Chapter 79

Shu Miao knew in her heart that she had never had a strong opinion, and her family did not have much background. After she unexpectedly became famous, she became obedient, listened to the company's arrangements, listened to the requests of her fans, and now mostly listened to Sister Lan.

But the He Fan incident...

She could see that Jixue wanted to play the role well and didn't care about traffic and fans. Sometimes even Su Ning couldn't change her mind, but this matter involved money, and a lot of money.

If Jixue doesn't know about this, what if he really suffers a loss in this matter?

If I know the truth but don't tell her, won't that harm her?

Every play of these young actors is very important now. If the producer has no money and goes bankrupt, it will be a bigger problem. She has been tangled in her heart, and besides this, Shu Miao is still hesitant about how to talk to Jixue.

She had never taken the initiative to talk to Jixue before.

Oh no, what should I do?

Jixue felt that she was a little strange in recent days.

But the two of them are not really friends now. As long as Shu Miao acts well, she doesn't care about anything else.

Even if they didn't have their own scenes, the young actors would come to the crew during their breaks to watch their seniors, especially Ye Qiuxin, act, and observe the other actors' conditions and the director's requirements.

Su Ning was here again today. He happened to send Ji Mowei and Qu Shoubai, who had just returned from Fashion Week, to the crew to play the two supporting roles that had been decided before. After watching for a while, he also felt that Shu Miao was a little strange.

"Why do I feel like she keeps looking at you from time to time?" Su Ning said to Ji Xue, "She even pretends to pass by, but actually comes here on purpose."

Who would walk around the set just to get a bottle of water?

"If she doesn't tell me, how can I know what she's thinking?" Jixue waved his hands, "Don't bother with her."

There are so many people paying attention to her on this set.

Jixue gets along well with everyone. Just now, Chu Zhen ran over to get her some water. Many people are staring at her. Does she have to control everyone?

Su Ning: ...

At first, he was afraid that Shu Miao and her people would bully her, but now he only had one thing to say: "You should be more restrained."

Last time, Su Ning felt that she had the physique of a bloody CP, but now he feels that he really underestimated her.

Snow accumulation is popular among both men and women.

"Oh, how can you say that to me?" Jixue brushed her hair and changed the subject. "By the way, has Mr. Su met He Fan recently?"

Su Ning: "We just chatted a few times. What happened to her?"

Ji Xue did not reply immediately, but glanced at Ji Mowei and Qu Shoubai and asked another question: "You have made a lot of money recently. Does the entire entertainment industry know about this?"

Glory has been making a lot of money recently, Su Ning couldn't deny it, and was a little confused: "So?"

"So I feel that Director He is not here for me. She is here to wait for you," Jixue said, "to ask you for some money."

To put it in a more respectable way in the industry, it should be investment.

Su Ning is now a hot commodity in the circle.

Su Ning: "I know this."

He was more sensitive in this regard than Jixue, and he felt it without her reminding him.

Now, most people may see that He Fan's studio is short of money. Director He has always been a well-known resource-rich new director in the industry. The investment in his first work was not low, but it was a bloodbath. The investment in the second work was still not low, and there was no shortage of well-known actors and actresses involved, but it was even more frustrating.

Jixue had never thought that she would be short of money.

When she had the idea of ​​participating in the show, she mentioned it directly to Zhu Lan, thinking that this was more direct. Generally speaking, it is difficult to make connections with artists like her.

But appearance is appearance. In real life, Jixue feels that outsiders’ comments are not very reliable. It is more like some artists are eccentric.

When I really saw Ji Xue, I felt that she was a little stupid.

The reason why everyone says she is a resource-rich person is that, first of all, He Fan has a prominent family background. Zhu Lan is investing because of this, even if she loses money, in order to build connections. But He Fan can't get any money now, she just hides it well.

It still hurts to hit two shots in a row.

Besides, her family didn't want He Fan to pursue art. They hoped that she would either return home early to inherit the family business or find a husband as soon as possible. They had let her try before but failed. Her family thought she was stubborn and simply stopped giving her money, trying to force her to return home early.

Therefore, Zhu Lan didn't want to continue giving money without restraint.

Moreover, He Fan used Ji Xue instead of Shu Miao for the role this time. Zhu Lan felt that she was already giving him face by giving him part of the money now. The previous investors basically came for Zhu Lan, and now they would definitely refuse to pay.

He Fan also knew in his heart that Zhu Lan and the others were not to blame for this.

The main reason is that I have been losing money all the time. Which company would dare to continue investing after seeing the financial report? Now everyone who knows the inside story is quite respectful and has not told anyone about it, which is already very good to her. However, as for the lack of money, only the poor know it.

He Fan does have some artistic pursuits. She can endure having to eat coarse food, but she still wants to make a new movie.

She is not signed to a company, she has her own small studio, and she has her own employees who need to eat and get paid, so He Fan has to go out and find a new sponsor.

Unfortunately, this is no longer the era of coal bosses, and sponsors are not so easy to find. It is said that many years ago, as long as you used art as a gimmick, they were willing to give you large sums of money and did not interfere much in the project.

He Fan felt very sorry about this.

If you ask who makes the most money in the circle now, it should be Su Ning. Coincidentally, who is most willing to spend money is also Su Ning.

Moreover, I heard that the Su family has the blood of a coal boss, which is simply perfect.

Maybe the snow and Su'ning are the pie that fell from the sky!

He Fan had not dealt with these bosses before and did not know Su Ning. Recently, he asked around and heard that he could spend so much money just to shoot a simple MV for those idols.

That was included in the album, it seems like the return on investment was not considered at all.

This boss seems to be a fool with lots of money! Oh no, he is very generous.

So she came to Yaoshan Film and Television City, actually just to wait and see, to meet Su Ning under the pretext of the accumulated snow, and then to naturally ask for money.

After all, he needed money, and he couldn't look poor. Before coming, He Fan discussed a detailed plan with the people in his studio.

She wanted to show as much as possible how promising the project was, and then casually mentioned that there was currently an investment gap and it would be a pity to miss it. Then when Su Ning gave her the money, she seemed reluctant to refuse, and then the deal was done.

But she still overestimated her social skills.

Ji Xue is currently filming a movie and Su Ning is very busy. They had briefly talked about it before, but she had never found the right opportunity to bring it up.

He Fan was thinking hard, but she didn't know that even if she didn't say it out loud, her troubles had been seen through by these two shrewd people.

But how could He Fan's acting skills fool Ji Xue? He could get the truth out of him in just two sentences.

The happiest moment in her conversation was when Jixue tentatively said that he could ask for less pay. Seeing her eyes light up, he knew that she was really poor.

Jixue guessed it, but didn't expose it. The first thing he did was to tell Su Ning the truth.

Su Ning first asked one question: "Do you want to act in her movie?"

Ji Xue replied: "Of course I thought about it. He Fan is capable. I think her lens aesthetic is no less than Tong Feifan, especially the long shots of several characters that she shot. They were done in one go, which shows her solid skills. President Su should have seen it too. This is very rare for an actor to hone his skills."

She particularly wanted to try this kind of one-shot acting, which places extremely high demands on the actors.

As for He Fan's box office failure, it was not her main consideration.

Su Ning said: "Then my answer to this question is very simple, I will invest."

When Su Ning himself was in trouble, he also sought investment everywhere. Putting himself in other people's shoes, he could lend a hand when they were in trouble. And now Ji Xue really wanted to shoot, so there was no reason for him to refuse.

But Su Ning has a second problem.

"I can invest money. But how and how much to invest is something I have to be responsible for the company and I can't make a decision lightly."

"He Fan's directing ability is good, and her shots are beautiful, but she has made two films, so I have to consider the return on investment," Su Ning said. "And to be honest, her project has a lot of room for improvement, which determines the amount of investment I give her."

"Jixue, if you have read He Fan's script, you should be able to understand this problem."

He Fan's films are not art films with a low box office ceiling; they are essentially feature films. However, the problem with the previous two films is that the scripts themselves were bland, giving the film a feeling of being beautiful but soulless.

Her shots are mature and the empty shots are beautiful, and they often appear in some scissorhands editing. Some film critics like them and give them high praise, but the audience finds them boring.

Judging from the first two failed films, He Fan's first film was about a seriously ill painter who traveled to complete his work in the last moments of his life. It was a road movie with beautiful pictures and a lot of investment, but it was a bloodbath.

The second film was a story about a late-night bar, which was very bourgeois and the background shots were better than before. It was obvious that she wanted to move towards commercial films, but it was still not popular and the release date was unlucky, so it barely made over 10 million.

Some viewers have seriously criticized He Fan's problems, saying that the shots are nice, but the story is suspenseful and even a bit dragged out. This problem is also reflected in the script handed over to Ji Xue this time.

The original work of this play is very short, a novel of more than a thousand words, called "The Eyes".

It tells the story of a newly graduated college student who went to a local psychiatric hospital for an interview for his graduation project. He met a very beautiful girl with bright eyes that seemed to be able to speak.

The girl whispered to him that she was not sick at all, and that her relatives had killed her parents in order to seize a huge amount of property and had framed her. She had no choice but to pretend to have mental problems and enter a mental hospital to avoid going to jail. She was looking for an opportunity to prove her innocence and begged him to take her out to find out the truth.

She was behaving normally and certainly didn't seem to be ill.

The college student fell in love with the weak and pitiful girl, and went to investigate the case, but he also found many doubts.

Legend has it that the couple involved in the rich man murder case even had their eyes gouged out, because there was a rumor at the time that the pupils would leave an imprint of the murderer's appearance when a person died, and the girl's relatives did become rich after the case.

All signs prove that what the girl said is very likely to be true.

Then the righteous college student took her out of the hospital and temporarily placed her in his own home, preparing to reveal the truth.

The last paragraph of the novel is about the student drinking the water that she handed to him. When he raised his head, the girl smiled.

The water cup was particularly large, it was a large enamel teacup. When he tilted his head back, it covered the lower half of his face, including most of his nose. At that moment, he heard the girl's words with a smile.

She said: "Hehe, eyes."

The novel is very short and does not contain much content. If it is made into a movie, it will definitely not be enough. The script needs to be expanded.

From Su Ning's point of view, she can use the mental hospital as the background, expand the suspense part, and cooperate with He Fan's lens. She can make a very good suspense film, which is a box office hit.

But after receiving the script, both he and Jixue were somewhat disappointed with it. This might be because romance films have been popular recently due to "Old Love Letters", so the script that was passed on greatly expanded the love line and added some suspense segments.

Judging from the script alone, Zhu Lan's evaluation is correct. The love line is integrated with other plot lines, which makes it a bit weird and a bit weird. It is similar to the problems of the first two movies. The plot is too empty and boring.

If you shoot like this again, you will still have to throw it.

"The money is not a problem, but I don't know if we can negotiate it." Su Ning said, "Jixue, I want to talk to her and ask her to make some major changes to the script."

But Su Ning knew it was difficult. He himself would not modify his own work just to cater to the interests of the investors. He also knew that this would be difficult for a director like He Fan to accept.

But if he just let Jixue film this script, it would be irresponsible to the artist's work.

He and Jixue were discussing this matter in a low voice. Jixue, as an actor, could not decide the script, but she also hoped that the foundation could be better. But at this moment, Shu Miao came over quietly. She didn't say anything, but suddenly stuffed a note into Jixue's pocket, then turned around and ran away, looking shy.

Su Ning: "…what did she give you?"

Jixue unfolded it and took a look, then said: "Oh, it's okay, just remind me that He Fan should be careful when he has no money."

She and Su Ning had been discussing this here for quite some time, but Shu Miao just found out about it.

"Boss Su, look," Jixue sighed, "I told you, she's just stupid and not very smart."

Su Ning: "...Okay."

He felt that he really didn't need to worry about Jixue's interpersonal relationships in the future, as someone like Shu Miao couldn't be done anything to her.