Chapter 1040: Box Office and Art

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The investment in a movie is 120 million. Guan Xiaoli didn't understand. She wanted to ask Zhang Qiuran how the budget was made.

Zhang Qiuran's answer was that according to Zhang Qiusheng's first draft, the budget would not be so much. After her and Li Qiulan's revisions, this script focuses too much on artistry and ignores the audience's feelings. Zhang Qiusheng resolutely opposes this revised draft, and the film made according to the revised draft will definitely lose money. Most likely, it will be a loss of money, because no one wants to watch a very artistic but boring movie.

Filmmakers must create a connection with the audience and know what the audience wants. The current Internet can't do this, which requires the filmmaker's own imagination. Imagine what kind of movies I would like to watch if I were a viewer.

Zhang Qiusheng persuaded his sister and Qiulan that the moviegoers were actually ordinary people. The Chinese people have always liked lively and simple things. It doesn't matter what kind of art you are, it's too dull and they don't like it. Again, you make the movie too complicated, and they don't like it either.

To use a simple analogy. Nowadays, everyone likes to play mahjong. However, in the first few hundred years of mahjong's invention, it was only popular among the wives and ladies of wealthy families, and the old men would occasionally intervene but not too much.

The old men like to listen to plays, gamble money, carry cages and birds, go to the Qinglou to play tea, or run horses and dogs. Why? These hilarious wow.

The above is only about the upper class. And the broad masses of the people simply don't pay attention to mahjong. Because the early mahjong had to be counted, this was a bit complicated, and the majority of people didn't like it.

Now it's okay, you don't have to count mahjong to play it, and you can knock down Hu. The cards that are needed are left, and the cards that are not needed are played. It's simple, it's easy to look at, and everyone likes it. So in recent years, mahjong has become popular in a large area, from the street to the alley, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, there are people playing mahjong at any time.

Another example is playing bridge, which is also more complicated. Bridge spread to China, we improved it, into the competition, picking, fighting landlords, etc., the majority of the people have a lot of fun.

Football, on the surface, seems to be liked by the vast majority of people, right? If you really want them to play, you see how many people like it! Most so-called fans just like to sit in front of the TV and watch the game, which is neither effortless nor exhausting, simple and lively, which is the pursuit of pseudo-fans.

Are pseudo-fans good? Of course! Newspapers, radio stations, and television stations don't care whether the fans are real or fake, and with these fans, newspapers can increase sales, and radio and television stations can increase ratings.

With sales and ratings, you can increase advertising and increase the advertising price code. With money, the media can in turn increase the hype to fuel the fanaticism and attract more people to become fans.

Merchants don't care whether the fans are real or fake, they make a big fuss about football and develop products around football. Even bars, restaurants, and cafes are making football articles, putting on big TVs, and then letting fans watch football while they consume.

So, is it okay for the media and businesses to do this well? Of course! Either way, they have advanced the cause of football.

It's the same with our films. To make fans willing to pay for the cinema, as long as the movie is good, they don't care about the money. What if the movie isn't good? If you take eight sedan chairs to carry them, they won't go.

How do you get fans to pay for it? Simple and lively! It's also art. True art is not always esoteric and boring. Scientists can use very interesting stories to illustrate very difficult scientific principles, and this is especially true when we make movies.

This is how Zhang Qiusheng persuaded his sister and Qiulan. He still respects his sister and Qiulan very much, and retains a lot of their things in the revised draft, replacing the original pure thinking with shocking scenes such as war, disaster, and disease.

This is good, but it increases the cost of shooting, and the budget of this film rises in vain. Not only did the budget go up, but so did the troubles. I also have to go to Europe to film. Many of the wars that have had a heavy impact since ancient times have taken place in Europe. Zhang Qiusheng had to go to Europe first, contact the performance group, rehearse first, and then take the film crew to shoot. All of this costs money, and European performance groups must be very expensive. Unlike in China, you can just find a few migrant workers to be extras. In addition, the workload has increased a lot.

Zhang Qiuran told Guan Xiaoli all this qiē. The teachers of the entire Teaching and Research Department of Physical Sound and Beauty were listening to Zhang Qiuran. These teachers all said that if they shoot like this, they really need a lot of money, and the budget of 120 million is not much.

Guan Xiaoli said: "I dismantled our entertainment company and sold it for nothing, and I didn't have so much money." Hao Nianhua Group is even the poorest entertainment company in our entertainment company. This has to be decided by the group company, and I don't have that much power. ”

Zhang Qiuran didn't care how Guan Xiaoli asked Liu Ping for instructions, she was going home. If you are not in Qilin, as long as you are in Qilin, it is Zhang Qiuran's compulsory homework to go home and cook when the time comes.

Liu Ping is now in charge of Shen Yang's operation of exporting safflower oil. Guan Xiaoli called and relayed what Zhang Qiuran had just said. With such a large amount, neither she nor the entertainment company has the right to call the shots, so now please ask the group company what to do.

Liu Ping didn't even think for a second, and immediately said: "If you sue Wu Yan, just say that it is my intention, and immediately convene a board meeting to discuss and make a resolution on this matter." You are attending this meeting on my behalf, and I will fax you the power of attorney later.

My opinion is to support Zhang Qiuran's budget, and if 1200 million is not enough, it can be appropriately added. You can just bring my opinion to the meeting, and the board will vote on the rest. ”

Liu Ping also told Guan Xiaoli that the entertainment company has become the bottom of the group, and the situation now is that there must be a breakthrough. Be bold, move fast, and don't be afraid of failure. Even if the film doesn't sell well, so what? It's just a loss of 120 million, which is better than doing nothing and waiting to die at home.

Liu Ping also said that she should believe in Zhang Qiusheng. He was very accurate, and he made very few wrong decisions. In addition, Zhang Qiusheng is so-so about his money, but he never spends a penny of the company's money. So even if it fails, it's excusable.

In the end, Liu Ping asked Guan Xiaoli to hurry up and run to the province, and she must run down the right to produce films. Without the right to make films, everything else is empty talk.

Zhang Qiusheng returned to Qilin for five days and is now shooting the last set of shots. This set of shots is also the last shot of the film, and the heroine gains love while reaping her career. There is no doubt that this was shot in the sea of flowers at the back of the twenty-first middle school. Zhang Qiusheng rushed back to start the machine, in order to take advantage of this flowering period.

An ordinary boy quietly holds the heroine's hand in the blue dream-like sea of flowers. They wander quietly in the sea of flowers, afraid of breaking each other's dreams. A little red appeared in front of him, and the red gradually enlarged, becoming a sea of fire. The handsome guy picked up the heroine and rushed into the sea of fiery flowers.

The heroine is happily lying in the arms of the handsome guy, even if it is really fire in front of her, she is willing to be burned to death with him. The fire faded and was replaced by gentle powder. It's still a dream, a happy and warm dream. The boy hugged Lin An and walked farther and farther. Zhang Qiusheng shouted: "Stop!" ”

In five days, the beginning and end of the film were almost filmed. The main content in the middle is not in a hurry, let's take our time. The film production rights of the entertainment company have not yet been won, let alone the filming license of this movie.

Ling Jing was not in a hurry. She still has about 20 days left in her contract with the original company, which expires at the end of this month. Before the contract expires, the film is made with great fanfare, and the original company knows that it will cause disputes.

At five o'clock in the morning, in the twenty-first middle school, under the hill, in the cherry blossom forest, in Zhang Qiusheng's enchantment, the Qilin special service detachment was in a meeting. Gao Shan Han and Tong Wucha attended. Wu Yan informed all the team members two days in advance, telling them that they had an important meeting today and hoped not to be absent.

What is important about such a serious meeting? The Qilin detachment was free and loose, and had never had a serious meeting.

Didn't you say it earlier, there were a few cultivators who pretended to be ghosts in Liang Lin, and were killed by Zhang Qiusheng and others, and two ran away?

The special service team summoned many bigwigs in the cultivation realm and asked them to identify the two corpses of the Jindan period. The result surprised the secret service team, and no one knew him.

At present, there are no more than seventy or eighty people in the Jindan stage of the cultivation realm, and there are no more than one hundred people who can break through the sky. Now there are two people who do not know each other, or are not in the directory of the special service unit at all.

Some people say, I'm afraid it's overseas casual cultivation, right? This view was immediately refuted. It can't be an overseas casual practice! You know, they publicly called out the special service team and called Zhang Qiusheng's name. Well, the special service group is the state's administrative organ for cultivators, even if it is an overseas casual cultivator, it is also known. What's more, Zhang Qiusheng is the number one scourge in the cultivation realm, and they have heard of the name of this scourge far overseas.

However, they openly called Tong Wucha's name. Who is Tong Wucha? A cultivator who had just stepped into the foundation building was not a member of the special service team, nor was he a student of Qilin No. 21 Middle School. Such an unknown person, if it weren't for the dragon slaying battle at the beginning of the year, even Mo Qianxing wouldn't know him. However, these three cultivators clearly called out his name, is this an overseas casual cultivator?

The leader of the special service team is worried, the water in the cultivation realm is really deep! After so many years of accumulation of information, there are still people who are not in the register, and they don't even know their deposits. And what about demons, and demons?

Wu Yan is also as worried about the world's major affairs as the leaders of the special service team, so he summoned the team members to a meeting? Not really! The people of the Qilin detachment never bothered to be idle, let alone Wu Yan. Besides, if you really want to have a worrying meeting, it is also a matter for the captain and the political commissar, and Wu Yan can't convene it.

Zhang Qiusheng: Didn't they pick up a few pieces of enchantment? They thought they could use this as a guide to make a few enchantments. When he came back this time, Zhang Qiusheng told Li Qiulan about it.

Li Qiulan looked at the fragments that Zhang Qiusheng had picked up, thought about it for a while and said, yes, but at most it can only refine two enchantments. (The novel "Zhang Qiusheng" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )