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"Hee-hee, how do you say the manager surnamed Jiang will punish that hateful sales lady?" Liu Yifei said with a smile.

"If I were him, I'd probably fire her." Jiang Yan said flatly.

"Expulsion, it's not so strict, in fact, just punish it." Liu Yifei exclaimed.

"Although it is indeed strict, she also brought it on herself, and she can't live if she does her own evil! Who told her to have such a bad attitude, it was the first time I had met such a bad salesperson as her. Wang Luodan sighed.

"Okay, don't worry about it, wait for lunch, and buy a car with me." Lin Yuquan said as he drove.

"Buy a car, don't you have a car now?" Wang Luodan's eyes widened.

"The one I drive now is an official car purchased by the company, which is not very convenient to use, and I also want to buy a car that I like." Lin Yuquan explained.

"Oh, buy a car." Liu Yifei immediately turned his head to look at Lin Yuquan with a smile, his eyes were shining, full of infinite curiosity: "Brother Yuquan, what car are you going to buy?" Mercedes, BMW, Ferrari, Bentley, or whatever! ”

Wang Luodan and Jiang Yan, who were sitting in the back row, hurriedly pricked up their ears after Liu Yifei asked, obviously wanting to know the answer.

"It turns out that Yifei likes these types of cars, in fact, a person's car can often reflect his character, from this point of view, Yifei, you are very high-profile in your bones! I'm not as high-profile as you, and I'm going to buy an Audi that's low-key, luxurious, and substantial. Lin Yuquan had a pleasant smile on his face.

Since there were three girls there, in a democratic situation where the minority obeys the majority, the lunch for four people was settled at KFC.

As soon as he had lunch, he and the three girls went to the Audi 4S store, this time there were no twists and turns, he saw at a glance the new silver-gray Audi A6 that was only on the market last year, and after withdrawing the car, he went to the corresponding agency to pay the vehicle purchase tax and apply for license plates, driving licenses, and car insurance.

After spending two days dealing with the corresponding procedures for buying a house and a car, Lin Yuquan did not rest like Liu Yifei, Wang Luodan and others, but immediately devoted himself to the post-production of "Red Cliff".

For Lin Yuquan, time is undoubtedly very short, because he will participate in the performance of "I Am Special Forces", so he must do the later part of his participation by mid-July.

This time, the post-production zuò Lin Yuquan is still sparing no effort, in terms of editing, he is still looking for Zhou Ying, a college sister from Kyoto Film Academy, the last time the two worked together quite happily in "Huo Yuanjia", and her editing techniques are also very suitable for movies like "Red Cliff".

And in the process of communication between the two, how she should control the rhythm of the film, when the ** scene should be staged, and when the sensational scene should be inserted, all coincide with the thoughts in his heart.

After detailed communication between the two parties, Lin Yuquan and Zhou Ying stayed in the editing room and became nervously busy.

The story of the Three Kingdoms is lengthy, and the foreshadowing needed to burn Chibi is indeed necessary, due to the large number of characters appearing, "Red Cliff" has shot far more than the number of shots in ordinary movies, and the most difficult thing in terms of editing is how to condense such lengthy shots into the length of a normal movie.

Although some people within the company have mentioned that "Red Cliff" will be divided into two episodes, each of which will be released for two hours, this will allow the film to achieve better box office results.

From the perspective of commercial operation, this was undoubted, but Lin Yuquan decisively vetoed it after thinking about it, irrelevant footage will inevitably cause serious damage to the rhythm of the film, affecting the compactness of the rhythm, it seems that it can get the box office of two movies, but in fact, due to the procrastination of the plot of the movie and the decline in quality, it will affect the box office performance of a single film, so even if the box office will be more than a single movie, it will not be much.

This is one, the second, and the most important point, doing so is definitely ruining his character, after all, "Red Cliff" is a coherent story, and the sequel that is prevalent in Hollywood is completely different from the same thing, and it is obviously untenable to explain it too long with the lens in two episodes, and the commercial atmosphere in it is really explicit, and people don't think that he made this move because he was crazy about money.

If it were another director, even if he didn't want to, for the sake of box office, he would agree, but would he use it to do such a tasteless thing for a little money? The answer is obvious.

It is true that it is very difficult to condense the essence of a movie on the set of a normal movie, but as long as you make up your mind, you can solve it with a single qiē.

First of all, it is undoubtedly important to grasp the theme of the film, the theme of "Red Cliff" is the battle of Red Cliff fought by Sun and Liu against Cao, so all the narrative should revolve around the Battle of Red Cliff.

Secondly, from the very beginning, Lin Yuquan put the focus of the film on the political contest and related war scenes, and the emotional scenes are only auxiliary to promote the progress of the plot, and the proportion of these three in the film is about 30% of the political strategy, 15% of the emotional scenes, and the war scenes are as high as 55%, from this point of view, this is actually a popcorn movie, an out-and-out war-type commercial movie.

After understanding these, it is clear which ones are important and which ones are secondary, which ones are useful and which ones are useless to the core plot of the movie, and as long as they are useless, Lin Yuquan did not hesitate to let Zhou Ying cut them off, and he didn't even frown.

In the process of editing, the most important editing of war scenes is his most relaxed place, which shots should use panoramas, where to use small-scale close-ups, and where to use special effects, he almost knows it well, plus there are editors like Zhou Ying, so the editing progress is very fast.

"Senior brother, I have to say, your war scene is too good." In the editing room, Zhou Ying, who was immersed in editing, looked at the battleship crash and fight when the red cliffs were burned on the screen and the flames that burned red half the sky, although she has cooperated with many well-known directors and has seen countless touching, laughter, or helpless pictures, but the shocking feeling is still the first time in her life, and now this is still a picture that has not undergone post-special effects processing, I really don't know what kind of amazing it will be when it is released on the screen after the post-special effects processing is over?

"Thank you, senior sister, for the compliment, in fact, I also feel quite satisfied." Lin Yuquan smiled confidently.

"How much money did you spend on special effects for this movie?" Zhou Ying was a little curious.

"Hehe, almost 10 million dollars." Because he signed a confidentiality agreement with Zhou Ying, Lin Yuquan did not hide it, and he would not deliberately exaggerate, he would mention it truthfully when promoting, it didn't matter whether it was confidential or not.

"Ten million dollars." Zhou Ying subconsciously swallowed his saliva, his heart was extremely shocked, there is no doubt that this is definitely the most expensive movie in China, maybe fans and audiences will only feel that the cost is high, and the special effects are worth looking forward to, but only real film practitioners know the meaning behind this number.

At present, the domestic film market is not large, only relying on China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is difficult to support a film with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, and even whether it can recover the investment is a problem, and only on the special effects cost such a high special effects, the investment in the film can be imagined, if such a film wants to return to its original cost and finally make money, Lin Yuquan's goal can be said to be about to come out, overseas markets, only overseas markets can bring what he wants.

Zhou Ying took a deep look at Lin Yuquan, who was working seriously, the courage of this young junior brother was absolutely unmatched among the directors she came into contact with.

"By the way, senior sister, you are also responsible for editing Chen Kaige's movie, how is his movie?" Lin Yuquan asked as he withdrew his gaze from the screen.

Zhou Ying was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Senior brother, are you trying to make me make a mistake?" As the editor of the movie, I have the responsibility and obligation to keep it strictly confidential before the movie is released, I know, you are worried about the media hype about the battle between the three directors of our Kyoto Film Academy, I can't say anything else, but the styles of the two of you are completely different, so you don't have to worry about the competition for the Chinese New Year. ”

She really didn't worry about Lin Yuquan, but worried about Chen Kaige, an old friend, when editing the movie, she already felt that Chen Kaige's movie was substandard, the storyline was a mess, only the war scenes and the special effects she was doing were left, it would be good if she was compared with others, but in front of "Red Cliff", the only fig leaf he had left now seems to be unsafe, and the current situation is that if "Red Cliff" is released first in the Chinese New Year, it is destined to be compared with "Wuji", Perhaps there will be a catastrophic fiasco.

"I'm not worried, that's the case, the last time the senior came to participate in the opening event of my agency, I felt that he was carrying too heavy a burden, and he seemed to be worried about the box office results, so I asked." Lin Yuquan said slowly, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, for ordinary directors, every film investment is actually a new test, once the film performance encounters Waterloo, it will undoubtedly affect investors' confidence in the director's ability, and once investors completely lose confidence, the consequences can be imagined, especially for a big investment film like "Wu Ji", the consequences of failure are unimaginable.

"Senior brother, has the schedule of your "Red Cliff" been set now?" Zhou Ying didn't know about Chen Kaige's pressure, and couldn't help but ask again.

"Not yet, look at the schedule of the senior's "Wuji", now he and Zhang Yi's senior "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone" have been clearly determined in December, this is the best schedule for the current Chinese New Year, the movies of the three of us must not be released at the same time, so it will have an impact on everyone's movie box office, depending on the situation, if they are set in the middle and late months, I may be like last year's director Feng Xiaogang, release it earlier and stagger them." Lin Yuquan had a smile on his face.

Now the movies of the three of them have not yet been scheduled, but according to reports, after hearing that Zhang Yimou's "A Thousand Miles to Ride Alone" is scheduled for December, Chen Hong made it clear in an interview, ""Wuji" is the biggest entertainment film in Asia this year, and it should definitely be placed on the best screening schedule. At present, we only pay attention to imported blockbusters released at the same time, and we care about similar films like ourselves. ”

Because he was busy, Lin Yuquan didn't call the two to ask about the schedule, and because the later stage of "Red Cliff" had just begun, Shuguang Film Company had not yet begun to negotiate the schedule, but the corresponding market research for the Chinese New Year was already underway, and now it is only waiting for "Wuji" and "Thousands of Miles to Ride Alone" to announce the specific schedule, and then on the basis of market research, the schedule can naturally be quickly determined.