Chapter 89: Lao Jia who returned to Beijing
The actor of "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" unexpectedly chose Liu Ye, and the salary is not low, 40,000 yuan.
After all, Liu Ye is filming for the first time, and he can get this salary because the crew's funds are sufficient all of a sudden, otherwise it may not be.
Zhou Bai only took 30,000 yuan for Lao Mouzi's "My Father and Mother", but the crew of "My Father and Mother" was much better than "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog", and Zhou Bai's salary was not very high, which shows how cheap the students who shoot movies for the first time at this time.
This is why many crews like to go to schools such as Chinese opera Nortel to select actors, cheap, you change to an actor who is already famous, it will not be this price, although many people may be willing to make Lao Mouzi's movies without pay.
Of course, at this time, the Chinese film and television industry actually had a low salary as a whole, and it was in line with the market in a few years, and it began to be high after a few years, and it reached an exaggerated point in 17 and 18 years.
From talking about investment to the selection of actors, it actually took only three days, and on the fourth day, Huo Jianqi and Kang Jianqi took the selected actors to Suining for filming, before they set off, more than 20 staff members of Xiaoxiang Factory had already begun to prepare earlier, and transported the equipment to Suining Dayuan Gumiao Village.
There are also two classmates from the 96 class who left with Liu Ye, one is Dang Hao, after all, he is now a small image, and Huo Jianqi also feels that he is suitable to play the role of a young father.
The other is Zeng Li, compared with the original actor Chen Hao, Zhou Bai feels that it is a better choice for Zeng Li to play the role of a Dong girl.
One is a junior sister and the other is a classmate, of course Zhou Bai gives priority to choosing his classmates, and with Zeng Li's conditions in Tsing Yi, Zhou Bai fully believes that she can support this role.
In fact, there is another reason, it turns out that in history, this movie was filmed during the summer vacation, and after discussing with the school, Chen Hao was allowed to shoot it, but now she is only in the first semester of her sophomore year, and if she wants to make a movie, she has to miss class, and their homeroom teacher is unwilling to approve it.
Within a week after the filming of "My Father and Mother", Zhou Bai encountered the investment opportunity of "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog", so he took it all this week.
This time, the producer's column added the name of Uncle Zhou Zhengli, and the producer could have added him, but Uncle didn't care about this, he refused, so let Han Sanye's name hang, after all, it was a golden signboard.
Listening to Uncle Zhou Zhengli, he was worried that he couldn't find a place to use the funds, and Zhou Bai knew that the registered capital of "Truth Film Investment Co., Ltd." was real, which made him sigh that his father was really bold.
Zhou Bai felt that this move was really the right move, this time "Truth Film Investment Co., Ltd." invested in "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" even if it was all lost, and the uncle was willing, because not everyone can get on the car of Beijing Film Studio and Xiaoxiang Studio, especially Beijing Film Studio, and establishing a relationship with them is of strategic significance to the company's development.
Insert a digression, why Liu Ye has always had the resources of the main theme film in later generations is related to the fact that he has a good relationship with Han Sanye.
When the matter of "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" came to an end, Zhou Bai thought about leaving the capital, but Lao Jia came back from the stick country, yes, Lao Jia is not ready to let Zhou Bai go, this short night phone call called Zhou Bai out like a rush, maybe his plan will be delayed again, thinking about it makes Zhou Bai distressed.
When did I become a busy person? Zhou Bai was thinking about this problem on the way to find Lao Jia, the progress of this week's make-up class has made Chang's mother a little dissatisfied with Zhou Bai, and Lao Jia's side has another moth Zhou Bai is estimated to be scolded by Chang's mother and hanged.
In the brightly lit Gui Street, inside the Sichuan-style hot pot restaurant, the water vapor in the pot is already hot and fluttering, and the storefront of Nuoda is already full.
"Lao Bai is here, come and eat something, I like this Sichuan-style hot pot, it's strong enough. Lao Jia saw Zhou Bai and beckoned.
"Lao Jia, have you been hungry in the country of sticks for a month? Zhou Bai was not polite, he did it, and when he looked at the dishes on the table, the good guys were almost full.
"Don't mention it, although the country of sticks is very modern, the food is really incomparable with our country, kimchi in the morning and kimchi in the evening, I want to vomit when I see kimchi now, they are a kimchi country. Lao Jia complained.
"That's his turtle, the hotel has everything, but this grandson just didn't go, and said that in order to experience the local characteristics, for that little face, he ate kimchi for a month. Wang Hongwei rolled his eyes and said disdainfully, full of sincere complaints about Lao Jia's face-saving urine.
"Didn't you make money? The final distribution dividend of "Xiao Wu" has hundreds of thousands of dollars in your hands, why are you still so dirty?" Zhou Bai said with a piece of beef and put it in the clear soup pot.
"Isn't it the first time we've made some money, but we can't squander it, things over there are expensive and expensive. Lao Jia ate a piece of hairy belly and said.
"People are running a film festival, not a farmhouse, don't they provide food?" Zhou Bai asked puzzled, doesn't this product treat money as dung, why did it become so picky?
"The things in the hotel have to be at our own expense, and there is something to eat at the dinner, not to mention this. I'll tell you something serious, this time the script of "Platform" won the award, and there is no problem with the filming funds. ”
"That's a good dare, you've been holding back this script for several years, and now it's a good thing to be able to find film shooting funds abroad, and it's worth celebrating. Zhou Bai said with a smile, very happy for Lao Jia, he knew the significance of the movie "Platform" to Lao Jia.
Since "Xiao Wu" won the award in Berlin, Lao Jia has become famous, and "Xiao Wu" has been invited by many important international film festivals, and every time the news of winning the award comes, so that everyone joked later that if Jia Zhangke went abroad to participate in the film festival and couldn't get back an award, it would be considered a failure.
"You don't have any unhappy thoughts, this time you may not be able to invest, Lao Bai, shouldn't you be disappointed and cry bitterly?" asked Lao Jia curiously.
"Pull it down, if you weren't afraid of injuring me, you would still be looking for foreign funds everywhere? The project has been reported twice, but it's not all of them that have been beaten down, Lou Ye's film has won two awards abroad, and he is still looking for film festival registration, in case "Suzhou River" wins another award, I will continue to invest in your movie, and the people above will also target me, right?" Zhou Bai said with a smile, man old dog, there are some things that everyone knows, so I have to let Zhou Bai say it, it's boring.
"I know you know, Lao Bai, you are different from my Lao Jia, before my brain was caught by the door, put your name on it, and now I see that the attention above is focused on me, when will I pull you in, if I can find investment abroad, I still use foreign countries. Lao Jia said with some emotion, don't look at his current scenery, in fact, he knows in his heart, I don't know how many people are staring at him.
"Well, don't talk so much, it's all in the wine. "Platform", if you can find the endorsement of the film studio or the Beijing Film Studio, it is best to find them as much as possible, they are giants, and general things can be solved by saying hello. I just invested in a film co-produced by Beijing Film Studio and Xiaoxiang Factory, and now I am a serious investor. Zhou Bai touched the wine glass with Lao Jia Wang Hongwei Gu Zheng and said.
"That's okay, I won't ask what movie it is, do you know who the investor I found this time is?" Lao Jia nodded, drank a glass of Yanjing and said in a smug voice.
"When you go to the film exhibition in Bangziguo, the investor is either from Bangziguo or Dongying, I guess it's Dongying. Zhou Bai thought for a moment and said.
"Hey, it's boring to talk to a smart person like you, that's right, this time it's really found Dongying's funds, T-MARK Productions, do you know who its boss is?"
"Who?" Zhou Bai really didn't know, there were many foreign production companies, and he didn't know much about T-MARK.
"Takeshi Kitano!" Lao Jia slowly spat out a name.
"Damn, it's so awesome, you're a big fat now. Zhou Bai was stunned for a moment, and then exclaimed.
Who is Takeshi Kitano, that is really a bull coaxing character, Jiang Wen is inferior to him, he only won the Venice Golden Lion the year before last, whether as an actor or a director, he is incomparable, and the existence of the actor level in facial paralysis is also known to everyone in the domestic film and television circle.
Zhou Bai was so happy for Lao Jia, this night the four of them ate nonsense and chatted until late.