Chapter 59: Born at the wrong time
Ding Cheng carefully wrote down that he would definitely have the opportunity to cooperate with top directors in the future, which are all experience to avoid stepping on thunder.
Wang Tian took a sip of wine and interjected: "If you want me to say that everything is now following money, no matter how awesome the director is, he has to compromise in the face of capital, it is nothing more than bowing his head or kneeling directly." ”
Liu Hongyi nodded approvingly: "That's right, there are no more than ten people in the entire circle who have the ability to compete with capital, and they are not really bad at money, the more big the guide, the higher the requirements, and the more money spent." ”
"It's just that they have partners who have cooperated with them for many years, and they know the origin of the money, so they can use it with confidence. In the director's opinion, what is a really good investment?"
"You are only responsible for throwing money, and you will definitely not be crooked on the set!"
"Making a movie is to start a business, hundreds of billions of dollars are thrown out, and in the end there is not even a sound, who is not in a hurry?"
"The audience buys tickets to scold the director, the screenwriter, and finally the actors, are we willing to work hard for a few months and then be scolded on the street?"
"Hey......"
The people raised their glasses and said nothing, all in the wine. Ding Cheng also has a deep understanding that filming is also a pyramid, and at the bottom are actors, there are a large number of them, and there is no shortage of good ones.
In the middle is the script, and now it's what is most lacking, and it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find a good book with plump characters, clear logic, and plot twists.
At the top is a good director, and this profession is destined to burn money. Any top director, looking over the previous history, who hasn't lost hundreds of millions?
What's even more awesome is not losing money, but you are not losing your own money!
Wang Tian drank the wine glass in his hand suddenly, put it heavily on the table, and said helplessly: "You just asked me why I didn't set up my own door?"
"When it comes to investment, we have been mixed for so many years, and money is not a problem. If you want to talk about the level, it can't compare to those big guides, but it's definitely not bad!"
"After all, there is still a lack of good books!"
"Look at the so-called script now, what eight-year anti-Japanese war began, my grandfather was brutally killed by devils at the age of nine, what are these things for you!"
"The themes are piled up, the plot is bloody, and the lines are full of loopholes...... More than ten years ago, there was a script first, then the actors were found, and the filming finally started. Now it's completely reversed, less than one-twentieth of the screenwriters actually write the script, and the rest are all gunmen!"
Ding Cheng is also speechless at this point, and now the creative mode of most domestic screenwriters is commission, which simply means that the screenwriter accepts the commissioning of the producer. The filmmaker often adheres to the principle of market first, requiring the script to operate according to a specific route.
are all semi-finished scripts, and they were hastily started before they met the shooting requirements, and the screenwriter rushed the ducks to the shelves, so they could only shoot while writing, and it is no exaggeration to say that more than forty percent of TV series are like this now.
wrote fifteen episodes, and even some dramas dared to shoot after only writing five episodes, often the director started the film with the outline, and filmed whatever scenes he got every day, and finally couldn't even connect the plot content.
There are screenwriters in the company, and several little girls have graduated from Chinese opera, and have even mixed with many big screenwriters. I change the script every day in the dark, and I write whatever people say.
is tired like a dog, in order to earn a thousand dollars, the beautiful name of the screenwriter, in fact, unknowingly reduced to the legendary gunman.
Accustomed to team combat, such as a big screenwriter who can sell films, hang up a name, pull a synopsis, and let the gunman write the rest. So some screenwriters can write more than a dozen scripts a year, as if they can publish a book in a dream.
A bunch of people write together, chasing and rushing, like writing homework. A script should be written by hand for at least three months. They are faster, talk about the case today, come up with the outline in a few days, and get the script done in another week.
It is very different from the treatment and power of foreign screenwriters, especially in South Korea, the screenwriter is very authoritative, even the director cannot change the script without permission, and the actor changing his lines is even more disrespectful to the screenwriter.
Many Korean dramas are screenwriters responsible for the system, investors watch screenwriters pull investment, and screenwriters can choose their own directors and actors. There was once an example of the screenwriter's wife asking a popular star to be a driver for a day.
The actor will never dare to offend the screenwriter, once the relationship with the screenwriter is stiff, immediately send the people in the play abroad or kill them, you can only get out.
Even if it is an American drama that is filmed and broadcast at the same time, the screenwriter has a very high status, is at the top of the team, and is in charge of the life and death of film and television works.
It is also usually an assembly line job, and popular dramas like "Lost" and "Ugly Betty" have no less than eight screenwriters.
When "Friends" was filmed for ten years, the crew had no less than 12 screenwriters, who got together for a long time to discuss a certain detail and improve the plot at any time.
And the little poor people in China can only fight alone, and all kinds of cases of being bullied and disrespecting intellectual copyright emerge one after another.
The work was plagiarized and plagiarized, the final payment was not cashed, and the TV station pinched off the subtitles of the staff in order to increase advertising revenue, leaving only the title of the play......
Especially in the past two years, many film and television companies have been fighting to make money in the listing circle, and they don't even watch the ratings when filming, they are all rushing for the number, because they want to make accounts look good.
The boss slapped the table and announced a small goal this year: shoot 20 films first!
Then all kinds of messes, and finally something happens, in the eyes of the capitalists, as long as they find a good lawyer, they can settle things. It's a big deal to use money to smash it, if you really want to meet someone who can't open your eyes, you can survive to death.
"Whether it's Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, or Zhou Chunyu, who is not popular now, I think there is only one criterion for Lao Mouzi to choose a heroine. ”
Liu Hongyi's face was flushed, and he pointed to the country and said: "It's the original ecology, or simple, or innocent, or green, it doesn't matter if you have acting experience, but you must have clear eyes and your own unique temperament." ”
"Wang Jing's fat taste is very unique, and she once joked that as long as I can stand on the actress's belly, she is a Jing girl!"
"Xu Laowei likes the charming and rigid personality actress the most, Lin Qingxia, who is undefeated in the East, Wang Zuxian of A Chinese Ghost Story, and Cecilia Cheung of Shushan, all of whom are long-legged and jade, with outstanding demeanor and beautiful appearance, becoming a wonderful mixture of softness and charm. ”
"If you want to become a star girl, I heard Zhang Yuqi say that the bottom line for star masters to participate in casting actors is that they are not allowed to do any plastic surgery. ”
"I am most familiar with Zhao Baogang, and his taste for actresses has changed threefold, from the earliest image of a woman in the market, to the creation of urban beauties, and now he belongs to a cold beauty who likes young people. There is a kind of change curve that becomes more fashionable and younger and younger. ”
"International director Ang Lee, I don't like actors who are too mature, such as Tang Wei, a newcomer debut, a devil figure, intelligence, and a bit of elegant and classical temperament. ”
"Wong Kar-wai is the least picky eater, and he has always been ingenious in casting, and he likes to work with actors from different backgrounds and with different training. From senior actors, to actors who have been out of the film for a long time, and even outsiders who have no filming experience......"
After returning home with a full meal, he got a lot of insider information from Liu Hongyi's mouth, and Ding Cheng understood that this was the other party's intention to show goodwill, hoping to make the relationship more hot.
For Liu Hongyi now, there is no arrogance at that time, a good actor like Ding Cheng is fragrant everywhere, as long as he doesn't deliberately die, the future is limitless.
When you meet a good script in the future, you will definitely be indispensable to the help of others, and the guests and hosts will enjoy themselves after a meal, and this relationship must not be broken.