Entertaining Children

  Chapter 504 A movie about parkour

The two found a cafe, Mu Ying ordered two cups of coffee, and couldn’t wait to ask Xiao Yao: “What kind of feature film? What type? Who is the investor? What is the budget? What are the actors? You say us. Write the script yourself, should it be based on a novel or an original script?"

  "Don't be so excited." Xiao Yao smiled and said, "I don't have a formed project in my hands. I just have such an idea to make a feature film. It's far from it."

   "Huh? It's just an idea?" After listening to Xiao Yao's words, Mu Ying really calmed down a lot, but still asked with interest, "What are your thoughts, please tell me more specifically."

"Well, to put it simply, I want to make a feature film. I don't think I can handle it alone, so I want to get you together. I have already decided on the type of movie, so I will make an action movie that you are better at." Xiao Yao said.

  "An action movie? A costume kung fu movie? Or a modern police movie?" Mu Ying asked.

   "When people think of China's action movies, they are kung fu movies, which is boring." Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I want to make an action movie related to a new sport." Xiao Yao said.

  "Emerging sports?" Mu Ying curiously asked, "What is it?"

   "Parkour, have you heard of it?" Xiao Yao said directly.

   "Have heard," Mu Ying nodded, "It is indeed a new sport. It has only become popular in recent years. I have seen someone play it in Los Angeles."

"Well, let's shoot this," Xiao Yao said. "This is a sport on the street and in the community. There is no official competition yet. We don't shoot the competition. We just shoot the stories on the streets and the stories of people who play parkour. ."

  Since he brought parkour to this world, Xiao Yao wanted to make a parkour-related movie one day. As parkour has become more and more popular in recent years, Xiao Yao's desire has become stronger and stronger.

  Xiao Yao wants to make a parkour movie, but not only wants to be a director, but also to be a star. Through the experience of that short film, Xiao Yao found that it was quite difficult to direct and act in a film. And making long films is different from short films. He can no longer make his grandfather Xiao Chengru La a guest executive director, nor can he simply hand over power to the photographer. He needs a truly capable executive director. If you can't find a suitable executive director, then it is acceptable for him to step back and co-direct with others.

  Meeting Mu Ying at the Film Festival this time is just the most suitable candidate in Xiao Yao's mind. First of all, he is professional enough. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Directing at Yandian and is currently studying for a master's degree from the Department of Directing at Southern University. This degree is also impressive.

  Secondly, he is young. Although he is nearly ten years older than himself, he is basically a fledgling boy in the direction of directors. Being young means that he has a high degree of acceptance of such new things. Although Mu Ying only has experience in advertising and short films, he has no experience in film directors. The relatively shallow qualifications also allowed him to have a better mentality to work with himself, a twenty-year-old rookie. The kind of film director who has achieved great fame, who is willing to let himself lead the shooting of a film, to lay hands on himself as a real boy?

Finally, he himself is more interested in action movies, and he is good at this type. His school experience in Los Angeles also made him familiar with Hollywood commercial films. Xiao Yao didn’t want to make a high-quality and low-profile literary film. What I want to make is an action movie, and there is a pursuit of commercial interests.

"It sounds good," Mu Yingdao, "but what about the funds? This kind of movement is still relatively new. How many audiences and market prospects it can have is hard to say, so this subject is very risky. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find people willing to invest? Do you plan to let your studio invest in your movie alone?"

"There are actors," Mu Ying continued, "Although you are famous, your reputation is in music. I know that many singers in China want to sing the songs you wrote. But in the movie circle, you are still a pure Newcomers, will anyone dare to risk acting in your movie? Even if you find a group of relatives and friends like this short film, how many people can do parkour moves? Your mother, your grandfather, and teacher Lin Shaohua just Not to mention, they are definitely not suitable to be the protagonists. How long will Huang Shi and Su Chengying have to practice before they can make those movements? I guess Cheng Xi, who was born in dancing, may be considered a good score."

"No, the two points you mentioned are not within my consideration." Xiao Yao smiled and said, "As for the actors, I intend to let the most senior parkour person play the protagonist, and the supporting role must also be a good parkour player. People come, in this regard, we have to ensure that we are professional, so that we can have enough room to play in the action design."

"The most senior parkour person?" Mu Yingdao, "Are you looking for someone who specializes in parkour? Let's not talk about whether they are willing to come, but is there a guarantee for such a person's acting skills? It can't be all in a movie. Action drama, there is no literary drama, right?"

   "Of course there is a guarantee," Xiao Yao said, "I dare not say that there will be at least three protagonists who will be professional actors."

   "Professional actors, or experienced parkour players, who?" Mu Ying said, "Is there such a person?"

   "Yes," Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, and pointed to his nose, "I!"

   "You?" Mu Ying was surprised, "You can parkour?"

  "It's not just that, it's not just me." Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and asked Mu Yingdao while opening the YRF parkour video on the PV, "Do you know YRF?"

   "Yes," Mu Ying nodded, "I heard those who play parkour say that it was the first group in the world to play parkour, and they invented the sport of parkour."

"Yes," Xiao Yao handed the phone to Mu Yingdao. "This is YRF's parkour video. YRF refers to me, Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. This group was used when we filmed "Ling Yun Zhi" together. Come out. You should know Zhao Rui and Xu Fei. Although they are not very old, they are also professional actors with rich acting experience. Do you think I will invite Zhao Rui and Xu Fei to play the movie with me. Will there be any problems? ?"

  "This...this is really you little guys!" Mu Ying took the phone and looked at it. Although none of the people in the video have faced the camera face-to-face, and can't see the front face, but after watching Xiao Yao's prompt with purpose, you can still find that the appearance and body of these people are very similar to those of Xiao Yao and the three of them. .

"Actually, I have also met other people who play parkour," Xiao Yao said. "From the contact with them, I found that the three of us still have a certain status in the hearts of parkour enthusiasts. If we pass this directly The YRF team’s account on PV sends a notice that we are going to make a parkour movie. Please ask those who have performance experience or want to participate in the filming of parkour enthusiasts to audit other main characters in the movie. Would you say Someone responds? The Chinese are the main characters, and the Europeans and Americans are the supporting roles. The combination of the actors is very interesting."

"Also," Xiao Yao continued, "In terms of funding, I don't plan to find film companies or companies as investors to avoid restrictions. We make independent films and play by ourselves. Apart from the two of us, I plan to let Zhao Rui and Xu Fei also participated in film investment together in their own names."

"According to what you said, there should be no problem with the actors. But in terms of funding, although I don't know how much your three young stars have now, I suspect that it is enough to rely on the four of us?" Mu Ying mobile phone Handed it back to Xiao Yao, frowning, "I am a poor student, and I have spent a lot of money to make this short film, and I don't have much savings."

   "Maybe it is indeed not enough." Xiao Yao nodded and frowned.

   Zhao Rui and Xu Fei’s financial situation is not clear to Xiao Yao, but it is estimated that he can’t afford to invest in a movie. Although he has several sources of income now, the ongoing animation film also needs his continuous investment. It seems that he does not have much spare money to open another film project.

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao slapped his face, "We can also play crowdfunding!"

Whether it’s a past life or this world, there is already a form of crowdfunding to raise project funds. Xiao Yao didn’t plan to use the money from his parents’ studio, and when he didn’t have enough money, he remembered this relatively open fundraising method. .

  "Crowdfunding?" Mu Ying was a little puzzled, "Who is crowdfunding with?"

"We still use PV's YRF channel to launch crowdfunding to all parkour enthusiasts around the world in the name of YRF." Xiao Yao smiled, "As a parkour enthusiast, participate in the world's first and parkour. In related movies, when the movie is released in the future, I can proudly point to the screen with my friends and relatives and say that I also have an investment in this movie. What is it like?"

   "Although I am not a parkour fan, I can also imagine that it will definitely feel cool!" Mu Ying smiled and nodded. Crowdfunding funds for the first parkour movie from parkour enthusiasts has a natural advantage compared to ordinary crowdfunding projects.

"You're not a parkour fan? That's not good." Xiao Yao smiled and shook his head. "I still need you and me to complete the script of this movie. Although crowdfunding for parkour fans may seem easier, But we also have to follow the rules to make our project ideas showable. We can't make parkour fans pay for the YRF name alone, we have to get some dry goods."

  In his previous life, Xiao Yao’s most impressive parkour movies were "Corporate Warrior" and "Violence Zone 13".

Xiao Yao feels that it’s a bit too early to play "Violence 13 Districts" at his age, and "Violence 13 Districts" has an action style with parkour, and is essentially a police action movie, not suitable for the first publicity. A movie that promotes parkour, and there are only two protagonists in this movie. Xiao Yao also doesn't want to leave Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, the two little friends of YRF, in the world's first parkour movie.

  Relatively speaking, "Corporate Warrior" with a parkour team as the protagonist is more suitable, but Xiao Yao did not intend to copy the previous "Corporate Warrior". It may be some kind of emotion. First of all, Xiao Yao was very upset with the Japanese name. What's more, the plot of this movie was weak. Among them, theft was to save lives. The police threatened the doctor with guns to save lives. This kind of plot may not be able to pass the trial in Huaxia. He didn't want this movie to be unavailable in China after it was shot, or it was cut to pieces by radio and television.

  So Xiao Yao intends to only learn from the setting that the movie's protagonist is a team, and the specific storyline must be completely redesigned. Xiao Yao didn't plan to spend his brain alone in creating this kind of original script, but naturally he wanted to get Mu Ying together. After returning to China to inform Zhao Rui and Xu Fei of the project, Xiao Yao also planned to let them both join in the script writing and work together.

"It's okay to create a script together, but I listen to what you mean because I want me to learn parkour?" Mu Ying smiled, "I'm not you, this old man with old arms and legs, can I learn it? Let's talk about it. I can’t learn it just by watching the video. I will return to the United States when the film festival is over. Can you go to the United States to teach me specifically?"

"Bah, you are less than 30, dare you say that you have old arms and legs?" Xiao Yao rolled his eyes and said, "Actually, I originally wanted you to know more about it, so I don't have to learn to play. But since you are like this Say, I really want you to experience it yourself. Isn't USC in Los Angeles? I happen to know a parkour team member in Los Angeles. Their leader is Nathan Donal. This is his phone number. Contact him after you return to Los Angeles. When they have parkour activities, you can follow along to feel it. I will greet him and let them teach you well." Then, Xiao Yao put Nathan Do on his mobile phone. The contact information of the Nar people was sent to Mu Ying's cell phone.

  "Do you still know the parkour team in Los Angeles?" Mu Ying stared.

"Of course," Xiao Yao smiled, "I said, the name YRF still has a certain weight among parkour enthusiasts. They also named me "Yuan Lao Yang". I ask them to teach you how to play. Parkour, they will definitely not refuse."

"Uh... well, um... I will try my best." Mu Ying smiled bitterly, and changed the subject, "Let’s discuss the script first. After all, only after the script is completed can we make a movie. The budget for the production cost of the company can start crowdfunding, and this project can be established. Do you have any preliminary framework?"

"My initial thinking now is that the protagonist must be a team, not only Zhao Rui and Xu Fei, but also five to seven people, all with their own unique personalities and different family backgrounds." Xiao Yao began to describe himself. "There must be at least one girl in the team, so that you can tell everyone that girls can also play parkour. As for the plot, I haven’t figured it out yet. Initially I think it should be that they went from simply showing off parkour to using parkour to help. Such a process by others..."

  (End of this chapter)