Chapter 67 Three million equals six 'Made in Hong Kong'
"Lin Ling, I'm back!"
Such a sentence was left in Lin Ling's message box. Chu Yue hung up the phone and watched the waiter deliver the food. He cut the steak gracefully like a gentleman. Chu Yue stuffed a piece into his mouth, took another sip of water, swallowed it, and then looked at Lan Xinlian, Zhu Xiaotian and Long Jiahao opposite him.
Zhu Xiaotian is a director, but he is not very famous and is different from other young directors. Many young directors go to DVs without feature films to shoot, and have achieved certain results in various film festivals!
Zhu Xiaotian is also a young director who shoots short films with DVs. He graduated from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. He made several short films, but none of them could win at the film festival. It was because the short films he had always filmed were not that kind of conceptual and abstract style, but were filming short films like shooting police and gangster action movies!
Unsuccessful filmmakers always have their own circle. Zhu Xiaotian and Long Jiahao are both people in this circle! But Ah Hao always believes that Zhu Xiaotian is very talented and can definitely be a good director!
"A Yue, I know about you. I know that filming with you will definitely offend some people. But I am not afraid. I just want to be a director, and no one can stop me!" Zhu Xiaotian stared at Chu Yue, his eyes as if there was a flame. Once he had a pursuit, what else was scary?
In Zhu Xiaotian's eyes, Chu Yue saw his determination and enthusiasm, and he nodded solemnly: "Then we can cooperate and make a wonderful drama for everyone to see!"
After the meal, the four of them went directly to where Ah Hao and Chu Yue live in Saigon. Here, four young people who were passionate about the movie were talking about how to make the first drama! Zhu Xiaotian waved his hand with great experience: "If you want to shoot the first drama, the first thing you have to do is funds. If you don't have money, you can't do anything!"
Qian! Chu Yue discovered for the first time that this thing he didn't care about had such a big effect. He pondered for a moment and was about to speak, but he heard the doorbell ringing. He went up and opened the door, looking at Lin Ling who was smiling outside the door, and a warm feeling appeared in his heart: "You are here, I know you will come! Come in!"
"I also know you will come, so after I learned the message from your message mailbox, I rushed here immediately!" Lin Ling's dress was not much different from two years ago. She was still beautiful, but not dazzling, and even more restrained.
After introducing each other, I learned about the topic Chu Yue and the others were talking about. Lin Ling just listened quietly next to him! Chu Yue couldn't help but look at Lin Ling. He suddenly felt that it seemed very rare for a girl who could listen quietly next to him. After calming down, he returned to the topic: "Let's talk about money first!"
Money is a big problem! However, they didn’t know that if Lin Ling, who was sitting next to them, could help them, money would definitely not be a problem. Unfortunately, Lin Ling must abide by the agreement with his father!
Chu Yue pondered for a while and he could travel around. Of course he wouldn't have no money, but it would be too exaggerated to take out tens of millions. He and Ahao's family didn't have that much money! However, he roughly calculated that he still had about 200,000 yuan in deposits, and the stocks he invested were worth about two million yuan, which was the limit he could take out: "I have two million!"
Ah Hao was also calculating that he had saved some money for his father in the past two years. If he asked for a little more from his family, it would be no big problem. He raised his hand: "I have one.2 million here!"
Lan Xinlian and Zhu Xiaotian looked at the two of them in frustration. The two of them combined could get up to 300,000 or 400,000! And all of this combined, only more than 3 million. What can more than 3 million do? The investment in "Initial D" at the time was as high as 100 million!
It is not easy for four passionate young people. They encountered the biggest problem before everything started! What can three million be done? Three million can be filmed six "Made in Hong Kong". However, they clearly positioned the first drama as a commercial film, rather than an art film that can win awards like "Made in Hong Kong". Only commercial films can make them value!
Yes, this is the best way for Chu Yue to re-enter the film industry. As long as he can get the attention of the film company, Zuo Zhisong and Jiang Zicheng dare not do whatever they want. If they want to get attention, they must be able to make a lot of money for the film company. Only in this way can the film company protect him, otherwise if he is still a small role like before, he will protect him!
Therefore, what Chu Yue wants is a drama that can sell the first drama and prove that he can make a lot of money for the film company! This is destined to be a commercial film. The most stable of commercial films is a police and gangster action film, which is also one of the types that Ah Hao is best at!
Of course, horror films can be popular at the box office like other themes, such as "The Hell", "The New Love" and "The Unforgettable", and horror films can be sold as much as art films. However, such things always rarely happen!
"Otherwise, let's try to make art films! With the current funds, it's only enough to make art films!" Zhu Xiaotian thought for a long time and finally his eyes lit up and put forward a good suggestion: "Making art films may not be profitable. Although the box office is definitely not good, as long as he can get the prize and sell it to another place, he will definitely have money to make money!"
It is a good idea to make art films. If you can really win the award at a certain International Film Awards, that would work. However, Zhu Xiaotian is not good at art films at all, so who can do it?
This time the discussion was destined to end in vain. After everyone left depressed, Chu Yue and Lin Ling went out together and came to the beach where they used to come. Lin Ling looked at the people who came to the beach for a walk in the dark and said in a deep voice: "Do you have any plans for coming back this time?"
Chu Yue shook his head slowly. He never liked to ask for any plan when doing things, and he always acted casually. Lin Ling couldn't help rolling his eyes. Chu Yue was smart because he was smart, but it seemed that he was used to freedom and never wanted to be restricted by any plan steps!
Lin Ling had thought about how Chu Yue could make a comeback, although Chu Yue never seemed to have risen! Just as Chu Yue thought, Lin Ling thought that under the premise that she could not use her own abilities, the best way was that Chu Yue could become a hit and gain the attention of the film company.
After all, it is not the era when the underworld was domineering before 1997. As long as there is a company that is willing to protect Chu Yue, Zuo Zhicheng and Jiang Zicheng dare not do anything randomly. Otherwise, a charge of destroying stability and prosperity would be enough to make any gangster unable to take advantage of it.
In order to help Chu Yue and also to help herself, she has collected a lot of information about filmmakers in the past two years, all of whom are people with extraordinary potential. As long as Chu Yue can become popular, she can provide him with a few team lists at any time.
However, all this is far from enough. It can only be the matter after Chu Yue became popular. Once he can't even get out of this critical first step, it will be useless to talk about the rest.
Chu Yue was definitely not without any idea. Since he was back, he was determined to succeed. He would never give up unless he ran away like the female teacher in college. He didn't accept that he lost like this, and he absolutely didn't like the feeling of losing.
However, it is not easy to take this critical step! Zuo Zhisong controls the gangster relationship as an outsider. Jiang Zicheng and Tu Jianyuan are both people with status and status in the circle, so it is not difficult to touch him.
Thinking of all this, Chu Yue sat down in distress, raised his head to meditate for a moment, and shook his head with a wry smile. According to common sense, it is basically impossible for him to make a comeback after he committed such great figures. Cai Fenghua was so popular back then, but he just said a word at the music awards ceremony that he was not convinced that Zhang Guorong won so many awards. With just one sentence, he was completely crushed into the abyss and became one of the famous "Four Crazy" in the entertainment industry!
In fact, Chu Yue knew very well that there were other ways. The most typical one was to join investors like Lu Huizhen. With such a rich man behind him, no one could touch him. However, Chu Yue could not do anything about selling himself in this life, nor could he do it in the next life!
"Otherwise, you go to see Lu Huizhen, she has always liked it... You know what I mean!" When Lin Ling said this, a smile rippled on her lips, swaying on her face like ripples, and she said with a teasing: "With her help, it's hard not to be popular!"
"Go to yours..." Chu Yue glared at his eyes, and he was immediately powerful and almost swearing: "Do you think I am such a person? By the way, how can Chen Ziyang treat you now?"
"It's still the same as before. I really don't know how to meet his request now!" Lin Ling's belly was about to laugh, but she still maintained a faint sadness on the surface, which was really superb acting!
Chu Yue was speechless and wanted to slap himself twice, but he actually mentioned this topic. After thinking about it, he turned around and said, "I have always been very curious. Why do you always have to stand on my side? You know this is very dangerous!"
"Did you forget? I haven't paid back the money I owe you yet, so I have to be your assistant to pay it back!" Lin Ling stared at Chu Yue seriously, but wanted to be the major shareholder in Delan before knowing that he was Chu Yue's assistant, what kind of expression did he look like: "And, we are not only old classmates, but also friends, so how can we not help you!"
Chu Yue pretended to be relieved, exhaled, and said relaxed: "That's great. I thought the heroes of the past had moved you, and I planned to promise you!"
"Go to you!" Lin Ling burst out laughing, and suddenly she was like a flower blooming, dazzling: "Next time you'd better find a man to save him, let him promise him!"
Seeing that Lin Ling didn't care much about his joke, Chu Yue was really relieved. Just as he was about to speak, a ray of inspiration flashed through his mind, and he jumped up and shouted: "I have it, I have it..."
"How many months have you been? Congratulations!" Lin Ling is not a scheming woman, it can be fun to joke!
Chu Yue curled his lips and stared at Lin Ling who was smiling: "I mean music!"
Music? Lin Ling suddenly realized, yes! Chu Yue had formed a band with Gary before, and if he started with music, he might have become popular all of a sudden...
Chapter completed!