Xu Fan envied Jiang Shan to shoot movies in Xiangjiang, and even more envied her family that had a huge relationship like Lin Chaoyang.
Lin’s Pictures!
When she thought of this name, she seemed to be hanging her neck by something. She couldn't help looking into the air, her eyes seemed to have traveled through the barriers of time and space, focusing on the huge gold-burning door number at the entrance of Zijin Hotel.
For people from Xiangjiang, Lin's Film is the overlord of the Xiangjiang film industry and affects the livelihoods of thousands of people.
For Americans, Lin's Pictures is a Raptor crossing the river, making Hollywood companies both guarded and coveted.
For mainland film and television practitioners, Lin's Film represents Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, and represents the heroes behind the highest honors of Cannes, Berlin, Venice and Oscars.
To put it no exaggeration, since the mid-to-late 1980s, Chinese films have been in the international film industry and have become famous internationally, which is inseparable from the investment of Lin's Film.
It should be said that without Lin's Pictures, there would be no glory of Chinese films in recent years.
Jiang Shan’s family has a relationship with Lin’s cabin couple. In Xu Fan’s opinion, this is the relationship between the two.
Not to mention her future star journey, even a movie worth 100,000 yuan is beyond her reach.
She sighed that she didn't know when she would make so much money. Jiang Shan smiled and said, "Don't say that you don't seem to have never acted in a show. You are also an actor with a representative work now. Do you still have few opportunities to make money?"
Nowadays, the mainland literary and art circles or entertainment circles are still growing wildly, with fame and profit, but making money is still much easier than other industries.
After becoming famous, he filmed, stole, advertised, and did business. What can’t you make money?
"That's different." Xu Fan said in a faint tone.
Jiang Shan didn't understand why the "different" she said was different. She caught the waiter and started serving the dishes.
The topic was disconnected.
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and restaurants elsewhere are closed. Not only is the Maxim Western Restaurant open, but there are also many guests.
Jiang Shan and Xu Fan were noticed by some people since they entered the door, but those who could come here at this time were people with some identities, and everyone was somewhat reserved.
What's more, Maxim has been opening in the past few years, there have been more celebrities coming and going, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Zunlong,
Liu Xiaoqing, Gong Li·
It can be said that there are countless, and the arrival of Jiang Shan and Xu Fan will naturally not cause any disturbance.
The two of them were having a meal and chatting. As soon as today, Cui Jian's performance was still there on the restaurant's small stage, Xu Fan couldn't help but get excited.
In recent years, Chinese rock music has become as powerful as movies. There are many singers, and there are many fans who love to listen to rock music.
Don't worry about whether you can understand it or not, everyone likes to yell at the same time, otherwise it is not fashionable.
Many of the rock singers like Cui Jian were staying in Maxim back then. After shouting from the Workers' Physical Education, Cui Jian has been famous for seven or eight years and rarely appears in Maxim.
It suddenly appeared today and was immediately warmly welcomed by diners.
When the restaurant was noise, another customer came in. Xu Fan looked at the buttocks and found that it was Wang Shuo and Jiang Wen and Liu Xiaoqing who had worked with her on "The Eunuch Li Lianying".
Xu Fan said to Jiang Shan happily: "I met a few acquaintances and went to say hello."
Jiang Shan nodded and watched her get up and head towards the door.
Jiang Wen and his friends were greeting Song Huaigui, the manager who was facing them into the restaurant, and the atmosphere was lively.
Xu Fan suddenly appeared, Jiang Wen and the others greeted her, but didn't say much. Seeing that the scene became a little cold, Xu Fan returned to his dining table tactfully.
Seeing the people warmly treated by Song Huaigui, she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
She didn't feel that her hot face was pressed against her cold buttocks, but she regretted not being able to eat with Jiang Wen and others. She just went to say hello, but she just wanted to eat together, but when she saw that the other party had no intention of taking the initiative to invite her, she could only come back in shame.
I heard that Jiang Wen has also changed his career to become a director now, and he has a strong relationship. Maybe he can still play a role in his movies in the future.
Xu Fan was inconvenient to share his little thoughts with Jiang Shan, so he could only hide his inner loss in his heart and talked to Jiang Shan about the movie Jiang Wen was filming.
"I heard it was adapted from Wang Shuo's article "Animal Fierce", and they are all actors who have never acted in the show. I really can't figure out how bad we are from professional actors."
Jiang Shan looked at her with a funny look, "It's their business that people use actors, you're quite resentful."
"You have elders to pave the way, of course you won't have to worry about it. I can't do it. I have to fight for every role myself." Xu Fan sighed.
As she spoke, Xu Fan's eyes looked towards the door from time to time. She found that Jiang Wen and the others had not walked into the restaurant for a long time, but were standing at the door, as if waiting for someone.
It's a cold day, and one stop takes more than ten minutes.
She observed for a long time, and Jiang Wen and the others were waiting for finally arrived late.
"Yeah, look, isn't that Mr. Tao from the school?" Xu Fan pointed to the door and said.
Jiang Shan looked in the sound and saw Jiang Wen, Liu Xiaoqing, Wang Shuo and others surrounded Tao Yucheng and were planning to go to the second floor of the restaurant.
Her eyes looked at Tao Yucheng at once, and she immediately stood up.
"Hello, Teacher Tao!"
Seeing Tao Yucheng also saw Jiang Shan at this time, he stopped, and Jiang Wen and the others around him also stopped.
"It's not in school, just call uncle." Tao Yucheng said, and asked again: "Come out with friends?"
When Xu Fan heard this, he stood up instinctively, and Jiang Shan introduced, "Xu Fan of our generation."
Tao Yucheng nodded, "Xu Fan, I have an impression. I acted in "Da Saba" the year before, right?"
"yes."
Tao Yucheng turned his head and asked Jiang Wen again, "Xiao Jiang, I remember that you and Xiaoqing's "The Great Eunuch Li Lianying" also seems to have her?"
Jiang Wen laughed roughly and said, "Yes, Xiao Xu plays Zhenfei inside."
Tao Yucheng laughed, "What a coincidence, they are all alumni."
Liu Xiaoqing, who was standing beside him, smiled brightly and said, "It's such a coincidence. Let's just have a meal together."
Hearing this, Jiang Shan was still hesitating, and Xu Fan couldn't wait to agree, "Thank you, Sister Xiaoqing! Thank you, Teacher Tao!"
Jiang Shan and Xu Fan followed the others upstairs. Xu Fan quietly said to Jiang Shan: "I borrowed your light today, otherwise I would definitely not be able to get to this dinner."
Xu Fan's tone was a little excited. Although she was already a little famous now, she was much worse than big names like Jiang Wen and Liu Xiaoqing. The most important thing was that Tao Yucheng was there today's dinner.
I was confused when I was in school, but after entering society, I realized how unattainable the resources represented by Tao Yucheng's identity are for ordinary actors.
Maxim did not have a private room, so Song Huaigui specially kept the second floor in order to entertain Jiang Wen and his group.
After the crowd sat down, the main characters chatting were Liu Xiaoqing and Tao Yucheng.
After listening for a while, Jiang Shan realized that Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen had just come out to pay New Year's greetings to Lin Chaoyang and his wife.
Three years ago, Jiang Wen, who had become one of the top big actors in the domestic film industry, decided to change careers and become directors with the encouragement of his girlfriend Liu Xiaoqing. He fell in love with Wang Shuo's novel "Animal Fierceness" that he had just finished writing at that time.
He spent more than a week at his home in Hebei Third Ring Road in Xiba, changing the 60,000-word "Animal Fierce" into a 90,000-word script, which was recognized by Wang Shuo.
Later, with the help of Liu Xiaoqing, Jiang Wen received funds, half from Xiangjiang and half from the mainland.
On August 23 last year, the film "Sunny Days" adapted from "Animal Fierce" officially started filming. As a result, the filming of the movie was started for a few days. However, the mainland investors who had already agreed to suddenly withdrew their investment, and the crew suddenly fell into panic.
The movie has started filming, and there is no turning back. Jiang Wen and Liu Xiaoqing can only continue to find money.
"Thanks to Teacher Tao's help, if you weren't here, we really wouldn't know what would happen to this drama." Liu Xiaoqing complimented.
Tao Yucheng waved his hand, "This is too polite. I am optimistic about Jiang Wen's change to become a director, so I just help me introduce it."
In October, Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen found Tao Yucheng. Tao Yucheng was enthusiastic and recommended the film Jiang Wen was filming to Yu Yuxi.
The movie finally received a RMB 6 million investment from Lin's Pictures and was successfully completed half a month ago.
"Besides, Xiaoqing, you know Chaoyang too. If you have this relationship, what else can you say?"
Liu Xiaoqing was silenced when he heard this, "I have been busy all these years and have never contacted Teacher Chaoyang much. I feel ashamed to speak.
Liu Xiaoqing met Lin Chaoyang very early. Li Hanxiang met when he was filming "On the Curtains". She also asked Lin Chaoyang for helping Tang Guoqiang's role.
Later, Lin Chaoyang stopped writing scripts for movies, so she neglected to contact her.
When Lin's Pictures developed, she wanted to contact her again, but she felt that she was a bit snobbish in this way. Moreover, her fame and wealth are incomparable to the past, so she simply never contacted her again.
This time Jiang Wen was short of money for filming movies. Liu Xiaoqing was afraid that he could not speak in front of Lin Chaoyang, so he found Tao Yucheng.
She thought this might have to be a while, but she didn't expect Tao Yucheng to get it done with just one phone call.
Although this result made Liu Xiaoqing happy, she also saw the gap between her current acquaintance with Lin Chaoyang, and she felt even more embarrassed to contact her.
This time I went to Lin Chaoyang's house to pay New Year's greetings because Tao Yucheng celebrated the New Year at Xiaoliubukou Hutong, and went there under the name of thanking Tao Yucheng for his help.
When they met again many years later, Liu Xiaoqing's first feeling was that Lin Chaoyang had not changed much. Not only did he speak and have a personality, but his appearance seemed to be frozen and his style remained the same.
Sitting at Lin Chaoyang's house for a while, she had been talking about the past. She was struggling for a long time, but in the end she didn't mention the invitation.
It was only when Tao Yucheng finally sent them out that he invited Tao Yucheng, which led to the meal today.
"Everyone has been busy all these years, nothing is wrong." Tao Yucheng said indifferently.
The kung fu waiter was chatting and the food was delivered, and everyone was chatting while eating, and the atmosphere was relaxed.
Speaking of the later and future releases of the movie, Liu Xiaoqingwen asked about the film festival.
"Sunny Days" is a typical art film. After filming, you will definitely attend the film festival.
"Then Venice. Your movie has just been filmed, editing, lighting, copying and printing will take two months. The Berlin Film Festival has opened, and Cannes is still too late, but Yimou's "Living" has been confirmed to participate in Cannes this year."
What Tao Yucheng said is definitely not rumor. When Jiang Wen heard that Zhang Yimou's new film was going to compete for Cannes, he couldn't help but ask a few more questions.
The Xiana Film Festival is held in May every year, and it has not started to register yet. However, with Zhang Yimou's status, there is no need to worry about such things, it depends on whether he wants it or not.
"That movie was interesting. Gong Li acted well, but Ge You acted even better! We are probably going to have a movie hero in China!"
Tao Yucheng took a sip of wine and said happily.
Listening to his words, Xu Fan was surprised.
Ge You became famous in the movie "The Stubborn" in 1989. When she collaborated with Ge You on "The Great Saba" the year before yesterday,
"The Story of the Editorial Department" is currently broadcasting like fire, tea, movies and TV.
Now he has become the male lead in Zhang Yimou's movie and is still expected to be the best actor. Xu Fan couldn't help but feel moved by the wonderful encounters in his life.
Then I thought of myself and didn't know when I would be the winner of the film.
In the end, she started to make a joke. She didn’t have to shoot movies now, so why did she get the best actor?
"Where is Director Chen? "Farewell My Concubine" has been two years, and there is no movement in his new film," Jiang Wen asked.
"He has a book called "Like Father and Son" in his hand, but he is not in a hurry now.
"Farewell My Concubine" is so popular that it may not be a good thing to launch a new film in a short period of time.
Besides, his dad is sick now, and I guess he will have to work on the new movie for another year or two."
Tao Yucheng's words made the people present nodded frequently. Their well-informed level is really beyond ordinary people's comparison.
"So, according to me, you can try sending this movie to Venice. In recent years, domestic movies have won many awards in Venice, and maybe they can also get a grand prize." Tao Yucheng concluded.
Jiang Wen raised his wine glass and smiled, "Okay, then I'll give it to Venice and I'll give it to you!"
Everyone raised their glasses.
The dinner ended at around 8 o'clock in the evening. Tao Yucheng drank a lot of wine. Song Huaigui arranged to send him home. When he arrived at the door, he saw a black horse waiting there.
Tao Yucheng got in the car and left, and Jiang Wen said he would send Jiang Shan and Xu Fan.
"We can just take a taxi."
Jiang Shan pulled Xu Fan into the taxi on the roadside. Maxim is a high-end consumption place, and there are taxis for partying at the door all year round.
Sitting in the taxi, Xu Fan suppressed his emotions for a night and finally released him. He chattered to Jiang Shan about the feelings he had brought to her by hearing this night.
Jiang Shan was indifferent to the interest of listening. She saw Tianer in Xiangjiang in the office area of ​​Lin's Film, and she could hear more than ten times more richly than today.
She looked at Xu Fan's excited look and felt a sense of overlooking her inexplicably. She didn't look down on her or looked down on her, but suddenly she found that there seemed to be an invisible barrier between her and Xu Fan.
At 9 o'clock in the evening, Tao Yucheng returned to Xiaoliubukou Hutong drunk under Tao Xiwu's help. Zhao Li disliked him while finishing his face.
"Dad, when I went to pick you up, was it Jiang Shan at the door? She was so beautiful!"
After wiping his face, Tao Yucheng sobered up a lot of alcohol. "What's wrong? Do you still want to marry a family as a wife?"
Tao Xiwu suddenly looked shy, "I will ask casually if there is nothing.
A Zhao Li warned: "The actress looks bright and beautiful, and it's not okay to marry her home as a wife."
"Mom, what era is this? Your idea is too feudal!"
Zhao Li snorted coldly, "Your dad told me a while ago, you have a girlfriend in the performance class at school?"
Tao Xiwu suddenly became nervous, and then thought that he was now in college, so he immediately thrust his chest, "I'm almost twenty, what's wrong with being a partner?"
"Bang", a slap in the back shattered Tao Xiwu's bluff, Zhao Li said:
"It's okay to get along with your partner, but you can tell you. With your aunt's relationship, those female classmates and actresses will inevitably jump on you. You have to know what you want. Don't think you are so popular!"
Tao Xiwu retorted: "I have never mentioned at school that my aunt is Tao Yushu!"
"You haven't mentioned it, but I won't ask?"
After being scolded by his mother, Tao Xiwu felt a little aggrieved, "Can't they be handsome just because I am?"
Without dyeing yellow hair, Tao Xiwu is indeed a little handsome, but if it is placed in the performance department of handsome guys, it will not be enough to watch it.
"Is there anyone who is much more handsome than you, and they will beat you up?"
Tao Xiwu wanted to refute, but was bombarded by Tao Yucheng. Before leaving, he warned that his father looked bad.
Suddenly he reacted.
My mother was talking about herself in public just now, but in fact she was pointing her fingers at me.
After leaving the house, he heard the noise of his parents quarrel.
It’s all old husband and wife, and it’s still so noisy all day long, it’s unconventional.
He only dares to say such things in his heart if he is not fucking.
When his mother mentioned his girlfriend, he remembered his little girlfriend and wanted to go to the living room of the main room to make a phone call and chat with her little girlfriend.
As soon as he entered the house, he saw Lin Chaoyang calling. He planned to quit and call him when there was no one.
Lin Chaoyang waved to him and said a few words to the other end of the phone. Tao Xiwu didn't understand a single word, so Lin Chaoyang hung up the phone.
"Do you want to use the phone? Come on, give it."
Tao Xiwu took the call and saw that Lin Chaoyang had no intention of avoiding it. He gritted the bullet and said, "Uncle-"
Lin Chaoyang reacted for a while and suddenly said, "Oh, I understand, I want to whisper, right?"
Tao Xiwu was a little embarrassed to be teased. He only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Lin Chaoyang leaving and called the phone.
I thought to myself that when he gets rich in the future, he must buy a big brother, so as to avoid having to line up when calling.
After returning to the room, Lin Chaoyang said in a light tone: "Xiwu looks like he is in love."
"We're all in college, so it's not normal to have a relationship." Tao Yushu responded and asked again, "Who made the phone call?"
"Alberto Veretta, say wish me a New Year."
Alberto Veretta is the CEO of Random House. The CEO of the largest publishing group in the United States called a Chinese writer to pay New Year's greetings. Tao Yushu felt an inexplicable sense of joy and asked with a smile: "Western people also wish New Year's greetings?"
"It's just a reason, mainly to talk about the response after the novel is launched and the awards."
The previous year, Lin Chaoyang's "China on the Bite of the Tongue" and "Dallas Buyers Club" ravaged the American book market for a whole year, and the total sales of "China on the Bite of the Tongue" have exceeded 2.8 million copies so far.
"Dallas Buyers Club" is even more exaggerated. As the gay movement in the United States is like a fire, this novel has dominated the New York Times bestseller rankings for 93 weeks.
It still tops the New York Times bestseller rankings, with a total sales volume of 5.4 million copies.
Chapter completed!