Director’s Legend

In the summer of 2007, the most uproarious moment was the biggest blow to Shao Shuaijun, and the world was full of voices criticizing him. Shao Shuaijun never thought that he was a tortoise with a shrunken head, but at this moment, he really hid, hiding in a small town not far from Jiuzhaigou.

No one knows why he came here, including Li Xiuxiu.

"A Jun, who are you waiting here? It's been half a month, everyone is worried about you." Li Xiuxiu asked casually while making the bed for Shao Shuaijun. He has asked Shao Shuaijun no less than dozens of times this question, and Shao Shuaijun vaguely fooled it every time.

Shao Shuaijun sits unshaven in front of the computer, not playing games or surfing the Internet, but simply watching "The Night Watcher". Since coming to this small town, he has watched "The Night Watcher" over and over again, all the copies, deleted, uncut, and discarded.

After freezing the movie, Shao Shuaijun turned his head and his eyes were full of sadness: "Sister Xiuxiu, do you think I am a failure? The box office of "The Night Watcher" is a mess, 100 million US dollars, it gave me such a defeat."

"Why? You just encountered a little setback. A movie can't tell you anything. You have made so many successful movies. Don't rush to deny yourself. In my heart, you have always been the best one." Li Xiuxiu smiled softly.

Shao Shuaijun was silent, before speaking for a while: "How is the box office of "The Night Watcher"?"

"Listen to good news or bad news?"

"bad news."

"Now basically the places that should be shown are released, and the box office is not very good. In ordinary theaters, 29 million US dollars in North America, 36 million US dollars in Asia including the mainland, and 18 million US dollars in Europe, plus some fragmentary countries and regions. The global box office is approximately $67 million."

With a wry smile, Shao Shuaijun asked, "Where is the good news?"

"The good news is that the global imax theaters, "Nightman" received 29.6 million US dollars, almost equal to half of ordinary theaters. Imax theaters only have more than 200 theaters. It turns out. You are right to shoot with imax, as the first one. Commercial films shot with imax, you will definitely influence more filmmakers to move towards imax. You are a pioneer. You did not fail." Li Xiuxiu said with a smile.

"I'm not. I didn't bring imax to succeed. It should have succeeded. As a director, I completely failed." Shao Shuaijun thought of the shabby box office and couldn't help but rub his hair.

"Ajun. Don't be like this. This is just a temporary failure. If you cheer up, you will succeed."

"You don't understand." Shao Shuaijun has a thousand words, but he doesn't know how to say it, "Sister Xiuxiu, do you know? I was able to succeed before because...because of "Crazy Stone", "Source Code", "Painted Skin" "They should be successful, they are like an inspiration to put there, but I just brought it... "The Night Watcher" is different, it is my thinking, not the inspiration I took, it is me Really created...what should I say, maybe I am not suitable for being a director at all."

Rebirth is Shao Shuaijun's biggest secret, he can't tell anyone.

But as a director, Shao Shuaijun is very eager to prove himself, and what to prove is of course his own movie. He won't be satisfied with plagiarizing others. It's really simple, casually successful, but in the end it can prove anything. Prove that you can plagiarize?

Or does it prove once again that these films can be successful?

They should have been successful, whether they have Shao Shuaijun or not, they are all successful movies.

For money and life, Shao Shuaijun chose to plagiarize. But he can't plagiarize for a lifetime. He only has a few years to plagiarize. Once the time points to 2013, what else can he do to continue?

He once stood under the billboard of "Source Code" and told Li Xiuxiu that he was going to be the next king of the world and let everyone wander in his movie world. But a director who can only plagiarize, what can he do to let others wander in his world? Therefore, the success of "Painted Skin" suddenly swelled his self-confidence and began to weave his dream story.

But this time the blow was too big, too big for Shao Shuaijun to bear.

Ask yourself.

Indeed, he is impetuous, he is complacent.

He performed a ridiculous comedy like a clown.

There was no applause, no praise.

He has a thousand and ten thousand reasons to convince himself, which does not mean that he has no ability, but that he has not found the right way. He is still young, he still has a chance. But the huge haze stuck in his heart, so that he could not breathe, plagiarizing other people's works, he could enjoy unlimited scenery and walk his own way, but he was deeply stuck in the mud.

"One day, I will be abandoned by the world!" Shao Shuaijun said with his eyes closed.

"will not."

Li Xiuxiu hugged Shao Shuaijun from behind, with her head resting on his back, without the usual style of a strong woman, she said quietly but firmly: "Ajun, even if the world abandons you, I won't."

Shao Shuaijun didn’t know what to say, and was a little choked: “I think if I continue to make movies, one day, I will lose my dream, and then I will have no money. I can’t afford to buy a house, a car, I've given you diamonds and jewels, and I can't afford a yacht... No, I can't afford it now. The company has suffered such a big loss.

"Do you know how the old butler in "Batman: The Mystery of Shadows" told Batman?" Li Xiuxiu said a puzzled word.

"what?"

"Batman asked him, haven't you given up on me. The old butler told him, never. Ajun, I also want to tell you that I like bungalows, cars, diamond jewelry, and yachts more, but that's not important. The important thing is that we can be together. If there is no one I love, even if I have gold and silver mountains, what's the point."

"Sister Xiuxiu..."

"Wang Xiaojian told Huang Xiaoxian that there must be me within one meter of your side. A Jun, can you tell me, within one meter of my side, you must be there?"

"Of course." Shao Shuaijun could say anything, holding his hand. What do you want?

"No matter how time passes, we must trust and help each other, cherish each other and know each other, okay?"

"of course."

Li Xiuxiu raised her head in satisfaction. The gentleness faded away. Looking at the touched Shao Shuaijun, she asked with a gossip: "Now you should tell me, who are you waiting for if you are hiding here?"

"Um..." Shao Shuaijun blinked, feeling that he was fooled. but. After Li Xiuxiu's frolicking. He feels more depressive. Putting Li Xiuxiu in his arms again, Shao Shuaijun pursed his lips and said, "I'm here to find someone, a director. I want to ask him. Why do I want to be a director. Why not be a director again."

"who is he?"

"A... a director who has been in love with him for a long time. Everyone calls him Lao Bai, a bit salty and wet, and a bit wretched. The movie he made has never been shown on a large scale. Every time he loses money. But he can fool people, and many upstarts are willing to give it. He has money to make movies. Well, by the way, this guy has no lower limit. What he likes most is the unspoken stars under the banner of the director."

Li Xiuxiu frowned: "Why do you have contact with such a director?"

"It's nothing, just want to ask what kind of profession is a director in the eyes of others."

Shao Shuaijun smiled softly and said, but the memory turned to another time and space far away, also at this time, the summer of 2007. He saw a vital person in his life. A director who told him how to distinguish a woman’s tears, how to act in a **** scene, and how to make a kiss scene.

At that time, he was still working as a props master in Hengdian, and Lao Bai's crew recruited people and gave a lot of money, so Shao Shuaijun went. That was Lao Bai's second movie. It seemed to be called "Lonely Birds on Trees" or "Birds on Trees Are Silent", telling a love story between a man and three prostitutes.

Shao Shuaijun almost forgot the specific content, because Lao Bai never played cards according to the routine, thinking of where to shoot, and sometimes for the sake of unspoken rules to vent his desires, he would add and delete certain female scenes.

At that time, Shao Shuaijun started with props and was appreciated by Lao Bai and promoted to assistant director. As a result, after the movie was filmed, Shao Shuaijun had forgotten the whole plot. He only remembered to make a **** scene today, and a kiss scene tomorrow, and then... no more, this movie has not been approved and can only be released secretly, just like a tertiary film .

Shao Shuaijun was greatly touched by doing miscellaneous work in such a film crew. Lao Bai is here, and he doesn't care about the life or death of the crew, but only cares about his own happiness. On one occasion, he even asked Shao Shuaijun to film a day's scene for him. From then on, Shao Shuaijun began to gradually come into contact with the director's monitor, slowly mixed up and became the assistant director of errands.

On the day when the crew was finalized, Shao Shuaijun still remembered that Lao Bai gave him an extra five thousand red envelopes.

Later, Shao Shuaijun continued to work hard to run the various crews, where to recruit workers. As for Lao Bai, he made another movie, and the box office was almost zero. From then on, he took the only woman willing to follow him and went back to his hometown to sell leather shoes. After that, Shao Shuaijun had no news of Lao Bai.

Lao Bai was a failed director, and Shao Shuaijun never doubted that.

But it is also a director who can remember Shao Shuaijun for his whole life, not for those **** scenes and kiss scenes, not for the extra five thousand dollars. It was the first director who told him, "Young man, it's just to direct a play, it's easy!" Even though he hadn't seen the movie, he didn't know whether the scene he directed the play was still there.

"Nightman" has hit Shao Shuaijun unprecedentedly. Even if Dengtian Entertainment replaced him in his previous life, he has never been so confused and hesitant. Being replaced doesn't mean that he is incapable, but just being slammed by the unspoken rules, but "The Night Watcher" actually denies him.

Every time I hear others say how bad "The Night Watcher" is, Shao Shuaijun is like a helpless passerby walking on the streets of fierce ghosts, surrounded by ogres.

He didn't know why he wanted to ask Lao Bai, perhaps, just to hear another sentence of "young man, direct a play, simple!" The encouragement, perhaps, was just a subconscious impulse.

When the weather was the hottest, finally, Shao Shuaijun waited for Lao Bai's crew... (to be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!

ps: Today, 12000+ words are over, the most depressing and worst chapter is finally over.

Originally, my plan was to slowly write a person's changes, but the book review section has never stopped being scolded.

No one likes to read such articles, so I will try my best to write as refreshingly in the future!

Thank you wild bird for your reward!

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