Chapter 39: Finding Investment
"I really didn't see the wrong person!"
Fang Yan gave Duan Long a thumbs up and said, "Brother Duan, your professionalism is okay, if only all the actors were like you."
The vast majority of actors only care about coffee positions and money in acting, but they don't pay much attention to the role itself.
As played in Chen Peisi's famous sketch "The Protagonist and the Supporting Role", as an actor, everyone must want to be the protagonist.
The protagonist has the most scenes, the highest salary, and the best treatment...... The advantages in all aspects are incomparable to the supporting roles.
But for a small number of actors, they care more about the plasticity of the characters than the false name of the protagonist.
A brilliant special supporting role, far more impressive to the audience than those cookie-cutter fake big empty protagonists.
For example, Brother Xiao Ma in "The True Color of Heroes", this character can only be filmed as the male number three, but after Zhou Yunfa's wonderful performance, the limelight directly overtook the two leading actors Dillon and Zhang Guorong, and became the hottest character in the whole film.
It's also luck, before filming the movie "The True Colors of Heroes", Zhou Yunfa was jokingly called the box office poison in the film industry, and few people asked him to make movies at all.
As a result, with the small supporting role of Brother Xiaoma, Zhou Runfa suddenly turned over and became a popular star in the film industry, which gave him the title of "fairy hair" in the future.
Pretty much the same example, as well as Professor Hannibal in The Silence of the Lambs, is the most memorable character of any crime film.
Anthony. Hopkins, with his unimaginable acting ability, conquered all the audience in just twenty minutes.
In fact, Hannibal was just a supporting actor, but because of his too much influence, the Oscars that year also closed his eyes and pretended to be confused, and awarded the Best Actor award to Anthony. Hopkins.
The Best Actor in a Twenty-Minute Scene set an Oscar record and is still talked about many years later.
As an actor, Duan Long, although he is less famous and has little qualifications, he still has his own professional pursuit, and he does not blindly pursue the role of coffee.
Conscientious actors like him, except for the older generation of performing artists, it can be said that there are very few young actors.
After getting the role of Liu Dong, Duan Long waved his arms excitedly, looking very excited.
Fang Yan smiled slightly, and said to everyone present: "If you have any thoughts and suggestions for the actors, you can mention them."
"I'll talk about it first!"
Liu Shixian first raised his hand and said: "I think other characters are easy to say, only the actor Ritai is the most important, and you must find a suitable actor."
"Hmm...... It's not easy to find an actor for the role of Ritai! ”
Duan Long touched his chin and thought about it: "Ritai should find a Tibetan to play it, so that it can be real and convincing."
Yu Nan nodded and echoed: "I think so too, judging from the script of "Ke Ke Xili", Ritai is the soul of this movie."
Tibetan, performant, middle-aged man in his forties and fifties......
Thinking of these conditions, Yu Nan and the others instantly made difficulties, and they couldn't think of any good candidates after scratching their ears and cheeks.
"This tea tastes really good, I'll buy more when I leave later."
Fang Yan savored the bitterness and sweetness of the tea, as if all these things had nothing to do with him.
Seeing Fang Yan's calm and relaxed appearance, Yu Nan stepped on him angrily.
"Ouch, what are you stepping on my feet for?"
"We're here to think about the actors, but you're drinking tea as if nothing happened, are you embarrassed?"
After saying this, Yu Nan also poked the ribs of Xia Yan with his elbow: "Honestly, have you already thought about the actor candidate in Ritai?"
Fang Yan smiled bitterly and rubbed his ribs, and said, "I haven't thought about actors, but I have a way to find actors."
"What can you do?!" Yu Nan's eyes widened, with a look of curiosity.
"It's very simple."
Fang Yan took a sip of tea and continued to pretend to be a master: "There are repertory troupes in provinces all over the country, and if you want to find actors, you can choose from the XZ Repertory Troupe."
"Hey—you're there!"
Liu Shixian snapped his fingers and suddenly realized: "This is a good idea, there must be forty or fifty-year-old actors in the repertory troupe, and there is no need to worry about acting."
Duan Long made a joke at Fang Yan: "You're looking for a drama actor to find an addiction, right?"
"That's right, it's because of you, Brother Duan!" Fang Yan said jokingly: "Your drama actors have low salaries and good acting skills, of course I like it as a director."
"you, you're taking advantage of our drama actors."
After being "ridiculed", Duan Long gritted his teeth and said: "No, I have to add money to act in this play, otherwise I won't act."
"I support it!" Yu Nan hurriedly interjected and said: "When I played "The Tuner", you didn't pay me, you just invited me to eat a few meals, you must make it up for me this time!"
"Hahaha...... It's easy to say, and I can't lose anything to you. ”
The atmosphere was very cheerful, and several people talked about it, and they were full of yearning for the future filming of "Ke Ke Xili".
Zhang Jiandong was the only one, he silently flipped through the script, and seemed to be preoccupied.
"Teacher Zhang, why haven't you spoken?"
"Alas—you're having fun a little too soon!"
Zhang Jiandong put down the script in his hand and said with some tiredness: "In the preparation stage of the film, what you need to do at the beginning is not to find actors, but to find investment!"
"If there is no investment, no matter how good the movie script is, it will not be able to make a movie, let alone an actor acting."
Zhang Jiandong's words, like a basin of cold water, instantly extinguished the enthusiasm of Yu Nan and several people.
Indeed, without financial support, no matter how good the script of "Ke Ke Xili" is, no matter how good the actors want to act, these will not work.
"Teacher Zhang, you don't have to worry about this, I will find an investment."
Fang Yan's firm and confident words surprised and admired everyone else present.
Zhang Jiandong frowned and said, "Fang Yan, it's good that you have self-confidence, but you must be careful not to turn self-confidence into conceit."
"Have you ever calculated how much it costs to make such a movie?"
"I've calculated, it will take about 2 million." Fang Yan quickly replied: "My film doesn't need big-name actors, and the biggest expenses are shooting equipment, crew salaries, food and accommodation."
Zhang Jiandong nodded with satisfaction and continued to ask: "2 million is not a small amount of money, where do you plan to attract investment?"
"Well...... I can come up with about half of the money myself, and I plan to find a studio or a film company for the rest. ”
Fang Yan hesitated and did not elaborate on his source of funds.
"How much money can you come up with yourself?!"
Zhang Jiandong was very shocked, and he just wanted to say the words of inquiry, but after thinking about it carefully, he swallowed the words on his lips again.
"Which studios or studios are you looking for?"
Fang Yan thought for a while and said, "At present, I want to find the Imperial Capital Film Factory, and there is also Huayi Film Company."