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Chapter 149 "The Big Winner"

"Night Banquet" is here.

Feng Xiaogang's transition from comedy to tragedy.

This film is now only 5.9 points on Douban, failing.

But after watching it, Cheng Yu'an didn't think the film was that bad.

As far as the music is concerned, "The Banquet" is a very sincere film. Like "Hero", "The Banquet" is worthy of the name of a blockbuster in terms of props, stage beauty, costumes, and acting skills.

But the reason for the disapproval lies in its lines and style.

Unknown to many, The Banquet is based on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

In fact, there is no need to criticize Feng Xiaogang why he insisted on adapting "Hamlet" instead of doing countless court tragedies in China's thousands of years of history.

There is nothing wrong with the story frame of the adaptation of "Hamlet", but its character motivation and language style must conform to the habits of domestic audiences.

The industry does not pay for this collision of Chinese and Western cultures.

The handling of "The Banquet" is too staged, and Hamlet's tragedy is not understood in ancient Chinese culture.

There has never been a change of dynasty accomplished by one person with a sword. Feng Xiaogang simplifies the power struggle, using the sword as one side, and a bottle of poison represents conspiracy. Stage plays can be designed in this way, but movies cannot.

The final effect is that domestic audiences don't believe the story, and the characters can't stand up.

Fortunately, Wu Azu is handsome enough, Zhang Ziyi is beautiful enough, and Mr. Zhou is smart enough.

Although it was not well received, "The Banquet" should be a big hit.

It exceeded 1200 million on the first day, breaking the record for the highest box office on the first day of Feng Xiaogang's film history, and it is also the highest-grossing movie on the first day this year.

Over 4 million in 5500 days in the first weekend.

You must know that this is in September, which is considered to be the death schedule.

The popularity of "The Banquet" revitalized the cold September, but Cheng Yu'an didn't care about it.

He stayed in the "Butterfly Effect 2" crew for half a month to stabilize the morale of the army, and then he had to think about this year's Lunar New Year.

"Butterfly Effect 2" is impossible to play again, and it is impossible to give up the Lunar New Year file that "Clues of Time and Space" has finally laid down.

Must find a new film on top.

Therefore, Cheng Yu'an left the crew when "Butterfly Effect 2" was still a week away from finishing.

He approached Xu Shanzheng.

The two met because of "Crazy Stone", in which Xu Shanzheng played the villain Feng Dong.

"Rare guest, why did you come to my place?" Xu Shanzheng heard that Cheng Yu'an was visiting, so he made an appointment at his home.

Xu Shanzheng was too busy last year, filming five TV series in a row, this year he has to take a rest.

"Is Miss Hong not at home?" Cheng Yu'an asked.

"She's filming in another place, what do you need her for?" Xu Shan argued.

"Why am I looking for her? I'm looking for you."

"Looking for me? Didn't you have no movies this year?" Xu Shanzheng thought he was looking for him to film, "I have to take a break this year."

"I'm not looking for you to act, I'm looking for you to direct." Cheng Yu'an laughed.

"Director?" Xu Shanzheng poured Cheng Yu'an a glass of water.

"Isn't "Butterfly Effect 2" not going to be available? We can't afford to be empty during the Lunar New Year, so we have to find a movie to make up for it." Cheng Yu'an said.

"It's the end of September, is it too late for the Lunar New Year stall?"

"You'll have time to find the right book." Cheng Yu'an took out the script from his bag, "Make a simpler comedy, hurry up, and finish it in a month. Do you have time later?"

"Yes, yes, but are you sure you can direct for me?" Xu Shan argued.

"There's nothing to worry about. Didn't you direct "Li Wei as an Official" very well? And I'm a comedy, you're good at it." Cheng Yu'an couldn't find anyone else at this time, so he smoked again. Don't leave your body, or you will go up by yourself.

"I'll read the script first, and if there's no problem, I'll try it on the shelf." Xu Shanzheng is ambitious.

Otherwise, he would not have directed "Li Wei as an Official 03" as early as 2.
The script Cheng Yuan gave him was the remake copyright he bought in Japan:

"The Game Never Ends".

He changed his name to "Big Winner".

The original space-time film has been remade in both China and South Korea. The Korean version is called "Living with Willfulness", and the Chinese version is called "Big Winner".

It tells a funny story about an honest and rigorous policeman who went too seriously during a bank explosion-proof drill, and performed a full set of dramas, "fighting wits and courage" with the police.

Cheng Yu'an adapted the script, and the protagonist became a bank employee, of course not a policeman.

Also deleted the scenes in the original version that exposed the shady scenes of the society and the police.

In order to pass the trial.

Made into a pure comedy.

The scenes of this play are simple and there are no big scenes. For experienced directors, it is easy to get started.

Xu Shanzheng watched the script for 10 minutes, before he finished, he praised: "This story is very interesting. I will accept it."

Xu Shanzheng also knew that time was running out, and asked, "When will we start work?"

"You have to pick it up. We will start work next week. My crew is ready-made. I have already contacted the actors in advance. The male lead is strictly for Deng Chao, and the female lead Yu Haijiao is Yang Xue, my junior sister from the Film Academy."

"Okay, saving the scene is like fighting a fire." Xu Shanzheng agreed, "You go back and get ready, we will start the machine next week."

The story of "Big Winner" is very interesting, Xu Shanzheng likes it very much, and let him be the director he always wanted to be, there is no reason not to agree.

The two discussed some details about "The Big Winner", and Cheng Yu'an left Xu Shan to fight for the family at night.

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"How is it? Did Xu Shan compete to pick it up?" Cheng Lingfeng asked Cheng Yu'an as soon as he returned to the company.

"It's done, turn it on next week." Cheng Yu'an replied.

"Is it too rushed?" Cheng Lingfeng was still worried about the quality of the finished film of "The Big Winner". After all, the quality of this kind of temporary project is very difficult to grasp.

"Don't worry, shoot according to the script. This film is simple. Xu Shanzheng is a smart man, and he won't fail to do even this." Cheng Yu'an reassured Cheng Lingfeng.

So, three days later, Remote announced that "Butterfly Effect 2" will be withdrawn from this year's Lunar New Year file, and replaced with the new film "Big Winner".

At the same time, the main creative lineup will be announced.

Other than Yang Xue and Deng Chao, Yishui's newcomers!

Xu Shanzheng is also a newcomer director.

"Is Remote Crazy!? It's still 3 months before the Lunar New Year holiday, even if he launches a new project in January, it will only be about 1 days. Such time is not enough."

"Brother Hu's injury has disrupted Yuanyuan's plans for this year's New Year's Eve, so he has to rush the ducks to the shelves like this. It seems that Cheng's uncle and nephew are going to be ugly this year."

"This year's New Year's Eve, Zhang Yimou has "Golden Armor in the City". I thought "Butterfly Effect 2" could fight him, but I didn't expect the actor to have a car accident. Now there is a comedy with a new cast, how can I fight with Zhang Yimou? .”

"It's funny! There are Zhou Runfa, Gong Li, and Jay Chou in "The Golden Flower". Even if "Butterfly Effect 2" can be released, he can't beat Zhang Yimou."

"Cheng Yu'an seems to be scared. Otherwise, why didn't he do it himself, and had to find a bald head to be the director? He was afraid of losing to Zhang Yimou."

"It's okay if you don't say it. Now that you said it, I remembered that Cheng Yu'an seems to have never won the box office championship. Several Lunar New Year movies, "Butterfly Effect" lost to "Mobile Phone", "Clues of Time and Space" lost to "The Promise" "."

For a while, the public opinion all looked down on "Big Winner".

This also led to the launch of "Big Winner", and the release talks were extremely difficult.

China Film Group is unwilling to accept it, Shanghai Film Group is also evasive, and other major manufacturers are also in the wait-and-see stage.

(End of this chapter)