Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

"Really?" Wang Dongsheng was a little doubtful.

"I'll send it to you after I finish writing it."

"Thank you, thank you." Wang Dongsheng thanked him quickly.

From the bottom of his heart, he also wanted to pass the trial and let more people see it.

Yu Dongqing stopped talking about this matter.

Wang Dongsheng fell into silence again.

After having afternoon tea, Li Wan invited everyone to eat health pot. After that, Yu Dongqing went back early on the pretext of being busy.

To be honest, he didn't really like this kind of atmosphere, so he might as well hang out and drink with a few buddies.

Although Mingliang wanted to stay a little longer, when Yu Dongqing was leaving, she would definitely go back with him, and she also felt Yu Dongqing's discomfort. .

On the way, Mingliang asked with concern: "Brother-in-law, are you feeling uncomfortable? You don't want to stay here?"

Yu Dongqing nodded: "Look, I came from a major in Chinese opera and Yandian TV. Who has won any awards? I have nothing. Am I a little out of place?"

"No, I think you are better than them all! Brother-in-law, please don't belittle yourself." Meiliang said quickly.

"Haha. I'm just kidding you." Yu Dongqing smiled: "It's okay to belittle oneself, but I feel like I'm not from the same group."

"I think so. They only care about winning awards when making movies. They don't care much about box office. Why do you think Li Wan hired these people? They don't care. As a producer, Li Wan should care about it?" asked Meiliang.

"First of all, let's admit that these people still have a certain talent in movies. The films they make have relatively high ratings on Douban and other places, and they often win awards. You can't deny this."

Yu Dongqing explained.

"However, the box office losses are so bad that if Li Wan approached them to make a film, he would probably have a hard time as a producer."

"They all make low-budget movies with very little investment. If one of them is a box office hit, for Li Wan, it means low investment and high return! So, he must be looking for such a movie, and he needs to cast a wide net. ."

That makes sense.

Bright nodded.

"Brother-in-law, what were you and Wang Dongsheng arguing about just now? You also said you wanted to write a script for him?" Meiliang asked suddenly remembering the scene just now.

"Wang Dongsheng is preparing to make a movie and wants me to invest in it, but I don't think it's suitable. I'm going to write it for him again. I'll let you take a look at the script he wrote when I get back."

The two drove back to Houhai, and Yu Dongqing forwarded Wang Dongsheng's script to her.

Meili sat on the sofa in the living room and watched carefully.

"Oh, that's so bold. I probably won't pass the review if you shoot like this."

"Yes, it was too direct and easy to get into trouble, so I advised him not to shoot. I wrote a script for him about workers being laid off. If I described it from another angle, I might be able to pass it," Yu Dongqing explained.

"Hey brother-in-law, is it really as miserable as what is written in the script?" Meili suddenly said.

"You weren't born yet at that time, so of course you don't know." Yu Dongqing said with a smile, "Some things are more exciting in reality than in the script."

Yu Dongqing sent Meili back to her home in Houhai, and then took her daughter home. After her daughter washed up and went to bed, she went to the study to think about it.

He is not just talking nonsense, there really was a movie like this in that time and space.

"The Piano of Steel" directed by Zhang Meng and starring Wang Qianyuan and Qin Hailu

It tells the story of a father who worked hard for his daughter's musical dream, and finally built a piano for his daughter out of steel with the help of friends around him. Through the humor and hardships of little people, it reveals a touching story of family love and friendship.

The background is the wave of worker layoffs in the early 1990s.

The investment cost of this movie was about 5 million. It is a small-budget movie that has won numerous awards at home and abroad. It has a Douban score of 8.5. Unfortunately, the box office is only over 6 million. It is a typical movie that was well received but not a big hit.

I heard that the release schedule is also not good.

At that time, there were blockbusters such as "Martial Arts", "The Founding of the Party" and "Far Cry", followed by "Transformers 3", so the box office failed miserably.

But no matter what, it’s released, right?

And it has a good reputation. Isn’t this what Wang Dongsheng likes?

Opening the laptop, Yu Dongqing started writing the script.

The script is not very complicated.

The story takes place in an industrial city in Northeast China in the early 1990s.

After Chen Guilin, a former steel factory worker, was laid off, in order to make ends meet, he formed a wedding and funeral band, and spent his days running around in weddings, funerals, and shop openings.

At this time, his wife Xiaoju could not bear the burden of life, so she fell in love with a wealthy businessman. Afterwards, Xiao Ju returned gloriously, demanding a divorce from her husband Chen Guilin, and demanding custody of her only daughter Chen Xiaoyuan. Who can give her daughter a piano has become the key to the custody battle. Chen Guilin hopes to train his daughter to become an excellent pianist.

In order to obtain custody of his daughter, he endured all kinds of pressure and raised money to buy a piano for his daughter. After being frustrated everywhere, he decided to take risks and went to school at night with his girlfriend Shuxian and his good buddies from the steel factory. Stealing a piano, but was discovered and caught.

When all methods failed, Guilin accidentally found a Russian document about pianos, so he called his partners to start the journey of hand-making pianos in a dilapidated factory.

Finally, with the help of retired thieves, full-time gangsters, gangsters, and pork princes, a group of lonely brothers, they built a "steel" piano, and a group of men fought for dignity. Love, friendship and passion, humor burns absurdly in impossible tasks.

The film is full of black humor, with laughter and tears.

Yu Dongqing completed the script in only three days.

There is not much content, a total of 30,000 words, and he did not describe many details in the script.

There is no need to write in such detail.

Directors like Wang Dongsheng, who are very individual and talented, have their own ideas and should be given room to develop.

After Yu Dongqing finished writing the script, he left a message on WeChat and sent the document.

Just one day later, Wang Dongsheng called and said he wanted to talk in person.

"Okay, where do you want to go?" Yu Dongqing asked.

"You still live near Rending Lake Park? Then go to the park, right? I remember there is a small teahouse inside?"

"Okay, let's go there."

Yu Dongqing remembered that it was in this small teahouse four years ago that she and Wang Dongsheng discussed the investment in the movie "The Day of Digging Coal in the Mine".

It was hot today, so Yu Dongqing didn't change her clothes. She just wore a vest and shorts. She slowly went downstairs and entered the park. She came to the small teahouse in the park and ordered a pot of herbal tea. She drank it slowly. It didn't take long. I saw Wang Dongsheng hurried in with his briefcase under his arm, his face covered in sweat.

"Come, have some tea." Yu Dongqing greeted with a smile.

"Thank you." Wang Dongsheng was not polite, picked up the herbal tea and drank it in one gulp, and then said:

"Brother Yu, I read the script you wrote. It's very good, but I don't want to film it."

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