Chapter 318 Pan Xiaowei: Sister Man, let’s break up (please subscribe to support!)
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"Hey, have you watched "My Youth is All About You"? "
"Please don't mention this movie to me. It makes me want to vomit. No, I just can't understand how Pan Xiaowei could make such a bad movie? Is it forced art? The key is that it's not art at all. To be honest, apart from Hu Man's good figure, "My Youth Is All About You" is really useless!"
"Who said it wasn't true? Pan Xiaowei really lost all the people in our Central Academy of Drama."
"Yeah, I really hope Pan Xiaowei is not from our Central Academy of Drama."
"That's what I hope for, too. If you say you can't do it, then you should be more humble. I heard from a senior in the crew of 'My Youth Is All About You' that Pan Xiaowei obviously doesn't know anything, but he especially likes to give orders to Senior Brother Guan Shaojie. Because 'My Youth Is All About You' was funded by Pan Xiaowei's father Pan Xulong, Senior Brother Guan Shaojie was sidelined by Pan Xiaowei, and that's why this terrible movie was made. Otherwise, it wouldn't be this bad."
"By the way, I also heard a piece of news that 'My Youth Is All About You' is based on the story of Pan Xiaowei and our school beauty Dong Ni."
"Pfft! No way, Dong Ni and Pan Xiaowei had a relationship. Don't disgust me anymore. Dong Ni is my goddess. How could that nouveau riche Pan Xiaowei be worthy of having dated my goddess?"
"Pan Xiaowei is unrequited love. Didn't they also show it in "My Youth Is All About You"? Dong Ni doesn't like Pan Xiaowei. Pan Xiaowei pursues Dong Ni in every way and even wants to pick the stars in the sky and make a necklace for Dong Ni. But Dong Ni still falls in love with someone else, leaving Pan Xiaowei with regrets."
"Now that you mention it, it seems to be true. Wait, wait, in "My Youth Is All About You", it seems that Dong Ni has a boyfriend, and Pan Xiaowei even had a fight with two people who said bad things about Dong Ni?"
"How do you see the movie? Isn't the second male lead who never shows his face Dong Ni's boyfriend? No, he plays Dong Ni's boyfriend. And the band-aid on Dong Ni's knee is a metaphor that Dong Ni has slept with her boyfriend. How do you see this movie?"
"It was so bad that I watched it on my phone. To be honest, if my girlfriend hadn't been reluctant to spend the money on the ticket and insisted on watching, I would have left after watching the beginning."
"Me too, my girlfriend forced me to watch it. My girlfriend also asked me to learn from Pan Xiaowei. What the hell am I supposed to learn from him? How can I learn how to be a lapdog? I have never seen a more cowardly man than Pan Xiaowei. A good rich second-generation turned out to be a dog. I get angry when I think of it. A fellow like Pan Xiaowei wants to pursue Dong Ni. Why doesn't he take a piss and look at himself?"
"That's right. How can Pan Xiaowei be worthy of Dong Ni? In my opinion, if Pan Xiaowei hadn't been born in a good family, he would be nothing. It's a pity that the school praised him so much before, saying that he might be the best student of our Central Academy of Drama in recent years. Bah, if you and I had a good father like Pan Xulong, we would definitely be ten thousand times better than him. I even suspect that he paid to come to our Central Academy of Drama."
"It's very possible. With his acting skills, he can play himself like that. No one else can do it. I guess the acting skills of the freshmen who just entered the school may be better than him."
"It's a pity that we are not as good at reincarnation as Pan Xiaowei. We can't even make a movie with a million or eight hundred thousand, but he can spend 100 or 200 million to make a piece of shit and even become Hu Man's boyfriend."
"Alas, it's a pity that Hu Man, a beautiful flower, is stuck in Pan Xiaowei's pile of cow dung."
"But I think Hu Man should get rid of Pan Xiaowei soon. Think about it, no matter how rich Pan Xulong is, he can't afford Pan Xiaowei's squandering. After Pan Xiaowei squanders all the Pan family's money, will Hu Man still be with Pan Xiaowei?"
"That's right, Hu Man is just attracted by Pan Xiaowei's money. Otherwise, how could Hu Man date Pan Xiaowei, considering that Pan Xiaowei has nothing?"
“I have to say, it’s really good to have money.”
"Yes, but don't let yourself get a child like Pan Xiaowei. If your child has a little self-awareness, and does not work hard every day, and spends his days eating, drinking, and having fun, he will never squander his family fortune. Don't be good for nothing and still have high aspirations. Otherwise, even if you have a fortune that rivals a country, there will definitely be a day when your own prodigal son squanders it all."
"Exactly. I guess Pan Xulong must be thinking how great it would be if he had a stupid son. In that case, he would just like to play around with a bunch of bad friends. Giving him a few hundred thousand pocket money every month would be enough. If he puts one or two hundred million in the bank, the interest alone would be enough."
"Hahaha... Hey, aren't our words a bit mean?"
"Yes, a little bit, but what we said is quite reasonable."
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After the two students from the Central Academy of Drama, who almost trampled Pan Xiaowei into the mud and whom Pan Xiaowei didn't even recognize, left, Pan Xiaowei, who had been sitting on a bench with his back to them and hunched over, finally straightened up.
Pan Xiaowei knew that the two students from the Central Academy of Drama were jealous. He was only a sophomore, but he had produced, written, and starred in a movie of his own, while they had to rely on themselves to start from scratch, and they felt unbalanced.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the school had previously created some momentum for Pan Xiaowei.
It’s because it’s been many years since the Central Academy of Drama had any college students shoot a movie to be released in theaters, and Pan Xiaowei is quite good at promoting himself.
As a result, the school leaders and teachers couldn't help but praise Pan Xiaowei.
Then, as rumors spread, Pan Xiaowei was praised highly.
There was even a time when many people at the Central Academy of Drama were saying that Pan Xiaowei would be the next president of the Student Union and would become an outstanding student representative of the Central Academy of Drama after graduation.
At that time, no one said that Pan Xiaowei was not worthy of Dong Ni. They all said that Pan Xiaowei, who made movies, and Dong Ni, the school beauty who had starred in several big productions, were a match made in heaven.
It can be said that that period was the most glorious time for Pan Xiaowei and also the happiest time for Pan Xiaowei. Pan Xiaowei was also very willing to go back to school to accept other people's flattery, especially to hear others say that he and Dong Ni were a good match.
Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long.
"My Youth Is All About You", a film that Pan Xiaowei had high hopes for, was ruthlessly withdrawn from theaters except Longxing Cinemas after only three days of release. Pan Xulong relied on his old face to beg other theaters to release it for two more days, but it was refused.
Pan Xiaowei, who has always been naive, witnessed the ruthless side of capital for the first time.
Longxing Cinemas only reluctantly insisted on showing "My Youth is All About You" for a week before other shareholders collectively opposed the continued showing of "My Youth is All About You". One shareholder even threatened that if Longxing Cinemas continued to show "My Youth is All About You", his cinema would withdraw from Longxing Cinemas.
There is no way, "My Youth is All About You" can only be downloaded in its entirety.
In total, even including the money that friends and relatives paid out of their own pockets to support Pan Xulong and Pan Xiaowei, father and son, the total box office of "My Youth Is All About You" barely exceeded 10 million.
If the investment in "My Youth Is All About You" was only three or five million, and it had a box office result of tens of millions, it would not have caused much damage to the Pan family.
But the problem is that Pan Xiaowei spent more than 80 million to make a low-budget production that could have cost only 10 or 20 million yuan at most!
Pan Xiaowei is naturally responsible for this situation.
——Pan Xiaowei’s character is too generous. Anyone who comes to him, he will just wave his hand and keep them all, no matter if they are people or things, as long as they are good enough.
This resulted in the crew of "My Youth Is All About You" being seriously overstaffed and buying a lot of useless things.
In fact, if it were just this, it wouldn’t cost much more.
The bad thing is that Pan Xiaowei always feels that if he does something, he must do it to the best of his ability.
So Pan Xiaowei wants the best of everything.
As for the Arri Alexa ultra-high-definition cameras alone, Pan Xiaowei bought ten of them because he believed the salesman who said, "Some good directors will set up more than a dozen cameras for one scene, and then shoot from multiple angles, and then edit them to create an ink-and-wash-like picture."
An Arri Alexa ultra-high-definition camera costs nearly one million yuan. Pan Xiaowei spent nearly ten million on these ten cameras alone.
For another example, you don’t need to buy a full set of Tutli lights - for a low-budget movie like "My Youth Is All About You", ten yuan is enough for three-point lighting, but Pan Xiaowei spent more than two million to buy a complete set of Tutli lights.
Power supply system, Steadicam, recording equipment Roland R88, slide rail, jib.
In short, the crew of "My Youth Is All About You" has everything.
It is no exaggeration to say that if it is equipped with a main camera worth tens of millions, the equipment purchased by Pan Xiaowei is almost enough to shoot a Hollywood blockbuster.
And film.
The film that can be played in movie theaters must be at least 35mm film, with 1800 pixels per roll, which can only hold 4 minutes of footage.
When Pan Xiaowei was in school, he heard from his teacher that what big directors particularly liked to do was "give one take", that is, to make a good movie by repeatedly shooting, and then they would ask for a thousand rolls.
Finally, Pan Xiaowei took the bill and looked at it. Wow, all these miscellaneous things cost more than 20 million yuan in total.
However, Pan Xiaowei didn't care too much about it at the time, because he felt that he could use these things when shooting other movies in the future.
In fact, apart from those big film companies, no one does what Pan Xiaowei does.
Most film crews don’t buy their own equipment to shoot movies. They almost always rent equipment to shoot movies. First, this saves a lot of money. Second, once the filming of a TV series is completed, there is no need to find a place to store these space-consuming equipment.
This is actually still a small head.
The real big expense is still employee salaries.
The crew of "My Youth Is All About You" was already seriously overstaffed, but Pan Xiaowei still dragged his feet - a movie that could have been finished in more than a month took him half a year to shoot.
During this period, Pan Xiaowei was hospitalized for three months due to a disease. All the crew members of "My Youth is All About You", including the odd jobs, were paid full salary.
There was also a location used for filming movies, which was originally rented on a daily basis, but Pan Xiaowei almost booked it for the entire year.
Without a budget and overall control, everything will be a mess.
If this doesn't cost money, then there's nothing wrong with it.
It can be said that Pan Xulong spent all his money crying.
Someone asked, didn’t Pan Xulong send a producer to help Pan Xiaowei?
Good question. In fact, a large part of Pan Xiaowei’s money went into the hands of this producer.
That's right.
Seeing that Pan Xiaowei was such an idiot and refused to listen to his orders, the producer decided to embezzle the money.
In order to prove himself to Pan Xulong, Pan Xiaowei "borrowed" all the subsequent money from his grandmother, except for the initial money Pan Xulong invested in him.
So, for a long time, Pan Xulong was kept in the dark, and when Pan Xulong found out about these things, it was too late.
The key point is that the most reckless thing Pan Xiaowei did was not to spend nearly 80 million to shoot "My Youth is All You", but that he mortgaged his grandmother's several demolished houses to loan sharks behind Pan Xulong's back, borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars, and invested all of it in publicity and promotion.
If "My Youth Is All About You" is really a good movie, not to mention spending 180 million, even if it costs two or three times more, it will definitely make back the money.
But the problem is that "My Youth Is All About You" was not well made and in the end, all the money was lost.
When Guan Shaojie saw that things were not going well, he cunningly pushed all the responsibility onto Pan Xiaowei, saying that Pan Xiaowei had sidelined him as a financier, which led to the terrible state of "My Youth Is All About You".
In fact, Guan Shaojie was not entirely framing Pan Xiaowei. During the filming of "My Youth Is All About You", Pan Xiaowei did like to give Guan Shaojie instructions.
However, to be honest, Guan Shaojie's level is just so-so, and his character is even worse. If he had some level of ability or professional ethics, "My Youth Is All About You" would not have been filmed like this.
But in the end, all of this was silently endured by Pan Xiaowei, who was too devastated to want to get entangled with Guan Shaojie.
Pan Xiaowei went from being a touted prodigy to falling into a quagmire, becoming a laughing stock for everyone.
Pan Xiaowei also has a joke in his heart: Sometimes if you don’t work hard, you won’t know what despair is! This time, Pan Xiaowei finally had a clear understanding of his own abilities.
On the other hand, Dong Ni is getting better and better. Now she plays the second female lead in the hit movie "The Chase 2" and has become the best student in Pan Xiaowei's class.
In this situation, Pan Xiaowei himself felt that he was not worthy of Dong Ni, without anyone telling him.
Others have achieved success in both love and career, but Pan Xiaowei has failed in both love and career, and has become a complete joke - a joke that everyone can laugh at, and he has lost even the courage to refute.
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Pan Xiaowei walked out of the campus alone and found a barbecue restaurant where there were no other customers.
After asking the boss for some barbecue, Pan Xiaowei started drinking one glass of wine after another.
When grandma found out that Pan Xiaowei had lost all her coffin money, she said nothing, but fell seriously ill the next day and almost passed away.
Pan Xulong, who had never touched Pan Xiaowei before because he had a son in his old age, slapped Pan Xiaowei in the face for the first time.
Pan Xiaowei's mother burst into tears and said that she should not have indulged Pan Xiaowei since he was a child.
Pan Xiaowei finally left only one sentence: "Just consider the compensation money this time as a loan from you. If I don’t make something of myself, I won’t come back." Then he left home and returned to school.
But Pan Xiaowei never expected that his family would be able to tolerate him and take his feelings into consideration, but people at school, for various reasons, unscrupulously called him worthless, making him realize completely what a waste he was.
When Hu Man found Pan Xiaowei, Pan Xiaowei was already drunk.
Hu Man helped Pan Xiaowei walk towards her car.
Pan Xiaowei drunkenly glanced at Hu Man, then kissed her on the face and said, "My wife is still the best. She has always been with me even though I have become such a mess."
Hu Man didn't say anything, but directly took Pan Xiaowei to the Sheraton Hotel, checked into a room, and helped Pan Xiaowei up.
Pan Xiaowei collapsed on the bed, Hu Man sat beside him and sighed.
Before she could recover from the shock, Hu Man was pulled by Pan Xiaowei and laid down on the bed.
"Hey, stop messing around." Hu Man said.
But Pan Xiaowei didn't listen. Instead, he rode on Hu Man, then kissed her and tried to unbutton her clothes.
Hu Man closed her eyes and let Pan Xiaowei do whatever he wanted.
But Pan Xiaowei was so drunk that his hands and feet were unable to move, and he spent a long time trying to unbutton Hu Man's clothes without success.
Hu Man sighed, opened her eyes, unbuttoned her own clothes, and then helped Pan Xiaowei take off his clothes.
At this time, Pan Xiaowei grabbed Hu Man's hand and looked at her with clear eyes.
"?" Hu Man looked at Pan Xiaowei curiously.
"Sister Man, let's break up, shall we?"
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(End of this chapter)
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