"Brother, this is the financial statement of the movie, take a look, if it's okay, I'll wait for the filming to start tomorrow!" Chen Yongren handed a copy of the text to Chen Xunqidao.

Chen Xunqi nodded, took the report and looked down to check it, his eyes widened and widened, and he slapped the table and glared at Chen Yongren and said, "How do you make a budget?" ”。

"What's wrong?" Chen Yongren's reaction was lackluster.

Chen Xunqi broke out on the spot: "What's wrong? The salaries of the four leading actors are all 2,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the other supporting roles and several tricks add up to only 20,000 Hong Kong dollars, and some of the props sponsored and customized by the filming venue you are looking for can be counted as 150,000 Hong Kong dollars, I won't say it, the cost budget for renting a few cars plus film and television equipment and film is 450,000 Hong Kong dollars, plus the salaries of some supernumerary personnel and the crew's accommodation expenses add up to only 30,000 Hong Kong dollars......" Speaking of this, he stared at Chen Yongren and stopped continuing.

The two looked at each other and were silent for a moment, Chen Yongren finally spoke, but the words he said made Chen Xunqi angry half to death - "So what? ”。

Chen Xunqi's eyes widened and said, "Did you never go to school or did you think I hadn't studied?" All this money adds up to only 650,000 Hong Kong dollars, what about the good investment of one hundred thousand? ”。

Chen Yongren smiled and said, "Isn't it? Now that film investment is not going to be bigger? ”。

"But you're too bad! And you said that you also invested nearly 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, aside from those sponsorship fees, your money adds up to 50,000 Hong Kong dollars, I said, where can you get 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, co-authoring is ready to Kuang me? ”。

Chen Yongren waited for him to finish speaking, and asked slowly: "Didn't you find something missing from this financial statement?" ”。

Chen Xunqi was stunned when he heard this, rechecked it a few times, and then suddenly realized that he asked Chen Yongren again: "That's right! You only have information on the filming supplies and actors, and you don't have any production personnel, so you don't plan to invite the remaining 350,000 behind the scenes, right? Who are you going to invite? Don't all invite masters, do they? ”。

"You can say yes or no!".

"What do you mean?".

"Don't you think I'm paying those supporting roles a bit too much?".

"Yes! A few protagonists are only 2,000, but some supporting roles are 1,500, this Stephen Chow is even 1,800 yuan, his role should be very few, how can you count it? ”。

"Actually...... In addition to me and those actors, I am not going to hire any other staff members for this movie! ”。

"What?".

Chen Yongren is telling the truth, he is looking for part-time actors for the scene notes, field affairs, props and so on of this movie, Stephen Chow is an example, and he himself is a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, art designer, action director and editor and almost all other important positions, because he is the only one who knows every detail of this movie. When he said this, Chen Xunqi opened his mouth wide and said with a strange look in his eyes: "So...... Do you mean that the remaining HK$350,000 is your remuneration alone? ”。

"yes!".

"It's a fart, you Tama are kidding me......".

"Huh...... Brother, you're learning me to speak! ”。

"you, you'd better give me a satisfactory explanation......".

Chen Yongren cleared his throat and said: "First of all, brother, you have to believe it, I definitely don't mean to Kuang you or pit you, I dare to say that the script idea in my hand has reached those big directors in Hollywood, not to mention that the investment in this movie is only one million Hong Kong dollars, and the script alone can have more than double the price, and some people rush to ask for it; Moreover, I will also make an agreement with you, all the proceeds of the film will be divided separately under the condition of ensuring that you recover the capital, that is to say, if all the proceeds of the movie are only 500,000 Hong Kong dollars, I don't want any of them, let you recover the capital first, are you satisfied with this explanation? ”。

Chen Xunqi sighed after a moment of silence: "Okay! Your hard work has come to this point, and it is up to you to decide, and it doesn't matter what little money I have, because I believe that your future achievements will definitely be better than mine, but ...... Never mind! So be it! ”。

The next day, a slightly quaint, clean and clean street in the New Territories was very lively, and Chan Wing-yan led a group of "Future Stars" to carry out the start-up worship ceremony here. This place was originally relatively remote, it was newly developed by the Hong Kong government and a consortium, and most of the buildings belonged to the British style, so it seemed a little quaint.

Zhou Xingchi walked around and asked Chen Yongren: "Director, why don't you wait for others to come and get ready to start?" "The others also looked over, they checked several times, and only saw the actor and Chen Yongren who had been arranged earlier, and the two drivers who drove when they came, don't the photographers and other staff members have to worship God now?

Chen Yongren shook his head and said, "There is no one else!" ”。

Everyone was surprised when they heard this, and Zhou Xingchi was stunned and asked, "What about the photographer?" ”。

"I am!".

"What about art design and action direction?"

"It's me, too!".

Everyone was stunned, and Zhou Xingchi was shocked: "Director, what do you mean...... Except for a group of actors in our crew, you do all the rest of the work alone? ”。

"No!".

Everyone was breathing a sigh of relief, but they heard Chen Yongren turn to Zhou Xingchi and say, "Didn't you say that you would do the scene notes, and Brother Dasha would be in charge of the props?" ”。

"......" Everyone was collectively silent, but Zhou Xingchi clapped his hands and sighed: "Director, you are really my idol, I admire you so much!" ”。

Chen Yongren's voice was very flat and said: "The auspicious time has come, everyone prepare, incense ......."

But I heard Cheng Kui ammonium say: "By the way, director, I asked Brother Xiu, and he said that today is not a special day!" ”。

Chen Yongren said while lighting incense: "Brother Xiu doesn't know the situation, today's day is very special for me......."

Cheng Kui said strangely: "What's so special? ”。

"My birthday is one hundred and sixty days away!".

A few years later, everyone told the media this interesting story, and they all sighed, this movie is their screen debut for both actors and directors, who would have thought that such a grass stage team would create several legends in the future Chinese film industry.

After the ceremony, Chen Yongren said loudly: "Now the director announces that the movie "Four Little Strong, Two Big Smoking Guns" has officially started film......ing."

Chen Yongren's long-prepared film is the representative work of postmodernism in the future, Guy Ritchie's future directorial debut "Two Big Smoking Guns", I don't know how many Chinese directors are learning and imitating this film in the future, the most typical representative is Ning Hao, "Crazy Stone" and "Crazy Racing" are all referring to the model of this film; The interesting structure and aesthetic layout, which uses multiple lines to develop to a domino-like effect, will remain firmly in the top spot of film noir in the future, and will definitely not be inferior to Quentin Taranti's noir classic "Pulp Fiction".

Many people only have a very general concept of postmodern films, thinking that movies like Stephen Chow and Quentin are postmodernist films. But in fact, there are two branches of postmodern style in film: postmodernism and postmodernism. Postmodernism refers to art with a style of "no depth, no center, no basis, self-reflection, and playfulness", which generally reflects certain aspects of the changes of the times. Postmodernity, on the other hand, refers to the style of questioning a single system and a grand narrative technique, which is the superficial form of modern commodity society. Stephen Chow's films are postmodern, while Guy Ritchie and Quentin's films belong to postmodernist films, and the two are a difference in connotation.

Of course, just like the classic movie "Journey to the West" with a postmodern style directed by Liu Zhenwei and starring Zhou Xingchi in the future, no one will adapt to this kind of movie now, so the box office may not be very good, but Chen Yongren didn't expect his film debut to have a high box office, Hong Kong has never lacked high-box office movies, the box office is used to break it, what he needs is fame, a kind of fame that can affect the Chinese film industry and even the world film industry alone in the future.