Chapter 34: New Year, Snow (Part II)

PS: The head is still hurting, the cold air is going south, this time the cooling is probably a wide range, all book friends should pay more attention to their bodies!

The bedroom was dimly lit, and many things looked like a somewhat blurry outline, and the curtain on the side of the small balcony was pulled up, and the thick curtain blocked the daylight, and Yuna walked over and pulled it open a crack.

The winter snow raged in the sky, the howling wind, rolling thousands of snowflakes over the city silently flying and roaring, in the field of vision, they were sometimes dense, like a barrier covering the vast expanse of heaven and earth, sometimes sparse, revealing the Yongdong Road where pedestrians were hurrying below.

It was almost dusk, and the sky was overcast, and I couldn't see where the sun went, but I felt that the sky seemed darker, and in the distance, the barrier of snowflakes was occasionally sparse, and I could see that there was already a neon light up slightly.

They release strange colors in this white patch, and perhaps there will be music from shop to shop, and the snow is falling outside, the shops are laughing and laughing, and the warm air bakes the couples walking hand in hand...... She imagined those, hugging her shoulders and trembling slightly.

Then, the field of vision blurred.

It's not tears, but she is too close to the glass, and the heat that comes out of it condenses into a mist on it, and they are densely adhered to the window, looking at the fog that obscures the view, Yun'er suddenly smiled, leaned on the glass and haze the whole glass out of the mist, becoming hazy.

Then, she started painting on it!

A simplified, triangular house with only lines on both limbs. The little people with big heads, she asked them to hold hands, and even drew a huge heart shape to frame them together, and she also wanted to write her and Ahn Joon-hyuk's names on it.

However, after a while, the blurred mist had begun to fade from the edges, and finally when she stopped her handwriting, the vapor evaporated, clearly dispelling the blur, and the drawing was hidden behind a piece of transparency.

Outside. The wind and snow are still raging. The faint light sank towards the west, and the heavens and the earth were vast!

……

Sending Yoona home the next day, Ahn Joon-hyuk didn't have time to immerse herself in the pitiful appearance of the girl pouting her lips and turning back three times in one step. had to rush back to the crew.

As early as more than two months ago. In order to cooperate with the company's plan to release "The King's Man" during the winter vacation. The crew began to catch up with the production schedule, filming and post-production at the same time. Such as editing, special effects, recording, etc., in order to learn, Ahn Junhyuk participated in almost the whole process of filming in addition to filming, so he was very busy.

Laba can spare time this time, and it is not a holiday for the crew, although there are not many special effects shots in "The King's Man", there are still some, and this time the filming is suspended, that is, Li Junyi is communicating with the special effects company, asking the other party to come up with the effect as soon as possible.

After coming back, the crew announced the "retreat" again, and the last part of the footage must be filmed within 20 days, which also includes the time for that part of the footage to be edited, otherwise it will be the Spring Festival in 20 days, according to tradition, even if you are reluctant, you must have at least half a month's vacation at that time, and there will be a delay for half a month, not to mention the winter vacation schedule, the daylily is cold.

In order to cooperate with Lee Jun-ik's retreat requirements, Ahn Jun-hyuk also said that as long as the crew can be completed within two weeks, he will quadruple everyone's salary for these two weeks on behalf of J.H, and he will also receive red envelopes after completion.

Although the use of money as a motivation to stimulate is full of nouveau riche flavor, I have to admit that sprinkling money is the most effective means in the short term, and under Ahn Junhyuk's promise, everyone is full of enthusiasm, even if there is a difficulty in the heavy snow to close the city, even if the cold wind in Gyeonggi Province in the middle of winter blows like a knife, but those difficulties are still overcome one by one in front of the crew who seem to have beaten chicken blood.

On December 20 of the second lunar year, "The King's Man" finally came to the end of the moment, located in a studio in Seoul, the whole studio has been set up dark and damp, some torches are lit around, the gaffer holds a lighting board, trying his best to create the light effect that the cell should have, two cameras are aimed at the middle of the room, one left and one right, and the eyes are also blindfolded, looking extremely miserable Gan Yucheng.

"I've played a blind man all my life, and now I'm really blind, and I don't have a chance to play it again. ”

He read the lines, in the corner of the studio, director Lee Jun-ik made a gesture, when even a camera slowly changed the angle and included Ahn Jun-hyuk, who was standing outside the "cell" above, into the scope of the lens, zoomed and close-up, and read the line "...... Hahaha, I can play it realistically now!"

In the close-up of camera No. 2, Kong Ji, played by Ahn Jun Hyuk, closed his eyes slightly, and a tear slipped down.

“CUT!”

Li Junyi shouted into the megaphone, and the studio was suddenly quiet for a moment, standing outside the cell door above, Ahn Junhyuk rubbed his eyes that were a little uncomfortable with eye drops, and when he saw that everyone didn't speak, he asked Li Junyi: "Director, is it over?"

"It's over!" Li Junyi, who had already begun to manipulate the monitor and looked at the previous shot, replied without raising his head: "Everyone, the last shot is done!"

"Hoo ————"

"Done ......"

"It's finally over!"

When his words fell, the silence suddenly broke, and the studio that was almost silent suddenly became busy, the gaffer turned on the lights, the photographer put away the equipment, and several staff members went up to help Gan Yucheng untie the rope that was suspended, and An Junhyuk on the other side also walked down, took the towel handed by the assistant to remove his makeup, and came to Li Junyi to sit down.

"It's finally done, and for another two days, I'm really afraid I won't be able to bear it. ”

"yes, it's been too hard lately. Raised his wrist and looked at the time, it was actually early in the morning, Li Junyi smiled helplessly, looking at Ahn Junhyuk, who was slowly removing his makeup next to him, revealing dark circles under his eyes, and looking tired and haggard, thinking that his face was probably just as decadent.

Touching the beard that he hadn't shaved for a long time, and looking at the footage just taken, the smile that bloomed again revealed a hint of relief and relaxation: "However, it was finally completed before the deadline, and there is still more than a week to go, and the workload of editing has been more than enough after more than two months of hard work in the first two months, and this week is more than enough, and everyone can sleep well." ”

Hearing his words, Ahn Jun Hyuk smiled bitterly: "I want to sleep well now!"

"Then go back to sleep!" Li Junyi looked at him and persuaded: "In the last part of the scene, many scenes are focused on you, and you sleep less than 4 hours a day." Now that it's all over the shooting, you don't have to deal with the rest of the things, let's rest first!"

Thinking about it, he felt that his physical strength was really a little unbearable, An Junhyuk nodded helplessly: "Okay! I'll go back first, you can announce it in a while, and tomorrow I will call everyone in the crew to the hotel to hold a celebration banquet, and I won't be present at that time, and all expenses will be reported to the president's office, and the company will reimburse me." ”

"Hehe, BOSS, there's too much money spilled, right? Everyone is a movie with the potential to be a big seller, so they hold a celebration banquet when they finish it!"

"Heh, who said our movies can't be big hits?"

Ahn Jun-hyuk asked rhetorically, and immediately in Lee Jun-ik's somewhat complicated gaze, he got up and changed his costume and left.

When he walked out of the studio and closed the door behind him, he heard cheers coming from inside, thinking that Li Junyi had said about holding a celebration banquet, and the ordinary staff in the crew didn't care if the movie could be a big hit, what they wanted was actual benefits, and other than that, everything was secondary.

This studio is located in a street in Jongno District, but it is not the famous Chungmu Road, but the Ligu Road across a section, although the Zhongmu Road has the most studios, it is also the most expensive.

The snow still lingers and the street lamps emit a faint circle of light that blanketed the entire Seoul and neighboring Gangwon Province about a week ago, but now the snow is still there, and the street lamps are radiating a faint circle of light, showing the orange of the snow scene in the city that has not slept in the early morning.

The closer the release date gets, the stronger the pessimism about "The King's Man" becomes, whether it is Lee Jun-ik or within J.H. Company, and according to his instructions, Kwon Bo-geun has been talking to Lotte and Mega.Box without CJ, and at the same time, the publicity plan has also been launched.

Since Laba, Ahn Junhyuk asked Lee Junyi to cut out the first version of the 1 minute and 30 second promotional video, and allocated 2 billion funds for Kwon Bo Gen to play it on TV stations and movie theaters, and also printed a large number of posters, ready to be put into major cities across the country in a few days, taking advantage of the most lively time before the year, and striving to expand the popularity of "The King's Man" to the maximum.

It's just that, despite such efforts, the negotiation progress of the cinema chain is not ideal.

Lotte and Mega.Box have been insisting on discussing specific screen arrangements after the test screening, but CJ Entertainment's "Head Master 2" is about to be released soon, and if it performs strongly at the box office, I am afraid that all the screens in the good time will be won by the other party, and only some garbage time will be arranged for "The King's Man".

In terms of independent cinemas, those bosses are relieved, but they are careful in the proportion of shares, taking several independent cinemas in Seoul as an example, those bosses asked J.H to make a concession of 15% on the 5:5 standard, that is, if they agree to such conditions, J.H. can only get 35% of the box office revenue of "The King's Man" in the cinema.

Such a low percentage is unacceptable to even the most dim-witted people.

The progress of the negotiation is not smooth, which naturally affects the enthusiasm of the company's middle and senior management, and seeing that the release time of "Head Master 2" is getting closer and closer, everyone is becoming more and more depressed.

Even in the past two weeks, Ahn Jun-hyuk occasionally received a somewhat discouraged phone call from Kwon Bo-geun, revealing that he was not optimistic about "The King's Man", and seemed to intend to cut down the poster promotion plan a few days later to recover some losses for the company.

Walking on the road, recalling Lee Jun-ik's complicated and helpless expression just now, Ahn Jun-hyuk tightened his trench coat. (To be continued......)