Actors have no vacation

Chapter 109 Answer 【Two in One】

In addition to helping actors find job opportunities and successfully audition, the subsequent salary negotiations, the basic necessities of the actors during filming, the publicity schedule after filming, and even the order of the names on the posters are also the job of the agent.

Xing Yun didn't know Guan Chen, and he didn't want to know. He was not Guan Chen's manager at all. After the crew couldn't get in touch with Guan Chen, he went to Huo Li's house to relay the news of the successful audition. To negotiate and sign the contract, Guan Chen's real agent must come.

Qian Liangyi couldn't let it go even if he wanted to, so he had to fly from Shanghai to the capital early in the morning.

"It's very easy. The salary is between 150 million and 200 million. Others are free to stay and travel. Guan Chen is very easy to deal with, and he doesn't have any requirements for these. When it comes to publicity, just remember one thing, if it can be full, it will be full After the filming is finished, he is often very idle, eager to find something to do. He doesn't care about the order of the names on the poster..." Qian Liangyi told Xing Yun the last time he signed the contract for "Police Story" on behalf of Guan Chen. Experience, with earnestness and sincerity, is like supporting an orphan.

"It's meaningless to tell me these things." Xing Yun looked down at the phone, ignoring Qian Liangyi.

Qian Liangyi was not discouraged.He thought for a while and asked, "Mr. Xing also tried a role?"

Xing Yun nodded.While Guan Chen and Holly were playing tricks together, other characters in "The Key to Destiny" were also auditioning in an orderly manner.Compared with the protagonist candidates who need to consider a lot, the candidates for supporting roles are easier to determine.Xing Yan wasn't originally on the candidate list for [Assassin's Agent], but because of his relationship with Chen, he had read the script and handed in the video, so he got a chance.The audition results haven't come out yet, but it's only been a few days.

"Guan Chen has already been selected. Director Tian has watched the video of them rehearsing together. The success rate of Teacher Xing's selection is also very high." Qian Liangyi said.

The chemical reaction between actors is also a kind of metaphysics.Some actors play couples, no matter how affectionate they are, the audience doesn't feel it, some just stand together, and the audience likes this couple very much.

Guan Chen and Xing Yan are mentors and apprentices in reality, and they play the relationship between the killer and the agent in the story, which is convincing.

Xing Yun nodded again, indicating that he also knew this truth.

"Individual actors' tax is as high as 40.00%, which is about half of the salary. It's better to let Mr. Xing join our studio, which can save a lot. The studio doesn't charge any handling fees." Qian Liangyi put on a kind look expression, give advice.

"Our performance training class is also a company with complete certificates, so don't worry about it."

"How can it be troublesome? Not only is it not troublesome, but it is a win-win situation. Teacher Xing has been in seclusion for many years. This time, he has become a blockbuster if he doesn't make a name for himself. Then other job opportunities continue to come up. The performance class can avoid taxes, but the operation is obviously not good. If the three members of Xing's class can get together, share the team, and exchange resources, like this time, when Guan Chen gets a good script, and there are roles suitable for Teacher Xing, he can increase the competition..."Qian Liangyi described The picture is very beautiful.The performance class is responsible for discovering and cultivating talents, the studio is responsible for operating talents, and later will become a shareholder of the production company to form a complete set of upstream and downstream, vowing to make the Xing family class bigger and stronger, and become a leader in the entertainment industry.

"Enough, don't think I don't know what you're thinking." However, Xing Yun didn't like this at all.

"My grandfather is attached to your studio, so I'm also working indirectly in the studio. There are only a few managers in the studio. When Guan Chen is going to work one day, Brother Zhu is not free, so you pretend to be sick, and then Then you can justifiably leave the trouble to me. Once there will be a second time, and as time passes, I will become his manager." Xing Yun sneered, expressing that he had seen through Qian Liangyi's wolf ambition long ago.

"Tsk." Qian Liangyi turned his back and clicked his tongue fiercely.hateful!It was discovered!

Qian Liangyi picked up the fritters he bought at the breakfast shop at Kuaishou just now, and took a hard bite.

They were standing in front of an old building on the side of the road.

This is where the Hawley family of three lives.

Guan Chen received the news of his successful audition yesterday, and then stayed for another night to squeeze out the last bit of academic acting knowledge from Holly, before formally bidding farewell to the family this morning.

"Let's send it here, my people are here." Guan Chen told Holly to stop.

Huo Li looked at Qian Liangyi and Xing Yun, feeling a little dazed. He always thought that Xing Yun was Guan Chen's manager, but when he saw it today, he found someone else.Could it be that Xing Yun is Guan Chen's assistant?But that hair color, those lip nails, are too arrogant... And he also knows the local snakes in Changping Studios. Some time ago, their introductions who played tricks were all his friends... Is there such a powerful assistant?

Qian Liangyi took the initiative to greet Huo Li: "I am his boss."

Holly understood.It turns out that one is the manager and the other is the boss~
At this time, Guan Chen took a few steps forward, handed Xing Yun the bag containing some clothes and books, then turned to Qian Liangyi and said, "I forgot a book in the bathroom upstairs, you first Go to the dessert shop ahead and buy me a cake, I want to eat it on the way. Don’t forget their milk tea, you need to add red beans, remember to tell the clerk to reduce sugar.”

After Guan Chen finished his instructions, he patted Qian Liangyi on the shoulder, turned around and went upstairs to get the book he had missed.

Qian Liangyi was silent for a few seconds, and explained to Holly with a dry smile: "Hehe, he is really good at guessing. I can see that I just didn't feel full for breakfast, so I want to buy some cakes and milk tea..."

Holly was confused again.

Ten minutes later, Guan Chen drank the milk tea bought by Qian Liangyi and waved goodbye to Holly.

Holly's wife was doing research at school, and his son was in kindergarten, so Holly, who was squatting at home, was the only one who came to see him off.

The camping and studying these few days was very fruitful for Guan Chen.

After Huo Li's training, when Guan Chen plays the role of an ordinary person, he is no longer helpless.He can call up the corresponding expressions and actions from the memory bank, and use a series of [choices] he thinks to piece together an ordinary person.Even if it is a kind, refined, and in love character, he can play these.

But the flaws of this method are also obvious, because Guan Chen can't find the "bridge" between the character and himself, and can't integrate, because he feels strange in his heart, and his [belief] and [emotion] are zero, so he can't reach the so-called first stage. three stages.

Holly's suggestion is to experience more, live more, and see more people. "If you find that you don't have anything in common with the character, look around, see if there is anyone you know who is close to the character you want to play, observe his actions, and try to understand him." Hawley said, acting There are no secrets in craftsmanship, everything you want to know and should know is there, waiting for you to discover.

In addition, two of Hawley's latest plays were also acquired.One was given when we met, and the other was written these days.

Sitting in the car on the way to the production company of "The Key to Destiny", Qian Liangyi casually flipped through the script that Holliser gave Guan Chen. After a cursory look, he was a little surprised. He didn't expect it to be so good.

Qian Liangyi covered the script, looked at the cover, confirmed the creator's name, and then continued to read. "Some goods." He said.

Guan Chen ate the cake and nodded his head as a matter of course: "He is a college student!"

Qian Liangyi glanced at Guan Chen with the eyes of observing bugs.

"That Huo Li has always won a scholarship in school. He also won a gold medal in the school's work competition." Xing Yun, who was sitting in the co-pilot, supplemented the information he had collected from other places.

"That's amazing." Qian Liangyi was surprised.After learning that it was the Shanghai University of the Arts, as an insider in the industry, he knew its importance, and he was even more speechless.But in the end, he shook his head: "It's a pity. No wonder the script was stuffed into you, and you didn't take it to participate in competitions and film festival investment meetings."

"What do you mean?" Guan Chen didn't understand.

"Because he is a foreigner." Xing Yun said.

A few words, but it seems to explain a lot.

Guan Chen also understood.

He felt that it was really not easy for Holly.When he was in the United States, he was denied and attacked by his family, and when he came here, he encountered prejudice and discrimination. It seemed that everything in the world was trying to persuade him to give up.Even so, he didn't say that he wanted to give up the movie, pack up his things and go back to his hometown.Sometimes he was sad, and at most secretly cried a few times, but he said that he never thought of quitting this line of work.

Guan Chen asked him why.Hawley said that although he cried, he cried because he felt sorry for his wife and children, did not make their lives better, and caused them to suffer with him.As for movies, he has never regretted choosing this path.Because he was obedient since he was a child, he was a good boy, he did what others said, and often he didn’t say anything if he didn’t like it, but everyone expected him to do that, and he didn’t dare to say no.When I was in high school, there was a sketch in the literary evening, standing on the edge of the stage, watching the classmates read out the lines he wrote, and following his instructions to make movements and expressions, while the audience in the audience stared intently, following the characters he created Crying and laughing together, he has never understood so clearly what he wants to do.

Guan Chen felt that Holly was really amazing.

Even if he doesn't have much money now, even if he doesn't shoot anything now, Guan Chen respects such a person.

"I understand." Guan Chen held the script, feeling the heavy weight of the script in his hand. "He gave me the script because he wanted to use my name to submit the script, to participate in some competitions, to hold some kind of investment event?"

"That's not it!" Qian Liangyi's body shook, and the car followed suit.

"Isn't it?" Guan Chen was surprised.

"You're a crime..." Xing Yun held his forehead, "He hopes to use the script to attract you. When you become famous in the future, no matter whether you want to cast or act, there is no shortage of investment. You recommend him when the time comes. Being a director, or using his script to make him a screenwriter, is a way out. In our circle, the most important thing is to have a work, and for a foreigner like him, it means even more."

Guan Chen suddenly realized.

"That's nothing to say, let's protect him from now on." Guan Chen has the self-consciousness of being a big brother, and feels a little happy to have a younger brother who needs to be worried and taken care of.

Xing Yun and Qian Liangyi silently made up their minds not to appear on Guan Chen's road to fame.After returning, we must throw the burden to the other party.

The production company of "The Key to Destiny" is in Changping, not too far from Holly's home. It only takes about an hour's drive to reach the destination.

After ten o'clock in the workplace, the air was a little restless.People who are far-sighted have already begun to think about what to have for lunch.

Guan Chen was guided to the conference room.

Qian Liangyi was the main force, Xing Yun was studying by the side, and Guan Chen said that he would go to Tian Tuan for homework.

However, he quietly touched the office with the ["Key of Destiny"] sign, but found that there was no director Tian in it, only a few other soldiers and generals.

A large conference table was covered with white paper and brochures, and there were several sliding whiteboards on the side, with complex relationship diagrams drawn on them, as well as the personalities of each character.As for the wall, there are some storyboards with simple lines.

Seeing Guan Chen's sudden intrusion, the shrimp soldiers and crab generals were a little surprised, and subconsciously wanted to drive out irrelevant personnel.

But after seeing that it was Guan Chen, everyone seemed to know that Guan Chen was the confirmed candidate, so they relaxed again.There is an image of [Killer] on a whiteboard, which was drawn by Guan Chen.

After Guan Chen went in, he carefully checked every cabinet and drawer, looked at the basement of the table, and looked at the style of the ceiling.

Everyone didn't know what he was doing, but seeing Guan Chen's serious face, they didn't dare to stop him.

Guan Chen closed the lid of the last carton, sighed, and turned to ask everyone, "Where's Director Tian?"

[So I was looking for Director Tian...] These words popped up in everyone's mind at the same time.

A second later, the next sentence popped up in everyone's mind: 【I'm actually looking for Director Tian!Why are you looking in desk drawers and cardboard boxes! 】

"You speak." Guan Chen saw a certain person's eyes fluctuate greatly, so he asked her to speak by name.

"Ah..." Xia Bingjia was taken aback, restrained the spit he blurted out, and said, "Director Tian went to scout the scene."

"Absconded in fear of crime." Guan Chen was a little disappointed, thinking that he could take back the answer to the homework about "What is a good person" last time.

Xia Bingjia blinked, wondering if he should react to Guan Chen's joke.

"Did he say anything?" Guan Chen asked.

Xia Bingjia thought for a while.Director Tian is a living person. Before he left, he said a lot of things as a matter of course. For example, the scene selected before was suddenly facing demolition, and Director Tian was very angry when he found out; Very angry... After thinking about it, there shouldn't be a single sentence in it for Guan Chen.So Xia Bingjia shook his head.

"What about the new script? Is there a new script?" Guan Chen felt that Director Tian might have left the answer in the script.

However, Xia Bingjia brought the script to Guan Chen, and Guan Chen flipped through it, and this one, like the one in his hand, was only the fourth draft.

Guan Chen couldn't hide his disappointment, and finally turned around the room, but there was no clue on the walls, on the paper, or on the whiteboard.

Guan Chen left and went back to the conference room where the negotiations were held. It happened that it was time for dinner, and they came out to prepare for dinner.

Guan Chen greeted a group of people, including the producer whom he met during the audition.

The producer stopped Guan Chen and handed over a book: "Director Tian told me that if you come, I will give you this. I wanted to give it to you inside, but you didn't come in."

Guan Chen didn't expect that what he was looking for was on this person, so he quickly took it.

Touching the fresh paper, Guan Chen instinctively guessed that it was a revised script.

As a result, I looked at the cover with excitement——

【"Red Boy vs. Black Cat Detective"】

Guan Chen looked at the producer with a smile, and the producer also looked at Guan Chen with a smile from the corner of his eyes.

Guan Chen laughed a few times, saying that you are quite humorous, but I have already smiled face-saving, so give me the new script.

"Director Tian asked me to give you this, saying that this is the answer." The producer said.

After Guan Chen confirmed that this was not a joke, the expression on his face was almost distorted.

……

After watching Guan Chen and his party go to the cafeteria, the producer called Director Tian, ​​and after connecting, he said, "He has the book."

On the phone, Director Tian asked, "What's his reaction after watching it?"

"I don't know yet. He wasn't there during the meeting, so it was noon when the notebook was given to him, and now he is taking it to the cafeteria, and there is no response." The producer said.

"But you really wrote that funny script."

The producers saw the script as a joke.Although the name is purely a spoof, the core inside is very interesting.Carnivores and herbivores can symbolize both men and women, as well as class, race, or groups.As the heir of the [Bull Demon King], Red Boy belongs to herbivores, but his strength is comparable to that of carnivores.

A man's self-denial is not moral without awe-inspiring power; his gentleness is not a virtue without the capacity for violence.

There is too much room for discussion about the relationship between the jungle and the jungle.

The producer almost wanted Director Tian to write this script well and treat it as his next work.

"It was just to pass the time and write casually," Director Tian said, "but he asked me what a good person is, and I happened to write it, so I wrote it casually."

The producer nodded, he also knew about it.

During the audition, Guan Chen revised his lines and left a question of "What is a good person?" Guan Chen said that when we meet next time, he wants to know how Director Tian will answer.

In the story of "Red Boy vs. Black Cat Detective", although Red Boy has been educated by Avalokitesvara for nearly a thousand years, although his disposition has changed, he has become kind and knows to do good deeds, but his nature is still an innocent naughty boy who has been stuck for thousands of years, doing things occasionally. Without consideration, they mostly acted on intuition and enthusiasm. Although they did a lot of good things, some of them did bad things with good intentions, and some blurted out unintentional remarks without consideration.

In the eyes of the carnivores who regard Honghai'er as a threat, these things and words are all the handles and weapons to attack Honghai'er.

Staring at what a person said and did, over time, there will always be flaws. As long as the flaws are magnified and magnified, then there is no perfect person in the world in the true sense.Because no one can stand such scrutiny.

The boundaries between good guys and bad guys are blurred very interestingly.

Director Tian said: "There is no standard for a good person. If you really want to define it, it depends on who he considers."

The producer smiled and said: "Guan Chen is a literature student at Yunman University. After reading the book, you may feel that your answers are crude and shallow."

……

canteen.

Qian Liangyi had ordered food for Guan Chen and was just waiting for Guan Chen to come.

Xing Yun watched Guan Chen sit down and asked him, "Have you got the answer?"

"I got it." Guan Chen nodded, and began to look through while eating.

After a while, everyone finished eating, and Guan Chen was still watching, but he read very quickly and finished flipping through it in a few clicks.

"How about it?"

"Hehe." Guan Chen sneered.

Xing Yun knew the answer.

"He couldn't think of an answer, so he wanted to use this script to bribe me so that I wouldn't hold him accountable for not completing his homework." Guan Chen looked depressed: "But this script... can't be called a script, it's just a storybook. It’s Red Boy and Black Cat Detective, they’re so weird, I don’t understand what they’re talking about.”

"The important thing is that there is no one in it, one [person], all, no, there is!"

(End of this chapter)