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Chapter 306 Waste of Youth
"I had to entertain some people I didn't know well at the last dinner, so I didn't have a detailed chat with you. How have you been lately?"

Huang Ze pushed over a cup of tea that he had prepared using the tea set in a pretentious manner.

"Taste it."

"I brewed it myself, using top-grade mountain spring water, the only one of its kind in the world."

"Thank you." Liang Jiahui didn't hesitate and took a sip.

Then he couldn't hold back his desire to complain anymore and started to complain to Huang Ze.

"Mr. Huang, the thing I regret most in my life is taking the role in Wang Jiawei's flopped Ashes of Time."

"Flop, I was really out of my mind at that time."

"I have never regretted so much even when I was banned from playing Emperor Xianfeng."

"It took more than a year! I was in the desert for most of the year. When the wind blew, I really ate sand!"

"As an actor, I can bear this kind of hardship as long as I can play a good role. But the key is that I feel even more miserable inside!"

"From the moment I joined the crew, I had no idea what I was acting in."

"There was no script. In fact, even Wang Jiawei didn't know how the story would go. He just said a few words every day, and then we actors just acted casually."

"Wow!"

"It's true that everyone is wasting time, youth, and life!"

"I never saw him like this when he was in our company!" Liang Jiahui couldn't help shaking his head.

He also knew Wang Jiawei and had been quite optimistic about this director, otherwise he would not have been able to act in his movies. He has enough box office appeal and is even a familiar face in Hollywood because of "Pulp Fiction". He has no shortage of movies to shoot.

Why do you have to film his drama? Don't you think highly of him?

“I really can’t believe it.”

"Because I'm a nosy person." Huang Ze took a sip. "If it's not a movie with a budget of one or two million, don't even think about doing anything with me. Just write the script and draw the storyboard, and then talk about investment and filming."

"Wang Jiawei left the company because I controlled him too much and he didn't have freedom, didn't he?"

"Then I think he must regret it." Liang Jiahui asserted, "I don't know why that Deng let Director Wang go. The cost has soared to 40 million Hong Kong dollars. If it can't achieve the same success as the "Huang Feihong" series, I really think that Deng will be so angry that he will vomit blood!"

"Forty million, what can't you do? I don't even know how much I can earn if I buy a house."

"Who can say for sure? Maybe it will be even more successful than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Huang Ze shook his head.

In fact, I also wanted to see Deng Guangrong’s expression after the release of "Ashes of Time".

In the previous life, at least Liu Zhenwei visited the set and spent a month making a movie called "A Chinese Odyssey", which grossed over 20 million, which was considered a good return on investment.

In this life, Liu Zhenwei was in charge of Xinghai and was busy like a top. Naturally, he would not help Wang Jiawei. Even if he wanted to, he didn't dare to tell Huang Ze.

More than a month!

You, a general manager, want to leave for more than a month to shoot a movie for another company. How dare you say that? Huang Ze dared to let him go. Once he leaves, don't come back. Make room for your brothers. Other people in the company also want to make progress.

Don’t think that the company will stop operating if someone is missing.

There is only one person in Xinghai Film and Television who can call the shots, and that's me! Not you!

Without the recovery of "A Chinese Odyssey", it is conceivable that "A Chinese Odyssey" will suffer huge losses!
Deng Guangrong will eventually experience the feeling of losing all his money in the previous life of "Days of Being Wild". No! It is even worse than "Days of Being Wild".

At least "Days of Being Wild" won enough awards at the Golden Horse Awards, and they were all major awards.

Ashes of Time, most likely only has a bunch of nominations left. "Hehehe, Jiawei, Jiawei, be careful!"

Smiling in his heart, Huang Ze brought the topic back to the point, "I asked you to come here because I have a play for you to act in."

Huang Ze pushed the script of "The Wedding Banquet" over.

"The director of Pushing Hands has invested two million dollars in his new film. You can play a gay character, don't worry."

"It's challenging." Liang Jiahui couldn't help but laugh. This is better than Wang Jiawei's. At least he knows that he is playing a gay man, and there is a complete script. Finally, he doesn't have to act himself.

Moreover, playing a gay character can challenge myself to some extent.

"By the way, Mr. Huang, am I a homosexual, that, or that?"

"Don't be too stereotyped. Just read the script and figure it out yourself. Your pay alone is worth half of the pay for the entire show. Act well!"

"I understand!" Liang Jiahui put away the script.

"Don't worry, you won't regret it." Huang Ze finally gave Liang Jiahui a reassurance, "I am very optimistic about the director named Li An, and I am also very optimistic about this script. You should be able to go to the three majors again. I can't guarantee how big the award will be, but the main competition unit should be no problem."

"With your words, I have no problem." Liang Jiahui happily took the script and left.

……

Huang Ze came back to organize the Golden Deer Awards.

Now the Golden Deer Awards have been a success.

In addition to Xinghai's purchase of films, a group of film producers in Southeast Asia also had connections for several films. Even Warner Bros. bought the North American copyrights of two films. Although the price is not very high, they can be distributed in North America after all. Even if it is only released on video tapes, this is also an opportunity, isn't it?

This still has appeal to many filmmakers.

Just a few days after the award ceremony ended, the selection committee received a lot of films. It is obvious that the Golden Deer Awards for Chinese Films, which they organized, has temporarily gained a foothold.

Huang Ze didn’t need to worry about anything this year, so he flew to Los Angeles.

The editing of "Speed" is crucial. We can even say that if the editing is not good, it will be just an ordinary movie, even a bit vulgar. Only with the right editing can it create the kind of feeling that makes people watch the whole movie without boredom and feel extremely nervous.

Huang Ze must keep a close eye on it and not let others cut his hair badly.

……

In the editing room.

"Leave one second for shot number three and cut it together with shot number five."

"This shot is followed by shot number eight."

"Well, it's still a little slow. It needs to be faster, faster! The editing must be fast and the shots must be short. I want the audience to be in a tense state at all times."

Once Huang Ze got into work, he began his 99-day life. The only two days left for himself were for him to go back to Hong Kong Island to visit his wife and children, and to irrigate the fields on both sides of the strait. However, the crops were ruined by drought.

……

In the blink of an eye, three months passed.

Huang Ze finally finished the post-production of the film, and immediately called his old friend George, the two presidents of Warner Pictures and a group of moviegoers to the screening room.

"Let me show you what I have achieved over the past year!"

(End of this chapter)