Planetary Museum

"It's okay, it's okay," Wu Xiaoqing said politely, and said at the same time, "Well, let's sit in the back and you will be in the middle."

"No, no, let's go to the back." Chen Ming drove over this time in an ordinary 7-seater commercial vehicle without a driver or assistant.Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen didn't know it before, so they sat in the middle of the car.Now Wu Xiaoqing is a bit regretful—it is inconvenient to sit in front of others and talk to them, and have to twist her neck.

After Chen Ming and the others sat down, Qin Feng went to start the car, and it seemed that he was the one who drove the car.

"Where?"

"Why don't you go to the company's office," Shen Changwen said, "It's the place that Director Chen helped to find, but I haven't visited it yet."

The office that Shen Changwen mentioned is the newest one, a film company opened in the name of Wu Xiaoqing, which also has some shares of Chen Ming, of course, Qin Feng, and several other main actors.

The main operation of this film company will be the future "Salvation" series.The company's registration scale is not large, only more than 2000 million, but it has a name-it will definitely expand rapidly in the future.Investing in movies is a small part of the company's business, and other aspects will include special effects production, props production and design... Wu Xiaoqing believes that this part of the content will be very necessary when performing tasks in the future.

Take this crackdown as an example. The manufacturer was told to be an anti-cheat device, but in terms of capital operation, the name was carried out in the name of movie props.In this way, the consumption of the props itself is very easy to understand-the plot needs it, and the director burned it all.

It is said that the place has been found a long time ago, the basic company framework has been set up, the administration and finance are all in place, and the money has been put in - but after two months, Wu Xiaoqing has never had time to go there.No way, this period of time is really a critical period for the mission.Now, taking this opportunity can be regarded as an inspection of the new company.

They said they were going to the company to talk, but in fact the conversation started as soon as the car started.

"Ms. Wu," the girl named Lu Wanqing was speaking. Judging from the situation in the coffee shop before, it is clear that she is not a small celebrity, but it is a pity that Wu Xiaoqing spent most of her energy in her previous life on cheating. I don't have time to care about the entertainment industry, "What kind of story is the sequel? After watching the first one, I can't help being curious."

Wu Xiaoqing turned her head to speak, she was far away and didn't pay attention to it just now, but now she looks carefully, a star is a star, a nose is a nose, eyes are eyes, no matter how comfortable you look.

After a year, Wu Xiaoqing was only 19 years old, and his body was still a standard teenager. With natural rationality, the remodeled brain easily suppressed the restless hormones, and he did not show the respectful blush of seeing high-end beauties at all, just simple He replied: "It's almost the same as the first one, but it's still a story of saving lives."

Chen Ming took over the topic: "I heard you mention a few words before, the volcanic eruption, right? What about the specific story? What are the main conflicts?"

"To be honest, I haven't thought about it, and the direction hasn't been determined," Wu Xiaoqing said. "The first film is a test, with ambiguity, and the effect of the movie has come out. To be honest, there are funny and serious things. I see it as a mixed bag, and it’s a middle-of-the-road approach.”

Chen Ming nodded: "The first one is a new theme, a sci-fi film, and doing so is also responsible for the investment."

"I didn't object, or shirk any responsibility. After all, the whole process of the film was discussed. For the first film, everyone didn't know what to do. You can test the waters by doing this. Now that the results have come out, the response is very good, but I If you judge yourself, it’s considered good.”

Chen Ming heard Wu Xiaoqing's implication: "It seems that you already have an idea."

"Yes," the atmosphere was good, Wu Xiaoqing simply said, "I think we have to make a choice next..."

"Movies are the same as other arts. You can make some money, but you can't be famous and attract enough attention..."

"Arts with vitality are all extreme. They either do comedy, or simply expand its comedy effect, but it is not the kind of brainless hilarity that is popular now, or even petty bourgeois fake humor. We don't need to make jokes and jokes, just learn it directly. Hollywood. It can even be made into an absurd drama..."

Chen Ming felt a little headache, what Wu Xiaoqing said was simple and absurd.He is simple, with a few lines in the script, but the requirements for the director's camera skills are not even a little higher.Of course, I can’t say this clearly, I can only mention it euphemistically: "But this kind of drama has very high requirements for the script...the domestic censorship is very strange..."

Wu Xiaoqing naturally understands this point. The reason why he brought this up first is actually to let Chen Minglai veto this point first, and he is more optimistic about the latter: "Or just be serious, you watch foreign Marvel movies , don’t look at the absurd settings, all kinds of supermen, but when I write this book, there are always some very heavy things to be depicted in the bones. Let’s go in that direction..."

"To put it bluntly, Marvel movies have villains, but no matter how they are set up, there is always a feeling of setting up a target to hit people, which makes people feel bad. But ours is different. Our villains exist naturally, and Always by our side - our villain is nature. In fact, the core of this film is more like a disaster movie, with a time-travel gimmick."

"The background of the second part is the feudal era? Which dynasty?"

"It's not a dynasty," Wu Xiaoqing said. "It's best not to set the background of the story on the earth, but to expand the original setting. It's to save an alien civilization. They want a volcanic eruption there. I have prepared all the materials. Dynamic simulations including volcanic eruptions... are all ready-made, and can be directly used for special effects in the future."

Chen Ming felt that this turn was a bit fast: "If it's empty, it's not easy to bring in seriousness."

What Chen Ming is more worried about is that the style of the work has changed too much.

After all, they used a setting similar to Dayu's water control in the first film-this is an easy-to-understand background for Chinese people.Although the film doesn't say it explicitly, many hints in the movie make everyone believe this-this is more convincing than saying it.

But if the second movie is directly about alien civilizations, the drama will be very exciting. Imagine that the protagonists of the Lord of the Rings movies are a few Chinese with Asian faces, and you can understand why Chen Ming is worried. .

"But it's good for internationalization," Wu Xiaoqing's words excited Chen Ming, "and this kind of Western feudal background, in fact, Chinese people have seen quite a lot, but it is our own system, in fact, everyone is not so clear... ..."

"Let me ask you, what were the names of the biggest officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties? What about the Tang and Song dynasties? They were simply called prime ministers in TV and movies, but in reality? Don't talk about the official system, even if it's a harem scene, those in the harem The concubine system...is enough to cause headaches..."

"But western feudalism is very simple - at least everyone thinks it is simple - the relationship between the characters is clear and clear, the duke, the king, the prince... must be high officials..."

"As far as filming is concerned, foreign settings are definitely easier to accept than domestic ones. Have you watched "The Banquet"? Is the relationship between the characters in it particularly clear? The king, queen, prince... the main characters in this movie are also Just a few..."

"Night Banquet" is such a bad movie... Chen Ming hated it, but he couldn't interrupt Wu Xiaoqing, who was in the middle of it.

After talking nonsense about "artistic quality", "internationalization" and "marketization", Wu Xiaoqing finally started to talk about the specific details.

In fact, there is nothing to say, just delete and modify the things that have been experienced, and reappear in a form that is more suitable for movies.

But Wu Xiaoqing thinks the main plot is very good-especially the war scenes with explosives.Not only because he is a witness, but from the perspective of the film, this kind of time travel through the point of being overwhelmed by technology has always been a great point, but there have been no movies with related themes in China-because of the seriousness of history.But overhead—at least overhead overseas, or overhead magic doesn’t need to worry about this...a considerable part of the reason for using overhead is also because of this.

On the other hand, before they knew it, the group had already arrived at the new company and parked their cars in the parking lot.But the strange thing is that no one seemed to get out of the car, and only listened to Wu Xiaoqing to continue talking.It wasn't until Wu Xiaoqing finished telling the complete story that everyone noticed that they had been nestled in the car for half an hour.

When a few people walked into the company, the front desk didn't know a few of them—the front desk itself had just been recruited.After the manager was called, four or five people in the whole company began to get excited—after two months of salary, they finally saw the real payer.

Here are some bosses!

But Wu Xiaoqing and the others didn't have time to accept their welcome. The group chatted really high, and went directly to Wu Xiaoqing's office to make a few cups of tea and continue the chat.

What Chen Ming meant was that he still wanted to join the emotional drama.

Facts have proved that most of the audience is still vulgar, no matter what drama you are, saving mankind and saving the world, anyway, everyone likes to see handsome men and beautiful women who can find time to fall in love when they are free.

A large number of comments on the Internet said that the movie "Saving the Ancestors" is good in everything, but all the women are "too realistic" because they are all primitive characters, which look special...disappetizing.This combination of two men is not bad, it always feels like it lacks flavor.

So Chen Ming felt that it was necessary to add another person. This time traveler must be a woman. Of course, the scenes are well designed. The man is in charge of execution, and the woman is in charge of BB. Only in this way can there be conflicts.

For example, in this script, Chen Ming thinks that a silly, sweet heroine is acceptable, and such a heroine can be used as a half villain - the heroine's kindness not only has no effect, but also brings disaster.

Thanks to "The Three-Body Problem", this kind of Madonna stalk has been recognized by a small number of public aesthetics in the field of science fiction. This kind of fun is used in their movies, which is not obtrusive, and it can match well with the theme .

The candidate for this ideal heroine is, of course, Lu Wanqing who followed them all the way.

The two leading actors performed a few impromptu dialogues on the spot based on the clips they had chatted.

The effect is unexpectedly not bad, at least Wu Xiaoqing thinks it is acceptable.Chen Ming's views on movies may be a bit conservative, but there are still some rationalities.

Wu Xiaoqing's expectations for this movie were not that high, so after thinking about it for a while, he made a decision on the spot, which was considered to be a decision on Lu Wanqing - in fact, it was mainly because of the schedule.The other party has a mature management team. If this cannot be decided today, there may be problems with the schedule by then.

After talking about the main things, taking advantage of the warm atmosphere, Wu Xiaoqing also chatted about the company's affairs - after all, everyone at the scene has some shares in the company, although it is just a few points in name, used to close the relationship convenient way.But this is a starting point. With such a beginning, it will be reasonable for more funds to come in later.

According to the search and rescue team's plan, the company's equity must be as complicated as possible—this will make it easier to do things when needed.

"Although it is a film company, film investment is not the company's main business," Wu Xiaoqing said, "For example, this film, because it is a sci-fi film, all the visual effects in the film can be entrusted to our own company. Firstly, it saves costs, and secondly, the effect is also convenient for us to control ourselves.”

"In terms of domestic special effects..." Chen Ming was a little worried.

"You forgot what company I started from," Wu Xiaoqing said, "It must be the world's top team, the effect... I can make a demo for you in a few days, I'm not boasting, do it If you are not satisfied, we will not charge you.”