I’m a Director, I’m Not Bad

Chapter 2 002. This kid doesn’t want to make pornographic films, does he?

Xu Xin is not without other advantages.

Since childhood, he has been particularly good at drawing. While other children were still using watercolor pens to draw suns, bungalows, and green grass on paper, he had already begun to think about portraits.

Although there has been no systematic practice for so many years, the talent is here.

This is also the fundamental reason why Xu Daqiang allowed his son to study here when he was rich.

My son could draw when he was a child. Now that he has money, why can't he be trained to be an artist?

As for why he didn't go to the Academy of Fine Arts... then you have to ask how Xu Xin deceived Xu Daqiang that "all arts are common".

In short, inspiration came, and it was not until after 9 o'clock in the evening that Xu Xin put down the sketch pen with some reluctance.

In front of him, there were four square sketches of one scene after another.

In one afternoon, he sorted out almost the entire story.

The rest is just a matter of slowly improving it.

He stretched, rubbed his belly, and finally looked at the time.

Normally, he would have driven a Ferrari around the streets to catch girls at this time.

This Ferrari is like a piece of delicious fat. As long as you let it out, countless fish and insects will swarm it.

He usually chooses one or two according to his mood, and spends the night without even remembering their names when he wakes up the next day.

But now...

Walking into the kitchen of the courtyard, looking at the instant noodles he bought at an unknown time, he started to boil water.

A bowl of noodles, two sausages.

Not to mention... he really found the joy of stealing the bowl of noodles that his father was going to sell when he was a kid.

I especially remember that the old man would always scold his son for stealing food, while taking out two crumpled banknotes from his pocket to buy biscuits... and when he had money, Xu Xin counted the It’s a dream, I haven’t had this kind of junk food for many years.

"Tsk~~"

After eating with eyes full of nostalgia, he walked into the bedroom as it was almost ten o'clock.

After taking a bath, I dug out an unknown amount of tea leaves. In the heated glass conservatory, I sipped the fragrance of the tea and my eyes slowly became empty.

Regarding that extremely clear but sometimes blurry dream, his mind was going through an ups and downs.

He stayed in a daze until about 11 o'clock, when he became sleepy and yawned, and finally got into bed. Before going to bed, he, who was used to waking up naturally, set an alarm clock for himself for the first time at 7 o'clock.

And the ringing rule... after hesitating for a second, it directly changed to "Monday to Sunday."

With everything done, the room plunged into darkness.

The first day after waking up from this dream... it was completely over.

…

At 7 o'clock the next day, Xu Xin got up on time, put on a set of sportswear, and went straight out of the house.

After running for four bus stops out of breath, he felt his calves starting to cramp, and felt more and more that his body was really weak.

After finding a shop selling breakfast and having breakfast, I returned home again with a somewhat hesitant pace.

But he didn't continue working on the script, but drove that eye-catching Ferrari to the school again.

Only this time, he didn't ignore traffic regulations and park the Ferrari at the school gate. Instead, he parked it in a parking lot quite far away and walked into the school in a low-key manner.

The huge school was almost empty, but he knew the teachers hadn't left yet.

The teachers in the directing department are very metaphysical in their classes. After all, they are all directors, and their classes often overlap. However, director Yu Zhen, the deputy dean of the first year and one of Xu Xin's professors, said a few days ago that the third-year students can come to the school for guidance before the year.

After entering the school, Xu Xin went straight to the teaching building, found the director's office with ease, and knocked on the door politely.

"Enter."

A voice came from inside.

Xu Xin opened the door politely, and then saw a middle-aged woman sitting at the desk looking at him through the glasses on the bridge of her nose.

His eyes were full of surprise.

Xu Xin bowed politely:

"Teacher Yu."

"...Classmate Xu Xin, is something wrong?"

Yu Zhen looked at the rich second-generation students who were either absent or sleeping in her class, and she was a little confused as to why they were there.

A student who either sleeps or is absent from school every day still comes to school when it is already on vacation?

This is obviously not normal.

Xu Xin didn't think too much about it. After walking in, he respectfully put the ten pages of the script in his hand on her desk:

"Teacher Yu, isn't the homework for us to make a short film during the holidays? I want you to read the script."

"……script?"

Hearing this, Yu Zhen was really surprised.

It's like a poor student in school who was at the bottom of the grade and didn't work hard, suddenly came to the teacher to ask questions one day... The contrast was so strange.

So much so that Yu Zhen also became interested.

The freshman short film assignment is to allow students in the directing department to understand what a director's job is like. There are no requirements for scripts or anything like that. Even the "good students" never asked themselves, but now a "bad student" suddenly brought a script over...?

Yu Zhen's first reaction was...

This Xu Xin...he paid someone to buy the script, right?

For a moment, there was a slight coldness in her eyes.

But out of the desire to be responsible for her students, she temporarily put down her work and looked at the first page of the script.

"Drama Title: To Be Determined"

"Screenwriter: Xu Xin"

"..."

For no reason, Yu Zhen felt a little ridiculous.

Also screenwriter?

I'd be very grateful if you could make a film that meets the requirements.

With this thought in her mind, she still opened the script.

"Scene 1: A young man appears in the noisy KTV corridor. He is dizzy when walking. He seems to have drunk too much and goes straight to the toilet..."

KTV?

bathroom?

After grabbing the location information, Yu Zhen frowned subconsciously.

These two words are so easy to associate with something.

She couldn't help but look up at the student still standing in front of her, and an idea came to her mind.

This kid... isn't he going to make porn films?

"...?"

Xu Xin was also a little puzzled. Seeing the other party looking at him, he couldn't help but ask:

"Teacher, what's wrong?"

"Well……"

Yu Zhen came back to her senses and waved her hand:

"You sit there first and I'll continue watching."

"Mmm Good."

Xu Xin responded and then sat on the sofa.

Yu Zhen, on the other hand, continued to read:

"He looked like he'd had a really big drink and was shaking when he peed. End of act one."

Ah this...

What does this story want to say?

Following this question, Yu Zhen felt the plainness between the lines... There is neither a story of "going out and meeting a beautiful woman", nor a story of "meeting a man and a woman next door colliding".

A little unexpected.

But that’s not to say how good the script is. It’s only the first scene, so nothing can be seen. Mainly, she really thought that Xu Xin came to her with a script that was not very serious.

Patiently, she continued reading:

"Second scene: The young man who drank too much couldn't find his room, and saw a pair of dancing legs in a room."

Good guy!

Does Xu Xin want to film pole dancing? !

She subconsciously narrowed her eyes and continued to read the words on the paper.

"Act 3: The young man watched the girl in the box dancing at the door, stared at the pair of legs wrapped in black silk with a little obsession in his eyes, and saw a few people sitting in the box at the same time. Suits Wearing leather shoes, looking at a cigar, the girl has an expensive XO placed beside her legs... These people seem to be from two different worlds from him."

Um?

The director's instinct suddenly gave her a feeling.

In other words... the instinct to find the core purpose that a fellow director wants to express in a naive narrative.

This story, about rich people dancing in black stockings and smoking cigars, is just superficial.

It...has a core!

Suddenly, all the speechlessness in her heart was thrown aside, and she began to read the script seriously.

…

Time passes minute by minute.

In the whole office, there was only the occasional sound of turning pages.

About half an hour later, Yu Zhen looked at the passage at the end of the script, "Hung up the phone, the young man reached out to hail a taxi, and the taxi disappeared into the busy traffic of the city. The narration is the clear voice of the young man: Master , Tiantongyuan!" After the ending of the story, the script was directly closed.

But she didn't talk to Xu Xin directly, but squinted her eyes, and began to analyze the stories of the script according to her own structure in her mind, splicing them into a complete movie.

This process lasted about five minutes.

Yu Zhen opened her eyes and looked at Xu Xin.

The first sentence is:

"How much did you pay for this script?"

"...?"

Xu Xin was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't hear something clearly, and asked:

"What?"

"I asked you how much you paid for it."

"???"

It could be seen that Xu Xin was speechless.

However, he also knew that he was not a good student in the first half of the school year. If someone had wrongly accused him in the past, he might have exploded long ago.

Damn it, who do you think bought the script?

But now... after understanding what the teacher meant, he shook his head and said calmly:

"Mr. Yu, I spent a whole day writing this script yesterday. But I understand why you think I bought this script... To put it bluntly, it's because my usual performance doesn't match, right? "

"...?"

Yu Zhen was also surprised.

Looking at the student in front of me... I vaguely felt that something was not right with him.

But, thinking about it carefully, Xu Xin's behavior is quite normal.

But it was because of his normality that he felt abnormal!

After thinking about it, she said:

"Then tell me, the core of this story, what do you want to express?"

This question can basically verify whether the screenwriter of a script is original.

And Xu Xin didn't hesitate and said directly:

"future."

"..."

Yu Zhen's eyes twitched.

At the same time, he sighed inwardly.

well.

Maybe this is the privilege of the rich.

The painstaking efforts of others can be easily obtained by spending a little money.

Tut tut.

With full of emotion, she pushed the script forward:

"Xu Xin, honesty is the most precious quality in a person. Do you understand?"

She speaks earnestly, because this is the responsibility of a teacher. But who knows, after she finished speaking, she saw her student's stunned eyes.

Then I heard a sentence that was not a thing:

"Teacher...don't you understand?"

"..."

? ? ?

Yu Zhen's face suddenly had a ridiculous expression.

I did not understand?

Do you know what you are talking about?