Chapter 4 Opportunity Comes Like Raindrops
The Script Contest is held every year...
It's a bit like a draft, where the selections are all based on background, or simply predetermined.
In a place like Nortel, there are many people - once it is related to fame and fortune, it is difficult to pick it up!
Therefore, in general, Shen Mengxi will not participate in this kind of script contest at all, isn't this about to graduate, so he randomly picked a "Rose Red Lotus" and asked Chen Liming to take it to sign up...
Actually won the prize?
This sentence is not to doubt "Rose Red Lotus", but...
The script contest shouldn't have much to do with him...
Although he has a good relationship with several teachers, the script competition is led by the youth film studio, and the leaders in the school are the judges.
It's hard to understand that the leaders actually awarded him the first prize.
Originally, in the script contest held every year, the first prize would be directly bought out by Qingying Studio, and it was possible to set up a project to make a work.
Of course, a fixed prize of 50,000 yuan...
This is also the main reason why Shen Mengxi didn't expect to win the award at all!
......
Shen Mengxi was confused and found Chen Liming to confirm, and the latter made the whole thing clear.
All in all, "Rose Red Lotus" won the first prize...
Shen Mengxi frowned: "I still don't understand, "Rose Red Lotus" is a horror thriller..."
By the way, there is another thing, he didn't understand: "Didn't you say that Li Daming's "Accompanied by Wind and Dust" will definitely win the first prize?"
"Director Li Shaohong made his debut in horror films!"
This is true, director Li Shaohong's first work "Silver Snake Murder" is a thriller genre...
"Silver Snake Murder": A rare film in the history of domestic cinema that depicts black eating black and perverted serial killers, which is extraordinary and impressive.
As for Li Daming...
Chen Liming looked disdainful: "In the face of absolute strength, the so-called back door is completely meaningless!"
That's right, that "Accompanied by Wind and Dust" is actually "My Diary of a Prostitute", which is written very explicitly...
Uncle Li Daming seems to be the leader of Qingying Studio, so in these script competitions, his script is at least an excellent award.
However, Shen Mengxi was a little skeptical, and he asked Chen Liming: "Where did Li Shaohong see my script?"
Chen Liming: "It should have been recommended to her by an acquaintance teacher, after all, "Rose Red Lotus" is a very complete movie script, and the beginning and end have already been written..."
"I heard them say that Director Li has recently wanted to take the market-oriented route and has always wanted to make a thriller, and I originally came to see Mr. Zhou Dedong's "Three Forks", but "Rose Red Lotus" is even better..."
"Rose Red Lotus" is certainly a very good script...
Otherwise, Shen Mengxi may not be able to remember it so clearly!
The work of Korean director Kim Ji-woon...
The so-called thriller and horror genre, we must first set a core theme, human greed or beauty, revenge, the fall of the world, etc., this is something that started from "Liao Zhai".
With the right theme, there is an opportunity to continue the storytelling.
The theme expressed in "Rose Flower and Red Lotus" is very simple, the eternal contradiction of the family - stepmother and child.
The story takes place between two sisters and their stepmother who have returned home from a mental hospital, and the characters are set up: stepmother, stepdaughter and sullen father.
Women's hatred is the eternal theme of the supernatural chapter, from "The Biography of Huo Xiaoyu" to Liaozhai Dou's family.
This is even more true of "Rose Red Lotus".
Compared with "Three Forks", "Rose Red Lotus" is indeed more in line with the appetite of a cult film director - Li Shaohong's work, it is obvious that the Cult orientation...
"So I won the first prize, a reward of 50,000 yuan?"
Shen Mengxi was still thinking about 50,000 yuan...
“...... You will soon be able to join the crew directed by Li Shaohong, I watched this "Rose Red Lotus", which is different from ordinary horror films, Li Shaohong's directorial level is there, and if you follow her, it is equivalent to coming into contact with the fifth generation of directors..."
"Wait!"
Shen Mengxi interrupted the fat man's chatter and asked, "Who said I want to follow Li Shaohong?"
“... Do you want to shoot it yourself?"
Chen Liming paused for a moment, and then asked himself: "It's not impossible, I'll calculate, if you don't use too awesome actors, 3 million should be able to be filmed, I go home and cry poor, I should be able to get some money from my mother..."
"Actually, there is another way, if we can cooperate with Qingying Studio and then pull the movie channel, I don't think we need to pay..."
"However, the latter option is too difficult, we don't have any connections, even if the teachers are willing to help, the seven-figure investment is difficult to negotiate..."
"Alas, sometimes I think, if we were born a few years earlier, it would be fine..."There is a paragraph in "Ordinary World", I remember very clearly, at the end of the eighties, there were people who went to invest in township entrepreneurs, what to say about investing in TV series..."
Chen Liming seemed to turn on the switch, and kept talking until he got to "Ordinary World", Shen Mengxi finally couldn't help but interrupt him and changed the topic: "Eh, Liming, what are you doing?"
"Doing business..."
"What kind of business?"
“... I don't know the specifics, but I'm pretty rich anyway!"
"Then you go back to your hometown to inherit the family business?"
Chen Liming rolled his eyes: "I don't know how to do business, and I ruined the family business? Didn't I tell you, I'll go home and take the civil service exam!"
Shen Mengxi: "What kind of civil servant is examined, listen to me, just do business! What is so difficult about doing business, the purchase price is eight cents, and if you sell it for 1 yuan, you will make money, and if you buy it for one piece and sell it for eight cents, it will be called losing money!"
Chen Liming: "... We're talking about "Rose Red Lotus", don't take the topic away. ”
Shen Mengxi was very casual: "Since Director Li has taken a fancy to it, let's give it to her." ”
"And then?"
"So? No, do you understand the rules, we are newcomers, Director Li has taken a fancy to our script!
Shen Mengxi looked disgusted and refuted, and then got up and prepared to leave.
“... Don't go yet, let's chat. Chen Liming grabbed Shen Mengxi and said with a serious face: "I really think this is a good opportunity, don't make a mistake at this time." ”
"I didn't make a mistake!"
Chen Liming: "I know you don't like Director Li Shaohong, and I think she is not qualified to shoot your script as a TV series, but we are not newcomers..."
"No, Liming, you..."
"Listen to me, there have been talented people throughout the ages, and how many of them have a good end? The ability of one body, at the end, voted for Taiping Lake!"
"So, in our business, the first condition is to be able to be a man!"
“... Fatty, aren't you determined to go to the National Theater? How do you know so much about these twists and turns?"
Shen Mengxi came to the spirit...
If he hadn't known Chen Liming, he would have thought that this thing was also a reborn person...
"This kind of thing, I'm just not uncommon, the so-called human feelings are actually like that!"
“... Okay, I understand what you said, let's go!"
Shen Mengxi still has something to do...
"That's right, Dream Creek. ”
“... What's wrong?"
"If you're with the group, can you stuff my daughter-in-law into the group?"
Maybe Shen Mengxi's eyes made him a little embarrassed, Chen Liming hurriedly added: "You don't need the protagonist, just a supporting role..."
"No, fatty, you are talking so much, in fact, you just want to stuff your daughter-in-law into the group?"