My uncle is back, and my mother-in-law is very enthusiastic. She provides four dishes and one soup every day.
That night I cooked sweet and sour short ribs, braised meatballs and two stir-fried vegetables. The soup was cabbage soup. Gong Xue's mother ate little, and after a while she put down her chopsticks, stood up and said, "You guys eat, I'll go out and walk around."
"Okay, please wait a minute!"
Chen Qi saw her going out and asked curiously: "Why is our mother going?"
"When you come back, she won't have to take a walk with me. I have company myself. I met a teacher in the building next door to the Beijing Film Studio, and it's great to have fun.'
"Oh, yes, your mother is also engaged in art——male or female?"
"There are several people here, both men and women."
"Then your dad himself has no one to watch him in Shanghai."
"You deserve a beating, don't you?"
Gong Xue slapped the table and he shut up to eat.
The mother-in-law considered his taste, both sweet and salty, and it tasted good. He liked to eat home-cooked rice, so he finished two bowls of it. Seeing that there was still a little soup left, it was a pity that he poured it out, so he filled another half bowl of rice and soaked it in the soup.
Here, continue to purr.
"Oh, if this news reaches Hong Kong, people will laugh to death!" Gong Xue said with a smile,
"Yes, everyone eats French food and drinks Lafite. Even if it doesn't work out, you can go to the Peninsula Hotel to have English afternoon tea."
He finished all the rice in one go, patted his bulging belly, and said with satisfaction: "But what the heck, you can eat whatever you like. Do you still have rice?"
"I can't eat anymore."
"Then I'll take care of it."
Such a big cadre wipes the table and washes the dishes with a rag, and there is even a maid in the house who does her own rags.
The weather is getting warmer in May, the balcony windows are open, and it is time for every household to eat. The sound of frying and frying is accompanied by the aroma of vegetables. This is the atmosphere of living in a building.
Gong Xue wanted him to accompany her downstairs for a walk, but she saw him carrying a bag, taking out several video cassettes, and asked: "What is this?"
"I borrowed the military exercise documentary from Bayi Factory."
There was a video recorder at home, and Chen Qi tinkered with it and played it on TV.
Everyone knows that the North China military exercise in 1981 involved 110,000 people. This was a large-scale military exercise. In fact, small-scale exercises were also held from time to time in various military units. The Bayi Factory filmed many documentaries.
Gong Xue was bored, so she had to accompany him to watch the artillery fire and the roar of the plane.
Chen Qi looked at it very seriously, changed several boxes of tapes in succession, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "We can definitely make it!"
For the big scenes that "Dark Man" is going to be commercialized, he just took a look at at least 5 places that can be directly transformed into movie scenes. For example, there is a scene where the plane is accelerating on the runway, with explosion points buried on both sides, and fireworks are everywhere.
The plane flies through the explosion and takes off, which is very beautiful.
There are also shots of airborne troops parachuting. When they jump from the plane, clouds bloom like clouds, with close-up and long-range shots. The most exaggerated scene is of facing the airborne troops in mid-air. I don’t know where the photographer is.
Photographed.
In short, it basically meets the feeling that Chen Qi wants, and it can be transformed into a movie scene during actual shooting.
"Black Man" was filmed in the Mainland, and HK$20 million was definitely enough.
Some people always say that the cost of the "Armageddon" trilogy is 100 million. In fact, it is not there. The central government approved a budget of 70 million, but it actually cost 6,000.
Ten million, of which ten million is money for purchasing equipment.
Gong Xue saw that he was motionless and had to kick him even though he had a big belly: "What are you thinking about?"
"I think 1987 is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and 1989 is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. We have a big celebration every 10 years, and there will be a batch of gift films."
"You want to make a tribute film?"
"It's not that I think about it or not, but with this momentum, Dongfang Company can't avoid it and will definitely take over the task. Just take it. It just so happens that I also want to take pictures. I'll study it then."
Chen Qi took out the videotape, looked at the time, and said with a smile: "Do you still want to move? Go downstairs for a walk?"
"OK!"
It's quiet at night.
Gong Xue slept in the master bedroom, her mother slept in the second bedroom, and Chen Qi sat on the sofa in the living room with a cup of strong tea, preparing to write a manuscript.
He came back for nearly two months this time, writing a script while arranging "Dark Man". "Fifty First Dates" will be released in the summer. The film only cost a few million US dollars and the box office exceeded 30 million.
Even if you succeed, your worth will skyrocket if it exceeds 50 million.
Over 100 million?
He thought it was unlikely.
Anyway, he just makes money from milk powder, and this money must be known to the organization, so that everyone understands one thing: he can sell hundreds of thousands or even more dollars in Hollywood for just one script.
The U.S. dollar is the best evidence of value.
This has nothing to do with collectivism, it is his value as a person that no one can replace.
Chen Qi doesn't want to write any profound stories now, just straightforward commercial films that follow two elements: first, what he can't shoot himself; second, what Hollywood can currently shoot.
He wrote down his name: "Speed ​​of Life and Death"!
A villain has been planning for a long time to plant a bomb in the elevator, threaten 13 hostages, and demand a ransom of one million.
The protagonist cleverly and bravely defused the bomb and rescued the hostages. The villain took revenge with a grudge. He first blew up a bus,
And informs the protagonist that there is also a time bomb in the other bus.
This bomb is very strange. As long as the bus speed exceeds 50 miles per hour, it cannot slow down, otherwise it will explode.
The protagonist gets on the bus and must make the bus travel at high speed in order not to detonate the bomb. He has to deal with various situations and protect the safety of the passengers - after a series of thrills, he finally kills the villain.
"Speed" is not as good as "Die Hard" and other film history classics, but it still has quite a status.
Because the setting of "explosion below a certain speed" is very novel, locking the dramatic conflict on "speed", a bus full of passengers that cannot slow down and can only speed is very eye-catching.
The 1994 film cost $30 million and grossed $350 million at the box office.
The original version starred Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
Why couldn't Chen Qi film it? In addition to the production costs, there was also no way to build roads. If the bus had to keep running, it would require a long, long and undisturbed road. Neither the Mainland nor Hong Kong had the conditions.
It doesn't hurt to release this kind of film, and you can still make money.
He was so inspired that he kept writing and wrote a quarter of it in one night.
It was already early in the morning, so he yawned and quietly went into the bedroom to catch up on his sleep. Gong Xue woke up and touched his face: "You can write during the day, we won't disturb you."
"It's okay, I got inspiration at night and it will be done in a few days."
"Go to sleep!"
Chen Qi also pinched her round face.
Just like this, I was busy while spending time with my wife, and June arrived in the blink of an eye.
News about leadership changes in various departments appears in the newspapers almost every day: Director Wu of Radio and Television was transferred and replaced by a leader named Ai. This leader stayed in the job for a long time and worked until 1994.
Then, there is Shanghai that Chen Qi misses so much.
Chapter completed!