In the Beginning, I Just Wanted to Make Money

Chapter 285 Beyond Expectations (34)

"I still like director Chen Musheng. He is not a director with obvious personal style like Johnnie To. He is very similar to Liu Weiqiang and is a mainstay in the film industry.

Their existence is more representative of the level reached by the Hong Kong film industry. Sometimes we use the word "craftsman" to describe these steady directors, but in fact the film industry's demand for them may be indispensable. "

"Mature commercial film directors will not be overly narcissistic and will never make something unrealistic in order to express their own ideas."

"Let's attract the audience into theaters first. There are almost no theaters. What's the point of pursuing film art? Art that no one appreciates?"

"The problem is that movies are mass media, they are not for a niche audience, and they cost tens of millions and the niche audience simply can't afford it!"

We chatted about business and art for a while, and then talked about the issue of co-productions, mainly about the recovery of Hong Kong movies...

"I think there should be no problem. Let's talk about action movies. The fighting in early Hong Kong action movies was very fake. Later, Mr. Yuan Xiaotian was invited by the famous Cantonese opera actor Sit Juexian to be responsible for the northern martial arts scenes in Sit Jia Ban's performance. For two years. Later, he got involved in movies, mainly doing martial arts and stunt work... The martial arts scenes in Hong Kong action movies began to progress towards more precise and precise moves;

At that time, Hong Kong movies were mainly based on Cantonese opera. In the early days, opera and movies were indistinguishable. Fighting was mostly in the style of Nanquan. Nanquan was mostly based on close-quarters and short combat, which emphasized speed and quickness...not very good-looking!

Until "The Drunken Man", Yuan Xiaotian's participation injected a lot of vitality into the movie, and his actions can be called a model of the fusion of northern and southern martial arts!

Later Li Lianlian went south...

As long as Hong Kong filmmakers maintain a compatible mentality..."

Yes, the premise is that Hong Kong filmmakers maintain the mentality of the past, but this possibility does not exist!

Moreover, mainland filmmakers have never thought about contributing to Hong Kong films, but rather regard starring in Hong Kong films as a springboard!

Including Shen Xudong himself...

But it's impossible for him to tell his true thoughts, after all, this is the promotion of "Hold the Call"!

"Hold the Call" was released in mainland China and performed well at the box office.

Released on the 27th, it grossed 14 million in its first weekend...

There are still 12 days until December 9th, 25 million is foreseeable, and it may break 30 million!

This result has exceeded the Emperor’s expectations!

After all, Louis Koo's box office appeal in the Mainland is just that...

Except for "Hedong Lion's Roar" and "Hundred Years of Love" which exceeded 10 million, the others were all around one million...

Didn’t expect that the record would be broken this time?

Of course, it also exceeded Chengtian's expectations...

Originally, Chengtian invested in "Hold the Call", on the one hand, to cooperate with the Emperor and realize Chen Hao's movie dream; on the other hand, it promoted the NEC music mobile phone, after all, Wu Kebo is the chief consultant of the mobile phone in China.

Can you get your money back?

Mainland propaganda relies mainly on Chen Hao...

"The Desire of the Golden Branch" is currently on the air!

In fact, the media promotional materials basically revolved around Chen Hao's "Chen Hao's co-production debut, acting skills are online", ""Hold the Call", Chen Hao's debut as a single mother", ""Hold the Call" box office exceeded expectations, Chen Hao The winning box office elixir'...

By the way, I also praised Hu Jun and Shen Xudong...

The praise also revolved around Chen Hao, such as "Hu Jun praised Chen Hao for his hard work in acting" and "Shen Xudong" "Hold the Call" was written for Chen Hao! ’’

Therefore, the influence of phenomenal TV series has a really powerful impact on actors!

By the way, Shen Xudong, Louis Koo and Chen Musheng went back to the mainland to promote the movie.

Shen Xudong still has a good impression of Gu Tianzhu. There is nothing he can do about it. The filter bonus of the two works "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Xun Qin Ji" is too powerful!

Even though the suicidal propaganda of "Tomorrow's War"...

It's really suicidal. It doesn't matter if you sell it miserably. Miserable marketing is already a regular publicity project. But coupled with moral kidnapping marketing and offensive marketing, "Tomorrow's War" has a box office of less than 4 billion. Each of them is in China. Everyone has a responsibility!

That's suicide!

It doesn’t matter, I didn’t watch it anyway!

Just thinking about it makes me think it’s funny: Gu Tianzhen almost cried...

In the past 10 years, 7 out of 10 movies he has starred in are truly bad movies, with all kinds of blood loss. Have you ever seen him anxious?

What do you think of "Tomorrow's War": Gu Tianzhen leads the protagonist group to violently defeat alien creatures;

The actual plot I saw: Gu Tianzhu led the protagonist group to beat up human moles, and then dealt with the alien creatures...

Bringing it back, Gu Tianrong was actually a bit afraid of society. He sat next to Shen Xudong, smiling awkwardly but politely. Shen Xudong also smiled, and the two of them did not communicate...

Don't know what to say.

Shen Xudong also has no intention of actively making friends - he is not a money-washer and has no money to invest in Gu Tianzhu's bad movies!

Mainly chatting with Chen Musheng.

"You promise to write a script for director Johnnie To?"

"...It's been three months, and Director Du hasn't come to me... I guess this matter is dirty!"

Shen Xudong did not ask how Chen Musheng knew that Chen Musheng was brought out by Du Qifeng...

"...Sir Du is filming "Underworld". When "Underworld" is over, let me mention it for you."

"...Let's talk about it then. Director Du has no shortage of screenwriters... Yinhe Impressions has a group of great talents."

"Haha... Sir Du is my benefactor. You... have done "Screening Room" and you should know..."

Of course Shen Xudong knew that back then, Wang Tianlin was about to retire, and several of his apprentices planned to make a movie as a gift to Wang Tianlin.

The so-called giving to Wang Tianlin means that all the money earned from the movie is given to Wang Tianlin.

Chen Musheng was Johnnie To's assistant director at the time. That day, he took Johnnie To and Ruan Shisheng to watch a motorcycle race. By the way, he boasted about his heroic past as a motorcycle rider when he was young. Unexpectedly, Johnnie To gave him Wang Tianlin's retirement task as soon as he slapped his thigh. …

In this way, he became the director of the movie "If There is Love"!

The three major producers of "If There's Love": Johnnie To, Lam Ling-tung, Liu Shiyu...

They are all unique characters.

The three of them are also Wang Tianlin's apprentices...

The two discussed "If There's Love" including many of Johnnie To's works, and then Shen Xudong said: "I used to watch Hong Kong crime movies, and I always felt that the gangsters had feelings and justice... Starting from "A Better Tomorrow", I feel that all the protagonists are just in the rivers and lakes, unable to control themselves... Later I probably found out that in this group of directors, they excessively display the friendship and righteousness of gangsters, without mentioning a word about their evil deeds! They often create a more hateful villain, So that the protagonist can empathize with the audience..."

"Is there a problem?"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "Times have changed, we can't always shoot like this, it's too romantic... I think when shooting gang members, you should shoot their real side..."

Chen Musheng became interested: "Real?"

"Real gangsters: intrigues and intrigues, only eternal interests. It is the darkest display of human nature. There is no lower limit and will not give up until the goal is achieved. The final outcome of being a gangster: ruined your reputation, you will not have a good death, and your family will never have peace."

Shen Xudong told a story about a gangster, a director and a gangster.

"This is called "Cruel Streets"..."

After Chen Musheng listened, he was silent for a while, and then asked: "Why do you need a director?"

"It's a satirical gangster film...it's the essence of gangsters..."

"...It's still too abrupt!"

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