Entertainment from Charlotte's Troubles

Chapter 201 Marriage
Before Wu Jingjing arrived in Shanghai, Yang Siwei received Yuan Hua's instructions to prepare the contract.

Two days later, Wu Jing arrived at Yixin Film and Television, and fell silent after reading the contract.

"Mr. Yang, isn't the signing period a bit long, and the liquidated damages are ridiculously high. I'm a director, not an artist."

He signed with a director, but the contract says ten years. During the ten years, he can't direct other people's plays, and the script company that gets it has the priority to shoot...

Forget about these, except for the longer age, everything is normal, he can barely accept it.

After all, it is said to be ten years, and a single-minded film and television company may not be able to last for ten years. The average life expectancy of film and television companies in the entertainment industry is five years, and not one or two of those film and television companies that were once popular have closed down.

But isn't 8000 million liquidated damages a bit too much?
"Brother Jing, you are the director, you decide the role of the director, that is to say, you can play the leading role yourself, so our contract is said to be one, but it is actually two. The director and the artist signed together."

"Besides, you also know what the market is like. As a director, it may not be normal to make a movie in a year or two. You don't want to rely on the director for a living. You should do something else to make a living. As an artist, the company will help you find Resources for filming, receiving endorsements, commercial performances, etc.”

The contract was completely in accordance with Yuan Hua's request. Yang Siwei didn't know why he arranged Wu Jing in this way, but the company belonged to Yuan Hua, so she could only follow suit.

"Okay, I signed the contract, when will the funds for Wolf Warrior be in place?"

Although it was a little bit beyond expectations, it hadn't broken the bottom line yet. Wu Jing could accept it, and what Yang Siwei said was also reasonable. It wasn't feasible to rely on the director for a living.

One or two years is already fast enough to direct a play, and under normal circumstances, three to five years is the norm. Like Jiang Wen, Chen Kai and the others, they only make a play in seven or eight years.

If he only eats the director's bowl of rice, he will starve to death.

"President Yuan said that after signing the contract, the funds will be credited to the account at any time, and the crew will be handed over to you. You have the final say on when to shoot, and the local company that needs to coordinate will fully cooperate."

"Refreshing." This is a complete delegation of authority, and Wu Jing likes this feeling.

What he is most afraid of is laymen guiding experts, and assigning him an immediate boss to dictate.

Hengdian, the old Nine Gates crew.

When Yuan Hua received Yang Siwei's crew, knowing that Wu Jing had signed the contract, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

A few minutes later, Wu Jing called him and told him that he would be making preparations for the start-up in the next few days, and invited him to attend the wedding next month.

Wu Jing's wedding next month was already arranged, and he planned to join the group directly after getting married.

"Congratulations, Double Happiness is coming, we must be there!"

"What's so happy?" Jing Tian walked over wearing a white T-shirt with her hair coiled up high.

She plays the heroine Yin Xinyue. The timeline of the story of Old Nine Gates is autumn and winter. Now that the weather is hot, she usually does not wear costumes when she is free.

However, the clothes can be taken off, and the hairstyle cannot be moved. Once messed up, it takes a lot of time to recover, which is very troublesome.

"Wu Jing is getting married next month, invite me over."

"Wu Jing? Is that the director you just signed?"

"Correct."

"I thought you were going to be his hero."

Yuan Hua shook his head, "His directing style doesn't suit me, it only suits him."

Wu Jing is good at making military-themed movies, and only he can play the male lead, and the others don't have that taste.

"Really." Sitting beside Yuan Hua, Jing Tian propped his chin and said with a smile: "They are all married, how about you?"

"I can do it anytime."

"Aren't you afraid that the character set will collapse and fans will run away collectively?"

"Where did I come from?"

"Then let's pick a date when we have time."

"no problem."

Patting Yuan Hua on the shoulder, Jing Tian was relieved: "That's right, you passed the test."

"No, you lied to me?"

"Haha, do you think my age is suitable for entering the palace of marriage? I'm going to test you. Let's go and put on makeup."

Jing Tian still has a movie waiting to be filmed. In order to meet her schedule, Yuan Hua asked the director to shoot her movie first.

After ten days or so, I took seven, seven, eight or eight shots.

Today, it's Zhang Yixing's turn to play, he and Tan Songyun play husband and wife.

Half of Er Yuehong's play is on Tan Songyun's body, and the other half is on Yuan Hua's body.

Not wanting to put pressure on him, Yuan Hua asked him to act with Tan Songyun first, to familiarize himself with the set and rhythm, otherwise he would act with himself, fearing that he would not be able to handle the scene.

"Welcome, two, take a picture, right? This way please."

"Ma'am, you sit here, sir, you sit here, okay."

"Why do you keep looking at me?"

"Like watching you..."

This scene is a scene where Er Yuehong and his wife go to take pictures together. There are few lines, few body movements, and low emotional ups and downs. It is very simple.

Standing behind the monitor, Yuan Hua quietly watched Zhang Yixing's performance.

In the 3-minute scene, Zhang Yixing's lines came down, but the effect was not very good. The performance was completely overwhelmed by Tan Songyun, and even the cameraman who did the trick was more natural than him.

It's the first time I'm filming, so I can understand, so Yuan Hua didn't ask the director to shout, and planned to tell him about the play after he finished filming.

On the set, Zhang Yixing exhaled after the performance, and his assistant handed him a bottle of water, and he drank most of it in one go.

After drinking the water, he wanted to ask the director how he was doing, but before he arrived at the director's studio, the words of two staff members caught his attention.

"This scene is good, the slide rails are pushed very well, but the male lead is not good."

"The background wall also works well."

"Hahaha, what a loss you are, don't let people hear it, or you won't be able to eat and walk around."

The two staff members lowered their heads and whispered behind the camera. When they looked up, they happened to see Zhang Yixing, and they were extremely embarrassed.

Then, Zhang Yixing was even more embarrassed than them, his face turned red and he didn't know what to say, his toenails were almost cut off.

The slide rails are pushed well, but the male lead is not good, so this is no one's evaluation. Fortunately, he thought he acted well.

Without staying longer, and without the face to find the director again, Zhang Yixing sat back on the rest chair, holding a bottle of water in a daze.

In less than 2 minutes, the director came to talk to him about the play, very carefully, and asked him to shoot again, keeping the director's words firmly in mind, Zhang Yixing's second filming was not as good as the first one.

Before the director could shoot for the third time, Yuan Hua came to Zhang Yixing and waved to Tan Songyun.

"Your problem is not in the performance, but in the wrong state. Have you two played against each other?"

Yuan Hua thought that Zhang Yixing was a little nervous when he was filming for the first time, but the second time he found that was not the case.

His restraint does not come from his first filming, but from his unfamiliarity with Tan Songyun, eye contact, line rhythm, it is not a channel.

After all, it wasn't the first day he met Zhang Yixing. He recorded a few episodes of Extreme Challenge. This young man is quite cheerful, and he has performed on stage all year round. He has rich stage experience, so he shouldn't be afraid of the camera or the audience.

"I did it twice yesterday, and I did it twice today." Tan Songyun said first.

"How's the effect?"

"He's kind of shy."

Being called shy by a girl, Zhang Yixing couldn't lift his head up. If there was a crack on the ground, he would definitely slip in.

Yuan Hua said to Zhang Yixing: "Have you talked about a girlfriend?"

"No."

"Boy, ahem, it's hard for you, let you play a married man."

At this moment, Zhang Yixing wants to live on another planet.

He has been a trainee since he was 17 years old. He practiced dancing for more than ten hours a day in South Korea. He has no time to fall in love. Besides, the company does not allow artists to fall in love.

"But this is not the main reason for your NG." Yuan Hua said seriously: "As an actor, the role is fake to us, and we don't have to experience it to perform better."

"Otherwise, one day I will take on the role of a murderer, and I won't be able to stab someone to find my feelings."

Zhang Yixing was amused by Yuan Hua's metaphor, and Yuan Hua continued: "Do you know what the teachers in the acting department usually teach in the first class at Nortel?"

Tan Songyun answered quickly: "I know, liberate nature."

Although she is from Nortel's higher vocational class, she knows more about acting than Zhang Yixing, a rookie.

Zhang Yixing nodded, the acting teacher he found said the same thing, and taught him.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Hua shook his head: "We are familiar with each other. At that time, in the first class, Mr. Huang made my tablemate and I get to know each other in 3 minutes, and completely eliminated the strangeness. Do you know the method? "

"do not know!"

"do not know!"

"It's a hug. After introducing each other's names at the same table, hug for 3 minutes. After 3 minutes, you will not be so strange to each other. Now you two try."

Zhang Yixing has trained so much in private, it shouldn't be at this level of acting, and his problem is not in acting, but because he is not familiar with Tan Songyun.

I haven't had much contact with girls, so I'm awkward with hugging my shoulders, how can I act like this.

"Oh, that's it, I learned it." Tan Songyun nodded, turned to face Zhang Yixing, stretched out her hand and said, "Hello, my name is Tan Songyun."

Standing up, Zhang Yixing shook hands with her: "Zhang Yixing."

Seeing that Tan Songyun was about to hug Zhang Yixing, Yuan Hua's mouth twitched, and he held her shoulder: "You don't need to move, Zhang Yixing is here to hug."

This training is mainly for Zhang Yixing, Tan Songyun is not important, this girl is more familiar with herself than anyone else, and she has passed the level of releasing her nature earlier.

Now you give her a script, ask her to play a wife on the wedding night, and she can sleep when she lifts the quilt.

Pretending not to care, Zhang Yixing and Tan Songyun hugged, smelling the smell of girls' hair shampoo in their noses, and their hearts were beating.

Yuan Hua took out his mobile phone and sat on Zhang Yixing's seat, crossed Erlang's legs and said, "Three minutes, don't stop, you just think it's Er Yuehong now, he's a girl, find out how he feels."

Dozens of pairs of eyes from the production crew were staring at this side, Zhang Yixing's scalp was numb, but he couldn't let go, he could only hug him.

1 minutes, 2 minutes, 3 minutes.

In just 180 seconds, Zhang Yixing felt that the seconds felt like years. When he was a trainee, he would dance for more than ten hours a day without being so tired.

After three minutes of hard work, when I thought I was liberated, Yuan Hua's devilish voice came lightly.

"Kiss her forehead."

Zhang Yixing's forehead was sweating profusely, and he shivered, and after touching it lightly, his face turned red like a monkey's ass.

Turn around and pick up the water and drink it non-stop.

He finally understood why there are people who are so emotional because of drama, acting as a couple every day, cuddling and hugging, it is really easy to fall in love.

"Mr. Yuan, you are very good at training actors." Tan Songyun said with a smile on Zhang Yixing's back: "Zhang Yixing, don't fall in love with me."

"Pfft! Cough cough cough!"

"Okay, you guys get ready, take the third one later, don't NG anymore."

10 minutes later, the director's booth.

Sitting side by side with Yuan Hua, the director smiled and said, "Mr. Yuan, you really have it. It was done in just a few minutes. Now Zhang Yixing is obviously not nervous, and his condition is much better."

"It is estimated that I will take a few more shots to let him be familiar with it and it should be usable."

Zhang Yixing before was like a stretched string, his bones were stiff and he couldn't let go.

After being in Yuan Hua's hands for a few minutes, I didn't expect such a big change.

"Recruit boy, there is still a long way to go." Yuan Hua said with his hands folded on his chest.

……

Wu Jing got married, and his wife is the host Xie Nan. The marriage of the two did not cause a sensation in the entertainment industry.

Neither of them is top-notch, nor are they young. One is almost 40 years old, and the other is in his 30s, which is a normal age for marriage.

On the day of the wedding, Yuan Hua asked for leave from the Old Nine Gates, and after the ceremony, he randomly found a table with a lot of children to sit down.

Among the guests at the scene, there were more relatives of the newcomers and relatives, and there were very few insiders.

On the big day, Wu Jing was very happy, drank a lot of wine, toasted one table after another, and was seven to eighty drunk.

When it was Yuan Hua's turn at the table, he could still joke with the children.

"You're pretty, don't enter the entertainment industry in the future."

Xie Nan pinched him, and smiled awkwardly at Yuan Hua: "He's drunk."

"Understand, understand. If I have a daughter in the future, I won't let her enter the entertainment circle."

……

After Wu Jing's wedding, Yuan Hua went back to the crew to continue filming The Nine Gates.

But this time it is not in Hengdian, but in a scenic spot in Sichuan Province.

The cost of building an ancient building of the Zhang family is not cheap. In order to save money, the crew and the scenic spot negotiated, and the family paid half of the cost.

After filming, the crew left and the ancient building was given to the scenic spot. This is the best of both worlds for both parties.

After the broadcast of the Old Nine Gates, the ancient building can bring popularity to the local area. It is foreseeable that it will become a tourist attraction in the near future.

"Old Xu, you have worked hard!"

Standing in front of the Zhang family's ancient building, Yuan Hua handed Xu Shi a cigarette.

He entrusted Xu Shi with the design of the Zhang family's ancient building. As the author, Xu Shi should be the clearest about the picture of the ancient building.

In fact, Yuan Hua also built the ancient building of the Zhang family when he was filming Notes on Tomb Raiders, but the ancient building was very rough, because it had already appeared once, and it was not suitable to appear here again.

After taking a puff of cigarette, Xu Shi showed a smile on his tired face: "What's the hard work, you paid me wages."

At the beginning, Yuan Hua asked him to choose between selling the script and investing. After thinking for many days, he finally chose to sell the script and get 500 million.

Taking 500 million yuan does not mean that he has nothing to do with Lao Jiumen. Yuan Hua asked him to take the title of producer and screenwriter and participate in the creation of the whole process.

Of course, they are also paid, and there is still a lot of money.

Yuan Hua said with a smile: "With this experience, you will have to do it yourself next time, right?"

"Not necessarily, it still depends on the situation, but if there is a need for cooperation, I will definitely find you first."

Similar to what Yuan Hua said, this time he has accumulated a lot of experience and learned a lot, and next time he may have to do it himself.

(End of this chapter)