Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

Chapter 894 Casting

The spring of 1980 was exceptionally warm.

With the hot sales of Walkman in Hong Kong Island, the Huo family sent people to Beijing.

In addition to dealing with some things, the more important thing is to talk to Chen Changan again about the entertainment company.

After talking with his superiors, Mr. Huo took the initiative to come to the automobile factory.

After a brief tour, I sat in Chen Changan's office.

“Director Chen, all matters concerning the filming of Shaolin Temple and the formation of the team have been completed. The funds have also been in place.

You said before that the filming location is going to be in the Shaolin Temple. When do you think the director and actors will be in place?

I can also notify all teams to meet up on the mainland."

After a winter vacation of instruction, Xiujuan has gained a lot of understanding about the movie "Shaolin Temple".

Chen Changan was also afraid that Xiujuan would make a bad movie and waste the money invested by the Huo family.

All the scenes in the movie and what needed to be presented were explained to Xiujuan in detail.

Chen Changan didn't have high requirements for Xiujuan, and as he had sufficient funds, she only needed to shoot the scenes that Chen Changan needed.

When Chen Changan helps with editing in the later stage, this classic movie will be presented as well.

“The casting has already started and it will be ready in a few days.

Regarding the use of the Shaolin Temple for filming, we still need to make a request to the local government through Hong Kong Island Entertainment Company.”

Mr. Huo nodded, indicating that he understood. This was not his first time coming to the mainland, and he was very familiar with the current situation.

At this time, the film academy had just started, and Xiujuan was still somewhat excited about making movies, so much so that she was often distracted during class.

His performance was naturally noticed by the teacher.

As the first batch of students in the directing department after the resumption of the college entrance examination, some of these students will definitely become well-known directors in the film industry in the future.

Chen Xiujuan is one of the people he is optimistic about. Although she is a female student, female directors have more advantages in some types of movies.

When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, the teacher spoke.

"Chen Xiujuan, come with me to the office."

Xiujuan was startled for a moment, and then she understood why the teacher called her into the office.

After entering the teacher's office, Xiujuan said directly.

"Teacher Situ, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been distracted in class. It's just, it's just..."

Xiujuan didn't know whether she should tell her teacher about her elder brother's arrangement to make a movie.

"Just what? If you have any problem, just tell me. No matter if it's about study or life, I will definitely help as long as I can.

Is there something wrong at home? Do you need money? "

As a teacher, Mr. Situ cares very much about his students' problems.

Especially for the class he is in charge of, he has high hopes for it.

Faced with a teacher who cares so much about her, Xiujuan had to ask for leave even if she had to shoot a movie, so she decided to tell her teacher everything.

"My family is not short of money. My eldest brother is the director of a car factory."

"What? Your eldest brother is Chen Changan from the car factory?"

Although I knew that Chen Xiuying was from Sijiucheng, I also knew that Chen Xiuying's father was a martyr.

He didn't pay close attention to her brothers and sisters, he just knew that she was the youngest in the family.

Seeing Xiujuan nodded, he was a little shocked, but he quickly recovered.

"With your elder brother here, I won't worry about your family affairs.

Everyone in the city knows Chen Changan's name. Why don't you listen carefully?"

“During the winter vacation, my eldest brother told me that there was an entertainment company in Hong Kong that was planning to make a movie with an investment of two million Hong Kong dollars.

Then my eldest brother wrote a script and the other party liked it very much.

Because my eldest brother has some business dealings with them, and they need to shoot here.

Out of trust in my eldest brother, the other party formed a filming team and assigned the filming task to my eldest brother.

Then my elder brother gave the task of filming to me?

Once all the formalities are completed, the other party’s filming team will come over and let me be the director, including the casting tasks. ”

"What? Two million Hong Kong dollars? You're the director? You choose the cast? Is there such a good thing?

Are you sure it was your eldest brother, Chen Changan, the director of the automobile factory, who told you that?"

No wonder he was excited. This was a blessing from heaven. But when he thought of Chen Changan, he was not surprised anymore.

You know, even the director of the first Spring Festival Gala was Chen Changan, and many of Chen Changan’s legendary stories are well-known in Beijing.

"I've been under a lot of pressure lately. I'm afraid that if I don't do a good job, it will embarrass my elder brother in front of his partners. I'm considering whether to continue filming."

"Take a picture, why not? If you are worried that you can't take a good picture, the teacher will help you.

Besides, you have so many classmates. Even if you all take a semester off, I will bring a few teachers to the set to take classes with you.

We were filming a movie and taking classes at the same time, which was much better than sitting in the classroom and listening to the lecture.

You are the director, the person in charge of the entire crew, just solve our food problem."

When Xiujuan heard her teacher say this, she was no longer afraid.

With so many classmates and teachers helping me, are you still worried that I can't make a movie? Isn't it just providing food? Two million Hong Kong dollars, I don't know how to spend it.

"That's great, thank you Teacher Situ."

"Where's the script? Take out the script. Your homework today is to study the script thoroughly for me."

"The script is in my dorm. I'll go get it now."

After saying that, Xiujuan ran out of the office in a hurry. Watching Xiujuan disappear.

He couldn't help but sigh that it was a huge help for these students to be able to participate in the filming of the movie at this age.

It is better to watch it once on the set than to explain it ten times in the classroom. And as Chen Xiujuan is the on-site person in charge, these students have the opportunity to try it out.

As soon as Teacher Situ handed the script of "Shaolin Temple" to all the students and told them to participate in the filming, the students became excited.

As Chen Xiujuan's best friends, both Li Xiaohong and Hu Mei went crazy.

"Xiujuan, you are so awesome. You can take us to make a movie.

But we have been classmates for two years, and we still don’t know that your eldest brother is Chen Changan."

Looking at the excited class, Teacher Situ also smiled. These are the cornerstones of the future film industry. He hoped that they could make good use of this opportunity.

"Go back and study the script carefully tonight. I have read the script and it is very well written.

Although it is considered a commercial film, it is different from what many people pursue.

But audiences prefer to watch commercial films. Only when more people watch movies can the film industry prosper.

After all, we live in a market economy now. If you don’t make money from making movies, who would be willing to invest in you?

Only when you make money can you shoot what you want, and this is also a valuable learning opportunity.

In addition, tomorrow, I will go with everyone to the Wushu Team to select actors.

Let's see who is the most suitable Jueyuan in your mind."