Chapter 283: Far-reaching premeditation
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The story of the dead people of the crew of "Samsara" has spread all over the world, and now, not only Hollywood stars and news are concerned by the whole world, but Hong Kong is also the focus of attention. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Luckily, the Phantom has always had the habit of buying insurance for its staff, which has prevented it from becoming a bigger problem.
Xiao Ran, no matter from any angle, the phantom's first film to shoot a dead man, he had to go in person. As a result, he personally went to the home of the speeding worker, and after comforting his family, he offered a large amount of pension in both hands.
This single news obviously pushed the name of the drama "Reincarnation" to the highest level in an instant, and Xiao Ran was very helpless. It's not that there are dead people in filming, and in the history of Hong Kong films, there are even cases where the director doesn't care about the fact that the person's body was thrown in the mountains after an accidental death in filming. It's just that for the current Hong Kong films, this is indeed the first case.
Not why, because the scene was too difficult. Xiao Ran's heart was beating violently when planning this scene, driving in the opposite direction on the highway, as long as he knew how to do it, he would know that he was looking for death. Xiao Ran does not have special effects such as virtual photography, so he can only use this method to shoot. And he has tried his best to make Infinite Vision calculate this very accurately, just for fear of any accidents.
No matter when this matter subsides, the film will continue. Filming "Reincarnation" will become a hardship for Xiao Ran, because the difficulties encountered in filming this drama are the most. When an action scene at the end is filmed, it may be more like a chase scene. Xiao Ran discussed this chase scene with Yuan Baye, and after thinking that there was no problem technically, he called the other staff over.
Gathering everyone together, Xiao Ran frowned and thought for a while, and only after making sure that there was no problem with the technology did he explain to Huang Yongheng: "Lao Huang, the next scene is very difficult to film, I think the effect is very weird......"
Xiao Ran made a gesture, this scene is the ** at the end, and it is a five-minute chase scene. He knows very well that it is difficult to shoot new ideas when the chase scene is filmed to a certain extent. However, in this scene, he thought he could do it.
The first five-minute chase scene was completely controlled very appropriately with Xiao Ran's experience and profound mastery of action movies. What gave Xiao Ran a headache was the scene five minutes later, he wanted to show a sense of equal rivalry, and he needed some romanticism.
In a flash of inspiration, he came up with a very peculiar way of expression. He didn't shoot like a normal chase scene, but let the two cars go their separate ways. Then, when you reach an intersection, you can drive up at the same time and collide with each other.
The collision didn't kill both of them, both of them were very clever and lucky enough to escape from the car, and both of them flew into the air. And this is the effect that Xiao Ran wants, he wants two cars to fly into the air under the collision, and both protagonists fly higher.
called Liu Qingyun over, Xiao Ran whispered a few words to him, and the two began to make movements to indicate what this scene was like. The two of them first made a movement of opening their teeth and claws, and Xiao Ran took the time to add: "This is flying into the air, which is higher than the car." Just as they were shooting at each other, the car exploded, and the shockwave pushed them away at the same time, and the distance between the two was very close! ”
At the same time, Xiao Ran and Liu Qingyun each made a gesture of shooting at each other, and their bodies walked a few steps into the distance, and their bodies were so close that they were only close enough to hold each other's hands. Then Xiao Ran and Liu Qingyun stomped their feet at the same time and explained: "This is falling to the ground!" At this moment, the two of them raised their guns at the same time! ”
Xiao Ran and Liu Qingyun pointed their fingers at the same time, pointing it at each other's heads like guns. This series of actions made the ticket person stunned, Xiao Ran and Liu Qingyun let go of each other and walked in front of them, Xiao Ran glanced at it and asked, "Can everyone understand this scene?" ”
Nodding wordlessly, Xiao Ran sat down and said to Huang Yongheng with confidence: "In this scene, the camera must be in place, I want a three-dimensional effect." Footage of the two protagonists flying into the air......"
Speaking of this, Xiao Ran's voice seemed to have been cut off by scissors, and his expression was even more dumbfounded, not knowing what he was thinking at all. Xiao Ran's mood was very excited now, and at the same time as constructing such a picture in his mind just now, he thought of a very brilliant handling method - bullet time!
If two people fly into the air, and then each arm grabs each other, and the scene of each other drawing guns and shooting at each other is handled with bullet time, it can definitely produce an unbeatable effect. Xiao Ran thought about it in his mind and quickly came to such a conclusion.
Thinking of this, Xiao Ran faintly felt bad, the bullet time is very gorgeous, and it may not be suitable for this film. However, Xiao Ran thinks it might as well give it a try, at least try more. He hurriedly asked the special effects supervisor: "I have a proposal, I'll talk about it in detail later!" ”
Turning his face to look at Huang Yongheng, he also indirectly instructed the staff of the blasting team: "There is no need for an explosion, the whole film does not need to explode, it feels too gorgeous." Lao Huang, at the angle where the two of them fly, you have to grasp it. I need both of them to face away from the sun at the same time, and I think you know what that means! ”
After a little thought, Huang Yongheng understood what Xiao Ran meant, and he really deserved to be an old partner. Not only him, but Zhang Shuping also understood what Xiao Ran meant, Xiao Ran wanted to use the action of turning his back to the light to express a kind of sinking, which is very suitable for the theme of the picture communication.
"Okay, don't tell ......" Zhang Shuping saw Xiao Ran move his gaze to himself, and shook his hand again and again: "I understand what you mean, no problem, I will definitely make the effect!" ”
Seeing that everyone understood what they meant, Xiao Ran smiled with relief, complaining that Xu Ke and Wu Yusen often have their own teams now, because tacit understanding can save a lot of time and make creation more powerful.
While the film was being filmed, Murdoch, who was sitting in England, fell into a kind of restlessness. In the past year or two, his news company has not had a good fate, and has been repeatedly squeezed out by Shuxiang Media, not only that, but Shuxiang has repeatedly sniped at his acquisition plan, causing his expansion to fall into a stalemate in the past two years.
What made him most uncomfortable was that because the acquisition plan was repeatedly sniped by the wealthy scholars, he didn't make any money, but he lost a lot of money because of it. Bankers and financiers don't say anything on the surface, but Murdoch knows that the string of failures of the past two years has gradually made people lose confidence.
He knew he had to do something to redeem it, and he had to win. And he is currently planning an acquisition, a very large acquisition, and the target is - Scholar Media, of course, not Scholar Media, but a subsidiary under his command.
Based on Murdoch's current situation, don't say that there is still a phantom on Shuxiang to support him, even if he doesn't, he will not be able to achieve the purpose of acquisition, his acquisition target is the Southeast Asian TV network controlled by ATV under Shuxiang.
He had a plan a long time ago, and Hong Kong was one of the four media bases he had in mind. However, the rapid rise of the Phantom has gradually cut off his hopes, but sometimes it can be described as a peak loop.
A few years ago, because of the merger of Shuxiang and ATV, after the merger, Shuxiang integrated the largest TV network in Asia, so that there was less need for other TV stations. Therefore, Shuxiang sold many newspapers at first, and made a profit of about 20 billion yuan in this regard. A year ago, Shuxiang began to sell off TV stations in some small countries, and it also made a lot of profits on it.
Murdoch fully understands Xiao Ran's approach, because after the merger, ATV itself is the largest television group in Asia, covering all of Asia and even Europe. In this way, other TV stations that originally played a paving role for ATV basically lost their use value for scholars.
Murdoch knew that Xiao Ran had bought those TV stations in the past just to get the right to operate them there. Over the years, ATV has long been covered and has achieved success in deciding on the surname, so it would be a waste of money for other TV stations to keep it.
So, Murdoch knew his opportunity had arisen. He knew that Xiao Ran was jealous of himself and was unwilling to give himself a chance. However, he also knew that Xiao Ran would never keep all these TV stations in his hands, and the sale of their shares last year was a very important example.
So, all he needs to do is raise capital and make acquisitions. The only thing he didn't understand was why Shuxiang would go to the extra mile of effort and money to merge other TV networks into a subsidiary. However, I have to admit that if he wants to enter Asia, he must achieve this victory.
The acquisition cost four billion dollars, and Murdoch was very troubled by the financial problem, but he did not dare to negotiate with those people now because he was afraid that the news would leak out. He even suspected that Shuxiang had been able to repeatedly snipe at News Corporation's acquisitions in the past, because there was internal annihilation within News Corporation.
This time, the collection of information was almost entirely done by him alone, and as the most important battle of News Corp., he would never allow it to fall into defeat. If this time fails, then investors and bankers are likely to lose confidence in him, and then the problem is serious.
However, he can't do this, and if he wants to build a global media group, he can't do without Asia. Without Asia, it would never be global. Moreover, he is not the kind of person who likes to fail, and if he wants to shake the overseas market of Scholar Media, he must first hit its foundation.
Xiao Ran dared to swear that he had absolutely no undercover agents at News Corp. All the news was collected bit by bit by Lin Yongqiang with a perfect business intelligence system, and what Xiao Ran had to do was to conduct intelligence analysis.
Of course, if it is other information, there are naturally people below who will help him do it. However, News Corp is one of the opponents he has chosen to solve, and he knows very well what kind of guy Murdoch is in history, and if he wants to prevent this old guy from playing yin, he has to take action himself.
For example, now, because "Reincarnation" has entered post-production, Xiao Ran is now browsing the information sent back by Lin Yongqiang with peace of mind. There was also an interesting news next to it, not so much interesting, but rather a message that made Xiao Ran relax.
The first piece of news is that Kinetic Energy has successfully made a takeover in the Middle East, taking control of a poorly run oil company for $2 billion. In other news, Kinetic Energy will sell 30 percent of its stake in a Russian-controlled oil company to Sinopec.
This is inevitable, just kidding, Xiao Ran doesn't want Uncle Putin to be investigated after he comes to power, after all, the means they used to get these things may not be able to see the light of day. Therefore, that company must be sold as soon as possible, at least before 2,000 years. If it is sold to petrochemicals, it is obviously quite good. By selling only 30 percent of the shares, Kinetic Energy made $6 billion. Compared with the original investment, it is definitely a super profitable transaction.
Acquisitions in the Middle East, that's definitely needed. Xiao Ran doesn't want Kinetic Energy to become an empty shelf after gradually ceding its control of the Russian oil company, so he must intervene in the Middle East or elsewhere. Now that he got the news, Xiao Ran was much more relieved about the kinetic energy.
Investment, management, and sale are the means that half of the seven flagship companies are taking, including Dongneng and Mingxuan and Hutchison. However, that is because the companies are basically not involved in high-tech and do not need time to cultivate, so they have adopted such a strategy to expand their wealth. As for the power companies, of course, it is impossible to do this.
Finally began to browse through the information, Xiao Ran only skimmed for a moment, and then revealed the same mysterious smile as always. In this intelligence, all the clues point to another round of acquisitions by News Corp., and the intelligence organized by various parties speculates that Murdoch's target seems to be a North American company.
Whether Xiao Ran believes it or not, it obviously doesn't matter, because he knows exactly what Murdoch wants to do. When he came to Wei Dongling's office, Xiao Ran threw this information to Wei Dongling: "Look, what do you think?" ”
After carefully observing it, a smile similar to Xiao Ran's gradually appeared on Wei Dongling's face, and he stood up and stretched: "That old guy is really a little sinister, I have to admit that the company has a lot of cash flow, if it is acquired by him, and it is spun off and sold at that time, what do you guess will be the result?" ”
Xiao Ran smiled, sat comfortably on the chair and leaned back: "The old fox is the old fox, he can attack and retreat, he can really find such a suitable target." People are attacking the west, and he wants to come on both sides, which is amazing! ”
"I'm thinking, News Corp. has been ...... us for the past two years" Speaking of this, Wei Dongling didn't know what to say, Xiao Ran wasted a lot of liquidity in the past two years just in order to snipe News Corp's acquisitions, and all this was to defeat News Corp., I really don't know why he values Murdoch so much.
Xiao Ran obviously knew what Wei Dongling was thinking, and smiled heartily and continued: "After our continuous waste of funds, investors' confidence in him has dropped to the lowest point, and some shareholders have even asked to withdraw their shares." Murdoch is now a dominant force, but the problem of funding is still inevitably exposed. ”
(To be continued)