It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 1295: Working on a new script with the idea of ​​making your last movie?
"You guys keep watching. I'm going to play with Little Stone for a while."

After sitting on the sofa and watching "Shangyang Fu" for half an hour, Chen Fei was completely defeated by it.

He really didn't expect that Zhang Ziyi would poop such a big thing!
Judging from the plot of the first episode, the story has no purpose, the characters have no basic logic, and there is not even a thrilling part. It is simply treating the audience as morons.

It didn't even take him half an hour to see the central conflict of the play.

"Extremely poor script", "lack of tension between the actors", "exquisite photography and soundtrack and scenery do not match the plot"... there is a huge contradiction between these three.

In other words, this is "baba wrapped in a layer of gold!"

Especially for those viewers who care about the hard logic of the plot and the rhythm of the story, it is simply unbearable to watch!
However, it is bound to be popular, after all, this is Zhang Ziyi's first costume drama with a female lead since her return to the TV drama field.

And if nothing unexpected happens, various hot search reports and voices of fan support will follow tomorrow.

Chen Fei stood up and left first to go play with Xiao Shitou, while Zhou Xun, Liu Yifei and the others were still watching with great interest.

"It's useless!"

The moment Zhou Xun saw Zhang Ziyi’s 15-year-old costume, he let out a strange cry, feeling somewhat gloating.

The role of Daru, played by her before, has always been the target of criticism from many people, and people would occasionally bring it up to complain about.

And now, someone who can share the firepower with her has finally appeared!
"Sister Xun, please stop smiling. It's too evil." Jing Tian covered her mouth and giggled.

"Okay, okay, I'll try my best."

Zhou Xun tried to hold back his laughter, but as he watched, he soon couldn't help but burst out laughing.

As Fan Bingbing and Li Bingqiao retreated behind the scenes, the conflicts between her and Zhang Ziyi became more and more frequent.

Now, seeing that she is acting like this in a costume drama with a heroine, I can't help but make a few comments.

But while she was laughing, she couldn't help feeling a little sour in her heart.

Starting from her and then to Zhang Ziyi now, all the costume dramas with heroines in them look like this. Doesn't it mean that in the future, actresses of their age will be completely isolated from dramas with heroines as the lead?

Turning around to look at Liu Yifei, Shu Chang, Jing Tian and the others, she felt more and more melancholy.

"It's not okay for this person to refuse to accept his age!"

While she was sighing, she had already made up her mind.

After "Rock Solid" is officially completed and the upcoming "The Accidental Murderer 2" is finished, it will be about time for her to move behind the scenes.

The focus in the future will have to be shifted to that girl Zhang Jingyi.

Thinking of her, Zhou Xun's heart suddenly felt warm.

After his divorce last year, she had always been by his side, entertaining him and keeping him company while also taking on the important task of guiding him.

Although she is just a contracted artist, one can vaguely feel that Zhang Jingyi has been treated and has a status almost the same as her own daughter.

"Alas! This is how life is. Anyway, you can't bring it with you when you are born, and you can't take it with you when you die. Who knows, you may die someday and go to heaven!"

On this side, Zhou Xun was thinking about the important things in his life.

On the other side, Liu Yifei and Shu Chang, Zhao Liying, Jing Tian, ​​Han Jianu and other girls were watching and chatting.

"Dream of Red Mansions" is also a costume drama. It will probably be launched at the end of this year or next year, and it will definitely be tested by the audience at that time.

Now, we can learn a lot of experience from "Shangyang Fu", which I think will be useful in the future.

……

After a night, it was November 1th.

As Chen Fei expected, from early morning, all kinds of press releases about "Shangyang Fu" were pouring out like snowflakes.

"Last night, on the first day of its launch on Youku, The Legend of Hao Lan had a total of 1.2 million views, ranking No. 1 among all the popular dramas in the same period!"

"According to the Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of 12:, the drama has successfully topped the popularity list of dramas in the January schedule."

"As an internationally renowned film queen, Zhang Ziyi's performance in "Shangyang Fu" is her first foray into TV dramas. She plays the role of Wang Yan, the Princess of Shangyang, who comes from a prominent family, has stunning looks and outstanding talents, but is involuntarily drawn into the chess game of power, which is worrying."

"Zhou Yiwei's role as Yuzhang Prince Xiao Qi is full of dominance, and the rivalry between him and Wang Yan is full of tension. The participation of veteran actors such as Yu Hewei, Zhao Yazhi, and Kara Hui has added a lot of color to the series. They interpret their roles vividly and bring many wonderful highlights."

"..."

Naturally, no effort was spared in the media press releases, with all kinds of nice, flattering words thrown out as if they were free.

At the same time, on Weibo, Zhang Ziyi's fans were also very excited and enthusiastically advertised and promoted their idol.

However, on Douban and Tieba, the drama has been subject to various criticisms.

Douban users in particular are almost criticizing this drama.

The score of 5.6 is simply a poke in the spine of "Shangyang Fu"!
"Zhang Ziyi's acting is as usual like a blind person, and in this drama she is more like a bitter and vengeful queen mother."

"Alas, such excellent actors, such expensive costumes and props, but with such a childish script and such a mediocre director, it's simply a waste of good things."

"Why are all the main actors middle-aged or elderly? This kind of Mary Sue drama should be played by young people, right? Zhang Ziyi's appearance is okay, but her age cannot be hidden. Besides, she is not suitable for playing Mary Sue at all! It's really embarrassing!"

"The male lead is greasy, the female lead is old, especially the female lead, who is still playing an innocent girl at this age, which is really distracting and hard to empathize with."

"Okay! I hereby officially announce that the replacement for Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace is here, and it is - The Story of Yanxi Palace!"

boom--

As a piece of exquisite porcelain exploded on the floor, Zhang Ziyi's anger could no longer be contained.

"What the hell? How did I become an old woman? What's wrong with me playing a young girl? Ah! Can't I play a young girl?"

The roar echoed in the office. The agent and the assistant looked at each other and lowered their heads silently.

In fact, everyone had guessed this situation long before the series was launched.

After all, Zhang Ziyi is 42 years old this year.

When Zhou Xun starred in Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace before, he was about this age, and he was criticized a lot.

Originally, they wanted to use the dual blessing of acting skills and plot to cover up the defect of "old age".

But I never expected that the plot was also a flaw among the flaws...

"Ziyi, don't be angry yet. I will contact the operations team and try our best to delete or suppress the negative reviews online.

What we mainly lack now is popularity and traffic. As long as we can increase the latter two, this drama will make money.

At worst, they can just cover their ears and make the money, and then think of ways to restore the reputation after the subsequent dramas are offline. After all, it’s already online now, so they can’t just withdraw it, right? "

Chinese people usually have this habit, which can be abbreviated as: since we are here~
The same is true for "Shangyang Fu" now. Since it has been aired anyway, it might as well proceed step by step. It can't be withdrawn halfway, right?

The loss will only be greater! Much greater!

"Oh." After a long sigh, Zhang Ziyi finally acquiesced.

Anyway, this is the situation, so let's just leave it like this...

"Jingle Bell--"

Suddenly, a shrill phone call rang in the office.

Zhang Ziyi's agent glanced at the caller ID and pressed the answer button with some confusion: "Hello?"

A deep voice slowly sounded on the phone: "I am the deputy general manager of the China Film Project Team..."

As the voice continued to come from the other end of the phone, the agent's face changed again and again, just like a face-changing actor, from surprise, to confusion, and then to sudden realization!
After more than ten minutes, the call was hung up.

Zhang Ziyi looked over curiously, "Who is it?"

"From China Film Academy."

"Central Film Academy? What are they going to do?"

"I want to ask you if you are interested in changing your career to become a director? And co-produce a movie with other people."

"what?!"

Zhang Ziyi was confused. Why did they ask her to be the director?

She is an actress, how can she know how to be a director?
But at this moment, the agent said: "How about I contact them first? See what the specific rules are? If the conditions are right, why not give it a try?"

"Can a good actor become a good director?"

"Yes! It just so happens that you don't have any other job right now. If we can work together successfully, this might be a good opportunity and gain popularity. If you can successfully cross over to become a director, that would be even more exciting, right?"

"Okay!" Zhang Ziyi was immediately persuaded and said quickly, "Let's go to China Film Group right now. I want to see what kind of project it is that they asked me to be the director."

She set out immediately.

On the other hand, Jiao Hongfen said to his secretary, "Continue to collect information and invite all the most popular actors at the moment. Let's carefully select and see if we can find some suitable people among them and let them form a 'cross-industry director' lineup. The popularity will definitely be boosted!"

The secretary was completely confused by Jiao Hongfen's "fantastic" idea.

But he still chose to do it.

After all, the leader has given the order, so we can't just disobey.

What made him wonder was, would this operation really work?
Let a group of actors make a movie, and a mainstream movie at that, it may generate popularity, but can the quality be guaranteed?
……

In the next few days, the broadcast of "Shangyang Fu" continued and it was very popular.

However, its reputation is declining day by day, and there are more and more criticisms online.

The phrase that was shouted out during the previous promotion, "to be a benchmark for costume TV dramas", has completely turned into a boomerang and hit back hard.

However, the gimmick of Zhang Ziyi's first costume drama with a female lead is relatively high, so much so that the drama has been on the hot list and hot search list.

As I said, black and red are also red!
At the same time, "Life Events" officially entered the key extension stage.

This kind of high-quality literary and artistic drama has a large audience, and Zhu Yilong and Zhao Liying are also leading the traffic.

As of now, the film has been released for more than a month, but the daily box office revenue is still stable at more than 1000 million.

"At this rate, maybe I can apply for a second key extension, haha."

Su Guohai was quite excited. After all, the longer the broadcast time, the higher the company's benefits would be.

Fade Chen smiled and suddenly thought of another thing: "By the way, have the year-end bonuses and benefits been distributed?"

Due to the epidemic, large-scale evening party events at the end of the year cannot be held.

Therefore, Chen Fei simply converted it all into bonuses and prizes, and distributed them all according to their performance.

Those big guys in the post-production special effects department are undoubtedly feeling a little uncomfortable, after all, they can't watch the girls in the girl group dance.

However, when faced with a huge bonus, everyone quickly forgot about the little sister~
"They have all been distributed." Su Guohai replied, and added: "Including the several studios affiliated with the company, they have also distributed the relevant benefits one by one according to their performance."

"it is good."

Fade Chen nodded with satisfaction.

A good boss should never deduct the benefits that should belong to the employees in terms of salary and benefits.

There will be absolutely no benefit if you really do that!

Money is earned, not saved by skimping and lowering costs.

After spending more than an hour with Su Guohai and roughly planning the relevant arrangements for the whole year of 2021, Chen Fei went straight to the post-production department.

The post-production of "Changjin Lake" has entered a very critical period, and he must keep an eye on it.

Details determine success or failure, this sentence will never be out of date.

"Jingle Bell--"

However, before reaching the entrance of the post-production room, the cell phone suddenly rang.

Chen Fei took it out and saw that it was Wang Changtian calling.

After the call was connected, he subconsciously asked, "Have you applied for a key extension?"

"Never mind that for now. Have you heard? Ningying Chairman Yang Hongtao has been identified as a dishonest person by the Taihe County People's Court. The execution target is as high as 1168 million! He has also been listed as a 'restricted consumer' by the People's Court."

Yang Hongtao?
When he heard this name, Fade Chen couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

But he soon reacted.

Wasn’t the movie “Asura” released in the summer of 18 invested by this person?

It cost more than 7 million yuan to make less than 5000 million yuan at the box office and was completely pulled offline after only three and a half days of release.

At that time, Yang Hongtao was still clamoring that the rating websites and cinemas were deliberately trying to cheat them out of the movie, and then he angrily took the movie down!
Fans of actors such as Wu Lei, Liang Jiahui, and Liu Jialing even showed their support, as if they were standing up for their idols.

But in the end, nothing came of it.

It was as if this movie had never appeared, and in a trance, it disappeared without a trace.

Chen Fei remembered that he had talked about this with Wang Changtian and others at that time. This movie was definitely ruined by the Yang Hongtao brothers.

Now it seems that this is indeed the case.

"Heh, he deserves it. As long as he doesn't run away, he will spit out everything he swallowed sooner or later!"

"Alas, these state-owned enterprises, except for China Film Group and Shanghai Film Group, are now on the decline. I wonder how glorious they were in the past..."

Although Xiying has been revived again with the support of Feiyue Films.

But all this is false.

If the next chairman causes any trouble again, it will probably become history.

"Oh, by the way, there are some clues about the extension of the key for "Solid as a Rock"."

"Ok?"

"The Supreme People's Procuratorate Film and Television Center spoke to the bureau, and now is the peak period of anti-corruption, so this movie is in line with the times."

"Haha, this is a great thing, it's worth celebrating."

As he was talking, Fade Chen had already arrived at the post-production department.

After explaining to Wang Changtian, he hung up the phone and devoted himself to the post-production of "Changjin Lake".

At the same time, on the other side, Brother Chen Kai also brought Chen Feiyu, Liu Haoran, Zhang Xueying and Wen Qi to officially hold the opening ceremony of "Flowers in the Dust".

At this point, the first Chinese-language film project of 2021 has officially started shooting!
Just one night later, the web drama "North Drift South Turn", produced by iQiyi and directed by Feng Xiaogang, also held its launch conference in the capital.

Next up was Zhang Yimou's "On the Cliff", which also entered the shooting stage smoothly.

For three consecutive days, the internet was filled with press releases and hot searches about the three big directors' new projects.

I have to say, although they are all over 60, they are still full of energy.

No matter what the reason is, as long as you can sit behind the monitor, it’s “awesome”!
"Director Jiang, how is the preparation for your film 'Heroes of Youth' going?"

Chen Fei took advantage of his free time to call Jiang Wen with great interest and asked about the details of his new project.

He just didn't believe that Jiang Wen wouldn't be jealous when he saw those directors making new films.

"Alas, the script hasn't been written yet." Jiang Wen muttered, very worried.

"What's going on?" Fade Chen asked curiously, "Have you encountered any difficulties? Do you need my help?"

"It's not a big hurdle. The main thing is that I want it to be released in mainland China, so I have to be careful in writing the script, otherwise it will be troublesome to pass the review later."

"..."

Chen Fei was somewhat speechless.

This old guy Jiang Wen always likes to do things like this.

The script was written in a way that was neither serious nor minor, and it would easily fail to pass the review.

"How about just do it in one big way? You're old now, so why not just do it with the idea of ​​making one last movie?"

Chen Fei just said it casually, but Jiang Wen really heard it.

"What you said does make sense. I'll think about it."

"Ah?" Fade Chen was stunned for a moment, then quickly said, "Hey? I was just joking, don't take it seriously..."

He hadn't finished speaking yet, but Jiang Wen had already hung up the phone and went back to work on his new script with great interest.

He is already 58 years old this year and it is true that he will not be able to make movies for a few more years.

At worst, he will be banned for another five years. After all, he is an actor and can just find a crew to work in.

Or, continue to make a movie similar to "Looking for the Gun" in 02.

"By the way, what is this kid Lu Chuan doing? Why is there no movement in his "749 Bureau"?"

Jiang Wen muttered to himself, preparing to investigate when he had time.

He just didn't believe that the guy could make a big-budget science fiction movie!

(End of this chapter)