What kind of bad thoughts can the director have?

Chapter 124

Yang Shu was watching Luo Xue's reaction while eating French fries.

Psychologists are good at observing people, and so are directors.

Luo Xue was actually able to eat two hamburgers, but the second one ate more and more slowly, her pupils staring at the screen shrank and shrank.

When Jiang Shiyu staggered down the hillside in the snow, when the title came out, she put down the half-eaten hamburger, but subconsciously wiped her mouth and hands with a napkin.

"Very beautiful."

When it came to Jiang Shiyu writing a letter: "How are you, I'm fine", she hesitated for a moment, then started skipping, watching a section every few minutes, and turned off the player after 10 minutes.

"Your movie is very literary, not my type."

She has known for a long time that "Love Letters from the Kingdom of Heaven" is full of literary and youthful atmosphere, and it is common for rational people not to like such works, but Yang Shu was a little surprised that she expressed it so directly: "Oh?"

"But I can see that the film is well-made, the standard is very high, the color, composition, atmosphere, mood and performances are all first-class, and it should be very popular."

Although it is unlikely that anyone in the KFC train station will pay attention to what they are doing, Yang Shu immediately put away the notebook: "My sister-in-law can still see the atmosphere when she is dancing, which is amazing."

Luo Xue ignored him and opened her mouth to flatter, obviously meaningless: "I think you're right, "Love Letter from Heaven" doesn't need to be squeezed into the summer slot. We got the dragon label in January, and we can choose any time to release it."

This tone is very loud, Mr. Fu probably would not be so generous, and he made no secret of his privileges.

Luo Xue has always been a person who doesn't hide much, maybe she feels that she has seen through human nature and doesn't bother to cover up.

In fact, when people reach a certain level, they will understand that the most advanced way of dealing with the world is actually not playing with routines.

After all, the people who play together are all sensible people. Without routines, things become simpler and the transaction cost is the lowest.

This is the wisdom of life. When you live to a certain level, you have to go back to the basics, and you will find that simplicity and purity are the best. Not playing with scheming itself is the greatest scheming.

Although you can choose the schedule, you can't just set a date with your head.

Yang Shu pondered for a while: "I checked some information, and the schedule after March next year has not been fully released, only sporadic information."

"I have more details." Luo Xue swiped open the phone, called up a document, and sat next to Yang Shu to watch it with him: "This is a movie that has been scheduled for 2016. It's not complete yet, but You can refer to one or two."

This is a form that lists the release schedule of each month's films in chronological order, and it seems to be compiled by her or Tiange Media.

You don’t need to watch it in January and February. You can already check on the Internet. The Spring Festival stalls are nothing more than Stephen Chow’s "The Mermaid" and Gong Li's "Three Dozens of Bones". Others are not worthy of attention.

In March, there are Hollywood fantasy blockbuster "God of War", animated film "Zootopia", "Batman v Superman", Xiao Lizi's "The Revenant" and domestic film "Ip Man 3", etc. There are many blockbusters and imported films. mostly.

Luo Xue reminded: "If we choose March, we basically have no time to promote, at least two months."

Yang Shu is as good as others: "Since it's too late, let's forget it in March."

In April, there are currently fewer films scheduled, and imported films are scheduled earlier, such as "Captain America 3", "London Has Fallen", Charlize Theron's "The Huntsman" and Chen Kun's "Hot Pot Heroes". There are blockbusters every week.

As for the summer schedule in July and August, there are very few confirmed ones. Only "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" is famous in July, while Lu Han's "Tomb Notes" and Wang Sicong's screen debut "A Slight Smile is Alluring" Tentatively scheduled for August.

With a glance at the past, Liu Ye and Wang Luodan's "My War" is scheduled for September.

This is a film to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea. It seems that it is still in production. Unexpectedly, it has already been preliminarily finalized. It should also be an internal operation, and it has not been reported by the media.

Yang Shu pointed to April: "Then it will be released in April, as the same sentence, hurry up sooner rather than later."

The two got very close, Luo Xue turned to look at him: "There is a Hollywood movie every weekend, do you want to compete with that movie for the box office?"

I didn't expect that not only the monthly schedule can be confirmed, but also the order can be ordered until a specific week, which is a great privilege.

He shook his head after carefully studying the films in April: "They are almost the same. "Captain America 3" and Charlize Theron's "The Huntsman" may be relatively better, but they are all different types of films. It doesn't matter."

Luo Xue smiled: "Confidence is commendable, so let's put it together with "London Has Fallen", which will be released on April 4. The producer of Chen Kun's "Hot Pot Heroes" is a friend, so it's best not to get together."

Yang Shu nodded: "Okay, listen to you."

"Don't tell anyone yet, the final file shall prevail."

"no problem."

Suppose God gave a button, just press that button lightly, the person you hate, the person you hate will die, and you don’t have to bear any responsibility, would you press that button?

Yang Shu believes that most people will press it. This is human nature. Power has a natural tendency to abuse, and no one is exempt from it.

He found that he began to like this feeling, after all, it was bought with money.

The conversation was almost over at this point, Luo Xue put away her phone and suddenly asked: "Just now I heard you say that "Love Letters from the Kingdom of Heaven" should be finished as soon as possible so that you can do other things, besides the two seasons of "World Wonderful Events" every year, you already have other plans ?”

If there is a publisher with stable cooperation, the feasibility of opening a new project should be discussed first, and the publisher knows the market demand best.

However, "Grandpa's War" has not yet matured, especially after discussing with Wang Xinjun a few days ago, Yang Shu has not yet made up his mind on what to do.

Many opinions are of great reference value. His story is too huge, the production cost of the TV series is too high, and the project is very risky.

Yang Shu planned to make a movie first, but the script hadn't come out yet, so he wanted to take advantage of the Spring Festival to make a good plan, since Luo Xue asked now, he said his plan.

However, he did not use the name "Grandpa's War" anymore, feeling that it directly collided with Liu Ye's "War of Mine", and he will have to come up with a more appropriate title in the future.

Luo Xue quietly listened to the story of Yang Shu from the railway guerrillas all the way to Seoul, and finally nodded: "Your story is very good, it sounds like there are prototype characters, very attractive, "Bright Sword" is based on the two founding generals It was adapted from the true story of the movie, which is why it was so successful."

"The investment in war movies is huge. The three major battles of "Armageddon" were filmed by Bayi Factory. With the full cooperation of several troops from several major military regions, I am afraid that any film company will not be able to make them."

She turned on her phone again, opened the schedule list again and showed it to Yang Shu: "Look at this "War of Mine" that will be released in September, a war film to resist US aggression and aid Korea. During the filming, nearly a thousand extras were assembled to charge, and a scene consumed 10,000+ rounds of ammunition, and the production cost was [-] million. I think this is a touchstone. There are very few civil war films now. If they succeed, you can try it. own story."

No wonder "War of Mine" has been finalized long ago. It turned out to be China Film's own investment. It seems that Luo Xue really loves the part-time job of film distribution in addition to her job, and she knows everything about it.

But Yang Shu knew in his heart that if the project was approved based on the success of "War of Mine", it would definitely not work. He remembered that the final box office of this movie was only tens of millions, and it lost more than 1 million.

Just as housing prices in the capital were a watershed in 2016, so is the atmosphere of public opinion in China, which differed greatly before and after 2016.

Later, public opinion was not friendly to "War of Mine" during the promotional period, and even called on the audience to boycott the film on the grounds that the promotional film hurt the feelings of the Korean people. China Film Corporation obviously failed to deal with the negative impact, which eventually led to a fiasco at the box office.

To be honest, the filming of this film was indeed not in place. The Hong Kong director failed to grasp the subject matter, and the leading actor appeared in a Taiwanese accent.

Yang Shu didn't say anything, he still planned to write the script first during the Spring Festival, and the filming will be released in 2017, and the situation will be different then.

"Sister-in-law is right. Let's finish "Love Letter from the Kingdom of Heaven" first, and then consider other things."

(End of this chapter)