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Chapter 759: The Winemaker's Million-Dollar Fortune
Among those movies, Li Yu was more interested in "The Richest Man in Xihong City".

It's quite interesting that this movie cost a billion dollars in one month.

However, the film is not complete and there are some problems.

For example, the leading actress who brought money into the crew, who was nominated for the Best Actress at the Golden Horse Awards, must have no problems with her acting skills.

Just because of her special status as someone who brought money into the crew, the screenwriter had to modify the script specifically for her.

The scene of the hit-and-run incident was quite awkward, as if it was forcefully arranged to highlight her as the heroine.

Also, the love line between Xia Zhu and Wang Duoyu is very stiff, and the development of their relationship is very unnatural.

Without any warning, Wang Duoyu started pursuing Xia Zhu.

Xia Zhu's character of not liking money started to become a little twisted.

She said she doesn't love money, but everything that can move her requires a lot of money. Many people say this is an irony.

But no matter whether the screenwriter is being sarcastic or not, it cannot cover up the fact that the love line is stiff.

It is said that the heroine at the beginning was Mali. In the setting, Mali and Wang Duoyu were childhood sweethearts and they had a good impression of each other.

This can explain why Wang Duoyu suddenly launched a crazy pursuit, and why Wang Duoyu gave up 30 billion for a woman.

After the script was revised, the leading female character Xia Zhu was no longer Wang Duoyu’s childhood sweetheart.

Xia Zhugang already had a boyfriend when she met Wang Duoyu.

In just one month, Wang Duoyu was willing to give up 30 billion for her. It was really abrupt.

According to the normal pace of dating, it’s been less than a month. Isn’t this the ambiguous period?

Giving up tens of billions for a woman in an ambiguous relationship is a bit far-fetched.

Besides, it’s unclear how deep Wang Duoyu’s feelings for Xia Zhu are.

He started pursuing Xia Zhu just to find a way to spend one billion.

Although there are some loopholes in the plot, considering that this is a comedy movie that is simply meant to make people laugh, we cannot demand too much from it.

The original intention was to make a funny movie, and it was a success if everyone laughed.

This is also the reason why the movie has reaped more than 2 billion box office sales.

But...if Li Yu were asked to shoot "The Richest Man in Xihong City", he would definitely not shoot it like this.

He will do the same as the modified version of "Charlotte's Troubles", retaining the funny parts and strengthening the satirical content.

Mary Sue's stupid love line is absolutely not allowed to appear in his movies.

When directing "Joker" in New York, whenever Li Yu had some inspiration, he would use his free time to write it down, and then think about how to modify "The Richest Man in Xihong City".

Li Yu thinks that the original plot that satirizes the ease with which people with accumulated capital can make money is quite interesting, and that supporting dreams is also quite interesting.

However, Li Yu felt that the screenwriter's imagination was not big enough.

The entire Daxiang team and the Hengtai team failed to beat the Hengtai team in the end. It was a sarcasm and a joke, but it was not strong enough and not insulting enough.

Doesn’t Wang Duoyu have a mission to squander 10 billion?
Didn’t the Daxiang team expel Wang Duoyu from the team?
If you want to satirize the Chinese national football team, Li Yu thinks this is the way to do it.

The Daxiang team defeated the Hengtai team, but the name of the Hengtai team had to be changed.

The Daxiang team and the new team are both amateur teams in Xihong City.

At the beginning of the movie, the Daxiang team defeated this team and had a better future.

Wang Duoyu, the lousy goalkeeper who kicked the ball, was fired, but this remains unchanged.

What follows is the story of Wang Duoyu becoming rich overnight and spending 1 billion within a month.

In order to spend 1 billion yuan as soon as possible, Wang Duoyu spent a huge amount of money to charter a plane to invite the "regular" men's football team, and he was determined to defeat the amateur team Daxiang. Firstly, he wanted to invite the strongest team to severely humiliate the Daxiang team that kicked him out.

The second is to complete the task of spending the ten billion as soon as possible.

It certainly wouldn't cost 1 billion just to hire the men's football team.

In order to make himself lose money faster, he bet hundreds of millions on the men's football team and lost.

The men's football team that eats sea cucumbers every day vs. the amateur team from Xihong City. In a situation where the flying dragon is on top, the men's football team must have the advantage, so they are sure to win.

He lost when he bet on the men's football team, so he must have paid hundreds of millions in compensation.

However, the men's football team was defeated by the amateur team from Xihong City, and Wang Duoyu, who bet on the Chinese national football team to lose, not only did not lose money, but also made money.

This is ironic, the men's football team with the highest salary can't even beat an amateur team.

And Li Yu has already saved face for them.

Because reality is always more magical than movies.

In real life, they couldn't even beat a county amateur team. Li Yu had already given them face by changing them to a city amateur team.

This is not a made-up story. An amateur team from a county in Gansu Province defeated the veteran strong team Beijing Guoan.

How amateur is this amateur football team in a small county? The total registered capital is 30,000 yuan, and the largest shareholder is the captain of the team who paid 5,000 yuan.

The team captain's main job is the owner of a stationery store.

The subsidy they get for playing a game of football is only two hundred yuan.

The goalkeeper is a physical education teacher, 37 years old.

This physical education teacher is different from most physical education teachers across the country who are often unable to attend physical education classes due to illness.

It is clear from his experience that this physical education teacher is not prone to illness. He not only teaches physical education classes to students, but also cultivates their interest in playing football.

If I have time, I will also work as a delivery man part-time.

It is said that this physical education teacher asked for leave from school in order to have a big fight with Guo An from Beijing, and had more than 100 yuan of salary deducted.

There was also a striker who ran a beef noodle restaurant, a defender who sold fruit, and a young man who successfully shot and scored a goal was a senior high school student...

Let me remind you again that before this team's big battle with Guo An from Beijing, their best result in their county was third place.

Li Yu is really conservative, but reality is really illogical.

It is foreseeable that if Li Yu really took such a photo, it would very likely anger those football players, and some of them might even greet Li Yu on the Internet.

But Li Yu was not at all weak.

Just like what netizens said, he gets paid so much every year but still plays poorly.

You're not good at cooking, and you don't allow others to say anything?
They didn't spread rumors, they just put your glorious achievements into the movie.

If you really play well, who would scold you?

"Director Li, what have you been busy with recently? I've never seen you idle." Cao Qing sat next to Li Yu.

These days, Li Yu always holds a small notebook and writes and draws, acting mysterious.

If he had not been a partner with Li Yu for so many years and was not very familiar with Li Yu, he would have thought that Li Yu was keeping track of someone who had made a mistake on the set and would settle the score after the filming was completed.

"Writing a new script..." Li Yu spent some time telling him about some of the settings of "The Richest Man in Xihong City".

As a man who has watched countless movies, Cao Qing blurted out: "It's a bit like the old movie "The Winemaker's Millions."

(End of this chapter)