"Do you know what Chen Desen is talking to Yuquan for alone?" After leaving Lin Yuquan and Chen Desen's sight, Feng Xiaogang asked with a sudden smile, and his expression seemed to be very clear about the matter. Top Novel, x.

"What's so hard to guess about this, it must be for film investment or cooperation, I don't think Chen Desen will be idle enough to chat with Yuquan at this time." Xu Jinglei smiled heartily.

"Lao Xu is right, Xiaogang, your question is too unqualified." Chen Kaige shook his head and smiled.

"It's right to invest in films, but do you know what his films are?" Feng Xiaogang looked at the two and teased.

"I don't know this, listen to what Director Feng means, you must know, what is it, let's hear it!" Xu Jinglei's eyes showed curiosity.

Suddenly, several other people looked at Feng Xiaogang in unison, their ears pricked up, obviously very interested.

Being stared at by several people, the corners of Feng Xiaogang's mouth turned up slightly, faintly proud, and said comfortably with the old god: "If I guessed correctly, Chen Desen must be talking about that movie when he asked Yuquan." ”

Under Feng Xiaogang's narration, several people then became clear about the ins and outs of the movie.

The script of this movie was not written by Chen Desen, otherwise Feng Xiaogang would not have known, and what impressed him about the situation of this movie was that there was a very tortuous story around this movie.

Chen Taksen officially became a director with the movie "My Wife is Not Human" starring Leung Ka-fai and Kwan Zhilin, and what made him famous in one fell swoop was "Thief Spy" directed in 1997, which received nearly 12 million Hong Kong dollars at the Hong Kong box office at the same time, and also won the best action design at the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards. Tong Guò for this film he is positioned as an outstanding director of action films.

Later, he directed "Purple Rain Storm" and Cheng Long's "Spy Maze" at the box office and word of mouth. But what few people know is before these two films. Chen Desen originally intended to shoot another movie, a particularly crazy martial arts action movie.

Why is it crazy? Because of an action movie, he actually needed 68 million Hong Kong dollars, which was higher than the box office of 57.52 million Hong Kong dollars for the highest-grossing movie "Police Story 4: Simple Mission" at that time, and even the box office of "Kung Fu", the highest-grossing movie in Hong Kong until now, is only 61.27 million Hong Kong dollars. Not only that, but what is even more incredible is that Chan Desmond is very outrageous and wants to spend one-third of his entire investment on the scenery, and reproduce it 1:1 according to the original appearance of Hong Kong's 1905 Central.

It was 1999, when Hong Kong films began to decline, and the market for Hong Kong films in Southeast Asia shrank suddenly, and Hong Kong films with an investment of 20 or 30 million Hong Kong dollars at that time were already big investment films. And that kind of investment is often only available to first-line directors like Wang Jin, Tsui Hark, Liu Weiqiang, and Wong Kar-wai.

In that case, he wants to persuade investors to spend 68 million Hong Kong dollars to invest in a movie with 8-10 stars as the protagonists, and at least 1/3 of them will be used for real-life city-building, which is tantamount to a fool's dream.

In fact, when Chen Desen found those investors with the script and listened to his film plan, 7 out of 10 people left on the spot, and the other two persuaded him not to go crazy. Because it is now at the lowest point of Hong Kong films, there is no possibility of recovering an investment of this scale.

And of these two. One of them is Chen Kexin, at that time, the UFO film company co-founded by him and Zeng Zhiwei is a well-known film production company in Hong Kong, so far, it has successfully launched "Three Heroes of the Wind and Dust", "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", "Sweet Honey", "Hell" series, "Three Watches" series, "Golden Rooster" series, the reason why Chen Kexin will persuade Chen Dessen earnestly is because the two are old partners, and Chen Deseng's idea to conceive the movie came from a chat between the two.

However, the twists and turns of the story are not over here, otherwise Feng Xiaogang would not be impressed, and it is categorically which movie it is.

Directors and artists are no different, they are often a bunch of paranoids, and the more successful the director, the more so.

Despite the setback, Chen Dessen did not give up, and his hard work and perseverance finally paid off in 03, in which he received strong support from banker Zeng Xianji to raise his first investment, and after the actor was in place, he began to build the 1905 Hong Kong Central City, which covers an area of two and a half football fields, at the film and television base in Nanhai, Foshan, located in the east of Guangzhou.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, people have good fortune and misfortune, Chen Desen just set up the scene, and he encountered the ** storm that swept the country that year, so Jiancheng had to be temporarily stranded, and finally waited for a few months, ** calmed down, he re-coordinated the actor's schedule, who knows, just a month before the start of the movie, Zeng Xianji, who invested in the movie, was cheated out of 1.6 billion, went bankrupt all of a sudden, and faced imprisonment, so he committed suicide on the yacht, this sudden accident immediately made the upcoming movie have to stop, and then the movie ran aground completely.

However, Chen Desen has been running around for the investment of this film in recent years, and has never given up, two years ago, he also came to Yi Brothers to find Wang Zhonglei, Feng Xiaogang happened to be there at that time, and it was at that time that he knew about the movie and the twists and turns that happened in the preparation of the film, but in the end, Chen Desen's plan was rejected by Wang Zhonglei.

To be honest, it's not that the movie can't be made, but the problem is that the investment required is too great, in 1999, it needed 68 million, and today, the investment is at least hundreds of millions, even if there are more and more blockbusters with domestic investment of hundreds of millions, but the investment of hundreds of millions is never a small amount, such a big investment, how can Huayi Brothers rest assured that it will be handed over to Chen Desen to shoot?

If Lin Yuquan wants to make such a martial arts action movie, let alone 100 million, 200 million, 300 million, Huayi Brothers will not hesitate to raise funds to shoot, but Chen Desen, he is just a well-known action movie director, far from the point of controlling hundreds of millions of investments.

In today's Huayi Brothers, only Feng Xiaogang has enough ** to be a blockbuster with an investment of hundreds of millions. But martial arts action movies are not what Feng Xiaogang is good at. "Night Banquet" is an example of this. Of course, the Huayi brothers will not take risks.

Huayi brothers are like this, how many film companies in the three places have such courage?

"Oh, that's the case, the investment is really not small, do you think Yuquan will agree?" Xu Jinglei asked with a chuckle.

"Look at the quality of the movie, if the movie is really worth the investment, Yuquan will definitely not be too much investment." Ning Hao, who is familiar with Lin Yuquan's character, said, and Shuguang Film Company is short of film projects.

"That's right. Yuquan's courage and handwriting are really no filmmaker in China who can compare, and the investment of more than 100 million yuan is actually nothing to him now. Chen Kaige nodded in praise.

"Hehe, if Yuquan directs it himself, there will be no problem with a martial arts action movie at all." Feng Xiaogang said.

"By the way, Director Feng, what's the name of that movie!"

"Name, that's what the movie is called."

"The Siege of October." Lin Yuquan flipped through the script in his hand. While listening to Chen Desen, he nodded from time to time.

Of course, Lin Yuquan also guessed that Chen Desen was looking for him to talk about film investment. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a revolutionary action movie, as the name suggests, "October Siege" tells the story of October 15, 1906 in Central, Hong Kong, the Qing court sent the general Yan Xiaoguo to kill Sun Yat-sen who arrived in Hong Kong, and a group of revolutionary righteous men from all over the world, businessmen, beggars, coachmen, students, gamblers, etc., fought bloodily under the double pressure of the Qing government and the British government, and finally protected Sun Yat-sen's story.

The story is not complicated, and even vulgar, but it is not without merit, its touching thing is that it does not depict a group of hot-blooded people with lofty ideals, but cleverly falls on the small people in troubled times, they are not pure revolutionaries, many people are just involved in the right time, some are for ** love, some are for dignity, some are for repayment, and some don't even know what it is for, it can be said that they are a group of rabble together, Fight to the death against the heavily armed Qing soldiers with chaotic means. People have seen too many scenes of people with lofty ideals shedding blood and sacrificing themselves for the cruel revolution, but when the protagonists are small people in the neighborhood, their tragic sacrifices are even more moving.

Such a change of perspective suddenly made "October Siege" break away from the ordinary main theme film, and also made Lin Yuquan a little interested, and asked after Chen Desen finished telling the story content and ideas: "How much investment do you expect to need for this movie?" ”

Chen Desen hesitated slightly, then gritted his teeth and said, "100 million." ”

Hearing this huge number, Lin Yuquan didn't even frown, just chuckled: "I don't seem to need so much investment to watch this movie, how are you going to allocate the investment?" ”

"If it's just a simple shot, of course, it won't take so much investment, but I want to make this movie well, of the 100 million, I will use 45 million of them 1:1 to replicate a 1906 Hong Kong Central, in addition, there are more than ten important characters in this film, if you use an all-star cast, you need at least 30 million salaries, and the remaining 25 million is the shooting cost." Chen Desen's faster speech seemed quite excited, and as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately looked at Lin Yuquan's expression extremely nervously, over the years, except for Zeng Xianji, as long as everyone else listened to his investment plan, almost everyone thought he was crazy.

To be honest, Chen Desen is most worried about Lin Yuquan's rejection of him like others, what he is afraid of is not hearing the refusal, such words, he doesn't know how many times he has heard it over the years, what he cares about is that if even Lin Yuquan, who has always been amazing, rejects him, then who else can he find to attract investment, in his heart, Lin Yuquan is almost his last hope.

"Oh, use 45 million to set up the scene." Lin Yuquan glanced at Chen Desen with a smile, and his interest in his heart became stronger, and asked, "Director Chen, why did you think of spending so much money to copy a Central building?" Nowadays, many film and television bases have scenes of old Hong Kong, old Shanghai * Hai, and old Guangzhou * Zhou, which can be filmed in other film and television bases. ”

Chen Desen breathed a sigh of relief, it was not good to refuse, there was still a chance, after secretly cheering himself up, he said firmly: "In fact, the reason why this city was built was because it had to be built, unlike other movies of the same era that only have simple scene shots, "October Siege" is an action movie with very fast shots and takes place around the entire Central of Hong Kong, if you don't build a city." The scene is incomplete. It is inevitable to go to the goofs. In my opinion, the first condition for making this film is to build a city, and there is no other way. And if the city is not built, the crew of up to several hundred people will shoot in several film and television bases, and the filming costs incurred in the middle. I'm afraid it's no less than the building of a city. ”

Lin Yuquan nodded appreciatively, Chen Desen did think more carefully in this regard, and what he appreciated the most was Chen Desen's rigor and persistence in treating the movie, the story of "October Siege" is good, if he didn't insist on building the city and make a slight concession in the cast and shooting requirements, he must have been able to attract investment.

What's more, this is an unacceptable condition for others, just because there is no obstacle for him, he is the kind of person who strives for perfection, and naturally he does not want the film to be shoddy and build a city. The corners of Lin Yuquan's mouth unconsciously turned up slightly, and there was no problem with zài. Don't forget, he has his own Shuguang Film and Television Base! It happened to build the city in the Shuguang Film and Television Base.

"Director Chen, I'll tell you the truth, I'm very interested in your film, and in my opinion, building a city is not a problem at all, but I want to know, if you are the director, can you make this film well? I'm not questioning your abilities, but it's not an easy task to make this movie well. Lin Yuquan's expression suddenly became extremely serious.

"Ah, Director Lin, do you mean you're willing to invest? Don't you need time to think about it" Chen Desen looked at him excitedly, seemingly a little incredulous.

"No, I can make a decision now, I do have a lot of interest in "October Siege", but I can't guarantee that you will direct it, I first have to understand what you can make this film look like?" Lin Yuquan nodded.

"I know, I know, oh, I've finally made it." Chen Desen shouted with unbearable excitement, and the corners of his eyes became faintly moist.

It's been almost eight years, he finally succeeded, in the past eight years, he has endured too much, once he was very close to the final success, how did the investor commit suicide, the movie that had invested 15 million Hong Kong dollars was forced to run aground, that time was the darkest period of his life, the movie that had paid countless efforts was stranded, his mother had a stroke, his sister had cancer, he himself suffered a car accident, in the face of heavy blows, his whole person had almost collapsed, he couldn't do anything, just locked himself at home. But he finally survived, because he couldn't give up his dream, and in recent years, he didn't know how many investors in Hong Kong and the mainland had failed again and again, for this moment.

Lin Yuquan quietly looked at Chen Desen, who was extremely moved, and faintly felt that there were many stories in it.

"I'm sorry, Director Lin, I let you see the joke." Chen Desen wiped the corners of his eyes and smiled.

"It's nothing, it's just a very normal emotional reaction, and after the premiere of "Huo Yuanjia", I was like this." Lin Yuquan smiled.

After Chen Desen smiled, his expression became solemn, it was not completely over, he knew that if his next performance could not impress Lin Yuquan, Lin Yuquan would find other directors even if he invested, involving hundreds of millions of investments, of course investors would find the most reassuring director to shoot, but he had full confidence in himself, he had prepared for this movie for too long and too long, and everything in the movie was in his mind I don't know how many times it had been perfected.

Fifteen minutes later, Lin Yuquan nodded with satisfaction, Chen Desen did put a lot of thought into this movie and thought it very carefully, but it was still far from satisfying him.

After Chen Desen finished speaking, he stared at Lin Yuquan's face tightly, anxiously waiting for his final ruling.

"Director Chen, I hope we have a happy cooperation!" Lin Yuquan smiled and stretched out his right hand, admittedly, he was not completely satisfied, but unless he went out in person, it would be difficult to find a more suitable director than Chen Desen.

"Thank you, Director Lin, I will do my best to make this movie." Although he had been excited once just now, but after completely deciding on it, the excitement in Chen Desen's heart was no less than just now, and he looked at Lin Yuquan with a very grateful look, and nodded solemnly and said.

"Hehe, let's work together to make a good movie!" Lin Yuquan smiled.

Since the two talked for a long time, Xu Jinglei also called to urge.

"Director Chen, let's talk while walking, everyone is waiting, you have conceived "October Siege" very well, but it is not enough, first of all, the action fighting scenes, in this regard, your ideas and design are obviously not perfect, and the other is the plot, to be honest, some places are too deliberate, and the logic is not very smooth, just like Sun Yat-sen, a revolutionary leader, how can he lightly pin his life on a group of small people from the neighborhood I will ask Qiu Qingyi, the producer of Shuguang Film Company, to contact you, Director Chen, you should first grasp the construction of Central City, and as for the action scenes and scripts, they must be redesigned and revised."

Soon, Lin Yuquan and Chen Desen came to the hotel restaurant, and his arrival was immediately welcomed by the directors.

"Come, come, Yuquan, you sit here."

Lin Yuquan originally wanted to sit next to Ning Hao and Xu Jinglei, but when he heard Feng Xiaogang's greeting, he had to walk towards the table.

Wu Yigong and Teng Wenji, two representative figures of the fourth generation of directors, Huang Jianxin, Hou Xiaoxian, Chen Jiashang, president of the Directors Association of the three places, Han Shanping, chairman of China Film, Chen Kaige and Feng Xiaogang, vice presidents of the Directors Association and top directors in China, Li Shaohong, a representative figure of domestic female directors and vice president of the Film Association, and Lin Yuquan himself.

"Hey, Yuquan, did Director Chen ask you to talk about the investment in the movie "October Siege"?" As soon as she finished lunch and walked together with Ning Hao and Xu Jinglei, Xu Jinglei immediately asked impatiently.

"Well, how do you know?" Lin Yuquan looked at Xu Jinglei suspiciously.

"What Director Feng said, did you finally agree to invest, I heard Director Feng say that the investment required for that movie is estimated to be hundreds of millions." Xu Jinglei asked with concern.

"What do you think?" Lin Yuquan seemed to be smiling.

"Hey, you really invested, that's a big production with hundreds of millions of investments!" Xu Jinglei gasped.

"It seems that the movie "October Siege" is very good, otherwise you wouldn't have made a decision so quickly." Ning Hao was not surprised, he was interested in the movie itself.

"It's really good, I'll tell you later, by the way, how did Director Feng know, what did he say!" Lin Yuquan looked at the two of them.

"Oh, that's kind of meaning, we were guessing whether you would invest or not, but we didn't expect you to really invest." After Xu Jinglei smiled, she repeated what Feng Xiaogang said. 、

"No wonder." Lin Yuquan suddenly understood, at that time, looking at Chen Desen's excited demeanor, he felt that there were many stories, but the story was more tortuous than he thought, it is not difficult to imagine what kind of disappointment and pain the director has endured over the years, it is commendable that he has always insisted on not giving up, and he has made a correct decision more and more.

I wonder how many investors will regret not being able to invest in the first place after "October Siege"?

Lin Yuquan smiled teasingly. (To be continued......)

ps: What kind of point can Lin Yuquan's "October Siege" achieve, I can only say goodbye to Brother Chun, Nicholas, and Dawn What is the best cast in everyone's hearts, try to consider the artists of the Yuquan family. R640