Chapter 140: The Future Emperor of Kung Fu
The next day, Uncle Zeng brought back Li Lianjie, a kung fu superstar, from Shencheng, arranged for him to meet Sun Ziming, and went to busy Sun Ziming to deal with the affairs of the trading company. The agent asked Li Jiaming to be it, but he was still doing these jobs, which made Li Jiaming a little embarrassed.
"It's nothing, it's all a small thing. Lianjie doesn't like green tea, so he changes it to Pubait tea. ”
"Hey."
Jiaming hurriedly went in to change the tea for the guests, Uncle Zeng's experience in this area was really enough for her to learn.
Li Lianjie is not highly educated, since he was sensible, he spent most of his time in sports school, but it did not prevent him from reading Sun Ziming's script.
"Director Sun, you don't look like a script for a kung fu movie. It's kind of, hey, I can't say it anyway. has patriotism and love, a bit like an action movie like "Sword and Horse". There's no problem with the action, as long as you can design it, I'll do it, the key is this love drama or something, I'm afraid I won't be able to act well."
This big brother is really direct, if it is replaced by Liu Dehua and them, as long as they hear that it is Sun Ziming's movie, the first reaction is to grab a role first. As for whether you can perform well, I will think about it slowly in the future.
"Drink tea, Brother Jie, you said that you have been making movies for five years, how many injuries have you suffered? If it goes on like this, do you want to retire at forty? Or retirement at thirty? You directed and acted in "Chinese Heroes" yourself, what was the response? How is it at the box office? ”
Sun Ziming's series of questions stunned Li Lianjie, and his performance in "Shaolin Temple" became an instant hit, but he only got a subsidy of more than 100 yuan. Although acting in "North and South Shaolin" also hit a Hong Kong box office of more than 22 million, the response is not as good as the first part. When he gritted his teeth and directed and acted in "Chinese Heroes", he didn't even get the book back.
Hong Kong is inherently a commercial society, and people are indifferent. Li Lianjie, who had gone downhill, couldn't find a chance to make a comeback, so he returned to the mainland in frustration and opened a martial arts company to teach people martial arts for a living.
The ups and downs of the past few years have made him figure out some things, and they have also made him more confused. When Uncle Zeng went to look for him, he wanted to come over and ask this young '50 million director' why this was like this.
"For what?"
Sun Ziming gave him a detailed analysis of what happened in the past few years, which is nothing more than three reasons, one is the script, the second is the action direction, and the third is that the restrictions of identity and personality make him unable to integrate into Hong Kong.
Li Lianjie's fame is inevitable and accidental, it must refer to his skills, he already has all the elements of an action superstar, and the chance is of course luck and the trend of a few years ago. In fact, in Sun Ziming's view, "Shaolin Temple" is very rough in other aspects except for truly showing the charm of martial arts. It's just that they caught up with that time, plus Li Lianjie and their skills are really good, that's all.
In the past few years, Li Lianjie has been injured one after another, entirely because of the ineffective work of the action director. The action of the design is not beautiful, and the danger is too high, and the more important protection is not done! In Sun Ziming's words, if these actions were replaced by Cheng Long, it is estimated that he would have been paralyzed in the hospital a long time ago.
The third problem is the main reason for Li Lianjie's successive failures in the past few years.
After Li Lianjie came to Hong Kong to develop, it was different from the mainland, it was a bit discriminatory against mainlanders, and his personality was more introverted, how could he eat openly? At the beginning, he was able to make people give three points with two blockbuster movies at the box office. As soon as "Chinese Heroes" failed at the box office, all kinds of doubts and even dirty water were naturally splashed, and it was difficult for those kung fu superstars to escape suspicion.
In this circle, if you don't want others to step on you and climb up, you have to step on other people's shoulders and climb up by yourself.
"Brother Jie, do you understand? Life cannot be without setbacks, and your biggest failure is that you don't have a competent and reliable agent. No one can help you deal with things other than movies, can help you pick roles and scripts, or even pick partners and crews, and I can help you with this."
Li Lianjie will be suspicious, this young man is younger than himself, although he has made three blockbuster movies, why is he so angry?
"Let's talk about the reasons for your success, do you know your strengths? As long as you can give full play to this advantage, you will be the future emperor of kung fu! ”
"Martial arts?"
"Wrong! To be exact, it should be your skills. You are different from Cheng Long and them, you have received complete martial arts training, and you can do the movements they can't do. And your movements are elegant and chic, which is your biggest advantage! ”
Li Lianjie was silent, he had thought about these things for the past two years, but when he figured it out, his fame a few years ago had already made him toss. Celebrities are like that, when you are popular, all the people revolve around you, and when you go downhill, all the people will leave you.
Most of the things mentioned by Sun Ziming can be solved by himself, but the agent's matter is difficult. The Hong Kong film industry is a river and lake, with a mixture of various forces, how can it be so easy to find such a person? He is not like Cheng Long and them, he has a group of brothers and sisters who can respond to and support each other, he is an inseparable person!
"Brother Jie, are you embarrassed to ask, where did I get such confidence, right? I am not humble to say that two months ago, I asked the Tsim Sha Tsui 14K to go to the police station to eat royal meals (go to jail) by myself. I don't cause trouble, but no one in the community in Hong Kong dares to mess with me, so if you don't believe it, you can go to other friends and inquire."
Li Lianjie looked at Sun Ziming in shock, the handle of Tsim Sha Tsui 14K, he hadn't seen it before. Chen Huimin's skills are quite good, and the two of them have compared. Although he won with speed and skill, if the two really got hot, Li Lianjie was really not sure that he could win the Hong Kong boxing champion.
"Brother Jie, I like your skills very much, if you don't mind, you can come to our company to film. The salary can refer to Fa Ge's model, 3 million plus share for a play, how about it? ”
"3 million?!"
Li Lianjie, who has been poor since childhood, was frightened by Sun Ziming's generosity, and when he was the most popular a few years ago, he was only paid 1 million Hong Kong dollars. Unexpectedly, his fame is almost gone, and there are still people who pay such a high price!
"Is it high? It's not high, Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long got this price last year. That's why I said, your biggest problem is that you don't have a trustworthy and competent broker, and your value is grossly undervalued! ”
Half an hour later, Li Lianjie, like Cheng Xiaodong, left in a daze, and took away a cooperation agreement that seemed to him to be sky-high. Ten movies in six years, the salary starts from 3 million, and each movie can get a 3% box office share. According to this calculation, he can get more than 10 million in the "North and South Shaolin" he took over at the beginning, which is more than three times the current salary of Cheng Long and them!
Finally finished everything, Sun Ziming remembered Yang Guozhong's matter, and he didn't know what happened to Yuan Mei and Mary. Picking up his bag, Sun Ziming walked out of the office, and Jiaming quickly got up.
"You don't have to follow, I'll go to Xia Guozhongna."
When Sun Ziming left the company, he found that Guangzai did not follow, and it was Wu Yijiang who followed him.
"Ah Kwong went to Macau, and Uncle Zeng asked me to be your driver first."
"Oh, let's go to Lower Maryknoll Convent School."
The car soon arrived at He Dongdao, and Sun Ziming took Wu Yijiang into a high-end apartment near the Maryknoll Convent School.
"Block C, 19th Floor."
Sun Ziming took out the address given by Yang Guozhong and found Sheknia. Wu Yijiang was startled when he saw this Russian girl, and thought that his boss was hiding in this golden house.
"Don't think about it, this is Guozhong's horse, I specially asked Mary to teach her etiquette."
Sheknia really ate this line of food, using jerky English and body language to communicate with Sun Ziming, and the hospitality of both of them was down-to-earth and generous, revealing a trace of elegance. It seems that Mary is really good at teaching, and it turns out that Fa Ge also taught her to be a gentleman within three months. This girl has a month, and it is estimated that she will become a lady.
Ten minutes later, Mary came with a schoolbag, a white shirt, a long checkered skirt, full of youth, followed by three or four classmates in the same costume, followed by the little tail of Little Jack.
"Uncle, how am I doing? Where's my tune? ”
Sun Ziming is really not used to this kind of foreigner style who hugs at every turn, although this little girl is only fourteen years old, her figure is better than that of eighteen or nineteen-year-old Chinese girls, which is enough to embarrass him.
"Very good, very good, the song has been written for you. As long as you dare to sing, you are guaranteed to amaze the audience at the graduation party! ”
Sun Ziming hurriedly took out the score, and Mary took it and screamed, and jumped and jumped on him, making him blushing again, and the little girls who came with him covered their mouths and laughed. It seems that this Mary is also this character at school, foreigner!
"Let's go, call Helen and say, I'll invite you to dinner in the evening, and I'll send you home after eating!"
"Yay! I'm going to eat mandarin duck hot pot, and what did you want to eat the one you gave me last time? ”
"Roast chicken!"
"Yes, Ajie, let's have a big dinner together!"
Sun Ziming took Sheknia and a group of half-grown children to dinner, and then sent a few little girls to taxis, and then drove the sisters and brothers home.
"Uncle, if Sister Sheknia wants to truly show the elegance of the nobility, she can't live in an apartment. The best place to study is in the castle, and only in that atmosphere can you truly have an aristocratic temperament. Last time, your friend Fa Ge, in addition to learning etiquette with me, also went to Scotland to rent a castle to study for two months. ”
Sun Ziming really doesn't know what to do about this, no wonder when Fa Ge is not messing around now, he unconsciously reveals a British aristocratic fan.
It's really hard to do, it's not because of the money, it's because I don't have the time to do it. Do you still ask Helen for this? This Sheknia is not Guozhong's girlfriend, just a tool for him!
"Uncle, I have a castle in England, but you have to promise me one condition!"
Jack climbed on Sun Ziming, this foreigner child has known about trading since he was a child, and even this little Jack is no exception.