Chapter 208 Taking on New Jobs (44)

Shen Xudong is attending a banquet. To be precise, he is accompanying guests...

The Hong Kong actors of "Sword and Sword" have basically finished filming. To express his gratitude, Cai Yinong specially hosted a banquet. Shen Xudong was also invited to join him. After all, he is the screenwriter and production director...

In fact, Shen Xudong didn't have much contact with this group of people, including Teacher Xu Jinjiang, and he just said hello a few times.

I feel like a very boring person...

But after Shen Xudong toasted twice at the dinner table, he opened the topic.

He said that his appearance in a Category III film was arranged by the company.

This is indeed the case. He was discovered by the Mai brothers. He opened up the situation with the drama "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers 2", and later appeared in Lam Lingdong's "Prison Storm"...

Then it became a bit finalized - a tall, mighty, ferocious villain!

At that time, the classification system was introduced, and three-category films set off a trend. Among the three-category films in a broad sense, romance films were undoubtedly the most marketable.

The Mai brothers also wanted a piece of the pie, so they invested in and produced "A Book of Secrets" and cast Xu Jinjiang to play the leading role...

"Mr. Mai hoped that I could make some new breakthroughs. He was kind to me, and actors should be versatile, so I agreed."

After opening her acting career, she successively appeared in a large number of romantic films such as "The Monk Waiting", "The Heart Sutra of the Jade Girl", "The Girl Without Buttons" and so on.

Xu Jinjiang was very popular for a while, filming 13 movies in one year!

"Sometimes I'm at BJ in the morning and fly to Taipei in the evening. After a short rest, I have to immediately get into character and prepare to start the show... I can't figure out whether I'm acting..."

"How is that good?"

"I stopped acting for a while..."

By the way, he also took the initiative to mention romantic movies: "There is a fine line between art and sentiment. If you are a sentimental person, what you see is sentiment. From an actor's point of view, I don't care what other people say. Once you receive a script, don't be timid, or else you won't shoot it. Besides, do I have any negative news in my life? Not at all. Because I am an actor, and actors should have many facets."

Makes sense…

But the selling point of these scenes you filmed is the astringency!

It really has nothing to do with art...

Is there anything artistic about "The Ten Tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" and "Twelve Rooms in a Brothel"?

Of course, Shen Xudong could not tell the truth, but looked at him with admiration and said, "You are a real actor!"

In addition to Xu Jinjiang, there were also Zheng Peipei, Tse Junhao, Tan Yaowen...

Li Lizhen and Zhang Qian left after filming. Fortunately they left because Zhang Qian is Zhang Weijian's wife!

If asked about beating someone, Shen Xudong really doesn't know how to answer...

Zhang Weijian has been acting for decades. Except for his poor eyesight, he plays himself in every role, and he is the only one who beats people.

The people are still nice!

It can only be said that it is unlucky. There is an invisible crack between the mainland entertainment industry and the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment circles. Wang Bozhao's trouble directly widened the crack and exposed it to the sun.

Li Lizhen...what a pity!

He has watched "When the Honey Is Ripe" no less than five times...

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This meal was considered an early wedding banquet. Except for a few words with Xu Jinjiang, Shen Xudong was silent most of the time...

After all, I’m not familiar with it.

And it was stated that the incident happened not long ago...

Shen Xudong also had no intention of actively making friends.

After the dinner, Shen Xudong returned to his house...

Yes, he bought this house with a yard!

I thought it was good before, but when I think about Hengdian again, I can foresee that he will come here often in the future. Buying one is considered a spare, and it is much better than staying in a hotel!

I inquired about the price, 450,000...

Including the house with a small courtyard of nearly 260 square meters, the price is only 450,000?

Buy now!

He was going to call Teacher Huang - he was still a student after all...

Taking a leave of absence for three months is enough to take a break from school!

Teacher Huang is actually quite proud. After all, Shen Xudong, as his student, has been hanging out with so many big guys since his sophomore year!

Although the purpose of the Drama School is to cultivate masters, in the market economy, how can it be so easy to cultivate masters?

Being able to become famous is the true meaning!

Of course, being proud, he was still ordered to go back to school at the end of May...

Shen Xudong naturally agreed.

After hanging up the phone and facing the computer screen, he suddenly couldn't write anymore - he accepted two horror film scripts from Tang Ren...

Well, domestic horror films, the kind that make money, the two films together cost 3 million, just a purely routine script...

Cai Yinong is really capable and hooked up directly with Lianhe Cinemas - Shanghai United Cinemas is the largest cinema chain in Shanghai, which solves the screening problem!

The requirement of the contract is that Tang Ren will advance the production funds himself, and as long as the theater chain recovers the cost, the money earned will be divided into her half of the profit...

This contract is actually quite harsh.

To recover the cost...

Cai Yinong and Shen Xudong promised "a guaranteed salary of 50,000 + 8% profit dividend"...

It stands to reason that Shen Xudong should be very casual about making this kind of money, but he just can't keep writing - the outlines are all listed, "Desolate Village Inn" and "Midnight Heartbeat"...

That sucks!

After all, Shen is considered one of the leading screenwriters born in the 1980s, so he just wrote this?

If word spreads, what will book fans think of him?

It’s so embarrassing!

I can’t put down my pen...

I tilted my head back on the chair... and stretched my brain. In fact, there are a few horror-thriller online movies in later generations that are quite good, such as "Legend of the Xing'anling Hunter", "Yin Yang Town Ghost Story", "Mountain Village Fox Wife"...

Forget it, just write "Mountain Village Fox Wife", at least it won't be that bad...

"The Village Fox Wife" is really good, a bit like "Rashomon", five people tell the same story, the fox has five layers of skin (illusion), the blind man, the medicine seller, the prisoner, the woman, the police chief, the five perspectives are different After peeling off a layer of skin, the fox begins to reveal his true identity (the truth), and at the same time, the play also moves towards the final reversal.

What is the truth? The truth is still nothing more than deception, loss of humanity, and people killing each other.

Although it is a last resort to use the so-called cows, ghosts and snake gods to wrap up the discussion of human nature, it can be considered a clever move.

Shen Xudong was very impressed...

That's it, the narrative style of "The Legend of the Xing'anling Hunter" is very different from that of "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village"...

They are all produced by the same team, and the rhythm is also about telling ghost stories and real stories...

As for the production cost, it should not be very high, after all, it belongs to the Internet genre.

First write "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village".

With the quality of "The Village Fox Wife", it won't be a big problem to win 6 million at the box office. Even if it doesn't get it, it won't be a problem to make back the money. Even if it doesn't work, at least it won't lose its share...

In social circles, reputation is very important!

Don’t make bad movies in the early stages...

Oh, why not write "Yin Yang Town Ghost Story"?

The cost of this film is a bit high, and the characters and scenes are a bit big. The original time and space cost nearly 15 million to shoot. Shen Xudong did not think that this project was a good choice.

After all, the reason why he agreed to Cai Yinong was not only because he did not refuse the project offer, but also because he really felt that this matter was going to work.

But if you gamble with "Yin Yang Town Ghost Story", it's a bit unnecessary...