Chapter 873 The Wind Is About to Blow

"Director choice? What director choice?"

"..."The Thieves"!"

Chen Xi was surprised: "You won't be the director of "The Band of Thieves"?"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "I will not direct this kind of purely entertainment blockbuster. I am going to let the newcomers practice it!"

"Newcomer?"

"He's not a newcomer either. After Han Yan came back from Hollywood, he has always wanted to make a special effects blockbuster. I mentioned it to him and he was very interested. I plan to let him be the director and arrange a few assistant directors... I will supervise the production!"

"How many assistant directors are you looking for? Do you want to make it into a series?"

"I'm definitely planning to make it into a series... This subject is very suitable..."

"Just keep an eye on it..." Chen Xi replied casually, and then thought of something: "Can't we make the "Ghost Blowing Lamp" series?"

"...It's hard to say!"

Shen Xudong sighed, and the two of them quickened their pace and arrived at the office, calling Gao Fenfen by the way.

"Grave robbing itself is illegal. According to the criminal law, imprisonment is 7 to 10 years, and tomb robbing is more than 10 years...Together, it is adultery and theft..."

Gao Fenfen quickly interrupted: "But, our "Ghost Blowing Lamp" belongs to the treasure hunting adventure type..."

"listen to me!"

Shen Xudong shook his head: "The theme of tomb robbing is actually divided into two parts. One is a realistic theme, which is the theme of criminal investigation. Grave robbing is a criminal activity. This is a realistic theme. Representative works such as "Tomb Road" and "Chang'an Road", and the other is a fantasy and suspense theme. , the connotation of this theme has nothing to do with tomb robbing, tomb robbing is just an incision... But no matter what, tomb robbing is always wrong..."

Chen Xi immediately said: "You mean that the person who robs the tomb must be a villain and have no good end, so that the radio and television will agree to the project?"

"Um!"

"But I don't think that's the case. In today's market, tomb robbing movies have become a trend. As far as I know, there are at least seven or eight tomb robbing related themes.

item…"

"That's what I'm worried about!" Shen Xudong said in a serious tone: "In the past, there was only "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp", and the radio and television turned a blind eye and passed it by. That's not the case now... It will soon become a mainstream theme!"

Gao Fenfen also realized something: "Mainstream themes..."

"Yes!" Shen Xudong nodded: "It's not that it can't be filmed, but the location is wrong. The best actors and the best companies are all doing tomb robbing. Dozens of tomb robbing movies are filmed a year. What do you think the General Administration will think?"

"Abetting a crime?"

"Well, if you put a big hat on it, the whole theme will be completely finished!"

…

In fact, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" or "Tomb Robbery Notes" alone are not qualified to "abet crimes". Whether it is "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" or "Tomb Robbery Notes", the things written in them cannot be copied by ordinary people at all!

Real tomb robbing is a very boring and frightening activity. There are very few innate tomb robbing geniuses who can smell the soil, distinguish colors, and listen to the location of thunder. They all start from a young age.

First estimate the location through rough records and rumors, and then talk to the locals, or simply be a local yourself and be able to determine the more accurate mountains and hills, and then go up the mountain to explore when the moon is dark, the wind is high, or there is no one around. , use the so-called "square earth" shovel from Luoyang, and use simple backfill soil to distinguish whether there are artificial underground structures. After determining the answer, use an iron skewer to explore the tomb chamber. Under normal circumstances, if you are lucky, you will be able to explore a few It takes ten attempts to find it, and then it’s time to dig a robbery hole, go down a pit, and get cultural relics.

Will these detailed processes be written about in literary works? No, because no one wants to watch it. What everyone wants to watch is machine weapons, puzzles, zombies, ghost legends... So the whole low-magic plane has to come out at every turn. Sometimes the author is not good at writing, and it is easy to write fantasy. For example, "Tomb Raiders Notes"...

If you really want to talk about abetting crimes, "Water Margin" clearly describes the techniques, steps, and methods of committing crimes in the plot where Wang Po, Ximen Qing, and Pan Jinlian killed Wu Dalang with arsenic. Then, does "Water Margin" involve teaching crimes? Method crime?

If people don't care about this, they will ban it for you!

…

"What I mean is, after filming the six main sequels of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", it's almost done. As for the previously set spin-offs, let's stop developing them and spread our resources to other places!"

"How many more main stories are there?"

Chen Xi replied: ""Kunlun Temple", "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea" and "Wuxia Coffin Mountain"..."

"Does that mean there are three more?"

""Wuxia Coffin Mountain" is divided into two parts...four works!"

Gao Fenfen thought about it: "One movie a year, and it won't end until 2017..."

Shen Xudong said: "Can you guarantee that there will be no accidents in these four years? That the policy will not change?"

"Policy changes again..."

"Sister Gao, I know you have something to do with it, and so do I, but no matter how much we have something to do with it, we can't go against the policy. It won't feel good to be roasted on the fire!"

"you mean?"

"Just accept it when you're ready..."

"What about our film and television city?"

"...continue to develop online dramas, and we can also make online movies..."

Chen Xi interjected: "Dragon TV is preparing to imitate Mango Channel and produce weekly dramas in non-prime time slots..."

"Weekly drama?"

Weekly dramas are an imported product, borrowed from the drama broadcast format of Britain, the United States, Japan and South Korea, which means dramas that are updated every week.

The same goes for Korean dramas. Anyone who is familiar with Korean dramas knows that according to the weekly update time, there are different types of Korean dramas, such as Moon Fire Drama, Mizuki Drama, Jin Yao Drama, Metal Earth Drama, and Sun Yao Drama.

"I want to open up new markets... After all, it has a good reputation, and it is easier to attract advertising and investment... Moreover, during non-prime time periods, the review is much looser than during prime time periods."

Chen Xi continued: "Some time ago, I contacted them and told them that they were going to make an online drama "Jingjue Ancient City" and they wanted to introduce it to the broadcast..."

Shen Xudong shook his head: "Internet and channel linkage is not that simple. We are going to release the first six episodes of VIP directly, and then update four episodes every week. What will they do? If it is made into a weekly drama, with a maximum of four episodes a week, it cannot keep up with ours. efficiency…"

"That…"

"After we finish broadcasting, we can sell it to second-tier satellite TV for prime time or first-tier satellite TV for daytime slot..."

"You can't make much money, right?"

The price of purchasing dramas from second-tier satellite TV is very low, almost ten times lower than that of first-tier satellite TV!

There is no way. After the satellite TV rankings are released, advertisers will pay directly according to the ratings. If your ratings are low, why should you charge a high price?

Therefore, many satellite TV advertisements are occupied by fake drugs.

Dial any terrestrial channel, and as long as it's not showing a program, it's definitely broadcasting a Putian hospital advertisement.

This type of advertising covers a wide range of diseases, ranging from hypertension, diabetes, femoral head necrosis, ED, to waist and leg pain, psoriasis. They will use it to make a fuss about any stubborn illness that cannot be cured immediately in the hospital.

What’s wrong with a lot of infertility ads?

Are there just so many infertile people among us?

Uh, by the way, there are also Stanley Compound Fertilizer, Golden Nonghua Sunny Sky, and Four Seasons Muge Solar Energy.

Shen Xudong shrugged: "It doesn't matter. For video platforms, instead of using the same money to buy copyrights at high prices, self-made content obviously has a more proactive return cycle and voice!"

"Then the promotion of "Nine-Storey Demon Tower" will be reduced?"

"There's no need...just promote as usual." Speaking of this, Shen Xudong suddenly remembered something: ""Nine-Storey Demon Tower" is so powerful, how about the first week of "The Wind Listener" and "The Vanishing Bullet"?"