After listening to Hao Shuwen's words, Cao Zhiqiang finished nibbling on the melon in his hand in two bites, and wiped his mouth with a towel casually.

"Of course." Cao Zhiqiang took another piece of watermelon and said, "Do you think I'm doing it these days? Not only was I writing the script, I was also constantly discussing with Director Xu how to shoot, and even drew a lot of shots.

It's been so busy every day that I don't even know what year it is.

If it weren't for the end of our discussion, Director Xu would have already gone to prepare the crew, and I wouldn't have time to come and see you."

"So, you're really going to make this movie?" Hao Shuwen asked with a smile.

"That's not it." Cao Zhiqiang said, "I even paid for it."

"Isn't it?" Hao Shuwen put down the script, took a towel and wiped her tears, "You haven't even given the money in advance?" Don't be a liar, take the money and run away in advance, right?"

"Don't worry!" Cao Zhiqiang smiled, "I signed a contract with Beiying, and the money was also given to Beiying, a big unit, you can't go wrong."

"And how much money did you pay?" Hao Shuwen asked again.

"One hundred thousand!" Cao Zhiqiang said, "I gave him 100,000 yuan in advance."

"100,000 yuan, so much?" Hao Shuwen frowned.

"Not much." Cao Zhiqiang sighed, "Beiying is a large unit, and if you don't have this number, no one will give you a project.

Besides, if the money is less and the quality is not good, it is a pity that this script of mine is lost.

So in this movie, don't be too stingy in terms of investment.

Either you don't invest, or if you want to invest, you have to invest enough at once, and you can't pick and search."

Hao Shuwen nodded: "Then is this 100,000 yuan enough to finish filming this drama?"

"It's hard to say, it should be enough." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head.

"This movie is just a modern urban drama, it doesn't cost much money in terms of costumes, and there are not many characters, it mainly tests the acting skills of the actors, normally speaking, 100,000 yuan is enough.

Even if it's really not enough, it shouldn't cost more than 200,000."

Indeed, during this period, domestic movies were made at a conscience price.

Because during this period, whether acting in movies or on TV, actors are paid a fixed salary, and unless it is a big production, they will be given a little bonus.

Generally speaking, if it is a TV series, each *** will be given a bonus of ten or twenty yuan according to the importance of the role, and at most fifty yuan.

For example, the teacher who played the Monkey King in the 86th version of "Journey to the West", he took the highest amount of money in the crew at that time, what was the highest amount? On average, it's only 80 yuan per episode.

Of course, it is said that it is the Journey to the West of Class 86, but in fact, this TV series has already started filming.

As early as last year, that is, in 1982, Journey to the West had started filming in Yangzhou, but it was too difficult to serve Huadao, so it has not been filmed until now.

In fact, in this year, Journey to the West has just entered a good situation, and Tang Seng has just begun to appear.

However, there are very few parts that the actors actually perform, and the whole crew spends most of their time in the inverted service, especially on the props.

And most of the funds are basically invested in the service of Huadao, and the salaries of the actors themselves are only a handful.

If there is no accident, this 86 version of Journey to the West will take six years to complete the filming, and ninety percent of the funds are on the service and travel expenses.

and the previously popular "Shaolin Temple", the protagonist Li Lianjie's salary is one dollar a day, and after two years of filming, the total salary is only 700 yuan.

It can be seen from this that in China during this period, whether it is making movies or making television, actors are the lowest part of the expenditure, and the real spending is the most expensive investment, but it is the investment in technology such as service.

In this regard, Cao Zhiqiang does not feel that there is any problem, after all, there are special circumstances in special times.

Actors feel that the salary is low, and it depends on who they compare with.

In fact, during this period, most of the domestic actors were employees of state-owned enterprises who received salaries, and their salaries were actually much higher than those of ordinary workers.

It's just the film and television industry

After all, the industry is different from ordinary factories, the key is to look at fame, if you are famous, it is easy to realize it.

is also Li Lianjie, after he became famous, he immediately had a check from Xiangjiang write a check for one million, just to let him go to Xiangjiang to film a movie.

During this period, not many people could resist the temptation of one million, and not many people could resist the olive branch of Xiangjiang for development.

Because during this period, almost most of the domestic actors dreamed of going to Xiangjiang to develop, followed by going abroad, anyway, few of them were able to bear the heart in China.

It's a pity that although most people want to run out, it is not so easy to run out during this period, and only those head actors have the opportunity to run.

For example, Li Lianjie, Gong Xue and so on.

Other ordinary actors, you don't have a chance if you want to.

Of course, at this time, it's hard to say whether it's good or bad, not everyone can go to the next level.

In fact, although the country is currently free to come and go and does not prohibit Chinese people from going abroad, it is super difficult to obtain nationality in China, and it is basically easy to go out and difficult to come back.

Considering the take-off of the country in the next 30 years, all in all, there are more domestic opportunities.

In fact, for Cao Zhiqiang, considering his own age, if he just wants more personal enjoyment, running out is the best way.

With Cao Zhiqiang's plug-in, coupled with his identity as a traverser, and of course, his excellent foreign language skills, not to mention going to Europe, the United States and Japan, even if he settles in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, he can live a free and easy life as a rich man as soon as possible.

There is also the relationship between men and women, although the control is relatively strict in China, but abroad, as long as you have money, everyone is very open to the matter of three wives and four concubines.

Therefore, from the perspective of personal enjoyment, Cao Zhiqiang should really go out early, instead of continuing to stay in China.

After all, although the country developed rapidly later, it really took off two thousand years later, to be exact, after joining TO.

In the 80s and 90s, the country was actually in a relatively poor state for a long time, and it was difficult to enjoy it very much.

And these 20 years are the best 20 years of Cao Zhiqiang's life.

Therefore, if Cao Zhiqiang really just thought about personal enjoyment, he should have found a way to run it out a long time ago.

Even if you don't want to give up your nationality, it's not a big problem, you can go abroad and only get a green card, or simply go to Xiangjiang and only get permanent residency without giving up your Chinese nationality.

The permanent residency of Xiangjiang is only the loss of a hukou in the mainland, which is not equivalent to giving up the nationality, which can be tricked in this regard.

But the problem is that without a mainland hukou, some things are inconvenient to do.

For example, a cadre of a state-owned enterprise, you are a person with permanent residence in Xiangjiang, and you still want to be a cadre of a state-owned enterprise, what do you think?

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang does not rule out going to Xiangjiang to get a right of abode, but this is also a score.

Here in the capital, he has achieved a certain status, if he gives up everything to go to Xiangjiang at this time, he may not be able to eat.

Xiangjiang is not for anyone.

The economy over there was good at this time, but there were a lot of local tyrants and hooligans, and the place was still under the control of the British, so it was not necessarily a good thing for him to go over at this time.

It's better to stay and choose the opportunity.

If you really want to break through the Xiangjiang River, you have to wait until your wings are hard and you become a real raptor, and then you will go across the river with your back to the country and under the protection of a group of super bodyguards.

That's the real soundness!

This is the real one, not the Raptors, but the river!

"That's right, Zhiqiang." Hao Shuwen said suddenly, "You said you still want to act yourself? Are you going to play the lead role yourself?"

"Well." Cao Zhiqiang paused and put down the half-eaten watermelon in his hand.

"Not necessarily, I don't have too strong intentions to be an actor, but director Xu Qingdong said that I know this script best, and I know the characters best, and I am young enough, and it is most suitable to play 16-year-old Ah Qiu.

Otherwise, the audition actors will waste time, not to mention, the key new actors will have to re-tell the play, and after a layer of separation, they may not be able to perfectly interpret Ah Qiu's story

Affair.

But the most important thing is that I have a certain reputation in China.

My participation can ensure the box office of this drama to the greatest extent and prevent my investment from being wasted."

Indeed, although Cao Zhiqiang is very modest, no matter how modest he is, he cannot ignore some basic facts.

For example, his own vest hadron and Ah Qiang are already celebrities.

Needless to say, since he published an article "Seeing and Not Seeing" in poetry magazines, his name has been known to many people, but the scope at that time was limited after all, and he was more of a newcomer in the circle of poets.

After he released his first book of poems, "The Furthest Distance in the World", he suddenly soared, and his fame was no longer limited to the small circle of a very small number of poets, but expanded to the circle of intellectuals, especially the circle of literary and artistic youth.

The main thing is the content in this poetry collection, which is easy to understand, but elegant, especially suitable for pretending.

So this book of poems has been released, and most people like to read it, and they love to read it.

Later, after the reconstructed version of "Jianghu Xing" was released again, this one focused on the content of "The Farthest Distance in the World", added some new poems, and by the way, also attached a martial arts "Broken Void" Siamese monsters, and began to kill the Quartet with a rare power.

If you like elegant poetry, you like this "Jianghu Xing".

If you like martial arts, you also like this "Jianghu Xing".

Anyway, whether you are a literary youth or a Xiariba person, almost all of them are the people targeted by the book "Jianghu Xing".

But all in all, "Jianghu Xing" is more public.

And only the popular ones are the most profitable.

Therefore, with the hot sale of "Jianghu Xing", not only Cao Zhiqiang and his Hongguang Publishing House made a lot of money, but also made the pen name of the poet Qiangzi famous all over the world.

Why did the University of Hong Kong send the invitation letter? Isn't it because Cao Zhiqiang's fame is big enough?

Although this is not the age of the Internet, communication is not so fast.

But for famous poets and famous martial arts writers, the fame of this period spread very quickly.

Therefore, although Cao Zhiqiang cannot be regarded as known to the whole world, the time of the past two months is enough to make his fame resounding all over the country.

Of course, if that's just the case, then that's it, the key is that Cao Zhiqiang also has a singer Ah Qiang's vest, which is no weaker than Hadron's fame.

That's right, Cao Zhiqiang's single "Red Flag Fluttering" was released before, although the sales of the tape were not high because of the wrong positioning.

So far, he has sold just over 50,000 tapes of singles, plus more than 26,000 vinyl records.

However, the fact that this single did not sell well does not mean that the song is not famous.

In fact, since CCTV's new column "Advertisement" officially appeared, the first program was the patriotic "Red Flag Fluttering" MTV, so the impact was sensational.

With the spread of CCTV, this song instantly won the love of the masses in the north and south of the country.

It is precisely because everyone likes this song so much that CCTV originally decided to broadcast "Red Flag Fluttering" MTV for only one week, but had to sing it for another week.

As for CCTV's other public service announcement asking everyone not to litter, it had to be postponed.

However, when the second week passed, and the advertisement began to broadcast sketch advertisements urging everyone not to litter, many people were dissatisfied.

Because they still want to listen to the song "Red Flag Fluttering", and they also want to watch MTV, which is full of patriotic passion and the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, for this reason, many people also wrote to CCTV and asked to broadcast it for another week.

Seeing that everyone was so enthusiastic, CCTV had to continue to play the MTV of the song "Red Flag Fluttering", but it was no longer broadcast in the advertisement, but before the evening news broadcast.

At the same time, CCTV also used the pretext of promoting patriotism to make audio and video recordings with the Ministry of Culture

As a result, Huaxia Audiovisual Company jointly produced a batch of videotapes and began to sell this MTV videotape on major platforms such as Xinhua Bookstore.

Not to mention, although the single tape of this song sold averagely, the MTV tape of "Red Flag Fluttering" actually sold very well.

So far, the videotape "Red Flag Fluttering" led by CCTV has sold more than 42,000 pieces.

In terms of domestic video tape sales, this result is quite good, after all, there are only a handful of video recorders in China at this time, and the price is particularly expensive.

You must know that at this time, the retail price of a blank VHS video tape in China is 88 yuan, which is the salary of ordinary people for nearly two months, and it is not at all what ordinary families can afford.

And because of the content of the MTV tape of "Red Flag Fluttering", of course it can't be 88 yuan, but it is actually sold for 98 yuan.

Of course, the price of the videotape is so good, but the results are so good, mainly because the group that buys the videotape is mostly from various units, and few individuals buy it.

Buying a videotape with public money is completely different from buying an audio tape at your own expense.

It's just that although the videotape has achieved good results, because it is divided into too many units, there is not much left in the hands of Huaxia Audiovisual Company.

The cost price of a "Red Flag Fluttering" videotape is 78 yuan after removing the blank videotape, and the actual gross profit is 20 yuan.

The 20 yuan will also be shared with CCTV, the Video Institute of the Ministry of Culture, Xinhua Bookstore and other units.

In the end, a videotape of "Red Flag Fluttering" can actually be distributed to Huaxia Audiovisual Company, and it is only a pitiful three yuan.

That's it, it's still up to Cao Zhiqiang to have the two big Buddhas of Uncle Xu and Uncle Wang behind his back, otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to share the three yuan.

The original creator can't get the bulk of the profit of the work, no wonder this period is ...... Ahem, everyone who understands understands.

In short, although the sales of single audio tapes are very average, the song "Red Flag Fluttering" is popular all over the country.

Similarly, singer Ah Qiang, who composed, wrote, sang and performed, also entered the ears of the majority of people with the popularity of this song.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang previously placed a product placement advertisement through China Central Radio, in the form of commenting on the song "Red Flag Fluttering", and asked the announcer to widely announce that the poet Qiangzi is the singer Qiangzi.

At this moment, it can be regarded as completely opening up the channel between the poet Qiangzi and the singer Ah Qiang.

In this way, Cao Zhiqiang's fame rose in an instant.

Although Cao Zhiqiang's name does not appear in the song or book, as long as this is explained during the promotion of the movie, it should not be a big problem.

Just kidding, Cao Zhiqiang is now also a person with his own traffic.

As long as his identity as Cao Zhiqiang is a strong son and Ah Qiang is made public, it will be a proper breaking news.

Even if he doesn't say his real name to the outside world, he can continue to use Ah Qiang's trumpet to mix in the entertainment industry, which can also increase the popularity of a work and reduce the risk of hitting the street.

Not to mention, his upcoming Wang Bang hit "Blooming Life".

He believes that once this "Blooming Life" is launched, it will definitely be able to explode.

At that time, the name of singer Ah Qiang will inevitably far surpass the poet Qiangzi and become a real traffic star!

When his singer Ah Qiang's vest becomes known to everyone, the name Ah Qiang can indeed be regarded as a box office guarantee.

At that time, as long as the plot of the movie is not particularly crotch-pulling, with the acceptance ability of the domestic people in this era, the movie adapted from "The Garden of Words and Leaves" can really lose money?