Chapter 479: Ocean Paradise
Regarding Lin Yuquan's decision to star in "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic of China" with zero pay for all the Yuquan family and supernova actors, Chang Jihong naturally super agreed, what Lin Yuquan could think of, how could she, a senior agent who manages the brokerage business, not think that she even thought more than Lin Yuquan.
After that, Chang Jihong immediately notified the artist's agent, and the content of the notice is very simple: next year is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and Shuguang Film has participated in a large-scale main theme film led by China Film, the film is directed by Han Shanping Han Sanye, and the boss himself has zero pay for guest appearances.
In fact, the brokerage departments of major film and television companies often require their own actors to reduce their salaries to appear in the films they invest and shoot, and sometimes even only take a little errand fee, and some actors simply say that they will not be paid, but it should not have been too much for the actors to appear with zero pay.
However, after seeing the content of the notice, none of the actors of the Yuquan family and supernova were dissatisfied, joking, although the content of the notice was simple, it was very clear, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the main theme film, directed by Han Shanping, Lin Yuquan personally cameo, these four messages clearly reveal how extraordinary this film is that everyone stars in with zero pay.
And the actors of Yuquan Family and Supernova, except for the actors of Supernova, most of them have been in the entertainment industry for many years, so they naturally know the gains and losses. And for the new cast of supernovas. The salary or something is even less important. The most important thing is to have the opportunity to appear in a movie.
Therefore, not only was no one dissatisfied, but many people also offered to pay for the travel expenses of the show at that time.
Lin Yuquan didn't pay much attention to these, he has his own regular Red Cross Club to deal with, and he has more important things to handle, although he is busy with the filming of "Immediate Rescue", although he has not participated in the promotion of "Heartbeat" before, but this does not mean that he does not care about the release of "Heartbeat".
The global release of "Heartbeat" is August 17. As usual, the domestic selection is to land in the afternoon, while the rest of the country and region mostly start at midnight screenings.
On the afternoon of the 16th, Lin Yuquan finished work very early, and as soon as he finished work, he immediately drove back to Rongcheng with Liu Yifei and others, and then returned to Kyoto overnight in the G550 car parked at Rongcheng Airport on standby.
Due to time constraints, the world premiere of "Heartbeat" was not scheduled in Los Angeles, but in Kyoto, in fact, Rongcheng can also be done, but he has another thing to do when he returns to Kyoto.
As for why he returned with Liu Yifei and others. The reason is very simple, after learning that Lin Yuquan returned to Beijing to attend the world premiere of "Heartbeat". Everyone expressed their willingness to attend.
Lin's father and mother had already returned to Rongcheng, and the villa of Ziyu Villa was empty again, although he was a little reluctant, after getting off the plane and having dinner with everyone, Lin Yuquan was still separated from Yifei and returned to Ziyu Villa alone.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning Lin Yuquan got up early as usual, after practicing boxing and washing, because he had just come back, there were no ready-made ingredients in the refrigerator, so he naturally did not make breakfast, but went to Wang Luodan's villa.
"Jingle bells." "Good morning, Dandan!"
After Lin Yuquan rang the doorbell, the door quickly opened, revealing Wang Luodan's smiling face.
"Good morning, Yuquan, you're just in time, I'm going to call you if you don't come again, breakfast is ready." Wang Luodan said.
"It's better to come early than to come at a good time." Lin Yuquan smiled, went into the house to say hello to Wang Luodan's parents, and sat down to have breakfast.
After breakfast, he and Wang Luodan came to Jiang Yan's villa and rang the doorbell.
"Come on, I'm waiting for you!" Jiang Yan smiled brightly.
After meeting Jiang Yan, the group of three came to Lin Yuquan's villa and then drove out.
"Oh, I'm really tired, I just finished filming "Nightclub", and I'm going to shoot a new movie, I've become a trapeze artist during this time, the two crews are flying around, fortunately, "Nightclub" has been completed two days ago, otherwise the three crews will fly around, and I will have to toss and go crazy." As soon as he came out of the Purple Jade Villa, Wang Luodan immediately said with resentment.
"You can be content, some of the performances are too tired, and I am not flying around myself." Jiang Yan said angrily, after successively serving as the female number one in "Nightclub" and the female number two in "Immediate Rescue", Wang Luodan immediately starred in the female number one in another movie "Ocean Paradise".
In comparison, she herself is undoubtedly slightly inferior, although there are not many scenes filmed, "October Siege", "Drunken Gold Fan", "Immediate Rescue", "The Right Way in the World is the Vicissitudes of Life", "Nanjing! Nanking! ", "Ocean Paradise", four movies, two of which are big-budget movies, and the two TV series are all long-form dramas, and the roles played are also important roles, but in terms of weight alone, they are still not as good as Wang Luodan.
However, she has no dissatisfaction with this, not to mention her relationship with Wang Luodan, Wang Luodan's role is not compatible with her, and besides, she is only slightly inferior to Wang Luodan, I don't know how many actors are also envious of her starring opportunities!
"That's right, you can be content, say tired, Yanzi is much more tired than you in the first half of the year." Lin Yuquan scolded with a smile, in the first half of the year, Jiang Yan almost filmed the three works "October Siege", "Drunken Gold Fan" and "The Right Way in the World is the Vicissitudes of Life", with almost no rest time in between, thanks to the fact that the three works were all produced by Shuguang Film itself, it is easy to coordinate the time with each other, otherwise she would not be able to take care of it at all.
Speaking of Wang Luodan, in fact, the setting of the original script was not suitable for Wang Luo to play, but Lin Yuquan felt that there was a problem with the setting of the character's personality image, and after a slight modification, he became an eccentric chick with a young man with autism.
"Haha, actually, I'll just talk about it." Wang Luodan suddenly said in a daze.
It didn't take long. Lin Yuquan drove to The Peninsula Beijing. During the last Olympic Games, he invited Yifei and three girls to a big dinner. The Cantonese restaurant in the hotel, which is designed with the concept of Kyoto's aristocratic courtyard, tastes quite good, but he appeared here today, naturally not specifically for eating, but to attend the launch press conference of "Ocean Paradise".
"Ocean Paradise" is not another movie, it is in the annual micro-film plan of Dawning.com, the script created by Xue Xiaolu, a director selected by him, Chen Kaige, Ning Hao and others who can receive financial support from Dawning Films, tells the story of a father who lives with his son with autism, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. tried his best to find a home worthy of his son, but went through a story of twists and turns.
The style of the whole movie is similar to the Korean movie "Marathon", which is a very warm movie, which does not deliberately use the tragic experience of autistic people to sensationalize, but tells the story of autistic people and their families in a plain way, with laughter and tears, full of warmth and positive energy.
After completing the script creation in early August, Qiu Qingyi and others immediately started the preparation of the film, and a few days ago, all the preparations have been prepared. After today's start-up press conference, we will go to Qingdao tomorrow to start up. The main filming location is in Qingdao Polar Ocean World.
After parking the car, Lin Yuquan, who came to the front of the hotel, soon saw Xiao Ran waiting there, and he and his second daughter walked straight over: "Is the scene of the press conference arranged?" ”
"Boss, don't worry, it's all set up." Xiao Ran said with a smile.
"Very good, Senior Sister Xue, have they arrived?" Lin Yuquan asked with a smile on his face.
"Director Xue and the article have arrived, but Li Lianjie and Jiang Wenli have not yet arrived." Xiao Ran said.
"Okay, let's go meet then!" Lin Yuquan smiled.
Li Lianjie, Jiang Wenli, the article, together with Wang Luodan and Jiang Yan, these are the five leading actors of "Ocean Paradise", Li Lianjie plays the terminally ill father Wang Xincheng, the article plays the autistic young man Wang Dafu, Wang Luodan plays the quirky acrobatic girl, Jiang Wenli plays the enthusiastic neighbor of the Dafu family, Sister-in-law, and Jiang Yan plays the teacher who receives the Dafu school, and takes great care of Dafu.
Xiao Ran immediately led the way for the three of them and came to a lounge.
"Good morning, everyone!" As soon as he entered the room, Lin Yuquan said with a spring breeze in his eyes, and at the same time looked at the article without leaving a trace.
"Good morning, Rain Spring!" has had a lot of communication with Lin Yuquan, and Xue Xiaolu, who was also born at the Kyoto Film Academy, said.
"Director Lin, good morning!" The article said a little crampedly.
Later, Jiang Yan and Wang Luodan also greeted each other.
"Senior sister, the first movie as a director is about to start, how are you feeling now?" Lin Yuquan immediately retracted his gaze and looked at Xue Xiaolu with a smile.
"Is this an interview with me? Of course, I was excited, nervous and nervous, and I just hoped that I could shoot well, otherwise how could I be worthy of Yuquan's full support for me. Xue Xiaolu said with a smile, in fact, she was extremely excited when she first met Lin Yuquan, just because Lin Yuquan supervised her films, the two often communicated, and they were also from the Kyoto Film Academy, so the relationship quickly became familiar, and they were no longer restrained and uneasy because of their disparity in status.
"Then I'm looking forward to your performance, senior sister, but there is one thing that senior sister said wrongly, not that I'm sorry for my support for you, but I'm sorry for such a good script, if you don't shoot it well, it's definitely a very heart-wrenching thing." Lin Yuquan said with a smile that in order to create a satisfactory script for "Ocean Paradise", he spent a lot of effort during the creation period, and naturally hoped that the film could be filmed well.
"Yes, such a good script, I must shoot it well." Xue Xiaolu's words are full of indestructible determination, the script of "Ocean Paradise" can be regarded as co-created by her and Lin Yuquan, she has created many film and television drama scripts in the past, and she thinks that this "Ocean Paradise" is the best, of course she doesn't want to spoil it.
"OK, I believe that for you, senior sister, it will definitely be no problem to shoot "Ocean Paradise" well." Lin Yuquan smiled slightly, Xue Xiaolu's personal experience of contacting autistic patients for more than ten years is very conducive to film shooting, after chatting with Xue Xiaolu, his eyes looked at the article again, and stretched out his right hand while smiling: "Hello, article, I have seen your performance of "Struggle", and the performance is very good. ”
"Struggle" is another popular urban youth idol drama launched by Zhao Baogang, although when it was broadcast last year, the limelight was completely overwhelmed by "Golden Wedding", "Latent", and "The Legend of Deer and Ding". But throughout the year, it is a very popular drama.
Among the ten most popular TV series of 2007 selected by "Shixun.com" at the end of the year. "Golden Wedding", "The Legend of Deer and Ding", "Struggle", "Latent", "Double-sided Tape" and "Soldier Assault". A total of six dramas received the highest five-star popularity index.
In "Struggle", the most eye-catching are the male and female protagonists Tong Dawei and Ma Yili, but in Lin Yuquan's opinion, several of the main actors in the play have the best performance in their articles. And Tong Dawei, what do you say? Zhao Baogang once commented on a group of actors who became popular with his own hands, and when commenting on Tong Dawei, he bluntly said: There has been no breakthrough in these years, and even "Struggle" has not made him change the way he acts. He should take on some roles with contrasting personality traits. It is precisely because of the good performance in "Struggle". let the article enter the sight of Xue Xiaolu and Qiu Qingyi and others, and finally won the role through the audition.
"Thank you Director Lin for your compliment, but I still have a lot to lose, Director Lin, I like your movie very much, and I'm glad to see you today." The article said excitedly.
"Don't be restrained, I heard Senior Sister Xue say that you have suffered a lot in order to play the role of Dafu, and you have not only spent a long time getting along with autistic people. I also learned to swim, and my eardrum was seriously injured. Lin Yuquan said warmly.
"It's hard. But as long as you can play the role well, everything is worth it. The article said disapprovingly, the process naturally can't be as easy as he said, because to play autism, you must act realistically, so he uses all the time available to get along with the patients, and he himself can't swim, but Daifuku in the script is like a dolphin, in order to practice swimming skills, during this period he perforated his eardrum and had a high fever several times.
Lin Yuquan's eyes are full of appreciation, he appreciates actors with a good acting attitude, talented, good-looking, can become a star, and with a performance attitude, you can become a good actor, the popularity of stars is often difficult to maintain for a long time, but the acting skills of actors are like old wine, more and more valuable, such as Chen Baoguo, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Siqin Gaowa, are all the same.
"Hard work will not betray yourself, play it well, the role of Daifuku is very heavy and brilliant, I look forward to your performance in "Ocean Paradise".
"Director Lin, I will definitely go all out to play Dafuku well." The article is to the point.
"Okay."
During the conversation, Jiang Wenli and Li Lianjie arrived one after another.
"Brother Jie, I haven't seen you for a long time, to be honest, I just had the intention of giving it a try, but I didn't expect you to really agree." Lin Yuquan said with a sigh that when Xue Xiaolu asked him who was the most suitable for the role of Wang Xincheng during the creation of the script, the first thing he thought of was Li Lianjie and Liu Dehua, and he did not have many male actors in the age of forty.
As soon as I heard Li Lianjie and Liu Dehua, Xue Xiaolu was not only excited, but also playing the drums, both of them are superstars in the Chinese film industry, with a salary level of tens of millions, they starred, good is good, but the production cost is too high, with the attributes of "Ocean Paradise" compared to literary and artistic public welfare, it is difficult to recover the cost, although there is a dawn movie, to be precise, Lin Yuquan strongly supports her, but she doesn't want to do it, no director will want his film to lose money, even those who are very persistent in art, they just don't care about the box office.
Lin Yuquan thinks he can try, of course, this try does not mean that he will invite Li Lianjie and Liu Dehua with tens of millions of salaries, yes, he will fully support the filming of "Ocean Paradise", he is also very willful in dealing with movies, as long as he likes it, he doesn't care about losses, and he can fully bear losses, but this does not mean that he wants to lose money.
Since it is a movie, it must follow the corresponding market rules, and he does not hesitate to invest more than 200 million to create a large-scale war movie, although there are crucial personal emotions mixed with it, but also because such a war movie can bring good returns once it is made well, this factor is very important.
Otherwise, if he doesn't ask for a movie return at all, just to make a good public welfare movie, why should he find Li Lianjie or Liu Dehua to play, some amateur actors may not be inferior to the two of them in their true colors, in that case, a few million investment is enough.
And if it is just to call on everyone to pay attention to autistic people, then making a documentary or taking the lead in charity activities can also serve a purpose, which is far more practical than spending tens of millions of stars to star.
Treating the movie "Ocean Paradise", Lin Yuquan hopes to make a good movie at the same time, and play a certain role in public welfare, as for losses, of course, less losses are less losses, and some losses are not as good as directly helping those in need, and if you can earn, the more you earn, the better.
If "Ocean Paradise" is operated according to general commercial films, then even if it is made well, it may not be able to recover the investment, so he proposed to use the nature of literary and artistic public welfare and excellent scripts to persuade actors, including actors, that compared with commercial films, a film that is biased towards literary and artistic public welfare will naturally have a very different remuneration standard.
And the reason why Li Lianzhuo played the role of Wang Xincheng in the end, instead of Liu Dehua, is not that Hua Zai is unwilling to lower his salary to play, it is entirely because Hua Zai feels too handsome, and "Ocean Paradise" needs an ordinary father, a father who is an ordinary electrician in the aquarium.
"Ha, fortunately you have the idea of giving it a try, otherwise I would have missed such a good movie, and it would be a pity if I read the interview afterwards and found out that you had originally considered letting me star." Li Lianjie smiled heartily.
"Yes, this is our luck for each other, and I believe that this extraordinary luck will definitely bring extraordinary works." Lin Yuquan had a smile in his eyes.
"Of course, I think so too." Li Lianjie smiled. (To be continued......)
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