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He Mu didn't expect that Li Wenhua would put his directorial debut on the agenda so soon. He thought that this guy would start when he graduated from graduate school.

"In a few months, I will enter the third year of graduate school. In fact, I am not far away from graduation."

"Are you going to use this movie as your graduation project?" Like "To Youth".

"No, no, no, this is just a practice assignment. You know that I have never been a film director before. This time I mainly want to accumulate some experience. When I do my graduation work, I hope that I will be the best among the teacher's students."

"Accumulate experience, accumulate experience, can't you make some micro movies, mv and other things, how can you make a feature film as soon as it comes up, your senior sister has also made mv before, and she has been an actress for more than ten years , I know all the departments of filming like the back of my hand, and my understanding of films is not comparable to yours, otherwise do you think I will invest money in her at ease?" He Mu pointed to Zhao Wei to explain the truth to Li Wenhua.

"Let's talk about it, don't get me involved." Zhao Wei on the side said dissatisfiedly, at this time they were in the crew of "To Youth", and Li Wenhua approached He Mu for help in the name of visiting brothers and senior sisters.

"It's not that I've never made a micro-movie. In 05, you forgot that I won an award." Li Wenhua brought up the past.

He Mu was speechless, as if it was true, several award-winning directors of the 05 Tudou original creative short film competition, Tao Quduo is already a well-known director, the news of entering Hollywood will be released soon, Lin Qingyi With the help of Lao Tao, there is also a directorial work.Wang Mingfei is filming her directorial debut. Another director Lu Zhengyu's "Hip-Hop Quartet" has more than [-] million hits on Youku, which is Youku's trump card online drama.In addition, he has also made a small-budget film "A Dog's College Time", which was released in theaters. Not long ago, he also participated in the screenwriting and actor work of Zhou Xingchi's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". Recently, he is launching a series with Tudou.com Among these directors, only Li Wenhua has not really entered the film industry.

"Actually, I didn't spend any money on this movie. How much Jia Zhangke spent on "Xiao Wu" back then, I spent almost that much. The cost is very small. I can afford the money myself," Li Wenhua said. , "I just want you to help me read the script. Check it out, and it's best to give me the name of a producer. You also know that there are not many student works that can enter the theater. And I don't plan to Use big-name stars. So if you don’t want to be reduced to an underground movie, you have to have the support of Shuimu Forest.”

When Li Wenhua said this, He Mu had confidence in his heart, and he was afraid that he would become a fat man with one bite, "Okay, anyway, you are not the only one who turned from a writer to a director, and you have studied directing, so I shouldn't treat you like this." Don’t worry.” Although Li Wenhua is a famous publisher and writer.However, the influence in the film and television industry is weak, but with the help of the industry leader Shuimu Senlin.Even if what he shoots is a piece of shit, it can still be screened in theaters.

"Oh, besides culture, which writer is going to make a movie?" Zhao Weihu asked curiously with her big eyes blinking. As a new actor and director, she is also very interested in other cross-border directors.

"Isn't it just that pair of enemies? Guo Jingming sold the TV series adaptation rights of "Little Times", but left the film adaptation rights. It is said that he wants to be the director himself. This news spread a while ago. I don't know if it is true or not. There is also Han Han, this must be true, when I went to Shanghai last month, I chatted with him by the way, and he came up with three stories, one of which I think is the story of "The Boys of Dongji Island". Yes, this will be the direction of our cooperation in the future, but it’s just one direction now.” He Mu didn’t hide anything, Zhao Wei and Li Wenhua were strict-spoken, so they wouldn’t yell.

Hearing this, Li Wenhua has more fighting spirit. Although as a writer, he has only published two books, his reputation among young writers is far less than that of Han Han and Guo Jingming, and even Zhang Yueran and Sun Rui, who are in the next echelon, are not as good as him. As a person, his influence is enough to compete with Han Han and Guo Jingming. After all, he has achieved such achievements in his 20s, and his life can be called a legend. He is a literary idol respected by young reading lovers.

In order to be responsible for his own work, Li Wenhua took root in the crew of "To Youth" after handing over the script to He Mu. For the remaining half a month, he has been working on the script, and he is still the kind who doesn't do anything, just hangs a name, Most of the time was spent learning the directing skills of director Zhao Wei. Before that, he had worked in He Mu and Tao Quduo's production crews, so he was able to learn from everyone's strengths.

"To Youth" has finally finished filming. After more than three months of filming, He Mu experienced college life to the fullest, which can be regarded as a way to make up for the college he didn't go to.

He Mu has read Li Wenhua's script, and not only read it himself, but also showed it to director Zhao Wei and screenwriter Li Qiang. As a professional, Li Qiang gave a lot of good opinions. Of course, Li Wenhua is also considered a half-professional. But after all, he is not as experienced as Li Qiang, and he can get to the point on many issues.

The script is called "A Little Thing", which saves production costs as you can tell from the name. The content of the story is based on the "Jinling Mrs. Xu Incident" that took place in 06 and spread through the Internet, also known as the "Peng Yu Incident". Before Li Wenhua came to Jinling to visit the class, he had been collecting information on this for a long time. Did Peng Yu hit Mrs. Xu and refused to admit it, or Mrs. Xu blackmailed the kind people who helped him? What is the truth? However, the shady scene behind the deciphering trial results is not the focus of Li Wenhua's script. Li Fatty focused the camera on the huge impact of such a small incident on the moral values ​​of the entire Chinese people. Answers, but very thought-provoking.

He Mu likes this script. There is a lack of realistic films based on real events in China. Usually, this type of film has no hope of box office. If it is not a great director, there is no hope for awards, let alone possible bans. , Blocking and other issues, so not all companies dare to touch it.

Realistic themes don’t make money, but magic has its head. In a broad sense, Huayi’s "Painted Skin 2" and Mizuki's "Zibuyu 2" both fall into this category. The two films were released half a month apart. This month, some media used related titles such as "2's War" to describe these two tit-for-tat magical blockbusters in the summer. This kind of publicity strategy is mainly used by Huayi. After all, the influence and success of "Zibuyu 1" are far away. Super "Painted Skin 1", using this method of bundling publicity, although it also promoted the movie of the deadly rival to a certain extent, but it helped the company's "Painted Skin 2" more.

In addition to bundling "Zibuyu 2" to create a fighting atmosphere, Huayi has frequently used tricks. For a while, it was Zhao Wei who was at odds with Zhou Xun, and for a while it was Chen Kun and Zhao Wei who were at odds, and there were also many new celebrities from Yangmi and Feng Shaofeng. The topic can be speculated. In short, before the movie is released, as long as the computer is turned on, the news of "Painted Skin 2" is all over the Internet. It seems that the movie's explosion is unstoppable... (To be continued...)