Zhang Junsheng walked into the conference room in a black suit and shook hands with Fang Xiaomin very politely, who opened the voice recorder and put it on the table, and said with a smile: "If there is anything you don't want to answer, you can tell me first." ”

“… Okay, you ask!"

He wanted to finish sooner...

"First of all, congratulations, the box office of "God of Medicine" is 3.2 billion!"

"Thank you..."

"But this film is different from your other films, it doesn't use any special effects and focuses more on the narrative, does it represent a return to tradition in your view of the film?"

Zhang Junsheng shook his head: "The main thing is the relationship between the subject matter, "The God of Medicine" belongs to a realistic theme, it is impossible for me to use special effects indiscriminately in a realistic theme, which will break the authenticity of the movie." ”

Fang Xiaomin has a different opinion: "So, your future movies will be more realistic themes?"

"It depends on the situation" After a pause, Zhang Junsheng continued: "Actually, I don't particularly want to shoot the subject, more often because I am suddenly interested..."

"Then before you filmed, did you ever think that the box office of "God of Medicine" would be so high?"

Zhang Junsheng continued to shake his head: "... When I was writing the script, I actually thought that the box office of this movie would only pay back at best... But the actors all said that the story was very good, which gave me a lot of confidence..."

"Then when did you realize that the box office of "God of Medicine" might explode?"

"In fact, in the screening stage, the market feedback is very good, and we are ready to break 2 billion!"

After a pause, Zhang Junsheng added: "It shows that the audience is still willing to watch the movie well! If you just want to convey a meaning, the audience will not listen." You have to polish the story very well, so that the audience will open their hearts to hear you tell this truth. ”

"We know that the prototype of the story is Lu Yong's case, and he is also a chronic leukemia patient, why did you change the protagonist to a normal person?"

"If he is a patient, his motivation is to save himself and earn money, and finally save people, and the arc of this character is very small. It's like "Schindler's List", if Schindler is Jewish, shouldn't he save the Jews? Only if Schindler is **, he saves the Jews, the change in this character is beautiful enough. ”

"Actually, frankly speaking, the typed characters are always similar, but people will always be moved by these similar characters. ”

Fang Xiaomin nodded and asked: "After watching "The God of Medicine", many people regard it as the best film of the year, praising it as a movie that can change the country. ”

"I didn't have that ambition, and I never thought that movies could change the country. Movies must conform to the times and reflect the times, it can ask questions, but don't hope that a movie can change the world. ”

"I've always felt that movies are just movies! They have nothing to do with the times! If you want to be treated well by the times, you must treat the times with your heart. Being grateful, optimistic, trying to create your own good life, not complaining, and digesting negative energy are the basics of being a human being. Only in this way can we truly change China and make China better and better. ”

"When 'The God of Medicine' was released, there was a large number of voices mentioning a similar style to Korean films. ”

Zhang Junsheng was a little speechless: "I think this is very funny, why is the cultural confidence of the Chinese so poor? Is there anyone in my movie who speaks Korean? I don't understand." Let's make a commercial genre film, deeply stick the characters in the hearts of the audience, and let the audience see a person who was born and raised by your side. And then people say it's like a Korean movie? I think it's cultural inferiority. ”

"I actually think that the biggest practical significance embodied in "The God of Medicine" is to make our moviegoers believe that China has heroes, and are willing to believe that China is developing in a good direction. China will become stronger and stronger, and its culture will become more and more confident, so that moviegoers can perceive the dignity of our filmmakers. ”

"So, you go back to China to develop?"

Zhang Junsheng nodded: "Well, I stayed in Hollywood for a few years, and then I found that two-thirds of the culture in this world is dominated by the United States, and it exports a lot of culture to China and occupies our market, but we in China should be in one hand to grasp the world's arterial culture and let our culture export." ”

……

The next topic became the hit "In the Name of the People"...

Zhang Junsheng is also one of the investors and producers...

Fang Xiaomin spoke in a very firm tone: "We know that this drama is difficult..."

“… Excuse me, what are you referring to?"

"Investment, I heard Director Li Lu say that "In the Name of the People" was not optimistic at the beginning!"

“… He thought about it too much, "In the Name of the People" was tracked by Yuehua from the very beginning, and he directly invested 80 million, or because it could only account for 60% of the investment at most..."

Zhang Junsheng glanced at Fang Xiaomin a little strangely: "With Jindun Film and Television and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, how can this TV series not find investors?"

Fang Xiaomin was a little crazy, this expected answer was different, and quickly thought about it: "But the scale is too big..."

Zhang Junsheng shrugged: "... That's why I need the highest inspection position, otherwise, I won't invest. ”

“… Then what do you think about the 40 old drama bones in "In the Name of the People" who only got a salary of 32 million, and an IP adaptation of Xiao Xianrou directly got a salary of 120 million?"

"I don't know, I won't give so much money anyway, I think if Xiao Xianrou is really confident to carry the ratings and the box office, he can sign a sharing agreement!

"Hollywood actors' remuneration model: the crew pays a small part of the cash to the popular movie star in the early stage, which does not exceed the production cost of the film, and then participates in the box office sharing, and the actors are tied to the work. Zhang Junsheng frowned: "I want to say a word for many actors! Many times actors ask for super high salaries because the movie is not good, and the responsibility is not all on the actors themselves." ”

"If the movie script is good, many actors will not offer sky-high salaries, or even low prices, in order to be selected to play in the end; ”

"And if you don't give this money, someone else will give it!"

Fang Xiaomin's eyes lit up: "So, you don't approve of the salary limit order?"

“… It's hard to say, entertainment is an industrial chain, and stars and channels are all part of this industrial chain. In the past, the "channel" was very strong, especially the media, which had a strong monopoly, competing with the "natural monopoly" of stars, and the profit distribution in the industrial chain was relatively balanced, although the income of stars was high, but the remuneration would not exceed 30% of the production cost. But now it's different, using the "de-channelization" effect of the network, the monopoly position of "stars" is no longer restricted by channels, and the salary has risen to seventy percent of the production cost, and the producer can only compress the normal production cost, which ultimately damages the interests of the entire industrial chain. ”

"Limiting remuneration" is not a blind toss that "does not understand the economy", but a "reshuffle of the distribution of interests in the industrial chain". ”

"There are professionals to figure this out, so I won't talk about it..."

Zhang Junsheng opened the topic...

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