Chapter 451. If you are like this, what more can you ask for! 【2-in-1】
Regarding the media reporter's interview request, Sun Yi still did not agree, he hadn't thought about it yet, and there was no official reply from the starry sky.
I thought about treating it coldly, but I didn't expect it to inspire all kinds of media to continue to investigate and dig deeper.
Two days later, in April, Sun Yi took Liu Yifei to the Huairou Film and Television Base of China Film and Television to participate in the filming of the movie "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic of China".
Neither of them is the main role, so there are not many scenes, and there are no locations, and Sun Yi is still one of the members of the director team, which is somewhat convenient, so they simply focus on shooting.
Sun Yi's main rivalry is with Chen Kun, who plays Chiang Ching-kuo in this movie. Coming to Shanghai to carry out economic rectification, to put it bluntly, is anti-corruption, and Sun Yi, the eldest son of the Confucian family, is an illegal businessman who takes the lead in hoarding goods.
"My lord, I welcome you to Shanghai. But you have to talk about the company. Hehe, I don't think it's appropriate, since I have Shanghai Beach, this business has always been like this, other people do this, I do it, then this conventional thing, is the rules, you can't break the rules because of your fluttering words, you say. Really?"
Sun Yi sat on the leather sofa with a big sting, folded Erlang's legs, and deliberately stroked his big back with his hands when he spoke, facing Jiang Jingguo played by Chen Kun, with a little respect in his words, but his eyes were unscrupulous, and the arrogant smile on his face was how to look at it.
"Okay, pass."
Sun Yi passed by, turned around and saw Liu Yifei who was watching the fun, Xiao Nizi was wearing a gray cloth uniform of the Eighth Route Army, staring at him, and immediately smiled:
"You're a positive person, you're not staying over there, why are you here on our villain's side?"
"Down with you, capitalist, reactionary."
Yo, these two sentences make Liu Yifei speak righteously.
"Tsk, it's quite deep!" Sun Yi nodded while looking Liu Yifei up and down.
"I am a staunch revolutionary fighter." Facing Sun Yi's gaze, Liu Yifei straightened her chest.
Not to mention, this seemingly dirty gray cloth military uniform can hardly hide her graceful posture, coupled with Sun Yi's persistent output in this year, the scale has indeed increased a lot, roughly estimated, there should be no hungry children, maybe there will be surplus.
The two teased for a while, had lunch in the crew, and then Sun Yi followed Han Dong to discuss the issue of movie special effects again.
Sure enough, as Sun Yi guessed, Han Dong did not have high requirements for the special effects of this movie, as long as it looked relatively realistic, and the reference was at the highest level in China.
In this regard, Sun Yi said without bragging, the current starry sky number is the highest level of special effects in Chinese film and television.
The special effects problem was solved, Han Sanping took Sun Yi to be busy shooting on the spot, and he was also quite interesting, so he directly handed over Liu Yifei's scene to Sun Yi to be responsible.
Liu Yifei's scene has no special requirements, mainly the problem of lines, it must have the feeling of an announcer, the words are correct and round, and it must be full of passion, of course, it is definitely not the kind of female host of North Korean TV.
At this point, Sun Yi was a little worried in his heart.
To be honest, Liu Yifei's previous line level was not good enough, it was okay when she was a child, because she acted as a little girl, she was lively and cute, and in the last few film and television dramas, I didn't see many outstanding highlights in the lines.
There are both innate and acquired factors.
Congenitally, her voice is soft and waxy, relatively empty, and she suffers very much when she needs an emotional outburst.
In the same way, when this kind of announcer officially broadcasts, it will be slightly insufficient.
And the day after tomorrow, this pot has to be counted on her own head, when she was in college, she filmed everywhere, and the foundation was not solid.
Of course, it's not that her lines are so bad, a lot of things lie in a comparison.
With Sun Yi's current directorial level, he now subconsciously refers to Zhou Xun, Zhang Songwen, and even Wang Zhiwen.
If you compare it like this, how can Sister Fairy not suffer.
But when it came time to actually shoot the scene, I didn't expect Xiao Nizi to do it very well.
"Xinhua Radio, Xinhua Radio, now broadcast the May Day slogan of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and this year's May Day is the day when the people of the whole country march towards a comprehensive victory."
The tone is steady and long, without deliberately emphasizing certain words or emotions, on the contrary, it feels extremely natural.
It was originally a passing scene, but Sun Yi hesitated for a moment, and felt that it was Xiao Nizi who played extraordinarily, and in order to find out her bottom, he still chose to keep another one.
The second pass was still stable.
Now Sun Yi was really shocked.
The crew has a lot of eyes, one after another, Liu Yifei had to quickly change clothes and remove makeup after filming, and Sun Yi didn't have time to ask.
The two were also sneaky when they left the crew, for fear of being caught by the reporters who were squatting.
When he went home for dinner in the evening, he suddenly remembered this and asked casually: "I didn't see it in the afternoon, your line skills have improved recently?" ”
Liu Yifei smiled, held a piece of pork ribs, put it in her mouth and chewed it, and said a little proudly: "Of course, in order to record the album this time, I practiced for more than two months according to the method taught to me by Brother Sedum, and I have been preparing for this 3-minute scene for 5 days." ”
While talking, he was afraid that Sun Yi would not understand, so he deliberately opened his palm towards him and emphasized it.
Sun Yi held the rice bowl, smiled dumbly, and then nodded and sighed: "It's rare, the laziest master in our family actually works so hard." ”
"I'm dedicated, okay. Besides, I'm not afraid of embarrassing you. ”
Liu Yifei held the chopsticks, stirred the rice bowl, glanced at Sun Yi, and said angrily.
Oh, I see.
"That's a good answer, there's a reward."
"Cut, not rare~"
After eating, the two walked around the small courtyard several times, which was considered digestible.
When taking a bath at night, Sun Yi wanted to have a mandarin duck to play in the water, but he didn't expect Liu Yifei to disagree, saying that he wanted to soak well today, so he just let Sun Yi take a shower and drove him out.
Sun Yi sat on the sofa, waiting for boredom, thought of the matter of "Huantai", and simply began to browse the information on the Internet.
After two days of cold treatment, I wanted to let this matter pass.
But in fact, he underestimated the enthusiasm of the media and netizens about this matter or between him and Liu Yifei.
So much so that there was no official information, and even rumors began to fly on the Internet.
What starry science fiction movies are fake.
This incident is a self-hype of the stars.
And so on and so forth.
This kind of news, for all kinds of entertainment media, can easily make up 800 versions for you, and no one knows whether it is true or not.
Sun Yi looked at it, and his eyes couldn't help but become melancholy.
It's not that he's worried about these so-called messages, but he's never taken these things to heart.
He was thinking about the industrialization of cinema in the starry sky.
Although the plan seems to be going well so far, and the progress is not delayed, in any case, the final result will depend on the box office after the movie is made.
According to the preparation time of this movie, the preparation will be completed in two or three months, and the filming will definitely be completed in the second half of the year, and it is expected to be released and broadcast next year.
But now there is a problem, the original budget of 50 million dollars for the film is not enough, and it has to be added, even if the digital field offers a cost price for special effects, unless they are allowed to work in vain.
In the past few months, the starry sky has been preparing various hard facilities, and the digital field has not been idle, and has been designing the villain monsters in the film.
A movie can't just have a righteous side, there is no strong villain, how to set it off.
Therefore, Sun Yi also has high requirements for the production of monsters in the film, according to his standards, several 3D models have been made in the digital field, and a complete project budget has been made, and special effects scenes, even if the star digital side is responsible for rendering and compositing according to the cost price, it also takes 20 million US dollars, which is already the lowest price in Hollywood and cut half of the figure.
I really can't go down any more.
As the film preparations progressed, the equipment of the two studios together cost $20 million, the latest 3D shooting equipment even cost $3 million for rental and retraining, and the construction of special effects scenes included the construction of three mecha cockpits, even if all were produced in China, it took nearly $10 million.
There is still $17 million left, which is not enough for the cost of special effects, and then counting the personnel expenses and salary, Sun Yi is preparing to engage in Sino-US joint filming of this film, which means that Hollywood actors must be invited, no matter how cheap it is, it will cost $5 million in all aspects.
This is 58 million, domestic propaganda is easy to say, China Film promised 100 million, what about overseas publicity, unless you approve the buyout, otherwise you have to pay for the publicity.
Even if you buy out the copyright, if you calculate it too much, it will sell 10 million overseas.
The domestic box office has to be at least 100 million to recoup the cost, and in 10 years, if Sun Yi remembers correctly, the box office record of domestic films is 660 million for "Let the Bullets Fly", a difference of more than 30 percent.
Even if the buyout is not studied and released in the United States as a co-production, then Starry Sky, as the producer, can only receive a maximum of 25% of the profit share, just as the current overseas blockbuster can only receive 17% to 25% in the Chinese market.
As for how much box office this film can achieve in the United States, it's really hard to say, the version produced by Hollywood in the previous life was cold at the box office in the United States.
The extra cost of $8 million has led to a series of problems.
Sun Yi is not afraid of losing money, he can afford to lose, mainly because he feels that as the first film in the industrialization of starry sky films, if it loses, it will be a big blow to the morale here.
Thinking about it, Sun Yi couldn't help but fall into a tangle, and didn't notice that Liu Yifei came out.
Liu Yifei was wearing a set of black and white pajamas, just finished bathing, with a trace of moisture on her body, and her pretty face was red in white, as if it could be broken by blowing, pink and tender, like a very ripe peach.
"What are you looking at?"
Seeing that Sun Yi was stunned, Liu Yifei asked while wiping her still slightly wet hair with a towel.
"Oh, nothing."
Liu Yifei didn't believe it, and curiously leaned in front of the computer.
What caught my eye were the online comments that Sun Yi had just browsed.
After a cursory glance at a few lines, he immediately frowned in a blink of an eye, and said viciously: "These people know nonsense day by day. After speaking, he comforted Sun Yi and said, "Brother, don't take it to heart." “
Wow, I was also comforted by Xiao Nizi.
Sun Yi couldn't help but smile, stretched out his hand to wrap his hand around Xiao Nizi's waist, shook his head slightly, and sighed: "Don't worry, I didn't consider these comments on the Internet, and I never put these things in my heart." ”
Seeing Sun Yi sighing, Liu Yifei felt that he still had something in his heart, put down the towel that wiped his hair, turned sideways, faced him, and then asked softly, "Then what are you worried about?" ”
Sun Yi glanced at Liu Yifei, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, and he chuckled, he was a little hesitant to tell her about these things, and after thinking about it, his hand subconsciously touched the cigarette case on the coffee table.
As soon as the finger touched it, it immediately reacted and retracted it again.
Seeing this scene, Liu Yifei pursed her lips and laughed, then leaned out on Sun Yi's knees, picked up the cigarette case from the coffee table, took out one, pinched it with both hands and stuffed it into Sun Yi's mouth, and tilted her head to warn at the same time:
"Only half of it, or I won't let you go to bed tonight." After speaking, holding the lighter, the fire was lit with a "click".
Although Liu Yifei's tone was threatening, this behavior made his heart feel happy, and he squinted his eyes with a smile, as if this smoking was not a cigarette, but a kind of pampering.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
"Well, speaking of which, it's nothing."
Sun Yi opened his heart and told Liu Yifei everything about his worries and guesses.
First of all, it's not that he's afraid of announcing the plan for "Huantai", but that he's always been used to it, he doesn't like to promote it in advance, he is very down-to-earth in his bones, and the previous movies were all made after the film, and the promotion was only started through the trailer, and now there is nothing, just like the off-plan house that has just played the foundation pit, what is there to promote.
Another is the rising cost, afraid that the box office will fail and the cost will not be recovered, so that it is afraid of hitting the morale of film industrialization.
Liu Yifei sat cross-legged beside Sun Yi and listened very seriously, her eyes were bright, and after Sun Yi finished speaking, she tilted her head and thought for a long time, and then said while organizing the language:
"Film industrialization, I don't know much about it, it's probably Hollywood blockbusters or something, don't laugh at me."
"I think this should be a goal or dream, just like myself, because I have been in the theater with my mother since I was a child, so I vaguely regard the actor as my dream, well, it's not vague, now it's very clear, it's to be a good actor, but in the process, I will definitely encounter all kinds of difficulties, there are times of hardship, there are times of tiredness, and there are times of sadness."
The more Sun Yi listened, the more wrong it became, how could this little girl talk about her dreams, but she didn't interrupt her, she was still listening quietly.
"Just like when filming "Dragon Babu" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", before the start of filming, many people said that I was not suitable, but I didn't give up, I will find a way to adjust it myself, in fact. Actually, I'm not a strong person either, and I also have times when I want to give up, but at that time, you appeared, like. It's like a ray of light. ”
Oh?
Sun Yi's eyes widened in vain.
Liu Yifei's cheeks also swelled with a flush, and her words began to stumble.
"I mean. Well, what I mean is, like I want to be a good actor, you want to be a good director, I want to complete the industrialization of film, isn't that our dream? ”
"Well, I feel very happy when I make a movie, I enjoy the process a lot, and I don't care so much about the end result. Therefore, I think that when two people are together, as long as they work together to move forward, the process is not about comparing the results. Isn't it even more wonderful? ”
"What can you do if you lose at the box office, what can you do if you lose money, as long as you don't admit defeat, then there is no failure, I will always stand with you, support you, encourage you, accompany you, like a wife."
When the word wife was spoken, Liu Yifei's voice was as small as a mosquito, and the whole person was so ashamed that even the tips of her ears turned red.
Sun Yi was silent for a long time, then raised his head and took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled, looked at Xiao Nizi's eyes, hooked the corners of his mouth, and asked softly:
"Liu Qianqian, are you proposing to me?"
"You're annoying. Hmm."
Liu Yifei rarely made an inner monologue, but she didn't expect that Sun Yi still had the heart to make fun of her, and immediately raised her pink fist in shame, making a gesture to fight, who knew that as soon as she raised her hand, Sun Yi was clenched in the palm of her hand, and the two cherry lips were also blocked by Sun Yi.
She only felt that her body was weak, and she couldn't support it anymore, so she was directly pressed down on the sofa by Sun Yi, trembling all over, and let her beg for it.
At this moment, Sun Yi finally figured it out.
The industrialization of films, the whole of China, who else is it.
As long as you don't admit defeat, there will never be a word for failure.
Afraid of hanging!
The girl in front of you.
She understands me and supports me.
Enough is enough.
If you are like this, what more can you ask for!
"Don't, don't be here, come in."
"Well, I didn't pay attention just now, but I finished my cigarette."
"Then don't go to bed."
"Standing?!!!"
I'm really sorry, this chapter of Kavinka is amazing, try to make it back tomorrow.
(End of chapter)