Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 179 Crime Detective Qin Feng
Meng Bai originally thought that this project was not urgent, but he did not expect Chen Sicheng's attitude to be much more proactive than he expected. He came to the door without waiting for further contact.

"Producer Meng!"

"Oh, Haoran is here."

At the door of the "Forensic Qin Ming" crew, Meng Bai greeted with a smile.

Liu Haoran politely returned the greeting and gestured to the middle-aged man standing next to him, "This is..."

"No need to introduce this." Meng Bai interrupted him and looked at the man, "Director Chen's name is still very well-known."

"Haha, Junior Brother Meng, you're too polite." Chen Sicheng laughed loudly and stretched out his hand. "To my Junior Brother, I've heard of your great name for a long time."

In 2006, director Kang Honglei and screenwriter Lan Xiaolong collaborated to shoot a masterpiece called "Soldier Assault", which can be called the "ceiling of military themes".

This drama brought together a large number of powerful male actors at the time, such as Wang Baoqiang, Zhang Yi, Duan Yihong, etc., who are now the mainstays of the "Mesozoic" generation of domestic entertainment.

Naturally, this also includes Chen Sicheng.

Just like the "successful" character in the drama, his development over the years has been smooth. Even though he was expelled from the Shanghai Theatre Academy for fighting, he was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy within two years with the recommendation of his teacher.

After that, his career as an actor was smooth sailing. He won awards for his acting when he was in school, and became even more famous after filming "Soldier Assault". He then transformed into a director, and his TV series "Northern Love" won the ratings championship, and the movie version of it took more than 400 million yuan at the box office. He also got a wife by the way.

It can be said that he has been smooth sailing over the years.

Chen Sicheng himself is not the kind of low-key and introverted person. On the contrary, he always has a smooth and arrogant feeling.

This is a bit like Huang Xiaoming whom Meng Bai had met before, except that Huang Xiaoming's arrogance is like that of a "leader", while Chen Sicheng is more like "very self-righteous".

Honestly speaking, this kind of people are quite annoying sometimes.

Fortunately, Chen Sicheng's attitude towards Meng Bai was quite polite.

After all, compared to this junior brother, he is older and less handsome, and his other achievements are not that outstanding.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Meng Bai led the two inside and took them to visit the crew of "Forensic Qin Ming".

"Wow! Junior brother, did the crew build this forensic autopsy room for filming?"

Looking at the standard "Forensic Center" indoors, Chen Sicheng said in surprise.

"Yes, we invited a professional forensic expert to direct it, and we also went to the provincial public security forensic base for an on-site inspection. Finally, we rebuilt such a 'Forensic Center'." Meng Bai said with a smile.

"awesome……"

Chen Sicheng sighed, it can be seen from this point alone that his junior brother is also a serious person when it comes to project production.

The filming was in progress on the set at the moment, and one side of the room was crowded with crew members, leaving Zhang Ruoyun, Zhou Yutong and Bai Yu alone in the middle of the venue.

"The main actors all look like newcomers?"

"For web dramas, it's cheaper to use newcomers. Moreover, many newcomers' performances are not bad." Meng Bai smiled and gestured, "Like Haoran, he's quite young, but his acting skills are pretty good."

Liu Haoran was peeking out from behind to observe the filming inside when he suddenly heard the two bosses mention him. He scratched his head and laughed.

"Haha, indeed, Haoran is quite good and has a talent for acting."

Chen Sicheng still thinks highly of this young man he has trained. Hearing Meng Bai's praise, he said proudly: "He also applied for our Central Academy of Drama for the art exam this year. The scores came out last month, and he ranked first in the country."

"Really?" Meng Bai looked over in surprise.

Drama majors do not need to take art exams, so he doesn't know much about this aspect. However, the ranking of "No. 1 in the country" is enough to explain the results.

"Congratulations, Haoran." Meng Bai patted him on the shoulder and said, "We will be fellow disciples from now on."

Liu Haoran said shyly: "It's hard to say now. It depends on how many points you get in the college entrance examination."

"Yes, you also have to take the college entrance examination." Meng Bai said, "There are less than two months left. You are filming a movie, so it won't be delayed, right?"

"It's okay, I'm used to it. And the show happens to be set in high school, and a lot of the scenes are about doing homework, so I just use my own homework to do it." Liu Haoran said.

"Okay, you're quite good at making good use of your time." Meng Bai joked, "When the show airs, I think the audience will find the plot of doing the test the most realistic."

After viewing the set, the two men expressed their desire to visit the crew’s famous “prop room”.

Although the previous "oolong murder case" did not last long, it was quite well-known.

In addition to the messages from netizens online, many people in the circle who knew Meng Bai called to inquire about first-hand "melon-eating resources".

Since he came to Meng Bai to discuss cooperation, he naturally wanted to know more about it in advance, so Chen Sicheng had also heard about it.

"Don't mention it. You really can't tell whether this thing is real or not unless you touch it." He touched the "human props" and exclaimed: "Don't mention thieves. Even ordinary people would be scared to death if they saw them suddenly in the middle of the night." Meng Bai shook his head: "Don't mention at night. Some time ago, we planned to throw away this batch of used models, but we almost scared the sanitation worker. Now we can only pile them here and find a way to deal with them after the filming."

If it were any other props, they could have held a lottery for the audience and fans. But with this bunch of "broken arms and legs", even if the audience dared to ask for them, the crew wouldn't dare to give them away.

After visiting several main places, the three of them came to the production crew's lounge, which was also Meng Bai's temporary studio in the crew.

After casually asking a crew member to pour some tea for him, Chen Sicheng finally brought up the main purpose of his visit today.

"Look, Junior Brother, I want to make a suspense and mystery film project. I have a rough outline and setting, but I still lack a specific story."

With the huge success of online dramas such as "Psychological Crime" and "Darker" last year, as well as the attention aroused by the "Green Ivy Series", the film and television industry has discovered that the number of audiences for "suspense" themes is somewhat beyond imagination.

It was at that time that Chen Sicheng came up with an inspiration to make a mystery movie.

For the main characters, the classic "old and young" model of mystery stories is adopted, with a "veteran" and a "young detective" - the latter can be played by Liu Haoran.

He pondered this idea for half a year and thought it was a promising idea. So he decided to do this project from the beginning of this year.

The only problem is that there is never a suitable script.

Mystery is a niche genre, and he didn't want to remake a novel, so it was naturally more difficult. He collected works for several months, but still couldn't find one that he was satisfied with.

It was at this time that Liu Haoran suddenly called him and said that there was a project similar to "Young Detective" in the "Green Ivy Series" of Arclight Films, and he thought he could ask about it.

Chen Sicheng had also heard of the name of Arclight Films. In the domestic "suspense" stories in recent years, no one could surpass them.

The only problem is that this company mainly produces online dramas, which is a bit different from movies.

However, since Liu Haoran said so, he also used his connections to inquire about the specific situation of Arclight Films.

After learning about this, I found out that the boss of this company is my junior fellow student, and that he originally started out as a film project. It was only because of some accidents that he later switched to web dramas.

Now Chen Sicheng became interested. After watching a few dramas of Arc Light Films, he decisively asked Liu Haoran to help him make an appointment with this "Junior Brother Meng" and hurried over.

After listening to the other party's introduction, Meng Bai took a sip of tea slowly, and then asked: "So, Senior Brother, you want me to be the screenwriter, right?"

"Yes." Chen Sicheng nodded. "Compared to other types of films, suspense and mystery themes have higher requirements for scripts. At present, Arclight Films is one of the best in this field, so I want to see if there is any opportunity for cooperation."

"Well - in our Arc Light's follow-up project of the 'Green Ivy Series', there is indeed a story called 'Detective Qin Feng', and the protagonist is set as a 'young detective'." Meng Bai said.

"Detective Qin Feng?" Chen Sicheng was a little confused.

"Oh, Qin Feng is the name of the protagonist. 'Zui Tan' means crime and 'Detective'. How should I put it? He is a character that is a bit like an 'anti-hero'."

Meng Bai briefly introduced the character settings.

The father of the male protagonist "Qin Feng" was a criminal who was arrested when his son was young, leaving behind an orphan and a widow. Because of this, Qin Feng wanted to be a policeman since he was a child, taking a different path from his father. But unfortunately, the political review alone blocked him.

But Qin Feng didn't want to give up. He found a part-time job as a dispatched worker at the police school and attended classes with the students.

Compared to ordinary people, Qin Feng is extremely talented in the field of criminal investigation and reasoning. In addition, he has been influenced by his father since he was a child and is used to looking at problems from the perspective of criminals, so he progresses faster than all the police academy students.

Once, because of an accidental case, he relied on his reasoning ability to help a professor in the field of criminal investigation at the police academy. The professor discovered his talent and asked him to be his assistant so that he could participate in solving the case.

At first he was very happy. Although he was just an assistant without an official identity, he felt that he had drawn a line between himself and the "father" who abandoned his mother and himself.

At the same time, he can also use his talents to help more victims get justice, which can also make up for the harm his father did to innocent people.

However, in more and more cases, he gradually discovered that not all criminals would be brought to justice.

Using stand-ins, destroying the scene, bribing witnesses... Even though he could deduce the truth every time, he was helpless against those who had the resources and ability to "get away with it."

Finally, after another murderer escaped punishment by hiring someone to destroy evidence, Qin Feng, who could no longer tolerate it, carried out a "justice on behalf of heaven" and used his knowledge and talent to forge a perfect "accident scene".

This success opened up Qin Feng's "thinking". From then on, he was a genius in reasoning with outstanding talent on the one hand, and a "punisher" on the other.

However, unlike the "punishers" in those stories who "advocate justice" and "challenge authority", he never intended to "attract attention".

On the contrary, each scene is faked to look like an accident, the so-called "perfect crime."

However, walking on the road at night for a long time will eventually lead to encountering thieves, and more and more "accidents" finally attracted the attention of the police.

The police invited the professor as a consultant, and Qin Feng also joined in.

Therefore, he had to create cases as a "criminal" while hunting himself as a "detective".

The combination of "criminal" and "detective" is called "crime detective".

(End of this chapter)