An ambitious and intelligent man

Lin Xiaozhi nodded secretly in his heart, no wonder he can win the Academy Award for Best Director after suffering in the future

After a cursory look at some of the settings at the beginning of the script and a fight scene, he felt that there were some differences between Li Lianjie's version of "Black Man" in his memory.

The reason why he didn't suspect that these were two completely different scripts from the "Black Man" in his memory was because the script to the movie was not immutable, and sometimes a good script might not necessarily make a good movie, because although the script was good, the investment was too high for the filming party to accept, so it was possible to artificially reduce some scenes and scale. This is the case with "Resident Evil", which he is currently filming, and the official novel version is undoubtedly more suitable for being made into a movie, and once it can be made, it will definitely be a masterpiece that shocks the world. However, the special effects are too demanding, and the investment is far more than the version he is shooting now, several times or even more than ten times, which is not acceptable to him and Huanya, so he had to make some cuts, so Lin Xiaozhi did not doubt it when he first saw this script.

Although Lin Xiaozhi has not seen the comic version of "Black Man", he can't compare it with the script created by Chen Desen, but he still appreciates Chen Desen's words just now.

Indeed, a very important reason why the road of Hong Kong films is getting narrower and narrower is that most filmmakers' imagination is bound by the glory of the past, and it is difficult to complete self-transcendence and explore more new genres beyond the glory of Hong Kong films. For example, the current Hong Kong film industry has entered a strange circle, you shoot witty and funny movies, I will shoot dozens of police and gangster films a year, more than 100 hero films follow the trend, the zombie film boom has passed, and more than a dozen are still filmed every year, and the costume martial arts films are all grace and hatred A year, more than a dozen are released, and the number of videotapes published is several times that of this number......

Filming back and forth, the types are repeated by these ones, and the audience is tired of it. This is also the reason why last year's nonsensical movie that was very different from the traditional witty and funny comedy suddenly swept the Hong Kong film box office market and became the biggest individual winner in the Hong Kong film industry last year. Although Meiman has a lot of surprises with Hong Kong people in terms of values and aesthetic views, no one can deny that Meiman is successful. Otherwise, how could "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" sweep the entire world, with a shooting cost of more than 10 million US dollars, and sweep the box office ten times its investment in the world? And that's not even counting the amount of money it makes in the global videotape market and beyond, and it won't be worse than $3.5 billion in a few years......

"It's good that you can think so, if Hong Kong, a small land, wants to become the film capital, it is definitely not enough to rely on our traditional Chinese culture alone, but also to absorb the excellent culture from Europe, America and even Asian countries. Okay, let's leave the script with me first, I will read the script carefully in a few days, if there is no major problem with the script, the company will consider starting filming, and then I wish the director will contact you and let you ...... with the crew for a while."

As the boss of Media Asia, having his sentence is basically finalizing the filming of "Black Man". Chen Desen's eyes suddenly opened when he finished speaking, and his face couldn't hide his joy.

Not to mention that in order to encourage the inspiration of the company's screenwriting team, Lin Xiaozhi once promised to give box office dividends to reward all members of the team involved in the creation of the script. Just Lin Xiaozhi mentioned that he would stay with the crew for a while, which was enough to make him ecstatic.

"It's good, Lin Dong. I obeyed the company's arrangement...... "Chen Desen wanted to be cheeky and ask the company to be able to follow the crew, and even brewed a rhetoric before coming, wanting to move out all the experiences he had spent in several crews in the past few years." Unexpectedly, Lin Xiaozhi actually took the initiative to mention it. Joining the crew as an editor not only means that he may get a good salary, but also can learn shooting skills, and Lin Xiaozhi's move also more or less hints that the company may focus on cultivating him in the future, no wonder he is so happy.

Seeing Chen Desen leave Lin Xiaozhi's office, it wasn't until the footsteps were far away that Zhu Zhishan frowned and said, "Boss, does this script called "Black Hero" need to invest thirty or fifty million?" ”

He had read the script before, and although he thought it was good, he didn't think he had to invest 350 million Hong Kong dollars in filming. You must know that a few years ago, 30 million yuan in Hong Kong was a standard blockbuster investment, and Chen Desen just said that this could only be reluctantly filmed, which made him feel a little disliked.

"What, do you think Chen Desen is a bit exaggerated?" In the end, he followed his old team, for Zhu Zhishan, who he pulled up with one hand, Lin Xiaozhi knew his temperament very well, and he was a little unhappy when he heard his words, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he asked with a smile.

Seeing him nodding, Lin Xiaozhi lowered his head and picked up the script of "Black Man" that he had just put down, and said while reading: "I haven't finished reading the script yet, but judging from the character design and background, it is indeed a good American comic-style urban hero film." This kind of film has certain requirements for post-production and special effects, and the larger the investment scale, the better the results. So Chen Desen is not a random report......"

In my memory, Li Lianjie's version of "Black Hero" invested less than 40 million Hong Kong dollars, of which Li Lianjie's own salary alone was as high as more than 14 million, so "Black Hero" almost didn't invite any big stars to partner with him, and Liu Qingyun and Huang Qiusheng, who had a salary of less than 3 million, are the biggest stars. He has watched this version several times, after all, the kung fu emperor Li Lianjie is one of the few Chinese actors who have entered Hollywood, and many of his movies have been used as teaching materials in China.

Speaking from the heart, "Black Man" has a lot of shortcomings. When filming started in 96, Li Lianjie had become a Chinese kung fu superstar, the salary was too high, which seriously increased the overall investment in the film, the investment of the film was less than 40 million Hong Kong dollars, and Li Lianjie's salary alone accounted for more than one-third, how could there be money to do any special effects and scenes, and the heroine of the movie Mok Wenwei was a mistake, vases and powerful actresses can each attract popularity for the movie with their faces and acting skills, but Karen Mok is not beautiful and her acting skills are not good, and the heroine has not yet played the second female Ye Fanghua left a deep impression on the audience, which is a failure in itself.

The plot of "Black Man" is not full enough, the scene in the decisive battle is too small, and the special effects in it are so bad that there is nothing to say, Li Lianjie's fight scenes and Liu Qingyun's acting skills are probably the only highlights of this movie. If he remembers correctly, the film only had an embarrassing 13 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office in Hong Kong, and if it hadn't sold more than $10 million at the box office in the United States, it would have made a fortune by distributing videotapes in Europe and the United States, and it would not have been able to recoup the investment.

However, if now in 9l, Lin Xiaozhi and his Huanya are ready to start filming this movie, then the result is obviously completely different.

Li Lianjie was just invited back from the United States by Xu Ke at the beginning of the year, and Xu Ke gave him only 600,000 Hong Kong dollars when filming "Huang Feihong". If Huanya invites Li Lianjie to shoot "Black Man" now, he will be able to take him down without a million. When the time comes, I will throw tens of millions of dollars to invite a group of powerful stars in Hong Kong's first and second tiers, invite a few glamorous vases to sell their faces, and the cast alone can exceed the 96 version of a few streets.

And they have special effects, and Media Asia also has its own distribution channels in Europe and the United States, so if you really have to work hard, even if you smash 40 or 50 million Hong Kong dollars, it is almost impossible to lose money.

Thinking about it this way, when it took a day to read the script of "Black Man" and found that there were only a few places that he needed to help revise, Lin Xiaozhi had already decided that "Black Man" could be filmed.

“…… So you want me to take the helm and shoot this film? ”

Xu Ke took the script, his eyes only lingered on the word "Black Man" on the document bag, and he asked in surprise.