Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

During lunch, Cheng Cong came back and did not reject Meimei’s idea. He just said that he wanted to read the script before talking about it.

The script is not long and Cheng Cong read it quickly.

"How about it? Are you willing?" Mingliang asked.

Looking at Mingliang's expectant eyes, Cheng Cong thought for a moment: "The script is pretty good. I can act, but I want a salary of 50,000."

50000? !

Meimei was stunned upon hearing this.

Listening nearby, Han Qingqing couldn't bear it anymore and asked: "Cheng Cong, all the actors and crew are helping out with a token reward, but you still want 50,000?! What's more, we are roommates!" .”

"Just because we are roommates, that's why I want 50,000 yuan." Cheng Cong's tone was very calm: "If it were someone else, I wouldn't accept it without 100,000 yuan. You know I recently accepted a TV series outside, and I just acted in it. Female lead, how much do you pay me for one episode? One hundred thousand!"

"But others are acting as friends." Han Qingqing wanted to argue, but was interrupted by Cheng Cong:

"Others are others, I am me."

After saying that, he looked at Meili: "Meili, if you think it's expensive, you can find another classmate or even act it yourself. There aren't many scenes anyway. Didn't your brother-in-law say that you are quite suitable for acting?"

Meimei looked at her, her chest rose and fell slightly, and she suddenly said loudly.

"Okay! I'll act it myself!"

"You want to play the female lead?"

In the afternoon, Yu Dongqing drove to the Chinese Opera teaching building and saw Meili and her crew in a classroom. He was a little surprised when he said this.

Next to him, Han Qingqing recounted what happened in the dormitory at noon.

"That Cheng Cong is really just a roommate who doesn't even do a favor. He's really looking for money!"

Yu Dongqing has never seen this Cheng Cong, and doesn't have much to say about him.

And I guess that Cheng Cong's usual relationship with Mingliang is not that good either.

"Meiliang, I think your performance is quite good!" Zhang Yang, who was standing next to her, interjected: "Your temperament is quite similar to that of the school beauty in the script."

"Well, I not only have to shoot well, but also act well!" Meili cheered herself up secretly.

The scenes in the entire short film are not complicated, including a barber shop, a talent show, and a few street scenes. Most of them take place on a middle school campus. Meimei simply asked her mother for help, contacted the principal of her school, and allowed them to come to the school to film on weekends. She also sponsored more than a dozen people. Students act as extras.

As for the layout of the barber shop and home, props were needed to set up the scene. Meiliang and a group of his friends gathered together to discuss. Yu Dongqing and the others held the script in their hands. Their task today was to familiarize themselves with the script of the roles they played.

Seeing the young students having a lively discussion, Zhang Yang, who was sitting by the window holding a script, suddenly said with emotion: "It's good to be young."

"Maybe people like to reminisce about their youth, just like this short film." Du Hui praised the script: "Watch it carefully and try to perform well."

Du Hui read the script carefully.

He suddenly felt that it would be good to play Bao Xiaobai.

The entire week was spent filming, and Yu Dongqing and Zhang Yang, who played the male protagonists in the play, were almost always on the set.

Yu Dongqing plays Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yang plays Xiao Dabao. They are both in their late 40s. As middle school students, they also encountered the embarrassment of the original time and space chopstick brothers.

The folds on his face can't hide the vicissitudes of the middle-aged uncle. Yu Dongqing is better, at least his figure is not out of shape. Zhang Yang has gained weight, so he has no choice but to tighten it with a belt. The middle school uniform is always tight on the body. Yes, it feels ridiculous.

Fortunately, this part is mostly funny.

However, Yu Dongqing found that Zhang Yang had a talent for comedy and played the little gangster Xiao Dabao vividly.

Today is the weekend, and the short film "Oldboy" that I have been working on for almost ten days has finally been completed.

In the evening, director Mingliang treated the cast and crew to KFC to drink Coke and eat hamburgers.

But the four old men didn't go.

Du Hui is a professor of economics. Yesterday he was invited to Shanghai to teach an in-service MBA training class. Of course, the teaching fee is not cheap, 20,000 yuan per lecture.

Liu Yimin has to work at his own tavern in the evening. Unless he is a close friend, he usually does not go out to socialize.

Zhang Yang liked the excitement, but unfortunately his father-in-law had another heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. As a son-in-law, he had no obligation to resign and serve in the hospital.

Yu Dongqing also has something to do. He has to quickly finish the various episodes in the "Oldboy" movie. Today is April 1st, otherwise the plan to take his daughter to Hangzhou to enjoy tea during the Qingming Festival on April 5th will be ruined. .

I made myself a cup of Longjing, sat at the desk in the study, and opened my laptop.

In that time and space, there were many songs in the short film "Oldboy", and most of them were nostalgic songs from the 1980s and 1990s.

For example, Michael Jackson's very famous "Billie Jean" and "Earth Song" were also used in the movie. In addition, some classic old songs of the 1980s and 1990s "Like Pink Memories", "Endless Love for You" and "Little One" were also used in the movie. "Fang", "Sailor", "Stars Light", etc.

The songs are all good. Yu Dongqing also remembers the melody and lyrics, but he has no intention of writing them out.

In this short film of less than half an hour, it is not a good thing to have so many new songs at once, but it will ruin the overall effect of the film.

Just replace it with similar songs from this time and space, including Jackson, who used the American rock star James from the 1980s in this time and space. It's nostalgic anyway.

Except for that song "Oldboy."

Thank you, there is no Ohashi Takuya in this time and space.

Yu Dongqing hummed a familiar melody while composing the music using Fruit software.

That is the person I miss and love deeply day and night.

How should I express it?

will she accept me

Maybe I'll never say that to her

I'm destined to wander the world

How can I be concerned?

Finally, I picked up the guitar and turned on the accompaniment audio, and started humming again:

Youth is like a flowing river

Once you leave and never come back, you won’t have time to say goodbye

Only numb me is left

The passion of the past is gone

After quickly finishing it, he didn't send the song to Meiliang, but to his three best buddies to hear their thoughts.

More importantly, I want to sing with a few good buddies.

Only ten minutes later, Liu Yimin called: "Dongqing, don't give this song to anyone else. Our brothers will play, I will play the drums, and you will sing."

"good."

After a while, Du Hui also called. There was a lot of noise on the phone, and people were drinking and drinking as if they were eating.

"Holly, I'll fly back tomorrow."

"Have you finished class?"

"No, I won't talk anymore."

Zhang Yang's call came the next morning, and his first sentence was: "Dongqing, when will we start rehearsing this? This afternoon?"

"Is your father-in-law feeling well?"

"Okay, I can be discharged from the hospital this morning." Zhang Yang sighed on the phone: "If my father-in-law is not discharged from the hospital, I can't come even if I want to come over to rehearse. Fortunately, thank God."

Thanks to 08a for the reward, thanks to the new student in the Lord, book friend 20200721105814209, I have transcended time and space, and Ye Yuyao 0312 for the monthly pass