Lifting the sleeves of his Tang suit, Papa Ma’s face revealed an inexplicable fighting spirit, “Tie Zhu, don’t be over-ambitious in everything you do, do you think that you can’t look at microfilms anymore because your film is a hit? It’s not right, aren’t you still planning to make a TV series?”
Li Tiezhu shook his head, not knowing how to answer, should I tell you that the magical creatures made me say that? No matter who he met and what he said, he said he was not interested.
Ma Jack added, “So, you are not interested in me?”
Li Tiezhu thought for a while before saying, “I’m busy, I’m working on the singer as a host, I’m preparing for the filming of Soldier’s Assault, and I have to set up my personal studio, so I don’t have time.”
Jack Ma: “I’ll let you have time, I’ll give it directly to Mapani, my microfilm, you’re acting for sure.”
“Ah?”
“Ah what ah? I’m doing you a favour.”
“What’s the difference between you and a little kid losing a fight and suing his parents?”
Li Tiezhu muttered.
Ma Jack laughed with his face full of folds, “Hahahahaha …… I’m not a little kid, you are. Alright, I’ll go around somewhere else, Xiao Wang, help me greet Li Tiezhu properly.”
To the end, Ma Jack did not say a word to Leng Ba, not patriarchal or anything, just the hierarchy is not the same, there is nothing to say. If it was the previous Li Tiezhu, Jack Ma wouldn’t have spoken to him, there was no point.
Wang Dashao: “Don’t worry General Manager Ma, I’ll cover him.”
When he left, Li Tiezhu scratched his head and asked Wang Dashao: “He didn’t join your organisation? There isn’t even a female companion around.”
Wang Dashao’s female companion was astonishing, is this how Li Tiezhu sees things?
Wang Da Shao said, “He is one of the organisation’s leading big brothers, and this one of mine is issued by them ah. He has always been a maverick only, you’d better go to run a dragon set for him.”
Li Tiezhu: “Not right ah! Why did Luo Fei Yan and General Manager Ma both say that I’ve upgraded?”
“Didn’t you build a studio?”
“Yes, it was established a long time ago, only today it was suddenly upgraded, saying it was independent of Penguin Culture. What’s wrong?”
“Being independent of Penguin Culture means that within Penguin your studio and Penguin Culture can almost be on equal footing. If it was affiliated with Penguin Culture, then you would still be an ordinary artiste, a low-level player in the entertainment industry. But now you’re a mid-level player, although you’re not the biggest shareholder in the studio, you’re still one of the bosses, like Yang Mi.”
“Then what is a high-level player?”
“Big capitals like us and super giants like your master are the senior players, artists are just bulls and horses for the company, which in turn are bulls and horses for the capital.”
“Whose bull horse is capital?”
“Unspeakable! Unspeakable …… senior players are also players! Gamers can customise the rules of the game and delete numbers at any time. So, senior players do not dare to go too far.”
Wang Dashao said in detail, if before, he would not say these with Li Tiezhu.
Li Tiezhu wondered, “Why are the penguins being so nice to me?”
Wang Dashao: “Because of Jack Ma ah, he has said you have to thank him. Some time ago, he and the Huayou he invested in, were ready to poach you to come over as a studio and focus on films, all talked to your agent, you should know. Capital’s vision is always the most poisonous, they all see it, you are the next Baby Wang, and all-round.”
Li Tiezhu was very surprised, “Am I that good? How come I didn’t know?”
“Because you are stupid! In this big circle, those who can get to the top are people with excellent eyesight, think about it, why do those big shots in the circle, who don’t show any respect to other newcomers, take good care of you. Will pie fall from the sky?”
“No.”
“If you think about it more closely, when I was chasing Leng Ba, I was pissed off by you, why didn’t I screw you? Apart from not being interested, I mainly saw your potential, and it’s worth making friends with you. What else? You think your looks are attractive to me?”
“That can not be guaranteed ……”
“Scram! You hurry to go over there and defeat the bigwigs of the show business, they are not pure entertainers either, they belong to the senior player starter class.”
Wang Da Shao was very frank, after finishing what he should say, he took his thin horse and left.
Li Tiezhu was still picking his brain.
Leng Ba carried on with the additional clarification, “Low level artists are governed by the brokerage company, mid level artists are spoilt by the economic company, senior players govern the company, this meow has just been promoted by Mimi this year to become a senior player. You also count, but your studio attributes were suddenly raised, causing you to suddenly become a mid-level player – a businessman, that’s why the four of us built the group. I didn’t go into detail to you because I was afraid that you wouldn’t be able to figure it out for a while, but it’s good to have it all out in the open now.”
Li Tiezhu: “I don’t want to become a vampire.”
Leng Ba: “Businessmen are not vampires, capital is. Anyway, you are actually pushed up by all the forces, you can’t play by yourself at all now, so a few of us are quite worried, but this is the way to become a superstar, such as Star Chow, Jackie Chan and so on, all came this way.”
Li Tiezhu said, “Okay, you guys teach me more.”
After a brief communication, Li Tiezhu led Leng Ba towards the left side, where many bigwigs of the entertainment industry and capital spokespersons were gathered.
“Good day, Teacher Li Xiaojie!”
“Well, have you been practising recently?”
Although they had only met for the first time, Li Xiaojie was clearly no stranger to Li Tiezhu. In fact, he had only heard about it before, but an hour ago, the news that Penguin had suddenly and forcefully helped Li Tiezhu to the top had already spread to the ears of the industry’s bigwigs, and naturally, there were people who provided them with Li Tiezhu’s data and information.
Film as the entertainment industry’s top “commercial products”, the most important two, one is the actor’s influence, one is the strength of capital.
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Except for a very small number of low-budget films that can occasionally break the rules, the rest are nothing more than a combination of capital and influence. Even if a low-budget film breaks the rules, it will soon be integrated into them, reinforcing the “rules” and making it more difficult for those who come after it to break them.
For example, Ning Shi, Xu Shanqiang and Fang Bo, and then Wang Bao, from “dragon slaying boy” to “evil dragon”, naturally.
Li Tiezhu: “Practised, just out of order, practised blindly.”
Li Xiaojie nodded: “Have time to discuss more with your master, your master, it is difficult to say ……”.
After two polite sentences, Li Tiezhu found Wu Jing again, “Good day, Teacher Wu! I watched your War Dragon 2, super invincible like!”
Wu Jing also topped the charts with this summer’s War Dragon 2, becoming the highest grossing action actor in the whole of China, and it would not be too much to say that he was a god. Although he was also famous before, this battle made him go from an intermediate player, to an advanced player.
Artistes who became advanced players were no match for really big capital, but they had their own unique advantage, the artiste itself was capital. Li Tiezhu was still far from that now, his name was a small signboard at best.
Wu Jing: “Hello Leng Ba, recently your drama is quite hot! Kid, you’re saying this now? I asked you to act in War Dragon 2 before, why did your agent push it?”
Li Tiezhu: “Ah? Did it? How come I don’t know.”
“Your agent said that you have to take the college entrance exams and won’t take the theatre.”
“Oh yeah, I did say that because I’m stupid, I need to memorise more.”
“Alright, I heard that you’re going to film a military-themed drama? Is there any part that I can guest star in?”
“Let’s see …… there is! I’ll call you when the time comes! Thank you.”
“Thanks for nothing, it’s everyone’s responsibility to promote a strong military.”
“Yes yes yes ……”
“OK, go, the boss is waiting for you.”
Wu Jing knew about Li Tiezhu, patted Li Tiezhu’s shoulder and said with a smile.
Li Tiezhu nodded gratefully, led Leng Ba to Hong Dabao and bowed respectfully, “Master Boss.”
Leng Ba was a bit timid, “Good day, Old Mister Hong!”
Hong Dabao was one of the action directors of “Attacking and Receiving Dao”, wearing a big back hair, he cast a sidelong glance at Leng Ba, who had an extremely good figure and stunning appearance, and looked at Li Tiezhu angrily:
“You don’t learn from the good ones, but pick up your master’s faults! Eyesight is still more than your master.”
Leng Ba immediately blushed, but also did not dare to refute, of course, also can not refute. This circle of real big brothers are all people, experienced a lot of strange things, not good to cheat.
Li Tiezhu, however, did not understand, thought that Hong Dabao said that he loved to show off, he said, “My master said that he learnt it from you, you are the most powerful.”
Hong Dabao: “…… Shit! Yuanlou this fool say everything to the outside ah!”
In fact, compared to Cheng Dalong, Hong Dabao’s ‘car repair story’ was no less impressive, even slightly better.
Leng Ba was stunned, the master was too flabbergasted, right? This person also dares to top?
“Puhahahahaha ……”
The other old man laughed, unable to hold it in any longer.
Hong Dabao glared at the other party, pointed at the old man and then pointed at the slightly younger man next to him, and introduced Li Tiezhu: “This is director Yuan Pinghe, this is director Cheng Dong, both are the top action directors in Xiangjiang.”
Li Tiezhu hurriedly bowed and saluted, mouthing the name senior.
Hong Dabao, however, suddenly looked for Leng Ba to speak: “Girl, this kid’s head lacks a string, since you have …… helped him to lift up a bit, don’t let him make a mistake. Before it does not matter, now since he has set up a mountain, the tree is big, it will certainly attract the wind, and I do not know if he can stand.”
Leng Ba wanted to argue, but when he saw the other party’s sharp eyes, he wimped out, “Sure, sure …… I’ll definitely try my best.”
In fact, it’s just so unruly in this circle, especially between men and women.
Cheng Da Long, Hong Da Bao and these, which one is not like this?
The matter of men and women, only to the low-level players killing power, such as Huang Moubo, to the intermediate players killing power is limited, such as Wu Moubo, to the high-level players have no killing power, such as my brother Long, then my brother Da Dong, a sentence of “I face blind,” on the perfect end!
Can not be refuted, reasonable.
To Li Tiezhu this step, if you can stand firm, male and female matters are not devastating to him, but to be truly “invincible”, but also need to climb up another layer.
Afterwards, Li Tiezhu went to find Zhen Zi Shan and Tony real and other people to say hello, a kind of humble attitude of the younger generation.
In fact, this reception, for Li Tiezhu is very boring, but it is also a necessary process. The seemingly bland social scene actually witnessed the second rise of Li Tiezhu, the first time was when he became red in the Good Voice, and the second time is now, he has officially become a mid-level player in the circle.
This is a kind of metamorphosis.
At least, it was an achievement that Song Zhu’er, Leng Ba and the others had yet to achieve.