The birth of a movie is quite a troublesome affair.

Especially the preparatory work in the early stage, casting, scenery, scenery, props, costumes, modeling, lighting, logistics, etc., etc., are trivial and indispensable.

Before 2012, why most of the domestic films were filmed by Hong Kong and Taiwan directors was not only a matter of experience, but more importantly, there was a mature team behind them.

After that, they lost ground because the mainland has cultivated a large number of mature talents, and the industrialization system of Chinese films has gradually taken shape.

This does not mean that a few directors, a few actors, or the capital that enters the market can be easily reversed.

Film is always an industry that is made by people.

It's not just the directors and actors, but the people behind the scenes are the backbone.

Why is Zhang Yimou so good, he himself is really good.

After all, there are so many people, but so many directors only have one Zhang Yimou.

But if you look at the team behind him, you can know that the people behind him are also hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

So a top-notch script and top-notch execution are just as important things.

It's not that if you solve the script and funding problems, you can easily form a game.

Looking at Jing Tian's original trajectory, it is simply indescribable.

And that aside, film is a very risky industry, and until the box office data is released, no one can say with certainty that it will not lose money.

Even if the movie is made, it is indeed a good film, but the follow-up has to consider the publicity and distribution of the film and so on.

Look at "Wolf Warrior 2", the box office ceiling, who has noticed how much capital he has behind it.

Let's take a look at "Hidden in the Dust"......

These are all very real problems.

It can be said that if there was no Jing Xiaotian, if Jing Xiaotian did not have a family background, Li Qing would not consider investing in movies at all, and "Ocean Paradise" was an exception, because he was already mentally prepared to play at that time.

So in the end, you still have to eat your wife's soft rice.

It was late at night.

Li Qing retracted his thoughts, looked at Jing Xiaotian, who was stealing vegetables with his mobile phone in his arms, couldn't help but smile, and kissed her gently.

"Li kitten, you kissed me again!" Jing Tian wiped his face, put down his mobile phone, and hugged Li Qing's neck in a mountain king posture, "Come here, let me kiss it." ”

"Hmm, Jing Xiaotian, no, I want to return it!"

"Baby, I have an appointment tomorrow, you can go with me."

"Huh? What are you doing? Who? ”

"Let's talk about casting and preparation. Call the person in charge of docking in your company as well. ”

"Okay." Jing Tian has always been too lazy to pay attention to these, although the company was established for her, but she has no backbone, she has been used to listening to her parents since she was a child, she has to be like a baby, and she will do whatever she is asked to do.

Occasionally, she is also a child's temper, and she never worries about it in the general direction.

"Pay a little attention, five million!"

Li Qing reluctantly brushed aside Jing Tian's hand, this stupid girl took Li Qing's face as a toy, touched this and that, and played with great interest.

"I didn't pay attention to it, didn't I promise you?"

"Reminder, five million spicy strips can fill our house."

Jing Tian clenched his small fist suddenly: "Hehe! Li Kitten, what do you say we should do? I listen to you! ”

"......" Li Qing rolled his eyes, "Forget it, you can go to sleep quickly." ”

"Hee-hee...... I can't sleep. Jing Tian said that he was going to get his mobile phone, "I'll steal some food." ”

"Steal what vegetables and steal vegetables! Sleep! Li Qing took her into his arms and hugged her tightly to prevent her from moving.

Jing Tian begged for mercy pitifully: "I can't breathe!" ”

"Humph!" Li Qing loosened his arm, reached out and patted her back gently, "Hurry up and go to sleep, get up early tomorrow." ”

"Then you coax me."

"......" Li Qing suddenly remembered something, ignored her coquettishness, and said, "By the way, there is one more thing to tell you, I am going to invite the great god to take charge, and none of those people in your company feel that they can hold the scene." ”

Jing Tian blinked his eyes curiously: "Great God? Who is it? ”

"Mr. Cao Baoping, what do you think? He's been busy with the "Li Mi's Conjecture" award application recently, but it should be no problem to find time to be a producer for the film. I just don't know if I can ask if I can move, so I'll ask when the time comes. ”

"I'm okay with that." Jing Tian didn't care about this, and asked, "Hey, do you have a chance for the award of "Li Mi's Conjecture"?" ”

"Mr. Cao mentioned it to me, saying that the BJ College Student Film Festival gave me the best newcomer or something." Li Qing didn't care about this either, and covered her eyes with a smile, "Okay, don't talk about it, go to sleep." ”

……

Although "People in Embarrassment" is said to be a small-budget movie, the figure of five million is definitely not a small amount no matter what era it is placed in, let alone 09 years now, this money is enough to buy four houses of about 100 square meters in Chaoyang District, Yanjing.

So Li Qing still attaches great importance to it.

After all, he doesn't really eat the fireworks of the world, especially after falling in love with Jing Xiaotian, his whole mentality is much more down-to-earth than before.

Although he didn't say that he regarded money as dung before, he always felt that as long as the money was enough to spend, his net worth of 20 million was enough to achieve financial freedom.

However, after falling in love with Jing Xiaotian, he discovered a grim truth, that is: this girl is definitely not something that ordinary people can afford.

The bag in her closet testifies to this.

So for the sake of this loser's wife, Li Qing felt that he still had to continue to work hard, at least adding a zero to the current deposit figure.

In a teahouse.

When Li Qing and Jing Tian arrived, Xu Zheng was already waiting with someone.

"Let me introduce to you, this is Yang Qing, the director of my last play "Nightclub". This is Tian Yusheng, he has a studio that specializes in scripts, and the screenwriters of our play are them. After Xu Zheng introduced the people he brought, he said to Yang Qing and Tian Yusheng, "These are the representatives of the investors in our play, Mr. Li, Mr. Jing, and Mr. Zhao." ”

Jing Tian snorted and laughed.

Others are inexplicable, only Li Qing can get her point, this stupid girl is called Mr. Jing for the first time, silly music!

"Don't laugh, Mr. Jing." Li Qing squeezed her hand and said with a smile, "I'm waiting for you to speak!" ”

"Hahaha, sit down." Jing Tian looked like an adult and beckoned, "Sit down." Brother Zheng, you and Sister Shan still have specific things haha...... And Mr. Li can talk about it. I'm the shopkeeper. ”

Zhao Shanshan is a starry film and television company, and she is usually responsible for Jing Xiaotian's brokerage affairs, but this girl has been buried in school for nearly a year, and many activities have been postponed, and Zhao Shanshan suspects that she is about to lose her job.

Hearing this, she looked at Jing Tian, who was leaning on Li Qing's body with a smile, and her eyes fell on Li Qing.

She had seen Li Qing and knew that this was the master of the horse, and depending on the situation, the master behind the company did not object, so she smiled at the moment and said: "I don't know much about casting, you can talk about it, it's settled, and the company is responsible for contacting it." ”

"People in Embarrassment" is a typical road comedy, similar to this kind of film with two male leads.

The highlights and jokes are all on these two people, which not only determines that the other supporting roles are not very important, but also increases the weight of the two protagonists.

Xu Zheng has already booked the role of Li Chenggong, and several people mainly talked about who Niu Geng should let play.

Tian Yusheng asked, "How is Huang Bo?" ”

"Huang Bo can't do it." Xu Zheng directly rejected it and said with a smile, "He is now being sent by Ning Hao to eat sand in the northwest to experience life." ”

Li Qing was stunned when he heard this: "They have already gone to the northwest?" I've been waiting for the director's notice, but I haven't heard him mention it. ”

"The lawyer you played, didn't Ning Hao ask you to find a firm to be a handyman?"

"Well, I helped out at the office when I wasn't in class. He also asked me to lose weight, I want to lose ten pounds, and it looks thinner. ”

"That's right, you're pretty good. Ning Hao, that guy is a madman. He packed up the rest of the cast and threw them to the Northwest. Huang Bo called me before, saying that he was sent to the slaughterhouse by Ning Hao to be a butcher. ”

Jing Tian listened curiously: "Be a butcher? What does it mean? ”

"It's about killing pigs. said that it was to practice murderous spirit. ”

Jing Tian looked at Li Qing when he heard this, with a look of pity: "Li Xiaoqing, I knew that you would play a killer, I haven't seen a pig killer yet." ”

"......" Li Qing's head is full of black lines.

"It's far away, let's get down to business." Xu Zheng said, "Qingzi, Tiantian, what do you think of this role, does anyone recommend it?" If not, we'll make the casting public, but it may delay a bit. ”

Li Qing touched his chin and groaned, "This kind of character is indeed not easy to find." ”

"Brother Baoqiang." Jing Tian said loudly, "Li Xiaoqing, I think Brother Baoqiang is okay." ”

"Huh!" Li Qing's eyes lit up, "Yes, Brother Baoqiang can, why didn't I think about it?" Jing Xiaotian, you are amazing! ”

Xu Zheng asked, "Brother Baoqiang?" Do you say Wang Baoqiang? ”

Li Qing nodded: "Yes!" Brother Zheng, what do you think? ”

Xu Zheng said: "The question is does he have a schedule now?" ”

Li Qing and Jing Tian glanced at each other, shook their heads and said, "I really don't know this." Well, I'll go back and ask. If you can, it's settled. ”

"Okay, that's it. Once this is settled, the other roles will be solved. Xu Zheng looked at the two of them and smiled, "Do you two want to come and play a cameo role too?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Hearing this, Jing Tian immediately picked up the script and turned to one of the pages and said with a smile, "I wanted to say it before, let's play this!" ”

"What?" Li Qing took the script and read it funny, and after reading it, he wanted to laugh more and more, "The train station sells mobile phones? Do you want to play this? ”

"Yes, you see, the two of us are wandering around the station selling mobile phones, I'm a salesman, you're my shelf, isn't it romantic?"

Everyone else laughed dumbly when they heard this, although these two small characters in the script only have one scene, they are also the epitome of the life of people who want to survive, and perhaps only this little princess will feel romantic.

Li Qing nodded: "Okay, if "No Man's Land" hasn't started by then, I'll play it with you." ”

"Huh?" Jing Tian was a little disappointed, "If you don't act, I won't act." ”

Xu Zheng smiled: "It's okay, Ning Hao's side is estimated to be on until the end of April." If we progress faster, maybe we will start filming before him, and then we will shoot your scene first, at most half a day's work. ”

Jing Tian nodded his head busily: "Okay, good." Let's hurry up then! ”

"Okay, then let's hurry up." Xu Zheng looked at Zhao Shanshan and asked, "Mr. Zhao, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Shanshan looked at Jing Tian, shook her head and said, "I have no opinion." ”

A few people chatted about the problem of Kanjing again, most of them were Xu Zheng talking, it can be seen that he still attaches great importance to it, after all, it is his first time as a film director, and if the transformation is successful, his career will go to a new level.

It happened that not long after the filming of "Nightclub" was completed, he brought Yang Qing, the director of "Nightclub", to be his assistant director, and he has been in the circle for more than ten years and has a wide range of contacts, and the planning and preparation work quickly set up a framework under his auspices.

Li Qing did two things.

One is to contact Wang Baoqiang, and the other is to ask Cao Baoping to be the producer.

Although Wang Baoqiang was not as popular as later at this time, the schedule was still very full.

When Li Qing called him, he was waiting for him with a TV series in his hand, called "Forward for New China", and the plan was to start shooting at the end of April, and there was a movie after the TV series was filmed, called "Big Stomach".

Li Qing had no choice but to find time to run to him with the script.

As a result, after Wang Baoqiang read the script, he didn't use Li Qingduo's persuasion, so he decided to take over the play.

The script is really good, Li Qing is also sincere, and more importantly, it only takes one month to shoot this drama, and the schedule is coordinated, and there is no delay.

After getting Wang Baoqiang, Li Qing also went directly with the script when he invited Cao Baoping.

The so-called producer is actually the big steward of the movie, and the most important thing is to be trustworthy, and in addition, he must be knowledgeable.

After "Li Mi's Conjecture", Cao Baoping and Li Qing got along very well, and Cao Baoping always wanted Li Qing to be admitted to his graduate school.

"Teacher, don't worry, I won't let you do it in vain. The carriage and horses are sufficient! ”

Cao Baoping was amused by Li Qing: "You kid, you're going to joke with me now, right?" ”

Li Qing patted his chest: "No kidding, really." You are my own teacher, can I lose you? ”

"That's it!" Cao Baoping put away the script, waved his hand and said, "That's another story." You've got a pretty good script. ”

"Well, I wouldn't have dared to invest otherwise. Invested 5 million! ”

Why is the script of "People in Embarrassment" very good?

You must know that comedy is very difficult to do, and that kind of, pee, and fart pretending to be stupid is actually very low-level, as if it is forcibly scratching people's armpits.

And "People in Embarrassment" is different, the script is very cleverly designed.

At its core, it is actually a collision between two different classes, a petty-bourgeois refined egoist and a grassroots figure at the bottom, two people who would not have been able to intersect have a dramatic spark, and the laughter is real and natural.

And what is even more ingenious is the character of the protagonist Li Chenggong, who is mean and unfaithful to love, and he has annoying points, which makes the tragic effect on his body cleverly transformed into a laughing fruit.

The more unlucky he is, the happier the viewer becomes.

Cao Baoping tapped his fingers on the script, looked at Li Qing who was stunned, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, if you can trust me, then I can only work hard." ”