Back at No. 16 Lotus Hutong, Su Changqing felt very comfortable.

South Korea's box office is good, and Koreans prefer to watch movies more than Japanese, and although the final result may not be as good as Japan's, it's not much worse.

Friends in South Korea told him that "Taiping" was the most competitive among all the selected works, and it was very likely to win this year's Blue Dragon Award.

The Qinglong Award and the domestic Hundred Flowers Golden Rooster are not Su Changqing's goal, of course it is good, and it doesn't matter if there is not.

The bulk of the box office of "Moving Labyrinth" is undoubtedly in China, and if the situation is good, it may exceed the sum of the two.

In the future, the domestic market is the fastest growing in the world, and it will become the largest market in 30 years.

After coming back, he talked to Takakura Ken on the phone, and Su Changqing further explained the idea and detailed ideas, and the conversation was very pleasant.

With more than 30 years of acting experience, Ken Takakura asks a question: "The violinist's orchestra was disbanded and he had to return to his hometown with his wife to live, and such a character setting may be relatively monotonous. ”

Su Changqing understood what he meant, the male protagonist of the original version of "The Undertaker" is very young, in his early thirties, and his wife is played by Ryoko Hirosue, young and beautiful, and it is easy to attract the audience.

Ryoko Hirosue collaborated with Ken Takakura in "The Railroader" three years later, playing his daughter.

Now Ken Takakura is in his sixties, and although he looks like he is in his early fifties, if he arranges for a wife who is also an actress in her forties, then the film will look old-fashioned and difficult to attract young audiences.

If this film does not attract young audiences, it will be completely reduced to a niche, and even if it is aiming for an award, it will become of limited significance.

In addition, in the play, his wife does not agree with the violinist to work as an undertaker, and there are a lot of conflicts, and the awkwardness between the two middle-aged people is obviously boring, even if it is Ken Takakura.

"Or replace husband and wife with father and daughter?"

Ken Takakura disagreed: "The father who is nearly 50 years old and his daughter should be 20 years old, and it is irresponsible to return to the countryside when facing education or employment." ”

After all, when you are older, you have a different perspective on the problem.

"Then add a daughter character in addition to the two couples, and focus the main story on a summer vacation, the husband and wife return to live in their hometown in the countryside, and the daughter comes back to live in college vacation, so that the characters are richer, and the plot and dialogue are easier to unfold. ”

This setting is obviously more reasonable, the male protagonist of the original play is too young, and in his early thirties, he ignored the future of his wife, who was engaged in graphic design, because of the failure of his career, and returned to his remote hometown, which seems very selfish, and it is more appropriate to change it to Ken Takakura's age, but he has to add a daughter to take care of the younger audience.

Every time a deceased person is replaced in this play, a large group of actors have to be replaced, in fact, there are many characters who appear, and casting is also crucial, and Ken Takakura's wife and daughter are the top priorities.

The best situation is, of course, that the acquisition of Kamino Performing Arts has been completed before the start of filming, and as many actors as possible can be used.

Su Changqing has been recalling and reconstructing the plot these days, and it is also very important to grasp the atmosphere, and it is obviously not good to shoot too heavy.

The tone of the film is undoubtedly positive and even relaxed, for example, the opening scene is that the male protagonist went to the funeral scene on a snowy day, but accidentally found an extra part when cleaning up the body of a beautiful female corpse, and communicated with the family to learn that this is a man who self-identified as a woman, and committed suicide by burning charcoal, so the male protagonist put on the last beautiful female makeup for her.

The interaction with the family is full of absurd comedy atmosphere, which basically sets the tone of the whole play, and it must be handled well, otherwise it will collapse at the beginning.

At the end, Ken Takakura said, "It will take a while to start the film, and I can use this time to learn to play the cello." ”

This dedication is admirable, and the cello tone is deep and sad, which is best suited to this film.

There is a plot in the play where the male protagonist plays the piano on a hill in the wind, which is a very important finishing touch, and it has to be expressed in a long shot.

Originally, Su Changqing planned to ask Takakura Kenxue to learn to play the cello, not to ask how good it sounded, at least to be proficient in posture and hand shape, but now it would be better for him to propose it himself to practice.

In this way, I have to come up with the script as soon as possible, but Su Changqing is really busy during this time, otherwise he wouldn't have to come back from South Korea in advance, and the time he can write is limited.

There is still a week of domestic release, and the billboard has to be put out as soon as possible, and Lao Jin estimates that it will cost seven or eight million, which is a big expense, and a lot of specific work has to be finally made by Su Changqing.

However, the four-dimensional advertising agency has long been prepared and has long planned the largest round of outdoor advertising outside of "Armageddon".

Hollywood imported films have also placed large-scale outdoor advertising, in the face of a domineering and unprofessional distribution system, in the end it is the producer who pays, the money must be spent more than Siwei, but the number of billboards is much less.

"In the next week, we want to let the vast majority of potential viewers know that 'Moving Labyrinth' is coming out. ”

The later stage of "You from the Stars" has come to an end, and Hu Jun is now unknown, but with Mu Mu's current fame and popularity, the TV station subscription situation is quite good, and the income is likely to be no less than "My Savage Girlfriend" in the best case.

If you want to shoot this kind of romantic drama well, you must understand that the female protagonist is much more important than the male protagonist.

South Korea has done the most successful job in this kind of drama, and their basic model is to beat the female protagonist and the male protagonist.

Song Hye Kyo can be popular for 20 years from "Blue Life and Death Love" in the first year of the century, during which South Korea's Xiaosheng has changed a few times, and finally sister and brother have become the norm, and many male stars have become smash hits but are also short-lived.

This kind of drama is dominated by female audiences, and it is enough to have a likable big beauty who can let them in, but the male protagonist has to change often, and women's romantic dramas are similar to men's small yellow films, and only when they are constantly changing can they have a sense of freshness.

Mu Mu was very busy during this time, in addition to the later stage of the TV series, he was also learning to sing from Wang Fei, who was raising a baby at home and waiting to give birth.

Now the number of TV dramas promoted is to go to TV stations to be interviewed, and in the end, the male or female protagonist sings live, it doesn't matter if she doesn't sing well, anyway, the audience doesn't care much about the house and Wu.

These routines were learned from Hong Kong people, which greatly lowered the threshold for entering the music world, and many aesthetic standards were reset, so that a large number of people who were not very good at singing became singers.

Taiwan has done better in this regard, many artists go to act because they can sing, but most of the situation in Hong Kong is just the opposite, and the so-called Four Heavenly Kings can only sing Jacky Cheung.

Since now popular film and television songs are in Sanqi, you have to follow the trend, Mu Mu is very active in singing, and he sings well, it is enough to cope with live performances, as for whether he can become a singer, it depends on whether the audience buys it or not.

Within a week, Wu Whale's giant posters were rolled out in major cities across the country, and China was his home field.

I originally wanted to have a premiere, but after communicating with Director Han, I dispelled the idea.

"This film is not quite in line with the principle of Taoguang and raising obscurity, and it may be killed a year earlier or later, that is, taking advantage of the east wind of this year's Taiwan Strait crisis, which leader should be invited to attend the premiere in Beijing? ”

In this case, it was completely commercialized, and on August 1, "Moving Labyrinth" was officially released.