"Wait a minute, two!" Xiao Ran, who rushed out of the office like a whirlwind, saw the frustrated duo at a glance, and hurriedly shouted. The two stopped in amazement, looking at Xiao Ran, who seemed to be a martial arts master, and were greatly surprised.

"Screenwriter Xiao, what's the matter with you?" Wang Jiawei's mood is very low now, and anyone else would be like this. Therefore, the task of speaking fell on Liu Zhenwei.

"You know me?" Xiao Ran was surprised, he is just a slightly famous screenwriter now, not a big celebrity.

Liu Zhenwei glanced at Xiao Ran with a strange expression, blinked and smiled miserably: "You are a famous screenwriter of 20 million, who in the circle doesn't know!" ”

"So, I have something I want to talk to you about, do you want to have lunch?" Xiao Ran smiled slightly, secretly hating in his heart, I don't know who gave him this rotten nickname, it is really vulgar. You know, our protagonist yearns for the nickname of screenwriter at the Academy Awards.

Wang Jiawei and Liu Zhenwei glanced at each other, and they both saw the clear doubts in each other's eyes. They obviously didn't know Xiao Ran's purpose, of course, if they knew that they could quickly become popular within two years, they would definitely understand Xiao Ran's intentions.

In any case, there is no reason for them to refuse the famous screenwriter in front of them, although Xiao Ran doesn't think how famous he is, but Wang Jiawei and Liu Zhenwei know how famous the kid in front of them is who is younger than themselves. So, the two nodded at the same time and agreed.

After making an appointment with the time and place, Xiao Ran walked to Huang Baiming's office easily. Of course, he is still a little proud, and he is really lucky to know these two bulls. It would be even better if it could be co-opted.

Suddenly, Xiao Ran's "tiger body shook violently", and his eyes showed regret. He thought of one thing, one thing that was terrible. Wang Jiawei is definitely a character he can't provoke, at least not a character he can provoke at present.

The whole world knows that Wang Jiawei has an extremely weird hobby, and the filming progress is crazy slow. It took five years of grinding for a "2046" to sharpen this not sharp sword, of course, this is not in Xiao Ran's eyes.

The most important thing is that the whole world knows how ruthless Wang Jiawei is in spending money. The large-scale production "The True Story of A Fei" with an investment of tens of millions of dollars was sold on the street in Hong Kong, which can be said to be a loss of money, and the investor Deng Guangrong was so angry that he vomited blood, and was directly sent to the hospital to save his life.

Xiao Ran didn't think that he had so much blood to vomit, and he also didn't think that he had tens of millions or even hundreds of millions for Wang Jiawei to squander. In this year, a film with an investment of 10 million is equivalent to a big production with an investment of 50 million now, and it is still a big production of 30 or 40 million.

If Xiao Ran now has 30 or 40 million for Wang Jiawei to make films, then he might as well use this money to make ten medium-sized productions, or sell them ironclad. Otherwise, it's no problem to use these tens of millions to make a film that is ten times stronger than the lineup of "Infernal Affairs". Investing in Wang Jiawei, just kidding, it's almost the same if you eat too much and have nothing to do, Xiao Ran doesn't want to vomit blood and die.

However, if Wang Jiawei is tied to Liu Zhenwei, then Xiao Ran might as well think about it. This famous grape Liu Zhenwei is known to everyone in the mainland, and he is simply dedicated to wiping Wang Jiawei's buttocks. "East Evil and West Poison" lost a lot of money, and Grape immediately used the original cast to start filming "East Becomes West", and the good box office finally made up for some losses.

In fact, it's not just this one, since these two brothers and sisters tied up together to found Zedong Film Company, Liu Zhenwei has repeatedly wiped Wang Jiawei's buttocks, and many films have appeared because of this. To put it simply, in Xiao Ran's view, Wang Jiawei can't make up for his commercial failure even if he wins more awards, while Liu Zhenwei can do business and literature and art, and he is a talent who can't let go of death.

While thinking of Wang Jiawei's "brilliant achievements", Xiao Ran also had a very insidious, but not yet mature idea. He thought slyly that if he founded a company in the future, if there was a strong competitor, he could let Wang Jiawei make a movie for the other party, and it would definitely reduce the strength of the company. It's like Wu Yusen's "The Wind Whisperer" almost bankrupted MGM, just like Xu Ke's "The Legend of Shushan" almost bankrupted China Star.

Of course, this was just a premeditation and has not yet become a reality. What Xiao Ran wants to do now is to be a good director who sells well, get enough capital and popularity in the circle for himself, and then start a company, he doesn't want to be repeatedly rejected by the Academy Awards like Du Qifeng because of his bad popularity.

Turning back to Huang Baiming's office, Xiao Ran saw that Huang Baiming was busy with something else. When Huang Baiming saw him coming, he hurriedly shouted: "By the way, Ah Ran, you accompany me to the recording studio." ”

On the way, Xiao Ran asked about Wang Jiawei and Liu Zhenwei, and finally figured it all out from Huang Baiming. It turned out that these two guys both graduated from wireless, and at first they worked in wireless, and then they were borrowed by Huang Baiming. Originally, Wang Jiawei was working as a screenwriter for a new film, but this guy made the entire crew wait for a full month without writing half a word.

When Huang Baiming met this Wang Jiawei, he asked him to come up with the script within three days anyway. And just the day before, Wang Jiawei's script was handed in, and Huang Baiming was angry when he saw it. In his opinion, what kind of script is that, it is simply garbage in garbage. But Liu Zhenwei was very interesting, and he helped Wang Jiawei hand in his homework many times, so he got mixed up at this time.

As for Liu Zhenwei, he is now working as an assistant director, and also as a screenwriter or something. Xiao Ran naturally secretly snickered with bad intentions, waiting for Wang Jiawei's script? Wait until the sky is old. He knows better than anyone in the world that Wang Jiawei can't adapt to the fast-paced atmosphere of Hong Kong movies now.

When he arrived at the recording studio, Xiao Ran saw Zhang Manyu and Du Qifeng at a glance. suddenly remembered that there was Huang Baiming in the starring role of "Happy Ghosts Crashing Ghosts", and I couldn't help but be funny. He thought of his former self, when he was still naïve, after watching this happy ghost series, he became obsessed with this series, and always called himself a happy ghost when he played with friends. Thinking about everything, Xiao Ran found that he was really lucky.

It's not the first time Xiao Ran and Zhang Manyu have met, they are very familiar with each other when they were filming "Police Story", and they are also very familiar with Du Qifeng. At this time, when they met, they didn't say anything, but just nodded their heads to show it. Recording studios generally need to be quiet, and try not to talk if you can.

What they are recording now is the original Cantonese pronunciation, and the Chinese pronunciation will naturally be dubbed by professional dubbing personnel. This dubbing didn't take much time, the reason why Huang Baiming asked Xiao Ran to come with him was to let Xiao Ran, the "creator", determine the emotions and tones needed for some dialogues. Although this mainly depends on the director's wishes, sometimes the screenwriter's opinion is also important.

Having completed their morning tasks, they left the studio together. Xiao Ran was wondering if he wanted to remind Huang Baiming not to make any more sequels to Happy Ghosts, but after recalling carefully, the last episode of Happy Ghosts seemed to have been filmed in the nineties, so he was not in a hurry.

Looking at Zhang Manyu's thoughts, Xiao Ran suddenly remembered Yishu's evaluation of him: beauty is beautiful, soulless. This simple sentence is a very appropriate description of Zhang Manyu's current situation, but no one can imagine how much this "soulless" woman can achieve in the future.

"Ah Ran, let's go have lunch together." Huang Baiming glanced at the three of them, and said with a good smile: "I know there is a restaurant nearby that is very good!" ”

"No!" Xiao Ran smiled and shook his head, he still had an appointment with the other two: "Go ahead, Ayu, pay attention to your diet, don't eat to be a fat woman!" I won't love you then. ”

When he was filming "Police Story", he knew that Zhang Manyu paid attention to his body type, so he made a joke about this. Zhang Manyu really smiled and scolded and patted Xiao Ran lightly: "What nonsense, don't go quickly." By the way, Sister Xia has a party today to celebrate the housewarming, are you going? However, she said that she wanted to bring a female companion. If you don't, you won't be able to go this time! ”

"It's okay!" Xiao Ran tried his best to make a grimace that matched his age: "I'm looking for you to be my female companion, you won't be so cruel to reject me!" ”

Zhang Manyu made an angry expression and kicked with flying legs. Xiao Ran's dexterity flashed, laughed and threw down a sentence and slipped away: "What a move to kick the Beihai Jiaolong, Xiaosheng is willing to bow down!" Escape! ”

The other three thought it was funny, but of course, it was none of Xiao Ran's business. He was hurrying to the place where he had made an appointment with Grape, which was just a small tea restaurant, and Grape they were obviously waiting impatiently, always watching the time on their wrists.

Xiao Ran Shi Ran went in and sat down, exhaled before saying, "I'm sorry, it's too late!" ”

"It's okay!" It was Wang Jiawei who spoke, and his old gentleman was so grinding when he made movies, and he didn't care about this time.

After asking for a cup of milk tea, Xiao Ran glanced at the two people in front of him and smiled slightly: "I know your business, in fact, you don't need to be depressed, because no one knows the future, as long as you have the ability, you will naturally be able to show your ambitions in the future!" ”

He felt very funny about his tone, what kind of strongmen were these two people in front of him, he actually spoke in such a tone similar to that of his predecessors. The two of them showed a slightly grateful look and said thank you to Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran raised his fingers and shook them slightly in front of him, his expression was full of noncommittal looks: "There is no need to be so polite, you two are choreographers, if you write any good books, maybe I can recommend it for you!" ”

"Really? Thank you for that! Wang Jiawei still looked half-dead, but Liu Zhenwei was a little excited. Although the guy in front of him is younger than himself, he knows that this Xiao Ran is very famous in the circle, not only because the books written by this person are all best-selling works, but also because this kid has not graduated from a major class at all, and he has never learned how to be a screenwriter, many people say that this person is a genius!

Of course, the two of them were only half-convinced. Xiao Ran didn't care about their suspicions, anyway, the facts would prove it. Thinking about the current three major film companies and two major studios, in his impression, Golden Harvest seems to be not very suitable for the style of the two in front of him, Debao mostly takes the route of urban comedy and female surname films, but Golden Harvest's Baohe is better at ghost films and zombie films.

As for Xu Ke's film studio and Mak Dangxiong's film studio, they were the most creative studios in the mid-to-late 80s and early 90s, but their style was clearly not suitable for Liu Zhenwei and others. How to place the two in front of him, Xiao Ran was a big headache.

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The title of the novel - Xu Ke

Real-life name - Tsui Hark

Profession: Director, producer

If you haven't seen any Hong Kong films and haven't heard of Tsui Hark's name, you can be forgiven. But if you have seen it and you don't know it, that's definitely ignorance. Tsui Hark is a ghost and a genius in Hong Kong, although "The True Color of Heroes" is mainly the success of John Woo, but Tsui Hark, as the producer, also has great credit. In fact, it's hard to describe what kind of director he is, only in his films can you find the answer.

Works: "A Chinese Ghost Story", "Smiling Proud Jianghu", "Smiling Proud Jianghu: Undefeated in the East", "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Huang Feihong" and countless other classics

The title of the novel - Shi Nansheng

Realistic name - Shi Nansheng

Occupation: The woman behind Tsui Hark

She is Tsui Hark's wife and Tsui Hark's strongest supporter. If Shi Nansheng hadn't taken care of Tsui Hark's finances and everything, I'm afraid we wouldn't have been able to see some classic works.

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