Middle age: leisurely life in the entertainment industry

Yu Dongqing was a little surprised when Wang Dongsheng got straight to the point.

"Why?"

"I'm afraid I can't shoot this kind of black humorous comedy style." Wang Dongsheng said frankly: "There is more."

"what else?"

"With all due respect, I think this script you wrote is not as profound or shocking as my original one. I prefer something purely direct."

oh.

This is a road to darkness.

Yu Dongqing sighed slightly in her heart.

"Okay, just take pictures as you wrote. I'll take back mine. Don't let others see it."

"I know." Wang Dongsheng said quickly: "What about investment?"

Yu Dongqing was silent for a moment and shook his head.

A trace of pain flashed across Wang Dongsheng's face, but he soon regained his composure.

"Brother Yu, I still want to thank you. At least you are sincerely helping me. But I am the kind of person who never knows how to look back until he is beaten to death."

"I'm leaving, goodbye!" Wang Dongsheng drank the water in his tea cup, wiped his mouth and turned to leave.

"Sorry, I'm not Fang Li." Yu Dongqing smiled bitterly in her heart.

Fang Li, who turned out to be a famous producer in time and space, has invested in and produced many movies, such as Wu Tianming's "A Hundred Birds Pay Attendance to the Phoenix", Han Han's "We Will See You Again" and Li Yu's "All Things Grow", which are familiar to everyone, including that one The little known "Anyang Baby".

Yu Dongqing turned her head and looked out the window. The sunshine outside seemed to become hotter.

It's early July, and "The Swordsman" has finally been released after 74 days of release in the mainland.

The length of its release days ranks it among the top ten mainland movies, and its box office ranks among the top five mainland movies.

4.81 billion!

Created the highest box office of martial arts movies.

Of course, this does not include box office revenue in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas, which is not included in the release period.

Although the final box office and profit income have not yet been fully calculated, investors will definitely make a lot of money.

For this reason, Zhang Yang suggested that the four buddies should have a good celebration.

Drink Maotai and eat a big meal.

The location is set at Yanjing Moscow Restaurant.

The Moscow restaurant is famous in the eyes of Lao Yanjing, commonly known as "Lao Mo". Lao Mo has taken a high-end route since its establishment. In the 1990s, it was a luxury to go to Lao Mo for a Western meal. Son.

But now, in the imperial capital where delicious food is everywhere, it no longer seems so high-end, and the people who go there are basically nostalgic people or diners who like Russian cuisine.

Yu Dongqing couldn't understand why Zhang Yang booked this place.

"Change your taste and experience the Russian style." Zhang Yang has good reasons.

All right

The meal time was set at 6:30 pm, and Yu Dongqing went to Houhai to pick up Ming Mingli.

Now the four buddies are gathering together, and there is an extra bright person.

Very sticky.

Lao Mo Restaurant is located on the west side of the Yanjing Exhibition Hall complex on Xizhimenwai Street. The architectural style is luxurious, elegant, magnificent, and full of strong Russian sentiment.

Yu Dongqing and Mingliang entered through the revolving door, climbed the steps, and entered a palace-like world. Four large bronze pillars stood in the center like the backbone. The entire restaurant was both gorgeous and noble, simple and solemn, and there were The small band played Russian folk songs.

Going to the private room on the second floor, Yu Dongqing saw Zhang Yang and the others.

The dishes are Russian-style Western food, including caviar, foie gras, Russian-style borscht and red beef stew.

The wine is Maotai.

Zhang Yang said that if he is not used to drinking vodka and the like, our Moutai is better.

They were all friends, so they were not so polite. They joked with each other about congratulations on getting rich, and then talked about other things.

"This is my first time here." Meili was surprised by everything in the restaurant.

"Dongqing and I knew about this when we were in school, and we were very envious of it. But at that time, we were all poor students. We walked by the gate to see if we had any money to get in." Zhang Yang said with a smile.

"I came in once." Liu Yimin interjected: "I remember when I was in high school, in the late 1990s, an educated youth friend of my dad's was on a business trip from the Northeast to Yanjing, and he was invited here for a meal to experience that era. feelings."

"Did it cost a lot of money?" Zhang Yang asked.

"Of course I, a student, don't know the exact amount, but that month our family often ate steamed buns and pickles."

After listening to Liu Yimin's words, everyone laughed.

"I read an article that a meal here in the 1980s and 1990s would have cost one person's salary in the family. It was absolutely luxurious." Du Hui also joined the conversation.

"My dad's salary at that time seemed to be 1,000 yuan a month. I heard him say that once." Liu Yimin said.

"It's still the salary of your imperial capital workers." Zhang Yang took a sip of wine and said, "I remember that at that time, my father's monthly salary was 320 yuan, and my mother's monthly salary was even less, 200 yuan."

Meili was surprised when she heard this: "Why are there so few?"

"The efficiency of the factory is not good, so this is good. I will pay you some salary. When you are laid off, you will receive 60 yuan of living expenses in the factory every month. You can find your own business. My sister and I are both in school, and there are four people in our family." People only need more than 100 yuan a month for living expenses.”

"That's not enough."

"It was definitely not enough, so my dad rode a tricycle and my mom sewed clothes for others. My sister later dropped out of school and went to work in Shenzhen without taking the college entrance examination. In fact, her academic performance was better than mine."

Having said this, Zhang Yang took a sip of wine.

"Brother Zhang Yang, hearing what you said reminds me of the script my brother-in-law wrote some time ago. Some situations are really tragic."

"Dongqing, what script did you write?" Zhang Yang raised his head and looked at Yu Dongqing.

"I wrote it for a friend, but he didn't take it seriously." Yu Dongqing said with a smile.

He briefly told Wang Dongsheng's story.

"Really? Let me see." Zhang Yang suddenly became interested.

Yu Dongqing had no choice but to take out her mobile phone and send the document to the other party.

Zhang Yang looked carefully.

Seeing his rare seriousness, everyone ignored him and continued to eat and chat.

Suddenly, Zhang Yang raised his head: "Dongqing, this Wang Dongsheng is so awesome? He doesn't like such a good script?"

"He thinks the one he has is better." Yu Dongqing explained.

"I don't know if his one is good or not, but I think this one is pretty good. It's about our hometown. It's so real!" Zhang Yang said, "How about, Dongqing, you take the photo?"

"I don't have time." Yu Dongqing was very honest: "Mei Meili and I are getting married on November 1, and we definitely won't be able to film it in less than three months. Besides, not many people will watch this movie once it's made, and it's destined to make a loss at the box office. "

"let me see."

Du Hui also became interested upon hearing this.

Yu Dongqing simply posted the document to the group of four, and Liu Yimin and Du Hui both turned on their phones and looked at it carefully.

Zhang Yang was silent for a moment, then suddenly slammed the table and said loudly: "I want to shoot it too! I'll invest! Is 20 million enough?! Holly?"

Yu Dongqing thought for a moment.

"If we don't hire big-name celebrities, 20 million should be enough!"

"Okay, I'll invest 20 million! Dongqing, if you want to get married, go about your business. I'll find the director and you can just sell me the script." Zhang Yang said.

"You are going to lose 20 million, but I still care about this script? Just use it." Yu Dongqing laughed.

Unexpectedly, things were settled like this. On the way back upstairs, Meili asked: "Brother-in-law, do you think Brother Zhang Yang will really lose money to invest in this film?"

"Zhang Yang is such a thieves, how can he easily engage in loss-making business?" Yu Dongqing said with a smile:

"It's just that this script touched his pain point. That experience was probably more profound for him than for us, not to mention that his father has passed away. Is it just a memory of his father?"

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