Chapter 778: Nothing more to say, just do it well (10k words update)

The reason Lu Yan He said this is because he really thought so too.

Hollywood is the place that lacks nothing but people with acting skills.

Almost everyone who emerges, you wouldn't say this person's acting is bad.

In fact, whether it is the *Twilight* series, the *Hunger Games* series, or *The Amazing Spider-Man*, or other films where young idols are the leads, their leads are, without exception, very good actors; basically, they have either already won an Academy Award or have been shortlisted for an Academy Award.

Is Liu Teli's acting good?

Very good.

However, does Hollywood lack mature actors with good acting skills like him?

Not at all.

He can certainly get roles if he comes to Hollywood now.

However, like the roles he can receive now, they are all villains or supporting roles.

Then, is it necessary for a top-tier actor like Liu Teli to "start from scratch" at this time to break into Hollywood?

Lu Yan He felt it was unnecessary.

Liu Teli is already a famous performing artist in China, and, he can clearly get roles with quality, texture, and character in China now, why come to Hollywood to play some small roles?

This is different from Jiang Yuqian and the others coming to break into Hollywood.

Lu Yan He strongly agrees with Jiang Yuqian coming to break into Hollywood because it is also difficult for her to get such textured roles in the Chinese film circle. Of course, the main thing is that Jiang Yuqian has hope of playing the lead in Hollywood in the future.

However, Liu Teli—

Lu Yan He felt that unless one day Liu Teli wins an Academy Award, otherwise, the difficulty of getting a lead in a mainstream project is huge.

Discrimination against age in the entertainment industry does not only stop at women.

And if Liu Teli can act in more art films like *On the Xunyang River*, in the next few years, appearing more at top international film festivals, his reputation internationally will also slowly open up, especially with the blessing of the *Home Alone* film—

By that time, his weight and value in the hearts of various film companies as an internationally recognized acting school and as a supporting actor in the *Home Alone* series will be different.

Conversely, the Malaysian actor Teacher Qin Shulan, who acted in *Tropical Rain* with him, although she is a bit older than Teacher Liu Teli, after Shi Huo took charge of her agency, she specifically found an agent for her in North America to be responsible for the business in Hollywood—

Because Qin Shulan has already been shortlisted for an Academy Award.

With this resume, although Qin Shulan cannot get the lead now, she can get some suitable and weighty roles in various mainstream projects in Hollywood. In short, Hollywood film companies will not "look down on" Qin Shulan and will not look for Liu Teli to play some similar villain roles just because he appeared in the hit film *Home Alone*.

If one day, Liu Teli wins the Best Actor award at a top international film festival, or even if he doesn't win, but starts to be widely praised by international media and the review circle, then he will be different.

Lu Yan He didn't know if Wei Yutang could understand this point.

Li Zhibai and Jiang Yuqian not only came over themselves tonight, but also brought the director of the film they starred in, who is also Chinese-American.

"Yan He, let me introduce you." Li Zhibai brought him over. The latter was a man wearing black-rimmed glasses, a bit chubby, and didn't look old, about thirty-something, "Song Hai, also Chinese-American. His parents are both Chinese, and they brought him to the United States when he was in elementary school."

"President Lu." Song Hai took the initiative to reach out, his attitude a bit respectful.

His attitude was more like those people from film companies in China.

Lu Yan He reached out with a smile, held his hand, and said: "Director, hello, just call me Yan He."

Jiang Yuqian stood on the other side of Song Hai and said: "He is your fan."

"Is that so?" Lu Yan He hurriedly said thank you.

Song Hai pursed his lips and smiled slightly.

Lu Yan He could see he was a bit restrained.

He asked with a smile: "When is the premiere of your film?"

"Three days later." Song Hai said, "I hope you can attend and support us."

"Of course, I will definitely attend." Lu Yan He nodded, "Your two leads are my best friends; I cannot not attend. I wish you good results."

Song Hai nodded.

After the pleasantries, Li Zhibai pulled Lu Yan He and whispered: "It seems he wants to find you for his next film."

"Is that so." Lu Yan He said, "How is your cooperation with him?"

"Quite pleasant." Li Zhibai nodded and said: "He probably didn't have a very happy time in the United States. Anyway, when I acted in this film, I felt that the whole play was full of a kind of self-struggle and narrow repression."

Lu Yan He: "Have you seen the finished film?"

"No." Li Zhibai shook his head, "I am also waiting to see it at the premiere."

"How is the sales situation of this film now?" Lu Yan He said.

Li Zhibai said: "I heard that some film distributors are already in contact, especially many Chinese film companies have come to contact. I don't know the specific situation, anyway, this film must have made a lot of money; the production cost is not even 500,000 dollars."

Lu Yan He teased: "Small-budget art film, and it picked up two big stars for nothing. If I were the production company of this film, I would definitely be happy."

"Speaking of which, do you have any films for me to act in next year? I have received several scripts. If you have any, I will definitely prioritize your script; if not, I will act in others'."

Lu Yan He shook his head and said: "Not for now. After *Buried*, there should be quite a few Hollywood scripts looking for you. I suggest you take one or two Hollywood scripts first. As long as the role and script are good, the salary can be put aside for now. Hollywood suppresses the salary of Asian actors very strictly, and you might be a bit unhappy, but at this stage, as long as the script and role are good and the team is good, just stand firm first."

Li Zhibai nodded: "Understood."

Lu Yan He: "Actually, the salary *Buried* gave you was low."

"Low my ass. It's fine for those media to say that, but you even say that. 500,000 dollars, according to the exchange rate at the time, was almost 4 million RMB." Li Zhibai said, "At that time, if I starred in a film in China, if it wasn't a commercial blockbuster, I would only get that much salary."

Lu Yan He: "I am not feeling sorry for you; I just feel it's a pity. If I had offered you a higher salary at the time, it would have been more advantageous for your later quotes in Hollywood."

Li Zhibai: "My salary will eventually rise. Just wait."

In terms of confidence, Li Zhibai really hasn't lost to anyone.

Lu Yan He smiled.

"Okay, waiting for the day your salary exceeds mine."

"I will work hard." Li Zhibai raised his eyebrows and said.

"The momentum of *Raise the Red Lantern* rushing for the Oscars this year is still very fierce. I hope this film can also get an Academy Award nomination this year." *Hesitant Outlook on Life* director Wang Shuai said to Lu Yan He.

"I also hope to get a nomination." Lu Yan He said to Wang Shuai, "Congratulations, Director, for bringing works to be shortlisted for the four major international film festivals so quickly."

Wang Shuai: "Thank you, I hope to win an award this time."

"Definitely can." Lu Yan He said with a smile.

Last time Wang Shuai filmed *In the Waves* and was shortlisted for the Locarno main competition unit, but unfortunately didn't win an award in the end.

And this time's *Hesitant Outlook on Life*, the female lead is Yu Mengling, and the female supporting role is Jiang Yue, both of whom have cooperated with Lu Yan He and have a deep relationship.

Especially Jiang Yue, this summer, *Oh My Sea* was released, and her performance in the film attracted the attention of many people and received a lot of praise, which can be considered to have gotten rid of the "little transparent" state.

She also just finished filming another film of Linghe.

And the male lead of *Hesitant Outlook on Life* is still Cheng Ben from *In the Waves*.

It's not the first time meeting.

Anna White waited until there was no one around Lu Yan He before coming to his side with a wine glass.

"Anna, sorry, I haven't had time to talk to you just now."

"No need." Anna White shook her head immediately and said: "At such times, I prefer to be an observer rather than an intervener."

Lu Yan He asked: "Do you know the people here?"

Anna White said: "I have watched many Chinese films, and I know who most of the people here are."

Lu Yan He showed surprise.

"Really?"

"Yes." Anna White nodded, "To be honest, I didn't expect so many Chinese filmmakers to come."

Lu Yan He: "Many Chinese films were shortlisted for the Locarno Film Festival this year."

"Oh, yes, several were indeed shortlisted this year." Anna White said, "I originally thought that the film *Storm Calmer No. 1* by Director Liu Bige that you filmed would come to Locarno."

"The post-production of that film hasn't been finished, so it couldn't catch up." Lu Yan He said.

Anna White: "Your film has already won awards at Locarno, Venice, and Hexi. Only Locarno hasn't won yet. Don't you consider a Grand Slam?"

"I..." Lu Yan He shook his head, "I haven't considered this question yet. Does this count as a Grand Slam?"

Anna White: "Although it is not your personal award, it is also a very remarkable achievement that the films you starred in or wrote have won awards at the other three major international film festivals."

"I took a lot of advantage." Lu Yan He smiled, "They were all awards won standing on the shoulders of giants."

Anna White: "After you directed *Love Letter* yourself, it seems that there has been no news of a second work you want to direct. Still no plan?"

Lu Yan He shook his head, "I feel I am not suitable to be a director."

"*Love Letter* achieved such good results, and now it has even become a classic in the hearts of many movie fans. Do you still feel you are not suitable to be a director?"

Lu Yan He nodded, "This cannot be judged by the results. I am the one who truly experienced this process. When acting, or when writing a script, I have a steady stream of creative passion, but when directing, I don't have that kind of chicken-blood state. In the middle of the night, thinking of a good place, I wish I could climb out of bed directly, no matter what time it is, what the situation is, just act a segment, write a segment."

Anna White: "But film is after all the art of the director. If you were just an actor, I wouldn't say that, but you are also a remarkable screenwriter. Have you ever thought that if you don't direct, you actually can't present the world you conceived at the beginning 100%?"

Lu Yan He shook his head.

"I never think so."

"Hmm?"

"Even if it is a director, it often relies on various different people to build this world together. The director's intention is of course the main one, but the place where the director's artistic thinking is most different from my thinking as an actor and screenwriter is that it must be logical, decomposable, and clear." Lu Yan He said, "But for me, there are many things that, here with me, don't have the ability to do clear decomposition. I can give a look, but I can't explain clearly what kind of look I gave. I can write a hundred different 'I love you's in different stories, but I can't put these hundred 'I love you's into every appropriate scene in a categorized way."

Anna White gave a surprised wow.

"I understand." She said, "Are you really only twenty-three years old?"

"No, I am already twenty-five." Lu Yan He explained with a smile.

"Oh, twenty-five." Anna White nodded, "Still a very young age."

Lu Yan He knew what she wanted to say.

He could only smile without saying anything.

"However, you are still creating the sitcom *Friends* at the same time." Anna White suddenly said again, she said in a tone that was unbelievable, "You have to know, you are the screenwriter in the history of sitcoms who has independently created so many episodes of sitcoms."

Lu Yan He thought to himself, that's because he is also not "creating alone."

Anna White: "You are really a person with a lot of creative energy."

"Thank you."

Being able to gather so many people tonight is also a kind of fate.

The screening times of these films are all in the first week.

Plus, they all have big stars starring in them, so basically the budget of each film crew is quite sufficient, and these stars also have brands paying for their food, clothing, housing, and transportation here, so they all arrived before the opening ceremony.

Tomorrow is the opening ceremony, and everyone will attend.

So, everyone can't chat too late tonight; they need to recharge their batteries for tomorrow.

At about eleven o'clock at night, the gathering dispersed.

Lu Yan He and Anna White got in the car together and went back.

Anna White said: "The atmosphere of the gathering tonight was better than I imagined. The feelings between you Chinese filmmakers are very deep."

Lu Yan He: "Because most of them are acquaintances, and people who are not very familiar, because they have intricate relationships with friends they are familiar with, even if they are not familiar, they will be much more enthusiastic out of love for the house and its crow."

Anna White said: "In recent years, Chinese films have performed very well in the international film circle. Is this not strong?"

"Anna, Chinese films have indeed achieved some results in recent years, but to be honest, that is only finally changing from disappearing to having some sound. China is a very large country, and the Chinese film industry is also a very large industry. Compared with an industry of such a size, can the results we have achieved be considered very outstanding?" Lu Yan He shook his head, "But why was everyone so happy tonight? Because everyone has hope in their hearts, including me. It is so rare to have so many Chinese films shortlisted for a film festival at once. Haven't seen it in the last twenty years, right?"

Anna White nodded.

"Indeed rare." Anna White said, "But I still want to say, in the film industry, whether a country's films are recognized often starts with which representative filmmakers you have. Before you, Wang Zhong, Liu Bige, and this batch of Chinese filmmakers came out, there was a long period of time without any filmmakers with influence at international film festivals. Often, one would occasionally emerge, one or two works, one or two years, and then it would break, without follow-up. To have stable influence internationally, it requires the ability of continuous creation and output."

Lu Yan He nodded.

"I understand."

Anna White said again: "I went to watch *Oh My Sea* when it was screened in Locarno. It is a film supported by your film company for a new director. This film surprised me quite a bit. Later, I learned that you found him to film another film, which was a script you wrote, and Li Zhibai starred in it. I had high expectations, but after watching it, I was a bit disappointed."

Lu Yan He knew that Anna White was talking about *Those Years*.

Lu Yan He smiled slightly and said: "It is indeed not a film that some people will like, because its emotions are too saturated, its emotions are too vented, and to some extent, it is too pleasing to the audience."

Anna White looked at Lu Yan He with some surprise.

"You—seem to know everything? Then why did you write such a script?"

Lu Yan He said with a smile: "Anna, sometimes, I often feel that everyone has forgotten one thing. In fact, I have only left my student days for two or three years. I know what is called high-level, but I don't want to live in the concept of high-level all the time. I like different truths in different states, even if sometimes, it is bloody, vulgar, sensational, or even embarrassing to the point of curling toes."

Anna White looked at Lu Yan He thoughtfully.

At the same time, Tuck was also in the car with Wang Biao and Zou Dong.

All night tonight, his emotions were very excited.

Until this private gathering ended, his excitement did not fade.

He kept curiously asking questions to Wang Biao and Zou Dong.

Fortunately, Wang Biao's English is quite good now, and he can communicate with people in daily life, otherwise, Tuck could only stare at them with big eyes, and they would be talking to each other like chickens and ducks.

What surprised Wang Biao was that Tuck knew quite a lot about the Chinese entertainment industry—to be precise, about Chinese films, which exceeded Wang Biao's expectations.

Wang Biao has followed Lu Yan He abroad so many times and communicated with too many people.

Don't look at how those domestic media brag, those foreigners, every time they talk about Chinese films, basically only have those few, and this is still people met at film festivals.

Wang Biao didn't know if they had ever watched a Chinese film in their lives if they didn't meet at a film festival, but just met an ordinary person on the street.

However, when Tuck talked about Chinese films, he was not talking about *Home Alone* and *Buried*, nor was he talking about art films like *Three Mountains* and *Twilight* that had won awards at top international film festivals and had some reputation. He was quite clear about the development of Chinese films in these years, as well as which types were popular and what representative works those types had.

He even knew films like *The Home I Haven't Returned to for a Long Time* and *Nine Yin*, which, although they achieved high box office in China, were almost unknown overseas.

Wang Biao asked him in surprise if he was a "China expert" and a "China culture fan."

There are indeed such a group of people overseas.

Tuck shook his head and said that it was his mother who often played Chinese films at home in recent years and often studied the works of some Chinese film scholars.

He often watched with his mom and understood quite a bit, but it was only fur.

Wang Biao thought to himself, no wonder Anna White suddenly proposed the hope of inviting Lu Yan He to stay at her house for a while this time.

Anna White was really not a temporary idea, but "premeditated."

Wang Biao realized this and felt that a very important reason why Lu Yan He temporarily accepted such an invitation was that Lin Yu said that Anna White was a critic with great prestige in the international film circle, and at the same time, she had almost no attention to Chinese films (on the surface), so he felt that this was an opportunity to let Anna White further understand Chinese films.

Now it seems that Anna White saw the development of Chinese films in these years, especially the achievements made by Chinese filmmakers represented by Lu Yan He, so after studying and researching for several years, she started to take action.

Wang Biao realized this and felt a sense of awe for Anna White.

To be honest, with her reputation and status in the film criticism circle, she could completely use all of this to let herself and her family have a more affluent and superior living environment.

Of course, this apartment is not bad now, it is a very warm family. It's just—

What Wang Biao wants to express is that the pursuit of fame and fortune is human nature, while Anna White can go against the grain.

Not only that, she has been interested in Chinese films for several years, she has done a lot of desk work, research, and learning in this regard, but she has not shown it at all, a bit of "sitting on the cold bench."

No one knows what she is paying, and no one knows how much she has paid.

Just because she loves movies, so many things are born from emotion, calm, without certainty in her heart, not spoken, not shaped.

Because she is in the entertainment industry that is changing rapidly and chasing fame and fortune, and has seen too many people chasing hot spots, Wang Biao also respects people like Anna White more and more.

Tuck didn't know how much touch his casual words brought to Wang Biao.

He was still enthusiastically and excitedly telling them about his experience of traveling to China with his parents a year ago, sharing his feelings about China.

Wang Biao said: "Contact us next time you come to China."

Tuck: "Can I? Will you be too busy and have no time?"

"If there is no time, we can also make some arrangements, it is more convenient for you." Wang Biao said with a smile, "Unfamiliar with the place, just like we arrived in Locarno, knowing people like you who live locally, many things are not understood, you can ask you."

"That is of course." Tuck said, "It's a pity that you came during the film festival. There are too many people now. We locals don't go out much except to watch movies at this time. After the film festival ends, after there are fewer people, Locarno is actually a very beautiful city, very worth visiting."

Wang Biao nodded.

"If there is a chance in the future, we will try to come once outside the film festival time."

Tuck said: "That is best to come when I am on vacation, otherwise when I am at school, in the United States, not in Locarno, without me taking you around, you will miss half of Locarno's beauty."

Wang Biao smiled and said okay.

It is very strange that Lu Yan He found that he had no problem with recognizing the bed.

He slept very deeply and fragrant on his first night at Anna White's house. If it weren't for the fact that he forgot to pull the curtains at night, and as a result, he was directly woken up by the golden sunshine the next morning, he felt that he might have slept until someone came to knock on the door again.

When Lu Yan He came out of the room, Anna White was sitting on that balcony, holding a thick book in her arms, holding a cigarette in her hand, reading elegantly and lazily.

The sun shone on her, warm, quiet.

Lu Yan He couldn't help but raise his phone, stood in the living room, and took a picture of this scene.

He didn't disturb Anna, but went directly to the washroom, washed up first, and looked at the time, it was only seven o'clock in the morning, very early, he put on running shoes, ready to go downstairs for a run.

Lu Yan He sent a message in the small group.

About five minutes later, the accompanying bodyguards were already in place.

Lu Yan He then went to greet Anna, saying he was going for a run.

Anna nodded, "Will you come back for breakfast later?"

"Of course." Lu Yan He nodded.

Lu Yan He suddenly felt a different mood at this moment.

Running out of a hotel while staying in a hotel is one mood.

Running out of a building while staying in a residential apartment building is another mood.

These two moods are different.

No one knows he lives here yet.

When he started running on the street, there were not many people on the street.

The bodyguard followed behind him, at a distance of about two meters, not very close.

After running about four kilometers, Lu Yan He felt a bit tired.

Still have to admit that he is indeed a physical fitness vegetable chicken.

Once you don't insist on fitness and training, your physical fitness slowly declines.

Don't want to move, really don't want to move at all.

Lazy, no way.

Lu Yan He was sweating and panting.

The second half didn't run, just walked back directly.

Walking is also fine, quite good.

But just at this time, the first person to recognize him appeared.

"Lu Yan He!" It was a foreigner.

People wanted to take a photo.

Lu Yan He originally thought that his image now, estimated to be not good-looking, thought forget it.

But seeing the expectation on people's faces, thought, not good-looking is fine, anyway, it looks like this, finished running, panting, face flushed, normal.

Thus, Lu Yan He took a photo with her.

As a result, this photo was posted on social media, causing polarized comments.

Overseas, these photos are all praising Lu Yan He for being handsome.

In China, many people said that Lu Yan He shouldn't take photos with people at this time. First, the hair was sweaty and stuck to the scalp, looking very disgusting. Second, the face was flushed, and because it was uncomfortable to run, when taking photos, the expression was a bit baring teeth and grinning, and the expression management was not done well, not as clear and handsome as usual. Third, he was wearing a vest, and when he put his hands on his hips, his armpit hair was exposed, saying he didn't do body hair management well.

This is not someone deliberately blacking him.

It is really that many people think that Lu Yan He's image in this photo is very unsightly.

Chen Siqi saw this heated discussion on the Internet and shook her head speechlessly.

"So you can't blame why artists now have to make themselves fully armed as long as they go out." She complained to Xu Zijun, "When can we let non-idol actors be themselves? Running and being bumped into by fans on the road and wanting to take a photo, do you have to temporarily put on makeup?"

Xu Zijun smiled.

"Now on the Internet, there is such a group of people, judging everything, and looking at everything unpleasantly."

"Sick."

"They are not intentional, they seriously feel that they are putting forward a good suggestion from the bottom of their hearts, not blacking people."

"Still sick."

"This kind of 'I am for your own good' mentality is no longer unique to parents for children."

"Cure your own illness first." Chen Siqi complained again, "I really don't have such a big emotion because Yan He is my boyfriend. I posted a photo two days ago, and as a result, someone in the comment area said I shouldn't wear a skirt."

"Ah?"

"Said my styling and makeup are too gentle and beautiful, not at all like a female president, but very delicate wife, delicate her sister."

Xu Zijun teased: "President Chen, pay attention to your words, don't let emotions manage you, let you manage your emotions, you are a public figure anyway."

"People, step by step, set up a chastity archway for themselves." Chen Siqi said to Xu Zijun, "Of course, anti-feudalism, now it can't be called a chastity archway, it should be called a moral archway."

Xu Zijun laughed out loud.

"A living person, has to be high-sounding to do self-castration, become a mud sculpture that saves all living beings." Chen Siqi rolled her eyes, "My moral quality is really not high, don't give me a golden body, I don't take the initiative to scold people, two don't break the law, three still have ideals and ambitions, all the propriety and etiquette that should be there, all have, non-picky to give me shackles, then don't blame me for violently smashing it."

Xu Zijun: "I support you, agree with you."

Chen Siqi asked: "Don't talk about me, how is Li Pengfei's documentary filming?"

"It's filming." Xu Zijun said, "He is very happy now." Xu Zijun said, "Doing what he likes, having brand sponsorship, he has income, and can seriously make it into a career. Before filming, there were various concerns, now, he is happy to forget to return with the photographer and the others."

Chen Siqi: "That's great, so happy, found something he likes to do to make a living."

Xu Zijun nodded and said again: "Siqi, we are receiving more and more manuscripts, and the accumulated manuscripts are also getting more and more. Our magazine is a bit unable to hold it, should we consider increasing the issue?"

Chen Siqi said: "Now there are 12 regular issues, 2 special issues, 4 quarterly issues every year, and adding more is too much, which will affect the readers' willingness to buy."

Xu Zijun: "Then what to do?"

Chen Siqi said: "Two ways, one is to make another magazine different from *Jump Up*, do division, two is to do electronic reading."

Xu Zijun said: "This sounds like it is very difficult to do no matter which one."

"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded, "Fictional, literary content is very unsuitable for electronic reading, this point has been verified by many electronic reading apps of the same type, but, there is no doubt that it can indeed let more authors be seen."

Xu Zijun said: "Very difficult to make a profit, right?"

"Yes." Chen Siqi said, "Of course, I don't mean that we must make a profit, but we have done *Jump Up* for so many years, and we have also developed many brands in the middle, including self-media, we actually understand a truth, even if we are willing to invest money continuously to maintain a product, but if it cannot be self-sufficient and produce normal balance of payments, the person who does this will also be disappointed over time, will leave, and it cannot be maintained normally."

Xu Zijun: "Then if we make another magazine, I don't know what the market will be like."

Chen Siqi said: "Making another magazine, it certainly won't be the same as *Jump Up*. *Jump Up* takes the high-end literary route, then the new magazine can only be ordinary, mass-oriented. However, this type has no memory point and no positioning point, and it is easy to make a bustle in the first few issues, and then let everyone lose interest."

"What if we use the Jump Up Theater as the theme of this magazine?" Xu Zijun suggested, "Use this magazine as the base camp of Jump Up Theater, and then, use the stars of Jump Up Theater to film the cover—this cover candidate is decided by everyone's vote, each issue of the magazine is attached with a ballot, and the actor with the most votes in each issue will film our cover."

"This becomes a complete fan economy." Chen Siqi said.

Xu Zijun said: "But, a new magazine, before there is a reader base, if the fan economy can help this magazine settle down, why can't we use it? This doesn't need fans to pour milk, nor does it need them to do data. This set of ours, when *Jump Up* does the year-end inventory, has already made a very mature plan."

"Then becoming a cover character, what can happen?" Chen Siqi asked.

Xu Zijun said: "Jump Up Theater will tailor a play for him."

Chen Siqi's eyes widened in shock.

Xu Zijun: "No one has ever dared to do this before."

"Have you ever thought that this is because doing this... is very easy to overturn?" Chen Siqi said, "What if this person's acting is very rotten, very bad, what to do? This will completely affect the reputation of Jump Up Theater."

Xu Zijun said: "Not every star who is number one in voting will be willing to film this cover, film Jump Up Theater's play, right?"

Chen Siqi shook her head, "No, this is too... too contrary to our original intention of Jump Up Theater."

"What if we do a... for example, Morning Star Plan separately in Jump Up Theater?" Xu Zijun said, "Let everyone clearly know that Jump Up Theater will take out one or two plays every year to tailor for the cover candidates of the new magazine. This does not affect Jump Up Theater's normal projects."

"We say it doesn't affect, will others believe it?" Chen Siqi shook her head, "I would rather say that every cover of this new magazine invites an actor who has been on Jump Up Theater to film, a little less sales generated for voting, we cannot ruin the reputation we have established with difficulty, this is a matter of principle, not a single risk can be taken."

On this point, Chen Siqi is very persistent.

Seeing this, Xu Zijun had to give up.

"If this method is not adopted, no matter how it is done, the sales of the new magazine cannot be stably said to be maintained at a high level."

Chen Siqi said: "Now making a magazine, if the price is around 20 yuan, it needs to sell 6,000 to 8,000 copies to reach the break-even line, but because we have a powerful self-media and online platform, magazine content can produce secondary sales, the pressure will be much smaller, if we can invite brands to pay for cover characters, our pressure will be even smaller, what do you think?"

"Still follow the traditional way, try to do it?" Xu Zijun asked.

Chen Siqi nodded, "At worst, it's just failure. If it really fails, then stop publishing after one year."

Xu Zijun pondered for a moment and said: "Then it can only be like this."

Chen Siqi said: "Zijun, our Jump Up is the easiest media to do star fan economy, but the more this is the case, the more we cannot easily use this method. Once we rely on it, our core creativity is lost. We have to constantly find our own attraction points and sales points. This is the key to why our Jump Up has not gone downhill until today."

"Understood." Xu Zijun said, "My initial idea was to try to keep the basic plate of the new magazine in the early stage of creation through fan economy."

"I understand, but it is too easy to open high and go low. People who are not climbing up from the low line are very difficult to truly share weal and woe with a magazine." Chen Siqi said, "In this era, making a magazine is not only making content, but also making a stable, sentimental magazine team willing to share honor and disgrace."

An editor, being able to make a magazine well in this era, to a platform that is more in line with the trend of the times, the environment traffic and resources obtained are more sufficient, naturally has a greater possibility of achieving greater achievements.

This is the reason why Chen Siqi said these words to Xu Zijun.

"Our *Jump Up* gives editors who have worked for more than three years a salary that is already very high, averaging 25,000 a month, but compared with positions such as film and television company review, self-media operation, short drama editor, etc., there is still a magnitude gap." Chen Siqi said, "What we need is people who truly like to work in magazines. This liking is not achieved overnight, it is also cultivated, just like our feelings for *Jump Up* magazine, without this process of carrying the burden forward, there is no end point of clearing up after rain, and it will not be branded into one's own life mark."

Xu Zijun nodded.

She looked at Chen Siqi thoughtfully.

She really wanted to say something at this moment, but stopped talking.

There is actually no need to say anything.

The further back, the more I feel the powerlessness of language.

Nothing more to say, just do it well. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 779 =====