"What can I do, foolish!" Gao Yuanyuan said in a self-deprecating tone.

This girl can be regarded as a young and famous, the name of "Qingzui Girl" was resounding for a while, but unfortunately she has no talent just with a beautiful face, and she is a scumbag, she didn't even take the art school exam after graduating from high school, and went directly to a university called the Labor Movement College, which is actually adult education, and barely mixed up with a diploma.

Li Tang has seen many beautiful girls, relying on their beauty to be a sugar daddy, being a junior, and using their bodies as bargaining chips in exchange for various interests to satisfy their vanity.

Gao Yuanyuan shouldn't belong to this category, she can be regarded as a little rich woman after so many years of advertising, and she is still a typical Beijing girl, hearty and open, just a little playful.

"Oh, Brother Li, I haven't congratulated you yet, you have won so many awards this year."

"It's not that exaggerated, just take two."

Li Tang smiled, but it was too noisy here, and he asked again, "By the way, what about Xiao Tengdao?" Do you see? ”

"He's talking to someone in the box, I'll take you there."

It seems that Gao Yuanyuan is quite familiar with this place, and took Li Tang through the crowd on the dance floor, walked to the door of a private room, knocked twice and pushed the door in.

There were six or seven people sitting around the sofa inside, and when Xiao Tengdao saw Gao Yuanyuan coming in with Li Tang, he quickly stood up and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm really embarrassed!" After chatting, I forgot to come out to pick you up. Come on, come on, let me introduce you to a few good friends. ”

In fact, there is no need for him to introduce him, Li Tang knows almost everything.

"Director Zhang, hello!"

The fat black man sitting on the edge of the door with thinning hair and glasses is Zhang Baibai, the director of the hit drama "Carry Love to the End".

"Hello, Mr. Li!"

The two knew each other, but they had never dealt with each other, so Zhang Baibai quickly stood up and shook hands with him politely.

"Director Zhang, you are polite, call me Xiao Li or Li Tang Ducheng."

Then there was another Director Zhang who was sitting next to Zhang Baibai.

"Director Zhang Yang, meet again!"

Zhang Yang, the director of his "Love Malatang" and "Bath", Li Tang had met him at the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival the year before last.

So Zhang Yang was not restrained, and shook hands with him with a smile: "Li Tang, long time no see!" ”

And the tall thin man wearing a peaked cap sitting on the other side of Zhang Yang stood up and hugged him with open arms before Li Tang could stretch out his hand.

"Brother Zhao, when did you come back?"

That is Zhao Xiaoding, the photographer of "Hero", and the two are not generally familiar.

"I just came back two days ago, and I wanted to rest for a while, but they dragged me here."

Zhao Xiaoding looked helplessly at Zhang Baiyi and Zhang Yang beside him.

"Teacher Cai! Mr. Liu! ”

The other two, one is named Cai Shangjun who looks like Maitreya Buddha, and the other is a spiritual guy named Liu Struggle, both of whom are screenwriters who graduated from the Department of Chinese Opera Literature.

"Teacher Li!"

Because they were not familiar with each other, they also stood up politely and shook hands with Li Tang.

Standing up with them was also a tall and handsome guy with glasses and an elegant appearance, it was this Li Tang who looked strange and seemed to have never seen it.

At this time, Xiao Tengdao finally had a place to use, and introduced on the side: "This is Diao Yinan, he, Lao Cai, Lao Liu, and Zhang Yang are all screenwriters of "Love Malatang". ”

"Oh, Mr. Diao, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, it's okay, Mr. Li, hello!"

This handsome guy named Diao Yinan looked noticeably more restrained and unsociable than the others.

After taking a seat, Li Tang picked up the wine glass and saluted again. Gao Yuanyuan, who came in together, sat beside him and poured wine for him like a little daughter-in-law.

When Xiao Tengdao saw this scene, his face couldn't help twitching. Gao Yuanyuan is in their circle just like Xu Qing in the Beijing circle more than ten years ago, they are all big sassy honey. At first, he was very itchy and tried to chase after him, but unfortunately he didn't catch up. In the past two years, like him, there have been many people who have gone forward and succeeded, but unfortunately I haven't seen this little aunt and grandmother with anyone. But as soon as Li Tang arrived today, she was like a different person, and the blind could see what was going on.

What makes Xiao Tengdao even more unconvinced is that it is not news that Li Tang and Fan Binbin are together for a long time, Gao Yuanyuan will not know, but ......

Why?

In fact, Li Tang is also wondering, it stands to reason that Director Xiao Teng, the director of the Nortel Department, is unlikely to mix with the people who came out of this gang of dramas, because they are completely two circles.

Even Zhao Xiaoding, the royal photographer directed by Zhang Yimou, appeared here today, and it seems that he has a good relationship with Zhang Yibai, Zhang Yang and others.

The only possibility could be that these people are getting together and working on a movie or TV series.

Just as Li Tang looked at Xiao Tengdao with an inquiring gaze, he happened to see that this thing was spinning around himself and Gao Yuanyuan with that stupid gaze.

Dare to be a thief and the heart is not dead!

The four eyes met, and Xiao Tengdao's face was suddenly unnatural. Don't look at this flower playing outside, it's actually a very thin-skinned person. In order to hide the embarrassment, he took out a notebook and handed it over: "Li Tang, I came to you today, in addition to getting together for the New Year, Lao Zhang and Lao Liu got a book and wanted you to take a look." ”

When he entered the door just now, Li Tang saw this posture and knew that it would not be as simple as a New Year's party.

Lao Liu doesn't need to ask, it must be Liu Struggle, as for Lao Zhang, there are two Lao Zhangs here - Zhang Yang and Zhang Baibai, when Li Tang took the script and looked at it with an inquiring gaze, Zhang Baibai hurriedly said: "This book is mainly written by Lao Liu, I just helped make some suggestions." ”

In addition to the "Love Malatang" and "Bath" that several of them collaborated on, Liu Zhan also co-wrote the movie "Brave New World" with another famous screenwriter Wang Yao.

This film, directed by Shi Runjiu and starring Xiao Taohong and Jiang Wu, was also shortlisted for the Youth Forum unit of the Berlin Film Festival. It was this unit that Section Chief Jia's famous work "Xiao Wu" was shortlisted.

After Li Tang nodded his head and said yes, he looked down at the script in his hand, the name was quite poetic, "Subway to Spring". There is only one name for the signature, Liu Fenfeng.

The script is quite thick, no matter what, there must be two or three hundred thousand words, and he won't be able to finish reading it for a while and a half, he just skimmed the synopsis of the story first.

said that a young couple who drifted north in the capital struggled for seven years, first faced a career crisis, and at the same time, the relationship between the two had a seven-year itch. Although the synopsis of the story is only a passing touch, Li Tang is estimated to be a poor couple who mourn everything, and then both cheat.

Through this small couple in Beipiao, the love of several other pairs of men and women was brought out.

Just like the previous creative styles of "Love Malatang" and "Brave New World", they all focus on the emotional world of little people.

In any case, Liu Zhan's name and works are there, and this theme is still quite novel to Li Tang. After he finished reading the synopsis of the story, he looked up at Liu Zhan and said, "Teacher Liu, it's okay for me to bring the book back, right?" ”

In this environment, there is no way to settle down and read the script, and Li Tang is also respectful of the script when he asks this.

Liu Zhan hurriedly said: "Of course this is no problem. ”

Then he turned his head and asked Xiao Tengdao, "What do you say?" ”

Since the two groups of people got together, he instinctively thought that Director Xiao Teng was the director.

As a result, Xiao Tengdao shook his head and said, "Don't ask me about this, you have to ask Lao Zhang." ”

As he spoke, he pouted at Zhang Bai.

After doing it for a long time, it turned out that this product was just matchmaking.

Originally, he was easy to say anything to Director Xiao Teng, but in the face of Zhang Baibai...... Well, that's a bit hard to say.

On the one hand, he hasn't read the script yet; On the other hand, this is a movie, and he has an instinctive distrust of Zhang Baibai, a TV drama director who is not from a professional class.

He didn't know what to say for a while, but fortunately, Zhang Baibai spoke first: "Li ...... Uh, I'll just hold it up and call you Li Tang. ”

Calling Teacher Li before was just a title on the scene, Zhang Baibai wanted to close the distance, and it was definitely inappropriate to call Teacher Li again, and he was almost ten years older than Li Tang, so it was even worse to call Brother Li, so he could only follow Xiao Teng to call Li Tang.

"It's okay, it's okay, Director Zhang, you say."

"First of all, I think you're quite suitable for the role of Jianbin in the book, I want you to take a look and think about ......it."

Since it was the first, Li Tang was still waiting for the second, but Zhang Baibai couldn't go on after half of his words, and turned his eyes to Xiao Tengdao with a sneering expression.

Xiao Tengdao was very helpless, so he had to say: "Yes, let me tell you." It's Lao Zhang who wants to shoot this scene, but the money is still poor, and he wants you to help cast some money. ”

Li Tang was speechless, and he came to invest money for himself for a long time.

It is said that good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. The domestic film industry is so big, and the overseas income of "The Third Man" has arrived, although Li Tang and Nai An try to keep it secret, there will always be rumors. Now insiders basically know that the "Third Man" he invested in made a lot of money.

And his rental of a house in 798 was originally quite low-key, but after all, it was a place where third, fourth, seventh, and eighth class artists gathered, and he rented such a large venue, and the news also spread quickly. Even the entertainment news published the news that in addition to his own door, he is preparing to set up a personal studio in 798.

The most lacking thing in making movies these years is money, and these news about him will naturally attract bees and butterflies.

The key thing that also makes him unhappy is that he has never had anything to do with Zhang Baiyi and their circle, if it weren't for the lack of money, they would definitely not find themselves to play the role of Jianbin as the male number one in it.

Obviously, Jianbin is very likely to be Cheng Jianbin. They are all Chinese operas, and the male number one Li Yapeng and Cheng Jianbin in the first TV series "Love to the End" directed by Zhang Baibai are classmates, and they are all from Northwest Xinjiang Province.

In addition, the name of the character in the script, Jianbin's wife Xiaohui, is cheating on Tiger Tiger, which is Zhang Yang's nickname; There is also that chef named Wang Yao, who is one of the screenwriters of "Brave New World".

To be honest, I knew that today was this game, and I wouldn't have come to kill him, and I even complained a little bit about Xiao Tengdao. Why do you say you have nothing to do with this kind of thing, and you are not the director yourself.

But looking at Zhang Baibai and Liu Zhan's eager eyes, even Zhao Xiaoding glanced at him intentionally or unintentionally, Li Tang's tone was naturally not good and too blunt, and the few people in front of him were all emerging figures in the field of screenwriting, maybe when they would cooperate.

So he could only say: "Has this book been reported?" ”

Last year, the General Administration reconciled with the so-called underground directors, including Lou Ye, who also lifted the ban ahead of schedule, all for reasons. At the end of the year, new regulations were introduced, which began on New Year's Day 2002.

Those underground movies made in the past, except for those that can't be released, basically turn a blind eye, unless the film is too influential or too public, punishment measures will be taken, and the director will be banned.

But now the new regulations have been introduced, if there is no report, there is no factory standard, if you really want to make an underground film, not only will the director be banned, but also the responsibility of the investor will be increased, and the maximum fine will be 50 times. For example, if you invest 1 million, you will be fined up to 50 million. Who can stand such a large sum of money, if it falls on Li Tang's head, then he can only run away to join his mother.

"Reported." Zhang Baibai hurriedly said, and then said: "As for the factory standard, we plan to use Qingying Studio." ”

Qingying Studio is the Beijing Youth Film Studio, which is a subsidiary of Nortel, which is used for film assignments and production internships for middle school students in the completion of the teaching session. Each year there are three or four feature films, as well as a few short films. For example, the short film "Criminals" made by Cheng Er the year before last used the factory logo of Qingying Studio.

"So how much is your investment so far?"

Finally talked about the meat, Zhang Baibai's eyes lit up suddenly, hesitated slightly, and stretched out a finger with an embarrassed face and said, "There is still a million short." ”

As he spoke, he explained: "We plan to invest 3 million in this play, and Tiger brought in an investor to invest 2 million, so it's still almost." ”

Hearing that there was only one million, Li Tang also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, after all, this is not what it used to be, and now there are more than 20 million on the account, which is a drop in the bucket. Although most of the figures from the director's mouth are unreliable, the total investment is only three million, and even if it is exceeded, it will not be exceeded.

Li Tang pondered for a moment and said sincerely: "In this way, let me read the script first." It won't be long, two or three days at most. ”

Zhang Baibai and Liu Struggle are most afraid that others will say that they will wait for me to read the script first, and then it will be far away, first shirk for various reasons, and in the end, there will be no response at all. They've had this happen to them more than once or twice. Fortunately, Li Tang is from Shanghai, not the kind of person who drinks and brags indiscriminately, so he worked for two or three days to give them a reassurance.

Zhang Baibai hurriedly said: "Of course." I'm really sorry for you this time. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the wine glass together with Liu Zhan.

Li Tang touched them and said with a smile: "Hey, Xiao Tengdao put on such a big formation today, which shows that everyone is their own people." Besides, I have admired Director Zhang, Teacher Liu, and all the teachers for a long time, and I wish I could have the opportunity to cooperate. ”

That being said, everything depends on the script, and if the script doesn't work, there's no way. But if the script is really well written, even if Zhang Baibai is a rookie film director, after all, he has some directing experience, and the number is not large, so it is worth taking the risk.

Of course, since it is Xiao Tengdao Zhang Luo today, he naturally has to give Xiao Tengdao face. is to tell them that today is completely on the face of Xiao Tengdao.

After talking about the matter, everyone chatted while drinking, in addition to Xiao Tengdao and Zhao Xiaoding, Li Tang are very familiar with each other, Zhang Yang has barely dealt with him, and Zhang Baibai, Liu Fenfeng, Cai Shangjun and the taciturn Diao Yinan, he is really not familiar with it. After chatting at this time, he found that the level of Liu Zhan and Cai Shangjun was still quite high, especially Cai Shangjun, who often said amazingly.

As for Gao Yuanyuan, she has been sitting beside Li Tang obediently helping to pour wine, even if someone takes the initiative to toast her, she will stop at a shallow taste, occasionally say a few words about the scene, and will never take the initiative to interject.

It didn't take long, and according to the agreement between Li Tang and the driver Shen Lin when he entered the door, his mobile phone rang an hour later.

He picked up "uh-huh, ahhhhh ”

Others don't know, and they politely keep it, Xiao Tengdao saw something, to be honest, he was a little sorry for Li Tang today, but there was no way, who told him to owe favors, he owed favors and had to pay them back, so he had to pull Li Tang out to block the gun. Fortunately, Li Tang gave him enough face today, so he stood up very cooperatively and said, "Okay, you go and get busy, I'll send you out." ”

Zhang Baibai and Liu Zhan also stood up one after another to see them off together.

Li Tang hurriedly said: "Stay, teachers, please stay." ”

At the same time, he deliberately said to Zhang Baibai: "Director Zhang, two or three days, not more than three days, I will definitely give you news." ”

"Okay, excuse me, thank you, thank you so much."

"Don't be too busy thanking you just yet, or wait until I'm done reading the script. Stay and see you soon! ”

Li Tang smiled and shook hands with everyone to say goodbye.

Several people stood at the door to see Li Tang, Xiao Tengdao and Gao Yuanyuan with clothes and bags out, and then watched them walk down the stairs, Diao Yinan, who had not spoken much, suddenly said: "Is there hope this time?" ”

Zhang Baiyi changed his enthusiastic expression just now, rubbed his smiling and somewhat sour face, sighed and said quietly: "Anyway, there will be news in three days at most." ”

Zhao Xiaoding, who is the most familiar with Li Tang among several people, said at this time: "Li Tang is still quite reliable, as long as he agrees, and he really likes this book, I think it is not a big problem." ”

Several people looked at each other, perhaps they had eaten hollow gnocchi too many times before, and no one dared to have much hope. Zhang Baibai waved his hand a little irritably: "If it doesn't work this time, it doesn't matter, anyway, there are two million now, I won't believe it if I start shooting first......"

It's just that before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhang Yang: "Don't forget, there are conditions for people to promise to invest two million!" ”

"Uh......"

Zhang Baibai suddenly stopped abruptly like a duck that had been choked by the neck.

(End of chapter)