A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 421: Professional matters should be left to professionals

As Chen Jinnian expected, Uncle Da was too weak, and this non-breathable space suit weighing thirty or forty kilograms was simply beyond his ability to bear.

Uncle Da's bad living habits in his youth and excessive workload during the Hong Kong film era resulted in poor health for many years. A viral infection in his heart also caused him to lose a large part of his athletic ability.

He could only hold his chest and rest with the help of staff, and relieve the pain by breathing oxygen.

Zhao Jinmai was also sweating profusely, with her wet hair stuck to her scalp, looking completely exhausted as if she had just finished a long-distance run.

"No, the space suit needs to be readjusted. Not to mention performing in it, even staying alive will be a problem," said Chen Jinnian.

Everyone in the props group looked embarrassed. The crew was short of money, and many of the props were used according to grades. The best and most sophisticated printed props were reserved for close-ups and close-ups, while the second-rate and problematic props were reserved for long shots and backgrounds.

There is simply not enough money to make a new space suit now.

"Let's think of another way." The person in charge said embarrassedly.

"What can you do? You're just making props. It's already great that you can finalize the shape and design."

Chen Jinnian shook his head. Although the little broken ball was the beginning of promoting the industrialization of the domestic film industry, it was actually just a prototype and a framework. It had stepped on all the necessary pitfalls, otherwise Guo Xing wouldn't have been so anxious that he couldn't sleep.

Now the team has only a thousand people, and it may reach two thousand people after the full operation starts. It is simply beyond the ability of Guo Xun or any other director to dispatch them. There are only a handful of outstanding commanders and fighters at the corps level during the revolutionary era.

It is simply unrealistic to expect people like Chen Jinnian and Guo Xun, who have received an ordinary education system and have never been exposed to large-scale workshop management or military experience, to manage the company.

After all, for ordinary people with better skills, the highest management limit is only at the level of a hundred people. To manage a thousand people, you basically have to rely on talent and systems, and to manage tens of thousands of people, you have to rely on time, and it may take several years or even decades to produce one.

As for the ability to command hundreds of thousands of people, there has only been one person in history, Han Xin, who was able to mobilize troops as easily as his own arm without the aid of modern communications.

Not to mention the big issues, just the small matter of providing lunch at noon has made the director team of Little Ball rack their brains. If they had provided it like an ordinary crew, they would be busy all day just ordering and distributing lunch boxes. How could they even shoot the movie?

"Then let's..."

"I'll find a solution. You guys go and do other work first." Chen Jinnian said after taking off his space suit.

The props team and the art team are responsible for the restoration of costumes and props, but everyone has their own expertise, and their understanding of space suits is not as good as that of aerospace enthusiasts.

Qiao Yingzi is a fan of aerospace and a student at Beihang University's School of Aeronautical Engineering, a major that suits her.

Asking her to contact some senior students for help is better than having the crew work in isolation.

Chen Jinnian still insists on his original idea that the industrialization of the film industry definitely does not rely on burning money and a bunch of art students who can't even pass their high school exams.

The realization of high-tech concepts still depends on a team of highly qualified engineers.

"Hey, this is not your crew. It's not good for you to give orders." Wang Yidi reminded.

"If Guo Xing can create a shadow clone, I don't care. Do you think it's a good thing?" Chen Jinnian said with a roll of his eyes.

Normal actors act for pay.

Ambitious actors take a pay cut to act.

He is the only one who pays for acting, but he is not the type to take the initiative to bring money into the crew.

After Uncle Da and the staff went out to rest, Chen Jinnian waved to Zhao Jinmai and said, "Let's go and have some fun first. We finally made it here, and the beer festival is about to start. We should at least drink some beer and see the golden beach."

"Forget it, I can't afford the prawns and clams here. They cost 38 each. I'd better go back to Dalian to eat them." Zhao Jinmai said with a smile. She would never forget what happened just during the National Day two years ago.

"This is Brother Bo's territory, and you can even pay. Let's go now."

Chen Jinnian smiled and said that he had received a call from Huang Bo on the way here, and he specially invited them to visit.

Although Brother Bo was down and out in his early years, Huang Bo's family conditions were actually quite good. Both his parents were civil servants within the system, and his father was a department-level leading cadre in the agency.

In Shandong, this person was definitely born with a golden rice bowl. To be frank, even if Brother Bo failed to make it in the entertainment industry, he could still crush 95% of ordinary people when he returned to Qingdao.

Huang Bo's situation is also a microcosm of the entertainment industry. Most of those who are engaged in the arts are second-generation people who are not good at studying but have no worries about food and clothing. There is only one Baoqiang who is purely grassroots.

This is also the reason why Baoqiang has opposite evaluations among people in the circle and the audience. People in the circle hate him, but people outside the circle like him.

Baoqiang's only real good friend in the industry is Chen Sicheng, and he is only in a cooperative relationship with others. Many people look down on Baoqiang because he comes from a humble background.

The reason why last year's divorce caused such a big stir was that there were many people behind the scenes fanning the flames, waiting to see Baoqiang make a fool of himself. So when all his properties were frozen by the court, except for Chen Sicheng who came forward to help, everyone else just stood by and watched, saying some indifferent words.

Zhao Jinmai saw Chen Jinnian and Wang Yidi walking out, so she quickly chased after them and asked excitedly, "Brother Bo? Brother, are you talking about Teacher Huang Bo?"

"of course."

"Ah!" Zhao Jinmai jumped up excitedly, "Oh my God, why is Teacher Huang here?"

"Because he has a new movie to start filming, and it's on the set next to ours."

Ning Hao built a space-themed studio in the Lingshan Bay Film and Television Cultural Industry Zone, next to the small broken ball studio. This was considered as a disguised support from his elder brother to Guo Xing.

After he finishes filming, the remaining Guo Xing can be used, which can save a considerable amount of production costs.

Moreover, Little Big Balls started filming at the end of June, and Crazy Alien started filming at the beginning of July. The relationship between the two crews can be said to be intricately linked.

The three of them came out of the scene, got into the car of Wang Yidi who was waiting outside, and headed straight for their destination.

The place Huang Bo chose was not a luxurious or high-end hotel, but a roadside restaurant with a very down-to-earth atmosphere, in a small private room on the second floor.

Chen Jinnian saw Huang Bo, Shen Teng and Xu Zheng playing cards. There were some unfamiliar men and women sitting in other seats. They seemed to be staff members of the artist team, such as agents, publicists and assistants.

When Shen Teng saw someone coming in, he was overjoyed and threw the cards in his hand into the pile. "Stop playing, stop playing. Didn't you see that there are guests coming?"

"Hey, how can you, the landlord, cheat me? I haven't dropped all my plane bombs yet." Xu Zheng said with some dissatisfaction. He was so unlucky today and lost every time. He finally waited for his luck to turn around, but ended up being cheated by Shen Teng.

Huang Bo picked up the discarded cards and took a look. He couldn't help but say, "Aren't you trying to make trouble? You're calling yourself the landlord with these lousy cards."

"I was just shouting for fun, who knew that neither of you wanted it." After Shen Teng said that, he took the initiative to walk up to them and say hello.