Behind the scenes of the entertainment industry

How much potential does a person have? Zhou Cheng never thought about it.

He only knew that after a night of hard work, the "creation" of the sixth film script had been completed.

Compared with what the teacher described, screenwriters in China often spend months or even years in the process of creating a script. The number of six movies in a week will definitely make them stunned and vomit blood to death.

Zhou Cheng "created" these scripts one after another based on the clarity of his memory. Films that would be forgotten after too long were "created" first. Films that would be released a few years or even more than ten years later were "created" first.

Since the memory is still clear, Zhou Cheng chose to "create" it one after another over time.

"Steel Piano", "Fireworks in the Day", and "White Night" are his three favorite literary films. Many scenes in these literary films have different hidden metaphors. Zhou Cheng can remember them clearly while he can still

, just "create" them first; "The Lost Road" and "Detective Chinatown" are both series dramas with strong continuity and high market value. They must be used to register the copyright first.

In another world, he watched the movie "Big" starring Wang Qianyuan, and was shocked by Bao Bei'er's wonderful performance in it. Later, he went to watch the Korean original version of "Veteran", although he didn't know about this movie.

Whether the play has been produced yet, Zhou Cheng still "created" the script for "Veteran" first.

Of course, Zhou Cheng doesn't know how to "create" all the popular scripts.

For example, "Let the Bullets Fly", although Zhou Cheng knew that it had not started filming yet and was destined to be a hit, Zhou Cheng did not dare to touch it. Because Jiang Wen's screenwriter Shu Ping had already revealed the outline of the story to a small extent.

If Zhou Cheng took out the script at this time, he would never be able to explain the reason behind it, and he would even be ostracized by the circle. Of course, if Jiang Wen invited him to join the creative team, Zhou Cheng would be quite happy.

Secondly, there are some film and television dramas adapted from novels, and Zhou Cheng has no desire to create them. Such as "The Wandering Earth", "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Celebrating More Than Years", etc. These novels have been published or have not yet been written, and Zhou Cheng also has no desire to create them.

It is impossible to "create" the novel together.

In addition, there are also film and television dramas adapted from real events, such as "Operation Red Sea", "Operation Mekong", "I'm Not the God of Medicine", "Embrace You Through the Winter" and a series of other films. These events have not happened yet

, if Zhou Cheng had "created" it in advance, he might have been invited to tea by the relevant departments.

"Zhou Cheng, do you have time in the afternoon? Can you come to our troupe?"

Zhou Cheng had just typed the title of his seventh work on the computer when his train of thought was interrupted by a phone call from Chen Li.

"It seems that I have cast a good net." Although Chen Li did not explain the reason for inviting him, Zhou Cheng could guess about it.

When Zhou Cheng gave the script "The Donkey Gets Water" to Chen Li, he was waiting for his call. If Chen Li didn't discover the excellence of this script, then Zhou Cheng would have no desire to continue to cooperate with him in the future.

Already.

In another world, although this play is known to a wide audience through movies, it was actually originally a stage play. It is also a stage play that has been performed numerous times in China and has received wide acclaim.

Zhou Cheng also hopes that the play will first be produced into a drama by Renyi, which will be spread domestically for a period of time with the influence of Renyi, and then be made into a movie. At that time, through publicity, these word-of-mouth advantages will be transformed into box office revenue.

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This is Zhou Cheng's first battle in the true sense, and it is also a battle that lays the foundation for his future career, so he cannot afford to fail. Zhou Cheng even put aside his original idea of ​​"creating" a script and considered the various challenges he would face in the afternoon.

In this case, what kind of benefits will I get from this afternoon contact?

At noon, Zhou Cheng took the last thing in his cupboard, Kang Xiaohong, and ate instant noodles for several days in a row. The smell of instant noodles made him burp all the time. Zhou Cheng decided to wait until he was a little richer and never eat instant noodles again.

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"Xiao Cheng, are you getting ready to go out? Where are you going? When will you be back?"

When leaving the community, Grandma Liu's greeting from the convenience store at the gate reminded Zhou Cheng that he had made an appointment to talk with someone in the afternoon.

Zhou Cheng said embarrassedly: "Grandma Liu, I have something urgent and I need to go out for a while. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back in time at three o'clock. Can you please tell the person who rented the house?"

"Let me try." Grandma Liu picked up the public phone on the counter and dialed the other party. She received a blind tone twice in a row: "Xiao Cheng, look..."

"This..." Zhou Cheng thought for a moment and unlocked the key to his courtyard door: "Grandma Liu, otherwise, when this person comes in the afternoon, you can take him directly to my courtyard to have a look at the bungalow.

The door is open. If the other party likes it, then rent it to him for one thousand yuan a month."

"One thousand dollars?"

"Yes, it's just one thousand yuan. If it's too little, I might as well use it to store sundries."

Last year, Zhou Cheng rented a two-bedroom apartment to Lin Shan for a monthly rent of RMB 1,800. According to Zhou Cheng's considerations, the monthly rent of this single-room bungalow would definitely make the other party back off. This would not dissuade Grandma Liu either.

Difficult to do.

Throwing the key to Grandma Liu, Zhou Cheng hurried to the People's Art Theater located on the north side of Wangfujing Street.

Following Chen Li, he entered the People's Art Theater from the side door and came to the office area on the third floor at the back. In a conference room of about 40 square meters, Zhou Cheng met the four leaders of People's Art, namely Zhang Heping, Feng Yuanzheng, and Yang Lixin.

As well as the famous screenwriter He Jiping, except for Zhang Heping who was sitting in the chairman's position at the conference table, the other three people were sitting on the other side of the conference table, facing Zhou Cheng and Chen Li who were entering.

"Hello teachers, this is Zhou Cheng, the screenwriter of the play "The Donkey Gets Water"." Zhou Cheng knows all these people in the other world and has been in contact with them, but at this time, Chen Li needs help to introduce them: "

These are Dean Zhang and Vice Dean Feng of our theater, Director Yang from the office, and Director He from the creative department."

"Hello, Teacher Zhang, Hello, Teacher Feng, Hello, Teacher Yang, Hello, Teacher He, I am Zhou Cheng, a graduate of the Literature Department of Nortel in 2006." Zhou Cheng followed Chen Li honestly and said hello one by one, and then selected the meeting.

The other side of the table sat down. Chen Li thought for a while, pulled out his chair and sat next to Zhou Cheng to express his support for him.

"From the Literature Department? Huang Dan's student?"

Zhang Heping, Feng Yuanzheng, and Yang Lixin looked at Zhou Cheng and nodded without saying anything. Only He Jiping, the head of the creative department, frowned slightly when he saw such a young Zhou Cheng.

"Yes, Teacher Huang is our class teacher." Zhou Cheng looked at He Jiping from the creative department and said, "Teacher Huang once invited you to give us a lesson: the differences between opera literature and film and television literature creation."

"Oh, Class 2006, Huang Dan's class..." He Jiping nodded and said to Zhou Cheng: "There is a student named Chu Ran in your class who performed well..."

Zhou Cheng's relationship-building did not bring him closer to He Jiping. Instead, he used Chu Ran to step on Zhou Cheng.

As a senior screenwriter, He Jiping clearly knows what kind of process a screenwriter needs to go through from youth to maturity, and he also knows how long it takes to polish an excellent script.

She also watched the script "The Donkey Gets Water" several times and believed that it would take at least ten years of life experience to write such a profound script. Therefore, she had doubts about Zhou Cheng, the author of this script.

After all, Zhou Cheng and the others have only graduated for a year, and Chu Ran, the best student of this year, is still working as a gunman with other screenwriters to get qualifications. For the script "Butterflies Are Free", Chu Ran was only able to get a signature, and the final

The script still needs to be reviewed by He Jiping.

"Chu Ran is pretty good, we are very familiar with each other. Director Chen Li's last award-winning short film script was written by him." Zhou Cheng followed He Jiping's words and said: "If his reputation wasn't a little less famous, he would have been able to take charge of his own business long ago."

Zhou Cheng understood He Jiping's intention and counterattacked with her words. It's not that young people are not good enough, it's that the entertainment industry doesn't give us a chance to perform.