Chapter 248: You Are Desecrating the Director

Cheng Nuo, director and screenwriter of the suspense drama "Lost Sin".

Just five minutes ago, he received a WeChat message from a friend, telling him about the content regarding "Celestial Sword 5".

Cheng Nuo looked at this content, and his whole person was stunned.

After being dazed for a full few seconds, his thoughts were the same as many in the industry—are they crazy?

Looking at the main creative team, the only reliable one is 【Producer: Guan Fei】.

In terms of film and television, Cheng Nuo can be considered a first-rate director, but from a comprehensive perspective, he is still a cut below Guan Fei.

The root cause is that Guan Fei created a Best Actor many years ago, and in recent years, he created the Best Actress Xu Chujing; he is the object of many actors' sycophancy, and his status in the circle is higher.

A director with strong star-making ability and the ability to promote people is definitely more popular in the industry.

If you, as a director, aren't from our company, what does it have to do with us if you win a Best Director Award yourself?

But if a Best Actor and Best Actress appear because of you, then the commercial value and status soar, and the money comes pouring in!

Moreover, Guan Fei's talent is famous in the circle, so for Cheng Nuo, Guan Fei is a rival to be feared. He asked himself, he would not dare to clash schedules with a TV series directed by Guan Fei.

"But, Luo Mo serving as director and screenwriter, what the hell is this?" Cheng Nuo felt this was the root of the madness.

Luo Mo being the male lead, that is as normal as it gets.

"Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan, judging by the name, is a Xianxia drama," Cheng Nuo thought.

In recent years, many people in the market are unwilling to call dramas Xianxia dramas, instead naming them Xian-idol dramas, meaning 【Immortal Idol Dramas】.

The Xianxia genre is certainly not worthy of these immortals who only know how to fall in love and can sacrifice the beings of the Three Realms for the sake of love.

"Luo Mo's ancient costume appearance in 'Cat Demon' was stunning, and his styling when he sang 'Serving the Country with Loyalty' also made it to the Hot Search."

"On the internet, some people even said after seeing his ancient costume appearance: Ancient costumes are saved!"

"His current crossover into the film and television industry is a natural progression, and he comes with his own advantages."

"The audience's expectations have long been raised; if not crossing over now, when?"

"As long as the company isn't stupid, they will make this choice."

Starting from a director's perspective, Cheng Nuo clearly knew that an artist like Luo Mo, who has solid acting skills, is handsome, has a good reputation, and comes with top-tier traffic, is absolutely a hot commodity.

It can be said that a drama with Luo Mo as the male lead doesn't even lack investment.

There will be a group of people bringing money, lining up, wanting to join in and get a piece of the pie.

"But, by what right is he a director?" This is what Cheng Nuo felt was the most ridiculous part.

Luo Mo being a screenwriter himself, he could barely understand.

After all, "That Rabbit" was too explosive, and the reputation was too good. Although it was an animation, he had heard of it to some extent and even watched a few episodes.

Luo Mo has the foundation to be a screenwriter; this is obvious.

Although... from "That Rabbit" to "Celestial Sword 5", this category jump is also ridiculous.

However, to be a director, is he even worthy?

Under normal circumstances, the director is the true king of a film crew!

A newcomer actor like Luo Mo, diving headfirst into the film and television industry, the first thing he should do is obediently accept the training from us excellent directors.

You aren't professionally trained, you have no acting experience, at most you've sung for a few years and been a stage performer on the theater stage; do you know how to film?

Do you know how to find camera angles?

Do you know how to use forced perspective?

Do you know how to control facial expressions?

Do you know how a film crew operates?

In Cheng Nuo's view, Luo Mo is just a little novice, likely knowing nothing; it's a stretch for him to even be the lead, and he still needs the director to teach him many things, yet he wants to control the entire film crew himself?

What is this? Are you kidding me!?

He even felt this behavior was an offense to them, the excellent directors.

"This market is truly ridiculous now; it's one thing that anyone can be an actor, but now any bird-brained person dares to be a director?" Cheng Nuo thought.

He now felt the only possibility was that Guan Fei, who is acting as producer, is actually the real director.

There is probably some shady deal behind the scenes that led to Luo Mo's name being hung in the director column.

"Just how much benefit was received to be able to do such a shameless thing with no dignity?" Thinking of this, Cheng Nuo even started looking down on Guan Fei, whom he had feared immensely before.

If it were him, he wouldn't be willing to do such a thing.

Even if ten million were placed in front of him, it would be absolutely impossible!

What made him most indignant was that his own "Lost Sin" had been quite popular recently, with a trend of becoming a hit before filming.

After all, Song Ke has had good popularity during this period, and Pineapple TV also attaches great importance to this self-made web drama.

At the same time, "selling gay subtext" is the traffic code, you know!

Ordinary viewers don't like to post, so the popularity on the internet cannot be sustained.

Those viewers who love to watch boys' love adaptations love to post, and then, people who don't like it love to come and scold, so all kinds of data are easily propped up.

Cheng Nuo's current plan is to strive for Song Ge to win next year's 【Best Actor】.

The web drama "Lost Sin" is just the beginning; they signed a contract for two dramas in one go, and will film another TV series next.

In this way, he felt he could at least be on equal footing with Guan Fei.

In his view, Song Ge winning Best Actor is taking advantage of the situation and having his own strengths.

No way around it, he has won a Best Actor award abroad.

Although this award is a bit watered down, it is still the crown of Best Actor after all.

Movies are inherently a level higher than TV series; for a Best Actor to win a Best Actor (TV) award, the difficulty coefficient drops a lot, and various awards will naturally tilt in his favor.

Moreover, although this person Song Ge is strange and is a complete immersion-style Experience School actor who falls in love with someone every time he acts in a drama, his acting skills are still solid.

What's more, his father is the vice president of the association!

But once the news about *Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan* was thrown out, who the hell is still paying attention to your *Lost Crime*?

You say your boys' love drama is explosive, and that a Best Actor condescending to act in a drama is explosive?

Can you be more explosive than a generation's Top Traffic just stepping into the film and television industry, and then writing, directing, and starring in it himself?

Not only is he acting in the period costume drama everyone is looking forward to, but it's also Xianxia, which carries high risk but allows one to seek wealth through danger!

Everyone still has fresh memories of the sword Dancing on the stage of *Loyal Patriot*, and thinks it was simply incredibly cool!

The main thing is, everyone had already gotten used to seeing lines and lines of text filled with Luo Mo's name before.

The format was:

Lyricist Luo Mo, Composer Luo Mo, Arranger Luo Mo………

Good heavens, this guy directly moved this whole routine from the music scene to the film and television industry.

Regardless of the final result, the gimmick is too strong.

Netizens discussed it heatedly one after another.

"I'm completely attracted by him!"

"Speaking of which, are there few miracles he has created?"

"Why worry about so much, just being handsome is enough!"

"Yeah, we can discuss how the drama is later, at least it can save the industry's aesthetics and establish a standard for handsome men in period costumes!"

"Ox, starting out as a director right away. Having your own studio is Ox; if he were signed to a company, no company would likely do this."

"*That Rabbit* Season 2, Luo Mo is also one of the directors; although I don't understand the difference between anime and TV dramas, my curiosity has been piqued anyway."

"I haven't seen any news about a film or television drama more explosive than this all year!"

Some entries about *Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan* instantly climbed into the top ten of the Hot Search list, with a strong trend of reaching the number one spot.

This made Cheng Nuo realize that part of the early promotion plan for his *Lost Crime* also seemed to need changing.

The previous strategy of constantly trying to latch onto Luo Mo for clout won't work now.

Unless—he latches onto something even bigger!

"But this has to be discussed properly with Pineapple TV; after all, this is a Self-made Web Drama of Pineapple TV, and the power of speech lies with them," Cheng Nuo thought to himself.

………

………

Cheng Nuo's series of thoughts and reactions were not an isolated case in the industry.

Some small directors and screenwriters looking for attention even jumped out that very night on major social media platforms to curse.

Many people directly blew things out of proportion, even saying that Luo Mo's behavior was disrespectful to the directing profession and the film and television industry, and that everyone should unite to boycott him.

"You're a Newcomer who hasn't even debuted for half a year; it's one thing to reign supreme in the music scene, but you're coming to the film and television industry to stir up trouble?"

"If you want to cross over, that's fine, but at least show some humility. With your traffic and popularity, there are naturally plenty of great directors to coach you. What do you mean by being the director yourself and managing the crew?"

"I really laughed; you haven't even officially become an Actor yet, having only made a cameo in one movie. Do you even understand acting, and you're already starting to be a director?"

"This guy doesn't think directing a drama is the same thing as their theater troupe rehearsing a play, does he?"

"Do you even know what positions and divisions of labor there are in a crew now, Director Luo!"

"I feel like having him direct a drama would be worse than letting a stagehand direct it."

"I, Director Meng Dong, officially boycott Luo Mo!"

A whole bunch of monsters and demons emerged, the matter became more and more chaotic, and there were more and more onlookers.

And the result of this was…….. *Lost Crime*, which wanted to be popular before filming, was now ignored by everyone.

*Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan*, which had just thrown out the news, directly formed a large-scale bombardment!

Overnight, countless people remembered this name—*Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan*.

Overnight, countless people knew this news—Luo Mo was going to write, direct, and star in it himself.

In the end, even Qian Qingyun, one of the most powerful and prestigious directors in the film circle, couldn't help but call Luo Mo to show concern about this matter.

Before the call ended, this great director who appreciated Luo Mo very much said: "If you need anything, just tell me."

"Alright." Luo Mo said a few words of thanks.

But his friendship with Qian Qingyun was not deep, unlike his relationship with Xu Chujing, which was already a deep friendship.

If he asked Qian Qingyun for help, the favor owed would have to be repaid.

Asking Xu Chujing for help…….. sigh, why talk about two families when we are one!

In fact, just as the various storms on the internet were intensifying, Xu Chujing, this Best Actress in the industry, specially posted a Weibo for Luo Mo and *Celestial Sword 5 Qixia Zhuan*.

(ps: Second update, asking for monthly tickets!)

(End of this chapter)