Actor: Thank you.

"Ditch that company in Wuhan..." Ye Weiming's head buzzed when he heard this idea.

Hey?
Hey!
Don't say it, don't say it!
It doesn't matter who you act with.
All I need is investment and a fee.

In fact, Zhang Yuan has a closer relationship with the Hong Kong entertainment circle.

The film is planned to be shot in mainland China, since the source is the Spring Festival travel rush in mainland China.

Therefore, he uses many mainland actors, whom he is quite familiar with.

Theoretically speaking, he would actually be a better partner.

Ye Weiming finally came to his senses.

Damn!

If I had met him sooner, I could have just gone to him directly.

Without that, none of this mess would exist.

Is it really that simple?

Of course not.

Zhang Yuan knew it very well.

You're saying you're just going to abandon them like that?

Will the other party agree?
Let alone small companies, why did Alibaba choose to invest and regulate Alibaba Pictures instead of deeply participating when it later launched Alibaba Pictures?

Even Alibaba has been scammed before!
They couldn't find anything wrong with the accounts; when asked, they just said the money had already been spent.

In China, directors actually play some of the roles of producers.

If a project is managed by a good director and experienced professionals, a blockbuster can be made with 5000 million.

If you let an outsider manage things, the seasoned veterans inside and outside the crew will immediately know you don't understand and will start taking advantage of you.

You couldn't even get that 5 million.

Many coal mine owners and mine owners have been swindled out of their fortunes, only to end up with nothing but sleeping with two obscure actresses.

They can't even see the finished product of the projects they invested in.

Some do this intentionally, and the money goes into overseas accounts.

In some cases, the entire production crew conspires to swindle investors.

If you're an amateur, you're very likely to get ripped off.

This is an industry with low technical barriers but high interpersonal barriers.

“Zhang Sheng, this is not a good thing,” he replied.

"It's better than pirated copyrights." Zhang Yuan interrupted the attack directly, starting with 0 frames.

Ye Weiming was completely powerless against Zhang Yuan's all-out attack.

We still have to rely on the older brother, Chen Kexin, to smooth things over.

"Here's what we'll do, Weiming, go and tell the other side about Zhang Yuan's thoughts as well."

Chen Kexin is a seasoned veteran.

If you're going to relay a message, then do your job well. Don't get involved in the conflict between the two sides.

Because once you get involved, you go from being a messenger to a battlefield.

"But a lot of money has already been spent on the project in its early stages."

"How many?"

"Probably a few hundred thousand."

“If you come to my company to film, I will cover all the expenses.”

"And I will put this film under the name of film companies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and let them handle the distribution."

"If you have any questions about the video later, you can contact me."

Ye Weiming was actually a little tempted, but his intuition told him that things wouldn't be that simple.

He simply promised to talk to the other party.

After the banquet ended, Ye Weiming was walking back to the hotel when Xiao Feng slapped him, and he finally realized what was happening.

"its not right!"

"How did he turn the tables and become the host?"

Today was supposed to be a day to discuss copyright issues.

How did it turn into discussing me having dinner with him?

Copyright issues have become a tool for poaching talent.

This is why Zhang Yuan chose to file a lawsuit first, rather than approaching Ye Weiming first.

Go to court first, and you'll have the initiative in your own hands.

Now Ye Weiming is caught in a dilemma, afraid of both sides.

If you talk to him directly, then you're giving him the power to set conditions for you.

The two groups certainly have different costs and different levels of influence.

After returning to the hotel, Ye Weiming felt uneasy.

So he took out his phone and called an old friend.

Ye Weiming has been in the entertainment industry for many years, but in the end, he is actually Wang Jing's man.

He started as Wang Jing's assistant director, working his way up from "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" to "City Hunter".

His first film as a director was Stephen Chow's parody of "The Mask," titled "The God of Cookery."

He also directed the two spin-off films of the "Young and Dangerous" series, "The Thirteen Sisters" and "Chicken Story".

To be honest, among Hong Kong directors, his ability is above average, but not top-tier.

If Zhang Yuan hadn't been after the "囧" (jiong) IP of "Lost in Thailand," he wouldn't have gone to the trouble of doing this with him.

"Isn't that great?"

The person he called was Wang Jing.

"It's a good thing that he's willing to invest money in your film."

"Isn't the purpose of making movies to make money?"

Wang Jing's greatest strength is that he never talks about art with you.

There's no art involved, it's purely business.

So in his eyes, there was no problem with it.

"Just let the two companies behind them handle it."

"At least Zhang Yuan has a good reputation in the industry, especially when it comes to money, so you don't have to worry about not getting paid."

This made Director Ye even more conflicted.

However, neither Ye Weiming nor Wang Jing knew Zhang Yuan's intentions.

So they just felt that he bought the copyright and wanted to make a movie, and it just so happened that it coincided with their own situation.

It's simply a matter of which boss you're dealing with.

But as mentioned before, Ye Weiming is just average, and Zhang Yuan isn't interested in him.

Besides the IP, there's something else he wants.

This play is said to have been written by him and Manfred Wong, both from Hong Kong.

Actually, they were just proposing ideas and outlines.

Hong Kong people don't actually understand the mainland environment that well, so if you asked them to write a story with a mainland background, some parts would seem out of place.

Therefore, the main screenwriter of this play is a Chengdu native named Tian Yusheng.

For the final script to be grounded in reality and relatable, the details must be handled by mainland screenwriters.

And this Tian Yusheng is the director and screenwriter of the "Ex-Files" series!
Ye Weiming may not be worth much money, but he has experience and can help these young people grow.

This film, "Lost in Thailand," cultivated a light comedy team for the Chinese entertainment industry.

In fact, a large part of the reason why "Lost in Thailand" was successful was its script.

After meeting Xu Zheng on the set of "Lost in Thailand", Tian Yusheng participated in the early production of the script for "Lost in Thailand".

However, Xu Zheng didn't leave his name at all.

The script for the later film "Lost in Hong Kong" was clearly inferior to that for "Lost in Thailand" because Tien Yu-sheng was busy working on "The Ex-Files" and didn't participate at all.

What Zhang Yuan truly valued was the production team!
Gathering is a mass of fire, scattered is a sky full of stars.

Getting this play is like getting several groups of people.

Therefore, he was determined to win.

A day or two passed.

"Zhang Yuan, why did the assistant director look so awkward when he saw you?"

During his break, Jiang Wen's wife, Zhou Yun, asked him quietly.

Sister Zhou played a crazy mother in "The Sun Also Rises", but she herself is not crazy at all.

On the contrary, they are the more introverted type of people.

He's usually quite quiet, but once he wants to talk to you, he always seems very serious and composed.

The premise is that she doesn't speak the local dialect... because she's from Wenzhou.

The moment she spoke in her dialect, she became completely "alien."

Wenzhou dialect belongs to the Ou dialect group under the Wu dialect group, and there are only about 300 million people in the world who speak this dialect.

Wenzhou alone has a population of over 200 million.

Anyway, Zhang Yuan can understand Shanghai dialect, northern Jiangsu dialect, Nanjing dialect, and Ningbo dialect, but he can't understand a word of Wenzhou dialect.

Moreover, this dialect is related to the Baiyue Kingdom, and during the Warring States period, it was completely unintelligible with the languages ​​of the neighboring Qi and Chu states.

In the American TV series "Blindspot," there is a scene where the FBI intercepts an email written in Chinese, but the intelligence personnel who speak Chinese are helpless.

Because it was written in Wenzhou dialect.

The film says, "The Chinese call it the language of the devil."

That's how Wenzhou dialect got its nickname "the devil's language".

Zhang Yuan was a studious man, but he gave up on speaking the Wenzhou dialect. He told his older sister about it.

Ye Weiming spoke to the other side, but their reaction was very strong; they firmly disagreed.

"Then let's go to court," Zhang Yuan shrugged, looking indifferent.

After listening to Zhou Yun, he winked.

"I didn't expect that you, who are always smiling, would be so decisive when it comes to doing things."

"I'll take that as a compliment."

"I'm just praising you," Sister Zhou said very directly.

"It also taught me that you can't judge a book by its cover."

"That shows you have a good eye for people," Zhang Yuan replied.

Zhou Yun is actually quite special; she can greatly influence the casting of Jiang Wen.

Pillow talk can be very powerful.

Just like Zheng Xiaolong is also influenced by his wife Wang Xiaoping.

“Not only you, Nicholas Tse also surprised me a bit.” Zhou Yun rested his chin on his hand and looked into the distance.

Zhang Yuan nodded.

Yes.

Even Zhou Yun himself was a little surprised, let alone Zhou Yun.

He heard that Young Master Xie has become increasingly mature in his acting in recent years.

So-called maturity doesn't refer to acting skills, but rather to knowing that this job is not a hobby and requires a lot of hard work.

He took it all to heart, especially this play.

He rarely had the opportunity to play a lowly, ordinary person, so he put in a lot of effort.

When filming the scenes where he was protecting "Sun Wen," which was also his last scene, he desperately delayed filming Yan Xiaoguo, played by Hu Jun.

By this time, Deng Sidi already knew that the so-called Sun Yat-sen was actually his own son in disguise.

The real Sun Yat-sen had already finished his meeting with representatives from thirteen provinces and successfully left Hong Kong.

He was a loyal servant, and in order to protect his young master, he was willing to sacrifice his life, clinging tightly to the other's leg.

Deng Si Di didn't have much martial arts skill; he relied entirely on his physical strength to stall for time.

So the content of the performance was basically him getting beaten up and dragged through mud and sand.

Use your fists to punch and your feet to kick.

The design of this scene was also interesting.

The director instructed Hu Jun that the fight against Deng Si Di should have a gradual effect.

Because Yan Xiaoguo is an extreme "patriot," he is not a madman.

Therefore, Chen Desheng's plan for him was to only kill those who had shaved their heads and did not have queues.

Anyone without a queue (braid) is a revolutionary, opposing the imperial court, and in his eyes, a person who must be killed!

Those who kept queues were considered "one of his own" in his mind; having a queue meant being a citizen of the Qing Dynasty.

He wanted to protect the Qing Dynasty and kill the "traitors".

Just like what Hou Tianlai, a national first-class and third-class actor known for playing perverted characters, said.

"When playing a villain, you must not think of yourself as a villain."

"Bad people don't think they're doing bad things!"

Yan Xiaoguo was the same; he didn't think killing revolutionaries was wrong.

In his eyes, the queue was the standard by which he distinguished between good and evil, friend and foe.

Bad people need to have their own set of logic.

This is the logic behind Chen Desheng's portrayal of the character Yan Xiaoguo.

To give this bad guy more depth.

He killed everyone he saw, and that's how he became a serial killer.

This contradicts the persona of an extreme patriot.

Nicholas Tse's character, Deng Si Di, wears a braid, so Hu Jun's character initially only knocks him down and sends him flying. But when he sees Deng Si Di hindering him from completing his mission, Hu Jun's character becomes increasingly aggressive until he kills him.

If the director wants this level of action, it's more difficult to perform than a typical fight scene.

So this big scene took several days to film.

Young Master Xie was also beaten for several days.

While having lunch at the same table today, Zhang Yuan noticed that he took out a small bag from his pocket and swallowed several pills from the small bag while eating the winter melon and pork rib soup that came with his boxed lunch.

"Treatment for this?"

Zhang Yuan pointed to his head, assuming the medicine was for his skin cancer.

"No, painkillers." After saying that, Young Master Xie thumped his shoulder.

"Are you injured?" Zhang Yuan squinted at him.

"Shh, don't say it..."

As Hu Jun himself said, he is a dramatic actor.

They're really not good at action scenes.

It also doesn't employ the seemingly heavy but actually light action techniques used by Sammo Hung.

These past few days of filming have left me sore all over from working on Master Xie.

Moreover, when Hu Jun was going to slap him in the face and on the head, Nicholas Tse himself requested that it be filmed in real life, without any camera tricks.

As a result, I couldn't sleep at night, so I asked my assistant to buy me painkillers.

I just kept taking the medicine and filming, enduring it all.

"Eat less, don't get addicted." Zhang Yuan was afraid he would end up like the Americans.

"It'll be over in a few days, once it's finished filming." He didn't seem to take it seriously.

They also told him not to tell anyone, because they were afraid that Hu Jun would feel embarrassed and restrain his movements, which would make the filming even worse.

Zhang Yuan nodded in agreement.

He doesn't encourage this kind of behavior, but it's still a kind of professional ethics for actors.

It's not a waste of resources in the Hong Kong entertainment circle to promote him.

He did learn some of the spirit of the older generation of actors.

From that hothead who drove drunk, smashed guitars, and assaulted reporters back then, he can now be considered a "prodigal son who has turned over a new leaf."

This is what Zhou Yun meant when he said that one cannot judge a book by its cover.

When she first arrived, she thought this young man was a bit like a child.

Looking back now, his attitude towards filming was quite professional, and he had his own aspirations.

Another reason why Nicholas Tse took medication to support himself in this film was that he was the director.

I specifically told the director that I wanted to design the movements myself.

I designed it, but I ended up getting injured, and I'm losing face a bit.

It's obvious that they want to emulate Chenlong.

Regardless of ability, the idea is always good.

Zhang Yuan knew he could not become the next Chen Long, Hong Jinbao, or even Wu Jing.

These people all started training as children.

But I didn't pour cold water on it either.

Indeed, people are not static; they are constantly growing.

He was quite pleased to see his friend growing in a positive direction.

Beep beep beep... Just as I was thinking about growing up, my assistant brought me my beeping phone.

"Hey, what's up?"

Zeng Jia called him.

"Boss, the lawsuit is progressing."

"very good."

Zeng Jia didn't quite understand why her boss was so persistent about this film.

Of course, no one else but himself would understand.

Zeng Jia initially thought that her boss was suing her simply to force others to pay a high price for the copyright so that he could make a profit.

Unexpectedly, he didn't want money; he wanted people and projects.

She didn't object, because the projects Zhang Yuan had his eye on, aside from being unreliable, were generally profitable.

I trusted his judgment and simply followed his instructions.

"However, there is still a small problem regarding the lawsuit."

"The lawyer reminded us."

"The other company raised an objection to jurisdiction over this case."

"That is to say..."

Zeng Jia frowned, about to speak, but Zhang Yuan interrupted her.

"So, the other party wants to move the lawsuit from the capital to their own territory, right?"

"Yes."

"Very good, just keep an eye on it."

Zhang Yuan showed no surprise at this.

Because he had already guessed that the other party would do that.

"No rush, let's play around with them." (End of Chapter)