Chapter 157: Good Things Come in Pairs
Next year is the Olympic year, and the 29th Summer Olympics will be held in the north. Beijing, which has aroused the great enthusiasm of the Chinese people for sports, various forms of activities to welcome the Olympics have been carried out on the land of China, and the entertainment industry will definitely rush to the front line when the time comes, but few people invest in sports-related movies, probably because they feel that there is no fame and fortune.
He Mu no longer remembers the last time he saw a sports-themed movie made by Chinese, whether it was "Women's Football No. 9" directed by Xie Jin, or "Handsome Female Male Soldier" starring Jiang Wenli and Liu Ye, or "Shaolin Football" by Xing Ye. In short, these are all films made more than N years ago, and in recent years, He Mu has not seen any Chinese-language competitive movies, and there may still be people making them, but none of them can enter the public eye and stand out from many blockbusters and small films, and an important film genre has almost completely disappeared from the Chinese film map.
In fact, not only the theme of sports competition, children's themes, and biographical themes are also facing the problem of exhaustion, children's films a few years ago there were classics like "Grass House", and now there are only some young cartoons left, and there is nothing to say in biopics except for shooting typical characters of our party, in fact, we have never had a serious biopic, He Mu is eager for the Chinese people to make classics like "Beautiful Mind", rather than those propaganda films that praise virtue.
In short, there is a serious lack of genre films in the Chinese film genre, and there are only two kinds of movies in the eyes of filmmakers now, commercial films, which are used to make money, literary films, which are used to win awards, and have fame and fortune, as for those sports competitions, children, biographies, etc., they can neither make money. It's rare to win awards, what are we doing here? This is the common idea of domestic filmmakers, which is very regrettable for people like He Mu who love movies. If he has the opportunity and ability, he hopes to change this status quo, not much, there is one and a half high-quality films of various genres every year, which can be regarded as retaining the fire for Chinese films.
So when he heard Li Yifeng say that he wrote a script about Ding Junhui, He Mu immediately thought of two types: sports competition and biography, if it is done well. This movie can even save two rivers of the genre, and the merit is immeasurable.
In the evening, He Mu had a treat in Quanjude, and Zuo Jun got out of his busy work. The failure of "Durala" made Mr. Li very angry, and Zuo Jun, as the person in charge, is now trying to save it, and he feels that he should be able to save this book, according to the analysis of the book market wind direction group. In the future, workplace and officialdom novels will be the new upstarts in the book market. "Durala" definitely has what it takes to be one of these upstarts. In addition to those old friends of He Mu, Li Yifeng, who was newly met today, also came.
Li Yifeng deliberately went home to get the script, He Mu Wang Mingfei first read the script, and then commented on the word, "garbage".
Sure enough, not everyone can write a good script, Li Yifeng's script has a good idea, but it is really not good.
Ding Junhui participated in the famous Wembley Masters in January this year, although Wembley is not a ranking tournament. But it has a long history, older than the British Championships. And if you want to participate in this competition, you have to be in the top 16 of last season to have a chance, so the level and impact of this tournament is very high.
In the semifinals, "Prodigy" Ding Junhui defeated "Billiards Emperor" Hendry 6-2 and successfully entered the finals and started a championship battle with "Rocket" O'Sullivan. In this match with Hendry, Ding Junhui scored 147 for the first time in his career, that is, a shot from the beginning to the end, and was the youngest perfect score player in the history of television broadcasting.
Li Yifeng's script also started from this full game, and the brilliance of this script lies in the structure and creativity. The script tells Ding Junhui's career in the first person, and the script is filled with a lot of voiceovers.
From the first shot of this full round, Ding Junhui began to reminisce, and then every time he scored a goal, he interspersed a short period of memories and monologues, telling that from his first contact with billiards when he was a child to today's fame, there was persistence, hard work, struggle, and confusion and hesitation along the way, but he finally overcame these negative emotions and was able to stand on today's field, when he hit the black ball that symbolized 7 points at the end of the year, and completed the first shot of 147 in his career, the audience applauded thunderously, and the script ended here.
He Mu appreciates the structure of the script, but Li Yifeng's skills are almost good, this is the first time he has written a script, there are many problems, it was originally a very inspirational story, but in Li Yifeng's pen, there is no moving place, he is more about Ding Junhui's talent, which seems a bit of a show. And because he is an admirer of Ding Junhui, Ding Junhui is portrayed too perfectly in the script and is a little less popular, which is also the more exclusive place of biographical films, in short, if this script wants to be used for film shooting, it must have major surgery.
"How about selling me this script?" This was not said by He Mu, but by Wang Mingfei.
Although He Mu is a little interested in this script, he personally does not have the ability to put this story on the big screen, if the script is recommended to Xiao Fang and invested by Tiger Wolf, he must first consider whether he can make a profit, he can't pit Xiao Fang.
This movie involves multi-country filming and shooting, especially in the United Kingdom, although there are no big scenes, but the investment is certainly not a small amount, at least it is the level of a medium-sized TV series, with today's sports market, it is good to be released in theaters, it is almost impossible to recover the cost, this kind of movie, shooting it means that you want to make money.
And the tiger wolf has been focusing on the field of TV dramas, although movies and TV series are the same as filming, but they involve all aspects are different, Xiao Fang rarely deals with the film industry, and his subordinates do not have the talent for film distribution and shooting, which means that the shooting rights and distribution work will have to be handed over to other companies at that time, which is very risky for the tiger wolf, and he will not rush into the film industry with Xiao Fang's caution.
Thinking of this, He Mu was interested in this script, but he didn't expect Wang Mingfei to speak at this time.
After asking for the first time, Wang Mingfei said, "I have a little relationship with Bayi Studio, and now everyone wants to do something for next year's Olympic Games, and Bayi Factory has always wanted to make a sports-related movie, but Bayi Factory has always been making military-themed works, and there is no suitable script for this type at hand, and I see this "One Shot 147" today, I think it's still very good, I can try to contact them." ”
He Muzhi said that Wang Mingfei's father worked as a department leader in Bayi Factory, maybe she could really succeed, but the biggest problem in this movie is probably whether Ding Junhui allows it, after all, no active athlete in China has had this kind of honor similar to a biographical movie, and it is still unknown whether he can dare to be the first.
Li Yifeng said that he would consider it, Wang Mingfei said that they could talk about it in detail, and the so-called private details of He Mu are not very clear.
He Mu, who is idle, is nothing more than reading the script of "Painted Skin", constructing his antique script, or secretly going to the cinema to watch a movie in the dead of night, and he is alone, Zilin's competition has entered the white-hot stage, and He Mu doesn't even dare to call her now.
A while ago, He Mu watched Fang Zuming's "The Sun Also Rises", which is director Jiang Wen's third work, and it is also the second time to direct "The Devil is Coming" after being banned for many years, which has attracted much attention.
However, it may be that Jiang Wen is too persistent in expressing his artistic appeal, compared with the previous two works, this "Sun" is too obscure, and the narrative order is also very subversive, which makes people a little confused. Jiang Wen's movie is fast-paced, this "Sun" is especially performant, every frame is so clean and neat, He Mu looks very cool, but the plot does make him foggy, after reading the various interpretations of those film critics, he is even more confused.
Maybe it's because everyone doesn't understand it, this Jiang Wen's work, which was given high hopes and gathered Jiang Wen, Chen Chong, Huang Qiusheng, Fang Zuming and other big-name stars, was not brilliant at the box office, and it was only 20 million when it was painted, far from meeting expectations, and it was not even as high as the production cost of the movie.
He Mu is now watching the Hong Kong movie "Sharpshooter and Zhiduoxing" starring his friend Tang Wei, produced by Wang Jing, which is considered a work above the passing line, leisure and entertainment are still good, don't expect to have any depth if you have a relationship with Wang Jing, as long as it's not too, it's good. Listening to Tangtang, at the end of the year, she still has a movie released, and she works with Zeng Zhiwei, Xia Yu, Liang Yongqi and other big names, speaking of these names, He Mu can only express envy.
But soon he also became the envy of others, because the nominees for the 44th Taiwan Bend Film Golden Horse Awards were announced.
He Mu didn't expect that he could get two titles, with his outstanding performance in "The True Colors of Men", He Mu won the two titles of Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer, the first time he made a movie, he Mu's performance was enviable.
In addition to He Mu's two nominations, "The True Colors of Men" also won nominations for Best Action Design and Best Original Film Music. His eldest brother Wu Jing was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and the two supporting roles are really outstanding in this movie, and Gu Tianle ("Disciple") and Liang Jiahui ("War. Drums"), they also have good performances in their respective movies, and He Mu's chances of winning are not great.
This is not enough to do anything, He Mu is destined to do good things in pairs.
After the announcement of the No. 27 Golden Horse nominations, the next day was the final night of the Miss World World Contest in China, and Zhang Zilin was one of the strong contenders for the title...... (To be continued......)
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