The director has always been the lifeblood of a film, and it can also be said to be the lifeblood of many actors, because whether you are suitable for this role or not is a matter of the director's words.

However, for a film, for a crew, sometimes there is one person who has more power than the director, and that is the investor!

Nowadays, in the era when audiences are more and more pursuing audio-visual feasts, the production cost of movies has also increased a lot, especially some special effects movies that require strong post-production to complete, this cost is naturally even more terrible. Coupled with a series of publicity and screening expenses, although it is now very common for the box office of 100 million yuan in the Chinese film market, in fact, the real profit is very little.

And even if it is a big success like Zhang Liang's "Charlotte Troubles", in the end, it will only be two or three billion yuan in Zhang Liang's hands, so the moisture of this box office is very exaggerated.

In general, directors who want to pursue the box office are reluctant to make small-budget films, because small-budget films rarely achieve box office success, and "Charlotte's Troubles" can only be said to be a special case. Therefore, directors who are generally willing to make small-budget films, or can only make small-budget films, are either new directors or have no choice but to attract sponsorship.

Therefore, even if it is a big director like Zhang Muyi, who has made movies for so many years, it may be impossible for his assets to be less than 100 million, but even if it is over, it will not be much, and it may not even make as much money as Zhang Liang's "Charlotte Troubles" after making movies for so many years.

Therefore, even if a big director like Zhang Muyi wants to make a big movie, it is impossible to completely pay for it himself, and he will go to investors, and even if he has this money, he will not be stupid enough to pay for it himself, after all, the risk of the box office of the movie is so big, it is better to have someone to bear it regardless of the profit or loss.

is also because in such an environment, the identity of investors is naturally getting higher and higher, and in many cases, it will directly affect all aspects of a movie.

After all, if the investor's money is not in place, your special effects or actors will be greatly reduced, and now more and more investors like to stuff some people into the crew, and may even be important roles, these people are naturally almost all related to the investor, and have various relationships with investors.

And this time, although Zhang Liang is a director with a lot of power, in fact, Zhang Liang thinks that he is just a puppet director, after all, except for him, the commander of the light pole, the crew members can be said to be more than 9.5%, he has almost never been in contact, and he has absolutely no right to speak in this crew, Liu Dehua, who is also a starring actor and an investor, and a member of the crew of the National People's Congress, how can Liu Xigeng say that he is Liu Dehua's nephew, can Zhang Liang really kick people out with such a puppet director?

Whether it is to give Liu Dehua a face, or because Liu Xigeng originally did not have many scenes, plus such a conflict is really nothing to Zhang Liang, he has seen a lot of this kind of thing along the way.

So Liu Xigeng's stay Zhang Liang doesn't care at all, all he cares about is whether this drama can be filmed smoothly. As for the actors, he is more concerned about the strength of the actors, rather than the conflict between the actor and himself or the relationship with the crew, even if it is those big guys, if they are not suitable for this role, Zhang Liang will unceremoniously let people withdraw from the group.

Of course, if Liu Dehua, an investor, doesn't care about his actor trophy, it's a different matter.

And if Liu Dehua really doesn't care, then Zhang Liang feels that there is no need to shoot this movie, after all, Zhang Liang still helped out because of his friendship with Liu Dehua, and I don't care what he cares about?

Therefore, before the start of filming, Zhang Liang also knew that he still had a lot of preparation work to complete.

For example, the familiarity with the drama, the familiarity with the crew members, the understanding of each actor, etc., after all, this crew is too unfamiliar to him as a director, at this time Zhang Liang misses Shao Xiaomin a little, no matter what he did before, Shao Xiaomin could help him arrange it in an orderly manner.

It's a pity that I brought Dong Mengwei this time, if I brought Shao Xiaomin again, I know what this vinegar jar would think, and now I can only miss it.

The atmosphere of the banquet was generally good, and Yoo Hee-geng was just a small episode.

Although Zhang Liang also knows that many people in this crew still don't believe in him, although this crew doesn't need many actors, but under the influence of Liu Dehua, the members of this crew are naturally all big guys, and they can't be said to be every one of them, but at least many people have cooperated with many well-known directors, and even cooperated with foreign big directors, so it is normal to despise Zhang Liang as a rookie director.

But fortunately, they are still selling Liu Dehua's face, and they didn't show it directly like Liu Xigeng, and after upgrading his skills, Zhang Liang naturally has enough confidence, speaking with facts, itself is Zhang Liang's motto for life, and when it comes to the real shooting, these big guys who disdain him now will definitely be impressed by him.

Through this small banquet, Zhang Liang can be regarded as having a certain understanding of the crew, a little familiarity with the main actors, and a certain amount of contact with the drama staff.

The new film press conference will no longer be held, after all, as soon as the news of "Infernal Affairs" came out, it received a lot of attention, and the press conference was a bit dispensable, not to mention that Liu Dehua was still so eager, and the press conference was too wasteful of time to be necessary.

On the second day of the banquet, a simple start-up ceremony was also regarded as the start of the filming of "Infernal Affairs", but before the official start of filming, Zhang Liang still decided to have an "audition" first, this "audition" is not an assessment of the actors, but to let Zhang Liang, the director, have a general understanding of the acting skills of the actors, after all, Zhang Liang, who has not participated in the casting work, is really ignorant of these actors.

What's more, many of these big names are "invited", and it's really hard to say whether they are suitable for the role or not, and coming to such an "audition" before the official start of filming can be regarded as a probing, saving a lot of time and film.

It's just that such an "audition" will definitely make people unhappy for some actors, especially some bigwigs, so Zhang Liang chose a secret "audition" method.