Entertainment News: Follow Wang Baoqiang's Rise to Film Emperor

Although this situation is frustrating, he has no choice but to ask for help and search everywhere for a breakthrough in his career.

These are things one must endure before achieving success and fame in life, when one's status and position are still very low!

If you can't even handle this, then you shouldn't be in this business!

More setbacks, turbulence, and blows will come in the future...

Where did this go?

Therefore, seeing that Guan Hu hadn't said a word, he casually snatched his script and started reading it.

The behavior was extremely impolite, so Lin Zhi had no choice but to calm down and not make any further comments.

He does possess a certain level of shrewdness in dealing with people.

After all... he's lived two lives!

He was also quite familiar with Guan Hu, a graduate of the Beijing Film Academy who would later become a major director in China.

He had seen most of the decent domestic films that the other party would be directing in the future, such as "Cow," "Mr. Six," "The Eight Hundred," and "Dongji Island," in theaters.

Regardless of how well these films are received by the public.

From a professional industry perspective, their skill level is quite high.

After all, he is a professionally trained director, so there is nothing to criticize about his basic directing skills, camera language, and ability to train actors; he is quite commendable.

However, these veteran directors from the Beijing entertainment circle are usually very stubborn!

That is, being stubborn and inflexible!

I only shoot what I want to shoot.

In the film, they only focus on their own expression, just like Jiang Wen in later generations, only concerned with their own ideas. If you, the audience, don't understand, that's your problem...

It has nothing to do with me!

That's because your audience has terrible taste and doesn't know how to appreciate art!

In such a self-centered state, the film often becomes confusing, obscure, and difficult to understand.

This can be considered a common problem among the great directors of this era!

of course……

At this point in 99, whether it was Jiang Wen, who would become obsessed with herself and ignore the audience in the future, or Guan Hu in the present, both were still considered normal.

It hasn't yet reached the point of being "terminally ill" and beyond redemption in the future.

The films they make are all very down-to-earth, and audiences really enjoy watching them...

There's basically nothing to criticize!

That's why, when Lin Zhi saw his deskmate Guan Hu rudely snatch his script without a word and start reading, he barely got angry and just held back.

This guy is going to be a famous director someday. If he wants to watch it, let him watch it... Lin Zhi thought to himself.

Meanwhile, Director Guan Hu, with great interest, silently copied the script of "Crazy Stone" into his hands and quickly read it carefully from beginning to end...

A hint of admiration appeared on his face.

He murmured to himself, "Well written, well written... This story is really interesting!"

"If this were made into a movie, it'd be a box office hit!"

"but……"

To be honest, after quickly reading through the script for "Stone," director Guan Hu was impressed with it.

He felt that this multi-narrative black comedy script, which borrowed ideas from "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," was brilliant in its entirety, as well as in its dialogue and jokes.

He wanted to applaud and cheer!

But...

After weighing the options in his mind, he suddenly realized that although the script was good, it wasn't suitable for him at the moment.

Because of this script called "Crazy Stone," if we want to film it completely and perfectly, no matter how much we compress the production budget and increase the filming efficiency, it's estimated that it would cost at least three to five million yuan.

If you casually spend hundreds of thousands or millions to barely manage to film it, the resulting film will inevitably suffer from a significant drop in quality due to budget constraints, failing to achieve the desired effect.

So!

This rare and excellent script will surely be ruined by its own hands.

For a professionally trained director, a good and excellent script is the lifeblood of that director!

That is something that must never be wasted!

Even if we have to shelve the script and leave it unfilmed, we can't just recklessly film and ruin it...

That would be a desecration of the noble art of film!

Director Guan Hu's current predicament is that although he has some funds, he only has less than a million.

This was the largest amount of funds he could mobilize and obtain through connections.

Although at this point in 99, less than a million dollars was enough to make a very low-budget film.

but……

To perfectly film the script of "Crazy Stone" and finally release it to theatrical audiences, a mere million or so in funding is absolutely a drop in the bucket.

Guan Hu is no longer a newcomer to the directing world. Since graduating from the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy in 91, he has independently produced several low-budget films. He has a clear understanding of the production costs required to make a film.

So after roughly estimating in his mind that the maximum amount of money he had was barely enough to complete one-third of the filming of the script "Stone," he could only shake his head helplessly, no matter how much he liked the script written by Lin Zhi.

If someone asks, why not take the script and go out to attract investment?

If it were that easy to secure funding for movies, then everyone could be a director and make movies.

This industry won't be so difficult to develop now!

When filmmakers secure funding for a film, it's usually not because of a good script, but for various other reasons...

Even signing a contract or scheduling with a big star or director is easier to secure funding for a film than having a top-notch script.

In the film and television industry, investors and backers generally invest based on the people involved, rather than on something as intangible and uncertain as the script...

It's almost impossible to attract (or swindle) the initial funding for a film with just a good script!

"Young man..."

"My name is Guan Hu, and I'm a director."

"Shall we talk?"

Guan Hu had his eye on Lin Zhi's script, but due to his "empty pockets" and lack of funds, he secretly lamented that the script was out of his reach. Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he got up and switched seats with Huang Xiaoming, squeezing next to Lin Zhi. With a smile, he handed the script in his hand back to Lin Zhi and started chatting with him.

"Hello Director Guan, I admire your name. Please speak if you need anything..." Lin Zhi casually took the script that Guan Hu handed back to him, and glanced curiously at Guan Hu who had come over to get close to him, wondering what the other party was planning to do.

Why do they look so affectionate?

"Young man, your script is quite good. Are you a professional screenwriter?" Guan Hu and Huang Jiaozhu switched seats, and after sitting down next to Lin Zhi, Guan Hu started a conversation with a smile.

"I'm not a professional screenwriter; I'm an actor now," Lin Zhi told the truth.

"Oh, you have a great image, you'd be perfect as an actor..." Guan Hu then struck up a lively conversation with Lin Zhi.

The two continued chatting all the way.

After they gradually became more familiar with each other, Guan suddenly changed the subject and said, "Young man, it's like this, I'm preparing to produce a low-budget film recently. I've almost raised the funds, but I'm missing a good script..."

"Originally, I really liked your script, but I feel that... with my current abilities, I can't handle it. So you must keep this script safe and don't sell it to others carelessly and let it be ruined."

"That would be such a waste!"

At this point, Guan Hu paused slightly, then immediately continued, "I just carefully reviewed your scriptwriting, and it's quite remarkable. So... could you help me write a script? I'll pay you. I've already drafted the story outline and such; take a look..."

As he spoke, he pulled out a few crumpled pieces of white paper from his shirt pocket.

It was covered with crooked and messy writing.

It's obvious that these are just notes and story outlines that Guan Yu jotted down when inspiration struck...