Yan Fusheng casually flipped through two pages and was stunned...... Why, in the information of this project, the actors' salaries, venue rental costs, prop production fees, and even daily meals, electricity bills, and actors' insurance are even included...... All costs are clearly listed above.

What is this idiot trying to do? Write all of this into the contract? Do you want to make money anymore!? Yan Fusheng looked at Li Xiaole, he thought that Li Xiaole just didn't know the height of the turtle, but now he felt that Li Xiaole was not ignorant, but stupid, what was he going to do?

Of course, Li Xiaole knew that these people were so surprised, he was an old bastard in the film and television industry, and he knew that mainland movies would go through this period of cold winter, and the speed of progress was so slow.

In terms of artistic standards, whether it is actors, directors, or even cinematography in China, these three links are all shijie-level, but most of the things shot by the crew are of very low quality.

A lot of millions of investments, but the finished product is like an amateur, extremely rough, no matter how hard the actors work, the movie itself is very thin.

Because among them, there is a phenomenon that is not seen by outsiders called "black budget".

The so-called "black budget" is that the crew put the funds invested in the film into their pockets through various ways during the filming, for example, the Guangxi factory once made a movie "Looking Back" that was not released, and the investment was 3 million yuan, if the money was used for the movie at that time, it was still a good production in that era.

But during the filming process, the director hoped that there would be a birch tree with eye-like scars in the movie, in fact, this kind of thing could be processed by the art team, but the director said that the "artistic effect" must be real-life, so he invited his own people to fly all over the country to find this birch tree.

Of course, zuihou was found, and for this birch tree, the money spent was 110,000.

What is the situation? The director had seen a similar tree when he was traveling somewhere before the start of filming, and after receiving the movie, he made this request, he didn't ask anyone to look for it at all, but put the 110,000 yuan in his pocket, and dangled for a few days before he said that he had found it, and the money went to his pocket naturally.

Examples of such "black budgets" abound in the film and television circles of Chinese mainland, and they are by no means individual acts, but producers, directors, coordinators, and even actors' agencies.

With an investment of 3 million in the movie, it is already a miracle that 2 million can be used in the filming of the movie, and the entire crew is not thinking about how to make the box office of the movie better, but thinking about how to budget more black spots from the production of this movie, and the effect of this kind of movie can be imagined.

This situation was most common in the 90s when several large state-owned studios made movies, because during this period, there was definitely no box office for films, and these filmmakers relied on this to support their families.

The Yan family's father and son, Weishenme, are now so big in China Film, that is, because all the old employees of the Beijing Film Studio who live on the black budget are counting on them to approve the budget to their own group, and then make a fortune through the black budget.

China Film Group integrates several major studios and reorganizes the structure to completely eliminate this "black budget" phenomenon, eliminate these people from the root of the structure, and use Han Sanpin Han Xiaoli's new shili to make the entire China Film set things right, but any industry reform system is facing huge difficulties, involving the interests of a group of people, that is, moving people's lives.

Han Sanpin wants to move them, he needs to have achievements, but in recent years, it has happened to be the double impact of piracy and Hollywood movies, the entire mainland film industry has declined, and the black budget has even become the only extra income for most filmmakers, which is why Han Sanpin, as a reformist, is struggling in China Film.

He has been looking for new directors to come to China Film, not because the old directors are not good, but because the old directors are too involved, and they must bow to Yan Fusheng and these people, so he has tried his best to support Feng Xiaogang and Lu Chuan, but unfortunately these two talented young directors have left one after another because they can't stand the harsh internal environment of China Film.

But except for Jiang Wen, who has strong connections and can form his own crew, even if it is Feng Xiaogang and Lu Chuan in China Film, they are somewhat subject to the unspoken rules of "black budget", and the quality of the movie will be affected to some extent. ，

This Li Xiaole is good, he came up and showed his attitude, he definitely does not hack the budget, this is completely isolated from the people, and he is the enemy of the filmmakers of the entire China Film!

At this time, just when everyone was stunned, they suddenly heard a weak and attention-paying voice from the mobile phone speaker that had been silent: "Approve it......"

Hearing Chairman Xie Yang's instructions, the people at the scene didn't even dare to come out, and they all looked at Yan Jie, and saw the white fat old man nodding with a smile:

"Elder Xie has already given instructions, this project has been decided, let's discuss other things."

Everyone looked strange, talking to each other, discussing this strange thing, Han Sanpin and Han Xiaoli both glanced at Shili, and they were relieved in their hearts, they had been dormant for more than half a year, just waiting for this time, fortunately, everything went well.

Li Xiaole sat back in his seat, and Wei Xiao gave him a thumbs up and praised: "Director Xiao Li~ has backbone, I support you~!" ”

"How do I feel that this atmosphere is so cautious......" Although he got the investment from the group, Ning Hao didn't seem to be happy, and he always felt that other people looked at his side as if they were looking at the enemy.

"Xiao Li, Xiao Li~~ You're a little interesting." Jiang Wen lowered his head and looked at Li Xiaole with his eyes upward, and said with a meaningful smile: "Don't worry, you can stand up to these grandsons no matter how bad they are, in case you can't survive and feel uncomfortable in Zhongying, I will give you the position of assistant director here." ”

"Mr. Jiang, I look forward to our cooperation." Li Xiaole said with a smile, Jiang Wen obviously just admired him as a promising young filmmaker like Wei Xiao, but he didn't treat him as a peer who could talk about it calmly.

Of course, Jiang Wen can't be blamed for this, because it is true that he is far behind this "half-master", if it was a year ago, maybe his real level was not as good as Wei Xiao now.

Take your time, the work will prove everything, and you also need more shooting experience to make yourself stronger.

***

After Li Xiaole finished dinner, he went home and lay on the bed, wanting to sleep beautifully, anyway, his film project has passed the review of China Film, the most difficult step is solved, and the rest of the things will be easy to do, and then the information on recruiting the actor should be sent to various performing arts companies through the channels of China Film, to see if you can choose a haode candidate.

From the end of 2002, that is, two months later, China's film industry will enter a period of take-off, with an average annual growth rate of more than 30 percent.

Just when he was half-asleep and half-awake, imagining that he was showing his strength in this most haode movie era in the mainland, he was suddenly woken up by a phone call.

"Mom...... Why did you call so late. Li Xiaole said with some surprise.

"Xiaole, what's the matter with you, you're too ignorant." Mother Li said angrily over there.

"What's the matter...... You speak slowly. "Li Xiaole doesn't understand what's going on, why is he too ignorant?

"You tell your mom honestly, the last time you went on a blind date, what was the result?" Mother Li questioned over there.

"Oh, that......" Thinking of that Mama Rong, Li Xiaole was completely awakened, and explained with a smile: "Mom, this is really not my pickiness, I and that Miss Rong are really not suitable, in all aspects...... I can't even say that I can go together. ”

"Alas~ Xiaole, Mom, I also know that you like to talk about feelings when you are young, but you feel that this thing can be cultivated, besides~ Even if Miss Rong is not good, you can't refuse others in person, and you also fell in love with Miss Rong's classmates...... Harassing the classmates who accompanied her in front of her, this is indeed you going too far. ”

"What do you mean?" Li Xiaole was confused, but immediately turned his brain, this must have been his own threat to Sun Li to let him come to his crew, but Rong Yingying held a grudge and made a small report to her mother, sister, this woman is really naïve......

"Mom, don't listen to people's nonsense, why did I harass her female classmates, I saved them......" Li Xiaole said the whole thing, and then pretended to be well-behaved and said: "Mom~ You can't trust outsiders, don't trust your son, right?" ”

"Oh...... That's right. Mother Li's attitude finally softened a little: "Then you really didn't force that Sun Li to go to your crew to film?" ”

The words "this ......" suddenly blocked Li Xiaoleke, and he was making up nonsense in his mind to explain it, but he didn't expect to hear Li's mother's happy laughter.

"That's fine, Xiaole, tell your mother, is that Sun Li really that beautiful? When do you bring her home to your mother, and your mother will check for you......"

Li Xiaole was completely speechless by his mother, no matter how he explained it, he explained it differently, and after a meal, he was finally able to live in peace, and lay down to sleep again, but after sleeping for a while, the text message rang again, Li Xiaole could only get up and pick up the phone again, this time it was indeed an unfamiliar number.

"Eh, I'm Sun Li, Li Xiaole!! What the hell are you talking to your mom? How can she text me to check my account? It scared the hell out of me......"

Li Xiaole looked at the text message and was stunned for a long time, before sighing, how introverted and weak his former "self" was, and his mother would be so worried that she couldn't find a girlfriend to this point......

However, when he saw Sun Li's text message, he was interested, he wanted to touch Sun Li's personality to see if it was suitable for the female number one in the future......