Behind the scenes of the entertainment industry

Sunday, noon. Dongzhimen Inner Street, New Taicang Hutong, a relatively quiet private restaurant.

In the morning, after confirming with Zhao Chenan that he was free today, Zhou Chenggong asked Chen Li to prepare a dinner party, and he would treat Zhao Chenan to dinner today. Because Zhao Chenan had a dinner party tonight and couldn't shirk it, he made an appointment for lunch.

Chen Li and Qian Lele rushed to the hotel at half past ten and arranged everything. Seeing Zhou Cheng arriving, Chen Li hurriedly pulled him into the reserved box.

In addition to Chen Li, there was also a tall girl wearing a light-colored skirt in the box. She had curved eyebrows and bright eyes, exuding the charm of a mature woman. She was just a little thinner, maybe because she was a host with them.

This is related to my profession, so I won’t look fat when I’m on camera.

"Hello Zhou Cheng, I am Chen Li's lover Qian Lele." This is Chen Li's lover Qian Lele. Seeing Zhou Cheng come in, he hurriedly extended his hand to say hello.

"Sister Lele, hello. I've always heard that boy from Chu Ran say that my sister-in-law is beautiful, and I finally met her today. Chu Ran really didn't lie to me. No wonder Brother Li has been hiding her." Zhou Cheng shook hands with her gently.

He let go of his hand after a moment, and then turned his gaze to Chen Li.

Chen Li chuckled: "I've been busy preparing for a people's art drama recently, and your sister-in-law is in Star City, otherwise I would have made an appointment to treat you to dinner."

"In the future, my sister-in-law will be transferred to Yanjing Terrace, and you will be reunited. Maybe we will come to your house every three days to have a meal."

"Zhou Cheng, thank you. Fortunately, you promised to help me this time, otherwise your sister-in-law would be in dire straits."

"Don't worry, Brother Zhao has already said hello to the leaders in the station, and everything about my sister-in-law is basically inseparable."

"Ah, are you telling the truth?" Qian Lele was surprised when he heard Zhou Cheng's words and couldn't help but exclaimed.

Zhou Cheng has learned about Qian Lele's situation in the past few days.

Qian Lele was originally the location host of a program on Mango Channel's economic and lifestyle channel. This program was not taken seriously on Mango Channel, which mainly focuses on entertainment and variety shows, and its ratings were not high.

In March this year, the leadership team of Mango Channel was adjusted, and the new channel editor-in-chief planned to revamp the program into an economic interview program, inviting entrepreneurs from all over the province to conduct on-site interviews.

As a result, the program staff had to be adjusted. Since Qian Lele had no background and her husband had received a letter of appointment from Yanjing People's Arts, he thought of changing jobs.

Yanjing TV is planning to launch a variety show called "Olympic Forward" on the one-year countdown to the Olympics. At that time, previous Olympic champions will be invited to participate in the program to cheer for the Olympics.

Zhou Cheng may know this program better than Qian Lele. In another world, not long after he entered Yanjing TV, he was transferred to this program as a director. Later, with the resume blessing of this variety show, he entered

After joining CCTV, I was directly assigned to a popular variety show on the variety show channel.

Let's get back to the topic. Currently, this program has invited the famous domestic host Dai Jun to be the main host, while Qian Lele is competing to be the deputy host. He has passed the preliminary and re-examination rounds and will be interviewed by several station leaders next week.

, a good decision is made on the final candidate.

According to the information Zhao Chenan reported to Zhou Cheng, among the girls who entered the final assessment, Qian Lele's performance was not too outstanding. Both Cheng Yue and Liu Yan had better images than Qian Lele.

Qian Lele's deepest impression on the station leaders now is her tall figure. If she is 172cm tall and paired with Dai Jun, who is 183cm tall, she will not look unbalanced. This is what Zhao Chenan found for Deputy Director Wang to persuade other station leaders.

reason.

In another world, the final choice for this variety show was Cheng Yue. This girl took the path of Chief Editor Chu of the variety show department. Chief Editor Chu and Zhou Kezhi’s close aide, Deputy Director Wang, had always been at odds. At that time, in order to be able to send Zhou Cheng to

Entering this program, Deputy Director Wang would vote in favor of the candidate proposed by Chief Editor Chu. In this world, without Zhou Cheng as a factor, Deputy Director Wang would not mind using Qian Lele recommended by Zhao Chenan to suppress it.

Chief Editor Chu.

This result surprised Zhou Cheng. The dinner party that was originally planned to be treated with Zhao Chenan's help has almost turned into a thank you banquet.

"Zhou Cheng, thank you. Director Zhao will be here later. How much do you think we should pay?" Chen Li opened the briefcase he was carrying. There were a few piles of brand-new banknotes that he had just taken from the bank. This was originally

They paid Zhao Chenan to help smooth the relationship, and now they plan to pay Zhao Jianan directly as a favor.

After all, being able to jump from a sub-channel of Mango Channel to Yanjing Satellite TV, and being the host of a variety show that the station takes relatively seriously, even if he is just a deputy star, it is a qualitative improvement for Qian Lele's career.

Leap, so Chen Li and his wife wanted to show their appreciation.

"Wrap the money? No need to wrap the money. This is a piece of cake for Brother Zhao."

"Director Zhao is also looking for someone to do things, and he needs a lot of favors. How can we let him do favors for us?" Chen Li thought about Zhou Cheng's background and thought that he had never asked anyone to do it.

Such a thing happened, so I explained it to him.

"Zhou Cheng, Chen Li is right. You can't let someone accept a favor in vain." Qian Lele took out a black box with a gold crown label from his bag and handed it to Zhou Cheng: "Sister, you can't do it either.

I asked you to help me in vain. This is a watch my sister bought from there when she went on a business trip to Xiangjiang last month. It matches your temperament very well, Zhou Cheng. Try it on."

"Sister Lele, I really don't need it. I'd rather give this watch to Brother Li." Zhou Cheng pushed the watch back, shook his head and declined.

Zhou Cheng's attitude made Chen Li and his wife look at each other and become anxious. They didn't know if something had changed again, or if Zhou Cheng's appetite was too big and he disliked the gift as too light.

Seeing the uneasy expressions of Chen Li and his wife, Zhou Cheng smiled and comforted them: "Brother Zhao is helping Sister Lele. It can be said that he is within the scope of his duties. After all, he is introducing excellent hosts to the help desk. If he really accepts

If you take your money, it is considered bribery, and the nature has changed. There is no airtight wall in the world. If someone finds out, it will have a certain impact on Brother Zhao's future."

This is the way of being an official that Zhou Kezhi instilled in Zhao Chenan from another world. Officialdom is also a circle, and interests can be exchanged between each other, but it must not involve money transactions.

But Zhou Cheng was not sure whether Zhao Chenan in this world had the same philosophy.

So when he called Zhao Chenan in the morning, he specifically tested it out and got the answer he wanted, so Zhou Chengcai took it upon himself to reject the favor fee offered by Chen Li.

"Oh, I didn't think well, and I always felt that I couldn't let Director Zhao's efforts go in vain." After hearing Zhou Cheng's words, Chen Li doubtfully collected the money, but still put two piles of them in an envelope and let him know.

Qian Lele took it and acted according to the opportunity.

"Zhou Cheng, you don't have an official career, so it shouldn't matter if you hold this." Qian Lele pushed the watch towards Zhou Cheng without giving up.

"Sister Lele, Brother Li and I are friends, so there really is no need for this." Zhou Cheng continued to decline politely: "If we really care about it, should I also send some of the notice that Brother Li helped me contact Mango Channel last time?

Something means something?"

"Lele, you put it away." Chen Li saw that Zhou Cheng was very determined and signaled Qian Lele to put away the watch. As Zhou Cheng's words revealed, he was treating him as a friend. If it involves

Too many financial transactions will make it difficult for everyone to get along in the future.

Seeing that they no longer insisted on giving him gifts, Zhou Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief. He was in a period of money shortage and really didn't want to go through such a test again.

It is easy to collect money, but difficult to close. If such a hole is opened, Zhou Cheng is worried that the desires in his heart will be as uncontrollable as the flood that bursts the embankment. In that case, he may embark on a road of seeking a backdoor relationship for others, and with himself

The original intention is quite different.

Thinking of the lack of money, Zhou Cheng took out the script he had written from his bag: "Brother Li, this is a script I wrote during this period. I am preparing to participate in the 'College Student Film Festival' at the end of July. Can you spare the time?"

Help me take a look."

"College Student Film Festival? This year it seems to be renamed First Youth Film Festival." Chen Li reached out and took it, sighing with emotion: "I thought you were focused on entering the artist management industry, but I didn't expect that you still haven't given up on your career.

So professional.”

"After all, I have been studying for four years. Although I am not as good as Chu Ran and others, sometimes I get inspired and start writing."

The development of the "First Youth Film Festival" in Another World has a slightly different timeline.

After the SARS outbreak in 2003, Huaxia Communication University joined forces with several domestic professional film and television schools such as Nortel and China Theater to establish the "Huaxia Media University Student Film Festival" that wanted to compete with the "Yenjing University Student Film Festival". It was only held continuously.

After three sessions, it was all tepid and tasteless, and it was a pity to throw away the chicken ribs.

There is a saying that "moving trees dies, moving people live". After last year, the organizing committee received a warm invitation from the Ningxi Municipal Government and prepared to move the venue from Yanjing to Ningxi City and change its name to "First Youth Film Exhibition"

”.

This decision coincides with the country's strategic policy of developing the western region, and has also received strong support from the National Broadcasting Corporation, who took the initiative to invite many outstanding films to participate in the exhibition. Among them, "Tuya", which won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival,

"The Marriage", the controversial "Apple" directed by Li Yu, and the critically acclaimed "Yun Shui Yao" starring Chen Kun, striving to build it into a well-known film festival in western China.

This time, in addition to targeting literary and artistic films, it also vigorously supports young filmmakers and has set up a new script selection process. As long as the winner wins, they will receive a start-up capital of 100,000 yuan. This pair is short of money.

For Zhou Cheng, it can solve an urgent need.

It’s just not easy to win a prize. One hundred thousand yuan is nothing to a famous filmmaker, but it is a big incentive to a group of screenwriters who have been struggling. According to the news that Chen Li knows, not only several domestic

Students from the Literature Department of the National Film School signed up, and even students from the Chinese Department of major universities submitted their own works.

According to Chen Li's understanding of Zhou Cheng, Zhou Chengdu was not a student with outstanding writing skills in school before. Since he asked him to take a look at it this time, he would help him polish it up, which could be regarded as returning some favors.

After checking the time, Chen Li picked up the manuscript in his hand and first read the summary of the story: ""The Donkey Gets Water"... a story from the Republic of China?..."

Zhou Cheng explained to Chen Li: "Yes, I originally wanted to write a more absurd story. I was afraid that it would not pass the review in modern times, so I placed it in the Republic of China period..."

Zhou Cheng did not finish what he said, because Chen Li was already attracted by his story when he saw the synopsis of the script and the introduction of several characters.

It turns out that this English teacher named "Donkey Deshui" is a donkey who carries water in the school. Now the higher education department has sent a special commissioner to conduct an inspection. In order to cope with the inspection...

"Who is knocking on my window, who is playing the strings..."

Chen Li, who was attracted by the script, had just read three pages when he was awakened by Zhou Cheng's new ringtone.

Chen Li didn't expect Zhou Cheng to be able to write such an excellent storyline, and he was immersed in it after just reading the beginning.

"Brother Li, Brother Zhao has arrived. I'll go to the alley entrance to greet you. You can keep this script for now. After you finish reading it, you can give me more comments."

Business is more important. Although he wanted to read the follow-up storyline, Chen Li still stuffed it into his briefcase: "Okay, I will definitely watch it carefully..."