When will I be the queen

Chapter 447: Bad Book

Cai Cai had just taken a nap and woke up because she was thirsty. She drank some water and was not in a hurry to go back to sleep. Instead, she chatted with Mei Zhang.

Mei Zhang is also following up on the project "Mist", mainly to coordinate Cai Cai's schedule.

"It's okay. Good things are worth waiting for. The harder the process is now, the smoother the future will be." Mei Zhang is still quite optimistic. As long as Cai Cai is not involved, he can let them do whatever they want.

Now Gebitt doesn't schedule Cai Cai's filming because he wants to protect Cai Cai.

"For a mature and highly valued project like this, it's normal to have problems. They are all struggling now, which is also a process of adjustment, and they all understand this. Only after the adjustment is completed can the filming go smoothly in the later stage. It's much better than adjusting later."

Because Cai Cai is highly capable, has strong acting skills, and is very cooperative, Gabite did not plan to let her join in the running-in from the beginning. Cai Cai does not need it. Once they have run-in, Cai Cai can directly join in the filming. As for whether there are doubts, it does not matter. No one is a fool. How did the Mist project get to where it is today? Anyone with a brain knows that it is because of Cai Cai. The crew is in a mess now because Cai Cai, who is the mainstay, is not there.

"Many projects were ruined because of false politeness at the beginning and a lack of coordination. As a result, conflicts accumulated and things got worse and worse, and the project was naturally ruined. The chaos in the early stages is actually a good thing. At least everyone is trying to find an efficient way to work and get along."

At this point, Mei Zhang started talking about gossip, "Do you know how many actors who never talk to each other after filming are still in the same crew? The audience can't see what happens outside the play, fans cover their mouths, and dare not say anything when they are paid to reveal information. As a result, when the camera is on, they are all good sisters and good brothers. There is also a family group, who call parents, grandparents, sons, daughters, grandchildren, and grandchildren in front of the camera, and call them whatever they want. When the camera is turned off, saying one more word is considered dirty, and looking at them for one more time is uncomfortable."

Cai Cai said, wow, she has never encountered such a situation. She has encountered people who are a little warm in front of the camera, but very strange and polite behind the camera. For example, she and Si Chen and Cao Xin met the domestic filming crew in the park before.

“Then are there any people in the crew who became close friends after filming a movie?” Cai Cai remembered that there seemed to be a lot of people in the circle who had really good relationships off-camera, but she didn’t know if they were close friends.

"No."

"." Cai Cai didn't believe it.

Mei Zhang said, "Can I still deceive you?" "Really not. There really isn't any relationship between actors. If there is, it's the kind where there's a strong and a weak one, or a partnership. Friends with equal wealth and status are all fake. Who dares to do that?"

Cai Cai thinks that’s not the case. “Many celebrities’ accounts have content showing them eating and traveling together. How can this be fake? It looks very genuine.”

"Eating together and traveling together makes you close friends?" Mei Zhang would not laugh at Cai Cai's naivety. "You know. In the entertainment industry, making friends is also a business. Because the audience likes to see group portraits. Many group portraits outside the camera are extensions of the ones inside the camera. Group portraits outside the camera are more fascinating to the audience than those inside the camera."

It's very simple. "In the beginning, the Empire promoted your underage team just for business and publicity. The audience has watched the show and knows that the four of you have grievances and hatreds in the show, and your relationship outside the show is solidarity and close. This is a publicity method that really touches the audience. Lily and the others may not have realized it at the beginning, but later they may not have had the intention of acting. It's just that they themselves may not have expected that they would go through so much together and have real feelings."

Cai Cai was stunned. She had never thought of this.

"If it weren't for Sarah's incident, and you were the center of the group, with Lily's personality and Aaron's way of dealing with things, you would have parted ways long ago. You see, many small groups in film and television dramas don't end well outside the play." Mei Zhang said this, and he also felt that his child was too good, and people couldn't help but be friends with her. You know, there are also people like Cao Xin who dreamed of being friends with Cai Cai but failed.

"So we are real friends." Cai Cai was quite happy.

Mei Zhang laughed too, you are indeed very optimistic.

In Mei Zhang's view, in a circle of interests, any kind of interaction, no matter how the relationship turns out, is all about profit calculations from the beginning. No one does anything without profit. The love in school days is the purest, but for the sake of academic future, there are still all kinds of conspiracies and tricks. In the workplace or in the entertainment industry, only one person can play a role, and there is no division of labor and cooperation. There is only one trophy, or even one project. Whether it is a movie, a TV series, a variety show or music, a bunch of people work hard, and only one person wins the award.

The most direct thing in the entertainment industry is popularity or not. Popular is popular, not popular is not popular. The gap between them will make even the most stable people feel unwilling. Therefore, Mei Zhang thinks that the funniest characters in the entertainment industry are those who are as calm as a chrysanthemum, leisurely old cadres, and lazy salted fish. The audience laughs and cheers, and they love to watch, but the fans know what kind of person they are.

"This kind of protagonist setting is the most common in online literature. Some say that for some reason the worse they act, the more popular they become. Some say that for some reason the less they fight, the better the resources they get. There were many scripts at one time, but let alone big projects, even for short dramas, this kind of protagonist setting was not popular. At most, it was just a few complaints. When the project was established, the producer had a beautiful idea, thinking that whoever got this kind of role that was as calm as a chrysanthemum and won without doing anything would be happy to take it, especially those with high traffic."

Mei Zhang saw that Cai Cai was no longer sleepy, so he chatted with her about script gossip. "Wan Qian also received a bunch of scripts of this kind, intending to make the traffic stars popular. In the end, guess what happened?"

Cai Cai has never seen this kind of TV series or film, and hasn't seen many scripts, so you can imagine that it is definitely a failure.

"It was so unpopular that no one took it. Not to mention serious actors, even popular actors would shake their heads and reject it as if it were a piece of dirt. The company bought a lot of similar scripts, and couldn't just leave them all in its hands, so it held a meeting to analyze them, trying to find out why everyone rejected it and make some changes. Other companies had bought a lot of scripts as well, and they also analyzed them, and later simply changed the protagonists to men, either single or double male protagonists, and only then would popular actors be willing to take it. Wan Qian also followed suit and changed the protagonist to a male protagonist, but this was equivalent to changing the spiritual core of the original script, and a good script became a vulgar story that flatters the audience."

Cai Cai frowned, “What’s wrong with flattering the audience? There is no such concept as vulgarity in art. Vulgar individuals are not stories.” The audience and the creations should not bear the stigma of vulgarity.

Mei Zhang quickly waved his hands to explain, "No, it's not the dual male leads that are vulgar. After all, the regulations of the domestic film and television industry are there. If it can be broadcasted upright, it must abide by the rules. What is vulgar is that the male lead or dual male leads are changed. If the protagonist of the script is a man from the beginning, there will be no problem in adapting the script later. But in order to avoid being criticized for broadcasting, the gender of the protagonist is changed to male. You understand this, right? If the audience knows this, they will be criticized even more."

"It seems that no matter how bad or how much criticism one gets, it's OK for men to do it, but not for women. The market accepted this kind of thinking and logic of changing the script. At that time, we were also afraid that the relevant departments would issue a notice, after all, this kind of behavior was quite on the line, so within a year, the idea of ​​changing the script disappeared. No one wanted to be harmonized."

“.” Cai Cai really didn’t expect this, she thought it was to save money by changing the role to the male lead because the male actor’s makeup is the cheapest.

"." Mei Zhang was a little speechless after listening to Cai Cai's explanation. You are really becoming more and more like a director. As an actor, when you hear that the character's gender has been changed, your first reaction is not to think from the perspective of an actor, but to think about saving costs. You are worthy of being my child, you are really versatile.

Blind praise. "This logic of changing the script directly reflects a very acute social problem. If it is exposed, the impact will be very bad. Those people can stop in time and stop changing the script like this, which means they have some ethics." Cai Cai understands very well how much influence this kind of film and television culture has on society.

Mei Zhang curled his lips and said, "I can only say that I'm not that stupid. I've made back the money. If I keep losing more and more, I guess many people would just throw away their brains." Sometimes, in front of wealth, it's easy for people to get lost, otherwise they wouldn't be willing to sacrifice their lives rather than their wealth.

Cai Cai also curled her lips. Indeed, sometimes the operations of capital for money are beyond the imagination of the audience.

"The problem with this type of script is that it takes things for granted. The readership of online literature is much smaller than that of film and television dramas. These viewers will accept poetry and distant places, and will like to watch those life variety shows and pastoral variety shows. In essence, they yearn for a leisurely life, or in other words, for the phenomenon after financial freedom. But the essence of this yearning is to return to a simple life and labor, to achieve what is right for labor, and to stay away from hard work, calculation, betrayal, and labor without gain."

Cai Cai talked about the script. If she got these scripts, it would be difficult to start. "For characters like the quiet and old cadre, the main thing is the temperament. It is relatively easy to expand the role. If you add positive aspects such as the saintly and kind-hearted, the role is also okay. If you are the protagonist, the story can be written darker, the supporting characters can be more bitter and vengeful, highlighting the uniqueness of the protagonist. If you write something like independent lighting for the characters, the script can also come out."

But the kind of people who play rotten and still win without doing anything, "The audience is working hard to make a living, and many people are even struggling to make ends meet, and they haven't even achieved what they worked for, and then they watch well-paid stars in TV dramas play rotten and still have financial freedom, getting something for nothing."

Cai Cai thinks it will drive some poor viewers crazy.

Mei Zhang nodded, "Later, when the company held a meeting, we discussed and came to a similar conclusion. The stars of the last century all had miserable life stories, and later on, stars who played the victim would be mocked, because the audience who had not yet achieved the freedom to eat meat did not want to feel sorry for the stars who had not yet achieved their ideal freedom and status. Now, every artist wants to be an ordinary person, down-to-earth. On one hand, they have to pursue a career in stardom, and on the other hand, they have to deal with the daily necessities of life. How many artists wish to return to the entertainment industry of the past? Even pulling out a tooth would cause overwhelming heartache."

"." Tooth extraction is still very painful. Cai Cai remembered that when Chenchen had his wisdom teeth extracted, he didn't eat well for a week. After that, there was a cavity there for a long time, and it took a long time to heal.

Cai Cai once again thanked herself for not having wisdom teeth.

But as an artist, do I have to share my tooth extraction? Oh, by the way, it is easy for artists to be rumored when they go to the hospital, so I still have to make it clear.

“In fact, the setting of playing bad and being a worthless person and the feeling of despair can be found in many TV dramas. For example, in the early stage, the character plays bad and even wishes to die, but in the later stage, he starts to change for something or someone. This is an old routine of first suppressing and then praising. The happy ending is that the person who plays bad and wishes to die has a partner and children, and rekindles hope for life. The tragic ending is that the character sacrifices himself and becomes a great person in death, or after regaining hope, he loses it again and commits suicide.”

Cai Cai thought of many characters and plots she had seen. "Most of these bad-tempered characters have a tragic past or a cruel reality. In the end, they either change the reality or are completely defeated by it. Anyway, you have to go to two extremes. If you are a bad-tempered person from the beginning to the end, then the character is dead and no one can bring it to life. Because the life of the character is reflected in the changes."

Only with changes can there be a time state, and only then will there be a feeling that the character is alive.

"If you were to play a role like this, how would you like to shoot it?" Mei Zhang asked.

Uh, Cai Cai said she didn’t want to act, “There are so many good and lively characters, why should I act a bad character?” And, “Don’t be such a pessimist, what if the company really gives me such a role and asks for my opinion, then what should I do?”

"What else can we do? Just reject it!" Mei Zhang continued, "It's impossible. All the previous script companies have sold them. It's more expensive to keep them and rewrite them. It's better to cash in directly. Some small companies are willing to accept the discarded scripts of big companies. After all, big companies have a wide range of channels to accept scripts with high quality. Even if they are discarded, many small companies will never see them."

This is the flow of capital.

Cai Cai also felt that the company had suffered a loss once and would definitely not accept such a difficult-to-film script again.

But, as I said before, the confusing behavior of capital is sometimes completely irrational.

"What is this?" Cai Cai came to the company to show up after a day's rest, and took a photo of Huamei's promotional video. There are many artists in the company who have participated in Huamei, headed by Xianjun and Cai Cai, a total of more than 20 artists, of which 13 have full contracts, and the rest are partial contracts with Wanqian. But even if it is a partial contract, it is a major agency contract, and Wanqian will not sign a small contract with a small part. Most of the partial contracts are long-term contracts signed by these artists when they first entered the industry, with the original company or the original agent, etc., because of the good cooperation, there is no need to resolve it. If you want to resolve it, just wait for the contract to expire automatically.

As for the restrictions of the contract after expiration, it depends on the value of the artist. If the value is high, there will naturally be thousands of people to help deal with it. If the value is not worth the trouble, then just let it go.

For example, some artists want to re-sign when their contracts expire, but the original contract requires that if they re-sign, the artist needs to compensate for the next year's income or simply pay a sum of money, etc. These are all aimed at squeezing out the economic value of the artist. Basically, most artists and their original contracts are amicable. If they really break up, it's not just a matter of money.

I mentioned this because Cai Cai watched a gossip among her peers in the underground garage. It was said that the artist and her former agent were once in a relationship. They had several companies and several properties jointly owned. After breaking up, the agent presided over those companies and distributed dividends to the artist, and also shared the money from the properties. Then the sub-contract expired, and the artist wanted to shut down those companies, including trademarks and properties, and wanted to take them back. Of course, it was also said that the agent's ex-boyfriend would be compensated partially, according to the highest compensation in the sub-contract.

This is very conscientious. The artist became famous and signed a contract worth tens of thousands of yuan, but she did not abandon her ex-boyfriend and still let him be her agent. They broke up later. After the breakup, she did not terminate the contract immediately and let him make money with her. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is in love.

However, the agent's ex-boyfriend did not agree. He wanted the company, the trademark, and the real estate. In short, he didn't want all of it, but he wanted a large portion of it. If his money was in it, it would be fine, but he used the money he earned to buy a house and start his own company. He didn't invest it back. He just used the artist's money to make money and share it.

After the two broke up, the agent's ex-boyfriend wanted to post a short essay online. He edited it and put it in the draft box for the artist to see. If she didn't agree, I would post it. He was persuaded by the company. After all, he wanted money. If the artist's value was devalued because of the scandal, he wouldn't get more money. The artist was afraid at first, but later became angry. She told the company that she wanted to transfer her share of the company's trademarks and real estate to the company. If the company didn't want it, she would transfer it to a mortgage loan company or an individual. Anyway, she didn't have money, but she had her life.

The scene that Cai Cai encountered in the basement was that the artist was arguing with her ex-boyfriend's agent, occasionally smashing and kicking cars, and the situation was not calm. Several employees of the company were trying to persuade them to stop fighting. These people originally came to pick up Cai Cai, but they happened to meet her, so they naturally couldn't let their own artist suffer. As a result, Cai Cai was bored in the car and watched the excitement for a long time before they were discovered. Because the immortal couldn't urge Cai Cai, he notified them. Some people continued to stay and protect the artist with the security, and some people went upstairs with Cai Cai. Knowing that Cai Cai was curious, they said it casually.

They are all our own artists, and Cai Cai, so there is nothing that cannot be said. Even if it involves other people's privacy. However, once privacy issues become a hot topic, it is difficult to keep them private. In order to prevent others from exaggerating or even discrediting the company in front of Cai Cai, we must make it clear.

Cai Cai thought the artist looked familiar to her because he had acted in TV dramas and movies that she had seen. When she saw the Immortal Lord, she asked him if this matter could have a good outcome.

Xianjun is very busy with his daily affairs and doesn't know about this matter yet. The main reason is that the company has not stepped in yet and the artists are handling it themselves.