This director is very reliable

Chapter 539 Supporting (24)

"Legend of the White Ghost" has been withdrawn again...

The reason for the first withdrawal was that the theaters did not pay enough attention to it, and the market feedback was not good, especially the pre-sale was not good;

The second time... I was really speechless, I didn't give a reason, I just said that the schedule was not suitable...

Liu Qianqian is talking to Yang Xiaomi, what a good topic.

Then...withdrew again~
You don't understand what the producer is thinking...

Producer Zhang Lun is too confident. As a producer for the first time, he won the biggest victory since entering the film industry - the co-production with Australia "The Great Tsunami: Shark Mouth Escape" had a domestic box office of 1.57 million and a global gain of 3600 million US dollars...

Yang Xiaomi said sarcastically: "I heard that this project was originally called "The Last War", and later changed its name to "Desperate Escape", and now it is changed to "Legend of White Phantom: Desperate Escape"... Usually such a change shows that this There are too many ups and downs in the project..."

Shi Shi nodded: "Changlin traveled to Yunnan before, and Zhang Lun even invited him to give some advice, but he didn't even bother to see it!"

"...Is there any successful case in the history of movies like this?"

Shi Shi nodded: "Yes!"

"Really? Which project?"

""Calabash Brothers"... I heard from Chang Lin, he said that this project was originally "Ten Brothers", but later it became "Calabash Brothers" because of the low investment amount and difficult technical operation..."

"what?"

"it is true!"

Shi Shi nodded affirmatively: "Chang Lin told me several times!"

"...He seems to have made an animated movie?"

"It's not like, he invested more than [-] million yuan and made more than a dozen animation projects. This year's meeting will be "The Return of the Great Sage" and "White Snake: Origin"..."

……

In 1984, Shangmei Factory planned to put the folk tale "Ten Brothers" on the screen in the form of paper-cut with Chinese characteristics, so as to compete with the American animation "Transformers".

Paper-cut animation is very different from traditional animation. Looking around the world, no one has done it. It seemed difficult at the time...

But the creators of Shangmei Factory don’t believe in evil. Art films must be innovative, and they must be presented to the audience in new forms. Paper-cutting is a new innovation, and foreigners have never seen it!
But his mother's money is not enough. In order to save production costs, the chief director Hu Jinqing was forced to change the original "Ten Brothers" into seven unified images, only calabash dolls with different colors, and various villains were simplified into snake spirits and scorpions. The fine, gorgeous scene turns into a cave...

Each gourd baby has to match hundreds of expressions and match thousands of scenes. There is no special effect production, let alone advanced technology. It can only be hand-painted one by one, cut out one by one, and shot one by one.

In this way, it took more than 50 painters a full two years to complete 13 episodes of 130 minutes of Calabash Brothers.

Once "Calabash Brothers" came out, all prefecture-level TV stations rushed to buy the rights to broadcast it.VCD sales hit record highs many times.

The subsequent "Calabash Little King Kong" once again detonated the market.

The gourd doll series has thus become the pinnacle of Shangmei Factory...

Later, "The New Calabash Brothers" was released...

The gourd babies are silly and cute, and the snake spirit has become an internet celebrity. Not only that, but also... grandpa knows magic.

Grandpa can spell, grass!
The so-called 260-episode Huluwa was forced to stop broadcasting after only one week, leaving endless disappointment.

Hayao Miyazaki also came to Shangmei Factory back then. It is said that the "Havoc in Heaven" made by Shangmei Factory made Hayao Miyazaki firm in his idea of ​​fighting for the animation industry for life.

He even brought the film of "Nausicaa of the Wind" as a gift, hoping to have a technical discussion with his colleagues in Shangmei Factory.

But I didn't expect that some leaders of Shangmei Factory were concerned about the issue of salary.

They asked: How much is an original painting in Japan?How much is animation per second?
This attitude of only asking about profit and not focusing on skills disappointed Hayao Miyazaki, who puts art above money, and said, "I will never come to China again!"

Whether Hayao Miyazaki wants to come to China is his business, but this also reflects from the side that due to the loss of talents, the "essence, spirit, and spirit" of the U.S. show has been completely lost.

And Chinese animation also lost its muscles.

When the animation production industry changes from collectivism to individualism, from art-oriented to profit-oriented, from the previous fixed salary to the calculation of wages by the number of pieces, from the former craftsman spirit to the profit-seeker in the era of market economy, the artistic Excessiveness and patience have long since been left behind.

Now an important factor in judging the success of an animated film is the box office!
This thing belongs to the general environment and cannot be changed. Success at the box office is called success...

Therefore, "The Return of the Great Sage" will become the benchmark: not only has a good reputation, but the box office is also out of the circle...

……

Shi Shi wants to promote "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy"...

No way, who made her the heroine, or the traffic in this movie.

Throughout the Spring Festival, she will be interviewed in various ways.

Fortunately, most of the time in BJ.

Yang Xiaomi went back to Xiangshan to continue filming "Decrypted", and by the way, she also wanted to promote a wave of "Pounding Stars"-after all, it hasn't been released yet!

Liu Qianqian, who was 'ignored' by the two of them, was also being interviewed to promote the new drama "Wuxin Master"...

"Wuxin Mage" is the first year's drama broadcast exclusively by Tencent Video. According to the classification, it belongs to the S+ file. After all, it cost a lot of money to buy-a record-setting single episode of 620 million, and 35 episodes cost 2.17 million.

Not discounted.

Damn, the cost alone is about [-] million...

How to discount?

Actors' remuneration accounts for nearly 45%, of which Liu Qianqian's remuneration is 3200 million...

It is estimated that the sequel will cost 4000 million!

Sissi had watched a few episodes of "Wuxin Master" directed by Kong Sheng in advance, and she was very confident in this drama. When promoting it, she talked endlessly: "This drama was introduced to me by Chang Lin, and he recommended me to watch "" Wuxin Master", and then I really miss Yue Qiluo in it..."

"Why do you recommend it?"

"He knew that I always wanted to play that kind of neurotic role, and Yue Qiluo fit my imagination of this kind of role..."

After a pause, Sissy continued: "But it's impossible for this subject to pass the review... Later I heard that Fujixun wanted to do a video, so I immediately signed up!"

"Then evaluate Yue Qiluo."

"Yue Qiluo has the appearance of an angel, but she still can't hide her dark belly and cruelty, she is both innocent and cruel!"

"Practicing sorcery allows her to break free from the samsara of life and death. She possesses wisdom, beauty, and experience that ordinary people cannot possess, but she also has to pay a price. The price is that she must not be a human being, devouring others to keep herself alive."

"Is this role easy to play?"

Sissy frowned slightly, and then said: "It's easy to play a neurotic role. It's fine to play a big one, but there is a limit... At first I couldn't grasp it. Later, it was Chang Lin who told me, 'Yue Qiluo treats mortals, It's the way we look at food...but she was human too, so she responds to a lot of things.'”

"This role is difficult to grasp... I feel that I can play it well..."

"Then do you think there is any difference between online dramas and TV dramas?"

Qianqian tilted her head, thought for a while, and then said: "I think the broadcast platform is different, anyway, I haven't watched dramas on TV for a long time..."

"Many people think that online dramas are quite low?"

"...Where is LOW? Our art, photography, and lighting are all very beautiful...It's not the colorful Abaose, and the production cost is much higher than that of many TV series!"

(End of this chapter)