Rebirth of the Almighty Internet Celebrity

Chapter 101 The Great Director's Self-Saving
Liang Teng and Qi Qi made two dishes with whole chicken as the main ingredient. Although in Wu Xia's eyes, they didn't reflect "cooking skills" very much, but the time consumed in them was really not ordinary.

Especially the "Beggar's Chicken" made by Qiqi. After roasting for more than an hour on high heat, it was put back into the oven and roasted for another 90 minutes on low heat.

Two 90 minutes is 180 minutes.

Equivalent to 3 hours.

In addition to the high fire roasting and the time for marinating, the whole dish takes at least 5 to 6 minutes from preparation to serving.

This is not counting the time to prepare the "ingredients" by yourself.

The ingredients that Qiqi uses now are all prepared by the hotel.

Otherwise, with her level of never killing a chicken, it would take several hours to repair a chicken.

Having said that, in the age of science and technology, it is much more convenient to have an "oven" to make "beggar's chicken".The time is also greatly shortened.

In ancient times, "Beggar's chicken" was baked manually. I was afraid that the heat could not be controlled well, and the "Beggar's chicken" would be easily scorched by a high fire.

Then, at least wait a whole day before it is time for the "beggar chicken" to come out of the kiln.

Trouble is trouble, but the ancients were also smart. They often chose to burn the kiln at night and roast chicken over low heat.

Early the next morning, you can eat the delicious "Beggar's Chicken".

In addition, the reason why the ancients did not have any entertainment items is that they are generally more patient than modern people.Therefore, delicacies such as "beggar chicken" invented by the ancients took a lot of time to make.

There are even several altars of fine wine brewed, and the brewed wine is buried underground for more than ten or twenty years before drinking.

Liang Teng's "cloth bag chicken" is of course less time-consuming than Qi Qi's.

But in order to serve the table together for people to taste, after turning off the fire, his chickens were kept in a cage to keep warm.

Knowing that Qiqi is going to make "beggar chicken", it must be time-consuming.Liang Teng turned off the fire in advance.

"Bag Chicken" is supposed to roast and steam the chicken to make it so fragrant and tender that it "melts in the mouth".Don't be afraid to keep the cage warm.

Liang Teng turned off the heat in advance, and the chicken he chose was better than Qiqi's Sanhuang Chicken Laoshui... Considering various circumstances, if you wait an extra hour or two, the "Budai Chicken" will not lose its best taste.

Everyone gathered in the box, but did not eat for this meal.For chatting fellowship.

It's okay to spend half a day in the box.

Qi Dahai, Liang Teng, and Wu Xia had more time to communicate.They also chatted very well.

Wu Xia guessed that Boss Qi also had business contacts with her father and had a chance to get in touch, so she asked in a low voice about her father's recent situation.

Wu Xia refused to ask Yan Qianyu these words.Although Yan Qianyu knew more about it than Qi Dahai.But after asking her, Yan Qianyu would definitely give back to Wu Zhenting.

This is why Wu Xia didn't want to ask her for information.

Sure enough, Qi Dahai's knowledge was limited.

I can only tell her something like "Boss Wu looks very good", "Boss Wu works overtime every day, day and night, he is a typical workaholic"...and so on.

However, I haven't seen my father for a long time, and it is good news to know that my father is still healthy.

Wu Xia was not dissatisfied either.

It would be even more ideal if there was someone who could know the details of her father's recent situation, unlike Yan Qianyu who would "report to the master" after asking her about it.

Wu Xia secretly thought greedily.

Wu Xia didn't know that such a person who met her requirements not only existed, but also came to this city by plane.

Her arrival was not too late for Qi Dahai,

This person is none other than Wu Xia's best friend Hua Yishan.

These days, Hua Yishan has been busy with editing the director's film.

This is the first time for her to direct a film with a large investment. She attaches great importance to the production of this film and strives for excellence.

When I was studying in the film school, I filmed nothing more than some short sitcoms.

It is a bit overestimated to say that it is a melodrama, but it is actually a short video of ten to twenty minutes.

What is even more frustrating is that Hua Yishan invested in those short videos out of her own pocket to get the opportunity to be the "director".

Hua Yishan, who came from a wealthy family, did not worry about money but relied on her hobby and hard work to get into the film academy, which shows that she has worked hard in this industry.

At the beginning, she also wanted to win the qualification to direct blockbuster movies with her own efforts.

It's a pity that after hitting a wall countless times, I finally realized that the pool of "film and television industry" is too turbid and too deep. If you want to win the opportunity, you can't do it without sacrificing your color.

Sometimes, what you expect is the Golden Bear Award, and what you get may be just a "consolation prize".

Hua Yishan has a strong background, after she wakes up, she no longer wants to rely on her own strength to achieve success.

In this way, things are simple.

The family's powerful backer personally came forward and used various contacts to help Hua Yishan find her favorite script.

After Hua Yishan selected the script, someone naturally found a top film and television production company for her to invest.As a result, Wu Xia's former "old company" was listed as the best investment company because it was a benchmark company in the industry.

Xi Yuanfang, the helm of the "old club", is indeed very good at giving favors. Although Hua Yishan's family background is far inferior to Wu Xia's family, in the eyes of Chairman Xi Yuanfang, it is also very worthwhile to sell favors.

So with a swipe of the pen, [-] million yuan was used to make a movie for Hua Yishan.

At the beginning, the investor arranged Hua Yishan to be the "assistant director".It's for her and the movie's sake too.First of all, Hua Yishan has no experience in directing blockbuster films, and being an "associate director" is conducive to learning and progress in practice.Secondly, although the script feels so old that it almost loses its teeth, the investors have not given up on getting it to be judged by a well-known overseas film festival for a "Golden Bear Award" or other awards.

The investment of over [-] million yuan was not in vain.

Unexpectedly, the power behind Hua Yishan was not satisfied with this, and announced that she would also invest 5000 million in the film, which can be regarded as "risk sharing".

But there is a requirement: Hua Yishan must act as the direct director.

Seeing that the other party insisted on this, Xi Yuanfang agreed because of his affection.

Because it is hard to come by.Hua Yishan cherishes the opportunity of "directing a blockbuster" that she won through her family relationship very much, and she intends to use this opportunity to become a blockbuster.

Throughout the three-month filming process, Hua Yishan still felt pretty good about herself, and her confidence became full.

But her good mood only lasted until the post-editing of the film was completed.

Post-editing took about half a month.

Finally on this day, the editing was completed, and Hua Yishan went to watch the sample.

As a result, she saw that she was full of anger.

Yes!

Every shot in the movie was shot by her.She left an impression.

But why does she feel so wonderful when taking every shot?After the actor took the shot that met her requirements, how happy she was!
However, when all the carefully shot shots were edited into a movie, after Hua Yishan watched the entire movie from beginning to end, she only felt a strong ancient atmosphere.

Why is this movie so depressing and boring?

"Repressed emotions" might be right!It is originally a painful movie, but if you can still laugh at such a tragic story, doesn’t that mean you are directly announcing that you screwed up?
But why would you still get tired of watching it?
This kind of boredom is not caused by the depressing plot, but simply because the plot is too old-fashioned and I am impatient to watch it.

Hua Yishan fell into deep depression.

Why did you fall in love with such an old-fashioned, uninspired script in the first place?
Hua Yishan recalled seriously.

Oh, maybe with the support of her family at that time, she was full of confidence;

But also because the family revealed that no matter whether you can find a big company to invest or not, it has been confirmed that the family will invest tens of millions to make her a movie, so Hua Yishan was under a lot of pressure at that time.

So when she chose the "script", unconsciously, she deliberately referred to the famous movies in the past few years.

From her shallow impression, it seems that making tragic movies in recent years is particularly easy to become popular.

Hua Yishan didn't look carefully at those successful tragedy movies, she just felt that they were ignorantly sensational and sensational, and the two protagonists could punish them no matter how miserable they were, and just punish them to death!

When choosing scripts with this concept, Hua Yishan's vision was limited, and without careful consideration, she decided on the current old-fashioned script.

Very realistically, she chose it because she really thought it would be popular.

Not that she really appreciates the script.

The family sent someone to negotiate the "copyright transfer" of the script for Hua Yishan, who was also an old and experienced housekeeper.

He had read the script beforehand, and he felt that the whole story was full of groaning and groaning, the plot of suffering, and also creating tragedies for the sake of selling misery, extremely blunt and extremely old-fashioned.

To use the more elegant rhetoric of the ancients, this is called "expressing sorrow for new words".

Young people have no experience, and think that yelling and screaming hysterically is a big move to show "extremely miserable".Therefore, in the film and television industry, there is a famous "Roaring Emperor". When "Roaring Emperor" plays a tragedy, his acting skills rely on one word: Roar!

But as he got older and experienced a lot, the housekeeper naturally saw through the "hypocrisy" in that cliche "script" from this superficial surface.

It's a pity that the butler only has the power to execute, not the power to question the master's choice.

He can only use his own judgment and negotiate the purchase price of the "script" with the playwright based on the market price of the "nine-rate script".

The housekeeper stood firm and had good negotiating skills. In the end, what was negotiated was only the normal market price. He bought the copyright of a "script" for 25 yuan, including the right to adapt and film and television.

Originally, after signing the "Copyright Transfer Agreement", the housekeeper felt quite satisfied.

After all, the base price for the negotiated acquisition given by the owner is 250 million.As a result, he bought the script for only 25 yuan.

According to the agreement in advance, as long as the purchase price negotiated by the housekeeper does not exceed 250 million, the actual price shall prevail. For every 250 reduction in the transaction price of 50 million, the housekeeper will be rewarded with 3 yuan.

Now the final transaction price is locked at 25, which is far lower than the "reserve price" of the owner's house. The reward that the housekeeper can get is as much as 12.

Of course the housekeeper was satisfied.

When the housekeeper signed the contract on behalf of Hua Manyan, he still saw the unconcealable ecstasy in the script creator's eyes.

From this point, the housekeeper had an epiphany: The transaction price of about 25 yuan is far beyond the writer's psychological expectations.

After the other party's script was created, it is estimated that they did not know how many interested buyers they found.

As a result, the manuscript was rejected many times and suffered a blow.In the end, there was no hope that the script could find an investor.It is estimated that there is a heart to put the script "shelved" into ashes.

Say sad or sad, the playwright will not.

After all, this script is also a temporary follow-up.

He also thought that these days, many sad tragedies were selling well, and he wanted to take advantage of the limelight to make some money to spend.He actually didn't spend much energy and time on the script that came out under such circumstances.

If you can't sell it, that's okay.Not so sad.

The greater the psychological expectation, the greater the disappointment.Conversely, without too much expectation, there is no great disappointment.

In the end, I don't know what kind of shit luck, there is a big boss willing to invest in this bad script.It also sold for a good price of 25.

The playwright decides to buy a pig's head after the manuscript fee arrives in his account, no, he directly orders a golden pig to go back to his hometown to worship his ancestors.

The butler is well-versed in the world, and from the playwright's ecstatic performance, he can see a truth: this guy's script is estimated to sell for 10 yuan.If you push him harder, maybe you will be willing to shoot for free.

The risk of investing in film and television is quite high now. If you have capital and are willing to shoot your script, if it becomes popular, the things you create will be sold easily in the future.Therefore, many playwrights initially provided scripts for free in order to gain fame.

The housekeeper went back to work with the thought of "that guy is cheap".

Just like that, Hua Yishan put a nine-rate script that was not on the stage, by mistake, onto the big screen.

When Hua Yishan was shooting the whole movie, she didn't find anything wrong in the three-month shooting cycle.

Hua Yishan was in a hurry to shoot, and all her shooting experience came from the classroom, and she had no practical experience, so she had a very hard time shooting in those three months.It is not known how many brain cells died.

According to the general law, when people focus on one thing and pay a lot for it, they will always have a mentality of appreciating what they have made with their heart.

Hua Yishan is like this.

What's more, she really used her heart to shoot every shot of the film, and followed the actors one by one.

To be honest, in terms of picture quality, she made a pretty good film.

Even with the standards of a teacher who is known for her strictness at the Film Academy, her shooting skills can still get a high score of 90 points.

It's a pity that for a movie with a large investment, it is not the quality of the picture that determines the final success or failure, but the plot.

Hua Yishan didn't fully realize at the beginning that "plot" was a huge flaw in her film.

She had the impression that she chose similar scripts based on movies that sold well.Logically speaking, there is no reason why the same type of film can be popular, but when it comes to hers, it won't be popular!
Hua Yishan This is a good film of the same genre that has not been studied in depth.

Although on the surface, it looks very similar.But the details and the like inside will lead to two completely different movie-watching experiences for the audience.

Hua Yishan didn't wait until the post-editing of the big investment movie she shot, and after watching the movie, she finally found out that the plot was so bad and vulgar.

It’s all finished, and even edited. Only now do I feel that the film is very dull and boring. What should I do?
What else can I do?Cold trip!

Therefore, for several days, Hua Yishan's mood fell into an endless trough.

The pressure is unprecedented.

The pressure from my family's investment of 5000 million is one aspect.

According to the laws of the film industry, even if a film was released with a considerable number of "films" by relying on contacts, after the word-of-mouth collapsed, the number of films would immediately plummet... From then on, a vicious cycle, the film's box office was sluggish. You can see it in the sky.

From Hua Yishan's point of view, the 5000 million invested by her family is as high as [-]% likely to lose everything.

Another pressure is that the big investment film lost money, and did not win any important awards at overseas film festivals. Hua Yishan wondered if she could continue on the road of film and television director in the future?
The ideal is still her ideal, but various constraints in reality will most likely force Hua Yishan to give up her dream of being a "big director".

Things are so helpless.Hua Yishan had never experienced it before, but now she is facing a major "turning point" in her life.

is up?Or sink from now on?

She was really panicked.

Think hard about self-help strategies.

Based on her shallow experience as a young lady, the only reliable way to save herself is to win a big prize at an overseas film festival.

The cruel reality made Hua Yishan wake up completely.

Looking at the film that I have already "finished", I deeply feel that the two awards of "Best Original Screenplay" and "Best Film" are destined to miss it.

The script is not good, even if the "picture" of the movie is quite satisfactory, Hua Yishan must be sober, deeply feeling that the "Best Director" award is getting farther and farther away from her.

As for the four major awards of Best Actor and Actor and Best Supporting Actor, in order to fight for the bright future of the film's box office, Hua Yishan hired so-called "popular niches" and "traffic stars" to take up the roles.

Judging from the past film award selection experience, there have never been any popular young people who have been selected as "Best Actor and Actor" and "Best Supporting Actor"...Hua Yishan is not confident that she can create a "miracle".

Therefore, it is estimated that the four major awards for Best Actor and Actor and Best Supporting Actor this time will have nothing to do with her movie.

For overseas film festival awards, there are only a dozen awards in each session.

Hua Yishan analyzed the awards one by one, and sadly found that her hope of winning the film award was infinitely close to "zero".

The box office of the film suffered a blood loss, and it failed to win any overseas awards.How else can she prove her film, and even her own strength?

"Sit and wait" is not in everyone's nature.

Hua Yishan herself is not willing to wait for death.

Before the post-editing of the movie started, when Hua Yishan was still confident, she began to collect the theme song of the movie extensively.

The purpose at that time was really to make the film "keep improving" and achieve the perfect state in my mind.

Now that the film has been edited into a film, she is soberly aware that it may be over. Hua Yishan not only did not give up asking for a high price for the theme song of the film, but her heart of "seeking a good song" became more and more urgent.

Not difficult to understand.

Since there is a high probability of box office and big prize failure, Hua Yishan plans to "fight to the last stand".

The goal is the "Best Original Music" in the Overseas Film Festival Awards.

Even if this award is obtained, it will not save the loss after the movie failed at the box office.But at least in terms of appearance, it looks much better.

After all, it is an authoritative award in the overseas film festival awards.

Winning the "Best Original Music" is more symbolic to Hua Yishan.

Otherwise, how to explain to investors and family members?
Investing 5000 million yuan and letting you act as the director, there is no achievement at all.Not only does it prove that you, Hua Yishan, have a problem with your level, but it also indirectly proves that the people who invest in you have extremely poor vision.

If we can win a major international award, it will be the "Emperor's New Clothes", and it will be a perfect fig leaf, and no one will have to bear the ridicule of "poor skills".

Hua Yishan has been desperately looking for good songs at the "classic" level these days.

She is even willing to buy classic songs at a sky-high price several times higher than the market price.

Unfortunately, she has never been able to find the "Divine Comedy" that she was also amazed by.

Hua Yishan was so busy that she flew up.

Two days ago, my best friend, Wu Xia, recorded half of the theme song that Liang Teng specially wrote for the movie, and then sent it to Hua Yishan through WeChat.

Wu Xia even thought that Hua Yishan, who was only seeking for a good song, would feel like a treasure when she saw this divine comedy.

I can't put it down, and I will come to talk to her about the price of the song that night.

Unexpectedly, Hua Yishan has been so busy these days that she doesn't even have time to check WeChat messages.

At the beginning, of course, Wu Xia sent an audio message on the phone.But there are too many people who send messages to Hua Yishan every moment of every day, and there are too many messages to read.

The information reminder sent by Wu Xia was quickly overwhelmed by the information reminder sent by other people.

Hua Yishan didn't read the huge amount of information one by one.I ignored my best friend for two days.

Last night, Hua Yishan finally found time to check her WeChat account.

Other ordinary friends can ignore their messages.

Wu Xia sent her a message, but Hua Yishan didn't pay attention to it, but when she saw it, she naturally had to take a closer look.

Wu Xia recorded half of the theme song and sent it to her, and Hua Yishan listened to it patiently.

It's okay if you don't listen, after hearing it, Hua Yishan's whole body wants to jump up.

It was really like "I searched for her thousands of times in the crowd, but suddenly I looked back and saw that person was in the light barrier."

Isn't this song, this lyrics, the theme song she dreamed of?
Even if Hua Yishan demanded the highest standard of perfection, she never thought that she could collect such a divine comedy.

Such standards have made Hua Yishan's confidence unprecedentedly high - winning the "Best Music Creation" award at overseas film festivals was a piece of cake.

With strong confidence, Hua Yishan finally seemed to be alive again.

According to what Wu Xia revealed in her message, the creator of the Divine Comedy is the boss of the small company she is currently working for.It is estimated that he should also be the one who is not short of money (Liang Teng said that he is very wronged, he has always been short of money. There has never been a time when he has ample money).

Hua Yishan felt that she couldn't treat this kind of rich and talented big boss lightly.

If you want to win the Divine Comedy created by him, in addition to paying money in line with the value of the "Divine Comedy", you must also let the big boss who created the Divine Comedy feel your sincerity and your recognition and appreciation of his creative talent.

After thinking about it, Hua Yishan made a very solemn decision last night after she pondered until very late at night.

She wanted to go to the city where Wu Xia was located and pay a visit to Liang Teng in person.

Talk to him in person about various matters regarding the acquisition of Divine Comedy.

In Hua Yishan's cognition, a talented big boss like Liang Teng who is not short of money can only move him with the most respect and pious heart.

Coupled with the good words of my best friend Wu Xia, the chances of winning the Divine Comedy in the end are great.

Anyway, she really admired Liang Teng's talent, and it was her wish to meet this rich talent.So Hua Yishan booked a plane ticket to this city online that night.

Early the next morning, she flew to the city where Wu Xia was located.

That city is only a two-hour flight away from where she is.

When you get to the ground, call Wu Xia again and ask her to pick up the plane.

I have to say, Hua Yishan really thought too much this time.

She really wanted to buy Liang Teng's songs, and she could transfer money through WeChat.

Liang Teng was never as proud as she imagined.

(End of this chapter)