Chapter 153 Let me play the tree demon grandma, grandma!

It was already late when I walked out of the studio.

Xu Ke waved and called his car, then turned to Shen Hao and said, "Senior Shen, thank you for tonight!"

Shen Hao patted Xu Ke's hand and said, "Why thank you? I just said what I wanted to say!"

Xu Ke smiled and said, "Director Shen, I'll treat Shen Lang to a drink tonight, would you like to join us?"

Shen Hao knew that the other person was being polite. How could he, at his age, go drinking with a "young man"? So he smiled and said, "Thank you, Director Xu. I'm old now, so I'd better go back and rest!"

Xu Ke also knew how to behave. He took a bottle of wine wrapped in paper from the trunk and said to Shen Hao, "If you don't want to drink, you can take this bottle of Romanee-Conti back home!"

The two pushed and shoved for a while, and finally Shen Hao got into Xu Ke's car and was taken away by the driver.

After Shen Hao left, Xu Ke seemed to be prepared. He waved again, and another waiting car drove over.

After getting in the car, Shen Lang patted the back seat and said to Xu Ke, "Director Xu, you are really rich. You just gave away Romanee-Conti that costs more than 200,000 yuan a bottle. As soon as you arrived in the capital, you dispatched two Bentleys! Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

Xu Ke smiled and said, "I have never been stingy with my friends. Besides, it's nothing!..."

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"Shen, Shen Lang..." In the middle of the night, Xu Ke's tongue was already spinning from drinking, "I'll tell you a secret!"

Shen Lang said with a look of disdain: "You said you couldn't drink either, but you dragged me into a drinking contest. Drinking and having some barbecue is fine! What the hell is this..."

After saying that, he pinched a pistachio and put it in his mouth.

Xu Ke didn't know that he had been disliked, and continued to reach out to hug Shen Lang's shoulders: "Brother, brother, I have a big, big production in my mind! Are you interested?"

When Shen Lang heard that there was money to be made, he immediately perked up: "Brother Xu, drink some water first to sober up! What movie?"

Xu Ke drank some water and seemed to feel better: "How is A Chinese Ghost Story?"

Shen Lang's eyes lit up. "A Chinese Ghost Story"? This is fine!
With my looks, it should be no problem for me to play the role of Ning Caichen, right?
It has to be said that Xu Ke is really nice and it's worth it for me to step forward and speak up for him.

"Director Xu, what is this story?" Shen Lang pretended not to know the script and laid the hook first.

Xu Ke said: "A love story between a scholar and a female ghost! The plot line is very simple!"

"Thank you Director Xu, I will definitely play the role of the scholar well!"

When Xu Ke heard this, he looked up at Shen Lang in confusion.

"You're not Ning Caichen? Oh, you're the scholar!"

When Shen Lang heard this, he started cursing in his heart, you bastard, you can't...

"I saw that you had a strong yin energy when playing the role of Cao Shaoqin, which is very suitable for the villain tree demon grandma in the movie!"

Shen Lang: "..."

"Brother, don't worry. Although you are not the lead actor in this play, I promise that your salary will be almost the same as that of the lead actor!"

"I want to play Ning Caichen!"

"I've already discussed it with Zhang Guorong. It's very difficult to do!"

Fuck...a world full of malice!

"I don't want to play the role of the tree demon grandma!" Shen Lang refused directly.

Xu Ke sighed, "I just wanted to work with you in every movie. I'm sorry that I didn't take your feelings into consideration. So, after we finish filming A Chinese Ghost Story, I will definitely give you the leading role in the next movie!"

Next play?
When is the next part?
Next year, the year after, or the next twenty years, humph, men are just good things! Xu Ke didn't know that Shen Lang had already lost heart, and he was still saying, "This "A Chinese Ghost Story" is a studio film. If we hurry up, it will be finished in three or four months. After that, we will shoot the next one right away. We have already negotiated with the investors!"

When Shen Lang heard this, his mood, which had been a bit bad just now, suddenly became bad.

"Brother Xu, what's the name of the movie?"

"Hey, hey, hey, Brother Xu, Director Xu, Old Xu, damn! Don't sleep!"
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Early the next morning, Shen Lang was dragged out by Shen Nan before he even woke up.

"Shen Lang, something big happened?"

Shen Lang rubbed his eyes: "Big deal? What big deal?"

Shen Nan took out his phone and handed it to Shen Lang: "Look, Lu Yun deleted the previous article!"

Shen Lang took the phone and took a look. It was true. Lu Yun not only deleted the initial article questioning "New Dragon Inn", but also deleted the subsequent short articles criticizing Shen Lang.

That's it?

Did you give up so quickly?

Just say that you play a few scoundrels, don't try to copy martial arts movies?

They say that martial arts films are the domain of stuntmen and tell me not to try to squeeze in?
Why was the post deleted?

"Don't you know yet? It was announced online last night that New Dragon Inn has been shortlisted for the Hong Kong Film Awards, and you are a candidate for Best Supporting Actor!"

"What?" Shen Lang was a little surprised to hear the news.

The Hong Kong Film Awards is a professional film award judged by the Hong Kong Filmmakers Association, Directors Association and Screenwriters Association.

The fact that it was selected shows that "New Dragon Inn" has been recognized by most Hong Kong filmmakers.

No wonder Lu Yun deleted the article. If his article had remained on Weibo for one more day, it would have been a slap in the face of Xu Ke and Shen Lang.

That was a slap in the face of everyone in the Hong Kong film industry. Of course, more importantly, he was also slapping himself in the face.

Didn’t you say that he is not good enough?
But he is recognized by most film professionals. Who are you? Even if you are a big shot in the Hong Kong circle, you are a big shot only if everyone supports you. If everyone ignores you, aren’t you just an outdated old man?
However, what puzzled Shen Lang was why the Hong Kong Film Awards suddenly extended an olive branch to "New Dragon Inn"?
Soon Shen Lang knew the whole story.

It turns out that Shen Hao is not only an ordinary retired old man, he also has another identity: he is an expert judge on the Golden Rooster Awards Jury.

Just after he finished writing that article, he used his status as an expert judge to directly recommend the movie "New Dragon Inn" to the jury.

The Academy Awards received the news very quickly.

There are many requirements for the Academy Awards. First of all, the director must be a permanent resident of Hong Kong Island, and must have a legally registered company in Hong Kong Island, and at least six staff members in the film must be Hong Kong Island residents...

Due to so many restrictions, his sources of films are actually very limited.

Now, we have finally released the critically acclaimed and box-office-winning "New Dragon Inn".

Before, everyone had to consider Lao Lu's face.

Now that his job is about to be taken away by someone else, who would care about the face of an old man with a dull mind?
At this time, Shen Lang's phone rang again.

Xu Ke said weakly on the phone: "Brother, did I promise you something last night?"

"You said let me play Ning Caichen!" Shen Lang has always been shameless.

"Bullshit! Impossible! Ning Caichen has already made up his mind!!"

(End of this chapter)