Chapter 32: The Black Man Crew
"Mr. Li, you're here." After taking a set of shots, Xu Ke motioned for everyone to take a break first. With the director's order, the crew relaxed their tense nerves at once, or found a stool to sit down, or smoked in the corner. It looks like I'm tired from this time, and many people have bloodshot eyes.
Li Xuechu smiled: "You don't need to call me so formal, you can call me a junior or a junior boy." Director Xu, what did you say last time about the lack of budget? ”
Xu Ke smiled awkwardly and said, "Then I'll call you to learn the beginning." That's the case, the loss of this movie Weiya is much greater than we originally expected, if you shoot this action movie according to your requirements, the current cost is obviously not enough, and if the budget can't be increased, it is likely that there will not be enough money in the later stage. ”
Xu Ke deliberately bit the words 'according to your requirements', as if to imply that the increase in the budget was Li Xuechu's responsibility for being too demanding.
"No wonder this guy didn't get along well with so many people in the future life." Li Xuechu sneered in his heart, but he didn't dwell on this issue with him, and asked directly: "Then if it is according to 'my requirements', what is the budget?" ”
Xu Ke's face turned red, and then he whispered a number, and secretly raised his eyelids to look at Li Xuechu's expression.
"Five million?" Li Xuechu smiled bitterly. What is the concept of the cost of the 5 million system now? The current box office champion is the ghost in charge, with a box office of more than 13 million, and the cost of the 5 million system is to reach this box office in order to barely keep the capital, although there is still a box office in other cities, but it will not be able to come back for a while. Although I am also confident in the box office of Black Hero, there are not many movies without comedy that have a high box office in Xiangjiang, and there are only a few heroes and so on. The black man is estimated to be nothing more than a ghost at the box office if he wants to.
Li Xuechu thought for a while and said: "The budget can only be increased to four million, Director Xu, you should also know what it means to spend five million on making zuò, we still have publicity expenses in the later stage, plus the publicity cost will be almost 4.5 million, this cost can basically be said to make no money in Xiangjiang, you have to make the film within this cost range, if not, I can only change someone else." ”
Xu Ke nodded and agreed after thinking about it, and Li Xuechu still showed that there were two points of joy in his eyes. The sky-high asking price is to pay back the money on the spot, it is estimated that Xu Ke didn't expect him to be able to agree to this cost, but for the director, of course, the more the better, the more the better, you can make the movie more sophisticated, if you do half of the funds are insufficient, you can only deal with it so-so, and many anticlimactic movies come like this.
The matter of funding was settled, and the two began to talk about the movie. To Li Xuechu's surprise, he saw a familiar face again: Chen Xiaodong. Xu Ke had a very close relationship with Chen Xiaodong in later generations, and many of Xu Ke's martial arts dramas were designed by Chen Xiaodong, and later he simply helped Chen Xiaodong to be the director and himself as a producer. And Chen Xiaodong did not disappoint him, and he also made a lot of good movies. I didn't expect the two to get on the line so early.
After watching some of the action scenes filmed by the two before, Li Xuechu discussed the action design of the movie with the two according to the general routine of the later Xiangjiang and Hollywood action movies. As the discussion deepened, Xu Ke's slightly perfunctory attitude at the beginning began to slowly change, and it seemed that they gradually recognized Li Xuechu's 'theory'. Li Xuechu smiled secretly in his heart, most of these were originally the 'originals' of these two people, and the experience of creating future generations by himself must be in line with the appetite of the two, as for the Hollywood elements added, it depends on how much the two can listen to them. After all, Hollywood in later generations is second to none in shaping the scene, which is not only a matter of money, but also in the handling of various details. Li Xuechu, who is good at creating scenes in Xiangjiang, knows that Wu Yushen is the most successful, although these two are not bad, but they are still weaker in this aspect.
The trio started with theoretical things and gradually moved on to the details. Mr. Li Xuechu, who watched a lot of professional film reviews in later generations, really found a lot of things that he didn't think was good enough from the lenses in the zài camera, although Xu Ke couldn't hold his face, most of them also admitted Li Xuechu's evaluation, some said that they could make up for it in the later editing, and some could only ask for reshoots. However, Li Xuechu vetoed the request for a remake, and if it is really remade, the budget is afraid that it will be insufficient. After becoming the owner of a film company, Li Xuechu understood how terrible it is to pursue perfection, and he still tried to improve as much as possible according to the budget, and he really had to do his best, doubling the cost was cheap, and it was better not to get along with himself.
After the matter was discussed, Xu Ke and the others were also more respectful to Li Xuechu, probably knowing that this boss who was less than twenty years old was not so easy to fool.
The crew started filming again, and Li Xuechu didn't have anything to do now anyway, so he just visited the side. Now I understand what Weiya looks like.,To put it bluntly, it's a steel wire.,At this time, there is no computer processing special effect.,The wire can only be made very thin to avoid goofs.,And with the different people or things hanging in the length and shape will be different.,It's almost universal.,After using it once, it can only be thrown away so as not to break and hurt people when it's used again.,After all, it's too thin.。 It's no wonder that the cost of this fishline-thick thing is almost catching up with the amount of money spent on film.
With the big boss on the side, the crew is also very face-saving and serious about doing things. Most of the crew, especially the martial arts team, are from the Hong family's class, and a small number should be found by Xu Ke. It may be that we have been getting along for a few days, and we have quite a tacit understanding with each other.
Now even the Shaolin Temple has not come out, Li Lianjie doesn't know where in the mainland he is still nesting, the current starring role of the black man is Yuan Biao, and he is also Li Xuechu's favorite actor, but now his face is a little bigger, and he has to rely on makeup to make himself look a few years older. The heroine used Yuan Qiu, and the current appearance of this chartered woman in the later 'kung fu' is really not bad, which made Li Xuechu secretly sigh again, "Time is a pig-killing knife". The other heroine is a newcomer who just made a movie last year, Zhong Chuhong. This 'sexy goddess' of Xiangjiang is only in her early twenties now, and she still has some baby fat on her face, but she is still much cuter, but she wants to be the 'female killer' in this movie, which goes without saying that Xu Xuan can choose it. However, Li Xuechu has no opinion, there are still more beautiful faces in the movie to please the audience better, just watch the Korean dramas of later generations, even if you have plastic surgery, you have to make a goddess.
Zhong Chuhong is still a pink and tender newcomer, and has only starred in two movies so far, one is the story of Hu Yue who cooperated with his brother, and the other is the debut work of the famous director Du Qifeng. In the 90s and the new century, Du Daoci, who was well-known in the Chinese-speaking circle in the new century, obviously suffered a tragic encounter with movies, and now he has gone back to TVB to make TV, and it will take several years before he dares to come out again.
Zhong Chuhong and her brother and Zhang Guorong are regarded as the iron triangle of the film industry in later generations, and they have worked together to shoot many classics, but she has not been favored by the judges of the Academy Awards and Golden Horse Awards with good acting skills, and has never been able to win the awards. After marrying a wife in the 90s, he quit filming, which is a big loss for the Xiangjiang film industry.
The efficiency of the crew is quite high, there are several sets of difficult shots that have been passed at one time, and the quality of the completion also makes Xu Ke feel quite satisfied, the only trouble is that the actor who made Zhong Chuhong as a stand-in was accidentally photographed in the face several times, so he had to start over. But Rao is so, and the filming process is still quite efficient.
Seeing that it was getting late, Li Xuechu went over and asked Xu Ke a little, and then announced loudly: "It's almost time now, let's shoot here first." The crew worked hard to clean up first, and gathered at the Fumantang Hotel an hour later. ”
"Wow!" The crowd cheered in unison.
Li Xuechu smiled, now that the company is creating, the hearts of the people still have to be bought from time to time, and it will be more convenient to bring people in in the future.
"Ah Hong, are you going at night?" Yuan Qiu asked Zhong Chuhong next to him, unlike the Hong family class, Zhong Chuhong usually takes a taxi home.
"The big boss has a treat, why don't you go?" Zhong Chuhong looked at it with a smile.
Li Xuechu suddenly felt like his heart was being pinched by a hand......
"Beginner, beginner?"
"Oh, what's the matter, Director Xu?" Li Xuechu reacted and asked slightly embarrassed.
"It's nothing, I mean it's not too early, I'll go back first." Xu Ke smiled meaningfully: "Miss Zhong doesn't have a car yet, if you have time at the beginning of school, you might as well send Miss Zhong away." ”
"Oh, it should, it should." Li Xuechu stepped forward: "If Miss Zhong doesn't dislike it, take my car." ”
Zhong Chuhong did not refuse: "Then it will trouble Boss Li." ”
"Why are you all colleagues so polite, call me Chuzai, everyone calls me that." Li Xuechu smiled a little stiffly. "Miss Zhong, please come with me."
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