The two old men exposing each other's secrets made Li He have a new understanding of them. It was just like how Old Man Qin had exposed Old Man Zhu and the others. He deeply understood that these people were not good people.
They were not bad people. It was just that history was a magnifying glass. It could reveal human nature. In order to fight for the right to live, all kinds of masks had to be torn off.
Li He said, "Let bygones be bygones. You guys don't have to fight so much. It's a new society now. Isn't it good to be amiable?"
Old Man Lee smiled contemptuously. Then, he said something that dampened the mood, "How can there be history without fighting? There's no history book that tells you how to live your life. I used to be a kind-hearted idiot. I felt that this was unfair and that was unjust. I even thought that my brother was ruthless and that the Yu family was also inhumane. However, as I grew up, I realized that if you weren't ruthless, people would destroy your family. Although my brother was a prodigal, he protected me until I was an adult. I don't know how he treats others but he treats me extremely well. That's why I said that you're the same as me when I was young. You read a few books and you put yourself on the moral board. If you die in the future, you'll die because you don't care! "
Li He said, "That's not nice to hear. What do you mean by dying because I don't care?"
Old Man Lee snorted coldly, "You think you're magnanimous and easy-going? Wrong! This is called having no principles! After you've done a good deed, people will think that you're an idiot. Other than attracting girls, you're useless. "
Li He said unhappily, "Are you trying to make me the bad guy?"
Old Man Lee said, "I'm asking you to fight, not to fight. You should fight for what's yours. I'm not worried that you'll take advantage of others. You're not that kind of person. I'm worried that you'll be taken advantage of. You have to know that people forget about big favors because of small grudges. What good will your small favors do to others? So, don't think that people will be grateful to you just because you do them a favor. You have to fight for it. Don't let people think that you're a sucker. "
Li He said, "Fighting is just a word."
Old Man Lee said, "To argue is to argue, to fight is to win, to show off bravery and ruthlessness. There was once a saying, 'There are three things a scholar should not fight with: Do not fight with a gentleman for fame, do not fight with a villain for profit, do not fight with heaven and earth for skill.' "
"Sigh, I won't be able to change my personality in such a short time." Li He seemed to have gained something.
"I'm not forcing you to change. I'm just telling you to take it easy. You can't let your guard down." After Li He said this, he didn't seem to be in a good mood. He wanted to go to a hotel and didn't want to stay here anymore.
Coincidentally, the chauffeur had returned from dropping off Old Man Tang. Li He had no choice but to instruct the chauffeur to take him to a hotel.
He Fang came downstairs after coaxing the child to sleep. Seeing that Old Man Lee had left, she asked, "How did you offend him?"
Li He shook his head and said, "No, he's just unhappy and wants some peace and quiet."
Loud Mouth showed Li He the box office statistics.
Li He's face darkened after he saw it. The statistics were unbelievable.
Loud Mouth was also guilty. Without waiting for Li He to ask, she hurriedly explained, "Mr. Li, this director and actors are not good. I will definitely hire the best director and actors."
"Can you continue pouncing?"
After screening for seven days, they only had a box office of 250,000! Li He didn't dare to look at this pathetic posture! After all, it was a big production with a production cost of six million yuan.
Loud Mouth lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Li. Another reason is that there are too few theaters. The big theaters are not willing to show our movie."
"Where's the tray? Let me see." Li He wanted to see what kind of lousy movie could achieve such an earth-shattering box office!
In Hong Kong, even the worst movie would have at least a million yuan in the box office!
Loud Mouth put the tray into the dVD and sat beside Li He, watching it together.
Actually, the plot of "The Best Thief's Partner" was very simple. Stephen Chow and Ada Wu were the main characters. The two of them used a boxing coach as a cover to secretly steal cars. However, a car theft syndicate felt that the two of them had a bright future and forcefully took them in as their underlings.
Guan Xiaolin played the role of a policewoman. In order to solve a big case, she disguised herself to get close to the two main characters. The police and the car theft syndicate then worked together to fight against an even more evil car theft syndicate.
In the end, they worked together to destroy the evil syndicate. In the end, evil could never win over good.
Li He watched for five minutes with his eyes wide open. The beginning of the movie showed an intriguing rhythm and inexplicable atmosphere.
He suddenly wanted to rush through the screen and beat up the director.
After watching for more than 20 minutes, he felt slightly relieved. At least it was not an amateur movie, even though there were deliberate flaws, rough costumes, and exaggerated performances.
But at the 25th minute of the movie, the male lead, Stephen Chow, suddenly sang for a few minutes to pick up a girl. After that, there was no rhythm to the story.
The action scenes, which were supposed to be the highlight of the movie, were sloppy. The singing scene happened again at the end, and extras seemed to be on the verge of extinction …
A movie that was supposed to be funny and full of action became extremely ugly.
The fighting, comedy, editing, character design, none of them stood out!
The plot was awkward and illogical. The so-called humor was all based on acting crazy!
It was unexpected to see Stephen Chow in such a bad movie!
It was an unbelievably bad movie, but it was probably the most suitable way to be bad.
God! This bunch of people had made a perfect mistake in this movie!
The only thing he praised was that Guan Xiaolin was very beautiful in front of the camera!
"Let's go to the film company!" Li He insisted on going to the set.
When they reached the film company, all the main cast and crew were there. Everyone was listless. No one could be happy about the Battle of Waterloo.
Loud Mouth scolded, "Mr. Li, you're here. Everyone clap!"
The sparse applause made him even more unhappy. "Did you not eat?!"
This time, the applause was a little louder.
Li He sat at the table in the conference room. Wherever his gaze swept, everyone lowered their heads and kept quiet, not daring to look him in the eye.
He wanted to sigh, but he held it in and said, "I hereby announce that this movie will be reshot!"
"Reshot?"
"Why is there a need to reshoot?"
Everyone in the conference room discussed in low voices and looked at each other.
Loud Mouth did not expect Li He to actually want to reshoot. She said, "Mr. Li, this movie's reputation is already bad. It'll be very difficult to reshoot it."
"There's no problem with the script, and it's a good script. It's all your fault for not filming it well. Of course, I'm not blaming everyone. I can see everyone's hard work. The purpose of this movie is for everyone to practice. Everyone didn't practice well, so of course you have to continue practicing. When you're done, we'll film a new movie. Besides, through this movie, all of you are already familiar with the lines and plot. It'll be a waste of time to look for something else to film. Stephen Chow, what do you think? "
"Me?" Stephen Chow pointed to himself. Seeing Li He nod, he was a little in disbelief. He did not expect the big boss to pick him first.
"It's you. Say it. You're the main character after all."
Stephen Chow said, "No problem."
Li He looked at Chen Kexin and asked, "You're the director, right?"
Chen Kexin nodded hurriedly. "Yes, yes."
Li He said, "We're filming a comedy, not an artistic film. I suggest that we let the actors express themselves and bring out each actor's personality. Let them play their own characters. This is also the tradition of People Arts and our goal of nurturing actors. We'll just follow the script. You just have to do a good job on site. "
"Understood, Mr. Li." Chen Kexin knew that Li He was already unhappy with him.
Then, when Li He said that he wanted to personally watch them film, he became even more nervous.
Li He watched for more than ten minutes on the set. Perhaps because many of them were nervous, they could not even match their lines.
He did not care about this. He only felt that there was something wrong with Stephen Chow's laughter. When he should be laughing, he was forcing it. Even if he was a layman, he could see that something was wrong.
He waved at Stephen Chow and brought him to his office. "What's wrong? Are you having trouble with your daily life?"
Stephen Chow waved his hand and said, "No, no."
Li He continued to ask, "Are you short of money?"
Stephen Chow said, "Mr. Li, I can handle it myself."
Without another word, Li He wrote him a cheque and said, "Take it. Treat it as an advance payment for this film. "
"T-This, Mr. Li, this is too much." Stephen Chow knew his net worth. He was not worth a million.
"It's not expensive. You're worth it. We'll continue to increase the box office for you. "
Stephen Chow stammered, "Mr. Li, my contract is still with Almighty Films."
"Almighty?" Li He was not familiar with film companies at all.
"It's Mr. Li Xiuxian's. He's been training me."
"Oh." Li Xiuxian was a famous veteran actor, and Li He had watched many of his movies. "Then what about the contract you signed with us last time?"
Stephen Chow said with a sad face, "Brother Quan forced me to."
"Which means that the contract you signed with us has always been invalid.
Stephen Chow nodded.
Li He asked solemnly, "If I redeem the contract from Almighty, will you be willing to join our company?"
"Mr. Li, I will." Stephen Chow gripped the cheque tightly in his hand. This time, he was really willing. He urgently needed money to move.
"Call Loudspeaker over." Li He suddenly felt a headache coming on.
Stephen Chow went out and called Loudspeaker over. Loudspeaker looked at Li He and then at Stephen Chow, confused.
The more Li He looked at him, the angrier he got. He threw the folder on the table at him and said angrily, "You can't do anything right, but you're good at spoiling things."
He was finally convinced by Old Man Li's words. He couldn't spoil these people too much. They spent so much of his money, but in the end, they were still trying to fool him.
Out of habit, Loudspeaker used his arm to block the blow. Then, he said pitifully, "Mr. Li, what did I do wrong? Tell me."
"What did you do wrong?" Li He pointed at Stephen Chow. "Tell me."
Seeing that Loudspeaker had been humiliated, Stephen Chow felt inexplicably carefree. He said, "Brother Quan, my contract is still with Almighty."
Loudspeaker suddenly realized that he had not been scolded unjustly. He glared at Stephen Chow fiercely before saying to Li He anxiously, "Mr. Li, don't worry. I'll definitely take care of this. Almighty won't dare to not give me face. "
He really couldn't understand why Li He cared so much about this loser.
"Really?" Li He didn't believe him.
"Mr. Li, please believe me this time." Loudspeaker promised. He was confident that his film had already been released. Almighty couldn't possibly not know that Stephen Chow had been kidnapped here, but they hadn't said a word until now. The only reason was that they had shown their strength when they confronted Liu Daxiong previously. Now, Almighty didn't dare to provoke them.
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