Chapter 17 Ding Xiu
Zhang Weiping is a businessman. After taking advantage of Zhang Yimou, he started investing in his movies and then started making money.
I guess he felt that he was as solid as Zhang Yimou, or that Zhang Yimou would definitely not leave him, so he began to give advice, like a godfather in the Chinese film industry!
He looked down on Huayi and Feng Xiaogang. "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" and "Night Banquet" were all the remaining ones that Zhang Yimou played!
Who knew that Feng Xiaogang actually rose last year, and "Assembly" directly dropped a box office of 250 million yuan, and directly killed "The Vote" down.
In addition, Zhang Yimou has been busy with the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in the past two years and has no works released, so Zhang Weiping is a little anxious.
So, when a reporter asked him what he thought about "The Embroidered Spring Sword" invested by Huayi, he asked who the director was. When he learned that Xu Hui was actually a member of Korean idol, he expressed his opinion: "Huayi's current vision is really speechless. If Xu Hui can make a good movie, even a sow can climb a tree!"
This sentence spread to the Internet that day, and some netizens who were idle and frustrated carried forward this sentence.
"If Xu Hui doesn't have grass powder any day, the sows can climb trees!"
"If Xu Hui can get hot again, even the sows can climb trees!"
Damn, did the sow mess with you?
"As soon as he produces, what he says can represent? Can it represent the masses? Funny, so many experienced actors and behind-the-scenes personnel in our crew think this work is pretty good, 'Practice is the only criterion for testing truth', Zhang Weiping is not a charlatan, he doesn't understand me at all, why is he right?"
Xu Hui's expression was very excited, as if he felt that he had been insulted.
"The work you are going to shoot is "Embroidered Chunjian"? Why is it called this name? Is it a story about a weapon?"
"No, "Embroidered Chunjian" is a pair of swords for the Jinyiwei. The two major characteristics of Jinyiwei are: embroidered Chunjian and flying fish suit. I'll trouble you to promote this. After all, many people don't know what our story is about..."
This really needs to be promoted more, after all, few people know about this thing.
“…Why do you need to shoot such a story?”
"It's mainly interesting. I've watched HK action movies since I was a child and I always thought it was cool. In 2003, I wanted to take the director exam and failed to get what I wanted, but this story about Jinyiwei has taken shape..."
"Can you introduce us to the plot?"
"The plot is actually quite simple, which means that the three brothers of Jinyiwei were appointed to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, and then a series of things happened..."
After a while of silence with the reporters, I finally talked about the box office predictions of the movie.
"I heard that you are also an investor in this movie. Have you ever thought about the risks?"
Xu Hui paused slightly: "I thought about it, but the situation at that time was that I couldn't do it without filming, and I fell into the level of a group of demons."
"And to be honest, I have confidence in this movie. Whether a movie is good or not is a story very important. The market and the audience are still looking forward to a good story. We have a good story. At the same time, we also have a group of good actors, Wu Jing, Deng Chao and Li Bingbing, who are accompanying us through the teenagers. Shouldn't we go to the cinema to support it? So I think there is no possibility of failure in this movie."
"What's your box office forecast for this movie?"
Xu Hui thought for a while: "The investment in this drama so far is 30 million. If you want to recover the cost, the box office will be at least 90 million. With the appeal of our few, I guess it will be 150 million!"
“…Are you sure, 150 million?”
The reporter in charge of the interview was a little excited.
This is the best front page headline - the new director is arrogant and bluntly said that the movie may be overwhelmed with the box office!
Xu Hui nodded calmly: "At least 150 million, if it does not reach this box office, it will be the dereliction of duty of me, as a director!"
Of course, you should be more high-profile at this time.
When films were promoted in later generations, directors and actors always said 500 million, and this is the reason for one billion.
Even if you know that you have made a bad movie, such as "Sky Hunter", you will still call it, "Beyond Wolf Warrior 2!"!
What do you know where they come from?
But as a director and creator, you are not confident enough, so how can the audience have confidence in your movie?
After the interview, the reporters were very satisfied. They got a lot of news points. Whether Xu Hui was striking Zhang Weiping or predicting the box office, they could all become the front page headlines;
Xu Hui was also quite satisfied. Only with exposure can there be publicity!
Only with publicity can there be box office!
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The afternoon filming turned to action scenes, and the literary scenes were almost done, and most of the remaining shots were with Li Bingbing present.
"Director, are you dissatisfied with action design?"
When Li Zhongzhi saw Xu Hui frowning and looking at the substitutes of several martial arts who were being auditioned, he hurried over and asked.
"It's a little bit!"
Xu Hui looked up at Li Zhongzhi: "I always feel that our order is a bit chaotic. Generally, when fighting monsters are upgraded, the difficulty of fighting and the explosion points should be getting higher and higher! For example, when Chen's first appearance, we used the simplest and most practical moves."
"Then what?"
Li Zhongzhi became interested.
"Then when the three brothers kill Wei Zhongxian, we have to increase the level of gorgeousness! We can set the opponent slightly weaker!"
"Highlighting a little more gorgeous? Are you saying that the effect is done more?"
"Almost, there are two climax fight scenes in the whole movie. The first one is of course the Yan Man's fight scene. We must make this scene more intense!"
"Of course, the most intense and sensational fighting scenes must be left on the grassland!"
After hearing Xu Hui's words, Li Zhongzhi thought about it for a while: "If you follow your words, the action design must be changed..."
"It's okay, we have time!"
"The Yan family's son of Yan's family can't just break his hands..."
Xu Hui nodded and said, "You must have broken hands and your tendons cut off! This will make the visual effect stronger!"
"This... Give me some time, you guys can shoot other scenes first!"
As he spoke, Li Zhongzhi called out a few brothers from the martial arts industry and discussed together how to design to meet Xu Hui's requirements.
At the same time, Xu Hui called out the costumes and Ding Xiu was on the stage!
There is no way, if you have to redesign the action scenes, you can only shoot Ding Xiu's scenes.
As for the design, Xu Hui referred to Zhou Yiwei from the original time and space. Anyway, he has good looks and can handle any hairstyle!
"Brother Jing, Brother Chao, you two-handed camera..."
After Xu Hui said this, he felt a little regretful. The two guys were so slutty that they must have thought about how to suppress themselves, so he quickly added: "Don't take revenge on the public!"
"Hurry up, stop Moji, Xiao Yu has been waiting for a long time!"
Chapter completed!