Looking at each other and smiling, Xu Haofeng and Ding Xiu both had their own ghosts.

Xu Haofeng's picture is Ding Xiu's investment.

As a director, what he lacks most is funds, and he can't do anything without funds, actors can't be hired, and equipment can't be rented.

In fact, before finding Ding Xiu, Xu Haofeng did not find investors, but people did not invest in him.

A director who has only made one drama is not convincing, especially if he is still a director who hits the street box office.

In the eyes of investors, if you want money, you can take your past results, and you don't have to talk about it.

Xu Haofeng, who was asked at the time, said heartbreakingly: "I am a rookie director, where do you get the results, if you give me money, I will have a result." ”

The investor said: "We only look at the results, or you can introduce the cast of Ling, see how many big names there are, and then we can discuss whether we can invest." ”

Xu Haofeng roared: "You have to give me money before I can go to find an actor, give me a thorough number, otherwise where will I find an actor." ”

Investor: "You don't have an actor, how dare we invest in you?" ”

Xu Haofeng: "I need money to hire actors." ”

Investor: "We have to look at the cast before we give money." ”

Xu Haofeng: "WQNMDGB." ”

It's a fucking death cycle.

Investors have to look at the results, but he is a rookie director, and he has directed a play, which was ten years ago, and that drama is still a big upset, and the box office is not ideal.

If you don't have results, people don't invest, but if you don't invest in me, how can I get results?

OK, let's look at the cast next, Xu Haofeng wants to scold his mother in this link, why don't you give me anything, what will I use to impress the actors.

You asked me about the actors, I said Zhou Yunfa, Liu Dehua, Ding Xiu, Li Lianjie, Cheng Long, when the time comes, call people over, can you give the fuck money?

It's not about how much money you give me, how much I do.

If I have 10 million, I will spend 5 million to hire actors, and try to hire the best cost-effective at this stage.

You don't give me money, you don't give promises, I'll talk about the actors at that time, and you're not pulling out a dime here, what should I do?

In fact, Xu Haofeng also understands that the investor does not want to give money, nor does it not fail to inject funds in advance, provided that people have to meddle in the affairs of the crew and intervene in the casting, shooting, post-production and release.

To put it bluntly, it depends on whether the director wants to make money standing or kneeling.

Standing to make money is to have box office results, and you can invite big names to help, in this case, investors don't need to shout, one by one, they rush up to invest money.

Kneeling to make money means that your director is just a worker, just be responsible for shooting, and leave the rest to the capital to operate, including what actors to invite, how to shoot, and how to sign contracts with actors.

After the box office results are good, send a red envelope to your director, everyone is happy, you have completed the artistic dream of shooting, and people have also completed the purpose of making money.

But Xu Haofeng didn't want to make money on his knees.

That's why investors are pressing step by step, asking him for box office results, asking him for the cast, but he can't get it, so naturally he will be ridiculed.

In the end, he was forced to be helpless, and ran to find Ding Xiu, but he didn't invite anyone, but fortunately, Ding Xiu invested him a few million, saved a little, and didn't invite big coffees, so he could barely shoot this drama.

After this battle, Xu Haofeng understood the importance of investment, and he would make a bet with Ding Xiu to win the investment in the next drama and hand it over to Ding Xiu.

At that time, he will not make four or five million more movies, and he will have to start with 10 million, and invite a few more coffees.

You stand on the bridge and look at the view, and the people watching the view are watching you from upstairs.

Ding Xiu thinks the same, he needs a good screenwriter.

Qin Dynasty Entertainment still has no shortage of money, and there is no shortage of actors when he is rich, what he lacks is a good script, and a good script needs a good screenwriter.

Look at the movies of the 90s, the scene props are very simple, 90% of the actors have never gone to acting colleges, and they come out to film after three months of training classes.

But it's such a combination that has made movies with a box office of tens of millions.

Take Lin Zhengying's zombie films as an example, many scenes are only one courtyard, and some are even filmed in a hotel or a building, and the framing is not too simple.

After many years, when I take out the old movie again, I still watch it with relish, and it is not outdated at all.

A big reason is that the script is good.

The plot is interesting, the characters are three-dimensional and have personalities, and everyone can laugh when they know it's fake.

What Qin Dynasty Entertainment lacks most now is a good screenwriter.

A good screenwriter is even more important than a good director in Ding Xiu's opinion.

There are still a few embroidered spring knives, and then he wants Xu Haofeng to join in and get a good script out, so this bet must be played.

"Ding Xiu, long time no see."

When Ding Xiu and Xu Haofeng were chatting, Old Man Yu Chenghui walked over with a short gun in his hand.

I haven't seen him for a few years, his white beard has grown again, his hair is gray, and his spirit has dropped sharply, which is completely different from when he first met the crew of Xiaoao Jianghu ten years ago.

"Teacher Yu, I haven't seen you for a long time, your body is still so tough, when will you have time to make two moves?"

"I can't get by, my body is not good, I'm afraid of being less strong, I can't beat you, it's your world now."

Yu Chenghui is modest, unlike before, when she wanted to share a high or low with Ding Xiu as soon as they met.

In fact, he still wants to fight, but he knows his own situation, he majors in swordsmanship, and the more he practices foreign kung fu, the younger and more fierce, and the older he gets, the worse the decline.

It's okay to deal with ordinary people, but it's enough to deal with a master like Ding Xiu.

Ten years ago, he was defeated by Ding Xiu's sword technique, and now Ding Xiu is thirty, he is in the prime of life, he is seventy, and the loess is buried in his chest, and there are ghosts who can fight.

He didn't want Ding Xiu to release the water and let himself make a few moves.

Even if he survives a few moves, it will be a shame for him, so the best result is not to fight.

Ding Xiu said with a smile: "The main thing about practicing martial arts is to strengthen the body, and if you are healthy, everything else is empty......"

In the past, he didn't understand why those who had practiced martial arts for many years said that practicing martial arts was to strengthen their bodies.

When you are old and rich, who still fights and kills, of course, you start to enjoy it.

The other one is really invincible, there is no opponent, and I don't want to fight anymore.

Ding Xiu is in a high place at the moment, and he doesn't make a move easily, usually at most he has fought with two bodyguards, and there is no need to fight with people outside, just like a monkey, performing for the audience.

His martial arts do not need to be recognized by the audience.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Song Yang shouted that he had learned.

In the end, it is a big man, it is different, the people are sophisticated, and he thought that Ding Xiu and Yu Chenghui would inevitably have a dragon and tiger fight when they met.

After all, one is a sword master, and the other is the most capable in the entertainment industry, and there is no one.

One mountain does not tolerate two tigers, there is no first, there is no second, it is normal to see a fight.

As a result, there was no war, not even a little smoke of gunpowder, both sides gave steps, gave face, and chatted happily.

Ding Xiu stayed in the crew for a long time, in addition to chatting with Xu Haofeng and Yu Chenghui, he also pointed out the martial arts performances of the crew actors.

It's the guidance on the bright side.

Well, correct a few movements, and then a bluff is over.

When he was young, he definitely taught them how to hold the knife, how to swing the knife, and how to chop the Qi family's knife.

Now, forget it.

Xu Haofeng's martial arts style is really not flattering, and it looks like a big dancer.

However, he also has a set of his own theories, saying that the martial arts of the old era were like this, there was no internal force, there was no cornices and walls, and some were just skills and some power skills.

He wants to use this movie to restore the real martial arts.

Ding Xiu didn't want to hit him.

In fact, the real master is able to defeat ten with one, especially in the army, the one who plays with spears and halberds is the master.

With a good horse under the crotch and hundreds of people behind him, it is not a joke to be in and out of a camp of thousands of people.

In the evening, he had dinner with Xu Haofeng and drank a meal, and the next day, Ding Xiu returned to Beiping and continued the preparatory work for embroidering spring knives.

In July, Xiuchun Dao held a start-up press conference to announce the cast and makeup photos.

On the poster, Ding Xiu in the C position, wearing a flying fish suit, embroidered spring knife at the waist, flanked by the eldest brother and the third brother, respectively Wang Qianyuan and Song Yang.

Behind her was Liu Sisi, dressed in red, and Nie Yuan, who was standing with a spear.

In addition to young people, the crew also invited old actors to help.

Wanwan actor Kim Shi-jae.

It was not easy to take down this old man.

Jin Shijie is a top-level figure in the performance industry in Wanwan, debuted for 30 years, and has been stationed on the drama stage all year round.

It is easy not to bend over for five buckets of rice.

This time I bent my waist entirely because I had just started a new family last year.

Married a young and beautiful wife.

A well-fed family is not hungry, which is normal for a bachelor, but if he supports himself, he will not starve to death when he enters the factory to make screws, and the restaurant serves dishes and washes dishes.

But with a family it's different.

Don't you eat something good yourself, and don't you let your wife eat it?

Beautiful clothes, cosmetics, bags, lipstick, how lethal these things are to women, everyone knows how lethal they are.

No, it's forcing all the old drama bones to come out to make movies and TV series.

Otherwise, if you act in dramas, it will be difficult to support your family with a salary of thousands of yuan a month.

Jokes are jokes, Ding Xiu didn't mean to mock people, on the contrary, he respected this kind of people very much.

obviously has the ability to make more money, and wants his wife and children to suffer and suffer with him, that is a shame, for the sake of bullshit art.

Let the whole family pay for his art alone, suffer and suffer, is there still a need to insist on this kind of art?

Being able to put down his body and do what he doesn't want to do to support his family is a real man.

Of course, if you can support your family without putting down your body, Ding Xiu also admires it.

Getting back to the point, at the launch conference, Ding Xiu answered reporters' questions for the first time as a director.

"Director Ding, what made you change this way, giving up your identity as an actor to become a director?"

"I want to try something different, and to correct it, I haven't given up my role as an actor, and I'm still the starring role in this play."

"And do you have faith in yourself?"

"Of course."

"I'm talking about directing ability."

"I also replied that this film will not fail because I am the director, on the contrary, because I am the director, I will have more control over the shooting rhythm, martial arts style, and casting...... In short, it will not disappoint everyone. ”

As an actor, who doesn't have a dream of directing.

I have acted a lot, and many times I have encountered a situation, that is, one day I will meet a director who thinks that he is not as good as me.

Ding Xiu is no exception.

There is another advantage of being a director yourself, that is, you have strong control and can influence a lot of things.

is just an actor, and many things in the crew can't be interjected, even if it's the male lead.

Sometimes in the face of investors forcibly stuffing people, changing the script, or in order to save time, it is clear that NG can shoot the best, but people just don't NG, as the starring actor, you have no way at all.

Ding Xiu is the investor in this drama, taking into account the identity of the male lead and the executive director.

He can pat his chest and say that during the shooting process, each one can be photographed to the most perfect.

If you can't shoot the effect you want, you keep shooting, and it's no problem to shoot a scene for three days and five days, ten days and half a month, or even a month.

……

"Ding Xiu has also changed careers to become a director, I don't know how the box office is, and whether I can watch the things filmed."

"The last person to do this was Wu Jing, the box office is okay, I look forward to a wave."

"Ding Xiu himself is very good at martial arts, and this time he is shooting a martial arts movie, I believe he will not let us down, let's sit and wait."

"I've seen the embroidered spring knife, if you want to say that you understand, no one knows better than Ding Xiu, I hope he can restore the rivers and lakes of the sword and sword, and shoot the chivalrous spirit of the little people."

"Heh, it's really all cats and dogs coming to make movies these days."

"When did the threshold for directors become so low, anyone can be anyone."

"I saw him rise up a tall building, I watched him feast guests, and I saw his building collapse."

The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, Ding Xiu became a director for the first time, some people supported and some scolded, some film critics and directors all came out yin and yang.

Individual directors didn't scold, but they also liked several articles scolding Ding Xiu, because the director was on the hot search that day, and finally said that his hand slipped.

Ding Xiu looked at the blood pressure up, and immediately output it to Weibo, not used to it at all, and after the output, he returned Aite's most fierce scolding.

I don't blame him for his high blood pressure, and most of the people who scolded him were peers.

On the contrary, netizens are quite supportive and sensible, and they have nothing to scold before the movie is released.

On the contrary, some directors, screenwriters, and film critics scolded the most, and they really responded to that sentence, and their peers are enemies.

scolded and scolded, one by one, they didn't dare to name names, referring to Sang and scolding Huai, yin and yang.

Ding Xiudu wondered, the plate in the domestic film and television market is so big, the family can't eat it at all, and he hasn't touched other people's cakes, besides, as far as those things made by garbage directors are filmed, netizens themselves don't like to watch them, they are not worthy of being their opponents, how can they not make a mistake and have a conflict of interest.

"I wish you a good start."

After scolding the Internet, Ding Xiu's side turned on smoothly.

On the day of the opening ceremony, he took all the staff and actors to worship God and offer incense.

Originally, he didn't believe in this, but when he thought that tens of millions had been smashed, he might as well bow down.

Don't look at him scolding people on the Internet, in fact, he has no bottom for the box office.

It's just that I can't get used to seeing others connotating myself, and I just scold back.

(End of chapter)