Qian Shuzhen was more casual when talking to her second uncle and directly made her request.
"I'm the factory director, so of course I'm responsible for the factory staff. How many artists do you want to borrow? And for as long as seven days?"
Upon hearing this, Su Yun frowned again.
Although he is the factory director, it does not mean that he can control the employees in the factory at will.
Besides, what we have to do now is extra work, not the factory's established shooting task.
Lin Huowang also stood up and said, "The more manpower the better. Director Su, we are going to make a comic magazine, about 200 pages.
Plus I had to train them for two days first, teaching them how to draw comics and what the style and characters of each comic were like.
So, the early stage will definitely be slow. But as long as this first issue of the comic magazine is done well, we can have long-term cooperation in the future.”
"You still want long-term cooperation? No! No! We have our own photographers in our factory. How can we lend you our art staff to make comic magazines for a long time?
Comrade Lin Huowang, I think you should look for someone else who can help you!
If someone reports me, the factory director, for not doing my job properly, I won’t be able to take it.”
Su Yun, who was originally considering it, immediately waved his hand and refused when he heard that Lin Huowang wanted to do it for a long time.
"Uncle! Why are you so absolute? Don't you even give me face?
Let's try it first! Our comic magazine is to be sold to Japan, to make money from the Japanese and bring glory to our country.
How can you say that you are not doing your job properly? "
Qian Shuzhen pretended to be unhappy and said.
Su Yun smiled and coaxed her, "Shuzhen, don't make a fuss. This is a factory job, and it's not something that Second Uncle can decide on his own."
"You are a factory director, but you don't have the final say. Then who has the final say?" Qian Shuzhen didn't want to listen to his nonsense and continued to retort.
At this time, Lin Huowang took out the article "Scars" from his bag, handed it to Su Yun and said, "Director Su, would you like to take a look at this novel I wrote? I plan to use it in exchange for seven days of time for the artists in your factory. How about it?"
"Novel? Don't you write poetry? Can you also write novels?"
When Su Yun heard the word "novel", he immediately became excited.
After all, he had been reading over and over again the novels written by some well-known writers in the past few days, but he couldn't find any suitable one to film.
Now that Lin Huowang had offered the novel to him, he had no reason not to read it carefully.
"Uncle, who says that people who write poetry can't write novels?"
Qian Shuzhen was also a little surprised that Lin Huowang actually had a backup plan. Although she had not read the novels written by Lin Huowang, she still supported him very much.
"Okay! Then I'll take a look first. You guys go to the meeting room next door and take a rest."
After receiving the manuscript, Su Yun was a little impatient. "If this novel meets our standards for filming, Comrade Lin Huowang, I can make the decision. You can use any art staff in the factory for seven days."
After saying that, he immediately started watching the film "Scars" attentively.
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"Lin Huowang, when did you write your novel? You brought it here, why didn't you let me see it first?"
Arriving at the conference room and waiting, Qian Shuzhen pretended to be a little unhappy and said to Lin Huowang.
"I have another one here, would you like to read it? That one is a short story, and this one is a long one."
Lin Huowang cleverly changed the subject and took out the manuscript of the novel "Drawing Sword".
"Read it! Of course I will. It's so thick? It must have hundreds of thousands of words, right? Drawing the Sword? Are you writing a novel about ancient swordsmen?"
When Qian Shuzhen received the manuscript and saw the title, she instinctively thought it was a martial arts novel.
But when she glanced at the first page, she exclaimed: "An Anti-Japanese War novel? Wow! The leader of the independent regiment you wrote, Li Yunlong, has a lot of personality! And he is... very likable. It is completely different from the stereotype of the Eighth Route Army officers with strict military discipline that we have in mind!"
Qian Shuzhen's eyes lit up, and she was immediately immersed in the novel world of "Drawing Sword". She felt so happy following the protagonist Li Yunlong in fighting the Japanese invaders again and again.
However, she had just finished reading the first chapter when the factory manager next door, Su Yun, excitedly ran over with the manuscript of "Scars" and said, "Comrade Lin Huowang, your article "Scars" is so well written. It is the kind of work we are looking for, which can reflect the spirit of the current era!"
"That's great! Director Su, I can authorize you to make Scars into a movie."
Lin Huowang also breathed a sigh of relief and nodded with a smile.
But Su Yun shook his head again and added: "I think this article "Scars" is very well written and in line with the spirit of the times, especially showing the harm caused to ordinary people during special periods.
It’s just that there’s no difficulty in filming, but I’m afraid… after it’s released, the higher-ups will think the subject is too sensitive and won’t allow it to be broadcast. Wouldn’t that be a waste of effort?”
Yes!
These days, artists and writers are really scared.
No matter what they do, they are always timid, for fear of being caught and severely criticized.
Su Yun, the director of Chuncheng Film Studio, admired the novel "Scars" very much and was eager to make it into a movie and show it on the big screen.
However, the risks involved are indeed quite significant.
Can it be filmed? Will it pass the review? If it is approved, is it possible that it will be suddenly stopped and not broadcast again?
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