After the meal, Su Lingxi and Yang Qian had roughly figured out the whole story.

In recent years, they have taken too big and too fast steps abroad, from the European market to Hollywood, and have been making foreign language films for several consecutive years, which has obviously caused dissatisfaction among some senior leaders in the domestic film industry.

In their opinion, without their tacit approval, Su Lingxi would not have been able to become the number one Chinese film actress in such a short time.

They made her the leader because they wanted her to lead Chinese-language films to a broader world stage - just like "The Rose Thorn" did.

As filmmakers, they can't wait to prove to the public that Chinese films are no worse than foreign films.

Now, they need Su Lingxi to play the role of a bridge as an international star, so that more people can have the patience to sit down and quietly appreciate the exquisiteness of Chinese films.

There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and there is another village with dark willows and bright flowers.

After finally figuring out the whole story, Su Lingxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"I have to say, their sincerity in cooperation is pretty good." On the way back, Yang Qian looked through the documents in her hand and sighed, "The investment specifications of the projects in this movie list are very high, and the initial director candidates are also very suitable. We can carefully choose them later."

Su Lingxi took a casual glance and immediately saw the eye-catching words "Zheng Jue", and immediately looked away.

She could understand the demands of those leaders and could also take on the Chinese-language films as they wished, but... she really had no interest in making red films that were too political.

Perhaps it's due to her personality, she has always preferred works that can reflect artistic creativity.

Fortunately, Yang Qian obviously understood her personality very well, and specially picked out two scripts with interesting themes for her to choose from the 10 films to be made.

One of them is called "Days and Nights in Bugoli", which is very poetic from the name to the synopsis, which greatly aroused Su Lingxi's curiosity.

"The proposed director is Cui Siyu." She carefully recalled the name and finally managed to gather a vague impression of it. "Director Cui, I think I met her at the premiere of "Wild Stories"."

"Wilderness Stories" is Bei Ning's new movie released this year. In order to promote the film in advance, she specially invited Su Lingxi to attend the premiere.

However, Su Lingxi felt that he was not the protagonist of the event, so he behaved very low-key throughout the whole process and did not deliberately socialize with others. He only chatted with a few colleagues who took the initiative to say hello.

Cui Siyu is one of them.

"That's normal. She and Bei Ning should both be considered the type of directors with a strong voice." Yang Qian spread her hands. "Why else do you think she could become a new generation director promoted by Huaying at such a young age?"

Cui Siyu is only in her early thirties this year, and compared with the average age of directors in the circle, she is indeed a young person.

Su Lingxi nodded thoughtfully, not dwelling on it too much, and continued reading the script.

"Days and Nights in Bugori" is a typical art film with a plain plot and a concise and subtle narrative rhythm.

The film's story is set in Shanghai in the mid-to-late 20th century. Hospital nurse Shen Lizhen and her husband moved into an old alley called "Bugoli" and became neighbors upstairs and downstairs with Qiao Yucheng, a trade representative of a French company, and his wife.

After they learned that their partners had both betrayed them and were having an extramarital affair, they began to approach each other with curiosity and tentative thoughts. At first, they just wanted to end this farce in a decent way, but as their psychology changed, they gradually developed an inappropriate and immoral feeling between them...

The days and nights of Bugori are like a densely woven net that traps everyone inside.

Su Lingxi has not yet received a complete script with more details, but with just a script outline, she can already feel the nostalgic atmosphere and implicit beauty.

"Cui Siyu is the screenwriter of this project?" she suddenly asked.

"That should be it." Yang Qian glanced at the familiar name on the document header. "She may want to strive for the opportunity to write and direct this movie, but the project has not yet been approved, and the Green Light Committee within Huaying may not unanimously agree to let her direct this movie."

The Green Light Committee of China Film Group is composed of 15 senior filmmakers. In order for a film to start shooting, not only does the director team need to clearly explain their ideas for story creation during the film preparation stage, but the cast must also have box office appeal. Only projects that have both can pass the meeting and start shooting.

Su Lingxi handed the other script back to Yang Qian and began to carefully study the script in her hand.

As for the story told in the film itself, it is old and ordinary, with nothing new. It is just a love story about an extramarital affair. As for the outline of the film's plot, it is neither tortuous nor complicated, and is so plain that it is no different from people's daily lives.

But it is not difficult to see from the script that the screenwriter has a very solid foundation in writing, and he can bring out the artistic appeal of the story with just a few strokes.

I just don't know what the level of this screenwriter's ability is in shooting films, is it higher or lower than his level in writing scripts.

Looking at these lines of text whose style was very similar to that of Ms. He Yingzhen, Su Lingxi subconsciously thought of Tang Wanhua.

It’s a pity that Director Tang is too busy to shoot a new movie, otherwise her artistic techniques when shooting would be truly natural when combined with this kind of nostalgic script.

When "The Rose Thorn" was a huge success both at home and abroad, 50% of the credit should be attributed to the director's clever and unique expression techniques used in the film, which made the film itself achieve a perfect combination of form and content.

Can Cui Siyu produce better results than Tang Wanhua?

Su Lingxi felt that this remained to be seen.

"Don't rush to choose a script. I'll take some time to read Director Cui's masterpieces and give you a reply after I finish reading them."

Although taking on this film was somewhat of a "mission film," she didn't want to ruin her reputation with a bad film at such a critical juncture.

It doesn’t matter if it’s a commissioned film, as long as the finished product is of high quality.

Yang Qian had expected this and nodded: "Okay, I understand."

"Also, in order to eliminate the impact of some recent negative rumors, I have negotiated a new variety show for you." Yang Qian said, "The online variety show "Beautiful Country Life" has been very popular in the past two years. If you go as a guest on one episode, you can regain the topic and exposure, and by the way, you can also beautify your public image. It's a win-win situation. Is that okay with you?"

"Sure, it's quite convenient to record this kind of slow variety show anyway." Su Lingxi responded casually.

She hasn't recorded a variety show in several years, so there's nothing wrong with changing her working environment occasionally.

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