Chapter 60: Feng Dadao's Confusion

Xinlong Film Company really sent two beautiful screenwriters to Zhao Zejun as deputies. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Storytelling, writing novels, and movie scripts, although they are all 'stories', are not exactly the same thing.

People who tell oral stories well may not write good novels, some people are stupid, but they can write wonderful novels, and movie scripts are different from novels, which is another professional skill, so before any novel is made into film and television, it must be edited and adapted.

The two chicks have only graduated for a long time, and their professional level is average, but after all, they are professionals, their writing skills are good, and they have certain script writing skills.

Zhao Zejun didn't write specifically, but recalled the movie in his mind, and dictated it according to his memory, and asked the two screenwriters to write the script.

This movie doesn't say what depth it has, but it doesn't...... But as a popcorn entertainment film, it is still very qualified, leftover men, juniors, financial crisis, earthquakes, wars, homosexuality and other topics are relatively close to life, and several marriage experiences are even more concentrated in laughter.

In general, it is still more distracting, that is, there is cynicism, but also sincerity.

It took half a month to take time piecemeal, and after New Year's Day, the first draft of the script was finally completed.

I sent it to Qiao Xinlong and Xia Fei first, and the feedback from the two of them was much better than before, after all, there is a completed storyline, characters, dialogues, etc., as long as you are not blind, you can see it, at least this is a 'more interesting' story.

If you have a story, you have to build a team.

Domestic film production is very immature, until ten years later, the mainland has become the world's second largest box office, but it is still immature, in the past ten years, the technology of the film industry has been greatly improved, but the production method is still standing still, not to mention Hollywood, even Indian films, and even Korean and Japanese films The production level is far inferior.

The mature film industry is an assembly line, and every link is checked by professionals, while in domestic films, all the work is done by the director himself, even the details to a prop, a costume, often need the director to worry about.

So if you want to build a good team, you must find a good director.

After reading the book of Do Not Disturb, Xia Fei and Qiao Xinlong thought of the most famous comedy director in China, Feng Dagang.

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Feng Dagang hasn't been in a good mood lately.

The last blockbuster "Night Banquet", which was pinned on by all parties, was completely smashed.

Big productions, big scenes, big stars, with an investment of 20 million US dollars, starring Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Wu Yanzu and other big-name actors, the total box office was only 100 million yuan, and the investors Huayi Brothers vomited blood.

Huayi is the investor, Huayi loses money, it does not mean that the director loses money, this movie is not a share, Feng Dagang should make money, and it has been earned before it is released.

The problem is that Feng Dagang himself has high hopes for this transformational work.

What director doesn't have a literary dream in his heart? Don't want to go to the palace of art and become an international director?

No matter how many Chinese New Year films are made, the international influence is not as good as a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or even as a hero.

Director Feng has made a lot of Chinese New Year films, so he naturally wants to try to go international, and in that night banquet, it integrates traditional culture, and deliberately adds a lot of content that 'caters' to Western tastes, and even some critics think that this is an oriental version of Hamlet.

Before the release, experts praised it, and Director Feng himself was very confident.

But it didn't work, it was still smashed.

"Elegance is not that you can't play, if you want to play elegant, don't expect to make money, want to make money, want to gain fame and fortune, and want to play elegant, this idea itself is vulgar! The thing that came out is the second tail, which is nondescript! ”

Wang Shuo crossed Erlang's legs and said in a dignified manner.

The words are not rough.

"Come on, I'm going to play elegant again, I'm going to smoke my own big ears of melon seeds! From now on, it will be a vulgar word to go to the black! Do you have time lately, help me write a book. ”

Although he didn't lose money at the night banquet, but he lost his reputation, Huayi cooperated more than once, but he didn't say anything.

But as a director, if he wants to stand tall in the circle, he must come up with another blockbuster movie as soon as possible to prove himself.

In the past few Chinese New Year films, the screenwriter was either himself or Wang Shuo, in fact, his own style was also influenced by Wang Shuo - this generation of literary and artistic youth was almost all influenced by Wang Shuo to a greater or lesser extent.

Produced by Wang Shuo, quality assurance.

Wang Shuo waved his hand: "I don't have time recently, I have to write a new book, and I'm annoying." It's really not good, you spend money to buy a book, so many screenwriters waiting for dinner, as long as they are willing to spend money, are they afraid that they don't have a good book? ”

That being said, Feng Dagang's movies have a very strong personal color, and if you change the screenwriter, even if the book is good, it may not be suitable for him. Maybe another nondescript thing will be filmed.

At this time, the assistant of the studio called in and said that Hangcheng Xinlong Film Company wanted to ask Director Feng to make a film, and the script was available.

"You see, it's nice to have someone send a pillow when you're sleepy."

"Xinlong Film Company?" Feng Dagang frowned.

He had heard of this company, which was established not long ago, and made several films, all of which were downright bad movies, the kind that were released in the cinema for one day, or even one show.

There are many such small film companies in the industry, and several rich second generations were established, not to make money, but purely to play, some spend money to support women, invest millions, coax four wireless stars to play, and even simply use film companies as a guise to play with women.

In a movie, a heroine, several female supporting actresses, a lot of female soy sauce, millions of investments are smashed, beautiful girls can be picked at will, and the bed can collapse, which is very cost-effective.

Filming for this kind of film company, not to mention that you can't make a lot of money, making a big bad movie, there is still a lot of damage to the director's reputation.

In the words that have become popular in the post bar recently, it is to reduce the 'forced grid'.

Especially after the failure of the night banquet, if you pick up another bad movie and two garbage movies in a row, I am afraid that your position in the industry will really be dealt a fatal blow, and it will become very difficult to find investors next time.

"Then if you refuse directly, it's over, what's there to hesitate about." Wang Shuo said.

"You don't know, this film company has a background." Feng Dagang said.

The two CEOs of Xinlong Film Company, Qiao Xinlong is the eldest son of the Green Country Group, Xia Fei is amazing, and it is not a secret in a certain level of circle in the industry. If it was just Qiao Xinlong alone, it would be easy to do, but with one more Xia Fei, even if Director Feng wanted to refuse, it would not be so easy.

The showbiz really has no status in front of the powerful, and the four kings of Xiangjiang back then, such a famous star, still had to be cowardly when they met Long Wu.

"What the hell are they going to shoot?" Director Feng hesitated, but still asked the assistant.

Unexpectedly, other people's scripts were written and delivered.

Director Feng chuckled in his heart, it seemed that the other party had already prepared, and he must pull himself onto this broken ship.

"Not necessarily, let's read the script first." Wang Shuo persuaded.

"What good scripts can their company have, it's not like I haven't seen the previous movies."

That being said, I still asked the assistant to send the script over and one copy with Wang Shuo.

As soon as he turned on the computer and saw the words 'Do Not Disturb' in the script, Director Feng's eyes lit up slightly.

Anyway, the name is still very good, and the variety show has been very popular recently, and it will definitely help to promote if you can take advantage of this east wind.

Then look down.

The more he looked, the more surprised Director Feng became.

He is a professional, and you can tell at a glance whether the book is good or not.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with this book.。

The strange thing is that this script, whether it is the story, the plot, the setting of the characters, or the style of dialogue, gives him a sense of déjà vu.

It's all too familiar.

If it weren't for Wang Shuo sitting across from him and knowing that it wasn't written by the other party, he would even think that it was from Wang Shuo's handwriting, or even his own handwriting.

"This book ......" Opposite, Wang Shuo also raised his head and asked suspiciously: "Why does it look like you wrote it?" ”

"yes, I also think, is their screenwriter imitating us?"

"How can there be such a similarity?" Wang Shuo shook his head: "If everyone can imitate like this, wouldn't everyone be Wang Shuo and Feng Dagang?" ”

"yes, it's like it was made for me. This screenwriting level is okay, I haven't heard of such a great character in the industry before? Feng Dagang said.

"Don't care so much, if you want me to say, you are the fate of making three vulgar comedies! Aren't you short of a good book?,This is an opportunity that God gave you.。 Wang Shuo said.

Director Feng thought about it and asked the secretary to reply to the other party and meet to discuss in detail.

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In 2006, Director Feng didn't have so many white spots on his face, and he looked very energetic.

Investors and directors are naturally not at the same level, and this time the investment is not only the eldest son of the Green Country Group, but also Xia Fei, as for Zhao Zejun, he is the youngest president of a future listed company in China, a rising star in the shopping mall, these three people plus one is here, and they can indeed invite any director.

Director Feng was very polite, arrived at the club half an hour early, and greeted him after meeting.

"Director Feng, what do you think of this book?" Although they thought it was good after reading the script, Xia Fei and Qiao Xinlong still hoped to hear the comments of professionals.

"Mr. Zhao, it's not me praising you, you have such talent, if you become an editor, many people will have nothing to eat." Feng Daoming stubbornly patted a sycophant.

Xia Fei read the book and thought it was 'very interesting', but he didn't expect to be given such a high evaluation by Director Feng, and said: "Director Feng, don't just pick up good words." ”

"It's really not that I'm praising Mr. Zhao, I say responsibly, the quality of this book is not worse than any of the previous Chinese New Year films I made, and it is more in line with the current market."

Director Feng looked at Zhao Zejun: "Mr. Zhao, let me take the liberty of asking, is this your own creativity?" ”

Although the story is gags and full of ridicule, it is not 'floating', on the contrary, it is very down-to-earth, especially those blind dates, which seem absurd, but reveal a deep life experience, which is not like a young man in his early twenties can write.

Hearing the sincerity of the other party's words, Qiao Xinlong and Xia Fei looked at Zhao Zejun in surprise.

Especially Xia Fei, I thought that he was really capable of anything, and he wrote a script so easily?

Zhao Zejun smiled faintly: "Of course, there are some references. The origin of the idea comes from Mr. Chen Guofu's movie "Marriage Notice", and the divergent terminal at the beginning of the film seems to have been seen in a certain movie by Pang Haoxiang. As for the little stories in it, many of them are seen on marriage websites, and I have two professional websites under my control. ”

"I see. However, the name of the movie is called Do Not Disturb, which seems to conflict with a domestic show, right? Director Feng said again.

"Don't worry about this." Xia Fei said with a grin: "Then the show is our President Zhao." ”

Director Feng was stunned, why does this person have so many industries under his hands?

But this is not what he needs to care about, and he patted his chest: "Then there is no problem." A few people, I took this order. ”