But the movie Du Yu is preparing to shoot is called "The Vow".

The plot is roughly as follows.

The modern girl Fuzhu fell in love with the young poor painter Zhou Xuanqing, and she had a private life. After getting engaged, she vowed each other: If you have a promise, you will die if you go to the sea!

Fuzhu's cousin is very rich, and he admires Fuzhu's beauty and pursues it relentlessly.

Finally, under the temptation of money, Fuzhu forgot her oath and decided to marry her cousin.

Just as they were holding their wedding in the church, Fuzhu suddenly discovered it, woke up, remembered the previous oath, fled from the church, and returned to the painter Zhou Xuanqing.

However, Zhou Xuanqingyu's anger was not gone, and he scolded Fuzhu for being righteous and changing his mind and rejected Fuzhu.

The ashamed Fuzhu ran to the beach and decided to commit suicide by swearing to the sea.

Seeing that Fuzhu was in love, Zhou Xuanqing arrived in time to save Fuzhu from danger. The two of them all settled their past grudges and eventually became a good partner.

What a cliché and bloody plot!

Lin Zixuan looked at Du Yu with a solemn look, and he really couldn't bear to speak up. "The Vow" was obviously a deliberate imitation of foreign films in this era.

And what Du Yu gave Lin Zixuan was just a story summary, no movie scripts or storyboards, and the whole movie was in his mind, so he could shoot whatever he wanted.

No wonder, but Du Yu relied on his own exploration and had never learned to shoot movies, nor had he experienced this.

At this time, this is the overall level of Chinese films, and foreign film companies will be more mature.

"Brother Du Yu, have you ever come to the United States to learn about filming?" Lin Zixuan suggested, "In Hollywood, Los Angeles, the United States, there are many large film companies."

"Of course I want to go, but my family is too ties with me." But Du Yu said helplessly.

But Du Yu needs to support his family and is content to be able to shoot his favorite movies. He has never had any extravagant desire to travel across the ocean and study filming in a strange country.

The reason why Lin Zixuan said this is because he wanted to get the recording technology over, and he really has no love for silent films.

What he didn't know was that the first synchronous audio film was released in New York in 2019. The real audio film was "The Light of New York" filmed in 1928.

Audio films developed rapidly in the 1930s, and the era of silent films ended here.

Lin Zixuan finally decided to invest money to Du Yu, but it was not borrowing, but investing.

If it is a loan, no matter whether Du Yu's movies make or lose money, he will have to return the money to Lin Zixuan. If it is an investment, it is Lin Zixuan's own profit and loss.

But Du Yu was very happy, Lin Zixuan and him shared the risk.

This is his first feature film. He doesn't even know if he can shoot it. After the filming, he is already thinking of taking a desperate gamble. Unexpectedly, Lin Zixuan gave him support.

Finally, the two of them paid half of the funds and 50% of the cost after the release.

For this reason, Du Yu invited Lin Zixuan to dinner and pulled out the heroine of "The Vow" as a companion.

The heroine of "The Vow" is named Yin Mingzhu. She just turned 17 years old, has a long figure and a beautiful face. She is an employee of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. This is her first time participating in a movie.

But this girl is not an unknown person.

She came from a famous family and was from the Yin family in Wujiang, Jiangsu. Her grandfather was a juren and her father was a scholar. She was good at painting.

Yin Mingzhu was influenced by her father since childhood and was quite talented in painting. She was lively and dared to show up and express her opinions, which was different from the ladies of her family.

However, when she was 13 years old, her father died early. Fortunately, her family was well-funded, so she and her mother moved to Shanghai to live.

When studying at the Shanghai Chinese, Western and English Girls' School, she showed her versatile, intelligent and confident side, and had the reputation of "Chief School Beauty".

After entering society, she was even more comfortable with her cheerful personality and fluent English, which made her lively and comfortable in the social field.

Any dance hall, karaoke hall, cafe and other places where Yin Mingzhu appears will surely be full of people, and stars roam around her like the moon.

She was competing to publish her photos in newspapers and magazines, as advertisements on the covers, and some literati even wrote poems and praises.

This made her famous in the foreign market and became the object of everyone talking about in Shanghai.

Lin Zixuan naturally heard of Yin Mingzhu, but he was not very interested in the social circle in Shanghai. It would be better to drive out the manuscript of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" if you have time.

Compared with other young masters, he is indeed a little homeless.

Yin Ming bamboo clothes are trendy, fashionable hairstyles, and dress up with the trend of the times.

If he were in later generations, he would be a fashion expert.

She is eloquent and good at adjusting the atmosphere. She heard that Lin Zixuan returned from the United States and even talked about fashion topics in the United States with him.

This is an extroverted girl.

As the heroine of the movie, Lin Zixuan is very satisfied. With Yin Mingzhu joining, no matter how bad the movie is, someone will probably go to the theater to watch it.

Before this, there were very few actresses in Chinese movies, and female characters were also performed by men in cross-dressing, which was caused by the social atmosphere at that time.

But Du Yu boldly used Yin Mingzhu and became the heroine, opening up a way out for later actresses.

Looking at Yin Mingzhu with a smile and thinking about the plot of "The Vow", Lin Zixuan had the urge to change the script.

There is such a beautiful heroine, but she has to act in such a clichéd plot...

He casually asked Yin Mingzhu about his opinion on the play "The Vow", and Yin Mingzhu thought it was not bad and the plot was very novel.

Hearing the praise, Du Yu showed a smug look on his face, which was a story he had been thinking about for a long time.

Lin Zixuan overestimated the level of people's awareness of entertainment in this era. When costume dramas were popular, plots that imitate foreign movies like "The Vow" were indeed very innovative.

However, when he looked at Du Yu's complacent expression, he still wanted to pour cold water on him so that he could pursue something.

So, he told the two of them a story about "Shanghai Holiday" at the dinner party.

In the story, a princess from a country in Nanyang came to Shanghai to visit and was welcomed by all walks of life in Shanghai. Many journalists wanted to get exclusive reports from the princess.

The princess had enough of the life she had been arranged all day, sneaked out of the hotel at night, and met a journalist.

The journalist recognized the princess, but for the sake of exclusive reports, he did not expose the princess' identity, but instead collaborated with a photographer friend, took the princess around in Shanghai and secretly took photos of the princess.

The princess had no idea and spent a happy day in Shanghai.

Through this day's contact, the journalist found that the princess was simple and kind, and the two developed feelings for each other. He no longer wanted to use the princess to get exclusive news.

Finally he returned the photos to the princess as a souvenir.

The two of them were unable to be together because of their identity gap, so they only left a beautiful memory in Shanghai.

But Du Yu and Yin Mingzhu were stunned when they heard this and had to admit that compared with this story, "The Vow" is really too cliché.
Chapter completed!