Chapter 550: Fan Wei's recommended script
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Liu Yifei did not leave early, nor did she not receive an invitation, but she was abroad and could not come back.
After the premiere of If You Are the One, Liu Xiaoli wanted to use high-pressure tactics to force her daughter to submit, but what she didn't expect was that two days later Liu Yifei took her luggage and left without saying goodbye.
By the time Liu Xiaoli found out, she had already gone traveling to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand with Shu Chang.
This move of escaping made Liu Xiaoli very angry, and at the same time she was also very worried, fearing that she would miss the opportunity to cooperate with Xu Kun.
Not to mention this.
But the next morning, before Xu Kun got up, he received a call from Brother Dong.
Liu Qiangdong did not mention the investment on the phone, but analyzed the pros and cons of a large number of major portals and which one is more suitable for promoting the Weibo + celebrity plan.
He had not studied much about these things yesterday, but today he spoke very clearly about them. I guess he had not slept all night and collected information on this topic overnight.
The first thing Liu Qiangdong mentioned was Fanfou. Fanfou is considered a pioneer in the domestic microblogging community and has a certain foundation.
However, Dong Ge is not optimistic about . Firstly, it is because there is no strong support behind Fanfou. Second, Fanfou has been in operation for more than a year and has not yet found the correct way to attract traffic.
On the contrary, they seem to be a little obsessed with making shocking statements recently, always wanting to make big news.
"I heard that the boss of Fanfou admires those who advocate Western dissidents. Just for this reason, I am not optimistic about their future. After all, the Internet is not a lawless place."
The early Internet was extremely inclusive, which allowed Dong Ge to say that "the Internet is not a lawless place", which shows that some of the remarks on Fanfou have gone beyond the limit to a certain extent.
Next, Dong Ge mentioned Sina. As the leader in the blogging industry, it even caused QQ Space to fail in its attempt to imitate it. Sina has inherent advantages in its transformation from blogs to microblogs.
The opportunity for transformation...
All you have to do is wait for Fanfou to make big news, then find someone to report it, and you can easily divert traffic - you can even use this as an excuse to keep out dissidents who are likely to cause trouble.
In addition to Sina, Dong Ge is more optimistic about two other companies. These two companies are neither NetEase nor Sohu, but Baidu and Tencent.
He thinks that Baidu Tieba and Weibo can fully complement each other, and coupled with the current value of Baidu's hot search list, they can form a solid triangle.
As for Tencent, it has the largest number of users on the Internet. In addition, it has previously tried to integrate QQ space and blogs. Although it failed, it is enough to prove that Tencent is determined to get involved in this area.
Precisely because of the previous failure, Tencent will most likely pay the most attention to the Weibo + celebrity strategy proposed by Xu Kun.
Xu Kun could tell that Liu Qiangdong was most optimistic about Tencent, but he was also the most averse to Tencent.
This conflicted attitude made Xu Kun somewhat puzzled. According to Dong Ge's analysis, Sina and Baidu should have greater advantages than Tencent in this regard. Why did he seem to have a special liking for Tencent?
"This one……"
Liu Qiangdong smiled awkwardly and said, "Ultimately, we want to leverage this opportunity to develop , and in terms of cultivating individual paying users, Tencent is far better than the other two companies."
Xu Kun suddenly realized that, indeed, compared with Tencent, which had launched Q coins early on, the monetization capabilities of Baidu and Sina were much worse - Baidu's monetization capabilities were actually quite good, but its main sponsors at this stage were corporate groups, not individual users.
Considering that what needs most are individual users who are willing to pay, it is not surprising that it would be jealous of Tencent's resources.
What about rejection?
"Uh~"
Liu Qiangdong said reluctantly: "Tencent is also engaged in e-commerce, that is, . Although it is not as professional as , it has Tencent's support and its current sales are higher than ."
Xu Kun really didn't notice this.
Judging from what Dong Ge said, he was obviously worried that Xu Kun would turn around and seek cooperation with Tencent and , but he couldn't hide this kind of thing, so he had to bite the bullet and tell it.
But Brother Dong must be worrying too much. In his previous life, Xu Kun had heard of Alibaba Taobao, , Pinduoduo, and even WeChat business, but he had never heard of .
Apparently this thing never got made.
So he immediately said with a smile: "Since they are competitors, let's eliminate Tencent first."
Dong Ge was relieved when he heard this, and exchanged some experiences with Xu Kun before finally hanging up the phone. Xu Kun looked at the time and found that it was almost ten o'clock.
Because I was too lazy to eat out and didn’t want to order takeout, I just cooked a few bags of instant noodles.
Usually, Xu Kun’s breakfast was mostly prepared by the woman who slept with him at night, but it was Liu Tao who slept with him last night, and she was picked up by Master Wang who was waiting downstairs before 12 o’clock.
This is mainly to avoid gossip. If someone really witnessed this scene, it can be covered up by saying that Prince Wang was always by their side.
In order to maintain the good reputation of the couple, Xu has taken great pains.
After filling his stomach with junk food, Xu Kun contacted Han Sanping and agreed to meet at China Film Group at two o'clock. Seeing if there was still time, he went to the study to look through the script.
Ever since "Operation Kunpeng" became a big hit, people have often sent him scripts. Later, after the news of the establishment of the "Youth Directors Association" spread, more people sent him scripts.
All the works that come into his hands have been screened by Huayi. Those with illogical logic or too cliché have long been eliminated.
However, even after screening, the overall quality is still worrying.
Moreover, many of them are inspired by some niche films from abroad. Sometimes, if you think a movie is good, you can find the same old movie by searching it on the Internet.
It seems that Huayi's audit department needs to be strengthened.
Or the Youth Directors Association should also set up an independent review department to avoid embarrassing situations where someone plagiarizes without knowing it and is eventually pointed out by the audience.
While reading the script, Xu Kun suddenly received a call from Fan Wei.
"Teacher Fan."
As soon as Xu Kun answered the phone, he said, "You are really annoying. When he was drinking with me and Teacher Zhao Benshan yesterday, he mentioned you to me."
Fan Wei also laughed and said, "Ben Shan called me later and said that his script was rejected. He even cried on the phone. Later, when he heard that I came to Beijing, he asked me to have dinner with him in the evening and said that he wanted to pour out his grievances to me. But he is a perseverant person. I estimate that he will be able to stand up again in two days."
Xu Kun believed this. Zhao Benshan had truly worked his way up from the bottom, and his childhood experiences were much worse than his.
This kind of person is the least likely to admit defeat and is least likely to be defeated by difficulties.
After chatting for a while about Zhao Benshan, Fan Wei got down to business and said that there was a director he had worked with before who now had a particularly good script that he wanted to film, but was now worried about not being able to get investment.
After hearing about this, Fan Wei thought of Xu Kun and the Youth Directors Association that was about to be established.
"That script is so well written, especially for people from Northeast China like us! Director Xu, if you have time, can you meet Director Zhang and read his script?"
Xu Kun looked up and found that it was not yet 12 o'clock, so he said readily: "Since you have asked, Teacher Fan, I must meet you. So, if it is convenient, let's meet at XX restaurant near the Central Film Academy in an hour, okay?"
"That's a good feeling, that's a good feeling!"
Fan Wei was overjoyed and expressed his gratitude profusely on the other end of the phone.
After hanging up the phone, Xu Kun packed up his things and drove straight to the China Film Group headquarters.
When we arrived at the agreed restaurant, Fan Wei and Director Zhang had already booked a private room and were waiting for us.
Director Zhang's full name is Zhang Meng. He is in his early thirties, with a big forehead, a rectangular face, small eyes, and a pair of black-framed glasses. He looks somewhat shy.
According to Fan Wei's introduction, it turns out that Director Zhang used to be a screenwriter of sketches, and "Kung Fu", the last part of the "Selling Crutch" trilogy, was written by him.
He also wrote the sequel to Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, "Talking about Things".
It was through these experiences that I met Fan Wei, and later the two of them partnered to film a movie called "Big Ears Bring Good Luck".
However, Zhang Meng said that his first film script was not "Big Ears Bring Good Luck", but a black humor story that he had been polishing since 99, reflecting the situation of laid-off workers in Northeast China.
As he spoke, he handed over the script he had brought with both hands.
Xu Kun also took it with both hands and saw three big words written on the cover: "The Piano in a Factory".
(End of this chapter)
