Chapter 66: Potential Crisis

This made Xiao Ran very unhappy, of course he was not unable to criticize, but he was just unhappy with Ni Mad as a person. Ni Mad is certainly talented, but the attacks on China in his works are really infuriating, although Xiao Ran thinks that he is really not very patriotic, but such attacks are really discrediting the Chinese people.

The main thing that made Xiao Ran angry was that Ni Zhen, the son of Ni Mad, later married Zhou Huimin, the head of the Jade Girl, and came to a golden house to hide Jiaojiao, this incident alone was enough to cause many men to hate them to the bone.

In any case, even if Xiao Ran is not recognized by insiders, the number one screenwriter in the mouth of outsiders will definitely not be able to escape. The box office of more than 200 million is not just a matter of looking at it, and 200 million banknotes are piled up to death. If there were still people who thought that Xiao Ran had not won the award before, it didn't count at all, but now that Xiao Ran has won the award, there is nothing to say.

Now Xiao Ran is calculating, will it be better to call 100 million screenwriters than 20 million screenwriters? Of course, this is a joke, he is not stupid enough to think that in this day and age, he can make a film have a box office of 100 million. Unless...... He controls all the theaters and all the actors.

Wei Dongling's work was not very busy in the morning, and when he saw Xiao Ran's thoughtful expression, he couldn't help but smile: "The feeling of being criticized is not the same, it doesn't matter, you will get used to it sooner or later." There are always some people in this world who say good things about you, and others who say bad things about you, and you can't see the victory of others! ”

Seeing Xiao Ran's unclear appearance, Wei Dongling smiled and told him what happened after he and Xiao Ran left separately last night. When Wei Dongling left the venue last night, he coincidentally overheard the conversation of several people. Those people seem to be in the industry, and they are very unimpressed with Xiao Ran's award, and one of the guys who is suspected of being a screenwriter is even more ashamed to say that Xiao Ran is just an ordinary screenwriter, and he is not qualified to be called the first screenwriter at all.

"Yes, have I offended someone?" Then Xiao Ran woke up to the fact that many things do not appear if you offend others, but as long as you do better than some people, you will always be jealous. After thinking about it, he smiled and said to Wei Dongling, "Bring it!" ”

Wei Dongling spread out his hands, pretending to be puzzled. Xiao Ran couldn't help laughing, patted his thigh lightly and said leisurely: "I don't believe you didn't send someone to find out what those guys were eating, bring it!" ”

"You still know me, count it on you!" Wei Dongling admired Xiao Ran very much, gave a thumbs up and smiled: "You guessed it like this, isn't that the roundworm in my stomach?" Those few people are not a big deal, they are just inconspicuous little characters, and you don't have to pay attention to them. ”

When he said this, Wei Dongling's expression was very strange when he looked at Xiao Ran, and Xiao Ran suddenly realized that Wei Dongling wanted to tell him not to be complacent because of the false name of the first screenwriter, so he attracted unnecessary enemies. Thinking of this, he hugged his fists like the ancients and said: "Thank you Brother Tai for his teachings!" Hey! ”

Wei Dongling nodded with satisfaction, after all, his age was no less than Xiao Ran, and he always had some experience in this area, so he vaguely mentioned Xiao Ran. It's just that he didn't expect that Xiao Ran was not at this age, but much more mature than this, so naturally he wouldn't get carried away because of this.

After the joke, Wei Dongling began to frown: "The company's current situation is not good, not a single film has been released yet, and Liao Jingping is already complaining to me." said that we wanted a schedule but there was no film, which made them temporarily find a film to be released, and they lost a lot! Otherwise, let's make a film first, otherwise the company's finances will be very tight."

"No way!" When it comes to work, Xiao Ran lost the heart of having fun, but entered the state, pondered for a moment and gave the reason: "Adong, what the company needs now is not money, but popularity." I don't think finances are as tight as you say, at most they just have expenses and no income! ”

Seeing Wei Dongling nodding and admitting, Xiao Ran touched his nose and smiled: "Besides, Fang Ruohai's financial resources are supported behind him, and there will be no problems with finances." Therefore, we need to use entrepreneurship to make a name for ourselves, which is very necessary. Moreover, if the film is released during this period, the box office will definitely not be satisfactory! ”

"There's a saying, I don't know whether to say it or not!" Wei Dongling hesitated, he was not a person who was originally a mouthful, but he knew that Xiao Ran was pursuing Fang Ruoxin, so he naturally had to think about the following words before he could say it: "You rely on Fang Ruohai like this, I don't think this is a good thing." If he plays some tricks with funds, he is only afraid that the company will ......"

"Probably not, right?" said so in his mouth, but Xiao Ran patted his thigh gently, letting his mind follow the rhythm. If Fang Ruohai dragged his feet behind them, this fate would definitely be unimaginable. However, according to the contract, the phantom is now without Fang Ruohai's capital investment, and the loss is by no means great, at least it can maintain the current situation.

Strictly speaking, Xiao Ran even longed very much for Fang Ruohai to break the contract, so that he would not need to share seventy percent of the profits from the film revenue with Fang Ruohai. Coming to this conclusion, Xiao Ran smiled: "It's not in the way, he can't cause us any damage!" ”

Besides, I could be his brother-in-law! Xiao Ran added this sentence fiercely in his heart. After talking about it, Xiao Ran went to the set. "Autumn Fairy Tale" was partly filmed on location in foreign countries, but now it has moved to Hong Kong, and the filming has basically been completed.

Therefore, Xiao Ran went to the filming location of "Prison Storm", and Fa Ge has been making film appointments since this year, but he is really tired. Since it was a live-action shooting, it saved a lot of trouble. When he came to the set, Xiao Ran didn't bother others, only Liang Kun greeted him and said hello.

"Did the shoot go well? No one is here to make trouble, right? Xiao Ran especially had the temperament of a boss when he said this.

"No, this one went well!" Liang Kunhe smiled generously: "But, boss, you promised not to let me interfere in the underworld, what does it mean to let me go to the set now?" ”

Xiao Ran was slightly stunned, turned to look at Liang Kun, and smiled softly: "You are an expert after all, you will feel a lot more at ease here." As for someone who really comes to make trouble, you just need to talk to them, and if you do something or something, you are absolutely not needed. ”

Liang Kun smiled bitterly, his consultant really looked a bit like a consultant. However, with a salary of 20,000 yuan a month, I always have to do some work. Xiao Ran didn't leave him, seeing that the filming of this scene was over, Huang Guangliang and Cheng Kuian's supporting actors smoked and rested together.

Xiao Ran walked forward with a smile and greeted: "Brother Liang, Brother Dasha, Brother Ju, the company's treatment is not bad!" ”

When a few people saw that it was the boss of the company, they quickly stood up, and laughed non-stop, but it really fit his name: "Not bad, really good!" ”

"Look at your stupidity, you really deserve to be stupid!" Huang Guangliang smiled and said very kindly: "It's really good, the amount of boxed lunches is sufficient, the salary is good, and everyone is very kind!" It's not like working with other crews, you have to quarrel at both ends in those three days! ”

He Jiaju and the three of them look very fierce, no wonder they always play villains on the screen, but they are all evil enough and cute people. Dasha glared at Huang Guangliang, and then said to Xiao Ran: "Boss Xiao, it's better to start work with you in the future." ”

Xiao Ran knew how to face such a relatively rough person, and laughed very straightforwardly: "It's okay, which company are you working with now?" ”

In fact, no company is willing to sign supporting roles like Huang Guangliang, because it is not profitable to sign at all. Therefore, they are generally with a company with a lot of business, some similar to an intermediary company.

When a big company like Phantom is only doing production and production, it is impossible to bring in all the actors and some unimportant crew members, such as extras, at once. Therefore, under normal circumstances, large companies directly entrust these jobs to the next company, and many such brokerage companies in Hong Kong rely on these large companies to mix and eat.

Huang Guangliang and the others can now be regarded as slightly famous supporting roles, so they don't have any small companies. It's that after the phantom is handed over to the small company, the small company will go to find them to play a role. Everything is as simple as that, Xiao Ran asked them which company they were with, in fact, he was asking them which company they were more closely associated with.

"We are mainly with Tianxing now, and it is still very easy to eat with a mouthful!" He Jiaju, who had been silent all along, answered Xiao Ran's question with a smile.

Xiao Ran of Tianxing Film Company heard in Wei Dongling's mouth some time ago that this company is a relatively powerful brokerage and production company. He nodded and smiled: "At present, there are not many jobs to be opened in the Phantom, if you only follow me, I'm afraid you may not be able to make much money, in short, with the right role, there are always a few of you big villains!" ”

Dasha grabbed his head and laughed, they could all hear that Xiao Ran meant that they were more suitable to play villains. In fact, they were originally full of flesh, and if they didn't play villains, they were really sorry to God.

Nodding to them, Xiao Ran came to Lin Lingdong's side, and the scene reporter hurriedly moved a chair. Xiao Ran said thank you and sat down, looked at Lin Lingdong and Nan Yan slightly sideways and sighed: "I'm really not a competent producer, I haven't come to the set for a long time!" ”

Lin Lingdong and Xiao Ran are more familiar, and they laughed immediately: "To be honest, no one who is a director wants the producer to be present every day." ”

Xiao Ran chuckled a few times, the producer system created by Mak Dangxiong can be regarded as scaring Hong Kong directors, coupled with a strong imitator Xinyicheng, the director is really afraid and hated the producer. Originally, if Xiao Ran was the director, he couldn't like any producer who interfered in the filming of the film.

"It's okay, I'm a very nice producer." Xiao Ran laughed dryly, he didn't want to interfere in the director's creation: "I'm curious, for example, how did you deal with the scene in the script where Fa Ge played the erhu in the sun?" That scene needs to be filmed with a sincere joy, and it also needs to be very infectious, how to do that? ”

"This ......" There are some things that can obviously not be described in one sentence, Lin Lingdong raised some vocabulary before telling Xiao Ran: "In fact, this first depends on the performance of the actors......"

Xiao Ran nodded very approvingly, the scene of Fa Ge playing erhu and singing a big drama in this film is very good, like a ray of light in the darkness. Lin Lingdong continued: "Second, we need to schedule the scene, that is, we need to use other characters to secretly set off this happiness. For example, you can arrange for a few people to play basketball behind the hair boy or something, and the expression must be very engaged, so that the effect will be seven, seven, eight, eight. ”

nodded thoughtfully, Xiao Ran has always tried to learn something from other directors, Zhang Wanyao and Xu Ke have consulted. Their style is different from Lin Lingdong, each with its own characteristics.

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The title of the novel - Lin Lingdong

Real name - Lin Lingdong

Profession: Director

Lin Lingdong is one of the best action film directors in Hong Kong, and Liang Puzhi, the director of Xinyicheng during the filming of "Yin and Yang", did not shoot according to the script, and was replaced by Xinyicheng with Lin Lingdong, and as a result, he became famous for his first time with this film. Later, it was even more famous for its Fengyun series to establish a reputation that could compete with John Woo. It's just that he later devoted himself to developing in Hollywood, but there are very few masterpieces.

Works: "High Alert", "Fierce Light", and the "Fengyun" series, etc.

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