At this time, a BMW 3 Series drove over, and a man about thirty years old got out of the car: "Mom, what's the matter?" Isn't there a parking space? What are you doing here? ”

As soon as the woman saw her son coming, she could be regarded as having a backbone, pointing at Bai Lu and shouting: "Just him, I said there is a parking space here, let you come over quickly, he has to stop inside, Tingting and I are standing here, he is still driving in, and he almost hit me." ”

The man looked at Bai Lu's car and frowned: "Mom, don't mess around." ”

It's not that he sees Bai Lu's Cullinan with a weak heart, but he knows best what his own mother's personality is, he was a pungent master when he was young, and he was used to walking sideways at home, no matter if she was reasonable or not, she just didn't admit defeat. It's okay at home, but it's still like this outside, and sooner or later you'll have to get into trouble.

"I'm messing around? What am I messing around? As soon as she heard her son say this, the woman suddenly became hysterical: "I raised you so big, you just say that about me?" I finally found a parking space for you, you say I'm messing around? Do you still have a conscience? ”

"Mom!" The man scratched his head in frustration. "Can you stop making trouble? This is a public parking space, there are so many cars for the Chinese New Year, and people will let people park if they arrive first, what are you two doing standing here? It's the New Year, don't make trouble. ”

Bai Lu and Zhang Xiao are watching the play over and over again, if you don't say anything about knowing your mother Mo Ruozi, this man is still reasonable, with such a mother, she can still be reasonable, and she hasn't been taken out, it's not easy.

Coincidentally, a car on the opposite side left, and Bai Lu hurriedly said: "Come on, don't make noise here, you stop over there." ”

Seeing that there was another car behind him, the man immediately got into the car, his technique was not bad, he drove forward for a distance, reversed directly, and stopped at one time.

Seeing that her son had a parking space, the woman didn't make any trouble, glared at Bai Lu fiercely, pulled her daughter-in-law away, and muttered something in her mouth, most likely scolding.

"It's been a long time." Zhang Xiao said hesitantly. "I really want to know, if she causes something one day, will she regret it?"

Bai Lu drove the car into the parking space and parked it: "Regret? Inexistent. This kind of person feels that he has cognitive impairment, no matter what, he only says his own point of view, and he doesn't know what the starting point of this point of view is, but he stubbornly believes that his point of view is correct. Even if they really make a mistake, unless the police arrest someone, this kind of person may admit his mistake, but after he comes out, he still can't change it. I can't remember which book I read it in, and it seems to be a character flaw. ”

"What's that? Still a character flaw? "Zhang Xiao listened to the clouds and mountains covered in fog." When did you study this kind of thing? ”

"I haven't studied it, I've just seen it." Bai Lu asked. "What movie tickets did you buy? What's your name? ”

"The Invisible Man." Zhang Xiao said. "It's nice to watch the trailer, tsk, the skill of stealth is amazing, if I have this skill, what else do I maintain world peace...... Lao Mei is also interesting, but whenever a superhero movie comes out, she has to maintain world peace, and she really thinks of herself as a world policeman, her face is really big. ”

……

The cinema is on the fourth floor of the shopping mall, the usually deserted shopping mall is particularly lively today, all kinds of shops are doing activities during the festival, the children's paradise and the large game hall on the third floor are even more crowded, the music of the game console, the laughter of children, where is the serious noise pollution, but the New Year, everyone is happy, but I think this is very good, at least there is a very New Year's atmosphere.

After wandering around the mall for a while, Bai Lu and Zhang Xiao went to the cinema, the people in the cinema were no less than the people below, and there was a long queue in front of the counter selling snacks.

Zhang Xiao ran to the vending machine to buy two bottles of drinks, took the tickets, and waited for five minutes before the announcement informed them that the movie had started to check in.

Zhang Xiao bought tickets for the IMAX hall, there were not many people when they entered, and when the movie was about to start, the IMAX hall that could accommodate more than 300 people was almost full, only the first few rows were not very good and not full.

After watching the five-minute commercial, the lights went out in the theater and the movie officially began.

The film is often two hours and thirteen minutes, with a classic Hollywood three-part structure.

The main characters are introduced at the beginning, ending with a small climax where the protagonist unexpectedly gains superpowers.

In the middle part, the protagonist discovers that the villain wants to do bad things, and in line with the central idea of "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility", he constantly makes trouble and destroys.

The protagonist himself is a "stealth man", and his ability is stealth, and then the screenwriter doesn't know what to think, maybe he thinks that just having a stealth skill is useless. But if you think about it, it's true, this skill doesn't have much use except for being able to do some obscene things.

Then, the screenwriter added a fast-moving ability to the protagonist, Bai Lu looked at it, isn't this a stealth girl plus a flash? And then you may still feel that the protagonist is too weak.,Forcibly said that the body has also changed after accidentally obtaining superpowers.,The strength of the body is comparable to a steel plate.,Even if you are injured accidentally,,The healing ability is also very strong.。 This is very Hollywood, after all, it is an eternal truth that the poor rely on mutation.

The overall plot is very old-fashioned.,It's the story of a kind poor boy who gets superpowers to save the earth.,But the special effects are really good.,If you don't consider the story.,Just looking at the special effects is worth the ticket price.,If you want to evaluate,,It's only a general.,It's a visual show popcorn movie supported by special effects.。

However, there is a plot in it that brings a little idea to Bai Lu, that is, the protagonist's suit.

Stealth man, what can be invisible is his body, clothes can't be invisible, and then, the screenwriter added the role of a good friend to the protagonist, the character is the female student who the protagonist has a crush on, or the female student who researches new materials, yes, it's such a coincidence.

Then, the two of them secretly used the public property in the laboratory, and after various strange machines to carry out synthesis experiments, they finally paid off their efforts and came up with a new material that is resistant to cold and fire, knives and bullets. The most powerful thing is that the properties of this new material are very "quantum mechanical", so it can resonate and fuse with objects that come into contact with it. In other words, after the protagonist wears a suit made of this material, when he is invisible, he will no longer encounter the embarrassing situation of people disappearing and his overalls still floating in the air.

This point reminded Bai Lu that the sixth child of our family is also an invisible baby, but in addition to stealth and more sensitive, there are no other attributes, and the "suit" also has to be redesigned, mainly because the small shoulders and shorts with the front placket do not quite meet the definition of a superhero.

As for what skills to add to the sixth child, the speed of this stealth man is good.

What? Plagiarize? Inexistent. Let's not say that there is no character of Flash in this world, and besides, can't our sixth child be Quicksilver? It's okay to reverse flash, you see that the night when the Flash was gone, the house was almost full, and there were all in the living room, how can it be said that it was plagiarism?

After the movie ended, it was the subtitles, Bai Lu waited for a long time, and finally the screen went out, and he didn't wait for the easter eggs, and at the end of the movie, it seems to be the end, but there is such a small tail set, giving the audience a feeling that there may be a second part, and you really can't see it if you don't look carefully.

After returning home, Bai Lu checked the superhero movies on the Internet again, and found that all the superhero movies that had been made had no easter eggs in the end, and some of them made a second one, but the plot is like a unit drama, one story at a time, and it has nothing to do with the previous plot at all, let alone a big IP such as XX Universe.

Bai Lu is a little excited now, how profitable the big IP of the superhero universe is, just look at Marvel. is about to go bankrupt, an Iron Man turned over directly, and the next thing is to shoot the movie as a feature-length series, which has been filmed for more than ten years, and the movie and TV series have blossomed and made a lot of money. However, in the later stage, it was a little stretched, and the plantation lineup was not too popular with the audience.

On the contrary, it is DC, whether it is the plot or casting, it is far better than Marvel, but DC's high-level brains are fighting with Huai's unique skills, and the leading actors of the same role are exchanged back and forth.

Therefore, Bai Lu feels that in casting, if you choose a role to play, you have to sign an "overlord" treaty, that is, if you play this role, you must unconditionally participate in the subsequent filming of this role, unless the role withdraws or dies with the development of the timeline, otherwise the filming of this role must be the first. No matter what drama you have in your hands, you must hold on to me first.

This clause is indeed very overbearing, but there are no benefits, if this big IP is successful, it will be a deeply rooted role, isn't the ultimate dream of every actor to make the audience remember him? It doesn't matter if it's the person or the character, as long as the audience can remember it, it's a success.

……

There is a saying in Huaxia that after the fifteenth day of the first month, this year is over, and the topic of colleagues meeting is not how much you won in mahjong this year, or XX You eat fat again after the New Year.

Bai Lu has been busier these days, he has been the busiest in recent years, the two children in the family have Liu Jinnian, Qiao Xiaoqiao has also started to work, Bai Lu and Zhang Lan are running around, and the office building has also been found.

Originally, the family meant to use their own office building, after all, Qihang Group is so big, it is not a problem to vacate one or two floors, Bai Lu is easy to say, but Zhang Lan refused, she fell in love with the sales center before a high-end residential community.

The three-story building has a usable area of more than 600 square meters, which is not large, but in Zhang Lan's view, a start-up company does not need too much office space, and personnel are the most important. As long as the movie is made and the money is made, what kind of office space do you want in the future? And our Huaxia is so big, it's okay to build a shooting base by yourself, it's all green screen studios, which are usually used by yourself, and you can rent them out if someone else wants.

Bai Lu took a helmet and Zhang Lan into the company's decoration site, the amount of work is not large, that is, the first floor of the original sales center model sand table or something, and then get a front desk and reception center, the second and third floors were originally offices, the second floor does not need to move, it is still an office, the third floor is changed to Bai Lu and Zhang Lan's office, and the rest of the place is a conference room, a clipping room. As for the shooting equipment or something, Zhang Lan didn't plan to buy it, it was really not cost-effective to buy that thing, and it was a relatively high cost to maintain it when it was not in use.

Coming out of the construction site, the two went to Bailu's investment company, mainly because the screenwriters Zhang Lan was looking for had arrived today, so they borrowed the company's conference room for a meeting first.

As soon as he arrived at the company's basement, Bai Lu's phone rang, and Bai Lu said to Zhang Lan after answering the phone: "Sister Lan, go up first, I have to pick up someone." ”

Zhang Lan nodded: "Will you come back after picking up people?" ”

"Is there anything about me? I won't come back without my business, you will take someone to eat here at noon, the food in my canteen is good, if there is anything, I will find Mr. Wang, I will say hello to Mr. Wang, and we will see you in the afternoon. ”

"Okay, there you go."

Bai Lu first went to Wang Sheng's office to say hello, asked Wang Sheng to take care of it, and then drove to the airport, and after waiting for almost an hour, Dou Yingxia walked out with a small bag.

"Mr. Bai, I've been waiting for a long time." Dou Yingxia said apologetically. "It was supposed to arrive normally, it seems to be air traffic control, and it was twenty minutes late."

"It's okay, I've just arrived."

got into the car, Bai Lu said: "Really think about it?" You're not a positive, you're a deputy, and you're a deputy, and you're still responsible for correcting. ”

"I've figured it out." Dou Yingxia said with a smile. "My profession is now at the top, and at most I am a partner of the company, but our company will not let me be a partner. And you opened your own company, I'm embarrassed to ask you for resources again, this circle is to see who has more resources and who has more connections, I have no resources, and I will definitely be beaten back to the prototype. Therefore, I might as well follow your development, it doesn't matter whether you are positive or negative, the main thing is that I believe in your resources and connections. ”

The words were very beautiful, and Bai Lu was also very satisfied, but he also knew that Dou Yingxia was not the kind of naïve little girl, she was in her thirties, and she had been in this circle for so many years, what kind of people and things she had never seen, she was a person who had become a fine person, and it became instinct to see what someone said.

But business is like this, I need your ability, you need my resources, everyone takes what they need, and win-win cooperation is serious.

"Already resigned?" Bai Lu asked.

"Well, resigned."

"So be it." Bai Lu thought for a moment and said. "It's only half past ten, it's a little early to eat, why don't I take you to find a house first, after all, I'm going to work here in the future, and it's not like staying in a hotel."

Dou Yingxia smiled: "Yes, I plan to buy a house." ”

"Buying a house?" White Road. "You also bought it in the capital before?"

"It's not." Dou Yingxia said. "I used to rent a house in the capital, and the house price was too expensive, and I was not willing to buy it."

took Dou Yingxia to look around, nothing too eye-catching, and found a restaurant at noon, chatting while eating.

"What do you say about the artists under your command?" Bai Lu asked.

"I've seen what it means to make people go to tea." Dou Yingxia laughed to himself. "I quit my job and asked if any of the artists I brought were willing to go with me, but none of them were willing. It's pretty to say, thank you for taking care of me in the past few years, but the company is also kind to them, and they can't be ungrateful. Either that, the liquidated damages are too expensive for them to pay. ”

"None of them want to?"

"Yes, Jia Luo is willing to go." Speaking of Chen Jialuo, Dou Yingxia's eyes lit up a lot. "This stupid kid is affectionate and righteous, he actually has to pay liquidated damages out of his own pocket, his liquidated damages are sky-high, and after paying it himself, his debut will be in vain in the past few years."

"How much is his liquidated damages?" Bai Lu asked.

"Three hundred million." Dou Yingxia said. "He signed an eight-year contract, and now it's just over four years, and there are still more than three years to go."

Bai Lu didn't speak, 300 million is not too much for him, although the relationship between the two is not bad, but if Chen Jialuo borrows 300 million from him, he can borrow it, and let him spend 300 million to pay Chen Jialuo liquidated damages, which is not cost-effective.

"I told Jia Luo, and when the contract expires, he is also stubborn, saying that he is ready to be rotten, as long as he is rotten, there will be an excuse to talk to the company about terminating the contract." Dou Yingxia smiled bitterly. "It's still too naïve."

"What's the point?" Bai Lu was quite curious, he really didn't understand this.

"Let's put it this way." Dou Yingxia organized the language and said: "If he is rotten, then the company must know what he wants to do, Xuezang will not hide it, and when the time comes, I will talk to him first, if I can make sense, everyone will be happy, how should it be, and the company's resources will be tilted towards him, after all, he is now the only artist in the company who has entered the Hollywood blockbuster to play the starring role." But if you can't talk about it, the company won't think that he has been a blockbuster starring actor and indulged him, after all, it's business, when benign assets become bad assets, even if they were good before, they can't stay, and before they are disposed of, they must squeeze out the last value. ”

"Understood, let's give you a notice of the arrangement, right?" Bai Lu said with a smile. "I've read in novels, the kind of twenty-four-hour day, twenty-hour work."

"It's all light." Dou Yingxia said. "It's a bit exaggerated, after all, no matter how you do, you can't make the artist tired to death, if you work 20 hours a day and die suddenly, the company will be in big trouble. But it's not bad, the company will squeeze the final value of the artist, don't think about movies, TV dramas, variety shows, long cycles, low returns, you can only take on commercial performances, four or five a day, like Jia Luo, the price of a commercial performance is three million in half an hour. ”

Bai Lu was surprised: "Four or five a day? Can this also be done? ”

"Why not." Dou Yingxia explained. "In the morning, you can open a business, you can take an event, if you have a wedding at noon, and continue to participate in business activities in the afternoon. In addition to these, all kinds of small cities, and even small counties will arrange this festival and that festival, but anyone who has an invitation to perform will be arranged, and then give you all kinds of endorsements, no matter what it is, you can accept it. ”

"But what." After a pause, Dou Yingxia continued. "A top-notch artist, even if Jia Luo's acting skills are improving now, if he is used by the company like this, then within a year, his reputation will stink on the street, and whether it is a commercial appearance fee or an endorsement fee, it will fall off a cliff, maybe it is now three million in half an hour, and it is estimated that it will fall to 300,000 at that time. In the second year, basically no one invited, but if the company received an invitation, it would still be arranged, and it didn't care how much, and there was still a tael of oil to be taken out. It is almost impossible to wait for the third year, and it will basically be cold, and at this time, the company will no longer have any resources, and will give a basic salary of 3,000 yuan every month, and hide it until the contract expires. ”

"It's dark enough." Bai Lu said with a smile. "But don't worry, our company is not the kind of black-hearted company."

Dou Yingxia blinked: "Mr. Bai, you can't make money if you don't do this." ”

"It's not money...... Bai Lu waved his hand. Making money is definitely making money, but what I mean is that there will definitely be liquidated damages, but it won't be said that the residual value of artists is squeezed like this, at most, it will not be used in the snow. ”

"Oh, what if the artist doesn't go?"

"There's a contract." Dou Yingxia said. "Although the contract only says that the artist obeys the company's arrangement, that is, you have to go whatever I arrange, otherwise the liquidated damages will not be cheap. It's basically three times the amount of the performance contract. ”

"Mr. Bai, I have a proposal, can you tell me about it?"

"What do you say?"

"It's the artist side." Dou Yingxia said. "I have known a lot of people in recent years, although the contacts and resources are not as good as you, but it is much better than your peers, I suggest, if your company wants to sign an artist, in addition to signing a pillar, the rest can be found from young students, or from artists who are trainees abroad, one is that the signing fee is cheaper, it is easier to tap talents, and the other is that these people are better controlled."

"Is Zhang Lan a pillar?"

"Yes, Sister Lan is partnering with you, I almost forgot." Dou Yingxia slapped his head and laughed at himself: "Look at my memory." ”

Bai Lu said hesitantly: "You are older than Zhang Lan, right?" Call her Sister Lan? ”

"Mr. Bai......" Dou Yingxia looked at Bai Lu resentfully. I respect you very much, please don't joke about a woman's age...... I'm not even forty years old. ”

"That's not small, hurry up and find someone to marry." Bai Lu tried to make Dou Yingxia feel the treatment of the eldest sister Bai Yang during the New Year.

Dou Yingxia: "......"

"Don't you really think about it?" Bai Lu took a sip of tea. "Look, you're really not too old now, you're pretty good-looking, you're in good shape, and you're capable, right, you don't have to worry about getting married...... We also have a blind date corner in People's Park, why don't I show you someday? Hurry up and get married and have a baby, no matter how late it is, you will become an elderly mother. ”

Dou Yingxia was even more resentful, feeling that Bai Lu was teasing her, but she didn't dare to say anything to refute it.

At this time, Dou Yingxia's phone rang, and she breathed a sigh of relief, no matter who called this call, she had to thank him or her, even if it was it!

Picking up the phone and listening to a few words, Dou Yingxia's eyes widened: "You...... You're too impulsive, didn't I tell you? All in vain? You damn child...... Yes, I'm over here, you...... Oh, okay, you can come over first. ”

When Dou Yingxia hung up the phone, Bai Lu asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? Whose child? ”

"Chen Jialuo!" Dou Yingxia covered her head in pain, her headache was terrible, she resigned, and she had to worry about this dead child.

"I made it clear to him what was at stake, this stinky boy still made a fuss for me. I resigned the day before yesterday, and he went to terminate the contract by himself today, with a liquidated damages of 300 million...... Ah, this loser boy, I'll beat him to death when he comes! ”