China Entertainment's My Artistic Career

Chapter 278 Chen Sicheng
After the meeting, He Hua returned to the office and had a phone call with his girlfriend and Liu's mother. After discussing it, he donated 1000 million in their names.

Anyway, everyone is used to the two of them appearing together, so there is nothing to worry about before they are married.

Liu Yifei and the others have taken the crew of "20 Again" to Tian J. Wen Muye said that Tian J's Republic of China architecture has a retro-modern style that can create a youthful and nostalgic style.So the crew is over there looking for locations, and Liu Yifei, as a producer, not only follows the whole process, but also has to check it.

Moreover, the heroine follows her around to select scenes. Whenever the director has inspiration, he can let her change her clothes and get a feel for it, which is very convenient.

He Hua felt a little distressed and couldn't help but murmur in his heart: The only new director who dares to use his girlfriend, an actor of high status, as a mule is probably Wen Muye.But he still didn’t say anything.

In the past two years, major companies have been exploring new directors, especially at the beginning of last year Xu Zheng brought in "囧囧" with a cost of 4000 million, which made 11.23 billion in box office, and Su Lun took "To Youth" with a cost of 5000 million and attracted 6.42 billion yuan. After [-] million, everyone is like crazy trying to discover the director's new power.

Many assistant directors of well-known directors in the industry have been poached, and some companies have even gone to look for new directors who have just graduated from school.

It was at this opportunity that Tian Yusheng's "Predecessor Strategy" was scooped up by Shinshengtang Pictures, and then approached Youhua Company for cooperation in development.

Of course, Enlight Media is also working hard in this area. They only have one director, Chen Jiashang, who has been working with Youhua for so long. They have already become jealous of them, so the appearance of Zhao V this year is an accident. Chen Kexin of joy.

In addition, they have also launched a support plan to provide financial, team and other support to mature actors who want to transform into directors.Want to catch the next 'Xu Zheng'.

It was considered that they had it, and a young man who felt that his career as an actor was not suitable for him came to them with a plan.

At noon, Liuquanju Restaurant
Wearing a mask and a peaked cap, He Hua was led into a box by a waiter. When he walked in, he saw Wang Changtian, the host of today's dinner, who had already gotten up, and a young man with a humble smile on his face.

"Brother Wang, I'm sorry for being late. I have something to do." He Hua was the first to say hello.

"Hua Zi is here, not too late, not too late, just right. We are just early. Sit down quickly." Wang Changtian enthusiastically pulled him to the main seat.

He Hua declined and sat down directly on the seat on his right. Wang Changtian didn't give in. Anyway, they were very familiar with each other and sat down on the main seat.

As soon as he sat down, he opened his mouth to introduce the young man. When it was his turn to introduce the young man's identity, He Hua smiled and stretched out his hand: "I recognize Chen Sicheng, right? I have watched your TV series, "Soldier Assault"."

"Yes, Mr. He, I am Chen Sicheng. I have admired your name for a long time." Chen Sicheng bowed excitedly and humbly and shook hands with He Hua. I wonder if this gesture was fake.

Wang Changtian laughed heartily on the side: "We know each other, that's good. Sicheng is also a Chinese actor, and you are still alumni."

"Well, I really don't know about this. I'm very familiar with Senior Brother Lan Xiaolong. If I had known, I would have asked him to call you when we were having dinner." He Hua said a few polite words.

"hey-hey."

After three rounds of drinking, the two of them explained their intention.

Wang Changtian was the first to speak: "Sicheng, I have been an actor for more than ten years, and I have long been thinking about taking a step forward. Have you seen the movie "Little Children" in January?"

He Hua nodded. He had indeed seen it. Before the filming of this TV series, he wanted to contact his assistant director Cao Dun to direct it, but Cao Dun declined.

When it was broadcast at the beginning of the year, relying on the advantages of the Mango Golden Eagle independent theater and the high quality of the TV series itself, this TV series once surpassed "The Age of Naked Wedding" starring Zhang Ruoyun and Zhang Jianing to become the first in the country in ratings for the same time period. Of course, at that time "The Age of Naked Marriage" is already being replayed for the second time.

It seems that the second broadcast of this drama was also on the eight prime time broadcasts of Central Television, which shows its popularity.

Wang Changtian continued: "Sicheng, who is behind the scenes of this drama, has made a lot of contributions. The success of the TV series has also proved his talent in this area. He wants to develop into a director."

"So?" If you're a director, just be a director. Why tell him? He doesn't review who can be a director.

Wang Changtian looked at Chen Sicheng, who was listening obediently. Chen Sicheng immediately handed over a document with understanding.

Wang Changtian handed the document to He Hua: "These are some of his recent thoughts. I think they are quite good. Take a look."

He Hua hesitated for a moment, but finally took the document. As soon as he turned to the first page, his brows jumped and he saw the title above:
[Feasibility Plan for the Movie Version of "BJ Love"]

Well, no wonder they want him to review their project first.

He Hua continued to scroll down, and then saw this movie script story that can be said to be an extra story of "BJ Love".

The movie consists of several stories. The first one is about Chen Cheng (played by Chen Sicheng), a loser from the North Piao, falling in love at first sight with white-collar Shen Bing (played by Tong Liya) at his friend's farewell bachelor party. The two then started a passionate relationship, but they did not get married soon. She was pregnant first, and the two planned to get married but were opposed by Shen Bing's mother. At this time, Shen Bing's rich ex-boyfriend Shi Meng (played by Zhang Yi) appeared again.

He Hua was a little speechless. This was the original story without him, so he just created an original character and inserted it into it, and he also placed a good character on himself.

Why is it said that Beidiao Diaosi is a good character? Because it will make the audience feel more involved and empathic.

In the second story, at the same time, Chen Cheng’s boss Guo Tao (played by Wang Kai) was discovered by his wife Wu Mei (played by Gao Ye) because he was cheating on Yang Zixin (played by Zhang Xinyu). The angry Wu Mei walked out of the house late at night wearing heavy makeup.
Continuing the emotional entanglement between the three people in the TV series, He Hua raised his head and glanced at Chen Sicheng. This guy is really a talent.

The next three short stories have nothing to do with the previous ones, covering three age groups: middle school students’ ignorant puppy love, middle-aged people’s emotional crisis, and the elderly’s dependence on each other.

But when he saw He Hua behind him, he shook his head inwardly:

He already understood Chen Sicheng's creative intention. He not only wanted to satisfy his personal intentions in this movie, but also wanted to show his talent. So he added the next three stories in an attempt to show the different ages and characters' views on love. Attitude or expectation, come to a love grand garden-style work.

It's a pity that his current ability is obviously not enough.

In addition to the flaws in the timeline, the script has a very serious sense of fragmentation. Chen Sicheng deliberately used some details to connect several stories, but in He Hua's opinion, it was all in vain.

As for the project book-like document at the back, He Hua glanced at it roughly. Although it was not as good as what his company's project team had done, people with this awareness were already much more reliable than most directors today.

How to deal with it?He Hua's mind changed rapidly.

After a moment, he closed the document and looked up at the two of them.

Wang Changtian said happily: "How about it, brother, it's not bad. I think the project is quite promising, so I brought it here to invite you."

You should do it yourself. It depends on whether I can sue you or not.He Hua cursed in his heart.

"It's indeed quite an idea, but" He Hua changed the subject, which directly made Wang Changtian and Chen Sicheng nervous.

He Hua handed the document back: "The script is still a bit lacking. It's too greedy for perfection."

Chen Sicheng's face turned pale and he wanted to continue to say something. Seeing that He Hua and Wang Changtian were already talking about other things, he could only keep his mouth shut.

"Have you invested in "Tai Ping Wheel"?"

"I invested a little, but not too much."

He Hua asked in confusion: "Didn't you learn enough lessons from "Red Cliff"? Why do you still believe in him so much? Director Han also asked me to invest together."

Wang Changtian is also scratching his head. He still doesn't believe that this movie can make money, but "with a director, an excellent production team, and a group of good actors, there is no reason not to try it."

"You won't lose much if you lose money. If you make money, it will be embarrassing without you. People will say: 'You don't invest in such an obvious money-making project,' and they will look down on you."

After saying that, he spread his hands, looking helpless.But I don’t know exactly what I was thinking.

"alright."

Before He Hua got home after the show, Wang Changtian called on the way.

The question was about He Hua's true thoughts about this person and the project. It was hard to talk about it at the dinner table. Of course, he had to ask carefully now that he was gone.

"People are capable, but they are just a little arrogant."

"The script is also average, and the front and back are very separated. It is best to divide it into two, and find a story to connect the first and second stories."

When He Hua said this, Wang Changtian knew what was going on. He happily agreed and was going to send someone to Youhua Company to discuss the copyright of "BJ Love" later.

With the blessing of the previous work and the original team, this project has great prospects.Youhua doesn't care about such a project, they need a lot of light.

When He Hua returned home, he took advantage of the wine to write scripts for the "Detective Chinatown" series.

Why he wanted to make it happen? On the one hand, he saw the dominance of comedy movies in the Lunar New Year festival.

Last year, the comedy "囧" became a dark horse and won the box office championship of Chinese films. This year, "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" is also a comedy movie, and it directly beat the "囧" which was not yet popular, with a box office of 12.47 billion.

Although they have not made arrangements in advance for this year's Lunar New Year, they still decided to include the romantic comedy "20 Again".

Next year's Lunar New Year productions are also being prepared in advance. Previously, he was still considering whether to find the Happy Twist team to put their stage play "Charlotte Trouble" on the big screen or find someone else.

Now that I have met Chen Sicheng, I might as well make this movie as I please.

Another reason is that when he saw Chen Sicheng, he remembered a sentence he had seen on the barrage of "The Missing Her": "Beauty is not worth mentioning in front of talent."

There are many comments about how this young man is, how much he is worth, how much box office he has received from his movies, and they are all trying to whitewash his betrayal of his family.

He Hua didn't quite understand. When did success become an excuse for doing wrong things?Can talent be equated with character?

Of course, he may have looked at this matter too one-sidedly. After all, he only heard what netizens said on the barrage and could not get a full picture. However, He Hua still had a bad impression of him.

Anyway, nothing has happened in this world. Since he is talented, he shouldn't mind if He Hua takes away some things that belong to him in the future. Maybe it can inspire others to create other excellent works.

Thinking of this, He Hua felt that he had contributed too much to this Chinese film and continued to inspire these outstanding talents.

In the following period, He Hua focused all his attention on the script creation of the "Detective Chinatown" series.

In this regard, he is different from Chen Sicheng. Chen Sicheng creates one film after another intermittently. Even if he has considered leaving a foreshadowing for subsequent works when creating the second film, the completeness of the story will still be somewhat stretched. .

But he is different. He can directly see this series of works, including the subsequent web drama of the same name.

So what he has to do now is to sort out the storyline of the entire series, make the logic of the script more rigorous, and at the same time avoid some of the movie's surprises.

The "Detective Chinatown" series itself does not have a sophisticated case setting, but it usually nests two cases together. This structure of a case within a case makes the whole story achieve the effect of 1+1 greater than 2.

The first part is the gold theft case + Sompa’s murder case;
The second part is the Five Elements Murder Case + the Hitchhiker Murder Case;

The third part is the secret room + Qin Feng murder case.

Among them, the cases in the third part are relatively disappointing. There is nothing wrong with the Qin Feng murder case, but the other secret room is more awkward.

The plot of the secret room is a very common one in mystery novels. You fake your death to escape in order to achieve an ulterior secret. After leaving the secret room, you are killed by a third party hiding aside.

It is estimated that Chen Sicheng saw it himself, so he finally relied on Keigo Higashino's socialist style, hoping to use emotion to add points to the story. However, the emotion lacked foreshadowing and made it difficult for people to empathize, which led to a large-scale collapse of reputation.

Here, either the secret room character will be replaced with another case, or the emotional foreshadowing will be deepened.

Considering that this is already the third part of the series, the content of the movie should be more in-depth thinking than the previous two parts, and it should not make viewers who have not seen the first two parts feel that there is an obvious threshold for watching the movie, so that they Feeling that it would be equally understandable and enjoyable to just watch this one, He Hua decided to choose the latter: the significance of social reality is greater than the detective reasoning itself.

In addition, there are too many elements designed into the movie, especially the last two. They are so full that many can only be mentioned in one stroke. Therefore, He Hua has to make subtractions here and delete some unnecessary plots, such as the third part. The first scene features a long-shot gang fight at the beginning, the five spiritual boys and the peaceful elite; the second scene features Master Tang Ren descending from the sky.

Regardless of hard advertising placement, these can be handled better.

As for the choice of director, He Hua thought of someone who was very good at telling stories.

(End of this chapter)