Chapter 571: Don't Do Bad Things with Good Intentions

"Actually, the risk of doing this is still quite high. If this drama flops in the end and Liu Manbo doesn't manage to hold up the crew, the risk will all be borne by Li Zhibai alone."

"Sigh, Li Zhibai is too anxious now. As soon as I mentioned Liu Manbo to him, he immediately asked if he could come to the crew immediately." Lu Yanhe said to Chen Ziyan, "He said the crew is in a mess now, and if we don't find a director immediately to prop up this mess, the crew can disband on the spot. So, originally I wanted to persuade him that even if he is anxious, he doesn't need to rush in these two days, but after hearing what he said, I couldn't say anything."

Chen Ziyan: "I'm just worried that Lighthouse Video won't be satisfied with Li Zhibai's approach. Think about it, the biggest investor hasn't even agreed yet, and you took the liberty to pull a director into the crew and started letting him direct. No matter how urgent the situation of this drama is now, in the eyes of Lighthouse Video, you have overstepped your authority. It can only be said that it is fortunate that the person doing this is Li Zhibai, and Lighthouse won't think about this matter in a deeper and more complex way. But if there is any problem with this drama later, Li Zhibai's move will be held accountable."

Lu Yanhe nodded, understanding what Chen Ziyan meant.

As they were talking, Lu Yanhe's phone suddenly vibrated twice.

Li Zhibai sent a message: Liu Manbo entered the role very quickly, and just now successfully filmed the first scene.

Lu Yanhe's hanging heart immediately let go.

He showed Chen Ziyan the message sent by Li Zhibai and said that, for now, the situation is relatively good.

Chen Ziyan: "I don't doubt Liu Manbo's ability and talent; I haven't worried about this. You should still remind Li Zhibai to take the initiative to ask Lighthouse whether they agree to let Liu Manbo be the director of this drama—now nominally Liu Manbo is just here to help, let Li Zhibai still give an attitude to Lighthouse, don't leave people hanging there."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said okay.

He immediately told Li Zhibai what Chen Ziyan had instructed.

Li Zhibai: Amazing, just five minutes ago, Lin Suyang also said the exact same thing to me. He said to take the footage of the scene Liu Manbo just filmed to Lighthouse.

Lu Yanhe understands why Chen Ziyan and Lin Suyang would say so.

To put it bluntly, the biggest problem with this matter is that Li Zhibai overstepped his authority. He does not have the power to decide the director (even if Lighthouse respected his opinion very much at the beginning). In this situation, pushing Liu Manbo to the director's position without Lighthouse Video's permission is a taboo.

Although it cannot solve the problem, Li Zhibai taking the footage filmed by Liu Manbo at this time to take the initiative to ask Lighthouse whether they want to keep Liu Manbo is, in the final analysis, a disguised statement, a gesture of handing back the power.

Then if Lighthouse is not sincerely having an opinion on Liu Manbo and does not agree with him being the director, in order for the crew to be able to film, Lighthouse will generally just take the slope and reveal it on the surface at this time.

At this very moment, Lu Yanhe has arrived in Thailand.

Lu Yanhe was invited here this time by Thailand as an Asian superstar.

He was also quite stunned when he saw this film festival promoting him as an Asian superstar.

However, people genuinely think so and gave high-standard reception treatment.

His itinerary since arriving in Thailand was accompanied by a dedicated person throughout, and a car and driver were also provided.

In Thailand, Lu Yanhe only had a one-sided relationship with the actress Caina.

But this time, in Lu Yanhe's conflict with Harvey, Caina was one of the first Asian stars to support Lu Yanhe on her social media.

After arriving in Thailand, he thought about going out for a stroll.

Chen Ziyan didn't have time to accompany him at all and was about to transfer to the United States—she was going to meet a producer in Thailand, and there was a cooperation with Wen Minglan to communicate with the other party.

The film and television market in Thailand is not large, but whether it is Thai dramas or Thai movies, they have actually achieved excellent results compared to the market size of this country.

Especially Thai dramas, Lu Yanhe knows that there is a large group of loyal viewers in China. Although he doesn't like watching them himself.

The Thai producer Chen Ziyan wanted to meet is a film producer, quite senior, and two of the films he produced have been released in China.

Because Chen Ziyan came here this time to talk about Wen Minglan's cooperation, Lu Yanhe didn't go together. Otherwise, people's focus might have gone directly to Lu Yanhe.

Led by the local guide, Lu Yanhe's group strolled around the local market and went around the surrounding area.

When he returned to the hotel again, the person in charge of the local tourism management department actually came and waited for him in the lobby.

People came specifically to express their welcome to him.

Lu Yanhe was surprised.

Because this is not recording a show.

Sometimes when recording a show, the show crew will have some foreign media activities. People will arrange such activities because the show is influential and popular, to drive publicity and tourism economy.

But Lu Yanhe is just here to participate in film festival activities, and there is no arrangement for such tourism department officials to visit him in the official itinerary.

It is completely an unexpected private itinerary—of course, it cannot be said to be a real private itinerary. People were brought over by a relevant management level of the film festival, specifically welcoming his arrival.

They sent meeting gifts and expressed their hope that he could have a happy time in Thailand, sincerely inviting him to travel to Thailand in the future.

Subsequently, people invited him to attend a relatively high-standard banquet in the evening, which was held by a local tycoon.

Lu Yanhe directly declined.

People were very strange, not knowing why Lu Yanhe would decline, and specifically emphasized that the person is one of the top tycoons in Thailand, with very strong strength, and few people can get an invitation to his banquet.

Lu Yanhe smiled and politely declined.

He rarely attends even the banquets of Chinese tycoons, let alone foreign ones.

First, this kind of occasion actually has little to do with his work, and it brings all kinds of troubles after getting to know them. Second, no one knows who will be at this kind of occasion. If there are some unsafe dangerous elements in it, he doesn't know, and he inexplicably shares a frame with people, or even takes a group photo, and then it explodes later, splashing himself with dirty water, which can't be washed clean.

Lu Yanhe planned to participate in the film festival's activity itinerary tomorrow, complete a shooting the day after tomorrow, finish work, and then meet with several directors he had contacted in advance to chat, and then he could fly to Malaysia.

Activities outside of work should be as few as possible.

However, Lu Yanhe did underestimate his current influence.

A hit horror movie like "The Mist" with a global box office of over 200 million US dollars brought him not only a big box office hit, but also the popularity that D19 opened up for Lu Yanhe on a global scale when doing publicity around this movie.

This is why Chen Ziyan said that there must be a few commercial blockbusters that everyone knows as soon as they hear them.

An actor, if you want to become a movie superstar, unless you are like Meryl Streep, who has been tied to the honors of Hollywood and the Academy Awards, and relies on the strength of the entire industry to push her audience popularity to this height, more than 90% of actors must rely on a few big hits on a global scale to build their country.

A Thai movie channel transferred through the relationship of Yuehu TV (the two sides had cooperated before) and found Chen Ziyan here. Chen Ziyan gave it to Wang Biao again. By seven o'clock in the evening, Lu Yanhe had to sit in the hotel restaurant and accept the interview of this movie channel.

Fortunately, it was recorded, not live—

Lu Yanhe also doesn't speak Thai, and if he speaks English, not many people can understand it.

Adhering to the principle of "since you are here, be at peace," he accepted the work of the interview and thought about making the best use of everything to achieve the greatest effect.

Therefore, he almost mentioned all the works he starred in.

Anyway, his works can be seen on streaming media, and Thai audiences can also see them.

The host asked a routine question, asking: "Are there any directors and actors in Thailand that you like and want to cooperate with?"

Lu Yanhe said: "Caina, actually Caina has already started to cooperate. I invited her to participate in the production of a show in China, called 'Birth of an Actor'. I don't know if there are viewers watching this show in Thailand."

"Caina? By the way, I saw a report before saying that Caina might appear in the second season of 'Squid Game', is that right?"

Lu Yanhe laughed.

"Now about the second season of 'Squid Game', it is still in preparation, and the script hasn't come out yet. However, if there is a suitable role, Caina is an actor I really want to cooperate with." He also said very face-savingly, "I am a fan of Caina, and I have watched many movies she starred in."

The smile on the host's face immediately became brighter.

The next day, Lu Yanhe attended the red carpet activity of the film festival and presented a "Potential Award" to a Thai newcomer—

This is not a big award in the awards ceremony, but a big award set up to encourage young filmmakers. Every year, a separate awards activity will be held for this award.

And every year, the film festival will also invite an influential filmmaker to present the award to the winner.

This activity has also become a reserved activity of the film festival.

Although it is not an awards ceremony, the executive committee chairman and jury chairman of this film festival all came to the scene.

Before the award presentation, a link was also specially arranged to briefly introduce the achievements made by Lu Yanhe.

The executive committee chairman introduced: "He is a legendary young actor, and also a young legendary actor."

Lu Yanhe listened with both hands waving, not daring to be, not daring to be.

"Lighthouse Video has agreed." Lin Suyang called Li Zhibai for the first time, "However, they pressed Liu Manbo's salary very low, only willing to give one-tenth of Lujingbo's."

Lujingbo is the director before "Nineteen Years of Crime Records".

Li Zhibai: "Have they not communicated this matter with Liu Manbo yet?"

"They have made up their minds. Now Liu Manbo is here to film without money. Even if they only give one-tenth, he will definitely accept it."

"Stingy to the bone." Li Zhibai was very disgusted, "Liu Dao turned the tide and saved the situation, and they are still stingy in this regard."

"Actually, it is also very normal. After all, he is a new director who has never directed a feature film." Lin Suyang said, "For Liu Manbo, this opportunity is much more important than salary."

"These are all excuses to squeeze your deserved income." Li Zhibai said unceremoniously, "What because the opportunity is more important, so squeeze your deserved income. If Liu Dao doesn't accept this condition and doesn't direct, they will lose more. You also know the situation of Liu Dao on the scene these two days, and you have also seen the footage he filmed. It is not a little bit better. Although it is said that there is still a gap with what we imagined at the beginning, it is possible to film it into the current appearance in such a short time. To tell the truth, the whole crew is convinced."

Liu Manbo knows very clearly what he wants to film and how to film it, and he won't randomly give some requirements that cannot be realized—of course, he actually has many requirements and many ideas. Many early designs and preparations were changed under his requirements—however, among so many changes, there is not one that cannot be done and forced to be done.

Therefore, overtime is overtime, and there are many people complaining, but the things that come out, the shots that come out, are shots that can be taken out and can be on the table. There is no sense of restlessness and panic of "holding Buddha's feet temporarily". Only at this time can we see the truth. Seeing him more and more controlling the whole situation and being able to film this drama well, the crew members are also more and more trusting of him.

The authority of a director was established by himself at such an urgent and critical moment.

Li Zhibai: "Liu Manbo was invited by me, Brother Suyang, I cannot let him suffer too much loss, especially—he helped our drama so much."

Lin Suyang: "Zhibai, to tell the truth, based on my observation and understanding of Liu Manbo these few days, you go to fight for higher treatment for him at this time, he may not be willing himself."

"Ah?" Li Zhibai asked, "Why would this be unwilling?"

Lin Suyang said: "Because he cares about this opportunity, he cares more about this opportunity. He definitely doesn't want to have twists and turns because of the treatment after getting the opportunity to direct. If he didn't care about this opportunity, he wouldn't have come to do this thing without anything being said. Do you understand what I mean? A person has self-esteem. If a crew hasn't promised you anything and lets you act in a drama, what is your feeling? Are you willing to act? But he came in this situation, so you can realize how important this opportunity is to him."

Li Zhibai was silent.

Lin Suyang's words hit his heart directly. He felt that Lin Suyang was right, and he was convinced.

"You might as well go and communicate with him directly about this matter. Let him make his own decision, whether to fight for it again, or forget it." Lin Suyang said, "Don't do bad things with good intentions." ===== CHAPTER 572 =====