Hong Kong, Zedong Film and Television.

Zedong Film and Television was founded by Wang Jiawei and Liu Zhenwei and has been established for more than 20 years.

Everyone knows that Wang Jiawei is a money-loser, in the last century, before he became famous, all his movies were loss-making, but Zedong Film and Television can still operate, why?

The first is, of course, a good friend Liu Zhenwei, one of them is responsible for commercial films to win box office, and the other is responsible for literary films to win awards, and they cooperate seamlessly.

Every time Lao Wang loses a lot of money when he makes a literary film, Liu Zhenwei will always come forward, take over the mess, and make a high-grossing commercial film to save the emergency.

The second is to shoot commercials.

The main audience of Lao Wang's movies is white-collar workers and petty bourgeoisie in office buildings, and in layman's terms, they are the middle class, who are the Chinese-funded forces of social consumption and potential customers of various high-end goods.

Although they may not understand Lao Wang's feelings, but in the movie, Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, these handsome men and beautiful women, kings and queens, which is not the focus of their attention.

Therefore, Lao Wang often takes these stars to shoot advertisements for big brands such as BMW and Dior during filming.

Using the technique of making literary films to shoot advertisements, overkill, can the effect be bad?

When filming "In the Mood for Love", Liang Chaowei and Zhang Manyu wore costumes and made an old Shanghai-style advertisement for a real estate, and the effect was great!

Of course, Lao Wang was lucky and caught the last train of the "best time" of Hong Kong films.

At that time, it was easy to make a movie, as long as you had a story and a star, there were people who were willing to invest.

Find a good star, take a story and sell it to the producer, and then make the movie you want to make...

There is also the popular 'selling flower' of Hong Kong films - there can be no script, just with the names of Brigitte Lin, Jet Li, Stephen Chow, or a simple cast promotional poster, the film company can easily advance tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars in port sales fees, at that time, the sales income of Taiwan and overseas markets, together with the opening deposit paid by Hong Kong cinema lines, was enough to raise 60% of the cost of the film...

After mixing it up, it's so much better!

Zedong Film and Television has become a symbol of Hong Kong films, and Lao Wang is also a beautiful landscape in Hong Kong!

Recently, Wang Jiawei is tinkering with "2046", and he doesn't have much time to come to the company, but Liu Zhenwei often goes to work.

"Mr. Liu... Can I give you one more trouble?"

Knocking on the door, McHaven walked into the general manager's office.

"Wheat, what's the matter?"

McHaven handed over the photo and resume in his hand: "Brother Fan is going to start a new play..."

"Yang Fan?"

"Yes, "Dream in the Garden", I have an actor's information here, can you help me hand it over to Director Yang Fan?"

“… Just him?"

"Yes, this is an actor signed by Xiao Zhong in the mainland, I heard that Brother Fan is going to shoot a new drama and wants a chance to audition!"

“… Isn't Wu Yanzu already decided?"

Yang Fan did "Dream in the Garden" this time, and wanted to find a handsome young actor, of course he liked Wu Yan's group the most, after all, he was used in "Beautiful Boy's Love", which was very convenient...

McHaven explained: "I heard Xiao Zhong say that this actor has something to do with the system in Chinese mainland, and if he is allowed to participate, maybe it can be released in the mainland... And he looks a lot like Takuya Kimura, one meter eighty-two tall!"

Liu Zhenwei nodded: "Okay, you put this first... I can't guarantee that Yang Fan will use him!"

You can rest assured that she only needs a chance to audition, and it doesn't matter if she succeeds or not. ”

……

CCTV, a small meeting room.

Today we are going to hold the first script study of "The Family of Gold Powder"...

CCTV has liked to shoot some classic literary adaptations in recent years, and there is no problem with the aesthetics of the main control department.

After all, if you mess up, the impact is very bad!

(1985 was the third Spring Festival Gala, because of a mistake, publicly apologized on the news network... ）

The so-called script study meeting is that the director, screenwriter and all the actors sit together to read their lines, although they do not need to act, but each actor has to read their own lines with the same emotion, one is for the screenwriter and director to check if anyone understands the wrong role, and the other is to check whether the actors have done their homework in advance before filming.

Chen Dong didn't sleep well last night, and followed Wang Dongfang and the two wandered in the clubhouse, squandering the energy that had accumulated for nearly half a month over and over again...

Two hours, unlimited times...

He added an hour for four hours, and when he was satisfied, he went home.

As a result, I almost failed to get out of bed in the morning...

It's painful...

However, he was the first to speak, who made him the male number one...

got up, looked around, and finally put his eyes on his script, and a low and gentle voice sounded: "Hello teachers, I am Jin Yanxi's actor, Chen Dong, let me talk about it first, it can be regarded as throwing bricks and attracting jade!"

"Actually, the first time I read "The Family of Gold Powder", I think the character of Jin Yanxi is very annoying, living in a big family of the upper class, he will inevitably be infected with the habit of "gentlemen", in the environment where all people are "spending all day and drinking", his human nature will inevitably be distorted, causing him to finally be incompatible with the simple Qingqiu who came out of the poor family and part ways. ”

"I feel that the whole script is satirizing the so-called Republican-style love..."

However, after reading it carefully several times, in the original work, including Mr. Liu's script, there is a line to the character of Yanxi, "When have the words I said changed", what does it mean? Yanxi's love has not changed! This sentence is a sentence designed by the author with good intentions to express the character and image of the character, and it does confirm the consistency of Jin Yanxi's image layer by layer. ”

In fact, whether in the Republic of China period or now, economic strength will always be used as a criterion to measure a person. Our young master Jin has a rich family, and his mother and sister are very fond of him, and he has his own unique advantages in treating friends or "girl" friends. Who would hate a young and handsome person who is not only rich but also surnamed Jin..."

"So, when I play him, I will exaggerate a little, from the way he walks, the way he sits, including his attitude towards everyone..."

Li Dawei, who kept nodding, knocked on the table after listening to all Chen Dong's speeches: "It can be seen that you have really worked the character of Jin Yanxi, very good, just interpret it as you say." ”

"Next, Bai Xiuzhu!"

Liu Yifei stood up timidly: "Hello teachers, my name is Liu Yifei..."

……

At about half past eleven, the first script reading meeting ended, and the main creative team was quite satisfied with each other.

Of course, there must be flaws, for example, Li Dawei asked Dong Jie to lose weight, her face was too round, with some baby fat...

The most surprising thing is Liu Yifei, her understanding of Bai Xiuzhu is indeed in place.

Even Li Dawei temporarily asked Chen Dong to follow him in a script, and the two looked alike.

At the end of the seminar and everyone left, Li Dawei walked to Chen Dong's side and invited: "... I'm going to Huairou tomorrow to see the scene, do you want to go with you?"

"No, I have to audition tomorrow..."

"I see, you work hard!"

“… Looking for a place to drink?"

Li Dawei shook his head: "Forget it, I still have to prepare for filming, you can go by yourself... Your phone is ringing!"

“… I'll see, hey, my sister..."