April 8, 2007, Modu Railway Station.

"Master, go to the Drama Art Center. ”

Li Qian, who came out of the station, did not stop and stopped a taxi.

Although it was the first time to come to the magic capital, Li Qian did not have the heart to enjoy the scenery along the way of this metropolis.

As soon as he got in the car, Li Qian took out a folder from his bag and flipped through it.

Li Qian opened a photography studio in Donghua City, relying on the country's largest film and television shooting base, Hengdian Film and Television City, which is located in Donghua City.

The studio has also been open for almost a year, shooting something unnutritious every day, and Li Qian is ready to start making the first film of his directorial career.

Of course, it's just an online movie, and it was also called a micro-movie last year.

At the beginning of this year, a studio in Donghua specializing in micro-films and online unit dramas filmed a micro-film "The Road Grows Out of the Mountain", which was launched on Galaxy Video, and hit the box office of 8 million with a production cost of 140,000 yuan, shocking the entire micro-film market.

You must know that last year's dark horse "Crazy Stone" only won 23 million box office, but the cost was also 3 million.

Since then, micro-movies have had a new name: online movies.

The cost of hundreds of thousands, the shooting time of more than ten days, and the production team of more than a dozen people are the standard mode of online movies.

Since the success of "The Taoist Descends the Mountain", in just over two months, more than 80 new film and television production studios have been established in Donghua City, and dozens of online movies have successively landed on the three major video websites of Penguin, Tomato and Galaxy.

Although the response of these online universities is mediocre, there are only three with a box office of more than one million, and none of them have more than three million, but compared with the previous micro-film market, it is already a huge leap.

Of course, it's more about losing all your money.

However, the cost is low, so it is regarded as a practice, Li Qian stopped the business of the studio without thinking about anything, and began to prepare for his first online university.

No matter what movie you make, you have to ask for actors, and Li Qian came to find actors this time.

Now most of the actors looking for by these online universities are group performances and group specials in Hengdian, and Li Qian really can't look down on them.

And this movie is basically a one-man show for the male lead, and the requirements are not low.

Li Qian is at most a marginal person in the entertainment industry, he has no connections, and he doesn't know anyone, the only one who has a friendship is the neighbor who lived on the same street when he was a child, Lu Entai, who played the talent in the popular sitcom "Wulin Gaiden" the year before last, asked him to help find an actor more than a week ago.

Two days ago, Lu Entai replied and recommended an actor from the Magic Capital Drama Art Center, and it happened that the national tour of the drama "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring" in which he participated was the turn of the magic capital, and Li Qian rushed over today.

The train station is not far from the Drama Art Center, only more than 20 minutes' drive, and when I was about to arrive, I called Lu Entai on the car, and I saw him waiting at the entrance of the Drama Center from a distance, wearing a patched coarse cloth clothes, like a poor person in the old society.

After getting out of the car, Li Qian walked forward quickly, and it was not easy to see his relatives when he went out.

Although they were just neighbors on the street, the neighborhood relationship when I was a child was much deeper than it is now.

"Brother Tai, are you rehearsing?"

Lu Entai looked at his dress and said with a smile, "The day after tomorrow, the performance is in line, let's go, come in first." ”

Li Qian followed him to the theater and said a little embarrassedly, "I didn't delay your rehearsal, or I'll go and talk to him alone." ”

"It's okay, it doesn't matter. Lu Entai waved his hand, "It's mainly Huang Lei and Yuan Quan, and I'm also very interested in your script, and I didn't joke about it on QQ before." ”

According to media reports, in terms of audience effect, the response of Peach Blossom Land is stronger than that of a crush, Huang Lei is good at playing a literati in the old era, and he is very successful in playing the young Jiangbin Liu, but the elderly Jiangbin Liu is a little less interesting.

Yun Zhifan, as the most important role, before Yuan Quan, the director first looked for Tang Wei, but she took Li An's "Lust and Caution".

Later, she planned to find Sun Li, but she had to take care of the child again.

If you really find Tang Wei and Sun Li to play Yun Zhifan, it will be a good story.

There is also an actor named Tian Yu who plays Lao Tao with Lu Entai, who is Tang Wei's boyfriend.

There is more than one actor in a role in a drama, otherwise a popular drama will be performed for several years, not everyone may have time, and it is normal for two people to play a role together.

Huang Lei and Sun Li are two people, Tian Yu and Tang Wei are also a couple, if a drama really has two pairs, it is also fate.

However, Li Qian has seen the film "Lust and Caution", and as far as the indescribable scenes in it are concerned, a man can't stand it, and it is estimated that the pair will have to separate sooner or later.

Along the way, they chatted about the drama "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Spring", and Lu Entai led Li Qian to a lounge in the theater and began to talk about business.

"The idea of this script is very good, there are very few such high-IQ suspense crime films in China, but it is a bit of a shadow of Hollywood movies, how did you come up with this story?"

Sniper Phone Booth

Lu Entai looked at the script in his hand, which was sent by Li Qian by email a week ago, and he printed it out.

Originally, I didn't expect much from this script, after all, Li Qian is only a year old, he has just graduated for a year, and he has not been engaged in writing or directing in this year, but he just opened a photography studio.

However, after reading the script and storyboard, even with the vision of his doctor of Chinese opera directing, it is unexpectedly good.

"When I was bored at home during the Chinese New Year this year, I pulled a film, David Fincher's "Seven Deadly Sins", which was a little inspired at that time. ”

Li Qian explained.

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Li Qian and Lu Entai chatted about the perverted sniper who appeared in the script for less than a minute, "Sniper Phone Booth" does not need any artistry, nor does it need to portray the sniper as tall, it is a brain-oriented crime suspense film.

Moreover, Li Qian can't control it if it's complicated, the first feature-length movie, it's better to keep it simple.

Finally, Lu Entai asked again.

"Have you found this role?"

"Not yet, I'll find other actors after I get the protagonist. Li Qian said.

"Otherwise, I'll make a cameo, what do you think. Lu Entai smiled.

Li Qian was slightly stunned, Lu Entai has no shortage of drama appointments, since "Wulin Gaiden" became popular the year before last, he was stunned to turn down more than a dozen film contracts in one go, and only made guest appearances in two dramas directed by Shang Jing, and ran back to school to continue his studies.

As for the reason, Li Qian also knew that Lu Entai once scored a perfect score in the math test in junior high school, and his father thought it was a reading material, so he didn't let him watch TV much since then.

When I was a child, I was rebellious, and the more I didn't let me do it, the more I wanted to do it.

So Lu Entai began to have an obsession with TV, and when he was admitted to the Modu Drama Academy, he did not apply for the popular acting and directing department, but applied for the TV art department.

Later, he worked as a host on Tourism Satellite TV and filmed TV series.

But after realizing the dream, it may be boring, only to find that I like to study more, and then study for a master's degree and a doctorate, and won a full scholarship to Oxford University.

Now that he took the initiative to make a cameo role in his movie, Li Qian was a little moved.

Obviously, this is doing yourself a favor.

The popularity of "Wulin Gaiden" is still there, and the joining of Lu Entai is definitely a big bonus for a big online movie.

Seeing Li Qian's appearance, Lu Entai smiled and said, "Your kid has been running to my house every once in a while since he was five years old, and my mother has been leaving you to eat every day and not seeing you embarrassed, why have you become more and more polite when you grow up." ”

"Thank you, Brother Tai!"

Speaking of which, Li Qian is no longer hypocritical.

And although Lu Entai is famous for comedy, his acting path is not narrow at all, although he is elegant, but when he appears in the end, he can also give the audience the greatest sense of contrast.

Li Qian already had a picture in his mind, wearing a suit and coat, carrying a piano case in his hand, and Lu Entai, who had an elegant temperament and looked more like a teacher, revealed his identity at the end and smiled at the protagonist.

Playing a bad guy doesn't have to look like a bad guy, and this contrast will make the audience even creepy.

The time was not early, and he didn't stay long in the drama center, Lu Entai changed his clothes and took Li Qian to find the goal of this trip.

"He rented a house with his girlfriend, not far away, only about ten minutes walk, and I will tell you about his situation. ”

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