Although the Chinese personnel, from the assistant director to the drama manager to the actors, all felt that Shen Zhenghui's idea was a little unreliable, but after the preparatory meeting, even the most opposed consultant Sun Daoling had to admit that Shen Zhenghui's idea could be realized, provided that it burned money, but what Shen Zhenghui was not afraid of at present was burning money.

Zhang Guoli, who played Ji Xiaolan, also appeared at the meeting, he was a partner of Shen Zhenghui's father, this time he was also frightened by Shen Zhenghui and Shen Zhenghui's father's generosity, thinking about how much to participate in the mind and invested a little money, but Shen Zhenghui values Mr. Zhang's connections and deep qualifications, and now investing in domestic blockbusters is quite a bit of a taste of buying horse bones, therefore, for this kind of bigwig, Mr. Zhang will also play an important supporting role of a Kuomintang officer in the movie by the way.

Mr. Zhang himself definitely does not want to be limited to actors, but the direction of his own development has been limited, and it is impossible to jump out of the Chinese circle to win an international reputation. So Mr. Zhang, Ye An, developed in the direction of the people's artist with peace of mind, brushing up on awards such as white flowers and golden roosters. His development direction is either to become a part-time boss of a private enterprise, invest, shoot, and star in TV series that the masses like to see, or to become a golden supporting role in movies and TV series. No matter from which point of view, being a boss is better than being a supporting role, but for Mr. Zhang, sometimes being a good supporting role is a necessary job to be a good boss, such as right now.

Not to mention anything else, the investment of this 100 million yuan crew has stimulated the industry and people in the entire film industry, and Shen Zhenghui's specific plans and requirements have been arranged in the way of the meeting. The whole film industry is moving.

Bayi Factory has all kinds of existing military uniforms, but Shen Zhenghui is too old, so he has to redo it, and redoing it is the same as in history, and it is best to make it by hand, which can make the props department of Bayi Factory busy, because not only clothes, but also rifles, pistols, cannons, tanks, cars, etc., all of which require to be prepared in accordance with historical requirements, Shen Zhenghui nitpicks and asks actors to wear them in accordance with historical requirements from the inside out, including underwear. A group of people scolded the director behind his back. On the other hand. Make money and make money softly, and for many years, the work has not started so violently, and the department that was originally eating and waiting for death suddenly seemed to be rejuvenated, and tried to meet the various unreliable suggestions of Shen Zhenghui.

Months of lead time are needed, not just props. It also includes a specially established pyrotechnics department. For this reason, Bayi Factory specially applied for the help of professional engineers transferred from the army. After all, Shen Zhenghui's request even felt mysterious to veteran war filmmakers, and in addition, the young actors who had already settled down also began to receive military training. According to Shen Zhenghui, everyone must have the appearance of a soldier of that era before the official shooting, so veterans who participated in the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were specially found to do on-site guidance.

The relationship between the army is not difficult to get through, and the old cadres are very enthusiastic about giving full play to their residual heat, and at first everyone thought that this was some kind of organizational welfare, and it was regarded as a tourist vacation. After hearing the whole shooting intention from the director and assistant director, the enthusiasm and ideas of the old cadres came up. Shen Zhenghui invited more than a dozen veterans, basically each of whom can be responsible for an actor, impart their ideas and experiences, and at the script discussion meeting and plot discussion meeting, the old men also have ideas, and they have changed their ways to stuff their experiences into the script. Sun Daoling, the actor, acted as the leader of the advisory group and was responsible for the work of the entire advisory group. The script was changed three times in just two months, and it was revised more than a dozen times.

It turns out that Director Feng's intention to indirectly discredit TG in the script has been revised, and the theme is more lofty. The theme of the false rallying cry to fool the soldiers to fight to the death has long been abandoned, and the self-redemption of Gu Zidi's ideology has become a new theme, how a warrior grows up, no, it should be said that many soldiers grow up, from an ordinary peasant, to a qualified warrior, and the self-realization that he has contributed to the country, is the theme worthy of sublimation.

After several meetings, when all parties regarded this film as their own career, when the structure of the whole film gradually took shape in trivial meetings, discussions and quarrels, and the actor's feeling was also found in the character excavation bit by bit, everyone finally realized the meaning of this film and its artistry.

Of course, these are still invisible, and when the film is not specifically filmed, any possible superiority cannot represent the superiority of xiàn. However, in this whole process, the team's thinking is unified, although there are still some contradictions between each other's ideas, Shen Zhenghui's assistant director has never been able to understand Shen Zhenghui's way of spending money, and the veterans who really resisted US aggression and aided Korea don't really look down on the sissy-like acting skills performed by the actors, but when everyone has a unified understanding of the general direction, the whole process of film preparation has been sharply accelerated, originally Shen Zhenghui wanted to shoot it after the year, but seeing that everyone's love is getting better and better, All kinds of preparations are very smooth, and it is almost impossible to wait for the Chinese New Year to start up.

However, for Chinese, the New Year's Eve is still a problem, and being with relatives and family during the New Year is already a kind of consensus, even if the actors themselves can overcome this, but the other supporting facilities of the crew, the local service industry does not necessarily follow the call of the crew - such as restaurants, etc. However, Bayi Factory said that it can contact the army for help when necessary, so as to ensure that there is no problem with filming during the Chinese New Year.

Aren't you chasing ducks to the shelves? Shen Zhenghui thought to himself.

Before that, Shen Zhenghui's new film "Black Fist" was finally released, this time, Shen Zhenghui is not the starring role, and he does not have to participate in the publicity work. Although he himself did not arrange specific work, the release of "Black Fist" was well organized, and the Japanese side held a grand premiere, because it is essentially a Hong Kong film, so even if there is a lack of popular Japanese stars to join the film. There are a lot of celebrities who help, especially the female stars who participated in and did not participate in Queens.

Queens's popular group, Wondergirls, showed off their famous songs at the premiere, which triggered a movie-watching boom, but it doesn't matter if the premiere is popular, because they are basically people who are invited, and they have to be successful at the box office next. Many people in the Japanese entertainment industry said that they were not optimistic about this Hong Kong film that only added the Japanese, and Yugari Oshima played an important Japanese supporting role. Not many people know each other in Japan at all. Therefore, many people think that the publicity of Kasuga is very successful because it has predicted that the box office will not be weak. So I had to increase the choice of publicity.

Domestic publicity, Shen Zhenghui barely showed up at the premiere in Pingjing, Wu Jin's baby face doesn't look like he can fight no matter how you look at it, especially since he still has a smile on his face. After Shen Zhenghui appeared. The topics of reporters are basically for the new film. For promotional purposes. The promotion of "Assembly Number" has not stopped, including all kinds of trivial things of the crew, hype and so on. There are even veterans who reprimanded the actors in the crew to cry gossip, which is also a method learned from the future, the purpose is to maintain everyone's attention and hang up the appetite, of course, if the film is a bad movie, it will be scolded at that time.

Shen Zhenghui continued to hang his appetite at the premiere of "Black Fist", and he didn't say a word about the new film, just about "Black Fist" itself, in terms of topic, this Chinese, Japanese, and Thai co-produced film is also very topical, which is more powerful, Chinese kung fu, Japanese kung fu, and Muay Thai is also one of the topics of hype in this film. However, the film market in Chinese mainland has always been a little hot, and the attendance rate throughout the year is not high, it is worth mentioning that the benefits given to employees by Zhongsheng Express and Shengtong Logistics are movie tickets for "Black Fist", at least in the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang area, causing a certain movie popularity.

Hong Kong's propaganda is much more powerful, Daniel Wu has become the main force of publicity, and Jack Cheng has also come to help his younger brother, which has brought a star of one vote, but Jack's movie is not very good at the box office this year, so it is impossible to say what the final result will be, but it still caused a momentum of publicity, and the reporter who took the money naturally did not forget to write a soft article touting how the film shows the fine tradition of Hong Kong action movies, if the quality of the film is high and the reputation is good, with publicity, the box office will definitely not be bad.

And the lack of publicity at the Thai box office can only be described as hot.

The blockbuster with an investment of 10 million US dollars, with the participation of Thai actors, each of these two points has inspired the Thai people's enthusiasm for watching movies.

South Korea and Taiwan were a step slower this time around, but the unexpected U.S. was able to release them simultaneously, and although perhaps Colombia had abandoned the Christmas slot or they had other intentions, the Hong Kong-style action movie was released on a small scale and sparked the interest of a specific group of fans, as for how much it grossed at the box office, God knows. Colombia is willing to use this film as a test to see if Hollywood accepts the style of Shen Zhenghui as a film director, after all, the style of this film is completely different from "Wind Forest High School".

Shen Zhenghui gave the crew a rare vacation and invited them to watch the movie, although he was very concerned about the box office of his movie, but Shen Zhenghui knew that as soon as he started filming, he might have to put his mind on the new movie wholeheartedly. He can't let his last film affect his film.

Wang Anping also appeared at the premiere, she sat next to Shen Zhenghui, and in the joking words, "I issued this movie ticket in every branch." ”

"Thank you so much." Shen Zhenghui replied, "I forgot to let my animation and comic company employees go to the movies. ”

"Why did you choose to release it at this time?" Wang Anping was a little puzzled, "It won't affect you to shoot this drama, right?" ”

"The investment in the release of this film is 10 million US dollars, and the investment in this drama that is being filmed is 100 million yuan, and now it has spent more than 20 million yuan, what do you think?"

"Let's hope it's a box office success!" Wang Anping replied.

"The box office of this film is actually not expected to be domestic, but if the domestic box office is good, it is also something worth celebrating." Shen Zhenghui replied.

The story screening began.

Overall, "Black Fist" itself is still a very interesting story, although various peculiar backgrounds are buried deep as the reason for the sequel, but it still does not hinder the audience's understanding of the entire plot. Although the impact of this kind of black gambling on money laundering and economic aspects is somewhat exaggerated, it is logically speaking. The whole story is still self-consistent.

Although from the story, the whole story is still a bit old-fashioned, the state staff undercover underworld, have to rely on their own skills to fight black boxing to cover up their identities and various settings, there are exaggerated elements in it, and people with brains will not take this story as reality. But as an action movie, its most successful thing is always the tension of the plot and the logical action fights.

I have to say that the tragic killing of various girls arranged from beginning to end sets the tone for the whole film, so the rhythm of the whole film is particularly tense and attractive, and the fist-to-flesh fighting style and the emphasis on strength and speed are used to seeing Jack Cheng's funny. Jett Lee's dashing man is a shock of novelty. Shen Zhenghui couldn't help but think of the videos of several supporting actors of golden action movies edited on the Internet in the future. In the film, the supporting characters of the opposite sides are not inferior to the protagonists, relying on the strength and agility of the people they express.

During the whole process, Wang Anping, who originally wanted to talk to Shen Zhenghui, was attracted by the plot and fights, and the whole theater was the same, and the audience's collective emotional reactions sounded from time to time. In particular, the death of several supporting characters. In exchange for a crowd of sighs and angry scolding from a somewhat depressed audience.

For action movies. Death has to have power, and there are characters who are rendered and foiled, and they die because of the conflict of the plot. This should be a very exciting thing for the audience, so it must be handled especially well, and you can't make jokes that can't die for half a day. Shen Zhenghui omitted all the elements of showmanship in the whole film, and used real and cruel shots to deal with the surface of death, and sure enough, everyone wanted to pee. Even Shen Zhenghui himself couldn't help but be attracted when he watched this work in the theater, and at the same time he still had to sigh, and a few shots were cut.

As a result, audiences in Hong Kong, Japan, and even Thailand were stimulated by more shots than mainland audiences.

The Thai boxer who was killed got up again, revealing that he was faking his death, and when Shen Zhenghui smiled and pointed a gun at the black boxing organization and the person in charge, everyone felt surprised by the plot at the same time, but also felt a certain kind of happiness.

At this time, the fighting action was enough, so Shen Zhenghui shot to make an end to the whole plot.

But at the same time, more questions are also buried in the hearts of the audience, what is the relationship between Shen Zhenghui and the Thais, the Thais obviously betrayed the person in charge, why is this?

These are the lines of the second part, if the results of the first part are enough to support the second part.

When Wu Jin said goodbye to Shen Zhenghui like a mummy, the story was over, but in the end, Shen Zhenghui's smile made everyone feel that the story was still a little unfinished. At this time, the lights came on, and almost everyone who stepped forward to shake hands with Shen Zhenghui congratulated him, everyone felt that this movie was good, and at the same time had a hunch that the results of this movie would be good. Shen Zhenghui accepted everyone's compliments, and the actors under Shen Zhenghui who watched the movie already looked at Shen Zhenghui with adoring eyes, these people all grew up watching Jack Cheng and Jet Lee, although most of them were from professional backgrounds, but they did not look down on action movies.

The old consultants don't like this kind of action movie very much, but there are also responsible old consultants who also make a special trip to watch the movie in order to see Shen Zhenghui's level. Sun Daoling is such a person, Shen Zhenghui took the initiative to shake hands with Sun Lao and asked him what he thought.

"I don't like this kind of film very much, and I don't understand it very well." Sun Lao pondered for a moment, "But your grasp of the rhythm of the story and the grasp of the camera is good, I now have a general idea of your thoughts, it seems that you want to work the scene and the picture, it seems that there should be no problem to achieve the level you said." ”

Shen Zhenghui expressed his surprise at Sun Lao's comprehension ability, and at the same time expressed deep admiration for the skills of the older generation.

The older generation of war film artists have already filmed to a very high level, and if they want to surpass, they can only work the subject matter and picture. Shen Zhenghui knows that the success of "Assembly" and "Bright Sword" lies in the fact that they are stories that have never been heard before, and the characters are unfamiliar, which makes people feel new and intimate at the same time.

And the big scene and the big production zuò are the guarantee of the picture.

The first half of "Avatar" seemed extremely dull to Shen Zhenghui, but when it came to the last battle, it was exciting to watch, and I felt that it was worth returning to the ticket price.

Shen Zhenghui's whole idea is actually very simple, that's it. He also has confidence in himself and the box office. In a sense, Director Zhang, Director Chen, and Director Feng are the pioneers who stepped out of the road, Shen Zhenghui actually stood on their shoulders and saw farther, and Shen Zhenghui naturally did not take the wrong road they took, and their correct ideas were naturally borrowed by Shen Zhenghui unceremoniously, which may make them take a little less detours.

Shen Zhenghui decided to start filming on December 26, so that the whole progress could be controlled, although he had made up his mind to put his mind on the new film, but Fukuda Mitsumi still called Shen Zhenghui in person to report the box office news of "Black Fist".

In the first week of its release, the box office exceeded 1.2 billion yen, which can only be regarded as average, but according to this box office calculation, the box office in Japan alone is enough to recover the cost when the painting is completed. The box office results of Hong Kong and Thailand have also come out, the Hong Kong box office has exceeded 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and Thailand actually has a box office of 500,000 US dollars, and Tony Jia has become a top star in Thailand.

The box office statistics of the mainland have not yet come out, but Shen Zhenghui soon saw the mainland box office of "Black Fist" in the newspaper, and the box office in the first week added up to more than 20 million yuan - it is difficult to say how many of them are sponsored by relevant units. But this achievement is enough to make Shen Zhenghui full of confidence in the new film. (To be continued......)