Chapter 160: The Second Writer's Rich List
Although he was not very happy at first, after agreeing to be the director, Hou Yong began to take this play seriously, every line in the script, and every actor in the play must be approved by him. He hasn't watched He Mu's movies, but the TV series has been glanced at twice, and his acting skills are okay, in order to have a deeper understanding of He Mu, he deliberately learned about He Mu from his old classmate, Zhang Wei, the chief photographer of "Red Cliff", and the comment he got was "hard-working, tenacious, and talented in acting".
With Zhang Yi's words, it must be wrong, so in this meeting, Hou Yong is not mainly to test He Mu, but more to talk to He Mu about this drama and see what he thinks, an actor who has ideas instead of blindly following the director can create a good role.
He Mu should be a good actor, because he has too many ideas, not only limited to his own role, because after reading the first version of the script, He Mu has a certain amount of thinking about the whole movie, these ideas may not be so accurate, but it does make Hou Yong a little inspired, and even almost followed He Mu's train of thought, he hurriedly stopped, after all, this is still Hou Yong's work, he doesn't want to be influenced too much by others.
"Sure enough, it's a young talent, and I hope we can work together happily." Hou Yong summed up with a smile.
He Mu also smiled, as if he was talking a little too much, after getting the director's approval, the person in charge of the producer took out the contract, Datang first read it, no problem, and then showed it to He Mu. He Mu has also signed a lot of big and small contracts, and he didn't see a problem, but the salary was a bit unexpected to him, 800,000. The state-owned enterprise is really not bad for money, but I didn't expect that he He Mu had only been debuting for two years, and he had almost touched the edge of a million salary.
After signing the contract. Hou Yong told He Mu that the movie is expected to start at the end of November, and suggested that he take advantage of this time to find Ding Junhui to experience life, and to practice more English, there will be a lot of English dialogue in this play.
Looking for Ding Junhui is what He Mu has always wanted to do since he decided to appear in this movie, He Mu didn't want to imitate him vividly, there was no need for this. There is still a difference between real characters and movie characters, and He Mu has his own set of guidelines for how to interpret Ding Junhui.
He Mu hopes to see the temperament and quality of professional snooker players from Ding Junhui. This is something He Mu can't be sure of, and he hopes to make himself more professional under the camera through his observation of Ding Junhui, after all, the difference between amateur players and professional players is still very big, He Mu doesn't want professionals to see that he is very amateur at a glance.
But English. He Mu had a headache. He also knows that snooker is English billiards. Popular in the United Kingdom and former British colonies, including Canada, Australia, India, Hong Kong, etc., it is very difficult to participate in snooker competitions, and it is very difficult to know English, even Ding Junhui can speak fluent English at the level of primary school graduation. It is likely that the filming of this drama will have to be filmed in the UK, and it will also have to deal with foreign actors, which will be more convenient if you know English.
He Mu is very dislike and not good at learning other Chinese languages, and he thinks it would be good to learn Chinese language well. How can there be any other thoughts, but the reality is in front of you. Chinese is not an international lingua franca, if you want to travel all over the world, you must be English, if you don't learn, then you are deaf and dumb abroad, which not only affects life but also delays work.
"Isn't it just English, I don't believe that I can't learn it with my intelligence!" He Mu secretly made up his mind in the apartment.
It's not enough to have determination, you have to have a teacher, Li Wenhua heard that He Mu was going to fight to the death with English, so he asked his sister He Mu and his sister-in-law to tutor He Mu, Chen Xuehe is at the level of the eighth level, and he speaks English very well, and he can live well if he throws it directly to the United States, but He Mu thinks that it is a bit overkill to let such a Peking University master and corporate executive tutor his English.
Li Wenhua woke up He Mu with a sentence, "My sister is now six months pregnant, and she is a twin, but she still works late every day, you don't worry, I'm not worried, my brother-in-law should be worried, so I will take this opportunity to support her to you, so that she can easily prepare to have a child." ”
Two months ago, when Chen Xuehe did the examination, he learned that he was pregnant with twins, and he was crazy with the joy of his father, his mother, and the old man, and he was always looking forward to hugging his grandson and holding his grandson, but he didn't expect the two of them to come to the capital to take care of his sister-in-law, but Chen Xuehe felt that he was still early, and there was no need to mobilize the people, so he stopped them.
"That's right, having a child is a big deal, it's better not to work too much," He Mu said, "In the future, I will go directly to the company and entangle my sister-in-law so that she can't interfere in the company's affairs." ”
"That's right, pestering her, it's been a long time since the company was in power, and it's time for me to take power again."
"So that's your real purpose."
"You know so much, boy, hehe."
I don't know how long it has been since Lu Dao has been to Tiandi Xuanhuang, it has become a little strange for He Mu here, unfamiliar layout, unfamiliar new employees, and a lot of unfamiliar new books on the shelves, take a closer look, it is still produced by Tiandi Xuanhuang.
However, everything is developing in the direction of good, the company is getting bigger and bigger, the company is producing more and more books, and the sales are getting higher and higher. "Durala's Promotion", which was met with a cold reception from the market two months ago, was reprinted and reprinted after being revised, only to change the cover to a clean color, and wrote the following sentence on the waist cover: Her story, Bibier. Gates is more worthy of reference. "Durala's Promotion" began to rise to heaven, and in just one week, the sales exceeded the sales of the first edition in two months! Li Wenhua firmly believes that "Durala" will go further.
The new employees of Tiandi Xuanhuang have basically heard the old employees say that in addition to Mr. Li and Mr. Chen, there is also a boss in the company, who is a big star He Mu and He Dong, so the people who saw He Mu for the first time were just curious to look at this public figure who often appeared on TV, which confirmed the old employees' statements, but did not show too much surprise, after all, he is a cultural worker, and his determination is extraordinary.
He Mu went directly into Chen Xuehe's office, she was doing some handover work with Li Wenhua, and now she was completely seized power, so she could only wait patiently to give birth to a child, and raise her brother-in-law's English level before giving birth.
Now Chen Xuehe's stomach is already obvious, six months is about the same as seven or eight months, and sure enough, the double portion is a large amount, and these two little guys will definitely make their sister-in-law suffer a lot of pain when the time comes.
Chen Xuehe was not in a hurry to teach He Mu, she first understood He Mu's English level at this time, and then made a list of books and asked the company's employees to buy them at the nearby Xinhua bookstore, and then began to teach.
He Mu's foundation is actually good, the junior high school English teacher is the class teacher, this aspect is more strict, He Mu learns better, in high school, the English teacher is a newcomer, there is no majesty, he began to relax, so that in high school there is no good accumulation of vocabulary, his biggest problem now is the lack of vocabulary and poor oral level, Chen Xuehe's teaching also started from these two aspects.
I think when Chen Xuehe was in college, he also worked as a tutor for a period of time, mainly teaching English, He Mu is about the same level as those junior high school students and high school students, and she is very handy in teaching.
One-on-one teaching, and the level of my sister-in-law is really high, plus He Mu is very hard, and when he can't sleep at night, he is also memorizing words and speaking English, and he has never worked so hard to memorize Tang poems and Song words when he was a child, although he doesn't dare to say that he is a thousand miles a day, but it should not be a big problem for Zhang Ziyi to go from an English idiot to a fluent answer in just one month.
Now the antique script has almost become a matter of Li Wenhua and Bei Sihan, He Mu's own writing skills are slightly inferior to the two, and he has recently been busy preparing for the filming of two movies, even if his sleep time is shortened, he still feels powerless, and he is already considering moving his position on the screenwriter list from first to third.
Two weeks have passed, He Mu has been able to have a simple conversation with Chen Xuehe in English, after all, time is limited, He Mu mainly focuses on learning daily language and dialogues related to acting and filming, it is not very fluent to speak now, and it should be better after a while, I hope to be able to learn and apply it when the time comes.
In the past two days, the second Chinese Writers Rich List was announced. Li Wenhua, who is keen on this list, bought the release of the list for the first time. Dushang Daily", and studied it with He Mu.
First of all, it is gratifying that Tiandi Xuanhuang finally gave birth to a writer on the list, and Mingyue ranked 22nd with "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" that came out of the fourth volume, with a royalty income of 2.25 million.
The sales of the "Tomb Robbery Notes" series, which is also a 07 Tiandi Xuanhuang fist product, are also good, although there is still a gap with "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", but the total sales of the three volumes have also exceeded 500,000 copies, and the third uncle of the southern school almost made the list.
The originator of tomb robbery novels, the author of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", ranked 19th with a royalty income of 2.8 million, his "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" series has completed the first part of the first four parts of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and the second part has also begun to be published one after another, and the film adaptation rights of the four stories in the first part have been purchased by Hong Kong director Du Qifeng, He Mu did not think that Du Cannon would have the ability to adapt this story into a movie now when he learned about it, but it is definitely wise to buy the copyright now, Even if you don't shoot yourself, there is a lot of room for appreciation when the time comes to sell it.
He Mu guessed that the adaptation of best-selling books into film and television works would definitely be a trend in the future, so he told Li Wenhua to keep an eye on his hands, especially the film and television adaptation rights of several best-selling books with potential adaptation potential, such as "Notes on Tomb Robbery", and never sell them at the price of cabbage. The derivative copyright of each novel is sold, and Tiandi Xuanhuang can get a certain percentage of it, which will definitely be a big profit point for the company in the future. (To be continued......)
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