"The Pianist at Sea" tells the legendary story of an abandoned baby named "1900", who fell in love with the piano on an ocean liner and eventually became a pianist.

In 1900, an orphan was abandoned in first class on the luxury cruise ship Virginia, raised by the ship's sailors, and named 1900.

Time flew by, and in the 1900's he grew up, showing an extraordinary talent for piano without a teacher, and performing piano in the band on the ship.

Everyone who listened to him play was deeply moved.

Jazz originator Jenny heard about the prowess of 1900 and went on a boat to compete with him, but in the end he sighed to himself and left in disgrace.

Everyone thought that when 1900 stepped on land, he would amaze the world and become the greatest pianist in the world.

But alas, all this splendor took place at sea, and 1900 never wanted to set foot on land.

Until one day, he fell in love with a girl, his feelings flowed on the piano keys, and he was in a dilemma between love and the choice of ideals......

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In the previous life, the Douban score of "The Pianist at Sea" was surprisingly high, reaching 9.5 points at the highest, and nearly one million people commented on it, even if it was 9.2 points on average.

In later generations, this movie is ahead of its time.

The philosophy expressed in the film is in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese people, but in the eyes of American film critics of that era, the film as a whole shows a strong nihilism, is escapism, and does not conform to the mainstream values of Europeans and Americans at that time, so the film is not likable.

For this reason, even if the film is done well elsewhere, it is difficult for the judges to vote, so on the North American Rotten Tomatoes film review network, "The Pianist of the Sea" has a satisfaction rate of less than 45%.

But in fact, the soundtrack and set of "The Pianist at Sea" are excellent, and there should be nominations for any Oscar now.

To sum up, this movie is equivalent to the foreign version of "Ambush on All Sides"-

The Chinese think that its plot is childish and the picture is pretentious, but Europeans and Americans think it is very romantic and beautiful, and because of this, it has won many foreign language film awards, and even Oske has been nominated.

The reason why Liao Yuan chose this film to take the lead, instead of making a great war film like "The Pianist", is that the cost is a problem, and the content of "The Pianist" is too tragic and sensitive.

Therefore, "The Pianist at Sea" is the best choice at present, and it can be regarded as echoing "The Unspeakable Secret", after all, there is also a classic piano fight in the "Secret" movie.

The story of "The Pianist at Sea" is generally plain, but the piano fighting clips in it are cited as classics and have influenced countless movie shots in later generations.

It's just that, it is undeniable that although "The Pianist at Sea" is a movie that harvests "leeks", the basic public may not necessarily buy it, so it has a certain degree of street impact.

Fortunately, the production cost of this movie is low, you only need to rent an old luxury cruise ship, as for the actors, of course, Liao Yuan still needs nepotism, ready to move the original cast of the last movie "The Secret That Can't Be Said", and then invite a few old actors in the entertainment industry, everything can be almost ready.

Just do it, Liao Yuan immediately asked Chen Muen to prepare for the plenary meeting.

At the meeting, after Liao Yuan said the plan, Tian Xingde was the first to express his approval, and of course the others had no objections, after all, there was a precedent before:

"The Unspeakable Secret" can be called a great success at home and abroad, with a domestic box office of 730 million yuan, which is unparalleled in the field of literary films, in addition, "The Unspeakable Secret" has also been released in overseas countries one after another, and has received great praise in the entire Asian region, especially in Japan and South Korea, it has been continuously screened, and the number of viewers in Japan and South Korea has exceeded 700,000, becoming the most popular foreign language film in Japan and South Korea of the year.

It can be said that today's Liao Yuan is at the forefront of the fame of artists in Southeast Asia.

Therefore, with this precedent, everyone will not have too many worries about this new literary film, so they immediately began to set up the project and recruit troops, with a total investment plan of about 50 million yuan, and the new dollar film and television production company will fully undertake all the projects.

Since Xinyuan was merged into the Liao Group, it has long been hungry and thirsty and wants to shine in the group, so as soon as it heard that this film was starred by the original cast of "The Unspeakable Secret", it immediately became active.

Soon, Xinyuan Productions began to recruit actors based on the character script written by the big boss.

It took nearly a month to recruit actors.

There are a total of 45 large and small official actors, and another 75 crew members.

At this time, the coordinator found a serious problem, if the film was produced according to the requirements of the boss, in addition to the hundreds of actors and crew, the crew not only needed to recruit more than 10,000 extras and nearly 2,500 sets of actor costumes.

It's a huge project, more than ten times more cumbersome than "The Unspeakable Secret".

In addition, according to the requirements of the script, the crew also had to build exterior locations in coastal ports of various countries near China.

After such calculations, the total investment of the entire film is estimated to exceed 100 million yuan, or even much higher.

This stunned the co-ordinators of the production of Xinyuan, which is too far from the total investment of 50 million required by the boss!

For a while, the coordinator felt tricky, and he immediately informed his superiors of the situation, and Chang Houjian, the current manager of Xinyuan, realized the seriousness of the situation and hurriedly sent the statistical table to Liao Yuan.

Liao Yuan saw the dense numbers on the form, and he also fell silent.

Chang Hou Jian said with a smile: "Mr. Liao, I personally think that we should shoot the second part of "The Unspeakable Secret", that is, the sequel, you know, the entire Southeast Asian region is looking forward to this now, especially in South Korea, "The Unspeakable Secret" has a very high status in the hearts of young people, so the sequel to this movie is still very marketable, and the investment is still very small, but the rate of return is extremely high......"

"As for this "Pianist at Sea", I roughly read the script, although I think it is good, but the investment is a bit high, Xinyuan has not been exposed to many big productions with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars before, I am worried that there are people below, it is better to let them practice first, make some small-budget movies first, and slowly accumulate experience. ”

Liao Yuan frowned, and only spoke after a long time: ""The Secret That Can't Be Said" is over, it is a perfect ending, any additions seem to be more than enough, so don't mention the sequel, as for "The Pianist at Sea", since the project has been established, it must start filming, and it is not worth making a fuss about more than double the estimated investment, is it possible that we have been mixed up for so many years, and we can't attract investment at this time?"

Chang Houjian scratched his head, looking like a helpless child in front of Liao Yuan at the age of forty, he smiled and said: "I am relieved to have your words, so I will arrange for someone to conduct advertising bidding according to the reality of the script." ”

Of course, in addition to advertising placement, Liao Yuan is also ready to pull some local tyrants to invest together and jointly produce this movie to differentiate investment risks.

But what Liao Yuan didn't expect was that as soon as this news appeared in the outside world, it caused a sensation in the market.

Not only the entertainment industry, the advertising industry, but also the financial and other bigwigs, have also entrusted people to contact, the most amazing thing is that the news spread overseas, the entire Asian investment circle has taken action, all kinds of gods have waved checks, across the mountains and seas, to the door of the Liao Group.

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Thank you Shan Qingying and Brother Shu for the reward of cultivating life