Chapter 34: Preparing for the God of Food
If the movie wants to be a blockbuster, the subject matter is the first priority. During the Spring Festival, comedies with family fun should be the most popular.
And, the comedy film is the first to recommend Zhou Xingxing, and the tragic nonsensical comedy has influenced several generations. Haisheng has an impression. Plagiarizing Zhou Xingxing's future film works should be a blockbuster, even if you can't make a lot of money, you won't lose money, and it should be no problem to make some small money.
But which movie of Zhou Xingxing gave him a headache, "Journey to the West" is still fresh in his memory, and the mainland audience likes it very much and gives it a high evaluation! But this movie was filmed in the nineties, but it hit the street when it was released in Xiangjiang, it was too advanced, and the audience in Xiangjiang couldn't understand it!
It's only the early 80s now, and if you shoot it, you don't know what the ending will be, and it's very likely to hit the street! The investment cost of "Journey to the West" is not low, and Haisheng does not have so much capital, so he broke off his idea.
After thinking about it, I finally decided to shoot "God of Food". I can get the food in it myself, and I have an impression of the whole movie, so it's not difficult to reproduce it. The difficulty is that there are many scenes and characters in the film, is 400,000 enough or not?
Haisheng had a headache, but he didn't give up the movie, and spent a lot of time trying to recall, creating the movie script, and trying to draw important pieces of the film on paper.
deleted and deleted a lot of scenes, and it took 12 days to create a script that I was satisfied with. The picture of the whole movie slowly appeared in his mind, and Haisheng felt that there was no problem, and began to busy recruiting people to form a crew.
The first person to be included in the crew is Zhou Xingxing, without him, the whole movie would have lost its soul. It is said that Xingzi is doing children's programs on TV at the moment.
Haisheng took the time to watch his performance on TV, and his appearance was okay, and he was tender out of the water. It's just that the expression is contrived and slightly exaggerated. It's okay to tease children, but it's a bit difficult to make adults laugh! Haisheng was immediately disappointed, he ignored Zhou Xingxing's debut time, it has only been more than a year, how can he have acting skills without polishing?
But seeing is believing, and hearing is false. Just based on speculation and what he saw on TV, he can't be sure that Zhou Xingxing is useless, what if he has the strength of Xingye now, but he is buried?
Haisheng decided to meet to see what was going on, and through Wu Junru's bridge, he met at a tea restaurant near Infinite TVB. The reason given is that he admires his senior brother and wants to ask Zhou Xingxing about his acting skills.
Zhou Xingxing is very happy, he is now just a nobody in the film and television industry, and it is worth celebrating that there are training class students who admire him.
When we met in the tea restaurant, I talked with Haisheng enthusiastically, including all aspects of film and television, and my theoretical knowledge was quite solid. Zhou Xingxing was still very young and talkative at this time, and he was not depressed decades later. Full of confidence in life and looking forward to a better future.
Haisheng chatted with him and learned a lot, but he was also disappointed, the current Zhou Xingxing is still too young to take the lead, and the actor of the movie "God of Food" may have to pass by him.
After the meeting was over, Haisheng returned home. Thinking about who will take Zhou Xingxing's position, this person must have superb acting skills, be funny, and be cheap, the kind that can be settled for a few thousand yuan. After thinking about it, there was no second choice but himself.
Of course, he can't reach the level of Xingye, whether it is acting skills or funny. The only advantage is that the price is cheap, and even no money. The male protagonist who doesn't want money saves a lot of costs.
The supporting heroines in the movie are ready to let the classmates take on the role, they are not expensive, a few thousand yuan will be sent away, maybe the relationship is good and they can also star in friendship, which saves another expense.
In addition to rehearsing the program in the training class, Haisheng told his teammates about his idea of making a movie. Everyone is very enthusiastic and eager to try, after all, the original intention of being admitted to the training class is to gain fame and fortune in the film and television industry. But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, first of all, you have to play tricks and have a chance to be on camera. Before I graduated, there was an internship opportunity, and of course I didn't want to miss it.
Except for Miss Blue, everyone else agreed to appear in friendship, just three meals a day. Haisheng promised that if the movie was a big hit, everyone would have a red envelope, and the result would naturally be happy.
Wu Junru's three girls shouted and asked Haisheng to come up with the script, and they had to choose roles. If it's just a single heroine, they all want to take on it. But Haisheng didn't look down on them, and he already had a hostess candidate in his heart, that was Lan Jieying.
On appearance, acting. The Blue Girl is all better. However, due to the emergency in Sanlifang, the relationship between the two gradually drifted apart. Once a crack has formed, it is very difficult to regain friendship. Wanting to return to the previous intimacy doesn't happen overnight.
Haisheng is going to take some time to talk to Miss Lan, now is not the time to talk, put it on hold for the time being. took out the script and asked Wu Junru and others to choose the role.
As soon as the script came out, the partners were disappointed. Especially the three girls, "God of Food" is a man's play, there are not many female characters, and the heroine has to pretend to be ugly, and her true face is revealed at the end, which makes it difficult for the girls to accept.
In film and television dramas, of course, the more beautiful the heroine, the better, it is rare to see someone who is ugly, Wu Junru and other girls asked Haisheng to revise the script and set the heroine as a beauty, and they will play it.
Hai Sheng said with a smile that the heroine will not modify the setting, and there is no part of the girls, so there are already candidates. also glanced at the blue girl who was sitting on the side.
The girl turned her head to look at him, and then looked down at the book, her eyes unwavering, not knowing what she was thinking.
Wu Junru looked at the appearance of the two of them, and already guessed that the heroine of this movie was the person they liked the most. But no one is jealous, because the heroine is ugly. What's there to fight about? Even if you grab the position, it will only affect your image, once it is released, can the audience like such a heroine?
For a while, no one paid attention to the heroine and competed for other supporting roles. The male protagonist's first love has become the focus of contention. Although there are only a few shots and they appear for less than a minute, they leave a beautiful moment. The girl who plays her, a proper beautiful girl. All three girls want to play their first love.
Haisheng made a decision, Zeng Yeqian played the first love of the male protagonist, Wu Junru played the street fortune teller, and Liu Jialing played the reporter. Liu Qingyun was not bad luck, he got the second villain Tang Niu, and Wu Qihua got the role of emcee, he was not satisfied and wanted to play the first villain. But Haisheng is the director and the boss, so he has no choice.
Whether the partners are full of satisfaction or not, they all get a role. But there are still many supporting roles in "God of Food" that have not been selected. In order to attract some cheap actors, during the afternoon acting class, Haisheng asked them in front of all the students if they were interested in participating in the movie he was about to shoot.
Even if the relationship between the 12th batch of students is not good, they are still classmates. all gave some face, some immediately asked what the theme of the movie is, some asked the position of the protagonist otherwise they would not be able to talk, and some asked about the salary. Anyway, everyone has their own needs, and they are not as easy to talk as their partners.