Chapter 142: A Layman's "Dream"
Nine o'clock in the evening.
After a day of noisy sea city, it gradually began to enter the calm of the night.
At night, the city's vitality begins to shift to places like the small streets and alleys and urban villages.
At the beef noodle stall, Lin Feng sat face-to-face with a forty-year-old middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man was feasting on the big bowl of beef noodles in front of him, and he was eating it so happily.
Seeing that this increased amount of beef noodles has bottomed out.
Lin Feng sat opposite and smoked, and he asked for a small portion, which was not even a third of the middle-aged man.
After eating, he sat across from him and smoked.
"Do you want more?" Lin Feng asked.
"No, I'm full, I haven't eaten such delicious noodles in a long time."
The middle-aged man took out a tissue and wiped his mouth, then folded the tissue again to wipe his sweat.
A look of satisfaction.
This middle-aged man is the Su Zhiyuan that Lin Feng is looking for.
When he first met Su Zhiyuan, Lin Feng felt that he had recognized the wrong person.
Because of the Su Zhiyuan in front of him, he doesn't look like the boss of a film and television production company.
They agreed to meet at a nearby bus stop.
When Lin Feng arrived, he looked around and didn't find anyone.
Because he couldn't believe that the owner of a film and television drama production company actually looked like this.
Su Zhiyuan was wearing a gray shirt, with suit pants and a pair of leather shoes, the shirt and trousers were a little old, and the toes of the leather shoes were a little glued.
The man was a little thin and wore a pair of thick glasses on his face.
In addition to being dressed very old-fashioned, he also carried a handbag that was common in the 80s under his arm.
Compared with the boss of a film and television production company, this Su Zhiyuan is more like a professor or teacher in school.
After Su Zhiyuan finished eating, Lin Feng handed over the cigarette.
"Thank you."
Su Zhiyuan took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, lit it and took a puff, and spit out a smoke ring.
"You're a lot younger than I thought you would, I thought you would be at least thirty."
"Why do you feel that way?" Lin Feng asked.
"Because I feel like it should be difficult for young people to appreciate my work."
Speaking of this, Su Zhiyuan hurriedly said: "Of course, this doesn't mean to belittle you, I mean that there will be a generation gap between age and era, what I write is more biased towards the eighties and nineties, and I always feel that it should be at least forty years old before middle-aged people can resonate after reading it." ”
Lin Feng thought to himself: Coincidentally, I am a middle-aged man in his forties.
He took a puff of the cigarette in his hand, smiled, and said: "Good literary works are made regardless of time, age, or age, even if it was Western classical music or opera hundreds of years ago, isn't it still liked by many people?" ”
Su Zhiyuan nodded, and said thoughtfully: "It seems that my idea is too one-sided, I apologize to you." ”
"There is no need to apologize, what you say is also the truth, of course, the truth is often multifaceted."
Su Zhiqiang looked in the direction of Li Xinran, who was helping at the noodle stall at this time.
He said, "If I'm not mistaken, you're trying to recommend her to do my movie, right?" ”
"How do you know?" Lin Feng was a little surprised.
Su Zhiqiang smiled and said: "When I came here just now, this beef noodle stall was not busy, I saw that she was reading a book, and the book in her hand was called "The Self-cultivation of Actors", combined with the two sentences you talked about when you met just now, and I will return to the company tomorrow, and I received some scripts, I can probably judge it." ”
Lin Feng nodded: "Yes, she is my artist, I am his agent, I can't be completely sure of starring in your script "Spring Bright", I have to prepare for the next step." ”
Su Zhiqiang sighed and said: "This girl is indeed good, both her appearance and temperament are in line with the spring flowers in this play, but it's a pity..... My investor has withdrawn and the project may be delayed indefinitely. ”
"What's going on?" Lin Feng asked.
Su Zhiqiang took a puff of cigarette and opened his chatterbox.
It turned out that Su Zhiqiang did not specialize in opening a film and television drama production company, he was an employee working in the Haicheng Library.
He likes to read books on weekdays, and this "Spring Brightness" was originally a book, which he spent several years writing.
He spent a lot of money to publish it, and the response in the market was mediocre.
Su Zhiyuan didn't mind, he felt that others couldn't appreciate his work.
So he had a bold idea, that is, to dramatize the film and television "Spring Brightness".
For this reason, Su Zhiyuan will open a film and television drama production company.
The boss of this Zhiyuan film and television production company is him, and the employees are also him, so he has all the titles of director and screenwriter in the script.
Originally, Su Zhiyuan found a friend who was willing to invest in making this movie, but later the friend found a special film and television drama production company to evaluate the script and felt that he couldn't make money at all.
So the friend withdrew his investment.
This is what happened.
Lin Feng smoked while listening.
Through Su Zhiyuan's narration, all the doubts in his heart were solved.
Su Zhiyuan is a layman who wants to dramatize his hard work in film and television, so he did something that everyone thought was messing around.
If it were Lin Feng in the past, he would also feel that Su Zhiyuan was messing around.
obviously has no experience in film and television drama production.
Obviously, there is no money, and there is no investment.
Obviously just a small person.
But because of his love, he wrote one, and then he wanted to make it into a movie.
Of course, Lin Feng also admitted that this script has great potential, and even the data scanned by his system can score 8.6 on Doudou.
It shows that this is a good work that can be filmed and can go to the film festival to impact the award.
That's just it, it's not enough.
Making a movie is not such an easy thing to do.
Lin Feng listened to Su Zhiyuan's words.
He had already made up his mind in his heart.
At this point, he had already decided to abandon the project.
Making a movie is a very complex and systematic project, and this is a literary film, a literary film that can't make much money.
If he, Lin Feng, is a big man in the film and television drama industry, it would be nothing to just spend a million to support literary and artistic creation.
Or Su Zhiyuan is a senior industry insider, he has already done all the preliminary work, and he can start filming just waiting for the money to arrive.
Lin Feng was also able to help him find a way to settle the money.
The problem is that now Su Zhiyuan has nothing but this script.
Su Zhiyuan himself is still a layman who doesn't know anything at all.
This made Lin Feng how to support him.
Lin Feng likes to work with professional people, not with laymen.
Lin Feng thought that he was not a great benevolent person, nor was he a saint.
On the contrary, he is more realistic than the average person in his work.
No matter how brilliant the script is, there is still a lot of work to be done to make it out, and there are variables in it.
He, Lin Feng, why did he use his time and money to realize a layman's dream?
Absurd.
Lin Feng thought for a moment, and he took a puff of his cigarette.
Said seriously: "Mr. Su, in my opinion, you are a layman's whim. Forgive me for using the word layman..... Strictly speaking, you are a layman, film and television drama production is not so simple, not only have a good script, but also have a good team, and someone must invest.
This is a systematic project, not one or two people, or more than 100,000 or 200,000 can be done, its filming requires a lot of people and a lot of money, and it may die during the period, and it may not even be released in the end. ”
Lin Feng felt that his words were a little cruel, he smiled and said, "Maybe you can wait for a while, or look for it again, maybe someone is willing to invest." ”
Su Zhiyuan's gaze stayed on the noodle bowl placed in front of him, as if he was contemplative, as if he was in a daze.
I saw him shake his head and say, "I also want to wait and see, or find another investor, but unfortunately I don't have so much time." ”
Hearing this, Lin Feng was a little stunned.
I saw Su Zhiyuan take out a medical report from the bag he had been carrying, and Lin Feng saw that there were still a few bottles of medicine in the bag.
Lin Feng picked up the report sheet.
"It's ......"
Su Zhiyuan smiled and said, "The doctor said that I can live for a year at most." My parents died early, I didn't get married, so I didn't have a wife or children, when I knew the news, I didn't feel scared or painful, I just felt that I was a little reluctant to go like this, this book is my masterpiece, if I can see it made into a film and television drama, it should be a very wonderful thing. ”
Su Zhiyuan stood up and bowed to Lin Feng.
"Thank you, please let me eat noodles."
He had already known Lin Feng's attitude from Lin Feng's words just now.
Su Zhiyuan picked up his bag and left.
Lin Feng didn't try to keep him.
At this time, he was thinking about whether what he had just said would be too cruel for a person who was about to die.
But what he said was the truth.
Or maybe it's because it's a fact that it hurts so much.