It was very hot in Shanghai in June, and in the hotel room, the sound of the air conditioner turning was faintly sounded.

Dong Xuan went out to shoot an advertisement today, and Li Shengyao buried himself in writing the script alone.

He writes so vigorously that many times he can't help but want to shout a few times.

Regarding his first movie, after thinking about it for a long time, Lee Shengyao planned to copy Ah San's "Wrestling, Dad".

"Let's Wrestle, Dad" was released in Ah San in 2016, with a local box office of 350 million, and then released overseas, including Big Eagle, Australia, Wanwan, Hong Kong Island, Bar Sitan and other places, with a total box office of about 300 million.

The biggest gain of this film is in the mainland, it was released in the mainland in 2017, with a total box office of as high as 1.295 billion, at that time, there were already pirated resources on the Internet, and if Ah San was released simultaneously in the mainland, it would definitely be 1.3 billion.

This film is ranked ninth in the mainland of the year, and the results are excellent.

The total global box office is close to 2 billion, that is, almost 300 million dollars.

This result is undoubtedly very good, and there are not many Hollywood movies that have a global box office of more than 300 million every year.

The reason why it is so good is because this film tells about emotions that everyone can understand, such as the growth of women, the love of fathers, and the redemption of the strong.

The growth of women is especially important, after all, the theme of watching movies is female audiences.

The daughters of the male protagonist, if they don't become talented, will get married early, live a miserable, hopeless, and undignified life, and they are more active in learning wrestling in order to control their lives.

And the father's love is reflected in the hero's training and expectations for his daughters.

As for the redemption of the strong in the end, it is the hero who completes the regret that he is not a world champion through his daughter.

In addition to the theme, the next step is the rhythm of this film, which can be said to be very clear and complete.

As far as the story itself is concerned, it's not too new.

The film won several unimportant awards, and in terms of artistry and technique, it was not distinctive.

Only the overall rhythm is good.

The same is true of the island country's "Bottom Hot Girl", the story is actually very ordinary, the rookie counterattack, that is, the rhythm is good, and the story is clearly and clearly told, this film came out of a number of two-dimensional movies and won the eighth highest box office of the year in the island country in 2015.

The vast majority of the audience's request is actually very simple, that is, let me watch a movie that I can understand.

If this movie can make the audience empathize, it will get a high box office.

Although Ah San has a large population, they have only a handful of awards in the Olympic Games, and the whole country can rejoice when they win a silver medal in the Olympic Games.

The prototype of "Wrestle, Dad" did not win the Olympic championship, but won the wrestling championship of the Commonwealth Games.

The focus of this movie is not on wrestling, the sport can be wrestling, it can be weightlifting, it can be boxing.

The focus is still on reflecting the growth of women, the love of fathers, and the redemption of the strong.

Lee Shengyao plans to copy "Wrestling, Dad", but he is not ready to copy it exactly the same, in fact, the small bodies of the actresses in the movie are compared with the real wrestling champions, and they are extraordinarily dramatic.

Wrestling is not a popular sport in this world, and if it is a more popular sport, it is easier for the audience to empathize.

Football and basketball are naturally not good, this is a team sport, and individual energy is not so prominent.

It can only be a solo sport, and it has to be a one-on-one sport in the final final.

Diving gymnastics is not good.

So what sports meet this requirement?

Boxing, judo, taekwondo, table tennis, badminton.

Among them, table tennis and badminton have a very broad mass base in the mainland.

However, in terms of the charm of the camera, these two sports are far inferior to those with physical confrontation, which are not so shocking and not so impactful.

Boxing and judo, which have physical contact, look much better and are more likely to get adrenaline pumping.

Li Shengyao naturally can't choose judo, it's an island country's sport, and it's quite a mother's fight.

He thought about it again and again, and planned to adapt it into boxing, and this movie was called "Punch, Dad".

Boxing is far more popular in this world than wrestling, and it turns out that audiences love to watch boxing movies as well.

In Lee Shengyao's previous life, there were a lot of boxing movies in Hollywood, and there was a very classic movie that reflected women's boxing, that is, "Million Dollar Baby", which swept next year's Oscars.

The film won four awards at next year's Oscars, as well as three nominations, becoming the biggest winner of the 2005 Oscars.

With boxing as the theme, it is definitely more bloody and popular than wrestling.

Women's boxing only made it to the Olympics in 2012, but the Women's Boxing World Cup has been around for a long time.

Li Shengyao's writing that mainlanders won the Women's World Cup is not crooked nonsense.

And in May this year, mainland athlete Zhang Xiyan won the first place in the Women's Boxing World Cup in the beautiful country.

It can be said that the prototype is there, and the next step is script creation and actor selection.

Naturally, he can't be like "Iron Fist of Shame", looking for someone who doesn't have a single abdominal muscle to play the boxing champion.

Lee Shengyao has to find people across the country to select a suitable actress.

The same male protagonist also has to practice boxing.

He thought that he would finish the script in the next few days, start selecting people in July, preferably determine the actors before August, and then arrange for them to train for at least two months, not only to have abs, but also to be able to play decently, that is, to start filming in October.

This preparation period is a bit long, but there is no way, this is how good works are made.

Aamir Khan, the actor of "Wrestling, Dad", first lost weight and filmed the scenes when he was young in the plot, and then gained 28 pounds in a short period of time to shoot the later scenes.

Aamir Khan is one of the three Khans of Bollywood, and he belongs to the top actors of Aamir Khan, and actors at this level have to work so hard.

Li Shengyao has no reason to lower his requirements.

He liked boxing in his previous life, but he was only an amateur, and he didn't have much experience in professional things, especially in competitions.

After the script is written this time, he will also go to Yanjing, Shanghai, to visit first-class female boxing professional athletes, ask them some details, and try to make the script more perfect.

At this time, he was writing the script, and sometimes his blood was boiling, and "Punch, Dad" naturally could not be compared with "Million Dollar Baby", but Li Shengyao believed that as long as he took this movie seriously, this film would become a very classic women's boxing movie in the future.

People from other countries search for women's boxing movies and can quickly see "Punch, Dad".

"Ringing ringing!"

The mobile phone rang, Li Shengyao took out the mobile phone and found that it was Gu Huaiqiu calling.

"Director Li, "My Uncle" premiered tonight, and I'll tell you the ratings of the premiere when the time comes."

Li Shengyao smiled and nodded, "Okay, let's look forward to it together." ”

(End of chapter)