Chapter 550: The lines seem a bit terrible

When Bai Liang said he would be a hands-off manager, he really didn't care at all about what his "assistant directors" were going to film.

Midway, Chen Kaige came over to stroll around, hands behind his back, looking very imposing.

It seemed he wanted to provide some guidance from a senior to the "newly promoted director" Bai Liang, to shock him with something powerful~

Bai Liang did believe this point. Although Director Chen seemed to be going downhill crazily after *Farewell My Concubine* and could never return to his peak, he really had some skills.

However, he just didn't quite understand why Director Chen liked to show off in front of him so much.

Regarding this, Wu Jing, who was observing in secret, gave him a hint: because you, kid, are awesome~

A proud person like Director Chen, even if he looks quite amiable at times, actually looks down on people in his bones, especially those without any real skills.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to say things like "Only after ten years will everyone understand *The Promise*."

Very arrogant~

So much so that even when showing off, he likes to show off the type he considers very profound and obscure.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to do something like reciting poetry at the Olympic director selection site.

It's too abstract; ordinary people can't understand it at all.

And the reason he had some extra "enthusiasm" for Bai Liang was mainly because he felt Bai Liang wasn't an ordinary person and could keep up with his neural pathways. To put it colloquially: he could understand his showing off.

Translated like this, Bai Liang realized.

However, he still politely declined Director Chen's guidance because he had made up his mind from the beginning.

Meng Jie said things like "Directors only need to know how to shout 'cut'," and on this basis, Bai Liang added some of his own understanding.

Being a director, you don't even need to shout "cut."

Just hang your name on it.

So, in the next few days, Bai Liang turned the director's job into a life producer.

When he had nothing to do, he would get some good food and drinks for everyone, stroll around with a smile, tease Meng Jie and Wang Churan, and then run away.

He never sat on the director's small stool for a single day, and he was too lazy to even look at the monitor.

As for the subject matter of the filming... in the end, Guo Fan won everything.

Sci-fi film!

Arguing certainly wouldn't lead to a result, and since Guo Fan's film box office was the highest, of course, they listened to him.

However, while the others were laughing and joking, they were also preparing to put in their best effort to add some private goods.

For a short film with not much time, several directors wanted to add private goods; what kind of ghost this thing would turn into in the end, one couldn't hold too much hope.

On this basis, Bai Liang realized!

He directly grasped the true meaning of being a director.

"A film crew with so many voices is clearly a betrayal of the director's profession!"

At this time, Wu Jing nodded frantically, "Let's rebel!"

Meng Jie pricked up her ears, feeling like she had heard something incredible.

But she was very puzzled; for such a messy film crew, could it be that they were going to have a top-tier internal fight?

Not very likely, right?

Ah! She understood; they were just joking around again~

As a result, Bai Liang poked her, "Stop eavesdropping, you have a part too."

"Ah?! Me?"

Meng Jie was full of disbelief, "What does it have to do with me?"

"You are also a part of the *The Battle at Lake Changjin* project. Although your screen time is quite short, the character setting is quite good; it can be considered a bright spot against the cruel war background."

Bai Liang had already received the script long ago, and Meng Jie's role in the film indeed had very little screen time, but she was a role that Yu Dong personally nodded for, so there was a bit of space in the script.

The girl who threw the scarf before the train departed~

At this moment, Meng Jie realized that the two were not talking about the filming of the current short film at all, but the *The Battle at Lake Changjin* project.

Suddenly, she gasped in her heart.

Looking at her little hedgehog and the smiling Wu Jing with some disbelief, she felt like she had boarded a pirate ship.

They were going to stage a major rebellion!

What's fun is that Meng Jie wasn't panicked at all; instead, she became a little excited.

Looking at the two people in front of her, her heart began to frantically imagine things: Eight hundred people is eight hundred people, strike first to gain the advantage; I want to control the world's troops...

Clearly, this is from watching too much Douyin; just looking at these words, you know which show's edit she watched.

But it was just a girl with such strange neural pathways that she quickly changed from scared to both scared and expectant.

So scary, want to try dying~

Wu Jing: Awesome!

Looking at Meng Jie's eager expression, he couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

Honestly, from this moment on, he could be considered to understand why the other party could have the nickname "Meng Jie."

Big-hearted player!

And Bai Liang was very clear at this moment that Meng Jie's dead look was completely an illusion. After that dazed and curious energy passed, she would be hugging him and shivering.

So there was no need to pay attention to her.

As for Wu Jing's "major rebellion" plan, Bai Liang had his own sense of proportion.

"You go directly to fight with Director Chen, and then watch my cues."

There was nothing wrong with this sentence, but Wu Jing looked at Bai Liang, who was saying this with his eyes closed, and felt that the other party was playing him.

"Can I ask, will your eyes be open or closed then?"

"I'll keep one eye open and one eye closed," Bai Liang said with a chuckle.

"You bastard..."

After Wu Jing ran off to busy himself with the short film, Meng Jie pulled Bai Liang's sleeve somewhat cautiously, "Little Hedgehog, are you really going to stage a major rebellion?"

"What do you mean 'we'? I'm just an actor. What rebellion am I staging? I'm only responsible for acting. As for how the film is shot, that's the business of Director Chen and Director Wu."

Meng Jie felt that this made sense, and at the same time, she added that this film also had directors Tsui Hark and Dante Lam co-directing with Director Chen.

"What's being fought over is the right to speak; these two originally had a bit of a tool-man attribute."

Meng Jie nodded as if she understood, then asked curiously: "Then who are you helping?"

"Who do you think I'm helping?"

"I think you have a better relationship with Director Wu Jing, but your relationship with Director Chen isn't bad either. Not helping either and being more neutral should be better... that way you won't offend anyone."

This sentence didn't come out instantly, but was said after she thought about it.

Sure enough, she's not stupid; she's smart~

In fact, Wu Jing himself thought so too. He indeed wanted to fight for the dominance of the film with Chen Kaige, but he didn't prepare to really let Bai Liang raise the rebel flag with him and go against the other party.

This topic was first brought up at the dinner table. Can you take what men say after drinking seriously?

The reason it was mentioned from time to time was actually to give Bai Liang a slight spoiler so that he would have some idea in his heart and not be confused when he joined the crew.