Chapter 230: For the sake of a song, make a movie.
Seeing this system task, Zhao Mo was dumbfounded on the spot.
What is the concept of singing and crying 10 million people?
A super-large concert with 100,000 people, relying on the strong atmosphere and rendering power of the scene, may be able to make a sad song make the audience cry, as for the proportion, 10,000 people is already very powerful.
But this data, in the face of task indicators, is just a drop in the bucket.
Zhao Mo's most brilliant record was when he participated in "The Masked Singer", singing one sad love song after another, which made countless online and offline audiences cry.
But at that time, the power of a song could not necessarily sing and cry 10 million people.
Moreover, although the song "The Love of My Life" is sad enough, the meaning of it needs to rely on the interpretation of the movie "Journey to the West" to let the audience know.
And this song can become popular, also relying on the addition of "Journey to the West".
In fact, when Zhao Mo was thinking of this song just now, he thought of the script of "Journey to the West", and just when he was hesitating, the system promulgated this task.
Isn't this just forcing him to make a movie?
Wrong...... The system clearly wants him to be biased towards Zhang Jingwan!
Zhang Jingwan seemed to see that Zhao Mo was a little worried, and asked softly:
"What are you thinking?"
Zhao Mo breathed a sigh of relief at this time, raised his head, looked at Zhang Jingwan across the table, and didn't speak for a long time.
It wasn't until Zhang Jingwan's willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and he felt puzzled, that he said with a smile:
"Sister Jingwan, since you haven't found a suitable script, then I'll write one for you."
"You ......"
Zhang Jingwan was surprised at first, then looked at the faint smile on Zhao Mo's face, put aside the doubts in her heart for the time being, but smiled gently, and said with a little curiosity:
"Really, you still write scripts?"
Of course, she didn't believe that Zhao Mo could come up with a good script.
Music and film are two different things, at least Zhao Mo has never shown any creative ability in this regard in front of her.
But her first sentence was not questioning, nor denying, but deliberately showing curiosity.
Because she knew that Zhao Mo's starting point was for her, so why should she be in a hurry to deny or question it?
Seeing this, Zhao Mo smiled lightly and said seriously:
"Sister Jingwan, don't treat me like a child, I'm serious this time."
Zhao Mo knew very well in his heart that the reason why Zhang Jingwan did not show too much shock and doubt was to take care of his emotions.
Even if what he wrote in the end was a mess, Sister Jingwan would only smile and comfort.
After all, in her eyes, she is just a little brother who occasionally recklessly makes mistakes because of impulsiveness.
This is the Sister Jingwan he knows, a mature woman who can tolerate him infinitely.
But this time, it was him who protected her.
Zhang Jingwan felt serious and firm from Zhao Mo, but she didn't speak, just looked at him quietly, her beautiful eyes were like a calm lake, looking so quiet and gentle.
……
Now that the system has been pushed down the river, Zhao Mo has also made up his mind to pay attention.
If you want to complete the task of the system, you must cooperate with the movie "The Love of Your Life" to achieve the desired effect.
Zhao Mo really went to make dumplings for a little vinegar this time.
Of course, the vinegar was bought by himself, but the dumplings were named by Zhang Jingwan to eat.
Zhao Mo has been staying at home to write scripts for the past few days.
He is very familiar with the classic series of movies like "Journey to the West", and he used to pull it out to watch it when he had nothing to do, and he has probably watched it more than ten times.
The plot can be described as reciting backwards, and the finishing touch is kept in mind and specially marked, so it is also very smooth to write.
On the first day, I learned how to write a script, and after learning the general format, I started writing directly on the second day, writing while recalling, and on the third day, I revised it several times, and a first draft was completed.
……
When Zhao Mo came to the studio with the first draft, and called Long Danni to the office.
Long Danni sat at Zhao Mo's desk, flipping through the script, frowning.
After watching for a while, she raised her head and looked at Zhao Mo, her face full of incredulity: "You are going to make a movie?" ”
Zhao Mo nodded.
"You refused Zuo Yuanli before, just to shoot for yourself?"
Zhao Mo paused, and then said:
"Not really, I wrote a song, and this song has a story, and it would be a pity if it wasn't filmed."
As he spoke, he opened an audio file on the computer, and the speaker on the table played "The Love of My Life".
In the past three days, he not only wrote the script, but also took the time to record "The Love of My Life".
But where does Long Danni still have the heart to enjoy the song at this time?
She was obviously a little overhead, so she first pressed her temples, took a deep breath, tried to restrain herself, and her tone was as calm as possible:
"Let's sort it out first, your music career is developing so well now, you told me that you were going to make a crossover movie?"
"That's right."
"OK, and then you tell me that the reason you made this movie was for a new song?"
"Uh-huh."
"So now that you've written the script, are you going to be a director, or do you want to be a starring role?"
"Everything."
When she saw Zhao Mo nodding solemnly, Long Danni completely collapsed.
At this time, her mental journey is:
Endure - unbearable - try to endure - uncle is bearable, Dani is unbearable!
When she wanted to shoot the script on the table and get angry, she kept comforting herself in her heart: The boss is angry with me, I am not angry, and there is no one to replace me when I am angry......
In the end, Long Danni took a deep breath, and then calmly put the script on the desk, tried to hold back a smile, and said as kindly as possible:
"OK, so Boss Zhao, what do you need me to do for you now?"
"Uh...... I'd like you to give me some advice. ”
Long Danni smiled and said slowly:
"My opinion is that there is no opinion, how you want to come."
Seeing that Dulong Danni was already in this state, Zhao Mo also knew that he couldn't talk about this matter for the time being.
After all, this is not a trivial matter, and it is so sudden, it is necessary to give Long Danni time to digest.
When Long Danni walked out of the office, Bai Hao greeted her with a smile:
"Sister Dani, I want to take a leave of absence tomorrow morning, can you help me push the matter of co-producing a video with that Internet celebrity to the afternoon?"
Long Danni stopped and looked at Bai Hao, at this moment, her eyes seemed to be murderous.
"Come in with me."
Then, Bai Hao was brought into the office by Long Danni.
In the past, when this situation occurred, Long Danni wanted to give Bai Hao a unilateral verbal education.
At this time, only Yu Ze and Uncle Yang were left in the studio, and Qin Kexin and Bai Lu all went out to catch the announcement.
Yu Ze noticed that Long Danni was in a very bad mood, so he mysteriously said to Uncle Yang who was sitting by the window:
"Uncle Yang, I'll bet ten yuan, Bai Hao will definitely be scolded when he comes out later."
Uncle Yang put down the newspaper, yawned, and was a little puzzled:
"What's wrong with Zhao Mo, can you make Xiaolong, a female baby, so angry?"
……
"What? You're going to make a movie? Did I hear me right? ”
Director Wang Yue on the other end of the phone looked shocked, and felt incredulous at what he had just heard.
"Brother Wang, don't be shocked, I'm serious this time."
Zhao Mo had already told Wang Yue all his thoughts at this time, after all, he was only an acquaintance with Wang Yue in his social circle, so he came to learn from him.
After the two communicated for a while, Wang Yue saw Zhao Mo's determination and said:
"If you want to shoot it yourself, it is estimated that it is a little difficult to raise funds, otherwise you can only find a investment company, I have a channel here, I can help you contact it, it is difficult to make money, but it is okay to protect the capital."
The capital preservation in Wang Yue's mouth is not to make money at the box office of the movie, but to rely on investment promotion.
The so-called investment promotion company involves the inside story of the film industry.
For example, the producer of this movie expects to need 100 million yuan to raise funds, but the funds are only 50 million, so it is necessary to introduce a co-producer at this time.
The co-producer took 50 million investment shares, and then publicized the filming cost of 500 million yuan, and finally sold 50 percent of the share in his hand, making a net profit of 200 million.
This has led to a situation where others make money before the movie starts.
Of course, the share of hundreds of millions of shares will definitely not be digested by the co-producer, so it needs a merchant company.
After the investment company gets the task from the co-producer, it extracts a few points, which is equivalent to an intermediary, and hands over the remaining 40 or 50 percent of the points to the terminal company.
At this time, the terminal company will find individual investors to invest through various channels, 50,000, 100,000, a small amount of money, and finally converge into a large order of hundreds of millions.
This can also understand why some movies have no special effects, the actors are not expensive, and the scenes are very ordinary, but in the end they are claimed to have a billion investments.
As an insider, Zhao Mo obviously knew this kind of inside story, and directly refused:
"Forget Brother Wang, I won't get to this point yet. I have calculated, my investment in this movie is not large, tens of millions are enough to get it, and I can pay this money myself. ”
With his own traffic, the terminal company will definitely collect funds very quickly, and he will be able to collect all the bottoms of a group of old men and old ladies who like him.
But he is a person with a bottom line, a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way, he doesn't care if others do it, but he himself will not do this, even if he faces the direction of losing money.
Wang Yue pondered for a while and said, "If there is no problem with the funds...... So what's the problem you're having right now?"
Zhao Mo confessed: "Brother Wang, that's the case, it's my first time making a movie, so I want to ask you to help, after all, this is not a small-budget production, and I definitely can't rely on myself." ”
Although Long Danni didn't understand, she was also helping Zhao Mo prepare for the registration of a media company recently.
However, she reminded Zhao Mo that it was best to find an industry insider to cooperate, and Zhao Mo immediately thought of Wang Yue.
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ps: Typos are changed first and then corrected.