30,000 yuan is pitifully small for making a movie. In Hong Kong, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a small-budget movie, such as Cheng Long's "Junior Brother Goes Out" exceeded 10 million. What can be auctioned for 30,000 yuan? Yao Huang thought about the small-budget movies he had seen in his previous life, and finally chose the movie "Home Alone". Home Alone is the best American comedy ever made, and the most successful case of a big return on a small investment, and is the ninth grossing film in American film history. The plot of "Home Alone" is simple, and there are not many actors, relying on the clever and cute children and the funny performances of the two stupid thieves to bring infinite happiness to the audience and make a big profit at the box office. Yao Huang not only wrote the script, but also drew many sub-scenes on it. Yao Feng is too young after all, and Yao Huang doesn't trust his directing skills too much. Yao Huang doesn't know how to direct, but she has seen the original movie and draws sub-shots according to the pictures in the movie, even people who don't understand the director can make the movie. In this regard, Yao Feng is both admired and ashamed, he has studied with his father for so many years, and he can't keep up with his sister's comprehension of reading the camera. Yao Feng made up his mind to work harder to learn directing skills.

Yao Feng started to prepare for filming after getting the script, fortunately, "Home Alone" is a period drama, and there is no need for a studio, just find an independent house; The shooting tools were rented on Li's TV, and for Yao's father's sake, Li's rent was not expensive. The most troublesome thing is to find actors, one of the stupid thieves is played by Guang Zai, he was Yao Feng's assistant, but the crew is not enough, everyone has to do at least a few people's work, Guang Zai is already interested in acting, so Mao recommended himself to become one of the stupid thieves. Another dumb thief is the future king of comedy. Zhou Xingchi, who was just eighteen years old. Yao Huang accompanied his eldest brother to Li's to rent equipment. I was lucky to find Zhou Xingchi, who had just joined Li's as a special actor. So they loaned him out together.

The protagonist is the most difficult to find, Yao Huang accompanied Yao Feng to find people from primary school to primary school, but still did not find their ideal child.

"Sister, look at that little boy, he looks so clever and cute, he is very suitable to be our little protagonist!" Yao Feng suddenly pointed to a little boy across the road and said to Yao Huang. Without waiting for Yao Huang to react, he had already rushed to the opposite road. Yao Huang ran after him, but was blocked on the side of the road by the passing car. By the time she crossed the street and came to Yao Feng, Yao Feng had already started chatting with the child's mother.

Yao Huang's eyes fell on the child, Yao Feng's vision was really good, this was a cute and clever child, about five or six years old.

"Sister, this kid's name is Zhong Hanliang, I just invited him to be our little protagonist, and Mrs. Zhong has agreed."

Zhong Hanliang? I'm going, no wonder it's so familiar! Isn't this the little sun, one of the four beauties at the end of the world? Yao Huang liked his life chase the most in his previous life.

"Hello. Children! Yao Huang felt that he was about to become a strange aunt, and looked at Zhong Hanliang's chubby little face. Would love to pinch it twice with my hands.

"Hello, pretty sister!"

Yao Huang is happy, the child's mouth is so sweet.

"Do you want to act?"

"What is acting, is it fun?"

"Acting is to let you play another person, and then this brother will help you shoot it, and everyone will be able to see you in the cinema."

"Watching a movie? I like it! I'm going to act! ”

got the little protagonist, and "Home Alone" officially started filming. Zhong Hanliang is very smart, tell him once, he knows how to act, and the number of NGs is even less than that of adults. The whole shooting plan went very smoothly, and it took less than half a month to complete the shooting.

Once the film is made, it's a matter of screening. In Hong Kong in the 80s, three major cinema chains carved up the Hong Kong film market: the cinema chain controlled by Shaw Brothers Film Company, the cinema chain of Golden Harvest Company, the Lianhua line and the Golden Princess cinema line. The Golden Princess Cinema Line has just been established and has canceled the independent film screening package system, which is the best choice for independent films, but unfortunately the Yao family has no way in the film industry, and Yao Feng doesn't know how to let the movie be screened. In the end, it was McDonald Xiong who helped and introduced Yao Feng to Chen Rongmei, a partner of the Golden Princess Cinema Line, so that "Home Alone" could be released during the summer vacation.

The Golden Princess Cinema Line only gave "Home Alone" five theaters to screen it, because there was no hype, the attendance rate on the first day was only five floors, and the box office income was only 60,000. Just when Yao Feng was disappointed, and when the movie was going to hit the street in the future, the attendance rate of the next day reached eight floors, and the box office income was 100,000. Next, the screening of "Home Alone" was full, and the box office revenue continued to rise. Many people came after hearing people who had seen it tell them that the movie was good, and the movie did not disappoint them, and they laughed almost from the beginning to the end. The warmth between the child and the mother in the movie is also very touching, and it is a film suitable for all ages, and most of the family watches the movie together. As more and more people watched the movie, there was a long queue outside the movie theater. The Golden Princess Cinema Line saw the gold-absorbing power of "Home Alone", and quickly increased the number of screenings, from five to ten, but it still couldn't satisfy the moviegoers, and finally increased to eighteen to accommodate these many audiences.

"Big brother, don't walk around, it makes me dizzy."

"Sister, I'm worried! What if the box office is not good? Yao Feng was worried.

"Look at the long queue in front of the cinema! There must be a lot of box office! Yao Huang stuffed the "Oriental Daily" in his hand to Yao Feng, "You see that the newspapers are full of reports praising "Home Alone", everyone likes "Home Alone" very much! ”

"But my heart just can't settle down...... because I care too much, so I'm worried, "Home Alone" is Yao Feng's first film directed, and it is the first step for him to realize his dream.

The phone rang, and Yao Feng immediately rushed over to pick up the receiver.

"Hey...... Yes, yes...... Be...... Xie Lu Xie. Yao Feng hung up the phone, turned around and shouted to Yao Huang excitedly, "Sister, Boss Chen called and said that the box office of "Home Alone" was 1.56 million in the first week! ”

"Very good, congratulations, brother!" The cost of 30,000 yuan has been more than 1 million, which seems to others to be a big success, but in Yao Huang's eyes, it is just the beginning, the reputation of "Home Alone" has just spread, and the box office is destined to rise sharply. You must know that in the original world, "Home Alone" has earned hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, and now it is screened ten years in advance, and it should not be difficult for people in this era to get tens of millions of box office with novel ideas and funny funny techniques, right? (To be continued......)