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Chapter 318 How could this be a tree! (asking for monthly votes)

"Uncle Jiang, what are you busy with recently?" Although Hao Yun had to leave after the exams this time, he still did not forget to visit Jiang Wen.

He brought Ning Hao with him, intending to introduce them to each other.

Ning Hao approached him because he envied the connections behind him, but since Ning Hao was capable, Hao Yun didn't mind pulling him into his own network.

He is hanging on the wall and has no worries about being replaced.

"Busy... Hey, you're here just in time, come and help me draw the storyboard!" On Jiang Wen's desk, on one side were the storyboard manuscripts of Hao Yun's "Heart Labyrinth", and on the other side were his own newly drawn ones.

"What is this?" Hao Yun came closer, but couldn't understand it at all.

"My new movie, The Sun Also Rises..."

"Aren't you still banned?" Hao Yun gestured to Ning Hao to sit anywhere, and then sat down to read Jiang Wen's manuscript.

Zhou Yun served tea.

Ning Hao took the tea and thanked him. He was quite surprised at how casual Hao Yun was at Jiang Wen's house.

"I'm drawing storyboards at home, who can control me? What are you doing recently?" Jiang Wen rarely shows up when preparing for a movie. He has hardly left the house since he attended the Cannes Film Festival last time.

"Filming, exams, practicing the guzheng, drawing storyboards for Those Years, writing new scripts, preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam..." Hao Yun replied as he flipped through the books.

"Thank you for your hard work." Jiang Wen sighed. What a life this child is living.

"Serve the people." Hao Yun answered smoothly.

"Can you understand it?" Jiang Wen asked.

"I don't understand." Hao Yun said confidently.

"Then what are you doing?" Jiang Wen was speechless.

"=_=It's strange that you can understand it. What is this painting about?" Hao Yun randomly opened a page and pointed at it and asked Jiang Wen.

Jiang Wen hesitated for a moment and said uncertainly: "This is Crazy Mom and Li Dongfang..."

"What about this person?" Hao Yun saw that there was more than one person in the picture.

"This... this should be a tree... Yes, it's a tree!" Jiang Wen flipped through the two pages of storyboards and came to a definite conclusion.

"Is this a fucking tree? How can this be a tree!" Hao Yun was speechless. There was not much difference between these three. Why were these two people human and the other one a tree?

"Why can't this be a tree? If I say it is a tree, then it is a tree!" Jiang Wen was also speechless.

Ning Hao was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

He knew that Hao Yun was hooking up with Jiang Wen, but he didn't know how.

It is speculated that Hao Yun may have some background, so Jiang Wen had to take care of him for the sake of the other party's face.

Jiang Wen is known as a genius, but he is not out of touch with the world.

He is so successful in the capital circle, so he is certainly not a director who doesn't know how to behave.

However, previous reports about Hao Yun's third place in the college entrance examination clearly stated that Hao Yun was a child from a rural area, and because his family was poor, he wanted to earn money to support his family as soon as possible, so he attended a technical secondary school instead of high school.

Then Hao Yun relies on his personal charm.

But now look at how Hao Yun and Jiang Wen get along with each other. Hao Yun does not hold back at all when he confronts his backer.

Is Jiang Wen a masochist?

"You'll get used to it. They'll argue like this sometimes." Zhou Yun was no longer surprised. Hao Yun used to often bring small cards to see Jiang Wen.

When the two of them were chatting happily, even she seemed redundant.

"Director Jiang has such a good temper..." What else could Ning Hao say.

"You draw it!" Jiang Wen finally remembered the purpose of looking for Hao Yun. He hoped that Hao Yun would draw it again according to the storyboard he had drawn.

"Uncle, I don't understand anything I see, how can I draw it?" Hao Yun was also embarrassed.

He also wanted to respect Jiang Wen, especially in front of outsiders, to give face to Jiang Wen, the great director.

But even a good cook cannot cook without rice.

Even if he gathered a lot of Jiang Wen's attributes, it would be impossible for him to get a glimpse of what kind of movie Jiang Wen was going to make from this manuscript.

He could still get a lot of Jiang Wen's attributes, but unfortunately, these attributes included all kinds of elements, except for the part about storyboard drawing.

You can't expect someone to give you something he doesn't have.

"I... I'll tell you..." Jiang Wen suddenly lost all his momentum. That person could be a tree, and that tree could be a person, but he should explain it clearly to Hao Yun. If you don't tell me, how can others know?

"I have to go back to the set tomorrow, so it will definitely be too late today. If you want me to help you draw the storyboards, you can come out and be the producer of "Those Years" and stay on the set like last time. I will help you draw it slowly on the set." Hao Yun gave a plan.

"I can't help with this kind of movie."

The last time Jiang Wen served as the producer of "Heart Labyrinth" was because he was not at ease at all.

I don’t know if Hao Yun will be overwhelmed as it is his first time as a director, but he is there ready to help at any time.

It turned out that Hao Yun was gifted and was very capable in making movies.

So he no longer plans to continue to produce Hao Yun's next film. There is no need for that at all, and it will also make people suspect that he is the one behind the film.

In fact, it is all thanks to him that Hao Yun is so "gifted".

This is why his shadow can be seen everywhere in the movie.

Jiang Wen felt that he was a good teacher and Hao Yun was a good learner, but in fact it was the director's attributes that were used on the spot.

"Uncle Jiang, you are very important to me! This is Ning Hao, the assistant director I found. He has directed "Incense" and "Green Grassland" and is very talented." Hao Yun introduced Ning Hao to him.

"I have some impression of 'Incense'. Oh, by the way, you are the unlucky guy who filmed 'Green Grassland', right?" Jiang Wen finally matched the person.

"Yes, it's me!" Ning Hao was slightly embarrassed. His unfortunate experience had spread throughout the circle.

In the first half of this year, he was invited to shoot the movie "Green Grassland".

During the filming process, he first encountered the problem of investors withdrawing their investment without reason, and the 150 million yuan of funds was reduced to 10 yuan. Helplessly, Ning Hao could only take out all his personal savings and raise 40 yuan of start-up capital.

Afterwards, the crew came to Inner Mongolia to shoot the scene, but they encountered a collective car accident and the van transporting the actors overturned in a deep ditch.

Although there were no casualties, a child suffered a broken hip and had six stitches on his head, and an actress suffered a broken collarbone.

Under the dual pressures of severe funding shortage and harsh environment, the original crew of more than 100 people disbanded on the spot, leaving only 11 people to hold on.

During the months of filming on the prairie, the yurt where Ning Hao lived was burned down because of the stove used for heating; the jeep he was driving suddenly stalled after entering the desert and was scrapped.

After finally wrapping up the production, we calculated the expenses and found that we had overspent by more than 100,000 yuan...

He borrowed money from everywhere to fill the hole - if he didn't, he would have owed wages.

He took the role just to make a living, but ended up risking all his assets on it.

From being penniless to being heavily in debt.

It's a nightmare.

This movie became a laughing stock in the industry in 2004 and was considered a negative example by many directors.

However, Ning Hao is just a newbie after all.

This was the only impression he could leave on Jiang Wen.

"Incense" did win the Best Film at the 4th Tokyo Filmex International Film Festival, but this film festival is not the same as the Tokyo International Film Festival, it is a very low-level thing.

There are at least eighty similar film festivals, if not a hundred, but no one pays attention to them.

"Although there are some twists and turns, it doesn't mean he has to be Hao Yun's assistant director, right?" Jiang Wen suspected that his apprentice was a complete fool and was afraid he would be used by others.

"He wanted me to raise investment for his next movie, and I agreed on the condition that he be the assistant director of my film 'Those Years'. This way, I will be much more relaxed." Hao Yun replied directly.

"That's right." Ning Hao said embarrassedly.

Would it be inappropriate for us to say it directly?

I'm just a small director, and I work as an assistant to the director of a film nominated for the Cannes Film Festival and the screenwriter of the Best Screenplay Award. I really don't feel wronged.

Although Hao Yun is only 22, I am only 27.
We are the same age, okay?

"I'm trying to get investment from others. How's the investment for your new movie going?" Jiang Wen smiled. It was enough as long as Hao Yun was not kept in the dark.

"Uncle Dong gave me one million, I took one million myself, Aunt Liu gave one million, our school gave one million, Hengdian World Studios gave one million, Huaying gave one million, Aunt Hua gave one million, Mr. Lin Jianyue from Xiangjiang Huanyu, and Mr. Yang Kuideng from Wanwan all planned to give me one million, which means that I have already received nine million. Ning Hao thought that the film could be made within ten million, so I didn't look for him anymore. I'll see if you want to make some money. If you don't, I'll look for Liu Furong. He promised before that he would give me money to make a movie..."

Hao Yun counted on his fingers, and when he finished counting, the number was exactly enough.

Ning Hao wanted to roll his eyes. He clearly said that five million would be enough, but Hao Yun insisted that he couldn't let anyone down, so he paid the full salary and wages, and even increased the cost to ten million.

You really are worthy of being Jiang Wen's disciple. Overspending is your sect's rule, right?

Ten million these days is barely considered a medium cost.

(End of this chapter)