Chapter 500: Road

Look at the beauty under the light.

This place in the entertainment industry has always been full of beauties. Last year, the stars who just became popular are still young, and another wave of newcomers has grown up quickly. Compared with tenderness and prettiness, even in such a circle where beauties walk everywhere, it is so beautiful. Such a tasteful woman is rare.

Lu Lingxi was wearing a pair of ordinary-looking trousers and a pair of high-heeled shoes with not too high heels on her feet. After working hard for an hour or two at night, she was sweating from exhaustion. She was sitting on the sofa opposite Li Qian with her hands Holding a cup of hot water in his hand, Erlang's legs were raised comfortably, and the black trousers of ordinary fabric were slightly taut. From Li Qian's perspective, the junction of the legs and hips stretched out a perfect and exaggerated arc.

Plump, but without crude sensuality.

She sighed, and said: "But then again, you think I don't want to make money!...Maybe in the eyes of you big bosses who have already succeeded, making money is really an easy thing to do. It's as simple as drinking water with your fingers, but for us people... it's so difficult!"

Li Qian laughed.

There is no need to be self-effacing. Whether he makes music or TV dramas, although he is not out to make money, it is undeniable that everything he does eventually brings huge economic benefits. On this point, in Lu Lingxi's eyes, there is really nothing to say, and it seems a bit fake to have to be humble.

But Li Qian still said: "Mr. Lu, I have to interrupt you, earning money is not as easy as drinking water."

This time it was Lu Lingxi's turn to laugh.

After a while, she put down her legs, put the water glass on the sofa, got up and opened a filing cabinet in the corner of the living room, took out a folder, walked back, handed it to Li Qian, and said, "After reading your "New White I knew you were an expert in the book "Legend of the Lady", and you can shoot unconventional shots while ensuring a hit...Come, let the teacher take a look."

Li Qian took the notebook and opened it. On the first page was the name: "The Last Letter".

Without opening it, Li Qian first looked up at Lu Lingxi and asked, "Your work?"

Lu Lingxi smiled, and raised his legs again.

Li Qian subconsciously turned his head and glanced at the stretched arc.

She seemed to be hesitant, but she finally chose to speak, and said: "A few years ago, I also wrote some notebooks, posted them everywhere, contacted film and television companies, and even entrusted the favors of many senior brothers, senior sisters and old professors, I hope to attract some investment, and I will also show my own graduation works from college and graduate students—both short films—to others. People advised me to switch to acting..."

Speaking of this, she smiled self-deprecatingly, "Hehe, after thinking about it, forget it, maybe I really don't have much talent as a director, and the script may be well written... I don't think it's completely bad, but definitely It’s a bit self-centered. So, I will teach in a down-to-earth way, and live in peace and happiness! Until recently, Lu Ping came to me, hoping that I could write a notebook for him, and we would discuss it together. Up to now, the notebook has not been agreed to be written for him. Instead, he encouraged me and asked me to give him the book he thought was the best, and he said that he could help me get investment... As you know, I am also a filmmaker. I can't help but feel a little moved."

Li Qian immediately understood, put down the script, and said with a smile: "Then don't read it, since Senior Brother Lu has already patted his chest, it must be fine! Prove that he believes in your ability!"

Lu Lingxi looked up at Li Qian, with a faint smile, "Are you really not understanding, or are you pretending to be confused?"

If it was another student, Lu Lingxi probably wouldn't talk to him like this, but when facing Li Qian, she could speak a little more clearly - Lu Lingxi not only took Li Qian's class for a year, but also I have taken Li Qian and his team out to gather folk stories several times, and I have dealt with them in depth. Of course, I don't treat Li Qian as a young man in his early twenties at all.

Li Qian pouted, "I really don't understand."

Lu Lingxi didn't bother to start a lawsuit with him, and said directly: "Let's just say it, let's see it or not."

Can we not show it?

Just now when Lu Lingxi asked him to stay for a while, Li Qian knew that she must have something to look for him, but he didn't expect that she would let him help with the script. I like to use some very simple strokes to write.

Li Qian understands this, and has seen more than one script like this in his past and present lives.

Especially for scripts written by directors, many people like this kind of "obscure treatment".

To put it bluntly, when the director was at the stage of the script, he felt that many things could only be expressed in words, and had to be pulled in front of the camera. He told the photographer, I want this and this, and told the actors, I want you to be like that. , only then.

What's more, there are some big boys who don't even have a script at all. As soon as the filming starts, the actors don't know what they want to play, and the photographer doesn't know what they want to shoot. When the filming starts, the director gives a small note , you, run from here to there, running desperately, then it’s OK, and then, the actor ran over and over again, until a certain time, he thought you ran out of a certain state, OK, It’s okay—until the filming is over, the actors don’t know what character they are playing or what the scene is for!

Lu Lingxi is slightly better, but there is still a rough story.

This script called "The Last Letter" is about a woman who is about to die, but her husband is already dead. At this time, the funeral is going on. She started to write a letter to a person she had a crush on all her life. In the letter, she recalled her life, recalled her four "illusory" and "real" loves in the past few decades, and expressed her love for that man again and again in an extremely passionate tone .

Typical literary style.

After reading the beginning, Li Qian couldn't help but wonder if this was adapted from Zweig's "Letter from a Strange Woman", but he was not sure if Zweig existed in this time and space, so I suppressed it and didn't dare to ask.

Then, looking at it, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

This way, if it is filmed by a talented literary and artistic director, it may be very interesting, but even if it is as good as Zhang Guoshi or Jiang Mazi in another time and space, this film will probably not be sold. What a decent box office hit.

It is a very small story in itself, coupled with the use of terrible flashback techniques, coupled with the director's pursuit of a certain depth of life that must be exhausted, it almost means that it will not be a novel. A movie loved by most people.

To put it bluntly, if this kind of movie is made according to Lu Lingxi's book, I'm afraid even many pseudo-literary youths may not like it!

Li Qian thinks that he is not yet a fan of commercial films who only know how to make money. He also has many literary films that he particularly likes and wants to present in this world, but even he is clear about this kind of film. Literary and artistic films that have entered a dead end are still admired and kept at a respectful distance.

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Lu Lingxi's house is on the third floor, and at night in early autumn, with the windows open, it might even be a bit chilly.

Autumn insects chirped, and the pages turned.

Lu Lingxi was holding a teacup, and looked at Li Qian who was concentrating on the script opposite with a little ecstasy.

The feelings between people are very complicated and subtle.

It's like the relationship between her and Li Qian. When she was a sophomore, she went to take Li Qian's class. At that time, Liao Liao and Zhou Mo hadn't started to fight each other. Everyone didn't know Li Qian's true identity. I know, and of course Lu Lingxi doesn't know either. But after two or three encounters with each other, Lu Lingxi naturally stopped treating Li Qian as a student, but as a peer who could communicate on an equal footing, and even entrust some things to him— Between students and teachers, it is difficult to say that there is such a term as friendship, especially during the school period. The unequal status, coupled with the domestic emphasis on "respecting teachers and respecting morality", makes the two parties have a certain status in the dialogue. There is a gap... But, Lu Lingxi has not been teaching their class for a long time, and the other students must still be teachers and students, but with Li Qian, it seems to be a bit old friends.

From that time on, Lu Lingxi vaguely felt that this guy might be able to achieve something in the future.

In the end, before the future, Li Qian's real identity was exposed, and Lu Lingxi had to sigh: No wonder!

There is such a student, no matter who the teacher is, of course it is easy to be proud and proud, and Lu Lingxi is naturally not immune, so, over time, this feeling of being both a teacher and a friend , so that the two parties get along more naturally.

But before that, even though the two had already had a good relationship, and Lu Lingxi was more interested in Li Qian's future, she still didn't expect that Li Qian had already made her feel compelled to marry him again just after her junior year. With admiration.

His "Legend of the New White Snake" was so well done that Lu Lingxi felt speechless.

And it's not just her, many teachers and colleagues in the film academy talked about this TV series, and they had to admit that in terms of TV series, this is an amazing masterpiece! So naturally, the teachers who have taken Li Qian's class and You Rongyan have taken Li Qian's class and have a good relationship with him. Lu Lingxi, who is also the dean of Li Qian's department, has been taken away by colleagues more than once. Come to joke—"Mr. Lu, no wonder you insisted on taking the postgraduate entrance examination of the photography department at that time. After graduation, you also went to teach the photography department. The emotional foreshadowing is here!"

Speaking of it, I just laughed it off.

Of course, it was impossible for her to know that there would be such a monstrous student in the Department of Photography a few years ago, and it was naturally impossible for her to plan for this matter a few years ago-after all, everyone was a little envious.

Like now, as a teacher, I can hand over the notebook to him, and ask him to help give it to the staff - said to be a staff, but in fact, basically waiting for his opinion to come down!

There is no other reason. The comprehensive quality that my disciple showed in "Legend of the New White Snake" can be said to be amazing! Therefore, even if he is as proud as Lu Lingxi, he thinks that he is qualified to judge the quality of his own script, and even values ​​his evaluation very much.

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The script is not too long, less than 20,000 words, but Li Qian read it very carefully.

It took more than half an hour for Li Qian to finish reading. After thinking about it, he flipped back and pondered several places carefully. Then he raised his head, looked at Lu Lingxi, thought about his words, and asked with a smile: " Do you want to hear the truth, or lie?"

Lu Lingxi's breath stagnates upon hearing this.

However, she concealed it very well, and after a slight dull look in her eyes, she soon smiled slightly again.

"As soon as I heard you ask that, I knew it was over. Then just tell the truth!" She laughed.

Li Qian also smiled, and said: "This book is a good one. If Qin Wei is willing to take pictures, I believe it must be very beautiful."

Lu Lingxi nodded, and after waiting for a long time, seeing that Li Qian stopped talking, he couldn't help but said, "Don't say half of what you said, and then?"

Li Qian thought for a while, and then said: "If senior brother Lu Ping comes to shoot... it will be a test. Although he has a certain reputation and appeal, I still don't think he can make money."

Lu Lingxi froze for a moment, then nodded.

It's over here.

Of the three major domestic movie stars, Qin Wei ranks first. He is a big director who enjoys a certain reputation all over the world, and he can also be regarded as the current flag bearer of domestic movies. Therefore, if he falls in love with this book and makes it, So just with the signboard of "Director Qin Wei", no matter how obscure the film is, there is no risk of losing money-his appeal is there! The name Qin Wei alone can support a box office of more than 50 million yuan.

Therefore, this is just a good obedience, but it doesn't make any sense at all.

On the contrary, the latter is what Li Qian really meant.

Lu Ping hasn't debuted for a long time, but he has played literary and artistic films at his level, and he is already a master of the generation of directors born in the 70s. In time, he might become the future Qin Wei—with his current fame, he has already made a film with him. The control ability accumulated after a few films is useless, and he will lose money in every case, let alone others?

Let alone myself?

Li Qian said so, which means that in his opinion, this script has almost no commercial value.

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The atmosphere is slightly cold.

Li Qian looked at Lu Lingxi's face, he seemed a little disappointed, but he seemed a little relieved, he couldn't help but smiled and said: "But it doesn't matter, since Brother Lu said that he can get you investment, then we can talk about it! Besides, I'm just a family opinion, so don't believe me. Since Senior Brother Lu is asking for the book, you should still give it to him and let him judge it. Where is the film of money!"

Lu Lingxi looked up at him, smiled, put away the notebook, and sighed: "Forget it! Don't show it to him!"

Li Qian was a little puzzled, and asked, "Why? You really think I'm Qin Wei. If I say no, you think it's no good, too?"

Lu Lingxi smiled and said: "You are definitely not Teacher Qin Wei, but I can still trust your grasp of business. Since you have said everything, you will lose money if you shoot it. How can I show it to others? Someone pull investment for me?"

Of course that's not what he said.

The value of a movie, or in other words, when a film and television company considers whether to cast a movie, it will definitely give priority to box office protection, but the box office does not represent the full value of a movie.

For example, some companies have made a lot of commercial blockbusters with a high success rate, so sometimes, even if they know they will lose a little money, they are still willing to invest in some niche literary films with limited cost.

One is to enrich the film library. The advantage of literary films is that their videotapes and DVDs tend to sell well. With the copyright in hand, you can consider the problem of selling for a long time and slowly repaying the cost. You can still make back your capital or even make a small profit.

Secondly, you can also take this opportunity to discover and win over some emerging directors. The films you invest in may lose money, but on the one hand, this kind of literary film is limited in cost, and some confident film and television companies can survive even if they lose a few films. Affordable, on the other hand, a few films cost hundreds of millions, even if they can find a good director who can be trusted in the future, they have already fully recouped their losses!

For example, Li Qianming knew that he would lose money, but still invested in Jin Han's "On the Road", because of the above two considerations.

Just looking at the movie "On the Road", it may lose money in all likelihood, but if he can maintain the cooperation with Jin Han for five years or even more than ten years, then Li Qian can be sure, absolutely will earn!

Although Lu Lingxi has always been on the campus of Suncheon Film Academy, according to what she said, she went out and tried to make a living after all, so Li Qian doesn't know if she understands these considerations of the film and television company, but think again, Even if she didn't know it at first, since Senior Brother Lu Ping had already talked her into it, he should have mentioned it, so he took it back when the words came to his lips.

After thinking for a while, he just smiled and said, "Then I am the villain between you and Senior Brother Lu Ping?"

Lu Lingxi smiled, blinked narrowly, and replied with a smile: "For Lu Ping, maybe so, but for me, it did me a little favor." After a pause, she laughed It became more and more brilliant, "I dare not owe you men's favors!"

Li Qian was stunned when he heard the words. There were some things he wanted to say, but when Lu Lingxi said this, he immediately typed back what he wanted to say-in fact, if it was because of the movie itself, if Lu Lingxi could accept it. If you let me change the script a little bit, Li Qian really wants to tell her that I can invest in this drama.

Whether it was a coincidence, or Lu Lingxi vaguely guessed Li Qian's thoughts, in short, she blocked this road with a light word.

Moreover, what she blocked was her own way.

Li Qian raised his eyebrows, smacked repeatedly, and suddenly felt that he didn't know how to evaluate Lu Lingxi.

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After sitting for a while, it was getting dark outside, so Li Qian got up to say goodbye and left, but before leaving, he subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction of the bedroom, stopped, and said to Lu Lingxi: "Senior Sister Qin Jingjing, I'm not very familiar with it, so I can't say anything... If she really encounters some difficult obstacles, such as needing money, you can give her an idea and ask her to borrow from me, or I can lend it to her. You, you lend it to her again."

Hearing this, Lu Lingxi raised her head and looked at him for a moment, and saw that he was serious, and there seemed to be some faint worry between his brows, so she couldn't help but pursed her lips and laughed, "You are really careful, no wonder you let the two queens fall into your arms Hug! So considerate! Okay, I understand, if it really comes to that point, I will let her find you, a rich man!"

Li Qian smiled, turned his head to leave, but turned back with a slightly playful smile, "Actually, I think Senior Brother Lu is not bad! Although I am not as handsome, nor can I make money, but..."

"Get out! There's nothing in shape!"

Lu Lingxi punched him, "Go away!"

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After Li Qian left, Lu Lingxi took a hot bath and came out wearing a bathrobe. While wiping her hair, she couldn't help but think of Li Qian's words just now, and couldn't help turning her head to look at the small cabinet where she put the script.

Lu Ping's words are still in his ears.

"Sister, don't worry, I'm very confident in your book, it's absolutely not bad! What's wrong with literary films, literary films can also make money, at least you can't lose it! You think that you have written the best in these years. , Bring me the book you want to make the most, let’s discuss it! I’ll help you find the investment, and I’ll help you produce this film! You should trust me, right?”

When he said this, there was light in his eyes.

A very strange light.

Lu Lingxi couldn't help but sighed.

Just at this time, there was a sound in the guest bedroom, Lu Lingxi wrapped a towel around her hair, opened the bedroom door and entered.

Switch on the light with a snap.

The quilt had been half lifted, Qin Jingjing's face was flushed red, and she was muttering something, slurring her words.

Lu Lingxi sighed, went back to the living room and poured a glass of water. Feeling that the temperature was not too hot, she walked over and pushed her, asking: "Jingjing, Jingjing, do you want some water?"

After three or two strokes, Qin Jingjing suddenly opened her eyes in a jerk.

Fascinated and drunk, half asleep and half awake.

But fortunately, she has already started to recognize people, "Mr. Lu...I..."

Lu Lingxi smiled, helped her up, and fed her a glass of water. Seeing that she seemed to feel better after drinking a glass of water, she smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay, you're at my house now, it's very Be safe and sleep peacefully!"

Qin Jingjing looked up at her, and after a while, suddenly burst into tears.

"Mr. Lu, I have nothing now!"

Lu Lingxi hugged her, and said with a smile: "Nonsense! Who said you have nothing? You still have the popularity you have accumulated in the past few years, you still have acting skills, and you still have so many teachers, classmates and friends. Why do you have nothing?" ?”

While speaking, Lu Lingxi had a smile on his face, but he could not help but sigh in his heart.

If I had believed in those people back then, maybe I would have been tricked like Qin Jingjing?

Who knows!

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