Chapter 241

Xiao Gangpao watched Cao Yang talk to that big leader for nearly half an hour, and even many people who came to greet him could see that he was absent-minded.

Actually, it wasn't Xiao Gangpao's fault for being like this.

He also wanted to be the Olympic general director.

In his thought, those qualified to be the Olympic general director in the country were just those few people.

The first one must be Cao Yang, this kid.

It was said that the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee also wanted to designate him as this general director at the beginning.

Helplessly, this kid "didn't know the times," and actually declined!

In this way, if choosing in the country, there were only three or five people left who were qualified.

Excluding again, Old Mouzi should be removed.

The black eight minutes of the Athens closing ceremony, not only were the common people dissatisfied, but the upper level also had a lot of opinions about Old Mouzi; in short, Old Mouzi was scolded miserably.

Under such circumstances, Xiao Gangpao felt that the upper level shouldn't use Old Mouzi anymore, and this one had no threat.

Who else was left?

Xiao Gangpao felt that Chen Kaige counted as one, himself, and at most one or two others who had experience in directing large-scale events, such as Chen Weiya, who once served as the general director of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summer Universiade in 01.

My chance of winning is very high!

Xiao Gangpao became more excited as he thought about it; as long as he could become the Olympic general director, he could wash off the hat of a commercial director in one leap; then when he wanted to win an award for a film, he wouldn't be treated differently by that group of sons of bitches.

Xiao Gangpao urgently wanted to know what the big leader, who was a real power figure even in the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, was looking for Cao Yang for.

As soon as that big leader left, Xiao Gangpao rushed to Cao Yang's side impatiently.

Although there was an actress who was faster than him and wanted to take the opportunity to get to know Cao Yang, who was Xiao Gangpao? When he got crazy, he was still very domineering.

"Cao Dao, I have something I'd like to chat with you about privately."

Xiao Gangpao didn't arrive, but opened his mouth and said, "privately" these few words were bitten very heavily, just to let that actress not be sensible.

That actress who was almost walking to Cao Yang's side was a bit aggrieved, but Xiao Gangpao was not someone she could offend, so she could only stop, smile at Cao Yang, smile at Xiao Gangpao, and leave.

"Old Cao, do you want to be the Olympic general director? Don't misunderstand, I'm not a gossipy person, just curious and ask."

Xiao Gangpao came to Cao Yang's side and asked in a low voice.

This was the key to the problem; Xiao Gangpao didn't know what the big leader talked to Cao Yang about just now, what if it was inviting him to be the Olympic general director again?

If it was really like that, he would die that heart.

"No."

Cao Yang said crisply and neatly; there was no need to explain to Xiao Gangpao why he didn't do it, just give him the answer directly.

Xiao Gangpao's heart couldn't help but be happy.

He pretended to ask casually: "That big leader wasn't inviting you to be the general director again, right?"

Cao Yang looked at Xiao Gangpao thoughtfully; it seemed that he already knew about his previous refusal.

Was this having ideas?

"Well, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee decided to publicly bid for the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, and they wanted to invite me to participate."

"Participate?"

Xiao Gangpao was a bit confused for a moment; didn't you refuse the general director? What does it mean to invite you to participate?

"It's just participating, not running for director, it's participating in the ideas and blueprints of the running directors, providing some opinions to the members of the Organizing Committee, and commenting on the feasibility of the running director's plan..."

Damn!

Xiao Gangpao's defense was broken, his eyes widened, and he couldn't accept it for a moment.

"You joined the Olympic Organizing Committee?"

"Not really? Just a consultant, just providing them with some reference opinions, this is not a secret, maybe my name will be hung on the official website tomorrow... Damn, why are you staring at me with such big eyes?"

Xiao Gangpao gave a start, reacted, and put his arm around Cao Yang's shoulder, "Little brother, this shitty film festival has been going on until now, and haven't had time to eat anything, right? I know a place, a private restaurant passed down from an old brand, let's go eat something together?"

"Heh, Gangzi, don't do these useless things, I heard you scolded me behind my back quite a bit." Cao Yang joked.

"Hey, little brother, you can't wrong me, I have always admired you very much.

You have achieved such great achievements at such a young age, having awards when there are awards, and box office when there is box office, I am convinced. I have always told people that Cao Yang is the pride of our Chinese nation and the model for all directors..."

"Fine fine, don't be poor."

Cao Yang hurriedly stopped Little Cannon's flattery, thought for a moment and said directly: "Gangzi, I know what you mean, but there is a sentence that I'm afraid you won't like to hear, forget it, I won't say it."

Xiao Gangpao's heart skipped a beat, and he had a bad premonition.

He swallowed his saliva, pretended to be calm and said: "The relationship between us brothers, what like or not like to hear, you saying it is also for brother's good, you say, just say, brother accepts this favor."

"As everyone knows, in the eyes of the public, you are a commercial film director, to put it bluntly, all the films you filmed are for the purpose of making money..."

Cao Yang looked at Xiao Gangpao who fell into deep thought, and continued:

"The Olympic Games are a large-scale public welfare activity, a sports competition event, at least on the surface it is like this. We host the Olympics, one is to enhance national self-confidence, two is to display traditional culture and promote cultural exchange, three is to enhance international image..."

"Stop, Old Cao, you don't need to tell me these, I have already understood what you mean."

Xiao Gangpao frowned and broke his defense again.

He said somewhat depressedly: "In other words, the above won't let a commercial film director like me who drilled into the 'money' eye be the general director, right?"

After speaking, he self-deprecatingly smiled, "Who told me to be a commercial film director?"

"Gangzi, the private restaurant you mentioned just now? Go go, what private restaurant, do you want to go to a street stall?" Little Cannon turned his face ruthlessly and said with big teeth.

"You are the one who is a dog!"

Finally, Xiao Gangpao still took Cao Yang, called Li Xiaoran and Shou Bing, and went to the private restaurant together.

Cao Yang originally wanted to bring Gao Yuanyuan, but was afraid that she would fight with Li Xiaoran.

Simply told Gao Yuanyuan that he had something to discuss with Xiao Gangpao, and let her go back and wash clean to wait for him at night, to celebrate her winning the Most Popular Actress among College Students award.

Cao Yang could feel that Xiao Gangpao sincerely wanted to invite Li Xiaoran to play the female lead, so he created this opportunity to talk privately.

If Xiao Gangpao could move Li Xiaoran, then go act; if he couldn't move her, then there was no way, he could be considered to have helped him.

After eating this meal, Xiao Gangpao was clearly not in high spirits, but he still told Li Xiaoran his thoughts and expectations for the film, bragging very loudly, saying he wanted to combine "Thunderstorm" to create the Chinese people's own Hamlet.

Li Xiaoran didn't express her stance, only said she would consider it seriously.

Shou Bing, who was trying to find a sense of existence on the side, listened and was moved.

!

Helplessly, Xiao Gangpao didn't have the intention of inviting her at all; the reason he called her to come together was probably because Cao Yang brought Li Xiaoran, and he couldn't come alone, right?

After eating and dispersing, Cao Yang took Li Xiaoran back, sat for a while, and talked about Xiao Gangpao's film "The Banquet."

Cao Yang told her that the word-of-mouth of this film might not be too good, but it could add another film with box office exceeding 100 million under her name, and because everyone she cooperated with was a great director, it could also consolidate her status in the film and television circle.

Just like her endorsement fee might not be as good as Gao Yuanyuan's now, but her film salary quote was higher than Gao Yuanyuan's.

After chatting for a while, Cao Yang left.

Li Xiaoran thought Cao Yang was going back to the crew, so she didn't ask much and kissed goodbye reluctantly.

The house Gao Yuanyuan bought was on the Third Ring Road, not far from Li Xiaoran's place.

Saying celebration, of course, it had to be celebrated well.

As soon as Cao Yang entered the door, she jumped onto Cao Yang like before.

Don't look at how she was a literary youth outside, sensitive, soft and cute, looking gentle and polite, but she often showed a wild side in front of Cao Yang, and liked to jump onto Cao Yang when alone.

Of course, she wasn't so polite and gentle in front of Li Xiaoran either.

However, don't look at how wild she was in front of Cao Yang, sometimes she liked to jump onto Cao Yang without clothes, but her combat power was really a bit weak.

Her humming and acting like a spoiled child matched with this pure school flower face, making people's psychological satisfaction explode.

Especially when she was full of energy and invincible at the beginning, and soon she weakly shouted:

"Cao Yang, I can't do it anymore..."

The next day, Cao Yang returned to the crew and continued filming.

Besides requiring very high details, "Black Swan" had nothing complicated in terms of plot or scenes.

Coupled with the fact that several important characters all added immersion experiences, it was really fast to film.

As an "old" actor, Pan Hong had filmed many films, and cooperated with many directors, even belonging to the third, fourth, and fifth generation directors, but had never been so "smooth."

It was just smooth.

Sometimes she even felt like it was playing, making her defense break a bit in her heart.

Especially the scenes between Dong Xuan and her.

Because the two played mother and daughter, there were many scenes.

Pan Hong sometimes felt that she hadn't prepared much; as long as the two stood in front of the camera and shouted start, they started performing like instinct, and didn't know what was going on, then they shouted cut.

It wasn't that they shouted cut because they acted badly, but almost every time she heard, "Very good, keep one more..."

"Keep one more..."

Sometimes thinking about it, Pan Hong wanted to laugh; she really wanted to say: "Director, are you serious? Only filmed one, why keep one more? Don't film a few more times? Don't try other performance methods? Don't..."

"Don't!"

Pan Hong gave the answer herself.

She also had a feeling herself; perhaps there really wasn't a better performance method than just now.

She had never experienced such a thing herself; from the first time she started filming in '76 until now, it had been almost thirty years, and she had never felt so relaxed.

It was really like playing, playing and filming the film well.

Very magical.

After she finished filming, sometimes she would think, why was this?

Was it just because of that month of explaining the scenes?

But there were many directors before who would do script reading before filming, everyone could express their opinions, and explaining the scenes with the director was almost the same, just not so detailed and deep.

Combining her own situation, she had a vague guess.

That was, Cao Dao was born with a kind of infectious power, able to make you listen to your heart when explaining the scenes, able to understand his thoughts, able to "drill" into the script, and feel the joys and sorrows of the characters in the script!

(End of this chapter)