At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 796
This was a bit ambiguous, Shen Xudong quickly added: "I mean you are mature and feminine, when I first met you, you were still drinking Wahaha!"

Chen Xi interrupted: "The first time? When?"

"In "Dragon Babu", she played Wang Yuyan, and I was the screenwriter with the group..."

"Then you two have a good relationship?"

Shen Xudong thought for a while, and said: "...She was only 15.6 years old at that time...I mainly have a good relationship with Aunt Liu, and I ate a few meals!"

"and after?"

"...Later, we collaborated on "Legend of Sword and Fairy", but Aunt Liu was a bit disdainful of Tang Ren and "Legend of Sword". When filming "Legend of Sword", she almost left the scene..."

When it came to her mother, Liu Yifei helped to defend: "Tang Ren was a small company at the time, and the production of "Sword" was really not that big, and there were no big stars..."

Shen Xudong nodded: "Yes, yes, your mother was focused on making you watch Jin Yong's drama..."

"...My mother is also doing it for my own good!"

"Your mother is an outsider at all, she doesn't even have the ability to analyze scripts, and she can't tell good from bad when given resources!" She glanced at her, and said honestly: "You are the same!"

Liu Yifei was very unconvinced: "Who can analyze it?"

The director and screenwriter's so-called good or bad, you can only see from his past works.

It can be said that every work of art is a gamble, especially the literary ones. Commercial films are relatively better, but they are not without risks.

Absolutely perfect screenplays never exist, and I haven't been able to find a director who can always deliver satisfactory answers with stable performance.

Let me ask, if you were an actor, and brother Chen Kai asked you to act, would you go?What about Zhang Yimou?Do you know whether your final work is "Farewell My Concubine" or "Taoist Descending the Mountain"?Is it "Red Sorghum" or "The Great Wall"?
But... to find out if your role is right or suitable for acting, actors above the pass line can tell.

"You are wrong. As an actor, before taking on a play, you must do psychological construction. The traditional method is to do an "inner monologue": to understand the past and present of the character you are playing in your heart, figure out how to enter the role, and naturally express what you should do. Characters, if you can’t find the characters, and you can’t figure out the logic of the characters, then the play is probably useless!”

"...It's not bad if I can receive the play!"

……

In fact, the world of Chinese-language film circles is not very big, and there are only a few groups of people who come and go.

Even fewer have the opportunity to take center stage.

You see, whether it is Zhang Yimou or Chen Kai, they are all over seventy years old, and they are still standing in the C position in various activities...

The four talented directors in Hollywood back then are long gone. Martin Scorsese was criticized by the Dutch brother for spraying Marvel, saying that he couldn’t eat grapes and said grapes were sour...

Spielberg was sprayed for his endless tributes, from "Ready Player One" to "West Side Story", and then "The House of Dreams", imploring these directors to stop this kind of biography of themselves Okay, after shooting, I was reluctant to cut it, which made the whole film very bloated! '

As for Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, they have retired a long time ago, and at most they will occasionally post on Twitter to get some heat. When Martin ran into Marvel, Francis Ford Coppola come out and help...

These people are no longer the center of the stage!

It can only be said that China's film market looks huge, but the space left for newcomers is still quite small.

In the past, it was divided according to the region, such as the northwest circle and the Beijing circle. Later, if you have money, you are the uncle. Who cares which circle you belong to?

But there is still a distinction between closeness and distance.

Therefore, in order to receive good projects, actors must mix in the circle and attach themselves to various powerful figures in the circle.

Liu Yifei can be regarded as a gangster...

"Hong Kong directors only want to make money!"

"Around 2003, they looked down on the mainland, but the population is large and the market is here, so they come to guarantee the bottom line and sell films, and they don't share the bill with you;

After 2007, the proportion of the mainland film market has increased from [-]% to [-]%. He needs to rely on the docks, some rely on Huayi, some rely on Bona, and some rely on China Film.But they really want to make money from you, and the cost of the movie is getting higher and higher. "

Liu Yifei answered immediately: "What about now?"

"Many Hong Kong directors bypassed Hong Kong film companies and directly cooperated with the mainland, and started to set up offices in BJ. Our company directly invested in Xu Ke's film studio, and many Hong Kong directors followed suit. Chen Jia went to Guangguang, Liu Weiqiang and Er Dongsheng went to Bona, Several forces quickly formed."

"Hong Kong directors have rich production experience and star resources, and they form a group, but they don't know what mainland audiences like to shoot. They take out all the things at the bottom of the box and shoot them over and over again. For example, "The Female General of the Yang Family", "The Legend of the Hongmen Banquet" ", "New Shaolin Temple"... In fact, these plots continued their successful routines and experiences, and invested a lot of money to shoot them, but judging from market feedback, 2 million yuan is a threshold, and mainland audiences still don't accept it... In the true sense Explosive models start at 3 million, they can’t do it!”

Hearing this, Chen Xi was curious: "Why?"

"Because they don't understand mainland audiences, the things they shoot have a sense of distance..." Speaking of this, Shen Xudong glanced at Liu Yifei, and said seriously: "Even without "First Love", the box office of "Legend of Hongmen Banquet" would not exceed two 1.5 million... [-] million are on the line!"

Liu Yifei muttered: "...I also want to make a good movie, if people don't want me, what can I do?"

"Why are you looking for me? Do you have a good relationship with them?" After a pause, he said again: "I really don't understand what your mother thinks, going to Hong Kong to develop and not paying homage to Golden Harvest's wharf..."

"My mother has her own judgment..."

Shen Xudong curled his lips and stopped talking, Chen Xi hurriedly answered and asked Liu Yifei: "What's the matter with you looking for me this time?"

"Oh, I accepted your company's project!"

Chen Xi looked at Shen Xudong suspiciously: "Our company's project?"

"What project?"

"It's called "Tongque Terrace". I heard that your company cooperated with Changying to create... the Three Kingdoms series."

While talking, Liu Yifei also took out the script...

Chen Xi subconsciously took over the script, with a look of bewilderment: "When did our company make "Tongque Terrace"?"

Shen Xudong glanced at her, and the latter immediately handed over the script. He briefly flipped through it and asked casually, "Who talked to you?"

"It's the director and screenwriter of this play..."

Shen Xudong quickly browsed through it, and then closed the script: "Is the director's name Zhao Linshan?"

"Yes... I used to shoot commercials!"

"You didn't agree to act, did you?"

Liu Yifei froze for a moment, then shook her head: "I have already agreed, I heard that the leading actor is Zhou Runfa!"

"...It's fine if you agree, I have indeed been approached for this project..." Shen Xudong said to Chen Xi: "Zhao Linshan is Zhao Linhai's cousin...I don't like this project...so I rejected it!"

Chen Xi immediately became angry: "You didn't agree, why did he say that this is Tianmei's project? This is not pulling a tiger's skin to pull the banner, it's too shameless!"

"...Ask Zhao Linhai...Maybe he doesn't know about it either!"

(End of this chapter)