Chapter 318 You Are Different from What I Thought Before
[Detective Chinatown 2] has been filmed, and all that remains is post-production.
This was not difficult. Gu Wei had a complete film in his mind. He told the editor in the company about the main style and rhythm, and left the rest to the professionals.
All he needs to do is wait until the rough cut is out and tell the editor what needs to be changed.
Then he revised it version after version until Gu Wei was satisfied.
It is said that the editor has a hard time, but there is no way around it. Director Gu Wei is too busy and cannot do many things himself, so he can only let his subordinates work harder.
[The Richest Man in Xihong City] is still in production, and the company's editing department has added new work.
Fortunately, "Detective Chinatown 2" is tentatively scheduled to be released during the summer vacation next year, so there is plenty of time.
In addition, the company recently recruited several experienced editors from Huayi Brothers through headhunters, so even though a new project has been added, they can still handle it.
Huayi has been de-filming since last year, and the number of films shot each year has decreased. Mr. Wang and his wife are busy with real estate and building movie towns. They may feel that making money from movies is too slow, and building houses is faster.
Gu Wei couldn't comment too much on such matters.
Judging from the current situation, real estate is indeed profitable.
But Gu Wei has always believed that a person can only earn money within the scope of his cognition.
What it means is that you should do whatever you know to make money. Don’t touch things you don’t understand even if you see others making money.
Just as Gu Wei knew that there would be several good opportunities in the Internet industry in the next few years, such as short videos, Pinduoduo in the sinking market of online shopping, Didi Chuxing which was renamed this year, etc., all of which later became giant companies with a market value of over 100 billion yuan.
But if you ask him to set up a company to seize the market in these industries in advance and fight with other competitors in real battles, Gu Wei can't do it.
He knew that he was not cut out for it. Even if he knew that this industry could take off, he would probably end up being a stepping stone for others.
So at most he would be a venture capitalist, just like when he invested in ByteDance before, where he only took the money and did nothing, and even entrusted the shareholder voting rights to Zhang Yiming.
Knowing is easy, but doing is difficult. There are many things that you cannot do just by knowing them.
Gu Wei felt that his abilities were limited, so he decided to just be a big star in the entertainment industry.
After finishing his work at the company, Gu Wei boarded a flight to Shanghai overnight.
Nirvana in Fire has been preheated for nearly a month. It was broadcast on two channels in Beijing and Shanghai, and exclusively on Tengxun Video on the Internet. With Gu Wei's popularity as a guarantee and the quality of Noon Sunshine as a backing, the three major platforms are full of confidence in this ancient costume political drama.
Various types of publicity have been launched one after another, bombarding the audience from multiple directions, from television stations to the Internet.
The audience also expressed great expectations for this drama, which is said to be Gu Wei's first costume drama since he started acting.
In particular, many of his fanatical fans spontaneously promote the TV series on major online platforms every day.
The crew’s official Weibo account has also been sending various stills and video highlights to attract everyone’s attention.
The TV series became popular before it was aired.
This situation is completely different from the original time and space where [Langya Bang] was launched in obscurity and was not taken seriously.
The reason is very simple, because the protagonist is Gu Wei, who is currently the top star in China and the number one among the young generation of actors in terms of popularity, popularity and achievements.
The three TV series he has participated in since he started his career have all been huge hits. Even the one with the worst performance, "Come On, My Love", can be regarded as the hottest drama of the year, and the other two are even more phenomenally popular.
Moreover, Gu Wei's influence is no longer limited to China. At the end of last year, "Come, My Love" was sold to Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asian countries, and its broadcast results were very good.
His domineering CEO style and unparalleled handsome appearance in the drama have charmed many local young female audiences and captured the hearts of many foreign female fans.
After the TV series "Love O2O" finished airing in China this year, the copyright of the TV series in Southeast Asia sold very well because of the solid foundation laid by "My Sunshine".
The package price for Japan, South Korea and Taiwan is 10 million each, and the total for Southeast Asian countries including Thailand is 30 million.
This 60 million copyright fee may not seem like a lot compared to domestic prices, but it is completely free.
The most important thing is to further spread Gu Wei's influence.
It was already late at night when the plane landed. For convenience, Gu Wei did not return to his house in COFCO Seaview, but directly checked into the hotel prepared for him by the program crew.
In order to promote his new drama Nirvana in Fire, Gu Wei accepted the invitation from Shanghai TV, the broadcasting platform, to participate in the recording of their hit variety show Go Fighting this year.
Ever since the hit show "Running Man" imported from South Korea by Blueberry TV last year, major local satellite TV stations have imitated and produced their own outdoor variety shows, hoping to take advantage of this wave of popularity to attract some traffic, which is also an exploration of this new form of variety show.
Shanghai TV is no exception, but they did it more carefully and in-depth. They did not copy "Running Man" on a whim, but bought the copyright of the popular Korean entertainment program "Infinite Challenge" from South Korea's MBC, and produced "Go Fighting" based on it.
We spent a lot of money to invite Huang Bo, Sun Honglei, Huang Lei, Luo Zhixiang, Wang Xun and Zhang Yixing to become permanent members.
As expected, the show received numerous praises from the audience as soon as it was broadcast. The few people known as the "Extreme Men's Gang" each had their own personalities and did their best to make the new variety show "Extreme Challenge" very exciting.
The next morning, Gu Wei arrived at the recording location of the program under the guidance of the staff.
"Xiaozhu, Wangxun, Yixing, good morning~"
When Gu Wei arrived at the venue, there were only three of them.
Among the members of Extreme Man Gang, only the least famous Wang Xun is most familiar with Gu Wei because they just finished filming the movie "Detective Chinatown 2" together, in which Wang Xun played the role of "Lu Guofu", the godson of Uncle Qi.
I had met Xiaozhu Luo Zhixiang once before when he was filming a Pepsi commercial, so we can be considered acquaintances. As for Zhang Yixing, I had only heard of him but never met him in person. Today was the first time I met him.
"Director, I didn't expect we'd meet again so soon!"
Wang Xun grinned and spoke to Gu Wei.
"Once we're out of the crew, you don't have to call me director, just call me by my name."
"That won't do. We can't call each other by random names!"
Wang Xun refused without hesitation.
Gu Wei smiled and said nothing.
After greeting Luo Zhixiang, Gu Wei turned his gaze to Zhang Yixing, who had a dazed expression.
"Hello, Brother Wei!"
Zhang Yixing was very respectful, serious and polite.
"We are all young people, there is no need to be so restrained."
Seeing that he seemed a little nervous, Gu Wei comforted him softly.
"I had dinner with Xiaolu and Zitao in Beijing before."
Hearing Gu Wei mention his former teammates, Zhang Yixing suddenly became curious.
"Brother Wei, do you know them?"
"I met Xiaolu while filming a movie."
Then he remembered something and smiled.
"Zitao, did you see the news about London Fashion Week? He ended up sitting next to me. We met after the fashion show."
Gu Wei's reminder reminded Zhang Yixing of Huang Zitao's previous embarrassing incident and he couldn't help laughing.
"At the dinner table, they were talking about you."
"Well, what did they say?"
Zhang Yixing likes strange things the most.
“They said you worked really hard.”
Gu Wei emphasized it again after he finished speaking.
“Always working really hard!”
Zhang Yixing touched his head and smiled foolishly.
"Maybe I'm a little stupid and don't know what to do, so I just do more."
The two chatted for a few more sentences and their relationship quickly became closer.
Zhang Yixing looked at Gu Wei.
"Brother, I feel that meeting you in person today is a little different from what I imagined."
Now it was Gu Wei's turn to be curious.
“Is it better or worse?”
"Of course it's better, very approachable!"
Zhang Yixing said quickly.
"So what did you imagine me to be like?"
"When I first returned to China, I felt that you were very popular and had a very high status there, just like Rain in Korea. You must be a big star and hard to approach."
"Oh? It seems Rain always acts like a big shot in Korea!"
Gu Wei teased him deliberately.
"No, that's not what I meant. I wanted to talk about your respective status in the entertainment industry."
Zhang Yixing was a little flustered and didn't know what to say.
"Haha~ Don't worry, I'm just kidding."
As he said this, Gu Wei patted his shoulder to comfort him.
Not long after, Huang Bo, Huang Lei and "King of Looks" Sun Honglei arrived at the shooting scene one after another.
Gu Wei greeted them one by one.
Several people were also very enthusiastic about him.
Among them, Huang Lei is a teacher at Beijing Film Academy and is particularly close to Gu Wei, a student of Beijing Film Academy.
Huang Bo jokingly said to Sun Honglei, "Honglei, your title of King of Looks is unworthy of its reputation. Today you have seen what true good looks are like!"
"No, Gu Wei and I are different types of handsome guys. People like you shouldn't speculate about our circle of handsome guys. You have nothing to do with it."
Sun Honglei walked up to Gu Wei, put his arm around his shoulders, and said to Huang Bo.
"Gu Wei's is called "Real Handsome," and yours is called "Cricket!"
Teacher Huang Lei ruthlessly sabotaged his performance.
A few people were chatting and laughing, and Gu Wei found it very interesting to watch from the side.
He feels that if you record some variety shows for a long time, you can really make some good friends, and it's also fun to have some fun joking with each other.
Of course, the most important thing is that you have to meet someone with high emotional intelligence and who can have fun. You definitely can't make friends with someone who can't tell a joke or who just does his job during the show.
Gu Wei knew that it was because of the participation of "Little Lamb" Zhang Yixing in "Go Fighting" and the friendship he made with these older brothers who were of their uncle generation that he was able to be taken on to act in many dramas later on.
For example, Sun Honglei, who had always bullied him on the show, took him to star in the hit drama "Mr. Good" this year, in which he also starred. A few years later, when filming the popular drama "Sweeping Dark Storm", he did not forget to support his younger brother.
Huang Bo also cast Zhang Yixing in a supporting role in his directorial debut, A Good Show.
To be honest, Zhang Yixing’s acting skills cannot be said to be very bad, it’s basically non-existent.
Just like he said, he worked very hard, but that was all he did.
She's good at dancing on stage, but she doesn't really have any talent as an actor.
In addition, he is the one with the least fame and fans among the four returning sons, and his resources in the mainland are definitely not as good as those of his teammates. Fortunately, after he came back, he participated in the variety show "Go Fighting". The popular variety show made him famous among the people, and he also made several good brothers who could support him.
Of course, this also indirectly shows that Zhang Yixing himself should have a good personality, otherwise people like Sun Honglei and Huang Bo are veterans who have been in the entertainment industry for many years, and it is impossible for them to help him unless they have a certain level of relationship with him.
After everyone chatted for a while, a staff member from the program team came over to remind them that the recording of this episode of "Extreme Challenge" would start soon.
The name of this program is [Ice-filing March] and the recording time is a whole day, starting in the morning and ending in the evening.
The whole process is not complicated. The program team prepared 7 ice cubes of different weights to distribute to everyone, which is considered as everyone's starting capital.
Various games will be played in the middle. By winning or losing the game, everyone has the opportunity to win the ice cubes in other people's hands. Until the end, whoever has the heaviest ice cubes in his hand will win the day.
"Let me say a few words. Gu Wei is a guest today, so we, the Extreme Men's Gang, must show our enthusiasm and give him the warmest hospitality!"
When everyone was sitting side by side, Huang Lei said to the camera.
I don’t know whether the reception he mentioned is proper or not.
Sun Honglei understood what he meant immediately.
"Haha~ That's no problem, Gu Wei. Just follow me today. Everyone knows that I, Sun Honglei, am the most honest person. Look at Huang Bo and your teacher Huang Lei. They're even more cunning than monkeys when it comes to getting into trouble. I will definitely help you throughout the whole process today."
Sun Honglei said as he looked at Gu Wei with a silly smile.
Zhang Yixing on the side seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Wang Xun, who was on the other side of Gu Wei, said to him:
"Director, you can't trust any of these people."
Sun Honglei was unhappy.
"How can you say that? Everyone knows that I'm a righteous and honest young man."
"Hurry up and ask Yixing if he believes what you said."
Wang Xun said exaggeratedly.
Gu Wei watched these people creating the show effects with a smile on his face.
I have to say that the variety show feel of [Go Fighting!] is very good.
It's not that he acts awkwardly to make the audience laugh, or that he laughs in front of the camera deliberately for the sake of the show's effect when there are no funny points. Instead, he creates different personalities for himself, either smart, scheming, or honest, and creates jokes in the show through the conflicts between their personalities.
The day's recording went smoothly, and the production team thoughtfully used some small details of the game to promote "Nirvana in Fire".
For example, there was a scene where everyone wore full-body rag doll costumes to distribute flyers. The first one to finish was the winner. The flyers they distributed were promotional advertisements for Nirvana in Fire.
It contains promotional pictures of the TV series, introductions to the leading actors, as well as the TV station and time of the broadcast. This kind of promotion will not offend the audience at all during the show.
During the game, "King of Looks" Sun Honglei betrayed again as expected, but Gu Wei had expected it and never believed him. It was just that poor "little lamb" Zhang Yixing was hurt again.
Wang Xun was always around Gu Wei, trying to help him in some way, with a bit of flattery. Gu Wei was very grateful for his kindness.
Huang Lei said at the beginning of the show that Gu Wei's teacher would definitely take care of him, but when it came to the game, he calculated better than anyone else and completely forgot what he had said to Gu Wei at the beginning.
However, in the evening, when the program was finally recorded, Gu Wei still won the victory today.
This is partly due to his excellent physical and mental strength, and he also felt the kindness of the program crew.
Dear readers, since tomorrow is a holiday, I've been busy with family matters today, so I'll only write one chapter today. I now owe you a total of 5 chapters, and I'll try to work hard to finish them all in October.
(End of this chapter)
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