Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 119 Digital Movie
After Li Boda frantically took on a series of commercial performances and made a lot of money, he began to plan to continue filming.

After all, for actors, making money through commercial performances and gigs is really quick and much easier than making money from filming.

However, for an actor, works are their real strength. Only when they have more excellent works will their fame become bigger and stronger, and their quotes for commercial performances will be higher.

Moreover, every time after taking on a wave of commercial performances, the offer will slowly start to drop. Since the offer will drop, you might as well go back to filming.

Every time I shoot a movie, I will disappear from the public eye for two to three months or even longer, so that the market can recover. After finishing the movie, I will take on commercial performances and make money by performing at various places. After making money, I will go back to shooting movies. This cycle is the most suitable.

"Boda, in addition to the TV drama script this time, I have also secured an opportunity for you to audition for a movie role." Sister Wang said to Li Boda with a smile.

"Movie?" Li Boda was a little surprised.

"Yes, it's a movie, but it's a digital movie. Digital movies will only be broadcast on TV and will not be released in theaters." Sister Wang explained.

"Digital movie? I don't think I've ever heard of this thing. Sister Wang, can you explain it to me?" Li Boda asked curiously.

"Digital movies are..." Sister Wang explained to Li Boda, "So digital movies are usually broadcast on CCTV Channel 6."

"I understand! It's actually similar to a TV series. It's not as advanced as a movie in theaters, but it's more compact than a TV series." Li Boda nodded.

"...In terms of storytelling, that's true, but in terms of filming—never mind, just think of it this way. This time it's a CCTV project. CCTV plans to make a Lu Xiaofeng series of movies. It's said there will be ten films in this series, and they'll all be filmed together."

"Ten movies? Shooting at the same time? How many years will it take?" Li Boda was stunned. The shooting period of a movie is generally longer than that of a TV series. Well, that's not right. A movie is only one or two hours long, but the shooting time is not shorter than that of a TV series. How many years will it take to shoot ten movies at the same time?

"Didn't I say that this is a digital movie? In essence, it's not that different from a TV series. Moreover, ten movies can be shot at the same time. There's no need to go back and forth to build a location or prepare props, which can save a lot of time and money. Shooting these ten movies together will take at most a year, or maybe even less than a year." Sister Wang explained.

"That's a long time. [The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng] - Sister Wang, among the TV drama scripts sent to you, are there any particularly good or novel ones, such as the domineering CEOs in some idol dramas?" Li Boda asked cheerfully.

What Li Boda wants most now is actually business knowledge or talent.

After all, Li Boda is now immortal and even possesses the power of "I don't eat beef". What he lacks now is his business talent.

Although being a celebrity does make money quickly, the quote for a commercial performance is over 100,000 yuan.

However, the status of celebrities is ultimately too low.

When Li Boda was frequently accepting commercial performances and performing for money, he encountered many situations. Those wealthy bosses, one by one, hardly took stars like Li Boda seriously. Many of them even treated stars as low-rate actors.

Moreover, the big boss of that company earns much more money than a star like Li Boda.

So if there is a role like a domineering president, Li Boda would rather give up the opportunity to star in a digital movie.

"There's no domineering CEO! Boda, we are in the mainland. Even if there are idol dramas, there will almost never be a domineering CEO role. So don't dream about it." Sister Wang couldn't help but say. She felt it was very strange. She wondered why Li Boda wanted to play the role of a domineering CEO.

"So, is it true that no crew from Taiwan invited me?" Li Boda casually flipped through the scripts in front of Sister Wang.

"Do you think that's possible?"

"Well, no way."

"Actually, there are scripts for idol dramas. This one is called "White House Romance." Although it's an idol drama, the protagonist is not a domineering CEO, but an architectural designer. This profession can be considered as your profession." Sister Wang smiled and took out a script and said to Li Boda.

"Architectural designer? What the hell? Dating on the construction site? Dating while moving bricks on the construction site?" Li Boda joked as he opened the script.

"The protagonist is a designer, why does he need to move bricks?" Sister Wang laughed dumbly.

"Sister Wang, you don't understand the construction industry. Many of my college classmates went to the construction site to move bricks after graduation. Even if they were not moving bricks, they would stay on the construction site every day. They were tanned like monkeys and dark like refugees." Li Boda joked.

Li Boda was thankful he didn't go into construction after graduation. Many of his classmates couldn't find jobs after graduating. Those who did were usually either working as laborers at construction sites, carrying bricks or working tirelessly, hardhats, pens, and notebooks, to earn money. Within a few months, their once fair-skinned classmates had become swarthy. "Hey, Yang Shirong's a great character!" Li Boda couldn't help but exclaim after glancing at the script.

"That?" Sister Wang was stunned for a moment: "Isn't the protagonist of this play Yin Tong?"

"I'm talking about Yang Shirong, the general manager of the real estate company, even though he got there by living off his wife." Li Boda said jokingly with a smile.

"...Okay, if you don't want to act, then forget it. What Yang Shirong? Can you play this role?" Sister Wang couldn't help rolling her eyes. The character of Yang Shirong is about fifty years old, and Li Boda is only a young man in his twenties. The director would be stupid to give this role to Li Boda.

Li Boda also knew it, so he just joked about it.

"But speaking of it, there seems to be another play whose protagonist also graduated from the Department of Architecture. Let me look for it - and I found it. It's this "Struggle"." Sister Wang found another script and handed it to Li Boda.

"Struggle? How come you graduated from the Department of Architecture? You move bricks at a construction site, then get noticed by the boss, become the chief architect, and then win an international award?" Li Boda said casually. After all, idol dramas or other TV dramas usually follow this routine.

After Li Boda took the script, he opened it and took a look, then Li Boda felt that he had been slapped in the face.

The plot of "Struggle" is not at all what Li Boda said.

In the film "Struggle," there are three male protagonists, all good college graduates. The oldest, Lu Tao, has two very wealthy fathers, and Lu Tao lives off his fathers. After living off one father, he lives off another. This is what Lu Tao calls struggle.

Then there is the second male lead, Xiangnan. Looking at the script, Li Boda couldn’t see any struggle in him. He was just a childish, immature, and not even difficult enough big boy.

As for the last Huazi, what can I say? This Huazi is quite ambitious. He really struggles, works, starts a business, experiences ups and downs, and is still a bootlicker.

Looking at this script, Li Bodat was speechless. What on earth did this have to do with struggle? Even Hua Zi, the real struggler in this script, could borrow a large sum of money from Lu Tao just by asking. This was simply not something an ordinary person could have.

Struggle? What a bullshit struggle, especially old Lu Tao, Li Boda really couldn't bear to watch it.

However, Li Boda still kept his sights on Hua Zi. Although Hua Zi had experienced great ups and downs and had suffered losses at the hands of women more than once or twice, at least Hua Zi had some real abilities. At least between his ups and downs, there was still a rise.

If he really played this role and could trigger the golden finger, Li Boda would be able to improve his business ability to some extent.

Li Boda really doesn't like the role of a bootlicker.

In other words, this entire script is not the kind of script that Li Boda likes, especially the role of the male protagonist Lu Tao. Lu Tao's struggle and his dependence on his two fathers are all so annoying.

Li Boda was a little confused. Who wrote this kind of script? If this kind of plot was really filmed, who would like to watch it?

A bunch of poor bastards watching the rich people rely on their fathers?
"Oh!" Li Boda couldn't help but sigh and threw the [Struggle] script aside. It was not the type I liked.

"I also don't think it's your type. After all, idol dramas about overbearing CEOs and this 'struggle' are two completely different concepts." Sister Wang smiled. "But the director of this drama is Zhao Baogang. His TV series generally have very good ratings. Would you consider it?"

"Zhao Baogang--" Li Boda hesitated again, mainly because the character of Huazi still had some ability. Although he didn't like the role of a bootlicker, Li Boda couldn't help but like the character's ability.

"Boda, don't always think about the domineering CEO or something like that. Let me tell you, in fact, we in mainland China also have such protagonists who are particularly powerful in business." Sister Wang said with a smile.

"What? Really? Sister Wang, where is the script?" Li Boda was overjoyed when he heard this and asked quickly.

"I just heard about it, and they may not choose you to play the male lead. After all, although you are famous enough, the roles you played before were all costume roles or idol dramas. They don't really suit you for a shrewd character like that."

"Sister Wang, are you calling me stupid?"

"No, I just mean that you don't look like the kind of person who is smart and calculating." Sister Wang explained with a smile.

"Of course not, I've never encountered that kind of role before. If I were asked to play it, I could definitely do it. Sister Wang, what script are you talking about?" Li Boda couldn't help but ask.

(End of this chapter)