Chapter 557 Structural damage, boiling the frog in warm water!
“What good ideas do you have?”

“Koreans are very xenophobic. Without the guidance of a chaebol, it would be difficult to move forward. He only relies on Li Meijin.”

“We should first find out his financial situation. Streaming media is very expensive… Last year, Little Superman went to Korea to do streaming media, but he couldn’t last half a year, lost hundreds of millions, and left in disgrace.”

“Streaming media is a copyright game. TVB was almost on the verge of collapse, but was saved by Youku and LeTV.”

“Should we beat him in the streaming field? How? The Koreans have no interest in our copyright. Little Superman has our copyright, but the number of users has not increased for half a year, and the three major TV stations have also cheated him out of a lot of money.”

“Right now, the chaebols over there are sitting on the mountain watching the fight between the three giants. Penguin, iQiyi, and FBTV are fighting each other. Anyone who dares to go in will be attacked by the group.”

“Li Mingyang is doing streaming. If we go up to him to finish him off, it might not be a good idea. What if we get caught? He has funded several big gangs over there. Something bad will definitely happen.”

“Everyone, please stop talking and listen to what the leader thinks. I fully support the leader. I will do whatever the leader tells me to do.”

Only Internet giants can afford streaming media.

The battle for streaming media is a war for copyright.

Internet copyrights that no one cared about before are now being snapped up and sold at sky-high prices.

TVB, which was originally half-dead and almost like a fish stuck on a chopping board, was suddenly revived and even boarded the big ship of Youku!
Yinghuang stands wholeheartedly on the mainland side and will be able to make a living from the mainland finance + Internet + film industry.

The four major domestic film companies are still fighting and making trouble.

As long as you don’t do anything that would displease your superiors, they will generally turn a blind eye to it.

But Li Mingyang is different.

A major shareholder of Guangguang, a domestic director with double billion-dollar revenue, won the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his gangster action movie at the age of 23…

He has a huge influence and always likes to criticize people about the relationship between the two places!
Every strike of the sword is deadly, it’s absolutely amazing.

Keeping such people around will only bring disaster!
Huayi is not afraid. At most, she will be humiliated by Li Mingyang and pretend to be dead for a while before jumping out and continuing to sing.

……

Magic City.

“Hey, Mommy.”

“how are things?”

“Okay.”

“Where are you now? I have something to ask you. If you can handle it, the company will lift the ban on you.”

Although Shirahama became the manager of Huabu Video, her artist contract has always been with Yinghuang.

Li Mingyang obstructed many times, Jiang Wen won 13 Academy Awards but none of them won, and Yinghuang Film and Television Cultural Village fell through.

Yinghuang and Li Mingyang are like water and fire!
Bai Bin has been waiting for Ying Huang to call him back.

She is sorry to Li Mingyang, but she is worthy of Yinghuang!

I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time, and finally it’s here!
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6 month 10 day.

Korea, CJ Entertainment headquarters.

Li Mingyang has always believed that the chaebols dominate the Korean entertainment industry, which is extremely corrupt.

In fact it is.

But this kind of rule is not just oppression, but a balance.

Lim Yoona, Seohyun, Kim Go-eun, and Kim Ji-won were tricked by CJ staff into going to an audition.

Early the next morning, SM’s Lee Soo-man and several senior executives went to CJ Entertainment’s Chungmuro ​​headquarters to seek an explanation.

Not long after, Lee Byung-hun, the boss of HB Entertainment, also came.

In the conference room, facing the vice president of CJ Entertainment, Lee Soo-man and Lee Byung-hun slammed the table and smashed cups. The noise was so loud that people outside could hear it clearly.

Li Mingyang was nearby, but he didn’t understand what was said. After translating it, he learned something about how CJ could do that. He hadn’t told them beforehand, nor had he asked for their opinions, nor had he asked for the opinions of his own artists.

This is a crime.

They want to see Li Mei Jin!
Just when the argument was at its most intense, a representative from Kim Ji-won’s company arrived.

Kim Ji-won’s company is a small one, but this representative quarreled more fiercely than Lee Soo-man and Lee Byung-hun.

Lee Soo-man and Lee Byung-hun were probably tired of arguing and let the other perform.

It’s so embarrassing to have a bunch of people come to my house and make a scene…

Under pressure, the vice president finally compromised and called Li Meijin.

Li Meijin did not come to the company, but waited for them in Itaewon.

Li Mingyang was also asked to go.

Lee Mi Jin’s most expensive mansion is in Itaewon, with a market value of at least 2 million yuan and an area of ​​5000 square meters.

It’s more like a manor than a mansion.

Because the Itaewon luxury residential area is located at the foot of Namsan Mountain, the entire villa is surrounded by lush greenery and pleasant scenery. Not only is the scenery outside the window good, the surrounding area is also particularly quiet because of the green plants, making it very suitable for living.

Seongbuk District and Itaewon are both luxury residential areas in Seoul, both built on the hillside.

The mansions in Itaewon are more luxurious, better located, and have more beautiful views.

There are endless mansions and courtyards, and the exterior walls of each house are different.

Li Meijin’s manor has a different scenery at every step, with pavilions, towers, flowers and lush trees. In addition to a swimming pool, there is a horse farm in the yard, as well as an aquarium, art gallery and screening room inside.

When they arrived at Li Meijin’s house, these people didn’t dare to yell or bang the table.

But they all smiled like old foxes, with hidden motives in their words.

Lee Soo Man’s words of breaking rules made Lee Mi Jin very embarrassed.

How the matter was finally handled happened two days later.

The staff member who deceived the four women was taken away by Lee Soo Man. As for his fate, he might not be thrown into the Han River, but he would definitely be forced to work as a cheap worker for the rest of his life as a handle in their hands.

As for those chaebols, once they were identified and put on SM’s blacklist, SM will no longer cooperate with them, even if the president of Lotte is one of them.

SM is so tough.

Although Kim Ji-won’s company is a small one, it is a subsidiary of a chaebol and her sister is a senior executive.

Her agent helped her get the leading female roles in two TV series.

Lee Byung-hun and CJ have been working together for almost ten years. Lee Mingyang even suspected that CJ held shares in Lee Byung-hun’s agency.

Not really.

In the end, Lee Byung-hun got three movie resources for Kim Go-eun as compensation.

As for himself…he is the number one Korean star in Hollywood and has no shortage of resources.

Lee Byung-hun’s success, in addition to his outstanding talent, is of course inseparable from the support of his godfather and godmother.

Lee Byung-hun’s godfather is the Korean chaebol, the founder of Daewoo Group.

Daewoo Group was once the second largest company in South Korea after Hyundai.

However, Daewoo collapsed during the Asian financial crisis and declared bankruptcy in 2000.

The main reason why he can get to where he is today is because of his superb acting skills.

Although he has good acting skills, any one of the perverted behaviors of this guy in real life is enough to be labeled a “bad artist”.

For example, if a relationship ends up sending someone to jail, Uncle Bo will send one of them to jail.

This guy sent two in at once.

There is also Song Hye Kyo. They are boyfriend and girlfriend for sure, but the welding was too fierce and they both lost their G.

There are also all kinds of messy sexual harassment, rape of sugar daddy’s company employees…

Some are just for fun, some are real.

He was thoroughly exposed by the Korean media and his bad deeds are now known to the entire Internet.

But one thing is that this guy has never touched a minor.

Li Mingyang has been observing Korean entertainment all along, and is unfamiliar with the area.

In his two lives, this was actually his first time to go abroad.

Although I know about Netflix’s success in Korea, I have also watched many excellent Korean dramas and movies.

But those are people who have opened their third eye and have never had actual contact with it.

Korean entertainment is weird, both eerie and familiar.

Li Mingyang has never figured out what the Korean entertainment system is like.

Until Lee Byung-hun and Lee Soo-man forced Lee Mi-jin to give an explanation, and they succeeded.

Li Mingyang suddenly realized that the current Korean entertainment ecosystem, apart from the sky-high pay and top-level treatment of artists, is very similar to the domestic entertainment industry during the subsequent film and television winter.

Top actors and top agencies can put pressure on Penguin Video.

You can treat me as a money-making cow, but you have to respect my human rights!
I’m here to make money for you, but you don’t treat me as a human being and don’t give me the respect I deserve. I quit!
Lee Byung Hun is pretty good to his artists… maybe it’s because Kim Go Eun is ugly…

Willing to provide resources and willing to take the lead, it’s like getting a beloved general to make money for you, and you cherish him to death.

Cao! Something terrible is happening!
With this Korean entertainment ecosystem, they dare to let Penguin and iQiyi take root in Korea. Don’t think that you can sit back and relax and make a lot of money from copyright fees just because you control the upstream of production!
Internet giants may not be good at producing films, but they are very good at using their money to destroy the industry system, drive up industry production costs, and force their competitors to death!
The reason why iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video dominate the domestic entertainment industry is because the industry costs are too high.

Mango TV, as a relic of the old era, has the most advanced content-generating system, but it can only copy Korean variety shows and produce some variety shows.

It’s because the production cost is so frighteningly high!

Later, during the cold winter of the film and television industry, I dared to touch TV dramas, secretly making a few every year to test the waters.

Because Youku’s three super hits failed in a row, Mango Alley became a big hit, and Mango officials directly mocked Youku’s three consecutive flops.

Afterwards, Mango, who was ambitious and wanted to be the third one, put all his energy into starting the drama, and it failed three times in a row, and no one could recognize it.

Penguin and iQiyi can make TV stations bleed by just doing one thing.

Increase the pay of top actors! Raise production costs!
The Korean market is small and has been fully developed. If we want to make more money, we can only develop overseas, and overseas is Tokyo!

The local production costs in South Korea have increased, and the University of Tokyo has increased the price of purchasing films.

Back and forth, the frog is boiled in warm water.

When everyone gets used to this high price.

iQiyi, Youku and Tencent Video suddenly stopped playing and wanted to invest in the upstream, midstream and downstream of South Korea. If the chaebols don’t kneel, then no one will make that much money.

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

The market is about to collapse, and talented people will flock to Dongda.

South Korea has finally become the center of the world’s streaming wars. Hollywood is making a fortune, and local filmmakers can barely afford to make movies because of the skyrocketing pay.

Of course, even though the pay of Korean stars has skyrocketed, it is still not as high as during the craziest years of the domestic entertainment industry.

Lee Jung-jae, the future ceiling of Korean entertainment stars, who starred in the globally popular “Squid!”, only received 10 billion won per episode, which is equivalent to more than 500 million yuan.

Korean dramas later became more refined, with only about ten episodes per season, and each episode was shot at a movie-level. In actual calculation, the price of a TV series was only 5000 million…

The pay is not even as good as that of a silly roe deer, and is about the same as that of Dayun when he was a second or third-tier actor…

After figuring out the key issue, Li Mingyang immediately realized that something was wrong.

The premiere was in progress. Facing the media’s cameras, Li Mingyang had a smile on his face, but he was extremely anxious in his heart.

I can’t wait to have a good talk with Li Meijin.

“Director Li, what is your prediction for the box office of Goodbye My Soul Mate?” a reporter asked.

Li Mingyang was not thinking about seeing him again, so he said casually, “About three million moviegoers.”

This number of moviegoers is quite consistent with the expectations of a low-budget hit.

After all, the external publicity cost of “Goodbye My Soul Mate” was only 700 million won.

Li Mingyang alone took away 200 million in film remuneration plus box office dividends.

It took just over a month from the start of filming to the completion.

“Director Li, will your next movie go for box office success or awards?”

“It’s not convenient to talk about this question. I’m preparing it.”

“Director Li, among the four female artists, Im Yoona, Seohyun, Kim Ji-won, and Kim Go-eun, who do you most want to work with again?

Actress? “

This question moved the four girls, and they all looked at Li Mingyang.

Li Mingyang waved his hand and said, “They are all excellent actors. I look forward to working with them again.”

This neither light nor heavy answer naturally could not satisfy the reporter.

Just as the reporter was about to ask more difficult questions, a staff member came on stage and said that the interview time was up.

Wait until the reporters return to their assigned seats.

After seeing the main creators walk down the stage, they came to the second row of the screening room, ready to watch the movie.

Goodbye My Soul Mate follows the color aesthetics of love like a bouquet of flowers, with light and dark contrasts, while striving for perfection and using Korean filters, which is distortion!
The streets are unreal.

In fact, it is indeed not real. A lot of filters are used to beautify it. The overgrown wilderness is beautified into a quiet and remote mountain village.

The sparse woods have been beautified into a lush green forest. The wind blows the treetops, swaying in the wind, which is magnificent.

The messy and untidy girl’s boudoir becomes casual and poetic with the addition of filters and the switching of lenses. The curtains are rolled up by the west wind, and the girl’s sorrow is always poetic.

The post-production of Goodbye took me about half a month, and most of the time was spent on beautification with filters.

Li Mingyang even mobilized hundreds of people from Pangu Special Effects’ three studios to complete it.

The actual investment cost exceeded 3 billion won.

The original version of Goodbye My Soul Mate was more than two hours long, but Li Mingyang’s version with the opening + ending + main feature is only one and a half hours in total.

Li Mingyang did not film any part of his childhood.

The story is expressed through watercolor cartoons and narration by two little girls, highlighting their common interest in painting, and using childish words to quickly introduce the story.

When entering middle school, the first person to appear is Yoona, the otaku goddess and the most beautiful girl in South Korea.

Lin Yoona wore a white T-shirt, black pants, and an off-white shirt as her school uniform. She was full of energy and cuteness as soon as she appeared on the stage.

Next, it was Seohyun who walked out from behind Yoona, looking innocent, cute and adorable.

Behind the beauty, there is another beautiful visual impact.

Add the four-piece white moonlight filter set: slow motion, white light, blur, and smile.

It’s so beautiful.

On Ha Eun’s birthday, Wei Xiao prepared a gift for her, a pair of earrings made according to Ha Eun’s name.

The two put earrings on each other and smiled at each other.

The earrings became a token of their friendship.

……

Wei Xiao accidentally found out that Ha Eun liked a boy and was very worried that she would be cheated on, so she found the boy, the turtle man Lee Kwang Soo.

When the ugly-looking Lee Kwang-soo turned around, he opened his mouth in surprise and smiled. He never expected that his best friend actually liked such an ugly man.

As expected of being the chosen comedian, Lee Kwang-soo attracted a lot of laughter as soon as he appeared on the stage.

Youth comedy, girl SM.

Amidst the fights and misfortunes of Turtle Man, Wei Xiao found that she had fallen in love with Turtle Man. For the sake of friendship, she chose to leave and went to Seoul.

Lim Yoona and Seohyun separated, and Kim Ji-won and Go Jin-eun appeared and appeared in the lives of the two women respectively.

Long monologues about a person who is busy trying to survive, wandering around and having a very hard life.

The other one keeps studying to become a teacher and lives a life that he can predict the end of.

Although they had no connection with each other, they exchanged letters.
Amid the constantly interlaced images, the melody of Eason Chan’s “Long Time No See” sounded.

“I came to your city and walked the same path you came from…”

When the melody reaches its end.

For his future, Lee Kwang-soo left Jeju Island and went to Seoul.

When Xu Xian returned home, she was surprised to find that Wei Xiao had returned. The two hugged each other and cried, and they were back to their childhood again. The gap between them disappeared in an instant.

Then something seemed to go wrong, and there was the classic bathroom scene of two women fighting over a man. For some reason, the audience couldn’t stop laughing.

Li Mingyang was frowning while laughing, Lin Yoona and Xu Xian were crying with tears in their eyes, their bras were showing, but the audience was still laughing so happily. What kind of fans and reporters are they!

Ha Eun witnessed her best friend living with her boyfriend and left with a broken heart, and Wei Xiao also left with her.

Lee Kwang-soo, who came to his senses, returned to Jeju Island, proposed to Seohyun, and promised to protect him for the rest of his life.

It was obviously a very romantic scene, and the audience burst into laughter again.

Ha Eun’s long-awaited wedding finally arrived, but on the wedding day, she ran away, and Lee Kwang-soo was shocked.

Not only did people laugh, but they also applauded, as if they were glad that Ha Eun was finally no longer blind.

A person with a fleeting dream will eventually be stable, while a person with a stable dream will eventually be wandering.

Ha Eun lived as a smile, and Smile lived as Ha Eun.

At the end of the film, Ha Eun gave birth to a daughter, but died unexpectedly due to severe bleeding during the postpartum recovery period.

While packing up the remains, Wei Xiao found a pair of earrings and a letter that had not been sent.

Thank you for her companionship over the years.

Smile cried so hard that her lungs were torn apart and she felt like dying.

The camera turns and Smile returns to the house full of memories of the two of them and discovers Ha Eun’s unfinished painting.

The painting is a smile.

“I want to paint your face, to use my love to paint a picture that can see your heart.”

The end of the movie!
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(End of this chapter)