Chapter 440 438. Happy Twist (31)
Picking up the phone, Yang Mi gave Xu Xin a shake, but was in no hurry to answer it.
Seeing this, Xu Xin said:
"He's calling Yang Mi now."
"Don't answer it yet, call him back later."
After Liu Momo finished speaking, Yang Mi pressed the lock screen and adjusted the phone to silent.
After hearing the phone ringing over there, he said directly:
"I also just received a call from Shang Jing, telling me that he wants to buy the copyright of "Wulin Biography" and make a movie."
"Well, everyone else agrees?"
"According to what he said, the intentions are quite big. He said that Lao Sha and Yan Ni have already agreed... After all, they are an old relationship, and they have been working together since the cooking class. In other words, according to the episodes, Although it is said that one of these people is missing or everyone loses their souls, Lao Bai and Shopkeeper Tong are the real core characters, as long as they agree, then this drama... at least has a market."
Liu Momo's analysis is indeed correct.
In "Wulin Biography", from the group of five to Mo Xiaobei, to Xing Butou and Yan Xiaoliu, these people are indeed indispensable...or they can be missing, but they cannot be replaced.
Because as long as the face is changed, everyone will never recognize it.
Who made "Wulin Biography" leave such a deep impression on everyone?
As long as the protagonist agrees to act, then Jiang Chao and Yu Entai are not a problem if they want to come.
But Xu Xin figured it out after thinking about it for a while... In fact, the difficulty lies with his wife.
Let a double golden actress... play a supporting role?
Although this thing is sentimental, it’s hard to say but it’s not pretty.
How is Yang Mi's coffee position calculated?
After thinking for a while, he asked his wife:
"Do you want to act?"
"The schedule is open and the end is fast. If I don't delay my filming of "The Grandmaster", then I can act."
Her words let Xu Xin know...that she was thinking too much.
But the following words explain her motivation:
"After all, if the movie "Wulin Biography" is expected by fans, I think what everyone is looking forward to is definitely not coming to see me, or people like Lao Sha and Ni. What everyone likes to watch should be this story. Go to Tongfu Inn to open the door again and welcome guests as usual. Whether it’s to make up for the regrets in the movie, or...just a friend from afar that you haven’t seen for a long time, you meet him again, and see that he is doing well, It's not bad at all. It must be a very sweet thing, right?"
Hearing her words, Xu Xin said subconsciously:
"Youth?"
Yang Mi was taken aback...
Then I suddenly became happy:
"Yeah, youth."
That family is composed of shopkeeper Tong, Laobai, Xiaoguo, Xiucai, Dazui, and Xiaobei. It is a Tongfu Inn full of laughter.
And Qixia Town, where Xing Dutou, Yan Xiaoliu, Wushuang...even Shopkeeper Qian, Xiaomi, etc. left their footprints.
What everyone wants to see is not some off-screen star, but their old friends.
Look at how they are doing recently, whether they are living happily together...
Probably.
Thinking of this, Yang Mi took the initiative to take her lover's phone, and said to Liu Momo:
"Sister Mo, does Director Shang have any other requests?"
"That's gone... Mimi, do you want to act?"
"Um."
Yang Mi responded:
"You don't need to think about roles, roles, etc. here. I'm quite interested... Sister Mo, do you have any ideas?"
"I made two preparations."
Hearing this, Liu Momo said:
"Originally, I thought you might not be very interested. After all, in "Wulin Biography", Wushuang's role is definitely not as good as that of the five-person group. If it is compressed into a movie, it feels even less. So, after he chatted with me , I thought about it... If you are sure not to act, I will sell him the copyright of a movie. But if you act, then the copyright will not be sold. If he wants to make it, I will use the dividend system to invest. This is My plan."
"Will he accept?"
"As long as he wants to make a film, he will definitely accept it. And I will not consider the second result, because you don't know what happened before... He may be a director who is very good at making films, but he is definitely not a qualified cooperation partner."
Yang Mixin said this is the truth.
So I thought about it and said:
"Then I'll call him back later, just talk like this? I agreed to play the role, and then I raised some requirements for the script with him myself. Next, things like copyright and investment..."
"Leave it to me."
"No problem. Then it's settled."
"okay."
There was no need for Xu Xin, the two hung up the phone after chatting.
As soon as the phone was disconnected, Xu Xin asked inexplicably:
"Are you sure you want to shoot?...You don't know how long you have been busy with "The Grandmaster"."
"Wu Shuang definitely doesn't have many roles, this is my request. After all... I am also a supporting role in the script."
Picking up her own passage, Yang Mi continued:
"So it shouldn't be a problem to find time to shoot one. What's more..."Wulin Biography" is also a good memory of mine. I might not be interested in anything else, but this movie is different after all."
As she spoke, she thought her brother was worried about not being able to take good care of the child, so she said:
"Don't worry, I won't delay taking care of the child."
"I don't worry about that."
Xu Xin smiled and waved his hand:
"I'm just afraid that Sister Hua will disagree, after all, she values artist status..."
"Leave it to me."
Yang Mi spoke and dialed Shang Jing directly.
And the sound of "Xiao Xu, come get the bowls and chopsticks" came from the kitchen.
"Hey, here we come."
Xu Xin responded, and walked directly to the kitchen, no longer worrying about things here.
"Wulin Biography" is long gone for him.
Including the fact that the previous IP "Wulin Biography" was used by the perfect person to adapt the game or something, which brought in an income of several million, and he didn't care too much about it.
It's Liu Momo who is handling it.
Not to mention the others.
About a dozen or twenty copies of the broadcasting rights of "Wulin Biography" are sold every year.
Each one is an income of one or two million.
This script, which was created because I accidentally took the wrong luggage, has now become one of the most stable sources of income for Headwind.
But still that sentence.
The past is the past.
Resume is brilliant, people always have to look forward.
In the kitchen, while helping his father-in-law and mother-in-law to carry the bowls and chopsticks, and brushing out the cutting boards and kitchen knives that were used for cooking in the sink, he heard Yang Mi's voice in the living room:
"Director Shang, I can act, but there are two conditions. First, if you want to act, it will be our original crew, and all of them will appear on the screen. You can't change them! Second, the ending of the story must be It is complete, just like those regrets discussed by netizens on the Internet...
Such as Wushuang’s relationship, the marriage between shopkeeper Tong and Lao Bai, the love life of Li Dazui, and Xiao Guo and Xiucai, etc. There are no extended stories about these things, but they must be given an explanation in the movie. Give everyone a... happy ending! I just ask for these two points. "
Hearing this, Xu Xin unconsciously smiled.
ha~
This suggestion, he likes it.
after all…
Since you are young, please be sure not to leave any regrets.
…
Xu Xin wasn't worried about the next thing. After eating, he went directly to the company to find Ren Changzhen and the others.
In Shuangwei's office building, Yang Mi specially set aside an area, about the size of four conference rooms, with a total of 156 square meters of space, reserved for the "Bite of the Tongue" team.
It’s still not the kind of public sharing.
The new building of the CCTV building was completed this year. The north building currently used by the TV station is an old building with outdated infrastructure and congestion. There is no way to give the "Bite of Tongue" team a very large space. And this documentary is to do research on the food culture of the whole celestial dynasty, and the required information can't be solved in a single place.
Anyway, Shuangwei's office building is big enough, and the entire floor is theirs.
The usual places are simply not used up.
According to the jokes circulating inside the company:
"Our company's gym is the biggest I've ever been in."
Just this sentence, you can basically imagine this space.
The entire space also adopts a flat layout, which is a four-square box with computers, bookshelves, conference tables, LED projection screens and so on.
Everything.
No matter what work you do here, it doesn’t look crowded.
When he arrived, several consultants, including Dong Keping, a domestic heavyweight gourmet tycoon, and a director team of 20 to 30 people were already sitting at the conference table.
When everyone is here, we will start to enter the discussion session.
Divided by region from north to south, delicacies from all over the world, foods with special significance, including the solar terms of the Chinese people, when and what to eat, to frying, frying, stewing, stewing...
What kind of cooking method, what kind of food, what it represents, what it expresses...
The entire "Bite of the Tongue" documentary is a huge and cumbersome project.
But Xu Xin has a lot of confidence in this.
Because CCTV gave enough time.
From the establishment of the project to the shooting, they gave them two full years.
After all, due to the particularity of documentaries, time and quality are almost directly proportional.
While Xu Xin was busy working on the documentary, Zeng Jia appeared in a small theater.
…
Haidian, Huangzhuang.
Haidian Theater, parking lot.
After Zeng Jia got off her Mercedes-Benz, she saw someone coming and took off her sunglasses with a smile:
"Shen Teng, long time no see."
Seeing her stretch out her hand, Shen Teng walked up quickly, holding Zeng Jia's hand with both hands.
"Zeng Ji, long time no see, welcome."
"Haha, don't be so polite."
Zeng Jia waved her hand in a friendly tone.
She has always had a good impression of Shen Teng.
Back then, in order to sign the actor Cao Lei who is no longer known what to do now, she stayed in the crew of "Youth Going Walk" for a long time.
It is equivalent to the "trial period", let Cao Lei see if she is qualified as a broker who has just entered the industry.
At that time, she was just a small agent, and the task Rong Xinda gave was to sign artists by herself. And the requirement is to have a certain reputation and potential.
This mission sounds nonsense at first glance.
Famous actors already have managers, do they need you?
But there is no way, this is the task.
Cao Lei, whom Zeng Jia was staring at at the time, was the person she valued the most.
It's a pity... After getting along for a while, Cao Lei probably felt that Zeng Jia really didn't have much energy, so he didn't sign the contract.
But during this period of getting along, Shen Teng and Zeng Jia, fellow HLJ fellows, have always gotten along well.
Moreover, Shen Teng also helped her say a lot of good things to Cao Lei.
But fate is like this.
Cao Lei failed to sign, and Zeng Jia also had the idea of signing with Shen Teng, who was also unsatisfactory.
But after giving feedback to the company, he was called back directly.
Although he bears the name of a military art school grass, Rong Xinda learned that Shen Teng is a "problem student" who usually likes to play games, but is not diligent and often can't remember his lines. After that, he directly rejected Zeng Jia's proposal.
The two regretted missing it.
But this friendship between fellow villagers has stayed.
Although she has gone through several twists and turns in the middle, whether she became Mimi's agent or Liu Yifei's first agent now... Logically speaking, her status and current status can only be found in a small theater that is not in a very good business condition. Shen Teng, who plays a stage play, is one in the sky and the other in the earth.
But everyone's contact information is always kept.
There are even more greetings during the New Year and holidays.
Especially this year.
During the Spring Festival this year, Zeng Jia, who was going home for the New Year, received a text message from Shen Teng to wish her New Year greetings. After replying to the other party, Shen Teng called her for the first time.
Didn't say much.
are some polite and auspicious words.
But Zeng Jia is not a fool.
The other party suddenly called to contact the relationship, and jumped from the "text message" to the phone level. Something must have been "transformed".
Although they are about the same age, Zeng Jia is both married.
Shen Teng also has a beautiful actress girlfriend.
It is basically impossible for men and women.
Then, apart from work, Zeng Jia couldn't think of anything else that brought about this change.
As expected, since the phone call during the Chinese New Year, in the past two months, the contact between the two has basically never been broken.
Shen Teng asked Zeng Jia several times, meaning that everyone would have a meal together after returning to Yanjing.
Invited her to watch the performance of "Happy Twist".
But because Zeng Jia was busy with Liu Yifei's resources before, she kept using the excuse of "waiting for Liu Yifei's movie to open".
But in a few days, Liu Yifei of "The Hawthorn Tree" will join the group. After she was free, she didn't refuse when Shen Teng called again.
After all, the news that "The Hawthorn" will start is not only circulated in the company, but also from the media reporters and Yuan'an.
It is not appropriate to refuse at this time.
So, she came here today to watch a performance of Happy Twist.
But it's only noon now, and it's still early for the afternoon performance.
Shen Teng also invited her to a meal.
After the two met, they didn't go directly into the Haidian Theater.
Shen Teng led her to walk north, explaining as he walked:
"Zeng Ji, I'm really sorry, this place is next to Huangzhuang community, it's really hard to find a parking space on the side of the road, and the traffic police are easy to post stickers. So let's walk a short distance, the restaurant is right in front, it's delicious... "
"It's okay, just take a walk before meals. I can eat more later."
Zeng Jia said jokingly.
Shen Teng showed a reassuring look.
At this time, Zeng Jia asked:
"how are things?"
"..."
Shen Teng hesitated, and chose to tell the truth:
"To be honest, it's not very good. This year, we have entered the off-season. The performances on weekdays are basically not full, but weekends are okay..."
As soon as he said this, Zeng Jia understood the reason for coming here today.
But she also has doubts in her heart.
Wondering why Shen Teng was looking for him.
Looking for yourself to sign a contract?
Since you signed the contract alone, why did you call yourself here?
While pondering, she said:
"So, the best day should be at the end of the year?"
"Yes, there are many people at the end of the year."
"What about winter and summer vacation?"
"Business during the winter and summer vacations is just two days, and it won't work after the students finish their work... Sigh."
Shen Teng sighed.
Zeng Jia thought for a while, but didn't answer the question, but comforted:
"Don't worry, the Deyun Club wasn't full at the beginning. Look at them now, aren't they coming out of it..."
"We are no match for them."
Hearing this, Shen Teng laughed and said:
"We still have this self-knowledge...Guo Degang's success is basically irreproducible. After so many years, he just caught up with the rise of grassroots culture, and turned into a dragon when encountering a storm. But..."
Speaking of this, he paused, and then said:
"When a person becomes famous, there will be more right and wrong."
"That's right. The benefits of favors can be seen."
Zeng Jia nodded with emotion.
The two were talking about the incident in January last year.
Cao Yunjin made a big fuss at Guo Degang’s birthday party. At that time, the place to eat was Guo’s Cuisine next to Tianyuan, and there were still many fans there.
Although the details are unclear, Cao Yunjin bowed down to the statue of Guan Gong in the lobby on the first floor and raised his hands to the sky and vowed to "break up" with Master, which caused quite a stir.
However, in the eyes of Zeng Jia and Shen Teng, this is actually quite normal.
The cross talk master-apprentice company of the class society system is a muddled account maintained by human relationships.
Rather than relying on contract constraints, it is more necessary to use warm and cold human feelings to maintain.
But Shen Teng asked himself that these people would not.
It’s not that everyone is hello and I’m so friendly, but that the contract is here and the price is clearly marked.
Everything should be done in accordance with the rules and contracts.
For better or worse, there is legal backing.
But it doesn't hinder them... even small theaters all over the capital and even the whole country, various folk art clubs are waiting to see the jokes of the Deyun Club.
Times have changed.
Also tried to use favors to maintain a company. I dare not say that it must be a dead end, but 99% of it will not escape.
"Zeng Ji, I heard...Yang Mi has a very good relationship with a child from the Deyun Club..."
"You are talking about biscuits, Guo Degang's apprentice."
Zeng Jia responded:
"Shaobing asked Mimi to call her sister, and Mimi also regarded him as her own younger brother. So when the matter of Cao Yunjin first showed signs, Mimi was still pregnant at that time, so she went to beat him with her stomach full. This child He's a fool and honest, but with Mimi around, he won't make any big mistakes."
Hearing this, Shen Teng smiled and nodded:
"Haha, that's for sure... Who in our efforts doesn't know that she is righteous... In terms of character and humanity, there is nothing wrong with it. If nothing else, her friendship with the recently popular host ANGELBABY has been praised by many Some people think it is a model. After all... the most people in our industry are those who are ungrateful for profit, but the two of us have shared weal and woe along the way... now who doesn't give a thumbs up in my heart."
Is it flattery?
Not so.
Because Shen Teng said the truth.
But if it’s true, sometimes there are scores.
At least at this moment, Zeng Jia heard that even if what Shen Teng said was true, it was from a flattering point of view.
Thinking of this, she more or less had a glimmer of understanding in her heart.
Shen Teng's purpose...is not only to ask for a favor from himself, but also to find Mimi?
While pondering, Shen Teng continued:
"What's more... Yang Mi's kindness to me is still in my heart. I was able to become that **** in "Golden Armor", but she recommended that Assistant Shen, so I went up..."
"Hahaha, it's all in the past."
Zeng Jia laughed and laughed.
This kind of deepening impression proves that he must have something to ask for.
As for the next thing, the two of them were also talking about some things in the past.
Of course, the name Yang Mi cannot be avoided.
In terms of handling this aspect, Shen Teng is actually very smooth.
Turn Zeng Jia and Yang Mi into a whole, roughly summed up as follows:
"Yang Mi is so powerful now, there must be Zeng Ji's credit. Just for this, Zeng Ji is also very powerful."
Probably that is what it means.
The so-called thousands of wears and thousands of wears, flattery does not wear.
Although Zeng Jia knew the real situation in her heart, anyone who flattered herself would feel at ease.
Just chatted about the time of a meal. After the meal, the time came to more than 1 pm.
The performance started at 2 o'clock, so it was logical that Shen Teng invited Zeng Jia to sit in the front row and watch a performance of "Happy Twist".
The performance is in the form of a drama, and the name of the drama performed today is "Pirates of Somalia".
Zeng Jia didn't know what was going on at first.
But looking at it, a smile began to ripple on his face.
This drama is a hodgepodge of all kinds of things that happened in 2009.
Especially there is a scene of torture with needles, which is completely a replica + funny version of "The Wind".
Laughing Zeng Jia leaned back.
Immediately felt the good performance skills under this kind of joy.
But compared to…
But the dismal attendance rate.
The small theater filled with 120 people, from the very few before the performance started, to the middle of the performance, Zeng Jia looked back at the whole theater distractedly.
She counted the heads of the audience.
There are less than 40 of them including myself.
Although the 40 people sat compactly, they were all in the first few rows, but there was a lot of emptiness and darkness in the back, which formed a sharp contrast with the hard-working and wonderful performances of the actors on the stage.
Is the show good?
Needless to say.
But this attendance rate is miserable... It's really worse than this group of "non-mainstream" Somali pirates.
And in this afternoon, the two-hour performance is almost over...
She looked at the actors on the stage who were taking a curtain call amid sparse applause, and suddenly felt a little sympathy in her heart.
Such fine gold...
Why doesn't it shine?
Then, she had a vague guess about Shen Teng's purpose in finding her.
also as expected.
Backstage after the performance, Zeng Jia was invited to enter the backstage to find Shen Teng again, and there were two people standing beside him.
Introduced by Shen Teng, one is called Yu Kai and the other is called Zhang Chen.
They are the founders of Happy Twist.
(end of this chapter)