All-rounder Artist

Chapter 189: Chapter 177 Flirting Scholar_1

Translator: 549690339

“Here, for you.”

“What is it?”

“There’s egg yolk inside.”

After Lin Yuan returned to the Qin Continent, he gave Lin Yao an egg yolk coated with sugar.

Despite the fact that it was a gift he was passing along, it was enough to placate his sister’s grievances.

With Lin Yuan’s return, Lin Xuan also moved into the newly renovated villa with Lin Yuan and Lin Yao!

The villa supposedly had three floors, but with the basement, it actually had four.

On their first night in the villa, Lin Xuan couldn’t hide her excitement – taking pictures and posting them on her social media platform.

Lin Yao was looking for a suitable study room.

She was on vacation now and planned to live here during the next semester, probably related to Lin Yuan’s return to Qin Art School.

Lin Yuan didn’t feel much of a difference.

He stayed in a bedroom on the third floor, the layout of the room was similar to his previous place, equipped with a computer.

At that moment.

Lin Yuan was sitting in front of the computer, checking on the progress of Blue Star Films.

Blue Star Films benchmark was set by the Qi Continent…

Now known as Qi Province.

In terms of special effects technologies alone, Qi Province’s film industry was more formidable than Hollywood on Earth and its special effects effects could fool the naked eye.

Perhaps it was because the technology was overly advanced.

Blue Star Films seemed to rely heavily on special effects technology, resulting in somewhat weaker plots.

But the weak plot is only relatively speaking.

When compared with Earth, Blue Star’s film industry was undoubtedly more advanced!

This was similar to how Blue Star completely outclassed Earth in terms of overall music level.

Moreover, the film system of Blue Star was similar to South Korea on Earth-

Screenwriters had tremendous power in the film crew!

The actors dared not throw their weight around in front of the screenwriters.

If an actor was on bad terms with a screenwriter, their character might become marginalized in the storyline, or even written out of the script entirely.

The director could not arbitrarily modify the screenwriter’s script.

And it would be greatly disrespectful for actors to modify their lines.

Some investors would even consider investing based on who the screenwriters are, while the top-tier screenwriters could even select their own director and actors.

Anyway, the more Lin Yuan understood the situation, the more he felt this model resembled South Korea’s on Earth.

There was an anonymous interview online that was very representative of the situation, which at first might seem like a joke, but actually depicted a real situation:

“A screenwriter friend of mine wrote a script for a period drama. At the time, they were filming while airing the episodes. A third-tier actress who had a good relationship with the director caused much trouble for the rest of the crew. Later, she disobeyed the assistant director and offended my friend. Then my friend told the investors, ‘Either she goes, or I go.’ Unexpectedly, the investors took a bigger loss, and the director couldn’t protect her. My friend immediately wrote her character’s death in the script the next week, and she suffered numerous hardships: escaping in the pouring rain, encountering robbers, falling into a mud pit, experiencing physical violence, and in the end, she committed suicide by jumping off a cliff…”

From this, we can tell the elevated status of screenwriters.

However, no matter how high the status of a screenwriter in Blue Star, they could not possibly be the sole focus of a film crew.

More often, it was a dual-core system.

Meaning, both director and screenwriter held equal power.

Top-tier screenwriters certainly had tremendous power, but so did equally capable directors.

Therefore.

Instead of saying that in Blue Star screenwriters held the highest rank, it would be more accurate to say, screenwriters and directors in Blue Star were basically on par with each other.

To delve into who held greater power, it came down to their capabilities and experience.

This was somewhat similar to Hollywood.

There was an old joke that painted a vivid picture:

South Korea was the realm of screenwriters!

Hollywood was led by directors!

The Celestial Dynasty was unique with its “star”-centered system!

Blue Star was not short of stars, but screenwriters and directors stood as equals, leaving stars on the next tier.

Just like the music circle.

The status of songwriters was often higher than singers.

It’s just that while singers only had songwriters above them, stars had both directors and screenwriters to answer to.

No wonder the System wanted Lin Yuan to enter the film circle as a screenplay writer.

This position had a very high ceiling.

After getting a rough understanding of the situation, a notification sound from the System finally resonated in Lin Yuan’s ears: “The host who returned to the Qin Continent is well-prepared. Now bestowing the Silver Treasure Chest, it contains a randomized script. Would you like to open it?”

Without any hesitation, Lin Yuan responded: “Open.”

The new treasure chest opened directly: “Congratulations to the host for receiving the script of ‘Flirting Scholar’.”

Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment.

Then, Lin Yuan’s first reaction was:

The System is again making him play the game of niche creation.

Because ‘Flirting Scholar’ was a typical nonsensical film!

Worth mentioning is that Blue Star wasn’t without nonsensical films, but they were extremely rare.

Because this genre was, indeed, niche!

Yes, it’s niche again!

The System seemed to extremely enjoy making Lin Yuan swim against the current market trend. So-called ‘random scripts’ were only randomly picked on the surface.

But the nonsensical genre being niche in Blue Star was actually quite normal.

In this world, there was no Star Grandpa (Zhou Xingchi) or Jim Carry, who was representative of nonsensical films. Without someone pioneering this area, the market was inevitably limited.

However, after a bit more thought, Lin Yuan felt the situation was not too bad.

Because, no matter how niche nonsensical films were, they couldn’t possibly be more niche than the sports competition novels he previously forcefully wrote in the novel world.

As for the real-life figure of Tang Bohu…

Of course, Blue Star didn’t have a real-life figure of Tang Bohu.

As times have changed, many people’s fates have also changed as a result.

Anyway, according to Lin Yuan’s knowledge of Blue Star’s history, most scholars and literati from the previous world didn’t exist in this one. Only a few top-notch talents like Li Bai were still stubbornly signifying their historical presence.

However, the content of their works were somewhat different.

After all, things like creativity would change with a person’s experiences and the different times they lived in.

Lin Yuan just thought…

Whether or not the audience knew who Tang Bohu was, it wouldn’t affect their viewing experience.

As for the era it was set in, it could be explained as a fictitious universe.

He didn’t even need to make any modifications to the plot.

The original version was undoubtedly a classic.

Considering this film’s setting, Lin Yuan didn’t think the investment would be too high either.

After all.

When Lin Yuan, a composer, suddenly wanted to make films, even if Starlight reluctantly agreed, they would definitely not allocate too much funding.

This simple judgment ability was something Lin Yuan possessed.

Additionally-

Restoring the charm of ‘Flirting Scholar’ in a world without Star Grandpa was practically an impossible task.

Why were Star Grandpa’s nonsensical films so popular?

It wasn’t because the nonsensical genre was so popular – the genre had its limitations. The key was actually Star Grandpa himself – he brought nonsensical acting to an unparalleled level!

Put another way.

If Star Grandpa’s blockbuster films were not acted by him, both the classic­ness and watchability would be greatly reduced!

Perhaps due to these reasons, the System arranged for some auxiliary props.

With these props, Lin Yuan could try shooting ‘Flirting Scholar’.

ps: I try not to touch on the movies I’ve written about before, as authors also need to keep things fresh. That’s why I’m not going to write about ‘Crazy Stone¹ again. Thankfully, the number of Hong Kong movies I’ve written about is not many, so I can pick some which I personally think are classics to write about.