I didn't want to be an actor

"Almost..."

"Shouldn't you like simple, kind girls?"

"What you said are all official answers... In fact, most men like sexy girls!"

Li Xueqing looked at Mao Buyi: "Really?"

Mao Buyi nodded embarrassedly: "Yes..."

"You are too superficial!"

Shen Liang waved his hand: "There is no need to be so profound in life."

Li Xueqing pondered for a while, then said: "Then Meng Ziyi, do you like her?"

"We have worked together, "The Imperial Coroner", "Lotus Tower" and "Shushan", I found her..."

"I heard her say that you talked for a while?"

"Why does she say everything!" Shen Liang complained, then nodded: "We talked for a while... It's not suitable."

Li Xueqing hurriedly asked: "Why? Meng Ziyi is pretty good!"

“It’s good…” Shen Liang explained: “I’m too busy… and I can’t give her a sense of security… so, let’s just be friends!”

“You can be friends with your ex-girlfriend?”

“We are all in the same industry… if we don’t be friends, what can we do?” At this point, Shen Liang asked back: “She didn’t say anything bad about me, did she?”

“No, she said you have a good personality and are a perfect lover…”

“Thank you… let’s talk about something else.”

Mao Buyi: “I think you’d better explain it. This part will definitely be on the hot search… our director’s eyes are straight!”

“It’s my problem… in the past two years, my schedules were one after another, I was too busy, and I had no time to manage my relationship… she often sent me messages and replied an hour later… I guess no woman can stand it… so, I didn’t date much after that!”

“She said she wanted to quit the circle, Accompany you in the crew!"

"That won't work. She's an excellent actress and can have her own career. I hate the kind of love-brained... like a domesticated animal..."

Mao Buyi changed the subject: "... Let's not talk about this. Let's talk about your new movie "Annual Meeting, Can't Stop!"..."

"I thought big companies were a good theme before... There are a lot of big company jargons, which are very interesting... But I never thought about how to do it. Then, at the 2019 New Oriental Annual Meeting, there was an adaptation of the desert camel, live singing and dancing, and accompanied by very conspicuous dynamic subtitles. It was on the hot search at the time. There was a sentence "Those who work are not as good as those who make PPTs", and another sentence "Customers ask about classes, directors don't understand and ask managers, managers ask employees, and employees also ask part-time jobs", which received the biggest laughter and applause in the audience..."

"Then I talked to Teacher Dong Runnian I decided to combine Liu Baorui's stand-up comedy "Three Levels Up"..."

After a pause, Shen Liang gave a brief introduction: "'Three Levels Up' is a 1955 crosstalk by Mr. Liu Baorui. It tells the story of Zhang Haogu, a playboy from a large landlord family in Linqing Prefecture, Shandong Province during the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty. He was illiterate and unlearned. One day, he wanted to take the BJ Examiner, but he met Wei Zhongxian by accident.

Because the emperor and civil and military ministers were all incompetent and did not see through that he was a fool, they actually let him pass the imperial examination and enter the Hanlin Academy, and regarded him as a pillar of the country..."

"Our director Dong Runnian and screenwriter Liu Shou are both from Tianjin. They know crosstalk like the back of their hands... We used this thing in the workplace. The workplace is similar to the officialdom. Identity and background are the key to promotion. It doesn't matter who you are, but whose you are is important!"

Mao Buyi was surprised: "Wow, the scale is so big? ”

Shen Liang nodded: "It's quite big... We just want to make a satirical comedy. Mahua has been so disappointing in the past two years..."

Li Xueqing: "Gogol's "The Inspector General" is also of this type, right?"

"Yes... Misplaced comedy, let's call it that for the time being. Misplaced comedy is generally highly satirical. A typical work is "Shadow Tycoon" directed by the Coen brothers..."

"Shadow Tycoon?"

"Also called "Empire of Money", starring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Lee, and Paul Newman... I like this kind of comedy. The protagonist of "Annual Meeting", senior fitter Hu Jianlin, was promoted to the head office by mistake, and he rose from K7 to K11. Every promotion and salary increase was a large-scale misunderstanding game mixed with power struggle and pretending to be stupid.

The plot is basically a constantly changing comedy trick to serve the setting of "the wrong person maintains a false identity".

One link is linked to another, and one move affects the whole body, and every action must be arranged to have a pun effect at all times.

Let him mess around and show his extraordinary strength, let him turn his stupid moves into brilliant plans, let him say a few truths and seem unfathomable, and make all this make sense.

Anyone who has written a script or analyzed a comedy film knows that this kind of plot seems to be wild and unrestrained, but in fact it is purely the screenwriter's own trouble, the room for performance is very narrow, and the test is very great.

Writing this kind of comedy consumes a lot of brainpower, of course, the polished story will also be very interesting... I think "Annual Meeting" is the best comedy in recent years! "

"I heard that you wrote several songs?"

"Yes, all the songs in "Annual Meeting" were written by me...including the song "My Future Is Not a Dream + Workers' Song" sung by the Pan Ma Zhuang group in the movie..."

"Let me see..."

"It's a rap..."

Mao Buyi took the phone, looked at it, and then read it out: "~The grassroots are panicking, the middle-level are forming cliques, and they speak jargon very well. The surface is glorious, but it's all a false appearance. "

Shen Liang immediately followed: "The president farted, the director translated it into a sentence. The manager received the order and could not decrypt it. He just wanted to escape and leave it to the grassroots. Tonight OT, you will make a PPT. If you are not satisfied with it, fire him and everything will be fine." Spending a lot of time and drinking, talking about brothers all the time, facing financial crisis, constant corruption, claiming to be flat, and having a hierarchy like a jungle.”

"Are the actors singing live?"

"Absolutely," Shen Liang nodded: "Yu and Teacher Wei recorded it several times... Baike got it done in one session, and Zhao Jinmai recorded it three times... They cooperated very well!"

Li Xueqing also took the phone, looked at it, and then said: "Tsk, tsk, these lyrics... I will definitely buy a ticket to watch it!"

"This lyric is the climax of the scene... We don't know how to end it... Let's just end it with a song..."

…

After chatting about the "Annual Meeting" for a while, the publicity task was completed, and the three of them started cooking.

In fact, Shen Liang was the one cooking, and the two of them helped...

Li Xueqing remembered something: "I heard that Brother Liang's mother introduced a girl to Mao Buyi?"

Mao Buyi nodded: "Well, just a few months ago... we met..."

"Then what?"

Mao Buyi scratched his head: "The girl is very nice, but she doesn't know much about my work... Moreover, I think being a public figure is actually a detractor in a relationship. On the one hand, she will find it very troublesome, and on the other hand, They will think that we don’t really want to fall in love with you..."

Li Xueqing: "That makes sense...Brother Liang, what do you think?"

Shen Liang smiled: "I found that middle-aged women especially like to work with matchmakers... My son couldn't satisfy her ideas, so he turned to his friends... In fact, my mother also introduced me to a blind date..."

"Are you going on a blind date?"

"I didn't go..." Shen Liang thought for a while and replied: "Maybe it's like you said, I am a public figure after all, so it's hard not to doubt that this woman is with me for something..."