Chapter 129: Li Guang Film Studio
When the work of "Burning Shadow Special Effects Studio" in "Red Cliff" was in full swing, "Nightclub. The preparation for filming of "Supermarket" is gradually approaching maturity.
Su Li handed over all the preparations for the next film shooting to Lu Zhongfei, and he himself got out of the mountains of film work preparations, and then officially began the preparations for the establishment of his film studio.
Of course, the steps to set up a film studio were quite simple, he prepared the office location, he received the form at the industrial and commercial bureau a few days ago, and after a short period of preparation, he quickly got everything done. After receiving the certificate of 'Li Guang Film Studio' from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Su Li was also a little excited for a while - his ideals and his next plans were really unveiled, and there was no way to retreat in the future.
But his film studio really has a bit of a leather bag company - the whole company is just a bare-gun commander, and the house he rents is located in the remote suburbs, and the rent is quite cheap, and the rental contract is just to pay for the industrial and commercial bureau. So, no matter how you look at it, this company is really poor, and if it weren't for the shooting plan for a movie, this film studio would be simply penniless!
Su Li looked at the humble certificate, looked at the words on it, and smiled self-deprecatingly, now his 'Li Guang Film Studio' really has nothing.
Although he wanted to commemorate this occasion, Su Li also invited people to attend the opening ceremony - his film studio was too poor. However, after the establishment of the studio, he soon had several employees, these employees were responsible for chores, two of them were introduced by Zhang Wu, and the other was introduced by Lu Zhongfei, there were three of these people, Su Li had to pay them more than 10,000 wages a month, fortunately, these people had many uses - first of all, they were in charge of "Nightclub. Supermarket" filmed the negotiation of the supermarket, and they found some supermarkets that met the requirements, but those shopkeepers were more tricky than the other, and one even asked them for a rent of 1 million a month, which also angered the employees, and the two sides almost came to a full martial arts. However, after a few days of running around, they finally succeeded in renting a supermarket, and they spent 70,000 yuan to rent this supermarket for a total of three weeks.
The location of this supermarket is remote, and the remote location is just right, and Su Li and they don't want to be interfered with by the masses who don't know the truth. The background things have been roughly solved, the film has been bought, and the shooting equipment has been rented, fortunately, Lu Zhongfei is familiar with the person who rented the shooting equipment, so he is exempted from the trouble of deposit, otherwise Su Li's film budget will increase a lot.
Secondly, these employees are responsible for helping with other chores, such as carrying equipment and the like - these people are completely drained of surplus value.
The shelves of Su Li's studio are basically not propped up, but he plans to have a publicity department in the city to be responsible for publicity after the film is made. He chose Zhong Dajun, whom he had met several times, but this person was a little worse in image, but after Zhang Wu introduced him, Su Li saw that he did have a hand in publicity, and Su Li was ready to play in "Nightclub. Supermarket" was produced and a publicity department was established.
In the future, I will invite a few experienced people to bring one or two college students or something, and the shelves of this company will be able to slowly stand up.
All this simply made Su Li anxious, running around the shooting location and equipment storage place every day, and sometimes he even had to make the supermarket set with a few employees! This made Su Li extremely depressed.
So busy soon after 2007, 2008 came as scheduled.
2008 is a year in which Chinese are in high spirits, because this year's Olympic Games will be held in Beijing, and many people have been looking forward to it.
―――――――― a lot of things were gradually being done, Su Li stood in front of his rented house, looking at the slightly dilapidated house in front of him, with some fallen leaves floating on both sides.
Standing with him was Yang Mi, who was one of the few people who came to congratulate him. Yang Mi looked at the sign that read 'Li Guang Film Studio' hanging in front of the house, put his hands in his pockets, looked up slightly, kicked away a small stone inadvertently at his feet, and then suddenly said: "Su Li, are you playing a big game of chess in your heart?" ”
"Uh......" Su Li turned his head and asked with some puzzlement, "Why did you suddenly say that?" ”
Yang Mi smiled: "Look at your current identity, after the album of "All the World", you should already be the most outstanding of the post-85 stars, right?" That album sold enough to make you steady and steady, and if you developed well, you should be able to become a film and television star before the age of 25, but you are clearly going the other way now, if you guess correctly, "Nightclub. Supermarket is what plan you're really going to start with, right? ”
"Ah......" Su Li was a little surprised, he didn't expect Yang Mi to think of this, but thinking about it, he had already revealed clues in some places. He didn't intend to hide it from Yang Mi, so he said, "Yes, you guessed right...... I'm really making a big plan, but it's not a conspiracy, it's just a steady and steady plan......"
"I'm also lucky enough to be a part of your plan?" Yang Mi asked in a joking tone.
Su Li also laughed easily: "Yes, you are also a pawn in the plan...... Hehe. Su Li couldn't help laughing and said, "Because I think you're about to get hot, and it's going to get hotter and hotter." ”
Yang Mi looked at him a little strangely: "You mean really?" Then she was a little amused: "Do you want to make me popular?" ”
"Yes...... Your temperament, figure, and appearance are all very good, and you deserve a hand. Su Li hadn't made such a serious joke for a long time, and his mood was unconsciously much lighter.
The time has come to the fifth day of January, and at this time, the Hong Kong side has good news for Su Li - "Eavesdropping" has officially ended filming and entered the post-production and publicity stage! is ready to attack the Spring Festival market, and it seems that Su Li's debut screenplay is about to be moved into the cinema.
If nothing happens with this "Eavesdropping", it will definitely be able to bring more popularity and some box office dividends to Su Li. Supermarket was released directly before its release, so his popularity would gradually increase.
It is estimated that a movie like "Seven Pounds" will not come to China, so whether Su Li's screenwriting fame can be started depends on this time.
―――――― the preparation for the pre-shooting of the film is almost completed, and the equipment and the like have also been prepared, and now the lack of space is only a permit to shoot.
Fortunately, there is a person like Lu Zhongfei in the matter of the permit to be photographed, otherwise he is really a little tricky and doesn't know what he should do, after all, the relevant powers of the relevant departments are too great. If there was no old fritter like Lu Zhongfei, he would probably have to contribute to this matter.
On the day when Lu Zhongfei began to go out and prepare to get the auction permit, after some contemplation, Su Li finally decided to take the step he had set, which he originally thought he could avoid, but now he has also seen that his foundation is unstable.
The foundation of his current film is too weak and fragile, and this film is almost the lifeblood of 'Li Guang Film Studio', and once this movie is finished, he will be finished. However, there are too many factors that can make his movie end, the most important thing is to focus on the relevant departments that have the power of life and death.
To give an example simply, the relevant departments have the attitude of the superiors, and if the superiors do not let them pass, they will definitely not let them pass, but they can also not let them pass! In this way, there will be some tricks in the censorship of some movies - if they suddenly propose a heroine who wants unspoken rules for this movie, Su Li really has no way at all, and the heroine will definitely not agree to it at that time, and he will only lose his soul in this movie.
Therefore, Su Li wanted to find himself a character who could speak a little bit in the movie. Of course, the above is just an assumption, and the relevant departments will not be as disgusting as the above example, but after all, some things have their own bullet surnames, and Su Li has to find someone who can help him.
But it is not a simple matter to find someone who can help him in some aspects, and many other people make movies by themselves and level up is a process of gradually accumulating their own contacts and some resources, but Su Li does not have that time, his system can only steal things until 2013, he must create a new world as soon as possible.
In this way, finding someone who has a good relationship and a little credibility in society is a top priority for him.
But such people are not easy to find, and the more famous people he knows now are only directors like Mai Zhaohui and them, but Mai Zhaohui and they are also difficult to protect themselves in front of the relevant departments.
And for others, how can he get others to promise to help him? After some careful consideration, Su Li thought of a person named Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yimou's fame naturally needless to say, his appeal in China is quite large. Such a person has been accumulating his own contacts and resources since the 90s, and now that kind of resources and connections is already an astronomical amount, plus he has a huge team behind him...... In short, he has a firm say in some areas.
Su Li was going to send Zhang Yimou his own letter of submission, he wanted to get some help, at least if he could make some mistakes in censorship when he made the movie. Moreover, it would not be a simple matter for his film studio to be upgraded to an entertainment company, he needed the help of someone in this regard, and this person he chose was Zhang Yimou.
It doesn't take much effort for Zhang Yimou to do these things, but it's not a trivial matter for Su Li.
Zhang Yimou himself already had the right to speak, not to mention that there are some cattle around him, such as Han Sanping, these people still have a certain prestige in the film industry.
So if you can get in touch with him, you can imagine that it will be useful to you, but this is not a simple matter, fortunately, Su Li has already had his own plans.
He is ready to present his nomination, which is called "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree".
From now on, Zhang Yimou is already preparing for his war masterpiece "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" with an investment of 600 million yuan, this film is four years from preparation to shooting, and during this time, Zhang Yimou has launched a movie called "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", he doesn't want to let the filming of "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" be empty in the past four years.
"The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" is a story about the difficult love between two young men and women during the Cultural Revolution.
Some people have analyzed these scoldings, in fact, "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" is indeed a good movie, whether it is from the plot or from the sense of the times. It's just that this movie responds to that sentence - expectations are too high and disappointment is too high, and people's expectations for Zhang Yimou are too high, which caused disappointment in "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree". Another reason is that the publicity campaign put into the film is so great that some people will be disappointed after watching it, and some of the advertising slogans such as 'return to the pure land of the heart' are too off-putting. The last reason is that some people are originally like the crowd, and they also scold when they hear people scolding them, but they haven't actually watched the movie at all...... Under the entanglement of these reasons, "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" was scolded by so many people, and in fact this is indeed a good movie.
Su Li is going to hand over the script of "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" to Zhang Yimou this time, and the people of Zhang Yimou's era have more or less some plots of the Cultural Revolution. Su Li hopes to catch his kind of plot this time, of course, this should also be nine out of ten, after all, Zhang Yimou did make this movie, Su Li believes that the faint plot can move Zhang Yimou.
It's just that it's not a simple matter to hand over the script to Zhang Yimou in person, otherwise I don't know how many people in China want to hand over the book in their hands to Zhang Yimou! Thinking of this, he also thought of Lu Zhongfei, this fat man seemed to have said that Zhang Yimou once patted him on the shoulder and said that the young man had a future.
Su Li quickly told Lu Zhongfei that he wanted to hand Zhang Yimou a notebook in person, and Lu Zhongfei accepted the task without changing his face, but when there was no one, he immediately became sad - Zhang Yimou patted him on the shoulder and said that the promising things were just his fiction, he had received some guidance from Zhang Yimou, and he knew Zhang Yimou, but the relationship was really average...... It is simply an impossible task to keep Su Li and Zhang Yi from talking.
However, since he had agreed, Lu Zhongfei had no choice but to dial Zhang Yimou's phone.
Zhang Yimou could remember him, and the voice on the other end of the phone was kind with a hint of majesty: "Xiao Lu, what's the matter?" ”
Lu Zhongfei was a little nervous and told Zhang Yimou about Su Li's request, and there was no hope in his heart.
Who knows, Zhang Yimou still said in a cordial voice on the other end of the phone: "Su Li ......?" Is it the screenwriter of the book "Eavesdropping"? Okay...... I happen to be free tomorrow night, so you can let him come to my house......"
"Ah......?" Lu Zhongfei was stunned by this answer.
(To be continued)