Chapter 132: Make a Comedy!
When "1942" was released, Feng Xiaogang said: "The nation of Israel dares to look directly at its own grief, and all the stories about their national tragedy can sell very well..."
Just this sentence, "1942" was crowned as a commercial film of Fei national feelings!
There are people everywhere on the Internet who are boycotting "1942", saying, 'Why don't you make it into a documentary, a public welfare film, and let schools watch it for free?'
Big brother, the production cost of 200 million is free for people to watch?
Huayi is really not a state-owned enterprise!
Listed companies have performance reports, and they are responsible to shareholders!
If no one shoots it, they say they forget history, if someone shoots it, they say it's not as good as a documentary, if it is really made into a documentary, it is estimated that they will talk about brainwashing and education...
Feng Xiaogang's contribution to Chinese films is not something that can be said in a few words, their generation of directors made the entire film market hot and pioneered the concept of Chinese New Year files...
Of course, he himself is a little too pretending...
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"If it continues to grow at this rate, I estimate that the box office market will be 16 billion next year!"
Wang Zhongjun was full of confidence, and Feng Xiaogang continued to scold Fang Xuan.
"I really didn't expect that when we first established Huayi, the total box office that year didn't seem to reach 1 billion, right?"
"Well, it's not even a billion!"
"Tsk, it's changing so fast, a bunch of movie theaters were transformed into song halls and shampoo rooms, and now they have all been changed back!"
"Haha!"
A group of people laughed.
Xu Hui also smiled.
Damn, where's the laugh?
“… Mr. Xu, do you have anything to do at the end of the year? If the time is right, come and do me a favor and play a role?"
It's bluffing!
Xu Hui was taken aback, what the hell, looking for me to act?
"Just the script you wrote, "Lao Pao'er", I derived a story based on the script, "Master", is the story of Xiaofei in you, I think your image is very suitable for him!"
Guan Yu looked at Xu Hui very seriously and sincerely sent out an invitation!
"Well, I probably don't have time..."
Xu Hui turned his head and looked at the watchman.
What I thought in my heart was that the copyright of "Lao Paoer" belongs to Huiwen World, what qualifications do you have to make a spin-off?
Guan Yu is a very talented director, and he likes to express some marginal characters who are not so integrated into the mainstream group and are not so gregarious, and he is very angry about doing art!
From the black comedy movie "Bullfighting", the absurd suspense drama "Killing", to the action movie "Cook, Drama, Ruffian", including the later "Lao Paoer", Guan bluff has never been biased towards any kind of theme, but has tried in many ways!
He famously said: "A country only needs two or three hundred better movies, and there are not too few but too many Chinese films!"
Of course, he is a director who relies a lot on actors.
Without a good actor, he is a mediocre director, and "Yellow Skin Grave" is very rubbish...
“… I'll tell you to change someone, it's good for you, you have to find Mr. Xu, who is also a famous director! How can you have time to make your movie?"
Feng Xiaogang suddenly spoke.
There is an inexplicable irony in the words.
Hell knows he's taking the wrong medicine...
Yes, you have a high status in the rivers and lakes, a senior, and you have been praised as one of the four famous directors, but who is Xu Hui?
Not to mention that his worth is enough to buy Huayi, just his movie, just take out one, and the box office results can beat Feng Xiaogang's movies - except for "Embroidered Spring Knife"...
Let's put it this way, Xu Hui is Zhang Yimou's boss!
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Actually, this thing is very simple to say, Xu Hui starred in "Search"!
Although Brother Chen Kai has a good relationship with Feng Xiaogang and his gang, his film Huayi brothers have never interfered.
On the surface, Feng Xiaogang admires Brother Chen Kai very much, and he is called 'Kaiye' when he meets people, but there are times when directors compete with each other!
Otherwise, after Zhang Yimou finished filming "Hero", Huayi immediately made a "Hero of Heaven and Earth" - of course, this drama was invested by Colombia, but the distribution was handed over to Huayi...
Feng Xiaogang filmed "Night Banquet", which was also to prove that he could play that set of things.
Xu Hui starred in Chen Kaige's movie, but refused to appear in Guan Qiao's work, which made Feng Xiaogang quite eye-catching.
Besides, the strength of the wine is a bit high, so he said.
"You speak really ugly, let me tell you, I can't stand him a little many times, is there such a crowd as you?
Zhang Guoli played a round.
The whole game laughed again, and Feng Xiaogang also laughed...
Lao Zhang is definitely a good hand at creating an atmosphere, and the embarrassment on his face disappears in just a few words, but Xu Hui knows that the matter is definitely not over!
"Hehe, I'm really in trouble..."Facing Guan Xuan, Xu Hui explained: "Starting next month, I will go to Italy for preliminary survey, and there will be two dramas to shoot next year!"
"Two more plays?"
Wang Zhonglei was a little surprised.
There are many fast gunners in the circle, and in the golden age of Hong Kong films, there is a feat of filming a film in seven days.
Even Feng Xiaogang once released two of his works a year.
But that was a special case, "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 2", it took more than 20 days to shoot according to Wang Shuo's script.
Xu Hui's speed in making movies is well-known in the entire industry, and he is known as a real fast gunner...
"Is it a martial arts movie?"
Zhang Guoli stared at Xu Hui and asked.
"No, I'm going to make a foreign language film, and then a comedy in the second half of the year!"
Xu Hui said his plan with a calm face.
"Comedy? You want to make a comedy?"
As soon as this remark came out, the most surprising thing was Huang Wen!
It's so sudden!
According to the company's original plan, Xu Hui should start filming the "Di Renjie" series, why did he suddenly change the shooting plan?
"Well, after "Cinema Paradiso", I am going to make a comedy movie called "Life is Beautiful", I am quite satisfied with the script, it can be regarded as a new attempt, after all, I have never made a comedy!"
In the box, a few people first froze, and the first to react was Feng Xiaogang: "Is it a comedy with an urban theme?"
"It's not... I can't say what the subject is, but it's funny!"
Xu Hui smiled mysteriously.
"Life is Beautiful" is certainly not a comedy, but its whole story is absurd.
Xu Hui has always wanted to transform, although "Paradise Cinema" is very good, but after all, it is an Italian movie, not a Chinese movie.
Moreover, its entire kernel decided that it was not very suitable for adaptation into a Chinese movie!
Of course, "Beautiful Life" is not a Chinese movie, but it can still be localized if the background and characters are modified.
The male protagonist is a bandit in the Northeast.,The heroine is a teacher who is proficient in Japanese on the surface.,In fact, it's an underground worker of our party.,After a chance encounter,,The male protagonist's dead skin and face wrapped around the female owner.,And then they fell in love...
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the male protagonist slowly became an underground worker with firm beliefs under the influence of the female protagonist, and the two had a child.
The Japanese army doubted the male protagonist several times, but he skillfully resolved it, and the last time, the male protagonist said to his son, 'Son, let's play a game, someone will pretend to take Dad away, you have to hide in the cellar now, don't cry, don't laugh, wait until it gets dark to come out, if you can do it, I'll reward you...'
As for "Di Renjie", he doesn't want to do it himself, and is ready to hand it over to other directors in the company...