Huayu 1999: Starting with nothing but getting something for nothing

It's true what they say, people tend to get arrogant after achieving some success, because everyone is trying to flatter you.

Then Yang Che was turned away. Well, not exactly turned away. Han Sanping was busy and told him to wait in Wu Hongliang's office for a while.

So Yang Che waited from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm. In that hour, he finished drawing the musical score for "The Eloquent Ji Xiaolan", completed the setup plan for the Doubao Media publicity department (online trolls), and also received several phone calls.

Among them were media representatives, including old friend Yin Junjie from "Entertainment Live," who said she wanted to do a 20-minute video interview. Yang Che agreed and scheduled it for tomorrow morning.

They declined all offers from other media outlets, as they were all relatively insignificant.

Yu Wenhao also called, saying that the high-heeled shoe brand that GG had integrated wanted to transfer the remaining payment, but he refused. Yang Che highly praised Yu Wenhao's decision.

Just as Yang Che was about to give Zhang Guoli a satisfactory answer, the door to the secretary's office was pushed open, and it was Han Sanping who beckoned: "Come here."

After entering the factory director's office, Han Sanping nodded to himself. This Yang Che really didn't seem like a young man. Even when he was thirty-six or thirty-seven years ago, he didn't have this kind of demeanor.

After Han Sanping solemnly invited Yang Che to sit down, he began to talk about the resolutions of the morning meeting.

Do you have any other suggestions?

Yang Che paused for a moment and then said, "A strong cinema chain is the foundation for the high-quality development of the film industry and a prerequisite for a well-regulated and orderly market."

Han Sanping gritted his teeth: "Be more specific."

Yang Che cleared his throat and said, "We will replace the traditional tiered distribution mechanism with a cinema chain system, establish provincial or inter-provincial cinema chains, implement a single-level distribution model, and encourage inter-provincial operations. We will fully participate in market economic competition, introduce private capital, allow mergers and acquisitions, and allow sole proprietorship but stipulate the annual investment amount. The goal is to provide better movie-watching services for the people through the construction of high-quality cinemas."

Han Sanping paused, then said, "It's really a shame you didn't come to China Film Group..."

Yang Che grinned: "I was just thinking that it would save President Han some effort when reporting to his superiors, given Wu Hongliang's writing skills..."

Han Sanping's lips twitched, and he changed the subject: "Congratulations to President Yang on selling Hong Kong and Taiwan again."

Yang Che quickly waved his hand: "It's just the movie rights, it's not much, only $45 in total."

Why isn't Hong Kong discussing profit sharing anymore?

"If you want something in advance, you must first give something in return; then it will be easier to talk next time."

Han Sanping shook his head and smiled; he was looking forward to it.

"I'll transfer that money to you next Monday."

Yang Che immediately became anxious: "My brother is even paying out of his own pocket to give out red envelopes to reporters today."

"It's almost done. By the way, China Film Group plans to hold screenings of 'Endless Love' and 'My Sassy Girl' on November 25th. Do you have anything to add?"

Yang Che smiled and said, "No, thank you for your consideration, leaders."

Just as he finished speaking, Gao Yuanyuan called. Yang Che waved his phone and said, "President Han, let's withdraw."

Han Sanping waved his hand.

Yang Che nodded and left, answering Gao Yuanyuan's call as he went out of the office.

"My Beijing Film Studio is all done, all good."

As they were talking, Yang Che almost bumped into someone at the corner of the stairs. He looked over and saw... it was Lu Chuan, an unemployed young man from the Beijing Film Studio.

Lu Chuan recognized the person in front of him at a glance. He was the center of attention at the Beijing Film Studio today. Of course, he had seen Yang Che in the Grand Cherokee before and felt awkward and disliked him at first sight. So, he just nodded expressionlessly and walked past him.

Yang Che laughed after hanging up the phone. This trip to the Beijing Film Studio was very fruitful. The movies could be released at the same time; they would receive ten million next Monday; and they even met Lu Taro, which was fantastic.

Speaking of the Chinese entertainment industry, Yang Che doesn't like many people, he's mostly indifferent to some, and he hates even fewer. But the most disgusting and hateful person is Lu Chuan.

Let's start with "The Missing Gun," the work that made him famous. After acquiring the copyright to the original novel, he wrote a screenplay, but the pacing was off and the characters were flat. Han Sanping then brought in Jiang Wen, who was banned from directing. As a result, Jiang Wen directly changed 90% of the screenplay, rewriting the characters' motivations, dialogue, camera logic, suspense pacing, and inner monologues.

During filming, the entire crew was trained by Lao Jiang to execute every move exactly as instructed. Later, the crew members said that they saw Lu Chuan cry seven times in public, but they didn't know what happened behind the scenes.

Then "The Missing Gun" became a hit, winning both critical acclaim and box office success, and receiving numerous awards. This person went around praising his brilliant adaptation, never once mentioning the veteran actor.

What's even more shameless is that this person adapted the movie into a novel and published it!!! There's an original work, and it was written by Jiang Wen! How utterly shameless, absolutely shameless!

After gaining fame with "Looking for a Gun", another film that made him famous was "Kekexili", which directly plagiarized the documentary "Balance" that Peng Hui of Qinghai TV had filmed for three years and had already been released.

Aerial shots, patrol routes, and snow scenes were replicated 1:1; team members' dialogues, death scenes, and Gobi Desert shots were copied verbatim. He took other people's real suffering and footage and packaged it as his own art film. How shameless! Utterly shameless!

There are many plagiarists in the entertainment industry, like Yu Zheng and Guo Jingming, but they admit it.

Pah, what a piece of junk.

Yang Che thought it was great because he planned to buy the rights to the original novel of "Looking for a Gun" first. He wasn't going to film it; he was just playing around. If you plagiarized it, that would be even better...

Upon exiting the building, they saw the Grand Cherokee already parked not far away; Gao Yuanyuan had asked Li Xiangdong to drive it over.

At this moment, Gao Yuanyuan was holding onto the rolled-down car window, her chin resting on the back of her hand, smiling as she watched her boyfriend slowly walk towards her.

Seeing the admiration and love in her eyes, Yang Che felt his pride and satisfaction reach their peak.

No matter how old a man is, the approval of his parents and the admiration of his wife can instantly turn him back into a proud little boy.

However, Gao Yuanyuan was ultimately an introverted person. In public, and especially in front of Li Xiangdong, she didn't say anything sweet or romantic. She just looked at him and smiled.

Yang Che smiled and playfully scratched her nose before walking around to the other side of the car, taking her hand, and looking towards the driver's seat.

"Old Li, how's your computer typing practice going?"

"About 20 words per minute."

"You still need to practice. I wrote a proposal and some job postings this afternoon. Work overtime and print them all out. Print out a lot of job postings and post them on the bulletin boards of the major universities around the studio tomorrow."

"Okay, Che-ge."

Li Xiangdong was very happy.

Gao Yuanyuan blinked: "It's not recruitment season now. If you want to hire people, you have to go to places like Yonghe Temple, Workers' Stadium, and talent markets in Haidian."

"The part-time job I hired."