In Beijing, Dongfeng Art District, Ning Hao's Bad Monkey Pictures, which was founded last year, is located in a small white building.

Ning Hao's contract with Pony has expired, and he has officially left Pony who has been there for four years.

Xiaoma had signed a VAM agreement with the investor before, and if it failed to go public as scheduled at the end of this year, it would lose a lot of money.

Leaving at this time, remembering Li Ming's bold words when he met him four years ago, Ning Hao felt a little reluctant in his heart.

"Don't think about it so much, even if you don't leave, it won't help if the new movie involves Pony and will be released right away, the key for Pony now is whether he can find a suitable shell. Wang Yibing, a partner and general manager of Bad Monkey, persuaded.

Xiaoma had long planned to list on A-shares, but at the end of last year, except for a few stocks such as film and television stocks, the stock market was in a downturn, and the IPO of A-shares was stopped, opening a long window period, and Xiaoma's listing road was naturally interrupted.

Unable to go public normally, Pony can only go public through a backdoor listing now, but there is no movement at all.

"Chairman Li treats me well. Ning Hao shook his head.

In addition to money, Li Ming really didn't say anything to him.

"Don't worry, Li Dong can go over, I heard that Huayang Media plans to offer a purchase price of 4.5 billion, but there is really no way, he can just sell the company. Wang Yibing said.

"4.5 billion?"

Ning Hao's eyes widened, "Huayang Media engaged in that gimmick of cultural tourism real estate, held press conferences with Hengda every day, and the governments of various cities, and finally pulled the market value to 13 billion, where did the money come from to buy Xiaoma?"

"In the capital market, you don't have to spend your own money. ”

Wang Yibing smiled, "Huayang Media lost to Li Qian last year, and its market value was almost surpassed by Guangxian, but the popularity of film and television stocks, coupled with the gimmick of 100 billion cultural tourism real estate, compared with the lowest point last year, the market value is about to double."

Now in the market of film and television stocks, as long as Huayang Media officially announces the acquisition, the daily limit will rise for several consecutive days every minute, and the market value will skyrocket, and more people will send money. ”

The stock market is so magical, it is clear that the business is not good, but it has become a high-quality stock.

Ning Hao was silent, after the movie and capital are involved, money doesn't seem to be money, hundreds of millions or even billions are like a bunch of numbers.

This is also one of the reasons why he left Xiaoma, he doesn't have to look at Li Qian, just looking at Ma Xiaogang's shell company sold 300 million, any capable director, it is false to say that he does not envy it.

That's why I chose to go out on my own, expand the studio into a film and television company, and the new movie that is in preparation must also be controlled by myself.

Even if you don't love money so much, when you have the ability and should take a hundred yuan, you will definitely not want to take only twenty or thirty yuan.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it. Ning Hao shook his head, "Dong Li has been in business for twenty years, and he doesn't need me to worry about it." ”

Then Ning Hao had a headache and said about the new film "Heart Flower Road" that was in preparation, "Xu Zheng and Bozi are both still in the country, and they will not be able to return to China for at least three months, and Xu Zheng will have to do the post-production, and after the publicity, there will be no time for a while." ”

Wang Yibing frowned, "Except for Xu Zheng, there really are no other actors who can act?"

"No one can replace his lustful eyes, his whole body is full of laughter, full of joy, and shrewd to death market scoundrel temperament," Ning Hao shook his head.

Suddenly, the mobile phone on Ning Hao's desk rang, interrupting their conversation.

"I'll answer the phone later. ”

Ning Hao looked at the unknown number on his phone, picked up his phone and connected it.

"Hey. ”

"It's Director Li..."

"Well... Well..."

"Well, I'll be there on time..."

As soon as he hung up the phone, Wang Yibing asked, "Li Qian?"

The director surnamed Li, except for Li Qian, can't think of anyone who can make Ning Hao lower his profile.

"It's him. Ning Hao smiled and nodded, he had long wanted to see Li Qian, but he had never had the opportunity.

Li Qian basically doesn't attend any activities... Ning Hao himself is actually the same.

The industry says that it is not big, but it is not small, and many people may become good friends in a play, but they will not see each other twice in the next two or three years.

......

In the afternoon, Ning Hao came to the club that he had agreed on the phone.

Under the guidance of the waiter, pushing the door in, Li Qian was already waiting, and Ning Hao hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

"I'm sorry Director Li, I'm late. ”

"It's me who came early, Director Ning, please take a seat. ”

Li Qian smiled and motioned to the waiter to serve tea.

Asked Ning Hao to sit down, picked up the literary script of "Detective Chinatown" that had been written on the table, and handed it over.

"Director Ning, this is the script I said in the morning, you can take a look at it first. ”

When talking about things, let's be more direct.

The main reason is that Li Qian doesn't know that Ning Haojian is not talkative, in case he is a stuffy gourd, then he will have an embarrassing chat again, so he simply be direct, talk about business first, and then chat.

Ning Hao was stunned, and on the phone call in the morning, Li Qian did say that there was a script for him to take a look at.

However, it is a little unaccustomed to being so direct.

However, whether it is direct or not, Ning Hao is not a person who likes to drag mud and water.

"Director Li, please wait a moment. ”

took the script and smiled at Li Qian, Ning Hao sat up straight and began to read the script.

The script is close to 30,000 words, but it is actually not long, and it is only a short story.

However, the script that Li Qian took out must be extraordinary, and Ning Hao read it very seriously.

After an hour, Ning Hao put down the script, sighed in his heart, and was somewhat disappointed.

But on the surface, he still smiled, "Director Li, this should be a comedy and suspense film with an obvious style and characteristics, with a multi-line narrative, a relatively tight plot design, complex but not messy, basically no need to use any brains to think, but it is very gripping."

is essentially a suspense movie, but it is indeed the epidermis of comedy, if it is filmed and the right supporting role is found, it will be a very commercial and likable movie. ”

After a pause, Ning Hao added, "The final reversal is a big surprise, especially in the ending, which adds a lot of color." ”

With that, Ning Hao put down the script, for him, this script is very good, but that's all.

In fact, such a script is not uncommon.

What Ning Hao originally wanted to see was creative and exquisite scripts like "Truman's World" and "The Moon".

Or "I Am Not the God of Medicine" and "Perfect World", which can tell a story that can move him.

These two are Li Qian's characteristics.

And this "Detective Chinatown", no matter how exquisitely the plot is arranged, that's all, he has written such a script himself, nothing new.

Put the script down, the meaning is obvious, if you are looking for him to direct, then forget it.

Li Qian's reaction to Ning Hao is not strange, suspense comedy, which in itself is what Ning Hao is good at.

Showing Ning Hao the script of "Detective Chinatown" is a bit of a class axe.

Excluding other factors, from the perspective of the movie itself, compared with "Detective Chinatown" and "Crazy Stone", if it is ten-point, there should be a one-point gap.

Li Qian said with a smile, "This script is indeed inferior to Director Ning's crazy series, not to mention commercial factors, even if the reversal at the end of the movie adds a lot of points, on the whole, it is not as good as "Crazy Stone". ”

Such a director who set a box office record and won the only Oscar in the mainland admitted that his script was not as good as himself, which made Ning Hao a little embarrassed, and followed Li Qian's words.

Actually, the reversal of the ending, and the character of Snow, reminded me of a sentence I had said when I talked to a writer about the new book he was writing.

He said that in the eyes of adults, children are always simple, and even if children can lie, the lie can be exposed immediately. We can't imagine the trickery of children, even if we have been children ourselves.

His book is about a child named Zhu Chaoyang, who plots to kill his biological father, his half-sister, and his two good friends.

In the end, he forged a diary, in the diary, Zhu Chaoyang is a simple child, kindly helping his friends, he didn't do anything bad, everything was done by others.

His book, Zhu Chaoyang's behavior shows that children are darker than adults, they understand that there is more than beauty in this world, and they will do wrong things in order to protect their own things.

Like Si Nuo, in order to protect herself and get rid of her stepfather, who was plotting against her, she planned a good show that almost deceived everyone, so that no one would suspect her. ”

Li Qian's eyes lit up, and he said with interest, "This is a very interesting film, the murderer of the serial murder case is a child, judging from your description, this Zhu Chaoyang is not enough to describe as a genius." ”

If you don't guess wrong, this Zhu Chaoyang is the one in the memory of "The Hidden Corner".

both have half-sisters and two good friends, both named Zhu Chaoyang, but the plot is different, and it should have been adapted.

Ning Hao shook his head, "It's not just a genius, there is no such person in reality, they are all about to catch up with Conan, there is a similar plot in Keigo Higashino's "White Night Walking", Yukiho uses Ryoji's sympathy to get rid of Ryoji's father and all the obstacles around him, Ryoji bears all the sins for Yusui, but Yusui does not touch a leaf, and many of the protagonists are children, planning a series of crimes. ”

It seems that Ning Hao has seen a lot of suspense, and it is not surprising that he himself is a suspense comedy.

However, Li Qian hasn't seen the "White Night Walking" he said, but Keigo Higashino knows that he is a well-known suspense writer.

"Director Ning, I've actually studied your movies. ”

Li Qian didn't continue the topic, but instead talked about Ning Hao's movie, and Ning Hao was also curious to wait for what Li Qian said.

"As one of the best comedy directors in our mainland, Director Ning's films are not as inspirational as Zhou's comedies, and the previous Zhou's comedies are more like adult fairy tales.

And Director Ning, the core of your comedy is not based on the counterattack of the little people and the ironic metaphors of the middle class, but on the basis of the "sense of honor of the little people", I remember Mr. Lu Xun said that if people do not have a sense of honor, all society and civilization will immediately come to naught.

So in Director Ning's movie, in order to defend his career dream and glorious tradition of graduating from the police academy, Bao Shihong, the head of the security section of the handicraft factory, fought against black and white, and finally made a mistake and was commended for his courage in capturing international thieves.

Geng Hao, a former cyclist who became a seafood delivery man, accidentally got involved in a blockade deal between the Treasure Island gang and the Zhuguo Blockade in order to buy a cemetery to bury his master, and finally buried an urn of $200,000 underground.

The international thieves from Hong Kong have made a big mistake in front of the unruly petty thieves, ruffians, and honest and upright security guards.

A blocker from the treasure island of Zhuguo, a domineering and invincible underworld man, capsized in the gutter in front of a little-known seafood delivery man......"

There is still something I haven't said, that "Crazy Alien", you don't need to watch Ning Hao's film, except for him, no one will make a movie of this style.

In order to achieve his dream and honor of being the "Monkey King", the monkey trickster Geng Hao conscientiously adhered to the true character of the monkey puppeteer, and even came up with the crazy idea of training the "alien" into a monkey substitute, and used the monkey trick to play with Agent Mi Lijian and applaud him.

Aliens from space can play Mi Lijian's agents, doctors, diplomats, etc., but in front of the monkey tricksters and liquor dealers in the mainland, they lose their magic and are surrendered.

This is also a typical sense of honor of a little person, winning high with low, and winning elegant with vulgarity, this kind of dramatic reversal is the only core of Ning Hao's comedy movies.

Everything else, whether it is black humor or humanistic care, is the appearance and packaging.

Ning Hao, who was on the other side, heard Li Qian analyze himself naked, as if he had overheard his inner thoughts, and there was an inexplicable horror in his heart.

Isn't it Li Qian, amazing!

However, if people do not have a sense of honor, all society and civilization will immediately come to naught, it seems that Lu Xun said it, right?

Ning Hao didn't think about it, but he was full of emotion, when he first filmed "The Great Gold Robbery", he asked Lei Jiayin about Li Qian, and later asked Huang Bo and Xu Zheng about Li Qian.

But now it seems that what the three of them said was too one-sided, and they didn't really understand Li Qian at all.

Listening to what Li Qian said a lot, Ning Hao was also slightly confused, not knowing what he meant, and not knowing what he should say.

Is it wrong to refute what Li Qian said?

Or do you want to say Director Li, you are so powerful?

However, before Ning Hao could remember what to say, Li Qian didn't stop.

"But Director Ning, haven't you thought about changing?"

"Change?" Ning Dao was a little puzzled.

"Yes. ”

Li Qian nodded lightly, and took a sip of the teacup by the way, but he was thirsty to death.

"The market, the homeless, and the urban proletarians are the characteristics of Ning Dao's films, and they are also a kind of breath of the city, but with the development of the times, they are no longer the mainstream, at least no longer the mainstream of moviegoers. ”

Ning Hao frowned, "Why did Director Li say this?"

"Looking at the typical police and gangster films of Xiangjiang Films, the box office changes are clear. ”

Li Qian didn't say it directly, but gave an example, "In the previous Xiangjiang police and gangster films, most of the main characters came from the market, grassroots police, undercover, and the underworld is also at the bottom of society, even if it is the boss of the gangster, the image will not be very high."

However, these police and gangster films have a good reputation, but mainland audiences don't like to watch them, only "Cold War" is a big hit, "Cold War" is out of the market atmosphere, the whole actor and story composition are much "taller", and the overall painting style is also close to the metropolitan style. ”

"What does Director Li mean?" Ning Hao's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character.

Li Qian smiled, "The times are developing, in terms of commerciality, with the younger and younger moviegoers, the audience of market-style movies is a little lower, think about it, if "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" depicts not the love of white-collar workers in the contemporary metropolis, but the love between the markets, can it still sell more than 600 million."

"Cold War" is a story of grassroots police and gangsters, can it become a savior in the mouth of the Hong Kong media?

Xiangjiang films, all of which have a high box office in the mainland, are beginning to fade away from the common market atmosphere in the past.

The same is true for mainland films, where the characters have slowly changed from the bottom of the market to the top, just like the changes in the mainstream moviegoers.

The 100 million box office of "Crazy Racing" is relatively low in my opinion, with Director Ning's reputation in the audience's mouth at that time, plus the comedy genre, the Chinese New Year schedule, should be at least more than 200 million box office!"

......

"Whew!"

Ning Hao, who walked out of the clubhouse, let out a sigh of relief, and felt that his ears were about to be ringing from what Li Qian said.

Blown by the cold wind, my brain cleared up a little.

Looking down at the script in his hand again, Ning Hao smiled bitterly.

I don't know why, I was ridiculed by Li Qian Rory, first analyzed him, and then "but" a lot, and the ghost almost agreed to shoot "Detective Chinatown".

However, thinking of Li Qian's words and his films, it is good to change the style.

The new film "Heart Flower Road", which is being prepared, intends to change the style of the crazy series, and from the very beginning, he has taken the route of commercial films with a clear banner, and has never pursued the so-called literary style.

The concept of commercial creation is consistent in his works, and the route of commercial genre films is also the direction he has always adhered to and explored.

Now, at most, it's a different direction.

Anyway, Xu Zheng will not be free to participate in "Heart Flower Road" for a while and a half, and he may not have time until the end of the year, so he will simply shoot Li Qian's "Detective Chinatown" first.

Ning Hao stood at the door in a daze, and Wang Yibing, who was waiting next to him, got out of the car and walked over with a puzzled face.

"What's wrong?"

"It's okay, I took a script, Li Qian is too good to say. Ning Hao shook his head and smiled.

"Too talkable?"

Wang Yibing was confused, what kind of adjective is this.

However, he didn't ask, but cared about the script in Ning Hao's hand.

"Get in the car, what kind of film is this?"

......

In the clubhouse, Li Qian poured a pot of tea into it, and then he felt that his mouth was not so dry.

"Whew. ”

He also breathed a sigh of relief, and pushed the script of "Detective Chinatown" to Ning Hao, which was not easy, after all, he had written a better script of the same type himself.

Just now, Li Qian almost forgot what he said, right or wrong, anyway, Ning Hao just promised to take it.

"Detective Chinatown" is not as good as "Crazy Stone" in terms of the movie itself, but from a commercial point of view, it is definitely better.

It's one thing to be good or not, it's another thing to sell out.

The selling point of "Detective Chinatown" is that the two protagonists with very different styles create conflicts all the time, and they themselves are conflicts together.

Coupled with the funny supporting roles of the police and gangsters, they are mixed together by chance, and they are even more funny.

And this laugh, laughing more easily, without mixing anything that will make people's hearts heavy and will not make people can't help but think about it.

The reversal of the ending also adds a lot of points, and when placed at the end, the effect is better and can arouse the audience's discussion, and the more discussions, the more heat and interest.

Compared with the demonic Zhu Chaoyang in what Ning Hao said, the little girl Sinuo played by Zhang Zifeng is first of all a girl, and secondly, she does all this for the purpose of protecting herself, which is not easy to annoy.

Here's the advantage of girls over boys, especially a cute little girl.

This piece is handed over to Ning Hao, basically even if it is done, no matter how Ning Hao changes it, with his level, there is no need to worry about the quality.

Now but he can give the wall a deal, every time he meets, he looks at himself with some resentment in his eyes.

It seems that he can be quite foolish, Li Qian feels that he should be able to keep up with the rhythm of Ma Qingyang's chat now, at least he will not take the initiative and answer the phone by the side.

However, when Ning Hao talked about Zhu Chaoyang just now, Li Qian thought of the TV series "The Hidden Corner" in his memory.

It should be adapted from what Ning Hao said, plus film and television dramas adapted from IPs such as "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love", "Looking for the Dragon", and "The Wandering Earth", maybe not so bad?

It doesn't have to be all amateur-level films, maybe there are many such films, but there is occasionally a little gold in the sand.

Isn't it all a bad thing to lower the threshold and difficulty of the film and television industry?

Literary film actors like Qin Hao, the actor of "The Hidden Corner", in addition to literary films, may be able to stand out through classic TV series such as "The Hidden Corner", be well-known by the audience, and get more opportunities to appear in commercial film and television dramas.

There are really few early actors now, and when I was chatting with Ning Hao just now, I found that the script of his new film "Heart Blossom Road" has been written and is writing a storyboard.

"Heart Flower Road" is still waiting for Huang Bo and Xu Zheng, especially Xu Zheng, some have waited, the movie will be filmed for three months, the post-editing will take time, and the movie will be released for publicity after the movie, it is estimated that it will wait until next year.

"Detective Chinatown" also has to wait for Wang Baoqiang to finish filming "Thai Embarrassment", but as long as it takes less than three months, it is just the right time to write the storyboard and prepare.

There are few actors who can be used in commercial productions, and there are only a few that go around and around.

There are not enough actors like Xu Zheng and Huang Bo, and countless actors just don't have the opportunity to play the leading role, and the current film industry is indeed a little strange.

Perhaps, should we cooperate with Penguin in the big entertainment project?