35. Chapter XXXIV
Yu Chunyou's examination results came out and was supposed to go home, but Assistant Wu made a phone call to ask Cui Qi to stay in the national capital for a few more days, and the primary selection for Song Ling's new film was in these days, and she was rushing to the national capital to meet Cui Qi.
This primary election was completely unexpected, and the reason was Song Ling.
Here I have to talk about Song Ling. He is a ghost talent who has been obliterated in the entertainment industry for a long time, but the unusual thing is that he is not unappreciated, and the producers of the entire entertainment industry know that he is very talented, but they will definitely not be willing to invest in him. It is recognized in the entertainment industry that Song Ling is a psychopath! He has made a film, his debut film "Horse", three international awards and seven nominations have made all domestic directors ashamed, and his historical status is comparable to the first domestic director, but even with such achievements, he is still the first blacklist in the investment circle, and he really can't stand his grinding strength in making movies, "Horse" was filmed for 9 years, not the kind that is intermittent, from the beginning to the end of filming is a full 9 years, from the southern horse racing base to the Western Sahara Desert, Song Ling took the crew to run all over the world, shooting hundreds of times in one shot, Just for the perfect movie in his mind.
Movie Weekly commented on him as a "martyred filmmaker", which sounds good, in the vernacular, this person is a perfect obsessive-compulsive disorder, the most classic scene in the movie "Horse", he filmed for more than half a month, and there are thousands of shots alone. By the time the whole "Horse" was filmed, five photographers couldn't stand the same and demanding shooting, seven actors couldn't stand his almost perverted harsh requirements and fled halfway, and thirteen investors couldn't stand his excessively long filming cycle and withdrew their funds halfway, and even two assistant directors couldn't stand his neurotic temper and fired their bosses. The investors withdrew, the producers broke the contract, the actors left, and the crew jumped ship, but even so, Song Ling still completed "Horse", and contributed a classic with the only five people left in the crew.
Movie Weekly later commented on him: He is a martyr, crazy focus and innocence, a work and a classic. It's a pity that seven years have passed, and Song Ling still has only one work: "Horse".
Those who are interested can actually find that although Song Ling changed jobs one after another when he filmed "Horse", there are still many strange places. For example, why are investors willing to invest in him without even watching the filming cycle, and for example, some of the actors who originally joined "Horse" are all veteran acting masters, and there are also personnel who walk refreshed and refreshing after changing jobs, but there are no contract disputes at all?
I have to talk about Song Ling's background, a person like him is rich and capricious! Don't look at him offended a lot of people for a "Horse", but there are very few people who hack him, one is naturally a high-level person, a real award, there is nothing to hack, and the other is also related to his family. The second generation of officials is rich and the third generation, with a lot of power and money, and his director's master's connections in the circle, which is enough to support his waist, and he has changed to a small director from an ordinary person's family, and no one can stick to it after 9 years of shooting, even if he has the heart, money is also a big problem, of course, like Song Ling, who can go back a hundred times for a shot, is purely neurotic. Don't forget, "Horse" is a literary film, although it has won several awards, it is a loss-making business with a dismal box office.
Song Ling is also famous for his stinky temper and hard temperament, even if he is smashed on the head, he still dares to scold, the previous movie is the evidence, although there are dark hands from all sides, but the entire crew can escape to only 5 people, he is also the first in the circle, anyone who talks about this incident, will laugh and scold: "Absolutely!" And now this genius director is about to start a new drama, which suddenly attracted the attention of the entire circle.
The new film is called "Flying", adapted from the biographical novel "Flying", which originally wrote the experience of the original figure skater Xiao Yu from joining the figure skating national team at the age of 13 to retiring at the age of 25. Since the Winter Olympics were held in โกโก, the general trend of winter sports has risen, and Xiao Yu is one of the athletes who grew up during this period, winning an Olympic gold medal, an Olympic bronze medal and two World Championships gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal for the country.
Song Ling is filming a new drama, and everyone can see one thing, he is going to shoot a good work this time. After filming "Horse", he was silent for seven years, because no one wanted to invest in him, he had to write a script and become a teacher or something, and he had a rare opportunity, and he didn't hurry up to seize it! It is also related to the operation of his family, the novel is about figure skating, sports competition youth inspirational films, pulled to the endorsement of the General Administration of Sports, and major sports investors are willing to invest money, in a word, the money is enough, just shoot! also knows the urine nature of Song Ling's perfectionism obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the leader of the person directly spoke, give you four years, you must give me an award back!
If you change someone, you must be a noisy leader, who doesn't know anything and just gives orders, and only Song Ling has the joy of movies in his eyes, and he promises it with a big grin. This guarantee brought out three full weeks of entertainment headlines: Director Song's new work, aiming for three major film festivals!
Zhang Jing said that most of the people who are willing to take Song Ling's play are rushing for the award, in this circle, in charge of big and small cards, winning the award must be a lifelong pursuit, of course, if it is a big bull who wins the award...... Maybe there is also the pursuit of high spirits, such as Grand Slams or something. As soon as the news came out, several major entertainment companies came to the stage one after another, not to mention that investors wanted to squeeze into an actor quota with investment capital or something, but unfortunately Song Ling is no one else and wants to open the back door? There are no windows! Song Ling spoke, investors and entertainment companies couldn't break him, and secretly agreed to stop some little-known small companies and young actors outside, as for the last few companies and a few investors and related people who got the role, it all depends on ability. It's a pity that they think too well, they always forget that Song Ling is a psychopath, and accidentally this plan was learned by Song Ling, he directly opened the audition, and the TV commercials hyped it up, making the casting news known to everyone, and the faces of the entertainment company bosses and investors were not too good.
The news of the audition was in a hurry, and Assistant Wu had to urgently fly to the country to bring Cui Qi to participate in the primary election.
"What drama? Whose? Cui Qi didn't know anything, and when he heard that the agent was so solemn, Cui Qi was rarely surprised.
"Song Ling's new film, this is the original, you should watch it in the past two days, especially Xiao Yu's psychological changes must be thoroughly understood."
"Where's the audition?" Cui Ling had heard of who Song Ling was, but two days was too short, and he wanted to focus on preparing the scene in the audition.
"The director is Song Ling, and there is a big accident on the day of the audition, so you'd better understand the psychological change process of the protagonist in the whole book." No matter how much she admires Director Song in private, Assistant Wu is still very rational when she works, especially when she is reminded by Manager Zhang, she feels that Director Song's situation is very big.
It's really accurate, Song Ling played a trick on the major companies that got the audition words, and after the first test, he spoke directly: I threw away the words of the glass, it's useless today!
A group of young actors who only prepared the scene on the audition words wanted to cry without tears. What's even worse is still to come, the question is on the spot, and the agent is not allowed to follow him, one of the little actors does not understand the meaning of the topic and frequently asks if he can let the agent come in to explain to him, which directly provokes Song Ling to scold, are you a puppet? Are you acting or is it an agent? Do you want an agent to help you tell the show? The little actor ran out crying.
said that it was a primary election, but in fact, there were not many people, Song Ling wanted to make an audition, but the role he sent was too bad, what must be a boy, must have a dance foundation, soft body, must be above 140cm, good facial features, outstanding temperament, strong comprehension and reading ability, strong ability to work under pressure, good mentality, patience, and acting skills...... In short, it's a big list, of course, a lot of it is virtual, but even so, it has screened out a lot of small actors.
Song Ling's mouth is too stinky, as soon as a ghost horse funny child star enters the door, he was directly announced to be defeated, because his temperament is not good, and there is a hip-hop child star who performed for a while, but still failed, the reason is that Song Ling thinks that he has a zombie face, basically he goes in nervously, and comes out with tears, and a group of people behind him are getting more and more nervous, and even some people cry in pain when they enter the door, and they are directly defeated, because their ability to resist pressure is not strong enough.
Cui Qi is the 51st, he doesn't feel very good about himself when he looks at this posture, he asked him about his age and height, and asked him what kind of dance he would dance, I heard that it was a classical dance Song Ling actually nodded and let him come on the spot, and Director Song, who danced strangely, announced directly, you have been defeated.
Cui Qi: "......" He didn't react at all, staring blankly at Director Song for a while, only then did he recall that Director Song seemed to say that he had lost the election just now, and Cui Qi didn't have any ideas, so he nodded, said "oh" expressionlessly, turned his head and left, clean and neat, without a cloud.
"Gone? How did you go?! What was even more surprised than him was Song Ling, looking at the assistant director on the left and the assistant director on the right, seeing Cui Qi open the door and step out of his feet, a spirit jumped up from his position, crossed the table in front of him in a hundred-meter hurdle, and dragged Cui Qi, who was half-out, back: "Come back, come back, come back!" I didn't say how did you leave when the audition was over? Don't you ask why you lost the election? Don't you wonder why you didn't make the cut? Don't you think you should try and get another chance? โ
Cui Qi was completely speechless by Song Ling, the director said that he was still here if he was defeated? Pitifully begging the director to give me another chance, the director will let me try again, right? He won't do it! Seeing Director Song's burning eyes, Cui Qi raised his eyebrows and asked at his request: "Why?" โ
"Yes, yes, that's how it feels!" Director Song danced as if he had found some good treasure, rushed to the scene and took out a script and stuffed it to him: "It's you!" Go home and take a good look! When the time comes, perform well! Saying that, he was sent out of the door, and Cui Qi was in a fog the whole time.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Seeing that other young actors and agents came to Cui Qi, it seemed that they wanted to ask him what happened to Director Song, Assistant Wu hurriedly took Cui Qi out.
"What's the matter, what did Director Song say? Just now he said that you lost the election, why did he pull you back? ......" Assistant Wu was excited and kept asking, while Cui Qi was reading the script that Song Lingsai gave him just now, which was the script of the role of Xiang Hongzhe.
He ...... It seems that you are preparing for me to play Xiang Hongzhe? Song Ling said too vaguely, and Cui Qi was not sure, who knew that Assistant Wu jumped up suddenly.
"What? Xiang Hongzhe?!! For a moment, she quickly covered her mouth: "Oh my God, what God!! It's Xiang Hongzhe, Xiang Hongzhe! โ
"What's wrong with him?" It is difficult for people who are not Assistant Wu's era to understand their hero-worshipping psychology towards Xiang Hongzhe, starting from the age of Xiang Hongzhe at the age of fourteen, one year of gold medal in the World Youth Championships, one year of Olympic silver medal, two years of gold medal in the World Championships, was the first and only figure skater in China to win the gold medal, the most popular period It is said that thousands of people went to watch his World Championships performance, but unfortunately he died in a car accident when he returned from the World Championships at the age of 17, One minute ago, everyone was still celebrating his World Championships victory, and the next minute came the news that he died on the spot in a car accident, and that feeling simply fell from heaven to hell in an instant, and now that I think about it, Assistant Wu is still embarrassed.
"I'll show you Xiang Hongzhe's game, which was recorded at the World Championships that year, and I still keep it," when Cui Qi said that he didn't know Xiang Hongzhe, Assistant Wu excitedly took on the task of popularizing science, and he must make Cui Qi an angel fan. Yes, the two major achievements in domestic figure skating, Xiang Hongzhe is called the little angel, Xiao Yu is called the little sparrow, these nicknames are in a way...... It's really a prophecy.