0001 [Preparing for the first movie]

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Shao Shuaijun stood in front of the mirror, looked at the immature and green face in the mirror, and for a long time, he copied a handful of water and slapped it on his face vigorously. It has been determined that he was reborn from 2013 to 2004, this year, he just turned eighteen years old, and he was not admitted to any school in Shanghai Opera, Chinese Opera, or Nortel.

At present, I am renting a house in a village not far from Hengdian, usually doing group performances and eating a meal, and I teach myself the knowledge of directing when I have free time. If he continues to move forward according to the trajectory of history, he will go from group performances to field affairs, from lighting to props in the next few years, and finally become an assistant director.

This assistant director has been working for more than three years, with seven crews, getting up early and working late, busy before and after, doing the director's work, and getting the salary of the field work. Despite the hardships, Shao Shuaijun still persevered, hoping to become his own director one day. In 2013, he finally realized this wish, and Dengtian Entertainment promised to ask him to be the director of a movie.

From finalizing the script to setting up the shots, from the actors' makeup to the scene selection, Shao Shuaijun only slept three hours a day, and the rest of the time was devoted to the movie. A month later, the movie was launched, but the director was not him. After Shao Shuaijun's preparations were completed, Dengtian Entertainment temporarily changed the director and replaced a post-90s cutting-edge director.

Shao Shuaijun, who couldn't think of it, got drunk and had a car accident, and then came to March 16, 2004.

The cold water made Shao Shuaijun sober up from his memories, and no matter what, he was reborn. After the first few days of discomfort, Shao Shuaijun began to examine his current situation. In his previous life, he was mixed in the entertainment industry, although he worked hard, but he was born with the surname Mu Ne, he had no connections and no background, he could only look at others glamorous, and he was a cow and a horse.

The director was temporarily replaced, and there was no one to help say a word, and the career in the entertainment industry could not be said to be a failure.

When he was just reborn, Shao Shuaijun also fantasized that he relied on ten years of memories to make a windfall. But the dream was soon shattered, and it took nearly ten years, except for directorial skills, there was nothing to do. I know that the stocks of Tencent, Google, and Facebook will rise, but I don't have money in my pocket; knows that the World Cup is very hot, but he is not a fan and does not know whether he wins or loses; I knew that the economic crisis was about to erupt, but I forgot the specific year......

And the only thing he understands, and is most familiar with, is movies, he has been in the entertainment industry for so many years, and he has watched almost every popular movie hundreds of times, learning from successes, and imagining how to shoot it himself. Even some hot movies, he himself participated in the shooting.

Wiping his face, Shao Shuaijun was a little irritable.

If he could, he really didn't want to enter the entertainment industry anymore, this is a circle that is light on the surface and black on the inside, tiring. Dengtian Entertainment's behavior shattered Shao Shuaijun's dream, making his dislike for the entertainment industry all these years explode and begin to hate all this.

"I actually just want to find a job, make money, and be filial to my parents! In my previous life, I only cared about my own hard work, and I didn't even have time to take care of my father when he was hospitalized, so I can't be a jerk in this life! But what else can I do? For the sake of the movie, I didn't even go to college, so I went directly to Hengdian to do Hengpiao...... The only confidence I have is that I can make movies, ten years of memory, and countless good movies......"

After breakfast, Shao Shuaijun finally made a decision.

Although he began to reject the entertainment industry in his heart, he still decided to make a movie. This is the only way he can make money, make a lot of money. Heaven has arranged for him to be reborn once, so live well and enjoy life!

To make a movie, you must first have a script, and Shao Shuaijun has a lot of it in his head. The second is investment. Feeling that there were only eight hundred yuan in his pocket, Shao Shuaijun was a little speechless. Of course, he was not depressed, and as a reborn, it was still easy to make a little money.

According to the memory in his head, Shao Shuaijun knew that the famous director Zhang Yimou had just finished filming "Ambush on All Sides", and the crew was making up the shots at the Hengdian Film and Television Base, and he himself was also in Hengdian. Touching his chin, Shao Shuaijun took out a pen and paper and began to immerse himself in creation.

What he wanted to create was a screenplay, "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", which was a literary film script adapted from the novel of the same name. The novel of the same name began to be written in 2006, and as soon as it was published, it attracted the attention of directors such as Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang, and Li Yang, and was finally grabbed by Zhang Yimou and shot a movie.

As a literary film, it broke the record and won a box office of 160 million, and "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" has also been studied by Shao Shuaijun for a long time. Of course, this movie is about love in the seventies, and Shao Shuaijun's experience is not very deep, but it does not prevent him from writing it completely.

For three days, the script of "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" with ink fragrance was freshly baked. Shao Shuaijun took it into his arms, took care of his appearance, and went out. first went to the Hengdian Copyright Office to register the script, and then went to the filming location of the crew of "Ambush on All Sides". The filming location has been pulled up and tourists are prohibited from entering, and Shao Shuaijun is no exception, and he can't see Zhang Yimou directly.

Shao Shuaijun could only hand over the script to Zhang Yimou's outreach assistant, put his name and contact address on the script, and then go home and wait. With the excellent script of "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree", Zhang Yimou will definitely take the initiative to contact him as long as he sees it. Shao Shuaijun is not in a hurry, he is now in a hurry to consider his first movie.

"Although the script is good, the script of literary films has always been inexpensive, and the price is estimated to sell for 180,000 at most, but fortunately, 180,000 is almost enough to work on my own movie script."

Brushing and brushing, Shao Shuaijun picked up a pen and wrote the name of the movie on white paper - "Buried Alive".

In this 2010 film noir directed by Spanish director Rodrigo Cortes, popular Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds plays a contract truck driver who has been kidnapped in Iraq and wakes up to find himself buried alive in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqi desert. All he had was a lighter, a cell phone, two glow sticks, a flashlight that was on and off, and a pen.

This is probably the smallest thriller in the pattern, and the entire story of "Buried Alive" takes place in a coffin. Then the entire 94-minute movie sees Paul in a coffin calling for help and negotiating with kidnappers. If you don't count the woman who was shot in the mobile phone video, there is only Reynolds alone in this film, plus a snake that slipped into the coffin halfway. Even the miracle of the low-budget movie "Ghost Shadow", there is a house as the background of the story, and several people appear, "Buried Alive" is simply the simplest and low-carbon movie.

Originally, the film cost almost $2 million to make, and of course, this refers to the salary of the lead actor Ryan Reynolds. Shao Shuaijun calculated, 10,000 yuan of props and equipment is enough, the picture is more finely packaged, and then the travel expenses for sales are calculated, and it can be done within 50,000 yuan.

The only big expense is the actor, even if he doesn't ask for a high box office, Shao Shuaijun has to find an actor with acting skills, plus a woman who flashes by......

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