A widower's entertainment

Chapter 238 [Relationships] (Subscription Request)
Beijing, Xinghua Hutong.

The book "Walden" that he brought with him when he first met Cha Hailing was exactly the book that Cha Hailing took with him when he went to Shanhaiguan and chose to commit suicide in another time and space. This discovery made Lin Youcheng feel an inexplicable coincidence.

Of course, he knew very well what the outcome of such a coincidence would be, but he had no way of knowing. He now just hoped that Cha Hailing, who was far away in Qinghai, could receive the letter.

After all, this is the most important thing.

After Lin Youcheng sent out the letter written by him and his child, he no longer cared about the letter because he really didn't know whether Cha Hailing could receive the letter.

Lin Youcheng still focused on the movie script of "My Brothers and Sisters". This was not the first time that Lin Youcheng had written a script. Not to mention the two previous versions of the script for the movie and TV series "The Sound of Wind", Lin Youcheng was originally a screenwriter, so writing was quite smooth.

In Lin Youcheng's opinion, this movie is actually extremely sensational, otherwise it would not have been hailed as a "heavy tear gas bomb" in 2001 and won the box office championship of domestic films that year with 2000 million yuan.

As a film with family as its theme and touching as its means, the story script can be called drama-style. The plot will seem very clichéd in the future, and it has a similar pattern to "Mom, Love Me Again" which will be released in mainland China later.

But Lin Youcheng knew very well that at this time in the 1980s, such a plot could make the audience watching the movie in the cinema shed tears in the theater, and the cinema would even give out handkerchiefs with the tickets.

Because this kind of art film only focuses on emotions and does not have the twists and turns of love and suspense in the plot, it focuses on grasping the details, arousing the audience's resonance, and pulling at the audience's innermost strings. If it can truly achieve this, the film will be a success.

As a low-budget movie, there is no extra money to create tragic scenes, so it can only be expressed with details. In fact, emotions are details, and simple and plain plots are more likely to resonate with the audience. In particular, there are quite a lot of details in this movie. The scene where a family of six takes pictures in a photo studio with the background of Tiananmen Square fully highlights the sense of family. There is also the younger brother Qi Tian calling the radio station to wish himself a happy birthday in the name of his older brothers and sisters, and Qi Tian jogging with a small radio on the playground, and Si Tian running beside him. Si Tian ran without saying anything, and there is also what Lin Youcheng wrote now-

"Please take my sister in. My parents are dead and there is no one to take care of her."

"Please accept her!"

"I know you two are good people and you don't have any children. My sister can go anywhere with you. All you have to do is give her something to eat."

"I have money here. I can use this money as travel expenses for my sister."

Seeing their elder brother Qi Yiku kneeling in the snow, kowtowing and begging, the couple felt pity and had to agree...

Before this, Qi Yiku had already given his younger brothers and sisters to others to raise. This is the fate of the little people. In the torrent of the times, like a small boat on the rough waves, it is always swaying, and no one knows what will happen in the next second...

The Yanjing Film Studio received news from Director Cheng Zhigu that he had found the well-known writer Lin Youcheng to be the screenwriter and wrote a script for a family film. Naturally, everyone at the Yanjing Film Studio was looking forward to Lin Youcheng's script.

This is a script written by Lin Youcheng alone, not an adaptation of a novel.

It can be said that the people at Yanjing Film Studio will be the first audience for Lin Youcheng’s new story, which naturally makes them quite looking forward to it.

Although Cheng Zhigu was looking forward to it, he naturally would not urge Lin Youcheng to complete the script. However, to his surprise, Lin Youcheng quickly finished the script and asked when he would send it over. Cheng Zhigu naturally would not let Lin Youcheng deliver it personally, but went to Xinghua Hutong to discuss the script himself.

Although he already knew the general plot of the story, Cheng Zhigu couldn't help but be moved when he read the script, especially when he saw the little sister's red eyes from crying when he sent her away, and her pleading words: "Brother, don't leave me alone."

There was also Sitian's heart-wrenching cry of "brother", but her brother was running alone on the empty street. The long street set off her brother's lonely back, which was very desolate and miserable.

Even though it was just the words in the script, Cheng Zhigu could feel the strong emotions in it and was truly moved by the family love.

"Youcheng, don't worry, our Yanjing Film Studio will definitely make a good movie."

Hearing Cheng Zhigu's words, Lin Youcheng nodded. He was not worried at all about Yanjing Film Studio filming "My Brothers and Sisters". He just smiled and said, "When the movie is released, I will take my children to the cinema to watch it."

"When the movie is released, we will prepare the movie tickets and send them to you."

Cheng Zhigu was also very clear that it was not just the movie tickets for the upcoming movie releases. Now that Lin Youcheng had finished writing the script, the film studio also had to pay him the royalties as soon as possible.

Originally, Cheng Zhigu approached Lin Youcheng to write a script for a war film, or a spy film. Now, the film "My Brothers and Sisters" given by Lin Youcheng is a family film. The shooting cost is not high, but it is quite good for a feature film. As an old filmmaker, Cheng Zhigu can naturally see that if this film is really shot and released, the box office performance will definitely not be too bad.

Of course, the prerequisite is to film Lin Youcheng's "My Brothers and Sisters" well.

"Youcheng, do you have any actors to recommend for this movie?"

After hearing Cheng Zhi's question, Lin Youcheng thought about it for a while and did not recommend any actors to Cheng Zhi. He just said, "The most important thing about this movie is the young actors."

Cheng Zhigu nodded when he heard what Lin Youcheng said. He suddenly remembered that some of Lin Youcheng's children seemed to be of the right age. Moreover, it seemed that Lin Youcheng's children had acted in the movie "War Meridian" before. He couldn't help but ask, "Youcheng, have you ever thought about letting your children try out the role of the Qi family siblings in this play when they were young?"

"them?"

Lin Youcheng was slightly stunned. He had never thought about this question at all. Although the brother and sister Lin Zhaomei and Lin Zhaoqing had played roles in the "War Meridian" produced by the August 1st Film Studio, it was just an experience.

He has never really thought about letting his child go into acting in the future. After all, it all depends on what path the child wants to take in the future. The most important thing now is to go to school well.

However, this movie originally needed child actors, and if the actors were really cast directly, his father, the screenwriter, would have stuffed his own child into the crew.

This is another case of real connections!
(End of this chapter)