“Excuse me for a moment, please.” Director Zhang became more and more serious. After looking around, he pointed at a corner of the room and said, “Brother, go over and have a drink. Let’s talk alone.”

Director Zhang has been traveling in Vanity Fair for so many years and knows the tricks. It’s good for a big patron to invest, but if there’s an investment and the patron doesn’t ask about your filming process, then it’s really good. That way, he would be able to use his filming ideas flexibly. This was a rare and unsolicited patron.

The two of them sat in separate seats.

“Do you really vote?” Director Zhang asked seriously again.

“Director Zhang, do you think I can’t afford it?” Gaoleng asked.

“No, that’s not what I meant.” Director Zhang smiled awkwardly. Deep down in his heart, he really didn’t feel that Gaoleng couldn’t afford it. Instead, he felt that with his financial strength, he would be able to play art movies.

“Do you think it’s a bit unreliable for me to play art movies with my financial strength?” Gaoleng asked again.

Director Zhang smiled even more awkwardly.

“I told you to invest in this art film, so I will definitely invest in it. After you draw up the contract, I can sign it immediately and the money will arrive at the end of the year.” Gaoleng stretched out his hand and said, “Let’s see if Director Zhang is willing to cooperate.”

Gaoleng said confidently. He was someone with a lot of authority and face. Of course, he couldn’t cheat Director Zhang. How would he get along in the future if he cheated Director Zhang?

“Of course I am, of course I am.” Director Zhang hurriedly reached out to hold Gaoleng’s hand and said, “Great, I just want to make this movie. President Gao’s two hundred million yuan entry is a big investment, and you don’t have a role to play yet. That’s great.”

The director was most annoyed by the fact that he had brought the talent to ask for a role change. It was fine to change to someone with acting skills. He was most afraid that the kind of girl who was the patron would only have one face and chest if she didn’t have acting skills. Gaoleng is perfect, especially for literary movies, where the less intervention the better.

“Director Zhang, Broadcasting and Television still requires you to make a commercial film before you can make a literary film, right?” Gaoleng asked.

Although radio and television didn’t actually interfere with the director’s filming, making any kind of scenes was voluntary, when you really reached the top of the pyramid, you were extremely familiar with those people from radio and television. Your films had to be reviewed and distributed by them, and the radio and television leaders still had to listen to what they said.

They want to make more anti-Japanese movies this year, so the top big-screen directors and TV drama directors will make more anti-Japanese movies. This is not to please the bureaucrats, but to adapt to the market. Radio and Television pointed out that if you make more movies this year, you will be given preferential treatment in terms of policy, whether it is on TV or in cinemas.

This privilege is something that money can’t buy.

The government nodded. No matter what, the cinema had to film at least two rooms, and the major TV stations had to follow suit.

Of course, when you are still a newbie director or an unknown mixed-brand director, the leaders of radio and television will not interfere with your filming.

“Yes, that’s what I said.” Director Zhang smelled something when he heard Gaoleng’s words. He raised his glass of wine and said, “If President Gao is interested in commercial movies, I will cooperate with you. If you spend money on my literary movies at a loss, I will give you a pile of trash pieces of fresh meat. Don’t worry, the box office will definitely be a bargain, earning 200 million easily.” “The box office is high, so it’s easy to explain to those people from Radio and TV.”

“Trash, the audience will curse you.”

“Scold me, there’s nothing you can do. Didn’t you invest in art movies at a loss just for cooperating with me in commercial movies?” Director Zhang was naturally extremely smart. There was no such thing as a free lunch in the sky, and naturally there was no such thing as a free investment.

The old brothers who cast art movies for him would definitely shoot commercial movies after casting art movies. Otherwise, how could they just lose money?

Unexpectedly, Gaoleng shook his head and said, “If you want to make a commercial film, just look for Su Su.”

Director Zhang was completely confused. He thought that Gaoleng was definitely shooting commercial movies for him. Anyway, if he lost 200 million yuan on literary movies, then he would lose. Commercial movies were just earned back, but he actually didn’t?

Director Zhang looked at Gaoleng doubtfully, waiting for Gaoleng to continue.

“I think if you want to make it easier for art films to pass the censorship, you should make movies that radio and television people like to watch. When the new official takes office, you can only make commercial movies with a box office result. You should make a lot of box office contributions,” he said.

Director Zhang nodded.

“If you don’t do well in this commercial film and you don’t win honor for the leaders of Radio and TV, what if you still want to make a sensitive film?” Gaoleng asked.

Director Zhang’s expression changed. The moment the new leader took office, if he didn’t contribute to the box office results, it would be embarrassing to meet him in the future, and it would be even more difficult to review the literary films.

Director Zhang frowned, “At most, I’ll shoot two or three New Year movies next year. If two or three of them pile up so well, then my literary film will probably be easy to pass the examination. At least give me some face!”

This was true. A few commercial movies added up to a good box office. The people in the box office world wanted to make a literary movie. As long as it wasn’t too much, it would definitely be given to him. Besides, Director Zhang’s New Year movie was both popular and popular. Literary movies take a lot of brains. People who watch this movie have to have some background, but these days, there are too few people who like this movie. They will watch a silly New Year movie in the coming year. Hello, I’m good. It’s good for everyone to be silly together.

“Are you sure you don’t want to cooperate with me in commercial movies?” Director Zhang asked.

“This kind of New Year movies, commercial movies, even if you shoot a hundred of them, that’s all. I don’t want to cooperate.” Gaoleng shook his head decisively, “But I want to work with you to bring some political film.”

“Politics?” Hearing that, Director Zhang’s eyes popped out, “Playing politics? You have plenty of guts!”

Gaoleng whispered in Director Zhang’s ear, his eyes shining with sharpness like a wolf. He raised his eyebrows and looked at Director Zhang, “How about this? My idea is good. Making this movie is better than making ten commercial movies.”

Director Zhang looked at Gaoleng blankly, “This investment is too big. I say Xiaogao, no, I say President Gao, you should at least invest this amount.”

Director Zhang stretched out ten fingers and said, “At the very least, this number is likely to exceed.”

“Right, let go. There’s no need to worry about money. I’ll put the entire Starlight Group on the table. All the assets in my hands will be on the table.” Gaoleng took an empty cup and placed it on the table. This was the second time Gaoleng had put all his money on the line.

The first was Huang Cong’s birthday banquet. In order to obtain the exclusive right to report, he put down all his savings, real estate, and hundreds of thousands of yuan from Xiaoleng as a guarantee deposit. This time, he bet on the entire Starlight Group that was about to be established, thinking that he had all the shares in the land of Hook Village.

Dense beads of sweat appeared on Director Zhang’s forehead. It was not that he had never seen a large-scale production with an investment of one billion yuan, but the patron of such a large-scale production was usually someone with a fortune of 10 billion yuan. This was the first time he had seen a patron who had put all his wealth on the table.

Director Zhang took a deep breath and lit up a cigarette. He took a deep breath and looked at Gaoleng carefully again. Then, he asked, “President Gao, are you sure?”

Hahaha, Gao sneered and patted Director Zhang’s shoulder, “As long as you take it, I will dare to throw.”