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In his forties, he is polite and slightly thin, but there is an indescribable sharpness in his body - the calm and heavy light in his eyes is just like his style of speaking, "I think that the essence of current movies, especially the essence of commercial films, is still to tell stories, at least you have to tell a few characters, but in this "Sword Fairy", I don't see it! The story is loose, and the clues are very complicated, but none of them are finally explained thoroughly, and most of the characters are blurred, and I am not impressed." ”

This is ...... How dare he say it!

However, fortunately, he said it ruthlessly enough, but he didn't seem to mean to deliberately be a wicked person, or rather, he also knew that when he said this and became a wicked person, what he said was probably not very pleasant, so he said a few heavy words that he wanted to say, and he just accepted it at a point.

"My personal opinion and suggestion is that I think this film should make some additions and deletions to the story line, and you can remove some side lines and side characters as appropriate, which will make the story more exciting. …… That's it. ”

As he spoke, Li Qian's gaze swept over the faces of Hu Fei, Liu Chengzhang and others.

The smile on Hu Fei's face remained unchanged, Liu Chengzhang frowned slightly, and the other investors and producers couldn't help but look at each other.

As soon as his words fell, a producer who should have been within Huafei Film and Television opened his mouth to retort: "Professor Xin, although your criticism may not be unreasonable, but in my opinion, the current version, after refining it to the present, is it exciting enough, right? Not to mention anything else, in my opinion, it's just that the exquisite pictures of this movie, from the framing of the crew, to the production after adding special effects in the later stage, are quite exciting, in my opinion, just by virtue of this, it is enough to attract the audience!"

After a pause, the man said: "Even in my opinion, this movie can be transported abroad, although Americans have watched a lot of special effects blockbusters, but blockbusters like "Sword Fairy" with a strong Chinese flavor, they have never seen it, just these beautiful scenery, these picture styles full of Chinese fantasy, for them, it should be novel enough, right?"

Li Qian sat at the end of the table, coldly looking at Hu Fei over there smiling and nodding, Liu Chengzhang's originally frowning brows also loosened, and seemed to be slightly bowed, as if thinking about the possibility of distribution abroad, but at this time, Professor Xin suddenly said: "It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Chinese audiences, or American audiences, or Japan or Europe, the audience buys tickets to enter the venue, and they want to watch a story, not a landscape film, let alone a documentary of landscape scenery!"

Li Qian lowered his head, knowing that it was almost him.

At this time, the producer retorted, "Okay, let's talk about the story, I think the main story line in the movie is still very clear, although the story may not be so novel and unique, old-fashioned revenge story, but commercial movies, the story shouldn't be too complicated!" And this film, in my opinion, the main line is still clear, and there are slightly more characters, which may indeed weaken the compactness of part of the story, but the places where the whole story should be pointed out are still strongly pointed, and there should be no doubt about this, right?"

Professor Xin opened his face, as if he was still arguing, but in the end, he shook his head and stopped talking.

Hu Fei said at this time: "Go on, go on, the discussion will depend on the eyesight of all experts, and before the release, you will finally help us check the gates." Although Lao Liu is one of the best in China in making commercial films, he works together to do better!"

As he spoke, his gaze swept around the conference table, and then said with a smile: "Li Qian, what do you say?"

There is no way to avoid it, Li Qian thought for a while, and said: "In fact, in the script stage, I discussed with Director Liu, he wants to do the theme of Xianxia, I am one hundred and twenty supporters, he said that he hopes to cooperate with the special effects department of our Minghu Culture, and he doesn't want Hollywood special effects companies to make money, I support it even more! In fact, after taking such a big job, we did lose money. However, everyone has seen the results we harvested, as far as the special effect itself is concerned, I am very satisfied, Director Liu's framing and shooting, I don't have to choose, I have nothing to say. ”

Hearing Li Qian say this, Liu Chengzhang finally showed a slight smile on his face.

However, before he could be happy, Li Qian changed his words, but continued: "However, I still insist on my point of view, and I also talked to Director Liu during the original script discussion stage. Of course, my point of view follows ...... Professor Shin, right? We have a similar view. ”

"I also think that the story line of this film is indeed a little weaker. Specifically...... The branches and leaves are large, but the body of the tree is slender. Of course...... Previously, when I finished working on special effects, Director Liu went to our company, and we watched the version at that time, I remember that version was almost 160 minutes, this version has been finely edited, and it is slightly better than that version in some aspects, and the trunk is clearer, but personally, if it is released, I am more optimistic about the original 160-minute version, because that version seems to me, although the pace is slower and the time is too long, but at least the branches and leaves are stretched, and the story is complete. ”

Will he offend people by saying these words? Will he provoke the displeasure of Hu Fei and Liu Chengzhang?

Probably yes.

But Li Qian hesitated for a long time, and finally said so.

In fact, when I watched the 160-minute version, Li Qian also suggested that Liu Chengzhang make some deletions to the redundant scenery and special effects in this film, as well as those branch lines that have little to do with the backbone.

In the current era, in the mature commercial film environment of Hollywood, investing 30 million US dollars to make a movie is still a high investment era, Liu Chengzhang proposed to spend 100 million to make a Chinese-style Xianxia special effects blockbuster to fight against the United States, it can be said that his ideas are very bold and his things are also very bold. 100 million Chinese dollars, which is equivalent to 50 million US dollars, is an absolute big investment in Hollywood!

Liu Chengzhang's personal directing ability is of course undoubted, but the problem is that his heart is too big!

I also want it, I want it, the characters can't be lost, the story can't be lost, the scenery and special effects, then it's even more important to fight against Hollywood, but the problem is that so many of his ambitions can't be accommodated in a 120-minute movie!

And he just can't make a choice, and he can't restrain his ambitions a little!

Even in Li Qian's view, his 160-minute version was actually not able to fully accommodate all his ambitions, and after another fine cut in the past period of time, it is obvious that Liu Chengzhang himself knows that he can't take a 160-minute version to release, and the time he can give him is 120 minutes, you know, for the theater, you can only arrange 160 minutes for a film, the price is high, the ticket will not be so easy to sell, and the film scheduling is also very bad, other screening halls can schedule seven films a day, and your hall can only schedule six…… So, he had to be ruthless and cut off some of it.

But unfortunately, in his opinion, the special effects and scenery, as well as the Chinese-style battles of those gorgeous immortal formations, are the more important part of his ambition, but on the contrary, he wants to keep the story!, so in the 160-minute version, it can only be regarded as a barely accommodating story, and most of the sub-plots are not so complete and retained into the 120-minute version!

That, of course, is even more incomplete!

So, in the end, what he presented was such a deformed child.

The scenery, special effects, and fights are all retained as much as possible, occupying a considerable amount of time and space in the whole movie, and the various story lines and side characters that are not full enough have been cut to a more skinny sense - many characters have just mentioned the line, maybe the ordinary movie audience has not understood what is going on, and this character is over! So much so that even Li Qian feels that this character appears in the plot, as if it is just to appear, not what kind of story the director wants to start from this character!

And the problem is that characters and threads like this are not everywhere in this 120-minute version, at least they can be counted casually!

For a commercial feature film, this is really embarrassing!

So, if you offend, you will offend, and if you think so in your heart, then say it!

Because, with an investment of 100 million yuan, it is said that peers are enemies, but Li Qian has never thought of it this way, he sincerely hopes that the battle declared by the Chinese film industry against Hollywood special effects blockbusters can achieve a brilliant victory -- the biggest enemy of the Chinese film industry at present, in Li Qian's view, is a Hollywood movie, and it is by no means a struggle between two internal companies or two directors.

…………

After Li Qian's words were finished, the atmosphere at the scene was a little cold.

Liu Chengzhang's face suddenly became a little unhappy, and suddenly showed a contemplative look.

No one else spoke, and Hu Fei didn't name anyone again, everyone's eyes converged on Liu Chengzhang - inside, especially these people sitting in the conference room at the moment, all knew that the final editing power of this "Sword Immortal" was in Liu Chengzhang's hands.

And Liu Chengzhang is a very proud person.

For a minute or two, except for the occasional sound of drinking from a cup, the entire conference room was so quiet that pins could be heard.

Then, Liu Chengzhang looked at everyone, especially Li Qian seriously, and said, "I stick to my idea, this is the best version I can come up with!"

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