China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 549: Dragon Ridge Caverns with a score of 9
The crew chose several buffet restaurants as the venue for the dinner.

The main reason is that there are too many people in the Crazy Journey crew, and even a buffet restaurant cannot accommodate so many people.

Li Yu and the main members of the crew came together, and the rest of the people were led by senior staff in the crew.

Every team has the same budget, including Li Yu’s.

He doesn't discriminate. He and the leading actors eat high-end buffet, while the minor actors and behind-the-scenes workers eat ordinary food.

Everyone has the same standard, about 300 yuan per person.

To be honest, for a buffet with an average cost of about 300 yuan per person, as long as you don't think about eating a high-end seafood buffet, just eat a regular barbecue buffet, the quality is definitely good and you can enjoy it to your heart's content.

"Director Cao is the protagonist today. His drama The Cave of Dragon Ridge will be aired tonight. Let us toast to Director Cao and wish him high ratings and great success.

Unfortunately, I have to continue filming tomorrow and cannot drink alcohol, so I can only drink juice instead.

After the filming of Kuang Biao is finished, I will make up for the wine I didn’t drink today.”

Li Yu picked up the glass of juice, stood up and greeted everyone.

With Li Yu taking the lead, Da Tiantian, Zhang Yi and Zhang Songwen at the same table all stood up.

"I wish Director Cao continued success in viewership."

“I wish Director Cao’s career will become more and more prosperous and he will become a great director soon.”

When people get together, it's easy to cause a commotion with everyone talking at the same time.

Cao Qing felt a little embarrassed by the compliments from everyone. He raised his glass and clinked it with everyone else. He waved his hand and said, "I'm still far from being a great director. Not everyone has Director Li's ability. I know even more clearly that I'm far from being as good as Director Li."

“You can’t say that. I promised you that if the online drama series of Ghost Blows Out the Light meets the requirements, I will invest money to let you make a movie.

Now more than one person has surpassed my box office record. Maybe your Ghost Blows Out the Light movie can also surpass mine."

Apart from some joking and super Versailles moments, Li Yu has always been very humble.

He dare not look down on those who are not as good as him now.

If you live long enough, you really can see miracles everywhere.

A movie written and directed by an out-of-date action actor can gross over 50 billion yuan at the box office.

A movie written and directed by a sketch actor can make over 50 billion yuan.

After witnessing these miracles, Li Yu really dared not underestimate some of the little people who are not very noticeable now.

Maybe these little people will get lucky one day and take off to great heights.

After the dinner, Li Yu, Cao Qing, Zhang Yi, Da Tiantian and others went back to their hotel room to watch the premiere of "Longling Mystery Cave".

The door is not closed. This is an unwritten rule in the entertainment industry.

When a pair of men and women or a group of men and women in a group enter a hotel room at the same time and the door is closed, as long as the photo is taken, if someone wants to cause trouble, they will never be able to clear themselves from the blame.

Even if you do spend a night in a room talking about the script, people will doubt that the script you talked about is different from the script they understand.

So when you need to take shelter, you will open the door.

As long as the door is open, all doubts can be refuted.

Almost all the leading actors of "Kuang Biao" came to Li Yu's room. Fortunately, Li Yu's room was big enough, with the standard of a presidential suite, otherwise it would be crowded. "So many people are watching the premiere of my new drama together, which makes me a little nervous. What if my new drama fails? Wouldn't it be a big social death scene for me?" Cao Qing said self-deprecatingly.

This is the kind of self-mockery that can only come from someone who has sufficient confidence in his or her own work.

After their collaboration on "The Lost Tomb", the three members of the Iron Triangle have become very familiar with each other, and their tacit understanding during acting has been further enhanced.

"Longling Mystery Cave" is the pinnacle of the original "Ghost Blows Out the Light" web drama, and the script was further optimized by Li Yu based on the already excellent foundation.

The script can't be bad, the actors have good coordination, and as long as Cao Qing performs stably, the quality can't be bad.

By the way, the original version of “Longling Mystery Cave” added some original extras.

It's just that the screenwriter's skills are very good, the characters of the extras are very full, and there are some jokes like "use your brain", so it didn't arouse the disgust of fans of the original novel and the audience.

I don’t know if the later Ghost Blows Out the Light web drama was inspired by the success of “Longling Mystery Cave”, and the new screenwriters followed suit and added some extras.

It's a pity, it's so bad, especially "Yunnan Worm Valley".

It was said that the Tomb of King Xian must be destroyed without a fall, but a bunch of mountain people sneaked in. It is really outrageous and instantly lowered the status of the most dangerous Tomb of King Xian.

At eight o'clock, "Longling Mystery Cave" started airing as scheduled. Like the usual new dramas, four episodes were watched on the first day, and then two episodes were updated every day, and three days a week.

The first four episodes of "Longling Mystery Cave" were of very high quality under the direction of Cao Qing. It started with a fight against the drought demon, and then Hu Bayi and Wang Pangzi teamed up to bully an old Shaanxi native who sold shoes, and didn't even let him eat a piece of meat.

The plot is thrilling, exciting, and funny. The first four episodes are enough to make people's eyes shine.

"Director Cao, you are getting more and more adept at filming Ghost Blows Out the Light. I could give 8.5 points to the previous "The Lost Tomb", and I can give 9 points to "The Cave of Dragon Ridge". It seems that the Ghost Blows Out the Light movie I promised you is basically a success." Li Yu said with a smile.

Li Yu never doubted that Cao Qing would not be able to make a good Ghost Blows Out the Light series.

Cao Qing is a director with both obvious strengths and weaknesses. He doesn’t have many personal ideas, and screenwriters love directors like him the most.

He is only responsible for the filming, and the script is completely controlled by the screenwriter.

The quality of works produced by a director like him is linked to the level of the screenwriter.

The higher the level of the screenwriter, the higher the quality of the work he produces.

If the screenwriter's level is not good, the quality of his work will definitely not be high.

The scripts for the Ghost Blows Out the Light series were all written by Li Yu, so he has said more than once that Cao Qing's big movie is a sure thing.

With Li Yu's praise and the quality of "Longling Mystery Cave" clearly demonstrated, Cao Qing instantly became the moon among the stars.

Many of the main actors in Kuang Biao began to approach him and wanted to befriend him.

Li Yu said in the crew of Kuang Biao that the Ghost Blows Out the Light movie would be a big movie with an investment starting from 200 to 300 million yuan.

There are a few actors who don't want to act in movies. They hope that by making friends with Cao Qing, they will have the opportunity to star in the Ghost Blows Out the Light movie in the future.

However, most of their wishful thinking will eventually fail.

Because the main characters in the Ghost Blows Out the Light series are very fixed most of the time, that is, the iron triangle trio.

Apart from the outstanding characters like Partridge Whistle, Blind Chen and Sun Xuewu in "The Wrath of the West Hunan" and "Guanshan Gorge", the rest are all supporting roles around the trio. Many of them became unpopular while acting. Even if they got such roles, it would not bring much bonus to them.

Of course, from a long-term perspective, the movies that Cao Qing will direct in the future will definitely not be limited to the Ghost Blows Out the Light movie. Maybe there will be roles suitable for them in the future, so their decision to make friends with Cao Qing is the correct one.

(End of this chapter)