China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 660 Female Villain

It is not difficult to hear from Liu Heping's complaints that he is very dissatisfied with the chaotic phenomenon of bad money driving out good money in the entertainment industry.

Li Yu was very calm: "Teacher Liu, they are them and we are us.

Not everyone’s goal is for art, most people do it to make money.

Most people won’t work hard because they can easily make money by doing nothing.

We just need to do our own thing well. We have no right to interfere in other people's affairs, let alone change the situation.

In fact, many of them have no choice but to do so because they are forced by the situation.

Take TV dramas for example. Investors and TV stations all recognize traffic stars. What can they do?
If we don’t invite popular stars, no one will be willing to invest. If we don’t invite popular stars, even TV stations won’t be willing to buy the show.

Most of the money is used to hire popular stars, so it is inevitable that less money will be spent on production.

This is caused by the environment and cannot be changed by one or two people.

But if you are strong enough, you can ignore these rules."

This is why Li Yu founded Hualiu Company to acquire Station A.

Hualiu Company is responsible for producing the works, and Station A serves as a platform for recovering costs through broadcasting, thus forming a closed loop.

So he can be more free when filming a drama.

He has money and doesn't need to look at the faces of investors.

He has a platform and doesn't need to consider the TV station's mood.

If Li Yu didn't have his own company, his own platform, and wasn't so famous, he would have encountered the same situation as Liu Heping.

Shortly after sending Liu Heping away, Li Yu received a call from an old acquaintance.

"Li Yu, you are so mean. You secretly tinkered with a blockbuster without even informing me." Fatty Fan said sourly.

"Sister Binbin, I'm not being sneaky, my film hasn't been officially approved yet.

I'm still looking for someone to polish the lines. But you, how did you know this information? Could it be that an undercover agent in my company told you?"

Li Yu immediately retorted.

He doesn't take the blame for this, what's the point of being sneaky? The lines haven't been learned yet, which means the script hasn't been finalized.

Fan Xiaopang, who originally wanted to make fun of Li Yu, accuse Li Yu of being dishonest, and then take the opportunity to ask for a role, was immediately embarrassed.

The script hasn't even been written yet, so what's the point of being sneaky?

She was careless.

"I was careless." Fat Fan was flexible and immediately admitted his mistake.

"Why don't you change your name from now on. Don't call yourself Fan Xiaopang anymore. Call yourself Fan Qinglu." Li Yu said unhappily.

"As long as you assign me a role, you can call me anything. Anyway, you have called most of the roles I have played." Fan Xiaopang took the risk.

At certain times, Li Yu had called her character's name in the play, and a little thoughtlessness was no big deal.

For some reason, Li Yu felt like a train was running over his face.

As expected of an experienced driver, the speed is really amazing.

Li Yu still wanted to say: "I'm afraid it won't work this time. Even if I give it to you, you probably won't want to act. Because this is a very typical man's play. There will definitely be female characters, but they all serve as embellishments. You don't need to play an inconspicuous supporting role in my movie." This is true. He wants to film the story of the Huang Chao Uprising.

In a story like this, there is really no need to force a female character to become the protagonist.

The female character with the most scenes in Li Yu's script "Thief" is the daughter of a prominent family in Chang'an.

Huang Chao came to Chang'an City to take part in the palace examination and met this girl.

He failed the exam, and thought that as long as his career wasn't going well, his love life would be fine. He should be able to find love, right?
Huang Chao came from a salt merchant family and was relatively wealthy, otherwise he would not have been able to afford to fail the imperial examination three times.

Coming from a small place, he naively thought that Chang'an City was like his hometown, where money could solve most problems and as long as he paid a high betrothal gift, he should be able to marry the beauty.

As a result, the cruel reality hit Huang Chao hard.

How could a salt merchant who was not worthy of being on the stage marry into a noble family?
Not only did his overconfident behavior become a laughing stock in Chang'an City, but he was also ridiculed by the girl in person.

After hearing this, Fat Fan thought the plot was outrageous.

Huang Chao’s family had been salt merchants for generations. He was a wealthy man, and he himself was talented, but he couldn’t even marry a girl from a prominent family?

"Sister Binbin, no wonder your The Empress of China was ridiculed by everyone, you have exposed your cultural level again.

The story I just told you sounds a bit outrageous, but in fact, it is even more outrageous than mine in history.”

Li Yu said.

Wei Zheng was quite powerful, a capable minister during the reign of Emperor Taizong and a famous prime minister during the Tang Dynasty.

He had become a high-ranking official in the Tang Dynasty, but because he came from a humble family, his social status was not as high as those of the aristocratic families that had existed for hundreds of years.

In order to improve his social status, Wei Zheng offered a heavy betrothal gift and wanted his son to marry into the Wang family, which was already in decline at that time.

What happened was that the other party didn't give me any face at all and directly refused.

Wei Zheng tried to use the power in his hands to change the other party's opinion, but the other party still did not give him face and looked down on his humble background.

This is the clan system that has been formed since the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

In addition to Wei Zheng, there is another typical case. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Xue Yuanchao who said after he became prime minister that the biggest regret in his life was that he could not marry a woman from the five surnames.

Why didn't he say that his regret in life was that he couldn't marry a royal daughter?
Because at that time, marrying the daughter of aristocratic families was indeed more prestigious than marrying the emperor's daughter.

The Tang Dynasty's Emperor Wenzong once complained helplessly that his family had been the emperor for 200 years, but in everyone's eyes, their status was not as high as those of the famous and prestigious families.

Even Wei Zheng's son and people like Xue Yuanchao couldn't marry women from prominent families. Huang Chao, a salt merchant, was nothing. It would be a miracle if people would look down on him.

"You already understand the situation. The female character with the most scenes is a bit like a villain. She contributed a lot to Huang Chao's blackening. Would you play such a role? Even if you want to, I don't recommend you to do it. You are not a newcomer who only wants to show up on the big screen." Li Yu said.

This is his original story, which is completely fictional, so how could he not add some material to make the plot more ups and downs.

Later, Huang Chao relied on the rebel army to break into Chang'an City.

Huang Chao asked the noble families who had rejected him in the past whether they were willing to marry their daughters to him today, and whether they still felt that he was a salt merchant of humble origin and was not worthy of standing with their famous families.

After the other party expressed his willingness and said that it was all a misunderstanding, Huang Chao directly replied that forget it, he wanted to make sure that aristocratic families completely disappear from the world.

He wanted to kill according to the family genealogy of the aristocratic families, and leave no one alive whose names were written in the genealogy.

This kind of plot is cool, exciting, and very ironic.

(End of this chapter)