Chapter 160: Planning
Having lived in the same room for two years, He Pingsi and Su Yun had already developed a certain tacit understanding. Moreover, they had recently been cooperating with each other to prepare to return to Hong Kong to start a business. He Pingsi could roughly guess 80% to 90% of what Su Yun was thinking about now.
Since she has confirmed to join Zhao's, Su Yun naturally belongs to Fang Mona's faction who signed her.
For now, the Zhao family can only control the Zhao Film Company, but cannot completely control TBB. It was not until the beginning of this year that Zhao Rifu, who had reduced the business of the Zhao Film Company, became the largest shareholder of TVB and then naturally took on the position of chairman of the board of directors.
But even though he holds power, among TBB's senior management, there are still a group of "old hands" left over from the founding era who are competing with Fang Mona, who represents Zhao Rifu.
The culture of infighting within TBB has a long history. For a paratrooper with a strong posture like Su Yun, the first thing to do is to build up his own team and lay a solid foundation.
Therefore, it is natural for Su Yun to seek out friends who are about her age and are beginning to make a name for themselves.
In fact, it stands to reason that Su Yun could ask Fang Mona for someone else's help by allocating resources to build a new team. Given Su Yun's worth, as long as she could come up with a good reason and directly pick some of the leading actors in the film company, such as Ti Lung and Jiang Dawei, to form a powerful alliance, Fang Mona would probably agree.
"It's not that I don't want to play the leading role directly, but for now, I don't have a good martial arts script that's suitable for me. It's better to be steady and make commercial films, which I am best at, to lay a solid foundation." Su Yun came over and whispered to He Pingsi, "I've seen that the brand that Liying has been promoting in recent years is strange and heavy, with themes such as the Ten Great Cases and Hometown Gratitude, and the plots are mainly heavy."
"TBB is also trying to compete with them by producing drama-heavy TV series. Since I'm new here, it's not easy for me to get involved in dramas, so I plan to start with variety shows and movies."
"They focus on heavy things, I focus on fresh things; they want to shoot historical events, I shoot contemporary new things."
After contacting Su Yun about her search for someone, He Pingsi quickly understood Su Yun's plan: "Do you want to shoot a youth-themed film?"
"Yes, those old guys have already firmly grasped the inertial ratings. If I want to compete with them, I won't be able to get into the finals for three to five to seven years." Su Yun explained, "In this case, it is better to start a new stove and make this cake bigger."
Classic historical and martial arts themes have already been filmed to a certain standard by Liying and TBB, and most TV viewers only recognize the works of those gold medal screenwriters and gold medal producers. With her age and qualifications, if she were to rush in, both sides would be in trouble, and she might even offend countless people because of her ugly behavior.
On the contrary, youth-themed programs, which have been ignored by the two TV stations because of their large audience of middle-aged women, are a good entry point.
In fact, this is consistent with Fang Mona's idea at the time: the only ones who can snatch control from the housewives who control the TV remote control are the children in their families.
Fang Mona's approach back then was to use purchased animations and children's programs to attract child audiences, thereby achieving the goal of competing for ratings; and Su Yun's next target is the rebellious teenagers who are sandwiched between housewives and children.
If we look more closely, we will find that among those rebellious teenagers, female audiences are more competitive in terms of ratings and box office.
Combining the above considerations with Zhao's previous tradition of selling the "male beauty" of male stars, he would definitely have to look for handsome young men like Chen Baiyang and Zhang Querong who are both good-looking and well-read in poetry.
It's not that Ti Lung, Jiang Dawei and other leading actors are not handsome. If they were not handsome, they would not have become the leading actors in new-style martial arts films at such a young age and become successful and popular.
The most important thing is the style and status: martial arts movie actors like Ti Lung and Jiang Dawei all gave up studying and went out to work in society because their families were not well-off. They no longer have the temperament of a student brother, and they dress up like school bullies...
People like Chen Boyang and Zhang Querong come from wealthy families and have studied abroad. Apart from anything else, their English accents can only be cultivated through exposure to an English environment. When they put on a school uniform and stand on campus, they look like the standard prince charming campus avatar.
Unless Jian goes off the beaten track and makes a school bully theme, no character can fight better and attract the attention of both male and female students better than the standard campus male god.
Su Yun currently wants stability, which means she must package up her long-lost good friends and push them out to show off their beauty in exchange for corresponding rewards - although it sounds like a conscienceless scumbag boss, but bosses these days don't need conscience...
The only one with a conscience was the former boss of Jiayi TV, the tycoon He Zuozhi. After selling Jiayi and finding that Jiayi was ruined by the new boss to the point of bankruptcy and suspension of broadcasting, he paid severance pay to the employees who lost their jobs for some reason out of his own pocket. He did win a good reputation for his benevolence, but how much he lost depended entirely on his family's financial resources.
Perhaps it is true that every dragon has nine sons, each one is different. Ho Tso-chi is the illegitimate son of Ho Tung, the richest man in Hong Kong after the founding of Hong Kong, and the grandson of his father's brother is the gambling king of Macau, Ho Yung-sun.
But compared to gambling king He Yongxin, who is extremely career-oriented, strong-willed and ruthless in his work and therefore has many rivals, businessman He Zuozhi is well-known for his kindness and ability to get along with everyone - of course, Su Yun only discovered later that, counting from her own master Lu Shaolong's mother, her master's mother was also a Eurasian adopted by the He family.
Therefore, after learning that Kung Fu King Lui Siu Lung and Macau Gambling King Ho Yung Sun, two characters with almost completely different styles, could actually be cousins, Su Yun became calm about the current era of wealthy families with sprawling and unfathomable connections...
Is it really because Hong Kong and Macau are not so big? Not only are there too many descendants in the families whose names can be counted, but the same is true for the families of ordinary people. If you meet someone, you may be related to him: just like me, who is a disciple of Lu Shaolong, and He Pingsi, the daughter of He Yongxin, can be considered half of our family strictly speaking.
The reason why Su Yun's relationship with He Pingsi has made rapid progress in the past two years is inseparable from the promotion and influence of this close friendship.
This is truly an era of nepotism and connections.
After sharing his thoughts with everyone present, Zhong Bu Luo was the first to offer his opinion: "My current goal is to develop into a host, so I may not have enough time to enter the film and television industry."
Although his agent planned to package him into three rich young men's idols of the "Three Princes of Central", Chung Bu-lo knew that he could not compare with Pak-yang Chan in the singing world, nor with Cheung Que-rong in the film industry, so he found a career path for himself that was less competitive but still sufficient to support him for a lifetime.
"That's no problem. You can come here and play some minor roles in your spare time, just use it as a way to make money." Su Yun was very happy.
Zhong Bu Luo thought about it and nodded: "Then I have no opinion."
"What about us?" Unlike Chen Boyang who had a nonchalant attitude, Zhang Querong, who was more career-oriented, couldn't help but ask.
"I plan to start from my old path first, and let you transfer internally to Zhao Film Company temporarily, and start by shooting a youth-themed movie. It can also be regarded as a way to repay the signed petition of Hong Kong students back then." Su Yun answered.
When she was confronting the Taiwan side, Chen and Zhang relied on their influence among the student community to run around and mobilize students across Hong Kong to take action together. In the end, they rushed over with a petition signed by tens of thousands of people to add chips to Su Yun. She will definitely not forget this.
"Are we going to shoot the movie first?" Chen Baiyang, who is not good at acting, asked with some concern.
"Don't worry, since this is my first shot after entering the Zhao family, I must have prepared it to a very solid level - just like before, it's tailor-made for you, you just need to play yourself, it will definitely be easier than playing the role of Prince Beijing." Seeing that the lower half of his face that was not covered by the mask began to wrinkle, Su Yun quickly spoke to comfort him.
"I'll try my best..." Chen Boyang leaned back on the sofa with his head down, looking dejected.
"Please be so scheming!" Zhang Querong patted him and began to persuade this lazy but lucky old friend to spend more time on his career. "You are the most powerful idol among the three of us!"
"Wow, it's twelve o'clock? I have to go home, otherwise my mother-in-law will worry about me." Su Yun looked at his watch and stood up quickly when he realized it was so late.
"Then I'll leave too. I have to get up early tomorrow to go back to Macau." He Pingsi also stood up.
After saying hello to the three people who were planning to stay in the bar, Su Yun hurriedly took He Pingsi to the door.
Chen Baiyang, who was lying on the sofa, watched Su Yun and the others out of boredom with the corner of his eye. Suddenly, he remembered something from their action of taking off their masks and handing them to the door staff for recycling.
"Oh, I forgot to ask Mary to take off her mask. Look at what she looks like now." Chen Boyang slapped his head, remembering his old classmate Lin Wencong's comment that "she is at least ten times more beautiful than ordinary people."
"What's the point? We're going to shoot a movie later, so we'll definitely have a chance to meet each other." Zhang Querong replied casually.
"That's true..." Chen Boyang stroked his chin, still feeling a little regretful, "But we haven't seen each other for so long, I really miss you a little bit."
"Don't think too much. Judging from Mary's previous appearance, it would be a very difficult problem for her to grow old. Don't worry!" Zhang Querong took a sip of wine while listening to the song. "In short, she is the exquisite craftsmanship of the goddess Nuwa, and we are just a bunch of mud dots thrown out at random... The difference between people is so great."
Seeing others become first-generation rich and their superiors at a young age, while they themselves are still struggling in the entertainment industry - they can probably only comfort themselves with the phrase "not as good as the best, but better than the worst".
Zhang Querong, who still has the image of Su Yun as a naughty kid teasing the "dog" when they first met deeply engraved in his mind, has a unique kind of calmness.