Chapter 1: The Best of Times
"The next stop, Tangjiawan, passengers who want to get off the train should be prepared in advance." The rickety bus was driving along the seaside road, and Tang Yin, who was sitting in the car, looked confused, looking at the sea outside the car window with blank eyes. He carried a transparent plastic bag in his arms, and inside was a thick stack of A4 paper, which was the script he had prepared, but he found nothing.
"I said brother, although your script is very well written. But it's not that I don't invest, we're just a small company that takes off the film, if it weren't for the strong support of the Qinhuai River over the years, it would be difficult to make a little money, where do you let me go to get you a million to invest in? Let's make a good film with peace of mind, the cost is low, and we can make a little money, and then think about something else when we earn enough money. ”
This is the reply given by the last company of more than a dozen film production companies he walked through today, and this is because he often helps this company make low-cost off-films, otherwise he will be swept away like the previous companies.
"Although movies are very profitable now, they are not something that a young director like you who graduated from a cottage school can shoot off films, so let's go back and take your off films, the Qinhuai River is where you are most needed." This kind of sarcasm is not bad, the person with a bad attitude directly refused coldly, looking at Tang Yin's eyes is like seeing a person who asks for food called Hanako.
"What's the matter, a small director who graduated from a cottage university and made a film also wants to make a big movie? Don't pee on yourself, is this something you can play? ”
Tang Yin didn't understand why a truck driver could make a movie, and a kid who sold tapes could also make a movie, why couldn't he himself? Why is it important to emphasize taking off films? Although I shoot off films, isn't this also a literary and artistic worker? You must know that the films you shoot are the most popular on the Qinhuai River.
"Brother Tang, it looks like your actions are not going well this time." Back in the bachelor apartment where he lived, Tang Yin picked up a large glass of cold water on the table and drank it in one gulp. Zhu Hai, a classmate and partner who stayed in his room, looked at Tang Yin's actions and asked curiously.
This guy is a photographer, although he is more obscene, but the women who appear from his lens are definitely the most beautiful, so he and Tang Yin's partner is definitely the most famous partner in the film and television industry in the film and television base in the south.
"Well, there's no drama, those film and television companies can't look down on my qualifications, and they refused without even reading the script."
After drinking the water, Tang Yin threw the document bag in his hand to the computer desk on the side, and the person fell on the bed in a large posture and replied tiredly.
"How's it going to be over there?"
"It's about the same as you, as soon as I heard that you were going to make a big movie, I all refused, why don't we go to Hengdian or the Western Loulan Film and Television Base to see how it works?" Zhu Hai's words made Tang Yin, who was still a little expectant, completely dead, and Zhu Hai's connections couldn't attract investment, so don't think about anything else.
"No, if you run over there, it is estimated that the effect will be worse, and we have been staying in the film and television base here in the south for a few years after graduation. The company here doesn't give face, and the company over there won't give face. Besides, if they ask us to show them the movies we have made, do we take out those films and give them them? ”
This is the best era of film, the country has just introduced the film classification system and copyright system, the vigorous rectification of the film market and the large increase in theaters, and the relaxation of the censorship system, which has brought incomparably strong confidence to all those engaged in the film industry in China.
A toothless martial arts movie "Chivalrous Girl" that was an action scum in Tang Yin's eyes swept the world and won a box office of 2 billion. When the truck driver, Master Zhang, held his best director trophy and announced that he was the king of the king, Tang Yin was excited.
He immediately locked himself in the room, pulled out his computer, crackled for a few days, and then pulled out a classic small-budget movie, and began to pull investment everywhere with the script he thought was a classic in his arms.
Dreams are beautiful, reality is cruel, and many times it is not a good result that can be achieved by a script that thinks it is classic and full of enthusiasm. Often what you think is the best, you get a more brutal reply.
Tang Yin is not from this time and space, to be precise, his soul is not from this time and space. This is a very good world, at least the big country here is a real big country, no adulteration, standing in any place on the planet with the ID card of a citizen of the Ming Empire, no foreigner dares to bully you.
The words "No matter where you are, don't forget that there is a powerful motherland standing behind you" on the back of the ID card can brighten the eyes of a blind dog, even if the United States, another big country, is not so. This is the country where Tang Yin is now, the Ming Empire.
The history before the Ming Dynasty in this time and space is the same as the time and space in which Tang Yin is located, history turned a corner here at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, who was originally hanged in the coal mountain, miraculously turned over, turned the tide, and helped a stormy country to live up, and killed the people of the braid country everywhere, and the traitors were left stinking for 10,000 years, so that the Ming Dynasty extended its history for more than 100 years.
Then in modern times, during the First World War, the originally weakened Ming royal family once again exerted its might, and insisted on supporting a country that was facing a strong enemy around and was about to be destroyed again. Then the Eastern Expedition and the Western War turned the Ming Empire into a super constitutional monarchy with Hawaii in the east, the Persian Gulf in the west, the Arctic Circle in the north, and the island of Australia in the south.
The era in which Tang Yin lived was the era of the world's steady development, and the economy and technology of the Ming Empire were far ahead of the rest of the world, but the film industry was still at the level of the seventies in his previous life, developing slowly.
In order to stimulate the further development of the film industry, the state immediately built three major film and television bases in Nanfang, Loulan, and Hengdian, rectified the national film market, built a large number of theaters, determined the important position of copyright, relaxed the film censorship system, and introduced the film classification system.
"Why don't I cross the sea and go to the casino to play two and come back? If we win, we will invest in making this movie ourselves, and if we lose, we will act as if nothing happened. After a deathly silence, Zhu Hai thought for a while and said.
Tang Yin raised his head from the bed and looked at Zhu Hai. The casino that Zhu Hai said is the same place as the casino in Tang Yinyuan's time and space, but the casino in this time and space has replaced Las Vegas to become the world's largest casino, and tourism and gambling alone will bring huge benefits to the country every year.
But nine out of ten bets are lost, Zhu Hai is already a habitual offender, and Tang Yin naturally won't let him gamble. Just as he was about to speak, Zhu Hai had already decided, and then stood up, "It's so decided, you wait for my good news." ”
After speaking, he opened the door and went out without looking back, with the momentum of being windy and cold, and Ren Tang Yin shouted behind him without looking back.