Chapter 809 I Must Change the Script
There was a light snowfall in Beijing during the New Year's Day holiday. Even after two days, some residual snow could still be seen piled up on the roadside.
Outside an ancient courtyard house within the Second Ring Road, a well-dressed and well-built man and woman stood at the door.
The door opened within two minutes.
"Brother Wei, Xiaotian"
"Qilin arrived quite early. Have Brother Jing and his wife arrived yet?"
The two people outside the door were Gu Wei and Tian Xiwei. After opening the door, they walked into the yard and reached out to take off the masks on their faces.
“I’ve arrived and am chatting with my master in the living room.
Oh, by the way, Brother Yue is here too."
"Xiao Yueyue, doesn't he have a job recently?"
"It seems like he just came back from filming a variety show."
The three of them crossed the yard and entered the main house.
In the living room, Yu Qian, Wu Jing and Yue Yunpeng quickly stood up when they saw Gu Wei and others enter the room.
"Come on, what else do you want to bring?"
Yu Qian came forward and took the gift from Gu Wei.
"Wow~ Mingqian Longjing, this is good stuff."
"Brother Qian is knowledgeable. I don't know much about tea. I drink it but I can't tell good from bad. It's like a cow chewing on a peony."
Yu Qian put the tea leaves aside with a smile and looked at Xiaotian beside Gu Wei.
"Who is this?"
"Oh, this is Tian Xiwei, who plays my sister in Joy of Life. She said she wanted to meet Brother Qian, so I brought her along."
After saying this, Gu Wei said to Tian Xiwei:
"Yu Qian, Brother Qian, didn't you say you particularly like his crosstalk?
As for Brother Jing and Xiao Yueyue, I don’t need to introduce them in detail.”
Xiaotian greeted the three people with a somewhat reserved smile: "Teacher Yu Qian, Teacher Wu Jing, and Teacher Yue Yunpeng"
"What a beautiful pair of eyes this girl has!"
Yu Qian praised with a smile.
Gu Wei will treat everyone he brings with him well, no matter what their relationship is.
"Don't call me teacher. I really can't bear the responsibility. Everyone in this room is my teacher. Just call me Xiao Yueyue." Yue Yunpeng waved his hands repeatedly after hearing what Tian Xiwei said.
Yu Qian is his uncle-in-law. Wu Jing and Gu Wei are both big names in the film and television industry and are close friends with Yu Qian. He is considered a junior here.
Guo Qilin said: "Don't worry, Brother Yue, I'm here for you."
Wu Jing smiled and raised his eyebrows at Gu Wei.
He clearly remembered that two days ago, Bona's Yu Dong held a banquet, and Gu Wei brought Nazha with him. Now he came to Yu Qian's place with another female star.
But he didn't say anything.
Gu Wei is young, rich, famous and has a high status, so he is usually surrounded by many scandals. This kind of thing is not uncommon in the entertainment industry.
After sitting down, Gu Wei, Yu Qian and Wu Jing chatted, while Yue Yunpeng and the other two acted as listeners and rarely interrupted.
"Where's Sister Nan? Didn't you two say you came together?"
Gu Wei asked Wu Jing.
"She went to the kitchen to help Sister-in-law Qian." Wu Jing replied.
The three chatted for a while, and Yu Qian mentioned Gu Wei's movie that was currently showing: "Your movie has been very popular these days. I took your sister-in-law to see it a few days ago. The story is good and the acting is even better!"
Gu Wei smiled and said, "Thank you for your support, Brother Qian."
"The box office should have exceeded 1 billion by now, right?"
"It's broken. I checked the real-time box office this morning and it's 1.16 billion."
Yu Qian sighed, “People say you are the box office king, and that nickname is absolutely right.
If someone else were to star in a film about the subject "Send You a Little Red Flower," 500 million would be a huge hurdle, but now it's heading towards 2 billion."
Gu Wei waved his hand: "It's different now than it was before. In the past, movies with this kind of theme would have been almost impossible to get high box office, but nowadays audiences pay more attention to the quality of the movie and are very tolerant of the subject matter, just like the movie "Dying to Survive" back then.
My movie "Better Days" last year was not originally expected to have a high box office, but it turned out to be a big hit.
As long as the film is good, the audience will respond well!"
After Gu Wei finished speaking, Guo Qilin and Yue Yunpeng in the room nodded in agreement.
Wu Jing looked at them and smiled, “He said that just to be modest, don’t take it seriously.
Although what he said makes sense, because he is Gu Wei, his fame and appeal are better than any means of publicity, so as long as the quality of the movies he stars in is good, the audience will buy into it. This may not be the case for others.
Last month, Bona's big-budget film "Emergency Rescue" was a huge flop. The filming techniques were exactly the same as Lin Chaoxian's previous film "Operation Red Sea", but the box office was not good.
There are so many factors that determine whether a movie is a hit, including the right time, the right place, and the right people."
Gu Wei smiled and did not refute Wu Jing's words. What they both said was actually correct, they just had different angles.
"By the way, what do you think about Yu Dong asking us out for dinner a few days ago?" When mentioning [Emergency Rescue], Gu Wei asked about the previous dinner.
"What else can I do? The filming of The Battle at Lake Changjin is about to start. This crew is different from the previous ones. It's huge.
I heard that there are several thousand staff members alone and tens of thousands of extras. Plus, three big directors are cooperating in the filming and have asked us two to come. Yu Dong must be worried.
If you listen to what he said during the dinner, you will find that he just hopes that we can cooperate well with the director and cooperate with the filming as much as possible.
Actually, it’s a bit redundant. This isn’t the first time we’ve worked together, so there’s nothing to worry about.”
Gu Wei smiled and said, "It's likely that the poor performance of [Emergency Rescue] has made Yu Dong pay more attention to [Changjin Lake].
After all, this film cost over 1 billion yuan to produce, and if anything goes wrong, Bona will not be able to handle it."
After saying that, he thought for a moment and said, “And I think Yu Dong’s main intention is that we both try our best to cooperate with the director during filming.
There's nothing wrong with Lin Chaoxian, we're one of them and I've worked with him before, but I'm not sure about Xu Ke and Chen Kai."
Wu Jing nodded and said, "Director Xu Ke should be fine. I first worked with him on The Legend of Zu. Director Chen..."
Wu Jing didn't say anything else. He looked at Gu Wei, and they both understood what he meant.
As one of the top directors in the domestic entertainment industry, Brother Chen Kai is an unattainable director in the eyes of others, but he is not very reliable in the eyes of Gu Wei and Wu Jing.
After all, his record in recent years has been quite poor. Both of them are people who value their reputation, and they are afraid that Brother Chen Kai will do something weird and mess up "Changjin Lake".
"I've made up my mind. After filming starts, I will bring the screenwriter with me. I already have some ideas about the character of Wu Wanli.
There’s nothing wrong with the growth that the script wants to express, but the early scenes are a bit thin, and the characters aren’t very good either. I definitely need to change this.
Besides, I had a chat with Lin Chao about this before, and he had no objection."
Gu Wei told Wu Jing his idea, and Wu Jing nodded in agreement.
"No problem, we'll discuss the details when we go back to filming. Even though there are three directors, many things can be solved through discussion."
Before long, the dishes were ready and the family dinner began.
This is not the first time that Gu Wei and Wu Jing have come to Yuqian, so everyone is quite casual.
Yu Qian opened two bottles of fine wine that had been stored for many years to entertain the two of them. The atmosphere at the dinner table was very warm as they drank and chatted.
"Gu Wei, I'd like to toast you. I have a favor to ask of you!"
Xie Nan picked up his wine glass and said to Gu Wei.
Gu Wei was a little surprised. He glanced at Wu Jing and then picked up the wine glass.
"Sister-in-law, if you have anything to say, just tell me. Don't be so polite."
"I know you and Wu Jingyue will be joining the crew to shoot "Changjin Lake" at the end of the month. I know it's a war movie with a lot of action scenes.
I still remember when Wu Jing was injured during the filming of Wolf Warrior 2.
His leg has just healed from surgery, and I'm worried he'll injure himself again while filming."
Gu Wei suddenly realized: "I understand. I will watch over Brother Jing during filming and prevent him from doing any dangerous actions."
Wu Jing looked helpless: "Wife, I'm fine, I won't be hurt again this time"
"Shut up! You promised me this every time we were filming, and now you're covered in injuries.
Where is the good spot on your body?"
Before Wu Jing could finish his words, Xie Nan interrupted him.
The other people at the table were secretly laughing when they saw this scene.
The fearless "Wolf Warrior" is still afraid of his wife.
"Sister-in-law, let me say something.
In fact, Wu Jing has not been as hard-working in filming in recent years as he was when he was young.
He also knows that he is getting old now and can’t fight anymore.”
Yu Qian smiled and tried to defend Wu Jing, but Wu Jing stiffened his neck and said, "Who's old? I can still fight for another 20 years."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Nan glared at him, and Wu Jing immediately changed the subject: "Of course, no matter what kind of drama you are filming, you must pay attention to safety. I actually want to do more drama now."
After that, everyone else at the table laughed.
Everyone was relaxed at Qian Ge's family dinner, chatting and laughing and talking about movies. Guo Qilin suddenly mentioned something: "I saw the news today that the movie "The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity" that was released before New Year's Day was pulled from the shelves. It was only released for 10 days."
"[Qing Ya Ji]?
Sounds a bit familiar.”
Wu Jing was still thinking when Xie Nan beside him said, "It's a fantasy movie directed by Guo Jingming. It was released before New Year's Day. I told you before that I wanted to go see it."
“Oh, I remember now.
I am very familiar with Director Guo’s name in “Tiny Times”, but I have no interest in his movies at all.
But how come it was pulled from the shelves after only 10 days of release?”
Gu Wei said: "It is likely that it was plagiarized before."
Seeing others looking over, he continued to explain, "Director Guo started out as a writer. One of his early novels has been accused of plagiarism, and those who were plagiarized have been defending their rights for many years.
On the 21st of last month, 156 film and television practitioners, including Qiong Yao, jointly signed an open letter under their real names to boycott him and Yu Zheng, who had a history of plagiarism.
Perhaps in order to prevent the release of his new movie from being affected, at the end of the month, Director Guo posted a long Weibo post to formally apologize to the plagiarized author Zhuang Yu.
This is also the first apology in 15 years."
"Because his other works are plagiarized, the movie he directed is also not allowed to be shown?"
"Well, part of it is that you may not have seen the movie "The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity".
This movie itself also has big problems. It has distorted values and contains serious vulgar behaviors.
In essence, it is a gay "little boy" movie.
I think this is also the main reason why the relevant departments pulled the movie from the shelves."
"Can this kind of movie be released?"
Wu Jing, a straight man, finds it hard to understand why someone would make a movie that "sells homosexuality".
After all, he was the man who once asked several members of EXO whether they were male or female.
"Brother Jing, this society is diverse. You may not understand it, but many little girls like it.
Although the box office performance is not ideal, I remember that "The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity" has already taken in over 400 million yuan. Of course, Director Guo claimed that the film had a 300 million yuan investment, so this result must be a big loss."
Wu Jing shook his head. Just like he didn't understand why EXO's androgynous style was so popular, he now completely couldn't understand the movie directed by Guo Xiaosi.
There is an essential difference in the way they think between the two of them. They are in completely different worlds.
A family gathering, everyone was having a great time.
Finally, everyone took a group photo and uploaded it to the Internet.
Gu Weifa posted on his Weibo:
#Thank you for the warm hospitality, the food was delicious. Let's meet again next time when we have time! @于签@吴景#
Gu Wei has so many followers on Weibo that as soon as he posts something, there is a series of replies and discussions.
My brother went to have dinner with Yu Qian and Wu Jing. It looked like a family dinner. They have a really good relationship.
I think I met Yu Qian during the filming of Wolf Warrior 2. I remember Gu Wei once posted a photo of himself riding a horse, which must have been at Yu Qian's horse farm.
[Hot news, Yu Qian and Wu Jing are good friends, Gu Wei and Wu Jing are also good friends, so they know each other, and their relationship should be very good.
The person next to Yu Qian should be his wife, and Wu Jing also brought Xie Nan with him, which shows that everyone is very casual and just having a simple gathering.
[It is understandable that Guo Qilin and Yue Yunpeng appear, but why does Tian Xiwei appear in this photo, and next to Gu Wei? Are the two of them in a relationship?
Fan Xian and Fan Ruoruo, what an "orthopedic" plot, I like it! 】
The three Fan siblings were all there, most likely because they had just finished filming "Joy of Life 2," so they were together. Also, I heard Xiaotian is an artist at Gu Wei's company, so with Guo Qilin coaching her, there shouldn't be any problems.
[Xiaotian's Fan Ruoruo is really beautiful, and she is also a "brother-loving" person. She is so likable. I really like her.
I didn't expect that she is so beautiful in real life. I love her.
Seeing Gu Wei, Guo Qilin, and Tian Xiwei together, I'm really looking forward to "Joy of Life 2". I love this drama so much, I really hope the second part will be released soon.
[It's already wrapped, and it'll probably air next year. I want to see Fan Xian come back to life!]
Netizens said all kinds of things, and many people also spread rumors about Gu Wei and Tian Xiwei.
Gu Wei did not make any response. For him, spreading rumors was a common thing and had no effect on him.
Moreover, this opportunity can more or less increase Tian Xiwei's popularity.
This is just like the supermodels who are in love with Leonardo. Everyone knows that they will not be able to go to the end with Leon, but as long as they are in love with him, their fame will soar, so no supermodel will refuse to be his girlfriend.
After the dinner, Gu Wei sent Xiaotian home.
In the car, Tian Xiwei kept looking at her phone with a silly smile on her face.
"What are you happy about?"
"Um~ Nothing much. I just posted a photo of our dinner together. My Weibo followers are increasing, so I'm a little happy."
Gu Wei shook his head and said nothing. He sat in the car with his eyes closed to rest. He had just drunk a lot with Wu Jing and was a little drunk now.
Tian Xiwei secretly looked at the handsome boss next to her.
She was happy on the one hand because her Weibo followers had increased, and on the other hand because netizens were discussing her relationship with her boss.
She was really envious of her boss, but when she thought about Sister Dilireba when she was filming "You Are My Glory", Sister Jingtian in the recently completed "Joy of Life", and Sister Nazha in the company, she sighed inwardly.
She thought she was a beauty, but compared to these people, she instantly became a passerby.
But she lowered her head slightly, straightened her chest, and regained some confidence.
"There's still a lot of time to go, Xiaotian, don't rush, take your time."
(End of this chapter)
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