Chapter 687: New Year, starting from the Golden Globes (10,000-word update!)

It's a new year again.

New Year's Day.

The jury members also went on holiday, and Lu Yan He finally had a day without any work—

Although, he still arranged a viewing task for a nominated drama for himself.

Up to now, Lu Yan He has basically finished watching the nominated dramas, only one or two nominated for fewer awards have not been watched.

Because of this, Lu Yan He breathed a sigh of relief. He almost thought he would talk big and couldn't finish watching. Because some TV series are really too long, with up to forty episodes. For this kind of drama, Lu Yan He couldn't watch it normally later, and in many parts, he watched it at double speed.

Fortunately, there is double speed in this era.

Lu Yan He boiled a pot of tea for himself, let himself go, and then started watching the drama.

While watching, he also took some notes.

This is to prevent himself from forgetting some wonderful places. Basically, every drama he thinks is good, he will write down a few keywords, so that he can recall these wonderful clips when reviewing and evaluating.

At this time, Lu Yan He also had to admit one point. At least in the matter of awarding, movies can get much more justice than TV series. Generally speaking, the judges will definitely finish watching every nominated movie, but TV series may not be.

Wang Biao knocked on the door around ten o'clock in the morning, swiped the card, and brought in the salad.

The salad was brought for Lu Yan He.

This is Lu Yan He's lunch.

Wang Biao also brought coffee.

"Are you alone here today?"

"Hmm," Wang Biao said, "I gave them all a holiday. Everyone has been running around these days. I let them rest for a day."

"What about you? Why don't you rest yourself?" Lu Yan He said, "I don't actually need you to take care of me here. I won't go out all day, I will stay in the room."

"Then there must be someone in the hotel to accompany," Wang Biao said, "In case you have any needs, it won't be that there is no one."

Lu Yan He said: "Okay, then do you want to watch the drama with me?"

"No," Wang Biao refused directly, "I don't want to watch, you watch yours, I'll look at the phone outside, if you have something, call me."

Lu Yan He's room is a suite. If Wang Biao stays in the outside room, it won't affect Lu Yan He watching the drama inside.

Lu Yan He nodded.

Wang Biao also told him Chen Ziyan's instructions last night.

Lu Yan He immediately noticed something. He nodded and said: "Okay, I know, thank you."

Wang Biao: "Then I'm going out, if you have any needs, call me."

"Hmm."

After Wang Biao went out, Lu Yan He fell into deep thought.

Yang Zhoujin and Yang Zhouli... try not to contact them first...

Lu Yan He has not known Chen Ziyan for the first day, so he knows very well what Chen Ziyan's words imply.

There may be a problem.

Is Yang Zhouli self-directed and self-acted?

Is it possible?

Lu Yan He thought seriously for a while.

However, there were no more clues for him to think about, and he finally had to give up for the time being.

Forget about these first.

Lu Yan He opened the drama and watched it.

This drama has only two nominations, one for Best Supporting Actor and one for Best Director.

Although the number of nominations is small, they are all heavyweight awards.

Lu Yan He specially left this drama to watch last, also because this drama has fewer episodes and a relatively good reputation. Leaving this drama to watch later, the pressure is not so great.

Lu Yan He was watching, suddenly, a call came into his phone.

"Hello, teacher, are you looking for me?" Lu Yan He received a call from Luo Yuzhong.

"Yes, I am looking for you," Luo Yuzhong said, "Are you convenient now?"

"Convenient, I am alone in the hotel room now," Lu Yan He said, "Is there anything? Teacher."

Luo Yuzhong: "I want to ask you, do you have a schedule next year... oh, no, this year, can you spare time to help me guest star in a role?"

"Guest star? Of course, no problem," Lu Yan He said, "As long as you don't let me star in a play, it should be no problem."

"Okay, then I know, I will let the team send a message to your brokerage company later."

"Good," Lu Yan He asked, "Teacher, are you going to film a new play?"

"Yes," Luo Yuzhong said, "If the company doesn't open a new project, everyone will have to drink northwest wind."

Lu Yan He realized.

It turned out to be such a shallow reason.

Lu Yan He asked: "However, didn't you just finish filming *Chinese Paladin*?"

"*Chinese Paladin*, this project, can be considered as undertaking. Many people in the company didn't participate, so there is no way to make money from this project," Luo Yuzhong said.

Lu Yan He understood.

Because *Chinese Paladin* is Linghe's project, Luo Yuzhong and his team were the production team invited by Lu Yan He to undertake this play. In this project, many people from Linghe occupied the positions, and many people from Luo Yuzhong's company naturally could not participate in this project.

Lu Yan He reacted and laughed.

"Teacher, in fact, if your company needs projects, you know, Jump Up Theater has always been very short of production teams," Lu Yan He said.

Luo Yuzhong said: "Jump Up Theater has two to three projects for us every year, and it's not good to have more. We can only do so many. Now I mainly lack my own leading projects, so I prepared several projects before, and just found one, ready to do it this year."

"Okay," Lu Yan He said, "A schedule of more than a week may be difficult to coordinate, guest starring is no problem."

Luo Yuzhong: "Okay, I will send you the script later, you pick one you want to play from it."

"Good," Lu Yan He said with a smile.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yan He went to tell Chen Ziyan and Wang Biao about this.

They both wrote it down in their memos.

The play Luo Yuzhong wants to film is called *White Number Thirteen*.

A spy drama with only twelve episodes.

After Lu Yan He got the script, he immediately thought of *Storm Calmer No. 1* that he was going to film with Liu Bige.

The names are quite similar.

However, the latter is the code name of a plan, and White Number Thirteen refers to the code name of a place.

Luo Yuzhong has always been good at filming serious drama subjects.

This time's *White Number Thirteen* happens to be the kind that Luo Yuzhong is best at.

The twelve-episode script, each episode is only a little over 10,000 words, Lu Yan He read it in about three days.

Lu Yan He sent a message to Luo Yuzhong: This script is quite solid.

Luo Yuzhong: What do you think?

Lu Yan He: A very neat script, but I will feel that it lacks a bit of thrilling excitement. If it is filmed as a movie, it may be a feeling, but filmed as a drama series, I feel it is a bit stuffy.

Luo Yuzhong: The advantage of this script is that the characters are done well, but the shortcoming is that the plot design is ordinary and a bit plain. I have the same view as you. The screenwriter is making modifications, and I gave him some opinions.

Lu Yan He: Because this drama is about our thrilling acquisition of information in White Number Thirteen, a place occupied by the Japanese, but the whole plot has not been unfolded. At least from the script, in fact, the crisis faced every time is psychological description, not something that can be expressed by lens language through picture and plot development.

Luo Yuzhong: This screenwriter is the original author of the novel. We got a copyright from the publishing house. I read the novel. In fact, it is similar to the script. It really lacks a bit of plot arrangement.

Lu Yan He didn't know before that this script had an original novel.

After talking with Luo Yuzhong, he searched for the novel *White Number Thirteen* online.

The author of the novel is named Wen Jun, a young man in his twenties. There is a photo of his book signing in Jinkou two years ago online. The impression in the photo is a very clean and elegant man, wearing glasses, gentle and scholarly.

Wen Jun's novel is not famous, and he is not very famous as a writer. Lu Yan He was very surprised where Luo Yuzhong's company found the novel *White Number Thirteen*.

Lu Yan He sent this novel to Wang Biao to see if they could find it in the bookstore and buy it today. Buying from the Internet will take a few days to arrive. As a result, they called more than 20 bookstores and didn't have this novel. In fact, it can be seen how unsalable this novel is.

Lu Yan He could only place an order online and wait a few days to read it. Before that, he found the book on an electronic station and decided to read it first.

After reading the first two chapters, about 20,000 words, Lu Yan He realized one thing. The novel *White Number Thirteen* is written very well—

In the script, there is no thrilling plot, no big opening and closing excitement, but in the novel, at least from these two chapters, it wins from the very beginning, letting the reader enter that cramped and oppressive White Number Thirteen. The novel starts with a description of the oppression of the environment, both on the prisoners who are devastated and tortured in the cage, and on the things implied by the ringing of the phone one after another.