3. Chapter 3, Scene 3 The Lonely Captain
Although it was early spring, the cold wind on the streets of Seoul in the evening was still stinging when it passed over the cheeks. Li Xiaole and Tian Hailin came out of school with their own thoughts and were silent all the way.
Unlike Tian Hailin, who was purely depressed and aggrieved, Li Xiaole was thinking about how he should use this new identity to live a good life in the future while walking on this unfamiliar street.
Return to China?
Not to mention that he had not yet figured out how to face his new "parents", just the news that he had been expelled from school made him shameless to go back and provoke two innocent old people.
Return to your old profession as a stuntman in Korea?
But kung fu movies are not popular in Korea, so it’s hard to say whether there is a need for more professional fighting. Besides, do you want to continue to be an unknown and poor stuntman like you did in your previous life?
I still remember that when I was twelve years old in my previous life, I watched a TV series called "Huo Yuanjia" on the black and white TV set next door to my neighbor. From then on, he began to dream of becoming a director and telling his favorite stories into films.
After filming, I will direct the handsome guys and beauties in my own crew to perform exciting and shocking stories one by one. They will look better than Fearless.
Then within a few years, I went to the United States, and then returned to China, and then hit a wall, and then wasted... I could only look at the screen with all kinds of envy and jealousy every day, and watch the wonderful movies and TV shows that blinded my eyes.
He was constantly being produced, but he could only be beaten and bruised during filming, and his name could not appear in the cast list at the end of the movie...
My previous life was purely a life of a supporting role, where I heard, witnessed, and even helped others succeed step by step, but I absolutely failed...
Um...wait!
Li Xiaole suddenly stopped because his mind was flashing through scenes of exciting classic movies, TV shows and music scenes that only appeared in the last ten years of his previous life...
Maybe...I can also shoot the "Inception" with its gorgeous scenes and precise logic that once made me crazy? Or the story of "One Liter of Tears" that touched people's hearts and moved people deeply? Or even the design
Selling the retro dance music "Gangnam Style" that makes the whole world dance together and triggers a global trend?
Just thinking about it made Li Xiaole feel extremely itchy! In this imaginative and erotic pleasure, he was so excited that his blood surged, and strong desires arose in his heart, and he wished he could take those dazzling things right away.
All future masterpieces will be copied and the whole world will go crazy!
Crazy because of him!
What is the power of art? An era-defining three-dimensional technology masterpiece, "Avatar" has created a crazy box office record of US$800 million worldwide!
Even in South Korea, just twenty episodes of "Winter Sonata" have added 3 trillion won in revenue to the Korean cultural industry...
South Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Little Japan, Hollywood...he has the opportunity to conquer all these places!
Dreams, money, beauties, countless exciting opportunities seem to have been placed in front of me, everything seems to be within easy reach...
But...will all this really be that simple and smooth?
After Li Xiaole became excited, he gradually calmed down. After experiencing too many failures, he finally began to realize that things could not be as easy as described in those time-travel dramas.
Now he is just a poor international student who dropped out of school in South Korea! Even survival is a problem now, let alone how to start.
Think about it carefully, what can you do now?
Since college, Li Xiaole has been in the habit of watching a movie, two episodes of TV series and several music videos every day. It can be said that he has some impressions of 90% of the mainstream film and television dramas in the world, including actor information -
- This is his biggest capital, and the most convenient method now... should be to copy a copy of the script and give it to the film and television company to earn the first pot of gold.
However... the actual situation now is that this is simply impossible!
Li Xiaole suddenly realized that he was in South Korea, which attaches great importance to ethics. He was just a gray newcomer who had just been expelled from Dankook University, and there was still a stain of plagiarism on his file. Under such an unbearable experience, no matter how much he wrote,
If there is a wonderful script or song, no company will be willing to take over it in a short period of time. You must know that in the Korean industry, plagiarism is a top taboo, and no company dares to take the risk of unknown copyright!
Even if it were him, and a Chinese college student who was expelled from the school handed him a work that he should not have written, I'm afraid he would think that the other party plagiarized the work of an unknown person, right?
What's more, "madeinchina" - this word in the minds of most Koreans means shoddy, plagiarized, cheap, copycat...
Of course, I can also choose to be an actor, but I don’t seem to have any acting talent in my past life. Besides, I am now... 19 years old. With this young face, I can only play a certain company in some TV series.
The rebellious son of the family, or the little gangster who molested the heroine... Even if he can become famous, he doesn't know how many years it will take.
By the way, since I have a script, maybe I can be a screenwriter and director or something and make a small-budget movie?
With the three major TV stations monopolizing the Korean TV drama market, TV dramas are unlikely, but movies still seem to have some chance...
Li Xiaole was thinking as he walked, trying his best to search for suitable themes for him to start with. The first thing he thought of was the movie "Han River Monster", which was the highest-grossing movie in Korean film history. It was shot in 2006 and had 13 million moviegoers.
, is one of the most successful works in Korean film history.
This film does not require any big-name actors, but the trouble lies in the gorgeous special effects. Not to mention the cost, it is just a question of whether there is a team in South Korea capable of producing it, so it is not possible at the moment.
Reality……
What about "The King's Man" in 2005?
12 million people watched the movie. The lead actor Lee Jun-ki is still a newcomer. He should be able to star after some training. There is no hope of being invited, but it's a pity...
This is a Korean historical drama. Although I remember most of the plot, there are too many details of history and life that need to be verified. It may take several months or even years to perfect the script. This still has to do with finding some Korean history experts.
It's only possible with cooperation, so this one won't work either...
"Taegeuk Flag Flying" in 2004?
Korean military films may be able to apply for assistance funds from the Film Promotion Committee. This type of film basically tests the skills of the lead actor, but the problem is... the lead actor Jang Dong Gun is now a superstar all over Asia. With him now, a 19-year-old
A dropout who was expelled from university? I'm afraid the agency is too lazy to answer the phone, right? Brother Chen Kai is pretty much the same...
Li Xiaole frowned and thought, but he didn't notice that Tian Hailin beside him had been looking at him with strange eyes since unknown time, with his complex expression changing.
"Huh--"
Li Xiaole suddenly had an idea, and he had it! In my impression, among the movies that have box office of over 100 million yuan in South Korea, there is really a small-cost miracle - "The Sound of Cowbell", which is a movie about a cow and two people in the countryside.
The cost of making a documentary about the elderly is almost negligible, and you only need a DVD player to shoot it!
But Li Xiaole, who was just getting excited, suddenly thought of this 78-minute film. The director seemed to have spent more than 1,000 days recording the shooting time... More than 1,000 days of rural life? He must have been energetic before filming.
Collapsed and starved to death.
In fact, in Li Xiaole's memory, there are two movies that are very suitable. They are the two most famous movie masterpieces in Korean history, "My Wife is a Boss" and "My Sassy Girl". Now Jun Ji-hyun and Shin Eun-kyung are temporarily
They are still unknown, and the cost of the scenes is not high, but both of them will be released this year, and most of them have already started filming...
Li Xiaole gradually discovered a very depressing fact - at the moment, he was like Jack Sparrow holding a treasure map, facing the vast sea alone, even though he knew that those exciting treasures were here.
In the middle of the sea, he could only watch helplessly as the waves surged, helpless.
There is no Black Pearl, no sailors, and no directional compass. What can he, a polished captain, do if he only has a treasure map? How can the starry sea be easily conquered?
Li Xiaole couldn't help but sigh secretly, but then his stomach growled unsatisfactorily.
"Are you hungry?" Tian Hailin looked at him with interest and said.
Li Xiaole smiled bitterly and nodded: "It's a bit..." Then he reached for the wallet inside his bag and found that five hundred Korean won... was only enough money to buy two bottles of juice. He had not yet planned his future ambitions.
But even eating has become a problem.
With a smile on his pretty face, Tian Hailin looked around at the dilapidated snack bars on both sides of the road, put his arm around Li Xiaole's shoulders, and said loudly: "Let's go, let's go get something to eat!"
Li Xiaole hesitated: "But..."
"But what is?"
"But……"
Seeing Li Xiaole hesitating, Tian Hailin's beautiful eyes were as full of smiles as the crescent moon. He grabbed his friend's arm and trotted towards a shop: "You invited me last time, I should do it this time! Here you go!
I want to save some face, so don’t compete with me this time!”
"Then I'll give you this face!" Li Xiaole looked at Tian Hailin's bright eyes with a sweet smile on his lips. He couldn't help but laugh at himself and breathed a sigh of relief. Then the two of them couldn't wait to fly to
Chapter completed!