Budget.

This is a topic that cannot be avoided in any film and television drama, after all, no investment company will allow directors to spend money unscrupulously, although every director wants to become a prince of sunglasses to lose money in his heart, but in fact, even these two people, in the later stage, gradually began to compromise with the market and capital.

This is an inevitable consequence, because human beings are social animals, and if they live in society, they will inevitably be bound by social rules.

No matter how artistic a director or actor is, in the face of reality, he must bow his head high.

If you choose to refuse, the final outcome will be like Lou Ye at the beginning, and you will be poor and destitute by yourself.

And even Lou Ye, after being poor for a while, reluctantly chose to succumb to reality.

In fact, most of the sixth-generation directors in China have begun to move closer to the mainstream media after they have been warned and punished for filming banned films, and in about five or six years.

It's not that they don't have a yearning for art, but because these people know very well that in today's environment, the pursuit of art is important, but it is more important for them to continue to eat the director's bowl of rice and survive in this circle.

It's not a food that comes to be admired, but if you don't even have your life, you still talk about the dignity of a fart.

Jiang Wen is the same, this guy likes to make movies, even to the point of almost falling into a demon, in fact, with Zhao Fusheng's understanding of him after he is now familiar with him, Jiang Wen is actually very self-conscious in making movies.

For example, Jiang Wen's movies, just watch them, don't think about what standards, objective reality or film theory to others, because everyone understands the things in his movies differently.

Many people think that Jiang Wen filmed "The Sun Also Rises", and the audience couldn't understand it, and then he filmed a "Let the Bullets Fly", so that the audience could understand it, in Zhao Fusheng's view, it is not like this, "The Sun Also Rises" and "Let the Bullets Fly", including "One Step Away" and later "Evil Does Not Prevail", are all the same thing.

Jiang Wen's photograph is what he likes, the elements in it, expression, romanticism, are all what he thinks is good, take it out, get one for you, and it is very strong, so his things, pictures, music, rhythm, dialogue, nothing to say, and they are all his style.

So why are there so many differences between several movies?

Because sometimes, he likes this piece, and in the movie, it happens that most viewers also like it, which is "Let the Bullets Fly".

Sometimes, he likes that piece, and in the movie, it happens that most viewers don't like it, which is "One Step Away".

Later, maybe this piece, or that piece, is left in the movie, some viewers like it, and some viewers don't like it, and the result is that if you eat it, it will be mixed and polarized, and you will like it for a while, and you won't like it for a while.

This is the same as durian, Moutai, and cigars, some people like it very much, and can tell you a level, how good it is, where is it, and some people don't like it, they think the taste is strange, they rush their noses, and they hurt their lungs.

You ask a person who doesn't eat durian to say that durian is delicious, he can't say it, but he knows that durian is definitely not a bad fruit, right?

But you have to think that people who don't eat durian don't understand fruit and are stupid, that is, raising the bar.

On the other hand, people who don't like durian and think that people who say that durian is good are engaged in 'durian worship', and they are 'durian pretending to be thirteen', which is also raising the bar.

"Isn't that the case in every movie?"

It's really not, some movies, like math problems, right is right, wrong is wrong, we call it industry standards.

Some movies, like what, don't seem to be on topic at all, like a strong wind, you tell me if this strong wind is good, I say okay, and ask me where it is good, I can only say, blow comfortably, you shake your head, say that you think the wind and sand are strong, what can I do, I said you don't deserve to blow the wind, don't I have nothing to find fault with myself?

So Jiang Wen's movie has seen the person who said it was good, and if you ask him how good he is, he will tell you the historical metaphor behind it and tell you about this feeling.

Zhao Fusheng felt that it was like others telling themselves how good Moutai was.

Everyone knows that Moutai is a good wine, but the problem is that if you haven't drunk that thing, it's hard to judge whether it suits your taste.

So although Zhao Fusheng knows very well that "Looking for a Gun" is a good movie, he still doesn't plan to let Jiang Wen spend money unscrupulously, the reason is very simple, if he dares to agree, this guy really dares to spend a few years to make a movie, and then spend the budget cleanly, and finally reach out to ask for money.

This kind of thing, Lao Jiang has not done it, when filming "The Devil is Coming", this product just spent the budget, and then forced Huayi to continue to take money.

"How much do you think is the right amount to invest?"

Now that Lao Jiang has confessed, it is naturally impossible for Zhao Fusheng to be aggressive, glanced at Jiang Wen, and asked.

"Well, I need 10 million anyway. Jiang Wen said casually.

Zhao Fusheng blinked his eyes, making sure that he had heard Jiang Wen's words correctly, and then felt that this guy was simply a bastard.

"Isn't it a little little?" Lao Jiang didn't realize it at all, and asked Zhao Fusheng with a shy face if his budget was a little small.

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Fusheng tried to tell himself that as a good person with culture, thought and pursuit, he couldn't be as knowledgeable as the psychopath in front of him, this guy had no discipline and lower limit at all, and his general knowledge was simply lowering his grade and IQ.

Well, that's it.

"What's the matter, your face is not very good. ”

Jiang Wen didn't feel that way at all, and looked at Zhao Fusheng with a cute expression.

Zhao Fusheng glanced at him coldly: "Director Jiang, can you tell me about the script?"

"Huh? Okay, okay. Jiang Wen was stunned, and then happily introduced the story of "Looking for a Gun" to Zhao Fusheng.

The story of "Looking for a Gun" is actually not complicated: Ma Shan is an ordinary policeman in a small town in the southwest mountains. He had a pistol, which he wore with him all day, and although he had never used it, he knew that the town was at peace because of him and his pistol. When he woke up one morning, Masan found the pistol missing. Looking at the empty holster, Mashan's spirit almost collapsed, his gun was loaded with three bullets, and he knew that the person who stole the gun was going to kill.

Ma Shan carefully recalled the scene of the night before, his sister got married, he was drunk, and he was sent home. For a while, all the people who attended the wedding became the object of his suspicion, and Ma Shan was like an anxious ghost, walking around every corner of the town, examining everyone around him with suspicion. Liu, who sells mutton noodles, stammered when he saw Ma Shan, which left a doubt in Ma Shan's heart.

Through a meticulous investigation, Ma Shan went to find Zhou Xiaogang, the owner of the car that took him home that day. To Ma Shan's surprise, it was his lover Li Xiaomeng more than ten years ago who opened the door, Li Xiaomeng and Ma Shan fell in love, but they said goodbye, and now they are back and live in Zhou Xiaogang's house, what is going on. Li Xiaomeng's appearance made the case more and more complicated, his complicated feelings for Li Xiaomeng were entangled with suspicion of losing the gun, which was mixed with Ma Shan's wife, who was a primary school teacher, who thought that Ma Shan was empathetic and did not understand him. Late one night later, Li Xiaomeng was suddenly killed at Zhou Xiaogang's house, and the killing tool was Ma Shan's lost gun. Ma Shan was detained as a suspect in Li Xiaomeng's murder. His peaceful family life was also shattered, and both his eight-year-old son and wife were plunged into fear and worry.

Ma Shan overcame the extreme mental tension and the heavy load of two bullets in the gun and the possibility that two or more people would be killed, and in the cell he calmly analyzed that the murderer was coming for Zhou Xiaogang, and Li Xiaomeng was killed by mistake and died for Zhou Xiaogang. The point where the bullet landed confirmed his analysis, and Masan was released. Touching the melon, he found out Zhou Xiaogang's fake dimples, but the gun still had no whereabouts. The focus is on Zhou Xiaogang, and the murderer will come to find Zhou Xiaogang. Ma Shan wore Zhou Xiaogang's clothes and pretended to be Zhou Xiaogang to go out. As expected, the killer appeared and fired a shot at him.

It turned out that it was Liu Stammering who stole the gun, and he hated Zhou Xiaogang for making fake wine and killing his relatives and adopting an ignorant and extreme method to steal the gun and kill him. Facing the muzzle of the black hole, Ma Shan suddenly understood that in order to prevent no one from being killed, the bullets in the gun had only one destination, that is, his own body, and the fourteen days of searching for the gun, in the dark he wanted this result, which was the only way to remedy his mistakes. He struggled and screamed, forcing the stammerer to shoot him again, and as he fired, Masan handcuffed the murderer to himself. Ma Shan's soul flew away from his body, and he rose from the pool of blood with the pistol he had found, tears in his eyes, but he smiled and walked into the distance.

Listening to Jiang Wen's eloquent narration of the script, Zhao Fusheng frowned, and only after Jiang Wen finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Wen.

"Where are you going to shoot this scene?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

"Hmm, what do you think?" Jiang Wen thought for a moment and said to Zhao Fusheng. I don't have the slightest sense that I am not a director or screenwriter.

"Is there any big scene?" Zhao Fusheng continued to ask quietly.

"Not really, and it doesn't relate. Jiang Wen is very honest, after all, this drama is mainly supported by the acting skills of the actors, not to mention the so-called special effects or explosions and other big scenes.

"Do you need any big-name actors?" Zhao Fusheng glanced at Jiang Wen and then asked.

"No, if I'm the male lead, the rest of the actors can be picked and chosen. Jiang Wen said with a smile.

This is the truth, the main story content of this drama needs the support of the actor's acting skills, and he can do it himself, as for the other supporting roles, it is not so important.

"In that case, can you tell me, why do you want a budget of 10 million?" Zhao Fusheng rolled his eyes and looked at Jiang Wen, and said with disdain: "Is it your old Jiang Piao, or do you think I can't hold the knife, believe it or not, I'll die for you in minutes!"

Jiang Wen was immediately embarrassed, he had to admit that Zhao Fusheng was right, he did have a lion open his mouth.

PS: The drama "Looking for a Gun", I really recommend everyone to watch it, although the director is Lu Chuan, I have to admit that it is full of Jiang Wen's style, and Jiang Wen at this time is not easy, his career is at a low point, and it is not easy to make such a movie. Of course, I can't say how good this movie is, but at least it's a work of heart.

PS2: England was milked to death by me, and yesterday morning's prediction was correct. Tonight, I think 90 minutes should be a draw, don't underestimate the Croatians, these guys are going to have to fight for the title. But the problem is that they played three extra times, so I think in the end the winner should be France.