At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 209 New Ideas (14)

Screenplays are always written in three acts.

It's just that different masters divided these three-act plays more carefully.

Hollywood's famous "Snyder Beat" divides the film structure into 14 parts.

Opening Scene, Theme Presentation, Foreshadowing, Prompt, Argument, Act [-] Connection, B-Story, Amusement Game, Midpoint, Villain Looming, Nothing, Dark Night of the Soul, Act [-] Connection, Ending Scene...

It was regarded as a bible, and a bunch of production companies learned it, and then... it became a template.

Therefore, Hollywood blockbusters are the kind of things where you can guess the ending after seeing the beginning...

"The Fox Wife of the Mountain Village" is also three acts, but it is not the same as Snyder's rhythm. It is five stories that lead to the final truth...

In fact, it is the same as "Legend of the Hunter in Xing'an Mountains", starting from folk legends and folk stories, and finally pointing the theme to the unsatisfactory "human nature is evil".

"Legend of the Hunter in Xing'an Mountains" divides the story into three parts: "yaoyan, lovesickness, and cause and effect".

"The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village" directly tells 5 short stories, each of which can be self-consistent, and finally returns to a whole...

During the period of the Republic of China, a heavy rain trapped the theater troupe who were about to cross the river to Labagou to sing the famous event.On a thunderstorm night, the troupe sheltered from the rain together with murderous bandits and unidentified policemen...

At this time, the oldest blind man in the team told the horror story he had heard about the fox fairy.

After that, everyone followed, and what they were talking about was also the story of the fox fairy...

But the same story, told by different people, has different versions.

What the blind man was talking about was that a theater troupe went to the village to do red things. Suddenly there was a gust of wind and strange noises.

The drug seller said that Xie's family was a bad gambler. He lost money and went to the fox cave to steal sesame oil. He was tried by the fox fairy and asked to take a female fox as his wife.

The murderer tells a story: I and my master are Taoist priests. When we came to Xie’s big car shop, we found that there were a lot of sheep in the yard. It turned out that they were transformed by villagers. There were monsters in the village. Lao Xie was possessed by monsters. , peeled off 3 layers of skin of the monster, the monster has 2 layers of skin left, each layer has 5 years of skill, after 15 years, the monster will come to revenge...

Of course, he is talking nonsense, mainly to add horror...

After all, horror movies, there are no ghosts and gods, so it is difficult to create an atmosphere...

In fact, what they were talking about was a person who encountered a fox possessed by a demon in a mountain village. That person turned everyone in the village into sheep and slaughtered them one by one.

The theme is all about the fox wife, and the theme is all about the monster in the mountain village.

Then, the murderer strikes back, gets up and kills everyone.

At this time, the show has changed from a clichéd horror film to a chilling suspense film!

The murderer told a true story.

The village was hit by a drought, and there was a very wealthy family named Xie. In order to prevent people in the village from starving to death, Xie's family distributed free food to the village for three years.

But when the drought ended, the Xie family stopped giving free money and rice to the village.

The people in the village missed their family.

The murderer teamed up with another gambler to plan to kidnap Xie's unmarried daughter-in-law to extort money.

Originally, they didn't plan to kill anyone, but on the way, Xie's fiancée woke up. In order to prevent her from escaping, the murderer and the fat man simply strangled her to death. The only living witness at the scene said: "Remember to me, people were killed by the fox demon. If I hear anything else, I will definitely kill you!"

The man from the Xie family loves his fiancée very much, so he simply married with the spiritual throne.

Thus, a rumor about the fox wife was born...

Moreover, through the spread of various people such as theater troupe and drug dealers, there are countless versions of this rumor.

As for the truth, it was covered up by a horror story about a fox wife.

The good guy becomes the bad guy, and the bad guy becomes the good guy who fights the fox demon.

This movie is about the ugliness of human nature, promoting Mi En, fighting Mi Qiu...

There is also depth, and it will not collapse.

As for the trial - this thing is a story of the Republic of China, and there is no ghost in fact, it is a rumor, and the trial is not a big problem!
After reading the full version of the script, Li Guoli immediately made a decision: "I must shoot this story!"

Shen Xudong smiled: "...It was originally written for you."

Cai Yinong took the script, flipped through it, and frowned: "This story can't be filmed for 150 million yuan, right?"

"...There are not many scenes, you can rent a ruined temple to shoot... There are not many special effects scenes... Even if you hire a second-rate Hong Kong star, the cost will not exceed 300 million... If you don't have enough money, I can help you contact Orange Sky!"

"...Does your company have no money?"

"…I?"

Shen Xudong was a little moved...

That is, Forrest Gump's "Close Your Eyes When It's Dark" can rake in 2000 million at the box office...

If the promotion of "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village" keeps up, even if the box office can't exceed [-] million, the probability of recovering the cost is still quite high!

It is almost equivalent to a job that can make a profit without losing money, why not do it yourself?

Shen Xudong thought for a while, then called Gao Fenfen...

……

After all, there are only a small number of people who use money to make movies these days.

Even Huayi only approves three or four movies a year, and the ones who can really make money have to watch Feng Xiaogang...

Where did the movie in theaters come from?
State-owned studios!

These companies are just shrinking, it's not that they don't make movies anymore...

However, there are still a small number of private companies making movies. Even if they invest, they are also participating in co-productions...

When Gao Fenfen heard that Shen Xudong wanted to invest in a movie, he subconsciously refused, and then he heard that it was a horror and suspense movie, and the total cost did not exceed 300 million...

"Horror movies are best suited for a small business. I calculated it. With a cost of 300 million, the movie channel should spend 50 to buy the TV rights. In addition to rural screenings...DVD revenue and overseas revenue, I think the probability of paying back is quite high. of…"

Shen Xudong briefly talked about his thoughts...

Gao Fenfen wanted to say something, but suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked, "Did you write the script?"

"Yes…"

"...Okay, I see, I'll contact Cai Yinong right away!"

Gao Fenfen absolutely trusts Shen Xudong's ability...

As soon as she heard the script written by Shen Xudong, she immediately dialed Cai Yinong's phone number, and then heard her talk about the horror film strategy proposed by Shen Xudong. Gao Fenfen agreed on the surface, but complained in her heart, "Why don't you tell me if you have such an idea!" '

Hearing Cai Yinong talk about the contract with United Cinemas, Gao Fenfen immediately thought of Star Beauty Cinemas...

The construction of Xingmei Cinemas has encountered difficulties - last month, Shanghai Xintiandi International Cinema, invested by Hong Kong filmmaker Wu Siyuan, withdrew from China Film Xingmei Cinemas and joined Shanghai Lianhe Cinemas...

Nowadays, although there are 35 theater lines, everyone knows that there are actually three original three-legged structures: Shanghai United Film Group under Shanghai Film Group, BJ New Film Group under Beijing Film Group Corporation, and China Film Xingmei Group under China Film Group...

(End of this chapter)