Middle Age: A Leisurely Life in the Entertainment Industry

Chapter 420 "Your script is well written, but I don't want to shoot"

"Really?" Wang Dongsheng was a little suspicious.

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

"Thank you, thank you." Wang Dongsheng thanked 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 it.

Wang Dongsheng fell silent again.

After afternoon tea, Li Wan invited everyone to eat health pot. After finishing, Yu Dongqing excused something and went back early.

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

Although Mingmei wanted to stay longer, but if Yu Dongqing wanted to leave, she would definitely go back with her, and she also felt Yu Dongqing's discomfort. .

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

Yu Dongqing nodded: "Look, this guy has a major in Chinese opera and Yandian. Which one has won any awards, and I'm nothing. Isn't it a bit out of place?"

"No, I think you are better than them! Brother-in-law, don't belittle yourself." Mingmei said hastily.

"Hehe. I'm just kidding you." Yu Dongqing smiled: "It's okay to underestimate yourself, but I don't think it's the same way."

"I think so. They only care about winning awards when they make movies, and they don't care much about the box office. Tell me, why did Li Wan hire these people? They don't care. As a producer, does Li Wan care?" Mingmei asked.

"First of all, I admit that these people still have certain talents in movies. The movies they make have relatively high ratings on Douban and others, and they often win awards. You can't deny this."

Yu Dongqing explained.

"But, the box office is a loss. You said that if Li Wan asks them to make a film, he, the producer, will probably have a hard time."

"They are all low-budget films with very little investment. If there is a hit at the box office, it will be low investment and high return for Li Wan! Therefore, he must be looking for such a film, and he needs to cast a wide net. .”

It makes sense.

Bright nodded.

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

"Wang Dongsheng is planning to make a movie and wants me to invest in it, but I don't think it's suitable. I'm going to write another one for him. I'll show you the script he wrote when I get back."

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

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

"Oh, it's too bold. I guess it won't pass the trial."

"Yes, it's too direct, and it's easy to touch the line, so I advised him not to shoot. I wrote a script for him that was also about workers being laid off. If you describe it from another angle, you might be able to pass it." Yu Dongqing explained.

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

"You were not born at that time, so of course I don't know." Yu Dongqing smiled and said, "Some things are more exciting than the script."

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

He didn't just talk about it, there really was such a movie in that time and space.

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

It tells the story of a father who worked hard for his daughter's music dream, and finally built a piano for his daughter with the help of friends around him. Through the humor and hardship of the little characters, it shows a touching family and friendship.

The background is the wave of laid-off workers in the early 90s.

The investment cost of this film is about 500 million. The small-budget film has won numerous awards at home and abroad, with a score of 8.5 on Douban. Unfortunately, the box office is only more than 600 million. The typical applause is not popular.

I heard that it is also not good with the release schedule.

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 anyway, is it showing?

And the reputation is good, isn't this what Wang Dongsheng likes?

Turning on the laptop, Yu Dongqing began to write the script.

The script is not very complicated.

The story happened in an industrial city in Northeast China in the early 90s.

After Chen Guilin, a former steel factory worker, was laid off, in order to make ends meet, he formed a wedding and funeral band, running around all day in the business of weddings, funerals, and store openings.

At the same time, his wife, Xiaoju, was overwhelmed by the burden of life, so she moved on with a wealthy businessman.Afterwards, Xiaoju came back brightly, asked for a divorce from her husband Chen Guilin, and asked for custody of her only daughter Chen Xiaoyuan.Who can give her daughter a piano has become the key to the fight for custody.Chen Guilin hopes to train her daughter to be an excellent pianist.

In order to get 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 the risk and went to school at night with his girlfriend Shuxian and his good buddies from the steel factory. Stealing the piano, but was found and arrested.

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

In the end, with the help of retired thieves, full-time gangsters, big brothers, pork prince and a group of down-and-out brothers, they built a "steel" piano, and a group of men fought for their dignity.Love, friendship and passion, humor burn absurdly in Mission Impossible.

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

It took Yu Dongqing only three days to complete the script.

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

There is no need to write so detailed.

A very individual and talented director like Wang Dongsheng has his own ideas, so we should give him room to develop.

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

Only one day later, Wang Dongsheng called and said he wanted to talk face to face.

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

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

"Okay, let's go there."

Yu Dongqing remembered that four years ago, she talked with Wang Dongsheng about the investment in the movie "The Days of Digging Coal in the Mine" in this small teahouse.

It's hot today, Yu Dongqing didn't change clothes, just wearing a vest and big pants, dragged herself downstairs into the park, came to the small teahouse in the park, ordered a pot of herbal tea, drank it slowly, it didn't take long I saw Wang Dongsheng rushing in with his briefcase under his arms, 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 down in one gulp, and then said:

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

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