Chapter 50: A Surprising Box Office Turnaround

Now that he signed a contract with Liu Yifei, Shao Gong feels that Menghang's development plan for the next two years will have to be changed. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info According to Liu Yifei's temperament and image, since he participated in "Dragon Babu", it would be a pity not to shoot "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" in the future, and now all the game plots of Sword and Fairy are stored in Shaogong's mind, so there is no Sword and Fairy game now.

While he was coding the novel "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", he sketched out future plans in his mind. The production cycle of "Let the Bullets Fly" is too long, and with their speed, it will take nine months to shoot and complete the post-production at the earliest, but "No Thieves in the World" and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" novels do not conflict, and they can make a perfect difference if they produce these two films within this year. Therefore, after the end of "Three Lives, Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", his novel will begin to create the "Legend of Sword and Fairy" series, and a series of plots are basically unchanged, but Jian Er plans to change it to "The Question of the Fairy Sword", and then change the Longyang Casting Magic Sword to the deeds of the ancient Burning Sword in "Ancient Sword Strange Tan", the Burning Silence is a peerless divine weapon made by half of the fairy spirits, and the magic sword is a fierce sword born after the sacrifice of Nightshade, and the two are not in conflict.

And under Shaogong's setting, in addition to the burning silence in ancient times, there is no other fierce sword handed down, he plans to modify the plot of "Ancient Sword Strange Tan", which is counted as the fourth "Ancient Sword Strange Story" of the fairy sword series to be released, in this drama, there are also Nuwa's descendants, which are very compatible with the fairy sword. As for Ziyin Zhenren, he wants to portray Murong Ziying a hundred years later, and the red jade sword spirit is portrayed as a battle form of Red Kui, and a maid form of Blue Kui. Hongkui did not appear in the Lock Demon Tower, but was formed in Buzhou Mountain for many years, but many years after the end of the ancient sword plot, Murong Ziying repaired and handed over the magic sword to Shushan for safekeeping when he ascended to the immortal realm, and also said that the magic sword and her fateful relatives will definitely be related to Shushan, so that it can be perfectly linked to the three fairy swords, and then the five fairy swords, telling the story of Murong Ziying and Yun Tianhe when he was young, and there is another side story, after the story of the two little tigers of the fairy sword is over, his fairy sword series can come to an end.

And next year, he plans to start writing the martial arts novel "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", which has the urge to jump out of his mind, because he still wants to make a movie version of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"! And in this novel, his story starts with Jiangnan Crane, after the first volume of Crane Surprise Kunlun is written, the second volume of the sword Jin Hai, tells the story between Li Mubai, Yu Xiulian, and Meng Sizhao, and then the third volume of sword qi pearl, telling the story of Li Mubai and Yu Xiulian obviously in love, but they stop at courtesy, and they are chivalrous and brave the rivers and lakes.

followed by the fourth volume of the Qingying Sword, Yu Jiaolong and Luo Xiaohu appeared, this volume is completely a movie version, and the ending is that Li Mubai dies and Yu Xiulian lives in seclusion. After Yu Jiaolong and Luo Xiaohu met in Wudang Mountain, they were full of joy and sorrow, lingering all night. The next morning, Yu Jiaolong asked Luo Xiaohu to make a wish, jumped off the cliff and died, and rode away from the desert with a lone sword.

The final ending is the fifth volume of the iron riding silver bottle, which tells the story of Yu Jiaolong's wandering in the rivers and lakes a few months after jumping off the cliff and dying, only to know that he was pregnant with Luo Xiaohu's flesh and blood, and then in a snowy night shop, the jade Jiaolong who rode alone gave birth to her and Luo Xiaohu's son, but was dropped by Mrs. Fang Er, who lived in the same store, with her own girl, leaving a silver bottle as a memory. Yu Jiaolong rode hard to chase after her, but Mrs. Fang Er was robbed by the bandits of Qilian Mountain, and the boy did not know where to go.

Yu Jiaolong raised the girl to adulthood and named it "Spring Snow Bottle". Yu Jiaolong's son who was dropped was later adopted by Han Wenpei, a former member of the Qilian Mountain Gang who retired to the rivers and lakes, and was named "Han Tiefang".

Twenty years later, Yujiaolong's mother and daughter became famous in northern and southern Xinjiang, and were known as the big and small "Spring Prince". After Han Wenpei's death, Tie Fang scattered all his family wealth and traveled the rivers and lakes in search of his mother. On the way, he was a righteous hero, and he met Yu Jiaolong, who was dressed as a man and was seriously ill, and became friends.

After several temptations, Yu Jiaolong knew that Tie Fang was indeed his separated flesh and blood, but it was inconvenient to recognize each other on the way, so he only told Tie Fang that if he wanted to avenge his mother's robbery, he could first go to the bottom of the Tianshan Mountain, find a person who was his "closest relative" to help him, and asked the two to become "lifelong partners". When he arrived at the White Dragon Pile and encountered a strong wind and sandstorm, Yu Jiaolong finally gave up and died in the arms of his son, who had no time to recognize him......

Tie Fang arrived in Yuli, Xinjiang, and had a first meeting at the Kazakh Jockey Race, but was shot wounded and left in embarrassment. Chunxue went to Dihua to find Yu Jiaolong, and wanted to meet Yu Qincha, who was ordered to come to Xinjiang, that is, "uncle". On the way, he learned of Yu Jiaolong's death, rushed to Bailongdui, and was very ashamed to see Han Tiefang with his injuries.

The spring snow bottle went to Dihua, and at night he visited the mansion of Yuqincha, and was discovered, and killed the dart head of the palace in the battle. The government searched for the murderer, suspected and arrested Luo Xiaohu, who was staying here. Luo Xiaohu always thought that Xue Bottle was the biological daughter of himself and Yu Jiaolong, and he was guilty of it. Luo Xiaohu got up to relieve Yili, because he was lynched and tortured, he was dying, and he was rescued by Tiefang and Xuehua. Luo Xiaohu didn't know that Tie Fang was his own flesh and blood until he died, but he earnestly urged his "daughter" to marry Tie Fang quickly and not to repeat the mistakes of his "parents".

After that, Han Tiefang and Chunxue Bottle went through a series of emotional entanglements and battles in the rivers and lakes, and finally witnessed the Qilian Mountain bandits and Mrs. Fang getting the punishment they deserved, and the two finally became married, and decided to join hands to go into seclusion, never to enter this weird, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon rivers and lakes again.

These five volumes are arranged in this way, the context between the characters is connected, and the world structure is also very complete, which can be regarded as another martial arts river and lake that is different from many famous martial arts novels.

After writing "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Shao Gong's goal was "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and "Tomb Robbery Notes". Although "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" is a free version, the number of views has exceeded one million since the release of the first chapter, but with the update of the new chapter, readers are obviously not able to accept this powerful plot of abuse for the time being, although there are now tens of millions of clicks, but the comments are mixed, some say that he writes well, and some say that he writes too much abuse of the master, and the degree of abuse of the heroine Bai Qian is simply more than Zhang Xiaofan.

In this regard, Shao Gong can only say that this is a scripted novel, so he hurriedly speeded up the yards, and strived to end on the fifteenth day of the first month, and then start the story of the "Fairy Sword" series, after all, he will arrange Liu Yifei to play Xianjian Yi in May, he must finish all the plots of Xianjian Yi before May, after all, he will participate in the Avenue of Stars with Meng Xiangting in April, although he is in a hurry, but as long as he works hard, everything can be arranged.

And with the passage of time, after the end of "Three Lives, Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms", the plot of the second half of the book gave readers some psychological comfort, and they praised the plot for not being so abusive, and the comments that he wrote better and better followed.

With the beginning of the serialization of the "Fairy Sword" series, another large number of new and old readers gathered in this long Xianxia world. At this time, Menghang also officially started, as soon as the employees went to work, Shaogong began to release the task in full swing, first of all, the post-production team stepped up to complete the post-production of "Crazy Stone", with the fire of "Bright Sword" in CCTV during the Spring Festival, they Menghang has become a well-known film and television company, and the calls to negotiate the replay copyright are one after another, Shaogong directly bid Wang Yang, less than one episode of 200,000 don't let them step into the door of Menghang.

Although 200,000 yuan per episode is undoubtedly a sky-high price in the current TV drama industry, this drama is too hot, the price is high, and it can be made up from the advertising fee. In the second half of February alone, the rebroadcast of "Bright Sword" has been bought by ten TV stations, directly creating 60 million income for Menghang.

Seeing this scene, Meng Xiangting covered her face and sighed that the money came too easily, it was like a dream of money falling from the sky, which made her feel like she was floating in the clouds and fog all the time, which was very unreal.

Finally, under the continuous explosive overtime, "Crazy Stone" was finally completed at the end of February, and they were so busy working as soon as they got to work, so that the employees simply fell directly from the joy of taking a long vacation to hell, in order to make the employees of the post-production team less resentful, Shaogong gave each of them a red envelope of 5,000 yuan as a reward, which made them turn into smiling faces and give a thumbs up to praise the boss for his generosity.

The film was produced in a hurry, and Shao Gong hurriedly contacted Zhou Tian and said that he had made a movie. When Zhou Tian heard it, he reacted that it was not May Day yet, it was better to wait until May Day was screened, and they could give Shaogong's film the top position in the film schedule, and with good publicity, it would definitely be able to have a good box office. After hearing this, Shaogong directly said no, saying that he wanted to take advantage of the trend of the popularity of "Bright Sword", and let his movie take advantage of this fire and add a handful of firewood to the fire, maybe it is unknown that it can ignite a bigger fire.

After hearing this, Zhou Tian felt reasonable, and Shao Gong directly called him 30,000 yuan. At the beginning, he could say that he would receive one piece of the low-cost 100 yuan below 5 million, Shao Gong's expected box office of 3 million, give him 30,000 yuan, and people will also vigorously support the publicity, and give preferential treatment for the amount of films, which is not as much as the bonus he gave to the later group, and it is definitely worth the money.

As soon as he received the money on Sunday, he immediately started working, and the first place in the number of 150 theaters in the country was this "Crazy Stone", and he also posted promotional advertisements near the theaters, saying that this was the debut film of the director of "Bright Sword", which was worth watching.

Shao Gong, on his part, also held a grand film conference in the company, saying that Menghang's first black humor film "Crazy Stone" will land in shining theaters in March to meet the audience, and then introduced some interesting stories about starring and shooting.

With the birth of Bright Sword, the reporters took a pen fee of 1,000 yuan per person, and naturally spared no effort to promote this movie in the newspaper, so that he had a pre-fire before it was released.

Even the Menghang Chinese website and Baidu homepage have marked Shaogong's debut film "Crazy Stone", compared to theaters and reporters, Meng Hang's publicity has undoubtedly made "Crazy Stone" soar a lot, there are tens of millions of readers, millions in the mainland, and millions in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Shaogong's readers responded one after another, and they must organize a group to watch this movie, because this is a movie written and directed by their idol, and Ouyang Shaogong has to be given face if they don't give anyone face.

So on the first day of the official release of "Crazy Stone", the national viewing volume of the mainland shining theater chain has exceeded one million at the box office, and after the audience saw this movie, many of them praised it, saying that their stomachs hurt after laughing, and it was simply another style of funny movie in addition to Zhou Yuchi's movie.

Especially in the last part where Heipi was chased by the bakery owner, the two chased and chased the scene, and it became a young girl chasing Heipi on an electric motorcycle in the plum blossom garden, and Heipi shouted loudly while running: Meimei, I will definitely come back. Then the film ends, leaving the audience with a suspense, making many people think that the bakery owner can't catch up with Heipi, and the guy will run back to his hometown to meet his Meimei.

And the ending song "A Cut of Plums" Huang Bo sang richly and very gracefully, round, like listening to the sound of the sky, shocking, and made the audience feel excited to listen to it, after watching the film, it was a round of applause, and this ending song is considered to be another classic song that is not inferior to the excitement of the movie.

With a good reputation among the audience, in the next three months, the box office results of "Crazy Stone" soared, in this era when blockbusters are bigger and smaller films, director Ouyang Shaogong created a box office myth of a small film, and by the end of March, when "Crazy Stone" was off the shelves, the total box office had reached 23 million, which was known as a milestone for low-cost domestic films.

This impressive result made Zhou Tian's eyes turn into rabbits in the shining theaters, and now he regrets that his intestines are tied into bows, and the box office share of their theaters is only 30,000. And people, 23 million, this is nearly dozens of times the price difference, he really lost to his grandmother's family. But this is how the contract was signed, and he had to obediently act according to the rules and send the box office to others, if he dared to hide a part of it, it would be a lawsuit, and people took the contract to sue him for stealing his own box office, he was 100% lost.

"Ouyang Shaogong, you are ruthless enough to play me! Let's see......

Zhou Tian kept gritting his teeth in the office, and after a long time, he put on a smile again: "We know you have someone, but we won't play with you, sometimes, a soft knife can be more effective than a horizontal one." ”

The proud achievement of "Crazy Stone" not only made an unexpected box office comeback for small-budget films, but also made many filmmakers' eyes red. Although this film does not have big-name directors and international superstars, this film has achieved great success at the box office with its solid script, skilled narrative strategy, keen theatrical talent of the director, and strong life atmosphere of the film, and finally achieved a box office myth of 23 million with an investment of 3 million.

Many film critics even called it a civilian-style victory, saying that it was fundamentally very successful with a populist creative idea. Many directors have directed big productions and small budgets, but specifically, many big productions and small productions have never started from meeting the entertainment needs of ordinary people, and this film lets ordinary people be the protagonists of the film, and reflects the real joys, sorrows and sorrows of ordinary people through the dramatic description of their daily life, which is the most important place to learn from experience.

Some people even suggested that the emergence of "Crazy Stone" was the end of China's big productions and the beginning of small production films.

In response, Professor Zheng Dongtian of the Film Academy said: "We have made more than a dozen blockbusters, most of which have made money, and we have made thousands of small films, and now this is the first time that they have won the box office. The significance of this film lies in the fact that it breaks the monopoly of famous directors and stars on movies, and uses extremely down-to-earth characters and plots to establish the audience-oriented and market rules, rather than the popular taste and entertainment spirit based on personal expression, so that the film market is close to the trend of the market economy - because the main body of the film market is the public, close to the public, and being grounded can win the favor of the market. It will be an important trend for Chinese films in the new century to cater to the needs of the masses and be close to the lives of ordinary people.

In addition, the successful experience of low-cost and high-box office created by this film has also taught other new and old directors a vivid lesson, because they have put aside big productions, dared to innovate, dared to work hard, and finally occupied a place in the Chinese film market, which is worth learning from and learning from.

Especially the scene of Jingjing in the film, half-lying on a red video game motorcycle, that kind of shooting technique directly reflects the inner elaboration of the two characters, and fully achieves the dual character temperament of hazy truth and falsehood, and this shooting technique simply reflects the eclectic embodiment of director Ouyang Shaogong. ”

In an interview with reporters after the film became popular, Ouyang Shaogong of Menghang said, "In the early stage of creation, he considered localizing and making a big production, and the initial script was also very deliberate in pursuing and rendering something, but later he found that the more he wrote, the more wrong it became, so he took out some things that he deliberately wanted to render, took out the people around him and added them, and naturally wrote the script of "Crazy". Although there are many things in the film that are not logical, and the shooting is also a bit exaggerated, we can't deny that it is a comedy premise to have such a shooting technique.

Although the film is full of black humor, what he wants to tell the audience is the theme of the film shot through this method: a chaotic world, the best soul, and good people are rewarded. At this time, what he wanted to express was that as for whether Heipi was arrested or not, whether he was punished or not, those are no longer important, because at the end of the film, he already has the person he misses in his heart, and for her, he can rush back desperately, and Heipi's story is the story to be told in "Crazy Racing" in another movie. ”

"Are you going to create a sequel to Crazy, then?"

"There is that plan, but the script has not yet been created, and this year our company signed a contract with Liu Yifei, the actor who plays Bai Xiuzhu in the gold powder, the main plan is to shoot an idealistic comedy film and a Xianxia TV series that also tell the thief, and maybe Liu Yifei will release a record at the end of the year, this is our production plan for this year, and the work schedule is full, so "Crazy" may make a sequel in two or three years. ”

Watching Shao Gong being interviewed by reporters on TV, Meng Xiangting smiled from ear to ear and said: "It's really good, but it's too cunning, not only to promote the creative ideas and themes of our film, but also to promote a sequel movie by the way, and also to promote our signed artists and unfilmed movies and TV series, it's like killing four birds with one stone, and shooting arrows together." ”

"Don't waste good resources, whether it's killing four birds with one stone or a series of arrows, my work is already full, and I will go to the Avenue of Stars with you in April, shouldn't we be ready to prepare for the competition." ”

Seeing Meng Xiangting looking at him a little dumbfounded, Shao Gong asked, "Have you figured out the name of our combination?" ”

"Well, I really didn't think about it. ”

Meng Xiangting said embarrassedly: "You and I are good at singing, but I can't do it when I write songs, so I listen to you everything, and we can do whatever you say." ”

"I said Sister Meng, you are so worry-free!"

Shao Gong covered his head in pain: "Then let's just call it free combination! Free creation, free play, what a good name." ”

"Okay, then when you create the repertoire, you will notify me of the rehearsal, and I will go out to work first!"

Meng Xiangting smiled and went out happily like a bird.

"I'm really working hard!"

Shao Gong rubbed his forehead and asked Cang Tian speechlessly.

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