Regarding these comments from the outside world, Li Tang, who has seen the world, doesn't care at all, the ratings of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" are still steadily increasing amid criticism, but he responded to a sentence: "Black and red are also red!" ”

After watching a few episodes, Li Tang quickly lost the desire to watch it, because he can always find the shortcomings in his performance, and it is better to be out of sight than to let himself be depressed.

Criticism can't always be the same, and there are even media outlets that dug up Li Tang's exclusive interview with Han Binjiang published in the "Daily News" before the broadcast, so naturally it was indispensable to criticize his remarks, and they also requested interviews one after another. This time, Li Tang was not used to these media, and refused them all, and did not accept any of them.

On February 5, as the 30th Rotterdam International Film Festival came to an end, Cheng Er, who was far away in Rotterdam, finally received good news that the script of "The Third Man" was successfully shortlisted for the list of 15 HBF funds this year, and received $30,000 in funding.

The HBF Fund generally gives shortlisted scripts a grant of $1 to $50,000, and $30,000 is not a slip away. Of course, people are not wronged, and they will not give you a check directly, but will set up a project for each project, and then allocate funds according to the progress.

Cheng Er was particularly excited, 30,000 US dollars is equivalent to more than 200,000 yuan, plus his own savings of more than 200,000 yuan, according to his budget, almost half of the funds have been solved.

Hearing the excited voice of the phone, to be honest, it was the first time for Li Tang to hear Cheng Er say so many words in one breath, and he expressed so many meanings over and over again.

The first is nothing more than gratitude, thanks to Li Tang for his help, otherwise his work would definitely be far away, and it almost didn't say that Li Tang was Bole and discovered his Cheng Er's thousand-mile horse.

The second is that he did see the world in Rotterdam this time, and watched a lot of excellent movies, the only fly in the ointment is that his English skills are poor, and he can't understand the dialogue, but fortunately, the film language is common all over the world, so he has learned a lot.

Third, and most importantly, he twisted and pinched to hint at whether Li Tang could find a way to solve the other half's investment. Because if the movie can't be started, then the $30,000 funding will be in vain.

Li Tang thinks that Cheng Er is still too young, and the more careful the movie is, the less money is enough, "Suzhou River" is the signature of the previous car, of course, I hope Cheng Er is not a special Lou Ye, otherwise let alone one million, two million can't be beaten.

Originally, Li Tang planned to visit Nai'an in Hangzhou after the Lantern Festival, worship a late age, and make up for her daughter's full moon gift. This time, they simply did it together, because when Cheng Er applied for the HBF fund, the production and production company used Ney'an's Dream Work Culture and Art Company.

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"You said you were here, why are you so polite."

The full moon gift given by Li Tang is very affordable, it is a 100-gram long-life lock made of 999 pure gold. As long as it is Chinese, regardless of foreign atmosphere, gift-giving is exquisite festivity and auspiciousness.

Nai'an, who just gave birth to a child, is a lot richer, and the whole person looks a little more soft and motherly, no longer as hot and full of attack power as before.

Cheng Er's sponsorship from HBF was also known as soon as possible, and she had friends at the fund who probably knew the news earlier than Cheng Er, who was in Rotterdam.

Li Tang didn't go around in circles, and told Nai An about it straight to the point. The problem now is that since you have applied for the fund, you have to start it within the year, if you can't start the machine or take the early funds and finally end up, then there will be no chance in the future.

"What do you think?" Ney asked after listening.

Obviously, Li Tang is so enthusiastic about this matter, which is nothing more than being optimistic about the script of "The Third Man".

Li Tang said without hesitation: "If there is a difficulty on the company's side, then I want to vote myself." ”

He had thought about it before this matter came, since he wanted to act was nothing more than a fight.

Ney An didn't seem surprised, but she took out a script and handed it over: "You take a look at this book first, Lou Ye's new work." ”

"Really?"

Li Tang's first reaction was quite pleasantly surprised, since "Suzhou River" was banned, Lou Ye has been in retreat and concentrating on conceiving a new book, and now it's almost a year, and the script is finally out.

He hurriedly took the notebook and looked at it, the name was "Summer Palace". Li Tang subconsciously thought that this was a love story that happened in the capital. Because love is always the main theme in Lou Ye's movies, and then referring to "Suzhou River", you can naturally draw conclusions.

The reason why he is particularly interested is because when he was filming "Suzhou River", he didn't read the script, and the experience of flying paper on the spot every day had already made him fed up. He couldn't wait to see what kind of sadomasochism was depicted in "Summer Palace".

That's right, Lou Ye's love story will always be sadomasochism.

The script is not long, only 50,000 or 60,000 words, mainly because many dialogues are just written with a general meaning, and they are not expanded. However, the description of some scenes is quite detailed, such as the scene of the male protagonist Zhou Wei and the heroine Yu Hong's love.

It's just that after he finished reading it, he completely lost the excitement at the beginning, and was replaced by a deep worry.

He hesitated, but still said frankly: "Sister An, this book will definitely not pass." ”

"I know, but Lou Ye wants to shoot."

Nai An's words suddenly made Li Tang feel a strong jealousy of Lou Ye, just such a book that contains particularly sensitive content from the end of the eighties, which obviously can't be passed, Nai An can vote for it desperately.

Could this be the legendary true love?

Of course, the so-called true love is just a joke, in addition to Lou Ye's talent, it doesn't matter if he is banned, literary films are already unpopular in China, and the largest market is still overseas, especially this kind of sensitive subject matter is more likely to be favored by foreigners.

"How about Zhou Wei's character?"

"It's very well written." Li Tang nodded.

In terms of roles, Zhou Weizheng's role is definitely better than He Wei in "The Third Man". Because this character spans a large period of time, there are two completely different mental journeys in the foreign and domestic environments. To put it simply, it is more malleable and full of inner drama.

To be honest, this kind of role is very tempting for an aspiring actor.

But Li Tang doesn't like this character very much, more precisely, he doesn't like this script, because it is too pretentious, and the whole article is full of a strong intellectual self-touch.

In the eighties, Li Tang's original body was already sensible, and he witnessed the difficult life of Lao Li and most of the people around him. As an international student who was able to study abroad at that time, he was undoubtedly the luckiest group of people in that era. It is not an exaggeration to use the ancient Zhongjin Shi as a metaphor for ascending to the sky in one step. Compared with ordinary people, I really don't understand what they are still suffering and why they still express all kinds of dissatisfaction.

Moreover, Li Tang's parents in his previous life were similar to people like Zhou Wei and Yu Hong. Water flows to lower places, people go to higher places, and it is understandable to pursue a better life. But when many compatriots have not yet met the problem of food and clothing, and are still struggling on the poverty line, you can go abroad, and you are qualified to pursue a better life, please stop moaning without illness.

Li Tang roughly understood what Nai An meant, which was nothing more than telling him that the company currently had a project, and at the same time, in order to appease him, he gave him the role of Zhou Wei as compensation.

Maybe Ney Bar wasn't as realistic as he thought, but it definitely meant something.

So he nodded and said, "Sister An, I understand." But I still hope that the company can help us a little. ”

Making a movie is a systematic project, not to mention that you can shoot with a director and actors, first of all, you must have a behind-the-scenes creative team with rich experience and strength, including photography, props, art, makeup, recording, and even miscellaneous drama and outreach, as well as life production, etc.

Secondly, after the filming of the movie, there are post-production, review, publicity, distribution, etc., which involve all aspects of the relationship, and Li Tang and Cheng Er alone will definitely not be able to complete it.

Finally, the most important thing is how to participate in the film festival and promote the overseas market. This is the key to determining whether the film can be profitable in the end.

All of this is inseparable from Ney'an's help.

Nai An smiled: "There must be no problem with this, then I will be a nominal producer, and you can directly order Zeng Jia if there is anything." During this time, I was not in the company, so I asked her to be in charge of the docking work between the crew and the company. ”

Saying that, she also teased: "Anyway, Zeng Jia's girl listens to you for everything." ”

It sounded like Nell had misunderstood, but Li Tang didn't explain too much. After a short sigh, he said: "If the conditions allow, I want to wait for Cheng Er to come back, and the preparations will start as soon as possible." It's late, I'm afraid that there will be a conflict with Mr. Zhang's arrangement on the schedule. ”

Although the adaptation of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was temporarily suspended, when Li Tang went to pay New Year's greetings to Zhang Dabeard before the Spring Festival, Lao Zhang swept away the previous decline and became full of ambition again. It is estimated that he got some kind of hint or promise from the leaders of CCTV that the adaptation and preparation of "Shooting the Condor" will not be affected because of "Smiling Proud Jianghu".

At present, although "Smiling Proud Jianghu" has been widely criticized, in the final analysis, it is the ratings that determine everything. The higher the ratings, the higher the advertising cost, and the economic base determines the superstructure!

During the New Year's greetings, Lao Zhang specially greeted him, hoping that he could play the role of Yang Kang in "Shooting the Condor".

Li Tang didn't have much interest in the role of Yang Kang, but since Lao Zhang spoke up in person, he had to accept it. In any case, Lao Zhang is now his Bole, and he will definitely not be able to do such things as crossing the river and demolishing and being ungrateful. What's more, there is also Shao Bin's experience.

The second update!

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