Chapter Ninety-Four: Occasional Talents
Xiao Ran glared at him and said sternly: "Don't mess around, read your book well." ”
"They can do it, why can't I!" Xiao Han stopped doing it, and immediately pouted and coquettishly said to Xiao Ran: "I don't care, anyway, I have to act and sing!" ”
Xiao Ran had a headache for a while, the matter here has not been resolved, and another trouble will come out immediately, it is really ...... He wanted to swear. After thinking about it and looking at the two sisters who were looking at the two of them with wide eyes, Xiao Ran couldn't help but shake his head and said to Xiao Han: "In this way, if you really want to, you can do it in a few years, now you are still young, don't worry!" ”
"But they're not very old, just like me, why?" Xiao Han was now holding Xiao Ran's arm and shaking vigorously, and the two sisters both nodded at the same time, obviously wondering why Xiao Ran didn't agree.
Xiao Ran sweated wildly, why did this sister become a troublemaker: "I didn't say that I want them to take a leave of absence from school to act, I just want to talk to them about it, if you can, then sign it first, and then train to act!" ”
"In this case, then I want it too, I want it anyway!" Xiao Han doesn't know if he hasn't had a coquettish object for a long time, and he plans to vent enough on Xiao Ran today. However, fortunately, although Xiao Ran felt very annoyed, he still enjoyed the feeling of being coquettish to himself.
"Well, as long as you can convince your parents, then I'll have no problem here!" Xiao Ran glanced at Wei Jiahui, who was snickering, helplessly, expressing how worthy of sympathy he was, and then looked at the two sisters and said, "Xiaoying, why don't you want to be a star?" ”
"She? Her ideal is to help others, not to be a star! Xiaoya replied first, obviously very disdainful of her sister's ideals. Xiaoying's face flushed slightly, very cute: "What's wrong with helping others?" ”
"That's it!" Xiao Ran thought about it, and persuaded with a whim: "Actually, there is nothing wrong with being a star, only when you have an identity and status can you help more people." Do you understand? You can go home and ask your parents if they want to talk to me! ”
The sisters nodded and agreed, especially Xiaoya, who nodded her head like a rice chicken. The only unpleasant thing is Xiao Han, if she wants to go back and discuss with her parents, wouldn't it be self-defeating.
went to Lin Qingxia's house and told her about it, Lin Qingxia immediately remembered the cute little girl, and immediately smiled: "If she really wants to, then you might as well promise her." Anyway, it's not difficult for your brother to become popular with her, and she has the capital to become popular! ”
It's not that Xiao Ran doesn't want Xiao Han to be a star, but he feels that something is wrong, the most important thing is that he thinks that at this age, Xiao Han should learn more than do star dreams.
"By the way, other companies have asked me to act in a film called "Killer Beauty"!" Lin Qingxia let her hand be pinched by Xiao Ran, and leaned slightly on Xiao Ran's shoulder to experience a sense of security: "Do you want me to act?" ”
"Emotionally, I definitely don't want to! I'm always conservative sometimes! Intellectually, though, I think you should go next, and now the Phantom doesn't have a work for you. After Xiao Ran grinned, his expression moved, and he immediately remembered this film: "You show me the script first!" ”
Lin Qingxia reluctantly stood up and went to get the script for Xiao Ran to see. Of course, Xiao Ran knew that this film was originally starring Lin Qingxia and Liang Jiahui, but this film was very ordinary, and the box office was sloppy.
Pretended to browse for a while, and after thinking about it again, he thought that there was no need to take this drama at all: "I think, don't take this play, it's difficult to do much in this script, it's not commercial enough, it's not literary enough to be literary!" ”
"If you don't answer, then you won't!" Lin Qingxia did not agree on this point because Xiao Ran was her boyfriend, but based on Xiao Ran's evaluation of the script. As for Xiao Ran's screenwriting ability, I am afraid that no one in Hong Kong and even Southeast Asia dares to doubt it.
In the company, Xiao Ran frowned violently and looked at Wei Dongling, who looked helpless, and brought out a lot of scripts, and suddenly smiled bitterly. Since he became the number one screenwriter in Hong Kong, coupled with his speech at the Academy Awards that he valued screenwriting, and because of his status as the owner of a film company, many screenwriters who thought they were capable and talented began to submit scripts to The Phantom.
One of the tasks of every time Xiao Ran came to the company was to do the final review. The first review was carried out by Wei Jiahui, who selected talented and potential books, and finally sent them to Xiao Ran.
"By the way, the box office of the prison storm has exceeded fifteen million, when will the celebration banquet begin?" Wei Dongling asked while working, he is now used to the way of talking while working, there is no way, the office is small. Wei Dongling was even worried that he would not be able to adapt to a big office in the future: "And the rewards and expenses are not small!" ”
Xiao Ran nodded, even though Wei Dongling is a genius and manages the company in an orderly manner, after all, his vision is limited by the times, and it is difficult to see how important talents are to the development of films.
He decided to wait and talk to Wei Dongling about this matter later, thinking and concept are very important. Decided, he began to read through the script. Actually, what he has to do is very simple, for example, if the bridge in a certain book is well written, he can recruit this author into the screenwriting team of the Phantom to be responsible for the bridge part. When he saw one of the notebooks, he couldn't help but be surprised......
Xiao Ran rubbed his eyes in disbelief, he was sure that he was not dazzled. It turns out that he has no old age, and what is in front of him is the script of "Home Alone". Actually, I can't say that.,I can only say that this book has the same idea as "Home Alone".,There aren't many similarities in the plot.。
What year is Home Alone? Xiao Ran struggled to recall, this was not an easy thing for him. Because he has a deep understanding of Hong Kong films, but he doesn't know much about foreign language films, of course, it is difficult to remember what era these films are.
Luckily, he remembered, it was a film that was only released in 1990. And now it has appeared, which only proves that the story is not plagiarized at all, but original. He took a closer look and found that this story was no worse than "Home Alone", but it was a little more Hong Kong-flavored, and the plots were just as funny.
Without hesitation, Xiao Ran found the author of this book-Tie Long, which is really a very imposing name. After choosing to get this screenwriter in his hands, Xiao Ran continued his work, who made him the hand of God.
Finally turned to the last book, Xiao Ran breathed a sigh of relief, but he also began to get nervous. Wei Jiahui has always been accustomed to putting what he thinks is the best book at the bottom, so that Xiao Ran can make a decision. This means that it will definitely not be too bad to be favored by Wei Jiahui.
However, he didn't quite understand why Wei Jiahui put the previous book in front? Is it because you don't see the commercial benefits involved? Soon he came to a conclusion that Hong Kong films basically don't pay attention to children's films, let alone make children the protagonists.
flipped through the last script, and only read the beginning, Xiao Ran was attracted. This is a science fiction book.,The general story is about what will happen after people commit crimes in the future world.。 However, Xiao Ran feels that the sci-fi flavor in this book is not heavy, it is more like a police movie, but the background is put in the future world.
The story was so attractive that Xiao Ran couldn't even take his eyes off it, and he didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he finished reading it. This screenwriter is very strong, the book is strong enough to be passionate, there are a lot of quite superb dialogues, and the suspense is arranged quite well.
This is something that Xiao Ran only understood after watching it, this looks like a science fiction theme on the surface, but when you look deeper, it is a police and bandit theme, but in essence it is a suspense film. For a moment, he was dazed.
However,This book is not without weaknesses.,The weakness is that the details are set up very badly.,And because of the over-passion,,There are many loopholes in the plot.。 Xiao Ran could even see at a glance that this author must be a young man.
Even so, Xiao Ran thinks that today's fatigue is completely worth it, after all, after reading the book for so long, he finally met two talents, and one of them is probably even a genius. Xiao Ran began to feel how wise he was, but it was a pity that no one was here to pat him on the back.
"Adong, stop working and talk to you!" Xiao Ran didn't even notice it, and an irresistible majesty gradually appeared in his tone. Seeing Wei Dongling raise his head and look at him suspiciously, the majesty in Xiao Ran's tone turned into worry: "Adong, I'll tell you a story, listen carefully!" ”
"Once upon a time there was a place where there were a lot of companies, one of which was the largest and one of which was very small." Xiao Ran indulged in memories and transformed the history of Hong Kong film into another story: "This small-scale company has slowly developed for a long time, and in the later period, it has gained a large number of talents, developed by leaps and bounds, and became the second largest company in only ten years!" ”
Wei Dongling was extremely confused now, he couldn't even know what Xiao Ran was talking about. Xiao Ran rubbed his nose, feeling extremely heavy: "However, when this company developed to its peak, everyone found that something was wrong. Capable employees are poached by the largest company, and other employees are always doing things that harm them. ”
"But none of this is the worst, several directors of this company don't pay attention to talent, and they don't even have a talent pool." Xiao Ran smiled helplessly, Hong Kong film history is definitely not so simple to describe: "As a result, these talents gradually fell sharply because they did not get good treatment, and because of the harm of other mediocre employees." ”
"In order to save money, the directors have made several of them clear to the outside world...... Employees have raised their salaries in the hope of using them to attract business! Xiao Ran almost blurted out the word star, but fortunately reacted in time: "However, they failed, and the business still shrank." However, they did not think of raising salaries for those talents who have really developed the company, and giving them the freedom to play. ”
"As a result, these talents have been disappointed, some have joined the largest companies, and some have stayed and fought loyally." Xiao Ran was very bitter when he said this, he really didn't know how many geniuses had been buried in Hong Kong, a small land: "However, more people have left this company and left this place." As a result, the company's business withered until it died. The reason for this is because the directors don't think they deserve a salary increase and don't need to give them enough space! ”
Wei Dongling still didn't quite understand, and the confusion in his eyes became more and more intense. Xiao Ran let out a long sigh, closed his eyes slightly and sighed: "Don't you think the form of this company is very similar to Hong Kong movies?" Don't you think it's necessary for us to pay more attention to talent? ”
Suddenly realized, Wei Dongling understood what Xiao Ran meant, but he didn't understand it even more. Xiao Ran's thoughts wandered in his memory twenty years later, and he said in a dreamy tone: "What is the highest value in Hong Kong?" Xu Guanjie, 1.5 million, and after the release of "Autumn Fairy Tale", Zhou Runfa's worth must be more than 1.2 million. Remember two years ago? Two years ago, Xu Guanjie was the most valuable, only one million. ”
"You mean the value of an actor is too high?" Wei Dongling thought of something, and his expression changed drastically: "If you want to reduce the actor's salary, it will never work, otherwise not many people are willing to accept it!" ”
"Of course not, the value of an actor is determined by their value!" Xiao Ran opened his eyes and looked at the embarrassed Wei Dongling, and laughed: "I mean, you don't think the remuneration of the staff behind the scenes is too low?" Especially the bottom, if you don't live a lot, you may not be able to support yourself! ”
"It doesn't seem to be low!" Wei Dongling quickly calculated in his mind and came up with this answer: "The remuneration of the company's behind-the-scenes staff is already very high, and if you count the rewards, they are twice as high as Jiahe!" ”
"Do you really think it's too high?" Xiao Ran asked with a wry smile, even Wei Dongling, a person with advanced vision, looked at it that way, and complained that the film industry was so bleak: "Now the budget of a medium-sized film is four million, how much of these four million is spent on the screenwriter?" At best, it's only 100,000, what kind of ratio is that? ”
"In these four million, celebrities generally have to take out one-fifth, or even one-quarter!" mentioned this, Xiao Ran didn't think so, the proportion of celebrity remuneration now is far less than in the future, and it will even be as high as half in 20 years: "Just imagine, what's so fair about this? ”
Wei Dongling pressed the phone and instructed the secretary to pour two cups of coffee in, and then said with a smile: "There is no fairness, celebrities are the most important reason for the audience to buy tickets and enter!" So, it's normal for them to take the big head! ”
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Longxiang Pictures
This company is a Taiwanese company and has certain cooperative relations with Debao and Xinyicheng, etc. Everyone must remember that the name of this film company has been seen in many titles. Hehe, that's because some films are invested by this company, so they get the copyright. So...... This company has a lot of strength, and I mean financially. But when it comes to filmmaking...... Everyone knows what Taiwanese movies are like! hehe
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