Actor: Thank you.

"must."

"Let's have dinner together after the filming is over."

Zhang Yuan and Li Xiang chatted on the phone for a while and agreed to have dinner together in Hunan later.

These days, apart from this former number one lady of Mango TV, there are so many people contacting him.

Especially a few friends who have just decided to cooperate.

Li Xiang is very hardworking and positive for Wang Yuelun.

This old lady is generous and efficient in both her words and actions.

After her, Guan Hu also called to congratulate her.

He has to thank himself.

Nearly ten million has just been transferred to him in batches. Now his pocket is bulging, and he speaks with more confidence than before.

Jiang Zhiqiang also called to congratulate.

He knew about what happened in the crew of Wu Yaohan's son, and he admired Zhang Yuan even more for his courage to think and act.

The key point is that others died immediately after doing this, but he didn't die at all.

This shows that this cooperation is very meaningful!
The two had a pleasant chat.

After all, he is responsible for overseas distribution and can get a lot of money.

When I took on this job, I felt quite uncomfortable.

But now I see money coming in.

Although it is a small amount of money, it is a blessing to be able to make money from doing business.

He also felt happy.

"Mr. Jiang, I wish your Lust, Caution will also be a huge success and a big hit at the box office."

"OK……"

After hearing this, he felt mixed emotions again.

Why fight a war with such a money-making man?
It’s better to cooperate sooner rather than later.

However, can it really sell well? Boss Jiang is still a little hesitant.

Uncle Guoli also called to congratulate him.

He has also been keeping an eye on the box office of "Apple" these days.

The more I pay attention to it, the more conflicted I feel.

Of course I am happy for Zhang Yuan.

The two have a close relationship and are familiar with each other.

Zhang Guoli is not a petty person and would not be jealous of a junior.

But when I saw the box office rising steadily, I thought of my previous movie "The 601st Call".

At that time, he saw that "Crazy Stone" funded by Zhang Yuan made a lot of money, so he was full of confidence to shoot the film.

As a result, he lost a lot of money and had to work hard on making TV series to save money and wait for other opportunities.

And this wait lasted almost twenty years.

This film "The 601st Call" gave him a boost, and it was not until the later "Morning Clouds and Evening Rain" that he picked up the job of film director again.

And then I suffered a loss again...

He is not suitable for directing movies.

Seeing a younger generation working so hard, I feel a little uncomfortable.

Whenever I feel unhappy, I find fault with others at home.

"Mo, don't just go to Gongti to dance every night."

"Can you please do something serious?"

"Zhang Yuan is about the same age as you. He has filmed so many movies!"

“How much money did you make?”

"You are the only one who relies on me all the time."

Zhang Mo was also unambiguous.

"Yeah, they've filmed so many movies."

"He's younger than you, how can he make money from every movie he makes?"

"Why did you play that scene..."

Before he could finish, slippers flew over.

Who can stand it if you keep rubbing cumin into your father's wounds all day long?

The key point is that Zhang Guoli was too busy when he was young, and he didn’t have a bad relationship with his son, but he was “unfamiliar” with him.

Many traditional father-son relationships are like this.

Teacher Guo and Yu Xiaobao also have similar problems.

Anyway, the two of them always have some conflicts.

"Among your master's disciples, you are the most promising." Uncle Guoli said, and then talked about Hou Yuewen.

"Speaking of my master, Mr. Hou, Uncle Guoli, in a while, the Deyuan Society, Railway Art Troupe and the Chinese Folk Songs Association will hold a performance to commemorate my master."

“Do you have time to join us?”

"It doesn't have to be a show. How about being a host, talking about my master's past achievements, and reminiscing about the past?"

"Okay!" Zhang Guoli agreed readily: "You are filial."

"I'll just be a host. I'm a professional at this."

The turning point in Uncle Guoli's life was his standard Mandarin. He was selected by the Railway Art Troupe and changed his job to become an announcer.

This led to my subsequent acting career.

That's what was decided for him.

"Congratulations, Zhang Yuan."

As soon as he put down the call, Liu Qianqian also called him.

"It's rare that you would pay attention to these things."

"I have seen this movie after all."

As she said this, she tapped her toes on the ground.

Watching a movie with my mom that night was so awkward...

However, because her mother had also seen it, she was so shocked that she was speechless when she learned that the film had earned tens of millions at the box office.

"That's fine..."

Even the knowledgeable Liu Xiaoli was shocked by his operational capabilities.

“He’s so good at making money!”

"That's nothing." Just when we were talking about this, Boss Chen was there too.

"Last time I was having dinner and chatting with someone, there happened to be a senior executive from Tudou.com there as well."

"I heard from him that Zhang Yuan also took shares of Tudou."

"It seems like this happened..." Liu Xiaoli seemed to have heard her daughter talk about it.

But she doesn't quite understand anything related to the Internet and doesn't pay much attention to it.

Besides, nine out of ten people she knew who invested in Internet companies lost money, so she didn't care.

“Is this Tudou.com really powerful?”

“Called to be China’s little YOUTUBE.”

“YOUTUBE is a video website of the Beacon Country.”

“Founded in 05.”

"In 06, it was acquired by Google, the search engine company."

"Do you know what the purchase price is?"

"$17 million!"

"In just over a year, this company has reached a purchase price of $17 billion!"

“And this is the valuation before it goes public.”

"I heard from that person that Tudou is making a series of preparations before it goes on the market."

"In recent years, the market value of Internet companies has soared, and the market is very optimistic."

"If the listing is successful, Tudou's market value will definitely not be less than 17 billion US dollars!"

“You only make a few bucks from making movies.”

"When the time comes, once Zhang Yuan's shares are resold, they will be worth hundreds of millions."

"Oh my!" Liu Xiaoli also felt that the number was exaggerated.

"He's so amazing."

"Most people who want to invest don't have the chance to do so." Boss Chen doesn't know much about Internet companies, and he doesn't have any connections.

Even if you know that the market value of such companies is promising, you can’t rush in.

Only then did he remember to ask Xiaolongnu to contact him to express congratulations.

"Thank you. I'll show you the next movie in advance."

"Okay...but you have to tell me the type in advance."

"Don't worry, there aren't that many naked female celebrities for you to watch... Speaking of which, don't go watch Lust, Caution with your mom."

"You're so annoying..."

After complaining in a coquettish manner, she started talking about her recent life.

It is also a rare break for him in his busy filming work.

He and his friends were all very happy, but some were unhappy as well.

The two brothers Wang were a little depressed.

They are narrow-minded by nature, and feel uncomfortable when they see others doing well at the box office.

What's more, this movie is starring Fan Bingbing!
Just after leaving Huayi, he produced a successful work.

That doesn't mean that she made the right decision to leave our Huayi.

Doesn't it make us look stupid?

Also, everyone in the industry knows that the film was able to achieve such success because of Zhang Yuan’s behind-the-scenes work.

Who doesn’t want to get a high box office and make a lot of money? In the eyes of peers, this is the ability to turn decay into magic!

In addition, he and the Hong Kong circle recently established a joint company.

With "Apple" as a successful case, more people will seek him out for cooperation!
This will invisibly squeeze out some of Huayi's markets and partners.

In the blink of an eye, the younger brothers I recruited back then are almost on par with me.

The two brothers found it a little hard to accept.

Not only the two of them, many people find it hard to accept, especially the members of the old emperor circle.

Think Zhang Yuan is being cunning.

These words would also reach his ears, but he didn't care.

If you're so uncomfortable, just get used to it.

Times have changed, and from now on, online promotion will rule the world!

Others say that he is lawless because of his connections with higher-ups.

But they forget that they were able to make their fortune because of their connections.

Nowadays, when I see others relying on connections, I feel uncomfortable. This is pure hypocrisy.

There are such "pioneers" in every industry who have reaped the benefits of the times.

Once they succeed, they will begin to use their first-mover advantage to suppress latecomers.

Zhang Yuan didn't have time to care about what these old guys thought.

Because he was taking a closer look at the "old guy".

Wow…

Inside an old house.

Zhang Yuan was quite interested in the design of "Water Returning to the Hall from Four Sides". The crew created artificial rain and watered the house thoroughly.

There are three people standing on both sides of the courtyard with a hollow roof.

Three people were kneeling on one side.

It is none other than Li Lianjie, Liu Dehua and Zhang Yuan who play the three sworn brothers.

The three of them knelt very close to the door.

This is called “just getting started”!
It implies that the three of them have just started their careers in officialdom.

And he was kneeling, which showed that he came to beg for help.

The lighting is also very interesting.

The three people were backlit, and the front of their bodies was dark.

Only Pang Qingyun, played by Li Lianjie, had a slightly bright face.

Zhao Erhu and Jiang Wuyang are bandits, so the front is completely in the shadows.

Pang Qingyun was a bandit soldier, so he was half dark and half light.

The three people opposite were sitting firmly on three armchairs.

Zhang Yuan and the other two were very far away from these three.

This implies the status gap between the people.

Later on, when Pang Qingyun was able to eat at the same table with the three adults, the two brothers around him were not there to accompany him.

As he walked from here to there, he abandoned his brothers and forgot his pledge of allegiance.

Unlike the three people with their backs to the light, the three adults were all bathed in the light of the sky.

The contrast between light and dark lighting was also an intentional design by the director.

This is also the reason why Chen Kexin was running back and forth all day during filming, but the actors never complained.

He really wanted to get the shot right, and every shot, from the positioning to the lighting to the details of the actors' movements, was carefully considered.

He used up all the meticulous thoughts he had accumulated from shooting romance films in the first half of his life.

It is indeed very particular, but it is not certain whether the audience will buy it or not...

The three people sitting, from left to right, are Lord Jiang, Lord Di and Lord Chen.

Played by three of China's top veteran actors.

They are teachers Wang Kuirong, Gu Baoming and Wei Zongwan.

Teacher Wang Kuirong looks extremely fierce, with vertical lines between his eyebrows.

I don’t know if this is the legendary “Tiantian Pattern”.

This person looks a bit like Teacher Shi Zhaoqi.

They all play decent characters such as soldiers and policemen.

But when he reached middle age, his appearance became more and more ferocious, and he gradually developed into a villain.

After 00, Teacher Wang Kuirong basically became a bandit and a professional bully.

He is the type who can play the role of a mountain eagle without any makeup.

But the teacher's ability is beyond doubt. Just a glare from him can make people tremble with fear.

Later, he played the role of Blind Chen in "Yunnan Worm Valley", and his performance was also vivid and lifelike, as if he had come directly from the pages of a novel.

But don't be fooled by her fierce appearance, she is actually quite coquettish in private.

It was fine at the moment, but a few years later, this man, at the age of 68, got married for the second time and married an actress who was 37 years younger than him!
The key is that she gave birth to a daughter the following year!

I can only say that the old man is in really good health.

Envy envy...

Mr. Gu Baoming, who plays Di Gong, is a famous supporting actor in Taiwan and has won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He, Zhang Shi, and Jin Shijie are basically the model supporting actors among Taiwan's actors, and their level is as high as three or four floors above the ground.

But people do have destiny.

Some people are born to be A-listers, while others can only be B-listers.

It’s not a question of acting skills, it’s a question of appearance, aura and personality.

This blessed figure, wearing court robes and looking rich, is in stark contrast to the temperament of Mr. Jiang played by Wang Kuirong.

The final role of Mr. Chen was played by the more famous teacher Wei Zongwan.

There is no need to say much about this person.

From fluffing cotton to playing Cuju, and then to usurping the Wei dynasty, there was nothing he was not good at.

The Sima Yi he played was also an early cross-dresser.

Once these three sit there, they can dominate the stage.

It basically represents the pinnacle level of China's performing arts industry.

Compared with these three veteran actors, Li Lianjie can only be regarded as a greenhorn.

These three important officials in the play do not have full names, only their surnames are mentioned and used as pseudonyms.

Chen Kexin also wanted to avoid suspicion so as to avoid being scolded.

But the prototypes of the three characters can still be traced.

The background of the story is the suppression of the Taiping Uprising.

Then Di Gong must be Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Hunan Army who had the greatest power and military strength at that time.

Moreover, he is the protagonist of "The Assassination of Ma", and his presence is very consistent with the original prototype of the story.

The remaining two are more complicated.

The obvious villain Jiang Gong played by Mr. Wang Kuirong should be the paperhanger Li Hongzhang.

Because Li Hongzhang and his Huai Army were both promoted and helped to establish by Zeng Guofan.

Li Hongzhang's father, Li Wen'an, was a fellow Jinshi of Zeng Guofan.

It was precisely because of the "three major similarities" of being in the same year, taking the same subject, and being on the same list that Li Zhongtang had the opportunity to meet this person and become her teacher and student.

The script included an adapted plot about Li Hongzhang killing the surrendered soldiers. Among the three elders, Mr. Wang Kuirong, who had the most ferocious and evil look, was chosen to play the role.

It can be seen that Chen Kexin really looks down on this person.

The remaining Mr. Chen is generally believed to be Zuo Zongtang, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty.

However, Zuo Zongtang did not have enough experience, and at that time, he was not qualified to be on the same level as the other two.

The person who meets this condition should be Hu Linyi, who recommended Zuo Zongtang to join the Hunan Army and was known as the minister of the restoration.

In the script, Mr. Chen has only 800 elite soldiers.

In history, when Hu Linyi led his troops to northern Hubei to provide assistance, he had only 600 elite soldiers with him.

In the script, Di Gong is the strongest and intends to check and balance Chen and Jiang around him.

This is also in line with the positioning of Li Hongzhang and Hu Linyi.

One of them was the commander of the Huai Army, and the other was a senior official of the Hunan Army.

At the same time, one is the son of Zeng Guofan’s good friend of the same age, and the other is a fellow villager from Hunan.

The game is about fighting between left and right hands.

And whether it is Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, Hu Linyi, or Zuo Zongtang.

All the capable generals in the late Qing Dynasty were Han Chinese.

The Manchu Eight Banners had been abolished by that time.

The foundation that the Qing Dynasty was so proud of had long since rotted away.

However, some people tried to justify it, saying that in the early and middle Qing Dynasty, the Manchus were in power and held military power, so the country was peaceful and the people were prosperous.

The country only failed when you Han people came to power, so it is still your Han people's problem.

This is like not going to the hospital for a check-up, even if you have never been sick.

After the Eight Banners invaded the country, have the people ever had a good day?

Aren’t it you, the descendants of the Eight Banners, who are enjoying a good life?
Even whether the Qing Dynasty was a result of ethnic integration or foreign invasion is a matter of debate.

Zhang Yuan felt excited when he saw that the important officials played by the three top actors were all portrayed as old coins.

Darkness is the best restoration of that era.

and……

He looked at the three teachers and licked his lips.

I've been waiting for you for a long time.

My system has long been thirsty... (End of this chapter)