Chapter 49: The Premiere
Golden Harvest is very satisfied with Huo Dongjun's Dongyi Company's "Thirty-six Hours", as for the investment, the budget of 12 million is indeed a large number for small and medium-sized independent production companies, but for Golden Harvest, this is a figure lower than the average investment in films shot by Golden Harvest itself.
So, from the end of July, Huo Dongjun finally saw how hard the work of the popular movie star is, the three dramas started at the same time, in the first few days, he often called the wrong names of the people around him, such as Zeng Zhiwei when filming "Best Partner", but when he stared at "Thirty-six Hours", he would call Chen Dong to prepare to play, and when filming "Tiger Guard", he would call Mecca's name, the three dramas were almost insane, Huo Dongjun was very envious of Zhou Yan, and it was no problem to open five or six sets of dramas at the same time.
"Thirty-six Hours" is a drama Golden Harvest let Huo Dongjun direct, but the crew is provided by Golden Harvest, and it is at Huo Dongjun's insistence that Liu Weiqiang is brought to the crew as the deputy director of the scene, and Chen Musheng is the executive director of the whole movie, as for the actors, the assistant Fang Zhinan Jiahe gave Yuan Biao here, in fact, Huo Dongjun prefers Chen Donglai to play, but Chen Dong and Yuan Biao cannot compete in this aspect of attendance to ensure that the foreign city of Jiahe is currently relying on Cheng Long, and the other local stars are Hong Tibao and Yuan Biao, If it weren't for Zhou Yan taking over the play "God of Gamblers" to help Liang Jiahui open his mouth to take over the play, Huo Dongjun forgot that there is a young powerful actor in Hong Kong, Liang Jiahui was just lifted by the Taiwan Cultural Affairs Bureau last year because of Zhou Run's relationship, and only got the opportunity to play Pu Yi for his master Li Hanxiang's "Fire Dragon", and then there was no drama to shoot for the whole 3 years, and he only earned the manuscript fee by writing a daily column for "Wen Wei Po", Zhou Yan was very concerned about this friend who had worked together in wireless, So I heard that Huo Dongjun was the director of Golden Harvest, and some of them said like a scoundrel that if they wanted him to play "God of Gamblers", they had to help open a role for Liang Jiahui.
Huo Dongjun agreed, not because of Zhou Yan, but because Liang Jiahui let him see what an actor is.
Zhou Yan is the kind of person called a star, Liang Jiahui is called an actor, and when Yuan Biaopai fell into despair because the two were hunted down and killed in secret, the fairy Rong, who had always been timid and afraid of death, moved his mind to kill Fang Zhinan, and looked at Fang Zhinan's eyes at that moment, which made Huo Dongjun, who was staring at the monitor, shudder, and always felt that this guy might really take out a knife and stab Fang Zhinan to death in the next second, and even make people forget that they were making a movie.
For Jiahe to direct this film, Huo Dongjun feels that every qiē is very good, he doesn't have to prepare the crew by himself, he doesn't need to contact the actors' schedule, he just needs to tell the producer who doesn't interfere in his own shooting, what he needs, everything is handled by Jiahe, the only fly in the ointment, the title of "Thirty-six Hours" was added by Jiahe with two words, and it became "Shocking Thirty-six Hours", which made Huo Dongjun feel that this was like a sentence often said in later generations, and it slipped from the ordinary realm to the 213 realm.
"All departments are preparing for the last set of scenes in Saigon today, and after filming, they will be transferred tomorrow. Huo Dongjun glanced down at his watch, it was already 4:42 in the afternoon, and he still had to rush to the indoor studio of Xinyi City to shoot several sets of shots of "Best Partner" to keep progress.
After "TTC" and other departments reported normal, Huo Dongjun called to start.
Relying on his youth, coupled with Liu Weiqiang and Chen Musheng who took on almost 6% of his workload as a director, Huo Dongjun successfully completed the filming of three sets of scenes, as for whether the effect of the movie is good or not, it is not clear.
When the filming of the three films was completed, the time had already entered the beginning of October, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was finally coming.
When Huo Dongjun was desperately working to film, it was Debao who won the summer file again, the literary romance film "Autumn Fairy Tale" actually grabbed more than 25 million box office, Hong Tibao's high-hopeful war action film "Oriental Condor" won 21 million box office, Cheng Xiaodong's "A Chinese Ghost Story" earned 18 million box office, and only Cheng Long's "A1+ Stroke" sequel earned 31 million Hong Kong dollars, sitting firmly in the first place in the summer file, but in terms of investment cost, "Autumn Fairy Tale" is the first pure income, the mantra of the rotten boy on the street has also changed from the sentence of Xiao Ma in "The True Color of Heroes": "I have been waiting for three years, just waiting for an opportunity" to the line of the bow ruler in "Autumn Fairy Tale": "I have all the ghosts in my life, but I still have a little dignity." ”
But from the box office in Taiwan, Xu's "A Chinese Ghost Story" is the most popular movie in the summer file except for the sequel to "A1+", Zhang Guorong's scholarly appearance, Wang Jixian's poignant beauty and ghost appearance have caused heated discussions in Taiwan.
Zeng Zhiwei was the fastest to respond, and learned that Golden Harvest was preparing "Fairy in the Painting" to follow the trend of "A Chinese Ghost Story" to explore the box office value of Wang Guxian's beautiful female ghost image in Taiwan, and immediately asked Zhong Chuhong, the heroine of "Autumn Fairy Tale", to shoot the follow-up work "Golden Swallow" of "A Chinese Ghost Story" without a script, the plot is copied from "A Chinese Ghost Story", art, photography, and style are all the same, except for the change of actors, the only original is the theme song, after all, Zeng Zhiwei can't use the song of "A Chinese Ghost Story" on himself.
However, these are no longer important to Huo Dongjun and many of his fans, and more importantly, now, because on January 6, "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent" was screened in Hong Kong, and Xiang Watson thought very clearly, it has cost more than 20 million to make this film, and it doesn't matter if you spend more on publicity, anyway, the cost has been recovered, and Xiang Watson even plans to reorganize the publicity of "Magic Jade", and when the Hong Kong side ends, take director McDonald's bear, starring Huo Dongjun and others to Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan once visited, and the publicity meeting was held all over Southeast Asia.
Because this film has Golden Harvest's 3 million guarantee, the sequel to "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard", Yongsheng is not ready to sell out again, but is ready to settle with Southeast Asian filmmakers according to the share.
On January 6, the screening of the film was held at the Golden Harvest Mong Kok Cinema, which has nearly 1,300 seats in three theaters, in addition to the media invited by Yongsheng, its stars and film critics, etc., there are also 200 lucky die-hard fans of Golden Harvest Cinema Line to participate in the screening together.
Except for Sean Connery who did not attend, almost all the main creators of "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent" gathered again, and even Chiba Shinichi came from Hong Kong to participate in the screening
Although it was already evening, the atmosphere outside the Mong Kok Theater was like a boiling point, the actors stood in front of a huge poster for the media to take pictures, except for Qiu Shuzhen, who didn't know where Li Dawei came from, who seemed to have endless posing for the camera, even the eyes of the dedicated Japanese guy Chiba Shinichi were a little straight, and his expression was slightly dull.
Fortunately, it didn't take too long, Yongsheng, Arts, and Golden Harvest artists rushed to participate in the screening, leaving a way out for this group of creators who were already dazed by the noise
Liu Dehua, Zhou Yan, Tan Yonglan, and the three pillars of Yineng were the first to arrive, first signed their names on the poster, and very cooperatively responded to the media to take pictures, and then said congratulatory messages to Xiang Watson, McDonald's Bear, Huo Dongjun and others on the big hit.
After Yuan Biao, Hong Tiyibao, Zhang Manyu and a number of important generals under Jiahe also rushed to the platform, Hong Tibao smiled, and it seemed that he was not affected at all because the box office of "Oriental Condor" in the summer file was not high, and I heard a reporter ask about his opinion on this "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard 200,000 Urgent", Hong Tiyi Bao grinned and said:
"I'm the same as you, I haven't seen it yet, and we'll talk about it after I see it?"
Cheng Xiaodong, Liang Xiaoxiong, Chen Dong, Yuan Kui and a group of people from martial arts were the most low-key, and several people were almost completely ignored, and when all the flashing lights were aimed at Zhou Yan and a group of other stars, they lowered their heads and went straight into the theater.
Xu, Wang Jing, Liu Guanwei, Zheng Zeshi, and Zeng Zhiwei were the last directors to appear to cheer for McDonald's Bear and Huo Dongjun, and let the media flash shine for the last time before entering.
At 7:30, everyone entered the room, the lights in the theater went out, the appearance of the Yongsheng film, then the McDonald's Bear company, and finally, the screen turned pitch black, and the same background music sounded as the first one, and the red list of the main creators and the final title appeared in turn.
Chiba Shinichi and Qiu Shuzhen were the first to appear, both of them appeared in black clothes, but one was a black suit and the other was a black kimono embroidered with cherry blossoms.
Just before all the audience figured out the identities of the two, McDonald Bear first let Qiu Shuzhen show off a beautiful killing technique, the two were stopped by the airport security personnel and brought into the room for inspection, Chiba Shinichi just had a smile on her face, and Qiu Shuzhen, a girl who had always been like a good girl, locked the door and untied the bag belt of the kimono), and strangled the airport security personnel with a bag mixed with metal wire, and put the body in the corner with a free demeanor, and even naughtily turned the eyes of the deceased, when killing, Qiu Shuzhen was smiling from beginning to end, as if killing people was just a beautiful thing like flower viewing and flower arrangement in her eyes
And when Chiba Shinichi was killing Qiu Shuzhen, he sat on a chair in the middle of the room with a free expression, as if he was waiting for someone, and said softly: "There are still twenty minutes, and Lord Xiang should show a panicked look, and I feel looking forward to it when I think about it." ”
In this paragraph, except for Qiu Shuzhen's strangulation action designed by Yuan Kui, some people in the audience below praised the action as beautiful enough, and at other times, the audience did not react at all, but several directors who came to see the screening nodded slightly at the close-up of Chiba Shinichi's eyes and the domineering sitting action.
When the British Foreign Minister's special plane landed, and Chiba Shinichi had already set up bombs with the members of the Red Army who came to converge and were about to kidnap each other, some viewers finally couldn't help but complain:
"the ghost, Ah is on the side"
Especially when Qiu Shuzhen pulled out a paralytic knife from under her kimono, killed several British bodyguards in a row with a paralytic knife, and saw that the foreign minister played by Sean Connery was about to fall into the hands of the Red Army, Huo Dongjun's character Xu Zhengyang finally appeared.
Next, Huo Dongjun took the British Foreign Minister to hide in the airport blocked by the Red Army, killing the members of the Red Army who were searching for the two, and the rhythm of the whole story officially began when the three men met for the first time.
Since Xu Zhengyang's appearance, there has been no sound in the entire audience, not even in the ** bridge, until the end of the whole movie, after the subtitles are played, the audience seems to have made an appointment, and at the same time exhales heavily.
"In terms of skills, this movie can't make my eyes shine at all, the style of McDonald's "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" is not at all, but as an audience, I think this movie may make those fans feel that it is over before they have time to eat up the popcorn in their hands, two old drama bones have a boy, stealing the limelight from the female killer and Zhang Le, which woman will you care about is beautiful enough?" Zheng Zeshi and other subtitles were played, and when the lights came on again, he said to Wang Jing beside him.
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