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After the filming of "Farewell My Concubine" officially started, Xu Kai showed everyone that he not only knows how to make commercial films, but also makes literary films.

But—

Making this kind of literary film is not only a test of Xu Kai's directing ability, but also the performance of the actors and the level of other staff members also affect the quality of the film.

Fortunately, Xu Kai found great actors, especially the first protagonist Zhang Chen, who really gave Xu Kai too many surprises.

Zhang Chen is an extremely hard-working person, before the filming of "Farewell My Concubine" started, he had already been set as the protagonist, and he went to Kyoto to live for several months, during which he has been concentrating on learning drama.

Cheng Dieyi, played by Zhang Chen in the film, twists his figure, speaks delicately, laughs sourly, and moves to get rid of a well-trained old actor. The crew admired Zhang Chen's acting skills very much, and joked in private: "You are really a goblin." ”

Dieyi quit smoking, and Xu Kai said it was okay after filming for the first time. But Zhang Chen was not satisfied and wanted to reshoot it. Later, after shooting several times in a row, Zhang Chen smashed the glass too hard and cut off a piece of flesh from his finger. Everyone was very nervous, Zhang Chen smiled and said it didn't matter, this time it was finally filmed.

When filming, if you catch up with the footsteps, arms, legs and other shots, Zhang Chen insists on not inviting a stand-in - he believes that every part of the body is concentric and has feelings, and local shots are also some kind of emotion.

Zhang Chen was so involved in the play that the stuntman Diao Li prepared for him by Xu Kai never came in handy.

Zhu Bing also worked extremely hard.

Zhu Bing has never played this kind of prostitute in that special period.

Therefore, when she first joined the crew, Zhu Bing never found the feeling of playing Juxian, even if Xu Kai opened a lot of small stoves for her in private, it was to no avail.

Later, in order to support Zhu Bing, Xu Kai found Zhu Bing a large number of books that recorded the prostitutes of that special period.

There is also a little story here, that is, when filming the scene where Juxian and Duan Xiaolou hugged each other, Zhu Bing didn't let others touch her, and Xu Kai didn't want other men to touch his woman, so Xu Kai, who was about the same size as Zhang Yi, could only be used as a stand-in for Zhang Yi, and Zhang Yi hugged all of them as Zhu Bing's stand-ins.

This may be the only place where Zhu Bing is not dedicated during the filming of "Farewell My Concubine".

Zhang Yi is also very hard, there is a section in the play where Duan Xiaolou played by him is already an adult, but because of the prostitution gambling angered the master, he still obediently lies on the bench like when he was young, and lets the master pump his buttocks.

In this scene, Zhang Yi didn't mention the matter of finding a substitute at all, but consciously completed it himself.

Uncle Ge's performance is also above the level.

- The only pity is that Uncle Ge is better at acting in comedy, and such a drama somewhat limits his talent for him.

As for the supporting roles in "Farewell My Concubine", under Xu Kai's strict requirements, their performances are also extremely outstanding, even if they only have one or two lines and one or two shots.

In a word, Xu Kai's version of "Farewell My Concubine" is also a pinnacle collision of Chinese filmmakers.

"Farewell My Concubine" started filming at the end of June, and it was not completed until nearly October, which lasted more than three months and nearly 100 days.

For "Fast Gunman" Xu Kai, it is the first time to make a movie for such a long time.

Moreover, during this time, Xu Kai almost pushed away all other things and concentrated on filming "Farewell My Concubine".

It can be seen how much thought Xu Kai put into "Farewell My Concubine".

After the movie was filmed, Xu Kai did not rush to edit and do post-production work, but hurriedly opened the movie "Detective Chinatown 2".

There are actually many reasons why Xu Kai did half of "Farewell My Concubine" and suddenly put it down and went to "Detective Chinatown 2".

First of all, the first reason is that because "Farewell My Concubine" involves the history of that special period, the relevant departments suddenly imposed a complete ban on "Farewell My Concubine", and even banned publicity.

This not only caught Xu Kai, who was preparing to release "Farewell My Concubine" during this year's Chinese New Year, but also caught the distributors of "Farewell My Concubine" by Aina, Brother Company and other joint distribution companies, as well as major theaters.

You must know that because "Farewell My Concubine" is the highest-grossing director Xu Kai's film work, even if it is just a literary film, it has also won the honor of co-screening across the board.

In other words, the majority of film companies have left the best schedule for "Farewell My Concubine", and they are all waiting for "Farewell My Concubine" to land in this year's Chinese New Year.

In this way, the ticket jump of "Farewell My Concubine" will definitely bring huge losses to these film companies, after all, not everyone has such a strong box office appeal as Xu Kai, and can resist the box office market of the largest period of the Chinese New Year.

So those film companies came to Xu Kai one after another and said: "Master Qing, it's wrong, we left the best schedule for you, "Farewell My Concubine" can't be released, so what can we do?" ”

In the business of movies, you must not engage in high and low music, and you have to rely on everyone to support it.

You must know that not all good movies can sell high box office - without the support of the majority of film companies in terms of film scheduling, no matter how well the movie is made, it will be difficult to break out of the encirclement and complete a gorgeous box office counterattack.

Of course, at Xu Kai's height, there are people who want to make money from Xu Kai, and he can also ignore the ideas of these film companies.

But if everyone gets along well, it's better than meeting each other and separating from each other, right?

Harmony is the only way to make money.

Moreover, in the final analysis, it was Xu Kai's "Farewell My Concubine" that was too sensitive, which caused such an unexpected situation.

Therefore, Xu Kai is duty-bound.

So Xu Kai said to the filmmakers very responsibly: "Don't worry, more than a month is enough time for me to make another movie, huh...... If it really doesn't work, I'll shoot "Detective Chinatown 2". ”

As soon as they heard that Xu Kai was willing to replace "Farewell My Concubine", a literary film that might hit the streets, with "Detective Chinatown 2", which would definitely be a big hit, those filmmakers immediately turned sad into joy, and then they said to Xu Kai: "Master Qing, it would be great if you could go to "Detective Chinatown 2" to resolve this crisis, so let's discuss the same and give you 10% of the film schedule, how about it?" ”

To be honest, the main reason why these film companies cooperate so happily with Xu Kai is because Xu Kai is really powerful, and he can make big sales in the film department, not to mention, fast, and prolific, and he can make three box office blockbusters every year, and this is not counting the movies starring and starring Xu Kai.

In addition, Xu Kai is also responsible, and after the accident, he is really resistant and responsible.

To put it bluntly, they can rest assured that they will cooperate with Xu Kai.

It is precisely because of this that these film dealers who made a lot of money with Xu Kai willingly called Xu Kai "Qingye" and offered Xu Kai as the God of Wealth.

As for "Farewell My Concubine" that can't be released at the moment, Xu Kai is actually not too worried, because this kind of thing also happened in the previous life, and later "Farewell My Concubine" won the Palme d'Or in Cannes and was allowed to be released.

Xu Kai is also ready to take this route.

Taking a step back, even if "Farewell My Concubine" can't be released in China, if it can win some foreign awards, it will definitely make Xu Kai make a lot of money.

In addition to making up for the gap caused by the jump in "Farewell My Concubine", Xu Kai actually launched "Detective Chinatown 2" for several reasons:

The first reason is that Xingyun Express and Xu's Capital, which are developing faster and faster, are like a bottomless pit of dissatisfaction, and there must be funds to continue to inject into it, so Xu Kai has to make money from the film market.

The second reason is that Xu Kai's recent work has changed a lot, which is just right for him to shoot "Detective Chinatown 2".

Because "Manhunt 3" sold well at the overseas box office, Lin Da and Tang Jiping finally made up their minds to join Xu Kai to fight in Hollywood and conquer the world.

Of course, this is also because Xu Kai won the runner-up of the famous sports variety show "Titan Warriors" in the beautiful country.

(Actually, with Xu Kai's strength, he will definitely be able to win the championship, but this kind of competition, you know, it is definitely impossible for Xu Kai, a yellow-skinned foreigner, to win the championship, so under the "discussion" and hint of the organizer, Xu Kai cooperated very well to "make a mistake" at the critical moment of the finals, won the runner-up, and gave the championship to a white man).

- Although Xu Kai only won one runner-up, as long as he is not a fool, he can definitely see that Xu Kai's strength is n times stronger than that so-called champion, Xu Kai lost, not in strength, but in integrity, which also made Xu Kai get a lot of sympathy points.

What's more, the five songs from Hsu's album "Thriller" ("Thriller," "HotelCalifornia," "RightHereWaiting," "Unedmelody," and "TheSoundofSilence") have made waves in the beautiful country, and these songs are now played everywhere in the beautiful country.

That's right.

Xu Kai became popular in the beautiful country and even in the world.

Whether it is Lin Da, Tang Jiping, including Xu Kai, they all feel that the time is ripe for Xu Kai to conquer Hollywood and conquer the world.

So Xu Kai, together with Lin Da and Tang Jiping, planned a new movie - "Rush Hour".

In order for Xu Kai to be a hit in Hollywood and around the world, Tang Jiping suggested that "Rush Hour" be co-produced by Happy Maizi, Daping Film Company (Lin Da and Tang Jiping's film company) and New Line Film Company.

New Line Film Company is an independent production and distribution company in a beautiful country that was established very early, and it originally distributed low-budget European and local horror films to American universities.

Back in the 90s, New Line Films bought Chinese-made films for distribution and were very successful, and then it became an independent film distribution company with wide influence.

Later, New Line was acquired by the movie giant Warner, and Turner took control of Time Warner, so New Line was immediately merged into the Time Warner Group.

However, Shay, the former president of New Line, still held a majority stake in New Line when it was acquired by Turner, and enjoyed the company's independent management rights.

Therefore, although the new line also belongs to the Time Warner Group, its film business is not related to other film companies within the group.

Because of the large amount of money made by working with the Chinese, New Line Film Company is one of the few film companies in Hollywood that is willing to cooperate with the Chinese.

And the new line film company has the huge resources and channels of the film giant Warner.

On the whole, New Line Film Company is undoubtedly Xu Kai's best partner.

Moreover, the most rare thing is that the new line film company has also noticed Xu Kai, a rising international superstar who has swept the film market in China, so it is very willing to cooperate with Xu Kai and others.

It can be said that several parties hit it off.

As a result, the three parties each bear one-third of the production cost of "Rush Hour" to produce "Rush Hour", and each also accounts for one-third of the shares of "Rush Hour".

In addition, New Line Films will also serve as the distributor of "Rush Hour".

By the way, after the three parties discussed, Xu Kai's salary was set at 15 million beautiful gold, Linda's director's salary was 5 million beautiful gold, and the director Bright who was recommended by New Line Film Company and co-directed by Linda. Ratner's salary is also 15 million beautiful gold, action director Tang Jiping's salary is only 1 million beautiful gold, and Chris Tucker, who plays Xu Kai's partner Carter, is a famous master of language humor in Hollywood, and his salary is also 15 million beautiful gold.

plus the salaries of other supporting roles.

The total salary of "Rush Hour" is as high as more than 70 million beautiful gold, which is converted into Chinese dollars, nearly more than 500 million.

Coupled with other expenses, the production cost of "Rush Hour" must exceed 130 million beautiful gold, nearly one billion Chinese dollars in production costs.

This is a proper blockbuster.

Moreover, during this time, Xu Kai not only had to shoot "Rush Hour", but also "The Grandmaster: The Lion of the Western Regions".

- Yuan Xiaoliang and Xu Wenguang also fell in love with Xu Kai's influence in the beautiful country and the world, and also planned to join Xu Kai to go to the beautiful country to break through, so Yuan Xiaoliang and Xu Wenguang planned this "Grandmaster 4".

To be honest, Xu Kai is not optimistic about the creativity of Yuan Xiaoliang and Xu Wenguang, because this is similar to the last "Huang Feihong" filmed by Tsui Hark and Jet Li in the previous life, so it should not be very likely to succeed.

But everyone has been friends for so many years, and they have made so much money together, Xu Kai can't stop playing with them just because he is not optimistic about Yuan Xiaoliang and Xu Wenguang's ideas.

On the contrary, although Xu Kai was not very interested, Xu Kai still followed the previous way, did not want to be paid, and invested another 100 million Chinese yuan, accounting for 50% of the producer's shares in "The Grandmaster: The Lion of the Western Regions".

In addition, because Xu Kai became popular in the European and American markets, a director named Claude Binodo from a romantic country approached Xu Kai.

Through repeated communication between the two parties, Xu Kai learned from Yang Xinchun that Claude Binodo bought the autobiography "Lover's First Kiss" by a well-known writer in the romantic country and planned to adapt it into a movie.

The book tells the bleak and touching love story of a girl from a romantic country and a young man from Hua Guo Kuoshao in Annam, so a Chinese actor is needed to play the starring role.

After many comparisons, Claude Binodo chose Xu Kai, who he felt was the most suitable.

Although this story takes place in Annan, Annan is obviously not a suitable place to make a movie.

Claude Binodo then planned to find a place in the beautiful country to shoot this film, so that "The First Kiss of a Lover" could be released in China, North America, and Europe.

Xu Kai, who has filmed too many scenes, also wants to try to make a romantic literary film to see what it feels like.

The key is that this is a good opportunity for Xu Kai to break into the European market.

The key point is that Claude Binodo's chosen heroine is only seventeen-year-old Sophie March, fresh, sweet, and a fascinated French rose, with a pair of clear and melancholy brown-green charming eyes, an extremely delicate face and a slender and sexy body.

So Xu Kai took "The First Kiss of a Lover".

"Rush Hour", "The Grandmaster: The Lion of the Western Regions", and "Lover's First Kiss" will all be filmed in the beautiful country, and Xu Kai's next stage of work will definitely focus on the beautiful country.

In this way, Xu Kai simply filmed "Detective Chinatown 2" in the beautiful country.

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