newbobooks Chapter 290 Screenwriter Liu Wei
Chapter 290 Screenwriter Liu Wei
Lu Yongqiang's rise to power was actually half forced and half due to his experience in his previous life and the help provided by the system.
However, the screenwriter did not know these circumstances, so in order to make his story consistent, he added a lot of his own guesses. For example, how did Lu Yongqiang go from being a weakling to a master? The screenwriter just made up stories. In order to explain this, in the script, he also arranged for Lu Yongqiang to become an apprentice and learn martial arts, and explained that Lu Yongqiang had excellent bones and was a martial arts genius.
Lu Yongqiang had been paying attention to the expressions of Chen Yao and Jiang Tiansheng, and realized that what happened today was probably not a conspiracy between Jiang Tiansheng and Chen Yao.
It is very likely that the two of them really did not read the subsequent plot, which led to the current misunderstanding.
Of course, regardless of whether it was a misunderstanding or not, Lu Yongqiang had to find the screenwriter and verify whether the screenwriter wrote such a script in order to become famous, or someone instructed the screenwriter to write it this way.
Lu Yongqiang said, “Brother Yao, let’s not talk about whether it’s a misunderstanding or not.
Since you're the one who collected the script, I'll give you three days to find the screenwriter for me. I hope you don't tell me after three days that you can't find the screenwriter."
After this incident, Lu Yongqiang did not stay in Jiang Tiansheng's villa for long. After asking Chen Yao to find someone, he left with his people.
After Lu Yongqiang left, Jiang Tiansheng angrily said, "Ayao, what are you doing? Do you know that if this script is filmed and released, not only will Aqiang be in trouble, but our entire Hongxing will be implicated. Are you trying to kill me?"
Chen Yao said with some fear: "Mr. Jiang, I really neglected this matter."
Jiang Tiansheng glared at Chen Yao and said, "Ayao, you'd better find that screenwriter and give Aqiang an explanation. Otherwise, if Aqiang believes that you are trying to harm him, you know what the consequences will be..."
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Within three days, that same night, Chen Yao found the screenwriter, tied him up, and personally brought him to Lu Yongqiang.
The screenwriter is Liu Wei, and he is only in his thirties.
When he saw this person, Lu Yongqiang vaguely felt that he knew this person, and seemed to be quite familiar with this person.
Just as Lu Yongqiang was thinking about it, Dadong recognized the person at a glance.
This guy Liu Wei actually stayed in the same orphanage as Lu Yongqiang, but this guy was lucky. When he was fifteen years old, his uncle found the orphanage and adopted him.
Liu Wei is a few years older than Lu Yongqiang. When Lu Yongqiang entered the orphanage, this guy bullied Lu Yongqiang in the orphanage, and Dadong even fought with this guy for this.
The reason why Lu Yongqiang didn't have a clear memory of him was that not long after Lu Yongqiang entered the orphanage, this guy was taken away by his uncle.
When he found out that it was an acquaintance, Lu Yongqiang did not make things difficult for this guy, but just tried to find out the whole story.
Liu Wei's uncle works at TVB and is a well-known photographer in Hong Kong.
After Liu Wei was adopted by his uncle, he also worked in the photography industry. After working as a photographer for a long time, Liu Wei thought about becoming a director. In fact, the script he gave to Chen Yao was not written recently, but had been written for two years.
The reason why he wrote this script was because gangster movies were selling well in the past two years. Lu Yongqiang had forgotten him, but this guy had not forgotten Lu Yongqiang. He heard that Lu Yongqiang was a famous gangster in Hong Kong.
This guy came up with this script just to become famous.
He was a resident of the orphanage back then, so he naturally had a unique advantage in finding out about Lu Yongqiang's early experiences. That's why he wrote about Lu Yongqiang's experiences in the orphanage in such detail.
But after Lu Yongqiang joined the society, some things became difficult to find out. This guy collected clues from hearsay and made up the subsequent plot.
After the script was written, Liu Wei took the script to seek investment everywhere.
This guy had a good idea. He felt that Lu Yongqiang's experience was quite legendary and he had a great reputation in Hong Kong. After the movie was made, it should have a good box office.
But he forgot that Lu Yongqiang is a gangster and a big boss of the society. No matter how legendary his experience is, you can learn from some of his experiences, but you can't write about it in such detail that it becomes an autobiography. If that happens, who would dare to invest?
As soon as this movie came out, it immediately faced the wrath of a gang leader like Lu Yongqiang. How many investors in Hong Kong would dare to invest in such a movie...
After hitting a wall everywhere, Liu Wei understood why people were reluctant to invest, and actually thought about modifying the script at the beginning.
It's just that his screenwriting ability is limited. If this script has the potential to become a hit, a big part of the reason is that the characters in the script are highly similar to Lu Yongqiang, and Lu Yongqiang's name can be used for publicity.
If these were changed, the script would have little appeal, and like many failed gangster movies, it would most likely lose money even if it was made.
Liu Wei later considered investing his own money to make the film.
Liu Wei's uncle's family conditions were pretty good, but Liu Wei was just a nephew after all. After his uncle paid for his college education, Liu Wei left his uncle's home.
Thanks to his uncle's connections, this guy got a job as a photographer at TVB after graduation. The job was pretty good, but after all these years, he didn't save much.
Liu Wei roughly calculated that even if he invested all his fortune, it would not be enough, so the script had to be put in the bottom of the box.
After Jiang Tiansheng's investment in Taiwan failed, he began to think about investing in his own production projects. During this period, he was collecting scripts at high prices everywhere. This was handled by Chen Yao.
Liu Wei knows Chen Haonan's brother Baopi. Their relationship is not very good, but they can be considered acquaintances.
During a casual chat, Liu Wei heard about Chen Yao's high price for the script. Liu Wei was also drunk at the time and boasted that he had written a great script, but because of the involvement of a certain underworld boss, no one invested in the script.
Baopi is also a guy who likes to brag. When he was following Big B, he was becoming more and more arrogant. Now that Chen Haonan is the leader, he is even more amazing. After drinking two cups of horse urine, he is the boss and looks down on everyone.
After Liu Wei finished speaking, Baopi patted his chest and said that he would take care of it. If the script was good, he would help find investors.
This was just drunken talk, but Liu Wei took it seriously.
The next day, he really took the script to find Baopi.
Baopi was a poor student. He didn't like reading when he was in school. After getting the script, he just flipped through it casually. He didn't read the script carefully at all. He just listened to Liu Wei's general introduction to the script.
In recent years, many gangs in Hong Kong have invested in the entertainment industry, some to make money, some to launder money. This has led to the emergence of many popular gangster movies. Many of these movies are adapted from the experiences of a gang leader.
Of course, other people's adaptations almost all glorify the gang bosses, and only draw on part of their experiences. Anyway, the plot is specious, and when it is filmed, there are at most the shadows of these bosses. It is not like Liu Wei's script, which directly writes the characters into villains. Not to mention, the plot at the beginning almost mentions Lu Yongqiang's name.
In order to sell the script, Liu Wei naturally would not tell the truth, but instead spoke in a way that was half-truthful and even made exaggerated promises, saying that the movie would definitely be a big hit.
Baopi didn't understand either, so he went to find Chen Haonan. Chen Haonan was busy, so after getting the script, he gave it directly to Chen Yao.
After Chen Yao got the script, he flipped through the first part and found that it was very similar to Lu Yongqiang's experience, so he asked someone to find Liu Wei.
Seeing that his secret was exposed, Liu Wei simply admitted that the script was created based on Lu Yongqiang's experience.
However, Liu Wei did not tell the whole truth. He only said that the early part of the script borrowed from Lu Yongqiang's experience, and the latter part was a dramatic adaptation. He also said that many of the current best-selling gangster movies came from this way, borrowing from the experience of a certain gang leader. This was to attract people to watch the movie and would not bring any bad influence.
Collecting the scripts was a task that Jiang Tiansheng assigned to Chen Yao in order to promote his girlfriend Fang Ting.
This wasn't a big deal, so Chen Yao naturally didn't take it too seriously. After listening to Liu Wei's boasting, Chen Yao thought the script was good and had the potential to be a hit. Without even looking through the rest of the story, he handed the script to Jiang Tiansheng.
Jiang Tiansheng just flipped through it casually without looking at it carefully, and then decided to take a photo of the script.
Because the script involved Lu Yongqiang, Jiang Tiansheng didn't want to offend Lu Yongqiang over such a small matter, so he called Lu Yongqiang over to talk and suggested that Lu Yongqiang invest.
When Lu Yongqiang received the script, he immediately noticed a strong resemblance to his own experiences, but he didn't dwell on it. As Liu Wei had said, many Hong Kong gangster films were based on real people. The fact that the script drew on his own experiences wasn't a bad thing for Lu Yongqiang.
After all, when making a gangster movie that draws inspiration from real life, in order to avoid trouble from the boss, the protagonist will be deliberately beautified and written as a person with feelings and righteousness.
But after reading the latter part, Lu Yongqiang became annoyed. You almost copied my experience in the beginning, but wrote the person as a villain in the end, and even asked me to invest. His first reaction was that Jiang Tiansheng and Chen Yao were plotting against him, so Lu Yongqiang got angry on the spot.
But then he looked at the expressions of Jiang Tiansheng and Chen Yao, and thought again that even if these two people wanted to plot against him, they would not do such a stupid thing.
The character who is the leader of the society in the plot is not a good person either, he is definitely a villain. Jiang Tiansheng would not discredit him just to discredit himself.
Thinking of this, Lu Yongqiang gave Chen Yao time to find the screenwriter.
Speaking of it, this matter is just a series of misunderstandings.
After learning the truth, Lu Yongqiang's anger subsided. He looked at Liu Wei, whose face was full of panic, but had other ideas in his mind.
In recent years, many gangs in Hong Kong have been making money in the entertainment industry. In order to invite big stars to film, some gangs have done many extraordinary things, such as threatening with bullets in the script and directly forcing someone to film with a gun.
Since this society has caused such a big stir, it is obviously because it is profitable.
Lu Yongqiang actually also wants to get involved in the entertainment industry. After all, there is really money to be made in the future entertainment industry. If he makes a plan now, it may become a good industry in the future.