Chapter 30: Are You Really, Really Ready?

Being able to draw the full set of information of Shining, Shen Lang sincerely felt that he was very lucky.

First of all, this is a recognized masterpiece, and no one should have an opinion on this.

Secondly, the cost of his film is actually not high, to be precise, if it is filmed now, the cost is not high.

The Shining cost $19 million to shoot that year, but it earned more than $40 million at the box office.

A large part of the reason is because the film was shot in 1980, when many of the special effects technology was incomplete and needed to be shot live-action.

But now with the substantial development of special effects technology, it can save a lot of money, and even reduce the cost to 1/3 of the original, or even lower.

More often than not, it takes some acting skills, especially the miserable appearance of the heroine, which is too much of a test of the actor's strength.

Before the lottery, Shen Lang's heart had been praying that he would never draw those high-cost horror films, or restricted-level horror films.

If that's the case, I'm afraid he will continue to consume his emotional value, and if he can't draw a good movie twice, then his blood pressure will really soar.

In case it is a restrictive level like "Group of Corpses Playing Across the Line", his emotional value will be wasted.

Because even if the film can make a lot of money, I'm afraid he won't have much left this time.

After all, there are too many things to be replaced, such as housing, companies, machine maintenance, wage consumption, as well as water, electricity, gas, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

He was responsible for all these things, and each of them cost money, which didn't seem like much, but it was a lot of money when it added up.

Therefore, his next film can only be the kind of production with a small and medium-cost budget, and if it is a large cost, it is likely to bankrupt the newly established company directly.

However, The Shining fits almost everything he wants for his next film, and there is nothing to say except for being a little harsh in the choice of actors.

But actors are not a problem, if an actor can't even be selected, how can he be a good director?

Good actors are always hard to find, and most actors still have to look at the cultivation of the day after tomorrow.

But the most difficult thing about this drama is that the male protagonist is a superb pervert, and he can't be too handsome, he must be mediocre.

This time directly vetoed Liu Gang and Pei Wenhao.

However, the heroine still has to be a sick girl with a nervous breakdown, and if you want to reach this level, you must be immersive.

Otherwise, you won't be able to play that feeling at all.

The male protagonist can let him choose slowly among his brothers, but the heroine Shen Lang has already decided, it must be Tang Chuchu, and this will be her Virgo.

Shen Lang has great expectations for the film Shining.

Because this is a movie that he used to like very much, and even after a very deep research for this.

At that time, he felt that the heroine's performance was too realistic, to the point of being fake, and even he really suspected that the heroine had mental illness.

When it came time to investigate behind the scenes, he was surprised by the results.

He guessed correctly at all, the heroine was tortured by the director for mental problems in order to shoot this drama.

Because the heroine of this drama needs to show a neurotic feeling, ordinary actresses can't reach this state at all.

So in order to strive for truthfulness, the director came up with a very fucking trick, that is, to make the entire crew isolate the heroine, not only isolated but also repulsed, and put pressure on the heroine during filming every day.

In this way, under the repeated torture of the past for a long time, not to mention a woman, even a steel bar has to be broken in half.

In this way, in less than a month, the heroine was almost tortured by them to depression, and her morbid appearance was very much like the heroine in the play.

No, she is, to be exact.

This sacrifice was rewarded with a powerful dramatic effect, which also made the film a very successful one.

However, at the cost of this, the heroine's psychiatrist for a long time may even leave a wound that is difficult to heal.

But sometimes that's how it goes, and to achieve extraordinary success, you have to pay an extraordinary price, and it's all proportional.

But after all, this matter hurts people a lot, although he is the boss, he is not a demon after all.

In the spirit of humanitarianism, he still had to ask, so he called Tang Chuchu.

As soon as I connected it, I heard the lyrics of the superstar of the troubled times......

He said in his heart, do girls like this tune now?

Less than 5 seconds after the phone was connected, Tang Chuchu immediately answered it, his voice was very thin, and he asked carefully: "Old, boss, is there anything wrong, I am still working now." ”

Shen Lang sighed helplessly: "You come here, I have something to do with you." ”

As soon as he put down the phone, he heard a trotting in the corridor, Tang Chuchu pushed open the door, panting slightly.

"I'm here, what's the boss?"

Shen Lang looked at the pink cartoon apron he was still wearing, and his brows suddenly furrowed.

"Don't do these things in the future, I recruited you to be an actor, not a cleaner or a cleaner, I will recruit 100 people in minutes."

Tang Chuchu instantly lowered his head, rubbed the corner of his clothes and apologized in a low voice: "Yes, I'm sorry, I won't be next time, but boss, you have to arrange a job for me, I can't be idle all the time." ”

"I called you here this time to give you a job, and I have already determined the content of the next play, but it is very hard, and I want you to be the heroine." Shen Lang said very calmly.

"Heroine, I'm... What, let me be the heroine, can I really do it! ”

Shen Lang said very solemnly: "I said you can do it, you can do it, and if you can't do it, you can do it."

However, this drama will be very hard, even beyond your imagination, and cause damage to your heart.

But once successful, you will soar to the sky with this drama and reach a height that you would never have dared to think of.

It's a high-risk but high-reward job, and you think about it for yourself. ”

Tang Chuchu knew that what was in front of him was an unprecedented opportunity, and if he lost it, he could come back or not.

As for the danger that Shen Lang said, it had already been automatically filtered by Tang Chuchu.

He nodded very earnestly.

"I am willing, no matter what hard work I put in, I am willing, and I will definitely do my best to complete this play."

Hearing her say this, Shen Lang suddenly showed a strange smile on his face, and instead of affirming as usual, he asked rhetorically.

"Are you really sure?"

"I'm sure."

"Are you really, really sure?"

"I'm really, really sure."

"Very good, I'm looking forward to your performance, now you go home and watch 100 horror movies first, and appreciate the essence of the heroine."

Tang Chuchu suddenly became numb, her courage can be said to be very small, and now she actually wants to watch 100 horror movies.

But when he thought that this was for his future, he gritted his teeth and did it, like a strong man who would never return.

However, just after Tang Chuchu went out, Shen Lang dialed an unfamiliar number.

"Hey, do you sell insurance, do you have trauma insurance? Give me an insurance of 500,000 yuan, and the insured person is called Tang Chuchu......"

Poor Tang Chuchu didn't know how much damage this movie would do to her.

Even in the near future, when she won a world-class actress, when she was interviewed, when someone asked about that memory, she would tremble, and her eyes were full of fear.