Chapter 699: Art School Admissions
Tsai watched it carefully for nearly an hour, and finally Wu Yusen put the screenwriter down, breathed a long sigh of relief, and said to Xu Guanwu with admiration, "Mr. Xu, I only know now why you are so successful, and Xu's can come from behind and stabilize Jiahe." The answer lies in this script, your script is at least five years ahead of Golden Harvest. To be honest, I've been in Golden Harvest for almost ten years, and I've never seen such a good story and such a good script, which is simply amazing. ”
Xu Guanwu couldn't help but smile when he heard it, the film "Across the Seas" is indeed much ahead of the current Hong Kong film industry, its story theme is fresh even in the 90s, and after its release, it led a large number of "thief" theme movies, such as "Thief Spy", "Stunning Thief", "Full of Guts" and so on. Not to mention that it's only 81 years now, and movies with the theme of thieves are rare in the United States, not to mention the Hong Kong film industry, which is full of plagiarism and extremely lacks original themes.
"How's it going, do you have the confidence to direct this film?" Xu Guanwu asked with a smile, saying a thousand things and ten thousand, all he wanted most was this answer.
"Since Mr. Xu can trust me, I naturally have confidence in myself. But please give me a week, I want to draw the storyboard first, and then I will know if I can make this film. Wu Yusen said.
Xu Guanwu nodded, knowing that storytelling is one of the director's compulsory homework, mainly to turn the script into two-dimensional images, as if they were comic books, marking the plot and approximate time. This makes it easier for the director to understand the whole film, and for the camera to know how to shoot it when the time comes.
Some of the directors' storyboards are quite beautiful, almost like beautiful pictures. Together, they can be seen as comic books. Some directors have only a few shots. Only you can figure out the meaning of it. Of course, the beauty of the storyboard has nothing to do with the director's skill.
A good director who draws a good storyboard may not be able to make a good movie. And the director who draws poorly in the sub-shots will only make bad movies. In fact, in order to make movies better shots, the United States now has people who specialize in storytelling for directors. After finding an artist to finish all the shots, and then find out the inappropriate areas and revise them, you can avoid a lot of mistakes in advance and save a lot of money. However, at present, in Hong Kong, professional storyboard artists have not yet appeared, presumably because they have not developed to that extent.
Wu Yusen proposed to draw the storyboard first. is also considering whether he has the ability to make such a good movie. For his request, Xu Guanwu naturally nodded and agreed.
After Wu Yusen saw that Xu Guanwu agreed, he immediately got up and said goodbye, he couldn't wait even a quarter of an hour, it seemed that he really wanted to shoot this drama.
Seeing that he was so positive, Xu Guanwu naturally wouldn't stop him, so he waved his hand and asked him to go first, and then settled the account and prepared to go home.
At this moment, I heard a familiar melody in the café, and then a beautiful female voice sounded. "OceanapartDayAfterday......" is the song "This Love Can Be Treated" from Deng Lijun's new album, and I didn't expect it to be used as background music by the store to attract customers.
Deng Lijun's album has been on the market for almost half a month now. The sales volume is very gratifying, which makes Xu Guanwu very happy. As for the owner of Mermaid Records, David. Geffen was even happier. Deng Lijun's record has sold more than one million at present, setting a sales record for Chinese singers in the world, which is a remarkable achievement for newcomers even in the American music industry.
Deng Lijun, who has achieved such a miraculous sales, has naturally become the object of media pursuit, and even the media in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Nanyang and other places are also paying attention to her. After all, she represents the Chinese, and with such high sales, she became so popular as soon as she debuted in the United States, which is really the pride of the Chinese.
According to Deng Lijun's telephone call, the Taiwan authorities have considered forgiving her for her mistakes and welcome her back to Taiwan. However, for the time being, Deng Lijun has not made up her mind, she wants to ask Xu Guanwu's opinion.
Xu Guanwu has nothing to say about the Taiwan authorities' shamelessness and arrogance. When something happens to someone, they condemn and suppress it, and they don't care whether they live or die, and they can't hate to think that there is no Deng Lijun in the world. Now once people become popular, they regard them as "Taiwan's daughters", praise them as "the light of Taiwan", and welcome them back. This kind of inconsistent behavior, to tell the truth, is simply outrageous. What do they think?!
Regarding this matter, Xu Guanwu's advice is to respond to all changes with the same, not to rush back first, and to stay in the United States to continue to boost his popularity. And even if he wants to go back, he will go back under the arrangement of the American record company and not participate in any political activities.
In her previous life, Deng Lijun participated in a series of labor and military activities after the fake passport incident, and although she regained popularity in Taiwan, she was greatly resisted in the mainland, and it became one of the few black spots in her life. In the final analysis, artists should not get too involved in politics, because politics is often more extreme, and there is no room for relaxation. In particular, relations across the Taiwan Strait have always maintained serious antagonism, and Xu Guanwu is devoted to the mainland, so he naturally does not want Deng Lijun to be too involved with the Taiwan authorities. He also wanted to go back and take Deng Lijun back to the mainland to have a look.
Deng Lijun heeded Hsu Guanwu's suggestion and did not immediately agree to return to Taiwan, but politely rejected their proposal on the grounds that he was about to prepare for a tour in the United States. Although the Taiwan authorities are somewhat resentful of Deng Lijun's non-cooperation, she is in full swing at this moment, and if she exerts too much pressure, I am afraid that Deng Lijun will remain in the United States from now on and will not return, and the losses caused to Taiwan will be even greater. Therefore, there was no way, so I had to agree first, and then persuade with good words.
It is worth mentioning that the big sale of Deng Lijun's album also made Xu Guanwu famous again. But this time it's not because of a certain movie or a certain investment, but because of the songs he wrote for Deng Lijun.
At first, the media did notice that eight of the songs on the album were written by the same person, and that the name of this person was similar to that of the famous Hollywood investor, and the media did not immediately associate him with Xu Guanwu. Because in their opinion, there are many people with the same name and surname. And Xu Guanwu only has a keen investment mind. It is impossible to have a high talent in lyrics and songs.
But then David. Geffen heard the speculation of the media. pretended to sell Xu Guanwu inadvertently. When media reporters heard that these songs were really composed by Xu Guanwu, they couldn't help but be infinitely shocked by his all-round talent. At the same time, he lamented that God was too unfair, and gave him an invincible good fortune, not to mention a sharp business acumen, even the muses favored him, and gave him a brain full of artistic cells, which is really envious and hateful.
But envy is only envy, no record company or singer will stupidly invite Xu Guanwu to sing. After all, people can't spend enough money, and writing songs is just for interest, and no one can buy them with money.
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After standing in the café and listening to the song "This Love", Xu Guanwu rushed to Xinghui Art School. Today is the day when Zhou Runfa, Zhang Guorong and Zhong Chuhong went to learn dance from Ming SIR.
As the producer of this drama, Xu Guanwu naturally has to be positive. Moreover, he actually deliberately did not want to go home. Because Zhao Yazhi has been pestering him recently to help several brothers and sisters arrange jobs.
Xu Guanwu is not distressed about the salary of more than 100,000 yuan a month, the key is that he is afraid that these three imperial relatives will enter the company, and they will get high wages without doing anything serious, which is easy to make other employees slack. And these three people are not people who are willing to be calm, if they don't do anything, they only get paid. The point is that they have to find something to do when they have nothing to do. Blame your boss and fight with your colleagues. It seems to be the company's tyrant, if such a person is really recruited into the company, I am afraid that the day will never stop.
However, if you don't arrange to join the company, it seems that the disaster will be even greater. Now the whole of Hong Kong knows that they will play, they are willing to spend money, and they are second to none, as if they usually soak a female star and raise a little white face or something, but if they become addicted to drugs, or change to a certain dirty disease or something, it is really bad luck.
What Xu Guanwu is worried about now is what position to arrange for them, it is best to put it in a place where it is not in the way, even if it is boring and causing trouble, it will not create much karma. However, this place is not easy to find for the time being, so Xu Guanwu didn't dare to go home, lest Zhao Yazhi cry again, make trouble, and hang herself.
Driving to Xinghui Art School, he saw a long human dragon from a distance, which made Xu Guanwu a little curious, and when he walked in, he realized that Xinghui Art School was recruiting students.
Registration starts on the 15th day of the first month and lasts for a week. Because Hong Kong's film, television, music and other markets continue to prosper, celebrity remuneration continues to rise, coupled with changes in social atmosphere, more and more young people in Hong Kong aspire to become big stars.
Among the many performing arts schools, training classes, beauty contests, singing competitions and other debut paths in Hong Kong, applying for Xinghui Art School is undoubtedly the most stable and most likely way to get ahead. Because the so-called back to the big tree is good to enjoy the shade, Xinghui Art School is backed by Xu's Pictures and TVB, and students can find a good job after completing their studies without worrying about their livelihood.
Last year, TVB specially invested a lot of money to let the students who were still studying perform "The Romance of the Gods", which also demonstrated the strength of the students of Xinghui Art School and the importance that Xinghui Art School attaches to students, which further strengthened the hearts of these young students who are interested in applying for Xinghui Art School.
Xu Guanwu vaguely remembers that the wireless five tigers are like the seniors of the TVB artist training class, there is not much difference between them, Tang Zhenye has appeared the year before last, Huang Rihua and Miao Qiaowei have also appeared last year, and it is very likely that Liu Laomo should also appear this year. Or if you're lucky, even the handsome guy Liang may appear. And Xu Guanwu still remembers that it seems that Liang Chaowei came to apply for the artist training class at the beginning, but he was instigated by Zhou Xingchi.
So if Liang Chaowei appears, will he also recruit Zhou Xingchi by the way? ! Xu Guanwu couldn't help but look forward to it. Thinking that Zhou Xingchi became popular at the end of the 80s, and he was still godlike until the new century, like this, a star who has been popular for 20 years and still maintains his box office appeal, Xu Guanwu naturally wants to catch it.
"Ah Hong, drive slower." Xu Guanwu commanded.
The driver nodded, slowed down the speed, Xu Guanwu looked out of the window curiously, and saw that all the people who came to apply for the exam were young people, most of them were handsome and beautiful, and some of them looked weird, probably because the ugly stars now gave them confidence.
Xu Guanwu looked at the familiar faces in his memory, but it was a pity that it was still the cold winter season, everyone was wearing thicker clothes, and many people were wearing masks around their necks, blocking most of their faces. In addition, they are only seventeen or eighteen years old now, and their appearance has changed too much from ten years later, so they haven't found anyone familiar after watching it. (To be continued......)