Chapter Eighty-Nine: Like a Flower
013-10-13
Just when he was thinking about it, Zhou Xingchi had already asked someone to take the contract and prepare to revise it and take it to notarization.
Naturally, the morning makeup setting is not possible. Because of Zhou Xingchi's temporary intention, whether or not to be bald is related to the comprehensive change of makeup, and he can only wait until the contract is notarized as soon as possible.
"Lin Xiao." Zhao Wei walked over and smiled at him, "It's been a long time." ”
After speaking, he nodded to Huang Bo, who he didn't know, and said hello.
"This is Teacher Huang Bo, who graduated from Beiying. Also my big brother. After Lin Xiao introduced Zhao Wei, he said with a smile, "Miss Zhao hasn't seen her for a while, but she is getting more and more beautiful." ”
Zhao smiled and said, "After the Happy Base Camp, the kung fu of your mouth has not decreased." Let's go, I'll do the east at noon, which can be regarded as picking up the wind for everyone. ”
This is in Hong Kong, naturally no one chooses to go to the downtown for snacks, so I found a restaurant nearby and asked for a private room to sit down.
After the five flavors of the dish, the three of them involuntarily chatted about the gossip in the circle, and unconsciously, they talked about today's things.
"Do you think Mo Wenwei is not playing a big name?" Zhao Wei peeled the shrimp and was not surprised by Lin Xiao's words.
"Don't you think Director Zhou's attitude is very weird?" Lin Xiao pondered and said that the underground relationship between Zhou Xingchi and Mo Wenwei was too hot, and once he poked it out, he would be 100% dead without a body, so he could only remind him euphemistically.
None of the three spoke, peeling shrimp one after another. There are so many ways to interpret this sentence that no one wants to follow the most powerful hypothesis.
After being silent for a long time, Zhao Wei suddenly said, "Two of you, the three of us in this crew are from the mainland." Here I will take a look at the shelves of my predecessors and advise everyone, this crew, do your duty, and don't get involved in other things. ”
"You may not know that in the dressing room, Zhang Baizhi and Mo Wenwei talked and laughed, but they didn't say a word to me."
Lin Xiao and Huang Bo didn't speak, Zhao Wei's meaning was obvious, the other party didn't look down on artists from the mainland at all, even Xiaoyanzi, who was popular all over the Taiwan Strait. In their hearts, they are first-line artists in Hong Kong, even if it is a country, it is also a special piece.
This mentality did not improve until a few years later, when the big screen in Hong Kong was almost completely reduced and the mainland film industry was on the rise.
A meal that ended in a not very pleasant atmosphere.
After eating, Zhao Wei received a call from Zhou Xingchi, settled the account and left first. And Huang Bo and Lin Xiao ordered some wine, notarization of the contract is not a simple matter, and it may not be possible to negotiate it in a day or two. Maybe they'll have to go back to běijīng and wait a while.
"It's hard to be an artist, and it's even harder to be a good artist." After a few drinks, Huang Bo sighed, "Long sleeves are good at dancing, and the right and left are the most indispensable conditions for becoming a superstar." ”
"It's not that simple." Lin Xiao put down his wine glass, he may still be a little wary of Zhao Wei, but he doesn't have so much about Huang Bo, "Brother Huang, you may not have filmed a Hong Kong and Taiwan drama, you don't know that they have a practice called 'raising prices'." ”
"Raise the price?"
Lin Xiao nodded, "If a Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Korean artist wants to develop in the mainland, then their first drama will inevitably find a famous artist from the mainland to play with him." In this way, after this play, he will have capital. When he took over the play again, he would say, what is the price of the person who is playing against me. Usually, the higher the price of the artist he finds, the higher his own value will be. This is the most convenient way to do this when it is not easy to set a price for an 'outsider' at the beginning. ”
"Do you mean that Zhou Xingchi's film not only wants to open the mainland market by himself, but also wants to borrow Zhao Wei's fame to raise the price for another person?" Huang Bo looked at Lin Xiao in disbelief, this kind of thought probably even he didn't expect after being in the circle for so long. It sounds unbelievable at first, but when you think about it carefully, there are too many coincidences!
He didn't ask who it was, because both of them had only one name in their heads!
Mo Wenwei!
Lin Xiao smiled lightly and turned the wine glass, "I'm afraid Zhao Wei also thought of this, so he reminded us not to get involved." ”
"The crew is a river and lake, and the director is the leader of the martial arts league. If you offend anyone, you can't offend the director. And here, offending her is similar to offending the director. I don't know this, I'm afraid this crew has a good time. ”
"When did you come up with that?" Huang Bo couldn't help but admire a little, "You are just entering the showbiz, to be honest, I have been mixing for much longer than you, but I didn't expect this." ”
Lin Xiao smiled, "This morning." After seeing Mo Wenwei's attitude towards Zhou Xingchi and Zhou Xingchi's reaction, I had this idea. ”
He added: "I'm afraid Zhao Wei also discovered it at that time." ”
"Some things may just be chasing after the wind, but by contacting some clues, you can guess if there are any. But everyone is in this circle, and if you break his ugly things, he will immediately break your things. He sighed and said, "Especially among top stars like Zhao Wei, Ge Wei, and Zhou Xingchi, if you know it, it will rot in your stomach." ”
Huang Bo drank a glass of wine in silence, and suddenly a sense of powerlessness rose.
This is the newcomer in the entertainment industry now? Is he getting old or is the current newcomer too wicked?
If it weren't for Lin Xiao saying it so bluntly, he wouldn't have accumulated contacts in this crew, and he would have put himself into it if he wasn't careful. Not to mention filming Zhou Xingchi's next drama.
He sighed again, smiled wryly and said, "Lin Xiao, you kid really don't know what to put in his head, and he thinks about everything so clearly." Being your broker doesn't know how easy it is. ”
"I'm just guessing." Lin Xiao smiled and shook his head, "Whether this is the case or not, no one can say." ”
said so, in fact, both of them recognized in their hearts that this was the truth of the matter. Neither Chow Xingchi nor Mok Wenwei have ever had a film released in mainland China and Hong Kong at the same time, which represents whether to enter another market. And it is a huge market with a population of more than one billion people and unlimited potential!
Especially now, when Hollywood in the East is gradually declining, the significance is immeasurable.
If you know that Mo Wenwei didn't think of this layer, it would be easy to do. Lin Xiaomin took a sip of wine, and the spicy wine skewered into his stomach, and he suddenly felt that he was a little unaccustomed to this feeling after not drinking for a long time.
"One wants to make up for the relationship in this way, and the other seems to have no idea. If he hadn't participated in the Shaolin football crew, who would have guessed that there were so many secrets hidden in Zhou Xingchi's trinity movie. He looked at the traffic outside the box and fell into deep thought. Killing two birds with one stone in front of and behind the scenes of Shaolin football gradually revealed its true face.
After eating, when I returned to Golden Shadow Art, it was already everyone gathered together.
It was as if nothing had happened in the morning, and in the hall, all the big names were present, Xie Xian, and Wu Mengda were all together. However, they didn't say much to Zhou Xingchi.
With his own guesses, Lin Xiao began to pay attention to their attitudes, the so-called wide friendship is the cornerstone of an artist's broadening of the acting path, but if he can't tell which ones are good fate, and those are dead fate, let alone continue to take the director's play, I'm afraid that the director and his friends will never give him a chance again.
The newcomers are all around them, trying to get acquainted, Lin Xiao did not go up, now the director is like a whirlpool between the big names, indeed as Zhao Wei said, doing his own work is the first thing.
"You're not coming?" As he observed, a voice rang out beside him, and he turned his head to look at it, and immediately laughed.
Thick eyebrows and big eyes, very happy facial features, and a specially kept mustache. It is Li Jianren, who is almost every film of Zhou Xingchi.
His name may not be clear to many audiences in the mainland, but once he talks about "Ruhua" and "Invincible Wall Piercing Technique", I am afraid everyone will know it.
He also belongs to the kind of special actor who shows his face for less than three minutes in each film, but the effect is amazing, and he is Zhou Xingchi's confidant who is popular with one hand. And he is also an assistant director.
"There are too many people." Lin Xiao smiled and stretched out a hand, "Lin Xiao." ”
"Of course I do." Li Jianren deliberately made a gesture of shaking his hair, picking his nostrils, and shook his hand, "The fashionable cover man is also very famous in Hong Kong." ”
It's a pity that his Mandarin is too poor, and Lin Xiao didn't even know what he was talking about.
Neither of them has the intention of the past, Li Jianren and Zhou Xingchi have known each other for more than 20 years, there is no need to join in this fun, even if he doesn't go to Zhou Xingchi, he will think of him. Lin Xiao didn't want to get involved at all. The two simply chatted on the spot.
"Mr. Lin is from the mainland?"
Lin Xiao actually didn't like the terms "mainland" and "Hong Kong", but he also replied with a smile, "Yes, in běijīng's company." But Mr. Li, why don't you submit your resume yourself, but go to run a restaurant instead. ”
"You ......" Li Jianren never expected the other party to ask so bluntly, his situation is a household name in the circle. Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er "Friend's Relative's Sister" to "Ruhua" in Jiupin Sesame Official, he has never given up his dream of being an actor, but he was forced by his family to learn to cook and open a restaurant. It was the most unfortunate moment of his life.
So much so that after this play, he officially started to run a restaurant, and he missed the first week of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, refreshed the Chinese global box office list in the first week, and finally the mainland alone rolled up a blockbuster of 61.28 million: Kung Fu.
So much so that in the previous life, he once regretted losing this opportunity.
After glaring at Lin Xiao for a long time, Li Jianren suddenly sighed, "No way, people, sometimes you don't just live for yourself." You also have to think about your family. ”
After speaking, he smiled bitterly again, "Moreover, I am now placed in a special actor, and almost no company is willing to sign me." ”
"It's a glory to be able to do a supporting role that takes less than a minute at a time to appear on camera, but is remembered by countless people." Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Haven't you thought about investing in other companies?" ”
"Why haven't you thought about it? I've asked all the companies in Hong Kong. There is no shortage of special actors in large companies, and small companies simply can't let me play. Li Jianren shook his head: "It's difficult." ”
"So, what about Běijīng's company?" Lin Xiao asked, he had this idea at the first glance of Li Jianren.