Who says Beijing Film Academy has no great directors? (2002)

Chapter 77 Golden Lock and Fierce Fan: Little Swallow

After Liu Yifei's version of "The Pig Song" became a hit, Chen Yan asked Liu Xiaoli to raise Liu Yifei's endorsement price by another level.

Choose the best, not the quantity; it's okay not to accept any good ones.

At the end of July, a news story caused a sensation throughout the Chinese entertainment industry.

The news that Xiao Yanzi, who became a sensation because of "My Fair Princess," instructed her driver to slap the mother of twins has been widely circulated in the industry.

Several posts on this topic on Baidu Tieba have already been upvoted.

When Chen Yan saw this message, he happened to be at the Beijing Film Academy talking to Tian Zhuangzhuang about the postgraduate recommendation process.

Chen Yan felt a chill and took the opportunity to tell Tian Zhuangzhuang what had happened.

"Teacher, don't you think this incident has a bad influence?" Chen Yan was thinking that Xiao Yanzi should never be under the same teacher as him when she enrolls in school.

Otherwise, you'll end up binding yourself with these things, which could easily lead to serious trouble.

Tian Zhuangzhuang leaned closer to look, and soon her eyebrows furrowed. "How did she become like this?"

When Tian Zhuangzhuang went to China Film Group for an event, she met Xiao Yanzi. At that time, Han Sanping joked that Xiao Yanzi had the idea of ​​becoming a director and that he would let her take his graduate school entrance exam in the future.

I didn't refuse at the time, but now it seems like this person isn't suitable.

"Now that she's just an actress, she dares to order someone to slap a pregnant woman. If she gets any bolder in the future, won't she end up with a problem with her buttocks?" Chen Yan was trying her best to sow discord among the people.

His words were also an implication that Xiao Yanzi was previously in Qiong Yao's film crew and had a good relationship with the Golden Horse Awards.

When filming "No Other Love" in 2016, the production company officially announced that Dai Liren, who had strong pro-Taiwan independence tendencies, would be participating in the film. After being boycotted by netizens, the company neither responded nor replaced the actor.

After filming wrapped, she also posted a photo with Dai Liren on Weibo to show her support for pro-Taiwan independence artists.

The Weibo user stated, "I hate taking things out of context. Some people complicate things for their own benefit."

The replacement was only decided after the Communist Youth League and other official bodies publicly criticized the person.

Tian Zhuangzhuang understood Chen Yan's subtext at this moment, and jokingly said with a smile, "You kid, are you here to teach me a lesson today?"

Chen Yan quickly waved his hand to deny it: "I didn't. I was just expressing my opinion. Besides, I'm not going to go out and talk about it. I just wanted to chat with you for a bit."

Tian Zhuangzhuang nodded: "That's true. You're a public figure now, so it's best if you don't publicly express your opinions on things like this in the future."

But Tian Zhuangzhuang had already classified Xiao Yanzi as a dangerous person.

Chen Yan was happy, it seemed that he would no longer be at risk of sharing the same advisor with him.

After finishing his business, Chen Yan made a quick getaway.

He suddenly remembered that the copyright of Xiao Yanzi's debut work, "So Young," should still be held by the author.

Although this drama is full of melodramatic elements, such as college romance, misunderstandings and breakups, cheating, abortion and car accidents, it covers all the elements that can be filmed in a youth angst movie.

However, this did not prevent the series from achieving a remarkable 7.2 million yuan in box office revenue that year, pioneering the genre of youth-themed films in mainland China.

If he doesn't snatch the copyright to this novel and leave it to Xiao Yanzi, Chen Yan feels he won't be able to sleep at night.

Back at the company, Chen Yan contacted Zhang Jincheng to have someone purchase the copyrights to Xin Yiwu's films about youth.

The next day, Xin Yiwu gave a quote.

The package price for the five films was reduced to 900,000 yuan, including "So Young", "Never Gone", "The Moon Doesn't Know My Heart", "Let Me Look at You", and "Dawn and Dusk".

In his previous life, only the first three parts were broadcast, and Chen Yan remembered that the response was quite good.

The second film still stars Sissi, although the male lead has already been imprisoned.

After Chen Yan agreed, Zhang Jincheng immediately communicated with the other party and completed the contract signing in less than three days.

In August, Chen Yan decided to produce "So Young".

Liu Yifei decided not to participate after reading the script. The melodramatic plot was full of twists and turns, and the lines were so affected and pretentious that they gave people goosebumps.

Chen Yan directly decided that Shu Chang would play the female lead.

Shu Chang was quite happy. She was the female lead in Chen Yan's movie. Apart from Liu Yifei, no one else had the privilege of choosing scripts like that.

On the afternoon of the same day the filing was uploaded, Chen Yan's phone was bombarded with calls again.

The first to be affected is Han Sanping of China Film Group.

"Director Chen is starting a new drama again?" Han Sanping laughed. Night owls never come to the house unless there's something important to say.

Chen Yan knew that they were all eyeing his new movie.

"A low-budget youth film," Chen Yan replied.

"Hmm..." Han Sanping thought to himself that there was not much of a chance left.

I already profited from "Buried" last time, so it would be rather unseemly for me to jump on this low-budget campus movie bandwagon. Besides, how much can a youth campus movie really make?

"Let's outsource the publicity and distribution to China Film Group!" Han Sanping declared decisively with a punch.

Chen Yan didn't care; it didn't matter who did it.

"sure."

"Okay, it's settled then."

Slightly later than these capital tycoons, the fiercely competitive top actresses in the industry received the news.

But once they heard that the female lead had been cast, they all backed down.

However, Fan Bingbing still made a special call to wish Chen Yan's drama a great success, and said with a smile that she hoped to work with Director Chen on his next film, even if she acted for free.

"If there's a chance," Chen Yan replied casually.

Two days later, Chen Yan saw Fan Bingbing publicly post comments online about Xiao Yanzi slapping a pregnant woman.

"I saw her news online today, and it made me feel really bad."

"I won't judge who is right or wrong, but this kind of news must have influenced the views of those children."

"If things continue like this, the entire entertainment industry will wither away on its own, and we'll have to save ourselves."

Chen Yan laughed. It seems that Jin Suo harbored quite a lot of resentment on the set of "My Fair Princess".

That's not wrong. Back then, Qiong Yao said she was only fit to play a maid, and she was bullied by Xiao Yanzi in various ways on set.

In the 90s, especially in co-productions between mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, the film crews were strictly hierarchical. It was no secret that Xiao Yanzi (Little Swallow) formed cliques to bully Fan Bingbing, who was even more beautiful.

One is a popular leading lady, and the other is a relatively unknown new supporting actress. Now that Fan Bingbing has made a successful comeback with "Cellphone", she inevitably wants to get back at the leading lady from back then.

Chen Yan ignored their messy affairs, as long as Liu Yifei wasn't involved, he let them make a scene.

After news spread that Chen Yan was preparing to hold a public audition at the Beijing Film Academy, many actors expressed their intention to attend within two days.

However, they are all below the first tier, because the female lead has already announced it.

At the time, Shuchang insisted on applying to a regular university. Although Chen Yan and Liu Yifei were friends, they didn't have the right to make someone change their aspirations. They tried to persuade him a few times, but he still wouldn't listen, so they gave up.

So Shuchang ultimately applied to the English Department of Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute.

Shu Chang added with a smile, "If I don't have any roles to play in the future, I'll ask you for one."

Liu Yifei chimed in to help, and Chen Yan had no choice but to reluctantly agree.