There are a lot of pitfalls buried in the setting of dragons, and American drama screenwriters often have such a habit, writing all the way and digging holes all the way, foreshadowing from time to time and hiding identities from time to time, as for when this foreshadowing will be shaken out, and when will the hidden identity be revealed...... See if the TV station has renewed for the next season. So there are often such American dramas, and there are countless doubts along the way to watch it, and I am very curious about the truth, but when you finish chasing a certain season, you are angry to find that the hole has not been filled, and the plot is over...... Fall! I especially want to drag out the screenwriter who just digs a pit and doesn't bury it!

Well, it's not the screenwriter's fault, they just worked hard to make the plot long and long, such as "Cecilia", which was originally set to end successfully in two seasons, because of the high popularity ratings, the TV station renewed it for a third and fourth season, and then the bitter screenwriter began to develop from a serious gothic thriller to a bloody Mary Sue love triangle...... What's even more important is that even the leading actor can't stand the blood of the plot and wants to resign. I have already booked my contract for the sixth season, only Matt, who has lost confidence in the deteriorating script, and feels that it will not be good for his acting career if it drags on any longer, and he has made it clear that he wants to leave next season.

Before the actor's firm will, the screenwriter can only change the script with tears, what if the love triangle between two men and one woman collapses? Looking at the character survey on the Internet, the screenwriter found a popular and suitable role to take the position of the second male.

"Is this an Independence Day joke?" Cui Qi asked as he shook the script of the fifth season. When he got the script of the fifth season, he was a capitalized fool, who could tell him that "the dragon looked at the sky melancholy" and "the dragon smiled and handed the doll to the little girl" What is it! Isn't the setting of the dragon very one-sided cold and cold?

"Long is a character with a complex heart......" The director touched the beard on his chin, and after squeezing out half a sentence of explanation, he blinked, seeing that Cui Qi didn't react, he blinked again, with a look of "you understand" on his face.

Cui Qi: "......" Hehe, the image of the dragon in the fifth season collapsed endlessly, you told me that it was because he was a complex character?

"I ask for a salary increase," Cui Qi finally asked, and when the director lamented the financial situation of the crew with a bitter face, he interrupted the director's long speech with one sentence: "Please talk to my agent for details." Cui Qi likes this model very much, when encountering problems, "please talk to my agent" and "please talk to my lawyer", and leave the professional matters to the professional, he only needs to choose "YESorNO" after looking at the results at the end.

Compared with the ease with which Cui Qi handed over to his agent, the director was a little hard. Old scoundrel Wilson? As soon as he heard the name, the bearded director pulled out a handful of beards in his hand, he bared his teeth in pain, his flesh hurt and his heart ached, he could already imagine the situation where Wilson opened his mouth, and I heard that Wilson won a million salaries for Keeley in "Operation Storm", which is enough for an oriental actor.

Of course, Cui Qi does not have a million salary, domestic stars always like to exaggerate their salary to show their worth, and it is the same abroad, but those who do this are generally not up to the same actors, top actors in addition to salary, but also box office dividends, the cunning one wants the priority box office share of the break-even point, the salary is a bonus and a third-party guarantee, the rules are detailed to the perverted, of course, there is a lot of money, but the premise is to mix up. Cui Qi has always belonged to the outside of the system, oriental actors are very restricted in Hollywood, TV dramas have long plots and many roles, and each film must need African-Asian faces, and he has many opportunities to appear, and there are still choices in various genres, but movies are more of action movie roles. It is not only Wilson who has a fixed impression of Oriental actors, but the whole of Hollywood has expressed this impression, in their eyes, Oriental actors are very capable of playing, good kung fu, like to appear in blockbusters, and pay attention to pomp...... Fang Ruian and Yang Yiling's conquest of Hollywood has definitely broken the fixed impression of directors and investors on Oriental actors, but in essence, there are still no earth-shaking changes in the big circle.

"You can imitate Warren and choose some action movies to attract the directors' attention," Wilson said at the beginning, but he quickly reversed his original plan.

"I want to shoot more complex and more humane characters," Cui Qi told Wilson that he did not reject the fifth season of "Cecilia" also out of this consideration, in the entire environment of the United States, Chinese or Oriental characters are nothing more than a few routines, or gentle or sexy beautiful vases, Yang Yiling took this route when he first entered Hollywood, or stereotypical funny roles, many Chinese and Asian Americans in the United States are fixed in this routine, and there are cold characters with good kung fu, who often serve as bodyguards in movies and television, Gangster or killer, the original setting of the dragon is also like this, and the profession is a vampire hunter.

"Fang," Cui Qi paused, a little unsure of what to call Fang Yingdi in English, but he quickly skipped this detail: "He is a very powerful actor in our country, and in Hollywood, he is considered the kung fu actor of the East," Cui Qi shook his head: "I don't want to be fixed in the impression of having kung fu." ”

Cui Qi is telling the truth, Fang Rui'an's development in Hollywood cannot be said to have been a great success, although it has left an impression on Western audiences, but his international fame depends more on the success of several Chinese-language films in the international market.

"In fact," Wilson shrugged helplessly, "Hollywood is the most stubborn and uncivilized region in the United States, and directors and investors don't choose Oriental actors as the leading actors." "There are some facts that are well known, and Hollywood has temporarily clamped its tail under the mainstream of promoting equality and freedom, and racism and male chauvinism have always existed, from some innocuous little details, from some everyday habits, and even from some movie shots, even though most people claim to be egalitarians.

The truth you see is not necessarily the truth, and after a few months of living abroad, Cui Qi feels a lot. The domestic cultural self-esteem is full of remarks on the Internet, such as "foreign countries are very good, foreign skies are very blue, foreign waters are very green", and when they are put on movies and TV series, they are all American dramas and American blockbusters, but in fact, Cui Qi feels that this is just a kind of self-contempt. After a few months abroad, after experiencing being ostracized, secretly discriminated against, and being scolded in pits, Cui Qi always wondered, what are the good things abroad? People always choose the side they want to see one-sidedly, and the back of those they choose is clearly unreasonable. People who talk about the blue sky abroad and the green water abroad must not have lived abroad, and sometimes on the set because of the rejection and discrimination of other actors, Cui Qi thought indignantly. Equal? Of course, equality, they will not say discrimination, but in reality, Cui Qi was treated like "Oriental actors are suitable for eating the worst food and the ugliest makeup" on a certain set, although afterwards Lawyer Daniel rolled up his sleeves on his battlefield to accuse the filmmaker of racial discrimination, but the mental loss fee won could not comfort Cui Qi's broken glass heart at all, it is still good for Datang, he thought, Siyi Binfu, all countries come to the dynasty, how can he accept it after such a period.

After "Operation Storm", Cui Qi took over a small-budget horror film, most independent films have low investment, and the shooting fund of "Occasional Curse" is only 30,000 yuan, and interestingly, the director is a college student who is only 20 years old. Calvin, as he often referred to himself as "Flode," rushed from the East Coast to Hollywood companies to get sponsorship after completing the script, and he managed to get swept away by all the companies because the idea was so crazy. When Cui met Calvin, he was being carried out of the door by the security guards of Rofors, and he was really carried because Calvin was only 124 centimeters, and he was a dwarf.

"Do you want to star in my movie?" The moment he saw someone coming, Calvin broke free from the security guard with incredible agility and suddenly pounced on Cui Qi's leg and hugged him.

Cui Qi: "......" Looking at the glittering dwarf who was holding his leg at his feet, Cui Qi twitched his foot and did not twitch. Then he bent down and pulled out the script that Calvin had carefully guarded on his chest.

"Even Spell" is about a wanderer who returns home and encounters a series of supernatural events when he returns to the home where he lived when he was a child, the script is very broken, not so much the script as all kinds of mixed fragments, many of the middle are memories, from growing up to study suddenly jumping to the apple tree in the yard, or from the memories of the crying mother jumping to the marbles on the desk, there is no logic, although there are a lot of explanations added to the script, but in the eyes of directors with normal heads, this script is not even a story and has no value at all.

"There's a story! Here are his memories! Calvin gulped down the burger, explaining the thoughts in his head. Hamburg was invited by Cui Qi, who liked some of the plots in the script and invited Calvin to a meal to listen to his thoughts, but he soon realized that Calvin had a big problem with expression. His head spun too fast, and from time to time a good idea popped up, and his language could not keep up with the speed of his thinking, more often he still recorded some fragments of his head with pen and paper, and after asking a few details, Cui Qi quickly realized that it was not without logic, and there was a connection between the small and messy fragments. It's just that Calvin can't articulate it clearly.

Cui became interested in the script, but when he heard about Calvin's idea for filming, he reacted like all directors: "It's impossible. Calvin only wants to use one actor, only one actor in the whole process, and regardless of whether the actor's acting skills can meet the requirements, the audience will have aesthetic fatigue if only one actor is seen in a movie that lasts for more than an hour, and this is a movie that is doomed to failure before filming starts.

"No, no, no, it's not just one actor, it's just the face of this one actor, it's a suspense, the whole movie is a suspense," Calvin said, as the college student, who lobbied in Hollywood for seven days to no avail, struggled to seize the last opportunity.

Luckily, he jumped at the chance, and Cui recommended the script to Miss Robert, and finally Calvin received an investment of 30,000 yuan. The investment is very small, and Miss Robert pays for it herself, but in the eyes of Calvin, who has failed hundreds of times and expects the funds to have dropped to 10,000, this opportunity is too good! He went all out to shoot, and no one knew at this time that this small-budget independent film would become a glittering name carved into Hollywood's cinematic journey.