When a script is completed and the intention is to shoot, the employer pays the director's coffee and the actor's cast.

For example, to make an action movie, if you invite Huang Xiaoming, it may only be 10 million, and if you invite your eldest brother to come, it may soar to 70 million.

This is called the cascading effect of personal value.

It's always been that way!

Now is basically the barbaric era of capital, many film investors just watch people place orders, you can invite Andy Lau, that's good, I'll give you 60 million!

If you know a little bit about the market, considering the subject matter, you may not dare to take risks, but you will also find a few more partners to fight...

Film investment itself is gambling...

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Hong Kong, Lu Xiaoran has seen it many times in movies, and many scenes have been engraved in the depths of my heart: crowded cities, small convenience stores, noisy bars, old Hong Kong streets...

Especially in Tsim Sha Tsui, "The True Story of A Fei" and "Crazy Boy" make this place that I have never been to in my life inexplicably more intimate.

Therefore, after Lu Xiaoran arrived in Hong Kong, he first prepared to take a walk...

How so?

A little disappointed!

There are no warm colors like in the movie at all, but all kinds of dilapidation.

Yes, the dilapidated urban area has a Hong Kong flavor, but occasionally there will be a flash of "this is too dilapidated" emotion.

Do the people who live here want to keep this down?

It's not that it's not prosperous, but beyond that prosperity, there are too many decaying places: people sleeping with paper shells as beds on the Canton Road overpass - there are no bowls in front of them, not beggars asking for money, but real homeless people, and more than one.

Comparing it to the surrounding high-rise buildings and the star-studded cityscape is too cruel.

Hong Kong is a city that is perfect for filmmaking.

On the one hand, as the world's financial center, the magnificent and modern skyscrapers are lined up one after another, with swords and swords, and they are full of a sense of futurism and technology;

On the other hand, rusty and dilapidated buildings, bustling, narrow and chaotic streets, people of all colors shuttling back and forth, and the surface is disorderly and out of control aggressive.

All-encompassing and ever-changing, the old and the new coexist and impact each other.

A mixture of extreme beauty and extreme ugliness creates a strange scene.

These factors have also instilled some factors into Hong Kong films in the new century.

It's a pity that the talented directors in Hong Kong have already achieved fame, and they are unwilling and unable to make movies that are in line with Hong Kong now!

It is estimated that Hong Kong audiences are also reluctant to see such movies in theaters - they prefer to watch something simple for visual enjoyment, such as Hollywood blockbusters...

Audiences all over the world are the same...

Shaking his head, he stopped a taxi, and Lu Xiaoran went to the agreed restaurant.

......

Lu Xiaoran actually met with Andy Lau, when "Stone" premiered in Beijing, I saw him once from afar, but there were too many people around him, and Lu Xiaoran was not too embarrassed to come forward to say hello.

Andy Lau received the news the day before yesterday, Ning Hao said that there was a script that was very suitable for him, Andy Lau thought it was a new script written by him, and then Ning Hao told him that it was Lu Xiaoran's work...

Lu Xiaoran, of course Andy Lau knows this person.

Last year's "Border Storm" won the mainland box office of 66.8 million, which was actually tied with the mainland box office of "Ink Attack"...

Ranked fourth in the box office list of Chinese films in 07!

No matter what market, no matter when, if you can earn the box office, you are awesome!

There are new directors in the mainland, and the movies are good, and the box office is also very high.

Many investors and filmmakers from Hong Kong and Taiwan have noticed him...

After all, it is rare to be able to recover the cost through the box office market in these years.

probably talked about the plot of "Rescue Mr. Wu", and he was quite interested.

Of course, as the owner of a film and television company, he has a bunch of people to raise, and it is impossible to take on a play just because he is interested, at least he has to understand the level of this director.

Then I asked my assistant to download "Frontier Storm", and he wanted to observe it...

Unconventional editing, narrative and story, extremely particular details, a good combination of stylization, literary style and genre films, and not a scoundrel just because of a small-budget production - Lao Tzu is a small-budget film, so demanding?

This director is a talent!

Therefore, he pushed away today's matter and met Lu Xiaoran at Luo Ji Restaurant.

"Brother Hua..."

After pondering for a long time, it is more appropriate to call my brother, although his age can be called uncle...

Andy Lau smiled, got up and motioned for him to sit down, and then said, "I heard that you arrived last night, did you visit Hong Kong in the morning?"

"I went to 1 Lohas Road and saw St. Margaret's Church!"

“... How do you want to get up and go there?"

""Heavenly Love" was filmed there!"

"You like that movie?"

"Hmm!"

"Heavenly Love", this movie was released in 90, in fact, it is a retirement gift from Wang Tianlin created by Chen Musheng, Du Qifeng, Zhu Jiayi, Lin Lingdong and Wang Jing!

Back then, Wang Tianlin left TVB because of old age, and the apprentices decided to make a movie, and then the money earned from this movie was ready to be given to Wang Tianlin as a retirement gift.

It's the story of a rich girl who falls in love with a gangster!

Filmed in two weeks, it was released in a month, and as a result, the local port won a box office result of 13 million, and the other cities sold out like crazy...

That's right, this movie is definitely a classic, hugging each other in the sea of fire, racing in a wedding dress, dragging a wedding dress and running barefoot, just three clips are worthy of being paid tribute to and paid tribute to later works.

Wu Qianlian's innocence, Andy's blue nose and swollen face are unconcealably presumptuous, and Uncle Da's acting skills for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards are the golden age of Hong Kong films and the peak of actors.

So, Chen Musheng took advantage of the victory to pursue and filmed three films in a row...

Now looking at the behind-the-scenes production, it can be called luxurious - the music is Luo Dayou, the cinematographer Huang Yongheng, the art Cheng Yun'an, and even the executive director is Luo Lixian!

"Heavenly Love" is also Andy Lau's first peak.

Regarding Andy Lau's various inventories, "Heavenly Love" is one of his unavoidable works, and he himself likes this movie very much.

Lu Xiaoran, this is called what he likes!

Sure enough, when it came to "Heavenly Love", Andy Lau's eyes lit up: "I remember making that movie, I was really beaten half to death!"

“... I heard that in the past, the Hong Kong crew started work, and the actors were all really fighting?"

"Of course, if it's not really, the audience can see it..."

Andy Lau said a piece of the past, probably when the family class and the Hong family class cooperated, it was the Hong family class that fought with the eldest brother, and the family class that fought with Hong Jinbao - he was reluctant to do it.

Dong Laxi talked for a while, and then Lu Xiaoran said: "Brother Hua, the purpose of my coming, you should be clear..."

Andy Lau's face became serious: "Then tell me how you are going to shoot?"

"Realistic style, handheld photography, our film is 80% restored to the kidnapping case of the year, in fact, life itself is far more exciting than the movie, I think as long as we are realistic, the audience should still feel the sincerity!"

"However, if it's too realistic, the explosion point is not enough, and the box office is very difficult!"

"You can rest assured, we have thought about the publicity and distribution, from the beginning of the filming, we have started to build momentum on the Internet, and strive to let every target audience know about this movie, the distribution department is China Film, China Film's distribution ability, you should know!"

Andy Lau nodded, and then asked, "... Who are you going to look for?"

“... What do you think of Teacher Jiang Wen?"