Become Famous Another Day

Chapter 572: Don’t use good intentions to do bad things

"Actually, the risk is quite high. If the drama fails in the end and Liu Manbo doesn't support the crew, the risk will be borne by Li Zhibai alone."

"Well, Li Zhibai is too anxious now. When I mentioned Liu Manbo to him, he immediately asked if he could come to the set immediately." Lu Yanhe told Chen Ziyan, "He said that the set is in chaos now. If he doesn't find someone right away, If the director goes to straighten things up first, the crew can be disbanded on the spot. So, I originally wanted to advise you not to rush for a day or two no matter how urgent it is, but after hearing what he said, I didn't. What can I say?”

Chen Ziyan: "I'm just worried that Lighthouse Video is dissatisfied with Li Zhibai's approach. Think about it, even the largest investor hasn't agreed, so you just made your own decisions and brought a director into the crew and started letting him direct the show. Never mind. This drama is now in an extremely urgent situation. In the eyes of Dengtao Video, it's all your fault. Fortunately, the person who did this is Li Zhibai, and Dengtao won't think about this matter in a deeper and more complicated way. But if there is something wrong later in this drama. Whatever the problem, Li Zhibai will be held accountable for his actions."

Lu Yanhe nodded, understanding what Chen Ziyan meant.

Just as he was talking, Lu Yanhe's cell phone suddenly buzzed and vibrated twice.

Li Zhibai sent a message: Liu Manbo got into the role very quickly, and he just finished filming the first scene smoothly.

Lu Yanhe's heart immediately relaxed.

He showed Chen Ziyan the message from Li Zhibai and said that currently, the situation was relatively good.

Chen Ziyan: "I have no doubt about Liu Manbo's ability and talent. I have not worried about this. You should remind Li Zhibai and ask him to take the initiative to ask Lighthouse whether he agrees with Liu Manbo to be the director of this drama - Now nominally Liu Manbo is just here to help, so Li Zhibai should give the lighthouse an attitude and stop putting people there. "

Lu Yanhe nodded and said yes.

He immediately told Li Zhibai what Chen Ziyan had told him.

Li Zhibai: It's amazing. Just five minutes ago, Lin Suyang told me exactly the same thing. He said that he wanted to bring the material of the scene that Liu Manbo just shot to the lighthouse.

Lu Yanhe understood why Chen Ziyan and Lin Suyang said this.

To put it bluntly, the biggest problem in this matter is that Li Zhi is acting as Baiyue Zu. He does not have the power to decide the director (even though Lighthouse respects his opinion from the beginning). At this time, Liu Manbo was directly replaced without the permission of Lighthouse Video. He was promoted to the position of director, which was a taboo.

Although it could not solve the problem, Li Zhibai took the material shot by Liu Manbo and took the initiative to ask Lighthouse if he wanted to keep Liu Manbo. In the final analysis, it was a disguised statement, a gesture of transferring power back.

If Lighthouse had not sincerely disagreed with Liu Manbo and disagreed with him being the director, in order for the crew to be able to continue filming, Lighthouse would usually have gone down the **** and covered it up at this time.

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At this moment, Lu Yanhe has arrived in Thailand.

Lu Yanhe was invited by Thailand this time as an Asian superstar.

When he saw this film festival promoting him as an Asian superstar, he was quite confused.

However, they took it seriously and gave her a high standard of reception.

From the moment he arrived in Thailand, he was accompanied by a dedicated person for the entire trip, and was also provided with a car and driver.

Lu Yanhe only met actress Caina once in Thailand.

However, this time around the conflict between Lu Yanhe and Harvey, Caina was one of the first Asian celebrities in Asia to support Lu Yanhe on her social media.

After he arrived in Thailand, he wanted to go out for a walk.

Chen Ziyan didn't have time to accompany him at all, and she was about to transfer to the United States. She was on her way to meet a producer in Thailand, and she wanted to communicate with him about Wen Minglan's cooperation.

Thailand's film and television market is not large, but both Thai dramas and Thai movies have achieved outstanding results compared to the country's market size.

Especially for Thai dramas, Lu Yanhe knows that there is a large group of loyal viewers in China. Although he doesn't like to see it.

The Thai producer Chen Ziyan wants to meet is a very experienced film producer. Two of his films have been released in China.

Because Chen Ziyan came here to discuss Wen Minglan's cooperation this time, Lu Yanhe did not come with him. Otherwise, people's attention might be directly on Lu Yanhe.

Lu Yanhe and his party, led by local companions, visited the local market and walked around the surrounding area.

When he returned to the hotel, the heads of the local tourism management department came and were waiting for him in the lobby.

They came specifically to express their welcome to him.

Lu Yanhe was surprised.

Because this is not recording a show.

Sometimes when recording a program, the program team will have some media activities on foreign affairs. Because the program is influential and popular, people will arrange activities like this to drive publicity and tourism economy.

But Lu Yanhe was only here to participate in the film festival, and there was no arrangement for tourism officials to visit him in the official itinerary.

It was a completely unexpected private trip—of course, it cannot be said to be a truly private trip. He was brought here by a relevant management member of the film festival to specially welcome his arrival.

It was a meeting gift, and it was also an expression of hope that he would have a happy stay in Thailand, and a sincere invitation to him to travel to Thailand in the future.

Later, he was invited to attend a relatively high-level dinner party in the evening, hosted by a local rich man.

Lu Yanhe declined directly.

Everyone was very surprised. They didn't know why Lu Yanhe declined. He also emphasized that he was one of the top richest men in Thailand and was very powerful. Very few people got invitations to his dinner parties.

Lu Yanhe smiled and thanked Bu Min.

He rarely even goes to dinner parties hosted by wealthy Chinese people, let alone those abroad.

First, this kind of situation has nothing to do with his work. After getting to know him, it will cause all kinds of troubles. Secondly, no one knew who would be there in such an occasion. If there were some unsafe and dangerous people staying inside, he would not know it, so he would inexplicably get in the same frame with them, even take a photo with them, turn around and explode with thunder and splash. I'm covered in dirty water and can't even wash myself off. Lu Yanhe planned to finish participating in the film festival schedule tomorrow, complete a shoot the day after tomorrow, finish work, meet and chat with a few directors he had contacted in advance, and then fly to Malaysia.

Activities outside of work should be as few as possible.

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However, Lu Yanhe really underestimated his current influence.

"The Mist", a popular horror film with a global box office of over 200 million US dollars, brought him not only a box office hit, but also D19's global promotion around the film. , and at the same time opened up Lu Yanhe's popularity on a global scale.

This is why Chen Ziyan said that there must be a few commercial blockbusters that everyone will know when they hear it.

As an actor, if you want to become a movie star, unless you are like Meryl Streep, you are already tied to Hollywood and Oscar awards, and rely on the power of the entire industry to push her audience popularity to this level. More than 90% of actors must have made their fortune through a few globally popular works.

A movie channel in Thailand went through the relationship between Yuehutai (the two parties had cooperated before) and found Chen Ziyan. Chen Ziyan gave it to Wang Biao. At seven o'clock in the evening, Lu Yanhe had to sit in the hotel restaurant and accept I started an interview with this movie channel.

Fortunately, it’s a recording, not a live broadcast—

Lu Yanhe doesn't speak Thai either. If he speaks English, not many people can understand him.

In line with the principle of "taking it as it comes," when he accepted the job of interviewing, he wanted to make the best use of everything and get the greatest effect.

Therefore, he mentioned almost all the works in which he starred.

Anyway, his works can be watched on streaming media, and Thai audiences can also watch them.

The host asked a customary question: "Are there any directors and actors in Thailand that you like and want to work with?"

Lu Yanhe said: "Cai Na, actually Cai Na has already started to cooperate. I invited her to participate in the production of a program in China called "The Birth of an Actor". I don't know if there will be any audience for this program in Thailand."

"Cai Na? By the way, I saw a report before that Cai Na might appear in the second season of "Squid Game", right?"

Lu Yanhe laughed.

"The second season of "Squid Game" is still in preparation, and the script has not yet been released. However, if there is a suitable role, Caina is an actress I really want to work with." He also said with dignity. , "I am a fan of Cai Na. I have watched many movies starring her."

The smile on the host's face immediately became brighter.

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The next day, Lu Yanhe attended the red carpet event of the film festival and awarded a "Potential Award" to a Thai newcomer -

This is not a major award in an awards ceremony, but a major award established to encourage young filmmakers. A separate awards event is held for this award every year.

Every year the film festival also invites an influential filmmaker to present awards to the winners.

This event has also become a reserved activity of the film festival.

Although it was not an awards ceremony, the chairman of the executive committee and the chairman of the jury of this film festival were all present.

Before awarding the award, a special session was also arranged to briefly introduce Lu Yanhe's achievements.

The chairman of the executive committee said: "He is a legendary young actor and a legendary young actor."

Lu Yanhe could hear his hands waving and waving, not daring to take it or not.

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"Lighthouse Video agreed." Lin Suyang immediately called Li Zhibai, "However, they kept Liu Manbo's salary very low and were only willing to give one-tenth of Lu Bo's."

Lubo was the director before "Nineteen Years of Crime".

Li Zhibai: "Have they not communicated this matter with Liu Manbo yet?"

"They have made up their mind. Now Liu Manbo will shoot here for free. Even if they only give one-tenth, he will definitely accept it."

"They are so stingy." Li Zhibai was very disgusted, "Director Liu saved the situation by turning the tide, and they are still stingy in this regard."

"Actually, it's quite normal. After all, he is a new director who has never directed a feature film before." Lin Suyang said, "For Liu Manbo, this opportunity is much more important than the salary."

"These are all excuses to squeeze out the income you deserve." Li Zhibai said unceremoniously, "Why should I squeeze out the income you deserve because opportunity is more important? If Director Liu doesn't accept this condition, he will stop directing. The loss is even greater. Director Liu’s situation at the scene these two days. As you know, you've also seen the footage he shot. It's not even remotely good. Although it's still a bit different from what we imagined at the beginning, it may be what it is now in such a short period of time. To be honest, The whole crew is convinced.”

Liu Manbo knows very clearly what he wants to shoot and how he wants to shoot, and he will not give random requirements that cannot be achieved - of course, he actually has a lot of requirements and a lot of ideas, and a lot of early design and preparation are all in Changes were made at his request - however, there were so many changes, but none of them could not be done without force.

Therefore, after working overtime, there were many people who complained about it, but the final product and the shots that came out were completely usable and worthy of the stage. There is no awkwardness or panic of "cramming for the moment". Only at this time can we see the true story. Seeing him becoming more and more in control of the entire situation and able to film the film well, the crew members also have more and more trust in him.

A director's authority was established by himself at such an urgent and critical moment.

Li Zhibai: "I invited Liu Manbo here. Brother Su Yang, I can't let him suffer too much, especially since he has been so helpful to our drama."

Lin Suyang: "Zhi Bai, let me be honest. Based on my observation and understanding of Liu Manbo these days, if you try to help him get a higher salary at this time, he may not be willing to do so."

"Ah?" Li Zhibai asked, "Why are you so reluctant?"

Lin Suyang said: "Because he cares about this opportunity, he cares about this opportunity even more. He definitely doesn't want to get the opportunity to direct, and there will be twists and turns because of the treatment. If he doesn't care about this opportunity, he won't have nothing." Come and do this when you agree , do you understand what I mean? A person has self-esteem. How would you feel if a crew asked you to act in a play? But in his case? After coming down, you can understand how important this opportunity is to him. "

Li Zhibai was silent.

Lin Suyang's words hit his heart directly. He felt that Lin Suyang was right and he was convinced.

"Why don't you communicate with him directly about this matter? Let him make up his own mind whether he wants to fight for it or not." Lin Suyang said, "Don't use good intentions to do bad things."

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I've been a little busy these days, so I can only keep up to date with the basics.

(End of chapter)