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

Chapter 99 The Role of Brokers
"Boda, I found these scripts for you based on your preferences. Take a look and see which one you like." Sister Wang placed a stack of scripts in front of Li Boda.

"So many scripts?" Li Boda asked with a smile, looking at the scripts in front of him.

"Of course, you're one of the most talented young actors in mainland China now, so of course there are a lot of crews offering you invitations."

While chatting, Li Boda took a rough look at the names of the scripts in this pile. Almost all of them were costume dramas, and sixty to seventy percent of them were costume martial arts dramas. There were also one or two mythological dramas, and there was also a modern drama script.

Among these scripts, the first one Li Boda read was the modern drama script "The God of Cars".

This is a youth idol drama. Li Boda's eyes lit up slightly and he became interested. However, when he opened the script, Li Boda found that it was a script about racing.

The main and supporting characters are almost all set up as racing drivers. As for the story of the script itself, it is okay, but Li Boda didn't even finish reading it and put it aside.

Originally, Li Boda thought that the male protagonist in this script might be involved in business, or be the big boss of an investment company, but unexpectedly, he was just a simple racing driver.

Of course, if the script is good, after filming this movie, Li Boda will have the strength of a racing driver.

But is it of any help to Li Boda?

With Li Boda's current physical strength and reaction speed, as long as he is willing and learns a little, he can become a top racing driver, and he doesn't need to trigger the golden finger through TV dramas at all.

So this script is useless to Li Boda, absolutely useless!

Now, what Li Boda actually wants to shoot is an idol drama similar to "Dolphin Bay Lovers", in which the protagonist is the general manager of a TV station who is particularly good at business and is particularly awesome. It's a pity that there are almost no TV dramas of this type in China.

Even young business geniuses and domineering CEOs don’t have this kind of personality.

In domestic TV dramas, the real domineering CEOs or big bosses are usually middle-aged or even elderly people, and there is no place for young people at all!
Of course, we can't say it too absolutely. Occasionally there will be one or two characters who are domineering CEOs, but those scripts are so bad that it is even a question whether they can be broadcast on TV. They are not qualified to trigger the golden finger at all.

"Sister Wang, what do you think about me going to Taiwan to shoot some idol dramas?" Li Boda suddenly said to Sister Wang.

"Ah?" Sister Wang was stunned for a moment: "Why did you suddenly think of this?"

"It's just that—I'm suddenly interested in roles like the overbearing CEO. But there are almost no such roles in China."

"...Don't be crazy. Taiwan's idol dramas have so many actors and actresses that they can't use them all. How can it be your turn?" Sister Wang couldn't help laughing.

"That's right..." Li Boda shrugged, gave up the fantastic idea with a little disappointment, and continued to read the scripts in front of him.

Martial arts drama - the quality is not good, throw it away.

Martial arts drama - the script and plot are too bad, throw it away.

Mythological drama - the script is not good, throw it away.

Martial arts drama - the plot is okay, but the characters are not attractive to me, so I'll throw it away.

"Sister Wang, I'm not interested in martial arts dramas anymore. When I accept scripts in the future, I'll delete them unless the plots are particularly good." Li Boda said to Sister Wang as he screened out a martial arts drama.

"...You said before that you liked watching martial arts dramas, but now you don't want to film them. You really do what you want. Martial arts dramas are the most popular now, and you still say you don't want to film them?" Sister Wang said angrily.

"There have been too many martial arts dramas, so I'm a bit tired of them. Uh, this one is not bad." Li Boda held up a mythological drama script and said to Sister Wang.

"[Jingwei Filling the Sea]?"

"Yes, I think this script is pretty good, especially the setting of the male protagonist. Houyi, the son of the god of war Xingtian, shot down nine suns. It was super exciting!" Li Boda's eyes were particularly bright.

The previous Seven Nights Saint Lord, the later Li Xiaoyao, and the bamboo monster Taozui, although they all have extraordinary powers, are still far superior to the son of the God of War Xingtian, who is essentially a god and has the power to shoot down the sun. He is much more awesome than the roles he played in the previous mythological fairy tales.

"But to be honest, the quality of this script is not very good, and the plot is a little slow..." As the executive agent, Sister Wang can also tell whether a script is good or not. This script is relatively average in terms of quality.

"Who is the director of this play?" asked Li Boda.

"It's Liang Guoguan. He's been with the crew for a long time and has since been involved in many TV series, like 'The Twins,' 'Water Moon Cave,' and 'Legend of the Spirit Realm.' He's mostly co-directed, and he's quite capable, but he's a bit of a pushover." Sister Wang had done her research. "As a co-director, if he's not too pushy, why not ask him to condense the script and make the filming more compact?" Li Boda said to Sister Wang with a smile.

"...As an actor, you still want to interfere with the director's work?"

"Sister Wang, didn't you say that the plot of the script is not tight enough? I'm doing this for the quality of the TV series." Li Boda said with a smile.

"...Don't think too much about it. At most, after you sign the contract and join the crew, I will go and talk to the director. Don't go to the director yourself." Sister Wang couldn't help shaking her head.

These days, actors don’t have much say, at least not as much as one might imagine.

Even if an actor really has an idea, he should never go to the director. Let his agent go to the director and the crew.

No matter what happens, even if the actor makes a request, never let the actor go. Just let the agent go. This is the responsibility of being an agent.

Because when filming, it is often the director and actors' job.

If you let the actors go directly to the director to give their opinions, and then the director becomes dissatisfied with the actors, how can you continue filming? If the director is angry with you, how can he still film you in a good way?
Therefore, whenever the director has any ideas or opinions, he will ask the middleman to talk to the director. The middleman will then say something like, "Although our artist has no objection, I feel that our artist has been wronged, and your crew can't do this or that." Then the agent will start to make various suggestions.

Some opinions may even be excessive, and the director will be particularly angry.

However, no matter how angry they are, directors generally don’t blame the actors, but instead think that the agents are too ignorant.

Or the director knows that this is the actor's idea, but it was the agent who proposed it, and there is such a person in between, so the director will not be so angry with the actor, and the director will not make things too difficult for the actor during filming.

This is the broker.

When a director or a film crew is looking for an actor, but the actor doesn't want to act or feels the pay is too low, the agent will jump out and act as the bad guy.

Something like the pay you offer is too low and you are not sincere at all, you must increase the pay to a certain amount, otherwise I will never allow you to work with our artist, or you must be in the crew and prepare certain conditions for our artist, etc.

Then the actors will act very aggrieved: "Director, I really like your play and I really want to work with you, but my agent won't let me! My contract is with the company, and the company won't allow it, and so on and so forth."

So many times, artists and actors give people the impression that they have very good personalities, are very great, and are very easy to talk to, but their agents, assistants, etc., often behave very arrogantly and excessively. People who don't know the truth will wonder why a star with such a good personality would find such a bad person as an assistant, and someone with such an arrogant personality as an agent.

Then praise the actors to the sky and trample the agents and assistants to the ground.

But in reality, things are not like that at all.

Agents and assistants are there to take the blame for artists. If an artist has an idea and can't express it themselves, they ask their agent or assistant to speak up.

Outside, when passers-by meet an artist, they go up to him and ask for his autograph. The artist smiles and nods, saying that he wants to sign for you. At this time, the assistant runs over, pushes you away, or even kicks you to the ground. The artist looks terrified and starts scolding the assistant.

But in fact, the assistant's behavior was arranged by the artist.

Otherwise, how could an assistant be so arrogant? These are the rights granted to assistants by the artists. Don’t say that the artists don’t know or the stars don’t know. They know more than anyone else.

After Sister Wang confirmed that Li Boda wanted to star in the play "Jingwei Filling the Sea", she went directly to contact the crew.

Sometimes they said the pay was too low, sometimes they said the script wasn't tight enough, and they made a lot of demands. Finally, after both sides negotiated, the role was decided.

From beginning to end, Li Boda had no contact with the crew.

Finally, Li Boda's salary was raised to 90,000 per episode, 10,000 more than when he was filming The Return of the Condor Heroes. In addition to the salary, he also received accommodation, meals, and other benefits.

Even the script, the production team said that they would further streamline the script to make the plot more compact.

In this way, under the premise that Li Boda had no connection with "Jingwei Filling the Sea", the "Jingwei Filling the Sea" crew had already met many of Li Boda's conditions at Sister Wang's request.

Li Boda said from the beginning to the end that he knew nothing, because everything else was discussed by his agent with the crew. After the negotiation, his agent directly told his agent the conditions offered by the crew. As for how the crew offered the conditions, he didn't know anything.

(End of this chapter)