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Chapter 208 I have a mouthful of food and you have a dishwasher

Liu Bi, who had just received a big order and was rushing to finish the manuscript, was confused when he saw the news.

It's not like he has never encountered two deals of cash on the same day...

It's just that the contents requested by the fathers of the two funders are exactly the same, and from the time point of view, the front foot has just left and the back foot has come, which makes it feel inexplicably funny.

After the funny scene, Liu Bi also sighed in his heart. Sure enough, in circles like the film, television and entertainment circles, newcomers to the industry will encounter heavy obstacles.

The promotional video for "Black Robe Inspection Squad" has not been released for a long time. I can only be considered a T1 in the film review area, far from being a T0. How can I receive two slanders on this movie in such a short period of time? Business order.

What about other colleagues?
What about other top bloggers who have more fans, greater traffic, and more obvious recommendations than myself?

I'm afraid they have begun to gradually receive similar business orders.

Obviously, many friendly businessmen are beginning to feel restless with the rise of Kuo Guang and his allies, and are actually suppressing them.

Liu Bi thought for a while and replied: "Yes... that's okay. Do you have any needs?"

Earning money from two videos from one video is such a huge thing that it is a waste of money.

Zheng Weixiong: "Comprehensive smear campaign, smear it as much as you can, and smear it in every detail from their promotional videos."

Many times, there are various flaws in a movie, TV series or even a novel, including points where the logic is not smooth, including points where the characters are contradictory...

But as long as these points are not too obvious, it will be difficult for most viewers or readers to notice.

They are here for leisure and entertainment, not serious research.

As long as the plot is passable and there are no logical flaws, the audience will often not notice those flaws at all.

Even if you let them watch the film several times and ask them to find faults with the film, they may not be able to find the flaws that are not obvious.

But if a more professional person points out these flaws and puts them in the comment area or publicizes them with great fanfare, the poisonous points that would have been ignored will immediately become glaring.

The things the sponsor asked me to do should be this kind of thing...

Liu Bi expressed his understanding at the time: "Okay, in our preliminary plan, the video content will include attack methods such as 'spurring popularity' and 'disrespecting the original content'. Are you acceptable?"

Although you can earn two money for one job, you still need to have the most basic professional qualities.

How could Zheng Wei understand this? He immediately replied: "Okay, you can make up your own mind. The length of the video should be more than 10 minutes, okay?"

Now the promotional video has been released. The duration of the promotional video is less than 10 minutes. You let me be black for 10 minutes. It really hurts my back to stand and talk...

The corner of Liu Bi's mouth twitched, and he confirmed in his heart that this "Zheng Weixiong" was a proper layman.

But after all, it is a Qiafan video, and it is not completely impossible to be embarrassed for 10 minutes.

Who told him to eat this bowl of rice?

Liu Bi sighed: "Okay, but after all, the content of the promotional video is too little. It is difficult to make such a video. Well... I have to pay more. Do you understand?"

Zheng Weixiong: "1500, can you accept it?"

Liu Bi thought for a moment and felt that the other party's first bid was definitely not what he expected.Moreover, there will not be many opportunities to catch up on meals like this in the future. If we don’t take advantage of this opportunity to make more money, we will be sorry for the brothers in the studio who stay up late and work overtime every day.

So I typed and replied: "Mr. Zheng, let me explain to you. If you are inserting advertisements into our original video content, the price is correct. But now you are looking for us to customize the video, so it requires a little more. I hope you understand. one time."

Zheng Weixiong quickly sent a reply: "2000, no more."

Liu Bi was also a person who accepted the offer immediately, and immediately agreed: "Okay, Mr. Zheng is very happy."

After a while, Zheng Weineng transferred 1000 yuan to Liu Bi's WeChat account and put a note on it.

"This is a deposit. The full amount will be transferred after the video is finished."

Liu Bi accepted the deposit and said nothing more.

In fact, this is a normal situation. It is rare for a sponsor like Yang Ruoqian to pay the full amount without saying a word.

After all, the video has not yet been released, and the quality and content cannot be determined. It is fair to both parties to give half of the payment first, and then give the other half after the inspection.

After accepting the money, Liu Bi started editing the video himself.

It is indeed difficult to turn a four- to five-minute promotional video into a 5-minute complaint video.

The bosses of small studios like them cannot be like the bosses of large companies. They are only responsible for giving orders and leaving other things to their subordinates.

Most of the time, they are just like the owners of milk tea shops and restaurants. They are both the boss and the employees, and sometimes they are even more tiring than the employees.

But the risks that need to be taken are much higher.

Even the money received may not be higher than that of employees.

Belonging is truly thankless.

Liu Bi opened the promotional video that he had watched many times and started watching it frame by frame.

The difference is that before I was looking for advantages, this time I am looking for faults.

After watching it for a long time, Liu Bi reluctantly wrote the first sentence on the draft: "Well... in terms of special effects, it is still a little lacking compared to the blockbusters from Haolaiwu."

This shortcoming, which is not considered a shortcoming, can make the video about one and a half minutes long.

"Second point... uh, then, there are occasionally ugly swear words in movie promotions, which are not in line with young people's views and affect the viewing experience?"

After holding it in for a few more minutes, Liu Bi wrote down the second embarrassing point on the draft.

"Third point, the leading actors in the movie are all young people whose names I have never heard of. Although it can't be seen in the promotional video, maybe in the officially released content, these actors will be unable to control the characters?"

As soon as the third "black spot" was written on the draft, even Liu Bi himself couldn't hold himself tight.

Whether it's the male lead in "The Man of the Country" who turns heads as quickly as he turns the page in a book and plays the hypocrite to the extreme, or the female lead who is pure, beautiful and girly, but faces difficulties when she joins a superhero group, her acting skills can be said to be great. Impeccable.

Finding faults from the perspective of acting can be said to be "unnecessary" in contemporary times.

"Oh, it's hard to make money these days..." Liu Bi sighed and pinched his chin, "This promotional video is very well done, and the subject matter is also very good. Why is it so dark?"

"The cast is also all new. There is no black material to be found, and the black lead actor himself has no way to go."

While making the video, Liu Bi complained about the difficulty of this work.

Much harder than advertising breaks.

It's a bit too embarrassing to force such a good film to look ugly.

For more than half an hour, Liu Bi watched the promotional video almost seven or eight times, but he still could not find any major flaws.

It has depth and good technical skills, and it can be seen from the few clips that the producers have spent a lot of money on it.

Suddenly, a young man from the studio nearby said: "Brother Liu, I think this promotional video is very good. It's hard to find 10 minutes of dirty information. Why don't you talk to the sponsor's father and ask him to change the requirements?" ?”

"Yeah... I feel like the filming was really good." Another person complained, "These actors are still newcomers."

It was really well shot...

The actors are all newcomers, and the production company is also a newly emerging company...

Liu Bi, who was racking his brains and trying every possible means to find out the dark spots in the movie, stopped his busy hands.

In previous videos, he also used similar words to criticize the producers and actors of "Thunder Warriors" and "Fortress".

For example, relying on one's own control of traffic makes one drift away, such as using a traffic star with no acting skills to play a role that should be very serious.

But what is the difference between what I am doing now and those people I criticized before?

A well-made film with most of the money spent on the production.

A company that is ruthlessly excluded and brutally suppressed if it doesn't join in with other producers.

There are also talented actors who have good acting skills but are not famous enough and have little traffic.

Isn't it a bit unfair to the sincere producers and actors to receive so many false criticisms just because of a thousand dollars?
Especially in recent years, any film or television drama that has something to do with popular stars, regardless of whether it is good or not, will first become popular.

All kinds of overwhelming propaganda, all kinds of people who don’t pay attention to the content but only focus on the actors, consuming CP indiscriminately, and everywhere showing the lower limits of human beings in other comment areas...

As an up blogger who regards film criticism as a career, Liu Bi himself is actually very disgusted with this phenomenon.

But so what?
With just a few hundred thousand fans, one cannot say that he is humble. But if he is targeted by fans of those traffic stars, it is only a matter of time before he is forced to withdraw from the network.

It’s hard to come up with such a conscientious movie now...

Liu Bi glanced at the two credit messages on his phone and struggled for a moment, as if he was making a very difficult decision.

After a while, he turned his head and reluctantly said, "How about I discuss something with you?"

The other two young men in the studio didn't even raise their heads: "Brother Liu, just tell me everything. Why are you so shy?"

Liu Bi looked at the two young men who were working hard for these few thousand yuan and sighed: "Then I'll say it... I feel like we can't earn these 4000 yuan."

"I may feel sorry for you, but let's do this. Next time, when there is a business order, I will give you a higher share, okay?"

After saying that, Liu Bi couldn't help but feel distressed.A total of 4000 yuan!
Obviously I have collected them all and got them all...but I still can't be sure of the result.

Unexpectedly, a young man quickly raised his head and nodded in agreement: "Brother Liu, actually I wanted to say it just now, but our life has not been easy this month, so I didn't dare to say it!"

"This order is really difficult to accept." Another person immediately stopped what he was doing and said with approval, "We can't just destroy our reputation and jobs just because of these 4000 yuan."

Liu Bi looked at his two young men in surprise, as if he was meeting them for the first time.

"Is this what you really think? You don't want the money you just got?"

"It must be true. If the money is gone, you can make it again, but if your conscience is gone, it is really gone!"

"No, we can earn more if we lose our conscience... I can only say that we deserve to be poor, hahaha! This money earned without conscience feels hot to my hands."

Several conscientious people suddenly laughed, and their words were self-deprecating, but they were very determined not to accept this business.

"Okay, okay, if we decide not to take this business, let's think about what to do next. Find some interesting movies and TV series quickly, otherwise we will really be in trouble this month." Liu Bi finished laughing and waved. He waved his hand and opened his mobile phone.

Since I decided not to take this business at the last minute, I have to pay the money back to others.

The first thing he found was the generous sponsor who paid the full price.

"Hello, Mr. Yang, are you still here?"

While looking at the comment section under his own promotional video, Mr. Yang, who was extremely pessimistic about the loss target for this quarter, casually replied with a message: "Still, did you encounter any difficulties in the video production?"

He can't cheer up at all now.

Because not long ago, when he bribed Liu Bi to discredit his own movie, the system gave him a warning.

It is illegal to maliciously smear one's own movies, and the expenses incurred cannot be included in the company's profit and loss accounts, nor can they be reimbursed.

In other words, Yang Ruoqian had to pay for Liu Bi's video production costs out of his own pocket, reluctantly taking out 2000 yuan from his already not wealthy treasury.

Seeing that his already small balance suddenly dropped by two thousand, and that the company had a major profit crisis this quarter, Yang Ruoqian's mood was naturally not much better.

Liu Bi spoke simply in the dialog box and clicked the send button: "That's it, Mr. Yang... Our production team just tried to make an outline according to your request, but we encountered some difficulties."

Yang Ruoqian was speechless. Isn't it just to smear a movie? What difficulty could there be in this?
Could it be that you want to use this to make more money?
Yang Ruoqian took a deep breath, mentally prepared for heavy bleeding, and typed and asked: "What's the difficulty?"

Liu Bi: "That's right, we may not be able to make your video. How do you refund your 2000 yuan? Is it directly refunded to your WeChat account?"

can not do this? !

And it seems that there is absolutely no way to do it, instead of trying to use this as an excuse to ask for more remuneration?

Yang Ruoqian was suddenly a little strange, so he said in an old-fashioned tone: "Don't rush to talk about refunds. Young people, if you encounter difficulties, you can say it, and if you think the money is not enough, you can add more. Business, business, is just coming up with ideas, why can't we agree with each other? Are you going to stop doing this business?"

Liu Bi replied: "You...then let me tell you the truth. Our team has just carefully analyzed "Black Robe Inspection Team", and we feel that with the quality of this movie, it can win the box office championship this year. "

"Do you understand what I mean? If we forcefully discredit this movie, it will definitely cause public outrage. Film critics rely on being objective and fair to make a living. If the reputation is ruined, their jobs will be ruined."

"We really can't make this money, why don't you hire someone else?"

Yang Ruoqian looked at these three long messages and was speechless.

Oh, it took me a long time, but it turns out it was because of professional ethics... I thought it was because of some problem with the content.

People are open and honest, and when it comes to job issues, you really can't force them.

No one would risk their job just for a mere 2000 yuan.

Yang Ruoqian, who got off to a bad start, sighed and was already planning to find other reviewers.

Just when Yang Ruoqian entered "Just transfer the money via WeChat", he suddenly had an idea.

No, why are you hiding it and not wanting to reveal your identity?

As a producer of a movie and a direct beneficiary of the box office, there are many ways to explain the behavior of deliberately discrediting its own movie.

Mr. Yang's eyes lit up when he found a new idea. He deleted all the entered words and re-entered the information: "Haha...it turns out to be the reason. Today's young people have very upright views, which is good!"

"But you are thinking too much. To be honest, I am actually the person in charge of the Propaganda Department of Kuai Guang Group. The purpose of assigning this task to you is not to discredit our own movie, but to promote the publicity before the movie is released. The test tests the audience's acceptance of parts of the film."

"So I thought, find some people to come and expose the issues that we are most worried about, like 'increasing popularity' and 'disrespecting the prototype', to you film critics in advance to see how the audience reacts. "

"Don't have any psychological burden, just do as we ask. After the movie is released, if, I mean if, someone scolds you because of the video you posted, you can just release our chat history, right? no?"

Liu Bi, who originally planned to stick to the bottom line and refuse righteously no matter how much the other party offered, did not expect to receive such a reply, and he was completely stunned.

Would you like to see what you are talking about?
The producer paid someone to discredit his movie? !
Are you crazy?
Who among others doesn’t do their best to promote, brag, and highlight selling points and highlights before the movie is released, in order to attract a group of fans first?

You'd better do the opposite, right?
Liu Bi quickly calmed down: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry... I don't know if it's the leader of Kuangguang Group in person. Can you provide relevant proof? If so, can we sign a contract for this transaction?"

"Young people are very cautious. The contract is OK, but you still want our chat content to be kept confidential before the movie is officially released. Is there any problem?"

As the group president, Yang Ruoqian casually took out the documents proving his identity.

After carefully confirming Yang Ruoqian's documents and getting the guarantee that he could sign the contract, Liu Bi breathed a sigh of relief.

If it is the request made by the film producers themselves, this money can indeed be earned.

Companies with interests in others have no objections. As an outsider, what qualifications does he have to point fingers and move himself?

That's a big group's propaganda tool. How great if you can get a piece of the pie!
Liu Bi replied: "No problem, no problem... Mr. Yang, I'm really sorry, we misunderstood you, don't mind."

Seeing that the movie's smear plan was saved, Yang Ruoqian nodded with satisfaction: "It doesn't matter, just talk about it. Do you have any other difficulties?"

Liu Bi thought for a while and typed: "There is no question about video production, but there is one thing I don't know whether I should tell you."

Yang Ruoqian: "We can communicate."

Liu Bi clicked on the keyboard of his mobile phone: "After you placed an order with me, we received another order, which is basically the same as your request. You can pay more attention to this matter. There should be other The company wants to discredit you.”

Oh? !

Yang Ruoqian, who was heartbroken over his shrinking treasury, suddenly felt no longer sleepy when he saw this sentence.

And such a good thing? !
Where did this living Bodhisattva come from, spending money to help Mr. Yang do things?
Mr. Yang, who originally wanted to spend more money and find other film reviewers to smear him together, was overwhelmed by such good news.

Could it be that he has been unlucky for so long recently that even God can't bear it, and he finally got good luck for once?

Yang Ruoqian typed and asked: "Which company is it? Can you tell me a little bit about it?"

Although objectively, this "friendly businessman" who paid someone to smear his own movie helped Yang Ruoqian, subjectively speaking, this company undoubtedly came with great malice.

Yang Ruoqian, who has lived two lifetimes, experienced being on the verge of bankruptcy, and came back from the dead, is no fool.

Seeing this request, Liu Bi hesitated.

He didn't want to get angry with the overt and covert fight between the two entertainment companies, and no matter what the user's needs were, disclosing user information to others was a very unprofessional act.

Liu Bi thought for a moment and did not agree or object for the time being: "Please wait a moment."

He wanted to check the company "Rifu" and Zheng Weixiong first.

If the other party has real information, then nothing can be revealed.

But if it’s false information and a pseudonym, it’s not a big deal to reveal it.

A few minutes later, Liu Bi confirmed that there was no "Rifu" company, and Zheng Weixiong was not found.

On the other hand, the name of Yuefu, a giant in the entertainment industry, is slightly similar to that of Rifu.

But... how is that possible?
Liu Bi imagined that the elites of these large companies could easily make orders worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

It is unlikely that a giant company will use such despicable means to attack its opponents. There is a 90% possibility that someone wants to deliberately pour dirty water on Yuefu.

So he told Yang Ruoqian the truth about the chat: "The person over there claims to be Zheng Weixiong from the 'Rifu' Group, but it should be a pseudonym, so you don't have to look for it. If it is his real name, I won't leak it to you. Do you allow me to take their orders? If not, I will withdraw now."

Yang Ruoqian looked at the company name and the person's name and was silent for a long time.

Rifu...Zheng Weixiong...

What the hell, isn’t this Zheng Weineng from Yuefu Group?
A pseudonym and a ghost!
Do you dare to be more perfunctory? !

This lousy company of yours is really haunting.

However, this Xiao Liu is really a real person.

It is not easy for such a down-to-earth person to earn some hard-earned money, so there is no need to embarrass others.

It's okay. Now that I've hitched a ride on Kuo Guang, from now on, if I have a mouthful of food, you will have a bowl to wash... No, you will have a mouthful of soup to drink.

Yang Ruoqian's face darkened, and he typed: "No need to retreat, feel free to accept."

As soon as I finished typing this line, a strange voice suddenly came from outside the door.

"Hello, Mr. Yang, can I come in? You have a black gold membership card...I'll bring it to you."

(End of this chapter)