When I was in Reply 1988

Chapter 120 Idol
Li Renyong stood up and bowed to everyone first.

"Director Li said that I should take the lead, and all the seniors should just listen. After all, I am still young, and I still have a lot to learn from you seniors."

He paused for a moment and continued, "First of all, our film is about a boy and a girl who grow up together and their love. The filming technique should be mainly montage and multi-angle camera switching. Because it starts from the perspective of the two male and female protagonists, it allows the audience to feel the psychological changes of the characters more realistically."

After hearing this, many TV station staff stopped looking down on the company.

After all, few high school students understand these things.

Especially since he can write such a good script, it makes people a little jealous.

As for people in the film production company, they said that Li Renyong is a leader and should not be underestimated.

"Also, at tomorrow's audition, we should invite an idol to audition for the male lead."

The conference room exploded immediately.

Li Changdong also sat up straight and said seriously: "Ayong, you want to audition with an idol?"

If we really talk about it, Korea in 86 did not have the kind of idols that later generations would define.

Today's idols are somewhere between singers and actors.

The singer interprets the song through himself.

Idols express themselves through songs.

There is a huge difference between the two.

They believe that idols only wear nice clothes and jump around in front of shopping malls.

Attract the public with various beautiful postures.

This made the music and film and television circles look down on them.

To put it simply, idols are not as good as one of their fingers and only deserve to stay in the basement.

It was not until 96 that SM Entertainment established Korea's first true idol group, HOT.

From then on, capitalists saw that idols could make so much money, and various groups sprang up like mushrooms after a rain.

Similar to, Shinhwa, Crystal Boys, SES, etc.

These belong to the first generation of Korean idols, and there are second and third generations behind them.

At the same time, various idol agencies have gradually increased.

Make money, not shabby.

All of these are what Japan left over from the 80s. For example, the establishment of Korea's first idol group HOT was influenced by Japanese idols.

It took Li Renyong a long time to decide to invite the idol to audition.

Although they are not welcomed by the industry, they have their own fans.

Although these people do not have as much appeal as those in later generations, they should still promote as much as possible.

Moreover, it is a win-win situation.

Idols increase their popularity by acting in movies, and the production crews take advantage of fans to make money from the idols.

Maybe they can accidentally mention to their fans how much they liked the movie.

Maybe those fans will promote the movie on their own initiative.

Li Renyong explained his views in detail.

"At present, the male lead of the movie Flipped is about the same age as a high school student. I can only think of idols. What we need to do is to try our best to turn their fans into our audience. It is unlikely that they will refuse our invitation. These are all I can think of. If you have other ideas, you can bring them up."

After listening to this, Lee Chang-dong thought seriously about the effect of the idols' participation.

"Will this work? These people don't have any acting skills."

Their impression of idols is still at the stage of jumping around and singing. Inviting a bunch of guys like them who have no acting skills is just nonsense.

Zheng Nanzhu sat in her seat, saying nothing.

Today's meeting had nothing to do with her. She only came to see Li Renyong after hearing that he had returned.

And as one of the shareholders of the film production company, he is eligible to attend this meeting.

Lee Chang-dong was also a little unsure. Today's idols can only participate in variety shows at most and be treated as objects of jokes.

He attached great importance to this film and would not allow any sloppiness. At this moment, Ma Richeng pushed open the door and said breathlessly, "I think it's OK."

"The script has been approved, but they rejected our budget."

Later, Li Renyong remembered that the investment in this film reached 14 million US dollars.

Converted into Korean won, it is about 170 billion.

You know, this is already a lot of money.

"This Man Comes from Earth", Li Renyong only received a share of 500 million yuan, and this was when he received a larger share.

It seems that Lu Feng has a competitor in the TV station.

With Lu Feng's character, he keeps his word and will definitely not do such an unreasonable thing.

The budget you submit will be approved.

He is that kind of person.

For a drama crew, these budgets are huge, but for a TV station, they are just a drop in the bucket.

Some impatient people have already started asking, "How much budget has been approved?"

"five billion."

After hearing this, many TV station staff members showed dissatisfaction on their faces.

Although they belong to the TV station, their current unit is Lee Chang-dong's film production company.

This was someone Lu Feng sent specially to help with the work in order to make friends with Li Changdong and others.

Making good movies will also be of great benefit to people like them.

Apart from anything else, it will also help you find a job if you quit your job in the future.

Having a resume showing that you have starred in a certain popular movie is a good proof of your work experience.

Five billion is indeed a bit too little for this movie.

A look of distress appeared on Li Renyong's face.

Well, some time ago I was thinking about how to spend the money now that I had it.

Now that all these worries are gone, just invest all your money in this movie.

Li Changdong first asked Ma Il-sung to sit down and poured him a glass of water.

"Then let's use idols. After lunch this afternoon, Richeng, you should make an effort and try to contact them."

Putting aside other things, at least idols are cheap, so let’s solve the urgent problem first.

Who knows, you might even get an invitation from them for free.

As for the lack of funds later, Ma Richeng still had to go and solicit investment.

Speaking of the three giants of their crew, they are Lee Chang-dong, Lee In-yong and Ma Il-sung.

Lee Chang-dong doesn't care about anything else and doesn't understand anything except making movies.

Li Renyong is still a student and basically does nothing else except writing scripts.

Ma Richeng is responsible for most of the crew's affairs.

Whether it is the coordination of filming or the construction of the project, it even includes multiple aspects such as finance, technology and administrative management.

Look, this is sent to contact the idol again.

After contacting the idol, you have to attract investment.

Being a worker has a hard life.

This is treating him like a donkey.

Fortunately, he still had a share of the film profits, otherwise he would have protested long ago.

At this moment, Ma Richeng saw Zheng Nanzhu sitting next to him, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

Today's first chapter

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