Chapter 283 Spit Out Two Turtles
"Zhizhi is so pitiful," Xiaoqing said, "Her contract is for two years and will not end until August next year. She cannot resign yet, otherwise she will have to pay a million yuan in liquidated damages!"
Lin Zhi is a college student who just graduated last year. The artist studio only paid her more than 3,000 yuan a month, and did not pay for social security. And her family conditions were average, so how could she possibly afford this money?
This was the first time that Liu Wangxue had heard of such an artist. It was simply outrageous. They had lost all their moral bottom line as human beings.
"Sister Xuxu, can you help Zhizhi?" Xiaoqing looked at Liu Wangxue. After asking, she realized that what she said was really inappropriate. She apologized quickly, "I didn't mean that. I just, I just..."
"I know." Liu Wangxue patted her.
But Liu Wangxue is not a "saint", she can't stand seeing the slightest suffering in this world, and she won't lend a hand to anyone. Moreover, how can she help in this kind of situation? She can only sigh in her heart and turn to ask Xiaoqing: "Have you told anyone about this?"
Xiaoqing shook her head: "I told Sister Jiajia, and then it was you."
Liu Wangxue warned her: "Don't tell anyone about it from now on."
Xiao Qing also understood, so she nodded: "No one would believe me even if I told him. He packages his image so well outside..."
Liu Wangxue asked again: "Do you have Zhizhi's contact information?"
"Yes, we added each other as friends, and she would come to me whenever I made her unhappy," said Xiaoqing.
This is all I can do for now. It's better to have someone to talk to than to keep everything in my heart and endure it all by myself.
"Don't forget to burn it after reading it," Liu Wangxue reminded Xiaoqing, and then asked her, "So, what's the matter with the script?"
The first thing she asked about was the script, and as Xiaoqing continued talking, all she talked about was Zhizhi.
"Oh, it was Zhizhi who told me about the script." Xiaoqing said, "Their drama is adapted from a novel IP, and the guy that Zhizhi is with is the male lead."
When the show started, only the first seven episodes were completed, and the rest were written while filming. Now it is halfway through filming, but several investors are suddenly dissatisfied with the content of the later scripts. The writing team has been revising several versions day and night, but none of them are satisfied.
Seeing that the crew was about to stop working, people from Shenghai Entertainment's film and television department came to find out the reason for their dissatisfaction. These investors are all fans of the novel and the original author. They invested in order to gain the right to speak and prevent the so-called "market" from wasting the author's hard work.
The scripts for the first seven episodes were also revised until they were satisfied. After each subsequent episode was written, it had to be reviewed by them first, and only after they approved it could it be filmed.
The middle part of the novel is the most difficult part to adapt for film and television. It is more inclined to the psychological activities and lyrical descriptions of the characters, with frequent scene changes and all of them are glossed over. Therefore, when adapting, the screenwriter needs to rearrange it and add a lot of details.
This is what the investors are not satisfied with. They think the screenwriters are not good enough and have not fully expressed what the original author wants to express. If the adaptation is a failure, how good can the filmed work be? The investors want to change the screenwriter team, but how can they change it at will?
The person who came from Shenghai Film and Television Department was Zou Zhuoming. After negotiations, the investor was willing to compromise and asked him to invite a senior screenwriter to take control of the overall situation, and specifically asked for Tang Songhe.
Ha, this is great! Zou Zhuoming agreed without hesitation. This old guy is a cancer in the industry, and he, Zou Zhuoming, must pull him out bit by bit! Previously, regarding the film and television copyright of "Da Zhao Twenty-one Case", Zou Zhuoming received instructions from their minister and handed it over to Zhu Yan. A few days later, the minister was set up and his position was almost lost, and his promotion at the end of the year was in jeopardy.
The minister said: "This is entirely due to factional struggles within the board of directors. Since those at the top can't be moved for the time being, they are targeting the small fish and shrimps below us."
Zou Zhuoming joked: "If you are a small fish or shrimp, then what are we?"
The minister told Zou Zhuoming not to take it lightly. He had a feeling that this matter was unusual and that the company's top management might really experience turmoil.
The minister and Zou Zhuoming are both teachers and friends. Zou Zhuoming's success today is inseparable from the minister's cultivation and promotion. He is a grateful person, so he thought about how to help the minister.
This key figure is Zhu Yan, who is like a pillow given to someone when he is sleepy.
Zhu Yan was punished by Tang Songhe for not obeying Tang Songhe's arrangement and for his disrespectful attitude. Later, Tang Songhe saw that he had no intention of repenting and made him sit on the bench in the department.
The treatment he received was almost the same as Liu Wangxue's back then. Zhu Yan thought, his best years were being wasted and squandered here. Who could bear it?
So, he once again found a way to "accidentally meet" Zou Zhuoming.
Zhu Yan had many friends, some with a purpose and some without, and his address book contained a large number of them, and they all seemed to have a good relationship with him. Therefore, he heard about the director of the Film and Television Department and got some so-called inside information.
Once when he went out for a drink with Chu Liqing, a senior who had already left the company, he brought up this incident as a topic of conversation.
Chu Liqing thought, hey, it’s the board of directors again. He just happened to have one here too. He said to Zhu Yan, “Didn’t I tell you before that Tang Songhe’s backer is on Shenghai’s board of directors? I didn’t know who it was at that time, but I heard recently that it’s also this guy named Xia.”
"Is it Xia Hongzhou too?" Zhu Yan asked.
"That's right." Chu Liqing nodded, "Do you still remember the new colleague I mentioned to you?"
Zhu Yan remembered that it was that person who told Chu Liqing about Tang Song and the campus script that occupied Liu Wangxue. He nodded: "Well, what's the matter? Is it related to him?"
Chu Liqing shook his head: "One of his classmates went abroad. Guess who he met a while ago?"
"Hey, big brother, stop keeping us in suspense. Can you tell me it's done in one go?" Zhu Yan was anxious.
"Okay, okay, okay." Chu Liqing drank the wine in the glass in one gulp and told Zhu Yan everything.
The person who was abroad met the person who was in charge of the new talent support program at that time.
In the bar, the two didn't know each other at first, but because they were from the same country, they clinked glasses and chatted for a few minutes, and then they discovered their connection with each other.
After leaving Shenghai, the person in charge worked for another company for a while, and then went abroad. But now he seems to be not doing well, and seems to be drowning his sorrows in alcohol.
Because he met an "old friend", he drank two more glasses and couldn't control his mouth: "Do you think I was willing to resign back then? Fuck, if it weren't for Xia Hongzhou and Tang Songhe those two bastards, I could have made further progress back then, otherwise how could I end up like this!"
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