Chapter 209: The Death of the Industry

Cui Xiaoli was very easy to invest, and she was fascinated by the story, urging Huang Guokun: "Brother Huang, go on, what happened to the primary apprentices in the photo studio after they were scared?

Huang Guokun said: "Can you not be frightened? Listening to Lao Zhao, even the uncle who was a soldier was scared into a cold sweat when he saw the photo. Their family couldn't figure out what was going on, why didn't the old lady take pictures? Later, a master from the photo studio came out to speak. The old master has been working in the photo studio for decades and has seen a lot of things, and this is not the first time I have seen this kind of thing. He privately told Lao Zhao and his family that this old lady had been taken away by lonely ghosts. ”

Huang Guolun was stunned when he heard this, and exclaimed: "The seizure has come out? This is the story made up by Lao Zhao, right? It's too!"

Huang Guokun completely believed in Lao Zhao's character, and said with a firm attitude: "This is true! Lao Zhao will not deceive people." At that time, in the photo studio, the little granddaughter who was less than three years old in their family didn't want to take a photo with the old lady, and she just shouted that it wasn't her grandmother. Later, the other children in their family took pictures with the old lady, but this little granddaughter didn't get along. But there is this little granddaughter in the family photo, she has been crying with a little face, very aggrieved, and she was held and photographed by the adults of their family. You don't believe me, I'll show you pictures. ”

Huang Guokun was about to take his mobile phone when he spoke.

Huang Guolun was not interested in looking at this kind of photo at night, so he stopped and said: "Don't toss, finish the story first." What happened to you?"

Huang Guokun continued: "The master of the photo studio said that the old lady was not himself, and at first Lao Zhao and his family didn't believe it, so they couldn't accept this fact. But the master of the photo studio later told their family that he had met the kind of old man who really returned to the light and died for a few days and then came back to life, and this kind of old man who came back to the photo studio to take the posthumous portrait, the photo will have a strange light film, but the facial features, body shape, and something will be very clear. But if the lonely ghost comes to take pictures by resurrecting the corpse, the effect of this old lady's photo is all blurry, and she can't see what it looks like.

Uncle Zhao listened to what the old master said, pondered carefully, and also felt that something was not right with the old lady after she came back to life, and felt that she didn't know her family at all, and she couldn't answer anything she asked. And the little granddaughter kept shouting that it wasn't her grandmother. I guess the little granddaughter also saw something. It is said that the child's eyes did not close before he was three years old, and he could see dirty things, and their little granddaughter was not yet three years old.

When his uncle and family said this, their family members were all hairy. If this old lady hadn't been herself, who would it be? Would it harm their family? If his second uncle ran into an evil spirit during his vigil, did he just let this filthy thing hit him? If the shadow of this filthy thing that had been resurrected from the corpse was going to hit other people again, then who could stand it? Their family members were all frightened, but they were helpless.

Later, Lao Zhao's uncle looked at the photo studio, and the master was a bit of a Taoist, so he asked the master what they should do. This old master has only seen this kind of thing well-informed, and he is not really capable. He didn't know what to do, so he persuaded Lao Zhao and his family to quickly find someone with a high level of morality to ask the dirty thing to leave. That thing should be fine after staying in their house for a long time.

This can make Lao Zhao and his family sad, no one in their family has ever encountered this kind of thing before. In the afternoon of the same day, their family members hurriedly asked around to see which neighbors, relatives and friends knew this kind of ghost collector, and they had to hurry up and invite someone to come over and help their family do a ritual, and collect the dirty things on the old lady's body. Ahem......"

His mouth was dry, and Huang Guokun coughed again.

Huang Guolun smiled and said: "The more I listen to it, the more evil it becomes, this is your script, right?

Huang Guokun drank water and said: "No, no, so far, it is still a real incident that happened in Lao Zhao's family, I just added a little oil and vinegar." Our script basically didn't change the main plot of this story, but only refined some details. ”

Cui Xiaoli hurriedly said: "Brother Huang, don't talk about the script first, and then talk about Lao Zhao and their family." Did that filth get subdued?"

Huang Guokun smiled and said: "It must have been subdued, that thing is a lonely ghost with nowhere to go, and he seized the opportunity to fall into the body of an old lady, not a ghost." But it was dangerous enough later. ”

Cui Xiaoli asked one by one: "What's the danger?"

Huang Guokun said: "Lao Zhao's family heard that there was a pock-faced old man in Dachang who was very powerful, so they invited this old man over that night. This pock-faced old man is really good, and when he arrived at Lao Zhao's house, he saw that there were a few jujube trees and a few peach trees planted in the backyard of their house, and he immediately knew what was going on.

The pock-faced old man immediately asked Lao Zhao and his uncle to lead people to cut down all the trees in their house, saying that these trees provided a place for the souls to take refuge. The souls gathered in their family are not only the one who is on the old lady's body, but there is also a group of souls outside who are eyeing their family!

Fortunately, these unjust souls have no way to do anything, just a group of poor ghosts who have no place to go. The pock-faced old man didn't want to hurt these unjust ghosts, so he bit his finger and spewed blood, scaring them all away. The unjust soul in the old lady's body was directly frightened away when he saw the blood spurting out of the pock-faced old man's mouth with the aura of Taoism.

didn't use the pock-faced old man to do anything, and those lonely souls and wild ghosts all ran away on their own. The old lady then returned to her dead state, and there was no more reaction. Lao Zhao and his family saw that the old lady was 'dead' again, and they were sad and afraid, and then their family thanked the pock-faced old man, and the matter was over. Whew!"

Exhaled, Huang Guokun finally finished telling the story.

Cui Xiaoli said a little unhappily: "This is the end, I thought the pock-faced old man had to fight with the lonely ghost for 300 rounds." ”

Huang Guokun smiled and said: "What you said is our script. Our script rendered the story of the pock-faced old man collecting ghosts in the back, and made it the highlight of the high dynasty, and there was a wonderful scene of Taoist priests fighting ghosts. This year, the Taoist drama of the Internet University has risen again, and our company originally wanted to take advantage of this craze to make a Taoist film with a real texture, but unfortunately, it ...... Alas, this film can't be filmed anymore, it's too evil, as if the lonely ghosts in this story are making trouble, and they don't let us shoot it well at all, so we can only stop filming now. ”

After Huang Guolun understood this story, he cleared his mind and said: "I think this is all your psychological effect, and it is not a lonely ghost making trouble at all." Anyway, I don't think it's true. ”

Yang Xiaoying was silent for a long time, and finally commented: "I also think this story is very fake and quite boring. Brother Huang, don't blame me for speaking straight, I don't think this kind of plot can attract me at all, it's not as interesting as some of the Internet comics I've watched. ”

Huang Guokun is a little confused: "The Internet is afraid of ...... What is it?"

Yang Xiaoying explained: "It's a supernatural horror webtoon, and many of these comics are very interesting, much more interesting than the story of borrowing corpses to resurrect the soul you said." ”

As soon as Huang Guokun heard that it was a comic, he said disdainfully: "The comic things are too exaggerated, not realistic at all, and they will definitely not look good when made into a movie." ”

Huang Guolun retorted: "What you said is too arbitrary, Marvel has dominated the world film industry for more than ten or twenty years, and the craze has not subsided, isn't it also a movie adapted from comics, why is it not good-looking?"

Huang Guokun said: "Marvel is a superhero comic, and it doesn't mean the same as the horror movie we made. The horror movies of the Internet University are either novel enough or real enough, so that they have selling points. Horror comics, I think it's hard to meet these two selling points. ”

Yang Xiaoying doesn't know much about the market of big online movies, so she doesn't dare to interject and comment more.

Huang Guokun continued: "Chinese ghost stories have actually been popular for hundreds of thousands of years, and all kinds of ghost stories have been told, and what kind of ghost stories are not new to be adapted into movies, so there are too few good stories that can catch people's attention. Now that it's close to life, very real horror movies still have a bit of selling points, and it's hard to innovate novelty. ”

Huang Guolun said: "In this case, you guys just change the theme and shoot it, why do you always hold on to supernatural horror films? Haven't the best box office films in the film market been comedies in recent years?"

Huang Guokun told Huang Guolun: "What you said is the big movie market, and the living environment of comedy films in the online circle is very bad, and it can't compare to big movies at all." If people want to watch comedies, they all go to watch big movies, couples go to the cinema to watch it, single dogs watch it on the computer, and few people want to watch comedies from big online movies. ”

Huang Guolun thinks about it, watching comedies in online movies, it seems to be a bit Lo, not so high-grade.

There are so many comedies to watch in big movies, who watches comedies in big online movies.

Unless you do a particularly good job, there are people.

But if there is a particularly good script, people will not make it into an online movie, and will go directly to a big movie.

Let's not talk about beating it to death with a stick, but more than 90% of the comedies in online movies are garbage, and there is nothing to watch.

Huang Guokun continued: "One of the most popular categories in online movies is supernatural horror movies. Big movies have too many restrictions on supernatural stories, and the General Administration doesn't allow you to shoot real ghosts at all. Therefore, under the current domestic film review system, the horror theme of China's big movies is a hard shortcoming, and ordinary investors will not invest money here, and it is difficult for big movies with this theme to make achievements. But from a global perspective, horror-themed movies have always been very marketable. People are curious, and if horror movies can arouse people's curiosity, there will definitely be a lot to be done.

At present, in the domestic Internet University, the review of supernatural themes is relatively relaxed. This gives supernatural-themed online movies a chance to survive in the cracks. Looking at the annual box office rankings of the Internet University in the past few years, more than half of the top ten are films with supernatural hunting themes. Including our company's previous filming of "Qing Ben Jia Corpse" and "Qing Ben Jia Fei", all of which are the leaders of the annual online box office. Because Chinese audiences can't see local ghost movies that can really scare them in big movies, many people are rushing to the supernatural Internet University, hoping to find excitement from it.

And our company has made a move in this direction, and has been focusing on the supernatural theme of the Internet University in the past few years. It was originally done smoothly, and it has already stood at the peak of the industry. But who knows...... Alas, I won't mention those disgusting things. In short, in the past two years, our company's film and television department has had many disasters and difficulties, and a catastrophe has followed a new catastrophe, and I don't know when it will be a leader. I'm in the mood right now, like watching the most thrilling horror movie, and I can't even predict when the next scare will be. ”

Seeing that Huang Guokun's mood became gloomy again, obviously thinking of Luo Yabo's sadness again, Huang Guolun hurriedly changed the topic and continued to talk about the Internet University: "Our company's film and television department has been filming the supernatural Internet University for the past two years, I think your ideas and concepts are also very good, that is, you are trying to do your best in this market, but why is there no improvement?"

Huang Guokun sighed: "In the end, there is still no good book." This is already the death of the industry, and now in China, whether it is an Internet university or a serious big movie, there is a lack of good books. As long as you have a good book, the film is easy to break out. Just like when our company filmed "Qing Ben Jia Corpse" and "Qing Ben Jia Fei", they all said that the special effects were done well, but that was actually just a guarantee. The real core attractive selling point is that the story is good-looking and the script is bright enough. ”

Saying that, Huang Guokun sighed and sighed: "It's a pity that the team before our company broke up, what that group of people are best at doing is to do horror hunting themes, but now they go to big companies, people don't make horror hunting movies at all, they can only change careers to make other styles of movies, which is basically equivalent to starting from scratch, when will this be able to survive." I feel sorry for them. If they didn't leave and stayed in our company to work hard, they might have mixed up a long time ago. ”

Huang Guolun said coldly: "Don't think about them. People don't think about you, what do you think they do? ”

Huang Guokun said with a wry smile: "I've been thinking about digging them back, especially the team led by Li Zhe (director), those children are the best at writing horror-themed scripts." In the past two years, they have to mix in the big movie circle and switch to making crime films, and the results will be so good! If they continue to be so obsessed, they will have to waste themselves, and even dig a hole and bury our company. ”

Huang Guolun persuaded: "Don't pin your hopes on the group of people who left you." Now the company can't make good movies, the main reason is that there is no good script, so you can train a script team to polish the script every day. Anyway, our company is not short of this money, it would be good for you to raise a group of screenwriters at a high price, and let them write scripts for you every day without doing anything else. ”