You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 709: The new film starts shooting, the old horse stumbles. The new king ascends the throne, it's fresh~
Wang Quan: "Xiaotian, where are you?"

"The Demonic City."

Wang Quan: "Go back to Beijing."

"What, you missed me?"

Wang Quan: "I need you for a moment."

"Use me for a moment, what do you think I am, a masturbation cup? This is called objectifying women, don't you understand~" Xiaotian said with a grin. After being in charge of Xiaohongshu for so many years, she is so good at using those feminist terms.

"So do you want me to use it or not~"

"Wait a minute, I'll book the ticket now." Xiaotian said enthusiastically.

The next day, Xiaotian returned to the capital. After a lot of excitement, she finally understood why Wang Quan asked her to come back. It turned out that it was some important matter.

He asked her to accompany him back to his alma mater, of course, it was Xiaotian’s alma mater - Qinghua.

Wang Quan wanted Xiaotian to accompany him to find someone, a 17th-grade student in the Precision Instrument Department of Qinghua University named Pang Zhongwang.

This young man was the top scorer in the science subject of the college entrance examination in CZ City, Hebei Province in 17.

Some media said that he was the top scorer in the province, but that is actually a false rumor. Today's media are of varying quality, and there are too many unreliable ones.

His college entrance examination score was 684 points, but because he participated in Qinghua's rural special program, Qinghua gave him a policy of lowering his admission score by 60 points.

Of course, it can also be understood as adding 60 points on the original basis, which is the same as adding 20 points for independent enrollment (Strengthening Basics Plan).

So a score of 744 was also reported, but this score was only for Qinghua, it was not counted as the college entrance examination score, and was not included in the provincial ranking.

But no matter whether he scored 684 points or 744 points, the people across the country had basically no objection to the 60 points he added. Some only felt heartache and admiration for him.

After all, he was able to get into a top university without any extra points for his ability, and his personal experience was legendary.

Xiao Pang is a farmer's son. His mother suffers from congenital spina bifida and atrophy of her lower limbs, and she has to sit in a wheelchair all her life.

The elderly grandparents were worried that no one would take care of their daughter after they died, so they reluctantly married her to a mentally ill man.

When two disabled people get together, the child they give birth to probably won't have a smooth life. When Pang Zhongwang was young, his life was hanging by a thread because of congenital heart disease. It was his mother who pushed her wheelchair and borrowed money from every family to save the child's life.

After listening to Wang Quan's account of this junior's experience, Xiaotian was so ashamed that he couldn't even raise his head.

As a student of Tsinghua University, some people can get in just by doing some aerobics, while some people have so many debuffs stacked on them that I don’t know how much effort they have to put in to be able to step into Tsinghua University.

She whispered, "After your movie comes out, I will definitely be criticized as a negative example again."

Wang Quan smiled and stroked her head: "Then should I take the photo?"

"We have to shoot it anyway. The simple description of this story has already moved me. I can't even imagine how classic and beautiful it will be when captured through your lens." Xiaotian thought to himself, it doesn't matter if I get scolded. I can't get the advantage and not let others say a few words.

Then they found the person involved, Pang Zhongwang, but Wang Quan noticed the black embroidered scarf on his arm.

Not long ago, Pang Zhongwang's mother, who was diagnosed by doctors as not living past the age of 20, passed away and lived past the age of 50.

So in this face that looked like Guo Jingjing, Wang Quan saw the sadness hidden beneath the calmness.

Because of this, in his conversation with Wang Quan, what he talked about most was not how hard it was for him to study, but how his mother was strong-willed, optimistic and powerful despite her disability, and how she encouraged him to study and make progress in such difficult circumstances, as well as the little things they did together in their daily lives.

His description gave birth to a vivid image of the Chinese mother in Wang Quan's mind.

However, Wang Quan will not change his creative direction to the deep love between mother and son so easily. He still wants to shoot a group portrait of the lower-class people taking the college entrance examination, and the male protagonist based on Pang Zhongwang will not be the only protagonist.

But he and his family will definitely be the brightest part.

Wang Quan obtained the authorization from Pang Zhongwang and paid a licensing fee, which he insisted on paying.

After his mother passed away, he lost some of his financial resources. He still had elderly grandparents to support and a mentally unstable father. Even though his tuition was free, he still needed money for other things.

This money solved his urgent needs and allowed him to focus more on his studies. He plans to complete his bachelor's and master's degrees in four years and take the doctorate exam next year.

After that, Wang Quan did not break off contact with Pang Zhongwang and would consult him on some details when writing the script.

Pang Zhongwang, who took the money, was also very responsible. He answered all questions as they came up, including some difficult topics about the sexual psychology of teenagers.

Soon the two became friends, and later when he had his first girlfriend, he told Wang Quan, an expert in relationship experience, and asked for his advice.

While Wang Quan was busy writing the script, the Hundred Flowers Awards was also held in Henan Province.

In addition to the people from the movie channel, this year's hosts also include Ma Fanshu and Tong Yaya.

It was the first time for Yaya to host such a formal occasion, and Ma Fanshu was responsible for passing the message.

In fact, Ma Fanshu was also unhappy. She understood that Yaya was preparing to host the upcoming Spring Festival Gala. Humph, it was obviously me who chose this track first!

However, Yaya has the buff of a minority ethnic group, and with the help of Wang Quan, it is not difficult for her to perform on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

This year's Hundred Flowers Awards was no different: it started low-key amid controversy and ended low-key.

The Best Film award was given to "My People, My Country", which was not even nominated for the Golden Bamboo Awards.

The Best Director award was given to Guo Fan from "The Wandering Earth", who has been very popular recently.

The Best Actor award was given to Huang Xiaoming, the leading actor in "The Bravest", which made everyone drop their jaws.

The Best Actress award went to Zhou Yiran from "Better Days".

At the beginning of the year, Li Bingbing won the Golden Bamboo Award for Best Actress, and she herself had also won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, so naturally she had to work hard to win honors for her subordinates. Given the success of Better Days, the young Zhou Yiran received less criticism for winning the award than Huang Xiaoming.

Wang Quan is also planning to invite Zhou Yiran to play a role in his movie.

There are forty or fifty people in a class. Even if half of them are professional actors, it is still a large number. Even if the roles are not many, no young person can refuse.

However, Wang Quan has not yet decided on the candidate for the male lead, Wang Zhongfang.

That day he was watching TV with Xixi and his daughter, while Yang Mi was looking after his son upstairs. A drama was being played on TV, which was followed by Liu Yifei and Xiao Xianmi, called "In the Name of Family".

Wang Quan said with emotion: "Tan Songyun is so old, but she still looks so natural in playing a high school student. She is really born with a baby face."

"Yes, I think I'm already 30 years old."

"This male lead's acting skills are so dull, he relies entirely on his looks to make a living." Wang Quan complained about the male lead Song Weilong again, but when he saw the second male lead Zhang Xincheng, Wang Quan's eyes lit up.

He remembered that this student from the Central Academy of Drama was once famous as the "Spring Festival Theater Special Forces". He should have graduated for several years, but he didn't expect that he still had a baby face.

This kind of appearance will inevitably limit some of his acting options, but it is not out of place for him to play a high school student.

Moreover, this boy, like Zhao Jinmai, was considered a top student among the art exam candidates. Wang Quan secretly memorized his name.

Afterwards, Wang Quan perfected the script while starting to determine the actors. He booked many actors around 00.

Chinese drama.

Zhao Jinmai was a little panicked. She recently heard a piece of gossip that the heroine of director Wang Quan's new film was contacting senior sister Hu Lianxin, a junior at the Central Academy of Drama.

Senior Sister Hu had previously participated in the casting of "Xiao Yao You" and had known Wang Quan for a long time. Now that she has joined Mi Shi, she is even closer to the role.

But soon she got news from Zhang Zifeng, "I heard that our senior sister Zhuang Dafei from Beijing Film Academy was invited to meet with director Wang Quan, and it seems that they talked about the new film."

Later, there were rumors on the Internet that Yang Chaoyue, who is now being promoted by Mi Shizheng, is expected to star in Wang Quan’s new film.

In short, there is no news yet about what Wang Quan’s new film will be about, but several candidates for the female lead have been announced.

So during the National Day holiday, Zhao Jinmai plucked up the courage to send a message to Wang Quan, asking him where he was.

Wang Quan took a long while to reply: "What's the matter?"

At this time, he was hugging the heroine of "On the Cliff", the young girl Ye Wenjie, on the bed. The two of them met because of the kissing scene when filming "The Three-Body Problem 1", which led to her rapid rise later.

Zhao Jinmai said: "I would like to recommend myself to act in your new film."

Wang Quan: "Oh, you don't even know if there's a heroine in my new film, so you're going to recommend yourself?"

"Whether there is a heroine or not, I don't care about small roles. I just want to have the opportunity to work with the greatest director on earth." Zhao Jinmai's ears became hot after he said this.

At this moment, Wang Quan was suddenly caught at the crux of the matter. He lowered his head and smiled slightly, and replied to Zhao Jinmai: "I am very happy that you are motivated. Wait for the audition notice then."

"Beep~" Listening to the voice on the phone, Zhao Jinmai was a little unsure. Director Wang Quan asked him to wait for the audition notification. Is this a success?

Or does he only look at whether the audition result is suitable?
Thinking of this possibility, Zhao Jinmai felt ashamed of his dirty thoughts just now.

After hanging up the phone, the girl under Wang Quan raised her head, revealing her pure and lustful face, "Cunzi, why do you want this role too?"

She shook her head: "I want what the master gives me, and I won't snatch it if the master doesn't give it to me."

Wang Quan praised him, "How good." Then they looked at the box office situation of the day on Maoyan. Cunzi sighed, "'Changjin Lake' is so good. We have fallen behind."

This year's National Day holiday also features three movies, including Qian Kun & Wang Dao's "Changjin Lake".

In Jingxi Culture’s "My Hometown and Me", the chief director is Ning Hao.

"On the Cliff" by Dongfang Yihe (Zhang Yimou Company) & Wang Dao is directed by Zhang Yimou's daughter Zhang Mo.

However, compared to "Changjin Lake", these two films are a little not good enough. On the last day before the holiday, "Changjin Lake" had a single-day box office of 5 million yuan. On the first day of the holiday, it exceeded million yuan in a single day, and on the second day of the holiday, it exceeded million yuan, getting higher every day.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. The country's support in this regard is unprecedented. It is broadcast randomly on the news channel, and Maoyan's prediction of the film's final box office has reached more than 50 billion.

"My People, My Hometown" also earns more than 200 million yuan at the box office every day, and it seems to be more marketable than "My Country, My Parents" directed by Bona.

Only "On the Cliff" earned less than 100 million yuan in a single day.

But considering the director's appeal and the cast, the current cumulative revenue of 200 million for "On the Cliff" is already an above-average performance. Zhang Yimou served as the producer of the film this time, and almost taught his daughter how to make movies, so the quality is still good.

Moreover, the existence of this time and space did not become a factor in driving away the guests. In this life, because of the butterfly effect, her mother did not open a dance training class at all, and no little girl was injured.

This year there are no big three like last year's National Day. The pattern of "Changjin Lake" dominating the market has been formed and it is expected to hit the second place in film history.

As the leading male actor and one of the directors of the film, Wu Jing has once again become a popular figure both at home and abroad. He is undoubtedly the country's number one superstar and the second most popular director.

Wang Quan is a pure director after all. If it weren't for the attractive love-hate relationships between him and many top female stars, Wu Jing's popularity in China would have surpassed that of the world's top director.

Anyway, now whenever Cheng Long sees Wu Jing, he has to call him "Brother Jing". He has been in the business for his whole life, but the total box office is not as good as that of his four movies.

The second male lead, Fan Chengcheng, also ascended directly, with Midea Fat Ice providing door-to-door service and bringing along a few of his own employees.

She also wanted to ask Wang Quan, "Do you need Ye Zi and Chu Ran for your new film? Just say the word and I'll ask them to stop what they're doing."

Wang Quan nodded: "You don't have to tell me, but my film is more realistic, so I need to appear without makeup."

Hearing this, Zhou Ye was not afraid at all, but Wang Churan felt that his temperament was too mature, so he did not get involved.

Fat Bing said again: "Do you need a female teacher role? I can do it."

Wang Quan ran to the thick part and slapped it: "If you are a teacher, how can students concentrate on their studies?"

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After 20 days of release, "Changjin Lake" officially exceeded 50 billion, becoming the sixth film in mainland China to achieve this result, and Wu Jing's second 50 billion-level film.

From then on, he had two films with box office of more than 50 billion, Wang Quan and Jiang Wen had three, and Nezha had one.

However, becoming famous sometimes comes with many frustrations, such as the subsequent release of "The Battle at Lake Changjin".

This is a mission movie, which started shooting on August 8 and was released on October 1. China Film used three directors, Guan Hu, Guo Fan and Lu Yang, to shoot a 10-minute plot three times from different angles.

Wu Jing has now almost become the spokesperson for mainstream movies. If he had not been busy shooting the Sino-US joint venture "The Meg 2" at the time, he would have been given the leading role in "The Battle at Lake Kongka", and it was finally decided to be Zhang Yi.

Wu Jing also hopes that he can become an international superstar like big brother Long and senior brother Li, so this time he collaborated with Johnson and Li Bingbing on "The Meg 2", which is also his second attempt to hit the Hollywood market after "Pacific Rim 2".

This time it tells the story of Li Bingbing's younger brother Wu Jing and her husband Johnson going to the bottom of the sea to rescue her who was trapped, and then the three of them bravely fighting against the Megalodon and the sea monsters.

Because of the addition of Wu Jing, Johnson and Li Bingbing's pay is higher than in previous years, so the cost has increased, the big scenes have increased, and it has become a film with a cost of 1.3 million US dollars, which is a first-line blockbuster even in the United States (the first one cost million US dollars).

During the promotion period of "The Battle at Lake Changjin", Wu Jing, a supporting actor, participated for two days in exchange for one day of rest, and was also called by Wang Quan to have a gathering.

Wang Quan asked him seriously, "You haven't been hanging out with Lao Ma recently, have you?"

Wu Jing shook his head. "I didn't hang out with him before. What's wrong with him? Is he talking about 996 blessing again?"

Wang Quan: "This is even worse than 996. This guy is so confused even after he retired."

The result is that I have completely lost my voice in the Internet world.

Another person who lost his voice was Trump. He just lost the US election to an Alzheimer's patient.

There have been a lot of exciting things to watch recently, and Wang Quan had enough of the fun, so at the end of November, he announced the start of filming of "Small Town Test-Taker" in a school in Hebei Province that was decorated as a high school!
The male lead of the film was Zhang Xincheng. When he signed the contract and received the script, his tears suddenly burst out.

The key is that it was too sudden. Although he had auditioned before, he didn't expect that he could really get the leading male role!

After all, the most popular young male actors such as Liu Haoran and Peng Yuchang also auditioned with me at that time. Compared with them, I had never acted in a serious movie and was just a TV drama star who was neither high nor low.

It was not until he signed the contract that he found out that he was the No. 1 male role, while his junior Liu Haoran, who had graduated from Beijing Dance Academy and was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, was chosen as the No. 2 male role, and Peng Yuchang was the No. N male role.

During the script writing stage, Wang Quan finally decided that the leading female role would be the head teacher, and the actor he chose was last year's Berlin Film Festival winner Yong Mei, who looked like a middle-aged teacher.

The second female lead is the paralyzed mother of the male lead. Wang Quan finally gave this role to Ren Suxi. Her cheating incident has been exposed. Nowadays, society is tolerant of women. Cheating is just her true nature.

Moreover, Wan Qian snatched a disabled role from her, so it was fair for her to return a disabled role to her.

This role requires very high acting skills, and the actress has to be very, very thin and not too good-looking. Ren Suxi was Wang Quan’s first choice.

And by then you can get a movie theme song with a score of at least 80 from her.

In addition to these four main characters, there is the squad leader played by Zhao Jinmai.

She was considered the third female lead, so it would be a lie to say she was not disappointed. However, after joining the crew and knowing what roles the first and second female leads played, she no longer had any ideas. She was already the number one female lead among the students. Actresses like Hu Lianxin, Liu Haoqi, Li Gengxi, Zhuang Dafei, Xiang Hanzhi, and Zhang Jingyi were all ranked after her. I heard that some of them were just background roles and had few lines.

As for Zhou Ye and Yang Chaoyue, their roles are purely cameo appearances, and it is hard to say whether they can keep their scenes.

Wu Jing joined the crew as a guest star on the first day of the filming. Just like in "Good Teacher", he played a physical education teacher and shot a day of morning exercises, physical education classes and other courses.

When he made his first guest appearance, Wu Jing saw a circle of students on the playground, all holding small notebooks and muttering to themselves, and most of them were wearing glasses.

Of course, that was also part of the performance, and the guest actors were all students from this technical secondary school.

Wu Jing couldn't help but sigh: "Is this the atmosphere of high schools in Hebei Province?"

"This is the learning atmosphere in most high schools in China that are not capable of providing quality education. Without a good family to support you, if you want to change your fate, you can only work hard on your own. Okay, Old Wu, let's get started."

Wu Jing’s guest appearance is the physical education teacher, but the other subject teachers are not.

Among them, the teachers of Chinese, mathematics and English have the most roles. Yongmei plays the English teacher, Guo Xiaodong plays the mathematics teacher with a Shandong accent, and Chen Yao plays the young and literary Chinese teacher.

Thanks to the unremitting recommendation of her old classmate Meng Ziyi, this girl from Sichuan and Chongqing, whose career was at a standstill, finally got this precious performance opportunity.

Having experienced the rise and fall of popularity, Chen Yao cherishes this hard-won opportunity very much, so not long after joining the crew, she spent the night in director Wang Quan's room. Her sensibleness makes people feel distressed.

Wang Quan added Hu Lianxin and Cunzi to the crew just to solve the problem of night life. Unexpectedly, before the students took action, the teacher took action first. From now on, there is no need to worry about the night life.

At the end of the month, Wang Quan missed the Golden Rooster Awards due to filming, but Yang Mi attended and presented the awards.

Although she had never won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, she gave the award to Gao Yuanyuan from "The Accidental Murderer 2".

This is another unexpected surprise. Although there are many complaints online that Gao Yuanyuan's acting skills are not good enough to win awards, there are more supporters. After all, most people on the Internet are people who judge people by their looks.

With such a face like Da Meiyuan, not to mention winning the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress, she can also be the owner of the Earth.

Li Bingbing was very upset about this. He performed so well in "Send Me to the Clouds" and even won the Golden Bamboo Award, but he lost at the Golden Rooster Award.

"Bah, the Golden Rooster Award is just a fake award!"

"Okay, Sister Bingbing, how about I let you play with my golden chicken?" Faced with Li Bingbing's complaints, Gao Yuanyuan felt helpless. She didn't want to do that either.

"What's so fun about your Golden Rooster? If you want to play, just play..." Li Bingbing rolled his eyes, "Why don't we go visit that guy and make a surprise attack."

Gao Yuanyuan shook her head: "Don't disturb him when he is working. Even if it can bring him temporary happiness, he will definitely be unhappy in his heart. He regards watching movies as more important than anything else."

Li Bingbing thought about it and agreed, so he gave up.

In December, "The Battle at Lake Changjin" was released with a box office score of 12, surpassing "Wolf Warrior 57.13" and second only to "Escape Plan 2", ranking third in film history. It was also announced that "The Battle at Lake Changjin 2: The Watergate Bridge", which was filmed simultaneously, will be released during the National Day holiday next year.

Cunzi also temporarily left the group to promote "Send You a Little Red Flower", and Hu Lianxin also had her period, so Chen Yao had to share more responsibilities.

Because it happened too frequently, Zhao Jinmai and several other girls who were staying on the same floor of the hotel had already noticed it.

Zhao Jinmai felt that it must have been Sister Chen Yao who took the initiative, otherwise why didn't Director Quan take action against him?

Obviously, Director Quan is not the kind of person who uses his power to bully others, and he did not make any unreasonable demands because he was given such an important role.

However, in the following days, as the Sanlitun Three Sisters and Zhang Jingyi successively went into Director Wang Quan's room and did not come out all night, Zhao Jinmai suddenly felt that he was a little out of place.

On the last day of 2020, Wang Quan announced that several young boys and girls could return to school to prepare for their final exams.

"Continue filming your parts after the holidays. I wish you all a prosperous new year!"

That night Wang Quan told those people not to come over, but before midnight, there was still a knock on the door.

Wang Quan was not surprised to see the newcomer. He smiled and let the somewhat nervous Zhao Jinmai in...

(End of this chapter)