Chapter 807

Since Yu Mengling said so, Lu Yan He read it again.

This time, holding the interpretation of the ending, Lu Yan He specifically paid attention to some detailed parts.

Then, his scalp went numb.

When reading this script for the first time, he felt that this family of several people lived a simple and peaceful life.

However, looking at the previous story with the doubt of why the ending happened.

There are a few places that suddenly seem wrong.

One place is:

At the beginning of the story, the head of this family received several guests who came to order boats.

At the same time, in the inner house, the eldest daughter of the family sat under the eaves and shed tears, her younger brother went to comfort his sister.

From their conversation, it can be learned that the reason she shed tears is because her husband died by drowning.

Later, someone came to order goods and chatted with the head of the family, mentioning that a few months ago, the head of another boat-making family died by drowning due to a shipwreck. Previously, everyone went to that family to order boats, but now within a radius of dozens of miles, only this family still makes boats.

Another place is:

The child the eldest daughter brought home—the head's grandson, showed talent for making boats at a very young age and was praised by the head.

Conversely, although the younger son of this family was never scolded or humiliated by his father to his face, it can be seen from many details that his father is not satisfied with him.

It's just that, from the information presented in the script, the younger son of this family is a very gentle person, and also a person with a very good temper.

As an uncle, he is also very patient and caring towards his nephew. When the whole family was touching shells by the river, the nephew accidentally fell into the water, and it was he who saved him quickly because he was paying attention to the nephew's movements in time.

The nephew had a high fever, he climbed over the mountains overnight to invite a doctor, saving the nephew's life.

After noticing these details, Lu Yan He had already outlined a story behind the script in his mind.

The eldest daughter of this family married the head of another boat-making family, and the head of this family, in order to grab business, tampered with his son-in-law's boat, killing his son-in-law.

So, the guests who originally belonged to his son-in-law's family transferred their orders over.

And their father, in order to kill them all, also tried to kill his own grandson several times, whether it was drowning or high fever, it was all his tampering.

After noticing these, Lu Yan He continued to look further back.

More dialogue and story blank spaces are confirming Lu Yan He's guess.

Because of the gossip of the neighbors, the sister wanted to take the child back to their original home—

Their father kept a straight face and told them to stay, not allowed to leave.

The sister's mother-in-law came to visit them and proposed to take them back, after all, it was their only bloodline. Their father, on the grounds that "two women cannot stand up a household, cannot support a new head", let his daughter and grandson stay, he would raise them well, and when the grandson grows up, he will naturally inherit the family business.

When Lu Yan He read it for the first time, he really thought it was the father who was not good at expressing care and love, so he expressed it so awkwardly, the original intention was care for his daughter and grandson.

Reading it this time, it made him feel cold all over.

On a rainy night, the son went to cover the unpainted wood with a tarpaulin and bumped into his father coming out of his daughter's room holding his grandson.

The grandson was already asleep, leaning affectionately in his arms.

He said: "Your sister hasn't slept well these days, the child urinates a lot at night."

Reading it for the first time, what Lu Yan He felt was the love of a father who is not good at words and is silent.

Thinking carefully now, on a night with thunder and rain, entering the room, and actually didn't wake up the sister and grandson—

Isn't this strange?

Fortunately, he bumped into it. This son, who is also not good at words and gentle, in order to let his father sleep peacefully, insisted on carrying his nephew to his own room.

What if he hadn't bumped into it?

Was it another accident after drowning and high fever?

Too many obscure, blank, and not directly presented things.

Lu Yan He watched with fear and trepidation.

Then, before the son killed the father, there was a scene where the son accidentally bumped into the eldest daughter kneeling in front of the father, shedding tears and kowtowing, saying "If not protected by father, daughter and A-Bao cannot live in the world".

Just this sentence.

Reading it for the first time, Lu Yan He thought it was the eldest daughter who hadn't walked out of the pain of losing her husband, revealing her true feelings in front of her biological father.

Reading it again, it was a plea for mercy.

Looking again, after this sentence, the nephew was about to go inside.

He quickly got up, picked up his nephew, covered his mouth, smiled and made a gesture of silence to him, and walked out.

Reading it for the first time, Lu Yan He thought he didn't want his nephew to interrupt this scene of revealing true feelings.

Looking again, actually, gentle and silent like him, did he already guess something at this time? So, didn't want his nephew to hear anything?

When he was about to kill his father, it was when his father was sick and lying in bed, and he was serving medicine on the side.

His father told him that the delivery day was coming, don't delay things.

He said he wouldn't, and fed his father the medicine.

That night, his father passed away.

Wait—

Lu Yan He was suddenly stunned and looked back.

He suddenly realized that he had made a mistake again.

The one who killed his father should actually be the eldest daughter.

When the coroner came, the eldest daughter took the initiative to let go of A-Bao's hand and took a step forward. It was he who held his sister's arm at this time as the eldest son of the family to welcome outsiders.

He just knew his sister's plan.

The coroner examined the body and said to them, the weather has turned cold recently, it is easy to catch a cold, did A-Bao in their family have a high fever that didn't go down a few days ago?

He was surprised and said yes, and asked the coroner why he knew.

The coroner said, the one he was invited to treat that day was their father.

After the coroner's examination, there was no doubt about the cause of their father's death, he passed away due to the recurrence of old illnesses caused by a cold.

Reading the script for the first time, up to here, Lu Yan He hadn't thought that the son killed the father.

It was after the coroner left, the son went to the room to find a bag of medicine powder and threw it into the stove to burn—

This scene made Lu Yan He think the son killed the father when he watched it for the first time.

Thinking about it now, there is no such thing as putting poison in your own room waiting for someone to find it.

This is to take the blame for his sister.

"The Boat".

Lu Yan He called Yu Mengling.

"Sister Mengling? Is it true?" Lu Yan He told Yu Mengling his interpretation, "Is it what I thought?"

"Yes." Yu Mengling said with a smile, "As expected of a screenwriter, you thought of these things after reading it the second time."

Lu Yan He: "Anyway, when I watched it the second time, my hair was standing on end."

Yu Mengling: "Are you interested? Come and play this son?"

Lu Yan He said: "I... I haven't thought about this yet."

"This is a script written by my teacher." Yu Mengling said, "My teacher Zhang Qiuping from the Film Academy, she passed away last year. Before she passed away, she showed me this script and said she hoped it could be made into a movie one day."

Lu Yan He was stunned.

"I didn't quite understand before why she would write such a script. At that time, I didn't know the second meaning of this script either. Until she passed away, she wrote about her childhood and her parents in her suicide note, and I knew that she always had a regret in her heart, which was not exposing the truth that her father didn't love her and her mother at all while he was alive. He had been using her and her mother to create the illusion of a warm family. In fact, her father married her mother just for his own career, and her father always had another family outside. Later, she knew about this, but in order to preserve the face of the whole family, she never said anything to the outside world."

Yu Mengling said these past events in a clear and light voice.

"The teacher told me the truth of this script before she passed away, and then I understood."

Lu Yan He listened silently.

"The teacher regretted it very much, because she felt it was a scandal, family scandals should not be publicized, so she endured and hid it all her life, even still acting as a daughter. By the time she really figured it out, her father had already passed away, and she couldn't vent her anger anymore."

Yu Mengling said: "I promised the teacher that I would definitely make this script into a movie, let everyone see this story, discuss this story, and then discover the truth behind this story."

Lu Yan He said: "Sister Mengling, you won't know what what you just told me means to me."

Yu Mengling was indeed confused.

"I don't know if this script will move you."

"I want to help you fulfill Teacher Zhang Qiuping's wish." Lu Yan He said.

"The Boat?"

"Yes, Lu Yan He's new movie."

"His new script?"

"No, written by someone else."

"He is the director?"

"Probably not."

"Art film?"

"Yes."

"Which big director's?"

"Don't know, shouldn't be a big director."

"Then why would he star?"

"Heard it was Yu Mengling who found him, Yu Mengling is the producer."

"Lu Yan He is even acting as a supporting role for Yu Mengling?"

"I wouldn't be surprised whoever Lu Yan He acts as a supporting role for, he doesn't care about billing at all, he is not that kind of hypocritical actor."

"However, with his status today, why bother? Aren't his own plays enough? He even went to act in such a small-budget movie."

"The thoughts of artists, where can mortals like you and me guess."

"Perhaps, this movie can help him win an award?"

"Haha, would he take a movie just to win an award?"

"What could it be, can't be for the box office, right? This movie is just an art film, even if he stars, at most the box office will be a few hundred million, right?"

"Don't understand."

"Perhaps this movie has some points that particularly attract him."

"Do you have this script? Want to see it, what kind of script is it that can be favored by Lu Yan He."

In the industry, because of Lu Yan He's sudden acting, everyone became interested in the script of "The Boat".

In fact, a script like "The Boat" was not kept secret before.

Zhang Qiuping of the Film Academy, many people in the industry knew her.

Her suicide note also attracted a lot of attention and discussion in the industry at that time.

The script she left behind was naturally seen by many people, knowing what the situation was.

When Zhang Yuezhen heard this news, her heart suddenly panicked.

Lu Yan He actually took such a script?!

What does he want to do?

What does he want to insinuate?

At this moment, Zhang Yuezhen's first reaction was to contact Chen Pinhe, wanting to discuss with him how to deal with this matter?!

However, she didn't do so. Because Chen Pinhe didn't know yet that she already knew about him and Lu Yan He.

Chen Pinhe, this man, she knows too well.

She must maintain the current situation between her and Chen Pinhe, so that he can be with her with his current gentleness and love.

If he knew one day that she knew about this, would he still be willing to maintain such a face?

Or rather, could she still play an innocent woman who knows nothing in front of him, making him truly like her?

Zhang Yuezhen was at a loss.

"If you take 'The Boat', will you still take Huang Tianlin's movie?" Chen Ziyan asked.

"Take." Lu Yan He nodded, "The themes and types of these two movies are completely different, can take both."

"'The Boat' actually made you decide to take Huang Tianlin's movie?"

"Yes." Lu Yan He nodded, "And, I also communicated with Sister Mengling, for the script of 'The Boat', we want to make some modifications."

"Modify where?" Chen Ziyan asked.

"Make the expression of this movie more obscure." Lu Yan He said, "Delete the scene where the son finds the bag of poison powder in the room and throws it into the stove to burn."

"If this scene of burning is deleted—" Chen Ziyan said, "Basically there is no information that can clearly indicate that the father in this movie was poisoned to death."

Lu Yan He nodded: "Just let the surface of the movie look like a complete, daily family story."

Let such calmness fall into the stereotype of "birth, aging, sickness, death, father-son inheritance" in the eyes of the world with a more obscure expression.

Chen Ziyan was surprised after hearing Lu Yan He's thoughts.

"A secret that is completely traceless and has no clear direction will stir up huge discussions and become a work deconstructed and interpreted by everyone like 'Mona Lisa's Smile'."

Chen Ziyan: "I thought you would want this movie to be a clear, directional work."

Lu Yan He said: "I am filming a movie, not a manifesto."

"You are right." Chen Ziyan said, "We are filming a movie, no matter what, the movie is the first priority."

For the two movies Lu Yan He took again, international film festivals smelled the scent and came.

The Hexi Film Festival, which will be held in Jinkou next month, also asked Lu Yan He early on whether to officially announce these two movies at the film festival and hold a press conference for the media around the world.

The Hexi Film Festival held in Jinkou, although Lu Yan He is no longer the honorary chairman of the main competition selection committee this time, he of course still has to support it.

Therefore, Lu Yan He communicated with Yu Mengling and Huang Tianlin and agreed to this matter.

This time, Lu Yan He had no movies shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Hexi Film Festival.

To be precise, none were registered.

Conversely, several movies produced by Linghe were registered, but none were shortlisted for the main competition unit.

This is mainly related to the fact that the movies Linghe makes are basically still commercially oriented.

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Linghe is going to hold a media promotion meeting at the Hexi Film Festival this time.

Mainly to recommend the movies it produced.

Including those already filmed, those not yet started, and those preparing for development.

A series of works announced last August, Linghe basically started filming 100%.

This is also where Linghe wants to take this opportunity to promote.

Which company is like Linghe, able to start filming 100% of its filming opportunities?

This time, Chen Yin's new works include "Corpse Image 2".

Li Yuefeng will return to star.

It's just whether this movie continues the worldview and characters of the first part, or restarts a worldview, Li Yuefeng will play new characters, this is not known yet.

The day the Hexi Film Festival opened in Jinkou.

Lu Yan He and others appeared to support.

With the sample from last year, this year, many overseas filmmakers came.

Because the exposure is too big.

Especially being able to take this opportunity to meet with audiences and fans in China.

In recent years, film companies around the world have had a trend, that is, paying more and more attention to the Chinese box office market.

The United States and China are the two largest markets in the world.

However, the biggest difference between the US and China markets is that the former is very xenophobic, and audiences are not willing to watch non-English films.

The latter, China, not only Hollywood movies, but movies from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, India... too many countries have achieved box office of over 100 million USD in the Chinese market.

Almost every country's film party wants to send their movies to China for release.

Last year at the Hexi Film Festival, more than 100 movies were screened at the film festival, achieving very good box office feedback.

And many movies were favored by Chinese film parties because of this, bought distribution rights, and later screened on a large scale nationwide, many of which achieved good box office results.

There are 12 movies with box office exceeding 30 million RMB.

This is not the trolls on the internet who say ten million box office equals a flop.

For those foreign film parties, this is a tangible box office.

For them, the revenue is even as high as several million USD.

For such art films, such high revenue in a single overseas market is something that non-Hollywood movies dare not even think about.

Therefore, this year, the number of movies registered for the Hexi Film Festival has surged.

Even if not shortlisted for the official unit, there are quite a few who pay out of their own pockets to set up booths and find buyers.

Prosperous.

Seeing the precarious Hexi Film Festival suddenly revive, and even present a more lively scene.

Exactly—

This is consistent with the consistent positioning of the Hexi Film Festival.

Audience Award, Market Award.

Compared to the Xitu'er Film Festival, which is recognized as having the highest artistry, the Hexi Film Festival has always been superior in media volume, public love, etc.

Now, the film trading part of the Hexi Film Festival has been done again.

This year's character unit is still continuing.

The first year was Lu Yan He looking for people.

This session is Wu Yang and the others doing it themselves.

Originally wanted to continue doing the character trading unit of Lu Yan He, but Lu Yan He declined.

Mainly because there is nothing special on hand that can support this unit.

Conversely, Linghe is still a partner, responsible for the copyright trading market of the Hexi Film Festival.

On the first day of the opening ceremony, the film festival official and Linghe announced together that the game adaptation rights of "Corpse Image" were successfully traded for 2 million USD.

Horror themes always have a market.

Besides that, "Oh My Sea" also announced that a Japanese film company won the remake rights.

Not a live-action movie remake, but to be made into an animated movie. Linked to this, it will also be written by Chinese manga artist Mingniao, adapted into a twelve-episode manga, serialized in one of the three major manga magazines in Japan.

It is worth mentioning that this is a cooperation negotiated by Chen Qin leading the team.

Chen Qin believes that the movie "Oh My Sea" is very Japanese-style hot-blooded, absolutely suitable for Japanese animation adaptation, so he took the initiative to make a plan, went door-to-door to talk, and finally negotiated it.

Although this transaction amount is not large, Xu Tianming specifically took it out as a typical commendation.

"Doing IP, we must figure out a way of thinking. What others come to the door for is that the influence of the IP itself is big enough, which cannot reflect our ability. Our work is to let others see the value of an IP that has not been seen for the time being. 'Oh My Sea' is such a representative."

Lu Yan He agrees with Xu's method.

The transaction amount totaling no more than 1 million RMB seems not worth mentioning for Linghe's copyright derivative business, however, behind it is the market development that may go from 0 to 1. Coupled with the fact that Japanese manga and animated movies themselves are very influential, this IP is very likely to be valued by them, further increasing the copyright value of this IP.

"Linghe is really lucky, at the beginning of its establishment, Sister Ziyan checked it, and then, Sister Ziyan found Xu Tianming and Chen Yin, one outside and one inside, so that Linghe doesn't have to face the problems of large investment, small output, and high risk like traditional film companies at the beginning."

Lu Yan He said to Chen Siqi.

"So, doing management, the most important thing is knowing how to look at people and use people." Chen Siqi said, "Linghe has them, it really makes people envious and jealous."

Lu Yan He: "Are Linyu and Zijun not good enough? I have always been very jealous, my classmates were all dug away by you."

Chen Siqi: "What you and mine, yours is mine, mine is yours."

Lu Yan He: "..."

He feels that he can really be considered a person who is good at speaking, but in front of Chen Siqi, he is often speechless.

Chen Siqi said: "I am planning to tell you one thing."

"Hmm?"

"We are preparing to start another magazine."

"Hmm?"

"Pure literary magazine." Chen Siqi said, "There is a magazine at Jiang Yin Publishing House that is not doing it, a magazine number is vacant, I want to do a pure literary magazine, international."

"International?" Lu Yan He was stunned.

Chen Siqi said: "Currently tentatively scheduled, only two issues published each year, of course, this is because this magazine is clearly losing money, likely to lose money, but I still want to do it, because for this magazine, I want to do an international version, unite seven publishing houses, each issue published in seven languages and sold all over the world. And this magazine, only invites contributions, invites the world's top, first-class writers to publish works."

Lu Yan He understood immediately.

"I support." Lu Yan He nodded.

Chen Siqi has been doing "going to sea" for several years, and it has not been very successful, now it is directly upgraded.

However, if Chen Siqi's idea can really be done, it will definitely be a very iconic milestone.

Because, so far, no literary magazine has been able to do this.

To some extent, literature is priceless, and to some extent, it is cheap.

It is destined to be high-brow and few followers—

In fact, it has never been popularized.

Stories are for the masses, but literature is not.

However, any country or nation cannot bypass it.

In a sense, can it be said to be some kind of source?

If saying so is too much, then at least it can be said, it is some kind of sign?

Chen Siqi wants to do such a magazine, it seems she is no longer satisfied with the success and influence in the commercial field.

The Hexi Film Festival is being held in full swing in Jinkou.

Lu Yan He also took this opportunity to meet many friends and fulfill the duties of a host.

People who came to Yuming last year came to Jinkou this year.

Two different cities, different customs.

It won't make people feel bored. (End of chapter)