Chapter 296: If you don't know math, you don't know it
Blue Island, Oriental Film Metropolis Studio.
As soon as Meng Bai entered the door, he was stopped by Guo Fan.
"You came just in time."
Guo Fan had a look of "seeing a savior": "Now there is a very difficult problem, and I need your help."
"Besides not having enough money, what other difficult problems can we have now?"
Meng Bai followed Guo Fan to the studio lounge in surprise.
"Hey, Mai Mai is here too."
In the lounge, Zhao Jinmai was sitting at the table, holding a book and a test paper in her hand, writing and drawing on the paper, and muttering to herself.
The role she played in "The Wandering Earth" is called "Han Duoduo", a junior high school girl in the "rebellious period" who has lived in an underground city since childhood and is full of curiosity and yearning for the ground world.
Meng Bai, Guo Fan, Gong Geer and others discussed many candidates for this role at the beginning.
The first choice at that time was Zhang Zifeng, who is currently the hottest young flower born in the 2000s.
Especially after "Detective Chinatown", her popularity has soared.
Unfortunately, the pay was too expensive. Even though the girl was embarrassed and wanted to lower the price, her family team still offered a price of one million.
For the crew of "The Wandering Earth", which is now willing to split every penny into three and a half, this price is almost close to the total budget pay of several leading actors.
After that, several other candidates were considered, but either the price was too expensive, or there was no schedule, or the image was not suitable.
So in the end, Zhao Jinmai was decided.
She is a pretty girl with a standard appearance and her acting skills are also acceptable.
The most important thing is that it is economical. The shooting schedule of more than four months only costs 50,000 yuan.
To be honest, even the big specials in the film and television city are more than this price.
Zhao Jinmai herself was quite happy. She came to the set happily with her textbooks and homework.
"Brother Meng Bai!"
Looking at Meng Bai who came in, the girl immediately stood up and shouted happily.
Counting it down, this is her third time to participate in Meng Bai's project.
From the unfamiliarity at the beginning, to the shyness when she grew up, and now the relationship has become familiar.
Meng Bai thought Guo Fan was going to say that there was something wrong with the crew, but he unexpectedly picked up a test paper from Zhao Jinmai's desk and handed it over.
"Look, can you do this?" Guo Fan pointed to the questions on the test paper.
Meng Bai took it and took a look in confusion.
[In the plane rectangular coordinate system xOy, A (x1, y1) B (x2, y2) C (x3, y3) are three points on the graph of the quadratic function y = -x + 4x-1. If m ﹤ x1 ﹤ m + 1, m + 1 ﹤ x2 ﹤ m + 2, m + 2 ﹤ x3 ﹤ m + 3, then what is the range of m? ]
"What the hell is this? A math problem?" Meng Bai looked at Guo Fan: "No, Brother Guo, this is the tricky problem you are talking about."
Guo Fan pointed to the test paper: "Isn't it tricky?" Am
I asking you this?
Meng Bai sighed silently in his heart, and looked at the question in his hand again: "This question is quite simple."
Guo Fan and Zhao Jinmai who was sitting next to him all had their eyes lit up.
"But I forgot how to do it." Meng Bai continued.
Guo Fan, Zhao Jinmai: ...
"If you don't know, just say you don't know. Why do you have to say it's quite simple?" Guo Fan threw the test paper back.
"Nonsense, I'm a screenwriter, and I'm already good enough to understand the question."
"Didn't you say that you studied science in high school?"
"Brother, I've graduated for so many years, who can remember this stuff?" Meng Bai said unhappily: "Besides, you're not an undergraduate from a 211 university, a graduate student from Beijing Film Academy, how dare you say that to me?"
"Ah..." Guo Fan sighed, "After so many years of graduation, that little bit of math knowledge has long gone."
Zhao Jinmai, who was standing by, looked at these two seniors who claimed to be "excellent graduates of higher education institutions" and couldn't help but shook his head helplessly.
Speaking of this matter, the main responsibility still lies with Guo Fan.
Zhao Jinmai is in the third year of junior high school this year and will soon face the high school entrance examination. So when the invitation was discussed, although the little girl herself was very happy, Zhao's mother was still very hesitant whether to accept it.
In the end, Guo Fan patted his chest and said that there was no need to worry at all, and there were plenty of people in the crew who could explain the questions to her
. "I am an undergraduate from the Law School of Hainan University, a 211 university, and a graduate student from the Management Department of Beijing Film Academy. Our screenwriter, Mr. Meng Bai, is an outstanding graduate of the Department of Drama and Literature of the Central
Academy of Drama who passed the general college entrance examination. As for learning to do questions, we can rest assured." But when the little girl really came to the crew with her homework and test papers, Guo Fan realized that he had thought too beautifully.
There was no problem with Chinese and English, and history, geography, ideology and morality were barely passable. Physics, chemistry and biology were a little difficult but could still be dealt with.
But there was really no way with mathematics.
If you can't do mathematics, you can't do it.
Looking at Guo Fan and others who were grinning at various questions, Zhao Jinmai could only sigh helplessly, "Stupid adults", and then review by herself.
I thought Meng Bai's arrival would be of some help, but I didn't expect it to be the same as everyone else.
Hmm - Zhao Jinmai thought about it, there are still some differences.
The director uncle and his brothers are jars, and Brother Meng Bai is a vase.
Although they are all hollow, they are more beautiful, hehe...
The little girl secretly laughed in her heart.
"By the way, have you negotiated the actor for 'Liu Qi'?" Guo Fan remembered another thing.
Meng Bai nodded: "Yes, I happened to chat with him when I returned to Jingbei the day before yesterday, and it went quite smoothly."
Zhao Jinmai next to him was a little confused: "Are you talking about the actor for my 'brother'?"
"Yes." Meng Bai looked over and smiled: "According to your preferences selected before, I picked a suitable one from the last batch of candidates."
"Ah..."
Speaking of this, Zhao Jinmai immediately covered her face with embarrassment: "I just said that, just follow the requirements of the crew."
Before, after confirming that she would play "Han Duoduo", Meng Bai took a stack of photos of male actors and asked her to choose a few who she liked to be the backup actors for "Liu Qi".
"Liu Qi is your brother, so he must satisfy his sister." Meng Bai said generously at the time: "Tell me who you like, and if none of them are good, change a batch."
"I think they are all the same, anyway, they are not as good-looking as Brother Meng Bai."
"Little girl, although I like your honesty, you can't be too picky."
Zhao Jinmai thought it was a joke, so she picked out a few according to her understanding of the role.
Unexpectedly, Meng Bai really found people according to her choice.
She now feels both panic and a sense of being trusted.
Adolescent girls are always easily moved by such little thoughts.
If you change to someone a little older, you can see clearly that since Meng Bai can show her the candidates, he must have screened them once, so whoever he chooses will not be too different.
"So who did you finally decide on?"
"Qu Chuxiao, a junior of mine in the Central Academy of Drama."
When Meng Bai returned to school as an outstanding graduate to attend the ceremony, Qu Chuxiao was the first to stand up and ask questions, leaving a deep impression.
The crew received a lot of audition resumes for the actor who played "Liu Qi" this time, and his was one of them.
When discussing the candidates, Meng Bai saw that the name looked familiar, so he picked him out.
Being in a professional college like the Central Academy of Drama, he has also filmed a few web dramas in the past two years, but most of them are supporting roles, and the popularity is average.
So the salary is also cheap, half as expensive as Zhao Jinmai, 100,000 yuan.
The total salary of the male and female protagonists is 150,000 yuan. This is the current financial situation of "The Wandering Earth".
(End of this chapter)
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