If you want to make a movie, you must first have a story. Fu Zhen doesn't have a particularly outstanding love story yet, so he set his sights on the "White Castle" that he had set his eyes on before.
The plagiarism lawsuit between "White Castle" and "The West Wind Withered the Green Trees Last Night" has ended. Although Luo Pingping has worked hard to win the lawsuit, the compensation she received is far from being able to make up for her efforts.
The court judged that Chen Guanjun, the author of "Last Night's West Wind withered the green trees", should pay Luo Pingping 30,000 yuan, and Chen Guanjun wanted Luo Pingping to make an apology. However, Chen Guanjun only paid the money but refused to apologize. There is no way.
She really lost money in this lawsuit, the lawyer's fee alone was far more than 30,000 yuan, and the other party showed no intention of repenting at all, and even sold the copyright early, and the film was already in the process of preparation.
And Luo Pingping is still unknown. Many fans of "Last Night" went to her Weibo and scolded her for taking Chen Guanjun's popularity. what to say.
She remembered that after the verdict was pronounced, Chen Guanjun walked up to her and said to her provocatively: "So what if I plagiarized? I plagiarized and wrote better than you, and earned more than you. The 30,000 yuan I will take it as my pity for you."
Luo Pingping was so angry that he almost spat out blood, but he was helpless against Chen Guanjun. The law only ordered him to compensate her 30,000 yuan, which was the only thing she could get from this infringement incident.
Luo Pingping really couldn't swallow this breath in her heart, but her connections in this circle are not particularly wide, and she is not Chen Guanjun's opponent at all.
Luo Pingping looked at the physical book of "White Castle" in his bookshelf, and sighed softly.
Fu Zhen asked Jiang Hengshu to find the contact information of Luo Pingping, the author of "White Castle", and called Luo Pingping one evening. A clear female voice rang from the other end of the phone and asked Fu Zhen, "Who are you looking for?"
Fu Zhen: "Mr. Luo, hello, I'm Fu Zhen. I'm taking the liberty to disturb you today. I want to buy the film and television copyright of your White Castle."
Luo Pingping on the other side of the phone was silent for a while, as if he was considering Fu Zhen's proposal, or maybe he was judging whether the person on the other end of the phone was a liar. After a while, Luo Pingping spoke up, and she said to Fu Zhen: " You should know that White Castle is not easy to adapt."
There are many characters in "White Castle", the world view is complicated, the bright lines and dark lines are intertwined, and the flashbacks interrupt the main narrative, which makes the timeline a bit confusing to read. If you read the original book only once, there is no way to fully understand the meaning of it, but as long as you read it more than twice, You will understand the despair and redemption hidden in this book, and many readers can't stand it after only reading the first two chapters, thinking that the author is showing off his writing and playing with readers' feelings.
"The West Wind Withered the Green Trees Last Night" just copied two of the lines, put the two more brilliant characters in it into another background, and presented the original plot timeline in front of the readers in a positive way. A few more bloody plots were added, and it became a classic online novel that no one can surpass in ten years among book fans.
Fu Zhen pursed his lips, and he asked Luo Pingping: "Mr. Luo, do you trust me?"
"I know you, you are a very talented young director," Luo Pingping paused, and then asked Fu Zhen, "Did you film Chunhua Mountain? Was it completely filmed by you?"
Fu Zhen understands what Luo Pingping means. Although the lawsuit between him and Zhao Jin indicated that the copyright of "Chunhua Mountain" is only in his hands, many netizens still don't believe that Fu Zhen can shoot "Mountain of Spring" at that age. "Chunhua Mountain" is such an excellent work, they think that there must be a teacher behind Fu Zhen.
Fu Zhen was suspected by Luo Pingping at this time, and he didn't feel offended. He assured Luo Pingping: "It's me."
Luo Pingping seemed to have taken a reassurance. She said to Fu Zhen: "Okay, my request is very simple. If you shoot White Castle and can surpass the box office of the West Wind Withered Green Tree last night, I will give away the film and television copyright of this film for free." You, if you can't reach it, then you can give me half a million."
The price of 500,000 yuan is really too cheap, not to mention that there may be no money, Fu Zhen thinks this is not good, and said: "Mr. Luo..."
Luo Pingping chuckled on the phone. Although she didn't make a lot of money from writing books, it was definitely enough to live on. She sued Chen Guanjun not for compensation, but mainly to express her anger. But in the end, not only did she not let out that breath, she even held it in again.
Luo Pingping asked Fu Zhen: "You don't have confidence in yourself?"
Rumor has it that Lian Chunchao, the director of "The West Wind Withered the Green Trees Last Night", used to be director Zhang Yige's queen photographer, and he has studied with director Zhang Yige for many years. This should be the first time that the other party has acted as a director to shoot a film. Fu Zhen is not very clear about the other party's How is the level, and the box office of a movie is not only a factor that affects the quality of the movie, and what Fu Zhen can do is to do everything he can to make this movie well.
He said to Luo Pingping: "I will work hard."
Luo Pingping said yes: "I believe in you."
It is a joyful thing for Fu Zhen to gain the trust of the author of "White Castle". He thought about it and said to Luo Pingping: "But Mr. Luo, I may need you to help me make the plot of White Castle together. Organize and revise."
Luo Pingping responded: "This is fine, but I can't do this for nothing."
Fu Zhen laughed, and said, "I will pay Teacher Luo."
"That's fine, you can add me on WeChat. If you have any questions, just send them to me on WeChat."
"Thank you, Teacher Luo."
The phone call was about to end, Luo Pingping suddenly remembered a very important question, she asked Fu Zhen: "By the way, when do you plan to start filming?"
Fu Zhen estimated that the child in his stomach will not be born until October this year, and he cannot start working immediately after the child is born. He will not be able to start work until November, but during this time he can make all the preliminary preparations. Finished, he replied to Luo Pingping and said: "I have something else to do recently. The White Castle may not be filmed until winter."
Luo Pingping didn't really care about the time of one month or two. Winter sounds far away, but in fact it's only a few months. She smiled and said to Fu Zhen: "Winter is fine, that The story originally happened in winter."
Fu Zhen chatted with Luo Pingping for nearly half an hour. Jiang Hengshu had already prepared the meal and came out of the kitchen. He sat down next to Fu Zhen, peeled off a mangosteen, took out the white flesh inside, and waited until Fu Zhen hung it up. After calling, he sent the pulp to Fu Zhen's mouth. Fu Zhen lowered his head and bit into it together with Jiang Hengshu's fingers. What are your plans when you come down?"
Fu Zhen didn't hide it from Jiang Hengshu: "After the child is born, I want to make another movie."
"Is there anything I can help you with?" Jiang Hengshu asked him.
"Not yet." Fu Zhen shook his head. The first thing he had to do was to work with Mr. Luo Pingping to adapt "White Castle" to be more in line with the public's preferences.
During the period when Fu Zhen was preparing for "White Castle", many online video broadcasting platforms approached him to buy the broadcast copyright of "Chunhua Mountain". Filmmakers hoped that their films could be seen by more people. Fu Zhen also No exception, although "Chunhua Mountain" would bring back some bad memories about Fu Jianchen, but the more he cared about it, the more he couldn't let it go, so Fu Zhen happily sold the broadcasting rights.
After all the major video sites introduced "Chunhua Mountain", "Chunhua Mountain" became popular again on the Internet. Many young netizens resisted "Chunhua Mountain" when the war between Tang Wanwan and Fu Zhen broke out. , I didn't go to the theater to see this movie, and the truth finally became clear, but at that time "Chunhua Mountain" had already been released, and netizens regretted it in their hearts.
Especially after knowing that the director of the Shazhou Chronicle is also Fu Zhen, for the fans of the Shazhou Chronicle, this kind of regret has reached its peak. If they watch "Chunhua Mountain", maybe they can find something that belongs to them. With Fu Zhen's routine, they will not be caught off guard by the knife.
Li Xun is one of these people. At that time, he did not enter the theater because of Tang Wanwan's relationship. Later, he regretted it to death. At that time, if he had contributed more to the box office of "Chunhua Mountain", the Shazhou Chronicle might have been with them earlier. Meet.
When she found out that "Chunhua Mountain" had been registered on major video sites, Li Xun deliberately became a member of Youku for a month for this movie. Her roommate watched this movie during the winter vacation and watched her lying on the table Staring at the computer screen, he smiled and said to her, this movie is quite funny.
Li Xun completely believed what my roommate said. Although the Shazhou Chronicle gave her a mouthful of knives just now, it was indeed very funny at the beginning. Kaoru would still laugh until the bed trembled when reliving it.
The tone of the first half of "Chunhua Mountain" is indeed relatively relaxed. Li Xun would let out a laugh from time to time, and his roommate would also smile knowingly at this time, but the atmosphere of the whole movie took a turn for the worse after Chen Zhiye ran away from home. Kaoru's tears flowed from this moment to the ending and never stopped.
Chen Zhiye couldn't bear Chen Fusheng's harsh treatment and left home. Chen Fusheng thought his son just lost his temper and would come back soon, but he waited and waited, Chen Zhiye never came back, and Chen Fusheng wanted to go out He was looking for him, but he didn't know where he had gone, and was afraid that if he left, Chen Zhiye wouldn't see him when he came back.
Chen Fusheng grew old day by day in such torment. On a rainy night, he dreamed that Chen Zhiye came back. When he woke up, he faced the empty house and rushed out regardless of the pouring rain, into the deep night Howling loudly: "Ye'er, father is wrong, come back—"
"Ye'er, dad is wrong, come back—"
"You come back—"
Before that, Li Xun, like Chen Zhiye, couldn't stand Chen Fusheng's overly strict father, but at this moment, Li Xun's tears fell with the heavy rain of the movie.
She wished that Chen Zhiye could come back now and appear in front of Chen Fusheng.