Chapter 10023: It's Too Hard
For Cheng Long, if he makes more kung fu movies, he wants to take the road of literary films, and he also wants to win acting awards.
But for Jiahe, they hold Cheng Long, give him so much freedom, such a high salary, and treat him as his own son, not to let him make some literary films, that is to make him what the audience likes, and it is also the action movies he is good at to make a lot of money at the box office.
Fortunately, the investment in the heart of the dragon is not so large, and the box office results are not bad.
Therefore, when Cheng Long once again showed that he wanted to shoot some literature and art, Jiahe reluctantly expressed his support.
But Golden Harvest also said that literature and art can be literary and artistic, but action scenes and stunt shots cannot be less, and if it is too little, it will not agree to shoot.
This is to prevent Cheng Long from doing it like a dragon again.
There was no way, Cheng Long could only add the fight to the scene when he was filming as much literature and art as possible, and the result was that the miracle seriously exceeded the budget, and it took 70 million to shoot it.
Guan Zhilin heard that the investment of the Flying Eagle Plan reached a record of more than 110 million, and the return on investment ratio was much lower than that of the tricky expert, and she felt that she was in a good mood in an instant.
But she was in a good mood, but Jiahe Zou Wenhuai and others were in a rather bad mood.
At the beginning of the filming of the Flying Eagle Project, they strictly asked Cheng Long to control the cost, and Cheng Long also agreed well.
And because the box office of the dragon brother and the tiger brother was very good, coupled with Cheng Long's box office appeal and the status of the first brother of Golden Harvest, Golden Harvest could not be too harsh on Cheng Long, so the initial investment scale itself was not low.
Who made this Cheng Long.
His films don't use special effects, but that doesn't mean they're cheap.
His crew, all the hardware facilities are the best, and the treatment given to the staff is also the highest among the peers. He covers the daily food, clothing, housing and transportation of the family class, and the salary red envelope is directly handed over to his wife to support the family.
Therefore, although it is well said, when Cheng Long pulled the crew to Asia, Europe and Africa to start running, he quickly got out of Jiahe's control.
Everyone knows that running on location is very expensive, let alone running so many people on three continents.
During the start of construction, the crew of hundreds of people, everyone eats, drinks, and sleeps without distinguishing each other, which is a huge expense.
When filming in other places, in addition to the cost of scene selection, you also have to block road traffic and deal with the local government, which increases the cost.
And then what is drag racing for, forget it, when did Cheng Long's movies have less of these.
Then Cheng Long was injured and recuperated for a long time, but the crew couldn't disperse, not only could the salary be less, but also had to pay more.
The originally scheduled filming location also had to be renewed.
All kinds of expenses are expensive expenses.
And all kinds of accidents are also one after another.
Like when I was filming in Morocco, it was the location of a lot of African movies, and the scenery was quite good.
But the climate in that place is really not friendly to outsiders.
Because of the hot climate, more than ninety percent of the crew were sick and bedridden due to water and soil adaptation, and one was stung by a scorpion, and the filming had to be postponed for two months.
One day, after the heroine Zheng Yuling finished filming, she thought that such a hard life would come to an end, and she cried on the spot.
At night, the three heroines who soon became friends hugged each other and had fun together, sang about wine, cried together when they were in love, and then went into the tent to sleep after crying.
The crew gets up at 4 o'clock in the morning to put on makeup, and has to call it a day before noon, the desert heat is not only unbearable, but the machine can't stand it, and it always fails to delay the shooting because of the sand.
Even the animals they filmed on the camels were very faceless and often disobedient and went on strike.
In order to ensure that the shooting task is completed as soon as possible, Cheng Long did a lot of logistics and support work at great expense.
It's all money.
When Cheng Long thought that this was unlucky enough, even more unlucky things were waiting for him later.
The prop banknotes used by the crew for filming were somehow circulated locally as genuine banknotes, and the Moroccan authorities summoned Cheng Long and confiscated all the film.
The crew hurriedly contacted the lawyer to deal with the matter, identified themselves, made a guarantee, and after many days of hard work, the police finally returned the film to them.
But the police arrested the production manager for issuing counterfeit banknotes, for which the production manager spent three months in prison.
That's not all, because they were frightened by a series of unexpected situations, so the crew did not shoot all the desert shots in Africa, but after shooting all the shots that had to be filmed locally, they transported 10 tons of sand back to Hong Kong to shoot the rest of the shots.
That's it, the final finished film of this movie is still considered to be very joking and not serious in terms of art design, scene design, and prop production.
But it cost more than 110 million Hong Kong dollars.
If you are on par with Raiders of the Lost Ark in terms of art design, scene design, and prop production, then I don't know how much it will cost.
And it is the investment of more than 110 million yuan that has broken the investment record of Hong Kong films, which has made Jiahe's boss Zou Wenhuai, Cheng Long's godfather He Guanchang, and they are determined not to let Cheng Long direct anymore.
There's no way, it's really Southeast Asia, East Asian countries, plus Hong Kong and Taiwan, the volume of movies is there, and the investment is too big and too risky, even if it can return to its original cost, the profit is too little, and the risk taken is completely disproportionate.
But for the audience, Cheng Long once again dedicated to them a wonderful film, and in Qiao Feng's opinion, this Flying Eagle Project is definitely a pinnacle of Hong Kong films.
This film is absolutely perfect in terms of entertainment.
The plot of the movie begins with a classic joke, the flying eagle who goes on vacation to the Amazon River basin is asked to be chased by the wild man who is chased by the tribe because he drinks a few sips of holy water from the wild man's cave.
Cheng Long sighed speechlessly, "Drinking holy water is more serious than stealing gems?"
Then the speechless Flying Eagle received a mission: to find 240 tons of gold buried in a secret base.
It's a fragrant journey.
Cheng Long took a German girl and a Hong Kong beauty expert on a treasure hunt, and then met a girl he knew on the way.
An open but a little Madahar German beauty, a mean but cute Chinese-style archaeological beauty expert, a gentle, virtuous and strong Japanese beauty, plus a little pervert Cheng Long, a male and three female formation, fully satisfies most people's YY.
The mean expert played by Zheng Yuling made people laugh endlessly as soon as she appeared on the stage, that mouth really lived up to the name of "Dudu", laughing and scolding, and damaging the people she wanted to lose;
In the movie, three women wearing a helmet and holding two of them beat a mercenary to death, which is really hilarious.
Coupled with Cheng Long's wonderful action scenes as always, it is impossible for the Desert Flying Eagle to succeed.
It's just that success is success, and the excessive investment of the Flying Eagle Plan dooms this movie to be far inferior to the trick experts in terms of yield.
Therefore, don't look at the box office of the Flying Eagle Project than the tricky experts, but in the eyes of insiders, the Flying Eagle Project has no possibility of imitation at all, because they can't find another Cheng Long and can't take out so much money.
On the contrary, this kind of nonsensical comedy of trick experts is very suitable for engaging in it.