Chapter 22: The Gathering of the Bigwigs
Many people can't understand Xu Hui's interest in projects like "Donkey Gets Water".
Without him, it's too small a cost!
And this is someone else's project, Zhou Shen and Liu Lu started the project of "Donkey Gets Water" as early as 09, first of all, it was adapted into a stage play.
Last year, Xu Hui found the two of them, and the first sentence was 'Make a price, I want this IP!'
Then they refused, they wanted to be directors themselves!
Damn, two young people in their twenties want to direct a movie independently, but they have no relevant work experience before, and listening to their ideas, Xu Hui has a sense of anger that such a good project actually smashed on these two people!
The two are ready to put "Donkey Gets Water" on the big screen in the way of a stage play...
It is undeniable that "Donkey Gets Water" is a good work, satirical comedy!
It takes courage to satirize human nature, to satirize officialdom, to dare to make this kind of work!
The script is really good!
How do you come up with the idea of letting a donkey occupy a place?
The mere telling of this story is surprising enough, and this irony is very similar to that of Kafka!
Such a script and such a movie are simply imitated by many professional filmmakers, and the ordinary goods of domestic films are too far away from it.
However, the directing skills of the two cutting-edge directors are too weak!
It's a movie built according to the template of the drama!
completely copied the lines of the stage play, even the characters stood in a stage style, without any film language, and the camera was so stupid that there was a connection between fading in and out and blurring the background, which was obviously divided into scenes, and greatly weakened the performance.
The weakness of the audio-visual language makes it difficult to fully present many advantages of the script, the characters are incomplete, the editing is also very mediocre, and the absurdity carries a sense of the playwright's indignation, and the actors are just the playwright's complaining tools!
Such a work cannot be called a movie!
Even many viewers feel very uncomfortable after watching "Donkey Gets Water", in addition to the story itself, there is no good catharsis channel, the most important thing is that we go to the cinema to watch movies, not to watch dramas!
If you do all this, wouldn't Renyi have already made money?
Drama is not the same as film!
If Xu Hui is asked to deal with such a story, he will first consider the movie mode, and there are more than a few characters involved...
Movies are different from dramas in that they can use the environment to drive the characters, so that the audience can empathize.
To be honest, if it weren't for the script and Ren Suxi being too awesome, "Donkey Gets Water" wouldn't have been able to get such a high box office at all!
But these two people were too stubborn to listen to them at all, so they had to give up...
If he didn't care too much about his reputation, Xu Hui would have wanted to find a few screenwriters to make up a similar story, which would be called "Cow Gets Water"...
At the beginning of this year, Zhou Xun and Liu Lu found Xu Hui, and several people chatted for an afternoon.
Xu Hui actually oversaw the entire project of "Donkey Gets Water" as a producer and director, these two served as assistant directors, and in terms of actors, except for Ren Suxi, everything else had to be changed!
As for the official start time, it is estimated that it will not be until next year, after all, Xu Hui will still shoot "Beautiful Life" and "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", Zhou Zhen and Liu Lu will also join the crew, and follow Xu Hui to learn how to make a movie!
……
In the black Bentley, Yang Xiaohu was wearing a light-colored dress, and his face was a little excited.
At night, it was a big guy party, Xu Hui needed to bring a female companion, and he called the child's mother...
"Why would you take me to such an occasion?"
Yang Xiaohu couldn't help but push Xu Hui, who was pretending to sleep.
“… What do you say?"
"How do I know..."
Yang Xiaohu pouted.
"Because you're pretty!"
Casually speaking, Xu Hui continued to close his eyes, and after running for a day, he was a little tired...
"What if I see so many big guys and can't speak?"
"Hehe, don't worry, maybe these people are your fans!"
Suddenly thought of the original time and space, Xu Hui also had the opportunity to participate in such an occasion, of course, at that time, his identity was insignificant, mainly responsible for handing tea to the big guy...
I have witnessed the whole process of many bigwigs talking to a few Xiaohuadan who are in the limelight, and basically the opening remarks are like this: "XX, hello, I'm your fan, can you sign it?"
Then the conversation continued harmoniously...
Although the little fox has been resting for a whole year, her popularity has not diminished back then, the most important thing is that she is Xu Hui's female companion, and she knows that the relationship between the two of them is not simple when she thinks about it with her toes!
Not to mention anything else, just for the sake of Xu Hui's face, these bigwigs will not snub Yang Xiaohu!
……
The address is the lobby on the second floor of the Hilton Hotel.
Xu Hui took Yang Xiaohu's right hand inside, it was really a gathering of bigwigs, many of them were characters that Xu Hui had only seen in magazines!
"Mr. Xu has arrived!"
"Mr. Wang, hello!"
The so-called bigwig party is actually a self-service drinking party, and a group of people are circled!
The main thing is people!
Xu Hui held a wine glass and chatted with Wang Changtian.
“… The benefits of the past two years have not been very good, and I am dying of sorrow!"
"Mr. Wang, no, compared to when it was first listed, the glamorous market value has expanded several times, what else do you want?"
At this time, it was 2013, and there were many entertainment companies listed in the mainland, and in terms of market capitalization alone, Guang Xian ranked third, closely followed by Huayi.
Of course, compared to Huiwen, these gangs are just a small fight...
"Next month, Zhao Wei's "To Youth" and "You at the Same Table", I don't know what will happen at the box office..."
"Don't worry, the charm of Xiaoyanzi is enough, at least 500 million to start!"
Xu Hui smiled.
"What about "You at the Table"?"
“… This depends on the works that will be released at the same time, and I personally suggest that it is best to change the schedule, for example, in September, my movie will be released next month!"
"Smiling Proud Jianghu"?"
"Yes!"
"Then it really should be a shift change!"
Although Xu Hui has not released a new film for a year, his movies have never missed, and it is a martial arts action theme.
Anyone who watches it knows that this is another work that is flying at the box office and word of mouth!
"I almost forgot to congratulate you, "Beijing Meets Seattle" is a big hit. ”
Wang Changtian raised his glass, and Xu Hui nodded: "... Thank you..."
"North West" was a big hit, "Journey to the West" was a big hit, and "Orphaned" and "Su Yuan" also set a new box office record for domestic feature films.
In 2013, Huiwen World got off to a good start!
“… 100 billion company! You said that if I had taken a stake in Huiwen Tianxia at that time, I would have been a billionaire!"
"Mr. Wang, don't make fun of me, my little family business is a fart in front of the real boss!"
“… I heard that Ahri bought a stake in Huiwen?"
Wang Changtian lowered his voice.
"Well, eight percent, fifteen percent of the market premium, there's no reason not to sell it to him!"
Ahri bought 8 percent of Huiwen's shares for $1.5 billion, a price far from the supermarket price.
"Tsk, e-commerce is really profitable!"
Wang Changtian smacked his tongue, and then said: "They want to buy 20% of the shares of Guangxian!"
“… Did you sell it?"