Ten years ago, Wu Jing became popular, Yang Yuqian in "Tai Chi Grandmaster", Ah Fei in "Xiao Li Flying Knife", and Meng Xingsoul in "Riding Horses and Howling West Wind".

Although the three popular dramas did not reach the level of national dramas, they were all very popular at that time, and they became familiar in front of the people of the whole country.

The ratings were good back then, but when it was rebroadcast, it didn't work.

After 2000, there was no market for martial arts dramas, and the mainland TV drama market was blowing out, all kinds of costume history, urban emotions, criminal investigation, idol dramas, anti-Japanese war dramas, and martial arts dramas were not as popular as before, except for Jin Yong dramas.

Although there are many movies in Xiangjiang Development, the only real male number one is "Black Fist", which is not good at the box office.

And "The True Colors of Men" and "Slaying the Wolf", two movies with good box office and reputation, he is a supporting role.

Although it is very outstanding, especially in "The True Colors of Men", the limelight of the three protagonists has been overshadowed.

But a supporting role is a supporting role, and after so many years, there has not been much improvement in his acting career.

Fortunately, the self-directed and self-starred "Wolf Teeth" did not lose money, and basically saved the capital.

However, at this box office, there is still not much market for action movies, and if you want to make a movie, it is estimated that it will be difficult to attract investment, and it will be two or three million.

Now there is a live opportunity in front of him, which is the type of action he is good at, and the creativity is different from those previous action movies, and watching this story is not something that can be done at a small cost.

Almost without much thought, Wu Jing agreed.

"Since Director Li believes in me, then I will take this project!"

"Brother Jing is happy. ”

Li Qian smiled, "The film "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is actually very simple to shoot, mainly because of the fight between ten people, all of whom have different identities, both men and women, each with their own characteristics, and they will not be aesthetically fatigued. ”

Wu Jing smiled bitterly, "I'm still a little sure of the action scenes, if there are more literary dramas, I really don't have much confidence." ”

The literary drama in "Wolf's Teeth" is very weak, and the hero and heroine like each other inexplicably once they save the beauty as a hero.

And the policeman next to the heroine also looked at the protagonist unpleasantly and targeted him everywhere.

In fact, this is very easy to understand, but the transition is too blunt, like a character set on the characters, there is no process at all, and suddenly it changes.

Li Qian said, "There are a lot of literary dramas in this movie, these ten people have their own identities, each of them has their own story, even if it is an action movie, if you want more people to like it, literary drama is also very important." ”

"However, there are ten people who have been killed, and even if one dies during the airdrop, there are still nine, and if everyone has a one-man show, the time will not be enough. Wu Jing hesitated.

Therefore, it is not necessary to deliberately add a piece of drama to each character, but to intersperse it, which can also make the plot less monotonous. ”

"Can Director Li elaborate?"

In this way, for example, that Muay Thai master can be set up to accidentally beat someone to death in Thailand, and in order to avoid the enemy, he smuggled to Xiangjiang to work, because his family was poor and had to send money to his family. ”

"When I appeared, I was on the dock where I was smuggling, saying goodbye to my family, wife and children, or my younger brothers and sisters, a very sad scene, I gave a five or six second shot, and then I was knocked unconscious as soon as I got on the boat, which was used as the beginning, and I spent two minutes at the beginning to talk a little about how these ten people were arrested. ”

"When I was caught on the island and avoided other people at night, this time I interspersed with the scene where the Muay Thai master killed or seriously injured people by mistake, was hunted down, and missed the days when his family was together, on the one hand, he was hiding himself and dodging, and on the other hand, he enriched the characters, without wasting shots, adding up to 30 seconds of play. ”

Of course, this kind of role is best to let the penultimate surviving villain beat him to death, give a close-up of his wide-eyed unwillingness and attachment to his family before he dies, and then use a parallel montage to recall the family reunion one second before he dies, that is, more than ten seconds. ”

Another example is another man who misses his wife very much, and he has a photo of his wife close to him, and he touches it out to take a look at it when he has nothing to do, which does not waste the shot, does not take much time, and the character image is also up. ”

"Through some details, explain the characters by the way when telling the story, so as to avoid them becoming a bunch of symbols with different names and erect the characters. ”

Li Qian said so much, Wu Jing probably understood, "This means that the nine of them first set an identity background, and according to each person's identity background, family relationship, etc., when it is appropriate in the plot, add some short shots that fit each of their circumstances to make the characters more plump." ”

"That's right, but you must not disrupt the rhythm, don't two people have to bump together, it's the time of tension and excitement, and suddenly start to reminisce and sensationalize, then it's not good. ”

Li Qian said and remembered a line in Wu Jing's "Wolf Teeth", so he said, "This is the same as the character of Abu in "Wolf Teeth", when he was eating, he was told that he ate too much, and Abu said that because he was full, his heart was steady. ”

After a sentence is full, the heart is steady, and the character of the protagonist can be seen, and now the audience's understanding of the characters has another layer, and it does not seem abrupt, so that the audience can understand it naturally. ”

"That's right. ”

Wu Jing nodded, but he thought in his heart that he didn't think so much when he was filming, and he didn't expect a line to have a deeper use.

Li Qian then dictated his thoughts again, which was slightly adapted from an action movie "Death Row Battle Royale" in his memory.

The original version is quite average, and there are no highlights in the play, but the creativity is still good.

It was originally a TV show that bought ten death row prisoners from prison and was forced to participate in a life-and-death game reality show.

In China, even if you blur the background and buy ten death row prisoners, it is too outrageous.

The kidnapping still makes sense, a group of crazy people have engaged in a perverted, open gambling game to the world, as for whether the website will be breached and 404, this kind of topic of raising the bar, there is no need to waste superfluous footage in the movie to explain, most viewers don't care about this at all.

You can't insert a plot where they have a very awesome hacker, it's too inexplicable.

......

The movie "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" has been temporarily handed over to Wu Jing, and the details will have to wait for the script to come out.

Li Qian also had to start writing his own script, but just after he started writing, Zhang Zhao came again, with a smile on his face.

"Haha, Director Li hasn't seen you for a long time. ”

"Mr. Zhang is here, please take a seat. ”

Li Qian invited him to sit down. Before Zhang Zhao could explain his intentions, he spoke first, "Mr. Zhang, I have something to tell you, I have to go back and tell Mr. Wang." ”

"What's the matter, Director Li said. ”

Zhang Zhao took a sip of tea and said quite generously.

At this stage, Li Qian is the most important person in Guangxian's film business, there is no one, no matter what Li Qian wants, Zhang Zhao can agree for Wang Changtian, this is not a thing.

"My next movie... I will no longer cooperate with Guangxian. ”

"Well, no ......"

Zhang Zhao nodded happily, suddenly reacted to what Li Qian was saying, and stopped again.

He looked at Li Qian in disbelief, "Director Li, what did you say?"

"The next movie will no longer be handed over to Guangxian for distribution. Li Qian repeated again.

"Why? Director Li, you're not kidding. Zhang Zhao's tone was a little dry.

Looking at Li Qian doesn't look like he's joking, but in the past year or so, the two sides have cooperated very happily, and all four movies have been box office hits, Zhang Zhao thinks that Guangxian is definitely doing his best.

Li Qian shook his head, "There is no special reason, and no other company has come to me, I am already preparing a distribution company myself." ”

Zhang Zhao was stunned, he had thought about many possibilities just now, but he didn't think that Li Qian would actually do the distribution by himself.

"Director Li, film distribution is not so easy, more than 30 provinces and cities across the country, nearly 100 resident distribution specialists, and dozens of theaters across the country, thousands of movie theaters, and ground promotion in various cities, these are all big problems, not just sending copies to theaters. ”

Zhang Zhao persuaded hard, hoping that Li Qian would give up that unrealistic idea.

Li Qian waved his hand and said, "Mr. Zhang, I have already decided on this matter, and I also know that the decision will not change, and I bother you to go back and talk to Mr. Wang." ”

"But Director Li ....."

"Mr. Zhang, needless to say, it is my personal matter to hand over my own films to any company for distribution, and in the past year and a half, Guangxian's film business has also made great progress, and we can be regarded as mutually beneficial. ”

Zhang Zhao didn't know what to say at this time, and at first he felt that Li Qian had betrayed them.

But after thinking about it carefully, it is his own business how Li Qian chooses, and it has nothing to do with anyone, and there is nothing to be sorry for.

In the end, Zhang Zhao, who failed to persuade him, immediately rushed back to Guangxian and reported the matter to Wang Changtian.

"What?"

Wang Changtian's expression was not much stronger than when Zhang Zhao heard Li Qian say this, and Wang Changtian, who had not been moved by anything countless times, showed an unprecedented look of panic today.

"Lao Zhang, I didn't let you talk about it, it's best to add another 5 points, it's really not enough to maintain a 20% share, why is it completely collapsed!"

"Mr. Wang, before I opened my mouth, Li Qian directly said that he was preparing a distribution company and preparing to issue it himself. ”

Zhang Zhao is still confused, originally to ask Li Qian's new movie, and by the way, Wang Changtian asked him to mention the investment share.

"Frequency of Life and Death" accounted for 15%, "Moon" accounted for 20%, Wang Changtian watched Li Qian earn more than twice his profit alone, it is impossible to say that he has no ideas in his heart.

After all, in the past year and a half, plus the profits of "Moon", Li Qian alone has earned at least seventy or eighty million, which is a pure profit.

And the profit of all businesses in Guangxian last year, that is, in 2008, was only 90 million.

How can this make Wang Changtian not red-eyed, for anyone, one person has earned most of the company's money for a year, who can accept it so easily.

In order not to offend Li Qian, Zhang Zhao was allowed to talk, and if Li Qian was unhappy at that time, it could also be excused that Zhang Zhao made his own opinion.

In Wang Changtian's opinion. can rise from 15% to 20%, which means that this can be discussed, even if it is not discussed, it can be dumped to Zhang Zhao.

After listening to Zhang Zhao finish the details of his chat with Li Qian, Wang Changtian also calmed down a little, and he was not so out of shape in front of Zhang Zhao.

"He's going to develop his own company?"

Li Qian said so, saying that he was already preparing. ”

"Okay, Lao Zhang, pay attention to this matter and go get busy. ”

Waiting for Zhang Zhao to leave, Wang Changtian couldn't help but "snap" and slapped on the table.

The cash cow has run away with long feet, and I envy the film business that has just started, what can I do!

Touching the phone, Wang Changtian wanted to talk to Li Qian, but he still didn't dial out.

After making two movies, he didn't know the sky was high, and he wanted to open his own company for distribution, Wang Changtian felt that Li Qian was probably crazy.

If this is the case, why didn't Zhang Yimou open a company, why didn't Ma Xiaogang open a company, they have been in the industry for decades, and their connections in the industry are not comparable to Li Qian, don't they still honestly work for Zhang Weiping and Huang Zhongjun!

Wang Changtian didn't know if he should laugh at Li Qian's arrogance and ignorance in his heart at this time, he wanted to see how Li Qian could compete with other big directors in the increasingly competitive film market without the envy of the publicity and distribution channels.

But when I think of Guang Xian having to pay for Li Qian's ignorance, the film business that has just opened up is likely to suffer a major setback.

However, Wang Changtian scolded Zhang Zhao in his heart, if he hadn't easily agreed to Li Qian's conditions at the beginning, and fought for it again, and directly made an appointment with director Li Qian or signed investment coupons for a few movies, there would have been no such thing.

But he scolded in his heart, Zhang Zhao still has to be responsible for Guangxian's film business, and there is no better candidate besides that.

The matter has become a foregone conclusion, with Li Qian's character, coupled with such a young achievement, once it is inflated, it is useless to persuade others.

There is such a thing, and the entire film business of Guangxian will be greatly affected, but it is only known to Wang Changtian and Zhang Zhao, and they have not revealed it to the public.

However, within a few days, Sichuan Film Group, Happy Blue Ocean Culture Group, Henan Film Company, and Hubei Film Group announced the joint establishment of Huaguo Film Distribution Co., Ltd., which attracted the attention of the entire industry.

Moreover, Li Qian is also one of the shareholders!