Chapter 1837: Learning Makes One Progress

It is not an easy thing to convince someone.

You must understand that people are independent animals in this world, each with their own thoughts and logic. Making someone completely convinced by another is absolutely not easy.

Especially for honest people, this is even more true.

For someone like Wang Qiang, unless you truly have talent and ability, it is not simple to gain his recognition.

Clearly, Xu Shanzheng had achieved it.

"Since he has the skill, just learn from him."

Zhao Fusheng spoke slowly at this moment, saying to Wang Qiang, "You're family. When you want to make a movie yourself, just tell your sister, got it?"

"Got it, bro."

Wang Qiang quickly nodded.

To be honest, he was now somewhat intimidated by Zhao Fusheng.

It hadn't been that exaggerated before, but one day Wang Qiang was eating with others. At the table were many people, and he wasn't the type to attract attention, so he just kept his head down and ate. The others inadvertently talked about Zhao Fusheng's wealth. Someone estimated that, even conservatively, Zhao Fusheng was worth at least tens of billions of dollars.

Tens of billions of dollars!

What kind of concept was that!

Wang Qiang didn't know; he only knew that even one hundred million yuan would take him decades to earn.

But Zhao Fusheng's wealth was tens of billions of yuan, and possibly even more.

"No way, many of the company shares he holds are under nominee names, and some companies aren't even listed. Outsiders can't guess at all."

The words of those people at the table were still fresh in Wang Qiang's memory.

He naturally knew that Zhao Fusheng wouldn't harm him.

But to be honest, when facing Zhao Fusheng, he couldn't help feeling a bit nervous.

Zhao Fusheng couldn't be bothered to say much. People were different; Wang Qiang was still that honest guy, but Zhao Fusheng didn't believe that after all these years rolling in the entertainment industry, he hadn't grown at all.

He just knew very well who was good to him and who wasn't.

When you have a big tree to lean on, you enjoy the shade. If he were to disdain a big tree like Future Films, he wouldn't be an honest man but an idiot.

When their group appeared on the set, Xu Shanzheng, who had been talking to the lighting technician, also noticed them.

At first, he didn't pay attention, just thinking Wang Qiang was talking to some acquaintance. The sets in this film base were adjacent, so running into acquaintances was normal.

But when he looked closely, he was startled to find it was Zhao Fusheng.

Xu Shanzheng was immediately taken aback.

The boss had arrived!

Nowadays, Uncle Shanzheng was not yet the formidable figure with movie box offices in the billions; he was just a former comedic young heartthrob, now a newcomer trying to transition into directing.

At this moment, the big boss of the company came to his set—what was that feeling?

Brother Shanzheng didn't say a word and rushed over.

"Chairman, why are you here?"

Xu Shanzheng asked Zhao Fusheng with a full smile. Because the weather was a bit cold, a puff of breath came out as he spoke.

Zhao Fusheng smiled, not minding, and waved his hand: "You go ahead with your filming. I'm here accompanying my wife."

"Hello, Miss Fan."

Xu Shanzheng also knew about the relationship between Fan Baobao and Zhao Fusheng. After all, they were both signed artists of Future Films, and the company would have explained the necessary precautions.

For instance, Fan Baobao's identity was repeatedly emphasized.

She was no ordinary artist; she was the real deal, the boss's wife, and must not be offended under any circumstances.

"Hello, Director Xu." Fan Baobao smiled and greeted Xu Shanzheng politely: "Wang Qiang is my younger brother. If he does anything wrong, please be generous."

"Yeah, that kid is mischievous. Feel free to scold him if needed."

Zhao Fusheng also chimed in: "To be honest, I'm quite optimistic about your combination."

With the boss and his wife saying this, what else could Xu Shanzheng do? Naturally, he praised Wang Qiang's comedic talent highly, saying that he and Wang Qiang would definitely carry this film.

This was the art of language.

In fact, even if Zhao Fusheng and Fan Baobao hadn't said anything, Xu Shanzheng had planned to praise Wang Qiang, because he truly felt he and this guy were a good match.

In comedy films, the chemistry between actors is actually very important.

What is comedy?

The main nature of comedy is lightheartedness and fun. Even black humor ultimately makes people show a helpless smile.

Laughter as a marker is an important aesthetic category of comedy. In external form, there are three aspects: body, speech, and action, which constitute the comedic nature of a person.

In terms of body, exaggeration or distortion of the body often makes people laugh.

In terms of speech, its comedic nature is expressed in wit and humor.

As for actions and deeds, they often produce comedic effects through their absurdity and ridiculousness.

Mere body, speech, and action are not enough to constitute comedy. The object of comedy should also be ridiculed. It cannot be purely physiological pleasure; it must also have certain psychological content, allowing for an aesthetic evaluation—positive or negative—of the object.

True comedy is born from the alienation and distortion of human essential power. It is born from exaggerating and flaunting the alienated and distorted human essential power, creating inconsistency between appearance and reality, internal and external, absurdity and weirdness, contradictions everywhere, inviting ridicule and satire.

Any comedy is not just to make the audience laugh; it also aims to make the audience ponder something after the laughter.

Therefore, the tacit understanding between comedy actors is very important, because through their cooperation, the actors must present to the audience what the director and screenwriter want to express in the script.

Why does everyone think the collaboration between Zhou Xingxing and Da Shu is the most classic, far surpassing the film images of Zhou Xingxing collaborating with others? The reason is simple: because the comedic effect they displayed in the films was the best.

And now, Xu Shanzheng felt that he and Wang Qiang seemed to have such chemistry as well.

Zhao Fusheng didn't know what Xu Shanzheng was thinking. If he did, he would have laughed heartily.

These two guys had more than just chemistry.

The combination of Xu Shanzheng and Wang Qiang would definitely carve out a place in the Chinese comedy film circle.

"I'm optimistic about you."

Zhao Fusheng smiled and said to Xu Shanzheng: "When the film is released, the company's promotion department will fully cooperate with you. If you have any requests, just bring them up."

Then he said to Wang Qiang: "Learn well from the director, got it?"

"Don't worry."

Hearing Zhao Fusheng's words, Wang Qiang nodded repeatedly: "I will definitely listen to the director and learn well."

This was his heartfelt thought. After all, in his heart, he knew his own limits. If it weren't for his relationship with Zhao Fusheng and Fan Baobao, he wouldn't even have gotten into the "Soldiers' Sortie" crew.

Let alone now, being one of the lead actors in a film.

Self-knowledge is valuable. For Wang Qiang, he was now eagerly learning the knowledge he needed, just as Fan Baobao and Zhao Fusheng had told him: if one day he felt he could become a director, they would definitely support him.

Everyone has ambition. Wang Qiang also had it. He longed for the day when he could make the transition from actor to director, like Xu Shanzheng or Jiang Wen.

Watching him follow Xu Shanzheng to film with confidence, Zhao Fusheng shook his head, smiled, but said nothing.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Zhao Fusheng's strange expression, Fan Baobao asked puzzledly.

Zhao Fusheng smiled lightly and said to Fan Baobao: "Nothing. I just feel that Xiaoqiang seems full of drive now. This guy isn't really planning to become a director, is he?"

"Hard to say."

Fan Baobao laughed upon hearing this: "That depends on his own ability."

After all, she wasn't Zhao Fusheng, and she didn't know that in the original history, this guy Wang Qiang really tried to become a director, but the box office bombed terribly.

Some things in this world really require talent; effort alone can't solve everything.

There's a saying: 'The ancestors bestow food,' which explains this principle.