Chapter 179 Crime Detective
Qin Feng Meng Bai thought that this project was not very urgent, but he did not expect Chen Sicheng's attitude to be much more proactive than he expected. Without waiting for further contact, he went straight to the door.
"Producer Meng!"
"Oh, Haoran is here."
Meng Bai greeted with a smile at the door of the "Forensic Qin Ming" crew.
Liu Haoran politely returned the greeting, and then gestured to the middle-aged man standing next to him and said, "This is..."
"No need to introduce him." Meng Bai interrupted him and looked at the man, "Director Chen's name is still very well-known."
"Haha, Junior Brother Meng is polite." Chen Sicheng laughed loudly and stretched out his hand, "To junior brother, I have heard of your name for a long time."
In 2006, director Kang Honglei and screenwriter Lan Xiaolong collaborated to shoot a magical drama "Soldier Assault" that can be called the "ceiling of military themes".
This drama brought together a large number of powerful male actors at the time, such as Wang Baoqiang, Zhang Yi, Duan Yihong, etc., who are now the mainstays of the "Mesozoic" in the domestic entertainment industry.
Naturally, Chen Sicheng is also included.
Like the "successful" in the play, his development over the years has been smooth. Even though he was expelled from the Shanghai Theatre Academy for fighting, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy within two years with the recommendation of his teacher.
After that, his career as an actor was smooth. He won awards for filming while in school, and became famous after filming "Soldier Assault". After that, he transformed into a director. A TV series "Northern Love" won the ratings championship, and the movie version had a box office of more than 400 million yuan. He also picked up a wife
by the way. It can be said that he has been smooth sailing for so many years.
And Chen Sicheng himself is not the kind of low-key and introverted personality. On the contrary, he always has a feeling of being both smooth and arrogant.
This is a bit like Huang Xiaoming, whom Meng Bai had met before, but Huang Xiaoming's arrogance is similar to that of a "leader", while Chen Sicheng is more like "self-righteous".
To be honest, this kind of person is sometimes annoying to look at.
Fortunately, Chen Sicheng's attitude towards Meng Bai is quite polite.
After all, compared to this junior brother, he is older and less handsome, and his other achievements are not so outstanding. After
exchanging a few pleasantries, Meng Bai led the two of them inside and took them to visit the crew of "Forensic Qin Ming".
"Wow! Junior brother, this forensic autopsy room used for filming was built by the crew themselves?"
Looking at the standard "Forensic Center" indoors, Chen Sicheng said in surprise.
"Yes, we invited a professional forensic expert to direct it, and we also went to the forensic base of the provincial public security for a field investigation, and finally rebuilt such a 'Forensic Center'." Meng Bai said with a smile.
"Awesome..."
Chen Sicheng sighed. Just from this point, it can be seen that his junior brother is also a serious person when it comes to project production.
The set is currently being filmed, and one side of the room is crowded with crew members, leaving Zhang Ruoyun, Zhou Yutong and Bai Yu alone in the middle of the venue.
"Several of the main actors look like newcomers?"
"It's a web drama, so it's cheaper to use newcomers. What's more, many newcomers' performances are not bad." Meng Bai smiled and gestured, "Like Haoran, he's quite young, but his acting skills are quite good."
Liu Haoran was peeking in the back to observe the filming inside, and suddenly heard the two bosses mention him. He scratched his head and laughed.
"Haha, indeed, Haoran is quite good, and he has a talent for acting."
Chen Sicheng still thinks highly of this young man he has cultivated. Hearing Meng Bai's praise, he also said proudly: "He also applied for our Central Academy of Drama for the art exam this year. The scores came out last month, and his art exam score ranked first in the country."
"Really?" Meng Bai looked over in surprise.
There is no need to take art exams for drama majors, so he doesn't know much about this aspect. However, the ranking of "first in the country" is enough to explain the results.
"Congratulations, Haoran." Meng Bai patted him on the shoulder and said, "We will be brothers in the same school in the future."
Liu Haoran said shyly, "It's hard to say now. It depends on how many cultural scores you get in the college entrance examination?"
"Yes, you also have to take the college entrance examination." Meng Bai said, "There are less than two months left. You are filming now, won't it be delayed?"
"It's okay, I'm used to it. And it happens that the drama is also set in high school, and many shots are about doing questions. I just took my homework and did it." Liu Haoran said.
"Okay, you are good at seizing time." Meng Bai joked, "When the drama is broadcast, I guess the audience will think that the most realistic plot is the one about doing questions."
After watching the set, the two expressed their desire to observe the crew's famous "prop room".
The previous "oolong murder case" did not last long, but its popularity was not low.
In addition to the comments from netizens on the Internet, many people in the circle who knew Meng Bai called to ask for first-hand "melon resources".
Since they came to Meng Bai to discuss cooperation, they naturally had to learn about it in advance, so Chen Sicheng had also heard about it.
"Don't tell me, you really can't tell whether this thing is real or not unless you touch it." He touched the "human props" and exclaimed: "Let alone a thief, even an ordinary person would be scared to death if they suddenly saw it in the middle of the night."
Meng Bai shook his head: "Don't talk about the evening. Some time ago, we planned to throw away this batch of used models, but we almost scared the sanitation worker. Now we can only pile them here and find a way to deal with them after the filming."
If it were other props, we could also hold a lottery for the audience and fans. But this pile of "broken hands and feet", the audience dared to ask for them, and the crew didn't dare to give them away.
After a circle of several major places, the three of them came to the lounge of the production team, which was also Meng Bai's temporary studio in the crew.
He casually called a crew member to pour tea, and Chen Sicheng finally mentioned the main business of today.
"It's like this, junior brother, I want to make a movie project with the theme of 'suspense and reasoning'. Now I have a general framework and setting, but I still lack a specific plot story."
With the huge success of the online dramas "Psychological Crime" and "Darker" last year, and the attention aroused by the "Green Ivy Series", the film and television industry found that the number of audiences for the "suspense" theme was somewhat beyond imagination.
It was at that time that Chen Sicheng had an inspiration to make a movie with the theme of reasoning.
For the main roles, the classic "old and young" mode of mystery stories is adopted, with a "veteran" and a "young detective" configuration - the latter can be played by Liu Haoran.
He has been thinking about this idea for half a year and feels that it is quite promising. So from the beginning of this year, he planned to do this project.
The only problem is that there is no suitable script.
The mystery theme is originally a niche, and he doesn't want to remake the novel, so the difficulty is naturally greater. He has been collecting for several months, but still no one feels satisfied.
It was at this time that Liu Haoran suddenly called him and said that there is also a project similar to "young detective" in the "Green Ivy Series" of Arclight Film and Television, and he thought he could ask about it.
Chen Sicheng has also heard of the name of Arclight Film
and Television. In the "suspense" theme stories in China in recent years, there is really no one who can surpass them. The only problem is that this company mainly produces online dramas, which is a bit far from movies.
But since Liu Haoran said so, he also inquired about the specific situation of Arclight Film and Television through his connections. After
understanding this, he knew that not to mention that the boss of this company is his junior brother, and that he started with a movie project. It was just because of some accidents that they switched to web dramas.
Now Chen Sicheng was interested. After watching a few dramas of Arclight Film and Television, he decisively asked Liu Haoran to help him make an appointment with this "Junior Brother Meng", and he hurried over.
After listening to the other party's introduction, Meng Bai took a sip of tea slowly, and then asked: "So, Senior Brother, you mean to ask me to be the screenwriter, right?"
"Yes." Chen Sicheng nodded, "Compared with other types of films, suspense and reasoning themes have higher requirements for scripts. Arclight Film and Television is currently one of the best in this field, so I want to see if there is any opportunity for cooperation."
"Well - in our Arclight's "Green Ivy Series" follow-up project, there is indeed a story called "Criminal Detective Qin Feng", and the protagonist is set as a "young detective." Meng Bai said.
"Criminal Detective... Qin Feng?" Chen Sicheng was a little confused,
"Oh, Qin Feng is the name of the protagonist. 'Criminal Detective' is the crime of sin and the detective of detective. How to say it, it is a role that is a bit like an 'anti-hero'."
Meng Bai roughly introduced the role setting.
The father of the male protagonist "Qin Feng" was a criminal. He was arrested when his son was young, leaving behind an orphan and a widow. Because of this, Qin Feng wanted to be a policeman since he was a child and take a different path from his father. But unfortunately, the political review alone blocked him.
But Qin Feng didn't want to give up. He found a part-time job in labor dispatch at the police school and took classes with students.
Compared with ordinary people, Qin Feng is extremely talented in the field of criminal investigation and reasoning. In addition, he was influenced by his father since he was a child and was used to looking at problems from the perspective of criminals, so he progressed faster than all police school students.
Once because of an accidental case, he relied on his reasoning ability to help a professor in the field of criminal investigation and crime at the police school. The professor discovered his talent and asked him to be his assistant so that he could participate in the case detection.
At first he was very happy. Although he was just an assistant without a formal identity, he felt that he had drawn a line with the "father" who abandoned his mother and himself.
At the same time, he could also use his talent to help more victims get justice, which was also a compensation for the harm his father had done to innocent people.
However, in more and more cases, he gradually discovered that not all criminals would be brought to justice.
Stand-ins, destroying the scene, bribing witnesses... Even if he could reason out the truth every time, he had no way to deal with those who had resources and the ability to "get away with it".
Finally, after another murderer escaped punishment by hiring someone to destroy evidence, Qin Feng, who could no longer bear it, completed a "law enforcement" and used his knowledge and talent to forge a perfect "accident scene".
This success opened up Qin Feng's "thinking". From then on, he was a genius of reasoning with outstanding talent on the one hand, and a "punisher" on the other.
However, unlike the "punishers" who "advertised justice" and "challenged authority" in those stories, he never wanted to "attract attention".
On the contrary, every scene would be faked as an accident, which is the so-called "perfect crime".
But after walking on the road for a long time at night, he finally encountered thieves, and more and more "accidents" eventually attracted the attention of the police.
The police invited the professor as a consultant, and Qin Feng also followed.
So he had to create cases as a "criminal" while chasing himself as a "detective".
The combination of "criminal" and "detective" is called "criminal detective".
(End of this chapter)
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
