Chapter 65: Sleepless Night in the Supermarket
However, Zhou Chunwang went to the capital at this time to bring more than Lin Guoyuan, he also brought his parents with him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe first is that today in 2002, a person could not register a company, and it took at least two people to register a company, so I took my parents to register together. As for why it is a company and not a studio, it is because most of the films he wants to make in the future will be films, the limitations of the studio are too great, the efficiency is low, there is no need to set up a studio first and then upgrade to a company when it grows.
The second is that he also took this opportunity to take them around to play, his parents have been poor for most of their lives and have hardly ever traveled experience. Therefore, a group of four people walked around Beijing for more than half a month, and almost all the attractions were seen, but of course they didn't go every day, and they were tired. They also took the time to do a few serious things, one was to rent an office space, and the other was to register a film company, called Beiping Fanxing Film Co., Ltd. -- the films they made in the future finally had their own titles to play; The third is to go to the China Copyright Center to register the copyright of the script.
More than half a month later, Zhou Chunwang sent his parents to the airport and asked them to fly back. He and Lin Guoyuan began a life of struggle.
And a few days after the start of school, Zhou Chunwang went to find Mr. Wang Rui, since he showed him the script last time, now he is used to showing him the script first. By the way, he wanted Mr. Wang Rui to help him ask Xu Zheng's phone number and address - so the benefits of being a student of Beiying appeared, and there were always many resources to use. And at that time, his film is estimated to be produced in the youth studio of Beijing Film.
The original name of the movie he wanted to make at this time was "Night Club", which was a parody of the 1999 Korean movie "Gas Station Attack". But Zhou Chunwang didn't like the name. Originally, the name of the movie was "Supermarket", but the name was too ordinary for fear that it would not attract the audience, so it was later changed to such an ambiguous name.
The nightclub itself is a place that is open all night for entertainment, and it has nothing to do with the content of the movie, so it would be too much to say that it is a store that is open at night. So they want to let the audience enter the cinema because of this ambiguous name, but they are afraid of being said, so they also add a point in the middle, but that is also useless. Even if Zhou Chunwang himself likes this movie very much, when he watched it for the first time, he misunderstood that it was really telling the story of an entertainment venue. So he planned to change the name of the movie to "Sleepless Night in the Supermarket", which is the most appropriate name for the movie. Or the creators and film companies of the original world also knew that this name was more appropriate, but it was only because there was a foreign film with this name at that time, so they didn't want to use it. But now it's 2002, and the foreign movie hasn't been released yet, so Zhou Chunwang used this name first.
"Sleepless Night in the Supermarket" tells the story of an August night that takes place in a small 24-hour supermarket. Li Junwei is a night shift salesman in a supermarket, and he secretly likes his colleague Tang Xiaolian because of his taciturn appearance, and the two are on the night shift together today. Two months ago, He Sanshui bought a lottery ticket in the supermarket and won a prize of 9,500 yuan, but the prize was lost because the supermarket proprietress typed a wrong number. So he went back to the supermarket tonight with his stupid nephew tires, and he was sure to get his winnings back. Li Junwei and Tang Xiaolian couldn't solve the matter, and He Sanshui, who was helpless, made a strange decision - he wanted to stay in the supermarket openly and sell the goods to make enough money for himself. Xiaolian and Junwei's friend Zhu Liao were both locked up in the office. Some customers with different personalities came into the supermarket one after another, and due to He Sanshui's stubborn temper and unfamiliarity with the supermarket business, there were many interesting episodes in the shopping process. And Zhu Liao and Xiaolian, who were locked up in the office, tried their best to escape.
Just when the supermarket was a little calmer, He Sanshui was finally about to scrape together 9,500 yuan, and an angry robber appeared in the supermarket. It turned out that a week ago, there was a robbery in a shopping mall near the supermarket, and the diamond robber passed by the supermarket while fleeing and hid the diamond in the freezer of this supermarket. In the face of danger, everyone began to find a way to deal with the angry robbers together, but due to the lack of tacit understanding, a lot of jokes were made. Just as the robbers are about to get the diamonds and leave the supermarket, everyone comes up with a brilliant way to subdue the robbers together with the police outside. Everyone was finally saved, and when they walked out of the supermarket, the sky was already showing the morning sun.
In the original world, this movie cost more than 2 million, and now Zhou Chunwang is estimated to be able to win about 1.4 million if he shoots it again, because it can save some unnecessary expenses, as well as inflation. Since he has spent some money recently, the current deposit is more than 1.2 million, which is still worse, and he has to keep some money for backup, so he may ask Han Han to borrow some. Besides, the novel will be sold again, and it is estimated that there will be another sum of money after a while.
The original movie is not high on Douban, but Zhou Chunwang feels that it is seriously underestimated, this is definitely a rare domestic masterpiece, and it is not an exaggeration to evaluate it with a score of 8.
There are several advantages that made Zhou Chunwang choose him, one is that he likes it very much, the second is that it is low-cost, but he can make money, and the third is that the plot is simple but suspenseful and full of jokes. As for some small flaws, he will also correct them, such as the first is that Li Junwei's appearance is not very good, and the overall feeling is weird, the image of an otaku does not necessarily have to be like that, black-framed glasses can be retained, but the hairstyle is too weird. The second is that the emotional drama between Li Junwei and Tang Xiaolian is handled too suddenly, and some interaction should be added to embellish it, so that it will feel like it will come naturally when the emotions explode at the end. The third is that the director's shooting skills are a little immature, many places are not handled very well, and the handling of the lens is also very average, but after all, the director at that time was a person who had never even shot MVs and advertisements, and now it will be much better for Zhou Chunwang to shoot. The fourth is that in addition to Xu Yu's excellent performance and Li Xiaolu's decent performance, most of the supporting roles are too aggressive, and Zhou Chunwang will have to control it appropriately when he arrives. And Li Junwei's role, he also hopes to have someone with better acting skills to participate.
"It's a good work, it looks like you've really thought it through." Teacher Wang Rui sighed. However, in addition to praise, there was a trace of worry inside, mainly because he was afraid that Zhou Chunwang would go too quickly and too quickly.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time, I've been preparing for it, and I made a short film and a short drama in front of me, and I think it's time to make a feature film." Zhou Chunwang said.
"Originally, I also considered letting you take on bigger tasks, but it wasn't a movie." Teacher Wang Rui said.
"TV series?" Zhou Chunwang said.
"Yes, after watching your three short episodes, I thought you could challenge the TV series first, but I didn't expect you to want to make a movie." Wang Rui said.
"TV series," Zhou Chunwang thought for a moment, "I almost didn't think about it." ”
"So which film company are you going to invest in?"
"I, I registered a company myself・・・・・・ Mr. Zhou said.
"・・・・・・" Teacher Wang Rui glared at him.