Martial arts movies are a manifestation of martial arts culture. Through the lens language and dramatic plot, the essence and connotation of martial arts culture are deeply displayed.

Like American Westerns, martial arts movies have also become one of the hallmarks of national genre films.

Many foreigners know that Chinese movies start with martial arts films.

The first Celestial Empire film to be commercially screened in 1,000 theaters in the United States was "The First Punch in the World" produced by Hong Kong Shaw Brothers Pictures in 1971;

The first Celestial Empire film to win an award at the highest international film festival was "Chivalrous Girl" directed by Hu Jinquan and starring Xu Feng;

With Bruce Lee's introduction of the word 'kung fu' into English, martial arts movies quickly set off a craze overseas;

During the period from the late 80s to the early 90s of the last century, with the great acclaim of a large number of martial arts movies such as "Smiling Proud Jianghu", "Undefeated in the East" and "Huang Feihong" series, "New Dragon Gate Inn", etc., imitation and follow-up works were popular for a while, and after a large number of shoddy movies flooded the market, the glorious period of martial arts movies also came to an end......

After entering the new century, although Zhang Yimou successively launched "Heroes", "Ambush on All Sides" and other 'blockbusters' under the influence of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", it has not been able to reverse the decline of martial arts movies on the whole.

If Li Mo remembers correctly, in his previous life, since the martial arts movie "The Sword of the Third Young Master" directed by Er Dongsheng suffered a box office fiasco, until he crossed over, martial arts movies have not been able to make any improvement.

It's no wonder that Zong Shuai's tone was full of depression.

Even if Zong Shuai does not have Li Mo's magical ability to foresee the future, the tragic box office of "Loyal Yang Family General" is already in front of him, and that movie is the work of Xiangjiang director Yu Rentai.

Although Yu Rentai has a physical disability and may not know much about the tastes of current audiences, he still has decades of experience directing films.

Even he pounced on such a ghost, and there were still people who dared to submit the script of a martial arts movie to the production company, and Li Mo didn't know for a while whether he should say that he was bold enough to write the script or that he was missing a string in his head.

"Xiaomo, Xiaomo, are you still there?"

Zong Shuai on the other end of the phone thought that Li Mo was also overwhelmed by this news, and saw that he had not replied for a long time, so he hurriedly urged two sentences.

"Brother Zong, I'm listening. You just said that the script was a martial arts movie, right?"

"Yes, if you hadn't said hello a long time ago, everything related to the script would have to be reported to you at the end, and I would have rejected it directly. ”

"In other words, you already have a complete script, right?" asked Li Mo.

"Yes, the name of the script is "Cutting Decision", but it is quite evil......" Zong Shuai complained without nutrition.

"Then you send the script to my mailbox now...... Forget it, Yifei and I will go to the airport in Shudu City soon, tossing until almost twelve o'clock last night, you directly send the script to our ground personnel in Jinling City, let them print it out, and I will take time to read it between publicity. ”

"Xiaomo, are you really going to take this script seriously?" Listening to the meaning of Li Mo's words, Zong Shuai was a little anxious.

According to the estimated data in the industry, the production cost of "Loyal Yang Family General" should be about 80 million yuan, plus 1 to 20 million publicity expenses, the entire total cost exceeds 100 million, and at present, the producer HY Company will lose at least 50 million yuan......

Zong Shuai thought that whether as a friend or the general manager of the company, he had the obligation to remind Li Mo when he was about to jump into the pit.

"Brother Zong, who told us that Molong has a shallow foundation," Li Mo sighed helplessly, "Even if it's a bad script, it's also the thought of other screenwriters, so let's see if there is no harm." Besides, it's a bit sloppy to reject people directly just by looking at a theme, anyway, you send the script over first, and then I'll talk about it after I finish reading it. ”

"Okay, you're the boss, you have the final say. ”

With a sullen sentence, Zong Shuai hung up the phone directly, leaving Li Mo with a wry smile on his busy phone.

He didn't know that martial arts movies were a pit, but the foundation of Molong Media was too shallow.

Although Zong Shuai has a certain amount of connections, those connections are handy when he is an agent, and once he becomes the general manager of a certain media company, the role of those connections becomes very limited.

Those people have their own long-term and fixed cooperative companies......

It's impossible for Zong Shuai to be a dignified general manager and run around every day to beg grandpa to sue grandma for poaching people, right?

That's too much of a loss.

Therefore, although the company's other modules can be handled by poaching people, the intermediate links of the film and television module, that is, the director and producer, can only be slowly accumulated little by little.

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In fact, there are only a few routines for movie promotion.

Attend the meet-and-greet with hot topics, watch the movie with the audience and media, and finally give an interview, share anecdotes that happened during the filming, and finally, if you are free, add a little interaction with fans......

In other words, today's propaganda has gone through a full set.

Thanks to the long-term affection of fans of the Heavenly Dynasty, even though Liu Yifei's works have not had a good reputation in recent years, there are still many audiences who like her.

This time, "Tumor Jun" is another work with Xiong Dun played by her as the absolute core, and it is reasonable that she has received most of the attention.

When interviewed by the media, most of the questions also focused on Liu Yifei.

Except for a media reporter from a certain Yi.

That's what he asked.

"I want to give the next question to Miss Wan Qian, you played the heroine in director Li Mo's first movie "Hypnotic Master", and according to our information, you are also the senior sister of director Li Mo in the Magic Capital Drama Academy, may I ask why you agreed to play a supporting role in "Tumor" this time?

To be honest, the first time I heard this question, the faces of several people on the stage instantly became not so good-looking.

The media needs news and needs to break the news, which everyone can understand, but it is really rare for someone like this guy to provoke directly in front of him at the meeting.

For a while, almost everyone's eyes on the stage were focused on Wan Qian.

The young lady was not in a hurry, and generously took the microphone and began to answer questions.

"First of all, I think what role an actor plays is more important is the actor's own characteristics, even if I am allowed to get along with Yifei, I still think I can't play her kind of spirituality, to put it simply, the role of Xiong Dun is not something I can control. ”

"Secondly, Director Li once asked me to choose the role, and I chose the character of Xia Meng myself, so I really don't know what you mean by 'looking the other way'......"

"But......" The old man seemed unwilling to give up, and still intended to continue to ask.

"This friend of the media, although the actors have a certain degree of autonomy in the casting of the film, I am the director of this movie, and if you ask me directly, it should be faster. If there are no other questions, the next one ......"

Li Mo naturally couldn't let him grasp a question and chase after him, so he directly interrupted the reporter's questioning and handed over the question to the next reporter.

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tossed until nearly eleven o'clock in the evening, Li Mo and his entourage dragged their tired bodies, broke through the layers of encirclement of fans, and finally returned to the hotel.

It was only at this time that Li Mo had time to open the script sent by the ground and take a closer look at what kind of story was written in it.