Actor: Thank you.

After Zhang Yuan "forgave" Ye Weixing, the rest of the crew calmed down.

The director is safe and he didn't look for us just now.

And he was drinking with us.

Is this over?
At least, that's what they think.

After all, the crew had only been together for a few days, and most of them didn’t know Zhang Yuan yet.

Zhang Yuan did not take action against them, not only for the purpose of maintaining the stability and operation of the crew, but also because these people were not worthy of him targeting them.

It would be a disgrace to me if I had to teach a lesson to the little ones myself.

And if I had to deal with this kind of thing all day, how would I have time?

Do you still have time to get down to business?
Zhang Yuan had no intention of doing anything to them.

As the saying goes, if the law does not hold everyone responsible, then the majority will be angry, even if you are right.

What we fear most is forming cliques.

After beating Ye Weixing and putting some eye drops on Zhen Zidan, Zhang Yuan temporarily stopped.

Well, for now.

Hong Jinbao and the others thought that Zhang Yuan was done.

Just like the rest of the staff thought it was over.

So the atmosphere became lively again.

And when many crew members saw that Ye Weixing had toasted, they lined up at the main table to have a drink with Zhang Yuan.

"I can't handle the alcohol."

"Please don't mess with me."

"Hahaha, forget it, forget it. I'm happy today, so I'll accompany you to the end."

Zhang Yuan was very easy-going and had a drink with everyone.

Zhen Zidan, who was standing by, felt extremely upset when he saw that the people who had just surrounded him had "betrayed" him in the blink of an eye.

Hong Jinbao didn't say a word.

It's really cruel to give him a cold look in person.

But this is already the "gentleness" of mainlanders.

In exchange for Hong Kong, which had not yet returned 20 years ago...

"Zhang Yuan, I want to tell you something." After there were fewer people around, Wu Jing moved closer and spoke in a low voice.

"what's up?"

"There have been a lot of rumors about me and Lu Jingshan on the Internet recently." Kung Fu Boy felt that even if Zhang Yuan knew that it was just a rumor, he still had to pay attention to it.

"I know, thanks to your help."

That hug was still captured on camera and it ended up in the newspapers.

"You don't have a girlfriend recently. Doesn't that cause you any trouble?"

"No, I'm single. It's okay to spread it however you want." Wu Jing looked like a bachelor.

At this moment, he and the Hong Kong girl have broken up, but have not started the next one.

Zhang Yuan remembered that he and Ye Xuan had a past.

It’s probably not time yet.

As for Ye Xuan...

His image and temperament were very good in his early years, but he became a little more free as he got older.

Because he, like Wu Jing, had the experience of being a mainlander going to Hong Kong to make a living, the two of them were able to talk to each other.

However, Michelle Ye also had a past with Uncle Guoli's son.

To Zhang Yuan, this position and relationship were too complicated, so he decided to turn a blind eye.

"It just so happens that Wolf Fang will be released soon."

"You and Lu Jingshan are the male and female protagonists."

"Many movies use the marketing tactic of hyping up the relationship between the male and female protagonists before they are released. You guys have it easy," Zhang Yuan said with a smile.

"You are really careless." Wu Jing rubbed his face: "That's right."

"But I always feel that it is not quite...right."

"I understand what you mean." Zhang Yuan understood that everyone has a pure land in their heart.

This piece of pure land can be big or small.

Wu Jing has his own persistence, so there is no need to impose your own commercial logic on him.

Anyway, it’s a good thing to hype up a romance, at least it can let more people know about this movie.

If the popularity is high enough, you can make money.

"Besides, I'm a man and it doesn't matter to me. I'm afraid Jingshan won't agree." Wu Jing added.

"By the way, didn't you invite her to dinner today?"

"She hasn't left these past few days, waiting for you on the set."

Zhang Yuan rubbed his eyebrows hard.

Trouble!
How nice they are.

Too bad it's not to my taste.

"Today is official business, and public and private matters must be separated." Zhang Yuan answered decisively.

"Understood." When Wu Jing heard the word "official business", he always felt a bit murderous.

"I will take good care of her affairs." Zhang Yuan thought for a while with a serious expression.

He immediately changed his expression and went to greet the other tables again.

Seeing that the dinner was coming to an end, Zhang Yuan no longer hid his true intentions and planned to reveal his true colors!

"Brother, I have something else that I want your help with."

Upon hearing this, before Hong Jinbao could react, Ye Weixing stood at attention first!
His whole back straightened instantly, just like a primary school student practicing sitting posture.

Just now, when Zhang Yuan asked Hong Jinbao for help, he almost got "helped away" by himself.

Is he targeting me again? Is this not over yet?
Please just give me some quick relief, it’s too uncomfortable to keep going on like this!
But this time, Zhang Yuan was not targeting him.

"What's the matter?" Sammo Hung asked back much more carefully than before.

"I heard about a play recently, it seems quite good."

"I am very interested."

"You are a senior senior, I would like you to be a middleman and introduce me to him."

"How about a lead?"

Oh... Hong Jinbao felt a lot more relaxed when he heard this.

If you want to be on stage, that’s not easy.

Just saying hello.

As for whether he can succeed or not, it depends on himself.

Anyway, I just need to help pass on the message, and maybe say some good words by the way, which is what I should do.

"So which play did you like?"

"Whose play?"

"It's a movie directed by a Hong Kong director, but I don't know him."

"Well, as long as he's a Hong Kong director, I guarantee that I can arrange a dinner for you with just one phone call." When Sammo Hung heard this, he immediately started to take advantage of his seniority.

Then help me find Zhou Xingchi... Zhang Yuan held back his words and didn't say them out loud.

Of course, he wasn't looking for Stephen Chow.

Sammo Hung and Stephen Chow are considered to be enemies.

Stephen Chow is the kind of person who doesn’t worry about having too many debts, doesn’t feel itchy when he has too many lice, and has more than one or two enemies.

Feng Xiaogang also didn't get along with him because after he made a guest appearance in "Kung Fu" to save his reputation, he wanted to ask Stephen Chow for help, but the latter kept making excuses saying that he didn't have time or didn't have a suitable role.

Later, when "CJ7" premiered, Stephen Chow asked Director Feng to help promote it.

Director Feng took Xu Fan with him.

But when Director Feng later asked him to help promote "Aftershock", Stephen Chow said he was busy.

Feng Dapao started firing.

But Feng Xiaogang never thought that he had played the same trick on Ye Jing in the past, which made the other party so angry that he filmed "Days Related to Youth" and created the villain character Feng Pants.

The person Zhang Yuan found is not as big a name as Stephen Chow, but he is also quite influential.

"I want to contact director Chen Denseng." Zhang Yuan stated his goal.

"Oh, Chen Deseng, that's easier to deal with!" When Sammo Hung heard the name, he waved his hand to indicate that it was simple.

Although Chen Deseng is now a famous director, his original job was actually Chen Long's assistant.

So I am very familiar with the people from the Cheng family and the Yuan family, and I can be considered one of their own.

"Chen Deseng..."

After hearing this name, Brother Ren Dahua, who was sitting at the main table, suddenly narrowed his eyes.

"Yes, it's Director Chen." Zhang Yuan repeated.

Ren Dahua showed a look of surprise, then quickly turned around and looked at Zhen Zidan!
When Hong Jinbao saw that Ren Dahua's condition had changed, he followed his gaze and looked at Guoji Dan.

It didn't matter that I took a look, I found that the other person's face turned blue!

"Please help me contact Director Chen privately so I can have dinner and talk with him." Zhang Yuan ignored them and continued talking.

"Ah... OK, no problem." Hong Jinbao realized something was wrong, but still agreed.

Because Zhang Yuan just gave him face and didn't do anything to Ye Weixing.

Now that the other party has asked, it is certainly difficult for him to refuse.

Have you ever thought about why Zhang Yuan deliberately seduced Ye Wei first?

Just to shut him up now.

"What's wrong?" The big brother turned around and asked Zhen Zidan.

"Director Chen also came to me." Zhen Zidan gritted his teeth.

Hong Jinbao: ...

The big brother glanced at Zhang Yuan and finally understood.

"Good boy, you're doing this in front of me!"

"And you blocked my mouth in advance."

The new play that director Chen Denseng is preparing is called "The Siege of the City in October".

This is the second work produced by Chen Kexin after she defected to the mainland.

Director Chen did not personally take part in the production, but instead served as the producer to maintain the overall situation, while also organizing the team and attracting investment.

Therefore, the behind-the-scenes team of this drama is basically the same team as "The Warlords".

Is this movie good?

Very good!
And Chen Kexin is as usual, just like in "The Warlords", and is dissatisfied with the Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Yuan agreed with this point very much.

"The Siege of the City in October" is adapted from real events. The characters are real, but the story is fake.

It tells the story of Sun Yat-sen coming to Hong Kong to discuss and gather people, and the Qing court sent people to assassinate him.

The story of how revolutionaries and a group of ordinary people worked together to protect Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

In theory, this movie is actually a tribute film.

But it is very different from films like "The Founding of a Republic" which are particularly positive and have a main theme.

Zhang Yuan feels that the story and character creation of "The Siege of the City in October" are stronger than those of "The Founding of a Republic".

Chen Kexin and Chen Deseng share the same ideals.

Including Er Dongsheng, they are all directors who are more persistent, good at portraying small characters, and have delicate means of expression. The script of "October Besieged City" was written in 99, and was originally called "October Weicheng".

Because the story takes place in Central, Hong Kong in 1906, not far from Victoria Harbour.

At that time, Chen Deseng took the script and looked for investors in Hong Kong, but failed to make this movie.

Because he asked for an investment of 6800 million Hong Kong dollars!

The highest-grossing Hong Kong film in 99 was "The King of Comedy", which grossed less than 3000 million Hong Kong dollars...

Only a fool would vote for him!
It will definitely lose money, so who would invest?

Chen Deseng asked for this price not because he wanted to cheat people out of money.

He just wanted to rebuild the entire Central in 1906.

He calculated the cost of setting the scene, and it would be tens of millions.

This is the drawback of the Hong Kong film industry and one of the reasons for its decline.

The box office ceiling of the small Hong Kong market is too low.

Unable to support large-scale production shooting.

Because you can't make back your money.

They could only make low-budget police and gangster films, comedies, and kung fu films, and gradually, their path became narrower.

This is just like the fact that no matter how strong a small country is, it is difficult to maintain its leading position in technology and science for a long time.

Because the local market cannot support the amount of funds needed to maintain the top flow.

This is why the island nation's hydrogen-powered vehicles were completely defeated by the electric vehicles jointly developed by China and the United States.

Of course, it is also a problem that Xiaozi himself is not a good person in terms of technology and patents.

But the principle is the same. If you are a small country or region and have barriers in a certain technology, the big countries will not care at all. You can just bypass them by relying on the size of your market and cultivate new technologies and new markets.

You are good at Hong Kong Kung Fu movies, so I don’t need to do Kung Fu.

But it’s different in Hong Kong. He can’t afford the Hollywood stuff.

Until now!

The mainland market has grown and is capable of supporting the development of films with a cost of hundreds of millions.

It was through Chen Kexin’s introduction that I found China Film.

China Film invested its own money and also brought in Yu Dong's Poly Bona to make up the total amount.

When Lao Han heard that it was a big production, he immediately felt the urge to "buy, buy, buy".

Blockbuster movies are good, I like blockbuster movies.

To be honest, this play is much better than "Red Cliff".

It's a serious thing.

Although it is based on a Hong Kong film, half of the leading actors in this drama are from mainland China, and the roles they play have good depth and are not just there to make up the numbers.

Really using people for the best.

It's not like "Red Cliff", where the roles are mostly given to Hong Kong and Taiwan actors.

For the casting of the play "October Besieged City", Chen Deseng found Liang Jiahui recommended by Chen Kexin, and Ren Dahua who is now sitting at the main table.

Ah Lok and Da D reunited after "Underworld".

This time Big D went crazy again.

He is not trying to create a new and victorious streak, this time he wants to create a new China!

So when he heard Chen Denseng's name, he immediately looked up.

Because Zhen Zidan was also invited to this drama!
As soon as Zhang Yuan said this, Ren Dahua, who had rich social experience, immediately knew that the young man did it on purpose!

There is no such coincidence in the world.

Zhang Yuan snorted coldly and looked at Zhen Zidan.

how about it?
Isn’t it fun?

There’s something even more fun.

"Big Brother, please help me contact this place."

"I'll ask other people about this play as well."

In front of everyone, Zhang Yuan took out his cell phone and called Lao Han.

"Boss Han, long time no see."

"Hey, you called me, are you released?" Han Sanpin replied.

"What do you mean released? It makes me feel like I'm in prison."

"You can't curse me."

"It's good that you're out. How is it? I heard that you got into quite a bit of trouble this time." Han Sanpin lowered his voice.

He was well-informed and knew that Zhang Yuan had been taken away by Sister Zhao.

"Fortunately, we signed some agreements and have temporarily stopped the issue." Zhang Yuan did not elaborate: "So, I have to make more money."

"So I came to see you."

"Are you really okay?" Old Han was still worried.

Because this is very troublesome.

Not only the person behind Sister Zhao is powerful.

That person’s second sister and brother-in-law are top seniors in Beijing Film Studio and Sichuan Film and Television.

He is considered a big shot in this industry, and his two generations ago were all well-known figures.

He is quite senior in the entire Chinese film and television industry, and his network of connections is incredible.

Not to mention those outside the industry, he also has top connections in the industry, so Han Sanpin has to be careful.

"Can I joke with you about this?"

"I still know the importance of big things."

"That's good, I'm glad you're okay." Old Han was afraid that something might happen to Zhang Yuan, and then "Founding of a Republic" would have to be reshot.

"Good boy, facing that family...you were fine so quickly, you are pretty awesome." Han Sanpin's voice became excited.

"I won't say anything. I've signed the agreement, so I have to make money quickly."

"I understand..." Old Han knew that it was not shameful to use money to buy life.

Not only did I not feel it was bad, I even began to appreciate it more.

A real man should be able to bend and stretch, and bow his head when necessary, so that as long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood.

This kid has a clear mind, which actually shows that he is useful.

"Okay, what do you want from me?"

Zhang Yuan then told the whole story of "The Siege of the City in October".

"Would you be happy if I came to act?"

"I am happy to do so!" Old Han thought to himself, of course he would be happy.

I’m so happy to do it!
Because in addition to its Hong Kong film background, "October Besieged" is also an action film by definition.

So this drama perfectly fits the action movie theory that Zhang Yuan told Wu Jing.

It adds a lot of patriotic content and themes to the action film, making it easier for it to resonate with mainland audiences.

So the box office of this movie was average in Hong Kong, but it was quite successful in mainland China.

The way out for action movies in the Chinese market is to rely on patriotism.

What is the purpose of filming?
Of course, Lao Han has political considerations, but he still has to make money.

China Film Group is a group company, it would be unreasonable for it not to make a profit.

If Zhang Yuan had said this before, he might still hesitate.

But it's different now.

After its release, "Painted Skin" earned over 3 million yuan at the box office.

He is the leading actor!

This is not indirect proof, but direct proof of his box office appeal.

Being able to guarantee box office success is not a good thing.

Besides, action movies are not difficult for Zhang Yuan, he is good at it, and Old Han knows it.

Plus, Han Jianv is currently interning in Hollywood!
It is a good idea both in public and in private.

"I wouldn't have thought of it if you hadn't told me."

"I should have asked Chen Kexin to send you a notice."

"Well, you try it first."

"But if you say good things, you still have to perform well."

"I don't promise anything."

"Understood. I won't embarrass you."

Zhang Yuan and Lao Han were talking happily, and Zhen Zidan beside them could hear it clearly!
To him, this is no different from NTR in front of him, making him watch someone else sleep with his wife.

My brother’s face isn’t just blue anymore, it’s almost as black as the bottom of a pot!
Zhang Yuan glanced at him.

how?

Now I understand why I asked you to come for dinner?

Is my meal so delicious?
I've already told you that you'll have to bear the consequences, but are you not mentally prepared?
I did it on purpose. I wanted to do it in front of him.

I've only been away for a few days and you've come to my crew to scout out the location, trying to steal my job.

OK!
You take my things and I will take yours. Let's each take our turn and no one will suffer a loss.

What, you didn't get it?

That's your own fault, don't blame others.

This is what I call "returning favors as you would have them do for you."

Now the director has the support of Sammo Hung, and I will get the support from the investors myself.

We'll see who gets the role in the end.

The abbot doesn't hold a grudge, he just wants to steal your next role.

How can this be called revenge?

This is called "fair competition". It's always been like this in our industry, you should know that.

Moreover, Zhang Yuan did it in front of others on purpose, not only for the sake of satisfaction but also for others to see.

Show it to Ye Weixing and the other staff members!
The change of regime in France left Louis XVI confused.

When the Russian regime changed, they shot Tsar Nicholas and his family in the basement.

The consequence of this was that for a long time afterwards, there were always members of the old party who attempted to restore the monarchy, formed associations in private, and plotted to usurp power and seize the throne.

But in China, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Puyi became a glorious working people.

Logically speaking, the things he committed were enough to warrant execution eight hundred times.

But he was asked to go to the botanical garden and work on time like ordinary workers and technicians.

Even in the former Forbidden City, he had to buy a ticket to enter, just like ordinary people.

No matter how many years you have stayed here, this place has been your home.

Zhang Yuan is doing this in person now in order to break the filters of those "old and young" people in the crew who belong to Zhen Zidan.

What the hell is this leader?

He's no more than a match for me.

He fell down before I could even exert any force.

Is this the thing you are celebrating and lining up to welcome?
The prejudice in people's hearts is a mountain.

Then I will imitate Chenxiang and split the mountain in front of you, that's it! (End of this chapter)