Huayu’s ex-husband

Chapter 21 21. Be intimidating and wear a helmet

Thank God Amitabha, aunt is finally gone.

Liu Tianxian hit Wei Wu and said angrily: You are not allowed to say that, it will make my mother look like the god of plague.

Wei Wu immediately raised his hand to clear the relationship: I didn't, you said this!

As Wei Wu spoke, he was hit twice more by Liu Tianxian, and while dodging, he said:

We haven't left the set yet and gone back to our homes. Why is Auntie so reluctant to leave?

Liu Tianxian said with some embarrassment: I don't have a contract with them anymore, but after talking for so long, I have to give them an explanation. Not only does she have to apologize to them, but she also has to make up an excuse for me.

Wei Wu smiled and teased: Who is to blame? It's not all your sudden change of heart.

Liu Tianxian immediately became unhappy: Hey, don't talk about it. It seems to have nothing to do with you at all. Haven't you been bewitching me overtly or covertly?

Wei Wu immediately changed the subject: Okay, okay, it's all mine. Don't talk to me about this matter anymore. I promised your mother a long time ago that I won't ask anything about it anymore.

Okay. Liu Tianxian didn't bother, but asked according to the situation:

By the way, I won't sign a contract with Sony, and my schedule will change in the next two years. Do you have any ideas?

Wei Wu stretched and said, I still want to hear what you think first. Do you still want to release songs? Or are you just accepting movie invitations?

Liu Tianxian answered honestly: We are still discussing it, and it hasn't been decided yet. But I won't release the song yet. It depends on whether I will concentrate on making movies or something...

Wei Wu knew it and asked, That's fine, so what's the problem now?

Liu Tianxian sighed: The problem is that there are no good scripts! The movie scripts that have been submitted so far are basically small-budget and small-scale productions. I have never heard of most of the directors. In my mother's words, I can tell you at a glance. The appearance of rushing to the street.

Wei Wu complained unceremoniously: You don't want to sign a contract, but you also want to star in a blockbuster. You want to be powerful and wear a helmet. How can you get all the good things?

It has to be said that the current domestic entertainment environment is very different from that of later generations. The main reason is that a large amount of hot money and Internet capital have not yet poured into the entertainment industry on a large scale. As a result, the Chinese film industry is now a bit small.

In domestic entertainment, Huayi is almost the only one, and other companies can only rely on it before it has achieved success. Only Media Asia and Emperor, two big players in the river, can compete with it.

Among the top three veterans of Huaguo Pictures, only Huayi has started to do so. Guangguang and Bona are even in their infancy.

Bona only obtained a filmmaking license in 2003 to enter the film production business; the light is even slower. Historically, it will not be until next year, in 2006, that the first film Hurt City will be released and put into production. The first movie was all in 2007.

The current domestic entertainment film industry is far from reaching the point where a hundred flowers are blooming. It is relatively closed and conservative. There are not that many companies investing in film production, and there are naturally few good film projects.

Ordinary actors in large-scale productions can't even smell it. Those are basically the exclusive rights of large and medium-sized film production companies. One company can only produce one film a year.

Take last year as an example. Putting aside Hong Kong films, there were basically only two domestic films that could be considered blockbusters. One was A World Without Thieves and the other was House of Flying Daggers.

One is by Feng Xiaogang and the other is by Zhang Guoshi. Everyone knows that this movie is bound to be a hit, but can Liu Tianxian squeeze in?

Hong Kong stars were still very popular during this period, so the starring teams of the two movies were basically made up of two-thirds Hong Kong stars.

The protagonists of both movies are Andy Lau, A World Without Thieves partner Liu Ruoying + Wang Baoqiang, and House of Flying Daggers partner Zhang Ziyi + Jin Chengwu.

It means that during this period, there were few big-budget films and even fewer good roles. Mainland actors were not able to compete fairly with those established Hong Kong stars. You can imagine how much pressure this was.

Li Bingbing, as a strong competitor of Huayi's first sister at this time, in his company's A World Without Thieves, he only got the second female snitch Xiao Ye who had not many roles.

Sister Bingbing, another popular candidate for the first sister, didn't even get the role, let alone the others.

Therefore, it is completely normal that Liu Tianxian has not come across good scripts in the past two years. Now in the domestic entertainment and film industry, only Hong Kong stars are easier to deal with, while mainland actors are like second-class citizens.

Now if she wants to act in a blockbuster, there are basically only two ways. The first is to sign with a big company, but currently only Huayi can be called a big company in domestic entertainment.

The second is to find ways to impress the big director and let him appoint her to star. But the uncertainty is too great, and there are too many people who have the same idea.

Among the three major mainland directors, Zhang Guoshi nostalgicly prefers to use familiar people. Even if there is a female role, the first choice is definitely to be a girl, or to support an amateur to become the next girl.

Feng Xiaogang is also a little nostalgic. He usually chooses people from Huayi or the small circle in Jingquan.

Chen Kaige is not very nostalgic and is more casual, but the problem is that his output is too low, and it often takes two or three years to produce a movie.

Counting from his famous work Farewell My Concubine in 1993, to 2024, Chen Kaige has only directed a total of 12 Chinese-language feature films in 31 years.

Moreover, his new film The Promise will be released at the end of this year, and according to convention, it will take at least three years for his next film to be released. Liu Tianxian may not be able to wait!

In fact, the next film Mei Lanfang directed by Chen in his previous life was indeed released three years later, from December 15, 2005 to December 5, 2008, exactly three years.

Liu Tianxian is not looking for a girl, and she is not from Huayi's circle. Zhang Guoshi and Feng Xiaogang will basically not choose her as the heroine.

Chen Kaige has a slight possibility, because looking at his choice of heroine, the requirements for acting are not strict, the key is to choose a popular star.

For example, Gong Li in Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin (1999), Zhang Bozhi in The Promise (2005), Zhang Ziyi in Mei Lanfang (2008), Fan Bingbing in The Orphan of Zhao (2010), Search Gao Yuanyuan (2012), Lin Zhiling (2015) in The Taoist Comes Down the Mountain, and Zhang Yuqi (2017) in The Legend of the Demon Cat.

There is no repetition, which shows that Director Chen still likes to use new faces, but he never considers amateurs, and he likes to use people who are very popular at the time.

Each of these heroines is like a bellwether for domestic entertainment. Even if these actresses were not the most popular in those two years, they were at least easily among the top three and five.

And they were all very popular before their movies were made. No one became famous through his movies.

Including Zhang Yuqi, because before The Legend of the Demon Cat, she already had The Mermaid with a box office of 3.39 billion.

In other words, if Mermaid had not been released when The Legend of the Demon Cat was filmed, the heroine might not be her!

From this point of view, Liu Tianxian should basically be in line with Director Chen's selection habits, but the two did not cooperate in the previous life. That may just be because there is no suitable role.