Chapter 4 Three Good Brothers

Chapter 4 Three Good Brothers

Chapter 4 Three Good Brothers

In the past few days after the New Year, Zhang Chen has been further improving the script of "The Dark Invasion". Since it is a localized adaptation, it must be perfect, and at least the logic must be self-consistent.

In later generations, a large part of people's complaints about the movie were about its "illogicality".

Hong Kong and Taiwan movies are notoriously illogical, and Zhang Chen has always had many doubts:
Why is it that in Wu Sen’s movies, the magazine is never empty?
Why would a eunuch like Cao Shaoqin lead a large group of people to the desert to hunt down a few rebels?

Why were Linghu Chong and the other five able to easily defeat the tens of thousands of troops at Black Wood Cliff?
Why did so many policemen armed with batons and helicopters allow Ah Zheng and Long Ge, who were unarmed, to escape?

Why did Shan Ji suddenly have tens of millions of funds to deal with the big bosses of Hongxing?
Of course, the situation in mainland China is not much better.

When people finish watching "The Promise" in the cinema, they all have a feeling: what is this movie about? I seem to have seen it, but it also seems like I haven't seen it.

The reason why "Mantou" became popular overnight may be because it re-explained the unclear logic of "The Promise".

……

Imperial Railway Station

Even though there was a diversion to Didu West Station in 04, the flow of people at Didu Old Station did not decrease. Every once in a while, a stream of people gushed out of the exit, like zombies out of a cage.

Zhang Chen followed the crowd out of the station. He had told his good brothers in advance to pick him up, but there was no sign of them. Could it be that those two unreliable guys had forgotten about them?

While searching among the crowd, a voice sounded not far away:
"Hey, the handsome one, I'm talking to you. Stop looking around, look here..."

Zhang Chen quickly covered his face. He knew it was that bastard Cao Bingkun from the voice. This happened in public. He was simply going to be socially humiliated.

Sure enough, the people who were waiting at the nearby station looked over curiously, probably wanting to see how handsome the guy they were talking about was.

Zhang Chen looked over in the direction of the voice. Cao Bingkun was grinning at him in a frivolous way. Ning Hao beside him didn't forget to add insult to injury: "Welcome Commander Zhang to inspect the central government~"

"Haozi, Lao Cao, you guys are hurting me~"

Zhang Chen was too embarrassed to stay in the spotlight any longer and tried to escape, but was stopped by the two men. The three of them huddled together, laughing.

"Hahaha, do you know that in order to pick you up, Haozi and I were so hungry that our chests were sticking to each other's backs."

"Okay, no need to say more, I understand. Let's go eat right away. This meal is on my table."

"sensible."

Several young people were arm in arm, laughing and joking, and two of them naturally took the luggage from Zhang Chen.

Cao Bingkun, also known as Xie Ruolin in "The Disguiser", is Zhang Chen's good brother at the Beijing Film Academy.

There were nine people in total in the directing department of Zhang Chen's class, with four people in one room. Zhang Chen happened to be left with a vacant room, so he lived with the students from the junior college class. Cao Bingkun was his roommate.

Ning Hao is from the photography department, class of 99. He has already graduated and stayed in the imperial capital to develop his career. He and Zhang Chen are both from Dayuan, Longcheng, so they are definitely fellow villagers and have a very good relationship.

"Let's go, let's find a place to eat and chat..."

His good brother was starving to pick him up, so he naturally wanted to show some appreciation, but Cao Bingkun stopped him:
"No, let's take a taxi back to school and eat at our old place. The restaurants near the train station are expensive and the food is terrible. Anyone who eats here is a fool."

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately felt several invisible murderous auras coming towards him nearby.

Cao Bingkun realized that he had slipped up and had implicated others, so he quickly led everyone to say something.

……

The old place is actually a small restaurant called "Food First", which is located right at the entrance of Beijing Film Academy. The name is very poetic, but it is actually very low-end and does not even have private rooms.

It tastes good though.

In The Return of the Condor Heroes, it is said that 'there must be an antidote within a hundred steps of a poisonous snake!'

In fact, the same is true for schools. Cheap and delicious restaurants must be near schools. What Cao Bingkun said before is actually true. Places like train stations are all about customer flow. They don't consider repeat customers at all. It doesn't matter whether the food tastes good or not. You can eat there or not.

It’s different in front of the school. Here, if the food doesn’t taste good, you won’t be able to keep your business open.

'Food First' is a little gem of a restaurant that they discovered accidentally. They often get together here. The food is delicious and cheap, which suits their positioning as poor students very well.

"Vinegar-fried Muxu, twice-cooked pork, what else do you want?"

Cao Bingkun ordered a few dishes that everyone liked right away, then handed the menu to Ning Hao: "Don't save money for this kid."

Twice-cooked pork is a popular dish that almost everyone loves.

Vinegar-fried Muxu is a dish from the imperial capital. Cao Bingkun, a native of the imperial capital, loves it. This dish has a strong vinegar flavor, which is also very much to the taste of Ning Hao and Zhang Chen, two people from the coal-producing provinces, so it has become a reserved dish for every gathering.

Ning Hao was not polite and looked through the menu, "Let's have boiled fish, 9 Yanjing."

Boiled fish was very popular in the imperial capital at that time, and almost every restaurant had this dish.

The restaurant serves food very quickly. The first twice-cooked pork was on the table within a few minutes. The three of them each filled their plates and started off with one.

Cool, drinking beer in the winter, refreshing ~
"Lao Cao, what gossip do you have recently? Tell me a few to go with your drink."

Cao Bingkun is not a gossip-monger, but he is a rumor-monger. Hearing this, he immediately said, "Do you remember the incident a few years ago when a Central Academy of Drama student slept with Director Huang? There has been a new development recently. The woman has changed her story again. It is said that Director Huang has been arrested."

"The female students at the Central Academy of Drama are so miserable. They have to survive under the beatings of their teachers at such a young age..."

Zhang Chen sighed and said that compared with the Beijing Film Academy, the Central Academy of Drama was indeed strict and students were not allowed to take acting jobs during their first and second years.

This has led to many female students who have the opportunity to film having to compromise in order to obtain special approval from the department.

The group chatted about other gossips, and Zhang Chen finally spoke up, "Lao Cao, have you found out what I asked you to find out for me?"

"Of course. We always do everything you ask us to do properly."

"What's the matter?" Ning Hao asked curiously.

"Tenko asked me to inquire about registering a film and television company."

"You want to register a film and television company?"

"Yes, I have this plan."

Zhang Chen nodded, and then asked Lao Cao again: "How is it, what is the policy?"

"The imperial capital has quite a few preferential policies..."

Cao Bingkun talked while eating, and Zhang Chen listened quietly beside him.

His memories from later generations told him that in fact many places had support policies for the establishment of film and television companies.

For example, Dongyang City, where Hengdian is located, has a regulation that film and television companies within its jurisdiction are exempt from business tax in the first two years, and 60% will be refunded each year from the second to the eighth year. That is to say, in the next eight years, the tax the company has to pay is only 10% of its net profit.

Logically speaking, as the imperial capital where film and television resources are most concentrated, there should be similar policies, but he has never paid attention to this aspect before.

"Hey, Chenzi, you are going to be the boss. Lao Cao, we finally have someone to cling to."

After understanding what was going on, Ning Hao started to make jokes and Cao Bingkun also joined in.

"Come on, let's go and toast to Mr. Zhang~" Cao Bingkun looked like a lackey.

"Come on, you're talking about a thigh. A mosquito leg is more like it."

(End of this chapter)