Chapter 309 of the text is the first year of science fiction films

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Zhang Ran followed the workshop director into the welding workshop, the environment inside made people feel irritable, the noise was particularly prominent, and there was a strong smell of welding fumes.

The workshop director brought Zhang Ran to a 50-year-old master and introduced: "Qiao Zhengfei, this is Master Wang, she will arrange your work for you in the future!" Then Master Wang said: "Lao Wang, this is a distant relative of mine, who came from Sichuan and came to work on our side." Please bring him!"

An actor needs to approach the character from both internal and external aspects, and if he wants to think like the character inside, he must approach the image of the character through various means outside, in fact, the easiest way is to live like the character. So he told the director of the workshop in advance that during the time he worked in the workshop, he was an ordinary worker from Sichuan, called Qiao Zhengfei, and he must not call himself Zhang Ran.

Master Wang stopped what he was doing, glanced at Zhang Ran and said, "Okay, you can work with me!"

Zhang Ran said with Trump: "Yes, master, I am very skilled, you can tell me what you have!"

"My name is Li Han, and I entered the factory last year!" next to Master Wang was a twenty-three or four-year-old young man, who patted Zhang Ran on the shoulder in a friendly way and said with a smile.

Master Wang glared at Li Han: "If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb!" He turned his head to Zhang Ran to introduce the relevant operations and some precautions for welding, the smell and dazzling light produced by welding are harmful to the human body, and you must know how to protect yourself when operating, wear work clothes, wear a mask, and so on.

After speaking, Master Wang looked at Zhang Ran and asked, "Do you have any experience in electric welding?"

Zhang Ran nodded: "I've learned a little, but the craft is very skimmy!"

Master Wang gave up his position, pointed to the object that needed to be welded, and said, "You come to weld, I'll see your skills!"

"Yes, I'll try it!" said Zhang Ran, putting on leather gloves, taking the mask, and starting to move. Last November. Zhang Ran went to learn electric welding for a week and mastered the knowledge of welding, but it was still far from the standard of professional workers.

After Zhang Ran finished welding, Master Wang checked the objects that Zhang Ran had welded. made an evaluation, and then pointed out Zhang Ran's problem: "The height of the electrode is required to be kept at two to four millimeters, and the electrode is constantly shortening while transporting the electrode, and the original height of the electrode must be constantly changed." Your life is even rougher than Li Han's. You haven't been studying for a long time, right?"

Li Han laughed, his welding level is limited, so he has been counted down by the master, and now there is a Qiao Zhengfei who is rougher than himself, and now he is liberated!

Zhang Ran scratched his head embarrassedly: "Yes, I have been studying for more than a month." ”

Master Wang nodded slightly: "After studying for more than a month, it's good to be able to weld like this, so you can work with me!"

Zhang Ran nodded again and again: "Thank you, Master!"

Next, Zhang Ran began to work. Soldering is a very hard job and can be dangerous. I need to keep moving, keep welding, and when I get off work at twelve o'clock, Zhang Ran's eyes are a little spent, and his hands and waist are sore.

Coming out of the workshop, Zhang Ran followed Li Han to the factory canteen. Li Han's friend knew that the newcomer was coming, so he came over to greet Zhang Ran. After a brief acquaintance, Zhang Ran walked to the cafeteria together.

The factory canteen is no different from the school canteen, but the quality of the food is better than that of the school, at least the oil and water are more abundant. Unlike school meals, which are completely fried in water.

Zhang Ran and the others cooked well, found a place to sit down with the dinner plate, and chatted while eating.

After working all morning, Zhang Ran was really hungry. They were eating by themselves, while Li Han was eating while looking towards the door of the cafeteria. Zhang Ran felt strange and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Li Han said mysteriously: "Look at the factory flowers in our factory, they look very beautiful!"

Zhang Ran saw Li Han's look, and thought to himself that he was really so beautiful?

"Yes, you know Zhang Jingchu. looks very similar to Zhang Jingchu, but it is better looking than Zhang Jingchu. Stars like Zhang Jingchu usually have to wear makeup, Liu Jiao doesn't wear makeup, she doesn't look worse than Zhang Jingchu, if she wears makeup, it will definitely look better than Zhang Jingchu!" Li Han said in a beautiful voice, "Look at it in a while, you will know when you see it!"

"Isn't it? Do you really say it's beautiful?" Zhang Ran knew that they were talking about Zhang Jingchu, and she used the name Liu Jiao when she entered the factory. Zhang Ran felt a little funny, but he didn't expect Zhang Jingchu to be a factory flower, and said quietly, "I see that you are so excited, won't you all have a crush on her, have you ever written a love letter to her?"

Li Han and the others sneered: "Where can such a beautiful girl afford us people, they are still relatives of the factory director." It's not something that our people can get close to. There was a boy in the workshop next door who thought he was very handsome and very literary and took a love letter to Liu Jiao, she didn't say anything, just stood there and looked at him, just looked at it for a minute, and finally the kid took the love letter and left. ”

Zhang Ran almost didn't laugh out loud, Jing Chu played really well with this hand!

As he was talking, someone shouted, "Coming, coming, coming!"

Zhang Ran looked up at the door of the canteen, and saw four or five female workers walking in, and it was Zhang Jingchu who walked in the middle. Like the other female workers, she wears a blue overalls with her hair tied up, which makes her look very energetic. Several female workers around Zhang Jingchu are a little big-shouldered and round-waisted, looking a bit like Shuibo Liangshan coming down, with them as a comparison, Zhang Jingchu is really bright and moving.

As soon as Zhang Jing first entered the cafeteria, she looked around, trying to find Zhang Ran's location. She soon saw Zhang Ran, wearing blue overalls, sitting conspicuously in the crowd, and couldn't help but show an extremely bright smile on his face. But she didn't come to greet her, they had already said that they would pretend not to know each other in the factory, so as not to be identified by everyone.

Li Han and the others saw Zhang Jingchu looking at this side, smiled, and suddenly seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and they were so excited that they almost jumped up. You must know that Zhang Jingchu always has a cold face, giving people a cold feeling, what's going on?

"Ah, Liu Jiao smiled at me!"

"Fuck off, you're smiling at me! Do you think I have a chance?"

"Don't dream, just your shoehorn face, how can I possibly take a fancy to you!"

"Damn, you pig's kidney-faced, embarrassed to talk about me!"

Zhang Ran continued to bury his head in eating, but said in his heart that you don't yy, that's my daughter-in-law smiling at me!

As the days passed, Zhang Ran became more and more familiar with the workers. When I have nothing to do, I play cards with everyone, chat, and talk about women, just like ordinary workers. Zhang Ran was fully integrated into the collective. Zhang Ran, who is a university teacher and the director of the movie, has disappeared, and now there is only one welder named Qiao Zhengfei.

Before entering the factory, Zhang Ran felt that the script of "The Aviator" was perfect, but these days, he has learned a lot from the stories he has seen and heard. blends into the script and completes the whole story.

On February 24th, "The Heartbreaker", which had been released for two months, was officially drawn.

"Heartbreaker" has embarked on a legendary path since its premiere box office on December 24, and the entire Chinese film market has changed a little because of this movie. By the time the movie "Heartbreaker" was drawn on February 24, its final box office reached 93 million!

The score of 93 million is second only to Zhang Ran's "Bursting Drummer", and behind "Heartbreaker" there are both domestic masterpieces such as "Mobile Phone" and "Infernal Affairs 3", as well as sci-fi blockbusters such as "The Matrix 3". A new director can achieve such results. A miracle indeed.

Of course, in addition to the domestic box office, some overseas copyrights of "Heartbreaker" were also sold, Park Zhenghuan bought the rights of South Korea, and Jiang Ziqiang bought the rights of the entire Southeast Asia, adding up to 10 million. In addition, advertising revenue, DVD rights, and TV station buyouts.

In the end, the final profit of "Heartbreaker" reached 25 million. As an investor. Zhang Ran got 70% of this, that is, 17.5 million, and Ning Hao and his team got 7.5 million.

Although "Heartbreaker" was not the highest-grossing film of 2003, its impact was very large. Maybe even more than "Burst Drummer".

"Science Fiction World" and "Sadness" teamed up to send coupons, bringing the January issue of "Science Fiction World" to an incredible 400,000 copies. The historical record of 330,000 copies was left far behind.

This huge number can literally brighten people's eyes!

During the Chinese New Year, Alai, the editor-in-chief of "Science Fiction World", called Zhang Ran and thanked him. In addition to the soaring sales of "Science Fiction World", more importantly, "Six Beings" and "Sadders" have been changed into movies one after another, making everyone feel that science fiction is very interesting, and now more and more people are engaged in science fiction creation.

Now domestic film and television companies have set off a wave of rushing to buy science fiction novels, "Time and Space Warrior" and "Heartbreaker" have made He Xi's fame, and his novels have almost been sold out, in addition, the novels of Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang and others are also very sought-after, and a lot of them have been sold.

More than a year ago, when Zhang Ran bought the copyright, 100,000 yuan was already a high price. Now the film copyrights of non-well-known works can be sold for hundreds of thousands, and those of well-known writers like He Xi can be sold for five or six hundred thousand.

In the last life, when Liu Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" came out, almost no one cared about it, and finally "Three-Body Problem" was sold at a very low price to Zhang Fanfan, the only one who asked to buy it. Many people question why a god like "The Three-Body Problem" would let Zhang Fanfan shoot it, and there is no way that the copyright of the novel is in his hands. In this life, this will definitely not happen.

By the end of February, more than 10 science fiction films had been approved by the Film Bureau, including He Xi's "Love Farewell", Xinghe's "Decision on the Internet", Zhao Haihong's "Birch Eyes" and so on. Of course, there are also many who have been shot, such as Zhao Haihong's "Io Kasda", Wang Jinkang's "Walking for Heaven" and so on.

When the media saw so many sci-fi films on the horse, they were all shouting: "The first year of Chinese sci-fi films has arrived, and the spring of Chinese sci-fi films is coming!"

Zhang Ran took the newspaper in his hand and shook his head gently, this year may be the first year of Chinese science fiction films, but it will definitely not be the spring of Chinese films.

Science fiction movies are the product of the development of the film market to a certain stage, and now the domestic market is too narrow to support large-scale science fiction movies. Driven by "The Sadder", it can gather a lot of strength and high attention in a short period of time, which is good for the development of science fiction movies.

However, the biggest problem in China now is the lack of directors who can make good commercial films, and even ordinary commercial films are not good at making them, and it is a joke to want to make science fiction films. Not surprisingly, the tide soon passed.

If you don't climb the mountain, you don't know the height of the sky. Many directors in China have this concept, American blockbusters are nothing great, and if I have so much money, I can make them. When they are really involved in the production of science fiction films, they will realize the gap. The gap is not only in money, but also in the director's consciousness and skills. Only by understanding what you are lacking can you improve.

From this point of view, this year can indeed be said to be the first year of Chinese science fiction films! )