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Chapter 760: Looks alike, really alike

"The Richest Man in Xihong City" was originally adapted from a foreign movie.

This movie is what Cao Qing calls "The Winemaker's Million Dollar Fortune".

This movie also has another name "Brewster's Millions".

As for why there are two names, it is probably a translation problem in ancient times.

This is a movie that was produced in 1985.

The protagonist is a second-rate baseball player named Monty.

Although he is not outstanding, he always hopes that someone can appreciate him and that there are scouts willing to discover him.

The turning point of his life occurred in court when he was arrested by the police for causing trouble in a bar and had no money for bail.

A legacy of 300 million US dollars fell from the sky.

What a coincidence, Monty's inheritance is also conditional.

The condition for Wang Duoyu to inherit the estate is that he must spend 1 billion yuan within a month.

For Monty, one billion becomes thirty million, and the unit is US dollars.

What makes the movie different is the emotional line.

In "The Richest Man in Xihong City", Wang Duoyu and Xia Zhu suddenly fell in love and were willing to give up hundreds of billions of inheritance for each other.

"The Winemaker's Million Dollar Fortune" focuses more on how he completed the 30 million Mi Yuandu mission.

How much he squandered, and how the people around him went crazy about it.

The relationship between him and his female assistant is pitifully weak in the movie.

Therefore, Li Yu's modification of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" to weaken the emotional line can be regarded as a tribute to the original version.

The original version's romance was pretty bland.

"You're right. This is the setting of that movie. I've already had someone contact Huanqiu to buy the copyright of this movie." Li Yu said truthfully.

A movie made decades ago, with a reputation similar to that of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", the world may have forgotten this movie.

Some people are willing to spend money to buy the copyright of a decades-old movie. They must be secretly happy.

Why wouldn’t you want the windfall that comes to your doorstep for free?

Huanqiu has no plans to re-release this movie in China.

"Oh, I see." Cao Qing heard Li Yu say that he was buying the copyright, so he knew everything would be fine.

"I've already finished the draft of the script. Why don't you take a look at it and we can brainstorm together," said Li Yu.

"I can see if I can pool our wisdom to provide suggestions to Director Li, but I'm not sure if I can. I'm not a screenwriter and have never written a script," Cao Qing replied.

Cao Qing took the small notebook from Li Yu and started reading from the first page.

The name is "The Richest Man in Xihong City", and you can tell at first glance that it is the name of a fictional city.

The protagonist Wang Duoyu is the goalkeeper of the Daxiang football team, and his setting is similar to Monty's second-rate baseball player.

They both played balls, one was football and the other was baseball. They were both pretty new at the game and both hoped to make a name for themselves by playing the ball.

Cao Qing was a little disappointed.

If Li Yu simply translated "The Winemaker's Millions" into the Chinese version with some major changes, it would be too substandard.

It's fine if it happens to others, but it's a problem if it happens to Li Yu.

He has high expectations for Li Yu.

In his opinion, if you can't surprise everyone, you have failed.

Continuing to read, Cao Qing soon discovered a surprise.

The only thing that is similar is the beginning, everything becomes different afterwards.

Using Daxiang team and Wang Duoyu to lose money and damage the men's football team is really a huge loss.

Isn’t Li Yu really afraid of being beaten by those who eat sea cucumbers every day?
It actually wrote that they lost to the amateur football team in Xihong City.

Who are they looking down upon? Who are they insulting? No matter how bad they are, they can't be so bad that they can't even beat an amateur team in the city, right? Right?
I, Qiao Xing, know that if it is really filmed like this, those fans who hate the Chinese national football team for not being able to make it will be very happy. They call on Geneva to return the money and criticize the Chinese men's football team for being too weak in attack.

It depends on Li Yu. Li Yu only needs to make a slight move and his efficiency is ten thousand times that of theirs.

The original Wang Duoyu made money by squandering all kinds of things, which was a bit exaggerated.

You can make money even by pulling an iceberg.

Li Yu's adaptation is closer to reality, and many satirical things can be found in reality.

For example, the Chinese national football team, and the next program to achieve dreams.

In the script, you can make money by betting on the men's football team. Wang Duoyu was completely numb.

He visited a large number of wealthy people, especially those who were once prosperous but are now in poverty, and interviewed them about their experiences of squandering their fortunes, intending to learn from them.

Then he interviewed a down-and-out coal boss.

The coal boss said that if you want to lose money, you should invest in movies, and you will definitely lose a lot of money.

A movie can lose hundreds of millions.

He had been cheated by some unkind directors before, who quoted him a price of 100,000 yuan for a hat, 100,000 yuan in the early 2000s.

I heard that the grandson bought a villa before the movie was finished.

There are also rumors that the grandson has to buy a villa for every movie he makes.

Regardless of whether the investor can make money or not, he must have a villa.

Wang Duoyu thought about it and came up with a good idea. Since investing in movies was so unprofitable, he had to try his hand at movies.

Wang Duoyu originally wanted to ask the coal boss for the contact information of that scumbag director.

After some inquiries, I found out that although the director cheated investors, he also helped investors make money sometimes.

That won’t do. It doesn’t meet his requirements.

His requirement is that there must be losses, how can he allow the risk of making money?

In order to realize his perfect money-losing plan.

Wang Duoyu spent a huge amount of money to cooperate with the TV station to launch a program to help directors realize their dreams, which requires that the directors must be newcomers.

The chances of a new director losing money are higher and he or she will definitely not make any money.

Finally, there are two directors in the show who attract the most attention.

One of them is a master of directing from Beijing Film Academy, a doctor of film and television studies from Peking University, and he also spent one year as a visiting scholar at the Department of Film, Television and Broadcasting at the University of Texas.

He has never been a director, but every film review he writes is highly appreciated by people.

The other is the perennial villain in the film industry, who couldn't even play the main villain after filming for a while, so he took a gamble and became his own director.

The second director can ask Wu Jing to make a cameo appearance because he is the prototype.

Wang Duoyu, who finally thought that he had to lose money, had an amazing resume as his first director. He was a top student at Beijing Film Academy and Peking University, and he looked reliable no matter how you looked at him.

How could he invest in such a reliable person? His goal was to lose hundreds of millions.

You have to invest in the person who changed his career to become a director. You have to invest several hundred million, and you must lose all of these hundreds of millions.

Then Wu Jing returned the favor by making a movie that grossed 5 billion yuan, ranking first in the box office of Chinese-language films.

Another director raised investment from somewhere else, and the investors who lost money ended up losing money.

This plot is both very real and ironic.

It’s just that when Cao Qing was reading the script, he felt that the character setting of the master’s degree student from the Beijing Film Academy’s directing department was a little familiar.

They are very similar. It would be even more similar if the Master of Directing degree was changed to Master of Acting.

Cao Qing thought that these plots were already ironic enough, but he never expected that there was more irony to come.

The original version of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" did not tell the story of Wang Duoyu after he obtained the inheritance. Li Yu added it in this script, and it is even more ironic than the previous story.

(End of this chapter)