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Chapter 17 The Script

Lin Liwei was holding a kraft paper bag in his hand and stood at the door of Baohe Company. His inner nervousness made him hesitate for a moment.

"Dad, isn't it just a script? What a big deal? Although Boss Hong can write scripts by himself, he can't write them by himself every time, so he needs scripts and needs good scripts. We now give him scripts, and the time is just right because he has not made any movies recently. With the contribution you have worked hard for him for several years, you have to watch Buddha's face even if you don't watch monks' faces. Even if he doesn't think so, you have to pretend to read them. I promise that he will like them as long as he reads them."

Thinking of what his daughter said before leaving, he stepped into the door of Baohe Company.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the gate, I met an acquaintance. Chen Guangliang, the desperate man in the Hong family, who was as famous as him in the past. It’s just that Chen Guangliang can still fight, but he can’t fight. But what does it matter? He has a daughter now and everything is enough.

"Oh, white shirt, black trousers, pointed to oily leather shoes. Today, Brother Wei's style is different. Is it going to have a wedding?" Chen Guangliang was not big, but he kept a half inch, which seemed energetic and fierce.

"Go and go, what kind of happy event do you do? I have something to look for Brother Sanmao today." Chen Guangliang and him can be said to be good brothers. They ran around and took care of him when he was injured, so although what Chen Guangliang said was not so pleasant, he was not angry.

"Hehe, you came by coincidence. I just found him and came out of the office."

"Okay, I'll invite you to have tea some other day."

"It seems that I am really happy. Brother Wei, who is usually not bad, is going to treat him." Chen Guangliang said with a playful smile on his face. He was a little serious when Lin Liwei pretended to be angry. "Okay, I won't joke with you. Go in quickly. I heard that there is a big boss coming to discuss things later. If you really have serious business, hurry up."

Farewell to Chen Guangliang, Lin Liwei seized the time and quickly walked to Hong Xinbao's office door. He greeted the office assistant next to him, and then knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Hearing Hong Xinbao's response from inside, Lin Liwei took a deep breath and pushed the door and walked in.

If he usually came in as a Dragon and Tiger Martial Artist in the Hong family class, he wouldn't be nervous, because Hong Xinbao and they often drank and ate together, and had no airs, but he came as a screenwriter now.

He was a rude man, but he wanted to pretend to be a cultural person, which made him feel uncomfortable.

"So it's Awei. It's rare that you will come here. Come and sit down." Hong Xinbao asked Lin Liwei to sit down, and then said with a smile, "I dressed so handsome today, but what's the good news?"

"Brother Sanmao, I..." Lin Liwei stood up quickly as soon as he was anxious.

"Sit down, everyone is brother, why are you polite?" Hong Xinbao pressed Lin Liwei back and then said seriously, "Is there anything wrong?"

In Hong Xinbao's eyes, Lin Liwei is serious and low-key in his work, loyal, and very hardworking and shouldering. He is a powerful general in the Hong family class. If it weren't for something important, he wouldn't have come to him.

"That's right. I have a script here. I want you to help me read it." Lin Liwei said with some trepidation.

"Script? As the saying goes, if you don't see each other for three days, you should look at it with admiration. I didn't expect you to be even more amazing. You have learned to write scripts so quickly. Give it to me quickly. I want to take a good look." Hong Xinbao smiled and took the kraft paper bag handed over by Lin Liwei.

"No, no..." Lin Liwei waved his hand and replied in a hurry.

"Didn't you write it?"

“Not…”

"Who wrote that?"

"It was written by me and Ajing."

"Ajing, I remember she seems to be still in middle school, right?" When Lin's mother passed away at the beginning of the year, Hong Xinbao also attended the funeral, so he knew some of Lin Jing's overview.

"Graduated from high school this year," Lin Liwei replied.

"What university have you been admitted to?" Hong Xinbao heard Lin Liwei say that his daughter's academic performance seemed to be pretty good, so he asked casually.

“Xiangjiang Chinese University.”

"Xiangjiang Chinese University? It's really amazing. Awei, you gave birth to a talented woman." Hong Xinbao said with a thumbs up after hearing this. Only then did he really become interested in the script handed over by Lin Liwei, he took the script out of the kraft paper bag and started reading it immediately.

"The Five Blessings Stars of Strange Schemes"?" The name of the script made Hong Xinbao's interest stronger.

"The Strategy of the Five Blessings" is a very authentic Hong Kong comedy movie, which tells a series of hilarious stories that happen when five little thieves become brothers after being released from prison.

It has the characteristics of a Hong Kong comedy movie. In order to attract audiences at the first time, a large amount of jokes can make people laugh from beginning to end. Even if its plot is loose, those jokes are "vulgar" like "shit, pee, fart".

"The script is good." After browsing the entire script, Hong Xinbao immediately fell in love with it.

This is not surprising, because in later generations, he was the screenwriter of "The Five Blessings Stars".

After entering the 1980s, Hong Xinbao, who had made his debut, finally ushered in his creative peak. He combines director, starring, action director and screenwriter. Not only does it produce high, but it also has a high box office. "The Prodigal" personally directed last year achieved a box office of 9 million. "Beware of the Little Hand" starring at the beginning of this year won more than 11 million, winning the sixth place in the box office list of the previous year.

Of course, most of the scripts in Xiangjiang in this era are the products of brainstorming. After the director has a good idea or a good idea, he usually gathers screenwriters to sit together. Everyone uses their subjective initiative to contribute to the idea and creativity in a word, and finally organizes a complete script by a screenwriter with a higher status.

The whole process is not long and it is very casual. Sometimes it even starts filming just because of an idea and a creativity. Even the lines are filmed while filming, and the script is not used at all.

This is also one of the reasons why the plot of Xiangjiang movies is loose and the details are not rigorous enough.

However, although these filmmakers are casual about creating scripts, it does not mean that they do not know how to read scripts and do not pay attention to good scripts.

In fact, this "The Five Blessings Stars" has been deleted and modified by Lin Jing. It turns out that there is a little difference. She deleted some of the jokes that were purely funny because of vulgarity, such as the invisible plot. These jokes will not have any impact on the plot at all. Then, some small plots are added to make the whole plot fuller and more compact.

"Awei, let me tell you the price. How much do you want to make this script?" I thought the script was good, Hong Xinbao decided to buy it. He was ready to buy it even if Lin Liweitie had a higher price, and he would take it down, just treat it as a sure thing for his brother.

"Brother Sanmao, tell you the truth. This script was written by Ajing. I just provided some experience on the set, and it didn't work much when writing it. She said, as long as Uncle Sanmao, you think it's okay, just take it, don't say anything or not." Lin Liwei repeated Lin Jing's words.

In Xiangjiang these days, scripts written by novice screenwriters with no experience and no fame are very cheap, and they can even be paid for only a few thousand yuan, and the higher one is only 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

Although Lin Jing has a little "literary name" because of her novels, she would not naively think that the scripts she wrote can be treated differently from ordinary screenwriters in terms of treatment. Since they can't even sell for a good price, it's better to be a favor and "given" to Hong Xinbao.

With Hong Xinbao's ability, he will definitely not be able to make a film. Then after the big sale, Hong Xinbao will definitely be generous in paying dividends because of the compensation for not accepting scripts.

"That's it." Hong Xinbao thought about Lin Liwei's insistence on not having the script fee, and said, "How about this, I will accept the script. If the movie is sold well, everyone will share the dividends together. If the sale is not so good, I will give you some money."

Hearing Hong Xinbao's arrangement, Lin Liwei couldn't help but remember what Lin Jing said to him, "Boss Hong has a heroic personality and is generous and loyal. He will definitely make very reasonable arrangements for this script. Dad, you don't have to worry about it at all."
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