I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

   Chapter 540 538. The Art of Conversation

   "How about it, can you?"

  At the door of the study, after hearing this, Xu Xin said without raising his head:

   "Well, it's beautiful."

   "..."

  Yang Mi, whose nose was wrinkled, muttered a few vague words.

  No way, can't say it out loud.

  Otherwise it is "beep beep beep".

   After cursing on the street, she felt relieved, and she patted her **** and left.

   Just listening to the rustling movement, you can tell that he is drawing a draft of the storyboard.

   Still don't bother him.

   All the way down the stairs, she snapped her fingers at Su Meng, who became her assistant instead of Tingting who had been resting for the past two days:

"Snapped."

   "Mengmeng, let's go!"

   "Okay, sister."

  Su Meng quickly followed.

  Yang Mi is going to see Lin Yufen tonight.

  Lin Yufen has submitted the script budget for "Scary Step by Step".

  Production cost: 21 million.

   Brackets: Does not include actors' remuneration.

  The price is actually not bad, not too high.

  The production cost of "Zhen Huan" has reached 35 million, not counting the film salary, just for the service, venue labor and so on.

  Usually, the production cost and remuneration for a TV series start at 64%.

  Because of the time span and the large number of personnel, the production cost of TV dramas is relatively high.

  So Yang Mi estimated that the final investment of this drama should be around 40 million.

  If you count the announcements... maybe four thousand five to five thousand.

Okay.

  So she didn't worry too much about the production cost.

   On the contrary, she gave Lin Yufen full freedom.

   After all, during the period of "Sword and Sword III", Director Lin took good care of himself. And now this matter is about poetry.

  Tonight's dinner, everyone is going to talk about this.

  Su Meng planned the route. Although there was some traffic, she was not late.

   When it was almost 8 o'clock, Yang Mi finally met her in the box.

   "Mimi."

   "Hey, Director Lin, long time no see~~"

  Yang Mi hugged Lin Yufen, who had short hair and was dyed yellow, and looked quite trendy.

  Lin Yufen didn't bring an assistant, so she came by herself.

   Seeing this, Yang Mi waved at Su Meng:

   "Mengmeng, you arrange yourself, I don't have to worry about it."

   "Okay, sister."

  Su Meng left quickly.

   There are only two people left in the box.

  Lin Yufen started with "How is the filming of Wulin Biography" and started the small talk during the ordering session.

  Two people, six dishes, a bottle of red wine.

  It's not easy to talk about today's meal without wine.

  Eating and chatting.

   When the dishes were ready, the waiter withdrew.

  Yang Mi personally took the decanter and added a glass of wine to Lin Yufen.

   "Director Lin, the production cost of this play is basically fine. When do you want to start?"

   "The preparations are a bit troublesome."

  Although she often comes to the mainland, Lin Yufen's accent is still from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

  Holding a wine glass, she shook her head:

   "I counted the preparatory work, it will take at least three or four months. So...the filming can start before New Year's Day is the blessing of the Buddha."

   "Yo, that's pretty late."

  Yang Mi calculated the time:

   "Hey, it's my fault too, the script has already been given to you. The main reason is that I am too busy this year, and I haven't been able to take care of "Scary Step by Step"."

   "Haha~"

  Lin Yufen definitely didn't dare to blame her, she just smiled and shook her head:

   "Even if you want to do it earlier, I'm afraid it won't be my turn. Just a month ago, the company was still focusing on another drama."

  Although Yang Mi knew what the play was, she still asked:

   "Which one?"

"Well…"

  Lin Yufen thought about it, and didn't hide it:

   "It's called "Gong Suo Xin Yu", but I don't know why it didn't work out in the end."

   "Huh? That one? That drama is also here now."

   "...?"

  Looking at the surprised Yang Mi, Lin Yufen was taken aback:

   "Where is...?"

   "This is where I am."

  Yang Mi couldn't laugh or cry:

   "Or to be precise, this drama is now in Tianyu. Tianyu has reached a cooperation with my company since this year. And this drama is a starting point for our cooperation..."

   "Do you want to pick it up?"

   "No, I have no plans to take on TV dramas at the moment, I have pushed it to my ladies."

   "Just that Angela..."

   "Yes. That's her..."

  Hearing this, Lin Yufen was a little surprised:

   "Have you started cooperating with Hunan TV?"

"They have been looking for me for a long time. But you also know that I have been focusing on movies since "Legend of Sword". The shallowest cooperation begins.”

   "Wow, TV drama cooperation is still called the shallowest level?"

   "I don't mean that. It makes me look down on TV dramas..."

  Yang Mi quickly shook her head, but immediately answered another sentence:

"But, my dear Director Lin, you also know... my company only has two or three cats and dogs. I'm talking about the shallowest level, not the lowest level of Tianyu, it's my side. Think about it, we What does the company have? Director? Yes, my husband. Only one movie a year. TV series? I can’t let him make it. The cycle is so long. How many months can I not be crazy?"

   "Hahahaha~"

  Lin Yufen seemed to have lost her mind, and smiled happily:

   "You two are so sweet~"

   "Hey~"

  Yang Mi shrugged and did not refute:

   "Anyway, I can't stand it. Now that I'm talking, he wants to make a TV series, and he has to watch Xiying Studio agree or not?

  Are you right? .

   Then you say who else is here?

Gone. no one else~

  There is no director or director. As for the actors, besides me, Liu Yifei is one of them...she doesn’t make TV dramas anymore. So I can only push this resource to my ladies. She is also complaining endlessly ~ people also want to fall in love.

  Two days ago, you still complained to me, saying: Sister, didn’t you agree? In the future, when you become famous, I can do whatever I want... But now you are getting more and more popular, why am I getting busier? How lazy do you say she is..."

   Refuse to mention anything commercial, mainly highlighting a company atmosphere.

Coupled with her acting skills and line skills that imitated Yang Ying's embarrassing expression, Lin Yufen just imagined in her mind the girl she had seen on TV with a bitter face, saying these things to Yang Mi, "it's for a good time." , why are you so busy and suffer so much?" helplessness.

   Not to mention the relationship between these two people, she also knows it.

   is true sharing weal and woe.

   I got acquainted with Yu Weimo, and I have never left her for so many years.

  From this point of view, Mimi is really kind.

  She said with some emotion:

   "It's really kind of you to her. If the boss of another company sees his company's subordinates so unmotivated, he'd be so mad."

"Hey, friend. Although I know that what I do is a bit out of place in the circle. But...Director Lin, do you think what I said is right? From my current height, I want to make some sincere friends. Difficult…"

   "Yes. It's very difficult~ very, very, very difficult."

  Lin Yufen agreed with it.

   "Yes."

  Yang Mi shrugged:

"So I cherish these people before I became famous. I can remember all the people who were kind to me before I became famous. Like you, like everyone else. Because I know, at that time, my... well, let's Let’s talk about status. At that time, my status was not enough to allow other people to have purposeful kindness towards me. It is precisely because of this that I am especially grateful to you and everyone back then... come!”

  She raised her glass:

"This glass of wine...thank you, Director Lin! Back in "Sword and Sword III", I added a lot of Xue Jian's game actions without authorization, and Director Li didn't like it... If it weren't for you, I might not be in "Sword and Sword" Everyone has reached this height in their hearts. I did it~"

   Yang Mi said this with sincerity, not lying at all.

  In fact, she is the one with the most exaggerated body movements in the entire "Xian 3" crew.

  Her actions are the ones seen in the game.

  But... Whether those game actions are performed on the computer or in terms of visual effects, it will make Xue Jian look particularly savage in the early stage.

   Li Guoli felt that it was not appropriate, as the leading actress, it was too easy to make people feel disgusted.

  In the early stage of the film crew, he often corrected Yang Mi.

  Later, it was Lin Yufen who found Li Guoli with a few save files and asked him to take a look. The original game had this kind of action, and Yang Mi just restored her.

   Li Guoli took a look... Oh, this girl can do it.

  So she allowed her slightly exaggerated performance style.

  At the same time, it must be admitted that it is precisely this "standard" that has created Yang Mi's Tang Xuejian's unshakable position among fans of the "Xian San" game.

   Eat and chat, pay attention to the atmosphere.

  The atmosphere has come to this, Lin Yufen looked at this girl who is different from the past, she can still say such words, and drank a big glass of red wine.

  In front of Yang Mi and Yang Ying's "fairy friendship" set up by a kind-hearted person, she is not pretentious, holding a glass:

   "Come on, cheers~"

   gurgling.

  After the big glass of red wine was finished by the two of them, Yang Mi helped her refill the wine, sat down and continued:

"Hey, where did you just say?... Oh yes, two or three big cats and small cats... In addition to me and Liu Yifei, Yang Ying is at most half of the actors in the company. The other girls I signed are not good enough. But I’m the boss, so I have to plan for them, right? So I started to collect books, IP, and scripts. Do you know what my husband said about me? He said that sometimes I’m a cute rat..."

   "Hahahaha~ This metaphor is so cute~"

   "Hey, isn't it? ... But it's also a dilemma."

  Yang Mi showed a helpless look:

"It's like "Scary Step by Step". I bought this script last year... At that time, I didn't know that Director Lin liked it. If you liked it, I would let it go... I buy things like this, regardless of the price. , Second, don't look at the price, and third, don't look at the price..."

   "..."

  The corner of Lin Yufen's mouth twitched.

Fine…

   In fact, it can be seen from the quotation this time.

  She herself felt that the price of 21 million was a bit high... After all, it didn't count the salary.

  If the actors' remuneration is included, the quotation is estimated to be five thousand.

  Fifty million...

   It would be understandable if a big director came to shoot.

   Can you be considered a great director?

   Strictly speaking, it doesn't count.

  In the Tang Dynasty, Li Guoli is always the only great director.

  And the works she contacted with the directors of the director team actually cost 10 to 20 million yuan.

   No matter how high it is, the company is afraid of losing money, so it will ask Li to lead the mountain.

   But you are watching people...

  The production cost was 21 million, and I didn't even bother to pay back the price.

   Agree, agree, agree.

  Even if in order to prevent the other party from misunderstood, she specifically said "this is the cost that does not include the actors' remuneration", Mimi did not hesitate at all.

  In addition to kindness and trust, for Lin Yufen, there are actually only four words:

   "Plenty of money."

  In addition to the evidence of Yang Mi's words in front of me...

   Give her an impression inside and out.

  It's really...so thick.

  As for Yang Mi, she continued to show her company’s advantages:

   "But it's useless for me, I can't find someone to entrust. Do you know how long I begged Director Zheng for "The Legend of Zhen Huan" before he agreed to shoot it?"

"…how long?"

  Lin Yufen knew about "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

   Liang Bingning is starring.

  The show hasn't been filmed yet, and it's in preparation, but the popularity on the Internet is already quite high.

  As a TV drama director, she understands the weight of the words "Zheng Xiaolong" better.

   That is a serious director.

   Then Yang Mi raised 5 fingers:

   "5 months. Five full months..."

   There is nothing wrong with what she said.

   When I was 7 months pregnant, I saw this book on a street stall, bought the copyright, and then came out to talk to Director Zheng after confinement...

   Isn't this exactly five months?

   In business, business is not considered cheating.

   "I said all the good things, and Director Zheng agreed to me. Then he asked me a very essential question: who will play the heroine?"

   "..."

  Lin Yufen looked at Yang Mi who suddenly spread her hands, and after realizing the meaning of her actions, she couldn't laugh or cry:

   "You don't have time?"

   "No, I'm still in debt to Wang Jiawei. I joined the team in April this year, and up to now, the progress of the film is less than one-third."

   "..."

"Finally, I begged my grandpa to tell my grandma, so I found Sister Bingbing. When I heard that I had difficulties, Sister Bingbing agreed to act in this play. So you see...Director Lin, what is my current predicament? One, I have no one. Two, I don’t have a director, I’m poor and I have money left over... I earned it, my husband earned it... You know, he’s more than me. He has a salary card for the Olympics, which is set at more than 6,000 a month ...It has been two years since the Olympic Games, and the salary of Kari has not been spent yet..."

  Actually, if Xu Xin was present here, even he would have to boast that the daughter-in-law has a really strong sense of rhythm in this kind of chat atmosphere where she doesn't play tricks and doesn't need to figure out the meaning.

  No rush, no rush.

   At first glance, it looks like they are chatting, but in fact, they are just like the peacock with its tail open, showing its feathers all the time.

   However, she didn't show off, but hid all of this in the seemingly trivial chats of friends through a short chat with parents.

  When Lin Yufen was curious about why Xu Xin saved so much money, Yang Mi transitioned to "My husband's father-in-law has several mines and a real estate company" through "He gets his cigarettes from home and drinks Moutai from home" Barabara's...

   In a way that doesn't show off, he showed his financial resources.

   Then, the topic can come back.

"So you see, now I really understand what a clever woman can't cook without rice. Otherwise, "Scary Step by Step" wouldn't have taken so long. Actually, I don't know anyone else. In the field of TV dramas, our company is blank. If there is a person like Director Li who can come to us as a magic needle...then I must confess to him..."

  The picture is poor, but the dagger is missing.

  You can’t speak too clearly.

   It’s enough to show the meaning.

   "We are short of people."

   "We have money here."

   "This quota is first come, first served."

  Three meanings, at first glance, in fact, three sentences can explain clearly.

  But the words can't be said so straightforwardly.

   To put it in a sentence:

   "Indecent."

   Moreover, the purpose is too strong.

   If it is really about business, everyone will settle accounts with brothers, but such a relationship will inevitably be alienated.

  So, turning this transaction into a search for like-minded partners is more in line with the art of chatting.

  And the working relationship and friendship combined in this way will be stronger.

   Sure enough, after hearing this, Lin Yufen showed a look of astonishment and thought.

   But she also didn't think about it for too long.

   Obviously she also knew it was inappropriate.

   just raised the cup logically...

  The atmosphere is good at the moment, it's better not to think about those fame and fortune.

  …

  The wine has three rounds, and the food has five flavors.

  Yang Mi finally seized an opportunity and asked logically:

   "Director Lin, by the way, have you considered the hero and heroine of this play?"

   "..."

  Bringing this up, Lin Yufen, who had been laughing all night, showed a sad face.

   "Don't mention it... Ugh."

"…what happened?"

  Yang Mi was a little puzzled.

   "Do you know the prototype of this play, that is, who is my first heroine after reading this novel?"

   "..."

  Yang Mi's mouth twitched...

   tentatively asked:

   "Who is it?"

   "Jiang Yiyan."

"Well…"

  Yang Mi was taken aback for a moment:

   "Her?...Director Lin has a good relationship with her?"

   "I have seen it, and the impression is not bad."

  After hearing Yang Mi's hesitation, Lin Yufen explained a sentence and said:

   "Don't you think her quiet temperament is very similar to Ruoxi?"

   "I don't want to mention whether she looks like Ruoxi, as a matter of principle...Of course, this is what we're talking about here. I won't find an actor with...a bad reputation to be in my play."

  Yang Mi shook her head:

   "Although I haven't been exposed to rain myself, I don't mind holding an umbrella for others. The premise is that this person is worthy of my support... For her, it's better to let someone from Hollyland support it."

   Now Lin Yufen breathed a sigh of relief:

   "That's okay...she rejected me."

   "..."

  The muscles on Yang Mi's face twitched again:

   "You really went to find her?"

"In the beginning, I wanted the company to introduce this script, so I wanted to ask her to shoot it. She is a well-known literary and artistic young woman~ But she refused, as if she wanted to go abroad to study... Wow, fortunately, she didn't agree, I knew you were against it a long time ago."

  Lin Yufen also couldn't laugh or cry.

   then went on to say:

   "But to be honest, the heroine currently fits the role of Ruoxi, and she is the only one in my heart."

   Speaking of this, she paused and continued:

   "I also looked for the male lead, but was rejected."

   "..."

  Looking at Yang Mi's speechless expression, Lin Yufen quickly explained again:

   "It was an approach, but I was rejected before we reached the stage of negotiating the script."

   "...Who?"

   "Huang Xiaoming."

   "..."

  The muscles on Yang Mi's face have already begun to dance.

   Good guy.

  My girlfriend was photographed by me to play "Gong Suo Xin Yu", and my boyfriend came to play the genuine version?

  Brother, what are you doing...

  Looking at the expression on her face, Lin Yufen was also very helpless:

   "He refused because... the play is a female lead, and Fourth Master has too few roles, so he refused. But I really think he is very suitable."

  Hearing this, Yang Mi began to weigh in her heart.

  One is the female lead and the other is the male lead.

  The main reason for the male lead is to be able to find director Lin to be satisfied, so it seems that the female lead is better.

  So, she showed a thoughtful look.

   went on to say:

   "The male lead... I'll take care of it."

"ah!?"

  Lin Yufen's eyes lit up.

   "Can you make sense? Huang Xiaoming refused very simply~"

   "Yes, don't worry. This matter is on me~"

  Yang Mi immediately agreed.

   "However... To be honest, Director Lin, I really don't agree with your choice of heroine. Moreover, when I read this book, the image of the heroine actually popped up in my mind."

"who?"

   "Poetry."

   "...?"

  Lin Yufen was taken aback:

   "Poetry?"

   "Yes, Shishi."

  Yang Mi nodded vigorously:

   "She is the most perfect Ruoxi in my heart. What do you think? ... If possible, how about Huang Xiaoming and her as a partner?"

"Well…"

   Now, Lin Yufen fell into thinking.

   I won't mention what she thinks specifically, but she also understands it in her heart.

  As an investor, copyright holder.

  Mimi respects herself for being able to discuss with herself.

   And if Huang Xiaoming can really be persuaded... then it seems that it is a good thing for me to choose my company's Shishi under the choice of the heroine?

  Thinking of this, she smiled and said:

   "I thought you would recommend artists from your company."

   "It's better not to avoid relatives. I don't like to be the kind of investor who interferes with everything."

  Yang Mi's words brought her a big step closer to the image of a "perfect boss".

   "Scary Step By Step" was really a combination of the leader + Jiang Yiyan at the beginning... When I checked the information and found out about this incident, I was really numb.

  (end of this chapter)