriters who join the association will have nothing to eat."

The problem Wang Jing mentioned is very realistic. In the final analysis, the threshold for screenwriters is too low. Cohabitation. This has lowered the income level of the entire industry.

"If I add a clause to the requirements for the release of Jiayi Cinema films, the screenwriters involved in the production of the film must be members of the Film Writers Association, what do you think will be the effect?"

Wang Jing stared at Lin Youlun with strange eyes, "Are you serious?" ”

"You don't have to look at me like that." Lam Yo-lun shrugged and explained: "I know that this is a bit overbearing for Hong Kong film companies, but in the current lack of self-discipline in the industry, this kind of tough measures are necessary. The level of a movie depends largely on the script, and the screenwriter's income cannot be raised. The quality of the script cannot be improved, and the corresponding development of the entire film industry will also be hindered, while the income of the screenwriter has increased, and the quality of the script has gone up, and the most important thing is reflected in the film income, which must be a win-win result. The screenwriter's remuneration accounts for a very small proportion of the film's production cost, and it will not cause great cost pressure on the filming of the film, and I am also doing this for the development of the entire industry, and Hong Kong film companies will not even have this responsibility. ”

"Not everyone can go as far as you think, and not everyone can have the big picture like you." Wang Jing spread his hands. A helpless expression appeared on his face.

Lin Youlun wasn't very worried about this, "So I'm also thinking about it." Can it be changed to a more gentle approach, for example, for films with the participation of members of the Screenwriters Guild, the theater chain will give the film company appropriate compensation in terms of box office dividends. ”

Wang Jing was stunned for a moment, "Then aren't you very at a loss?" Besides, can the other directors of Jiayi Cinema Line agree? ”

The absolute controlling stake of Jiayi Cinema Line is in the hands of Lin Youlun, so the opinions of other directors are not important, and Lin Youlun actually does not suffer a loss by doing this, the screenwriter's income has increased, the quality of the script has improved, the box office of the movie will definitely be higher, and the income of the theater chain has actually increased. In the current industry environment, film companies lack the foresight and do not have the urge to improve the treatment of screenwriters, so they can only promote this matter from the theater side.

This measure benefits the entire group of screenwriters, and there is no reason for the film company to oppose it, so Lin Youlun played this trick and did not need to spend too much effort to buy the hearts and minds of all screenwriters in Hong Kong.

Wang Jing didn't think so deeply at this time, he only knew that the Langdao Jiayi Cinema Line could launch such a regulation, and the Hong Kong Film Writers Association would definitely become the most cohesive group among all associations in the industry.

Increasing the remuneration of screenwriters in the industry is only the first step in Lin Youlun's plan, and then he is also preparing to set up a script library in the association, encouraging screenwriters to put the complete creation of good scripts into the script library, and then film companies and producers can go to the script library to choose freely, and which script can be directly negotiated and cooperated with screenwriters and authors through the association, which is equivalent to giving all screenwriters a platform to show their works.

After Lin Youlun told Wang Jing about this idea, Wang Jing immediately thought of a question: "If the script is placed there and you can read it at will, how can you put an end to plagiarism?" ”

Lin Youlun smiled mysteriously, "Do you remember how the two of us met?" ”

Wang Jing's mind turned quickly, and he immediately understood what Lin Youlun meant, the script stored in the association's script library, all you can watch at will is a certain paragraph in the script, and the complete script is in the hands of the original author, so that you don't have to worry about the content and creativity of the script being imitated, just like when Wang Jing only saw a part of the plot on the movie ticket, he had to come to Lin Youlun with a gift in the end.

Lin Youlun's two decisions caused quite a stir as soon as they were announced, and the most intuitive reaction was that the quota of the Film Screenwriters Association suddenly became sought-after, and in order to prevent the threshold from being lowered again by being too high, the Board of Directors of the Film Screenwriters Association formulated new membership criteria after urgent discussion.

At least two films must be made into a film before the Screenwriters Guild will admit them as full members.

In just three days, the association received more than 500 applications, which made the council, which had just set up a management framework, scramble.

The problem of membership was solved, but the Screenwriters Guild could not put up a sign, rent two offices and get it, it had to have a decent office space, but the money to build the new building has not been settled.

From the beginning of the establishment of the Film Writers Association to the current operating funds, it has come from Lin Youlun's personal donations, and Jiayi Cinema Line has provided such great help to the Film Writers Association, almost no one is embarrassed to ask for money in front of Lin Youlun.

A few members of the board of directors elected by all members got together to figure out a solution, and someone came up with the idea that everyone would work together to write a script, and then pull investment to make a movie, and the money earned would be used to build a building.

This idea is good, but everyone knows whether the movie can make money and how much money it can make.

At this time, some people said, then find a screenwriter with box office guarantee to write.

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, and finally I found out helplessly that no one here can meet this requirement, or the screenwriters in Hong Kong have not yet said that they dare to say that their scripts will definitely sell well.

Of course, there is one exception...... After discussing it to the extreme, I came to the conclusion that I could only ask Lin Youlun, but not directly ask him for money, but for a script.

As the honorary president of the Film Screenwriters Association, Lin Youlun naturally will not refuse in the face of such a request, and there are many scripts that can make money in his memory, but it took him a lot of time to choose them.

Those box office blockbusters were excluded in the first place, and even if such a script was written, the Film Writers Guild would not find so much investment; It's not a blockbuster, if you want to have box office protection, you have to invite popular stars to star, and the salary of these stars is also a lot of expenses, Lin Youlun can come forward to find acquaintances to act, no actor in Hong Kong will not give him this face, but there is no remuneration thing, there are not many roles and you can invite people to come over and make a cameo, and it is too much for people to play the leading role for free.

Another way is to pull a sponsorship from various film companies in the name of the Film Writers Guild, and with sufficient investment, of course, you can invite stars with box office guarantees to act, but Lin Youlun also doesn't want to do this. Even if the film is successful, everyone will only think that it is the credit of the actors, and the purpose of the Film Writers Guild to make movies to make money has been achieved, but it obviously does not help much to improve the awareness of the entire industry on the importance of scripts.

What Lin Youlun was looking for was a movie that could highlight the importance of the script, and the film had to make money, so the range of movies to choose from suddenly narrowed down a lot.

After thinking about it, Lin Youlun finally chose the movie "Crazy Stone", which is unique in the setting of the storyline and the design of the relationship between the characters, making the whole absurd story look complete, meticulous, interlocking, ups and downs, and many plots can't help but be amazing.

The investment in this film is not high, and the people who participated in the movie are not big-name stars, but they have created good box office results, and the plot of the movie has played a key role in it.

And there are seven or eight protagonists in this movie alone, and there are not many scenes evenly distributed to everyone's heads, not to mention inviting popular stars to play for free, there is absolutely no problem in inviting them to shoot for a few days at the price of cameos, so that the box office can be guaranteed, and at the same time, each star does not have many appearances, and it will not leave the audience with the impression that the stars support the scene.

The only thing that is difficult to do is that the story of this movie takes place in the mainland, and to transform it into a Hong Kong line, many plots, lines, and jokes have to be redesigned.

In the past, Lin Youlun would definitely have a headache for this matter, but now things are simple, he only needs to sort out the main plot of the story, and the people of the Screenwriters Association are naturally responsible for things like "Duqiao".

[Ask for recommendations, monthly passes] (To be continued.) )