The car was fixed.
The girl left first.
As Gu Dong was about to move on, Lin Yuan suddenly received a call from Ol’ Zhou:
"No need to go, the girl over there seems to have so urgent things to deal with. She won’t have ti to et you today. This whole thing was done quite inappropriately, I’ve already scolded them fiercely. It was a wasted trip, don’t be too angry, we can arrange it next ti, let her co to you!"
"Okay."
He didn’t feel much of anything.
To Lin Yuan, it was rely a leisurely trip.
The two returned to the company.
On the way back, Gu Dong suddenly sighed:
"The young lady just now is clearly rich, and unexpectedly, she can fix cars. Without her, we would have been stranded. Plus, she’s so pretty, even prettier than so female celebrities. It’s a pity though, I forgot to ask her about her skincare routine..."
Lin Yuan closed his eyes to rest.
After the battle, rest was needed.
He felt his bargaining skills were rusty.
He used to be the Super Bargain King in the eyes of Jian Yi and Xia Fan, normally capable of haggling to half the price. But this ti, he felt like he didn’t get much of a deal.
When they got back to the company, Ol’ Zhou didn’t ntion the blind date again.
At dinner, his mother also didn’t bring up the matter.
Lin Yuan considered it a little incident in life.
The next day.
As Lin Yuan returned to the company, he noticed that Ol’ Zhou and the film departnt were getting ready to leave.
"Want to co along?"
Seeing Lin Yuan, Ol’ Zhou chuckled: "We’re organizing a screening of ’The Truman Show’."
Lin Yuan was taken aback: "Has the screening not started yet? Hasn’t the schedule been confird?"
Ol’ Zhou explained: "A lot of theaters are prepared to pay for your film, so everyone scheduled it ahead of ti. But the specific distribution depends on the quality of the film."
"Alright, I’ll pass."
Interacting with theater representatives requires certain social skills, which Lin Yuan isn’t good at.
His way of dealing with different situations is quite simple.
All he can do is conjure up a socially conforming smile.
"Then we’ll get going."
Ol’ Zhou waved goodbye and led the film departnt to an early booked screening location.
The venue for the screening was Su City Tis Cinema.
After Ol’ Zhou and the others arrived, they began to receive representatives from major theaters at the entrance.
"Representative Zhang is here!"
"Representative Wang, please co in!"
"Long ti no see, Mr. Li!"
"..."
Filmmaking is a cooperative art. Not only do the scriptwriters, directors, and actors have specific roles to play, but people like Ol’ Zhou also have responsibilities, such as arranging screenings.
After the screening.
Issues like scheduling screenings and distribution through theaters would require Ol’ Zhou and others to engage in verbal battles with the theater representatives.
In the crowd.
Ye Hongyu from Dadi Theaters was also there.
This was the second ti Ye Hongyu attended a Xian Yu movie’s screening.
The last one she attended was the screening of ’Hachiko’.
That ti, Ye Hongyu who was known as the iron lady, was moved to tears.
Ye Hongyu kept a low profile when she arrived this ti. After a brief greeting with Ol’ Zhou, she went straight into the cinema.
Accompanying Ye Hongyu was Pan Lei, a market analyst from Dadi Theaters.
A market analyst’s job is to assess the box office potential of movies.
That’s really the job of a theater representative, but sotis, they bring along specialized analysts too.
That’s because these analysts often have a more accurate judgnt of a movie’s value.
...
After they settled down in the cinema.
Pan Lei joked: "Did you bring enough tissues today, Hongyu?"
As the Iron Lady of Dadi Theaters, Ye Hongyu was famous for not having emotional fluctuations while watching any movie.
But last ti when she watched ’Hachiko’, Ye Hongyu broke her rule.
After word got out, many people in the company enjoyed teasing Ye Hongyu about it.
Today was another Xian Yu film’s viewing session, hence why Pan Lei brought up past incidents.
"I won’t cry today, but you better take care of yourself."
Ye Hongyu rolled her eyes.
Pan Lei said, "We’re only going to laugh today, not cry. After all, this is a cody."
He Sheng starred in today’s "The Truman Show."
He Sheng rose to fa for starring in "Flirting Scholar," and has been a codian since his debut. All the films he starred in afterwards were codies.
The current He Sheng is now quite a renowned star in the cody circle.
When Pan Lei saw that "The Truman Show" starred He Sheng and was written by Xian Yu, he instinctively thought that it was a nonsensical cody.
So did other cinema line representatives.
However, at that mont, Ol’ Zhou suddenly walked to the stage and announced into the microphone, "Before the movie starts, I need to remind everyone that ’The Truman Show’ is a drama."
The scene burst into clamor.
Ye Hongyu was also a bit surprised.
Pan Lei blurted out, "What is Starlight doing?"
This viewing session was not small in scale, and everyone thought that the movie was a comrcial cody film. But Ol’ Zhou actually said that it was a drama?
Does a drama deserve such a fuss?
Can it make money?
We want box office revenues from our cinema line!
Okay.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a drama.
Xian Yu’s drama should not be too self-indulgent in terms of plot, and it should still be able to bring in so box office revenue.
But why did you choose He Sheng to play the leading role?
He Sheng is an out-and-out codian!
Who’s ever heard of a nonsensical cody actor starring in a drama?
Did the casting director get kicked in the head by a donkey?
Can’t you see the inappropriate casting?
For a mont, the cinema line representatives were all a bit puzzled.
However, after the clamor, the scene quickly quieted down.
The audience wasn’t the average viewer, and they knew that anything could happen in the film industry.
Now it was up to Starlight to iron out all these issues.
If they can’t, then the film’s screening would be absolutely dismal.
After all, no movie theater is invincible.
Even if every one of Xian Yu’s films performs well, no one dares to say that Xian Yu’s next film will definitely be successful.
The cinema line representatives had seen too many people who succeeded several tis, but fell once and never rose again.
"The problem is not with the drama, but with He Sheng."
After observing the representatives’ reactions, Ol’ Zhou quietly exchanged words with a mber of his film crew.
The film crew mber said, "This is Xian Yu’s insistence. We can’t do anything about it."
Ol’ Zhou smiled, "But you’ve seen the final product. You should know that He Sheng’s performance is very good."
"That’s true."
As Ol’ Zhou and his colleague were discussing, the screen on the scene dimd.
The film showed Starlight’s company logo, a group of stars shining in a starry night sky.
Then, a middle-aged man with glasses and deep-set eyes appeared on the screen, slowly and earnestly narrating to the cara:
"We’ve grown tired of the affectations of actors, and we’ve grown weary of explosive scenes and computer effects. In so ways, although Truman lives in a fictional world, he himself is not fake at all. There’s no script, no cue cards. Although it may not be considered a great masterpiece, it couldn’t be more real. This is a docuntary of life…"
Swoosh!
This was clearly just the first scene, or even the first line of the film, but Ye Hongyu felt a shiver run up her neck!
Professional cinema line representatives are always hypersensitive to the intentions of a film.
Although her expression didn’t change at all, her tone hinted at surprise as she asked, "What is this?"
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Pan Lei didn’t say a word, but his eyes were full of confusion and his scalp felt inexplicably creepy!
The Truman Show?
This couldn’t be...
If his guess was right, the originality of Xian Yu’s script was terrifying. This was simply a divine-level outstanding and absurd idea!!!
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