Chapter 400 Your Script Will Definitely Fail
Jiang Yao turned around in surprise. When she saw the gorgeously dressed and heavily made-up woman in front of her, she frowned and asked in confusion, "Who are you?"
The woman choked with anger when she heard this. "Jiang Yao, you didn't even recognize me. I think you don't even take me seriously!"
"So who are you?" Jiang Yao felt that she looked somewhat familiar, but he really couldn't remember who she was.
The woman's cheeks twitched with anger. She clenched her wine glass tightly and said word by word: "Yao, Yuan, Xin!"
"ah!"
Jiang Yao was quite surprised by this.
Speaking of which, her mother can be considered a distant relative of the Jiang family.
However, she has never appeared since Li Beiting exposed her pretending to be his savior.
Now it actually appears in such an occasion.
"Did you have plastic surgery?"
This face is different from the Yao Yuanxin in my memory.
This sentence hit Yao Yuanxin's lungs, "You're the one who had plastic surgery, this is my natural face!"
"Oh." Jiang Yao didn't really care. "So, what do you want to talk to me about?"
The more indifferent she was, the angrier Yao Yuanxin became.
After the truth was exposed last time, her dream of becoming a director with the help of Li Beiting was ruined.
The Yao family's business was declining, and their days were getting worse day by day.
She couldn't stand that kind of life, so she used other means to enter the entertainment industry and became an assistant to a famous director.
As a result, today, she finally coaxed the director to take her to attend the circle banquet, but she met the person she hated the most.
Seeing her following Jiang Jingzhou around so gloriously and filming a script adapted from her novel, she became more and more jealous.
"Jiang Yao, don't you think you're too shameless? You're clearly working in aerospace technology, but you come to the entertainment industry to steal other people's jobs. You rely on your connections to bully others. You're simply selfish."
Yao Yuanxin complained dissatisfiedly.
Jiang Yao was unmoved. "If you envy me, just say it. There's no need to say these sour words. If you have the ability, then write a script and make a movie. If you don't, then shut up."
Yao Yuanxin's face turned red with anger.
Just before she lost her temper, a slightly rough voice sounded from behind her, "Xinxin, who are you talking to?"
The next second, a middle-aged man with a greasy face and a beer belly walked over and looked Jiang Yao up and down with a lustful look in his eyes.
"Director Chang." Yao Yuanxin immediately went up to him, took his arm, and introduced him with a smile: "This is the author of 'Burning Moon' that I mentioned to you before. This is the script that Director Jiang liked. I heard that he plans to invest hundreds of millions in filming it!"
"Oh? The one Jiang Jingzhou took a fancy to?"
Hearing this, Chang Kun's face turned gloomy.
In recent years, the most famous person in the circle is the genius director Jiang Jingzhou. Every drama he prepared and filmed has achieved high box office results and even broke the domestic box office record.
Everyone worships and admires him.
However, Chang Kun, who is also a director, is quite wary of him and even hates him.
Before Jiang Jingzhou appeared, he was very famous in the circle.
As a result, his appearance stole a lot of his limelight.
For two consecutive years, the movies they directed were released during the National Day or New Year's Day holiday, and were often compared and reviewed. However, he only took second place at the box office every time and was often belittled.
People say that Jiang Jingzhou is young, talented, and his films are wonderful and profound. He can be said to be the light of domestic films and will definitely be hailed as a legend in the future.
They say he is just an old man with old-fashioned ideas and limited filming skills.
How could he bear this?
But he really couldn't beat Jiang Jingzhou.
But he still doesn't take a writer who sells scripts seriously.
"It seems Director Jiang's vision is not good enough. He actually chose a script like "Burning Moon." He said with disdain.
Jiang Yao's eyelids twitched. Although she was not in the entertainment industry, she still recognized Chang Kun's face.
After all, he is a well-known domestic director. Although she is no longer interested in the movies he directs now, she never thought that he would be such a person.
Moreover, looking at the intimacy between Yao Yuanxin and him, they look like lovers.
She sneered, "I wonder what Director Chang thinks of my novel?"
"Of course I do."
Chang Kun, holding his wine glass in one hand and tilting his head back, said loudly and pretentiously, "The current market has long since stopped accepting 'female awakening' stories. Audiences want to watch exciting dramas! Your crappy novel will definitely flop if it's made into a movie."
If I were to shoot this genre, I would also add a melodramatic love triangle, a fight between wealthy families, and find a top-tier actress to play the beautiful, strong and tragic heroine, so that I can get high box office and make money."
He said it as a matter of course.
The attention of many actors at the scene was attracted.
They didn't expect that Director Chang would deliberately mock a writer.
Did Jiang Yao offend him in some way?
He was actually criticized to the point of being worthless.
Some people sympathize, while others enjoy the show.
Yao Yuanxin, who was behind all this, was extremely proud and wished that Chang Kun would say a few more words to demote Jiang Yao to the dust and make it impossible for her to survive in the circle.
In other words, Jiang Jingzhou was called away and didn't see it. Otherwise, if he saw his niece being bullied, he would definitely rush over to protect her on the spot.
Even though no one was helping her, Jiang Yao remained calm. "Director Chang's 'The Road to Counterattack' did really well at the box office. It had all the tropes of a good drama, and the sci-fi blockbuster scenes were really cool. It even took second place last year!"
Chang Kun looked pleased, thinking she was trying to flatter him.
But Jiang Yao's next sentence changed the subject, "But do you know how much the global box office of 'Her Way,' a film about a woman's awakening, was last year? 1.5 billion US dollars, and the cost of this film was only one-third of yours."
"As for the domestic market, non-sad dramas like 'Breaking the Cocoon' and 'Homeward Bound,' which focus on themes of female awakening, have achieved both box office success and critical acclaim... Do I need to continue with examples?"
She slapped him in the face with her achievements and made him see the reality.
Many industry insiders present nodded in agreement.
Chang Kun had never been humiliated like this before, and he immediately said angrily, "That's just a minority. Do you think your own script will have such a chance?"
Jiang Yao chuckled and said sharply, "I don't know if I have done that, but the 'dog-blood routine' you mentioned, in my opinion, is essentially just packaging women's plight as a consumer product.
A truly good story isn't one that leaves the audience feeling refreshed and forgetful, but one that makes them think: why do women need to be "beautiful, strong, and tragic" to be seen? Why are awakenings ridiculed?
She glanced at the veteran actors present, "I still remember Teacher Xu's role as the mother in Cocoon Breaking. Even though she didn't have many scenes, only five minutes in total, she made audiences all over the country remember her. A good actor like this truly demonstrates awakening!"
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