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Chapter 250 Celebration
"Director Li, Director Liu doesn't drink, you should do it for me!"

The crew cheered at the closing banquet.

"Yes, come on, Director Li, I'll toast you with another drink." Huang Bo came over directly with a wine glass and filled it with wine.

Li Mu said angrily: "Is it because you don't usually drink? How many drinks have you toasted tonight? Are you worried that I won't get drunk?"

But the wine glass still clinked with him.

"Isn't it normal that there are no opportunities?" Huang Bo said with a smile and drank it all in one gulp.

"Director Liu, to celebrate your first time directing, even though I'm a guest star, I also had a celebration dinner. I did it, so I'm free to do it."

Huang Bo directly picked up the wine bottle and filled it up.

"I have to thank Brother Bo for the guest appearance. Isn't Brother Bo currently working on his new script?" Liu Yifei took a sip.

Li Mu also knew about this matter, because Huang Bo talked to Ning Hao, and Ning Hao also mentioned it to Li Mu.

Huang Bo scratched his head: "To be honest, this inspiration also came from Director Li's "2012". When I finished watching "2012", I was thinking, if after the collapse of order, people get the opportunity to face the reconstruction of order, what will happen to human society at this time? What changes will happen? It feels like my script is a bit like the follow-up to "2012"."

Li Mu asked: "Is it finished?"

"Not yet! I originally planned to finish writing the script this year, try to produce it next year, and release it the year after that. It seems to be a bit difficult."

To turn such a story in your head into a script and put the story on paper is really not something that can be completed in a day or two.

The context of the story, the shaping of the characters, the construction of the frame structure, the angle of the narrative, and who is the main line of the story all require a lot of effort, especially the setting of the plot and the connection between the storylines. People's work.

Huang Bo planned to work on it slowly by himself. Not only was the script time-consuming, but the director also had a lot of trouble. Liu Yifei had Li Mu to help solve most of the problems, but for Huang Bo, there were not so many convenient conditions.

"No hurry, take your time."

"Hey, I finally figured it out one day. Director Li, do you want to invest in it for me?"

"Well, I'm also very interested in the inspiration story derived from "2012". Let me see it when the time comes."

"Okay, let me thank Director Li first! I'm just saying that Xu Zheng's script should have been pitched to Meng Ying first. Now, it's fine. It's all for nothing for Huaqi. I will definitely let him write the next script. Let’s show it to Mengying first.”

Huang Bo was still a little angry when he talked about this incident.

It is no secret within the industry that Xu Zheng was tricked by Hua Qi.

After the success of the dark horse "Unfortunate Journey", Xu Zhenghuo quickly wrote a new script, tentatively titled "The Stand", and then took the script to Liu Guangwei, the boss of Huaqi Film and Television, hoping that the other party would invest in the film. , with him directing and starring.

After reading the script, Liu Guangwei expressed his satisfaction and agreed to his conditions.

Xu Zheng thought he was a stable director, but not long after, Liu Guangwei broke his promise, secretly applied for the "Stand-in" script and handed it over to someone else to direct.

In this way, Xu Zheng became an outsider. He could be said to be a mute who couldn't tell the story of his sufferings.

The next day, Liu Yifei brought the crew back to the Imperial Capital. The news of the filming naturally spread, and the filming photos were also posted on Mengying's official website.

"Director Liu Yifei's debut film "Those Years" has been completed and may be released next year."

This movie has been very popular since the beginning and is full of gimmicks.

"Can it be released earlier next year?"

"This youth film should be released soon. Please release it soon!"

"expect."

Netizens are already urging it.

Of course, the post-production of youth films such as "Those Years" is very fast and can be completed in two or three months. However, Liu Yifei is not very mature in editing. Although there are professional editors, the rough cuts can be left to the editors, but the fine cuts can be left to them. The director must continue to follow up during editing.

Generally, editors will have their own ideas, and directors need to communicate with their editors based on their overall ideas.

There are also films that are directed by directors who know how to edit. Sometimes you will also hear the emergence of "director's cuts". This type of director has strong requirements for what he wants to express and has post-editing skills.

After finishing filming, Liu Yifei can be said to have been able to rest for a while.

Recently, the nominations for the 31st Hundred Flowers Award for Popular Films were announced. This nomination gave mainland screenwriters a rare opportunity to work together and seriously protested against the Hundred Flowers Award for not awarding a screenplay award for many years.

"There is no screenwriting award in the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards, and screenwriters are excluded as a whole. This is a collective ingratitude, an industry burning bridges, an evaluation that goes against the scientific concept of development, and a betrayal of the history of the Hundred Flowers Awards!"

This fiercely rhetorical "essay" recently leaked from the Chinese Screenwriters Exchange Network and became a major topic of the Hundred Flowers Awards.

Subsequently, three screenwriters Wang Hailin, Fei Ming, and Liu Yi submitted an article "The Hundred Flowers Award has no reason to exclude rewards for screenwriters", pointing out that this year's Hundred Flowers Award "spends a lot of money to create a big trend. Without the script award, it will still be a shining award." It is tantamount to publicly promoting that domestic films do not require screenwriters, and also showing American screenwriters that their domestic counterparts have "no status", which immediately makes the Hundred Flowers Award, which aims at "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend", look extremely embarrassing.

Netizens who didn't mind the trouble were helping the screenwriter to fight for the Hundred Flowers Award.

"If you don't tell me, you don't know. Isn't the Hundred Flowers Award an award that only represents the audience's opinions and evaluations of movies? So don't you know the importance of "the basis of a play"?"

"No wonder I say that some movie stories are so bad and screenwriters have no status at all!"

"Protest, support screenwriter"

"+1!"

"The reasons Baihua gave are quite sufficient."

Ning Hao looked at the reply from the director of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival Organizing Committee with disdain.

“The audience doesn’t understand the script and doesn’t like the selection!”

"In addition to the difficulties in setting up professional awards for screenwriting, photography, art, music, etc., there are also procedural issues in adding new awards, so the time is not yet ripe."

This reason is obvious at first glance, because the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award has had the Best Screenplay Award since its inception.

The Best Screenplay Award of the first Hundred Flowers Award was awarded to "Revolutionary Family" written by Xia Yan and Shui Hua.

The Screenwriter Award is not a "new award", it can only be regarded as a "restoration award".

Lu Yang thought for a while: "I remember, didn't the person in charge of the last Film Association promise to establish a screenwriting award this year?"

"Their attitude isn't obvious yet! It's just a lie. Anyway, it's not the first time that they have been dishonest."

Li Mu has already seen through the domestic awards. Anyway, he is aloof, ignores everyone, and especially worships foreign countries.

"By the way, when is "Cinema for the Blind" scheduled to be released?" Li Mu suddenly thought about Lu Yang's new literary work.

In order to submit this film to the competition, it has not yet been released.

"Speaking of which, Director Lu has achieved a great victory this time!" Ning Hao said with a smile.

"Cinema for the Blind" won the New Wave Award and the Audience Award at the Busan Film Festival, which is considered a complete success.

"Thank you, Director Li!"

Lu Yang suddenly smiled all over his face. He received both nominations. He said that without Li Mu's help behind the scenes, Lu Yang himself didn't believe it.

"Don't worry, the Chinese Youth Video Forum has won three more nominations. I'll thank him later!"

The Chinese Youth Film Forum was founded in 2006. It is a national film festival sponsored by the Film Association and organized by Film Art Magazine. Although it is not as well-known as Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers, it is not bad. "That's a good idea." Li Mu shook his head. Busan can ask CJ to help promote it. The old stubborn people here in China are smelly and tough.

"Today is different from the past, it's hard to say." Ning Hao did not agree with this statement.

"Director Li, I plan to place "Cinema for the Blind" in early November, before the Chinese Youth Film Forum, maybe it can gain some popularity."

"also!"

Li Mu nodded. This movie promotion must not be a waste of money. The box office is probably not much. This film festival is considered free promotion.

However, this movie, with an investment of less than 200 million, can basically make a profit by selling the copyright for a good price.

"The school anniversary will be in two days, why don't you all go?" Ning Hao asked.

"Go, the teachers have called me. Director Li, I don't know how many calls he has received. He should be the one who wants to go on stage to speak."

This year is the 60th anniversary of Nortel, and it is inevitable for Mr. Li to attend when he is in the imperial capital.

The celebration is scheduled to start at 10 o'clock, but Li Mu and Liu Yifei definitely can't go there, and who knows if there will be dogs on the road, so there's nothing wrong with starting early.

After Liu Yifei came back, she felt like she had entered a state of hibernation during her sleep time, and she couldn't wake up no matter how she screamed.

Li Mu looked at Liu Yifei, who was still lying on the bed with the quilt between her legs and refusing to open her eyes.

He immediately picked up the quilt and prepared to throw it into the bathroom.

"What are you doing? The quilt will be dirty later!" Liu Yifei muttered.

"Hurry! I still have to speak."

"Okay, okay, you are like a reminder. Go out and wait for me. It will be fine in half an hour." Liu Yifei quickly sent Li Mu away.

"???"

Half an hour was definitely impossible. Li Mu's heart was like a mirror, so he deliberately moved it an hour in advance. This was the director's judgment of the situation.

At the end of October in the imperial capital, it was already a bit crisp and cool, with a cool breeze.

Liu Yifei wears a pink ink bear sweatshirt paired with nine-point casual pants. The legs of the pants are rolled up twice, and she has a beautiful ponytail, which is smart and lively.

"Let's go!" Liu Yifei walked up to Li Mu with a smile and consciously held his right hand.

Li Mu held two red invitations and tickets for the meeting. Of course, Li Mu and Liu Yifei could also enter by showing their faces. After all, they are the pillars of the Nortel Youth Faction.

Nortel celebrates its 60th anniversary. As the cradle of stars and directors, the number of alumni present on that day is equivalent to half of the film and television industry.

On the same day, the Imperial Film Academy used a red carpet to welcome the students back.

Li Mu's car arrived at the gate of Nortel School. Before the invitation was taken out, the gate had already opened.

"Thank you!" Li Mu shook his hand.

The dark-skinned guard uncle also smiled and waved in response.

Li Mu parked the car and as soon as he got out of the car, he found that the names of several celebrities had been signed on a car next to him.

Good guy, this is a live star chase, but I don’t know if the car is big enough for so many celebrities.

"Oh, there are so many people." After Liu Yifei got out of the car, she glanced around and saw that it was full of people. There were so many celebrities that it was dazzling.

Nortel's anniversary celebration is comparable to a grand film festival.

"It's normal. Except for those who really can't participate, many people come from all directions."

This school anniversary is also an opportunity for many people to make friends.

Nortel is a big circle with countless smaller circles inside it.

At present, Li Mu and Liu Yifei are members of the small circle, and they are also the founders.

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the school, many new sculpture displays have been added to the campus, adding new color to the school.

In the auditorium of Nortel College, a huge plaque reads the glory of Nortel over the years.

“据不完全统计，20世纪80年代以来，这片占地仅105亩的校园中走出的毕业生，共囊括奥斯卡5座，金棕榈奖1个、金马奖8个、香港金像奖7个、夏衍文学奖10个、金狮奖4个、金熊奖3个、银熊奖7个、飞天奖20个、华表奖68个、金鸡奖68个、百花奖40个.”

The arrival of Li Mu and Liu Yifei attracted the attention of many people.

The seats at the celebration were carefully chosen, and the location was written on the invitation. However, perhaps because they were lovers, they were arranged to sit together.

Li Mu glanced around and saw that there were quite a few familiar people. Ning Hao, Lu Yang, Guo Fan, and Wu Ershan were seated relatively near the front. Li Mu could see them at a glance.

The four of them were still chatting there.

Brother Chen Kai's seat was almost in the front row. He was sitting next to the old director Xie Fei with a serious look on his face.

After scanning around and not finding Zhang Yimou, Li Mu felt a little strange.

"Still not seated?"

Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, and Zhang Yimou's voice suddenly came from behind Li Mu.

Li Mu turned around and saw that Zhang Yimou was wearing a suit and looked upright.

"Just as I was about to take my seat, I met you, senior brother."

"Let's go together."

The celebration was about to begin, and Zhang Yimou had no intention of finding anyone to reminisce about the past, and besides, the people he was reminiscing with should all be on the chairs in the front row.

Li Mu took Liu Yifei's hand and walked straight to the front row.

There are many actors coming, including Yuan Li, Jiang Wenli, Yao Chen, Huang Xiaoming, Huang Bo, Yuan Li, Yang Mi, Jing Tian, ​​Yan Danchen
"Director Han, you are here too!" Li Mu found Han Sanping and Huang Jianxin sitting in the front row.

"What do you mean, I can't come?" Han Sanping replied angrily.

Everyone around him chuckled.

"How can that be impossible?" Li Mu smiled sarcastically and took Liu Yifei directly to his seat.

Many actresses looked at where Liu Yifei was sitting with complicated expressions, because the people sitting in the front row were either famous or had high status and seniority.

"Speaking of which, I have to thank you very much. Bell has already reached an agreement." Zhang Yimou took advantage of the celebration not to begin and started chatting privately with Li Mu.

"As long as it's suitable. I heard that out of the Thirteen Hairpins in Jinling, only the sixth one has been selected. Is there still a seventh one yet to be decided?"

"It's not easy to choose people." Speaking of this, Zhang Yimou's expression was a little complicated.

Li Mu didn't hesitate to say anything when he saw this. It seemed that Zhang Weiping had already begun to interfere in the casting, and the cooperation period between the two "Zhangs" was about to expire.

　It's a bit stuck. Chapter 2 is still a little unfinished. I expect to publish another chapter before two o'clock.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)