Chapter 33 Learning from Old Fritters: How to Make a Cult Film
Chu Yuan's wife may have ears for the wind, so she put out the sound of walking on the floor in slippers from inside, and approached step by step.
Li Lecheng hurriedly hid the pork knuckle rice behind his door frame to block it.
"Oops, how do you grind and chirp when you are told to take out the garbage...... Well? Xiao Li is back? She said, sniffing, "What a fragrant pork knuckle rice." ”
Chu Yuan was a thief and immediately interrupted: "Oh, I just have something to talk about with him, and you have to take care of it." After I took out the garbage, I went to Xiao Li's house. ”
"Really?" Nanhong didn't believe it: "What are you talking about, talking about pig's feet rice!" Let me tell you, do you know how fat you are......"
Chu Yuan panicked, and the hand hidden behind him secretly poked Li Lecheng's back.
Li Lecheng immediately said: "The pig's knuckle rice is being eaten by Miss Hui next door, the weather is so hot, she is reluctant to use electricity, and she opened the door to eat just now, which makes the whole corridor taste ...... I really have something to do with Director Chu, I wrote something and plan to adapt it into a script, and I want to ask Director Chu to help me read it. ”
After he said that, he took out a stack of manuscript paper from his backpack and handed it to Chu Yuan, secretly saying in his heart that he was lucky to print two copies by himself, one was sent, and there was one copy in his hand.
Nan Hong believed it at this time: "I didn't expect Xiao Li to be very motivated, okay then...... Go ahead, old man, and remember to go home for dinner at noon...... Oops, it's going to burn in the pot again! With that, he hurried back to the house.
Li Lecheng looked at her in a daze, and then threw the door and disappeared in an instant.
"Wow, you really have something to ask me...... This thing is not ordinary! ”
Li Lecheng turned his head, but saw that Chu Yuan was holding the manuscript he gave, staring down, his eyes straight at the title......
Li Lecheng thought that the less people knew, the better, and hurriedly brought Chu Yuan into his home.
"Eat pork knuckle rice first, eat pork knuckle rice first......"
He tried to tell Chu Yuan to stop caring about this matter.
Chu Yuan immediately nodded: "Eat first." ”
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Ten minutes later, the pork knuckle rice was finished.
Chu Yuan mentioned it again: "You have a very good subject!" It's still the type that Shaw Brothers is good at, this kind of story adapted into a script to make a movie must be exciting, and it just so happens that the two best directors on Hong Kong Island to make this kind of evil style movie are both Shaw Brothers! If Shaw Brothers hadn't stopped production, it would definitely be auctioned! ”
Li Lecheng's heart moved: The director of Shaw Brothers.
"It's Gui Zhihong and Mu Danfu!" Chu Yuan said.
Of course, Li Lecheng knows that the two most iconic directors of Hong Kong-style cult films.
Li Lecheng has lived here for several days, but he hasn't seen many people, and he doesn't know if their schedules coincide with him, or if they have moved out: "Where are they now?" ”
"All of them are gone! Gui Zhihong immigrated to North America last year, and I don't know where he went. Mu Danfu went to the mainland to film after his contract expired three years ago. ”
However, he came to Hong Kong Island to Shaw Brothers because he was banned by an island, and going to the mainland to film was nothing more than letting him continue to be blocked.
"Where is he now?"
Chu Yuan shook his head: "In short, the situation should not be good." But I can help you find out where the two of them are. ”
Li Lecheng nodded and said busily: "Then please guide Chu." ”
Chu Yuan thought for a while and said: "In addition to these two former Shaw Brothers directors, Hong Kong Island is good at filming this type of director and Yu Yunkang, and his "Murder List" is both popular and famous. In addition, Xu Ke can also tell the story wonderfully, and shoot the kind of terrifying, suspenseful and thrilling effect, which he also filmed when he first became a director. ”
The two chatted about the recent situation of the former Shaw Brothers directors and sighed.
As for Chu Yuan himself, since he fell out with Fang Yihua and was told by the other party that he didn't know how to make movies, although his death contract with Shaw Brothers has expired, he still has a three-year life contract to fulfill, but anyway, Shaw Brothers has stopped production, and this contract is actually the same as Li Lecheng's actor contract, which is nothing but nominally a Shaw Brothers person. At the end of last year, he also co-founded his own film production company "Ligao Production" with a friend to make his favorite film genres.
"When you went to the field, my company's first movie "Huaxin Red Apricot" had just been released, starring Liang Chaowei, Zhong Chuhong, and Xia Wenxi, I originally wanted to give you a ticket for the premiere movie, but now you can buy a ticket to watch it yourself!" Chu Yuan chatted with him.
After that, he sighed again: "After leaving Shaw Brothers, I am really free to be my own master, I will shoot one or two films a year, and I will shoot whatever I like." It's just that the pressure is a bit high, and I'm afraid of losing money. Heck, in fact, it is not difficult to open a film production company on Hong Kong Island, the difficulty is how to find a distributor who is willing to cooperate, and the difficulty is to bear the financial and box office pressure...... I'm quite optimistic about your story, but my company is enough for me to shoot alone, and after filming one film, I can only have money to make money to shoot the next one, so I can't help you much......
However, if you find a film company that is willing to buy this story, remember, don't sell the adaptation rights, at least get a film planner, which means that the idea is yours, and it is best if you make a complete production plan, so that you may be able to pull some of the investment yourself, then the other party may ask for your film project, and will give you the title of producer, so that it will be much easier to enter the film industry...... In the future, I may be able to mix in the position of producer. ”
Li Lecheng suddenly realized that these things are really not something that young people who have just entered the industry dare to do and dare to think, but ...... After the film industry became more professional in later generations, many people from other intersecting industries entered the film industry through this kind of road, which is also the regular entry posture of producers in the Western film industry.
"Thank you, Director Chu, as soon as you say it, I will know what to do." Li Lecheng said happily.
Chu Yuan smiled and nodded: "Pig's feet are not eaten for nothing, I will help you inquire about the whereabouts of those two people...... Ah, by the way, you can write me in your production plan, and you can write it...... Let me play the victim shop owner, my age and image are just right! And the play is also good! I'm asking you for a role, anyway, I'm idle now, and I'm quite interested, as long as this story can really sell, I'm really willing to play it! In addition, if the people who buy this story are not willing to give you this condition, then you will be the leading actor! ”
Li Lecheng was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know how much to listen to.
After Chu Yuan went home, he took a real professional production plan for Li Lecheng to make a template reference, Li Lecheng studied it carefully, figured out what was needed, and began to think about his own production plan.
First of all, it must be the director. He has no money and no production experience and ability, so he must dump the film to someone with money, experience and ability to be the producer, and then it is best that the other party is a director. In this way, the other party can fully take over the play.
Chu Yuan's words reminded him of a person: Xu Ke.
It's hard to say whether Xu Ke is willing to direct, he is now mainly filming comedies that are booming in the market, and he will focus on martial arts in the future.
It's not that Li Lecheng doesn't want to find the original director Qiu Litao, in fact, he still knows Qiu Litao.
Not only did he know him, but they also knew Jiaju. Qiu Litao is a fanatical music fan, and he is also a fan of Li Lecheng, Jiaju They often meet him when they attend some movie salons and music enthusiast gatherings that literary and artistic young people love to go to, in addition to him, among the people they know at this kind of party, Ma Sichen and Jiaju They also have a good time, she is a genius actress, and she is also a standard literary youth.
So what is the situation of the 24-year-old Qiu Litao, Li Lecheng is clear.
Qiu Litao is now 24 years old, and he is still working as an assistant choreographer in TVA, and he does miscellaneous work in various film crews, and he has not even mixed up with photography, and he will have a more mature director in the 90s when he mixes photography.
However, Xiao Qiu is also good at desk work, he often publishes articles in various newspapers and magazines, which is very useful, and it is a good choice for him to help write the script together, and hire him as an assistant director or photographer.
Li Lecheng can't write it himself, how can he remember so many details, but the thinking habits of the same person generally don't change, Li Lecheng has written the story structure and wonderful plot very specifically, and then looking for Qiu Litao to expand the details of the content and change it into a movie script is the best choice.
Li Lecheng thought that since Chu Yuan had eaten the pork knuckle rice for dinner, he might as well go out at night and find Qiu Litao to come out for a while, no matter what, get the script out first.