Chapter 151: It wasn't my own movie after all
"Eavesdropping" and "Yangtze River No. 7" competed for each other on the box office list, which also attracted a new round of movie-watching craze from everyone.
After the first week, the box office growth rate has slowed down completely, and after the first week of crazy growth, the box office has gradually shown some weakness.
Despite this, the box office of "Eavesdropping" is still growing further, and in the second week, the box office of "Eavesdropping" exceeded 80 million, which has reached the expected goal. This is quite rare for Hong Kong-made films, which have become increasingly weak in recent years. From now on, it is easy for the box office of "Eavesdropping" to exceed 100 million, just to see when it can break through.
In the past few days, firecrackers have burst all over the country, and people are immersed in the meaning of the New Year, and Su Li can stay at home until the fourth day of the Lunar New Year before leaving. The Chinese New Year in the countryside is different from the city, everyone is very busy all year round, and it is impossible to have fifteen days to squander the New Year, so they can only take three days to rest.
Therefore, by the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the New Year will be over.
This day is the second day of the Lunar New Year, February 5th, Su Li and Su Huai went to the small temple behind the house to eat in the afternoon, Su Li's attitude towards these things has always been half-convinced. The gods and spirits are spiritual, and his attitude is to worship ghosts and gods and stay away, so in such a meal ceremony, he is meticulous in doing things himself. Since Su Huai was fifteen years old, the two brothers were responsible for these things many times.
"You can get it......" Su Huai gave the basket to Su Li, Su Li nodded and took it, and after completing the whole process, Su Li suddenly said: "Let's go up and walk......
Su Huai glanced in the direction that Su Li was pointing and nodded.
It was a grassy slope that reached the base of the mountain, and in the midst of the huge slope was filled with small blue flowers that looked like lavender, and all sorts of other colorful variegated flowers. At the bottom of the slope is a blue lake, not too big, but still beautiful.
The brothers sat at the top of the slope, the sky blue as if painted, and the sun was sinking into the peaks behind them. The breeze blows, and the weeds and flowers sway in the wind, which is very beautiful.
On the other side of the slope is a large tea field, the price of tea has been very cheap in recent years, and the management of this tea field has been a little loose.
Su Huai pointed to the tea field and said with a smile: "Do you remember? That time, Dad ran after you, and it was in this tea field...... I also gave you two clods of dirt. ”
Su Li also smiled slightly, it was eleven years old, at that time he followed a few fox friends to drink beer on the street, pinned an inferior player of more than ten yuan to his waist, and carried a broken headphone, in which Chen Xing's "Great Northwest" swaggered through the market. That day, when he was drinking with others, he was seen by his father, who was in front of his classmates, and his father also gave him a little face, and didn't say much about him, but it was different after returning home.
Then Su Li ran out of the house, and his father chased after him, grabbing the clod of dirt and smashing it in front while chasing back, but Su Li dodged quite flexibly...... Thinking of these past events, Su Li couldn't help but smile softly. To say that he was really an absolutely good student in elementary school, and he was the kind of teacher who liked it but his classmates didn't like it, he hid in his father's study every day as a teacher and read books, which was a bit out of place with everyone.
And at the beginning of junior high school, he also worked as a rebellious teenager with a group of children for a period of time, but then he gradually followed the rules, and then there were memories that everyone had.
"Remember......" Su Li smiled and said, "But when I was in elementary school, I didn't cover for you, I remember the time you went to the reservoir above to burn cow to attract bees......"
Hearing these childhood memories, Su Huai shook his head and smiled bitterly, when he was a child, he himself was the child king, so his younger brother, who was even a little closed with his surname, became his headache. It's just that when he was a child, Su Li always unconsciously drew a clear line with some other people, and it was also under the influence of Su Huai that he would play with other people, and have some memories that rural children should have.
Therefore, Su Li is not lacking in childhood memories in many things - slingshot to shoot birds, catch field chickens in the field, dig birds' eggs, raise owls, secretly go to play in the water, play with stones with everyone, and so on. Thinking of this, the memories are a little long for a while, like sun-dried licorice, exuding a faint sweetness.
Su Huai looked at such a younger brother, and was also a little intoxicated by the years, the growth of people is really sudden, in the blink of an eye, just like the wheat in the wheat field, a stubble suddenly turned golden. After thinking for a while, he suddenly said: "I watched "Eavesdropping" the day I went to pick you up, and the taste is really intoxicating, the plot is relaxed, and the layout is ingenious...... I can't believe you wrote the script......"
Hearing Su Huai's sudden shift to this topic, Su Li was stunned, but he glanced into the distance and saw that the rolling mountains showed a dazzling light with a slight blue tinge under the clear blue sky. After being stunned, he said directly: "It was indeed me who wrote it...... I didn't expect you to watch it too...... You wouldn't be watching the gun version in an internet café, would you? ”
Su Huai ignored his joke and continued: "Your Nightclub. Supermarket" is finished, right? ”
When he heard this, Su Li felt a little guilty - Su Huai had always been very concerned about his situation, even to the extent that he was like a treasure, but he himself knew almost nothing about his brother's current situation. He replied, "Yes, it was done on February 2nd, and the next step is post-production." ”
"That's really the case...... You should also be very confident, there is still a financial plan you told me about more than a month ago, and you have really grown up. And it's getting farther and farther away from me. ”
"Ah......" Su Li was a little surprised, and hurriedly said, "No...... How can I get farther and farther away from you? ”
But after saying this, Su Li thought about his recent actions in his heart, and he was really getting farther and farther away from his family in some aspects. At home, I saw my parents and brother and sister-in-law playing mahjong together, and he would occasionally half-truths and half-truths next to him, and he was really a person who had no pursuit, and it seemed that his mentality had changed unconsciously.
At least, he and his brother basically didn't talk about those things. Of course, people are always separated and distant, such as brothers, from being close when they were young to gradually estranged when they grew up, these things are unavoidable. However, the most important thing is that mentality, even if you are not with them, there is always a feeling of blood connection.
Thinking of this, Su Li added, "I see...... I've been very busy lately, and I have a lot less time on the phone, and sometimes I'm so stressed that I can't help but scold my mother. But I don't really want to tell you about these things, so that you can worry about me, at least I know that you are not under a lot of pressure..."
Su Huai nodded, and then said, "Actually, I haven't told you much about me myself. Even your sister-in-law's matter has basically not been mentioned to you, but you are right, between brothers, first of all, you have to be friends, and you don't have to worry about many things. You don't have to talk about those stressful things for your parents, but for me there is no need to do that, we have all grown up and know the difficulties of this society, and many things don't have to be fought by ourselves all the time. ”
Su Li smiled, looking at the little flowers that were all over the mountains and bowing their heads in the wind, he nodded and said, "I know." ”
This day's conversation made Su Li also realize, and his time at home is getting less and less, after the third day of the Lunar New Year, on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, he will go back to the capital to carry out "Nightclub. The post-production of Supermarket was completed.
When I left home, I was unconsciously a little sad, and the fog rose in the mountain village in the early morning, and the white mist was shrouded in a large picturesque mountain undulation.
As we departed on the motorcycle, the mist rose dotted among the green trees, and below the road was a quiet river, flowing out of this land of great memory, and perhaps rushing out of this mountain and finding a rushing river in the distance.
Su Li's sister-in-law is a very beautiful girl, but a girl around twenty-three years old also has some star-chasing plots, and she couldn't help but scream when she really saw Su Li. In any case, the current Su Li is really popular in China.
These days, he also has some fifteen or sixteen-year-old children in the neighborhood who timidly come to visit his home, and after seeing Su Li, he is naturally shocked, and Su Li basically meets their requirements. In this rural area, kinship is crisscrossed, and basically the people who found him have some kinship.
When he returned to the capital, a cold wind blew, dragging Su Li back from the place of twenty-three degrees north latitude back to the capital in the harsh winter. After getting off the plane, he couldn't bear the cold a little, and quickly returned to his heated accommodation and began to warm up.
The columns of data of "Eavesdropping" also quickly flew into his mind, and Su Li couldn't help but secretly stumble in his heart when he looked at the rapidly growing box office.
According to the proportion of his profit dividends on the script, Su Li can get about 300,000 from "Eavesdropping", which is undoubtedly quite important to Su Li, who is now overstretched in funds.
However, after experiencing the initial excitement, Su Li's heart is now gradually fading, although the situation is gratifying after the release of "Eavesdropping". But if Su Li takes a closer look at the impact of this movie, in fact, except for the real box office revenue and some honors that Su Li has received in terms of screenwriting, he has no real help.
Yes, although everything about "Eavesdropping" is shocking, this is not his own movie after all, and the real benefits are not as big as he imagined.
The movie that really belongs to me should be "Nightclub. Supermarket", the film went from copying the script to later fundraising, preparing for the pre-shooting, then inviting actors, and then finishing the filming later...... Every step of this is the condensation of Su Li's hard work.
This is the film that really belongs to him, even in terms of interests, "Nightclub. Su Li is the only investor in "Supermarket", and he has not signed a box office dividend clause with the actor or director, so all the profits of this movie are his own!
The current movies and distribution theaters can basically achieve a fifty-fifty share of the box office, so if Su Li's movie box office can have 5 million, he can get 2.5 million of it himself, and he can basically break even.
Of course, the box office should be more than 5 million, after all, the original "Nightclub. "Supermarket" collected 23 million box office, and it was only under the influence of some objective factors such as piracy and civilian lineup that the box office declined.
But Su Li and their "Nightclub. "Supermarket" has overcome some bugs of the original movie, and has also deepened the rehearsal of some jokes, and the choice of director is not generally filmed by a post-80s director as the original version, but by an experienced director.
On the other hand, of course, there is the issue of popularity.
Nightclub. When "Supermarket" was just finished, Su Li yelled on his blog, and then I don't know how many fans followed the post and said that they must read it.
For a movie, the box office has a lot to do with people's attention before its release. And "Nightclub. The movie "Supermarket" has gained a lot of attention because of Su Li's relationship before it started to be released. The word-of-mouth and box office of "Eavesdropping" have made people pay great attention to the films written by Su Li. It's no wonder that "Supermarket" doesn't get a lot of attention!
Finally, there are objective factors, with the help of Zhang Yimou, "Nightclub. The problem of piracy in "Supermarket" is not too worrying, at least until the movie is released, which will ensure that more people choose to go to the cinema to watch the movie. Then there is the problem of the release of theaters, the original "Nightclub. If "Supermarket" can get more theaters, I believe their results will go to the next level, and in this regard, Su Li also has Zhang Yimou's help.
Therefore, for all kinds of reasons, the attention of this movie will definitely not be low, and whether the box office is high or not depends on the quality of the movie itself.
Nightclub. All the shots of "Supermarket" have been filmed, and all the factors that affect the quality of the film are concentrated in the following post-production.
Post-production is also more important, because if the editing is not good, it may cut a movie badly, and as for some short-lived special effects in the play, that thing Su Li handed over to Li Xian, and he can make it alone.
The top priority now is to cut out the film as soon as possible, and after further processing, the "Nightclub. Supermarket turned into a real movie.
From February 8th, Su Li and Lu Zhongfei, plus the editor hired by Lu Zhongfei, began the process of editing a large number of disorganized shots into a movie.
(To be continued)