I am a director, but I have the skills of an actor

Chapter 152: Gap, new script
"Director Wan, the fifteen theaters are basically ready and waiting to open!"

After talking to Han Sanping, Wan Qingshan flew to Shenzhen the next day.

After staying in Shenzhen for a few days, I received a call from Zhang Weiping, saying that "The City is Full of Golden Armor" is about to be launched.
When Wan Qingshan was preparing to fly directly to Hengdian the next day, he received another call from Ye Nuo. On the same day, he flew to the capital with Chen Yumo.

In the evening, a banquet was held in a hotel to entertain seven people!

"Manager Ye, I have worked hard for you during this period, and it has also worked hard for everyone. I would like to toast to everyone."

Wanqingshan picked up the glass filled with beer and drank it all in one gulp!

Ye Nian, who also drank the whole drink, put down his glass and sighed with emotion, "Director Wan, this is nothing to us. Everything depends on your funds and connections, Director Wan. Otherwise, these fifteen theaters will be fine." Maybe it will start so smoothly.”

Ye Xuan originally thought that for the preliminary work of the theater chain, if you have money and people, you just need to choose a good location.

But what happened in Yuzhou made him understand that it didn't matter if there was nothing he could do.

After Yuzhou, similar things happened to Yuzhou several times.

Because the person who helped solve the Yuzhou incident left him a phone number and said that if anything happens, just call him.

So he didn't call Wan Qingshan, but called that person directly.

Every time it was solved quickly, and dealing with government departments was smooth sailing.

This experience made him understand that with connections, even a pig can develop quickly.

"Haha, I can only rely on these to support everyone from behind."

After chatting for a while, Wan Qingshan ate some food to suppress the taste of alcohol in his mouth, looked at Ye Nianqi, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile,

"Everyone, fifteen theaters have been established. Tomorrow, I will take the certificates of these fifteen theaters to the General Administration to apply for the establishment of Qingshan Cinema Chain.

The establishment of Qingshan Cinema Line cannot be separated from everyone's contribution. As for me, I think that although I am greedy for money, I am not stingy towards my own people.

Therefore, I will give away 2% of the shares of Qingshan Cinema Line to everyone.

But I don’t know everyone very well, so I won’t say how to distribute the 2%.

It is up to you, Manager Ye, to decide how to divide the shares.

Manager Ye, you must allocate the shares before nine o'clock tomorrow morning.

Because at ten o'clock I will go to the General Administration to submit the application. At nine o'clock, everyone will come to Qingshan Film and Television Company to sign the contract with me. "

The seven Ye Ning people looked overjoyed. They thought that in the Qingshan Cinema Line, they would be high-level executives with high salaries at most, but they did not expect that Wan Qingshan would give everyone 2% of the shares and upgrade them to shareholders.

2% sounds like a small amount, but theater chains are an asset-heavy industry.

Just these fifteen theaters cost tens of millions. When it develops in the future, 2% will be worth tens of millions, or even over [-] million!

After Ye Nuan was happy for a moment, the smile on his face suddenly solidified. He looked deeply at Wanqingshan with a smile on his face.

Then, he laughed happily again, but his smile was not as natural as before and was slightly stiff!
After dinner, on the way home, Chen Yumo asked, "Qingshan, if you use 2% of your shares to drive a wedge between them, aren't you afraid that they will cause a big conflict and affect the development of Qingshan Cinema Line?"

By giving away 2% of the shares, Wan Qingshan was using the method of killing three people with two peaches to break their loyalty to Ye Nian.

Because of the above policy, Warner Bros. withdrew from Warner Wanda Cinemas.

Ye Xuan called Wan Qingshan and asked him if he knew the above policy in advance before urging him to resign.

It's just a question, Wan Qingshan won't have any objections.But later, six people spoke for Ye Nuan together, which made Wan Qingshan feel in danger.

Although Qingshan Cinema will be controlled by Ye Xiang in the future, the premise of this control is that it cannot be separated from Wan Qingshan's control.

These six people were too loyal to Ye Nian. The six of them assisted Ye Nian in taking charge of Qingshan Cinema, and Qingshan Cinema was in danger of falling out of Wan Qingshan's control.

Therefore, Wan Qingshan, who originally only planned to give 1% of his shares to Ye Xuan, would rather bleed and give 1% more shares to break their Ye Xuan's loyalty.

It is absolutely impossible for Ye Xiang to share 2% of the shares equally with the other six people. This little bit more can mean millions of net worth in the future.

It's impossible for Ye Xuan to split it equally. If he takes the big head, the other six people may not say it on the surface, but they will definitely have some grudges in their hearts.

Once there is a grudge, they will no longer be loyal to Ye Xuan, and Wan Qingshan's purpose will be achieved.

Wan Qingshan, who was a little tipsy, gently rubbed his temples and replied calmly,

"If Qingshan Cinema Chain does not develop well, then their shares will not be that valuable. They are not stupid and will understand this.

If there is a conflict between them, it is a private matter. They will not delay the appreciation of their shares because of this conflict. "

Wan Qingshan was relieved, but Chen Yumo was still a little worried.

"You'd better be careful, don't think of them too rationally, like robots.

They are human beings with tempers and emotions. If the conflict gets too big, maybe some of them will lose their temper and really disregard their shares. "

Wan Qingshan pressed down the car window, and the strong wind blew by, which made him feel much more energetic.

Then he turned around and said, "Don't worry, other people may be in that situation, but Ye Xuan won't. He knows how to weigh the pros and cons better than those people.

As long as Ye Xuan can't do it, nothing will happen. If he can't solve it, he will tell me and it won't affect the development of Qingshan Cinema. "

Chen Yumo was still a little worried, but Wan Qingshan was so sure that she couldn't say anything else.

However, in order to provide Wan Qingshan with an extra layer of insurance, she planned to transfer two confidants from the Chen Group to Qingshan Cinema when she returned. If anything went wrong, she would tell her immediately to avoid anything happening, and she would not react hastily.

After Chen Yumo made a decision in her mind, she turned to talk about the situation she had discovered before.

"By the way, Qingshan, that Ye Xiang seems to understand your intention of giving away 2% of the shares. When they were happy about the 2% of the shares, his expression changed a bit in the middle, and he even looked at you with a strange look."

Chen Yumo, who has been studying with Chen Yanfeng for more than a year, is no longer the young girl who is a little careless except for being careful about relationships.

At the dinner table just now, she didn't speak much. She only focused on eating and picking up food for Wan Qingshan, and was indifferent to the conversation between Wan Qingshan and Ye Xiang.

But she didn't care about anything. She had actually been observing Ye Xuan and the others, and she noticed Ye Xuan's almost fleeting expression.

An expression of surprise flashed across Wan Qingshan's face, and he smiled, "Haha, that's even better. Now that he saw it, he wasn't so angry that he fell out with me on the spot.

It means that he knows my concerns, and he will take measures to reassure me through the distribution of shares. "

At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, at Qingshan Film and Television Company, Wan Qingshan received a piece of paper from Ye Nian with the share allocation written on it.

Looking at the paper, Wan Qingshan looked at the seven people.

Except for Ye Nian, the joy on their faces could not be hidden, and the other four people showed a trace of dissatisfaction on their faces.

"Haha, now that Manager Ye has assigned everyone, let's start signing the contract. I will have to apply soon."

Wan Qingshan smiled and asked Chen Chen to take out several contracts he had prepared before. According to the quota written on the paper, he would sign a contract with one person for each contract he filled out.

After signing the contract, Wan Qingshan asked Ye Nian and others to go back first, and then he called Chen Yumo, who was about to mingle with Sun Yao and others, to go to the General Administration to file the application.

It took two days to complete all the procedures, and Wan Qingshan, who was about to rush to Hengdian overnight, received a phone invitation from Ye Xuan.

Wan Qingshan had no choice but to carry his newly packed luggage and, with Duan Tong seeing him off, went to see Ye Nuan!

Because he was in a hurry to catch a flight, Wan Qingshan didn't have time to be polite to Ye, and asked what was going on as soon as they met.

Ye Nian also talked directly about the shares. He even said bluntly that he had not paid attention to the distance between him and the six people before, but now he has kept a good distance from the four people. He hoped that Wan Qingshan would not do this again in the future. This is to prevent him from having trouble managing Qingshan Cinema in the future.

Wan Qingshan immediately agreed to this request.

When he saw Ye Nuan's share distribution before, he held 1%, two people held 0.18%, and the other four people held 0.16% every day, he felt relieved about Ye Nuan.

Winning two people together and creating a gap with the four people can not only reassure Wan Qingshan, but also ensure that even if these four people do something, Ye Nuan and the two people can keep the Qingshan Academy in chaos. This is Ye Nuan Give him an explanation.

After meeting Ye Xuan, Wan Qingshan was driven off by Duan Tong, got on the plane, and rushed to Hengdian overnight.

After getting off the plane, Wan Qingshan was escorted off by the airport pick-up crew and arrived at the hotel where he had only stayed for one day before leaving.

Entering the hotel, he came to the corridor where the crew had arranged a room for him. Just as he was about to open the door, the door to the room next to him opened.

Zhou Runfa led his assistant out, and then——Zhou Runfa joked funnyly,
"Wan Dao, Wan Dao, you have hurt me!"

"Brother Fa, where do you start with these words? If you don't explain clearly, people who don't know will think that something happened to us.

You've been married for so many years, it doesn't matter to you, but I'm not married yet. "Wan Qingshan replied in the same funny way.

This time, Zhou Runfa did not act like he was in the lounge where the press conference was held. He continued to act weird. He waved to his assistant to move forward slightly, and then asked in a low voice,

"Director Wan, the script has been changed. It was you who changed it."

Wan Qingshan knew that after the new script came out, someone in the crew would definitely suspect that he had changed the script.

There was nothing I could do. At that time, neither Zhou Runfa nor Gong Li came, but Fan Bayi was there.Now that the script has been changed, if you don’t doubt him, then who can you doubt?

But suspicion is suspicion, and he refuses to admit it anyway.

As long as he doesn't admit it and Zhang Yimou and the others don't say anything, no matter how suspicious they are, it won't have much impact on his reputation.

"Brother Fa, why are you like those unscrupulous media, chasing rumors and shadows! How can I have the ability to change Director Zhang's script!"

"Hey, Brother Fa, what does the new script look like? I just came here and I haven't even received the new script. Should I still play the prince?"

Wan Qingshan's somewhat deliberate change of subject made Zhou Run laugh.

He patted Wan Qingshan on the shoulder and said with a smile,
"You still play my son!"

"Oh, I thought I could change roles, but I didn't expect that I still have to call you 'Father'!" Wan Qingshan pretended to be disappointed as he spoke and opened the door.

"Haha, you can't escape."

Then Zhou Runfa whispered, "Director Wan, the new script is good!

The audience and the media only notice that you are a great director and movie king, but they ignore that you are also a gold medal screenwriter! "

Wan Qingshan, who had just entered the room, turned around and saw that Zhou Runfa had already strode away, making him unable to quibble any more.

"Qingzi, you're here!"

Wanqingshan, who had put away his things and was about to go out to find something to eat, looked back and saw the severe winter approaching from behind. "Are you hungry? Do you want to go out for something to eat together?" Wan Qingshan casually invited.

"I'm hungry! I was so busy discussing the Olympics with Senior Brother Zhao and the others that I didn't even eat. Now I just plan to go out and buy something to eat.

However, I don't have time to eat with you. I have to bring food to Senior Brother Zhao and the others. They haven't eaten yet, so I can only buy it and take it away. "

Because the crew was temporarily disbanded, Wan Qingshan and Yan Dong returned to the capital together.

But two days after returning to the capital, Zhao Xiaoding, a good teacher, called Yan Dong and asked him if he would like to discuss the Olympics together. He could learn a lot by communicating with everyone.

At that time, there was nothing to do in the middle of winter.

After the split of "Loyal Liver and Righteousness" came down, he stopped taking photos of models.

If he didn't join the crew, he would have nothing to do and would be bored. He would have no choice but to go to Qingshan Film and Television Company and chat with Chen Chen and the others every day.

So when Zhao Xiaoding summoned him, he rushed over the same day.

"You guys are working so hard, you're so busy that you don't even have time to eat."

Yan Dong shook his head and sighed, "I came here just to listen to the lectures and listen to their discussions. I didn't do anything. Director Zhang and Senior Brother Zhao are busy. Since they are studying the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, they also have to worry about the crew. I stay busy until very late every day.”

After hearing this, Wan Qingshan couldn't help but sigh again at Zhang Yimou's energy.

Although Zhang Yimou prides himself on being an old scalper in terms of directing talent, Wan Qingshan feels that Zhang Yimou's energy is the real old scalper!
More than ten years later, at the age of 70, he was still able to make a movie every few years.

Early the next morning, Wan Qingshan received a new script for "A City Full of Golden Armor" from the crew.

The new script is basically the same as what Wan Qingshan and Zhang Yimou said before, but there are some differences!

In order to stabilize the newly established country for him, the king drove his ex-wife to marry the princess of Liang.

The queen, as a member of the Liang Dynasty, should disrupt the government and secretly recruit power!
Originally, the queen only needed to be the queen for one or two years, but unexpectedly, one year after she married the eldest queen, the king of Liang, her father, suddenly died of illness.

Although, before his death, the king of Liang had already made a will for the eldest prince to inherit the throne.

The eldest prince ascended the throne, but the other princes were still secretly vying for the throne, causing political instability in the country.

It was not until ten years later that the eldest prince eliminated several princes one by one, and the national government of Liang was stabilized, and he remembered that he should be the queen within ten years.

In ten years, the queen has changed a lot!

She was a woman in a foreign country doing things that could cost her her life at any time. After the king of Liang died of illness, no one among the princes of Liang cared about her for the sake of the throne, which made her feel very lonely.

The eldest prince Yuan Xiang gave her the impression that he was a person as lonely as she was.

So after the death of King Liang and several princes of Liang not sending any messages to her, she fell in love with the eldest prince Yuan Xiang in less than two years.

The eldest prince Yuan Xiang had just gotten married at that time, and the princess was the minister's daughter - Cheng Yue.

Cheng Yue's family are all Buddhists.After Cheng Yue married Yuan Xiang, she has been guiding Yuan Xiang to the Buddha.

Yuan Xiang knew that Cheng Yue's thoughts were impure, but he didn't want to bring shame on the family, so he endured it.

In the eyes of outsiders, the virtuous and virtuous princess tempted him to believe in Buddhism, and the king controlled everything overtly!
As a result, Yuanxiang felt that although he was among the crowd, there was only one person in his world until he met the queen.

People who are equally lonely can easily come together.

Over the next few years, Yuan Xiang could only feel happy and relaxed when he got to know the queen who knew his inner suffering and understood everything about him, and he would not feel lonely!
The king saw everything the queen did, but he endured it for the sake of the kingdom.

After enduring it for ten years, until the son he had with the queen was eight years old, his kingdom finally developed!

He could finally take action, but he couldn't spread the news about the collusion between the queen and Yuan Xiang, let alone leave the reputation of killing the queen for no reason, and he couldn't break the rules of the country he controlled!
So he began to force the queen to take action and asked Imperial Physician Jiang to poison the queen.

The poisoning was obvious. He was telling the queen that if you don't take action, you will die!

He had already made all preparations. He hoped that the queen would take action and that the queen could bring in Liang's army.

Then he can weaken the power of Liang Guo and prepare for him to swallow Liang Guo!
The queen saw that the king had poisoned her and wanted to kill her. In order to survive, she began to contact Liang Guo and asked Liang Guo to send troops to attack during the Double Ninth Festival in September. She also asked Liang Guo to send a vanguard army in advance to replace the king she had carefully prepared over the years. The soldiers and armors here, with the permission of the officials who had already bribed her, waited until the Double Ninth Festival in September to enter the palace and take the king's head straight from his neck!
At the same time, in order to disturb the king's mind, and to reveal to Yuan Xiang that his biological mother, who the king said had died of illness long ago, was actually expelled by the king, so that Yuan Xiang would hate the king. When the time came, she would introduce Liang Guo to kill the queen, and Yuan Xiang would There will be less hatred towards her.

She asked the king's ex-wife, Jiang, whom she bribed before, to enter the palace and stab Princess Yuanxiang, Cheng Yue!
When Jiang was captured, Yuanxiang was confused after seeing his biological mother and didn't know how to face the king.

Jiang was let go by the king, and then the king secretly sent people to kill Imperial Physician Jiang and Jiang.

The day before September [-]th, the queen gave Yuan Xiang a piece of clothing embroidered with chrysanthemums, and told him to wear it tomorrow!

By suddenly sending him clothes and telling him to put them on tomorrow, Yuan Xiang knew that the queen, the original princess of Liang Kingdom, was going to rebel!

If the queen rebels, no matter whether it succeeds or not, the collusion between him and the queen will definitely spread, and he will definitely be nailed to the pillar of shame.

There is only one queen in his world, and now the queen is rebelling!

Before adding this, I learned that his biological mother, who had been ill for many years, was actually expelled by the king.

Completely broken, he took out a dagger and stabbed himself in the chest.

Because of timely rescue, Yuan Xiang survived.

Then the king was at Yuanxiang's bedside and told Yuanxiang that he had known about him and the queen for a long time, but for the sake of the kingdom and reputation, he said nothing.

He even told Yuan Xiang that when he was a king, he had to be patient, and he could endure what the queen did.

At the same time, being a king has to be ruthless. For the benefit of the kingdom, he can drive away his ex-wife.

What's more important is that when you are a king, you have to obey the rules on the surface, but in fact you have to make use of the rules.

Rather than clinging to those dogmas, you are so cowardly that you want to commit suicide because you cling to those dogmas!

After the king's words, Yuan Xiang changed. He told the king that tomorrow, during the Double Ninth Festival in September, the queen might rebel!

Seeing this, Wan Qingshan frowned. The plot of Yuan Xiang's transformation also completely established the theme of the movie.

This is a good thing. It is very appropriate to set the theme of the movie at this time.But this is a bit too blunt. The theme of the movie is not spoken, but expressed through the lens and the story.

It would be better to just remove this plot and use a long shot. The king gave Yuan Xiang a sticker with the words 'Monarch, minister, father and son, loyalty, filial piety, etiquette and justice' that he often looked at.

Then a long shot was used, Yuan Xiang looked closely at the copybook, showing his inner struggle during the performance, and then suddenly changed and told the king that the queen was going to rebel!

This leaves some margin for the audience to think for themselves. After a little thought, you will naturally understand that Yuan Xiang is completely assimilated by the rules and thus controls them.

Then at the end, a few minutes of footage can be shot. Yuan Xiang pretends to be guided by Cheng Yue to worship the Buddha, and penetrates into the Buddhist believers, thus killing several court officials who secretly worship the Buddha.

Yuan Xiang's king-like behavior, while ordinary viewers are surprised, can also make some viewers understand that these two plots express the feudal dynasty, which is in the process of assimilation, and continues step by step.

Wan Qingshan thought for a while, but still did not go to Zhang Yimou directly. After all, he had already changed the script once. If he changed it again, who knew what Zhang Yimou would think.

Anyway, he didn't invest in "The City of Golden Armor". He also needs to rely on the role of Yuan Xiang to win some acting awards. He doesn't care if the role is even worse!
After Wan Qingshan finished thinking about it, he continued to read the rest of the script!

On the night of the Double Ninth Festival in September, Bi Cheng, the general who deeply loved the queen because of their similar appearance, led the Liang Kingdom's vanguard army, wearing a silk scarf embroidered with chrysanthemums on his face, to sneak into the palace and kill towards the main hall!
At this time, in the main hall, the eight-year-old Yuan Cheng, the son of the king and the queen, drew his sword and wanted to assassinate Yuan Xiang!

He had known about the collusion between the Queen and Yuan Xiang since he was a child, and he had secretly seen the Queen's preparations for today's rebellion. He even saw the Queen embroidering a piece of clothing with chrysanthemums for him to keep Yuan Xiang safe.

This made Yuan Cheng collapse in his heart!

The queen came here to be a concubine and didn't love the king at all. After she fell in love with Yuanxiang, she didn't care about Yuancheng, the child she had with the king.

The king doesn't love the queen either, and he knows everything the queen has done, so he hates Yuan Cheng from the bottom of his heart.

Neither the queen nor the king took Yuan Cheng into their hearts. Yuan Cheng was also very indifferent to the queen, the king, and Yuan Xiang.

So even though Yuan Cheng knew everything the queen had done, he didn't tell the king!
But at this juncture, in order to keep Yuanxiang safe, the queen gave him clothes embroidered with chrysanthemums, but she did not give his biological son clothes embroidered with chrysanthemums.

So, he was jealous to the point of collapse, and he wanted to kill Yuanxiang, who the queen and the king cared about.

But as soon as he drew his sword, he was kicked out by the king!
At the same time, because the king had been prepared, all the Liang Kingdom's vanguard army died tragically. Bi Cheng, who was fighting incessantly, saw that the situation was over and took a deep look. In the square in front of the hall, the queen sitting at the table had committed suicide!

Then, the king forced the queen to take deadly poison, even though she rushed to the front line all night to fight a decisive battle in the canyon with the Liang army that had already penetrated!

"Okay! I don't know who thought of this war. With this war, the box office will definitely be much higher."

Wan Qingshan put down the script and murmured happily.

The war will increase the movie box office, but Wan Qingshan's salary will not be much, so it is not worthy of Wan Qingshan's happiness.

What makes Wan Qingshan happy is that he can learn to shoot war scenes from Zhang Yimou!

Period film!
If it is like "Xiu Chun Dao" and "Sword Rain" in later generations, there are no big scenes and Wan Qingshan only needs to hire a few good costume designers and martial arts designers, then he is very confident.

But Wan Qingshan would not dare to shoot a costume blockbuster. Even if he hired the best costume designers and martial arts designers, he would not dare to shoot it.

A blockbuster requires a big scene, and for Wan Qingshan, it was the big scene that stumped him and made him afraid to make a blockbuster!

The big scene seems very simple, just a bunch of people standing there neatly!

But it's not that simple to shoot that kind of magnificent scene. It doesn't just mean that a bunch of extras wear a mountain and a suit of armor. The big scene depends entirely on the director's ability to control it.

There are only a handful of directors in China who can shoot magnificent scenes. In the future, costume blockbusters have declined, and small-cost investments can achieve high box office. Great directors like Zhang Yimou no longer make blockbusters.

As for the well-known directors who emerged one after another in the following ten years, basically no one dared to shoot grand scenes. Like Wanqingshan now, they only shot movies with small scenes.

Even if a director dares to shoot big scenes, the pictures he shoots are too ordinary, without the kind of shocking feeling that people see.

It’s difficult to shoot a big static scene, let alone a big moving scene – a war scene, it’s even more difficult!

Now, with the addition of a war scene that is bigger than the palace battle scene, Wan Qingshan can learn more.

Although Wan Qingshan does not need to learn from Zhang Yimou, when special effects technology is developed, he can use special effects to shoot large scenes with tens of thousands of people, and he can also shoot magnificent scenes.

But the cost of special effects is low and the effect is not good.

The effect is good, but the cost is frighteningly high - think of the investment in "Avatar"!

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, "Mr. Wan Qingshan, Director Zhang invites you to the conference room!"

Wan Qingshan, who had a very obvious expression of joy on his face, quickly restrained his expression of joy and replied, "I'll come right away!"

(End of this chapter)