Chapter 151: The Return
By October, the movie was almost over.
The roadshow is the final sprint of the plan, and the level of exertion is even greater.
The main positions are more than a dozen "box offices" in first-tier cities, plus some second-tier cities with good box office potential. Almost every province in the country has to make a trip.
Whenever Guan Chen and the others arrived, they appeared in various theaters in the city in different combinations according to the schedule coordinated by the theater chain. Usually stay in a theater for more than ten or twenty minutes, chat about the crew's anecdotes, answer questions, and take a group photo, and then you are almost ready to leave and take the car to the next theater.
Hurry, eat, rest. Aside from eating some local specialties, there is little time to get in touch with the local customs.
Chen Dao's body was weak, and his body was visibly emaciated, as if he would be flying immortal in the next second, but there was always a sickly excitement in his expression. "Police Story" is his first commercial blockbuster, and the box office is about the next step in his career, which is of great significance. But what really drove him crazy was that the word-of-mouth of several screenings exploded, conquering strict film critics and fans, and causing a sensation to the outside world. With one foot on the steps, Director Chen is so happy every day that he is like walking on cotton, and he is not too much of the icing on the cake. If it weren't for the release plan, he would have liked to include hundreds of cities on the second, third and fourth lines into the roadshow.
Zhang Jingsheng and the heroine are both old actors, they have seen the world, taking pictures, recording videos, signing autographs, and taking group photos...... Dedication and dedication, into the style, like a reef in the river, with them, the spirit of the team can not be dispersed.
Yao Zhiyu is an idol artist debut, and he is familiar with this continuous life mode, he can sleep with an eye patch on, and he can laugh when he takes off his eye patch.
The male No. 2 child star was born, and he is also used to squeezing time to rest in transportation.
But to everyone's surprise, they thought that Guan Chen, an untrained person who went to bed early and got up early, would not be able to keep up with this intensity of work and rest, but Guan Chen, like a cat, obviously slept very shallowly, woke up at the slightest disturbance, and slept for five minutes or ten minutes, and was able to carry out any activity in good spirits, which was very magical. When he got off the plane in the early morning and went to a different place, everyone hated to arrive at the hotel early to sleep and die, but he didn't sleep, and started exercising on the street around the hotel, insisting on eating breakfast and going to bed again.
During the roadshow, the propaganda team gradually had a clear division of labor.
Director Chen is responsible for answering questions about the plot and affirming the audience's reading comprehension;
Zhang Jingsheng and the heroine are responsible for telling the set of tidbits and satisfying everyone's gossip;
The second male is responsible for playing cool and handsome; Yao Zhiyu is responsible for the cute and lively atmosphere;
In addition to being responsible for showing off his talents and attending small classes, Guan Chen is also responsible for supervising everyone to lift their spirits and not sleep.
When the itinerary was tight, it was not over late at night, and everyone collapsed on the sofa in the lounge with a tired face, not wanting to move. At this time, Guan Chen would take out peanuts from his pocket and introduce that experienced old criminal policemen eat snacks like this, keep their mouths idle when staring, and chat while eating, so as to offset their sleepiness.
Guan Chen was kind enough to throw the peanut kernels into the mouths of the sleepy people.
Yao Zhiyu is like a well-trained dog, opening his mouth to catch the peanut kernels, chewing them rattling, indicating that the effect is indeed very good, and she is not sleepy;
Male No. 2 was thrown on his face and lips, feeling humiliated, and stood up to try to stop Guan Chen, but in the process of pulling, Guan Chen took the opportunity to use it as a fitness teaching material to shoot a demonstration of "life-threatening scissors feet", which was embarrassing and indignant, and finally he was not sleepy.
Guan Chen always sees a needle to shoot a video, and everyone avoids it, which is very nerve-wracking. Even Zhang Jingsheng often hid to the side under the pretext of back pain.
In order to let Guan Chen consume the excess energy, Director Chen, who has experience in raising children, thought of a way and entrusted the screenwriter.
Unless the screenwriter is famous and has a certain appeal to the audience, he does not need to follow the group roadshow.
The screenwriter of "Police Story" is a newcomer as new as Director Chen, and he is an old partner, and he was summoned by Director Chen and said, isn't the first draft of your script almost complete, bring it to Guan Chen.
Half a year ago, when the movie was completed, the screenwriter took away the character biography written by Guan Chen to Wu Ze, went back to sort it out, and wrote a new story.
Now that the first draft has been written, it should be brought to Guan Chen, the original author, to take a look. The screenwriter agreed, and came over with the script.
The plan went smoothly, and Guan Chen on the day was not only on stage to laugh and take pictures, but also pondered the script there as soon as he returned to the lounge. It's true that I don't have the energy to take care of others anymore.
It's just that the next day, Guan Chen found the screenwriter with the script and said that there was a problem with the script.
Guan Chen said that murderers are divided into [organized type] and [unorganized type], and the difference is whether there is a plan and premeditation before committing the crime; Among them, organized murderers are divided into [focusing on the criminal behavior] and [focusing on the process of committing the crime], the difference between the two is that one simply wants to kill the target, and the other wants to prolong the time between the crime and the victim, and then get pleasure from the other party's reaction.
And the screenwriter's understanding of the murderer is obviously neither deep nor accurate enough.
In order to let the screenwriter have a relatively intuitive feeling, when the roadshow went to the border province city, Guan Chen was ready to take the screenwriter to meet the world overnight.
The screenwriter thought that Guan Chen would take him to the detention center at most, and consulted and interviewed the police who had confronted the murderer, but Guan Chen went to the bank to withdraw tens of thousands of cash, put it in a translucent white plastic bag, and asked, have you ever heard of fishing law enforcement. The screenwriter was frightened and cried and promised that he would check the information carefully, and next time he would come over with a better and more realistic script. After getting approval, the screenwriter flew home overnight.
When he arrived at Modu Station, Guan Chen reported to Director Chen, saying that he was going to leave for the morning.
Director Chen hurriedly asked, who was he going to take out this time. Guan Chen replied that he didn't take anyone, just himself, to do some serious business.
Director Chen was glad and depressed in his heart, slowed down, and agreed to Guan Chen's trip, just asking him to come back early in the afternoon.
There are basically not many people in the morning show of the theater, so the roadshow schedule generally starts in the afternoon and then is busy until the early hours of the morning. Although Guan Chen always goes out late at night to wander and feel the local customs, he has always been punctual in his sense of time, and he does not cause trouble, and he can rest assured when he talks and does things - it is amazing to think about it carefully, a person can not only make people feel troubled, but also give people a sense of security and reliability.
Guan Chen deliberately got up early, carried large bags of things bought from all over the country, and walked out of the hotel.
He first went back to the studio.
When he arrived downstairs in the studio, it was not yet time to go to work, so Guan Chen did not go upstairs immediately, but went to greet the neighbors. Given that he is now initially famous, the whole process is a bit like visiting a poverty alleviation point, Guan Chen goes along the street to greet them one by one, asking them how their living conditions are and if they have any difficulties recently. The interviewed bosses were all panicked, as if facing a great enemy, and hurriedly said that they had been living well recently, especially in the last few months, and it was simply the happiest and most stable days in their lives.
Guan Chen was very satisfied, pondered for a moment, and said in a tone full of extraneous meanings, there is a movie coming up recently, you know?
The bosses got the hint and even said, definitely look at it, and take the whole family to see it together.
Guan Chen likes this kind of sensible person, and he advises everyone to take good care of their children, but don't do stupid things and regret it.
The bosses with children were hinted at again, and one by one they turned pale and hugged their children tightly.
When Qian Liangyi came to work and watched the excitement outside the crowd, he found that nightmarish familiar face.
Broken! Qian Liangyi's heart jumped heavily.
Because it was a surprise inspection, he didn't have time to call in sick or ask the employees to tell the customer to call again at another time.
Qian Liangyi could only watch the things in Guan Chen's hand, and then watched the other party go upstairs and began to delay the harvest for a day.
Guan Chen greeted the staff warmly.
"Xiaojing, I heard that your child got into some trouble during the summer vacation? I know a kind of person who has a bit of a difficult life, but they are very enthusiastic and can help you out with a small fee. How about I'm going to introduce it to you? ”
"Old Tang, is the old man in the countryside okay now? Ready to send to a nursing home? Which nursing home? Didn't choose a good ...... You'd better think clearly before choosing, there is now a fraud method, which is to sell beds to the elderly and then run away with money. The old man is 90 years old, right? It's quite big, at this age, the court doesn't dare to sentence, and if you sentence to prison, you don't dare to raise it, and the police don't dare to be ruthless, and if you are arrested, you will be released on bail pending trial. By the way, Xiaojing's child just happened to ......"
Guan Chen has not returned to his work unit for several months, and the leader has not shown up for a long time, and he is in danger of being elevated. He positions himself as a practical leader, so in order to stabilize the fundamentals, he cares for his employees very carefully.
The effect of the condolences seems to be very good. Guan Chen could feel that everyone who was named by him was shaking his body and speaking, obviously feeling the majesty of the leader at the same time, he was very moved.
Qian Liangyi, who was on the side, saw Guan Chen flouting the law on the spot, and instigated the employees to go astray, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, "You save some effort to go to the roadshow in the afternoon......"
"The work of the crew is work, and the work of the studio is also work." Guan Chen shook his head and replied, as if the leader was making a leakless speech.
"......" Qian Liangyi scolded Xing Yun secretly, but he didn't look at Guan Chen.
Guan Chen walked behind Qian Liangyi's desk, flipped through various documents, and shook his head a few times pretendedly, as if he was very dissatisfied with Qian Liangyi's work. Qian Liangyi's eyelids jumped, and the next second he heard Guan Chen say, "I recently thought of a new profitable project that can increase revenue generation for the studio." ”
Qian Liangyi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his throat twitched a few times, as if he had swallowed a mouse by mistake.
Guan Chen said that the new project is, "We provide wedding small theater services, so that customers can be screenwriters and starring actors, and re-enact the love-hate entanglement between the two people who met and met, which has a good commemorative significance, and in the future, relatives, friends or children can show it to them if they are curious." ”
"Huh?" Qian Liangyi was shocked, he didn't expect Guan Chen to have such a normal proposal. But it is too normal, which means abnormal for Guan Chen.
Qian Liangyi said cautiously: "We don't have a team at all......"
Guan Chen said: "If you are an actor, it just so happens that the students in the training class can be brought in as a trick, and they only need to pay a small amount of money, nominally providing the opportunity to practice their performances." The client's acting skills are not good, and there are professional acting teachers to guide them. ”
"What about the others? Photography, art or something......"
"Downstairs." Guan Chen said.
Qian Liangyi rushed to the window to look, but didn't see any crew.
"Photography group, modeling group...... Pull people directly from our neighborhood neighbors. As long as we take everyone to drink soup and eat meat, the wedding alliance I talked about before can be done by taking the opportunity. Guan Chen obviously hasn't forgotten the [Wedding Alliance] that was rejected by Qian Liangyi as soon as he first joined the company, "The talker doesn't have to take turns." Our studio makes the plates, and we are the talkers. ”
The staff were deeply moved, and they all looked forward to it.
Qian Liangyi has a big head, and he knows very well that the construction of the crew is not so easy. It's not that one person can do the work of another person as a photographer. Film and television photographers have to spend a few years learning the language of the lens, learning light and space, in the industry, basically the master takes the apprentice, the teacher takes the student, and the wedding photo commercial photography with the plane photo is almost two types of work.
But Qian Liangyi knew that this kind of reason couldn't dispel Guan Chen, he thought about it, found a loophole, and said, "...... The recording team, the props group, the set group, etc., we don't have them in our neighborhood. ”
I saw Guan Chen calmly take out a booklet.
Qian Liangyi knew that Guan Chen always carried two pamphlets with him, one was a good person certificate, and the other was used to record various things, but he never knew what was written on them. In his limited impression, when Guan Chen did anything, there was a probability that he had taken out a pamphlet and scribbled it, when eating, walking, playing football, and after writing, sometimes frowning, sometimes relieved, and sometimes sneering...... He had always suspected that Guan Chen was recording some kind of creative inspiration. Literature majors, well, normal, normal.
Guan Chen opened the pamphlet and asked, "I have thought of this question a long time ago." Do you think my plan is just a casual talk? ”
Qian Liangyi thought to himself, ah, isn't it? ……
After Guan Chen flipped through a few pages, he seemed to have found something, "Look." He showed the booklet to Qian Liangyi to read the contents.
Qian Liangyi took it and saw that the page on the booklet was lined with words, which seemed to be some kind of information.
In a unified format, a person's name, gender, age, occupation, family composition, address, license plate, hobbies, debts, weaknesses are recorded......
[Amanda (American), female, 22 years old, photographer's assistant (2 years in the industry), studying art in China alone, 204, Lane 33, 11th Street in the Magic City, no car, likes to read, no debts, short-tempered and easy to default impulsively......]
[Pang Yi, male, 32 years old, leader of the props team (11 years in the industry), one wife and two sons......]
【……】
Qian Liangyi's hands trembled, he didn't expect to see this kind of thing.
The people on the booklet are some from the crew of "Police Story" and some are from the crew of "Key to Destiny".
"Black Dragon 2" has the least number of people on the list, probably because his professional ability is too weak, and he is not very favored by Guan Chen; A few of them are on the list, and the description in the [Weaknesses] column is also very eye-catching, what [200,000 debts], [I have a seriously ill brother], [Suspected of cheating on multiple boats]...... The intelligence network is full of holes, which shows the poor discipline on the set.
"......" Seeing this dangerous information, Qian Liangyi was shocked, but he fell to the ground in the depths of his heart.
Sure enough, sure enough, Guan Chen is still the same Guan Chen.
Guan Chen said: "As long as we show affection for their weaknesses and salute first and then soldiers, they will most likely join us." ”
Qian Liangyi was speechless, this matter was beyond his ability.
"You haven't seen your senior brother for a long time, have you?" Qian Liangyi asked Guan Chen kindly.
Guan Chen nodded as expected.
Qian Liangyi said: "Jinzhu went to the acting class today, and there were not enough people over there, so he went to help." It's rare for you to have time, go over and see him, take a look at Mr. Xing by the way, and then tell them about your (crime) plan. ”
Guan Chen thought to himself, too, it was useless to talk to a little minion about big plans. In the end, it was him and the senior brother who made the decision.
"Okay, then I'll go first." Guan Chen asked Qian Liangyi: "There's nothing to report, right?" ”
Qian Liangyi thought for a while and said, "Some time ago, a little ghost came to inquire about your news. ”
Guan Chen asked Qian Liangyi to describe the other party.
Qian Liangyi described the child's bad behavior, and finally summed it up in three words: "It's very similar to you." ”
Guan Chen didn't understand the little sarcasm contained in the end, he just nodded, "I know who it is." To be expected. With a wave of his hand, Qian Liangyi stepped back.
Before Guan Chen left, he left some food specialties for the staff to divide, and he took some other things to the acting class.